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Different approach to cheating on tests In Poland over 90% of students admit to cheating on tests. In USA it is much lower - 60%.  Why there is so much  difference? Maybe because in Poland there are practically no consequences of cheating. In worst case scenario, teacher will see this, take away your paper and you will have to repeat the test.  But there is a chance that you succeed, because a lot of teachers try to ignore the fact that their students cheat. How is it in other countries? Well in France if you are caught on A-level exam you will have to wait two years for repeated it. In USA you be suspended (in high schools) or expelled(higher education). In Mexico you fail all year and you have to repeat exams from two semesters. In South Korea there are corporal punishment. So much  worse than it is in Poland. And how students react when they see that someone cheat? In USA they turn each other in. In Poland you gain ...

Sense of sport Athlete is a person who is practicing professionally, competitively. Necessary are physical abilities like : endurance, agility, and any other characteristics depend on the specific discipline. Undeniably is also resistance to stress, ability to concentrate, self-discipline. But why do athletes actually engage in a particular discipline? For the money? Fame? What motivates them? One of the main reason why athletes engage in a particular discipline is a PASSION . They just like to do it and they can’t imagine life without it. It brings them pleasure and satisfaction. Passion usually goes back to childhood when many of athletes dreamed of winning a medal or finish first in important competitions. Therefore, they trained and worked hard to fulfill their dreams. An important reason may be also the MONEY and FAME . When one is really outstanding and respected athlete can receive enormous sum of money for one's job. Of course it depends on the discipline an...

New ways of distributing information Tempo of changes in the world never was so fast like in late years of 20 th and the beginning of 21 st century. In fact modern living was changing every year – in eighties people invented personal computer, then appeared Walkman, mobile phone, Discman, laptop. The Internet and circle of its users was bigger and bigger. 21 st century brings many changes in way of lives – nowadays many people are connected to the Internet for almost every minute and every hour using their mobile electronics like smartphones, notebooks and tablets. One of the main and the most important change is the new way of distributing information and the problem of sifting content for usable part of it. Information business For many years press was the basic way of getting information. At the beginning it was one pages short newsletters about local issues (17 th century). Then newspapers became multi-pages and illustrated medium witch was creating opinions and p...

Nowadays many people decide to study. Percentage of students is big in our country. Maybe they chose bad one. Maybe sum of points of high school leaving exams didn't allow to go to study your ideal specialization. Why people study? What is the most important in choosing field of study? Every high school student planning for college faces the decision of choosing where to study. Some adventurous students jump at the chance to study in another country, and studying abroad certainly has its appeal. Studying in one's own country offers its benefits though, and students trying to decide which course will be the best. You can: Study in your own country Students who study in their own country do not have to deal with culture shock, when a person feels lost and disoriented in a foreign culture. What is more, in mother country you speak in your mother language - surely it is easier. Also, when studying at home, students do not have to risk losing touch with fri...

         Role of women in different cultures . Thin women in Europa and fat female residents of Africa. Tanned American and Chinese with snow white complexion. It is not hard to see than canon of beauty is widely dissimilar in different part of word. Differences in perception of role of women in society are yet deeper. Woman in western civilization - woman as a leader. In western civilization women have very strong position. Woman as a leader become more and more frequent phenomenon ( for example Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel or just female owners of firms).  Feminism, which is especially relevant to this region, has helped entrench position of women in society. Amount of followers of controversial Gender ideology is increasing here extremely fast. Pressure from governments to gender equality is even ridiculous sometimes. For example UE enacted decree which obligate membership countrie...

Are music TV shows a real chance for creating a pop star? Turn on the TV or radio, read a newspaper, look at street adverts carefully. What can you see? What are you listening to? On almost every TV channel we can find advertisement about another edition of X Factor, Must be the Music, The Voice of Poland. What is their value? Why there is a permanent need to create such TV show? Is that only a money issue? Or there is something more, which make people believe that it can somehow change their life? Let’s pay attentionabout those programs and try to think about most popular winners. Who they are? Are they only stars for one season and later no one remembers about them? Or maybe they still exist in the music community and their popularity is continuous? Did you know that the present singer in QUEEN is Adam Lambert , one of participants in American Idol, or one of the winner of Oscar (a movie – Dreamgirls) and Grammy is Jennifer Hudson , also became popular thanks...

All I want for Christmas is … Christmas is a time of crazy spending money for gifts bought at the last minute and standing in a very long queues in the shops.   Christmas gifts worldwide The Christmas season is celebrated in different ways around the world varying by country and region. In many countries presents are placed near the tree but it is not a standard.  In Mexico children gets their gifts in the children's shoes filling with candies, oranges, tangerines, nuts, and sugar cane, even sometimes money.  In China don’t wrap presents in a white paper because white colour is a symbol of mourning and death. The best colours are red and gold.  Otherwise in Japan you should avoid also white, red, black and the numbers 4 (symbol of death) and 9 (bad luck). Many Swedes have the tradition that each Christmas present should have a rhyme written on the wrapping paper.  In the United States don’t forge...