The quality of life in big cities decreases. Causes and solutions ??

ĐỀ 11/5/13

What are causes and solutions to the picture that big cities are witnessing a decrease in the quality of life?

Causes

- environment pollution

-traffic congestion

-technology

-materialistic and career gain

Solutions

-take a rest, slow down lives

-let technology be controlled by us

-bring freshness and nature back to cities

-redefine the goal of life

The quality of life in big cities deteriorates significantly as some claim. Environmental pollution is believed a culprit of demeaning the quality of life while education concern is seen as a contributor. My essay will elaborate on causes and solutions to this trend.

There are several reasons for this bleak situation in big cities. With traffic escalating everyday and populating booming, especially in promising big cities, people suffer respiration-related diseases. In addition, since materialistic and career-oriented mindsets become established in city dwellers, they are soon thrown into a ceaseless rat-race and end up in deep exhaustion. That is why big cities have witnessed a number of people growing nerdy and deciding to then recluse themselves away from real-life. Technology, also, plays a significant role in diminishing the value of life in big cities. Children in cities whose parents are busy their career feel often abandoned, possibly involve themselves in social evils or bury in the virtual world. Here, they find themselves attached to the screen of computers, surfing the unreal world, being confused amidst a mesh of unfiltered information and growing addicted to games online. The results of all of these are that people become more distant from real-life, aggressive, less physically strong and shallower.

Solutions are various. One step forward is to slow down people away from the so-called disease hurry sickness. Stop themselves for a moment to ask what the meaning of life is,

what their short-term or longer-term goals are and the like. It is time that governments set a limit on the non-stop flock of immigrants into big cities to avoid over-population which is often accompanied by an increase in unemployment and crime rate. Technology, despite its great advantages of being convenient, should hardly be seen as a master of our life. A moderate amount of time of using media like television or computers should be imposed by parents for children in big cities. To refresh the entire cities, more artificial rivers, gardens, nest of birds and spacious areas for walking are strongly recommended to be constructed to attach people here to nature, settle their mind at peace after crazy hours at world and bring people together to socialize. In other words, let's bring life back to big cities where should be barely battle fields of only money, power and mundane desires.

-         Traffic congestion (n) tắc nghẽn giao thông

-         Materialistic (adj) duy vật, thiên về vật chất

-         Redefine (v) thay đổi, đánh giá lại, xác định lại

-         Demean (v) hạ giá trị, làm mất phẩm giá = deteriorate = diminish

-         Elaborate (v) nói thêm chi tiết (adj) tỉ mỉ, công phu, phức tạp

-         Bleak /bli:k/ (adj): trống trải, lạnh lẽo, hoang vắng, ảm đảm = gloomy

-         Recluse (adj) sống ẩn dật, xa lánh xã hội (n) người sống ẩn dật

-         Rat-race (n) cuộc đấu tranh sinh tồn khốc liệt

-         Nerdy (adj) mọt sách

-         Bury + in (v) vùi đầu vào

-         Mesh (n) mắc lưới, (pl) cạm bẫy, mạng lưới  (v) đưa vào cạm bẫy

-         Artificial (adj) nhân tạo

-         Spacious (adj) rộng lớn, rộng rãi