Advanced Composition Writing

Should animals be kept in zoos?

           

            Nowadays, there are many kinds of animal in the world. Some animals live in forests and some are kept in zoos. Keeping animals in zoos is the best way to protect them from danger, but leaving them to natural way is another important point to consider. Anna said that "It is bad because they have been taken away from their natural surroundings, but good because they get well fed and looked after." (Anna: 2010) Although some people agree that animals should be kept in zoos, I still believe that animals will have happiness when they live in their original place.

            First, the facts that keep dangerous animals in the zoos are better than leave them in the forests. Despite some people believe that dangerous animals should live in the zoos because they will not be able to injure people, but there are many situations that show the opposite side. Sometimes, dangerous animals can injure the people when they live in the zoos because dangerous animals still have their own instinct.  For example, the argument “it is very bad to keep animals in zoos because they need to go to where they really live the jungle. Cause then they will get angry and go on rampages killing people like the tiger in San Francisco that killed the trainer and injured 2 men.” (www.answer.com). I believe that animals should live in the forests. If animals live in the forests, they will not have chance to see people. Therefore, they cannot injure people.

            Second, the argument about zoo animals is healthier than wild animals. The zoos have good breeding and treating programs for animals. When zoo animals are hungry, they will have food to eat. Also, when they get sick, they will have good medicines to treat. However, in fact, wild animals have their instincts to find food and treat their illness by the natural way to survive. Sometimes, zoos animals have to wait for their food. After they ate food, some animals still hungry. They have to wait for next meal and sometimes the zoos do not have enough food for them. The scientist said that “elephants do not do well in zoos. The average lifespan of zoo elephants is about 16-18 years, while wild elephants can live 50-70 years.” (www.veganpeace.com).

            The final argument is about animals will be happy if they live in the zoos. Some people say that the zoos have wide area for animals to travel. Zoo animals can go for many miles. On the contrary, some zoo animals have stress and express through their behaviors. The signs of stress or boredom that you can see in zoo animals are pacing backwards and forwards, head bobbing, rocking, repeatedly retracing their steps, sitting motionless or biting themselves. For example, the scientist shows the scientific term for repetitive behaviors in zoo animals. This covers all the strange looking behavior we can see in zoo animals. These behaviors are caused by conditions like depression and boredom. (www.veganpeace.com).

            This evidence shows that the arguments about animals should be kept in zoos is invalid. Although many people believe that zoo animals are happier than wild animals,            I strongly agree that animals will be happy if they live in their original place. As the studies of the scientists show the disadvantages of keeping animals in the zoos, I offer to leave them in forests because there are many advantages of leaving animals in the forests. Therefore, in my opinion, animals should not be kept in the zoos.

The influences of Korean culture on Thai teenagers

          Nowadays, Korean culture is very famous in Thailand. Thai teenagers consider Korean culture to be their new culture. They always do and try to practice themselves to be Korean. And they regard Korean culture to the good way to follow. As a result, Korean culture has many influences that can affect Thai teenagers, in term of fashion, artist and life style.

          One way Thai teenagers spend a lot of their money for Korean fashion. They like to wear clothe like Korean people, especially Korean artists and film stars. They can see Korean clothes on television. They consider that Korean cloth is new fashion for them. Besides, Thai teenagers normally have hair style like Korean star. So, it is regard to new trend in Thailand. Moreover, most of Thai teenagers like to have surgery. They think they can develop every part of their body to be perfect by plastic surgery. And they like to wear big eyes and contact lenses to make their eyes bright and beauty. Also Thai teenagers try to make their skin white because they want white skin like Korean star. They use some cosmetics from Korea so cosmetics from Korea are very popular among Thai teenagers.  

          Another way Korean artist is consider to the idol for Thai teenagers. Now Korean bands are very famous, they call K-Pop. They like to copy the performances from Korean bands. For example, they like to cover dance and try to have characteristic like these bands. And most of songs in Thailand can be famous if copy form Korean style. Not only dance and song but also movie, Almost of Korean series are the most interesting for Thai teenagers to follow up.

          The last and importantly, Thai teenagers regard Korean life style to be the good way to follow. For example, Korean foods become famous food for Thai teenagers. They like to eat Korean food such as Kimji. Therefore, there are many Korean restaurants in Thailand. Furthermore, Thai teenagers go to Korea to visit the famous place in Korean series. They would like to visit this place because they think they will see someone in there like in the series that they watched. Thai teenagers also use technological thing from Korea. Because they like the star who advertise this brand so they buy goods from this brand. Another reason is they follow Korean people. If whatever famous in Korea and many people use, they must use too especially mobile phone and motorcycle. So, Thailand imports a lot of goods from Korea.

          To sum up, these examples above can show the ways that Korean culture can influence. Thai teenagers; there are fashion, artist and life style. Thai teenagers accept Korean culture to follow because they think it will make them to be modern person.