Essay 5. Directors of large companies often receive much bigger salary increases than ordinary workers. Employers' organizations say that in a global market this is necessary to attract the best management talent. What are your views?

 The tendency to employ the best staff and to pay them considerably more than to others is becoming more popular, as big bosses prefer paying more to professionals, and receive max outcome from them. I believe that this fact has its explanation.

 First of all, I'm persuaded that each man should be paid according to their input. Motivation is more personalized and capitalized nowadays. Considerably higher salary stimulates less professional managers to improve their skills, so as to be paid more and build one's career ladder. For example, sales managers are paid more, if they got more clients this month, than the previous one. The best emploee would be rewarded according to their desire and possibility to make a profit.

 Secondly, I think, that the work of top managers is very responsible. Such people are in charge of a number of different departments. If the company director makes a mistake, the consequences make enormous influence on the whole process, leading to the stagnation or even decrease in the development of enterprise. Such failures could cost their career. I believe that such higly accountable and burning out jobs should be rewarded correspondingly. 

   In conclusion, I believe that everything which is best should cost much more than something usual. As our expectations are higher, we decide to pay considerably more. If the best personnel are hired, the best decisions are expected to be made, the biggest profit is expected to be received. I consider, that this above-mentioned phenomenon is the best motivation to evolve, to improve one's skills, to become more professional and better paid.

Essay 4.Many people are using credit cards or loans to run up huge personal debts that they may be unable to repay. It should therefore be made more difficult for individuals to borrow large amounts of money.

Nowadays it's a usual practice among people to borrow the money from banks in order to cover one's needs. I'm speaking about all kinds of loans, mortgages, payments breaking down. I believe that this tendency is not all roses and in some cases it should be made more difficult for citizens to take an advantage of this option, though not in all of the cases.

 The most significant reason to make the process of getting money from the bank more complicated, as I believe, is the statement that people should live up to their income. I'm persuaded that it's reasonable to control one's real income, therefore a desire to increase one's earnings awakes. For instance, my wish to move to Canada brought about some changes in our life. We try to earn more money and to save it, besides we have reduced our leisure expenses. Although it's not so easy.
The second reason for supporting my negative view of "easy loans" is the fact that we are not living in a fairy tale. Let's assume that someone took a loan without giving a second thought to it, if he is able to repay this sum. And one day the tale finished due to some reasons. This person could be recognized as broken, or even set in a jail. Something like this happened with little mermaid. She made a deal, but hadn't thought before if she complies with it. Everyone should think more than twice, if they really need money so quickly and in such an amount, that they apply to the bank. And, of course, some steps should be taken to ensure that they are able to return the loan.
Nevertheless, there are some emergency cases in which it is reasonable to borrow money from the bank. The first case is illness. In this situation every day counts. As a result the "easy loan" saves lives. Another cause to take a loan is full confidence that the borrowed money will paid off in spades. And sometimes it works.
All in all, there are two sides of each coin. There are some pluses and minuses in support of making more difficult for individuals to borrow money, and of course there are some advantages and disadvantages of making this process easier. In each individual case the person decides himself. Some cases are more important, some are less ones. I believe that taking loans should be a more difficult process, but in some cases the bank should be in client's shoes, and give the money as soon as it is ever possible.

Essay 3. Should non-native speakers warry about making mistakes?

I think that English now is the most well-spread language in the world among non-natives. But it also means that these non-native speakers make some considerable influence on the natural evolution of the english language. Neverthe less, those non-natives face some difficulties: grammar, vocabulary and lexical mistakes. I believe that they have to warry about this only if it complicates communication.

Every group of non-native speakers creates its own dialect of the English language, and whensuch groups meet, it may be, for instance, the business meeting of Japanese and Italians, this people can hardly understand each other, as the variations of English they speak are totally different and far from original language.
 
Communication for the sake of understanding threatens the existence of the source language as it is gradually fading becoming fool of simplified constructions which were previously regarded as grammaticaly incorrect.High language of Shekspere can not be pronounced with grammar mistakes or on Cockey. But the only who should take care of this are the originals, not non-native speakers.
 
In the end, I'd like to notice that there three causes to speak English: temporary work, the travel abroad and dayly life in english speaking country. If you travel or have a short-term contract abroad, you should be able to operate with professional terms and minimal vocabulary "survival English". It's not necessary to warry about your grammar or pronunciation if you are not going to spend a lot of time outside the country. But you have to improve your tlanguage skills as much as it is possible make it perfect. Thus it helps you to be easier understood, to adapt in your new home.

Essay 2. Should the developing countries be given financial aid ? Why?

Nowadays the countries of the third World receive some financial support from the developed ones, which I don't consider very effective.To my mind,there could be several alternatives meant at helping these countries. I don't think that financial aid is a good idea due to several reasons.

 

Firstly, I'm persuaded that the level of corruption is so high in poor countries,that more than a half of money is stolen by the state government. I believe , that there is a huge social and economical difference between the poorest starving natives in Kongo , for example , and the officials , who manage the financial aid.

 

The second cause of my negative relation to financial support is the fact that the support itself could be more rewarding if it were more personalized. There are a lot of different ways to help, although they are more demanding. The easiest of these ones is humanitarian aid. Food, clothes, toys are more than required, and this kind of support could be given by everyone.

 

I think that one more way of help could be brought by some people just doing their job... Some charity organizations could reqruit teachers to teach; doctors to treat ; engineers to built ... but without any payment from natives. One of those charity organizations is called "doctors boarderless", and I'm really happy with its existence .

 

In conclusion I'd like to notice that the idea to help is the first step on the way to the world's humanity, and we must help in each possible way, because nowadays every kind of help supports somebody's life.

Essay 1. Computers and modems made it possible for office workers to do much of their work from home, instead of working in the offices every day. Is it a positive or negative trend?

 Computers and modems made it possible for office workers to do much of their work from home, instead of working in the offices every day. Is it a positive or negative trend ?

 Nowadays the IT devices are well spread and, moreover, are implemented in almost every sphere of our dayly life. We can work at home, sometimes there is no neccesity to visit the office at all. I suppose, that in common, this phenomenon is a positive feature of evolving laubour market, but some disadvantages also exist.
 One of the most important features of working at home is a considerable economy of time meant to "getting to work". For instance, it takes me 1,5 to get to my work, and the way home is also time-consuming.
 Another plus of doing your work from home is the opportunity for employee to shift their working hours to their individual activity pick. Although, sometimes it's not possible according to externals. For example brokers can work at home, but they should do their work when New York or Tokio stock exchange also works. So, they are not able to shift their working time, but can do this with the place they work at.
 The main disadvantage which I want to admit is a reaction delay between coworkers. The troubles with internet connection or telephone line could threaten all of the work, as some problems should be solved immediately, and it's much easier if your boss is sitting next door.
 Evolution in labour sphere gives us a great many opportunities to make our work time more effective and comfortable for both employers and employees. Undoubtly, We should follow some modern trends it they don't aggravate the working process but make it more enjoyable and productive.

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