Saturday, April 16, 2011

Sports injuries


This table shows the number of injuries in sports. Ten sports are
mentioned that caused these injuries with Australian football is taking the majority and volleyball the minority.

The highest number of injuries took place while playing Australian
football at 10122 injuries and 83% of them were during competition or practice. While, soccer, which has the second highest number of
injuries, has less than half the number of Australian football’s injuries at 3777. The number of injuries of rugby, cricket, basketball and netball were nearly that, between 3600 and 3000 injuries. The lowest number of injuries took place while playing volleyball, squash and martial arts, between 882 and 776 injuries. Finally, hockey didn’t have neither high nor low number of injuries at 1219 injuries.

To conclude, there are high number of injuries which involved in sports. Most of them were during competition or practice and few of them were admitted to the hospital. Football is taking the top spot with more than 10000 injuries.   

Monday, April 11, 2011

Obesity in the UAE (problem/solution)


Obesity is one of the biggest problems in the UAE. There are many reasons behind it, one of them is eating too much fast food. Yet there are as well, many solutions that will stop this contagious problem.

One of the main causes of this problem is a non-healthy diet. People eat a lot of fast food at every meal, they even eat a lot of snacks between them. The change in lifestyle is another reason; most people work in desk jobs which don’t require much physical activity and they barely do any exercises. Education might be the most important reason for this problem. People aren’t aware of the danger of food addiction, they think the more they feed the children the faster they grow up.


On the other hand, there are many possible solutions that can stop this “disease” from spreading any further and cure it. Changing the lifestyle is on the top of the solutions list. People have to do more exercises everyday. They should eat a healthy diet and stop eating fast food. They should also learn all about eating a healthy diet and be aware of the danger of obesity.

To conclude, obesity is a dangerous “disease”, but with the right “medicine”, it will be cured. Individuals must take a long view towards the future, recognizing the short-term actions have long-term consequences.
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UAE Marriage Fund (cause/effect)


People in the UAE were getting married when they become 16 years old, it was easy and cheap. But these days, however, it has become so expensive. To help people to get married the UAE created an
organization called The Marriage Fund that gives people money to help them get married.

There are many reasons why the marriage fund was created. One of these reason is the abnormally high expenses of marriage. The marriage hall, food and honeymoon expenses cost a lot of money. People used to take a loan to get married. They began their married life with a big loan, that will lead the
marriage to collapse in a few months. The increasing number of marriages to non-Emiratis women is one of the reasons too. The Emiratis men were marrying non-Emirati women because their marriage cost a lot cheaper that that with Emirati women.

The UAE marriage fund has many effects. One of the most important effect is the increasing number of marriages to the Emirati women and decreasing number of the spinsters. Having much money will help the Emirati men to marry Emirati women. Providing money will prevent people from getting loans. People will stop getting loans if the money is provided and with that the marriage will last longer. The increasing rate of the Emiratis population will become higher. With everything provided, many Emiratis
will get married and the Emirati population will increase.

Although marriage in the UAE is still expensive, the UAE marriage fund has successfully reduced the marriage costs. The UAE government has done well by creating it.

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TV (problem / solution)


These days, children are stuck to the TV instead of playing outside. This is a problem that might have a bad effect on their mental and physical health. Yet there are many possible solutions to solve it.

The most important problem of watching TV is that it will harm the eyesight and make them obese. Watching TV too much might effect their eyes, and because of the lack of activities they will become obese. Another problem is that it will effect their studies. They won’t pay attention to their studies if they are watching TV. A final problem is that it will effect them mentally, they will become less social and prefer to be alone. Because they are watching TV and have no one to communicate with, they won’t know how to communicate and to be sociable with the others.

There are many possible and easy solutions that will stop this problem. The main one is to limit the viewing times. Parents should limit the viewing time to an hour a day at most. Another solution is to provide activities for the kids. Parents should get sports equipment so the kids can play outside. The last solution is limiting the access to the TV. Parents shouldn’t put TVs in their child’s room. The kid will stay up all night and that will effect his brain.

To conclude, watching TV does have a good side, but watching it too much has a worse effect. People should limit their TV time or not buy TV at all that will be the best solution.

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