practice #2 1)A person’s worth nowadays seems to be judged according to social status and material possessions. Old-fashioned values, such as honour, kindness and trust, no longer seem important. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion? I firmly believe that it is the ugly truth that the society is facing nowadays. Everyone likes to judge each other by their material possessions. Women like to judge one another by the number of Prada bags in their collections, men like to look down on the another if they are not driving Lamborghini. Old-fashioned mobile phones irk teenagers. I am sure that not all that glitters are gold and this kind of narrow-minded thinking needs further attention so that everyone would appreciate the so-called old-fashioned values such as honour, kindness and trust. Besides that, the elites with the glittering social status are highly respected and those without social status are regarded as “useless”. In the rapidly growing society, most of the people tend to forget the significance of virtues. There is a case where a worker in a company betray the company’s trust because of his greediness and his self-centred personality just to wear and use the highly-respected brands. We can see clearly that this man put everything including his pride at risk! Where did his honour and kindness go? In the midst of our busy days at work and school, we could observe that social status that one owns gives him special privileges and priorities although they did not work hard enough and caused ongoing problems to their workmates, peers and whatnot. Most of the times, the one with social status gets it all and highly recognised while those who work diligently gets nothing but mere painful yet hurtful comments from the society. Are we now blinded by social statuses that hard work and kindness are no longer appreciated? In a nutshell, I agree that a person’s worth only focuses on social statuses and material possessions. p/s : I am practicing for my IELTS exam. What do you think of this essay? (: