Double Income Families-2 Another positive facet to growing up in a double income family is that children have opportunity to learn how to be independent and prevent them from parents’ overprotection as well. Some people might argue that growing up with parents help their psychological development. Regarding with this, I would like to retort that most of developed countries provide parental leave until children is 3 years old. Through this policy, parents still can keep current jobs and accompany with children until 3 years old which is the most important period toward one’s psychological development. In conclusion, I would like to restate that I personally believe that the benefits of double income families override its drawbacks. Furthermore, people’s concern with without parents’ company during children’s childhood can be solved through applying for parental leave.

Double Income Families-1 Double income families are prevailing in modern society. Some people argue this family style make children grow up under parentless environment while some believe children obtain abundant resource if they live in affluent families. However, in this essay, I would like to contend that the advantages of living in double income family outweigh its disadvantages. Firstly, it is undeniable that double income families can provide more financial support compared with the normal household which merely one parent works. Double income families could invest more money on children’s education to gain quality resource. Furthermore, some families can’t afford all household expenditure if one of them is take care of children at home. As a result, I believe that double income families are necessary to exist for some households’ economic status.

IELTS Task 1-1 Given are three bar charts comparing the average years of school, number of scientists and technicians and research &development expenditure among developing and industrialized countries in 1980 and 1990. In term of the number of average years of schooling received, in 1980, people in industrialized area gained approximately 8 years education in average while people in developing area merely received 2 years education in average. After 10 years, the gap had widened slightly with 11 years in industrialized countries and 3 years in developing countries. As for the number of scientists and technicians, there are similar trend as first graph has been seen. For industrialized countries, the number was around 42 scientists and technicians per 1,000 people in 1980, and then had increased to 70 people in 1990. However, developing area merely saw slight progress from 10 people per 1,000 people in 1980 to 18 people in 1990. Finally, regard with R&D investment, affluent countries, around 150 billion dollars in 1980 and 350 billion dollars in 1990 were been invested. Conversely, in less affluent countries, only 50 billion dollars in 1980 was spent and its investment even decreased half amount after 10 years. Overall we can see that industrialized countries implicated longer education period, fostered more scientists and technicians and invested more capital on R&D compared with developing countries.

Nature or Nurture?-2 Furthermore, there are some research teams found out that gene will not be changed, but methylation of DNA will be influenced by diet habits and living environment which might cause different diseases such as cancers and melancholia. From this research consequence, one of identical twin has psychological disease, which tell us personality still can be have dramatic change as human getting older. Clearly, nurture factor is more important than natural gene toward personality development. In conclusion, I would like to restate that I believe that environment have greater affect people more than decided it by gene. Not only identical twins might have distinct characteristics, but also their psychological status might be changed due to later lifestyle.

Nature or Nurture?-1 The issue of whether personality development is influenced by gene more compared with be affected by nurtured environment or not is contentious. Since personality traits and their cause are virtually impossible to quantify, it is difficult to analysis the relation between personality development and environment factor. In this essay, I would like to argue that environment factors have greater influence on ones characteristics. My point of views is as follows. According to some parents who have identical, there are have different views toward their twins’ personalities. Some said their identical twins have similar personality and preference while some observers that their twins have opposite characteristics with almost exact same look. As a result, we can figure even identical twins that have with the same genes might still be attributed distinct traits, not to mention that parents opinions or survey result of twins is objective or not. Therefore, I personal believe gene is not the main factor to affect human’s personality.

Birth Rates in China and the USA A glance at the graph provided reveals the obvious similarity birth trend between China and the USA during the period from 1920 to 2000. It is evident that the fertility of both countries were fluctuated from 1920 to 1955, and then declined steadily in the latter 45 years. Increasing from approximately 10 percent in 1920, China’s birth rate then plunged to 5 percent in 1940s. The following 5 years saw a considerable raise to 20 percent in 1955, which had reached the peak in historical record of this figure. After 1950, there was a significant drop to around 9 percent in 1955, and then had kept steadily decreasing until in 2000. The US birth rate, meanwhile, fluctuated at somewhere between 10 percent and 15 percent during the period from 1920 to 1940. Likewise, the US birth rate had fallen to the lowest rate at 4 percent in 1945, and then went to highest record by 15 percent in 1950. During the latter half of this century, the US birth rate had declined gradually every year until at 7 percent in 2000. It is interesting to note that the fertilities of both countries were comparable before 1950. However, after 1950, the gap between two countries was widened with 5 percent difference.

Global Education Rates Given are two column graphs comparing the secondary education and higher education among both genders in four regions (namely Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and East Asia) While Europe enjoys relatively higher levels of education overall, it seems that people in affluent are more likely to be educated. Almost all females of school age and approximately 90 percent of males receive secondary education. However, people who from Sub-Saharan Africa has lowest popularity of secondary education with merely 10 percent of males and 20 percent of females. Other areas such as Latin America and East Asia have moderate levels on secondary education popularity. With regard to higher education, in general, less people gain higher education compared with the data of secondary education among four areas. In Europe, some 50 percent of females and 42 percent of males attend university or college. Conversely, only 20 percent of males and 25percent of females gain higher education. The figures for Latin America and East Asia are slightly higher than the number of Africa area. Also noteworthy is the fact that the females gain secondary education more than the males among all regions except East Asia. Nevertheless, males are more likely to receive higher education among Africa, Latin American and East Asia except Europe.

Endangered Species-2 Yet, perhaps the strongest argument in favor of preserve extinct species is that all species has its intrinsic value. Nowadays, since modern people’s life style have significantly changed, which produces unknown virus that might cause new disease and plague. However, to invite new medicine to cure disease, we might extract element from species animals or plants. If human keep disrupting the balance of environment and also forgo saving endanger species, I believe human will pay what we did in the future. In conclusion, I once again restate that to preserve endangered is worthwhile and necessary. Not only taking responsibility for making up the mistakes we did to maintain the balance of ecosystem, but also reserving the source what we can adopt for inviting new medicines for human benefits.

Endangered Species-1 The issue of whether we should attempt to protect species from being extinct is contentious. Some argue those endangered species should be allowed dying out naturally as dinosaurs had in the past, while some believe every species has own value for exiting. In this essay, I would contend that human should preserve every species. There are twofold to support my point of view. Firstly, it’s vital to maintain the balance of ecosystem, disappear or introduce a species might cause a plague since it destroys the original food chain. Try to image that once all bees are disappear in this world, then all flowers will not be reproduced and those animals and insects who rely on flowers as food might be endangered as well. Furthermore, most of species extinction is causing from human behaviors instead of following the natural selection. As a result, I believe human should take the risk responsibility for keep delicate ecosystem to compensate for the mistake we made.