For and Against Essay: The advantages and disadvantages of bicycling as a form of transport Nowadays, there are a lot of cities around the world which bicycling is the main mean of transport, for example Amsterdam. In fact, many people completely agree with using bicycling as a commuting transport. In contrast, others believe that it is not a good idea. On the one hand, it has a lot of advantages, for example it is the cheapest mean of transport, it can help the environment because it not pollute and the most important is that you can do exercise. You have several options, you can rent a bike or you can buy one. On the other hand, it has some disadvantages too. One of them is that it could result dangerous because of the traffic. The weather can be another negative aspect if you live in a rainy city In my opinion, I really think that bicycling is a very good option to move around your city. As a matter of fact, in my city is the best option because the weather and currently, the cycle line is all around the city.

The power of concentration. This is a summarize of an opinion article by Maria Konnikova. When you are thinking about meditation and mindfulness you can think in two different ways: On the one hand, you can think about yoga retreats and Buddhist monks and the other hand you can think about someone who knows the value concentration as Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Mindfulness is the ability to quiet your mind, focus your attention on the present, and dismiss any distractions that come you away. Mindfulness can effect impressive changes in how we feel and think. It has done several researches wich they have shown, - 2011 – University of Wisconsin: Daily meditation could shift the frontal brain activity toward what cognitive scientist call positive, approach-oriented emotional states - 2012 – University of Washington: In addition, an exercise in mindfulness can also help with the multitasking. Our attention is not infinite, but it is trainable. The only participants to show improvement were those who had receive the mindfulness training, their ability to concentrate improved significantly. - 2012 – Emory University: Mindfulness has been shown to improve connectivity inside our brain’s attentional networks, changes that save us from distraction. - 2006, a team of phychologists shown that the brain becomes more efficient after of five one-hour training sessions on a task of attentional control - 2012 – Ohio State University: older adults who scored higher on mindfulness scales had increased connectivity in their default networks. For summarizing, when we learn to unitask, we may be doing more than increasing our observational prowess. We may be investing in a sounder mental future – no matter how old we are.

Six scientifically proven benefits of mindfulness and meditation The article is written by a lawyer who teaches mindfulness and meditation to other professionals. These tools are used for improved focus/concentration, emotional regulation, leadership skills and collaboration, and decrease healthcare cost. The practice of mindfulness and meditation has gained interest in the business world because nowadays, we see how these practices change the wiring and the makeup of our brains. Some researchers have shown that: 1. Mindfulness reduces anxiety by participating to an 8-week intervention with mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR). 2. Mindfulness meditation reduces implicit age and race bias by listening to either mindfulness or a control audio. 3. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) may prevent and treat depression by incorporating mindfulness exercises including yoga, body awareness and daily homework, such as eating or doing household chores, with full attention to what one is doing, moment by moment. 4. Increase body satisfaction, by receiving three-week self-compassion meditation training. 5. Mindfulness meditation improves cognition by receiving four sessions of mindfulness meditation. 6. Mindfulness meditation helps the brain reduce distractions. The participants went through an eight-week mindfulness training program According to the author’s experience, the hardest part of mindfulness and meditation is to make it a daily habit. The author finishes the article encouraging to us to try the experience for ourselves

What would you like to change in your world, and how would you go about doing it. We live in a world that seems to be happy but the reality is that we suffer a lot of injustices. From my point of view, we have many reasons for trying to change it. In the first place, I would like to talk about racism, one of the biggest problems in our society. Unfortunately, people are not tolerant of others just for be considered different. For example, in this moment there are more than sixty-five millions of refugees. Secondly, women are discriminated in their jobs (they earn less money than men for the same job), in the politic life and so on. We have to encourage every people for being more sensitive to this type of situations. Maybe inspiring families to educate their children in a more tolerant way. To sum up, everyone could do something in order to become this word in a fair place. In my opinion, it is a possible task although it was very difficult

For and against essay on the advantages and disadvantages of advertising We are surrounded by advertising. We can find it on television, in shops, online, and so on. It is impossible to avoid it. Nowadays, advertising has a huge influence on people’s life. On the one hand, advertising is a great investment for companies in order to increase their sells as well as their profits. Appealing adverts can give to consumers a general idea about the product. On the other hand, advertising has some bad aspects such as the high persuasive power that adverts has in some people. Consumers can spend a big amount of money on products they don’t really need. Furthermore, adverts can give a misleading image of the product. In conclusion, I think there are some adverts which are amazing and I enjoy watching them. Nevertheless, I am aware of the dangerous power they have in our decisions.

Review about “Allied” The film I would like to review is “Allied”, it is a very new film, in fact, it's premiering at the cinema right now. The story goes by about 1942, during the Second World War. Max is a secret agent and he falls in love of Marianne, a french college, after a danger mission in the North of Africa. The couple starts a loving relationship, they get married and they have a girl. It seems that they get on with each other and they are completely in love. Suddenly, he is said that her wife can be a secret agent who works to the Nazis. The film is over with his wife’s death. She kills herself to protect her daughter and her husband. The main actors are Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard. They do a fantastic performance, from my point or view This is a romantic drama about war, love, and loyalty. I would recommend this film to anyone because it liked me a lot. It was very enjoyable and the actors make a very good interpretation.

Essay - Should students have a long summer holiday or should terms be longer? Students suffer stress in some courses. Do you think students should have a long summer holiday or it would be better terms were longer? It is often said that students have too many holidays. Nowadays, in the families, both parents are working and probably it is an inconvenience for them that the children have holidays because they have to look for another alternative for taking care of them as a campsite, summer school, and on and on. Sometimes these alternatives are very expensive. By the contrast, if they had fewer holidays, it would be possible to distribute the contents of the course in more time in order to reduce students pressure with the exams. Some of the students claim that they have a lot of exams together. However, from my point of view, if the terms were longer things wouldn’t change, they would go on with a lot of exams together but with a short summer holiday, they need spend time with their friends doing leisure activities. I strong believe that is necessary change some things but not holiday time.

Finally - In the end - At the end What’s the difference between “Finally, in the end, at the end”? Many thanks.