Portfolio Task 5

                                    Portfolio Task 5

            The line graph gives statistics for annual trips to Australia by overseas residents. In addition, there is also a table with data on the country of origin of the visitors. Overall, between 1975 and 2005 the numbers rose from 10million to more than 30million.

            In 1975 most of the visitors were from Japan and this is still true in 2005 but there has been an increase from 3.2million to 12million. The 2^nd biggest number is from south Korea with a three-fold increase. The number from Europe increased dramatically from 1.1 to 4.5million. Other countries in the table were china but they had the smallest amount of visitors, along with the USA and Britain.

            In conclusion, Australia is becoming more popular with long distance travelers by almost a factor of 4. This is because air travel is more affordable for people and they are prepaid to go further.

Portfolio Task 4

                  Portfolio Task 4

       

Nowadays, with the fast development, some people think that a sense of competition is important. Parents are holding higher and higher expectations for their children. From my point of view, both a sense of competition and a sense of cooperation play a crucially important role in the growth of children.

          Some people think children should be taught to work hard to achieve their needs. The competition between man and nature, man and man, originated from Darwinism. For example, you can only get into some universities if your GPA score is over 2.5 or 3.0; competition is a good thing when it is used for good reasons.

          To help other people is very important in some cases. For example sometimes you can’t do something alone and you must work in a team to get whatever done; not all people have the same skills; all people have different skills to be a part of the team and give them the skills for their future work.

          In conclusion, it is very important for children to become team players. It is also very important for them to be able to win. So , both of those skills are important in different situations. I think that to be part of the team is more important than competition skills, because you need to work with other people more often than compete with them.