Writing Feedback / Advantage and Disadvantage Essay - Being an Only Child [3]

In the past, there were families with a dozen or so children. However, ın the modern world, having an only child became more common by the increase of tendency to have promising career and with the help of medicine. It is clear to see that having or being an only child effects parents and child. From the child's perspective, being an only child has both pros and cons.

Generally, in the families with more than one child, kids envy each other in terms of having attention of parents and it sometimes ends up with fighting. As an only child, they have no siblings to compete for attract parents' attention. They automatically have both their parents' full attention. It is well known that the more children, the more burden to family. It means, families having an only child can provide a better life to their child with holidays, good schools, more possession, opportunity to study abroad and so on. Unlike the others, those who are only child spend most of their time with adults. One of the effects of spending a lot of time with adults is that they learn early on how to think like adults. It exactly what makes them more mature than the others.

When it comes to disadvantages of being an only child, the "Little Emperor Syndrome" comes to mind. "Little Emperor Syndrome" refers to the Chinese situation including families and their single child. It is a case in which parents lavish their attention, love, resources on this one child of their, and as a result, the child becomes spoilt and behaves like "Little Emperor". In old age, when parents need someone's help to survive, an only child needs to carry parents' responsibility alone as they have no siblings to share responsibility. For example, my grandfather cannot even take a shower on his own, he needs my father's help to take a shower. One of the most important disadvantages of being only child is they are not able to have nephews or nieces. Also their children have no uncles, aunts, cousins and the like.

To cut a long story short, families with an only child have become more common compared to past. For the children, being an only child has both advantages and disadvantages. Even if some disadvantages can be coped with the help of parents, the others are unable to be avoided.

Writing Feedback / Global warming has an impact on world stability. How to reduce carbon footprint? [2]

With the occurrence of global warming, world started to lose its stability. One of the most important factors causing global warming is carbon footprint. Carbon footprint can be defined as amount of the carbondioxide and greenhouse gases produced by a person in everyday life. Everybody has responsibility in this point, as a member of society(?). Two ways, I want to mention, to reduce carbon footprint are energy conservation and producing energy in healthier ways.

Firstly, almost all devices which we use in everyday life require electricity to function(?). A huge part of that electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels. As a well-known fossil fuels emit too much carbondioxide into the atmosphere. There are simple ways can be done by individuals to reduce necessity of energy. For example, replacing bulbs with energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs can save a lot of energy. In addition, using double-glazed windows in place of a normal one makes easy to heat rooms. Turning off the lights if you do not need them and setting electrical appliances to standby mode help us to save energy. Actually, we would all save money while we are saving energy, this is what makes it more attractive.

It is now possible to generate electricity with green supplier. These suppliers produce energy with the minimum carbondioxide emission, whilst the others making too much emission. Wind turbines, water and sun are the three main green suppliers. Green suppliers are free to get benefit, all we need to build them to correct places. For instance wind turbines should be located to place where exposed to the wind too much(?) and solar panels should solarize as much as it can. Expensiveness of building green supplier is the biggest handicap to reach clear power; however, when the advantages considered it becomes less important.

To sum up, the more carbondioxide emission into atmosphere the more greenhouse effect, it means global warming. In order to stop global warming , we need to reduce carbon footprint and it is not so hard to do.

Writing Feedback / What are the reasons for species being extinct ? [4]

Throughout history numerous species of animals and plants have faced with danger of extinction. While some of them were able to deal with this serious issue, the others could not resist and died out such as dinosaurs, mammoths and etc. Two main factors causing this problem are natural disaster and human being.

Firstly, the extinction danger is not only caused by humanity but also caused by natural diseases such as earth quakes, forest fire, lack of rain, extreme cold and high temperature (?). Most species need certain weather conditions to survive, if they cannot find suitable conditions, death becomes inevitable consequence. For instance, there was ice age on the earth thousands of years ago. According to the studies %90 of all species on earth disappeared at that time. However, in todays, wildfire would be one of the most dangerous way, because animals and plants living in that forest will be deprived of habitat even if they succeed to survive.

Second of all, there are some activities made by people which may endanger species such as hunting, air pollution, and destruction of habitats and so on. Valuable parts of the animals are the main reason for their being hunted. Generally elephants are hunted for their ivory, rhinos for their horns, deer and goats for their meats. Actually, balanced hunting may not cause for animals extinction; but, overhunting put animals' generation into danger (?). In addition, with the increase of the human population, need to place to settle increased, too. Then, people started to destroy species' habitats so as to create new settlement. In such a case, those plants and animals living in that habitat will no longer survive. Last but not least, air pollution is the another reason for being extinct. As a well-known a lot of organisms need fresh air to live. As long as human being keeps polluting air with carbondioxyde emission, those organisms will no longer survive.

To cut a long story short, both human being and natural diseases cause for species' being extinct. There is an undeniable fact that there is nothing to do about natural diseases; however, stopping some human activities can be the way to reduce amount of extinction.