Dear students,

Thank you for your writings and comments. Now it's time to rewrite your both writings (Smoking & Generation-gap), considering the comments you've received, and email them back to me.

Rewriting your texts is one of the most important parts of the course.

Thank you.

Ehsan Abbaspour

People have different thinking methods. These ways of thinking are related to different factors, and two of them which are linked into our discussion are age, and the family circumstances especially during children growing up. At least some of our parents have grown up in a more traditional family than us, with different norms and in different conditions, so it’s reliable if they think different. Here is the point that the generation gap appears. But this gap is not a serious problem –which has effective influence on the life- in some families, like mine.  

For example, most of our hobbies are related to new technologies such as computer games and developed instruments but most of them are worthless for parents! Imagine you are playing a computer game, then your mother come and say: “what are the benefits of this kind of games? Do something better! “. It was just a little example of differences, as you know, there is more and more.

In my opinion, one other thing that may make conflict is this: some parents expect their child to be as same as themselves, but maybe the child refuses it.

To overcome this problem, we must be less egotistic and try to perceive others. Being moderate and less intemperate at conflict points , may solve (or maybe just fade!) this problem.

A problem that sometimes can turn to disaster is generation gap.but always there is a question that why generation gap is yielding and which factors cause generation gap. I want to mention some points in this field.

First of all, there is a important question that which groups have a destructive role in this case, parents or teenagers? Experts believe that teenagers have  argumenta spirit that it is so hard to prove them that theirs works are mistake, and also experts believe that parents want their children to continue theirs methods of life and follow them in every cases. I think parents must behave theirs children in attend to theirs children age. We can see this claim in our religion, as imam Ali said that behave your children as properties of theirs age.

At the end , I want to mention to this point that both group must respect to beliefs of each others and learn their duty in every cases.

Generation gap,also known as a third world war between parents and their children,causes disappointment,argument,conflict,etc.But the point is what causes this gap and how we can avoid it?

First reason for this fact is improvement of technology in last years.young people especially teenages is in touch with technology more than older ones.so they are living in different world ,so parents can't understand what they Are thinking or talking about and this cause conflict and disagreement between them.For example right now I'm writing my paragraph with iPod and my father thinks I'm playing!

The second reason that is related

first one is changing cultures and habits through time!this may happen by easement of communating and linking with other countries because ot technology!so it causes change of customs,habits

and behaviour that is not pleased by older people.but we can end this war?

I think the parents should show more interest to technology improvement and should be up-to-dated.children and young generation have to show more respect to old ones and help them to get familiar with new gadgets and products and control themselves against culture invasion and obey they own culture!

“DO you ever   think   that   why   parents   not perceive us?” 

“Why they don’t mind on us and our requirement s?”

“What s the main reason of this big problem?”

I think the main reason is the lake of the races. –problem can disturb to humans life like a cancer ،

If we don’t mind  it .

For over coming this problem  first we must study on children s behavior .after that we must teach it  to parents  and  say  them  the ways  of nurturing  a  healthy baby and teach puberty to  them  and  the traits of it and issues that might be occurred during this period by means of media .

Finally we educate parents   and  they  educate their babies and  we  have a healthy society.

I can’t believe smokers and smoking at all. In addition to its bad effect on smokers’ health, it’s harmful for everyone near them. But the reality is this: we can’t force all smokers to release smoking !

Because of obvious bad effects of smoking on health, it’s necessary to making smoking illegal in public places. For example, I can’t bear someone smoking when I am near him and I don’t want to smell that disgusting smoke! Everyone have some rights in the society, and in my belief, it’s one of the clearest and most reasonable rights that someone have to keep his/her health safe and not being forced to breath in others cigarette smoke!

Finally, I want to say something. Try not to smoke not only in public places, but everywhere, every time and in any condition. It has no reasons except harms to your and others health.

Smoking,the crosscut to death is the most common addiction in all over the world.As you understand,I disagree with smoking in all situations!But in this case I have to say It's so good to prohibit smoking in offices or other social places and I have my own reasons to my agreement with this fact.

First,smoking in these places may encourage other people to take a cigarette and try it and ruin their life forever.Second,the last research indicates that smoking in social places cause more damage to non- smoking person than smoking one.Besides,the kids and children are exposed to danger more than older ones. also ,80% of the smoke produced by burning of cigarette is not visible and This is kind of horrible!

For these reasons I think the goverments should ban smoking in taxies,buses and another places like this.At least,it save other healthy people from death and cancer.

Generally I have to say yes,I mean I agree with this but I have something to say.

At first I said yes because it's obvious that smoke,if breathed,hurts the people around even more than the smoker himself. So in according to respect the rights of others it's good to prohibit smoking in public.

But if we were in a smokers' shoes,what would we feel like?

In places like offices,there should be a good place for smokers where they can smoke. Prohibition of smoking seems to be necessary for small and roofed places. But what about open spaces? Our university's campus is a good example for this. Right now I think it's not legal to smoke there and the protection officers will warn smoking students to stop smoking. But I think the space there,is open enough to solve the problem of the harmful smoke. On the other hand,students are old enough to distinguish what is good for them and what isn't,so in the university,smoking cant be considered as a bad training.

In the end,I believe that smoking is bad for health,and i wish all the people think so,but the government cannot make the whole society give it up and forget about smoking in the city at all. So the smokers' rights should be respected as the other people's are.

Smoking and smokers have become one of the chief problems of every society. Among all the issues which they cause, an appropriate place appertaining to smoking has been one of the first priorities in the agenda of different governments all around the world. In this case, select countries decided to forbid smoking in public places, in others, cigarette marketing has become illegal in order to not afflict non-smokers. But for my money, these kind of actions which are classified in “tie down” ones, are not quite wise and would not heal the smoking illness. For instance, imagine that you have banned smoking in your exclusive office and almost all of your employees smoke, by the act you took smoke, by the act you took you will keep safe others to not get addicted or literally have healthier workers, while the group that contain smokers, will include employees who are not punctual, concentrated at work. Therefore, I think some cultural acts to prevent people from smoking originally, is preferred.