Test 22

From the political point of view, democracy is a kind of solution of compromises for absolutist
government. Its far from a perfect system, but it is better than totalitarian regimes.
Everybody knows that democracy is a system in which all people are "free". However, freedom is just an
illusion designed to lure lower and middle classes. No one is free, because all is depending on us, on our
parents, directors, on God. One positive aspect of this system is the human equality before the law.
Everyone, regardless of social status, must bear his actions as much as others. Unfortunately, this
principle is often violated.
Democratic society is built on capitalism, this means- on money. Unfortunatelly,in such a society it is
easy to take hold of them and drive, because who has money has power.
In our country, democracy is an utopia, because people always tend to have more power that others. It
is the mask that covers the elite and rich people that manage all people. For me, the real democracy is
the freedom of expressing opinion, the freedom of choices, even sexual ones, the liberty of getting what
and when you want, without being judged. Brotherhood is an illusion. Its just a mirage the fact that
people can love each other the same.
In conclusion, its good to mention that democracy can exist if only everyone would respect the true
values (honesty, honor and so on). Its prime aim is human welfare, but some of us, take too many
advantages from the offered freedoms and the power of money and all these lead to totalitarian
masterminds.Eventually, democracy is not the best system, but nowadays, it cant be replaced with
another better.
Test 21
Peace and harmony are those things that people need for surviving, for interacting with each other, for
colaborating and establishing new realtionships. Living in peace is about living harmoniously with
yourself and others. Outwardly, peace is is like a way of life in which we respect and love each other in
spite of our cultural, religious and political differences. Inwardly, we all try to understand the causes that
play as an impulse for violence and ignore the desire of peace.
We are able to be non-violent and to live in peace and harmony. Some basics that can lead us to live in
peace are trying to be more tolerant, replacing a will to control with a broad approach of loving others
instead, including their faults and differences, think of peace before the power, learn the skills of
negotiation and assertive communication, trying to be more confident and trust more in people that
surround us.
It is a well-known fact that humor allows us to release tension and to show up the repressive tendencies
of extremist thinking. For a peaceful life, its important to cultivate our sense of humor. Moreover, its
good to act with a mix of humor, compassion and tolerance toward those who are violent. I believe that
even criminals deserve to know how compassion works.
In conclusion, Id like to say that we have to seek forgiveness, not revenge; to seek love, not control
others; to find inner peace; to be in joy; to be the change we wish to see in the world; be the part of the
solution. These are those primordial things that make the world live in peace and harmony.
Test 23 eseu
Education is the process by which people acquire knowledge, skills, habits, values, or attitudes. Process
of teaching and learning has existed in human society since thousands years ago. Human beings have
been learning, thought informal, from world around them to find ways to change their society and to
improve the quality their living. Initially, people lived in a primitive society called hunting and gathering
society in which they depended totally on nature and earned for living by hunting animal and gathering
eatable fruits and plants. Later on, people started to learn to find ways to be independent from the
nature. They produced plough for farming and knew how to build reservoirs to store water for
agriculture and household uses that made their food supply more stable. The invention of steam engine
in 1765 was a remarkable turning point in human history that drove people into an industrial era. Most
noticeably, the exploring computer and other information technologies just recently are turning human
history upside down; all parts of the world seem to be much closer, and lives become much easier. The
evolution of society and human history above, sure, would not occur if there was absence of education.
Thus, to some aspects, education is playing a vital role in making the betterment of people and their
society.
Education is acting significantly in eradicating poverty in a nation. There are many factors leading to
poverty, but the major ones are unemployment, poor health and domestic violence, which, generally
seen, are rooted from low level of education. In free and strongly competitive market, effective and
efficient production is a main concern of all producers to extend it supplying power in the market. By
this, they require workers and employees who are more and more skilled, meaning jobs for unskilled
workers are dwindling day by day. A long with this, health condition of people also closely relates to
educational level of them. Millions of people around the world are dying of curable diseases and around
30 thousands of children are killed by prevented illness (Real Aid, 2005). Most of them are illiterate.
They do not know how to deal with heir health problems or how to live healthily. They still depend
mostly on customary medicines or traditional practices which are influenced by superstition to cure
their illness. Consequently, this is a disaster for their whole nation when millions of people are not
productive and stats have to spend large amount of their budget in health care program. A long with
this, illiterate people tend to commit domestic violence more often than educated ones, which makes
them waste their time in earning for living and drives them to poverty.
However, as mentioned above, the factors are mainly resulted from low level of education among
people. Thus, by promoting education or making education widely available to school-age people can
eliminate the factors. Education, obviously, promotes understanding and skills amongst people and
makes them qualified to employment market. Through formal education, which is mostly conducted at
schools, students can learn many different subjects such as science, philosophy, history, and so forth
which they can apply into their daily lives and careers. A long with this, people who can not access a
formal one can attend in informal education in which skills and other practical knowledge are taught.
People can do courses in mechanics, constructing, tailoring, carpentry, cooking and others on which
they can depend to earn for living. Consequently, that more and more people are knowledgeable and
skilful attracts more and more foreign investors and increases job opportunity and accelerates income
for people. Furthermore, when people are educated, their health, accordingly, is also improved because
they know how to keep themselves healthy and how to raise their children healthily. They become
aware of how important medicines and vaccines are for their lives. As a result, the rate of mortality will
decrease. As stated in the WHOs report called Controlling SIT/HIV in Cambodia (2001), there was a
decline in the rate of Cambodian people newly infected HIV from 3.9% (210.000) of the 15 to 49 years
old in 1997 to 2.8% (169.000) in 2001. This was believed to be a result of successful efforts to increase
condom use among those most at risk through a public education campaign about the dangers and
consequences of HIV launched by the government in 2000. This is evidence illustrating that education is
a fruitful measure to keep people healthy.
Besides, education can ensure a sustainable development for a nation. Sustainable development refers
to a development that does not bring any harm to environment and residents (Hornby, 2000). Actually,
not all development projects benefit to people and their nation. Some of them, though, can provide
millions of dollars to the national budget; they have provided nothing but pollutants to surrounding
residents and environment there. To be sure that one development project is profitable or not, reliable
researches and studies must be conducted. Surely, these can not be achieved if there are not enough
national technicians and specialists. By using the mechanism of education, many people will be
educated to be specialists, technicians and researchers that will work fruitfully in observing all
development projects. Beside this, national development policies will be more effective and workable
when more and more people comprehend a concept of sustainable development. For instance, in 1996,
hundreds of Costa Ricans protested the government and asked it to cancel the Placer Dome Companys
open-pit gold mine project when they learned that the project harmed the environment and local
inhabitants. To respond, the government of Costa Rica decided to end the project (Shively, 2007).
Furthermore, education paves the way for researching for new technologies that can ease peoples
living and improve national productivity. With the support from modern technologies, the quality of
products must be upgraded and speed of production increase at the same time; this will become a
strong point of a nations economy in international competitive market. As clear evidence, because
labor cost in the United States is so high comparing to other developing countries such as China and
India, its goods are hard to compete with ones coming from developing countries. To solve with this, US
invested millions of dollars into education and research for the new technologies to be applied in
manufacturing. As a result, US still sustained it economic growth, for their scientific and technological
capacity outperformed in producing high-tech goods and services (Shively, 2007).
National identity can be preserved and promoted well by education. At school, students are required to
learn their history, culture, art and so on. By this way, national identity is passed on from a generation to
another. Students can know where their ancestors came from, what languages they are speaking
originate from. It is education that our history and identity are known nationwide. Historians, artists,
philosophers and specialists in other fields who are the achievement of education can do more
researches, compile documentations or recover hidden history or culture to clarify their national
identity. Nowadays, we have obtained more and more knowledge of our past history and our specialists
have developed more and more precise theories that our next generations can count on for their studies
and their next researches. Thus, we can not only preserve the existing heritage but also widen the
understanding of our culture, history, and keep passing on to next generations.
Additionally, education can be used as an effective mechanism to reduce conflict in society and promote
world peace. It broadens the sense of belonging and unity by teaching basic understanding of social
needs, culture, human right, and people can be taught the social norms which are helpful for them to
adjust to rapid change of society. Students learn what their duties are for their society that helps them
to be active social members. Anti-racial, human right and law education also help them to reduce the
sense of discrimination between races in society and cut down in great distance racial disputes in all
societies, avoid committing activities violating other peoples right or nations law. Gender education
teaches them the concepts of gender equity and the importance of cooperation between males and
females in national development and family welfare. It is through education that provides chance to
people in all nations to know one another and let them learn to share the world and have the same
dream of living peacefully together. As a result, a hyper-nationalism which was once seen generally as
one of main causes of racial disputes and invasions amongst nations is almost rooted out.
Opponents raise a point that education can be used to provoke unrest in society and racial disputes
around the world. They point out some evidences from Middle Easts instability such as in Pakistan, Iraq
and Afghanistan where civil wars are fueled by thousands of people who are educated with Muslim
doctrine. However, this is resulted from a misuse of education. In fact, education is a process of teaching
and learning something positive and useful. As stated in national education policies (1999) organized by
Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport, the objectives of the Cambodian education system
is to fully develop children in all aspects of quality, mentally and physically. Teaching people to do
suicide bombings or to hold guns to set fire on others is not viewed as an education; it is an evil training.
Japan whose literacy rate is said over 95% is a case proofing that education is a main catalyst to prosper
the nation. With a high rate of literacy, Japan becomes rich at human resource very active in economic
activities, and consequently, it emerges a top-ranking economic power (the second largest economy
nation) with the average income per person per year is up to $34,193.60 (Omura, 2006). In short,
education does not bring any harm to society, inversely, it prosper the nation.
To sum up, education has been performing well to keep human society progressing. It promotes the
understanding of the world, aspect of life, social norms and multi-culture that help people to adjust to
the rapid change of society, maintain national identity and unity, and keep the world in peace. It also
provides people skills to be well-prepared for employment. Most importantly, education can eliminate
many factors that cause social inactivity and poverty. Hence, for the betterment of human society,
education must be the basic service that most governments are expected to provide to their people.
Governments of all nations must put their great effort to strengthen national education policy to ensure
that their people of all ages can access to an effective and practical education, for it is no doubt the
more educated and cultured people there are in the country, the more flourishing and thrifty the
country is.
A successful and developed nation is based on bright minded, skillful and wise people. A person cannot
drop out of school and just drop into a good job. One gets to train for it and work for it and learn for it.
This is not just important for our own life and our own future. What we make of our education will
decide nothing less than the future of the country we live. The future and the prosperity of the nation
depend on us.
What we are learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest
challenges in the future. The more educated and cultured people there are in the country the more
flourishing and thrifty the country is.
As for example, we can take Japan, which after the World War II reformed its educational system with
reference to the American one. Up till now, Japan has one of the best educated people. The Japanese
control individual responsibility by observing the group rules, which include the insights and critical
thinking skills, social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and other
measures that make the nation more fair and more free.

That is why we have to set our own goals for our education and do everything we can to meet them.
Our goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending
some time each day reading a book. Maybe we will decide to take better care of ourselves so we can be
more ready to learn and become educated.