# 15.

This is the end. Undoubtedly, it is the happiest time of the semester. It means the end of going to university, doing homeworks, passing exams. Just for one month, I hope. I want to thank David and my classmates for being my colleagues and frieands this course - it was very funny an useful. The utility of the course is enormous. I tought a lot on this course: mostly about writing the different essays. However, not all of the assignments was equaly useful.
1. Essays.
They are most useful, there you receive a full response for your response. That's also the specification of the course.
2.Reading.
That's a help for writing.
3. Grammar and Vocabulary.
They are less useful - they happens once or twice a semester and all the work happens the last day, and you don't gain any benefits.
4. Blogs.
I got nothing of them - after the first one they turned into the routine work, and were not a kind of joy or useful work.
Finally, the course was a very useful.

# 14.

Good evening everybody,
As you know, you must be older than 18 to get a driving license. In my opinion, 18 is caused by the full age in Russia. When you achieve 14 in Russia, you get an incomplete criminal responsibility, if you commited a crime, you would get a partial punishment. At 16 you can drive a motorbike (after an exam). At 18 you get a full criminal responsibility and a right to drive a car. I'm interested, why you can drive a motorbike before the car: it's much more dangerous to drive a bike than to ride a car: motorcycles are faster and the driver is less protected by the vehicle - it's easier to be injured or die. However, the statistics (http://www.gibdd.ru/stat/), bikers get in an accidents less than car drivers and the damage is less on average. Maybe, that's one of the most important fact you need to be older and more responsible for your deed for driving a car.

# 13.

 What's wrong with my argumentative essay.
When I see on my essay, something sems to be wrong.Well, I'm not speaking about the works-cited list or the font. The connection between ideas seem to more or lesss clear. There were quotations, paraphrases. I wrote down even the concluding sentences. The problem was in thesis statement. I don't understand the problem I'm discussing. From the one hand, the problem of gender discrimination seems to be obvious, from the other hand I have never faced this as women do. Maybe, where I don't see a problem, it exists, or I overestimate some stuffs. Also, I have not an appropriative worldwide attitude: Of course, my society is more "west" than russian, however, the country I live influence my point of view. So, I think I have no rights tj write, how it is hard to be a woman and what problem the face.

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Have you ever thought about how is to live when you are retired? I read that the oldest woman on the Earth died when she was 116. That means that near a half of her life was an oldness. Also in 60's, when she became retired, most women didn't worked at all - they were housewives. Old have no jobs, no many conversations and a simple meaning of life. I think it's hard to realize that the society doesn't need you. When you work, you feel that something depends on you. The illnesses and old age pluse a feeling of a demise. They also provides dementia which a special treatment to all retired. It's a well known fact that old do not adapt to the new culture.  Many things in mass media are not appropriative for them, so as the way of making business today. Many of them do not understand how to use the new gadjets. It's very scary to be retired.