Freedom and Independence - Toefl Essays

I´m a Venezuelan living in the United States, and I actually decided to move because of the political situation of my country, where you are unable to be free and independent. 

Freedom and independence allow people to make decisions openly even if the people around are (do) not agree with your position. In fact you are able to decide where to be and to what to do without asking someone if you can, of course following the rules and regulations where you are living.

Freedom and independence  allow people to state their position, in front of a group  even if that group do (does) not share your point of view. In some way you don´t need to worry about hurting someone`s feelings or be afraid of getting arrested, because you think differently or because you don´t support someone`s opinion or point of view.

I would also say that having security is part of having freedom and independence so once you have the first two, consequently you will get security.

I lived I felt in my own body the bad feeling of being judged by people who supported the dictatorial regimen in Venezuela, because of thinking differently. In fact I was almost got arrested by a government police, because of protesting against the bad situation we were living in there, like crimes, lack of medicines, lack of security, lack of food, lack of education and people`s rights which are annulled by the dictatorial regimen.

Freedom and independence make you feel secure, in fact you can even increase the security if you feel that way, because you have the right to

 One example I could say about what Venezuelans are living now in my country is, fighting for food, because is never enough, steeling and because of that the crime had  increased 70% than before.

Some people prefer to eat at food stands or restaurants. Other people prefer to prepare and eat food at home. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answers.

Although many people enjoy eating at restaurants, my preference is to eat home-cooked meals. The main reasons is that I cook very well and is the only way to guarantee you are eating quality and healthy food. In addition is a way to save a lot of money.

 To begin, I love cooking so it is a way to have fun and to spoil all the people I love. I used to cook everyday and I never make the same food, I used to look recipes in Internet from everywhere in order to have different choices and tastes in my meals.

Second, I have a health condition that leads me to eat differently. In fact I have more than a year eating in a specific way,  it`s a life`s style called  PALEO, which is a special diet that does not allow you to eat processed food and any kind of wheat or flour, since have been found highly inflammatory for your guts and stomach, making you more sensitive to get sick.

Third, is the best way to loose weight and stay healthy, since you choose the quantity of oil, salt, sugar and dressings  you will add to your food. In addition for all of them who need to know how much are  eating, It gives you the choice to weigh and measure the quantity of food you are a about to eat.

Finally, eating home-cooked meals, make me feel happy and satisfied because I don´t need to stress out thinking if what I´m going to eat is healthy cooked either if the ingredients that were used to cook were the ones I can eat. I just eat and enjoy more than someone can imagine.

The author of the reading talks about how the consumers mood can affect shopping perception of a store and gives some detailed information about it,

First, the author talks refers to the weather condition,  to a person´s work or personal life, as some samples of how people can be affected and how some of them can affect shopper mood

The amount of money spent in shopping  would also depend of the factors listed above and also the number of items purchased.

The author also mentioned that retailers spend a huge effort in lighting, color and music since those aspects can directly affect shoppers mood and make increase the sales.

In the same way , the author of the lecture support the lecture by saying that retailers spend time by choosing the music they will display in their stores in order to keep in good way the shopper `s mood

The author stated that music has a positive effect in people behaviors and gave a good example:

In restaurant with  slow tempo music people remain longer and spend much more money, and ask for more food than in places with fast music tempo, and also denoted that in those places where fast music tempo was displayed consequently people stay 15 minutes less than the other places with slow tempo music. The author gave another good example where stated that those places where the music is alike, then the people stay longer than in those places where the music is unfamiliar to the consumer. 252 words.

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The author of the reading passages talks about how advance technology could not always help workers to be more efficient in their jobs, in fact some advances in technology has made possible for workers to stay longer in their desks decreasing their productivity.

When workers stay longer in their desks this can lead bad health consequences, like back pain and neck pain, moreover staying for long time period in front a computer can also caused eyestrain.

In the same way some surveys have stated that some workers prefer to remain in their desk even to have lunch in order to keep answering emails and other task related to their jobs

In some way the reader author differs a bit with the reading passsage because it assumed that always the new office technologies bring to the workers the increased of productivity which is not always true.

 But in the other hand the author talked about how workers productivity can increase if the company invest money by buying new equipments and she also gave a good example about how a new fotocopie machine can help to save time to the worker and consequently increase their productivity.

The author also gave another good example about how technology can impact in workers productivity stating that emails are a good resource and a cheap way to keep contact with collegues overseas and also help projects smoothness