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Many jobs used to be done at home by hand, but nowadays an increasing number of them are done using machines instead. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this development.

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A decade ago,
people
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were
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preferred to
doing
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do
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 their
task
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tasks
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 at home by
hands
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hand
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 and they
avoid
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avoided
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 using
science
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 inventions.
Whereas
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, in the present era,
individual
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individuals
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 love
for
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apply
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handling machines
for
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in
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 their daily routine
works
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work
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. It has lots of advantages but we cannot neglect the downsides of
usage
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the usage
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 of
technologies
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technology
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. On the one hand, there are a plethora of advantages of using machines which can save a lot of occasions and perform better than humans.
For
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example
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 washing clothes manually
consume
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consumes
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 too much, water and detergent.
Therefore
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,
people
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 use a washing machine
for
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to
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 wash
bucket
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buckets
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 of clothes at one time and save their water and detergent
also
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.
Moreover
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,
people
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 use
a
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apply
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kitchen
appliance
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appliances
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 like
blender
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blenders
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, microwaves and
refrigerator
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refrigerators
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 for cooking food and
preserved
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 it for a long time.
On the other hand
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, there are some drawbacks
of
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to
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 using technologies which can affect our health and fitness. In
past
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the past
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people
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doing
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did
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 their
homes
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home
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 chores manually and they
stay
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stayed
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 healthy and fit because their
body
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bodies
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was
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were
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 always busy.
Therefore
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, the
ration
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ratio
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 of diseases at that time
very
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was very
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 less as compared to the modern era.
Furthermore
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, in
past
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the past
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people
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 love to
doing
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do
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 work manually and they promote that culture to
their
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the
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 next generation.
For instance
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, a few years ago
people
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encourage
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encouraged
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 their children to do work manually and
give
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gave
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 them a reward to
motivating
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motivate
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 them
for
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to
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doing works
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do work
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 physically.
To conclude
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, the use of machines for daily routine work is good in terms of
saving
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savings
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 and utilities.
However
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, it can be harmful to humans in
long
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the long
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terms
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term
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 and
people
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lost
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lose
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 their health gradually if they
will
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do
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 not do any kind of physical activity.

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Task Response
Ensure to clearly address all parts of the task in your response. Expand on the disadvantages of using machines and provide more examples to support your points.
Coherence and Cohesion
Work on organizing your ideas in a more logical manner. Consider using transition words to improve the flow between paragraphs.

Your opinion

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • automation
  • efficiency
  • productivity
  • manual labor
  • hazardous jobs
  • initial investment
  • production costs
  • job displacement
  • skills gap
  • technical skills
  • reliance
  • vulnerabilities
  • breakdowns
  • cyber attacks
  • craftsmanship
  • artisanal skills
  • cultural heritage
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