Shirley asked:

1. Are people free to move anywhere in the world?

2. What is the advantage of speaking more than one language?

3. How can you encourage young people to read books?

4. If history is the thing of the past why are we concerned about it today?

5. How has technology invaded our privacy?

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To answer each of these questions fully would require 5 essays, and there isn't space for that on
these pages! So how can I best help you? Perhaps the best thing — and I'm guessing that you're
stuck on these questions and don't know where to begin — is for me to split each question up into
several questions.

1. Are people free to move anywhere in the world? Is everyone in the world equally free? Are people
in some countries more free than others? Are you free to move anywhere in the world? Is it a good, a
desirable thing, to be free to move anywhere in the world? Does money give you more freedom to
move?

2. What is the advantage of speaking more than one language? Can you speak more than one
language? If not, do you wish you could? Why? What benefits might it bring you? Are some
languages more advantageous to master than others? Why?

3. How can you encourage young people to read books? There are lots of different ways in which
teachers, librarians, educators, parents etc. are actually trying to encourage young people to read
books — for example, Storysacks, in which a reading book is bagged up together with a non-fiction
book, a soft toy, and a game, or something similar. A local school or library might be able to tell you
other methods they are using, and perhaps give you their opinions on the success or failure of those
methods. When you have found out about how people actually encourage young people to read
books, you could then try to think of other possible ways of doing it.

4. If history is the thing of the past why are we concerned about it today? Are you concerned about
history? If not, who is? Why are you / they concerned about it? Do you agree that history is 'the thing
of the past'? Can knowing about history help us in any way? Is it necessary for historical knowledge
to be useful for us to be concerned about it?

5. How has technology invaded our privacy? Has it invaded your privacy?...now you continue!

Katharine Hunt