Which country are you interested in?

There are a lot of different interesting places in the world. As most people do, I wish to visit some of them. The country I am interested visited most in is Egypt, which is one of the oldest places in the world, attracting people with its secrets and sun.There are a lot of interesting places in the Egypt. One of the most famous is pyramids, which were built thousands of years ago. It’s one of the most mysterious places in the world. Even nowadays’ scientists couldn’t understand how humanity could build such an enormous object. The reason why I am so interested in pyramids is that I like history a lot, and by using things that were found inside pyramids the style of life in that centuries can be imagined. Some years ago I went to the historical museum, where ancient Egypt exhibition was presented. I was really shocked by its beauty and mysteriousness. Egypt is not just a historical place, at the same time it’s known as a sunny country with a beautiful sea too. Fresh air, pure sea water and sunny beach are things that make holidays unforgettable. I like swimming a lot, so if I had an opportunity to visit Egypt, I would spend some of my time in the beach.I hope that one day I will visit this interesting country.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers.

Some people think that parents could be a very important teacher for children, but after kids start going to school their place is taking by teachers, however, I believe parents always are the best teachers inspite of the amount of knowledge children have acquired from school.Parents influence greatly their children for a lifetime. I think all people are molded by two factors, family and society that are in. From birth, humans are influences by the surrounding people for their characteristics. Parents take a big role in bringing up children, which affects their lives for a long time. In early infanthood, babies looking to their mothers and fathers to learn basic manners to be accepted in society. Some of these manners include not running around in restaurants or hitting other kids. As they grow up, they learn more from parents about social etiquette, which makes them more suitable to live in society. Children tend to look to their parents for role models knowingly or unknowingly. Besides, parents can also affect children’s study habits. Children of doctor, lawyers, investment, bankers, and other professionals see their mothers and fathers work a lot of time, reading books, and punching keyboards, even at home. They are showing their children how to study by their own behavior. However, parents can also be a bed example for their kids. It is difficult for children who have abusive parents to lead a normal childhood and is possible that they may become similar to their abusive parents when they grow up. In this sense, the parents’ negative role in shaping the children’s personality cannot be emphasized more. In conclusion, parents are the best teacher for their children. They leave big marks on their children’s lives and are the best teachers for their children. They leave big marks on their children’s lives and are therefore more influential teachers than any others.

Smoking

The are many harmful habites and one of them is smoking. Smoking is a big social issue in many countries widely discussed in newspapers, radio and TV-shows. The practice of smoking tobacco originated among Native Americans in eastern North America, where tobacco is native. It was adopted by many Europeans following the colonization of the Americas. According to the World Health Organization, it is most common in east Asia, where as many as two-thirds of all adult males smoke tobacco. Because of concern over the health effects of tobacco smoking, the practice has rapidly declined in recent years in the United States, Canada and western Europe. However, statistics show that at least a quarter of people even in these regions continue to smoke, and there is no indication smoking will go away completely.Tobacco may be smoked in several forms, the most common being the cigarette, the cigar, and the pipe. Cigarette smoking is the most common. Pipes and cigars are less common, and some stereotype these as exclusively for men. The hookah or water pipe is used in the Middle East.In the case of cigarette smoking, smoke is inhaled into the lungs. Tobacco smoke contains the nicotine, which forms a strong physical and psychological addiction. The Centers for Disease claim that nicotine is a “very addictive drug” that can be “as addictive as heroin or cocaine”.Medical research has found that smoking is a major contributing factor towards many human health problems, especially lung cancer, heart attack, and other disorders. Research also showed that smoking is an important cause of premature death worldwide.Passive smoking occurs when the exhaled smoke from one person's cigarette is inhaled by other people. Involuntary smoking involves inhaling toxic components. Numerous studies have suggested that passive smoking can be harmful to human health. Passive smoking is one of the key issues in leading to smoking bans, particularly in workplaces.Smoking is not supported by many people in the world, for the most part by the non-smokers. Most arguments against smoking are grounded on public health concerns.In many countries it is illegal to sell tobacco products to minors. In the United States, all television advertising of tobacco products has been prohibited. In addition, in many countries some jurisdictions impose restrictions on where smoking is allowed. Still, many people continue smoking. People start smoking for different reasons. Some say they smoke in order to relax, rest and distract from their daily stress. I think that most of the minors smoke in order to be like everybody else, to be cool and become a grown up. However, successful ex-smokers are often quite happy and relieved, as well as proud of their success.Personally, I don’t smoke and never smoked. I am very tolerant towards smokers as long as they don’t smoke in my presence and it’s of no harm to me. Of course it’s very harmful for them, but it’s their own life and their own choice.

William Shakespeare

Famous people are those people who are known all over the world. Most time this people deserved to be known because of their achievemnts.I would like to tell you about a writer who became a symbol of the English literature. William Shakespeare, the greatest English poet and dramatist, was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon in England. When he was 13 he left school and began to help his father in the trade. He was glad when groups of actors visited Stratford. William watched them and decided to become an actor. William went to London when he was about 21. He began to work in London holding the horses of those people who came to see the plays at the theatre. Later he became an actor and then he began to write plays himself.Many of his plays were performed in a London theatre called The Globe. Life itself was shown in his plays. Shakespeare's heroes are still on the stage in his plays Othello, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and other. William Shakespeare died at the stage of 52. His plays and poems were translated into many foreign languages. People all over the world enjoy them.As for me, I like Shakespeare's sonnets very much. They tell about great love and beautiful dame and a man is a knight. They are ordinary people but great love makes their feelings beautiful. Maybe, that is why I like the sonnets. I think you should read his poems and plays in English and enjoy them in the original.

Ecological problem

There are a lot of big problems such as war and famine. One of the is a ecological problem which is very essential for all of us. Since ancient times nature has served man, being the source of his life. For thousands of years people lived in harmony with environment and it seemed to them that natural riches were unlimited, but with the development of civilization man's interference in nature began to increase. Large cities with thousands of smoky industrial enterprises have appeared all over the world today. The byproduct of their activity pollutes the air we breathe, the water we drink, the land we grow grain and vegetables. Every year world industry pollutes the atmosphere with about 1000 million tons of dust and harmful substances. Many cities suffer from smog. Vast forests are cut and burn in fire. Their disappearance upsets the oxygen balance. As a result some rare species of animals, birds, fish and plants disappear forever, a number of lakes and rivers dry up. The pollution of air and the world's ocean destruction of the ozone layer is the result of man's careless interaction with nature, a sign of ecological crises. Many of "peaceful" factories and towns cause a great damage to the environment. Dangerous dust and blow-outs of the enterprises are being carried out by winds for long distances destroying the life around. People all over the world are worried about what is happening to the environment. They understand that the earth is their home, a big green home. The environment protection should be our universal concern. Some progress has been already made in this direction. Numerous conferences have been held to discuss questions of ecologically poor regions. The international organization Greenpeace is also doing much to preserve the environment. But these are only the initial steps that must be carried forward to protect not only for the sake of the present but for the future generations. Earth is our home and we have to protect it. 

Story of restaurant's owner...

I want to tell you about one day from my life which I will never forget. At those time I was working as a manager of very big restaurant. It was normal work day. I came to the reastaurant at 10 o’clock in the morning as usual. I looked around if everything was ok, cheked tables and workes. Those day we were preparing our restaurant to one family party. The person who was going to have this party was famous singer, Mr.X. His secreter phoned us before and said that she wanted to reserve a table. The party was planned to start at 3 o’clock. Mr.X and his family came at half past three, we showed them their place. As everytime I was watching what was happening in the hole. Mr.X with his family was having really good time. They were smiling and laughing. They seemed really happy. In the corner of the same hole there was a man who came half an hour earlier than Mr.X. I noticed that he was looking happy family up and down. I was a little bit suspicious about him, but then I decided that there is nothing wrong with him and went to my office. After five minutes I heared a screem of women and ran out of my office. I was shoked when ı saw the man's body in the floor without life. Mr.X was laying in the floor in the blood. His wife and his childern was very scared,I immediately called police. Police came about 10 minutes later. When I came to myself I recognized that the man who was suspicous had left the restaurant. I told the policeman how those man was looking and what was he wearing. After half an hour the doctors came and took his wife and children to the hospital. This day was like a nightmare. It left a very big influence on me.

People attend college or universities for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge).

People study in college or university for many different reasons. I think the most important reason is to gain more knowledge and learn more skills. Of course, there are also many other reasons that people study in college such as to get more friends, and increase one’s self-confidence.These days, most jobs require people who are educated and have good job skills. Therefore, the people who want a good job have to study hard and at least graduate with high education. Furthermore, as technology advances all over the world, more and more education is required of people. Some people who study in college or university want to make more friends and increase their international skills. They enjoy their lives in university or college and tend to socialize a lot. They can meet more people who have the similar interests with themselves.The people who graduate from college seem more confident in our community. These people are more respected by society. Many people want to be respected and to be important by family, friends, their bosses, and other in their lives. They find that most of them can confidently talk and do their jobs as they are more educated. Therefore, most people want to get the confidence through the university or college study.In today’s society, people need more knowledge and skills to be adapted; the university and college study is a good way to achieve this.

Do u want to build house?

Second life is a virtual life in which you can do everything that is possible and impossible in real life. For example you can build a house and it wants an effort like in real. Initially it’s seems to be quite difficult but when you get how to do it you can easily finish it in one hour. On account of the fact that building process is complicated enough firstly you have to decide what kind of house you want to build. To begin with, you should start with base of the house. To put a base firstly press a build button, which is located on the bottom of the screen. Then from the object menu select a cube and put it in a place where you decided to build your house. From the properties menu determine the values of x, y and z. They represent height, length and width of the cube. It is useful to note their values somewhere because you will need them. After the base of the future house has been put start with the walls. I recommend you to start with back wall and continue with left and then right one because front wall is more complicated than others. To put a wall press the build button as well and from the object menu select a cube. In object properties change length, height and width of future wall but be careful for the back wall length of the cube must be same with a length of the base of the house. To arrange the place of it drag and move green and red arrows. Blue arrows are used to change the height of the object. After putting the back wall continue with left and right ones. In this case the width must be calculated. Take the width of the base and subtract from it the width of back wall. The height of the walls must be same with each other’s. In other case you house will not be proportional and some walls may be too small or too big. After you have finished with three walls continue with front one. It is a little bit more difficult than others. Because of the door which is required in all houses your front wall must be constructed from three cubes. Firstly build two walls and leave between them a space. This space is going to be your door. This too wall’s height must be smaller than other wall’s because you will have to put one more cube on their top. The length of these cubes is up to you. The next step is putting a long rectangular cube on the top of front walls. The height of it must supplement the height of front walls to height of other walls. The length of it must be calculated by taken the length of base of the house and subtracting from it the length of right and left walls. One thing that you must be careful about is the thickness of walls. In order to built proportional house it must be same to all walls. For front and back walls thickness is y-variable (width), for left and right walls it is x-variable (length). Be sure that all walls are put in proper places and there are no any halls except the door. After you are sure that everything is ok it is time to put the roof of the house. The roof of the house can be different (cube, pyramid, semi-sphere and etc.). For example let’s build a house which roof is in the form of pyramid. As we did before firstly press to the build button and then open the object menu. This time instead of cube select a pyramid. In the properties menu determine the length, width and height of it. The width and the length must be same with base’s ones. Then place it in the top of the house. The final step is to change the colors of the walls you can do it easily. Select an object, right click on it then choose an edit option. From the properties menu you can change the texture and color of it. At first you can think that it is too difficult to build a house but when you start to you will see that it is quite simple. Good luck in your buildings…

Slassification of Metu students

According to the future plans and perspectives all Metu students can be classified into three groups. First group students are those students who are going to start working immediately after their graduation. In the second group students who are going to continue education is presented and third group is a group who will not need university degree at all. The first group is a largest group. Students from this group are planning to start working after they have graduated from the university. They really have opportunity to because of heard name of Metu. Many work offers prefer to take students from well-known giving good education universities and Metu is one of the most prestige universities in the world. The second group students are those students who want to continue their education. These students can be also classified into subgroups. First subgroup can be named as “patriots», they are going to make their master’s degree at the same university. In the second subgroup are those students who want to study in other universities but in the same country. Third subgroup is a group from which students are planning to continue their education abroad. Most students want to make their master’s degree in other countries to gain experience and to improve languages. It is really possible for Metu students. The last and the smallest group’s students will never need their university diplomas. Mostly it is seen in three situations. First is when student doesn’t like his department or doesn’t satisfied with job. In second situations student haven’t opportunity to work because of lack of work places so they start to work in other fields. Most time they choose jobs such a tradesman or businessman. Third situation is when girls marry and don’t work at all. This group is not very big but for all that exists.