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Nowadays, with advancements in technology, especially the Internet, it really doesn’t take much to start your own company. The percentage of college students choosing to start their own businesses right after graduation has risen globally for three consecutive years, a survey shows. The following two excerpts are about this trend. Write an article of NO LESS THAN 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize the main opinions of both excerpts, and then 2. express your opinion towards the trend, especially whether it is wise for graduates to start a business right out of college.Excerpt 1 With a gloomy job market for recent graduates, it’s becoming more common for students to start their own businesses when they leave school. For example, Ohio is not known for its entrepreneurship, ranking 33 in the U.S., but more students are attempting to be their own bosses."We’re seeing is a lot of kids are coming out and starting businesses. They’re young and creative and have great ideas," said Aaron Delidou, managing partner at Provest Properties in Dayton, which helps entrepreneurs interested in starting a business. Many of these recent graduates are taking advantage of unexplored niches in the tech market. Murphy created a book business called Murfbooks, but it’s not a traditional indie bookstore. Murphy buys books by the truckload, sorts them at his warehouse, and sells them online to Amazon and wholesalers. If the book is too beat up to be sold, he sells them to recycling companies. But it’s not just tech companies being created for the young entrepreneurs. Emily Meyer, who graduated from the University of Dayton in May, started College Base Camp in December with her partner Justin D’Arcy, hoping to give high school kids a better idea of what they want to do with their lives before they go into college. Delidou said it’s better for young people to start early, rather than waiting. "If you’re 40 years old with a family, you have responsibilities," Delidou said. "When you’re young and single you have more resources at your disposal and fewer responsibilities."Excerpt 2 Recent graduates also have some fears related to the risks involved in business startup. Only 21 percent believe that starting their own businesses offers more security than getting a job. "The Mark Zuckerbergs of the world make startups look easy, but the cold hard facts are that 9 out of 10 new businesses fail in the first five years," notes Carol Roth, a Chicago-based business strategist who has helped her startup clients raise over $1 billion in capital. Before you make up your mind about which way to go, Roth says, take a hard, honest look at your motivation for starting a company. Too many entrepreneurial wannabes of all ages (not just new grads) are "looking to get rich, escape the corporate grind, and work shorter hours with more free time," she observes. With that in mind, are you sure you want to leap in head first If not, Carol Roth has a suggestion: Get a job in the industry where you eventually want to establish your business as a way to learn "how to manage vendor relationships, market your product, deal with customers, and keep detailed books." Clearly, having a great idea for starting a business isn’t enough. There’s a skills gap and a confidence gap that could keep the next generation of entrepreneurs from bringing their dreams of business ownership to life.

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Japan is known for its culture of workaholic for long. Now the Japanese government is considering stepping into stop the madness, with plans to submit legislation that would make five dags of paid vacation mandatory every year. The following article gives more details of this policy. Write an article of NO LESS THAN 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize the article briefly, and then 2. express your opinion towards the regulation, especially whether we need similar regulations in China. In Japan, It Soon May Be Illegal Not to Take Vacation Wake up at 7:30, commute to work, spend 13 hours in the office, run for the last train home, eat, and crash into to bed. The next day, rinse and repeat. Welcome to the insane working hours of a Japanese salaryman during crunch times at work. It’s a schedule that sometimes leads to what the Japanese call karoshi—death by overwork. Now, in an attempt to help, the Japanese government is considering a plan to force workers to take five vacation days a year. People are literally working themselves to death, says Jeffrey Johnson, a researcher at the University of Maryland who studied the phenomenon of karoshi. There’s an accumulation of case studies of people who worked extremely intense hours, and then died when they were relatively young. A Japanese nonprofit set up by the families left behind lists one typical example: Mr. Kanameda, who worked as many as 110 hours every week at a snack food company, and died at 34. Like the U.S., where only half of workers took a single vacation day last year, Japan has a culture that makes people reluctant to take time off. People truly believe the harder they work, the better they are, says Johnson. And there’s this kind of samurai commitment to their employers, this devotion to duty that enables people to lose that almost instinctual self-protection. The problem isn’t just long hours, but the intensity of work. Some jobs also incorporate the philosophy of kaizen—continuous improvement—which asks employees to ruthlessly eliminate any second of downtime on the job. If the government ends up forcing people to take vacations, that may help. It’s putting limits on the degree to which people can have this kind of socialized ’work is more important than anything else’ kind of philosophy take over their entire lives, says Johnson. During that rest period, their body gets to recalibrate. It takes quite a while if you’ve had a very intense period of stress. Maybe longer than a typical vacation. But any vacation does help. If Japan needs to force workers to take vacations, then the U.S. might want to do the same (a few forward-thinking companies already are). In a year, U.S. workers work 1,800 hours—more than any other country in the world, including Japan. The less money an American worker makes, the less likely they are to take any vacation days. When we do go on vacation, we bring all these electronic devices to wire us in, Johnson says. We can’t help it. But all of this is one of the reasons there’s so much growth in things like mindfulness meditation—ways of trying to calm the body and quiet the mind. It’s happening because there’s such a great need for it in our society.