Hania B.

Last week I watched a short scientific animated film named "The tree of life" narrated by David Attenborough. It was focused on the theory of evolution. The film was very interesting and for sure was based on reliable research. In my opinion it was an essence of the whole theory and made it accessible and understandable for many people, even though many of them do not have sophisticated knowledge in this field. I believe that such films are a good source of education for all people and it would be beneficial for all of us if they spread and became available in more languages etc.

I would not like to work in this hotel because I do not think that I could find common ground with people who come there. They come from a very eccentric entourage with a specific hierarchy of priorities. In my opinion most of guests place money in the foreground and believe that if you are rich you can get almost everything. My attitude is actually an opposite - I claim that there is plenty of things that are more valuable. The Mandarin Oriental is not a place for me because I do not think that I could get on well with its guests.

It is not possible that we will stop being a throwaway society because it would demand a huge change in lifestyle and attitude from everybody. Such a way of living is not very harmful for them but it will impact their descendants. People need a visible motivation to change something. Sophisticated explanations by scientists are ignored - in order to become aware of the threat most of us need to get affected personally or even suffer from it. That is why the society is unlikely to change and nobody should hope that situation will improve soon.

People still believe in supernatural things because it is a way of explaining things they do not understand. The world we live in is really complex and some phenomenon have not been understood yet or are so hard to explain that most people do not get it. Paranormal things are usually the opposite – they simplify an incomprehensible thing using one supernatural factor. People take it as an uncomplicated answer for the questions most of us ask. Most people prefer to have a simple interpretation of the events that take place than to struggle with questions with no answer or a really complicated one.

The modern epidemic of obesity is a result of wide availability of processed food that contains a lot of sugar and fat. Because of the industrial development, such products have become very cheap and nowadays most people can afford them. Actually, in many cases products with lower content of fat and sugar are more expensive than the unhealthy ones. If sweet and fatty products were harder to get, obesity probably would not be such a serious problem in today’s world.

People should spend money on space exploration because the Earth is becoming more and more polluted and some day it may be impossible to live there any longer. Even if people stopped contaminating the environment, it would not be possible to reverse the harm humanity have done to the planet. Space exploration is a possibility of finding an alternative place where people could move if the Earth became too polluted to live there. However, it is impossible without investing in new technologies, researches and experiments. The only way to find a planet similar to the one we live on is exploring the space and in this case exploration equals money.

1. it was done out of ignorance 2. how much of the home did the inferno claim ? 3. the scorch marks