Each year hundreds of school-leavers face a dilemma of what university or college to choose. They study the ratings and facts, files on the web, analyze the information and meet career advisers. Very often they feel tired and upset with the constant feeling of anxiety and fear of the future. However, the choice of the…
Being a Good Teacher
When I decided to become a teacher, my choice caused a lot of raised eyebrows. To say that my parents and friends were surprised means to put it in a very mild way. The matter is that I have always been a very apt student with a huge learning potential, but with a significant complication:…
A Monolingual Planet
History is an odd thing. When many centuries ago Germanic tribes of Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who were speaking a number of different dialects, invaded Britain, there were very few chances that their language would survive and become one of the most widely spoken languages on the planet and definitely the most important one for…
Essay About Sadness and Whether It Could Be Positive
As early as I could remember myself, my memories have been colored with melancholy and sad feelings. Yes, I admit it: I am a person who loves being sad. As a child, I loved gloomy fairy tales; as a teenager, I loved tragic novels and films, which made my parents worry a lot. I realized…
Essay About Dreams at Night
I have always been fascinated by dreams, mysterious images that come at night, taking us to the world of our subconsciousness. Why is it that some dreams are black and white, and some are colored? Why do we sometimes see prophetic dreams and can predict the events before they really happen? Why do we sometimes…
Recipe for Happiness
The world today is definitely a better place to live than it was one hundred years ago. Work today is not so physically demanding as it used to be, people seem to have more free time (at least, it is supposed to be so if they spend less time at work), manual house work was…
Six Simple Ways to Fight Your Laziness
Do you have huge plans each day, but never complete even a third of them? Do you promise yourself every evening that you will go jogging in the morning, but when the morning comes you simply cannot make yourself do it? Can you always find ten reasons why your desire to get or achieve something…
Is the Principle An Eye for an Eye Morally Wrong?
At the first glance, the old and universally known principle “an eye for an eye” seems to be perfectly logical. You have harmed someone? You will receive the same amount of harm as a punishment. But being looked upon closer, the principle leaves much to be desired.
Is Morality a Prerequisite for Happiness?
Some people tend to say that morality isn’t necessary to achieve anything in life, because every day we see people who are immoral and yet seem to be quite happy with their lives. But the one important thing that is overseen in this viewpoint is that they are immoral from the point of view of…
Is Killing Always Morally Wrong?
To kill a person is the ultimate evil one man can cause to another, because it is not reversible and, in fact, brings the existence of a man as we know him to an end. Can such act be ever justified? There are different opinions in what concerns this issue. Some think that killing people…