Exams are a fair way of testing students. Do you agree

Every year thousands of students take important exams which can decide their future. For example, students have to pass exams with satisfactory grades in order to get a place in a university. However, are exams a fair way of testing of judging a student's ability?

On the one hand, exams seem fair. The questions are the same for all students. Also, the exams are marked according to a strict scheme and usually by more than one examiner. Furtheremore, students do the exams at the same time and under the same conditions.

On the other hand, there are some drawbacks with exams. Despite some students deserving to pass, they might be so nervous on the big day that they make a mess of the exam. Moreover, there may be other reasons, such as illness, which affect a student's performance in an exam. An alternative to exams would be a system of continuous assessment of course work by teachers during the year although this would mean more regular testing and more work for teachers. There would be a greater opportunity for students to copy work, too.

To sum up, exams are not the ideal way of testing students and the idea of assessing students' work over a longer period is becoming more popular. In my opinion, the best system would be a mixture of the two 60% exams and 40% course work.

The Smoking Law in Spain

Nowadays a lot of people all over the world are smokers. This habit is one of the worst there is since th snuff is just a legalized drug. Therefore, countries like Spain have decided to do somethinh against the high level of smoking.
From 1st January 2006, Spain prohibited smoking at the workplace. For bars and restaurants that are larger than 100 m^2, the law allows the creation of separate smoking rooms. For bars and restaurants that are smaller than 100m^2 (and this is the vast majority of cases), the legislation offers the bar owner the possibility of going smokefree. If the bar or restaurant does not go smokefree, it means that customers under 18 years old would not be allowed in that bar. However, compared to other European countries, where smoking in the workplace is banned altogether (Ireland, Sweden and Norway), the Spanish legislation is weak and confusing. Consequently, smoking will be banned in every indoor public place, including bars, clubs and restaurants before the end of 2010 in Spain.
As far as I am concerned, I quite promptly let this law I think the smoking ban is beneficial for everyone. This law makes it difficult for smokers to run his vice because they must go outside if they want to smoke in the workplace or in public places, which at several times due to laziness and just giving unconsciously are encourages to smoke less or quit altogether.
It's also an advantage for non-smokers because we breathe the smoke of smokers, and, personally, I hate the mell of snuff is me hooked on my clothes and hair, when going to the bar.
It's also an aid for people who are trying to quit smoking because they don't see other people smoking, at least in closed places, helps them forget about smoking.
Finally, besides that it looks good, I think it's the only thing we can do. We have seen that to divide local areas has been a failure, almost no one has done it, for me the best thing is to cut for the healthy.

Are curfews a good idea?

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The curfew always happens in the coups, and is very dangerous because people are heard, and sometimes, are killed.

Personally, I think that a curfew is not a solution for anything, actually the curfew is a bad idea in many ways, because nobody can benefit, in fact, everybody suffers.
Another thing is the evening activities, such as parties, going to the cinema, going out for dinner, etc. And all this in a curfew is impossible, for the police, are always in the streets and nobody can have fun.
Well I say this, because we all suffer, young people, who always want to go out and don't like to stay at home, we could not do it, and not to mention the concern of parents when the children stay late on the streets, concern that something will happen, for that reason, I do not agree with curfews.
In addition, what bothers me is that most of times, curfews, are the fault of politicians who want to take power, that's what bothers me most, because they always want it all, and I don't like that idea. However, it may work for people who do bad things, only to bad people, but unfortunately everyone would be affected.

As far as I’m concerned, I do not agree, but if they do it, they should do so in remote places such as a camp or a reformatory, but not apply it to all people, because there are people who haven’t done anything and are affected.

The Democracy

The Democracy: the best form of government possible?
Democracy is a form of government, it is an organization of groups of people. Their rules are to take the best decisions for a country.

Not everyone will agree that there is democracy, nor agree with the person leaving as a representative, this is not the one we choose, if not the greatest vote ever had.
Everything is a false, politicians want us to believe what they want, through speeches where they just say what people want to hear.
Politicians have the power to change laws and they establish the law that is supposed to distinguish between truth and falsehood.
Laws are not really subject to popular vote. We vote the elected leaders, after all, we voted memorized speeches, not political leaders with their own personality, desire and motivation to seek the interest of their voters, but politicians who seek the easy vote.
On the other hand, democracy is good, since people can decide their own lives.
The problems of democracy are visible and you can sue based demonstrations.
Yes it is the fairest system, if applied as written in the books and not as interpreted by the politicians. And as long as this democracy has its ideological pillars anchored in socialism, it is the system that "theoretically" provides greater equality between citizens (delete classes, "to each according to his needs and from each according to their means," Elimination of private ownership and management of the means of production cooperatives that meet diversity of opinions)
Not only can we find democracy, but also authoritarian, governments or extreme left or extreme right are really the same thing; leaders who are looking for people to weight out malleable old desires for power and sovereignty above the rest, although paradoxically some talk about social equality schemes.
Another way to govern is autarchies, states based on the disarray within an established order. In short, a future without seeking to make noise and that serves as a springboard to another thought and treaty regime once the current are has been deleted.

With all that, we can reach agreement with many ways of governance.
All of them lead to the same place, and not necessarily the best.

An opinion essay: the future of Catalan

At the moment, Catalan is being spoken in Catalonia and other places, for example in an island of Italy. Probably, in a few years, Catalan won't be spoken outside Catalonia because the official lenguage of the country will be more used.

However, I think catalan should be spoken. I'm sure that Catalan won't disappear because in the schools and the people in their house will speak Catalan.

All in all, Catalan shouldn't disappear since the Catalan culture would disappear as well.

The smoking law in Spain

The smoking law in Spain was changed a few years ago. Now people can't smoke indoors unless it's authorized in that zone. Personally, I think the law should be more strict because people don't respect it.

Firstly, smoking is extremely bad for you, it's a drug. I don't understand why we have a strict law with drugs, but not for smoking. The law (conforms with) forbids smoking indoors, but if someone smokes there, he doesn't have a punishment. For this reason, a lot of people smoke in front os people who don't smoke and they don't care. For me, this is outrageous! I always say: "It's okay if you want to kill you, but you don't kill me. I want to live!"

In addition, the smoke is so annoying, since it causes clothing and buildings to smell, and is very defficult to remove. What's more, it's dangerous for our lives. Besides the cancers that causes, it many cause fire and born woods or a building. As a result, it can kill many people or cause irreparable damage.

As I see it, smoke is an addiction, and for the people who have an addiction it's easier to become addicted to other things. Therefore, we need to avoid that people start to avoid other addictions.

As far as I am concerned, as a non-smoker person, the law should be strict for the sake of the persons, especially for the non-smoker persons. And the people who smoke should make the effert to make sure the people arround them don't care if they smoke. If not so, they try to find a fair solution, always respecting their desicion to live healthy, or at least the best they can.

In conclusion, everything is based on the respect for others. And law must be to support this idea, if someone doesn't comply it.

MY OPINION ABOUT SCHOOL DROP-OUTS

Nowadays in Spain, many students complete only the E.S.O. As a result, this can cause serious problems for the student, their families and the country. Is it right school drop-out ? Absolutely is isn't !!

I think there are many reasons why students leave school early.
Family problems are one cause since if parents are divorced, no-one may be taking responsibility for the teenager.

The second problem is money, in many countries college is free, but unfortunately in Spain we should be paid. What's more, some students want to work in order to support their families or help themselves. Perhaps the main reason why students drop out is for academic reasons. For many students, school is stifling and very boring, they prefer drop out school and work hard or just saty at home, being lazy. But there are others who have learning difficulties that need specialist help.



As I see it, I think the problem of school drop-out can be reduced by the students and the government. In fact, college should be free like in other countries.

As far as I'm concerned, drop-out isn't a good idea. The way to solve this problem is improving oneself, leaving aside the problems.