Is it better for children to choose jobs that are similar to their parents’ jobs?

***This is a TOEFL writing practice. Please give me some suggestions! Thanks very much!***
*"Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is better for children to choose jobs that are similar to their parents’ jobs than to choose jobs that are very different from their parents’ jobs."*



I agree with the statement that children select similar jobs to the ones their parents have for several reasons which i discuss below. First of all, I believe children will imitate the behavior of their parents or anyone taking care of them as long as they can see and hear. For example, your kids might be able to recognize some medical items or organs during their childhood if you or your spouse were a doctor. You probably have some related materials at home, such as pictures, models, and books. Children are likely to learn something from those because they will see them everyday during their childhood.

Secondly, children would probably consult their parents lots when they are looking to choose their major or future career. Parents would have a lot of information on their respective careers and can show their children what their career is like. For instance, as the child of a doctor you would know a lot about the medical scene, and could easily see exactly what it is like.  

Finally, children must have some difficulties choosing a career during their teen years. Their parents will be the best teacher for them when this happens because they probably faced the same difficulties when they were young. At the time, you can give them some advices and thus guide them a better way to deal with.

Therefore, I agree that children select similar jobs to their parents.

killing my soul

Last night i made a decision. My mother told me, Would you like come with me and help me make the meal at home with your aunt, or would you prefer to stay here and kill the hens? I hate to visit my aunt, she is a noisy woman, but my another option was kill the hens, today is 23/12/2015, it's tradicional eat hens, meat and pork, because it is christmas but i have never had the guts to kill something, but that time i said " ok i'm going to kill the hens", I was with my sister but she is weaker than me, she couldn't help me, I took a knife and I took a hen, i put its feet under my right foot and i put its wings under my left foot, then i put my hand on its head, i could feel a weird sensation, i could feel its blood, warm blood. My stomach is still bad, i feel like a bad person, like a part of my soul died at when I killed those hens.

Culture - essay

Nowadays, most young people are not interested in the cultures and traditions of their country. In Hungary, there are some customs that are followed less and less. Such a custom is sprinkling, which happens on Easter. On these days, boys sprinkle perfume on girls and then ask for a red egg. This custom is followed only by teenagers.

Cultures all around the world are becoming more and more alike. Thanks to modern technology, we can get to know many new cultures and customs easily. There are lots of low-cost airlines, so we can travel anywhere in the world cheaply and quickly.

These days if we travel to any country it can be seen that most people listen to the same music, and wear the same clothes. The American cultures is widespread around the world and American movies are favoured worldwide.

It is a sad fact that young people often know little from the traditions of their own country. In my opinion, these traditions and customs should be preserved. One solution is that these customs and traditions could be taught at school. However, parents also have an important role to preserve these customs and traditions, so they are be passed on from generation to generation and not forgotten. 

Collection of Vinyl records

"I've been in therapy for 40 years to try to explain the love of music," said the collector to the New York Times
Zero Freitas is the most important collector of vinyl records in the world.
He is 63 years old, and Freitas lives in Sao Paolo. For 40 years has made a collection of more than seven million vinyl records, which have accumulated in a cellar of 25 thousand square meters.
Freitas, since childhood, has collected different things like newspaper clippings and books, and at age 12 he began collecting vinyl records. At 18 he went to stores and bought dozens of albums together.
He developed his passion for music in his teens, when he admired the record collection of his father, who bought him his first vinyl in December 1964, “Canta a la Juventud” by Roberto Carlos.
Money wasn't a big problem for Freitas, he is a partner and a commercial director of a family transport business in Sao Paulo.
((He didn't distinction of gender as rock and roll to polka.)<this sentence doesn't make any sense sorry!)
His collection is valued at almost $ 2.2 million.
When asked which record he has not found, he mentions the English edition of "London London" of the singer Caetano Veloso.
His favorite album is a Brazilian soprano Bidu Sayão, which brought him to tears.

Several of his vinyls have been grants, he has heard a small fraction of his collection only 20,000 records, perhaps.

Currently, he puts publicly available a free music library for everyone who wants to visit.
He has 17 dependents, they are cataloging their disks, cleaned and digitized, so the vinyl disc can be shared with the rest of the world.

Safe or "proud"?))

I'm going to miss my dance class on Saturday :(( I have a terrible backache and it seems to be the hardest choice ever: to attend this class I've been waiting for for so long (there was a 2 week break due to our teacher) or to spend my holidays in the mountains snowboarding as I'll be totally recovered))) but I doubt I'm likely to recover If i dance for three hours without a break instead of being on bedrest :-//

2016, we are coming!

We have had a lot of fun time with Italki teachers. I tried Italki first then my daughter and my son tried it as well. I had no difficulty to "open my mouth" without too many days learning. I truly practiced and used English, I didn't just use it.

Italki teachers gave me a lot of help in teaching my children English when I gave them homeschooling in Beijing. My daughter, Diana, had a big jump from textbook-style English to English-in use, so she had a really American pronunciation when she came to Albuquerque and I think this is why she has adapted beyond of our expectations to her new school , but she is still lacking vocabulary. My son’s English is not only from online teachers but also from his American school, he does benefit from an English speaking environment. As a result of 3-4 months online study from Italki teachers in Beijing, He can read the 26 letters of alphabet and just say “Hi, Hello, I am John, I am six years old” as well as a few colors and animal words, but leaving Beijing to come to Albuquerque, he is learning and responding on his italki classes and his English learning pace is doubled every day.

I am thankful to Italki and all of our teachers. Diana will stop to learn online, but John and I will still learn here. I hope that John will read books by himself someday, and I wish that Nina(me) will reach her academic English. We are coming 2016!