Few countries in the world can boast a life span as rich or diverse as Scotland. The true story of the people, the battles, the nobility and its kings and queens, is more thrilling than any novel, and has more love stories than all the Hollywood movies. In one way or another Scots have made our lives different. From the inventor Alexander Graham Bell, to philosopher David Hume, to industrialist

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We love nature so much as it gives us that change we need: cold winter gives way to charming spring that turns to generous summer and romantic autumn. I like spring. After winter with its nasty drizzle, melting snow, dark gloomy sky spring comes. It gets warmer and warmer every day. The snow thaws and marry streamlets run along there streets. The trees begin to bud and they burst

Services

In Lithuania different government offices provide many services. For example they help unemployed people find jobs, give poor people money, build and repairs roads and hospitals, give licenses for driving or getting married, and enforce the law. We can not imagine our life without the help of certain services such as: a post office, a hairdresser’s, a bank, a laundry or var

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Shackleton: patriotic or misfit?

Many historians think that Sir Ernest Shackleton was a hero and a great patriot of Great Britain; others think that Shakleton’s delusions and ambitions to make a fortune or to win fame brought 28 men to the South Pole in 1914; whereas the majority most likely has never heard anything about Shakleton. However, Shakleton and his attempt to cross the S

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Hello! My name is Karolina. While presenting my topic, I’m going to concentrate myself on the motion “Shopping in our lives”.

In my speech, I’ll try to cover the following points: the types of shops, is shopping pleasure or torture for me, pluses and minuses of supermarkets and small local shops, I will try to describe my favorite supermarket and finally, I’l

Shopping

We go shopping practically every day when we need to buy some foodstuffs or some household articles. Very often we don’t know what to buy and advertisements help us to decide. We live in the age of advertising. People are influenced by publicity everywhere – in newspapers, on the train or on the bus, on television, in the shops. While we are shopping we are attracted

Any building gets old after some period of time. But this does not mean that we have to knock down all old buildings. Some of them are worth standing for ages, some not, because their spiritual, architectural and financial value is not the same.

To start with, I think it is good to have old buildings because of their architectural worth. They are important for scientists who study archit

People of all ages enjoy viewing animals, they would probably never see otherwise. There are many ways to preserve animals’ life. One of them is keeping animals in captivity. I dare say that there is no problem, because many animals are being hunted in forests and they don’t have food or water in winter season. But we have to decide if an animal should be free or not?

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The subject of cigarette advertising has become more controversial and contradictory than it has ever been. I strongly believe that it is rather immoral and should be banned.

To start with, cigarette advertising should be stopped because of the fact that unhealthy product is promoted. In my view, tobacco is a major cause of lung cancer and it also is responsible for heart disease. Besides

Should everyone have a university education?

University education is a part of our good life. At university students spend the most important years of theirs lives. Here they gain education, knowledge, but they must be honest and hard working. In my opinion higher education should have everyone, because intelligent people are more wanted in our society.

In the first place, educated

Every day designers are persuading people that fashion is very important in everyone’s life. In my opinion, fashion should not be very important in one’s life.

To start with, there are more important things than fashion. I think it is more important how a person behaves than how he/she dresses, and when choosing clothes everyone should look for a garment which suits one’

Through many centuries groups of people, even nation were discriminated by others, because their skin colour, appearance, belief , life view, position in society. Not long ago there was big discrimination of black people, which is still continuing till our days, but now there is new victims of discrimination – homosexuals. Discrimination which should have been stoped, but unfortunately it

Sightseeing

It’s needless to say that sightseeing tops the list of things to do when you are abroad. Why? There can be many reasons starting with broading one’s horizons and ending with psychological treatment. Sight seeing enables us to compare countries and see what other places are like. Sightseeing means getting away from your dirty crowded city, escaping from the boring r