Georgia+Opinion+Writing

__** Learning another Language Is A Necessity In Today’s World **__  = You are going to spend a marvellous holiday in France, but you don’t know one tiny word in French and you can’t translate it either, what can you do? You are going to spend a fantastic holiday in Switzerland, but you can’t speak Swiss, so you can’t go. This is a problem. You want to go to a foreign country, but can’t because you don’t know any other language apart from English. Therefore you will have to spend the whole holiday trying to figure out the foreign countries language because you can’t understand their language and they can’t understand yours. This is a huge problem. Too many people in our day and age are saying stuff like I can’t go because I don’t know the language of that country, but there is a solution, that everyone learns a second  something that is done in most schools but not enough. This is why I believe learning another language is a necessity in today’s world. = = = = Firstly learning another language can sometimes help you become more confident. This is a quote I found on a site called Buzzle.Com it states “learning a second language is an acquisition of a language other then one’s native language. It is a way to express your self.  I believe this is very true. I think this means learning another language is a very good way to overcome shyness because everyone is learning the language at the same pace as you, so you feel safer and more involved in the environment  in. I think that all children should have the opportunity to learn another language and if they do should take this opportunity because of the wonderful outcomes. I think this is definitely a reason why learning another language should be a necessity in today’s world. = Furthermore learning another language helps your brain. Again on buzzle.com it states “learning another language builds creativity in children and develops their literacy skills”. This basically means that if you learn another language it is using a different part of your brain and therefore you unlock a place in your brain where you can store further knowledge and therefore succeed in whatever you do because you have more parts of your brain working. I think this means that you have extended your knowledge by learning another language and helped your learning by doing this. I believe this is a truly magnificent thing that learning another language helps you succeed in your given language and school work and definitely think that learning another language should be a necessity in today’s world because who wouldn’t want their child to succeed further and just learning a second language could make that happen.  = On the other hand you may never want to travel and therefore would not need to learn another language. Many people don’t travel because it is too costly and you would have to go through all the trouble of learning another language. I believe this is fine for some but learning another language is also very tricky you have to get the and feminism  and then you go into the full sentences. This is a reason why learning another language shouldn’t be a necessity in today’s world. = Again why would you need to learn a language when there’s going to be lots of people around that know your language as they might want to travel to New Zealand soon and might want to practice English. So why would you go into all the trouble of learning another language when you will be able to find someone who can speak your language. This is what you’re probably thinking. Well you may be right because out of the 65,073,482 people in France of course you are going to find someone who speaks English, but are you going to go around finding them in your holiday time? I would think not.  but if you don’t learn a second language you will most likely find someone who speaks your language. Therefore for all the reasons I have stated above such learning another language makes you more confident and is another way to express yourself and you can overcome your shyness, you need  to know another language to communicate and learning another language helps your learning in lot’s   of different ways because it is using another part of your brain and that I truly believe that learning another language is a necessity in today’s world. Not only because of the reasons above but because I believe that if you have the opportunity to learn another language you should jump at the opportunity and therefore you might find that you like it as it is a good experience.

__**The Smacking Law Should Be Abolished In New Zealand**__ Smacking! This is a common debate in New Zealand and definitely in Parliament at the moment. The reason this debate has come to be noticed is because of Sue Bradford and her anti-snacking bill. Many people believe that smacking is not illegal and is just a slap or hard hit usually on the bottom. Most people have strong opinions on the smacking law and why it should be illegal to smack your child, but to me it’s just a tap in the right direction. Personally I believe that the Smacking Law should be abolished in New Zealand and this is why:

Firstly I believe that smacking is not bad for children. Smacking is defined by the Oxford dictionary as being a hard hit or a slap from your hand. I believe that it is alright for children to have a hit on the bottom once in a while to tell them that they’ve done something wrong. It’s not like you’ve beat them with a stick or hit them with the garden hose until they’re knocked out and it’s not physical violence that’s turned into a big bash up. It’s just a hit on the bottom to point the kid in the right direction or to tell them that they have done something wrong.

Another reason I believe the smacking law should be abolished is because it will make no difference in society, therefore it is a waste of time. The reason I believe this is because the statistics say that 150,000 children and their families had to endure endless investigations by strangers coming into their homes and asking them endless questions about what’s been happening in their homes because of false alarms of smacking abuse and disobeying the law. I believe this is completely worthless and a waste of time when you could be discussing more hazardous topic’s such as the driving age and boy racers.

Furthermore smacking is only bad in hazardous homes. If you have a good home and a loving family a smack means nothing. By nothing I mean a smack is a hint to tell that person they have done something wrong and don’t do it again. If you have a bad home, (this is a home when your parents smack you for their own liking.) It is abuse and the police should know about it. There is a huge difference between these types of homes and I believe Sue Bradford was thinking of the bad homes in this country when she made the anti-smacking law. This I believe is her explanation for making the smacking law, but I still believe that the smacking law should be abolished in New Zealand.

Lastly child abuse is not going to be corrected by the anti-smacking bill as people will fight that it is not a slap or hard hit but a small tap. These parents may feel like they need to punish their children more than just smacking them and this will be because the anti-smacking law will be in place. Also child abuse happens every day and putting the anti-smacking law in place will not stop people who break the law every day. I believe that this is the very reason they want to put the smacking law in place but it is not going to help with child discipline and is not going to be better for child abuse rates.

Therefore I believe that a smack is just a hard hit or slap in the right direction or a small hit to tell them they have done something wrong. This is completely alright in my eyes as it is not hurting the child and is not a usual thing in a good house hold. So therefore I believe the smacking law should be abolished in New Zealand. For many reasons like it is a big waste of time, it is only a smack in the right direction, it is wrecking homes for no reason and it is wasting lots of money to get it done probably. This is a big discussion at the moment and I believe it shouldn’t be going through the debating room as I believe that the smacking law should be abolished and never should have gone any further than just thinking about it.

