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Some people believe that unpaid community service should be a compulsory part of high school programmes (for example working for a charity, improving the neighbourhood or teachign sports to younger children). To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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The bar graph given gives information about the number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in three different categories over seven year period between 1995 and 2002 in the UK. Overall, it is easy to see that calls
with
Suggestion
to
 mobile phones and national and international lines saw an upturn trend
although
 local lines decreased considerably after rising. Local fixed lines are the most popular way of telephone calls by far in 1995 at around 72
billion
 minutes in comparison with others whereas mobile phones were the least used. All three types of calls increased gradually until 1999 and local lines stood at the highest level at exactly 90
billion
 minutes at that time. After 1999, local fixed lines started to fall significantly in each year by roughly 5
billion
 minutes per annually.
On the other hand
, national and international lines continued to rise and it stood just over 60
billion
 minutes in 2002. Mobile
phones’
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phone
 calls which saw the most remarkable change maintained its increase and it grew more than 10 times at the end of the period, in 2002.

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