1 THE GLOBE July-August 2015 Student Writings from IEIWRI TI NGTWOAbout the Building Next Door By: Ali Alhendas (Saudi Arabia) They are going to build a restaurant.They are going to put bricks and beams, and dig the soil, and measure the length of the beams.They are going to hoist the beams with a crane or a cherry picker, and they are going to drill.They are wearing hard hats on their heads for protection, and they have scaffolding and concrete for the ground.They are going to use a pick ax, a shovel, and a sledgehammer.They are going to end with building a piece of architecture in six months. About a Scary Experience By: Abdulelah Albleihed (Saudi Arabia) One day, I was in a car accident with another car in the road in my city, 3 years ago.I travelled to another city with my friend.In the road, another car hit me.Then my car rolled over the side of the road.When my car stopped, I couldnt feel anything because I passed out.My friend was fine.He talked with the hospital because he needed them to pick me up.My friend saw my face.He said, Say something.But I couldnt hear.Inside the hospital, my friend was terrified.He thought I was dead.After two hours, I got up.I opened my eyes and I looked at my friend.He was very happy. My Life By: Yasir Othman (Saudi Arabia) I had my son 3 years ago.Me and my family are happy.I like to play with my son every day.My son is happy every day.My son goes to the doctor every day.He is happy here in America.When I go to the store, I buy candy because my son likes candy and milk.Also, he likes chocolate. English Language By: Zainab Alklayat (Saudi Arabia) It is fact that the English language changed my life.When I feel sad, I learn more English.When I stay by myself, I learn more.The language is very important in my life because I use the language everywhere, in the restaurant, the mall, and the super-market.I think its important for me.I talk clearer now, and I learn all kinds of information in English.I learned a lot.I went now to Level 2, and I was in Level 1 before.I make new friends in the U.S.A. and celebrate new holidays like Halloween, New Year, and Christmas.I am very comfortable in the U.S.A. and happy.I visit many places in the U.S.A.I saw the beach in Florida, and I went to the Bahamas.After that, I saw Nasa, the capital of Bahamas.I think its important to try everything in the U.S.A. because you can learn more and see new places.We can also enjoy relaxing with our family or our friends.I also saw the ocean when I was on th cruise.The cruise was very nice.I think its better for me to be in the U.S.A. because we have a lot of ideas and good teachers like Gena.I am very proud of myself because I learn very well. Changed My Life By: Doris Martinez Martinez (Honduras) On December 10th, 2013, my life changed because my mother came to visit from Honduras.I didnt see her for almost eight years.This day was very happy and exciting because she met my children.I liked it when she came.I love my mom.She said, I loved meeting your children.They are beautiful.I loved this month.It was special because we had a lot of celebrations together with the whole family, and I had my mother with me. 2 The Park By: Awad Alayesh (Saudi Arabia) The grandparents are walking in the park.A man is painting.A mother and baby are looking at flowers.He is looking at the insects.There are people looking at a sign.He is looking at deer.Ducks are swimming in the water.A bird is on top of the house.They are talking about the park.It is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. WRI TI NGTHREE My Favorite Holiday By: Amal Alharbi (Saudi Arabia) My favorite holiday was Eid Alfatar over two years ago now.I cannot forget this day because my whole family came to my grandfather's house.I remember exactly what we did this time. First we prayed. After that we come back to the house at 8:30 at night. Then we made a party and ate cake at 12 mid-night.All my family went to a farm to eat lunch. I like this place.It had a cow, a lamb, and a donkey.The farm was the best moment for me. My Favorite Relative By: Phuong "Jana" Nguyen (Vietnam) I have a wonderful and beautiful sister.Her name is Ahn.She is 21 years old.She lives in Taiwan.She is a secretary in my uncle's restaurant.She works on her computer and her phone everyday.She is very beautiful.She is 162 cm tall.She has long hair and black eyes. My sister is very kind.She is very helpful and friendly with everyone.She likes listening to music.She also dances and sings K-pop. My Favorite Relative By: Yousef Albalawl (Saudi Arabia) My favorite cousin is a wonderful person.He is from Saudi Arabia.He is 24 years old.He studies at university in Murray, Kentucky.He has black hair and black eyes.He is 178 cm tall.He works in a company in Saudi Arabia. How To Wash Your Car By: Hassan Alhendas (Saudi Arabia) You should bring some soap and water and a bucket and six brush.First sprinkle some water for your car. Then put water in the bucked and some soap.After that take the brush then mix with the water and soap inside the bucket.After that take the brush and rub your car by water. How To Open A Door Lock By: Daban Jabbery (Kurdistan) First somebody tell me about his problem.I am asking about the problem and I say, "How can I help you?" After that I will ask the address and then I am going to the place.Finally I will fix the door. How To Cook Al Kabsa By: Dieu "Cat" Tran (Vietnam) Jonathan is cooking Al kabsa.To cook Al kabsa you need many ingredients.The ingredients are chicken, a large onion, garlic, cloves, tomato puree, grated carrots, butter and basmati rice. Put the butter in the pot and the tomato puree and the chicken. Simmer over low heat for 20 minutes.Put the carrots, cloves and all the spices in the pot. Cook for about 15 minutes.Add the water and rice and simmer for about 30 more minutes. My Past, Present, and Future By: Hector Ruiz (Mexico) I am going to see an apartment after class.I think it is 15 minutes from IEI.After that I am going to buy food for a week and I will buy many other things too. 3 A Scary Time By: Ali Almousa (Saudi Arabia) I like to walk every week around my neighborhood.One day I was walking and listening to music when I saw a big dog.It was looking at me.Then it was following me.I walked faster and faster and the dog walked faster and faster.I was afraid and yelled, "Help me! Help me!"I saw a car.The woman was driving.I tried to go to her car for help.I said, "I am afraid of the dog! I am tired because I was running".The woman helped me. WRI TI NGFOUR Contrasting Being Married and Single By: Daisuke Ishizuka (Japan) Are you married or single? Some people believe being married makes you happy and gives you something which cant transcend money. On the other hand, some people believe being single is quite comfortable, and they are able to live it up. There are many differences between married life and single life including dining, leisure, and cost. First, the dining style and experience are greatly different between being married and single. Everyone has a meal every day, and almost all people have a meal three times a day, which is the most important thing of human life. If you are married, you can order many kinds of foods and share them with your spouse. In addition to that, you can share your day that happened. Those make our food more pleasant and enjoyable. On the other hand, if you are single, your food item is limited, and you can eat a little at a time. Also, when you cant reach anyone, you have to eat alone without talking, and it is quite lonely. Second, we generally have leisure times which differ in both lifestyles. Leisure time brings us a preferable rest, so it is valuable for everyone. In case of marriage, they enjoy lots of things without attention. Playing sports, traveling abroad, and watching movies are examples of this.You can always talk to your favorite person anytime. However, a single man/woman cant. If they get time for leisure and want to spend it with someone, they have to search for a friend whose schedule is matched. If you find a friend, you may put up with the plan, which includes a part you dont want to do, and if you cant, you have to enjoy the leisure by yourself. For another thing, the cost of both life styles varies greatly. Which lifestyle requires more money? A married couple costs double the amount of a single couple. Food, trips, and other things are so. It costs a lot in the case of marriage, but it makes their life satisfied by the amount spent. In contrast, a single life often costs less than a couples, but sometimes costs a lot by price per person. When traveling alone with lodging, it usually costs more money. In conclusion, there are a variety of gaps between being married and single, particularly, dining, leisure, and cost. If you want to be happy in your life, you will choose the option naturally. 4 Success By: Eman Alghoribi (Saudi Arabia) Many people want to achieve success in life, but do you think it is easy? It is hard because we are wired to look for quick fixes and easy ways to keep form failing. It is good idea when we plan to have success with our life and studying.We all want to achieve success, so we can live a comfortable life that has freedom or a beautiful house. However, learning how to balance your life will help you to be successful. Last year, after I graduated from university, I stayed in the home without working or anything I love. That is bad because my life was boring. When I planed my life, it was entirely different. One of the nicest things was when I came to US to study. Now, my feeling is different because my plan changed, and now I feel successful. School can be one of the most difficult things to deal with to be successful.There are many ways to be successful in school. When a teacher is giving a lesson, take notes, and if you do not understand something, ask a question.I think the more questions you ask, the smarter you will get. Also, it is good if you start studying at least a few days before a test. I think making schedule is also important to be successful.In conclusion, without change and success, the word would be the same. You should be successful in your life and your studying. Think about how you could improve your life. Travel By: Yousef Alanazi (Saudi Arabia) There is more than one reason that lets you choose travel by airplane or travel by car.If you want to travel, you will face more than one thing you have to look at before making a decision.One of them is how you want to travel, by airplane or by car, and what is the best between them.As any decision, you will think about the positives and negatives of it.In my opinion, regardless of cost, travel by airplane is the best way to have comfort, safety, and the best use of your time. To begin with, travel could be more enjoyable if you are traveling by something that is more comfortable. While you travel by airplane, you will have a seat with a screen that has many kinds of movies and games. Moreover, the hostess will ask you if you want to enjoy a meal or a drink. Also, you do not have to do anything unless it is enjoyable for your time. On the other hand, if you travel by car, you will lose all this because travel by car needs more focus, ability, and some papers like registration, license, and insurance.In the same way, travel by car needs to follow some rules, and you should respect those such as the speed limit. In addition, people care about safety more than anything else, even though they spend a lot of money on it. Travel by airplane has more safety than travel by car according to many studies.As we know, many people are killed by car accidents. That means if you travel by car, you are more likely to have an accident. In contrast, travel by airplane is safer according to many studies and airplane history. For example, according to the CNN website, from 1946 we had just 11 to 21 airplane accidents per year compared to thousands of car accidents.

Last of all, traveling by car will spend more of your time compared to traveling by airplane.If you travel by car, you will waste more of your time on many reasons like traffic, stopping for gasoline, bad weather, and if you get stopped by a police car. In contrast, as any one knows, there is no stop with travel by airplane until you arrive to your destination. Also, you do not have to take care of anything. Furthermore, you can enjoy anything like eating a meal or drinking some juice without any stop, and you will save your time while you enjoy your trip. In the end, people prefer many ways to travel between cities and countries, but you should choose the one that has more positive things such as comfort, safety, and saving time. In my opinion, the best thing is you can travel while you sleep when you travel by airplane. 5 Single and Married Life By: Sameeha Alenazi (Saudi Arabia)

Our life passes in many stages. Single and married life are among these stages. Some people prefer to be single because they don't want to be linked with a family. On the other hand, some people want to marry to make a lovely family.There are many differences between single and married life including a person's appearance during the time, freedom, and money. First, appearance is something important to several people and should be changed before and after marriage. For example, when I was single, I was interested in the outside of my professional appearance, and I went to buy new clothes with attractive colors.In contrast, after marriage, I liked my appearance to be clean and tidy more than anything because I don't have time to pay attention to my secondary appearance. Second, a single person has more freedom anytime and can do anything without any responsibility. For example, when I was single, I had enough time to spend with friends. Furthermore, I could go to the cinema and travel to any place. I could also sleep for a long time without and disturbance. In contrast, when I got married, I preferred to stay at home to show interest in my family, and I can't leave them at home for a long time. Also, I have to save my money and not spend it on useless things. However, when I was single I could spend my money anywhere without any problems. Third, money is something necessary and wonderful in life. If you have money, your life will be better than any time. When I was single, l had a lot of money, and I could spend it on my personal needs. In contrast, when I was married, I should save money to pay the expenses of many important needs of the family. In conclusion, I think the human must look for a comfortable life, if it is a single life or even in married life. Both of them have advantages and disadvantages as we can see in our vision. What Is Beauty? By: Sarah Alkhatam (Saudi Arabia) Are you beautiful? This is a question that is hard to answer because there are different opinions about what is beautiful. I can see myself beautiful while some people might disagree. Beauty is a quality that people, places, or things have that makes them very attractive tolook at (Longman English Dictionary). Some people find beauty in art, nature, or people. First, some people find beauty in art such as in paintings, music or poems. It is beautiful to them because it gives them joy and pleasure. When you sing song or anything great for people that makes you feel very well. Also, I think all of people like listening to a kind of music. For example, classical music, pop music, or anything of music. When you listen to something, you can feel relaxed anytime and anywhere you want. Secondly, the beauty of nature is one of the most important elements in life reflected in our life, in terms of psychological things and the desire to continue life. Moreover, if we maintain our picturesque nature, we can have freedom of negative things and work to increase lifes beauty. Some people like the beauty of nature. The nature is important in the life to see how to grow trees, flowers, and other things. Finally, the beauty of people is inner and apparent. In the inner beauty, we can see actions to other people and good behavior with them in terms of humility. Also, in outer beauty we see peoples appearance such as cleanliness, good clothes, and interests in personality. In conclusion, everyone like the beauty from art, nature, and people to get inspiration to be a wonderful person. Thats everything of beauty important in the life for humans to do something, and it makes us feel amazing and great. 6 Fresh Foods and Canned Foods By: Sandra Molina Robles (El Salvador) Eating is important in our daily life. People will die without food. Food is one of the most important factors in keeping us alive. To make sure that we are healthy, eating too much food and unhealthy food can lead us to disease that our body cant bear. Eating is an activity that we as humans do at least two times a day. Therefore, we must decide which food is the best for us and our own health, and it is very important. Although consuming fresh foods and canned foods have many similarities, such as the availability of the product, there are more differences including the flavor of the item, the health benefits they provide, and the cost of the product. The most notable difference between these kinds of foods is their flavor. Fresh foods have great flavor and taste because they keep all their natural conditions. You can decide which flavor you want to add, and you can decrease whatever ingredients that you want to. For example, if you want hot and spicy chicken, and you want it less spicy, you can reduce the spices all by yourself. You know what you can add in your dishes to make it healthier without adding any chemicals. Moreover, vitamins and minerals can be found in fresh vegetables such as carrots, broccoli, and celery. Canned foods, however, lack a lot of its flavor characteristics because there are some other chemical products added to the natural foods. Chemicals are used to make sure that the flavor of the food is artificial and does not ruin the food over a long period. Thats why some people believe the fresh foods are better than canned foods, but its the taste of everyone. Comparing both types of foods, we notice another difference. There is a health factor that affects both of them. Fresh foods are usually full of flavor and taste because they maintain all of the natural vitamins and minerals. Also we buy it fresh and we decide the way to handle our food. As a result, more or less nutrients are still in the food. On the other hand, canned foods lose some of the original fresh food nutrients when stored, and if you store it for a long time, it will become toxic. If you eat it, you may experience food poisoning. Yet another difference between these two types is the cost. Fresh foods are cheaper than canned foods because they are straight from the farm to your kitchen or grocery. Canned foods are more much expensive. For instance, with canned foods people pay for the benefit of convenience. They can be bought almost anywhere. Also, there is no preparation, and they can be used at any time. In conclusion, there are three differences between buying fresh foods and buying canned foods, which are flavor, health benefits, and the cost. As we can see, it comes down to a personal choice based on the time each person has, the money, and the importance that they give to their nutrition and health. Therefore, it is important to consider all the possibilities and choose the best type of foods for ones convenience and lifestyle. Do Beauty and Success Go Hand in Hand? By: Melinda Szinger (Hungary) One of the eternal questions is: what is beauty? According to Wikipedia, Beauty is the quality (shape, color, form) of a person or a thing that gives intense pleasure to the mind when we look at it. This could be the objective definition for beauty, but in my opinion, beauty is a very subjective category and it includes inner values too. What do you think? Do beautiful people have more benefits in their life? Are they happier than others, or is this only a stereotype? To begin with, the ideal of beauty has always changed in the different ages and cultures. The art represents this thesis very well. If we look at the famous sculptures or paintings from the art history, we can see that from the prehistoric era until the 1600s, ladies were short, obese, and all of them had curly hair. As the artists usually painted the queens or the rich aristocrats, we could think, thats why they were the ideal beauty; because they were the honorable people at that time.However, the world has changed. On one hand, the ladies are tall, slim, and sometimes masculine nowadays in the modern artworks or on the covers of magazines. On the other hand, the order has changed too: rich people arentt the only ideal.What is more, maybe the prettiest people can be successful more easily than the others. Many research says that more beautiful people are more successful than the less pretty ones. Especially, they have advantages in the job market and in the private life, too. For instance, if there are many people on a job interview, a more pretty or handsome person will get the job easier. In addition to this, these people have a better chance with the opposite gender too. To be candid, our beautiful or handsome classmates have always had 7 boyfriends or girlfriends. Also, there was usually somebody who did his or her homework or gave him or her a snack. However, why is it so? Scientists say the reason is easy. If our brain looks at a person with a pretty appearance, we think that she or he is balanced with the nature and with herself or himself. Also, we would like to spend time or work with these people instead of others. I used to always think that physical beauty comes from the inner beauty.Actually I still believe it, but I know there are some exceptions. To illustrate, a few weeks ago there was a beauty queen in our showroom, and my colleagues and I were very surprised about her behavior. Although she obviously had a beautiful body, that was it. She wasnt kind, wasnt lovely, and wasnt polite. Thats why we thought that she musnt be a well-balanced girl with a nice soul. Summing it up, everybody has different meanings of beauty.No doubt that pretty people are preferred more than others in some situations, but this is not everything. After their lucky beginning, they have to prove their talent at their workplace, and they have the same problems as the others in their private zone. Your Time By: Zokhid Vakhobov (Uzbekistan)

Which is more enjoyable for you, school time or vacation time? This is a question that may be easy to answer. I think many people choose vacation time to have fun. However, all periods have a good side. The advantages and disadvantages of school and vacation time include the schedule, activities, and responsibility.

First of all, the schedule will be completely different. During the school time, the school has a law and rules for itself, and everyone must follow them. For instance, we must be on time for the school, we must do homework, et cetera. I do not know in the USA, but in my country, some students do not follow the schedule because some schedules are a little strange. I disagree with IEIs schedule, because most of the places have vacation during the summer, but in the IEI it is the opposite. In my opinion, it is not good because most people cannot catch any information during the summer unlike other times. Summer time is hot, so thats why scientists recommend not having school during that time. Moreover, we know school time activities are different than another time. Some students like that time, and some others do not. During the school time, we cannot do things we want to. I think students do not want activities, tests, or quizzes. However, school time does have fun activities too. For example, you can go to lunch with your classmates and go to travel after class with your classmates. These activities are fun for me to spend a good time with my classmates. In addition, if I discuss responsibility, you should be more responsible during your school time. You should do everything on time. You should wake up at the same time everyday. Furthermore, you should spend time to do your homework. I know some schools have rules about uniform. If you study at a school like that, you should follow that rule too. For me, it is good for my health to be responsible for everything, so I try to be good every time. That is good for our future to be responsible for everything. Second, vacation time is the favored time for everyone. We can do what we want. We do not have a schedule during the vacation. We can wake up at what time we want everyday. It is good to spend time on everything. On the other hand, it is not good for our health. Because, anytime, if we want this to be implemented, it is impossible because life has its own law and rules. We should follow them too. Why did I say, it is not good for our health? Let us imagine, if we wake up at whatever time, during the day we will have pain in our head, and our body will not be fresh. Furthermore, the activities are different than another time. We can go any place to travel. However, that time we are not with classmates, but we are with different friends, so every time different activities happen. For one thing, I cannot say we do not have responsibility for anything. We must be responsible for lifes rules like we cannot live without food. We can do anything we want during the vacation. In the end, we are born and we die, but in the between time we cannot do everything we want because life is short. Our time is in our own hands, so we should spend it on good things every time in school and vacation time too. 8 WRI TI NGFI VE Changing the Gun Laws in the U.S.A. By: Koichi Imafuku (Japan) I think there should be a change in the gun laws in the U.S.A. This month a man assaulted several soldiers by gun in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The man went to the army school and shot a gun. We can buy a gun in the mall market and use a gun easily. The gun laws should be changed because of the following things. First, we can buy a gun too easily. If we have to take a license we cannot have a gun easily. If we can buy a gun only in specific shops, a man purchasing a gun illegally cannot purchase weapons. Second, if we cannot buy a gun it will contribute to a decrease in crime. For example, in Japan, we cannot buy a gun and hold any weapons outside. As a result, the crime in Japan is much less than the crime in the U.S.A. As another issue, if we cannot buy a gun we cannot defend ourselves from people who already have a gun. This may be correct; however, if we do not change the gun laws we cannot change the world. There should be a change in the gun laws in the U.S.A. in spite of causing several problems. The Effects of Playing Video Games By: Faisal Althumayri (Saudi Arabia) Is the playing of video games good or bad? It can be good and also it can be bad. However, most video games might have a lot of negative effects on both children and adults. This essay will discuss three kinds of negative aspects: playing violent games, becoming overweight, and developing poor eyesight. First of all, there are a lot of video games that teach violence to children and adults. However, this can affect the children more than adults. Also, it can change the behavior of children by making them violent. As an example of those types of video games we have a game called Grand Theft Auto. This is the most dangerous of all of the games. It has a lot of weapons and you can kill whomever you want. Moreover, it has many missions that teach children how to steal money from a bank and stores. Also, there are some missions when you have to kill other people to be the winner. All of these factors could cause people to become more aggressive. Besides the violence in the playing of video games there is the effect on the body. Playing video games can cause the body to become overweight when a person spends too much time in front of the video screen. Children will sit all the time at home, and eat a lot of snacks. Also, they will miss a lot of activities outside the home. When children go outside to play they will get a lot more exercise that is good for them. However, children who spend too much time with video games may get overweight. Third, video games can in fact affect the eyes. When the eyes are focused for too long a time on a video screen they becomes very tired. This may result in a gradual loss of sight. It is harmful for the eyes over the long term. In short, I think playing video games is one of the most serious problems for children today. Also, parents should control their children and help them choose the right games. In my opinion, a person should not play more than one hour each day. 9 Choosing English as a Second Language By: Nourah Sagnawi (Saudi Arabia) Today choosing English as a second language has become one of the most popular language choice in the world. There are many different reasons why people choose it as a second language. These include: getting a Masters and PhD, having a good job, and traveling around the world. To begin, I would like to focus on getting a Masters and PhD. At this time anyone who wants to complete studying must get a high result on the TOEFL or IELTS. For example, as a policy of the educational system in Saudi Arabia the students must be provided with the opportunity to learn a second language that is spoken worldwide. The English language meets this policy requirement. So, it will be impossible to be accepted by a university without knowing English. That is why the study of English has been approved by the government. In addition to the educational reason, today all companies use English in their departments even in the Middle East. For example, I worked for six years at a hospital. During the first two years, I worked in the childrens hospital as a volunteer because I did not speak English well. However, after I graduated from university, I went to the Institute of English Language Teaching in Jeddah. When I finished my studies at this school I had many job opportunities, and I got a wonderful job at the International Medical Center. Knowing English is also important when traveling around the world. I visited Dubai five years ago, and all people there were speaking English. Dubai is located in the Middle East and it is an Arabic country, but they use English every day. Almost no one is speaking Arabic in public. Many countries sent their students to study English abroad to improve and comprehend the various accents of the English language. As a result, the Saudi Kingdom sends its students to many English speaking countries such as the United States, Canada, England, and Australia. In conclusion, to enjoy our life we must learn English and use it. Sending students to study English abroad has become mandatory in some countries. Thus, more that 80% of Middle Eastern nations now speak, write, and read English compared to only 20% in the 1920s to 1960s. Has Social Media Made Our Lives Better? By: Motaz Hassan (Saudi Arabia) Do you have an iPhone, smart phone, or one of these important devices? They are very interesting and useful. Today, most people are using these types of technology for connecting with each other. Social media is one of the most popular ways to meet with people. Most of them feel that social media has made our lives better for many reasons, such as developing our personality, getting a lot of information, and knowing the news immediately. However, in my view social media has made our lives more difficult. Due to the fact that people spend too much time on social media, it makes our lives even busier and finally it provides an easy way to learn things that are harmful. First, developing our personality is one of the most important arts that we get from social media. For instance, proponents say when we are using social media we learn many things that we can use with people. If you do not know how to explain something you will be able to do it. Also, you can know about history and that will develop your personality. Another reason is it provides a lot of information. The person who has a lot of data must be using social media because it has a lot of material that we should know about. Also, in social media we can find whatever we want. For example, if we lose something and we decide to make an advertisement, the best program that can help us is on social media. For instance, if we are using social media throughout our day we will know the news immediately if there is something that happens. For me, I have used social media for five years and I like to watch the news about sports. So, I can learn about any news almost immediately. 10 In contrast, it is clear that social media has made our lives more difficult for the following reasons. People are spending too much time on social media. For example, if you use social media every day and you are used to using it all the time, you are wasting your time. Now most people cannot sit without having their phones. If you go anywhere you will see most people holding their phones, for instance while they are at a restaurant, at work, and at home. Another reason is social media makes us busy. Using social media adds to todays busy-ness. Children use social media even though they have homework they should be doing. Also, when we are at work sometimes we ignore our work and as a result are less productive. So, this situation makes us busier to catch up with the things that we have to do. Moreover, knowing about and learning harmful things from many of these programs is easy to access. In fact, social media has a lot of injurious items; for example, clips that are prohibitive, bad words, and violent, aggressive scenes. So, if we use social media we might learn something but not in a good way. It is better to learn the difference between good and bad from our parents and not by being on social media sites. To summarize, I think social media does not make our lives more suitable. If we want to spend our time, we can spend it on something better such as, doing homework or completing important projects. However, we can use social media only to get what we need to make our lives better. Telling a Lie By: Hussain Koraisha (Saudi Arabia) People who lie often can not remember what they said and as a result change their story and are caught in their lie! Most people lie to please other people like Did you like my gift? or AmI getting fat ?. In this situation people to lie these are considered white lies. There are some other more situations in life that cause people to lie such as to influence others and to prove a point. Some people tell lies to influence others to condescend to their side, and support the lie. For example, if you are in school and the teacher is asking you to show him your homework or he will report it to the principal. This situation makes students try to influence the teacher by asking him to give another chance. On the other hand, that may cause people not to believe you anymore. I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I cannot believe you. ( Friedrich Nietzsche, Google). For instance, if you tell a lies to your teacher to influence them all the time, they will not believe you anymore even if you are telling the truth. Some adamant people might easily resort to lying to prove their point. This adamant class of people can also get quite creative when it comes to lying. For example, a car dealer sometimes lies to the buyer to sell a car even if it is not in good condition. In addition, one of the most common situations in proving a point is with marriage. Sometimes it is going to end in a divorce. For instance, if the husband spends too much money on something strange and it is not worth it, the wife may start to blame him for the loss of that money; however, he wants to be right. So they can never agree and if that continues to occur, that might result in their divorce. It is clear that there are some factors such as influencing others, and proving a point that cause people to lie or tell a white lie. But, remember tell the truth! Do not get caught in a lie. 11 Gender & Equality By: Siver S. Jabbary (Kurdistan-Iraq) Many centuries ago some nations degraded women. They did not consider them as human beings. They believed that women were a source of evil and sin. Some people think that women and men have different rights. In my opinion both of them are equal. Both men and women have rights. I strongly believe that men and women have the right to education, work, dress how ever they want, express themselves freely, practice religion, raise children, and so on. Moreover, some nations thought that women had no rights and that she was a mere servant to her father, brother or husband, they also thought women did not have the right to property or ownership. They did not give her an inheritance. In most cases, some nations buried her alive. Others looked at her as a commodity. They would buy and sell women. In my opinion women should be given more consideration because of her bodily nature as well as her feelings.

In my religion Islam women have a high status. They can get an education, work side by side with men, express themselves freely, inherit, perform religious duties just like men, are highly respected. Women in Islam are equal to men in so may aspects. For example, equality in humanity. Women have feelings, personal status, and special characters. Allah says, O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, who created you from a single person. It means; as men feel women feel too, as men level up to values, women also do, and as men can achieve heroism, women can too. Hence, men and women are created from one soul. In conclusion, women and men have equality in dignity and honor, equality in all religious duties, equality in education and politeness, equality in knowledge, individual duty, and collective duty, equality in holding on to morals, equality in calling to Allah, equality in inheritance and so on. It is clear that the world has changed. There must be equality for both genders. 12 WRI TI NGSI X Merging Special Needs Students with Normal Students By: Othman Almishari (Saudi Arabia) If you want to know to what extent a community is developing, just take a quick look at its special needs services. It is an enormous issue in the United States. We cannot stress enough to catch public attention to concentrate on the obstacles that face the special needs movement. The purpose of merging special needs children is to melt all of the differences between the special needs children and the normal children. Under any circumstances we must repeal any kind of rules that support the separation between them. However, in this research paper we are going to discuss the most essential points. All of the points are under umbrella of the special needs child right to be merged with normal children in the school and in the classroom, convincing the community to approve this concept, making normal students feel positive about this project, and some effective methods which can help in the classroom. Therefore, all these points focus in one field to achieve one goal that deserves to be discussed by us several times until those children get their rights. Persuading the Community about This Concept To access gracefully into the core of this concept, we need to have a solid base to stand on. That base should be an example from the real life. There is an issue that happened recently in Boston College, in that story we have to determine what we are supposed to focus on. Fathers and mothers are pretty unhappy because of the update that happened recently, which is Boston College and its new project that is merging a school for disabled kids. It had been in Chestnut Hill campus for 43 years, before it was replaced to a few miles away. It has been moved to be in the Franciscan Hospital for children (Levenson 1). Boston College authorities have said that they are discovering the merger project due to the registration in the campus school decreasing to around 77% in 2007. In addition, they have suggested going to Kennedy Day School at the Franciscan in Brighton because it has a very large flat and many programs. However, the spokeswoman has said the merger is remaining under study, but whenever the decision is made, all people who are relevant to this issue must obey and move immediately (Levenson 1). As a result of all that, fathers and mothers have written a petition to appeal to those who may be concerned about this situation. They asked the president Rev. William p, to look again to that decision. One of the parent said to the media The unique culture and environment of our school is exactly why we chose BC for our children. This is one of the parents comments. And that person was not an usual person, she was Kristen Morin, who is a chairwoman of the parents advisory council at the campus school (Levenson 2-3). When we have mentioned this story with every single details, all that was for purpose, which is to reveal how important the community is in this case. The parents, the teachers, and the workers can make a difference. We have made it very clear that, if is anyone who wants to participate in the special needs community, he or she is most welcome. In that method we can create a special relationship with the special needs children when they see how much we are considered about them. Merging special needs children is a famous idea in recent years. We mean when we say merging like combining the special needs students with normal students in a regular classroom. Among the workers in this field they would call this concept mainstreaming. The basic purpose of this movement is to provide the essential supplies, tools, and whatever they want to have successful lives (Harchik 1). To support those concepts we should work hard to achieve that. We can make an advertisement on the billboards on our street, or we can create a very short video with a special needs child, who will 13 appeal to the public to support them, or we can do like what the parents in the Boston College did, when they started the online petition. The last lesson which we have learned from the Boston College story, that we should create a parents council. And it should arrange a periodic meeting that includes the child himself, his family, his classmates, and his neighbors. To prove this concept, the connection between the special needs children and the community; there is a public library, which involves the special needs children as workers. It was an awesome experiment when the children are given very simple jobs to do, such as cleaning the old books, and returning the books to their shelf. In addition, those children have made a lot of friends with those whom attend that library. That is one of the most effective ways to impact the community (Peoples Carelnc). Making Normal Students Feel Positively about This Project John is not as normal as other students in the high school. He is suffering from Down Syndrome. That kind of disease can cause a mental retardation. In the past 20 years ago specifically, John is more likely to be in hospital for the rest of his life, or in a specialized institution, which can hide him cautiously from the public. Therefore, his parents can make sure that there is no one in their community knows about him. However, that was the only way to treat a special needs child in the past, but right now, as we see, there is noticeable change, and we should exploit that as much as we can. First of all, we are supposed to realize that the normal students have changed, and most of them have enough background to understand having classmate from special needs. Therefore, we do not have to start from zero (Including the Disabled 1). In fact, there are not any negative impacts on normal students when merging special needs students with them. This fact must be explained to the normal students, and give them the fill picture to correct any wrong idea in their mind (Including the Disabled 1). Back to our example that we have mentioned (John). When we explain the concept to the normal students and they believe in it, we will see a lot of communications between them which means a huge improvement in John`s vocabulary. In addition, one of the most effective approaches to learning is a peer tutor as well. Also, there is a new study revealed that the normal students will not have trouble in their academic area because of the special needs children who are participating with them. In addition, that study says that there are a lot of benefits for the normal students when they have the special needs students in their classroom. For instance, it can curtail the scare of the people who are different than them (Including the Disabled 3) The special needs child`s family always wants someone, or some group who can give them a hand with their responsibilities. It is necessary to find out someone, or some group to relieve those responsibilities from their shoulders. However, the neighbors, volunteers, and charitable groups, can do a very righteous service to those families. Therefore, in this context we have to focus on teaching the normal students how to be positive in this case (Heller 2). There are certain ways to reach what we are expecting from the normal students. We can arrange conferences in several levels, in local level, and in global level. In addition, we can even arrange conferences in each school to give the normal students the opportunity to participate in them. However, the communications with normal students and giving them persuasive reasons to believe about this project is an essential thing. Is inclusion of special needs children in a regular classroom effective? A lot of researchers and observers just began to give their results, that are mentioned above, about the accomplishment of special needs students who were merged in regular classrooms, compared with those special needs students who are still in private classrooms. The report claims that the former students are getting better a little bit more than the others, particularly in social skills area. According to WPBF-25 News, they have made a report, which tells us about a new project. That project was in Boca Raton Community High School. That school project simply was showing us combining two teams together. The first team was from the special needs children, and the second team 14 was from the normal students. Even the cheerleading was a variety of them. In that report, they interviewed several normal students and all of them were feeling positively about this project. In addition, one of the normal students said that she loved it very much, and this project brought so much energy (WPBF 25 News). Some Effective Approaches Which Can Help in the Classroom In this section we will try to figure out some of the most salient instructions for those who work in this field. These instructions can help teachers and administrators to achieve worthy accomplishments in the classroom. We need to concentrate on this status due to the importance for a teacher to realize all methods and the approaches that can help him or her to control the classroom wisely. However, this is not an easy or normal position; therefore, we need to advise the workers in this field to make sure that they are on the right track. There is a teacher who has worthy experience in merging special needs students with normal students in the same classroom. That teacher was struggling at the beginning of his career, but he has attempted many methods until he has succeeded. As a teacher you should know that you are not alone in this position. You have around you teachers and educators who might give you piece of advice if you need it. Also, there are a lot of very useful sources in the schools across the United States. Sadly, many teachers ignore them or fail when they try them (Teaching Special 1). Speaking of the sources that the teacher should use to reach success from merging the special needs students with normal students in the classroom, the first of them is taking advantage of the special education department in the school. You can ask for advice from the teachers who have had experiences more than you or working with special needs students longer than you. Those acknowledgeable teachers have had many work hours which means a lot of training and a variety of experiments in this field. There is a special teacher you can ask directly, who is named a coordinating teacher. That person can tell you how to manage the classroom successfully (Teaching Special Needs 1). When you teach any material you should not depend on any handbooks before asking the coordinating teacher about it. In fact, most of the special needs teachers are committed to their students to have success in the regular classroom. Always remember, great things take time to achieve. Be patient, and do not get bored (Teaching Special Needs 1). In fact, there is a very effective way to help both special needs and normal students in the classroom. In a school in the United States they have practiced this method by dividing one class into small groups, and putting each of them at the same table. The teacher should make sure each table has the same number of the special needs students and normal students. In that experiment the teacher is just an observer. For instance, the teacher is helping the students who are struggling with the differences between the facts and the opinions. In that experiment the teacher`s helping must be limited to achieve the purpose, which is letting the students explain to each other in their own way, and the teacher present will be enough. However, the teacher needs to be present to make sure his or her students are on the right route (BER Staff). Conclusion As we have probably realized, it is a pretty salient issue. It is not just for those who might be a special needs child`s parent. It is for all of us because it affects the civil rights. We cannot treat some of our children like some people who have a stigma. We have to create the best environment for them. This is not a secondary issue, this is a primary issue, and this is our priority. In addition, there are some main elements under the umbrella of merging the special needs children, which are convincing the community to approve this concept, making normal students feeling positive about this project, and some effective approaches, which can help in the classroom. However, there is an idiom that says do not look down at someone unless you are helping him. Therefore, that is the perfect time to go ahead and encourage people who are around us to practice what we have suggested. I strongly support that idea, and I believe it is worth fighting for, until it becomes realistic. 15 Works Cited Carelns, Peoples. People with Special Needs Can Help The Community. Online Video Clip.YouTube. You tube, 1 August 2013. Web. 29 July 2015. Development, BER Staff. 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The Power of Smiling By: Renad Alharbi (Saudi Arabia) When you smile to someone you will make him happy for a few minutes, but did you know that smiling is important for you also?. However, smiling will improve your health in various ways. Makes you see the world from different side. Allow you to be positive, and you will be confident. So the benefits from smiling are a lot in different domains, in business, in social life, in relationships. Fake smile or genuine smile does not matter. The most important thing is that you are smiling. You will receive the benefits. We can learn about the social benefits from smiling, the financial benefits from smiling, and the health benefits from smiling. The Social Benefits of Smiling When you smile you look beautiful and attractive. You can make sure when you see the impression on the peoples faces as they look at you. Smiling is very essential in social life. Actually your smile is your gate to penetrate hearts (Mcghee). We encounter stress all the time because of crowded life. The stress controls us and makes our day horrible. We can avoid the depression that comes after stress by smiling, it is difficult of course in the beginning, but after practice you will do it spontaneity (Mcghee). The Financial Benefits of Smiling Do you think people with a great smile make more money?. Some employees in sales, customer service and personal service need to smile because this is necessary to succeed in their jobs. Imagine one day, you have problem and you go to customer service to solve the problem. While you talk with the employee he does not smile at you or even pay attention to you. Will you go to him again if you have the same problem?. Actually smiling has a massive influence on the customers. They make money as the result of smiling. Second, if you have bright and beautiful smile with strong and healthy teeth a lot of people will assume that you are intelligent, more capable, braver, more productive, and more successful. On the other hand, if you have poor smile with unhealthy teeth. The people will consider and worry about you, and they will trend to think that you do not have a lot of characteristics that I mention above. Third, the quality of your smile affects both personal and business relationships. A lot of studies show this, their evidence that smiling can positively shift your mood. In one study of women who had 16 botox treatment, their facial muscles do not move very well, this show less emotional activity in their brains. If we want to summarize the financial benefits from smiling, we can say that smiling increases productivity. Research has shown that smiling while you work rise energy levels. Also, smiling encourages feelings of trust. Also, smiling makes you be successful. The Health Benefits Of Smiling Psychological scientists Tara Kraft and Sarah Pressman of the University of Kansas study how the different types of smiling affect the people and their ability to recover from stressful episodes. A lot of searches were shown that smiling affects emotions, and positive emotions have effect on stress.Kraft and Pressman do the same thing but they add the different types of smiling to see what the influence on the stress.(Paddock). First, they define two types of smiling: standard smile, and genuine smile. They used electrophysiology to show the difference between the two types. They invited 169 volunteers to do the experiment and they divided the volunteers to two groups: testing and training.(Paddock). The researchers taught the volunteers how to hold their faces in a neutral expression, and how to hold a standard smile (training group).(Paddock).They also got some of the volunteers to hold their face in a forced smile by holding chopsticks in their mouths (training group). The volunteers performed some multi-tasking activities, during which they held their faces in the manner instructed (testing group). They activities to increase the stress levels. The result was amazing. The volunteers did not recognize that. Also, they measured the heart rates. They found that the volunteers were instructed to smile especially genuine smile, had lower heart rates than the volunteers who held their faces in neutral facial expression. Even they faced activities caused stress.(Paddock).They also found smiling for brief periods of stress will help you to reduce the stress irrespective if you fell happy or not.(Paddock). They suggest this is very helpful to know. If you face any stress remember to smile to reduce your stress quickly. This is not just helping you to release your sadness. Also it helps your heart too.(Paddock). On the other hand, smiling can change your mood. If you are feeling down, attempt to smile or read a joke or even remember a funny story or memory, and laugh. You will see big improving in your mood gradually, because smiling will trick your brain into helping you change your mood (Stibich). Also, smiling is contagious. When you are hearing a smile you will look around you to see where is the source of this laugh or this smile. It is normal, the smile sound is very attractive for us. When someone lightens up the room, this will change your mood, and makes you want to laugh, and brings happiness to you. Also, you will draw people to you (Stibich). Smiling force your immune system and helps it to work better. Smiling decreases the stress hormones, and makes the immune cells resist the microbes, thus develop your system to resistance the chronic diseases (Stibich). For the people who complain about high blood pressure, the doctors advise them to relax and try to smile and laugh. You can see the credibility of this if you have a blood pressure monitor at home. You can make a experiment by reading your blood pressure. After a few minutes try to smile and take another read, you will see the difference between two reads (Stibich). Other health benefits from smiling are that smiling releases the Endrophins. A lot of people do not realize what is the Endrophins. They are kind of neurotransmitters which release when you move the muscles in your face (Smith). Endrophins make us feel happy, and lower our stress levels. Also, laughing and smiling are so effective to decrease the pain. Actually it is called pain killer (Stibich). Also, smiling turns out you positive. You can check this if you try this. Think about something negative with a smile on your face. When you do this, your brain will send a message to you that life is easy and good. (Jarrett). 17 Laughing or smiling protects your heart; therefore, smiling and laughing improve the functions of blood vessels, this lead to increase blood flow. This will protect you from heart attack and other types of cariodovascular problems.(Mcghee). Smiling makes you more relaxed. I think that a great exercise we can do is smiling each day for two minutes or more like you want. It helps your body to relax, and relieves physical tension, and stress. Also it will keep your muscles relaxed for 45 minutes after (Mcghee). Smiling helps you to stay emotionally healthy. We can explain this statement by saying that smiling makes you feel good. This feeling will remain with you after smiling disappears. Those feelings allow you to avoid bad feelings and make you positive, and optimistic, through difficult situations, disappointments, and loss. On the other hand, smiling encourages you to seek other sources for hope and happiness. (Mcghee). The feelings of smiling change how you see the world. Allow you to see the world from other side. Also, change your perspective, you will see the situation in more real. You will be more flexible, and you will avoid feeling overwhelmed.(Jarrett). How Can I Create Opportunity to Smile or Laugh? There are a lot of steps to create a great environment to smile. For instance, watch a funny movie or TV show. Go to comedy club. Read funny magazines. Seek funny people and share with them a joke or story. Host a game night with your friends. Play with a pet. Do something silly. Finally, make time for fun activities like bowling, swimming, or golfing. (Mcghee). Smiling Depression Do you think all the people are happy? According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 10% of the United States population is suffering from depression. A lot of people are suffering from smiling depression and they do not know. Smiling depression is when the person appear happy to others when internally he or she is suffering from depression symptoms. This smiling keeps the depression feelings deep so he cannot realize that he has depression. They use external faade to hide their sadness. This causes problems in sleeping, and a lack of enjoyment in pleasurable activities.(Labeaune). In conclusion, science has studied the advantages of smiling. I think they have known a lot but still more do not show for us. We just need to smile or laugh, and make other people smile too. I believe that smiling is the key for happiness or maybe the beginning of peaceful world. Works Cited Mcgrory, Marie. The Power of a Smile. National geographic. Jun 15, 2014. Web. 4 August2015.Giang,Vivian. HOW SMILING CHANGES YOUR BRAIN. Ast company. January 28, 2015. Web.4 August 2015. Paddock, Catharine. Smiling Reduces Stress And Helps The Heart. Medical news today.Wednesday 1 August, 2012. Web. 4 August 2015.Labeaune, Rita. Smiling Depression. Psychology today. Nov 12, 2014. Web. 4 August 2015. The Social and Financial Benefits of Smiling!. Hubpages. March 9, 2015. Web. 4 August 2015. Do People with Great Smiles Make More Money?. Dentistinfairfaxva. December 31, 2012. Web.4 August 2015. Smith, Jennifer. 7 Benefits of Smiling and Laughing that You Didnt Know about lifehack. nd.Web. 4 August 2015. Stibich, Mark. Top Reasons to Smile. Longevity. March 07, 2015.web. 4 August 2015. Jarrett, Christian.Smiling Changes How You View the World. Scienceofus. April 6,2015.web. 4 August 2015. McGhee,Paul. Laughter is the Best Medicine. Helpguide.nd.web. 4 August 2015. 18 Casinos are Beneficial for a Community By: Ryosuke Arao (Japan) Some people say that casinos are beneficial for a community. Others say that they are harmful. Today, it is a controversial issue whether the government of a community should install them or not. Considering casinos, they seem to have a lot of advantages: increasing tax revenue, solution for unemployment and attracting tourists. On the other hand, they also seem to have many disadvantages: increasing crime rate, gambling addiction, and expense of construction. When we debate about this issue, both proponents and opponents have enough reasons. In fact, in the U.S. some states, such as Nevada, have succeeded in running casinos but some states, such as New Jersey, failed it. From the individual viewpoint, opponents against gambling exceed proponents because many people regard gambling as an unethical entertainment. Their negative stereotype of gambling might be derived from such episodes as a father who sold all of his familys fortune in spite of his familys will (Moore 17). Certainly, in some cases, gambling destroys someones life or family tie. However, from the viewpoint of government, we should consider many aspects of gambling objectively. In spite of the fact that some people think gambling is non-beneficial for communities, the governments should definitely undertake constructing public casinos for the reasons below.

Facts about Casino The first public casino was built in Nevada State in 1931. About 50 years later, other states followed Nevada to construct casinos. In 2014, there are more than 1500 casinos in the U.S. (Facts on US Casino). They spread over 40 states.A public casino usually has various kinds of games: poker, baccarat, roulette, slots and so on. A casino gains profit by subtracting a little commission from the winner of a game. It is slight money at one time. However, because a casino has a lot of tables and runs them at the same time and it is open 24hour and 7 days a week, commission sums up to tremendous money. According to recent statistics, in the U.S., casino gaming market revenue is 69,110 million US dollars in 2014 (Global Gaming Outlook). It is as large as the government of Irelands annual tax revenue (Revenue Statistics). Positive Effects of Casino As many researchers discussed in their papers until today, a public casino brings several benefits to a community. First, it improves unemployment rate, from which many communities are suffering during depression that started in 2008. A pubic casino needs a lot of staffs to manage the hall because it has various kinds of jobs: dealers, servers, guards, and floor manager. In Nevada State, more than 160,000 people are engaged in casinos (Facts on US Casino). This number means 6% of population are working at casinos. Furthermore, casinos usually bring other industries such as hotels, restaurants, and taxi companies because many tourists and customers gather around a casino. If you include employees of the surroundings around casinos, the number of workers who are related with gaming industries would be tremendous. That is to say, casinos offer a community a big opportunity to get out from high unemployment rate. In addition, these kinds of jobs nee certain skills, including technique of entertaining guests or deep knowledge of casino system. These skills can be their job skills which would help them get job when they move to another community. A casino solve the job problem not superficially but fundamentally.The list of the states and the year casino gambling legal 19 Second, casinos attract tourists. Many tourists go on a trip for the purpose of gambling. Even if their main purpose is not gambling, they would drop more money on the community which has casinos. A survey made by the U.S. Department of Commerce shows that 9.3 % of foreign tourists who visited the U.S. in 2014 were expected to enjoy gambling, and that 6.0% of visitors whose purposes are not leisure answered they would enjoy it (Profile of Overseas Travelers).Casinos are now one of the most significant tourism resources. In fact, there are several countries which have been developed by strategies to attract tourists with gambling. Macau is famous for their huge casinos, which are available for 24 hours and 7 days a week (Loughlin). In addition, some countries are planning to construct casinos for the purpose of revitalization of local areas. Japanese government has set a committee for consideration about casinos and it provoked a controversy among the society. Legislation of legalizing casinos is currently under discussion of the Congress (Takahashi). Third, the government of a community can gain revenue from casinos. As I mentioned above, Macau is benefited by tax from their casinos. Macau legalized their casinos in 19th century when their financial situation became serious because of wars against China. The government, which belonged to Portugal, regarded gambling industry as a kind of business and they succeeded in that business (Loughlin). In the U.S., Missouri State has succeeded in improving their economic situation by constructing casinos. Since Isle of Capri Casino opened in 2012, it has been producing 4 million tax dollars per a year for the city. In addition, the casino and the city agree that 0.3% of income of the casino is invested to funds which is toward capital improvement. It gains a lot of budget and there are few problems associated with them (Isle Casino). From another view point, gambling is educational. In spite of the fact that most people believe gambling is not ethical and is rather harmful for human development, we can learn a lot from it. In my experience, through gambling, I have learned a lot: self-control, logical thinking, consideration toward others. Because these skills are needed to win a game in the casino, I always try to be conscious of them whenever I play a game. These skills are also necessary to work in the society, but some people lack in them. For example, it is often the case with gambling that luck determines the result of a game no matter how much efforts the player makes. This kind of matter often happens in business. An experienced person who is not good at self-control would lose his/her temper to be unable to manage the situation. In contrast, a person who has enough experience of gambling would be able to handle their emotion and to cope with the problem. Gambling is a good opportunity for young people to acquire social skills. !"""" $"""" %"""" &"""" '"""" ("""" Revenue from Gaming Industry in US (million US$) Profile of Overseas Travelers to US 2014 20 Negative Effects of Casino Some people say casinos have serious disadvantages in spite of their advantages. First, most of them point out that casinos increase crime rate of the community. Certainly, it is easy to imagine that someone who depletes his/her fortune commits robbery, or that casinos become nest of vice. However, except in a very few specific case, there is little relationship between casinos and crime rate (Nichols). This means that their fear is not correct. In my opinion, the stereotype that a casino has something to do with crimes may be derived from underground casinos. These casinos usually coexist with moneylenders and they often loan at outrageous interest. Casinos which are managed by decent companies or governments rarely lead to customers bankrupt because they dont arouse customers to spend their money nor loan them any money. Another statement about casinos negative effect is that they cause gambling addiction. It is sure that the number of people addicted to gambling would increase in the area where casinos are newly constructed. In addition, increase of gambling addiction leads to increase of medical expenses because it causes depression, suicidal thoughts or other mental disorders ( Gambling). In this aspect, a casino is harmful to a community. Fortunately, the method of curing addiction is rapidly developing and a community is able to cope with problems related with gambling addiction. Considering this improvement, we can regard it as an acceptable cost for benefits of casinos. In addition, there is no reason for criticizing only gambling in spite of causes of other addictions such as alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes. Should the Government Construct Casino? Comparing both effects, positive ones and negative ones, there are enough reasons for installing casinos into a community. Each positive effect proves that casinos might bring benefit to a community. In contrast, negative effects which opponents claim are not persuasive. They are too weak to make the government give up constructing casinos because it is possible to cope with the disadvantages. Generally speaking, because a gambling industry is less influenced by recession than other industries, the government can expect it to be a stable source of tax income. According to recent research, federal revenue from casinos has been staying at the same level for 4 years. However, many economists are optimistic because it seems to get out of the bottom (2013 US Casino Revenue). In fact, since 2013, revenue from gaming industry has been increasing. (Global Gaming Outlook). In a community in which gambling is not the main industry, gaming industry can play a role of supplementary tax resource. Meanwhile, in a community in which there is no competitive industry, casinos and tourism industry can become the main resource of tax the same as in Macau, in Monaco, and in Nevada State. Thus, in any situation, casino industry can contribute to the community. Casinos are especially beneficial for a community which has a terminal of transportations, such as a big airport, a terminal station or a big harbor because it is easy for tourists to access casinos. In such community, casinos would prosper. Most people enjoy a casino while their trips because casinos make them excited and let them forget their daily lives. Furthermore, casinos in resort area are profitable because people on travel are not careful of consuming. In addition, travelers have enough time to play games at terminals of transportation while waiting their next plane or train. Thus, those locations are desirable for construction of casinos. However, the government should be careful about not scrambling for a piece of the pie. Specifically, if there is another casino near the community, the government should build one as far as possible. For example, Atlantic City in New Jersey State failed its casinos and most of them closed because their customers moved to other casinos in the next state (Atlantic City). As I mentioned above, a casino gains a slight commission from one game. Therefore, it is essential to hold as a lot of people as possible.Though casinos are profitable, customers are not so numerous that all casinos can gain enough. Because people who like gambling tend to go to only their favorite casino, it is vital for casinos to keep their customers. So, governments had better avoid such situation as some casinos compete for a few customers. In addition, there are still barriers for the government to launch construction of casinos. People have an old stereotype that gambling is bad entertainment, and peoples attitude toward gambling makes 21 politicians hesitate to decide to build casinos. This is one of the reasons why casinos have not become popular politics for improving economy all over the world. Conclusion Considering the above, it is obvious that a casino can be a savior of the community. The government should seriously consider installing casinos into its community for its bright future. Casinos and their surroundings would create enough jobs for the unemployed. The employed can also obtain skills of the job. The community would never suffer from high unemployment rate. Next, Casinos attract tourists and their money. The government gains money from tourists wallets legally. Thanks to these two effects, the government can expect steady income from gambling industry. Last but not least, we can learn various social skills through playing casino games. On the contrary, the negative effects are not so much serious as to give us up launching casinos. I can assert that casinos save a community which it is found difficult to sustain by themselves. The government and politicians should try to change citizens stereotype about gambling and to remove the barriers by connotation, which the U.S. Government is good at. After eliminating the stereotype, people would notice how beneficial casinos are for them. Works Cited Atlantic City Turning Into A Ghost Town; May Lose Five Casinos This Year Online VideoCrip. YouTube. YouTube.9 September 2014. Web. 17 July 2015. Dunstan, Roger. Gambling in California. California Research Bureau California State University. Web. 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Takahashi Maiko. Japan Lawmakers Group Submits Legislation to Legalize Casinos. BloombergBusiness, 28 April2015. Web. BloombergBusiness. 3 August 2015. The Best Way to Achieve Innovation in Your Company By: Erika Gonzalez (Columbia) Everything is changing today, with the technology you can realize many things that you had never imagined. Sometimes it seems like all the products from different brands have the same characteristics because they must meet quality standards. For this reason, the companies must figure out what makes them different. All the organizations can make the same product, following the main characteristics but where you can find the difference is the interesting point. The business world has been speaking about innovation, when the goal is to get long term success. This change or unique idea can only be achieved through those who spend their daily life discovering the costumer. The employees are one of the most important resources for the companys success because they can create what the costumer expects, and they must be synchronized and trained through excellent leadership. 22 Anyone who creates a company wants to succeed and must gather a number of resources to reach the goal. One of the most difficult tasks is to shape the workforce.It is even more when it should be qualified, diverse and creative for the purpose of achieving constant innovation such as Companies like Google, Microsoft, IBM. Thus, innovation allows the company to put the best price possible for its products and services because these organizations have not only excellent products but a unique experience delivered by their team. Chovolhary announces, Fast company magazine annually lists the worlds 50 most innovate companies. and it is interesting that the list is not just based on revenue growth and profit margins, but also on progressive business models and ethos of creativity. However, to make the team deliver an innovative idea, it is necessary to achieve special statuses in his integrants minds, making them feel not only part of a business but a professional objective. As a result, it ceases to be an objective and becomes a life choice, getting motivation, and, therefore, happiness. Just a happy person can create something new, just a person who has achieved his main goal or is in the way to his goal. Nevertheless, to wonder about personal goals is something completely new for the business. Organizational change is certain, but unfortunately, people tend to resist it (Barnes and Calif). So, the first step is to understand the need to innovate through human resources and accept the risk to undertake the complex process. Then, one of the main goals will be happy and motivated employees, by providing uncommon benefits, compensation, regular training and workshops, but most of all, it is important to open a working environment where open, direct and casual conversations occur regularly. This new workforce is a driver for innovation. We are being guided by amazing ideas like Google, which makes all its human resource decisions based on scientific data (Chovolhary). In this new era, important companies have had different ideas. They have been adapting to changes, developing new strategies for improving or increasing contributions between organizations and society. Indeed, they have realized that a business is developed by people. They are the main raw material, and they are the cells. For this reason we have to begin reviewing each person who works for us, each cell. We must know if they are here just for money or because they feel indentified with our mission. Also, it is important to know if she or he has a plan in his or her life, a detailed career map. Then, the company and the employee initiate a synchronization process. One of the keys to have satisfied teams is an organization that is concerned about employees individual goals because they will find a developer environment at work (Pratt). At this moment, we are speaking about one goal driven by employees and management. As a result, the employees believe that they belong to the company. In this instance, it is important to speak with the new person during the first months. In this time, she or he is able to learn easier. Indeed, he needs to get used to the new environment and the new people working together. So, observation and analysis are required (Mayhew). Once we have made the first step, that is the most tedious because it is about accepting new forms of administration, new procedures in new contexts. Now, we are focused on coaching not only our work force but also our competitive advantage. Due to shortened product life cycles and hyper communication, innovation is a sure way to preserve a company's competitive advantage. So, the employees must find new ways of doing things through an effective organizational culture (Chovolhary). Consequently, they will be able to think and speak clearer. So, the idea is that they should feel comfortable to share any information they have in mind not only with their coworkers but all the company.For this reason, we need one of the most difficult skills that any company might have. It is called an open environment, free people to speak or I could say organizational culture based on Open Communication. It is important to know employees' thoughts. Companies like FACEBOOK break down barriers among employees by supporting social activities outside of their days jobs (Chovolhary). In some cases we need experiences rather than material goods because the relationships give us humanity (Mac Bain). The money is essential always. The payment is important for the employees, but we should give them something special, unique, that helps us to improve our communication. It is the time, the social activities, and the moments that we share with our coworkers. So, the main purpose is to know each other carefully, completely. Through these types of activities, people let us see their feelings, their mind, and the relationship gets strength. It creates confidence. Nevertheless, the employees must have the desire to establish communication. Indeed, they should be able to negotiate and make deals, understanding priorities and being tolerant. On the other hand, the management must listen and get back with a response, always. Even to explain why the idea was not implemented, being creative and 23 responding to employee needs (Barnes and Calif). Thus, it will generate conversations and connections among the different levels. So, all the company will speak the same language and share the same goal. Once you achieve an excellent communication, you can improve by giving feedback and sharing information in order to improve everyones knowledge. The employees need to feel they are doing something important for the company. They need their bosss feedback, for example it is important to make group and individual meetings at least one time per week, surveys about organizational culture, and basically an environment of open communication. So, they feel comfortable to speak about any issue whenever they want to. In other words, innovators have to be confident, and confidence can be brought by giving them a problem they have to define by research, direct observation, autonomy and empowerment. For example, General Electric employees should generate creative ideas, take risks, learn from success and failure, challenge bureaucracy, collaborate, listen and be humble (Chovolhary). To achieve all the skills outlined above people need a suitable environment; many people say their job is their second home. Well, it could be if the company is innovative. As Mc Bain says The furnishings can be chosen to help promote the feeling that you want to transmit. For example, you can design a space for promoting easy conversation. Furniture is important too, and the management must understand and accept this new concept of business. Daily lives are important, experiences and the environment in general; things like listening to music, eating vegetables and doing exercise influence your mood, your mind, and your ability to create something new. Sadly, it seems secondary for most of the people, and they think they dont have enough time to do it. However, a company can change the employees mood through paying attention to these strategies. You cannot schedule innovation. Suddenly, it occurs. Casual connections are what the environment tries. For example, Samsung provides stress reducing special music selected by a psychologist (Chovolhary). The activities cannot be monotonous, prosy. People need variety, movement, but keeping the same values, principles and vision (Hackett). Even if you are a smart person working in the perfect place, you need others. You need contrast and complement. You need coworkers, people with opposite ideas to get new ones, but it must be called a team instead of a group. For this reason, the company has to create a culture of collaboration, where people are ready to help their coworkers and contribute in the success of the project (Pratt). This is the main idea, achieve the goal and learn in the process, being always disposed to listen, learn and collaborate. Moreover, letting employees and the union know early the need for change in work, rules, policies, activities or something else eliminates surprises and builds the team (Barnes and Calif). So, nothing can be hidden in a relationship of trust and nobody has the whole truth. The idea is to find the answers together. Indeed, it is the only way to learn in a company. In addition to receiving training, the person must share the new information and expand his knowledge. In this manner, the company gives and gets at the same time. So, we give career development for our campaign works, and we receive success. Your employees need special talents with the costumer; they must have a good interpersonal relationship and excellent communication. Even if your company sells only products, the service comes after selling the product (Mayhew). The employees need to have motivation, something that joins them to the company. One of these things can be the goal, feeling identified. Also the company should provide opportunities for employment and emotional growth (Hackett). The person who creates the goal and the company is the only person that can transmit the idea, the dream. Actually, he or she is the most important example. Consequently, his personality and all his actions become crucial. He should focus on few and clear activities and make them perfect, always telling the truth. The process begins with him, with the leader because he is the first person that tries to connect his personals goals with the company. So, he must be sure about what makes him really happy, inside and outside the job and work on it. Therefore, a good leader knows his feelings before knowing others` feelings and has the ability to sit on every side of the table or problem by stressing discretion, confidentiality and patience. In addition, he has the ability to connect with strangers instantly and to manage trust (Executive leadership). Moreover, there are main points a leader has to review frequently. Being present, and working together for the greater good are activities he cannot avoid. As a result, he will develop, implement and monitor them. So, if you are a good manager, it is because you know everyones role is crucial to the success of the organization. Also, it is important to avoid the use of words that perpetuate the notion of a divide between labor and management. Instead, a qualified leader earns 24 respect not only with hierarchy but also an excellent behavior achieved by consistency. Nothing hurts the relationship more than favoritism shown by a supervisor (Barnes and Calif). Only the manager can spread the mission to the employees because they are the first customer.The company has internal and external costumers. Both need quality service. The first costumer is the employee. So, part of the quality can be given by keeping a great environment to work. Therefore, the employees give results through the good service, satisfying the external costumer (Hackett). The manager sells the brand to his employees, so that they can sell it to the customer. Consequently, if employees are not effectively trained and satisfied, it is impossible to get customers attention. Also, the leader decides the culture he wants to create by organizing the environment where he can put together three important items; an atmosphere of listening, empathy and trust. Although the last one is chancy because a business involves money, it is the most important for building creativity and proactivity. The place and the feelings are important; the activities that the employees develop must be according to their personality. When the employees are encouraged, it gives consistency and reliability across the brand (Hackett). They are the image of the company, and they show you the type of leader the team has. If they are happy and wise, it is because their environment and relationships are suitable. Surely, happiness is not in the pursuit of success but in the daily lives of the path chosen and relationships withpeople around us (Mc Bain). So, the leader is responsible for creating the best place and empathy as soon as possible when he decides to share his dream, his goal with other people and build the company. However, some of them have not understood the main idea, their main goal and actually the most important activity they must do, to be focused on their people through an environment of open communication and trust. Indeed, a suitable leader values and rewards his employees. According to Chovolhary when employees are warmly greeted by their managers, productivity increases. Consequently, all of these activities finally lead to efficiency and fin