writing test 1

The recent years families have been changing in many ways across the world. From where I stand, as far as Greece is concerned, there have been crucial changes regarding the structure of a basic family lifestyle, which have negatively affected the society.


With more and more parents working and living far from grandparents, young children are not always raised in a healthy and loving environment. That is mainly because of their parents,are trying to put up with work, family and personal matters and obligations which are ultimately holding them back from their children who should be their main concern. As a result, instead of focusing on their offspring's bringing up, they simply neglect this one time opportunity by replacing themselves with someone else. In many cases the person raising the children is their grandma but since most of the families live away from grandparents, it is more likely for the parents to hire a nanny or someone who is capable of taking care of their children while they are gone. Nonetheless, being raised with a stranger and without any supervision and limits, youngsters end up having adopted aggressive and spoiled behaviors. Pupils with these kind of behaviors cause detrimental impacts on the society because of their lack of a cooperational and calm spirit needed in any system in order to develop as a whole.


Another more common family life alteration in Greece is the fact that a lot of young pupils are moving away from their families annually to go study abroad. Although this may be beneficial for them, their families which are left behind are severely affected as well as the society. Firstly, with one of its members gone for such a long period of time, the family will possibly disconnect and the strong relationships made with the person gone will eventually fade and loose their intimacy. Secondly, with so many young individuals leaving their country, the remain ones will only get older. As time passes by, only a small proportion of the people will have returned back to their homeland. In addition society might will not be able to recover due to economic loses from less employment and more retirement expenses .


In a nutshell, not only has family life changed in a great deal but it has also affected society. Particularly in Greece, the effects on society far more serious and solutions must be found so as to look forward to a better future.


Writing test 2

For quite a long time now, technology and globalization have been developing in a really fast pace seriously influencing the modern forms of transportation means worldwide. From my perspective such rapid transportation growth may be both beneficial and detrimental for various reasons.

Modern forms of transport such as airplanes have helped not only individuals but also the global economy. On the one hand, they have lessened the amount of time it takes to travel long distances. People can travel around the world in less than one day for work or their entertainment. This affect them either economically because these means facilitate them and provide them an opportunity of working abroad, or personally by creating new experiences, explore other countries' cultures and therefore evolve spiritually. Moreover, new jobs are created because of the need of employees such as pilots, ship stuff, air hostesses to name but a few. On the other hand, from an economic viewpoint, worldwide transportation is considered to be quite the saviour of global economy.Were transportation means not capable of traveling globally, it would not be possible for exports and imports to be transferred between countries up to a certain distance. Consequently, every economy would not develop their trade system and ultimately loose financial power.

Although the growth of transport has inferred a valuable contribution to almost everyone around the globe,there still are some immensely crucial repercussions whish should be taken into consideration. Most alarming of all ramifications of transport means is the effect that they have on the environment. Overused, the transport means and their production will emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere such as carbon dioxide and methane and eventually cause air or water pollution. Their contribution to the harm of the environment would might result in either short term causes like acid rain or drinking water contamination or long term ones like global warming. Last but not least, with regard to the political aspect of such development as transportation, there is a chance for political conflicts between firms and the government to occur. More specifically by creating such an essential part of a countries economy as transport means, producers are usually taking advantage of their power to the countries finances and additionally use it to control them.

In a nutshell, from my perspective, the drawbacks of modern transportation outweigh the benefits. That is because as i see it the climate conservation is of a greater importance than the personal or economic growth.Only by taking the drawbacks seriously into account and try to reduce them will the world be able to look forward to a brighter future.

Writing test 3

Everyone has their own perception of beauty. Men and women around the world think of beautifulness differently. For instance some men like blonde women as for other men aho like brunettes. However, whether one consider someone pretty or ugly does not only depend on someone's their taste but also their culture.

Cultures differentiate the idea of beauty for quite a few reasons. One of them is their country's level of development. People who live in a less developed country where the proportions of poverty and famine  high, are thin. Moreover they may have correlated an under weight person with negative feelings and ugliness. Therefore, if they see a shabby one they would most likely consider them good looking based on their experience. From a historical standpoint, from ancient times where social media were not even invented, people used to define beauty by connecting it with wealth. To be more precise, in Europe where the average person is white, a woman would not even consider marrying a more brunette man because his skin colour showed that he was probably working in the fields where he was exposed to the sun for several hours a day. What's more, a man also would have denied marrying a thin woman because her body count meant she did not have the money to buy food. The more fat someone was the more money they had.

Another way some cultures may define beauty is by  the characteristics of individuals living in different places on earth. In Africa for instance, most of the residents of the continent are black and have distinctive face characteristics therefore, the idea of a pretty person has been build around that. Furthermore, even though some might difine prettiness based on their nation characteristics, they also build a bad perspective by it. In other words, Greeks are shorter than the average so they, who have lived their lives surrounded by short people, may support the view that a pretty person is someone higher than them. Last but not least, a culture's definition of beauty could be based on their customs and traditions of past generations. For example, some races in Africa maintain that their beauty comes from their tattoos, their piercings or even the length of their neck. While in Japan, only if a woman has short feet will she be treated as a pretty one. As a result, Japanese girls from a young age tie their feet and wear small sized shoes in order to keep their feet short and be "pretty".

In a nutshell, the obvious conclusion to be drawn is that culture affects beauty standards a lot more than one realizes. It is not always noticeable at first glance, but it implicitly affects everyone. Nevertheless,in no account should cultures determine our preferences and tastes but what they can do is make us unique and special.