The line graphs show the average monthly amount that parents in Britain spent on their
children sporting activities and the number of British children
who took part in three different sports from 2008
to 2014.
It is clear that parents spent
more money each year on their
children’s participation in sports
over the six-year period.
In terms of the number of children taking part,
football was significantly more popular than athletics and
swimming.
In 2008, British parents spent an average of around £20 per month on their
children sporting activities.
Parents spending on children
sports increased gradually over the following six years, and
by 2014 the average monthly amount had risen to just over £30.
Looking at participation numbers,
in 2008 approximately 8 million British children played football, while only 2
million children were enrolled
in swimming clubs and less
than 1 million practised
athletics.
The figures for football
participation remained relatively stable
over the following 6
years. By contrast, participation in swimming almost
doubled, to nearly 4 million children, and there was a near fivefold increase in the number of children doing
athletics.
Without
capital punishment (the death penalty) our lives are less secure and crimes of
violence increase.
Capital
punishment in essential to control violence in society. To what extent do you
agree or disagree with this opinion?
model answer:
Before talking about the essential role of
death penalty, you have to think about the meaning, and the purpose, of any
kind of punishment.
If you consider that the purpose is to prevent
the guilty from being nasty again, you can be seduced by an argumentation in
favour of the suppression of capital punishment.
But you have to think about another aspect of
the problem: a punishment is also useful to impress people, to make them fear
the law.
In fact, let's take the example of a young
misfit, which has grown in a violent atmosphere, influenced by older delinquents,
etc ...
He lives in the streets, he's got no aim but
to survive.
This is the kind of person who could possibly
kill someone for money, or even for fun ...
Why would he fear prison? Life would be easier
for him there.
In addition, in many cases, when you behave
normally, you can benefit from penalty reductions.
This young misfit needs to be impressed, he
needs to know that the law is a frontier.
When you cross it, you can lose your life.
That is why capital punishment helps keeping a
distance between robbery and murder.
If you abolish it, you suppress the difference
between these two types of crime, which are completely different.
But there is also a limit to define: even if
death penalty is unavoidable, it would be a crime to apply it to inadequate
cases.
If there is no premeditation or past facts
which can justify such a punishment, it is far too strict to apply death
penalty.
That is why the lawmakers have to establish
precisely the context in which capital punishment car be pronounced.
That is the price to pay to limit violence
without using excessive violence.
0 Nhận xét