Essay

China's Traffic Troubles

Traffic in China is really bad, it's one of the worst in the entire world. There are many reasons why the traffic in China is awful, but the most important and relevant ones are:

• China popullation is 1.351 billion people and 240 million people own a car. 

• China's roads are full of new drivers. 

• China’s driver education is not great. 

A car is considered a status symbol. If you own a car you are considered a "rich" person because you are too important to ride in public transportation. 

The government has also worked to improve long-distance travel, building new airports and rolling out a massive network of high speed trains designed to get people where they’re going faster and keep them off the highways.

There was a traffic jam that lasted 10 days in China. The cause of the traffic jam was reported to be a spike in traffic by heavy trucks heading to Beijing, along with National Highway 110's maintenance work that began five days later. Authorities tried to speed up traffic by allowing more trucks to enter Beijing, especially at night. They also asked trucking companies to suspend operations or take alternate routes. By late August 2010, the traffic jam largely dissipated, reportedly due to the efforts of authorities.

There are just too many people. Even with great driver education, wider roads, and fewer people buying cars, traffic jams would still be likely in a city like Beijing, which is host to more than twenty million people.

Issues

3 problems or issues

Global Warming
Air pollution
Traffic

All these problems are related. When there is a lot of traffic, that means that there are a lot of cars and cars expulse carbon dioxide and that causes air pollution. As a consecuence, air pollution blocks the ozone layer and keeps heat waves in and causes Global Warming.

Causes: Traffic
Effects: Air Pollution & Global Warming
Solutions: Control how many cars are out everyday.

Advice

Dear Vero, I need your advice on something really important to me.

I have a problem at work. My office is being remodeled and I left important documents and I am afraid that the workers will look over them and steal them. My boss told me to make sure that I took all the documents but I forgot and now I cant go in the office until next week. What should I do?

Homework

13 inch MacBook Pro for only 10,000 pesos!! It includes its original charger and a clear case for free. Its secon hand but its as good as new. Its been only used for 6 months so its in excellent conditions.

Homework

Bruno Mars Biography 

Bruno Mars real name is Peter Gene Hernandez. He was born October 08, 1986 in Waikiki, Hawaii, USA. He was always a music fan. From a young age, he performed songs and did impersonations of Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley. He started out in the music bussiness by writing many hit singles for other artists before he started recording his own songs. His first hit was Nothing On You. His first album was "Doo-Wops & Hooligans". He actually wrote the song for B.O.B and he featured him in the song. Currently he is on his world-wide tour. 

Homework

How would you describe the way humans treat animals? Should this change? Why or why not?

I think that the way a lot of people treat animals is awful.  Most people treat animals without respect or violating their right because of anger, ignorance, or a lack of compassion in their own lives.

There are a few people who treat animals with rights and respect like me and my family. There´s a big difference between humans and animals. Humans can express themselves and be heard so their rights are not violated. Animals on the otherhand have no way of communicating with humans and due to this, people believe that animals are stupid, ignorant and not important. But we forget that animals where here first and we should respect them and their natural habitats.

Yes, I do think this should change because how many animals have gone extinct because our lack of compassion or ignorance? Thousands. And this will continue to happen if we don't but a stop to this and to animal cruelty There are thousands of animals being tortured on circuses or wild and exotic animals being sold to ignorant people.

Homework

The Canadian commercial seal "hunt" is the largest mass slaughter of marine mammals in the world.

Canada intends to kill over 325,000 seals this spring.

According to the Canadian government, the hunt will not harm seal populations.

Isn't it illegal to kill baby seals now?


It is still legal to kill baby seals like this one, who is more than 11 days old and has begun to lose her white fur.

No. It's only illegal to kill baby seals under the age of 11 days old, when they are known as "whitecoats".


Do native people depend on the seal hunt to survive?

No.  The Canadian government allows for the slaughter of about 300,000 harp seals every March and April, most of whom are pups less than a few months old.