Sunday, April 5, 2009

People Can Be Influenced By Their Environment

People Can Be Influenced By Their Environment



People are living in the different environment. We are from different country, different city, we go to different school and we live in the different family. As a result, someone did very successful while someone didn’t. That was because they were from different environment.


A good environment can influences people in a positive way, it make them improve. I still remember that when I first stepped in to a international school in Beijing which I was going to study in for 3 years. I was naive, very poor in English and did not play any musical instruments. The first day in school I thought this school was very different from traditional Chinese high school, because people here were all speaking English, even Korean and Russian sometimes. I was extremely nervous that I could not even understand a word from the teacher and some foreigner students. I felt so helpless that I had to start using English everyday instead of Chinese which I had been spoken for 15 years. During that time I was suffering by not understandable English and learning it. This school was like a big machine which forced you to speak English everyday. Till now, I can speak a perfect English which is three years later and my english level so far is already be able to understand and communicate in a Northern American University. A good environment is like a big tool which you can learn and improve from. It is also like a big tool which is pushing you forward.


The influence of environment can also be negative. When people are not moving forward but even moving backward or corrupted, environment is the main reason for that. Now, in China some students who went to colleges can not find a job in China when they came back. Normally, people who went to western University and graduated can easily find a job back in China. The reason is not the companies do not want people who took a better education, but it is the students themselves and their environment. According to a passage from the Beijing Evening Newspaper that half of the students who came back from western university are speaking very low English, even poorer than the local high school students. That is because they did not need to speak English when they were abroad. They lived in the China Town, go to the Chinese Supermarket, go to the university which Chinese students account for 30%. They met only Chinese friends and watched Chinese TV program. They did not even use English there which makes them loss their advantages when they come back. Thus, if we do not use our environment correctly the environment is going to have a some dad influences.


To conclude, the environment in the present day society is so complicated and the point is how can we choose a better environment, because people can be influenced by their environment.

2 comments:

  1. 4/6

    Great essay.
    There are some problems with grammar - if you want to print it out (double spaced) we can look at it.

    Your ideas are good - but choice of words can be improved.

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