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A person should never make an important decision alone.

Decision-making is important. Thus, some choose to get advice from others in order to make them. When it comes down to me, I find the contrary more beneficial. Decisions which are made alone increase our independence and keep others from harm’s way.

Firstly, by making decisions by ourselves, we feel more independent. Friends and family members are not going to be always there, thus we must be able to rely on ourselves for our own good. For example, my brother would always listen to his friends when they gave him advice. This often if not resulted in bad situations. He eventually realized that he needed to develop a sense of independence and started making more decisions based on his own gut instincts. This change gradually improved his life.

Moving on, by taking advice from others you can put them in danger. If you take someone’s advice and in the end things turn out badly, you are reasonably going to be upset at them. Even if you think you are not, in the back of your brain you are angry at them, this is just how humans work. This in and of itself can develop into broken friendships and family ties. For example, my little sister once took advice from me, and it did not turn out the way we wanted it to. Afterwards, the entire month, she would yell at me for the simplest things like laundry and other household chores.

Wrapping up, I believe that a person should make decisions alone. By doing so, they develop a sense of self independence and put others from harm’s way.

What changes would you bring about in case you were a head of your home town?

People either love their home towns or they don’t. When it comes to me, I love my home town of Yerevan and if I ever got a powerful position in the government, I would make a lot of changes in order to improve the lives of those whose who live in it. The changes mainly concern the garbage and public transport systems.

Although more and more trash cans are being set up on the streets the problem lies within individual mindsets. Our current society does not use trash cans properly and instead leave junk on the grass, the highway and other public areas. Likewise, If I was given charge of the mayor status, I would enforce new and improved fines for public littering, which would be backed by new specifically park located police departments, where people can actually report someone for public littering. As an example, I was walking in the park and I saw a man drop his cola can on the grass. In my hypothetical reality, I could’ve reported him, but since we don’t live in that reality, I couldn’t do anything about it but to pick up the trash and put it where it belongs.

Moving on, our public transport seems to be lacking in a wide variety of fields. Old and barely functioning cars being one of the more important. Recently our mayor bough around 60 new buses. However, there is a huge consequence for that quantity, a significant decrease in quality. See these buses come from China and it is known that Chinese people tend to focus on quantity instead of quality, and again this is one of those cases. These buses have low roofs, basically zero windows and bad air conditioning. If given the role of a mayor, I would change our vendor for transporting. I’d switch them from China to Germany since Germans are known for pumping out high quality transports through history, as evident by luxury car brands such as Volkswagen, Daimler, Mercedes and BMW. To illustrate the quality of German products let’s refer to my friend Alex as an example. He bought a car from Mercedes back in 2006, and is still going strong with it.

In conclusion, if given power in the government, I would improve transportation in Yerevan and create new rules and specific departments, which prohibit people from littering.

Students should work while studying

Students are already quite busy with their studies and with a significant majority of them working, many have started wondering. Should students work while studying? Well, when it comes down to my own opinion, I believe that they should. I think this way because, work at young age creates experience for the student and additionally, it creates the much-needed money to finance their education.

Firstly, working while you are studying creates experience which later on in the line can benefit you when you are trying to find a proper job in your certified degree. Hirers see your experience and thus value you more as a potential candidate for their jobs. For example, my sister used to work as a cashier in a nearby supermarket. After finishing her degree in business and finance she decided to get a job at a local bank. A substantial amount of the candidates did not have previous experience in working and when the hirers noticed her previous work, they immediately hired her.

Moving on, students usually get crushed under the debt of student loans, and even if they get financial support from their friends and families, they still lack far behind their needed financial goals. Thus, students can choose to work and save up extra money for their college loans. For example, during my college years I was lacking around 600000 drams for my college tuition. The deadline was in 7 months. So naturally I decided to find a job. After a while I found a convenient workplace for me, near my college campus. And with my blooming charisma I of course got the job. I saved up the money for my credit and spend the leftover cash on other expenses.

Wrapping up, I believe that students should work, because it can create experience for your resume list and in addition it can create the needed finances for your student expenses, such as college credit.

Matching

Match the 12 new words in Column I with the definitions in Column II.

  1. warden – c. person in charge of a prison
  2. penalize – h. declare punishable by law or rule
  3. justice – k. fair dealing
  4. delinquent – f. a criminal
  5. vocation – j. occupation
  6. spouse – i. husband or wife
  7. homicide – a. murder
  8. acknowledge – b. admit to be true
  9. unstable – d. not firmly fixed
  10. beneficiary – g. person who receives benefit
  11. reject – I. refuse to take, use, believe, grant, etc.
  12. deprive – e. take away from by force

Fill in the Blanks

Place one of the new words in each of the blanks below

  1. Wayne’s parents yelled at him because he was known as a delinquent.
  2. The courts will penalize you if you don’t obey the law.
  3. Are you satisfied with your vocation or are you thinking of getting a different job?
  4. Five persons were being questioned by the police about the brutal* homicide.
  5. I acknowledged the fact that I received the tapes.
  6. When Steve asked his girlfriend to marry him, he did not anticipate* that she would _ _
    him.
  7. The warden of the prison set up stricter rules.
  8. Mrs. Fried’s spouse came home weary* after each day’s work.
  9. It is often unstable persons who commit serious crimes.
  10. Clara felt as if she had been deprived of the better things in life.
  11. Justice was served when the villain* was put behind bars.
  12. joseph was the beneficiary of large sums of money from his uncle’s insurance policy.

Issues in education

Use the words in the box to complete the opinions below.

  1. ‘Education is not about developing your interpersonal skills but about learning facts’.
  2. ‘Frequent examinations are a much more reliable and useful way of measuring performance than continuous assessment‘.
  3. ‘Streaming is an excellent idea because it enables students with a similar ability to work at the same place’.
  4. ‘The most important aspect of education is the curriculum, or subject which are taught’.
  5. ‘Private education creates elitism and encourages inequality in society, which is absolutely disgusting’.
  6. ‘Copying someone else’s ideas, plagiarism, cheating in exams, and buying qualifications is sometimes necessary’.
  7. ‘It’s easier to get good grades nowadays because education is dumbing down. Qualifications are worth less than in the past’.

Matching 

Match the 12 new words in Column I with the definitions in Column II.

  1. warden – c. person in charge of a prison
  2. penalize – h. declare punishable by law or rule
  3. justice – k. fair dealing
  4. delinquent – f. a criminal
  5. vocation – j. occupation
  6. spouse – i. husband or wife
  7. homicide – a. murder
  8. acknowledge – b. admit to be true
  9. unstable – d. not firmly fixed
  10. beneficiary – g. person who receives benefit
  11. reject – I. refuse to take, use, believe, grant, etc.
  12. deprive – e. take away from by force

Fill in the Blanks 

Place one of the new words in each of the blanks below

  1. Wayne’s parents yelled at him because he was known as a delinquent.
  2. The courts will penalize you if you don’t obey the law.
  3. Are you satisfied with your vocation or are you thinking of getting a different job?
  4. Five persons were being questioned by the police about the brutal* homicide.
  5. I acknowledged the fact that I received the tapes.
  6. When Steve asked his girlfriend to marry him, he did not anticipate* that she would _ _
    him.
  7. The warden of the prison set up stricter rules.
  8. Mrs. Fried’s spouse came home weary* after each day’s work.
  9. It is often unstable persons who commit serious crimes.
  10. Clara felt as if she had been deprived of the better things in life.
  11. Justice was served when the villain* was put behind bars.
  12. joseph was the beneficiary of large sums of money from his uncle’s insurance policy.

Words and definitions

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  1. The first time a message was transmited over a telegraph was in 1840.
  2. Can you confirm that this is your handwriting
  3. I took a detour to avoid traffic.
  4. We were all very weary after the long trip.
  5. There is merit in being a good listener.
  6. The judge listened to the burglar’s of plea not guilty.
  7. The runner and catcher were about to collide at home plate.
  8. Tyrone was relieved that he didn’t have any more work to do.
  9. When you run a company you have at least one new dillema every day to solve.
  10. Did you verified our reservations at the hotel?
  11. We were baffled as to who murdered the wretched* old man.
  12. After having been married to Arthur for thirty years, Selma could anticipate going to say.