Writing Feedback / TOEFL: When choosing a place to live, what do you consider most important? [3]

When choosing a place to live, what do you consider most important --- location, size, style, # of rooms, types of rooms, or other features? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.... Please rate from 1 to 5.

Choosing a place to live is not easy because several factors may shift "the balance" to location, size, style and so on. Although giving a unique characteristic may not appear as simple as you think, sooner or later every person in his/her life copes with this difficult question and a chiefly feature that the house must have is a perfect location that matches your preferences about the climate, distance from the center and the cost.

One reason I feel this way is because the climate really affects people's behavior. Many studies have shown that sun influences people, in fact, sun makes people happy and, on the other hand, foggy and rainy weather makes people sad. To support this statement a survey about suicide reports that the country with the highest number of suicide is the Scandinavia because this is a cold place and they never have the sun. In my country, Italy, instead, people is happier than the average because when we have some troubles, we always say: "We have the sun, it's enough".

In addition, I believe that distance from center is another factor that has a lot of importance when choosing a place to live. Firstly, the center offers facilities such as restaurants, markets. Secondly, it usually well connected with the rest of the city and it's easy to reach other points. For instance, I live near the central station and for me it's very easy to catch buses and trains to arrive to my final destination in a few minutes.

Finally, I think that the price of the house is a basic factor to take into account. It's necessary that the house isn't too expensive because choosing an expansive house can finish money and people must provide for other expenses such as water, garbage, light, telephone. Those ones are increased by the size of the house because big house brings more cost. For example, my fianceč lives in a big house and their parents always have trouble to pay bills.

All in all, it's necessary to be careful choosing a place to live because this change can improve your life or destroy it. To avoid this mistake, it's enough to consider the aforementioned reasons thinking what factors can help to reach bliss.

Writing Feedback / TOEFL: Is There More Need for Land To Be Left In Natural Condition Or To Be Developed for Industry [2]

In Your Country, Is There More Need For Land To Be Left In Its Natural Condition Or Is There More Need For Land To Be Developed For Housing And Industry?

Choosing if the land has the need to be developed or it has the need to be left as it is, it's not easy because one's decision, in this respect, is influenced by a number of different factors. Dealing with this question may be very difficult because in my country, but, I believe in every country, there is the necessity to make money and, building houses and industries is the fastest way. On the other hand, land must be left in its condition in order to allow people to grow in a healthy environment. Hence, I support people who want to leave the land as it is, otherwise will our babies know the color of a tree?

One of the reasons, as to why I feel in this way is that also land can give profits. Although new industries make new jobs, this is also true for tourism. This sector is important for many nations and, in some cases, this is the only income that they have. In some countries such as Croazia, Greece there are only some industries and their primary source is tourism. In my country, Campania, industries have destroyed many landscaped and some people think that in the Amalfi Coast should be built some industries. For people who don't know the Amalfi Coast, this place is a beautiful paradise dug in the rocks and, fortunately, this will never change because this area has been declared one of the most amazing in Italy.

In addition, I believe that preserving land is necessary in order to help young people to understand values and importance of mother nature. In my country there are too many industries and their are destroying our nature through toxic chemical, vapors, etc... I strongly believe that land helps us to protect the environment allowing to breathe pure air and, if we continue to build house or industries, there will be only impure air. This is a non-return point because land and all trees in it are the consequences of thousand years of growing.

In summary, building industries in my country will bring to an irreparable damage to the environment decreasing tourism and damaging the environment. Hence, I think that we need more space for land rather than for human constructions because, once we will have built all industries and there will be only a few trees, the only landscapes that will see are only some arrangement of bricks.

P.S. Am I off-topic? Do I accomplish the trace of the theme? Are the examples relevant for this essay?

Writing Feedback / The decision if boys and girls should be in separate classroom or not. Different teaching techniques [2]

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Boys and girls should be educated in separate classrooms using different teaching techniques. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Deciding if boys and girls should be in separate classroom is not easy because one's decision, in this respect, is influenced by a number of different factors. Although some people may agree that boys and girls should be in the same class, I sustain that they must be separated and professor should teach using different techniques because, regarding to the gender, comprehension, learning skills and the choice of the work differ. One reason I feel this way is because comprehension isn't similar among men and women. Girls don't prefer to study subjects like Maths or computer science. I assert that professors should arrange their lessons based upon the gender, focusing on techniques that allow students to understand well topics and assignment. For example, in my town there is a school in which boys and girls are separated. Several years ago, I had the chance to study Maths with a girl that attended this school and I was impressed how well she knew this subject and how she was able to master difficult calculation. Hence, I asked if she were an extraordinary girl in her class, but she answered me that she was an ordinary girl and she learnt math well because her professor pinpointed a method to explain mathematic to girls. In addition, I believe that professor should focus on which type of work students will do. I sustain that is useless to concentrate on Italian when the student will work as a programmer. For example, when I was in high school, I didn't like humanistic subjects such as Italian, History and I had a natural inclination to practical subjects such as calculus and informatics. Therefore, my professors took me in a separate way, giving much importance to those subjects rather than Italian or other ones. Long story short, now I am a programmer and, at my University and my workplace, I haven't seen many women because they aren't interested in those subjects. So why professors should spend a lot of times in something that girls/boys will never use? Finally, I think that learning skills are very different among men and girls and professors and tutors should think to different methods. I have taught for many years as a tutor. I dealt with girls and boys struggling with mathematic. In the first moment, I was wondering how one technique worked with boys and it didn't work with girls and vice versa. To confirm this point, I began to explain in a different way to boys and girls and they were able to understand me. In this way, I've figured out how gender really influences skills. All in all, it's necessary to split men from women because gender influences people's capacity and I assert that professor must focus on specific techniques that improve understanding of a subject, helping them to have a higher comprehension. In this way, everyone can get deeper knowledge and, maybe, one will gain higher position to work.