Get Information From Internet or Books? Some people nowadays believe that too much information from the internet may cause some problems such as hardness to filter information and the incorrect material on the net. However, I disagree with this statement because the internet is by far the fattest and the most efficient way in the world to find out and collect data. It plays an important role in many kinds of people. First of all, the internet is important to schools since a variety of data can be downloaded by students and teachers all over the world. It is very easy to build a platform to share the knowledge and experience through the net. For example, many schools start to promote the courses on line for sharing more precious content with more students in the world. It also makes a great breakthrough for people to explode their information. Therefore, people in schools can receive more valuable information than they can imagine if they take advantages of the internet completely. In addition, companies also regard the internet as an indispensable shortcut to save their money. Making use of the internet, a lot of time and money spent on the communication can be saved to do other things which can help the cooperation to earn more profits. For instance, I am working in an RD center of a computer company in Taiwan which owns a factory in China. We always pass our messages through the internet to negotiate with the staffs in China and make many jobs proceed efficiently. Hence, it is very hard to imagine if a company can work smoothly without the internet. Lastly, the internet also has great influence on general people. It already has become a part of our daily life. We rely on the internet to get information for shopping, finding a restaurant, and watching movies, etc...Take my life as an example, every day when I wake up the first thing for me is to turn on the computer and surf the internet. In this way, I can read the daily news at the first time. As a result, people nowadays have a very close relationship with the internet.

Life is Better? Some people believe that life today is easier than it was before. However, I disagree with this statement because of economy stress, older population, and pollution. Firstly, people today face a more serious economy issue than people who live in the past time when our grandparents were children. Most people at that time could not be very rich, or precisely speaking, much poorer than people today. However, with the society getting richer, the desire of human is getting higher so that many commodity is with higher quality and higher price. This will cause more stress to people in current generation to afford them. For example, I have been living in Taiwan for more than twenty years. We have a variety of electronic products now in our family such as television, computers, and so on which didn't exist in the family of my grandparents'. We need to work harder to afford those products which become requirements in families nowadays. Therefore, on the economic level, it is not quite easier for people's life today. Secondly, the average age of people in current society is getting higher and higher. This will result in less productivity of the society so that those young people today like us have to pay more efforts for the burden of the too many older people. For instance, in Taiwan, the students of primary schools are becoming fewer and fewer. That is, when they grow up, they need to work harder for the society with a lot of older people due to the advance of the medical technology. Hence, that will be a disaster if we don't face this problem more actively. It goes without saying to have an easier life for people today than in the past. Lastly, what is more serious is that the pollution of environment becomes worse drastically. Actually we live in a much more terrible circumstance than people did in the past. As an example, I have lived in Taipei, the biggest city of Taiwan, since I was born. The car exhaust almost drives me crazy. I cannot even open the window of my room every single day. Thus, I wish I could live in the past if people still cannot improve and cherish the environment now. In conclusion, because of economy stress, older population, and pollution, I am of the opinion that life today is worse than it was.

Universities should Spend the Same Money on Students' Sports Activities as Libraries Some people think that universities should of course give more money to their university libraries than their students' sports activities, because a university is regarded as a place for students to study. However, I disagree with this statement because sports activities are also important to students. Sports can make students healthy, relax the tension of preparing for exams, and enrich your campus life. First of all, sports are necessary for people to improve their health. Without doing exercises regularly, people are easy to get sick and lose energy for working or studying. Students also should not spend all their college time on studying, or they will lose their health while completing their degrees. For example, I had a friend who used to study hard in our college life. He neither took a break on holidays nor did some exercises in leisure time. Finally, he got a problem of diabetic and had no choice but to go in a hospital. Therefore, I think universities should care about the students' sports activities more than libraries. In addition, students can relax the stress due to exams by doing some proper exercises. If students keep studying for a long time without an alternative way to release stresses, they will get in a unhealthy mental condition and have risks to bring more serious problems. For instance, I always take a break to go jogging every time when I prepare for exams all day. And that will make me feel more energetic and have more power to keep studying. Hence, exercising and studying should be kept with the same weighting in our university life. Lastly, if a college student can have interest in a kind of sports and keep practicing, that will be a wonderful thing and enrich his/her college life. Because there are always a lot of sports activities in universities, students can learn more than they can imagine such as teamwork, determination, and perseverance. As an example, I was a member of the basketball team in our department. My team mates and I spent a lot of time on practicing, improving our skills, and discussing how to win the games. Basketball played an important role in my college time and became a precious memory in my whole life. As a result, joining sports activities become an dispensable part of universities for most students. In conclusion, because sports activities can help students to improve health, relax the tension, and enrich life, I am of the opinion that schools should give the same amount of money for both.

Succeed Because of Hard Work Some people believe that most people succeed not only because of hard work but also some luck. However, I disagree with this statement because I think the only way to gain your knowledge is to work hard. And then you can create the opportunities to succeed based on your sufficient knowledge. On the other hand, the success with luck always cannot stay long. First of all, knowledge is power and people can't success without knowledge and power. If you want to get the knowledge you need, you have to study hard and work hard. Knowledge will not come to your brain automatically. A lucky person also can't gain knowledge if he/she fool around all day long. For example, every time when I have an exam, I have to spend enough time studying hard and practicing all exercises. And then I can understand the content in text books and answer those questions on the exam paper. I think this process can't be replaced by the luck. Therefore, a successful person must have enough knowledge which is gained by hard work. In addition, with enough knowledge prepared, a successful person need to create his/her own opportunity to achieve the goal. And the opportunity is still not received from luck but from those fundamental knowledge used to create a chance. Take my work as an example, I am an engineer. If I want my customers to trust us and buy our product, I need to tell them that our products are useful and reliable according to my knowledge of engineering. By doing so, I can get the chance to persuade my customers to pay. Hence, the opportunities to succeed are not created luckily. Finally, I think if one's success comes from luck, that will not remain too long because there is not enough basic energy to maintain. Lucky people don't have sufficient knowledge and they can't create the chance to succeed again, so they will fall down soon. For instance, it was reported that a jobless man won a lottery inadvertently, but he soon spent all those lucky money and strapped for cash again. Why? That is because he can't use those money to get more money. Therefore, relying on luck seems not a real way to succeed. In conclusion, because a successful person must gain knowledge, create opportunities, and remain the success with hard work, I am of the opinion that people succeed based on hard work not luck.

I Prefer to Live in a Small Town Some people prefer to live in a big city because of its convenience. However, I disagree with this statement because living in a small town can make me feel healthier, more comfortable, and more close to the nature. Firstly, the pollution in big cities is becoming worse and worse day after day. Noises, car exhausts, and sour rains are all harmful to our body. The condition is much better in small towns. There are a lot of plants there and less people and cars, so the environment is always good for people to live. For example, my grandmother always felt sick when she lived will my parents before, but her body had become much better since she went back to the home town because the fresh air can avoid her from coughing all the day. Therefore,the small town provides a good environment which is good for people's health. In addition, the fresh air and quiet condition of a small town always let people feel more comfortable. On the contrary, big cities are crowded, noisy, and annoying. The traffic jams in rush hours always drive people crazy, and the concrete jungle looks so cold and seems to make people feel blue. For instance, I usually want to read a book in the break time afternoon on holidays. However, when I have immersed myself in the reading, the noises always interrupt my thinking and bother me a lot. Hence, I think if I could live in the small town, the environment there must make me feel more comfortable and satisfied. Lastly, by living in a small town, people can become closer to the nature. You can easier to climb a mountain, swim in a brook, or lie on a grass land. Enjoying in the nature, white collars or nine-to-fivers can relax themselves and forget all the works for a while. For example, after a busy week in my company, I always go swimming in a small stream near my apartment. The fishes and shrimps look cute there and the scenery is also beautiful. That will help me relax and get some energy or inspiration on my works. As a result, living in a small town is a good way to get close to the nature. In conclusion, because living in a small town can make me feel healthier, more comfortable, and closer to the nature, I prefer to live in a small town rather than a big city.

How do Movies or Television influence People's Behavior Some people believe that movies and television could make bad influence on people's behavior due to too many soap dramas and bad shows on TV nowadays. However, I disagree with this statement because you still can gain a lot of knowledge by watching TV, and people can prevent bad things to happen again by seeing the same things happened in the movies or television. Also by watching TV, one can understand other people's life more. First, TV shows and movies give a lot of information to people in current industrial society. If you don't watch them, you can't follow the latest hot news and the newest technology today. For example, I always turn on the TV to watch the news reports every day in my breakfast time. By doing so, I can discuss the hot issues with my friends and get some new ideas and knowledge from this. Therefore, movies and television still provide some useful information. Second, most people have their own ordinary life and they don't know bad things will always happen until they bump into the bad things. But by seeing films or programs, we can avoid those unlucky things shown on TV coming again to us. Take health programs as an example, I saw a series of programs about how to improve people's health on TV, and then I told my parents the methods taught by the programs. They followed the same way to do and they really felt more comfortable and healthier, and this did help my parents to avoid from more sickness. Hence, I think the information from TV and movies has the effect on preventing bad lucks. Lastly, the mass media play an important role in the world for people to communicate with each other. We don't know what is the life of other person originally, but movies and television help us to understand more. So we are more willing to help each other and make more happiness around us. For instance, the strong tsunami cause heavy damage in Japan. Although it was an unfortunate thing and there is many obstacles to recover those victim's home, people in the world understand how bad it looked like through the mass media and provide their fortunes and materials to help Japanese people. As a result, if there are no movies and television, we can not understand the world more. In conclusion, because of gaining more knowledge, preventing bad things, and understanding others more. I am of the opinion that movies and television can still make a lot of positive influence on people's behavior.

Change One Important Thing in My Hometown If I could change one important thing in my hometown, I'd like to build a school for the children live around because some children in my hometown come from poor families. And I think education and happy childhood are both important things for kids. Firstly, my hometown is just a small county and people live there are mostly not so rich. So some poor families have no ability to offer their children's expense and that cause those kids lose an opportunity to learn and gain their knowledge. For example, a poor family just exist right beside my home. My neighbor didn't spend much time in school since he was a child, because he had to help his parent working and he couldn't have the same education as other children in the same age. Therefore, I want to build my own school to help those poor children and help them get the same chance to learn. Second, education plays an important role in everyone's life. It is dispensable to study and learn in a person's life. I hope to build a school with a correct direction of education and not just a place performs like a cram school. By this way, it can help children in my hometown to form complete personalities and find out their own interests. For instance, I went to school every day when I was a child, but I did't know what I learned and why I wen to school. Teachers and parents just told us to study harder and harder. I don't think I got the right education way. Hence, building a school with good education system in my hometown is what I want to do the most. Lastly, a place for children to have their happy and interesting childhood is necessary. Nothing is more important than that children have a wonderful memory about their school time. Take my childhood as an example, my teacher and parents always ignored my feeling. The only way to make them happy was to get a good grade in exams. I feel very bad to lose many chances to have a nice time with my friends in childhood. As a result, I want my school can be the paradise for those children and let them never forget. In conclusion, for reasons to help poor students, to build better education system, and to realize a playing garden for children, I prefer to build a school for children if I could change one important thing in my hometown.

If a Factory Built near My Community If a company announced to build a large factory near my community, some people live around could feel good because they can get some money from the government for compensation, and maybe a factory nearby could bring some chances of jobs. However, I disagree with these statements because of the noise, air pollution, and heavy traffic. First of all, a factory near my home must bring the extreme noise and it will drive me crazy. With the annoying noise daily, I will struggle to sleep and feel nervous in my life. That will be a catastrophe to our community. For example, I am often waked up by a mosquito humming. It goes without saying the loud noise from the factory. Therefore, a factory nearby will destroy the quiet and comfortable living place of mine. Second, a factory usually exhaust a lot of poisoned air with some harmful chemistry, and these poison materials will dissolve in the cloud. When it rains, the bad things still come back to people live around. For instance, I used to live near a small factory. The exhausts from the factory always made me to cough. I can barely open my window even for a minute. Hence, the air pollution caused by factories is one of the disadvantages. Lastly, if a factory was built near my home, there will be a lot of people working there. That is, it will cause a traffic jam in the rush hours, and that must let people in the community have a lot of inconvenience. For example, if I have to spend one hour on the traffic jam, then I have to get up an hour earlier. Moreover, it will also cost me an hour when I come back. As a result, building a factory nearby could make the community crowded and bring traffic problems. In conclusion, because of the noise, air pollution, and heavy traffic, I am of the opinion to oppose building a factory near my community.

Knowledge Gained from Books Some people believe that knowledge is always gained from experiences instead of books. However, I disagree with this statement because experiences could bring mistakes instinctively. Besides, books contain the complete content of knowledge and reduce the duration on trials and errors. First of all, it is possible to make mistakes by following past experiences, because current condition is not always the same as the former one. Sometimes you want to make things through based on your experience, but actually some instinctive errors have been involved. For example, I'm a mechanical engineer. I once encountered a problem which is regarded as a common issue as usual. However, after the force analysis precisely, I found out the solution still comes from basic theories in the book. Therefore, experiences are not always the right way to the goal. Second, books provide the complete and comprehensive knowledge base, while you can only learn some pieces of knowledge from experiences. Insufficient learning will not help you to solve the similar problems in the future. For instance, when I was a student, I used to understand all the material in textbooks before solving problems. By this method, I can easily answer all the questions in the same topic. Hence, one should gain knowledge from books rather than experiences for complete basis. Lastly, books teach you how to do by pioneer's methods, then it can speed up the process to solve problems. Newton said that he stands on the giant's shoulder and sees farther. That is, ancient people's experiences which all are written down in books can help us improve more and prevent struggling on the same traps. Take smart phone as an example, if people didn't take the cell phone and touch panel technologies as basic experiences, how can a smartphone contains both functions of calling and touch controlling now? As a result, we can learn more past experiences from books than our own experiences. In conclusion, because books contain the complete content of knowledge and reduce the duration on making mistakes, I'm of the opinion that knowledge is always gained from books instead of experiences.