If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you chang

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If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you change? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.

My hometown is in a highland in which almost its area is covered by tropical forest. However, ten years ago, people cut down all trees for producing paper and wood furniture. If I could change one important thing about my hometown, I would keep forest. In view of the fact that people have gotten less benefit than the price has been paid for their actions, such as irregulating water, impoverished soil.

Thank to trees having a lot of roots that it keeps water from raining in summer season in land. This will regulate flow of water in rivers and streams to prevent flood in the rain, and keep constantly underground water in dry season. Actually, from destroyed-forest, people always live in unsafely conditions by flood which are generated at any time, even thought small raining falls in ground in my hometown. In dry season, big animals including cow, buffalo…ect are died by lack of water, while people living is also not better than them, since underground water supplier is not enough water for their demand. Although, my government have been replanting forest, but it will take a long time to restore the original.

Additionally, trees-lost causes impoverished soil, because there have not have trees to keep a thin nutritional layer on the land surface, so it is easy to throw it away by a raining. Besides, in annual, the land is not added a big amount of nutrition by death-tree degradation and transformation process in soil. Therefore, farm work is more disadvantages. Farmers have to spend much more money on chemical fertilizer for their crop. Yet, the capacity is not really high; it also induces other issues for environment including land and water pollution.

Abovely, this is only an individual wish for changing my hometown which was affected by tree lost. On the other hand, I also hope every people know additional information about the role of forest in our planet through my assay. To save our planet, it is being damaged by human’s activity.

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If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you change? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.

My hometown is in an highland island in which THAT IS almost its area is TOTALLY covered by tropical forest. However, ten years ago people cut down all trees for producing paper and wood furniture. If I could change one important thing about my hometown, I would keep THE forest. In view of the fact that people have gotten less benefit than the price THAT has been paid for their actions, such as IRRIGATING water, impoverished soil.

Thank to trees having a lot of roots(,) that IS WHAT keeps water from Draining in summer season inland. This will regulate THE flow of water in rivers and streams to prevent floodS in the rain, and RETAIN water in UNDERGROUND FOR THE dry season. Actually, from destroyed-forest, people always live in unsafe conditions FROM floodS which are generated at any time, even thought ONLY A small AMOUNT OF rain falls TO THE ground in my hometown. In THE dry season, big animals including cow, buffalo…ect are died by DIE FROM THE lack of water, while people living ARE also no better than them, since underground water supplieS ARE is not enough water for their demand. Although, my government have been replanting THE forest, but it will take a long time to restore IT TI the original CONDITION.

Additionally, trees-losS causes impoverished soil, because there have not have ARE NOT ENOUGH trees to keep a thin nutritional layer on the land surface, so it is easy to throw WASH it away WHEN IT rainS. Besides, in annual, the land is not a big amount of nutrition added by death-tree degradation and THE transformation process in soil. Therefore, farm work is more disadvantageD. Farmers have to spend much more money on chemical fertilizer for their cropS. Yet, the capacity is not really high; it also induces other issues for environment including land and water pollution.

Above, this is only an individual wish for changing my hometown which was affected by tree losS. On the other hand, I also hope every PERSON HAS know additional information about the role of forest in our planet through my assay. To save our planet, it is being damaged by THE ACTIVITY OF human’s.
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Your vocabulary is impressive Insam, but your sentence structure needs lots of attention. Make time to do more reading.

Kitos. 7/10

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Hi, Mr. Kitosdad,

I’m very happy to read your comment.
I’ll focus on sentence structure that i suggested.

See you next time.

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I’m living in Bucharest, the capital city of Romania. If I could change something here, I would started trying to change the people. It is true, life is hectic, rents are huge, traffic is awful, money are few. But this is not an excuse for being rude and always nervous. We should – me also, I must admit – smile often, be more polite, especially when driving, offer the place in a bus for an old woman, etc. We should also act more and complain less. I hardly believe that it could be possible to make our life better, by learning, struggling for a better job, and not by bribing for it. The worst thing is that the new generation no longer believe in a succesfully and, on the same time, an onest life. Too many wrong example created a false imagine about what we have to mean by a good life. I try to change it starting with my children, I hope it isn’t an impossible task.

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Hi, Cristina68,

The problems have happened in your home, they also have existed in my home town.

Let’s start to improve them by education, firstly.

I hope that i receive your message when you get success in the task.