Compositions 41 & 42(newspaper and Drug abuse)

Have newspapers become a medium of the past or do they still play important role in people's lives.

Newspapers play a very important role in our daily lives. 

The day begins with it. It is as important as the early bedtime tea. The very sound of the newspaper being flung by the newspaperman is welcome.

The newspaper makes the first announcement of the day’s news. More detailed information is sometimes available in the newspaper than on even television. Local news can be had in more details from the newspaper.

There is more pleasure in reading than in listening to it on the television or the radio. We can read the news about the main political developments within the country and of other countries too. Local news refer to accidents, crimes, deaths and even birthdays.

The second page carries information about programmers on radio and television as well as train schedules. There are weather forecasts for each.Different business advertise about their products and services. Newspaper is one of the best media for advertisements. People too look out for job vacancies.The index of stock market is published daily.Educational institutions advertise about admissions.The editorial page contains interesting articles, which are largely educative. A platform is provided to the readers to make their contribution to express their complaints or creativity.

There are separate pages for sports news, national as well as international. There are jokes and cartoons.
On Sundays there are matrimonial advertisements, weekly prediction for different horoscopes and magazine supplements carrying articles on all variety of topics.

Television, radio and internet can never replace newspaper. It is cheap and affordable by all sections. Those who don’t have time to watch the television at home depend solely on the newspaper for the news. Besides it enriches our knowledge and language. The pleasure of reading cannot be replaced by the visual medium.

Drug abuse has become a major social problem in many parts of the world. Discuss the consequence of drug abuse and ways to deal with the problem.

Drug abuse is one of the major social problems in many countries of the world. In fact it is international problem. The victims are people of all age groups and all sections of the society. The drug peddlers smuggle drugs in and out of the countries with ease. The governments are able to do little about it.
Often the youngsters under the influence of the friends start taking drugs. They sometimes do it in fashion and later get addicted. There are even instances of school children taking to drugs. After addiction they find jt difficult to leave this bad
habit. Often the parents get to know about it only when it is too late. 
Among the poor sections of the society people face a lot of hardships in life as many are unemployed. Due to lack of education or inadequate education they don’t get good jobs. This creates a lot of frustration, anger and suffering. To escape all these problems such people start taking drugs.
People may have other problems like marital or financial. Sometimes they are from well off families but suffering from lack of parental love and affection, broken love affairs and so on force people to take to drugs. This leads to increase in the number of crimes. The youngsters are easy targets. The anti-social elements want to make money out of drug trafficking.
The governments of all the countries should make joint efforts to solve the problems of drug trafficking because it is a world problem. So far we have failed to find a permanent and effective solution to this serious problem.
In all the countries there should be rehabilitation centers in order to de-addict the drug users. In schools and colleges students should be educated about the harmful effects of the drugs. The government should educate and increase awareness in the people through media like newspaper, television, magazines, advertisements, films, etc. Social organizations should come forward to serve the society in this respect.