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Researchers are alarmed at the declining number of bees in the world. Without
these busy bees, pollination can no longer occur and people may have to face
the possibility of starvation. Discuss what and why bees are important to
pollination and todays civilization. You should write at least 350 words.

It is often been said that bees are responsible for one out of every three
bites of food we eat. Most crops grown for their fruits, nuts, seeds, fibre, and hay,
require pollination by insects. Pollinating insects also play a critical role in
maintaining natural plant communities and ensuring production of seeds in most
flowering plants. Pollination is the transfer of pollen from the male parts of a
flower to the female parts of a flower of the same species, which results in the
fertilization of plant ovaries and the production of seeds. The main insect
pollinators, by far, are bees.
Admittedly, grasses and some flowers use the wind as a means of
delivering pollen. While effective, it is not very efficient because most pollen is
scattered and may not reach the intended target. Plants that have evolved
further have developed ways of luring animals or insects like bees, butterflies
and hummingbirds to collect pollen and take it to the next plant.
Bees make excellent pollinators because most of their life is spent
collecting pollen, a source of protein that they feed to their offspring. When a bee
lands on a flower, the hairs all over the bees body attract pollen grains through
electrostatic forces. As individual bees tend to focus on one kind of flower at a
time, which means it is more likely that pollen from one flower will be transferred
to another flower f the same species by a particular bee. Many plants require this
kind of pollen distribution, known as cross-pollination, in order to produce viable
seeds. The business of collecting pollen requires a lot of energy, and so many
flowers attract and also reward bees with nectar, a mixture of water and sugars
produced by plants.
Colourful blooms, sweet fragrances and plenty of nectar are enough to
coax most pollinators to stop by for a visit. During the stopover, pollinators pick
up pollen on their bodies and deposit it into the next flower the visit. Pollinators
have evolved to incorporate nectar into their diets and plants have evolved to
deliver just the right amount of sweetness and nutrients for the particular
pollinator. As plants evolved to lure bees, wasps, moths, hummingbirds and
butterflies, these creatures have developed specialised body parts meant to
collect and distribute pollen. Plants and pollinators have learned to rely on each
other in a process of co-evolution.
The goal of all living organisms is to create the next generation within the
species. Animals have the opportunity to do this by seeking mates. Plants,
however, are rooted and cannot travel to find suitable mates. In order to produce
and distribute seeds, plants developed other means of combining genetic
material so that that the plants strongest traits survive. The exchange of pollen
also adds some variability to the gene pool, a step in the evolutionary process. If

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pollination did not occur, an adequate number of seeds could not be dispersed
and the plant might face extinction.

The gift of language is an investment that lasts a lifetime. What is your thought
on this? You should write at least 350 words.

Children are sponges for learning, and learning language is no exception.

According to a professor who study the way children learn languages, the power
to learn language is so great in a young child that it doesnt seem to matter how
many languages you throw their way, they will inevitably pick it up, especially if
it is before the age of five. Children can learn as many spoken languages as you
can allow them to hear systematically and regularly at the same time as they
possess this remarkable capacity at this stage of their development. Their brain
is ripe to do this and there doesnt seem to be any detriment to develop several
languages at the same time.
When children wait until high school to start studying a foreign language,
the job becomes much harder. The task now involves learning the rules of
grammar, translating, reading, and trying to develop language learning
strategies. The task is a different one than it was for a young child in the
sensitive period for learning language. Brain plasticity has been lost, no longer
has the same facility to restructure itself that it had when the child was young.
Young language learners can acquire native-like fluency as easily as when
they learned to walk, in contrast to an adult language learner. Where adult
learners have to work through an established first-language system, studying
explicit grammar rules and practicing rote drills, the young learner learns
naturally, absorbing the sounds, structures, intonation patterns and rules of a
second language intuitively, as they did with their mother tongue. The young
brain is inherently flexible, uniquely hard-wired to acquire language naturally.
Older learners lose the ability to hear and reproduce new sounds by age
eight to twelve, according to experts, resulting in a permanent foreign-sounding
accent in any language. Younger learners benefit from flexible ear and speech
muscles that can still hear the critical differences between the sounds of a
second language, as well as reproduce them with native-like quality.
While some parents worry that starting their toddler on a second language
will interfere with developing native language skills, the opposite is true. Children
can differentiate between two languages within the first two weeks of their life.
Children who study foreign language show higher cognitive performance in
overall basic skill in elementary school and go on to perform academically better
than their peers later in life.

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Additionally, research shows that multilingual children have enhanced
memory, planning and multi-tasking skills. When learning multiple languages at
a young age, the brain is trained to attend to salient information and to disregard
non-pertinent information, a skill that later supports better focus, memory,
planning and multitasking abilities.
Therefore, the advantages of learning more than one language from a
young age seem to outweigh any disadvantages people may come up with
linguistically and cognitively.

The older generation often laments the lack of fashion style in the younger
generation. On the other hand, the younger hip generation also says the same
things about their parents and elders. What is your opinion about the importance
of fashion today? You should write at least 350 words.

There are bound to be different views regarding the importance of fashion.

Moreover, the answers to why is fashion important would vary across all ages as
youngsters hold very different perspectives in defining fashion value compared
to the older adult population. For centuries, individuals or societies have used
clothes and other body adornment as a form of nonverbal communication to
indicate occupation, rank, gender, sexual availability, locality, class, wealth and
group affiliation. Fashion is a form of free speech. It not only embraces clothing,
but also accessories. What we wear and how we wear it provides others with a
subtle hint into reading the surface of a social situation.
Examining who is wearing what through print media dates as far back as
to even the 1700s. People pored over fashion magazines to see the latest styles.
Women and dressmakers outside French court relied on sketches to see what
was going on. The famous French King Louis said that fashion is a mirror. He
himself was renowned for his style, which tended towards extravagant laces and
velvets.
We are constantly being bombarded with new fashion ideas from music,
videos, books, and television. Movies also have a big impact on what people
wear. Sociologist believes group affiliation is our prime concern with regard to
fashion. As long as some group similarity is identified within the group, our
personal fashion whether current or dated can belong to any tribe. It is the sense
of belonging marked by how we fashion ourselves that gives us the tribal
connection. But despite all these differences, one thing which would be common
in almost all the answers would be that fashion is important because it makes us
look good and who doesnt like to look good.

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