Sunday, May 30, 2010

City of life

City of life is the first Emirati movie and its talk about the life of some people from different nationality and they live or work in Dubai. There are three different stories in the movie but they have the same goal of achievement their dreams.
Let us now talk about the movie itself, I can’t deny that the movie was quite good in general. . There are three main characters in the film, an Emirati guy that tries to improve his life and rely on himself and find a suitable job. And an Indian man who work a taxi driver and he dream to be an actor or singer. Finally, A foreign woman who was work in one of the airlines companies, but she fell in love with a man who works in advertising companies. Her life changed after she met and fell in love and became pregnant, the man asked her to drop the child but she refused to drop the child, so her life become threatened Because the pregnancy without couples is illegal in the UAE. The film revolves around the people who live in our world and trying to achieve their dreams, but they face many difficulties in achieving their dreams. In the many attempts to improve their lives and achieve their dreams, they have lost more precious things to them. For example, the Emirati man has lost his best friend and the Indian driver were injured in her face, and foreign women became pregnant, but without a father.

I think the movie could be better if the director focus in the story instead of advertise for Dubai and the developments of Dubai. I think that this movie is a strong step for movie making but it needs to improved more. In general it was a good step to make more Emirati movie in the future.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

When should people be made to retire?

Each country has own age to retire their old people. Some people like to work after a specific age of retirement. Other likes to retire to spend more time freely. This essay is going to look at the people who pros and cons towards retirement time.

A lot of people agree with retirement idea. There are many reasons for their agreement. One of these reasons is younger people. People think that old people to retire at specific time to give a chance for younger people. Another reason is the animism. Company owner like younger people than older people because they are more active. For example, young people can walk from one place to another to finish work better than older ones. Certification is another reason. People think that young people have a degree of B.A or master are more qualified than older people.

On the other side, there are people against the first group of people. People think that there are many aspects to keep old people at their job. One of these aspects is experience. People think that experience plays an important to success on work because life depends on experience. Another aspect is respect. Some think that a company doesn’t respect old people when they dismiss them from work. For instance, companies can hire new employee but keep old people to value them. Another aspect is other companies. Some companies like to deal with old employer than younger. For example, companies can let young people sit with old people and teach from them and other companies can know the young one and trust on him because old employer taught him.

To conclude, people are divided with and against retirement. I think that we are still need old people to teach us. Also, in my point of view the success of the work depends on old people not young guys and girls who have a piece of paper shim his or her university degree. So, young people have to learn from old people before replacing them.

The poetry competition/tourism

Many Arabs people try to participate in the million poetry competition. For the 2010 competition Mr. Naser Al Ajmi was a winner few days ago by voting. This essay is going to explain the argument for with and against the voting system.
Most people confirm voting method to choose winner. There are many reasons for that. One of these reasons is the audience. People think that audience has to participate to choose the winner. Another reason is judges. People think that judges only have the half of the mark and other have the other half.
On the other side, people did not agree with the type of choose the winner. There are many aspects. One aspect is depending on relationship. People think that the person who has a big tribes and a lot of friends can win easily by this method. Another aspect is to prevent others from creativity. Challengers who have relationship without any creativity can win. For example, Naser Al Ajmi won this competition because he had a big tribe while Hisa Hilal lost the prize because she didn’t have as much as him relationship.
In my opinion this way of determine winner is wrong because its depends only on relationship not the quality of poetry. So, judges only should choose the winner not the audience. I think if Naser Al Ajmi didn’t have a big tribe he would not win and maybe Hisa could win this competition.

Should failing Emirati students pay for college?

Some students have a serious problem with studying at college. A lot of people think falling students have to pay for their education. This essay will examine the arguments for and against this idea.

Paying for unsuccessful students can be supported on many grounds. There are several reasons why failing students have to pay. One of these reasons is government budgetary. Government will lose a lot of money for students if they fail every year. For example, ministry of education can get money from these students as tax to encourage them to study. Another reason is a new student’s seat. Students who cannot succeed will in their study take the place for the new students to entire college. For instance, students who repeat foundation year can prevent secondary school graduates recent to join university. Performance is classified as one of reasons. Failing students can affect the performance of others in the class. For example, students who are not concerned about studying will change others mind to be like them. These are some thoughts of people towards failing students.

However, many people are strongly against this idea. There are many aspects of this problem. One aspect is teaching style. Students think that the teaching style plays an important rule and it is fault. For example, some instructors cannot teach the idea of lesson so students cannot succeed. Another point is the number of Emirati students. People think that this country is starting to develop in education and they need Emirati students to study at colleges. For instance, the government has to encourage students to study not to scare the by paying or taking tax from them. One more idea is college. College has to know the skills for each student to classify them in the specific class to avoid filers and payment. From my experience, I was studying in petroleum institute at first year they let me attend for foundation 2 and my English was not good so I fail in the first year. These were some points against paying.

People are divided into two sides on this issue. The first group confirms the idea. The other sides reject the idea of paying. In my point of view, colleges have to think again about the reason of failing before making students pay. This problem is too great to ignore. Moreover, this issue can effect Emirati students in the future.

Has the internet brought us together or driven us apart?

Nowadays, most of people all over the world using the internet every day. Internet is very useful for people and every one can use it for searching for information, read the news, playing and communication with other people. In this essay I will discuss both sides of the argument that does the internet brought us together or driven us a part.

There are a lot of people who thing that the internet has a bad affect on people. They think the internet make the relationship weak between the family. For example, most of the teenagers using the internet for more than 8 hours so they don’t have time to stay with their family. Also, they believe that it distract the students so it will affect on their marks and on their study. Some of them say that children may met bad people or friends and that will cause to go in the wrong way in their life.

On the other sides, there are people against the first group of people. They think they can use the internet to met new friends or communicate with other friends. For example, the people who have friends in other countries it’s easy for them and cheaper to communicate by using internet. In addition, they say the internet has a many benefit such as, people can sharing pictures or videos or any information by using websites like facebook and net log. Moreover, some of people believe that they can meet the person who will live or future wife or future husbands. For example, one of my friends who met a girl in facebook and he fell in love with her and now there are engaged.

To conclude I think if I spent time with my friends or family face to face better than communicate by internet. Using internet can be affect on person if use internet in the negative way. People have to focus with people in real life than internet.

London underground station passengers

This line graph shows the time for people waiting in London underground station. Highest number people are train at 8:00 am and lowest numbers to people wait transportation at 4:00 pm.

The number of people increased rapidly from 6:00 am to 8:00 am to reach highest number of passengers (400) to transportation. The next two hours shows the strong drops for people use this service underground. From 10:00 am to 2:00 pm person use underground station un constantly until number of people become less and less to reach approximately 90 users. When station hold less than 100 people that will be the lowest at 2:00 pm. At 18:00 clock the number of people nearly to reach 400 people. After 6:00 pm stations become less crowded to reach a reach around 100 people.

To conclude a huge number of passengers use the station at rush hour (8:00 am) more than any other times. In contrast, only a few people use underground station at 4:00 pm compare to highest number of people (400).

Age of marriage

This line graph shows the age of marriage in the United States from 1900 to 2000. Most men and women get married after 25 years old in the 2000.

In 1990 both genders had a drop in marriage age in the 1920s. Men started to be constant in marriage age (24) from 1930 to 1940. In contrast, woman goes up to reach 21 years old of marriage age until 1940. Both sexes had a drop from 1940 to 1950. For the next ten year men stayed constant of marriage age under 23 years old. However, in same period women had huge drop to reach near 20 years old of marriage age. After 1970 men and women goes up until women reach 25 years old of marriage age time and men reach to 26 years old of marriage age in 2000.

Men and women start thinking to marry after 25 years old in 2000 in the USA.