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Winston Churchill According to Winston Churchill “, if you are not a liberal when you are 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative by the time you are 35, you have no brain. Once, the director of our school quoted this and reminded us that he is over the hill, claiming that we should sometimes accept that he will not accept our crazy ideas, such as playing football in the classroom. I agree with Churchill’s statement and can prove it with my own example: an 18 years old person with liberal thoughts (hopefully). As far as I am concerned youngsters are prone to be liberal, because they did not understand the world yet. Young adults think that rapid changes can be made and that it is easy to shape the world and to shape traditions. Even though this sounds negative, in my opinion, one should definitely rely on them because they are the ones who believe in changes and are able to protest to have their rights and to achieve something. On top of that, young adults have a future: they aspire to have a good job, social welfare and to create a pleasant environment for their descendants. On the other hand, people over 35 got used to the way of life: when they were younger they were in protests, believed in changes and may even make some. It is important to emphasise that conservative philosophy does not mean a world without improvement, it means little changes in a way that traditions and already working-systems are preserved. As people settle down, create a family, have a job they long for steadiness and safety. They do not have radically new ideas since they have lived half of their lives in one system and they have learned how to operate in it. After almost 40 years the barriers and deficiencies of that system are not as striking as it was 20 years ago, this is why they, at least, accept it. Overall, one should see a process: that mankind can get used to a system. To my mind, one should resist this process, by travelling around the world and speaking with people from different countries. I hope that as I will get older, I would be open-minded and would not overlook problems in the country, where I will live.

What is democracy? According to Sir Winston Churchill “Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” Indeed democracy has been criticised since its establishment in Greek polis, called Athens. Not to mention the Enlightenment, during which a divide between several structures of democracies evolved. Under those circumstances the rhetorical question is always asked: Are we living in a democracy or in a disguised dictatorship? According to its definition, democracy exists when the 3 main governing powers are separated from each other. Usually, delegates are elected by voters thus everyone can represent their opinion in Parliament. This system has been working for several decades in the US, Germany, England etc. Furthermore, some barriers are included, such as but not limited the age of voters and the origin of the president. In this way a regulated and efficient system can work. On the other hand, as it turned out several times in the history of mankind, these systems are fragile enough to be broken and mixed with autocratic governance. Aside from that it is claimed by many that even the electoral system in the USA includes some deficiency of democracy since voter can not vote directly for the president. Generally speaking, democracy is elusive and has minor changes compared to countries, cultures and age groups. At the same time it is a balance between a governance by all members of the society and autocracy and this is why currently it is considered to be the best system.

Spanish conjugation

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I would like to ask other Spanish-language learners how they practice conjugation. For me, it is a disaster because I'm always confusing conjugations of the past and even if I do it in the right way, pretérito and subjuntivo makes it even harder.

How did you get over this problem? How much time did it take for you to learn each conjugation and irregular verbs? Do you have any tips?