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This is a picture of one of the most popular places in China, Guilin. Guilin is famous for its beautiful natural environment, the mountains, rivers, lakes and trees are all getting together and has depicted a graceful picture. I really want to go to Guilin once and enjoy the amazing landscape there. 

//persuasive essay :

Fewer Computers, Large Benefits//

 Can you think about the day you don’t have a computer? Can you imagine the life without using computer? I’m pretty sure you can’t. Because of the rapid development of scientific technology, our lives have become much more convenient than before. However, also as a result of the developing of the world, computers have invaded to our lives and influenced us a lot. Computers are adequately and widely used around the entire world, especially for teenagers. But we also should know that computers are overused. People spend so much time working on them, which leads to a series of bad effects.

I have been interested in the bad effects of using computers and thought a lot about them. I searched on the internet, looked up related books and asked many adults. And now I found 3 negative effects of using computers.

First, using computer for too long will disserve your health in a lot of ways. There are at least two problems. A study in England validated that the low frequency radiation and electromagnetic field can cause the unbalance of centered-nerve system and even seven to nineteen kinds of diseases including itchy eyes, acanthi hurt, temporarily losing memory and etc. Furthermore, for women who are working for a long time in front of computers, the percentage of getting breast cancer will increase and harm babies in their bodies as well. What’s more, using keyboard and mouse too often will also hurt your wrists and hands. The time of repetitive hand motions with constant word typing can cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome which will slow down your hand motion and even affect your ability of driving cars.

Second, using computers overtime will make you lose some of your abilities. Have you ever had an experience that you feel your handwriting become no proficient after you have used computer for a long time? You are losing the ability to write with a pen. The overusing of computer will reduce of brain function. In other word, it is killing your brain cells! What’s more, your English skills will also degenerate by using computers. Everyone knows that programs like Microsoft Word has the function to correct the word you typed wrong automatically. This can decrease our attention on our mistakes. This will influence us in hand writing because you always think someone will correct the misspellings for you and you will ignore the incorrect words you had written; as a result, you will make more mistakes.

Third, using computers is a waste of time. Think about your daily life, how many people use computer for study? How many people are using computers playing games for most of the time because of their lack of self-controlled ability? Nowadays, more and more computer games such as World of Warcraft and Aion attract teenagers who should study during the time they are playing. And as a result, their grades are deteriorating really fast. I have seen a questionnaire for teenagers on the internet said that on average, only 1/6 of their time of using computer is for learning, such as looking for information and doing homework. The rest 5/6 is spent on chatting with friends, playing computer games and searching for meaningless websites or other things.

The convenience and usefulness of computer is inevitable. However if we consider more about our future, your health and your temporary entertainment, which is more important? Of course, everyone will prefer the previous one, health.

I want to declare one thing, that is: I’m not asking everyone to stop using computers, because it is impossible. We have to use them, but when we are using computers, ask ourselves whether we are using them for proper things, whether we are going to play computer games. Use computers as less as we can, not for others, but for our own benefits.