III] Write in about 100 to 150 words on any one of the given Argumentative essay topics:-
1. Do Smartphones actually help the learning process?
2. Is fast food healthy or a serious threat to physical health?
3. Teenagers feel more comfortable talking on social media rather than face to face.
4. Is there life after death? Support your thoughts with justified reasons
5. Hard work isn’t enough for being successful.
Answers
Smart phone is becoming more and more popular nowadays as its user-friendly design and convenient multi-function. Nearly all people, including elderly and children, in Hong Kong have their own smartphone. Nevertheless, should smartphone been owned by a young child? Since smartphone brings lots of negative effect to children on learning, social and health, the children should not be allowed to own a smartphone.
Present Solution
Schools have noticed that phones take their attention away from their lessons and destroy discipline for a long time. To solve the problem, lots of secondary and primary schools are not allowed their students to bring phone to school. Students who bring their phone to school violate the school regulation and their phones will be confiscated by the teacher. This rule does not only focus on smartphone as it has been set for a long time, and there were not smartphone when the rule set. Smartphone has much more functions and applications which lead to a bigger influence on students’ concentration on study. However, this solution cannot solve the problem successfully as people have different opinions on it and thus is difficult to implement.
Oppose arguing that smartphone secure the safety of children
Some parents have different opinions from school. They are opposed to the banning. They think that owning a mobile phone keeps children safer as they could know where their children are through calls, texts as well as communicating and Global Position System (GPS) applications and be sure if their children are safe. Also, in an emergency, children can call for a help quickly and easily. Indeed, owning a smartphone does not keep children safe but put them into an unsafe situation as they are carrying an expensive fashionable device which makes them a target of criminals. About millions of people are robbed of cell phone every year while some of the cases involved violence. Furthermore, many children spend so much time talking on the phone, texting with friends or playing games, and thus do not aware what is going on around them. It is supposed that children cause car accidents every year because their attention was on their phone activities but not the traffic while crossing the street. Indeed, this situation should not occur as it is supposed that children below 16 are always accompanied with adults. The law in Hong Kong has ruled that parent should not leave their children alone as this action may leads to injury to the child. Besides, parents and may have to face criminal liability arising from negligence in care. [1] (Press Releases, 2012) Parents can check the children’s situation by calling to the carer to secure their child’s safety when they are not accompanying them. Thus, it is unnecessary for children to own a smartphone.