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Hieveryone, I'm just beginning to learn english. I hope that others will help me to learn this language and I hope I will help other people to improve their skills in the spanish language.

Exercise: Death Punishment

QUESTION:

By punishing murderers with the death penalty, society is also guilt of committing murder. Therefore, life in prison is a better punishment for murderers.

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

MY ANSWER:

I do not think death punishment can be justified, and I believe imprisonment is a better punishment.

I hold this view because it is not reasonable for a government to kill its citizens as a punishment. As we all know, a government is elected and supported by its citizens to serve them. The very obligation of a government is to ensure order, stability, peace and fairness for the sake of citizens’ life. It is absurd for the elected and supported to execute those who have elected and supported them.

Furthermore, a government does not really need capital punishment. A substantial number of countries in the world have abolished, have de facto abolished or once abolished this inhumane punishment, including ancient China some 1000 years ago. There has been no sign of a sharp increase in criminal rate as a result. Conversely, many of these countries are enjoying, or enjoyed social harmony and a time free of the fear of this punishment. In my opinion, resorting to the use of capital punishment means a government’s fails in taking responsibility of creating a peaceful environment in an appropriate way.

Imprisonment is a much better choice. Firstly, imprisonment is less cruel than death penalty. It respects the criminals’ most fundamental human right. Secondly, it is argued by many that life-imprisonment or a long period of imprisonment is much sterner than death. Fewer people can endure the pain of life without freedom. Finally, imprisonment reduces the risk of mistakes in judgements. If a person is wrongly executed, nothing can be done to compensate the victim when the mistake is found, while it is possible if they have only been imprisoned.

In conclusion, I am convinced that death penalty should be replaced by imprisonment because the former lacks justification.

How do I keep myself awake? (Or how do you keep yourself awake, or how does one keep themselves awake)

In recent days, when the weather has been changing with heavy rain and cool temperatures I usually feel sleepy. How do I keep myself awake? This is an important time, I have to focus on something but I can’t do anything because of the sleepiness. My schedule is to go to bed at 12 am and get up at 7 am. That is a lazy schedual because of my sleepiness. I wish I could always keep myself awake when I study english and work at my job. I have tried to find some ways to resolve my problem such as: drink coffee, eat something, do exercise, wash my face with ice water and so forth. But all of these ways don't seem to work work. Maybe, I do not have enough motiative to push me in order to do everything at the moment. When I think about what will happen on my Ielts exam, I feel nevous and worried. But it won't be for a long time and I will forget all of my fear and my anxiety soon, when the sleepiness comes. That is a big reason, which is lead I don’t know what I done in 3 weeks ago ( i am not sure what this sentence means). I realize that I am lazier when I return my home tired after my job. I forget to keep the habit of talking with foreign friends each day and to speak with my friend who is a english teacher from Indonesia and I miss the lesson with my teacher. I don’t want make excuses for all of my laziness. That is all my fault and I have to take responsibility for all of my results which I will receive in the future. With my english level at the moment, I am sure that I won't get a high score when I take Ielts exam. Should I retake the exam in the next year, in order to achieve at least 6.5 mark? Because of my laziness, I will through my money out my window, at least the fee to resit te Ielts exam again. There are so many things which I will have to study in both this year and next year. So as to make my dream become true, I will purpose it with my patience, passion by 2 years which accounts this year (not sure what this means). I hope I can pick sweet fruits thank to grow germtrees (not sure what this means - I think it might be a saying or colloquial - I don't know) at the moment with taking careful and not giving up my dreams, and I hope I can keep myself awake when winter is coming. Can you give me some advise to avoid the sleepiness? Thanks!

Don't be so hard on yourself! Maybe try studying at a different time of day? Or break up your study into smaller 'less scary' sections

( I sure that my entry will have a lot of mistake because I can’t use my dictionary and can’t check spell grammar with my break computer)