Essay

Topic: there is nothing that young people can teach older people. Do you agree with this following statement?


A lot of people say that young people can’t teach anything to older people because they are still students, and older people have lived more, but I think this is not a true fact because there are lots of people who can’t read, they know the economy, but I do not think that they know about sciences.Many young people know better about sciences, and technology, but older people don’t really know because they can only read news paper to know the economy, or watch TV to know, but sciences don’t show in the TV or news paper that much. Because young people go to the school, and study, there are new facts that they can know information that older people don’t know; in this case, young people have to teach old people. So I think that young people can teach old people.Because there were World War first and second, many people did not care about education, so some old people can speak, but not reading. I know in Korea because it was colonized by Japan, many old people could not read, so young people are trying to help them to how to write and read. This is another reason for young people can teach.Many people thought that young people are unable to teach older people because lately many young people don’t care about the environment, politic, or even studying, but mostly they do care about studying, so young people can easily teach. Another reason is young people have used a lot of technology, it seems that they are not trying anything.Therefore it might seem that young people are not able to teach and there are nothing to teach, but there are.It is one of prejudices that young people have nothing to teach, but there are lots of things to teach with the reasons above, I think that young people do have something to teach older people that they don’t know.

1984

Chapter 1 part 1
1. Discuss the omnipresent posters of Big Brother in terms of his physical appearance as well as the phrase “Big Brother Is Watching You.” What does the caption imply about the society in which Winston Smith lives? Are these implications supported by evidence from Chapter 1?
In chapter 1, we know lots of things about Winston Smith’s life. Big Brother is the leader of Oceania, but he does not exist, still it influence the way that people live in this book.
We absolutely know that Big Brother does not exist because first of all, none of the party member has seen Big Brother, it could be based on someone, but he can’t be alive because he had ruled for long time. Secondly, he is never shown up, he is always on telescreen, or poster, even when he speaks his speech, he is on the telescreen, and he never dies. The party still shows the face of Big Brother because they want absolute power, and they want to keep it.
Winston’s life is very complicated because he has no freedom, privacy, or he can’t even think about negative thoughts, he has to be unorthadox, and double think (you think your real thoughts, but you pretend that you are not thinking, you are thinking another thoughts). He is being every time, and if the party thinks that he thinks of any rebellion, he will be tortured. The phrase “Big Brother is watching you”, it means that he will be watching through the telescreen no matter what. For example, even in the café, there is telescreen. So Winston is living in hard society.
These implications are supported by evidence from chapter 1 because in chapter 1, it shows that Winston is being watched, it shows that he can not communicate, neither look, glance to people. And we could know Big Brother is the leader because he is always on the telescreen, watch people, and control everything.
Winston lives in horrible place because he can not keep privacy, not even reading a real good book because it might show that rebellion will happen, but because party does not want, they support horrible books. To conclude this essay, As Big Brother always watch people, they have no power.


Discuss the three party slogans and what each statement implies about this society. What does the public’s easy acceptance of these mottos suggest about the populace at this stage of the story

There are three party slogans, War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. These means that having a common enemy keeps the people of Oceania united. For example, because people are having war, they have to work harder in order to not tortured, so they work harder that they have no time to think about anything, so this will keep the people united (they are forced to be worked precisely, and because party wants to keep power they made this slogan.) According to the party. Men (whole people) who are independent always fail their life, good example is Winston later in the book, after he became independent, and he became very careless that he will be tortured some day. Ignorance is strength I think it means that if you just ignore everything, you will achieve what you want from the party, party is watching you and someday, if you approve, they will make you to work in the party.

Describe the circumstances surrounding the death of Winston’s mother. What are his conflicting emotions? Tell why her death is doubly tragic, in view of societal changes since Winston’s childhood.
In chapter three, Winston dreams Golden age, golden country basically means the best time of the country, just like history, and in this case golden country is the country that Winston desperately wants. I said desperately because Winston never wants to live in the country that he wants to.
In his dream, he dreams that he keeps his privacy, he reads, and he can write. But he dreams about death of his mother (precisely, he dreams his mother is in sinking ship.) He feels very sorry for her, also he feels responsibility about her, and his sister because they have sacrificed for Winston to live more (this is why her death is doubly tragic). He destroyed the picture that it was illegal.
In my opinion, his dream is very prophetic. He dreams dark-haired girl, Julia, she meets her later on in the café, but he feels fear when he noticed Julia is following him every time because he thought that he was the agent of thought police. Another prophetic example is about O’Brien he said, “we shall meet in the room without darkness”, it just means Winston is going to succeed someday to prevent the party for having no privacy, and later on Winston actually meets O’Brien in the room without darkness. So his dream is prophetic for the later in the book.
Winston’s mother died twenty years ago, at that time party did not have that much power, after him mother died, unfortunately, the party started to have absolute power that no one can have rebellion.
Winston’s dream shows the background of his life, and the party. And because it is prophetic, his dream is one of most important part of the book.
Winston wakes up with word Shakespeare.


Discuss the implications of Winston’s dreams as acts of thought crime.

Winston’s dream is very thought criminal because it kinds of shows the rebellion because he does not really think about any rebellious thing. However, his dreams are all about having freedom, privacy, and love with Julia. Thought crime is just same as the word, a person who thinks about rebellious is thought crime that is why there is thought police, and telescreen. I think that Golden Country is one of thought crime because you can’t really see, but in his dream, he dreams about he having lots of time of freedom, and party does not exist.
Thought crime is very complicated, order to not be caught, you should not write yourself, you shouldn’t read the book that is about rebellious (but you can read the book that the party provides.). To the party, Winston’s dream is definitely a thought crime because he dreams about the things that the party does not want. But fortunately, he was not caught because he doublethink, and it is dream. So party will have difficult time to figure out unless Winston acts rebelliously.
He has action that will be able to cause the thought crime. His diary, and book will be caught some day. He is not supposed to write any diary because it makes him to think about negative things about the party (but yet, he did not write any mad, angry expressions, he did not have these kind of emotions when he writes diary).
If we think of Winston’s dream as prophetic thing, he will be caught someday because he dreams he is being chased, and all the dreams that he has dreamed are true, and prophetic, he dreams show his future life that he is going to be caught and tortured.


Part 1, Chapters 4 and 51. Discuss the function of the Ministry of Truth. What is ironic about its title? Explain what Winston does there and how he feels about his work. Explain how the creation of Comrade Ogilvy supports the Party motto. Ministry of Truth concerns about the News, there are ironic things about this. I think there are two things about this title.
When they give people news, they will give propaganda, we can easily know party is going to do this by reading a book, the theme of government is “false is reality”. Ministry of Truth will give people about wrong information to keep their power forever,
The reason why Ministry of Truth is doing this is that they never want to lose their power; they want to control the people. Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, his job is to fix the speech of Big Brother’s, he hates the party, but he likes his job so much (he is good at his work). Comrade Ogilvie is a creation of Winton’s; he made him to help the Party motto. How he helps the party is, he speaks to the people in telescreen.

How would you explain both Parsons’ and Syme’s acceptance of obvious propaganda? Discuss the reasons.

Parson and Syme both work in the Ministry of Truth. Syme is an intelligent person who works in New Speak, Winston thinks that he is too intelligent for the party, but one day he will be vaporized because he thinks too much, which he should not do. Parson also works in New speak, but he is not as smart as Syme, and he follows the rule from the party because fears of torture.
It is very obvious to see both of people’s acceptance of obvious propaganda, they are not like Winston, they want to follow the rule that Party made because they never want to be vaporized and tortured, they want to live, even though they know that Party or oligarchy is ruling very terribly that everyone know that they are not doing right things. To live in this country, they have to follow the rules, so if the party ask them to accept propaganda, they certainly will accept because they fear, are afraid of the party.
Another reason why they want to accept is that they are one of party member, they are working in Ministry, they live better than anyone else, even though they are being watched, and they live better than the proles. Well, everyone is better than proles because party make them distract by supporting bad music and literature because the party knows that if proles become rebellion, they have no power to prevent them, and everyone who works in Ministry will be enemy of proles. However, Syme and Parsons don’t want Proles to be rebellion, it is too late that they tell the truth to the proles, and the final way to live is listening to the party.
If I was Syme or Parsons, I would become rebellion, I will sacrifice myself, to wake up the proles that the party will be gone forever because it is ridiculous to be watched every time, but if I can sacrifice myself, everything will be changed. So I would not accept propagnda.


What does the upstairs room at Charrington’s shop mean to Winston? Why does he buy the paperweight? How might this action be interpreted symbolically?

This action is start of rebellion because he goes to room that has no telescreen, this is an absolute rebellious action because he sleeps with Julia, reads in the room 101, write his thoughts, but this is ironic because we know that Winston is going to be caught later on (from the dream), upstairs room at mr.charrington’s shop mean to Winston is a room for him to stay, and without telescreen.

1984

Differences between Julia & Winston as a rebel


Julian and Winston, they both are rebels, but there are big differences between them. First of all Winston thinks about whole groups of people, if he can sacrifice himself to save the whole world, he would do it. However he is too careful, not brave enough. Julia is very brave, what ever she thinks, and she shows some action. And if she is comfortable enough she is good enough.

Doublethink: doublethink is that person is thinking real things that he is going to do, but in present time, he shows different actions because he is being forced.
EX) Winston is a person who double thinks because he thinks of rebellion, but he works in the party.

Part 1 is important. In chaper1, it shows that there is no privacy, which is one of them in the book, and Winston is a rebel. We know this because he reads, writes a diary. And four ministries are very important in the book, Ministry of Love, Peace, Plenty, and Truth. Ministry of Truth concerned about News. Peace concerned itself with war, Love maintained the law and order, and Plenty was economic affairs.

We also know that Big Brother is not a real person because he has ruled for a longtime more than 100 years, he never dies, he is always on the post, too. So we know that “appearance is not a reality” just like when Winston goes to room without telescreen, but there was behind of picture.

Winston awakes the word Shakespeare, after he dreams about his family, he feels responsibility, and Julia works in the fiction department of Ministry of Truth.
According to O’Brien, the purpose of Ministry of Love is not to punish people, to care, and fix them.

Goldstein’s book is called “The theory and practice of oligarchial collectivism.”

Winston think that Syme is too intelligent for the party, but he will be vaporized one day because he thinks too much, which you should not do in this book.

Party's Slogan: WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. It means that having a common enemy keeps the people of Oceania united. According to pary, the man who is independent is discovered to fail. The inability of the people of recognize these contradictory cements the powere of authoritaniam regime. Man subjective to the collective will is danger.

One weird thing is that Winston likes his job, even though he does not like Big Brother. His job is to fix the announcement of News; speechs of Big Brother's

Essay

Topic: should government spend more money on improving roads and highways, or should governments spend more money on improving public transportation?


Depends on what the places are, is gong to change the plan, but in my opinion, they should spend money for improving public transportation because we are not going to be able to use the car because of minerals. If we want to save the environment, we have to use public transportation more than cars.The reason why public transportation is more important is that people still don’t use that many buses, subways, or trains because of the car. If we keep using car and develop more roads and highways, we are never going to use public transportations because we don’t really feel any problem with minerals, but the roads are improving, people won’t even think about any environmental things.Minerals are limited, even oil is unlimited; we got to save, and use not that many times because of air. Because we use many cars, air has been dirty and warm that it cause the global warming, we are not going to be able to fix this problem, so we got to start using public transportations.Public transportations are not well developed yet that much, but still many people use them, so if the government think of keep using, and more people using public transportation, they got to improve public transportation with the money. This is no waste because we are going to use more of them.In my opinion, right now highways and the roads are more important, but unless those are broken and can’t use them, we shouldn’t spend that much on it because there are better ways to spend money on it to solve the problem.

Essay

Fighting should not be banned in hockey.

There are lots of hockey players who fight with other players. Some players likes to watch fighting, but some does not because it looks so dangerous, and violent that they might get injured by fighting. However, people won’t be able to stop the fighting in the hockey game because the players are allowed to hit; a few players play roughly, you get very excited when we are watching the fights, and once players are emotional, it is almost impossible to stop unless they stop themselves.
The players are allowed to hit other players in NHL, which causes fighting. Some players might not, but some players play very rough that roughness makes other players emotional. This causes fighting, but rules won’t be able to change. First of all, people have adaptations of hitting, and even though they see the big hits, people say “wow, that is such a big hit”, they get more excited, but they don’t really worry about the conditions of players. If people don’t think anything bad, it is very hard to throw thoughts away because people have prejudices. For example, because people thought that men were better, and greater than women, lots of people still think that men are the best; just like this people believe there has to be hits in the hockey game, and people who made the hockey rule probably thought fights, and they have seen them, if they took it very seriously, they could have stopped it, but now they can’t because the players are going to fight anytime they want. Secondly, players are hard to control their emotion if they get hit roughly because it makes them to feel very aggressive that players want to hit more and harder even if you have good manner. Sometimes, you did not really mean to hit, but you might hit the players really hard, and get fight. These kinds of things makes hard to stop fighting.
The fans are excited about the fights because they think that it is fun to watch, especially when players are hosting other team, because they have lots of home fans, it will makes them feel even more aggressive. Sometimes they think that they should fight because of the fans, the fans are going to chastise the players because they did not fight, you are not a man, or you are such a bad, and weak player. Once you get very aggressive, it is almost impossible to calm down, and focus on play. For example, you had fight with other players; it is fine if you are hyper, or mad, but because you had a fight, you will be able to give up the game, but you will play rough, you are going to want to revenge by hitting. Another example is that you are playing a videogame, but you have lost every single game by same player, what do you want to do? You want to get better, and are going to try to win the game as rough as you can. Because it is almost impossible to stop players, there should not be any prohibition of fights.
I don’t know why people think that fights should be prohibited. They don’t want any injury players? Or they don’t want players, or whole team to have bad relationship? We can’t really say because of these reasons, fights should be banned because firstly, it is their choice, not ours, they have decided to fight, you are allowed to fight, so there are no reasons why there should be no fighting in the hockey game. Secondly fights in hockey are 100% clean because there are lots of players who check from the back, or play very cheap…etc. Fights are clean because if you just like to hit and hit forever, both teams are going to have bad relationship, but hockey fights might solve the problem because it is clean fight, both of players have skate, no weapons, no team wants to have bad relationship with others, and because of the fights both teams are going to think that bad relationship is over, they are going to try to keep their relationship as best as they can.
If there were no hits, or cheap players, there should be no fights. However, there are fights because sometimes, players can’t control themselves. The reasons why the can fight are natural things that they can’t really do (make the rule, prohibition of fight), and to watch better hockey game. Fights in hockey should not be banned.

Essay

Topic: now days, food had become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live? What is the problem with the fast food? Use specific reasons to support your reason.


Food had changed people’s life, lately; many people eat fast food to save their times, or to eat fast. Foods have changed the culture, especially in America. But the fast food caused a lot of problem to us. It gives us unnecessary supplies, we will be unhealthy, or fat…etc because of these fast food.Lots of people still eat their food at home, but I am sure 50% of people eat fast food, and like them, but these foods save the time, especially you are busy, you can’ t cook for 1hour to prepare to eat, to save your time, you have to eat fast food. For example, to save their time, they buy food in the superstore; you heat it up for 5 minutes, and eat, which is very simple.It is good thing to save their time, but these are really bad for our health, if we keep eating this, we will be very fat, even though you exercise a lot, it does not give you, the stuff that you need in your body. You can see a lot of fat people in the USA because they eat a lot of hamburgers, hotdogs, or pizza. You will be fat, and might get any disease, disease like you have problem with your stomach, or something else, which is hard to fix because once if you eat lots of fast food, it is very hard not to eat.To solve this problem, first of all, we should eat our food at home, many young people say fast food is better, but once you live out of your place for more than a year, you feel like to have the food that parents made. Second, if you want to have fast food, you should have them once in a week, or a month, not every day, or more than 3 times in a week because that influences the process of body.You can eat the fast food, but you got to be able to control yourself, or eat the food that is homemade because people have lot of trouble, even though there are good things, unless you have to eat fast food, you shouldn’t eat them, even though those food are easier to eat, and quicker to eat, if you want to keep your body healthy.

Article

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/slideshows/earth-hour-2009.html


There was a special time; earth hour on Saturday, march 29th. You should have turned off the lights for an hour 8:30-9:30, did you? I didn’t because I didn’t know it was a day for saving electricity. Have you known that if the whole world turn off not even whole world, but most of the world turn off the light, the government can save millions of dollars, which is awesome because you can save money that you don’t have to spend on, or specifically don’t have to waste your money. This is a great day to me because sometimes I don’t act that way, but I like to keep the environment safe because I, or environmentalists don’t want to get any trouble in the future, well, you can’t make it back the electricity after you use them, but still, if you can save million of, million of money, I think we should do this once in a month, so everyone will think that to keep electricity forever is no good. In my opinion, even though it is very small activity, this is a great work because even it is for an hour, you save tons of money, and because we do this, even little children will feel that we should save electricity, and should not waste. Unfortunately, I couldn’t do this because I did not realize till my friend told me and if it was more important, I meant that if it was on calendar for example, I will know that it is earth day, but yet, it is not quite significant to everyone, so to let everyone know we got to spread out these ideas by government, to save the world. And in the future, even I am not like environmentalist, I am going to try to save, and help the world to save the world.

Article

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/16/cleopatra-african.html

This article is showing that Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, but came to Greek to marry. So they thought that Cleopatra was a woman because she was in Greece. Many people said that she was incredibly beautiful, but she wasn’t actually beautiful that much. I thought that she was an Egyptian, I learned like this in my memory. I do not believe that she was Greek, just opposition of what people think of, I thought she was Egyptian because, first of all, I learned that she was the queen of Egypt, which makes perfect sense that she was Egyptian, and in my memory, she has sister, who was born in Egypt, which, makes better sense. Because I am not sure about this, I am very curious about this because she was a great queen, have a history in two countries, which make interesting because it was hard for female to be one of leader, especially in the period, in Rome, the role of women was that telling the leaders or men what is wrong or right, giving their thoughts because men aren’t always right. They could help the leaders, but there was no possibility that they could be one of leader. However, Cleopatra was, which is incredible thing because I don’t know if men were ruling in Egypt, but still it is great thing in that time. Maybe because I am really curious about this I could be one of historians, I think that this is really fascinating thing, and I love history part of Rome. It is mysterious person Cleopatra.

Essay

Topic: People attend college or university for many different reasons. Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your reasons



To be in the company that you want, or to learn more information, many people go to college or university. But I think that most people go to university for their future job, they don’t want to work in laundry room, and they want to work something fascinating, what they have wanted for a long time.
Almost every student goes to university because of his or her career preparation. Many people want to work on what they want, but they can’t just work, they have to prove that that has ability to work. That is why people go to college or university. If they work hard in university, they can do better in the company that you work in, and you will enjoy your life, work.People learn more information about what they want to learn, that is why people can choose the subject that they want in university or college, but some people could come to the university because of new experience, just to experience what is the university like, or way that university students work is almost same as the normal workers, so before they work, just experience new thing.
I think that the career preparation is good reason to go to university because if you can’t go to that university, the company will not accept you to work in the company, and many people don’t think about the increased knowledge, they think about the future, I think that this is kind of bad traditional thing because if people only want to get some money, there is no point of studying. Also, even though you go to normal college or university, that doesn’t mean that, you are stupid, or something because your family is not wealthy enough to go to university, even though you have ability to go to good universities. However, company does not care whether you are poor, but smart because they are just going to see the result, not way that I work, which can be not fair.
As I study in the university or college, I want to have good experience, or memorable, and something special remembrance to keep because it should be very different from the high school, you will feel different, you will meet different friends…etc. It will be very fun and interesting to have new experiences, and it might help me in the future, so I want to go university or college.
A lot of people go to university or college with these reasons and more in different. To be a greater person in the future, I would like to go to university for career preparation and the increase of knowledge

Article

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/27/crab-lobster-pain.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/26/dog-human-behavior.html


This article is about lobsters and the crabs feel the pain, just like other animals do. Scientist had experiment about this, they took out their legs, see what they do, so scientist figured out that they just feel like the other animals, Robert Elwood, the lead author of both papers, explained to Discovery News that pain allows an individual to be "aware of the potential tissue damage" while experiencing "a huge negative emotion or motivation that it learns to avoid that situation in the future." and the university professor said, all the crabs were released after this experiment, and they were survived.
Another interesting article was that dog is the most similar animal not chimpanzees, chimps live very similar, and share many of our genes, but dog have lived with human for a very long time that they live very similar to the humans, cooperation, verbal conversation, or non-verbal conversations. I think this shows that other animals do learn if they live with something or somebody very closely because just like the article, and in my experience, my friend's dog was just like this, I was very surprised, if he said "come", dog will come to him, which was amazing fact because I though dog will never be able to be like humans, monkeys (I was young this time.)
It is unbelievable that how animals live, and learn the acts of humans, it just feels like, if they were smarter, they could rule, and we could be a pet just like them, it is kind of scary, but this is amazing, too how scientist figure out this. If I was scientist, I would figure out to make the electricity car because of environmental, it works good for human and nature.

Article

http://www.globalwarming.org/

This article is basically about global warming, and how people, especially scientists are trying to change, and stop this problem. This articles says that scientists have figured out that a new way to transform the coal, so you can even use it for the car, and your car is using far less energy, which is saving energy, and one way to try to fix the global warming, but this is a bad news why? because it produce twice as more carbon dioxide (CO2) traditional petroleum fuels and at best will still emit at least as much of the greenhouse gas. It is a very big bad news because they have made worse gas to use, and that is going to cause more, even faster global warming. So they are going to have debate with the government very soon.
It is very good that scientists invented new thing, simpler thing, but if we can't use them, they should not tell people to use them because they know better than anyone of global warming, they should try to solve this problem without using so much gas, or not producing CO2 because CO2, and any gases make the earth even worse, but most times, those gases are very cheap that any people can use easily. So it is very hard to stop.
If I was scientist, I would really try to solve global warming because one day, we are going to have to live under the water, I would not want to live under the water, so if I was a real scientist. I would really try to figure out the solution of problem because that is going to make the earth better, and will make the people to live easier, but now days, we use a lot of technology, so it is almost impossible to stop, the machines, or anything else that we are using even factory are causing the global warming, but now, we can’t live without using them.

Essay

Topic: Parents are the best teachers. Do you agree?


Some people say parents are the best teachers, but some people say they are not, they can’t be best teachers, I think that if they have small children, they are the best. However if their children are grown enough, schoolteachers should be the best for them because parents don’t know what the teachers are teaching, and they are not actual teachers mostly.The reason why the parents are not the best teacher is that they don’t really teach at the school, they can know what we are learning, and they might know the stuffs, but they are no giving us the test, they might know wrong things. They can help their children, but no teaching because it my influence the students.Young children are out of controls, and they are interested in everything, they want to try new things. Many teachers say that the childhood is the most important time for children because they have to study a bit, they got to know how to study, but they can’t do those themselves. Children might be afraid of teachers, but they are not scared of their parents. Because of these reasons perhaps children’s parents are the best teachers for them till they are grown.If parents have taught their children for a while, they should not do that when they are in grade six, or more than six because from those grades, they can probably take care of themselves unless, they hate to study, and they don’t care about their education. If they don’t care, parents might help, but they can’t really help because they could have forgotten what they have learned, they are not sure, and the stuff that their children are learning is advanced. So for this reason, they shouldn’t be cared about the education, unless children are disgruntled.Many children like to do what they want to be, or do. Many parents leave what they want to do, but some parents are not. To conclude this essay, parents should care about the young children, but not the big ones.

Essay

Title: What are the important qualities of good teacher? USe specific reasons and the examples to explain why these qualities are good.


I have three reasons for what are the imporant qualities of a good teacher. Those are to love students as my family, to not use any violence, and to thinkg that students are the first because if teachers want to be the best one, but you don't like students, there is no way that someone can be a good teacher.I think to love students is very important because if teacher likes all the students as the equality, students will like teacher, mostly the students will show their teacher their hard work. For exammple, I've had a best teacher in grade five. He was very gentle, except beginning, he just wanted everyone to listen to him, he was very close to the students, he liked to do the stuffs that student like as necessary stuffs, he would have double gym class, if he missed for other subject studying, which was good because everyone like the gym class so much, as he acted that way, we acted him back, we studied, he knew we are studying because my class average was 10% higher than the other class average. So if you like the students and act, you will be one of best teachers for the students.Second reason was to not use violence, it is very simple to say. Who likes teachers who are violent, or would you like to have violent teachers. Simply we don't. I think that is the reason why all the teachers in Canada don't use any violence, but some Korean teachers do use violence for the punishment, which will cause unlikeness from students.The third reason, to think that students are the first, it is very similar to love the students because if you think that students are more important than myself, that means you like the students, you are in the school as family, which will have good times at the school, students will like the teachers if you act, and will be teacher with good quality.Many teachers want to be a good teacher, but you don't have to worry if you have read this essay, you can be a good, or the best teacher at the school, teachers don't judge you, students judge you as good teacher, so try it now! if you are teacher

Obama

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In this article, it also talks about money, and all the politician say great things about the decision. Criticism came from economists such as Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist, who said the non-recourse government loans would allow private partners to make large profits if their bets went well, while leaving taxpayers with the overwhelming share of losses if the bets went badly wrong. Political analysts said the embattled Mr. Geithner had regained some control of the economic debate, which had been dominated by rage over bonuses at AIG, the crippled insurance group. There will be two new schemes – one for the legacy securities and one for whole loans, both of which will focus on real estate-related credits. Under the legacy securities plan, the government will authorize up to five investment managers to raise equity and provide a dollar of equity and between one and two dollars of debt for every private dollar raised. And Mr. Geithner's bank plans was that Under the legacy loans plan, the government will provide matching equity while the FDIC will guarantee up to $12 in loans for every dollar of private equity at risk. Banks will submit pools of loans for auction. Banks said the plan’s structure was likable to them as it gave them the last word on whether to sell their toxic assets.Additional reporting by Sarah O’Connor

Article

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/teams/story/?id=272459&hubname=nhl-red_wings


There was a hockey game at Calgary against Detroit Red Wings, who are the champion of last year in NHL. It is March, to the hockey teams, they have to work harder than in the beginning of the seasons because to go to play offs, you shouldn't lose. Calgary has intense game with Detroit, score 5:3. Mike Camallari scored twice as it made Chris Osgood, the goaltender of Detroit, shaking because of this advantage in the game, Calgary has won. Osgood said "it was the worst game in this building", he meant that he knew he played bad. Miika Kiprusoff, the goaltender of the Flames, made 30 saves, these saves led Calgary to the vitory too. As a Sharks fan, I hoped that Flames win because Sharks won't be behind by Red Wings. Anyways, it was intense game for Calgary to go to play offs safely, go Flames, my third favorite team in NHL

Toefl speaking

Essay

WHAT IS THE EFFECT OF READING?


Many students can feel that we don't care with book, and they are saying that book does not help anything, but I disagree with them, I know better I think because English is my second language, therefore I have been reading English book every single day since I came over Canada, so I am going to show you that how books work by reading.First, I can say of course English skill is getting a lot, way better thatn what I had, you can feel difference among reading everyday, and not reading. I camse here last year Feburary, 2007.2, I could not speak anything except a few words hi, how are you, and I was scared if foregin, Canadian asked me something from out side, so I had to go step by step, I read write a journal for little part, I practiced cursive, and school work, and also I had to memolize a lot of the words. And now, I can speak English as my first language Korean. I also did not recognize skill was from book as grammar stuff, so I asked my homeroom teacher that what has happened, and she was laughing, ans then explained everything to me, first time no people enjoyed the book included me except people who liked to read even they did not know how to read, what is the book as my brother did.What I want to explain you in this paragraph is that first time you feel board and does not learn anything, but if you take the time, you can read, and it will help you a lot, grammar, vocabulary, and writing skills.Reading, it is very board first time ,but time by time you can enjoy also feel learning something. You can learn a lot of grammar, vocab, and writing skills as I already said. You also can feel that your speaking is getting better, when I started to talk a lot, I felt that is the book's effectional thing because there are conversation, so if we learn that, we could use in out of the world of the book. So In my opinion, it is very useful. What happends if you do not know how to speak, then you will feel you want to go home if you are foreginer of Canada, and you can't speak, and if someone ask you, you will be very embarassed, that is why speaking and book are both important as I wrote already first and this paragraphs.I think these are simple reasons that might help you, even you are native speaker, which not a foreigner you might, and can feel this, if you are still reading ^^, anyway as a result, by these reasons you can see the information that how books, and reading help you.

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Article

http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/story/?id=272489

For a little while, there was a big baseball game, WBC (World Baseball Classic), and this article is about the victory for team Japan kept their championship over Korea, which was a cheap win. The reason why I am saying they had cheap win is they were good, but they did not keep any manner. For example, when it was before final game, they threw the ball with 140km/h right to the Korean player, and influenced the defense play, which almost caused injury, I think these are why all Koreans say they are not feeling anything about the loosing game, but mad at what, and how they have played for a long time. Korean in final, they went to over time, it was 3:3, but, Ichiro, one of best hitters, hit the RBI, so they made 5:3. I hope in next WBC, Korea defeat Japan, and win the championship.


http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/teams/story/?id=272359&hubname=nhl-sharks&lid=sublink01&lpos=headlines_nhl-sharks San Jose Sharks is my favorite team in NHL, they were in the first place for a long time, but they had some problem with injury. Before this victory, Sharks had many players with injury. For examples, Evgeni Nabokov, the goaltender of Sharks has lower body injury. Rob Blake, one of the greatest defensemen, had injury in his ankle. However, after their come back, the Sharks have shutout Anaheim Ducks, won over Colorado Avalanche, Dallas Stars, and Nashville Predators. So this article is showing that, the unlucky injury of Nabokov has influenced the Sharks, but after his comeback, he helped Sharks to be first in the conference and the league. I think that because Nabokov has returned, Sharks will keep their first lead till the play offs, no one knows what is going to happen in play offs, as a Sharks’ fan, I hope that Sharks will the Stanley Cup and for this happen, all the great teams should lose like the Devils, Capitals, Bruins, Canadiens, Red Wings, or Penguins. Go San Jose Sharks!!

About Obama

The new president of USA Barack Obama is trying to change the country as he announced already.

Article

As reports from yesterday's canvasses continue to come, news outlets across the country have been taking not of what was accomplished yesterday, and the significance it could hold for the future. From the front page of today's Washington Post:
As she headed into the morning sunshine to talk up President Obama's $3.6 trillion budget proposal, Althea Thomas counted herself a citizen and a partisan picking up where she left off Nov. 4, backing the president she helped elect."It's the change we all voted on," said Thomas, one of about 40 volunteers who fanned out from the Democratic Party headquarters here with clipboards, pledge cards and a sense of mission that flowed from their support of Obama when he was a candidate.The Obama administration and the Democratic National Committee opened a new chapter Saturday in their ambitious project to convert the energy from last year's campaign into a force for legislative reform on health care, climate change, education and taxes.More than 1,200 groups from Maine to Hawaii spent the day gathering signatures in support of Obama's economic plan, the first step in building what the White House hopes will be a standing political army ready to do battle.Seeking to create a grass-roots force on a scale never seen before, Obama called the volunteers into action in a video message reminiscent of the 2008 contest. In defense of his budget, under attack from many quarters, he asked his supporters to go "block by block and door by door."...The idea of deploying a grass-roots army for legislative purposes is untested. Unlike a political campaign, where ballots are simple, if blunt, instruments that produce winners and losers on a fixed date, a policy campaign is amorphous."If successful, it would have revolutionary implications for American politics," said Ross K. Baker, a Rutgers University political science professor who counts himself among skeptics....Preparing for the long haul, an OFA executive said volunteers will continue to gather pledges through the Internet, phone banks and shoe leather, and deliver them to members of Congress as a budget vote draws near....The organization aims to develop a structure -- including at least one paid staffer in each state -- in time for larger fights over health-care, climate change and education legislation."This is all being driven by volunteers. It's an extremely exhilarating process, but also nerve-racking," an Obama veteran said. "We have a very, very scaled-down staff as of right now."Randall Stagner staged an event Saturday in his home in Raleigh, N.C. For the former campaign volunteer, it started with a call from Organizing for America. He tapped into the 2008 Obama Web site and sent an e-mail in hopes of rustling up some interest.He received 300 replies."I was overwhelmed. There was a lot of pent-up desire to go and do things," said Stagner, 49, a retired Army special operations colonel. He identified 10 people across the state willing to organize a canvass. In all, he expects 30 events.Stagner has been practicing his own pitch: "You tell people specifically what the president is doing and encourage them to reach out to their senators and representatives and tell them, 'No kidding, we voted for change, and that includes you.' "Mary Alice Williams had an Obama network to draw upon in Grand Rapids, Mich., when she got Stewart's mass e-mail last weekend. That day, more than 30 former campaign volunteers had marched behind an Obama banner in a local St. Patrick's Day parade.Volunteers who bonded during the campaign -- turning Kent County Democratic for the first time since 1968 -- have stayed in touch, and some have continued to meet."After the election, there was this 'What now?' letdown," said Williams, 66, who took to heart the Obama campaign message that the election was not an end in itself. She liked the idea of building a movement that would do more than elect candidates to office...."I'm inspired by the civic engagement aspect of it: ordinary people whose only stake in this is to create a better community and a better America."As corny as that sounds, that's what most of us really believe."She is optimistic, even in Michigan, home to the nation's highest unemployment rate -- 11.6 percent."Hard times are the best times to organize," Williams said. "When times are good, people are in their bubble."...Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) watched volunteers in Evanston head out the door with their clipboards and saw a message in their willingness to act."It says the movement continues," said Schakowsky, an early Obama supporter. "The grass-roots organization still exists, and they're still needed to move this agenda."



Before Obama became a president, it was George Bush, he was one of president card about war, especially, at this time, the war again Iraq, was important, if John McCain became the president, USA might have the worst period for their economic problems, but because Obama became president, he is really trying to change the country just like the article that is above because it is also saying that after Obama became the president, it is changing, it is amazing how he changes, choose to spend on money, these are great choices. It could have been dangerous, but to be fixed you got to step up even though it is dangerous. In my opinion, this article is basically saying that Obama is changing, he spends the money, and here comes the results, it only has been a few month, but still, this is great how he fixes the country, the groups of people and the a few great people say he is changing, too. In my opinion, Obama has mutability to change the country because, first of all behind him, there are lots of people who can help because he is democratic, trying to rule as country governed by people. Also the US citizens like them, I mean they also want to help Obama if they can, and they are, they really like to help because he is changing the country, he showed the results, and people believe that he can change, too. No one can say anything, if peoples like the presidents, and the government under Obama likes him because that is big amount of power unless he turns into evil. It is phenomenal, and amazing how he changes US, it really affects Canada too, because two countries always help each other, and these two are very friendly. If I was Obama I would never be able to change the world, but Obama can, I and everyone believes him that he is going to change.

Essay

Topic: grades (marks) encourage students to learn. Do you agree with this following statement?


All the students’ think that their grades are very important, so I do agree that grade encourage students to learn, even though it causes problem sometimes, but mostly it encourages because grades show that students can do, and it makes you to keep trying. However there are some problems, which will not encourage students to learn.
Whenever people see that they were doing better, they get more, better confidence because they feel that they can do it, especially, when students were not doing as good as in the past. In my experience, when I first came to Canada, I did not really do well because of my English, but I did better because of teachers’ comments, they told me not to disappoint myself, but keep trying hard. I think this is why grades encourage students to learn.
Mostly, if students get low marks, it doesn’t exactly encourage students, but it forces students to study to get out of low marks because it is very disappointing if I do bad on the test. So because people get low mark, they try harder to get study.
Sometimes it does not encourage because, it might remind that students are not smart enough to study his courses, it makes students to give up because of the marks if they felt that they have studied, but in my opinion, if you got low mark, you have not studied for the exam, or you do no know how to study, that was my case, but I do not think that students are not smart enough to study though.
Mostly, it encourages students to learn because it make them to feel shameful, so I agree with to topic with the reasons above, but sometimes it makes students not to study.

Essay

Topic: playing a game is fun only when you win. Do you agree or disagree?

I disagree that playing a game is fun only when you win because there is no way that you can always win the game, game was made because it makes you to enjoy, when you play game, there shouldn’t be any anger with playing.
You shouldn’t play game if you don’t feel any fun. You can get angry if you lose every time, but that is not a point of playing game, no matter you lose or win, you should enjoy, that is the most important thing. There are lots of time that you can play game in your life, so when you lose, you just got to try hard, just like studying something. If you failed, you try hard, then finally you will achieve what you want.
You have more fun when you win, and it is still fun when you lose the game because you were enjoying the game while you was playing. If you lose you will feel bad, but you will be able to win, when you keep playing the game. In my experience, whenever I felt bad because I kept loosing, I changed the way that I play, if I lost the game, I changed the level that I was playing, then won the game because it still make you feel good.
I think that I am going to say when you win the game, you will feel better, but you feel kind of sad when you lose, I don’t think that many people can notice this, but the meaning of keep trying is you are enjoying, and being aggressive. So you are having fun, but only result was bad.
The games are making people fun, as a result, when you win, you feel better, but when you lost, you feel ok, but those make you to enjoy while you are playing game, you just don’t feel the “fun” because you were just being aggressive.

Essay

Topic: only people who earn a lot of money are successful. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement.

There are many ways that you can feel successful, one kind is earning a lot of money, but not only people who earn a lot of money are successful, if they have no happiness, no family, or no friends, they are successful about working, but not about relationships.
People who earn a lot of money are successful, but not only rich people are successful. In my opinion, success means differently in many ways, rich people have achieved in their process of working. Even though you are not rich, you live happily with your family, you have fun, which is another way that has achieved, and are successful, too.
The reason why I said people who are rich are successful in their process of working is that no one knows how he or she lives, are they just successful in their working, they might not be successful with relationship between family, or friends, money became important, but money is one result that shows you are successful, it is part of you success, so even if you have lost of money, if you have no where to spend the money, then you are not successful enough, even if you earn lots of money.
I think people who always try hard, have good relationships, and luck can success, no matter with money because to me, when people say you are successful, that means you have more than achieved, you are perfect or almost perfect.
As a result, not only people who earn a lot of money are successful, they have achieved part of their achievement, but not al.

Essay

Topic: all students should be required to study art and music in secondary school. Do you agree with this following statement?


Students who care about art and music want these subjects to be required in the secondary school, but in my experience, many students don’t really care about art and music, so I disagree that all students should be required to study art and music in secondary school.
In my experience, many people don’t care that much about art and music, even though they like these subjects. They don’t care because they think that art and music are not going to help them to go to university or career, and they don’t enjoy these that much. Art is very hard unless you are so talented because unless you are really good, you get low mark, even though you are one of hard working students.
Lately, there are not that many students like art and music. In my experience, except one friend, no one like music because it is very boring, especially when we learn the history of music, or opera, young students like to play, but as you get old, they lose their confidence of playing something in front of people, and they don’t take music seriously. Art was good because I could relax, for sure there is some week that you are very busy, in that case, when you have art class, you feel better, especially during the exam, but it is very hard for students draw well, and some teachers are very complicated, so they don’t think that art and music should be required in secondary school.
Unless students like to learn art and music, I don’t think that those two subjects should be required in secondary school with these reasons.

Essay

Topic: most experiences in our lives that seemed difficult at the time become valuable lessons for the future. Do you agree with this statement?



There are all kinds of experience that people know, but experiences that seemed difficult at the time become valuable lessons for the future mostly because we know that if we are doing something same way, we know that we shouldn’t do.
I haven’t experienced that much difficult things, and I am not old enough to say things about the work, but I think I know some about studying. For example, when teacher gave us big project, I should work daily, so I won’t be busy before the due dates, and get low marks for my result, unless I am brilliant and genius. When I am don’t know what to do, if I make schedule, which is helpful to study.
I think it has to be valuable lesson for the future because you don’t want horrible things to happen again, no one does, especially the experience was difficult at that time, you don’t want to have things are bad, and you don’t want to have mistake that you have got, so you will be more careful, and hard working in some way. People never want to get the bad things again, and again. So I think that because they don’t want to repeat bad things, if they experienced, it will be valuable lessons for the future.
Another thing is that because you have experience, you will know how to keep you in good ways. Because you know what the bad things, you will have confidence, not try to have any mistake, and you will do better in some way because some people are not well experienced because they have been wealthy… etc
At the time that you got difficult experience, that is very hard to stay, but as you are growing, you will notice that because of experiences, you have passed through successful way.

Essay

Topic: it is more important for students to study history and literature than it is for them to study science and mathematics.

Some people say that history and literature are more important than science and mathematics, but I think that is more important for students to study science and mathematics because we don’t have to know the history later on unless I am going to be a history teacher, and it is very helpful to know well math and science.
The reason why I said math and science are more helpful is that if we look around, there are a lot of things that we can use math and science, but not history and literature.
History is about the work that was happened in the past, which is not that important for now and the future in my life. There are lots of things that we can use math and science.
It is good to know the history, but it is not going to help me to know something new because history is about past unless I am going to be a history teacher. However math and science, as long as we know them, we can use them, even though it is very simple, plus or minus, it is very simple, but useful. History doesn’t influence us that much.
If something is very helpful, and useful to know, I think that means it is more important than anything else for the education because unless it is interesting, and going to influence my life, it is not that important job to know, why would we learn something not even useful, if we are not going to use them.
In my opinion, if something is not helpful, it is not that important, history is important as culture, but not as normal people’s life. So with these reasons I think that it is not more important for students to study history and literature than studying math and science.

Essay ( summary)

Summary

In a company’s experiment, some new projects, some new projects were planed and accomplished by different teams. Some teams got very good results while some didn’t. it is not necessary for teams to achieve more than individuals do because some team members may only contribute a little in a team for they may relying on others to do the majority.
Another thing is the recognition for the achievement by the team is for the whole team, and everyone in the team. It is not only decision makers in the team feel good after successfully after finishing the project, but also every member in the team.
It is also showed in the lecture that in a team with one or to leaders, sometimes-good ideas from some team member are dropped and ignored while sometimes they may be highly creative. In some teams decisions were made without collecting ideas from all team members, them it would be hard to achieve creative solution.
For those failed projects, blames are always given to the whole team even though it is the leader or someone in the team who caught the unexpected results.

Essay

Topic: what are some important qualities of a good boss?

Many companies have trouble with their boss. To be, and show good qualities of a good boss, you got to be tough to yourself, but really nice to the workers, and make them to work very hard, and enjoy them to work, so they will have positive thoughts, so company will develop faster.
In my opinion, to be a good boss, you got to be very aggressive. The reason why you got to be aggressive is that you got to show the workers that you are interested in the work, if people see the boss tries hard, they are going to try harder because they can’t be playing if boss is working, they will fee embarrassed, so to make the workers work hard, and boss work too, I am very sure, people are going to like the boss, if he or she tries hard as them.
You have to think that workers are just like your family because you are not going to be able to work with unlikable people, I mean you can, but as you get close to the workers, you will feel fun, and workers will work hard because they know that the boss is thinking them as a special boss, so they won’t lie, and just work hard for the company.
He or she has to be very responsible, the boss is a leader, if you can’t lead, and have no responsibility, one day, you are going to failure, no worker is going to like boss because you are not even trying, you are telling people to work, and you don’t even have responsibility.
There are lots of ways to be a good leader, or boss. However I think that this is the best and the fastest way that you can show your worker that you are a good boss.

Essay

Topic: some people think that they can learn better by themselves than with a teacher. Others think that it is always better to have a teacher. Which do you prefer?

Some people think that they can be learn better by themselves than with teachers, but I disagree. Teachers can help you, and teach better. So let me explain why the teacher is better than learning myself.
Teachers give you the easiest, understandable teachings. In my experience, I could barely understand in math class with the books, some questions were not even on the examples, but on the questions (math), but teacher made himself, the question that is on the board, so we can understand, he tries to make everyone to understand, if the students don’t understand, he spent the time in the lunch, and after school, so we can understand.
What are you going to do if you don’t understand, you understand better because teachers teach you well. I think Internet does not help you for the school because you don’t know what is going to be on the test, sometimes, web site gives you wrong information. It makes you more complicated sometimes, especially, you are ESL students, you can’t really understand. So I think that you can’t really learn better by yourself than with a teacher.
What if you can understand everything? Well, I can’t really say you can actually learn better yourself than with a teacher. But most students can’t understand themselves; they have at least one question, especially in the math class. In my opinion, teachers give you the most quickest, widest way to teach. And it is very helpful.
There are teachers because they want to teach, and to help you to understand, but if you think you can learn better without teacher, that means you are really smart, or you are doing something wrong. Because I don’t want to get any trouble, teachers will teach me.

Essay

Topic: neighbors are the people who live near us. In your opinion, what are the qualities of a good neighbor?


There are two kinds of neighbors mostly, one is really nice, and another one is really bad. To be good neighbors, there are certain things that you should do. Those are what I am going to explain in this essay.
To be a good neighbor, you got to be very quiet in anytime, you shouldn’t noisy anytime at all because they could be working at home if their jobs are teacher, or office is at their house. And whenever they do something enjoyable, they never want to get distracted by someone, so neighbors should be really quite to keep the distance of being nice, and people will know that you are nice.
You got to be very close together, people are not going to know whether you are nice or annoying till they see you. The reason why you got to be close, as you share the food, cloth, information, or having party together, go to the trip. They will notice your characteristic. People think you are nice, if you share, help. In my experience, my neighbor is nice. When we were gone to Cape Breton, it was winter, and windy, they shoveled the snow for us because when we come back, we are not going to be able to get into the house. I think this is one good quality.
To show the good quality, you got to act like a you are a nice person because even though they don’t meet you, they can’t kind of notice your characteristics if they see you act nicely or badly, so if you meet neighbors, you should always say “hi” very gladly, and happily, so they will think that you are nice.
Many people try to be nice neighbors, but some people can’t be even though they are nice because of some bad, wrong action for once, to be friendly, you should keep being good, and nice to neighbors.

Essay

Topic: some people prefer to eat at food at stands or restaurants. Other people prefer to prepare and eat food at home. Which do you prefer?



I prefer to eat food at home with a few reasons. I don’t want to go to restaurants unless I really feel like to go, it is kind of wasting money. The restaurant food can be unhealthy, and lastly it is healthier to eat food at home than the restaurant.
Recently, the restaurants have been cheap. What I meant is that, to make the food delicious, they put unhealthy thing, or cook with dirty things. For example, people cook the fries with dirty oils. However, imagine the food at home. It is never dangerous, it is more healthier, and delicious. Unless you are rich, and desire to go to the restaurants, you shouldn’t be there because it can be more delicious, but the qualities of the food are not as good as food at home.
It seems that we are wasting money, if we go to the restaurant every day. For example, in some restaurant, the menu is such as only chickens, and the fries. It is wasting money; we can easily cook the fries. We can go get frozen chicken at the market, and cook. It looks like there are no differences, but one big thing is that the quality of food is way better than the food in restaurant.
Some restaurants are really good, but some restaurants are not, it can be way better to eat at home mostly. In my experience, unless you go to Chinese restaurant, most restaurants are almost same as home, same tastes, except we have to pay. So I prefer not to eat at restaurants.
If you really want to go to the restaurant, and prefer to eat at restaurants, I cannot say anything, but if you think of health, and anything else. It is better to eat at home. To conclude, it is healthier, delicious to eat food at home unless you are very bad at cooking (but there are recipes on web site, so you can easily cook).

Essay

Topic: many people visit museum when they travel to new places. Why do you think people visit museum?


Many people visit museum when they travel to new places, not only museum, they go to restaurant, street to see, and learn the cultural differences. When they go to the museum, they want to have fun, learn the fascinating, and cultural things in that country, or place.
People travel because they want to see what is other countries like they want to see what they have done (history), their cultures, to see history and culture, you can go to museum to see.
People like to see other history because it is fascinating; second, it is different, and new things. People can’t see the culture in one day, but if they go to the museum, they can easily understand, what they have done, what they are thinking of because that is what the museum is showing in that building.
Secondly, it is very easy to understand. In museum, they show actual things, if some country was good at making swords, they show actual swords, and explain briefly and specifically, which is very easy to understand the cultural things. If you don’t understand there are guides who can explain to you, so I think that to learn easily and quickly during the trip, people go to museum a lot.
Why do the people want to learn other culture? Well, that is the point of trip, to see the differences, historical things. Even though you don’t go to the museum, as they walk or drive, they can easily see the differences, the form of houses, clothing, cars, or buildings.
People mostly go to the museum because of learning, and wanting new experiences from the trip. To conclude this essay, people go to museum when they travel new places because they are curious, and want to get new experiences.

Essay

Topic: what is the problem with TV programs, and videogames?

Nowadays, there are lots of problems with violent TV programs, and videogames, there has been hitting each other, or using violence, even killing. These problems are getting serious, even though the things are for fun.
In my experience, violent TV programs influence the people. There was a student who has brother. The student watched so many violent TV programs, and the videogames. One day, his brother was sleeping on the sofa, and he was watching TV programs, after then, he came out of the room, he thought his brother was a monster (because he just watched violent things), so he brought the axe and killed his brother. The student was not a person like this, but as he watched violent things, he became crazy, and violent person.
If the people who watch the violent programs are adult, they should be able to control, but most of them are young children, students, or almost adults, most of them can rarely control themselves, which is a big problem because they watch a lot, they will have many problems.
To solve these problems, many parents should care about this firstly because they are the only one who can stop their children. If people want to watch those programs, and play violent videogames, they should be under control, so they won’t be upset with them, and have trouble.
As a result, we have lots of fun, but lots of trouble too, to not have problem, we should not really have any violent TV programs, and video games, if there are, we should not watch, or play.

Essay

Topic: if you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you change? Use reasons and examples.


If I could change my hometown, I want to make the apartments shorter, I mean that there are lots of apartment, but it is too far to go to top because of the parks, playgrounds, and the stairs. I want to make big supermarket because it is too far to go.
The reason why I want to change the distance is that, it takes too long to go over the friends’ houses, it is hard because it is mountain, it is very clean, more beautiful than other apartments though, lots of people ride bicycles, but because the road is made going up, it is very hard to go, and take too long,
It is very dangerous because of the cars, we can’t really see the car coming from the side, and the parking place, there are walls with ninety degrees of angles, which causes a lot of accident, but there were no accident for last years. Another reason why it is very dangerous is that we have to go down, which makes the speed of bicycle, or skates faster. Also it is very different that people don’t stop, unless they are really nice, different culture. So if we see any cars we have to wait them to stop or let it pass.
It is very far to go to supermarket, the one that is inside of apartment is small, and it still takes long time. If we want to get better ones, or something that small one has, it takes twenty minutes to get, also we have to walk up and down in small space because lots of people go to study, and sidewalk is very small.
Two big things I really want to change because it will be very useful for everyone, to old people, and young people. We can have more fun with friends, and save the time with going supermarkets.

Essay

Topic: a company has announced that it wished to build a large factory near your community. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this new influence on you community. Do you support or oppose the factory? Explain you position.

If there was a large factory near my community, I would oppose to company that I do not want any factory near my community. There are some advantages, but still, there are more disadvantages.
A few advantages if there was a factory near my community is that people might have trip in our town, it will be famous because of factory, as it is large, tons of people can come to the factory, and the community to rest, or to get some food. The people, not the workers in the factory, might be glad that the community is famous because of factory. Another reason is that my community would be well developed if we cooperate with the factory because the company might want to try their development…etc.
If there was a factory, it would be dirty, gets dirty because it is factory, even though people make the things like clean the water, it does not hundred percent clean, they might do something bad in my community. Even though my community, or town get famous, because factory had built lots of stuffs, and have to destroy beautiful thing to build, there will be nothing else except factory, which is big disadvantage.
I don’t want to support company with some reason because first of all, I don’t want to see dirty place, I don’t want my community to change something because of factory. Even though I can get more money, I’d never do that because I have to think of people who live in the town, to keep our own tradition.
I could have support the company. However, I oppose because I don’t want any disadvantages that I get. I will try myself to develop more.

Essay

Topic: People attend college or university for many different reasons. Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your reasons

To be in the company that you want, or to learn more information, many people go to college or university. But I think that most people go to university for their future job, they don’t want to work in laundry room, and they want to work something fascinating, what they have wanted for a long time.
Almost every student goes to university because of his or her career preparation. Many people want to work on what they want, but they can’t just work, they have to prove that that has ability to work. That is why people go to college or university. If they work hard in university, they can do better in the company that you work in, and you will enjoy your life, work.
People learn more information about what they want to learn, that is why people can choose the subject that they want in university or college, but some people could come to the university because of new experience, just to experience what is the university like, or way that university students work is almost same as the normal workers, so before they work, just experience new thing.
I think that the career preparation is good reason to go to university because if you can’t go to that university, the company will not accept you to work in the company, and many people don’t think about the increased knowledge, they think about the future, I think that this is kind of bad traditional thing because if people only want to get some money, there is no point of studying.
A lot of people go to university or college with these reasons and more in different. To be a greater person in the future, I would like to go to university for career preparation and the increase of knowledge.

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Essay (summary)

The lecture provide the opposite opinion ccncerning what article offered. THe team work often bring negative effect. As we all know, team work and team sprits are quite popualr in today's business world and also the fashionable terms. However, the writer find deeper and hiding results.
Firstly, the working result of team members can't be valued. For example, if a team member does nothing in the process of team discussion, decision making and final practice his or her work will not be recognized because we only emphasize team work. Also, the real excellent and creative member's work might be obliterated for the same reason.
Secondly, the team work might lose its value when team members are leading several influential people in the groupe. One of essential intelligence of team is to avoid the individual wrong, but one or two influential people will make the team useless.
Team work often become the excues of taking responsibillity.
What we should do is the distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of a used method. This is to keep the common sense.

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Journal Mar 12th

Title: The Giver (end)


Gabriel is in trouble, who is The newchild that Jonas's family cares for at night. He is sweet and adorable during the day, he is in trobule unless Jonas puts him to sleep with some memory. Jonas's father had to release him, but Jonas don't want him to be in trouble. Jonas has broken serious rule, he took the leftover food, and his father's bicycle, and brought it to Gabriel. (In this book, the family can't have more children if they have one son and daughter) Gabe and Jonas hid, they rest in the afternoon, they can't move because people are serching them. He gives his memory to Gabriel, so he won't wake up and cry. After several days, they left behind the aircraft because people know they are hiding.The landscape around them begins to change: the terrain becomes bumpy and irregular, and Jonas falls and twists his ankle. He sees waterfalls and wildlife, all new things to him after a life of Sameness. He is happy to see beautiful things, but worries that he and Gabe might starve, since there is no sign of cultivated land anywhere around. He catches some fish to eat, he goes back to the community, but he choose to leave because people might catch them. Jonas feels hunger, cold, and pain from his twisted ankle. One day, it begins to snow, and Jonas's bicycle cannot climb the steep hill that rises before them. Jonas has lost most of the memories he received from the Giver, but he tries to remember sunshine and the feeling of warmth that it gives. When it comes, he transmits the feeling to Gabriel, and it helps them make it up the hill on foot. When he could not remember the sunshine, it was a disaster, he was freezing cold. He founds some house with twinkle lights, he was sure that his family was waiting for Gabriel and himself. As he walked, he heard singing, music, too. Or maybe that was only echo.

Essay(writing drills)

Teachers should encourage their students to questions

In the school, there are two types of students, one type is asking questions that they do not understand, another type is, even if you don’t understand, you don’t ask teacher what they are. So teachers should encourage them to ask questions, if they don’t understand because if you ask questions, you can do well, or might enjoy the subject.
No students want to failure their subject. In my experience, asking questions is very helpful, so my average went up too. As students want to do well, most teachers want them to do well, too. If you are not doing well, you should ask teachers because 100% teachers know what your problem is. I did not know how to study geography, I was scared to ask teacher because my English was not good, but teacher encouraged me to come to her after school, so I did, she knew my problems, and told me what to do, that is how I did better. So even though you can’t ask, teachers should encourage you to ask questions.
It can be very dangerous to students to not question what the teacher says. If you believe everything that people tell you, you might end up doing things you wouldn’t do on your own. This could lead of many problems, you will not know how to study, when you are grown enough. So for that reason, teachers should encourage them.
I think that it is best thing for teachers to make their students question everything. When the students leave the school, no one can teach them, even if they have tutors, they are not the teachers. So they are going to get the trouble again.
Many students don’t ask, and they get trouble, some students are scared of teachers, too. For these reasons teacher should encourage them.

Countries should not isolate themselves from the world, but instead engage other countries.



Many countries are engaged in 21st century, but there are still a few countries that don’t engage, example is North Korea. As a country if they are isolated, they are not well developed, have lots of problem, to solve those problem, they should be engaged.
It is almost same as is this country democratic or not because democratic countries all engage, but not North Korea for example. They have lots of problem. First is that because they don’t engage that much, they are less developed, they are behind that everyone, people have no aggressive thing that they want to do because they only care about themselves, they will be lazy, don’t care about other world. Thirdly, country won’t be developed for ever because they don’t trade, which means they can’t get money that much.
It is really good for countries to be engaged. Look at UN, EN because they have been engaged, they are well developed, everyone looks for them. What is a good thing? When they are in trouble, other nations can help, even if one country have problem, other countries will help because they have been engaged, worked, and helped together.
There will be much information available in the world. Without working with other countries it might not be possible to use this. I know that in my situation, I learned about many things going on in the world. This helped me in my studies.There are lots of interesting things in the world. If the countries engage, you will know more interesting thing. So countries shouldn’t be isolated.

Students, not teachers or administrators, should be in the control of their own education, and why?


I agree with the topic, students should be in the control of their own education because it is student who studies, not their parents, or teachers, and if they are not in the control, they are going to have problems.
Teachers can help, but they cannot study for students, students should be able to control themselves, unless they are in grade 1,2, 3, or if they don’t care about any education. Everyone know that it is really hard to control yourself, but we got to study because of future, as students study hard, they are going to have better future because they can control themselves, knowing how to study.
The reason why students have to control themselves is if they can’t get a good mark, you are not going to be able to do what you want in the future. In my experience I always had laptop in front of me, which made me distracting sometimes, but I thought I was doing well, but to the teacher, I was not because I could not recognize myself from being lazy. So it is very hard, but we have to control ourselves.
What do you feel, if someone asks you to do everything, they are just taking care of everything? You feel bad, you don’t want to do what they are saying, if you don’t want to be controlled, watched from someone, you got to control yourself.
It is very hard to control students them selves, but to be better students, they should learn how to take care of themselves.

Essay (summary)

In the lecture, the professor makes points about the first wheat product. The professor says that beer was the first wheat product. However, the reading says first product is bread. The professor argues about the reading with several points.
First of all, the professor says that wheat does not have to be ground. It easy to people to eat wheat sprouts. This is opposite of reading states, it says that early people ground wheat into a paste because it is hard to eat.
The talk says that fermenting happens very fast. This fermenting leads to foam, which people probably tasted as the beer. In the reading, it argued that fermenting made people to bake the bread.
The professor argues that people would not think to bake the wheat; the point is that early period, people don’t cook things. It seems beer, not bread, was the first wheat food.

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Sumamry

In this lecture, the writer is trying to tell us that there had been a lot of forest fires, and the way that decrease the destruction of fires.
One is simiply the longer lives and improved health of trees. In some areas of hickory and oak forest on Eastern Seaboard, tfire suppression has alloowed the maturation of so many trees that the treetops form a continuous canopy.
There is evidence of useful effects of fire suppression closer to the ground as well. Low bushes that would be burned out in a forest fire can clourish. Chemical test on areas that have recently experienced forest fires demonstrate that burning decreases the overall amount of nutrients in the soil. Suppressing fires prevent a decrease.
Also wildlife can benefit. In the eastern hickory and oak forests, the suppression of fires has meant that forest animals, the population of insects, and animals, especially deers, have increased.

Essay (summary)

In the lecture, the professor made a few points about the effects of forest fires. The professor argues that forest fires can be good for forest. However he talks differently from the lecture, the lecture says negative things about the forest fires, but he does good things.
The first point the professor makes is that if there are too much trees, is hard for tree to get sunshine, or the light. Also, in some way, there are not enough space for trees to grow, trees are holding the land, so they can hold the land even though it is windy, but if trees are not grown enough, they can't really do anything, which is going to cause trouble someday. In this case, teacher talks good thing of forest fires.
Another point was that burning a forest actually puts more nutrients into the land. The lecture does not say this. It says that fires take nutrients out of the soil. However, the teacher says there are more nutrients at the top for plants to use.
The professor tries to make the point of good things forest fires because everyone thinks the fires in negative ways.

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Essay

Topic: A university education should be provided free of charge to all interested scholars. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

The topic is whether or not a university education should be provided free of charge to all interested scholars. This is very important because the cost of education is rising, and the education is important, too. I believe that university shouldn’t be provided free education.
I do not think that university education should be free. Who is going to pay the money? Government is going to pay for us, but people are going to have to pay more taxes, which are going to influence the old people, they don’t study, and why would they pay more taxes. It makes same point, to pay to go to university or pay more taxes; also people might not go to university because you are wasting money in not useful case, which is not fair for everyone.
The level of university will fall, if university don’t have any money to teach, no student is going to come, no one will go to university, if they have same level as high school does why would they go? Also if university is free, how are they going to buy computers, books, and hire good professors to teach? So they should not have free university education.
Finally, I think the university should not be free because there are many reasons school available and they have different prices. Poor students, unless you are incredibly smart, can go to a school that doesn’t cost as much and still learn a lot. Many university give aid or scholarships so a student can attend even if they don’t have money. So there is no need to make a university education free.
University education should not be made free. I think this way because colleges need the money to make them better. If the universities are free, taxes will be raised and people will have to pay thins that they might not use. Since you can get scholarship and aid, university should not free.

Journal Mar 11th

Title: The Giver

After Jonas receives his first memory, he finds that it is not too hard to obey the rules that come with his position. His family is used to his not dreaming frequently, so they do not question him much at dream-telling time. His friends are so busy describing their own training experiences that he can just sit still and listen, knowing that he could not even begin to explain what happens in his training. He has a lot of hard time with the Giver. For example, because Jonas is young, the Giver shows very poor denounces to him, also whatever Jonas asks, he answers poorly. He has been very busy, but he go to the House of Old again with his friend. Jonas tries to figure out the mean by seeing beyond, which he never experienced, or saw it. He asks Jonas to remember the sled from yesterday, and Jonas notices that the sled has the same strange quality as Fiona's hair and the apple. It did not turn into red, it was red. The reason that the sled is just red, instead of turning red, is that it is a memory from a time when color existed. Jonas remarks that red is beautiful and wonders why his community got rid of it, and the Giver tells him that in order to gain control of certain things, the society had to let go of others. Jonas says that they should not have done so, and the Giver tells Jonas that he is quickly acquiring wisdom.
As Jonas has trained, he is understanding a lot of colors, and the differences. Jonas thought that the Giver's memory gives him pain, the Giver knew it too, he was telling his memory on purpose to make, and give the memory of pain to Jonas...
I feel Jonas is going to bring some unluck because, firstly, his name Jonas means that a person who brings no luck, and as he gets trained, he gets worse things even though he is learning the stuffs that he needs to cover to be successor. Secondly he has different life totally different, his friends are just working on their assignments, but Jonas is not, he has to spend the time with the Giver.

Essay

Topic:
Computers can translate all kinds of languages well. Do our children need to learn more languages in the future?


Because the technology have develpoed, the computers can traslate all kinds of languages, and now parents want them to learn more for no reason unless your job is travelling whole world, or trading between the countries, you don't have to know more that two languages, so I don't agree that children need to learn more languages.
Many parents want their children to learn more lnaguages because they will go to better university, or better job, I meant job that they want to go, but they don't have to learn all the languages. What if they want to stay at their country and go to normal company and university, there is no reason to learn more languages, I know that if you learn more languages, it will be very useful, but if you just think about the normal life in the futre, you don't have to know more than two, you own country's language and English, or Chinese because China is developing so fast that if you see your beloings, you can see made in China, and many people, Americans, Africans, and Europeans speak English, so if you know English you can do almsot everything that you want.
Depends what you want to be, if you want to be one of people who translate, or write English newspaper, you have to learn more languages, at least two of the languages, you have to be very skill ful because you are in big work, if you make mistake once, and you give foreginers bad denounce, they will never trade, or not even talk. However, if you just want to be normal worker, or what you want to be is not that special, don't have to know many languages, you do not need to know them unless you are interested in them because why would you have to learn if you are not going to use them?
Parents should not force children to learn more languages because they will be very stressful, what you have to do in the childhood is that you take your time, and do what you enjoy, watch TV, read some book, get some new experience, it is a persecution if you force them to learn, if they don't want to learn, if they want to learn you can teach them, but the children have control in this case, parents are not children. So they can't force them.
There are two parts in this essay, one is if you want to be just normal person, you don't have to learn new language, it is good to learn ,but not have to learn. If you want to be a greater person you can learn some more, not can, have to, or should learn some more lanugages.

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Journal Mar 9th

Title: The Giver Page:60~90


Jonas are going to go to Ceremony of Twelves very soon. Jonas was getting nervous as the time passes, but in the aftersnoon, he worked very hard in the volunteer time, also he enjoyed it so much. He could not sleep the night before the ceremony because he was exciting for the assignment that he will get, but some way he was worried about it because he might get a bad assignment, the assignment that he wouldn't want, but he fell in the sleep because he was only eleven, even though he wanted, he couldn't stay that long. He dreamed about the House of Old. As soon as he wakes up, he had the breakfast, and tell his father that he had dreamed something while he was sleeping, he was telling the family his dream. He said, I was in the House of Old with Fiona, but no Asher (the best friend of Jonas). They were in the bathroom, Jonas wanted Fiona to take a shower, he wanted to wash her, Fiona was laughing, which made kind of Jonas to be made in the beginning of the dream, Jonas know, and Fiona knew that he should not take a shower, but Jonas wanted terribly, this was his dream. His parents looked quite happy, but Jonas did not know why, his mother told her after Lily went to the school, she said she is glad because the time has come, she thought the feeling of want had to be in the Jonas' mind, she said that is why she is glad, but Jonas get a little scary because his mother was telling that the rule was you have to tell the committee if you have feeling of wanting, but no one really does, Jonas was scared of banding the law, but he gets little better when his mother told him that, they just want to know the feeling, not anything else. He goes to the Ceremony of the Twelves, he was nervous, somehow he was chosen to be the Reciever of the Memory. If you are chosen to this thing, you can succeed easily, but if you failure, you are not going to succeed. Jonas gets really nervous as he speaks. What is going to happen is...

Essay

Title: Forests are the lungs of the earth. Destruction of the world's forests amounts to death of the world we currently know. To what extent do you agree or disagree?


I absolutely think that forests are the lungs are of the earth, and we should not have any destruction at all about the forest because as we destroy, the air will get worse and worse, the earth, environment will have worse problem that we can't fix, I mean we can't really fix the problem that nature has because we caused the problem.
Lately, we destroyed a lot of mountain, or forest to develop more, this is good sign of developing, but we are causing a problem, the problem is probably about the air because even though we use a lot car, the leaves absorbs million tons of dust that is from the car, which is very good, but if we destroy them and use many technology, there will be the most awful world in the future. I can't imagine world with the air that we can't breath with, water that we can't drink. The forests on the land are probably about 35% of the land, and the Amazon River is 20%, it was 30%, but people have cut the entire tree to build the houses, to develop more. Amazon was called as the tank of oxygen, it produced a lot of oxygen (also meant, cleaned the air.), but we use more technology, so it is almost unable to fix now.
The reason why I said, we can't really fix the problem is that I have never seen the people solved the problem with nature. For example, I haven't seen the people solved the problem with the global warming, or the hurricane in New Orleans. We can fix the problem that we made right away, but we can't fix the problem, if we have made the problem for a long time and don't fix it.
Do you have any idea with fixing this problem? I think I have some, not precisely, but simple solutions. First, we have to start to not doing the bad things from right now, not a year later, or month later, we have to do thins now, once human say I am going to do it later, that caused the problem all the time, so we have to start to clean up now. Secondly, the government, and the scientists should try to fix the problem as fast as they can, and try to develop the technology, which will be very hard work for them, but if we want to solve the problems, and live easier, we have to do these simple things that we can do it now.
Nature gave us the power to use to us, but we are not using them wisely, to be well-living on the earth, better nation for the government, or better people, you have to think that as technology is important, the forests are twice as important as the technology.