Portfolio Task-4

      Nowadays, the media has a huge influence in changing people’s ideas or thinking. This essay will discuss the influence of media.

     Sometimes, the media changes our thinking or way of life or how to dress. There are many types of media to watch or listen or communicate with people like social networking. When you watch something on the TV maybe it influences you to change something in your life. Moreover, when you discuss with people on an issue maybe these people change your thinking in the issue. For example, in UK they were discussing to destroy and steal from the supermarkets in Facebook and then they went out and did that. Furthermore, the media can change your thinking of sport teams or people all over the world, because you did not see them, but not all people change their minds.

     However, there are many people who are influenced by their parents or brothers. For example, parents teach and influence children how to respect people or how to live in this world. In addition, as Muslim people we learned how to pray and we learned the basics of our religion from our parents and then we learned more from the Quran and school. For example, if the media supports euthanasia we will not change our minds because Islam does not allowed us to kill people. Also, our teachers and friends can influence on us by doing right things or bad things from bad friends.

     To conclude, media can influence us, but there are other things that influence us more than the media. In my way of thinking everything in this life influences us, but we should use our minds to do the right things.

Portfolio task-3

     The bar graph and table shows fishermen for different areas between 1970, 1980 and 2000 in millions, and top ten exporters of fish in the world in 2000.

     There was a dramatic increase in the number of fishermen in Asia during the years 1970-2000 from 11million to 26 million, while in Africa the number of fishermen dropped rapidly from 12 million t0 3 million in the years 1970-2000. In addition, the number of fishermen in South America remained the same at 8 million throughout the period 1970-2000. On the other hand, in North America the number of fishermen rose rapidly from 5 million to 15 million between 1970-2000 and then it remained the same to 2000. Moreover, in Europe the number of fishermen fluctuated in the years 1970-2000. Furthermore, Thailand is the world’s top exporter of fish in 2000 and then comes Norway, while South Korea is the last fish exporter.

     To conclude, the number of fishermen increased in many regions except Africa where the number is decreasing. As we can see the number of fishermen in Asia in 2000 is 26 million and it is the highest, that’s why there are 5 countries from Asia in world’s top ten exporters. 

Graph Practice

     The graph illustrates the number of visitors to theme parks in million from 1995 to 2005. It shows that Disneyland has the highest visitors and Alton Towers the lowest.

     The number of visitors to Alton Towers increased slightly from 3 million to 6 million between 1995-2005. Also, there is a dramatic increase in number of visitors to Busch Gardens from 5 million to 21 million between 1995-2005. In addition, the number of visitors to Eurodisney increased from 11 million to 17 million between 1995-2000, and then the number decreased by 7 million in the next 5 years. Disneyland always has the highest number of visitors in all the years, while Alton Towers always has the lowest number of visitors in all the years. Most visitors comes from North America, while visitors comes from Oceania has the lowest rank.

     To conclude, the most popular theme park is Disneyland, while the least popular in Alton Towers.

Portfolio Task-2

     Today traveling is much easier than before, and there are many people who are traveling to new cities or countries for several reasons like education or work.

     People who move to new cities or countries might face many challenges in the new place. The first challenge is the language, if you move to a country that  does not speak your language. The second challenge is the weather, if you live in a hot climate and you move to Europe in a cold climate. Moreover, to live in a different culture is a big challenge, you will live in a place where they wear different clothes, have a different life style and food. In addition, you will feel lonely and far away from your family and friends, and maybe you will feel scared while moving around the city in the first few days. Furthermore, if you travel to a poor country you will face many challenges like health care or finding the proper place to live in or the proper transport to move around the city.

     There are several solutions to overcome the challenges. For example to overcome the language challenge you should learn the language or learn the basics to communicate in the shops or restaurants. To overcome these challenges you should respect their culture and also before you move to the new place learn about their culture. Also you should search in the internet for the places that you might need. In the first few days find other people like you religion, people who speak your language or people from your country.

     To conclude, when you go to a new place you will find many challenges, but you can overcome them. It will be difficult in the first few days or weeks, but as the time goes on everything will be fine.

Portfolio Task-1

     The graph shows both the Australian and British cinema markets in 2000 by origin, and the line graph shows cinema attendance in Britain and Australia from 1980 to 2000.

     Most films shown in Britain and Australia come from the US. US films account for 77% of Britain cinema, and in the Australian cinema US films account for 68%. British films shown in Britain account for 21%, while in Australia account for 5%. The lowest films shown in Australia come from Britain, while British cinema did not show any Australian films in its cinemas. The Australian film shown in Australia account for nearly 11% of the films. In addition, films comes from other countries in British cinema account for 2%and in Australian cinema account for 15%. More people go to the cinema in Britain than in Australia. There was a dramatic drop in cinema attendance between 1980 and 1982 from 100 million to 50 million in Britain, and then cinema attendance fluctuated between 1982 to 1994, after that it leveled out to 2000. The number of cinema attendance in Australia dropped dramatically from 40 million to 20 million between 1980 to 1982, then the number increased slowly to 90 million in 2000.

     Overall, US films is the most popular in both countries, and as the time goes on the number of people go to the cinema increased in both countries.