Get Information From Internet or Books? Some people nowadays believe that too much information from the internet may cause some problems such as hardness to filter information and the incorrect material on the net. However, I disagree with this statement because the internet is by far the fattest and the most efficient way in the world to find out and collect data. It plays an important role in many kinds of people. First of all, the internet is important to schools since a variety of data can be downloaded by students and teachers all over the world. It is very easy to build a platform to share the knowledge and experience through the net. For example, many schools start to promote the courses on line for sharing more precious content with more students in the world. It also makes a great breakthrough for people to explode their information. Therefore, people in schools can receive more valuable information than they can imagine if they take advantages of the internet completely. In addition, companies also regard the internet as an indispensable shortcut to save their money. Making use of the internet, a lot of time and money spent on the communication can be saved to do other things which can help the cooperation to earn more profits. For instance, I am working in an RD center of a computer company in Taiwan which owns a factory in China. We always pass our messages through the internet to negotiate with the staffs in China and make many jobs proceed efficiently. Hence, it is very hard to imagine if a company can work smoothly without the internet. Lastly, the internet also has great influence on general people. It already has become a part of our daily life. We rely on the internet to get information for shopping, finding a restaurant, and watching movies, etc...Take my life as an example, every day when I wake up the first thing for me is to turn on the computer and surf the internet. In this way, I can read the daily news at the first time. As a result, people nowadays have a very close relationship with the internet.

Life is Better? Some people believe that life today is easier than it was before. However, I disagree with this statement because of economy stress, older population, and pollution. Firstly, people today face a more serious economy issue than people who live in the past time when our grandparents were children. Most people at that time could not be very rich, or precisely speaking, much poorer than people today. However, with the society getting richer, the desire of human is getting higher so that many commodity is with higher quality and higher price. This will cause more stress to people in current generation to afford them. For example, I have been living in Taiwan for more than twenty years. We have a variety of electronic products now in our family such as television, computers, and so on which didn't exist in the family of my grandparents'. We need to work harder to afford those products which become requirements in families nowadays. Therefore, on the economic level, it is not quite easier for people's life today. Secondly, the average age of people in current society is getting higher and higher. This will result in less productivity of the society so that those young people today like us have to pay more efforts for the burden of the too many older people. For instance, in Taiwan, the students of primary schools are becoming fewer and fewer. That is, when they grow up, they need to work harder for the society with a lot of older people due to the advance of the medical technology. Hence, that will be a disaster if we don't face this problem more actively. It goes without saying to have an easier life for people today than in the past. Lastly, what is more serious is that the pollution of environment becomes worse drastically. Actually we live in a much more terrible circumstance than people did in the past. As an example, I have lived in Taipei, the biggest city of Taiwan, since I was born. The car exhaust almost drives me crazy. I cannot even open the window of my room every single day. Thus, I wish I could live in the past if people still cannot improve and cherish the environment now. In conclusion, because of economy stress, older population, and pollution, I am of the opinion that life today is worse than it was.

Universities should Spend the Same Money on Students' Sports Activities as Libraries Some people think that universities should of course give more money to their university libraries than their students' sports activities, because a university is regarded as a place for students to study. However, I disagree with this statement because sports activities are also important to students. Sports can make students healthy, relax the tension of preparing for exams, and enrich your campus life. First of all, sports are necessary for people to improve their health. Without doing exercises regularly, people are easy to get sick and lose energy for working or studying. Students also should not spend all their college time on studying, or they will lose their health while completing their degrees. For example, I had a friend who used to study hard in our college life. He neither took a break on holidays nor did some exercises in leisure time. Finally, he got a problem of diabetic and had no choice but to go in a hospital. Therefore, I think universities should care about the students' sports activities more than libraries. In addition, students can relax the stress due to exams by doing some proper exercises. If students keep studying for a long time without an alternative way to release stresses, they will get in a unhealthy mental condition and have risks to bring more serious problems. For instance, I always take a break to go jogging every time when I prepare for exams all day. And that will make me feel more energetic and have more power to keep studying. Hence, exercising and studying should be kept with the same weighting in our university life. Lastly, if a college student can have interest in a kind of sports and keep practicing, that will be a wonderful thing and enrich his/her college life. Because there are always a lot of sports activities in universities, students can learn more than they can imagine such as teamwork, determination, and perseverance. As an example, I was a member of the basketball team in our department. My team mates and I spent a lot of time on practicing, improving our skills, and discussing how to win the games. Basketball played an important role in my college time and became a precious memory in my whole life. As a result, joining sports activities become an dispensable part of universities for most students. In conclusion, because sports activities can help students to improve health, relax the tension, and enrich life, I am of the opinion that schools should give the same amount of money for both.

Succeed Because of Hard Work Some people believe that most people succeed not only because of hard work but also some luck. However, I disagree with this statement because I think the only way to gain your knowledge is to work hard. And then you can create the opportunities to succeed based on your sufficient knowledge. On the other hand, the success with luck always cannot stay long. First of all, knowledge is power and people can't success without knowledge and power. If you want to get the knowledge you need, you have to study hard and work hard. Knowledge will not come to your brain automatically. A lucky person also can't gain knowledge if he/she fool around all day long. For example, every time when I have an exam, I have to spend enough time studying hard and practicing all exercises. And then I can understand the content in text books and answer those questions on the exam paper. I think this process can't be replaced by the luck. Therefore, a successful person must have enough knowledge which is gained by hard work. In addition, with enough knowledge prepared, a successful person need to create his/her own opportunity to achieve the goal. And the opportunity is still not received from luck but from those fundamental knowledge used to create a chance. Take my work as an example, I am an engineer. If I want my customers to trust us and buy our product, I need to tell them that our products are useful and reliable according to my knowledge of engineering. By doing so, I can get the chance to persuade my customers to pay. Hence, the opportunities to succeed are not created luckily. Finally, I think if one's success comes from luck, that will not remain too long because there is not enough basic energy to maintain. Lucky people don't have sufficient knowledge and they can't create the chance to succeed again, so they will fall down soon. For instance, it was reported that a jobless man won a lottery inadvertently, but he soon spent all those lucky money and strapped for cash again. Why? That is because he can't use those money to get more money. Therefore, relying on luck seems not a real way to succeed. In conclusion, because a successful person must gain knowledge, create opportunities, and remain the success with hard work, I am of the opinion that people succeed based on hard work not luck.