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It was sunny today. Takeout lunch on Sunday! Mom ordered from our favorite place, and guess what? A tiny complementary water gun came with my kid’s combo, Score! Mom has a strict no-water-gun policy at home because of all our electronics, but this one is just too tempting. I've hidden it away for now, planning a surprise water attack on Dad. It won’t be a fair fight!

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I came across an interesting article online about new decarbonized technology and allow me to share it here. The biggest plant all over the world, "Mammoth" started working in Iceland this May. The plant can suck out carbon dioxide[CO2], which causes global warming, as if the plant is a huge cleaner. Mammoth was developed by the startup "Climeworks" in Switzerland and the second "Direct Air Capture[DAC]" plant. DAC is technology that absorbs air and separates CO2 with chemicals. After that, CO2 is implanted deep in the ground. It is also reused or is transformed into solid products. Climeworks is planning on transporting CO2 to underground, changing them into stones and storing them forever. The operation is all done by plenty of geothermal energy, which is also clean and environmentally-friendly, in Iceland. The next generation solution for climate change like this technology has attracted a lot of attention lately from the government and various companies. That is because the concentration of CO2 in 2023 was the highest record ever. Climeworks states Mammoth can suck out CO2 of 36,000 ton per year in full swing. This is equivalent to exhausting gases of about 7,800 cars. I have heard the news that many people have died of scorcher in many countries. It's a matter of time before we all face the same crisis . So, I think we need to address it immediately.

Extreme wethers, deforestation and extinction of animal species, there are a number of global problems that humans have to work on in today's anthropogenic world. Some people think that the overpopulation is the source of all these issues, while others claim technological development is the main culprit. Although technologies have enabled us to change and destroy the nature, I support the former viewpoint because the enormous number of people, estimated to reach 10 billion by 2050, innevitably have been depleting Earth's resources and impacting the environment. The simple fact is that the Earth cannot sustain such a large number of humanbeings. Scientific studies have shown that today's people consume more than twice as many recources as this planet can reproduce. Normally, the nature prevents living organisms from getting out of control, but humans with advanced cognitive skills and technologies outpower the nature. In this sence, it is a the-head-and-tail-of-a-coin question whether population or technologies come first. However, the purpose of use and advance of technologies is to increase people's living standard and number, so the population seems like an issue to be addressed. Critics for technologies argue that people can reclaim a sustainable environment if they abandon the modern lifestyle. However, first of all, it sounds impossible to lower the living standard, and second of all, it seems more constructive to use technologies to counter the adverse effects of themselves. Engineers have been working on less harmful power plants. Scientists have been improving environmental conservation techniques. To summarise, the excessive population have caused problems. Technologies can be used to recover the loss humans have made, and interestingly, there is a global tendency that developed countries see declining population. It might prove that mankind is still under control of nature.

some children spend hours every day on their smartphones. why is this case? do you think this is a positive or a negative development? In recent years, smartphones have become of great importance in terms of their impact on the young generation, especially in today’s technology-focused world. In this essay, I will explain why there is such a trend and argue why I think using smartphones on a frequent basis can lead to several negative implications rather than positive impacts. One of the main reasons why children are more exposed to smartphones frequently is that the interactions between people have been significantly reduced, leading to more technology-based appliance usage. For example, in order to buy something people tend to use online websites to purchase their needs rather than going out and shopping, or due to the vast number of online communication applications, people are more likely to use these apps in order to contact their friends and relatives rather than giving them a visit, which can contribute to less interaction and more isolation. Peer pressure can also be another cause of this trend as it is more difficult to get along with their friends when the major way of connection among them is by phone. Thus, in this case it is more probable for children to spend their free time on the Internet using their cell phones as these young creatures are very good learners and copy the elders. While phones and electronic devices can bring about multiple benefits, including more accessibility to information, simpler knowledge transferability and more time efficiency, I believe this can result in more problems and barriers for children’s development in the near future. For instance, using phones every day can affect children’s vision and eyesight in the long term. Also, they may interfere with numerous physical and psychological problems due to the limited number of social interactions and connections they have. For example, their ability to make friends and