Opinion essay

     Nowadays, there are countries where citizens are arguing about death penalty. In some places, such as Spain, France and Australia, this penalty is illegal. However, there are others, for example the United States of America, Egypt or China, where it is a reality that many criminals suffer. Contrary to the opinion of the majority of the people, I believe that death penalty is a crime in itself.
 
     This punishment is said to be necessary or fair due to many reasons. It is agued that, since the inmate has killed somebody, the right thing to do is kill them too. Furthermore, rapers, kidnappers and murderers may attempt to repeat their crime, so the only way to ensure the safety of those who surround us is to get rid of the problem, in other words, to kill the criminals.

     As I see it, we are going back to the Hammurabi Code, which encourages us to "take an eye for an eye". When we put into practice death penalty, we are playing to be God. Who are we to take someone's life? We punish those who kill, and nevertheless, we become killers in the process. Life imprisonment is enough punishment for them, in this way, they are not able to commit a crime again and we avoid taking their lives.

     In short, when somebody is murdered as a punishment, we are deciding that person has no right to live, because of that one action. We have other options to punish criminals that are not lethal, so we should use them, instead of letting death penalty be legal.

Problem/Solution essay

     Nowadays, with the new technologies and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr, it is possible to offend people without facing the music. Hate is sent, not only anonimously, but openly. This is due to the fact that, while threatening people's lives and making fun of terrorism is punished, sending hate to others is not. Many people are victims of this, especially  celebreties, since they are judged by everybody around the world. This issue's outcome is that a lot of famous people stop interacting with fans through social media or delete their accounts in these social networks. Clearly, this is not something we should feel proud about.

     One of the many solutions that come to my mind is deleting the account of those people who offend others deliberately. Nevertheless, it is too easy to create another profile in these kind of webs, therefore, it would not be effective. Another possibility is to impose fines, for instance, if someone sends a tweet that is hateful or spiteful, they are fined with 25€; if they do it again, then they have to pay 75€; if they do not stop and carry on tweeting this type of messages, 200€ have to be paid; and so on.

    In a nutshell, it is a difficult task trying to stop the hate that can be found in these networks. However, with these solutions or similar ones, we can make it more difficult for people to send hate to normal people or well-known ones, because this is a pretty important problem that affects millions of citizens every hour, every day.

Outline

I.   Introduction: Fifth Harmony should have won the Artist on the Rise award in the EMAs last Sunday, because they deserved it, the group that won isn't on the rise and Harmonizers are the best fans ever.

II. Fifth Harmony deserved the award

      1. They're more and more famous every day

      2. They played a song in the pre-show

III. 5 Second of Summer is not an artist on the rise

      1. They're already famous

      2. They were nominated for other categories

IV. Harmonizers (Fifth Harmony's fans) are the best fans when it comes to voting

      1. They're really well organised

      2. They didn't sleep the night before the ceremony just to vote

V.  Conclusion: 5 Seconds of Summer didn't deserve to win, since Fifth Harmony is the definition of artist on the rise.

             One of my favourite groups is Fifth Harmony, although not a lot of people know about them, they’re wonderful. It’s one of the few girl groups now, these five girls, Lauren Jauregui, Normani Kordei, Camila Cabello, Ally Brooke and Dinah Jane Hansen, are between 17 and 21 years old, so I find it pretty easy to relate to them. I love their music due to the fact that they sing about girl power and teen problems. Furthermore, they interact a lot with their fans through Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr. Some of the things that make me enjoy being their fan are how they’re down to earth and how they’re willing to do anything in the world to see one of their fans smile. I really appreciate that just listening to one song makes my day, and I love them for making that possible.