formal letter- Victor Febrero

Dear MP3 Inc.

The last Monday 28th of October I purchased aMP3 on a website called Gadgets, and I received it the last Friday 1^st of November.

Unfortunately the MP3 is not performing well, the problem with the MP3 is in the button to turn down the music.

In order to solve the problem I would appreciate to have a replacement as the guarantee of the product specifies, The guarantee and the bill are attached on this e-mail.

I look forward to your reply and resolution of my problem. I will wait one week before asking for a refund.

Your Sincerely,

Victor Febrero

For and Against Essay- Alba Vigo!

Option 1: “Speaking two languages has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world.”

Speaking two languages and be bilingual has advantages and disadvantages in the actual society.

Know two languages is good to can communicate easier with more people than one person that only speaks one language and at the same time, your culture improves and knows more things about the life of the people. Furthermore, if you know more languages than others, you have more probabilities to get a job.

However, it is true that learn two languages can be confusing, and when you are a child can you mix up the two languages and not only in the speaking, also in the writing. In addition, in school, if you learn more languages, you have more subjects and more time to spend studying and doing homework.

To conclude, my opinion is that be bilingual is better than not be, because you can have more opportunities to have more friends from all over the world and be rich in culture and respect.

FOR AND AGAINST ESSAY - Marc Manzano

Do you buy music or do you pirate it?

It is now easier than ever to access the internet,  this causes that nowodays music pirate is something normal. There is no doubt that many people pirate music. Whit both positive and megative consequences.

One adventage of the pirate music is that you can listem your favorile music offline without the need
to pay the high price of music. Another positive aspect of the pirate music is if a medium - level
artist, piracy can make physical and digital sales imcrease because the artist becomes more popular and more users will want to have the album on their platforms, according to a study conducted by
Impormation Economics and Policy of Queens University in Ontario.

On the other hand, for popular artist this is not the case, simce piracy has a negative impact on
digital sales, making big losses for the record company and for the artist. Also must be added
that music pieate is not legal.

To sum up, pirate music is a thing that we have all done, knowing that is not legal. Music prices are very high, so piracy is used to enjoy offline music. However, we should be careful not to use pirate music excessively.

FOR and AGAINST ESSAY - Daniel Gonzalez

SPEAKING TWO LANGUAGES HAS OBVIOUS PRACTICAL BENEFITS IN AN INCREASINGLY GLOBALIZED WORLD

Nowadays, in the current globalized world, speaking two languages has important practical benefits and, therefore, bilingual people are highly valued. However, being bilingual requires a lot of effort on a personal and work level. For these reasons, there are arguments for and against being bilingual.

One of the main advantages of speaking two languages is being able to communicate with a large number of people. This is very important, not only to travel to other countries, but also to access a good job. In a globalized world, most companies look for bilingual people to develop their business.

However, speaking two languages has some disadvantages. It involves hard work and much effort to know a second language perfectly. Furthermore, it also requires learning the new vocabulary that it is emerging with the new technologies.

In conclusion, I think everyone must be well prepared to travel and work in a globalized world, and for this reason it is necessary to be bilingual.

DO YOU BUY MUSIC OR DO YOU PIRATE IT?

In recent years, record companies and music artists are fighting against music piracy because they have suffered significant losses. However, others consider that the prices they charge to the music are too expensive and, then, it is better to pirate it. The question is whether to buy the music or pirate it.

On the one hand, record companies lose a lot of money due to pirate music and, therefore, musical artists too. The consequence of this is that the effort and creativity of the musicians will not be fairly paid because the resources to create a record or make video clips will diminish.

On the other hand, CDs prices are too expensive and, then, there are people who can't buy them. However, if it is pirated, everyone could enjoy of the music.

In conclusion, despite the economic advantages of pirating music, I think that we should buy it and respect the work and the rights of music artists and record companies.

OPINION ESSAY - Daniel Gonzalez

Governments often make many addictive substances illegal because they many harm the health of those who take them. But alcohol and tobacco may also be dangerous to a person's health, and they are legal. Should the governments make these substances illegal?

In many countries, the consumption of alcohol and tobacco is allowed to citizens of legal age, however, other addictive substances are considered illegal because they are harmful to health. From this point of view, the question is whether governments should also declare the consumption of alcohol and tobacco illegal.

Personally, I believe that alcohol and tobacco should also be considered illegal substances because they have not health benefits. Studies show that their consumption affects the organs of the body and causes many diseases and, in the most serious cases, derived from an addiction to these substances, people can die.

Furthermore, although the consumption of alcohol and tobacco is only allowed to adults, it is clear to me that minors obtain these substances very easily. There are many stores where alcohol and tobacco are sold to them.

All in all, I think governments should be braver and declare these substances illegal. It would be a way to protect the health of all citizens. 

Black Friday in November has quickly become the biggest shopping day in many countries and not just in the United States, where it originated. Is it a good idea for shop owners to offer large discounts before the Christmas holidays? Do you think it is necessary to have such a day, or is it only a new form of consumerism?

Nowadays, in many countries Black Friday has become one of the most important shopping days. However, the question I need to answer is whether it is necessary to have this day or it is a new form of consumerism.

Personally, I believe that it is a good idea for shop owners to offer discounts before the Christmas holidays, because it is clear that consumers will buy cheaper Christmas gifts and, at the same time, shop owners will increase sales. Therefore, both parties, seller and buyer, will benefit.

Moreover, I think that Black Friday does not have to involve only consumerism. In my opinion, consumerism is not the same as responsible consumption and this day of discounts allows people to buy gifts and necessary things at better prices.

In conclusion, I think that if you do not buy compulsively, a day like Black Friday is necessary to get products with discounts and save money on Christmas gifts.

For and against Pau Peña

FOR and AGAINST ESSAY - Pol Collado

IT'S BENEFICIAL KNOW MORE THAN ONE LENGUAGE

Nowadays speaking more than one language has many advantages, because we are in an era where international relations have a lot of value in our society. In these times it is more likely that 50 or 100 years ago we have a job opportunity in another country different from ours where there is a different language.

First of all, we must know that the advantages that another language can give us are several, as a general culture in order to increase our cultural wealth. Being bilingual can help us when we travel, it is a tool that can save us time on a trip and avoid confusion abroad.

On the other hand we must think, as I said before, in international relations, since today they are very common, in many jobs we contact people from abroad, whether customers or suppliers, if our level is high it will save us many problems and we can benefit ourselves.

Well, knowing more than one language only brings advantages, so it's very important don't ignore knowing a new language, since communication is sometimes more important than knowledge itself.

For and against Èric De Nájera

Nowadays people do not think if it is okay or not to pirate music, and it has become normal in our society, even if that negatively affects the artist. 20 years ago it was normal to buy music records or cassettes and as we can see for the actual young people that is unthinkable.

Apart for all the bad things that have pirate music, actually, I think that is the best way to win an audience and consequently, you can reach a lot more people that not need to spend money, and that implies the possible purchase of a concert ticket or any other type of merch.

On the other hand, the sale of records has become unfeasible since sales have fallen a lot, that affects both the artist and the people because it can cause the artist to lose motivation or not feel comfortable with the remuneration and that can cause a lower return or in this case worse songs.

So overall pirate music is a good thing for the normal people buat it affects negatively to the artist or business.

For and Against Essay - Albert Cortés

Today, most people who consume music use pirated software as their music players. Can this contribute to the end of the music industry?









First of all, these programs help a lot, save money and consume the music you want for free. There are ads that play autoamet sometimes, but this is not enough to force people to pay.


On the other hand, many artists are complaining continually, because they produce almost no incomes, since most of their profits were from the discs they removed, but with the advent of new applications these are no longer available. They don't sell as much as before, because people can listen to music for free.


To sum up, we are desprising and finishing with the work of many artists, who are making almost no profit from their record sales, when they were the main source of income for their profession.

For and against essay - Simón Gasión

Nowadays people are more likely than ever to grow up learning multiple languages which are more important to know than ever due to the fast globalization of our society because of multinational corporations and, more importantly, the growing presence of the internet in our lives. But is it really a good thing to learn multiple languages, sometimes even when you're forced to because of mandatory education?

For one, knowing a foreign language is extremely helpful if you like to travel, even if you don't speak the native language most people can communicate through basic english, whithout which it would be extremely hard to find an hotel or restaurant that provides translations to your specific language, and it also lets you communicate with people you never could have otherwise through various online communities on top of providing buissnes outings as a teacher, translator and such.

Being plurilingual has its downsides, however, such as confusing certain words, expressions or mannerisms that belong to a foreign one with those of your own maternal language, especially if they are similar like in the case of spanish and catalan. It can also affect the academic performance of those who would rather study numbers than letters but are forced to learn multiple languages if they want to get good grades.

So overall learning multiple languages is a positive thing unless you are someone who is particularly bad with letters and are going to school, which unfortunately is a lot of people but at least being decent at english is currently far too important to justify removing mandatory language courses at school.

For and Against Essay - Marina Díaz

Do you buy music or do you pirate it?

Nowadays, many people listen to music that has been downloaded illegally to their mobile phones. We are often unaware that this is illegal and see it as a normal thing.

In the beginning, if people wanted to listen to a song, they had to buy the record or wait for it to play on the radio. Now there's no need, thanks to the internet. The Internet has made it easier for us to listen to music and download it for free.

On the other hand, this can be detrimental to the artists. But we don't know that every time we listen to a song on Youtube they make money.

In conclusion, downloading music or listening to it on Youtube doesn’t hurt the artists as they also earn some money.

For And Against Essay Option 2- Jordi Polo Tormo

Nowadays the music is available to anyone, being a very consumed product, this has been a victim of piracy throughout its history. Especially a few years ago where music could only be purchased on records or pirated.


Currently, thanks to various applications such as YouTube or Spotify, music hacking is less common. Although this still exists to diminished over the years, but it still causes loss of money to artists and music studios. In one hand we have the fact that there are people who cannot afford to pay for music, either because of their economic condition or simply because they think that music is free and free to use, something that doesn't work that way. On the other hand we find the fact that not selling songs causes many losses in singers and producers, something that does not matter so much to famous singers or big producers, but to little-known singers or just started and workers of small producers.


In conclusion, as I mentioned earlier, piracy in the musical field has greatly diminished. There are several applications where you can listen to music for free but with ads like Spotify or where you can also listen to any song paying a small amount of money per month for the premium subscription of that application, such as YouTube music, Spotify premium or apple music ... From My opinion is the best way to pay to contribute to the music industry and to continue publishing songs, without paying absurd amounts of money to just listen to a couple of songs. Therefore I am against piracy in the music sector.

ForAndAgainst_Aramis

How many opportunity doors a language can open for you? Nowadays learning a different language is very easy. Mostly all schools and college give the opportunity to their students for learning a second language.

Firstly, an advantage from talking 2 or more languages is that traveling around the world would be easier. This way you can communicate all your ideas and people would understand you better. Imagine you work in a big company or you are receiving family or friends from other countries you’ll need to know a way to understand them and for them to understand you to. Studying new languages increases your social development in an incredible way.

On the other hand a study showed how bilinguals know fewer words of any semantic category in comparison to people that speak fluently only one language.Their vocabularies seemed to be somewhat smaller than those of monolingual speakers. Another thing is that the bilinguals usual mix languages.

To sum up, I think it's better to be bilingual because that opens doors to many jobs that will make your life easier.

For and against Victor Febrero

Nowadays music is something that the majority of people like, but many of them can't pay for all the music they listen to so they decide to practice piracy.

Music piracy is something that causes millionaire loss on music studios and also to the artist. This is not a problem for big recording studios but for little studios and singers who are starting the career can be a demotivation for them. That cause that many singers have started to make their music free to download to avoid piracy and get known by people.

On the other hand, some years ago, people who listened to music were obligated to pay exorbitated prices for just one song and people used piracy to listen his favorite songs. Luckily the things have changed a little since then, now, people who listen to music very often can get a subscription to music platforms like Spotify, youtube music, apple music... and they can listen to downloaded music without practicing piracy.

For & Against essay-Pol González Casals

Option 1: Pol González Casals

Speaking two languages has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world.

Firstly, Speaking a second language improves problem-solving, multitasking and decision-making. Numerous studies have found that bilingualism can improve brain functions like the ability to focus attention and perform mental tasks. In addition, being bilingual can give to the children an academic advantage and at time to travel makes it easier and more enjoyable. Another advantage is that when you have children, you can raise your kids bilingual even since young age.

On the other hand, when one is bilingual tends to mix languages, if they lack the words to use in a language, they simply fill it up with words from another language. Also, bilingual individuals sometimes prefer to speak one language more than the other, making one of the languages dominant. This is a regular occurrence as they might finds one easier than the other and hence expose themselve to it even more.

To sum up, I think that being bilingual is better than don't be it, because at a world where there are such different idioms, the better qualificated you are, more easy you have.

opinion essay-Pol González Casals

English Writing Pol González Casals

Option 1:

Nowadays, it goes without saying that the circulation of addictive substances around us is one of the most issues facing us today, but should we classify them as legal or illegal?

Firstly, let us take a look at alcohol and tobacco, two substances of what humans are very used to see, listen to and even consume. 

As far as I am concerned, I think alcohol either tobacco should not be illegal just for the large number of people who consume them or depend on. Not only due to the fact of removing / illegalizing the product suddenly could cause anxiety or stress among other things for its consumers, but also because being legal, it makes the government by the one that controls these products.

On top of that, like any substance, by making it illegal, it seems to produce that people tend to want to consume it with more enthusiasm and since its distribution and production is illegal they can end up being produced in an unhealthy way.

For instance, you would not be aware of the  damaging effects on the consumed, effects out of the common that produce these products.

In conclusion, having in the government control of what we take, give us more security than taking it by pretty illegal ways.

For and against essay - Eric Salvador

In the world there are many countries and states where different languages are spoken, and it is therefore obvious that there are many people who speak more than one language, a bilingual person. In this way, being bilingual involves advantages and disadvantages that we can see below, why being bilingual has good things and bad things?

On one hand, bilingual people have to coordinate two linguistic systems, coordinate two linguistic systems offers you some advantages or benefits but also some disadvantages. Being bilingual includes an increase in mental flexibility and a high development of cognitive abilities. Futhermore also provides you with a great ability to communicate in the languages you control.

On the other hand, from what has been seen, who knows more than one language, then it costs more to learn others, since there is an interference between the two phonological, lexical and phonetic systems.

To conclude, it seems to me that as in everything, it has good things and bad things, but the advantages that it gives you to know more than one language seems to me much more important than the small disadvantages that bilingualism or even trilingualism supposes.