캐나다 토론토 컬리지 입학 자체시험 및 반배치 고사 관련 에세이 샘플.

 

최근 조지브라운 컬리지, 센테니얼 컬리지, 세네카 컬리지 입학 자체 시험 및 반배치 고사의 가장 중요한 라이팅, 즉 짧은 에세이 샘플을 종종 올렸다. 

하지만 아무래도 나 역시 부족한 라이팅 실력과 브레인스토밍으로 인해 혹여라도 열심히 공부하며 준비하는 분들에게잘못된 정보를 전달 할 수 있단 생각이 들어 강의 시 사용하는 책에 나온 본문 내용을 기재하도록 하겠다. 

토론토 컬리지 강의 내 종종 어떠한 article을 토대로 paraphrase(페라프레이징)하거나  문단별 주요 내용을 도출하는 라이팅 테스트가 종종 있으니 미리 연습해보는 것도 나쁘지 않은 거 같다. 

 

<센테니얼 컬리지 영어 강의 책 본문 중...>

as a child, writer Andrew Lam fled Vietnam with his family and landed in San Francisco. like many immigrants, they arrived poor but determined to build a new life. Although the Lams later worked their way to middle class American comfort, they survived at first by scavenging for food. the author brings his unique perspective to this selection from his book perfume dream

 

When I was young, I used to eat food taken from a supermarket's garbage bin. We first came to America from Vietnam in the mid'70s as refugees, and my eldest brother got a job working in a supermarket across from our crowded, ramshackle apartment. Among his many chores he found one particularly distasteful: throwing expired food into the garbage bin nightly, then pouring Clorox on top to discourage scavengers and the poor. So without fail he would call friends and relatives to come over in the dark of night and salvage whatever we wanted before he poured the chemical over perfectly preserved bags of cookies, frozen dinner trays, cans of tuna, bags of flour and a myriad of other edible goods.

 

after a while the supermarket manager caught on to this scheme and had a now trash bin installed with a padlock. My brother was soon thereafter out of a job.

Not much has changed since then, as far as being wasteful goes.In fact, it's gotten worse. Sure, we recycle, we talk green, and we want to save the polar bears. But Americans still remains as wasteful as ever.

 

A study by the Nature Resources Defenses Council released recently found that Americans "waste 10 times as much food as someone in Southeast Asia, u 50 percent from Americans in the 1970s" we are throwing away up to 40 percent of our food, the research finds. that is estimated to be around $165 billion in wasted food each year. And even if we duffer from a long drawn recession, the average family of four winds up throwing ways the equivalent of up to $2200 in food a year.

 

But then there are the side effects: garbage production in the United States has doubled in the last 30 years. 

IN Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, Heather Rogers reported that approximately 80 percent of US products are used once, then thrown away, while 95 percent of all plastic, two-thirds of all glass containers, and 50 percent of all aluminum beverage cans are never recycled, but instead get burned or buried. Indeed, the average American discards almost seven pounds of trash per day. of all people on earth we produce the most waste.

 

The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population, yet it consumes more than 30 percent of the world's  energy resources, and generates 70 percent of total global toxic waste. "if everyone on the planet consumed at U.S. rates, we would need 3 to 5 planets to support our consumption!" notes Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives.

 

Not long ago, frugality was a virtue. Now, two-thirds of our economy is based on consumption. in the age of melting glaciers and rising sea levels, in an age where polar bears drowns and frogs die en masse and coral reefs disappear and biodiversity dwindles along with forestland - in the age, that is, of global warming, where hurricanes ravage cities and towns -our way of life has become unsustainable. it has created an unprecedented crisis on a planetary scale.

 

"When consumption becomes the very reason economies exist, we never ask, "how much is enough?" " why do we need all this stuff?" and  "are we any happier?"

writer David Suzuki, author of The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature

 

"Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences," Auzuki writes. "It is time to re examine some of our deeply held notions that underline our lifestyles.

 

More Americans are beginning to ask these same questions after Katrina. But materialism is a powerful force, and when elevated into a concept called consumerism, refined by the genius of advertising and given the title "American Dream, " few can resist. Consumer spending makes up more than 70 percent of our economy. We know we need to change, but like many an overweight person who wants to diet and exercise, we, as a nation, haven't found the will to break the habit. and it doesn't help that we're told all the time that consumption is good for the American economy.