Nowadays the way many people interact with each other has changed because of technology. In what ways has technology affected the types of relationships people make? Has this become a positive or negative development? These days with the advent of by becoming new technologies, the communication and interaction among individuals have changed in comparison with the past. These kinds of changes have affected on social interactions. In this regard that, not only have they does it make made distances shorter, but also simplified communications. Obviously, each additional change that occurs has some merits and demerits. First of all, the face of communications in comparison with the past has been changed with by the advent of new technology. As a case in point, let's look at some decades ago. Individuals for making communication utilized other ways such as conveying messages by horses, birds and others that took more than several months until a message arrived to at its destination, but now it is possible to send messages to far distances even to another country less than a second. However, on one hand, the internet as an advantage of this evolution in the present era not only has accelerated the pace of development in every facet of our life, but also has eased made international communication and even international transaction more easily and smoothly. On the other hand, apparently these kinds of changes have some disadvantages in social and personal interactions. In this respect, although they have it has been facilitated to make communicate with each other, people more likely stay at home and avoid face to face interaction. To sum up, from my viewpoint, although the pros of new technologiesy surpass their its cons, we should have/create/restore /make equilibrium between using new ways and traditional ones for our communications.

Individuals can do nothing to change societies. Any new developments can only be brought about by governments and large institutions. How far do you agree or disagree? Nowadays, the question as to whether or not the individuals could be effective in terms of the societies'social changes has turned into a debatable issue. Many experts are of the belief that these responsibilities fall only on the governments and big institutes while others think individuals can act as an asset to raise the level of general understanding of people and also force the governments to implement effective measures in this regard. As far as societies are concerned, only if individuals put the demands for changes in the societies, could the governments and big companies could only act as an suppliery to catch up with the demands. In other words, when people are aware of current issues of a society and frequently ask for some major changes, the government response responds to these demands, and allocates the budget or implements effective measures to bring about changes. Take my country, Iran, as an example, where people mostly run different campaigns to make other people aware of numerous issues. Also there is a well‐known quote that every single change starts from individuals. If a society is interested in any changes, every member they should start from themselves. Taking all these issues into the account, I get the impression that to bring about any change, every individual has the same importance as the respective/related government. What it all comes down to is that the most important step in bringing major changes in societies is being well‐informed informative as an every member of society the societies. I am not much for the idea that one cannot can't do anything on one's own parts.

The graph below shows the quantities of goods transported in the UK between 1974 and 2002 by four different modes of transport. The given line graph presents the amount of good transported using four distinct types of shipment namely water, pipeline, rail and road in the United Kingdom between the time period of 28 years from 1974 and 2002. It can be immediately observed that the number of commodities transported in the UK by all four different kinds of transport has increased over the given period. According to the graph the usage of transportation by water and rail was at the same level (about 40 million tonnes) in 1974, whereas the year 1978 and 1998 the rail transportation had a slight drop and water transportation levelled off. However, water transportation reached reaching more than 60 million tonnes of good transported in 2002. In addition, the rail transportation reached to the previous status (roughly 40 million tonnes). It is noticeabley that there was a significant rise in the quantities of merchandise transported on road in the UK over 28 years from 1974 to 2002 (approximately 100 million tonnes). In contrast, pipeline maintained the same level from 1982 till 1990 and between 1990 and 1994 decreased slowly and then, remained steady reaching over 20 million tonnes. In conclusion/overall/to sum up, pipeline transportation had the lowest status in comparison with the other modes of transportation. Besides, road transportation had a the highest level of transportation in the UK.