Final test

As your final test, please choose 1 of the options below. You should aim for between 400-600 words (four paragraphs). You should try to include some facts (statistics/reports etc) to support your opinions. Bring your final essay to your interview time in week 17 with your brainstorming list and essay outline. Essays should be typed and printed. Cheating / Plagiarism will result in a grade F (Fail)

Option 1 - Cause and effect

• Why it is difficult to find a good job after graduating
• Why people sometimes move to different countries
• Why some students cheat
• Why TV reality shows are so popular

Option 2 - Compare / Contrast

• Silpakorn University to another university (of your choice)
• Physical beauty to inner beauty
• Talking to your mom/dad and talking to your friends
• The happiest day of your life to the saddest day of your life

Option 3 - Opinion

• Why do you think social networking sites are so popular?
• What, in your opinion, are the essential characteristics of an effective leader?
• In your opinion, should animals be used in medical research?
• Should abortion be legalized?

Why people exercise

.........................Nowadays, most people give an importance to exercise because they have to fight changing of the society getting worse. Exercise is only thing that help them get stronger and can live in this hurried society. Exercise is very important for everyone; therefore, they should exercise regularly by various reasons.
.........................First, exercise creates good physical health. From the scientific health research of university of Michigan, exercise directly supports the reaction of the movement system. When they usually exercise, the tendons and muscles are stronger and elastic that these help to decrease the risk of muscles strain, muscle spasm, tendon rending, etc. Moreover, exercise also helps the other function of systems; especially, the respiratory system by increasing functions of the lung and heart more effective. Another benefit of exercise helps fat burning system get energentic. If they exercise frequently, it helps them can control their weight and have firm body much better. Also, it makes their skin so bright and healthy because exercise makes blood circulation more productive.
.........................Second, exercise is an activity that can relieve and treat the mental and psychological way. According to the information of World health organization said that whenever people exercise, the body is emitted the endorphin that is a hormone produced in the brain get in the blood. This hormone can reduce feeling of pain, reduce depression, and makes them feel happy and energetic. Furthermore, exercise gives the stable and peaceful consciousness in some kinds of the sport such as Pilates, Yoga and Gymnastic because people have to concentrate stretching the muscles and make different gestures.
.........................The last reason why people exercise is to make people have an opportunity to improve the relationship between friends and members of a family. Some sports require players more than one such as basketball, tennis, football, baseball, etc. Especially, football is a sport that the players have to communicate in own group for planning the playing trick. Thus, it causes interaction with other players and gets the friendly and precious relationship. Although, this benefit is indirect, it helps people more interested in exercise and also gets other advantage afterward. It affects quality of human being get better.
..........................In conclusion, doing exercise is necessary for everyone. For all reasons such as creating good physical health, relieving and treating the mind and improving the relationship between friends and members of a family guarantee that exercise is the most important activity. So, are you ready to exercise with me for getting enormous advantage?

Do They Have To Drink?

.........From statistics in America, The UK and Australia on teenagers drinking all show that between 70% and 80% of teenagers have tried alcohol. This is a large number of teenagers which are not the proper age to drink alcohol. Drinking alcohol causes many problems, but why do teenagers like drinking? There are two main reasons that teenagers drink alcohol.
.........The first reason, they want to be part of their group. Teenagers think that it is easier to make friends if they drink alcohol. Also, alcohol makes teenagers feel less inhibited, they feel more comfortable to talk or do activities after a drink. Teenagers also drink just because other people are drinking. For many teenagers, it feels good to be doing what everybody else is doing. Some teenagers believe that drinking alcohol is the way to fit in with their group of friends and their friend will accept them if they drink alcohol. However, drinking just because everybody else is can lead to problems, especially if they are drinking too much.
.........The second reason is drinking alcohol is a symbol of being an adult. Teenagers are age that stuck between children and grown-up people. They need a symbol to show that they are already mature now. Alcohol may be the easiest choice. For example, when we were young, we saw our parent or many adults drink alcohol but they never let us tried it once. Alcohols are always forbidden for children. When people grown up to teenager, they have ability to buy alcohol for themselves, so they drink it. Some of teenagers proud of drink adult’s beverage. This lead to the thought of being free, do whatever they want and show that they can take care of themselves like their parents or a grown-up people.
.........Teenager is the complicated age of human. When this age comes, it means that you are nearly to be an adult soon but there a lot of new think you want to do and try. Drinking alcohol is a part of them. Some of them think alcohol will help them make friends and show that they are already grown-up. Teenagers can drink alcohol but they have to learn how to respond for the problem after drink too.

Numtarn and Pleng

Let's Exercise!!

Exercise is the key to a long and healthy life, everyone well knows. So, these day people are more concern about their health and there are various things that they try to do to keep themselves healthy. Exercise is one important way that can help people to feel good in every aspect of the health definition. There are many reasons why people exercise, but two main reasons are people want to keep themselves in healthy and they want to socialize.

First, people exercise because they want to stay healthy. Everyone needs exercise and everyone wants good health. Many wealth’s researches show that if you exercise at least 30 minute per day, you will healthier. When you exercise every part and system of your body will continuous movement. And because of these, exercise can also reduces your risk of many serious diseases. Such as heart disease, high blood pressure, breast cancer, stroke, heart attack, and arthritis. Moreover, if you feel stress or uncomfortable, as soon as you finish exercise it can reduces your stress, and also depression and anxiety because your body releases more endorphins which boosts your mood and promotes relaxation. Beside, whenever you exercise you will feel fresh and full of energy which can improve your confidence and your self esteem. These mean that exercise not only help people have healthier in a physically way, but also mentally, too.

A second reason people exercise is that the exercise is a one way that they can socialize. Nowadays people are more care about them health so the popularity of exercise are increased. Most of the people are in favour of exercise at places for exercise such as fitness or public park or department store where are close to home. These places have became a group of healthy lovers place. In addition, when people come to join more, the group of exercise society is more expanded. Exercise is makes to meet other people in the society who like same you. Moreover, it makes more friends and expands a variety of social. Because of humans are social animals and have base on a desire to live in a group so people choose to exercise that the way to socialize. For example, exercise at the public park where is near a house you can meet more people in the neighborhood and make the familiarity more. Playing football or basketball at a yard near the house that will make the society because these sports are play as a team.

In conclusion, exercise has many benefits for body and mind. It makes the healthy and perfect body, not have a disease and make a better mental. Also it can response the basic needs of human to socialize. Exercise makes to know more people and has wider society. These are the reason why people exercise. Therefore, we should start to exercise now. 

Poii & Air

Teenager and alcohol

.....Nowadays, we can see that some teenagers redirect to drink alcohol more and more. Teenagers are wild age who want to try many things and they comply easily with motivations around them such as family, friends, society, etc. Besides, teenagers are self-esteem because they are very self-confident, so they don't think that drinking alcohol is a bad thing. There are two main reasons why some teenagers, both boys and girls, drink too much alcohol.
.....The first reason why some teenagers drink too much alcohol is they are in the age of curiosity. Most of young drinkers are under age of 21. From research of MTF data, an annual survey of U.S. youth, three-fourths of 12th graders, more than two-thirds of 10th graders, and about two in every five 8th graders have consumed alcohol. According to the National center on addiction and substance Abuse, almost 80% of high school students have tried alcohol. Because of the age of curiosity, they encounter dramatic physical, emotional, and life style change, such as for some teens, thrill-seeking might include experimenting with alcohol. In addition, they see advertising messages showing beautiful people enjoying life and alcohol, so they want to be chic guys like people in advertisement. Moreover, many parents and other adult use alcohol socially, such as having beer or wine with dinner. This behavior of adult affects some teenagers want to feel older like their parents. Besides, some teenagers use alcohol for relax or reduce stress. When they have a problem, the best solution is party with alcohol. Because of curiosity, it's not strange that why the number of young drinkers are increase and I believe that the number will increase in the future.
.....A second reason why some teenagers drink too much alcohol is they think alcohol seems harmless to many people. The scientist said that because the body changes so much when we are grow, the ability to cope with alcohol in teenagers is increasing. Nowadays, we can see that many teenagers can drink booze by the bucket-load without drunk, so this behavior of some teenagers become a fashion or trend in the social. Therefore, some teenagers use alcohol to show how cool they are, such as some guys think that drinking alcohol too much is very cool and attract girls. Moreover, sometimes they use alcohol to join society easier. There are many people have new friends from party with alcohol. When some teenagers drink alcohol, they have more confident and they can talk to the other easier. From all reason, it shows that some teenagers don't worry too much about drinking alcohol.
.....In conclusion, there are many factors that affect teenager's thinking about alcohol. Some teenagers think alcohol is harmless and they can drink too much, even if it's dangerous. Alcohol maybe dangerous if drinkers can't control themselves. We should know how to stop drinking or when to stop drinking for safe ourselves.



PANG and PUI

Easy Exercising

Nowadays people become to take care of their health more than the past. The best way to get a good health is exercising. Exercise is the easy way to do everywhere and every time you want, just move your body at least ten minutes, it also called exercise. There are two reasons why exercise is the best way to take care of the health.

The first reason why people exercise is that exercise can get rid of the cellulite that cause of the overweight. Especially, women quite worry about their shape and weight, they have to do everything that can solve their problem maybe using the drug does not the suitable way to do because it too risk to try. Exercising is the best choice to choose, people in the several ages can also do exercise by raise their hands up and down or shake their feet, these are very easy, everyone can do it. Moreover, you can exercise with your friends, your partner, or your couple to make a good atmosphere with the relationship. On the other hand, exercise can make you stronger because your body is always activated. So people like to exercise because it give many advantages for our bodies, it can get rid of the waste weight and make people healthier.

The second reason why people exercise is that exercising can make people get friends. When people finish their works or restive things, they can go to fitness centers or public parks to exercise. They can exercise and relieve themselves. Moreover, they can meet their friends at these places. People can get new friends who love exercise there. They may get their boyfriend or girlfriend, too. When people go to exercise, they will meet many people. If people want to meet their friends at fitness centers or public parks, they will have spirits to stimulate them to exercise. Furthermore, after exercising, people can hang out together, share some stories to each other, and find interesting activities to do. It will be a tiny society that modern people can not live without.

In summary, people need to take care of themselves and the classic way to do is exercising. There are many ways to exercise. People will get profit and appreciate themselves because they are doing an awesome activity like an exercising. If you want to be like these people or start your great day, just stand up and move your body with favorite songs. You will be enchanting and admirable for sure!

by : Wantida and Nawaporn

Computer games are our life

............Nowadays, many young people love spending their time in front of computer and enjoying computer games. They spend almost all of their free time with computer games. Some of them do not even eat while they are playing. Have you ever wonder why they are doing so?. The answer might be that playing computer games might have something that fascinate the young gamers.

First, playing computer is extremely joyful. Gamers can enjoy with any kinds of games they want such as cooking games, dressing games, racing games, fighting games, dancing games, puzzling games and etc. Moreover, computer games provide us fantastic graphics which make computer games are more dramatically fun. The Sims 3 , for instant, it’s graphics looks realistically. Your Sim appearance, your character in the game, will look similarly to human. It’s movement, emotions and desires are just like human. You can see some hyper-reality graphics in many games such as Street fighter or Final fantasy. In Final fantasy, you can see that the game characters are elegant. Their face, hair, appearance are too beautiful to be real. Various kinds of games and their gorgeous graphics, together they make young gamers drool over them.

Second, playing computer games is a part of social contact. You can make some new friends from playing computer games. For example, online games such as Wartraft, the popular online game in Thailand, you need to join to your friends group or form your own team to play the game and to win the game, teamwork is very essential. To do so, you at least have to grew some relationship with some friends who sit next to you or with some strangers who are about to play this game. In case of offline games, they will be a topic of chatting. “Have you ever play The Sims 3 yet?” If you are the gamer who play it, the conversation will go on. If not, it will be the end of chatting. Therefore, playing computer games is a part of making friends, minimally with those who are gamers.

You can see that computer games provide young people not only wonderful relaxing time, but they are also part of the young social contact. Thus, young people choose computer games to be a part of their life.

Why People Exercise

...........Who becomes healthy? It’s evident that health conscious person is who has the healthiest life in the whole entire world. People can get lots of advantages from doing any exercises. It really doesn’t matter how long you have to do exercise per day, because only 10 minutes will work just fine! And if you are wondering why do people exercise? It’s simply because exercising really helps them get organized and keep theirself in a healthy way, both physically and mentally.

            The very first reason people exercise is that they want to stay healthy. It is obvious that once you exercise you will have a better condition. You will be healthier in a physical way. Maintaining an exercise routine also helps to improve digestion, and this is linked with the weight of the body. With a better digestion system, basic health problems are visibly reduced. In addition, doing any exercises such as jumping, running or walking can help stave off osteoporosis (weakening of the bones) for both men and women. Therefore, people will definitely have strengthening muscles, and it will make them look better. Moreover, studies show that most people realize that exercising helps in the prevention of many diseases - for example, heart disease and high blood pressure. It also lowers the risk of cancer. This way, many people have motivation to workout, as it helps them to stay far away from health problems. Plus, Trisha Calvo of Shape Magazine claimed that just a 30 minute walk a day will burn more than a hundred calories. So, people who routinely walk a lot, like those who walk stairs instead of using elevators or walk to somewhere instead of taking subways or buses. They will find their weight loss and of course, they will have a better looking look, like being more fit and firm.

            A second reason people engage to exercise is that it affects them positively in a mental and psychological way. Since they have a perfect balance, they will logically have a happy heart. As a result that when the energy levels are on a high, a person also tends to have an optimistic approach towards life. Also, exercise helps prevent depression and helps to promote or maintain positive self-esteem (as people can be more confident about their body image). Furthermore, exercise releases endorphins and other feel-good chemicals that stabilize and improve mood, and these automatically promise to make people feel more relieved and relaxed.

            In conclusion, it’s undeniable that the various benefits of exercise above are certainly cannot be ignored. Doing exercise will totally help to get rid of any such problems as it benefits the mind and body in the positive way. And with these beneficial reasons, we strongly believe that people should exercise in order to live a healthier lifestyle. It’s never too late to live your life happily. Just doing any kind of exercise, it will make you feel good as a whole human being!

(Tab and Proud)