To the Student

Once a week each student is invited to write one entry. The topic is of your choice, but should be meaningful and respecting ethical values.
Did you have a good or bad day at school? Write about it. If you don't want to write about yourself, write about a rainy day, the streets of Istanbul or a famous person. These are just examples, of course. Feel free to express yourself!

Monday, February 25, 2008

TRANSPORTATİON THROUGH TIME


From the Stone Age to the age of modern space travel, people have been designing new inventions to improve transportation. However, some of these have become reality simply dreams. Of different form of transportation that people came up with, some were too modern to make at the time , others were too ridiculous.
Let’s think for a moment about one popular means of transport, the aoreplane. For years many people believed that flying through the air was impossible however there were those who thought it could happen, but their ideas were not realistic enough. Some invented machines with wings and tried to fly them, but failed.
The people who imagined things like flying machines were not crazy. Actually they were just ahead of their time. The technology that they needed was not available. For example in the 13th century a monk called Roger Bacon dreamed of making flying machines, submarines and automobiles but he did not know how to build them. Also Leonardo Da Vinci drew first helicopter but it was possible to make one only centuries later. It was not until early 1900s that science and technology found the answers. The history of space travel started in 1957, when The Russians sent a rocket to space. In 1969 Americans had landed the moon.
Travelling further and faster certainly has its advantages ,but there are disadvantages, too. Most modern means of transport are so unsafe for the environment that they are one of the main causes of atmospheric pollution. So that we need think again about how we travel. We must use the modern methods we have to develop types of transport which are environment-friendly.

1 comment:

Students Journal said...

You found a nice essay about transportation; good model essay. Thanks. Is this your answer for writer's block?