Writing Assignment

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1. (OPINION) Smoking is relaxing and, therefore, enjoyable.
2. (FACT) Dr.Kathleen Parker, a well-known cancer specialist, recently admitted in an interview, “Although I see the harmful effects of smoking nearly everyday in my work, I still enjoy relaxing with a cigarette after dinner.”
3. (FACT) Early in the next decade, more women than men will die young of lung cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. NFS
4. (OPINION) Smoking is attracting more and more adult.
5. (FACT) According to a recent New York Times article, cigarette smoking is increasing among adults in their forties as well as among the college educated and those earning more than $35,000 annually.
6. (OPINION) Red-light runners1 must take a driver’s education class. Then they will become safer drivers.
7. (FACT) Red-light runners cause scores of accidents, including deaths and injuries as well as million of dollars in damages. NFS
8. (OPINION) Red-light runners should have their driver’s licenses suspended for a period of time.
9. (FACT) Nationwide, the number of red-light running accidents increased18 percent from 1992 through 1995. In 1991, 2,425 deaths resulted, and in 1995, the number rose to 2,866.

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World’s Major Consumers of Primary Energy
According to statistics published by the U.S Departement of Energy, the world’s consumption of primary energy continued to increase in 1994 in quadrillion’s Btu’s. The three top consumers included the United States, China, and Russia. However, the largest consumer was the United States. It used 85.64 quadrillion Btu. Japan consumed 20.7 quadrillion Btu, whereas Germany consumed 13.87 quadrillion Btu. The countries that consumed less than 10 quadrillion Btu included India, United Kingdom, France, and Italy.

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Survey Question 1

According to statistic published in USA Today survey by Barbara Pearson, people are getting concerned with the amount of debt on their credit cards. Statistic shows that people in the age of under thirty are in the first rank who concerned about this. The percentage is 55%. The second rank is they who are in the age of thirty until forty five with 43%. However, not all of people are concerned about this case, we can see from the statistics, people who are in over sixty aren’t really much concerned about it, with the percentage of saying no is 81%, whereas people in the age of forty six until sixty are in the second place with percentage 62%.

Survey Question 2

A graph about people who responsibles in paying the credit card bills shows older people do it much rather than the younger, USA Today reported. The graph says that people over their sixties have a big percentage in paying the bills, it has the highest number, 87%. It seems like the more you are older the more you have to pay off yours or your family credit card bills. We can see it from the graph that shows adults in the age of forty six until sixty have a chance to settle it too, with the percentage 68%. This condition is very contrast compared to people in the age of under thirty, most of them said no, therefore the percentage is 59% and also for a group in the age of thirty until forty five, they show 49% for saying no to pay off the credit card bills.

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1. Dr. Yixuan Ma, a well-known astrophysicist who has been studying black holes, said, “It is one of the most interesting phenomena we astrophysicists have ever studied.”
2. As she explained, “In black holes the laws of nature do not seem to apply.”
3. “A black hole is a tiny point with the mass 25 times the mass of our sun,” explained Ma’s associate, Chun-Yi Su, “black hole are created by death of a very large star.”
4. “It is an invisible vacuum cleaner in space,” she added, “with tremendous gravitational pull.”
5. According to Dr.Su, “If a person falls into a black hole, he will eventually be crushed due to the tremendous gravitational forces.”
6. “Time will slow down for him as he approaches the event horizon”, she said, “and when he reaches the event horizon, time will stand still for him.”
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1. Television channel KSA General Manager im Burns said that not everyone can attend college in the traditional way; therefore, taking courses via television will offer many more students the chance to earn a college degree.
2. Pre-med student Alma Rodriguez said that she miss being on campus, but she has to work and takes care of her family.
3. Other students said that last year they spent several hours a day commuting to and from school. Now they don’t have to do that.
4. Computer engineering student Amir Mahdizadeh stated that he can choose when to study and how to study without a pressure. He also said that he will take more telecourses in the fall.

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Artificial Language
In the end of the nineteenth century, Dr.Zamenhof from Poland found Esperanto, the artificial language which is successfully used by people throughout the world. It was affected by English, German, the Romance language, Latin, and Greek. The upcoming artificial language had been found was Interlingua which is built by some language experts from Latin, the Romance language, and English. However, Esperanto was more famous than Interlingua because it is very far easy to understand. (Pei 175-176)
Artificial Language—Objections
However artificial language like Esperanto and Interlingua are lack in some ways. The structure of language are much influenced by Western culture like European and American so it’s very hard for Asian, African and Slavic to understand it.
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