Technological progress It might be mentioned, that the term “progress” can be associated with all historical experience of the humanity. Indeed, some development of technologies, for instance, was always existed. Talking the modern tech progress, it has incredibly high speed; the number of scientific discoveries is really impressing. For the last century, we explore space, create a lot of new wonderful materials with appropriate features, find out how to use the atom energy, and certainly we create an international network, which involve communication between people in a long distances, and many other examples. Nowadays we can’t imagine our lives without some devices, like smart-phones, tablets, but our parents don’t use them so often. So in this situation, discussion about influence of technologies on our daily life is issued. As for me, I’m a bit concerned with the amount of new tech, which is involving in my life. One of the examples of such high-tech devises could be the smart-glasses, which created by Google-company it’s named Google-glasses. Such devise give you some new possibilities, like geo-localization in hands-free mode. Such technologies make your life more comfortable and interesting, but on the other hand dependence of the technology is increasing and in the near future it might be a really important problem. Therefore we should use some benefits of technological progress, but try to avoid or reduce negative impact from them.

City living in the 21th century It is well known, that the main part of the humanity lives in the cities and the number of citizens vary from 10-15 thousands to even 20 millions of people. Talking the largest cities of the world, the problem with stress, caused by such overcrowding, has become significantly important. Indeed, the average citizen, for instance, of Moscow everyday has to contact with hundreds of people, especially in public transport, hear all these irritating noises and reacts quickly to all changes during his day, which demand from him strong concentration. As for me, I live in Moscow already for three years and I might feel the negative impact on my mood, due to crowd around of me. Actually I have such experience almost each day using underground and you just have to stay so close to other people, which breach your “own space”. On the other hand, there are a lot of ways to reduce stresses, using all benefits of city living. It can be the resting in wonderful parks, green zones, maybe restaurants, cafes and so on. Additionally, urban area gives you all necessary opportunities to realize yourself, I mean the types of activities or jobs are varying so much here, therefore you could find something, what you exactly need. In short, it certainly depends on the person, because there are a lot of people, who really like and enjoy urban lifestyle and for them advantages of such living are more important, then possible stresses.

Why do international sports competitions sometimes encourage strong nationalism? Analyzing the development of national sport, it can be considered, that unfortunately such types of competitions sometimes promote strong nationalism. Indeed, a lot of people, watching Olympics, for instance, associate themselves with national athletes and teams. In this way, usual fans from different countries became competitors and kind of separation on national type is created. Thinking about this issue, firstly I need to say about positive aspect of this one. Namely, it is absolutely normal to feel with results of your country, to hope, that they became better, then other ones. It is called patriotism and as more we feel it, as stronger our country became. For example, I really brave with thirty tree medals of our national team in last Olympic Games, but also I respect foreign athletes, because they deserve their results by years of strong training. Moreover, each member of national competitions deserves to be respected. Unfortunately, the negative aspect of such tournaments is also exists, that is encouraging of nationalism, which is shown by unacceptable behavior of fans, for instance. Especially it can be seen on football matches, when fans from two different countries make a scrimmage, throw fires to each other and cetera. It happens not so often though. Another thing, which should be mentioned, is a lot of stereotypes in sport and many of them is national. For example, possibilities of gain success in some sport areas are not available for certain countries. And as I think, we should not stress a lot of attention, talking about these possibilities, especially in unrespectable way. In conclusion I want to stress, how important to respect each other in sport competitions and to find a balance between following national interests and argue by national type.

dangerous foos A lot of people have an opinion, that the basic part of a food, which we are eating, is dangerous for us. And when I think about this problem, I realize that it can be true, unfortunately. But it is complex issue, and depends on how each of us cares about his health. Why people think in this way? First of all, we can say that our usual food consist a lot of artificial additives and colors, especially, it is true for fast and processed food. In my mind, all this stuff is extremely unhealthy for you. I know, that we have to use it, because nowadays products are transported on the long distances, you can buy a meal from another country or even another part of the world. But we can solve this problem through the creation of meals in your area, for instance, I have heard that there are a lot of projects of vertical farming, which can produce crops right in a city. The second thing is food may contain a lot of sugar, cholesterol and pesticides. Of course, we like these types of food, because they are tasty, have fantastic, usually artificial flavor and so on, but on the other hand, unhealthy and even dangerous for us. Thirdly, I have to say, that each of us can make a choice, I mean, we still can eat healthy meal, for example, vegetables and fruits, cook at home from fresh products, and even grow them in our own croft. As for me, I have house with croft in my own town, and each summer I eat fresh vegetables. In conclusion, I'm going to say, that there are a lot of problems with food, but we still have a possibilities to eat healthy meal, and as much as I can I would try to find these possibilities.

My house rules There are a lot of rules, which can be in some houses, as for me, we have some special rules in our sweet room in hostel. When I started to live in my dorm, I didn't put off a creation of rules and looked forward to comfortable life. So we came up with a list of how to live here. First of all, we decided to clean up our room every week. The second rule was about own stuff, like if you borrow something for me you will give it back. The next rule was about waking up, I mean if you do it early than others you have to be quiet. Also all of us occupied some places and if you want use place of other roommates, you have to ask about it. Of course we've been tried to follow all of this things, but unfortunately, we had a few points of argue. I mean we just had to put up with ours bad habits and I've gained valuable experience how to live together.