The internet is defenatley one of the biggest and most revolutionary inventions of the 21st century. It caused such a major 180 degrees change in our way of life in such a short period. When I come to think of it, the interenet is so powerful and tempting that there is this slightest chance that it might become dangerous one day. The internet sure has its advantages that make it probably the most popular occupation in the world but it also has its downsides.

The internet is the leader of the revolution of information. Nowadays, I can go online, visit Wikipedia or make a small search in google and find tons of information about any subject I'd like.

This ability is one we must appreciate and be thankful to posses it and the internet is the leading and probably the main factor that led to it. Another advatage is connectivity. Today, I have the ability to talk to anyone in this world no matter where he is at and I have a wide variety of ways of doing that; From e-mail, facebook and twitter to MSN, Yahoo and Forums.

Having said only a handful of its advatanges, I'd like to realate to its disadvantages. I believe that the same way the internet can serve you in communications and information, the interenet is also a great way for major intelligence agencies or even small police departments to track you down and learn everything about you from your private conversations with friends through MSN and ICQ to more public ones like Facebook and Twitter. When it comes down to privacy, you will have to take into consideration that you will have none with the internet on-line.

Finally, the bottom line would be that the internet is, beyong any doubt, one of the most life changing revolutions that have ever occured in recent years. It brings with it magnificent tools that make our lives easier and richer but it also eliminates our pricacy. When it comes down to having an opinion, I believe the internet is a huge contibution to our society, a one we cannot dream of losing despite its disadvantages.

Writing Task #8

Matriculation exams have always been an integral part of a regular high-school student's life. During the 3 years of high-school each student takes part of several exams in different subjects. Those tests are known for their cruelty and being treated as life changers. As a student who's taking part in these exams I am going to write whether those exams are reliable or not.

First of all, I would have to mention the fact that those tests are given a way bigger credit than they can hold. The fact that each year there appears to be a different level of difficulty on the same subject pisses me off. The whole point of the bagrut exams is to have a unit of measure and comparison between the students. In reality, it's not that simple. The fact that each year the difficultry changes can result way lower grades on one group of students and way higher grades on other group of older or younger students. That means that in the future, those younger or older students which got lucky to recieve a much easier test have a leverage on me later in life (university).

Second issue I want to attend to concerns the copyinh between students in the exams. Lost of it.

In times where the tester is too old to hear or see anything or whne he walks into the bathroom or simply a weaker minded woman that can't hold under pressure from the students and lets them copy. It happens quite frequently and it is very disappointing and irritating.

to sum up, I believe you you got my idea about those tests. I believe that in order to have a better measurement of comparison there should be a single big test that touches a wide variety of subjects and copying or cheating would result jail time. A similar idea would be the pshcymetri which is quite succesfull on filtering the weak and giving the tuly strong students many options.

Task #1

Dear Magazine,

As a guy who likes both the sports and has never been until now 'forced' to choose between one of them, I believe both of them are great. Interesting, entetaining and enjoyable at the same time.

However, I can easily see that both of them have disadvatages and advatages. In fact, most of the time, the disadvatages of one are the advatages of the other.

I'd like to begin with the advatages of individual sports. Individual sports can often be more appealing to people who are new to sport thanks to the ease in wich they can start take part in them- Tennis, Ping Pong, Swimming etc. are very simple sports and take very short time to study. The other big advatage to invidiual sport is that either you succeed or fail, there is no one to blame but yourself. In other words, you are the one to be responsible for you own destiny and future. It can end up very well but it can also end up pretty disappointing- that depends on you.

The advantages of Indicidual Sports are the disadvatages of Team Sport. For example, say you want to get involved with a whole new kind of sport which includes a team, you will have to do tests and be accepted by this team, it will also take a lot of time to study that sport and for the occasional athletes, it is much tougher to play team sports such as basketball and football in a public court than go swim by yourself in the wimming pool. I would have to mention an important feature in team sports- they are much more fun than individual ones. You share a team of members that eventually become your friends. Much more fun to play, laugh and succeed with friends than on your own.

to sum up, I have mentioned the advantages of both these sports. I believe there is no 'better' sport. Those different types of sports suit different types of players. I personally believe that team sports are more enjoyable while invidual sports are more accesible.