HOW MANY WORDS DO YOU KNOW?

Average people in the world use less than 10 percent of theirs brains. According to the Brian Institute at Stanford University, average people use their potential closer to 2 percent.

Word knowledge is directly linked to intelligence and accomplishment. There are more than 600,000 words in the English language. The average person uses only about 1,200 of these words in the daily conversation. About 85 percent of all English usage is covered by 2,000 words and fully 95 percent of newspaper, magazines, radio, and television use about 4,000 out of the 600,000 words available.

There is a direct relationship between your knowledge and use of words and your income, and between word usage and intelligence. Each word is actually a mental construct. It represent a thought. The more words you know and can use, the more complex and accurate thoughts you can think. People with extensive vocabularies are capable of higher level functioning, and are far more creative and insightful than those with limited word knowledge. People with limited vocabularies have limited thinking abilities as well.

So, how many words do you know?

Banning Private Motor Vehicles in City Centres

Because of climate change issue, many people, including governments, are discussing the idea of banning private motor vehicles in city centres. Governments want to control the number of cars entering their city centres in several ways. However, some people have some arguments against the policy.

There are two advantages in banning private motor vehicles in city centres. First, this policy perhaps leads to reduce pollution in the city centres. Gas emissions from motor vehicles bring about pollution. Only public transportations could enter the city centres. As a result, gas emissions can be reduced. Therefore, it can reduce pollution. Secondly, banning private motor vehicles in city centres is frequently an effective means of minimizing traffic jams. People can use public transportations only, thus there are a few cars in the city centres. Consequently, there is no traffic jams.

On the other hand, there are two major reasons against this form of interdicting private motor vehicles in city centres. Firstly, not all the destinations might be reached by the public transportations. If people want to go to a certain place, it is a problem if there are no public transportations to go there. As a consequence, private motor vehicles are still needed. Secondly, uncomfortable public transportations are likely to lead to people using private motor vehicles. People prefer to use more suitable ones than others.

Overall, the arguments against banning private motor vehicles outweigh the arguments in favour. Governments should improve the public transportations first, so people prefer to choose them than private motor vehicles. As a result, banning private motor vehicles in city centres is usually an effective solution for climate change issue.

The Cause of Stress Among Young People

Nowadays, not only in developed countries, but also in under developed countries, many young people seem to suffer from stress.

There are two situations which probably lead to stress among young people. Firstly, stress brought about by broken homes. Dispute or disharmony between parents are frequently an effective means of reducing attention and love from parents to children. Almost everyday they see disputes between their parents. The parents do not care about them. They feel alone and negative thoughts are accumulated in their mind. Consequently, they seem to suffer from stress. Secondly, a lot of homework is likely to lead to stress among young people. It appears that they spend lots of time to do homework, so they can not play games with friends. The homework might be too difficult. As a result, they can not do it correctly. This situation, if it occurs frequently, probably leads to stress among young people.

There are two solutions to ameliorate these situations. First, a harmonised family a cause of increasing attention and love each another between parents and children. If families are happy, they can give more love and attention to their children. As a consequense, they could avoid stress. Secondly, teacher should give less homework to students, in point of fact, no homework. Students should do their work at school until it is finished. Therefore, they could play games with friends after school.

In order to avoid suffer from stress among young people, it is important to set up a sweet and loving family.