Outline
1.Introduction
A.What is oil crisis
B.Problems of oil crisis
1.Increasion of oil crisis
2.Occur war
3.Economy problem
2.Thesis
:Factors of oil crisis and how to respond to this problem
1.Increasing of personal cars
2.Encouraging to use public transportation
3.Main arguments
A.Factor of oil crisis
1.There are many factors
2.The biggest reason is increasing of own car
B.Benefits of public transportation
1.Using public transportation to solve oil crisis
2.Good things of public transportation
C.Encouraging to take public transportation
1.Government's endeavor
2.The reasons of government's endeavor
D.Opponents opinion of using public transportation
1.Problem of public transportation in economy
2.Problem of public transportation to commuter
3.Problem of publictransportation in some area
4.Conclusion
A.Thesis restatement
B.Summary benefits of public transportation
C.Summary endeavors of government
D.Summary opponents' opinions
Abstract
Nowadays oil is the most important resource in our life. But we face a bad situation because of oil. Unstable oil price and its depletion causes war and many economic and political problems. So we should solve the oil problem. There are many solutions which are suggested to us but using public transportation is a good way to solve the problem, because it has lots of benefits; saves money and saves oil, etc. but to encourage people to take public transportation, government’s endeavor is also an important thing.
What do you think is the most important resource in our life? Many people think it is oil. The reason is that oil influences many parts of our life. But nowadays, we have faced on oil crisis. The oil crisis means there is an unstable oil price and its amount is depleted. And this oil crisis causes many problems in our society. The first is that the increasing oil crisis makes a hard time in our economy. Now our economy is supported by oil. So increasing oil price gives bad effects to economy. Oil has an important role in our lives, so many countries want to get much oil. But oil exists in limited areas, for example, Middle East. So other countries which don’t have oil start to make war to get oil. According to Lean, oil causes the Iraq war and this war causes the increase in oil price (para.2). And furthermore, the oil problem is connected to political problem, so sometimes it is used for political purposes.
There are many factors that cause the oil crisis. Though oil exists in limited areas, its amount becomes more limited consumption increases because of increasing of the number of personal cars. But nowadays, it is the most important factor is the increasing of personal cars. Increasing of the number of personal cars means many people use oil. So oil is being depleted now. To solve the oil problem, we should use our own cars less and try to use public transportation. So taking public transportation can be the solution to the problem.
There are many factors that cause the oil crisis; oil is spread in some areas and oil is a limited resource. And also there are many solutions to solve the problem; according to Ahmad, using public transportation will give many benefits to us ( para.9). And according to The Canberra Times, “LPG is usually less controversial than biofuels as its production is already established in Australia’s oil and natural gas field. It has relatively clean exhaust pipe emission. But it is easier to ignite in air than petrol and its storage tanks take up more space in a car” (para.17). And also, developing hydrogen and saving oil are good ways to solve the oil problems. But nowadays, the most important factor in oil crisis is increasing of the number of own car. So increasing of personal cars creates oil shortage. According to Wrobel, since 1910 the number of own car has increased so the number of own car increases 3 times in 2006 than before ( papa. 6). So it means many people become to use own cars and lots of people use much oil.
So now, there are many suggestions to solve the oil problem. But public transportation is the best way to solve the problem. The reason is that public transportation has many benefits. According to Semmens, “Reducing automobile use and encouraging public transportation is said to have other benefits as well: less traffic congestion; less air pollution and a more satisfied work force, as fewer people start the day frustrated or angry from the morning commute”(2008, para.3). And also according to Manor when we take a public transportation, we can save the our money (2007). Some people said oil’s another problem with oil is it also gives bad effects to our environment. Oil is non-renewable resource so it can’t be recycled. Finally as we use this, our environment is destroyed. So to protect our ecosystem, we should save oil and taking public transportation is good way to save oil. So many people recommend using transportation. To increase the number of people can take public transportation, we should have endeavor. Especially, the most important thing that is government’s endeavor. Now public transportation’s service and quality are very low. So many people don’t want to take a public transportation. When people use their own car or take a public transportation, they should spend the money. So some people think taking public transportation is waste their money. So government should try to increase public transportation’s quality. According to Ahmad, “These lower-cost alternatives will give us four to eight times the number of kilometers of public transportation routes compared with LRT. This means that public transportation will reach more people and more people will be encouraged to use public transportation” (2008, para.11). And in “Government to focus on public transportation”, “Treating the development of public transportation as a priority is one of the city’s long-term strategies” (2006). Now still, nations don’t know about public transportations’ benefits. So government should try to spread information about public transportation’s benefit. And they should make public transportation systems. If there is no public transportation, for example, or there are no buses or subways finally, people will choose their own car.
But not everyone agrees with public transportation. The first reason is that a public transportation’s price isn’t fair. When oil price is increased public transportation’s fee is increased. But it is a problem that even though oil price is decreased, again, transportation’s fee isn’t decreased. Finally, their price will increase continually. Many people use public transportation to save money. But unfair fee doesn’t help to people. And furthermore our public transportation’s quality is not good. But people should pay expensive money. Thus these situations make people keep to distance from a public transportation. According to Hagenbaugh, “Public transportation officials across the U.S.A say they have seen very little drop-off in passengers on buses and trains in recent weeks despite the dramatic decline in gasoline prices” (2006, para.2). So finally, public transportation doesn’t give benefit of the economy to nation, but gives the burden of their domestic. And it also has the defect that it is too massive.So it is very inconvenient to people, especially, commuters. According to Christian Science Monitor, “Dispels any kind of notion through that no one uses public transportation in Los Angeles” (2008, para.2). So for those reasons, some people say that taking public transportation has many defects; their price isn’t fair so they can’t encourage to save money, it is too crowded to commute every morning and some areas’ transportation. So for those grounds, some people sayl that using public transportation isn’t a good way.
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Hagenbaugh, B. (2006, October 2). Mass transit hot after $3 gas; Ridership remains high despite falling prices at pump. U.S.A Today. Retrieved on July 21, 2008, from: LexisNexis database.
Lean, G. (2008, May 21). Oil: A global crisis. Retrieved on July 1, 2008, from: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/oil-a-global-crisis-834023.html?service=print
Manor, D. (2007, March 25). Take a train, help save the planet. The New York Times. Retrieved on July 21, 2008, from: LexisNexis database.
Semmens, J. (2008, January 11). Gas about public transit. The Washington Times. Retrieved on July 21, 2008, from: LexisNexis database.
Wrobel, S. (2008, January 8). Public transportation to be overhauled: Car owners may have to contend with congestion charge in major cities. The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved on July 21, 2008, from: LexisNexis database.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
(Final Practice) Legalization of marijuana
The bigger society has become, the more people have come to live in urban areas. Urban areas have benefits which are convenience and that everything is fast. But these situations aren't always good. Under these surroundings, people get lots of stress easily, so they try to fine something to solve their problem. Marijuana is one of the solutions, because if people take a marijuana they can forget their hard time and feel happy. But there are many side effects from marijuana. It causes problems in our society.
Marijuana has benefits to make people able to feel happy. But it provides many social problems. So we should know what problems marijuana creates for us and we have to make a policy to ban marijuana.
The first reason that we should ban marijuana is that it has a das influence on our health. According to the Institute of Medicine, we can get many diseases from taking marijuana. If we take a drug, it gives bad effects to us, for example, psychological problem. After taking marijuana, many people can feel they are in fancy. But it is a problem that people want to feel this again so they take marijuana continually and they can't control their mind without marijuana.
The second reason is that marijuana makes lots of crimes. There are many crimes that have happened from people who take the drug. They did crime under an illusion. Because drug makes people unable to control their body and mind, they can't decide whether it is bad behavior or not. So "according to a recent Time/CNN poll. 34 percent of Americans want marijuana to be totally legalized" (Roche, 2002, para.56). Thus many nations want to ban marijuana because marijuana causes many social problems and it gives effects to many people.
The third reason is that a mistake at a young age affects people's future. According to VU University Amsterdam, many people suffered from the fact that they took marijuana in their young age. That is because if they want to remove their past, they can't do it. Their body and mind are already weak and some people went to jail because of marijuana (n,d., para.1). Everyone makes mistakes but marijuana gives big trauma to us. In serious cases, some people have died because they overdosed on marijuana. But after aying, it is too late to regret our mistake. So marijuana is too dangerous to be called a mistake.
Nowadays there are many debates about legalization of marijuana. But marijuana has many problems. It causes health problems, especially psychological problems and people who take marijuana commit crime so it later, but it leaves big trauma, so it is difficult to recover. So for those reasons, especially to protect people's health and health of society, I think marijuana should be banned by law.
Reference:
Institute of Medicine, (2000). Marijuana as Medicine?. The Science Behind the Controversy. The National Academies Press. Retrieved on July 29, 2008, from: http://tinyurl.com/6q8re9
Roche, M. (2002, Dec6). Marijuana advocates seek legalization for medicine use. The Daily Reveille, Louisiana State Univ. Retrieved on July 29,2008, from: http://tinyurl.com/6aam73
VU University Amsterdam. (n,d.). Stay away from cannabis. Retrieved on July 29,2008, from http://tinyurl.com/59vmrs
Marijuana has benefits to make people able to feel happy. But it provides many social problems. So we should know what problems marijuana creates for us and we have to make a policy to ban marijuana.
The first reason that we should ban marijuana is that it has a das influence on our health. According to the Institute of Medicine, we can get many diseases from taking marijuana. If we take a drug, it gives bad effects to us, for example, psychological problem. After taking marijuana, many people can feel they are in fancy. But it is a problem that people want to feel this again so they take marijuana continually and they can't control their mind without marijuana.
The second reason is that marijuana makes lots of crimes. There are many crimes that have happened from people who take the drug. They did crime under an illusion. Because drug makes people unable to control their body and mind, they can't decide whether it is bad behavior or not. So "according to a recent Time/CNN poll. 34 percent of Americans want marijuana to be totally legalized" (Roche, 2002, para.56). Thus many nations want to ban marijuana because marijuana causes many social problems and it gives effects to many people.
The third reason is that a mistake at a young age affects people's future. According to VU University Amsterdam, many people suffered from the fact that they took marijuana in their young age. That is because if they want to remove their past, they can't do it. Their body and mind are already weak and some people went to jail because of marijuana (n,d., para.1). Everyone makes mistakes but marijuana gives big trauma to us. In serious cases, some people have died because they overdosed on marijuana. But after aying, it is too late to regret our mistake. So marijuana is too dangerous to be called a mistake.
Nowadays there are many debates about legalization of marijuana. But marijuana has many problems. It causes health problems, especially psychological problems and people who take marijuana commit crime so it later, but it leaves big trauma, so it is difficult to recover. So for those reasons, especially to protect people's health and health of society, I think marijuana should be banned by law.
Reference:
Institute of Medicine, (2000). Marijuana as Medicine?. The Science Behind the Controversy. The National Academies Press. Retrieved on July 29, 2008, from: http://tinyurl.com/6q8re9
Roche, M. (2002, Dec6). Marijuana advocates seek legalization for medicine use. The Daily Reveille, Louisiana State Univ. Retrieved on July 29,2008, from: http://tinyurl.com/6aam73
VU University Amsterdam. (n,d.). Stay away from cannabis. Retrieved on July 29,2008, from http://tinyurl.com/59vmrs
Responding to oil crisis
According to the author in "Korea up against high oil prices,weak dollar", the unstable oil price had caused bad effects to many nations. And an economic slump has happened because of oil crisis. Korea had a stable economy even though it had a high oil price in 2007. But experts are concerned that Korea's economy will be unstable because of the surging oil price. So if we can't deal with high oil price, it will let an economic depression occur. There are solutions to solve the oil crisis in Korea. First is the role of government. They should do that helping efficiency use of energy and restriction using oil. And second is long term way. We should develop a new growth engine.
Oil price will seriously threaten Korea's domestic economy. But, the oil price problem influences not only the Korean economy but also the global economy. So we should solve the oil crisis.
The first solution is re-preperation of economic structure. Before, our economic structure depended on the oil industry. But we will have a seriously hard time under the oil crisis. And the oil crisis is not temporarily problem. So we have to solve its root cause. So it is a good solution to develop the renewable energy industry.
Second solution is saving oil. In Korea's case, we don't have petroleum. So its cost is very high and the change in oil price has bad effects on our economy. So for those grounds, we need to save oil. To save oil, we should take public transportation rather than our own car. And it is good for saving oil to change appliances from low-efficiency machines to high-efficiency machines. And in Seoul, which is capital city of Korea, an enterprise combines citizen organization and peopke. And they have started an energy campaign.
The third solution is realization of substitute energy. Oil is a limited resource. So we can use oil for a limited time. This means we will be unable to oil in the future. Finally, we should prepare before oil exhausted. The first substitute energy is natural gas. Natural gas will exist a few decades longer than oil.It has a problem. It also is a limited resource, so it only can be a short term solution. So many experts suggest this energy. It is hydrogen. Many people like it to solve the oil crisis. because it is nice, clean and efficient. It doesn't let out pollutant substances. And we also can get it easily. Furthermore, it has more benefits than defects. So for those benefits, Japanese scientists have been studying about hydrogen cars. They succeeded in their investigation. The hydrogen car in Japan can drive 1 hour with 1 liter of water. Its speed is 80km/h.
Oil price affects the Korean economy. But it also influences the world's economy. It is problem that the high oil price has bad effects. So for those reasons we should solve the oil problem. There are 3 solutions. First is re-preparation of economic structure. We should change our economic system from oil-dependent economic structure to another economic structure. Second is saving oil. To save oil, we should use public transportation and using high-efficiency appliances. Third is development of substitute energy. There are good substitute energies, which are natural gas and hydrogen.
Reference:
Lexis-Nexis database.
Oil price will seriously threaten Korea's domestic economy. But, the oil price problem influences not only the Korean economy but also the global economy. So we should solve the oil crisis.
The first solution is re-preperation of economic structure. Before, our economic structure depended on the oil industry. But we will have a seriously hard time under the oil crisis. And the oil crisis is not temporarily problem. So we have to solve its root cause. So it is a good solution to develop the renewable energy industry.
Second solution is saving oil. In Korea's case, we don't have petroleum. So its cost is very high and the change in oil price has bad effects on our economy. So for those grounds, we need to save oil. To save oil, we should take public transportation rather than our own car. And it is good for saving oil to change appliances from low-efficiency machines to high-efficiency machines. And in Seoul, which is capital city of Korea, an enterprise combines citizen organization and peopke. And they have started an energy campaign.
The third solution is realization of substitute energy. Oil is a limited resource. So we can use oil for a limited time. This means we will be unable to oil in the future. Finally, we should prepare before oil exhausted. The first substitute energy is natural gas. Natural gas will exist a few decades longer than oil.It has a problem. It also is a limited resource, so it only can be a short term solution. So many experts suggest this energy. It is hydrogen. Many people like it to solve the oil crisis. because it is nice, clean and efficient. It doesn't let out pollutant substances. And we also can get it easily. Furthermore, it has more benefits than defects. So for those benefits, Japanese scientists have been studying about hydrogen cars. They succeeded in their investigation. The hydrogen car in Japan can drive 1 hour with 1 liter of water. Its speed is 80km/h.
Oil price affects the Korean economy. But it also influences the world's economy. It is problem that the high oil price has bad effects. So for those reasons we should solve the oil problem. There are 3 solutions. First is re-preparation of economic structure. We should change our economic system from oil-dependent economic structure to another economic structure. Second is saving oil. To save oil, we should use public transportation and using high-efficiency appliances. Third is development of substitute energy. There are good substitute energies, which are natural gas and hydrogen.
Reference:
Lexis-Nexis database.
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