My Words

2010 is coming!!

2009-12-12T01:49:00.004+08:00

Wow~~I can't believe it!

2010 is really coming......

I really hope that the movie 2012 is not true!!

I have so many things to do, and there are many dreams I rally want to come true.

In 2010, I will become a senior in my university, and it means that I have to make

some important decisions.

No matter what the decision I do, I'll keep going to live in my own life.

So.....just enjoy my life, I think!

By the way, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Journal: How I Learn English

2009-06-17T06:13:00.000+08:00

Jia張玲佳

95255133

Business Management 3B

How I Learn English

In the beginning, my sister and I would listen to English Disney songs, like “Beauty and the Beast,” not understanding what the singers were singing about. Nevertheless, as we continued to listen to all kinds of English songs from the radio or from CD’s, we learned the words to entire songs and unfailingly sang along to them. Furthermore, I read each and every lyric book my CD’s provided. Slowly, I began to understand the lyrics of the songs I listened to.
When I was older, I started reading English novels, my favorite being mystery novels. At first, I was overwhelmed by the mass of vocabulary in each book and was frustrated with my inability to expedite my reading. I constantly utilized the dictionary for my vocabulary needs and with every intake of a new word, my reading ability improved and I was closer to uncovering the mystery at the end of the novel.
When I finished my first English mystery novel, I was elated at my success for making it through the whole book. I felt I had taken another step up in learning English and reading English novels became more and more enjoyable to me.
Nowadays, I persistently challenge myself in countless ways so that my English would advance. I insist on using English vocabulary when I am communicating and write in English when I am sending letters to my friends. Recently, I joined the “Asian Student Exchange Program” which is a program designed for international English speaking students like myself. I hosted some Japanese students and we had pleasurable discussions regarding everyone’s lives, cultures and experiences in learning English. Through our hearty conversations, I learned that everyone’s learning experience was a lot like me – we all learned through our mistakes and experiences. Even after everyone returned home, we continued to support each other through any difficulties in learning English, by writing out our problems or solutions through our letters or postcards to each other.
I consider myself very fortunate to have learned English and at the present, I cannot begin to tell you how much learning English has given me. Learning English is challenging and yet, at the same time, it is exciting too. Most importantly, learning English has bestowed my life with new friendships from around the world, which is priceless. I also learned the valuable lesson to not give up whenever I faced any difficulties in life. I will continue to press myself forward in learning English and to willingly confront any conflicts I might have. In the future, I will strive to share with other people my pleasure in learning English and to help others learn English with much satisfaction as well.

Word: 451

My Essays

2009-06-08T10:53:00.002+08:00

Business Management 3B
Jia 張玲佳
95255133

Class CR

What people pursue all their life?

As we all try to make sense of how we were and how we are now, I'd always believe that our first duty is to live life to the full. It seems that we live in panic, which makes us feel anything is never enough for us. We pursue love, health and money throughout life to make us feel alive. But we forget that we cannot live alone, loose from the world.

Nobody will be surprised if I say everyone loves money. Money can buy almost anything. Thus, people work hard to earn and save as much money as they can to buy whatever they desire or do things they dream of doing. Unfortunately, a lot of people put too much time and value into money. If working overtime is going to summon their death or break the relationships with others, then it just isn’t worth all that hard work. In Japan, the government is dealing with serious issues of their citizens dying from overworking. What is the point of having so much money, if you’re not going to have the time or energy to use that money or have someone to share with your happiness?

Most people don’t really realize that money isn’t the main source of happiness. Being healthy is more important than having lots of money. There’s no cure for dying, no matter how rich you are. There is nothing doctors can do once you’re dead. People who work hard all their life are so blinded by the money they make that they forget money can’t buy a healthy life, nor can it make them immortal. That’s why people should learn how to balance work and life. After all, “All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.”

But most importantly there’re people in this world who work so hard that they forget about their love loved ones. The longer they’re at work, the less time they spend with their family, their friends and everyone who cares and worries about them. Money can’t buy health and it certainly can’t buy love either. Being rich and healthy doesn’t mean anything when you’re all alone. The lonely prince would give away all his money just to find a true friend or a dying man would wish in his last breath to see his wife and children once more. All these scenarios show just how important love is to each and every one of us. As long as we have love, there’s the willingness to care on the burdens.

I once heard people said that “Love makes people do things they’ve never known they could have done.” And I believe it is true. I would do anything for my family and loved ones because I know, in the end, no matter how rich or poor, healthy or sick I am, they’re the only ones who will be there for me through thick and thin. That’s why love is the most important thing in this world. If we show more love to each other, then we can truly have a peaceful and harmonious world.

Jia ACR

Should Women be Allowed in Combat in the Battle?

In this ever-changing world, women rights and issues of freedom and equality have come up in the recent issues such as military combat. As more and more people join the military to express their patriotism, many people begin to question whether it was all right for women to combat in the battle.

The answer to this question is simply yes. Long ago, only men joined the military and participated in protecting and honoring the country. Now a woman can join the military and put herself in a position where she will physically, spiritually and mentally train herself to support and serve her country as an honor, not only for herself, but for the rest of her country as well. This act of patriotism shows that, not only men are supportive of their nation, also women believes strongly for their nation’s cause and will stand side by side with men during combat. I believe if a women wishes to help support her nation, she should be encouraged and honored treated just like a man does.

But here, another question arises. Should women be allowed to combat in the battle with other men? The answer for this question could not be simply answered by yes or no. Instead we must, together, as a nation －as a world －look at the definition of peace and harmony. We should all learn to believe and trust one another, and put all our differences aside.

Even though I may be supportive of women from around the world supporting their country by joining the military, I do not support war or hatred. I believe everyone in this world has the potential to live together in peace, happiness and harmony.

Mid term Cause Effect Essay

What’s My Future Career?

Nowadays, it’s a common question for college students to ask themselves what they want to do in the future. For most of the students, they would say they don’t have a clue and live in anxious uncertainty. Only few of the students would already set up their future plan and stick to it. The Government has noticed this problem and encouraged all colleges to hold up different kinds of career workshops, speeches and counselors. Why do college students commonly not know what they want to do after graduating?

To enter a college, we all have to take the college entrance exam. In the old days, we can see it more competitive than it is now. Probably only one out of ten can go to college, but almost everyone can enter college easily now. Having a college degree isn’t unique and special, and college students can be seen everywhere. This may cause students who don’t want to further study fear they won’t have a job and the ability or skill to catch up enterprises’ requirements.

In Taiwan, most of the student majors were chosen up by their parents or they may lose interest in studying the subjects, which may lower their learning attitude, causing them to give up school and waste their time fooling around. Not thinking what they want, but live in their own fantasy world, considering things will somehow work out. Only a few students would change their major or go to different courses to figure out what their real interest is.

Some of the Taiwan parents are so overprotecting children, too. For example, one of my classmates’ family background is pretty good/rich. His parent brought him cars, pay for his phone bills, gives him allowance and almost everything he wants. He thinks that his parent is rich, so he doesn’t need to find a job or set up a future plan for himself. Not like the American Family. They let their children develop their own ways and young teenagers have to work part time jobs for their extra needs.

For me, I once went through a “fog” time, thinking what kind of future career I would want during college. Because of double majoring(Business Management and English), learning computer, it seems there are plenty of career paths for me to choose. But the world’s economy went down in 2007. It made it harder to find a job that I truly want. But after counseling with my professor, participating in several career speeches and petting my family’s advice, I drew up a time line that represents each five years and wrote it to eighty years old on what I want to do. It wasn’t easy! Finding the career you want is hard. You got to figure it out one step by a time and I believe you will find it!

Jia P

How to Manage a Team in Different Sections?

Many people must have the experience in grouping up a team for a project, report, or competition and not having any difficulties in managing it. No doubt that we all have met some difficulties during running a project, such as misunderstanding, conflicts, etc. The time frame for a team can be divided into different sections: Starting up, grouping and combining, project closing.

In “Starting up” of the project, Teammates have all sorts of thought and ideas in leading the project. Different opinions may cause a brilliant creative main structure for the project or a long big argument. For me, I consider it absolutely necessary to set up a set of rules for the teammates to agree on before the project begins. Not only would this build up a team’s discipline, such as not being late to any meeting, but also get everyone to pay attention to others’ suggestions, strategies with respect. For example, I always set up a rule that is “Everyone shall spread their ideas and thoughts during discussions or meetings reasonably and before the meetings we should do all the researches which can help us realize what the project is about. ” By setting up this rule, my teammates would have fewer conflicts and complaints while dealing with big decisions for the project’s directions.

Secondly, the members of the team usually take different responsibilities. For example, the project manager makes sure all the details and procedures are working and going on fine; teammates, who are usually divided into different of groups to carry out different functions, such as group promotion, group administration and so on.. Managing such a complicated structure makes the team go through “grouping and combining” section. Because in a team there can be different types of people, who may not have the time to know each other or may have communication problems, so it’s necessary to build up a clear connection bridge (windows/contactors) in all groups, so that people can know who to find when they need resources or help.

And then the team goes to “project closing” part. When the team runs a project from the half way to the end, it means it’s at the “project closing” section. The teammates have a clear image of what their projects are running about and know what their tasks are. At this section, the project manager will have to keep an eye on group members’ work and see whether the project delayed or on time.

I cannot say that managing a team by dividing them into three parts is the best way. But this is how I manage teamwork when doing a project. I truly hope that everyone could have a good time in doing a project and also realize the importance of teamwork.

Tina's Journal

2009-06-03T23:48:00.000+08:00

Missing the Class(CE)

2009-06-03T23:45:00.000+08:00

英文2A

楊婷琪

Tina

Cause Effect

96210532

Missing the Class

After I become a college student, I had many experiences the first time, like the club, the living problems, and the different ways of studying, and so no. I also find that I become lazier and lazier than before. Sometimes I didn’t go to school. But why do I become so? Maybe it has some relation with my college life.

First, after my freshman life, I moved out of the school dorm and moved into a small room. It has some distance from the school. But I couldn’t say anything because it was chosen by my roommate. I don’t have any different ways to go to school. I just walk. And it always takes me twenty to thirty minutes. If I walked to school slowly, I would be late. Sometimes if I woke up late, I would think that I didn’t want to go to school.

Second, the place I live is very cold. I always think it is very cold outsides so I want to sleep more. When I had this thinking, I would lie on the bed and continue to sleep. Thus, I sometimes missed the class.

Finally, I am too busy so that I can’t sleep enough in the normal day. Because I often have some important activities on holidays or on the weekends, I usually feel tired in the normal days. I become wanting to sleep more even though I have to go to school. So I sometimes miss the class for getting more sleep.

I know that is a bad thing for a student. It makes my learning worse and worse. I feel very sorry to my parents and my friends. I even try to change my life style but it is no use. Maybe I have to think more about my way of life for the future semesters.

Sever-Learning

2009-06-03T23:24:00.000+08:00

Weasel Words

2009-06-03T23:21:00.000+08:00

Internet Addiction

2009-06-03T23:15:00.001+08:00

About My Dog - Cookie

2009-06-02T23:40:00.000+08:00

英文系2A
96210621
蔡雨庭 Rainy
Journal 4
About My Dog- Cookie

Last year, a new member came to my home, a male Dachshund. Because his feather’s color like cookie, we named him Cookie. My sister bought him on the Internet and it cost 7500 dollars. In fact, my mother doesn’t allow us to keep an animal, so we concealed first. By the way, my sister and I live outside now. Originally, we liked Golden Retriever, but it would grows bigger and bigger and we didn’t have enough space. So we chose Dachshund finally.
When Cookie came to our home, he was just two weeks old. He was very small and the length was just like three palms. He always shivered and didn’t dare to walk around. My sister bought a cage for him, so he could sleep inside. But when he slept, he would wake up just because a little voice, and then he whined. So I just took him out and put him on my legs, then he fell asleep little by little. But when I was going to bed, I put him into the cage again, and I would ignore his voice. I think Cookie is male so I want to train him to be independent. Of course, we bought many things for him, for example, toys, ropes, and snacks. When he was sick, both of us became nervous. We took him to the hospital and made injections into Cookie so he had better immunity. If Cookie finished four injections, he could start to run in the field.
Two months old, he started to take a walk with us. At first, he was afraid to accept the outside world. His legs shivered and he didn’t dare to walk. If he saw other dogs, he would hind behind our legs. It seemed that they were not the same kind of pets. Little by little, he liked to take a walk and except the walking time. But he still couldn’t make friends with other ones because he had been yelled by a big fierce dog. I thought this action would impact on him deeply. I hope that he could forget that experience and played with other dogs. We would let him go out everyday to overcome his fear.
Now, he was six months old, he becomes more mischievous and often run around our home. If I just snooze on the bed, he will jump on the bed and lick my face, shaking his tail. Sometimes I get so annoyed because I cannot take a rest totally. The thing which makes me so angry is that he often drains in front of my room door, not in his urine’s basin. I will yell at him and hit him, but he still does that again and again. But I still have patience to teach him, I believe that he will understand what I say. However, my sister and I love this puppy so much.
This experience will be so special because both of us never keep a pet. We will take care of him in his limited life, and we won’t discard him. I hate the people like that. Cookie has only two good friends but we have many good friends, so we are important to him. In a word, we love him just like he loves us.

Words: 545

Internet Addiction

2009-06-02T23:35:00.000+08:00

英文系2A
96210621
蔡雨庭 Rainy
Journal 3
Internet Addiction

Most people can’t live without the computers today and they always spend at least 2 hours surfing on the Internet. What is the most fascinating feature to people? The answer will be that the Internet is a global village.
People almost can do everything by the Internet. They get in touch with their distant friends and chat on line, even can see their friends’ facial expressions by the webcams. Now Internet shops are popular just because people can buy anything by pressing some keys, and the stuff will be sent to their home. Students search for not only the information of their reports but the information of playing through the Internet. They can find what they need to finish their homework, or take a glance with other’s reference materials. They take the Internet as a big library. There are some useful websites which offer any kinds of information, including eating, traveling, and the stores’ discounts. In that website, people share their experiences about restaurants, concerts, fashionable information and so on. For example, if I want to choose a good Bed and Breakfast, I just surf people’s suggestions on line and know which one I should make a reservation. So that’s why the computers become more and more important in this modern world.
But on the other hand, somebody will use the Internet to do something bad. For example, we will make friends on line and if someone invites you to date, you have to be carefully especially girls. There are many Internet crimes that the man raped the woman, and they know each other just three days on the Internet. It occurs often so everyone should protect themselves. The virus is also a big trouble. People should not open the unknown mails or the computers would not work, and if the computers cannot work, the owners have to send them to the store. It should cost a lot.
However, the computer helps people a lot, and it is really a bright invention. It makes our life more colorful and convenient. But we still should be careful when we use it.

Words: 350

The Black List of God(J6)

2009-06-02T22:05:00.003+08:00

E2A

96210630

Selina 彭郁雅

The Black List of God(J6)

Have you ever read a book which called “The black list of God?” it’s a book about those criminal and what they do to the victim. It introduces seven criminal. I think the most terrible homicide is the eighty years old man. He looks very nice. But he eats and beats children. He will take children home and let them play in the yard. Then he will go to prepare how to kill her and how to cook her. He said that the most delicious part of children is the bum, and he can’t forget how delicious it is forever. It was sick. After you read this book, you will realize how important family education is. In this books, almost every homicide group up in unhappy and unhealthy family. That’s the reason why their personality was so unmoral. And they will want to hurt people to get satisfy. I like to read these kinds of books and movies because I really like to know why and how they do their crime. Some homicides have very ridiculous reasons. But it’s the interested part. Sometimes I really feel that killing people didn’t need many reasons.

Words-194

Grace's journal

2009-06-02T20:41:00.004+08:00

May, 28
Last week, I felt bored, and I didn’t want to do anything. At that time, my friend asked me that we went out to watch a movie. We went to Miramar, having a dinner first, and looking around the market. About seven, we choose the new movie “angels and demons”.The movie was the best movie for me, because it discussed the realities of human and gave me a shock. The movie actually reorganized the novel. The novel also called “angels and demons”. It was a bestselling mystery-thriller novel which was written by American author Dan Brown and published by Pocket Books in 2000. The novel talked about the idea of a historical conflict between science and religion, particularly that between the Illuminati and the Roman Catholic Church. And the movie was almost alike the novel, but the movie cut many important details because of time. That is the most regrettable. I think it still a good movie for me, and the movie content was enough and meaningful.After watching movie, my friend and I went back to school, and we went to see the night scene and chatted a lot. I think this day was a happy day.
May, 29
My roommate and I got up early, and we decided to do something special. First, we had to have a breakfast, and let us have energies to live the whole day. And then, we went to our university to discover somewhere special, so we went to each building of our school to see the different beautiful scene. In the way, I found that our school was really the most beautiful school, and made me see many kinds of side everywhere in the school.
In the afternoon, we suddenly wanted to go to the zoo, so we got up the bus to go to our destination. We said hello to every animal, and we were crazy to try to talk to them and attract their attention. We walked to each different area of animals, and we felt interested in knowing the animals’ background and information.
Through the day, we felt substantial and powerful, and we decided to study when we took a break for a night. However, the horrible final exam is coming, we should prepare first.
字數：379
Grace蘇芳儀
96210583

Introduce my Idol(Journal)

2009-06-02T17:23:00.002+08:00

Introduce my Idol

Today, I want to introduce my idol. It is a Japanese group, called “w-inds.” It made by Tachibana Keita, Chiba Ryuhei, and Ryuchi. Keita is the singer in it, Ryuhei and Ryuhei are dancer. Ryuchi is the leader, he lead the other to make us to know them.

They got the best new singer when they start their actives at the first year. It is the top reward for a singer. So that, they have a lot of fans quickly after they start to sing. In the beginning, they just sing in a park. They singing and dancing to keep up their sing power. Even they got the reward at the first year, they still go ahead. This year is their seventh year, they have many actives and concerts among that. Four years ago, they even go to Taiwan to have their own concert. Now, they have many fans in every places, like Taiwan, Korean and so on.

When I hear them from my friend at the first time, I was a junior high school student. In the beginning, I just helped my friend to notice them, like their CDs, newspaper, and magazines, and so no. Finally, I love them.

Every time I hear their songs, I always feel happy. If they sing rock songs, I would want to dance with them. If they sing love songs, I would feel very sweet. Sometimes, when I feel unhappy, I like to listen their songs. It will make me to feel better. For me, their songs are the best friend when I feel bad.

Even now, I am a college student, I still love them. Because them, I met many people who love them, too. We shared a lot of things about them. And we also become good friends.
I think I will love them forever. They are the best memory in my student life.

By. Tina
Total:316

Camp Rock(Journal)

2009-06-02T17:17:00.002+08:00

Camp Rock

“Camp Rock” is a TV movie which made by Disney. It said Mich is girl who loves music very much. She wants to join the summer camp which called “Camp Rock.” But when she saw everyone in it have good ability or have a famous parent. She feel very inferior. So, she lie. She told everybody her mother is a very famous person who work in music company. In fact, her mother is a cook in this camp. When her lie be found by other. What happened to her?

I always love Disney’s movies very much. Because I love to see the movie which would include music and dance sometime, it also the biggest point in Disney. And their songs always very great, it can touch us. Like the other TV movie, High School Musical, is the good example. And they also invite some good and young active to play the role. It makes us more close the life in the movie. It just like our life.
So, I want to introduce this TV movie to others. It a really good TV movie.

By. Tina
Total:185

Shia (CER)

2009-06-02T03:57:00.000+08:00

姓名:夏郁婷
學號:96210559
班級:英文系2A
Shia (CER)

Sleeping Is Very Important for Me

After I become a college student, I become fond of sleeping, and I think sleep is very important. When I have free time, I like to sleep in my room, because I don’t like to go out. I think going out always make me spend much money and much time.

I don’t want to waste my energy and my money, so I don’t like to go out by myself. I like to sleep in summer and winter, because summer is so hot, so sleeping at home is a good choice. Winter is a sleeping season, when winter comes, the weather becomes cold, so people like to sleep, and they don’t want to go out in winter.

When I become a college student, I like to sleep in my free time. Because when I was a freshman in Taipei, I didn’t know the locations of places in Taipei. I didn’t know many places, people, and things, so I didn’t know where to go and play. I could only sleep in my small room when I was bored.

Besides, the weather is always rainy and cold in YangMingShan. I hate the weather, so I become lazy to do things and don’t like to go out. Because when I have to go out to buy foods or something, I have to wear many clothes and have to carry umbrella. I think it is very inconvenient. I would rather sleep in my room than go out to do something or play.

Sleeping is almost full of my whole life, and it is my close friend. Sleeping is a pleasure and relaxing activity, and many people like to sleep when they have free time. I like to sleep too. I think sleeping is very comfortable and also helps us to relax our bodies and minds. To sum up, sleeping is a very important thing for me.

Argumentative Essay Shia(ARC)

2009-06-02T03:52:00.000+08:00

姓名:夏郁婷
學號:96210559
班級:英文2A
Argumentative Essay

Vegetarianism
Nowadays, more and more people become vegetarians; they like to eat a lot of different vegetable foods. They enjoy their favorite vegetables and they think it is very healthy to eat a lot of different vegetables. Not only do old persons but also many young people like to eat vegetable foods, and they think meatless diet is good for them.

Many people want to become vegetarians because they don’t want to kill animals. They think it is too cruel to eat meat diet, so they would rather eat different vegetables than to eat any meat diet. They think the animal is a life as the human being; they think animals are poor and innocent. Also some people think animals are so cute, lively and vigorous, so they are unable to eat meat diet for their meals.
But I think if people just eat vegetables, their bodies and health may have some troubles. And Despite animals is so cute. Some of them are raised to be foods for human beings. So I think it is necessary and acceptable for us to eat meat diet.

On the other hand, some women and girls want to keep a good figure, they don’t want to become fat and ugly. They don’t want to eat meat, because they think meat always has too many calories and some meat have too much oil. They fear those foods in their life, they think only vegetables can make them become beautiful and keep a slender figure. But I think there are many ways to keep a slim figure, and I think if we only eat vegetables, our body will lack nutrition. In my opinion to keep a good figure, we have to do exercises and have balanced nutrition.

Some people become vegetarians because of religious factors. They have their own beliefs. They obey their religious principles, so they can’t eat meat diet. They don’t want to violate the rule, so they can just eat a lot of different vegetables. But I think living in an enlightened society, people should consider many things. If people only eat vegetables, it will be bad for their health and it will become very inconvenient in their life.

Today, many people think vegetables is omnipotent and they think they are the most important foods in their life. Therefore, they become vegetarians; they all like to eat many different vegetables. They think it is convenient to eat and buy vegetables, they think it is good for their health and mind. They don’t want to eat any “meat diet” foods. But I think it is very important to have balanced nutrition in our life, and vegetables are not the only important ones in our life.

(Essay) Chances of College Students

2009-06-02T02:32:00.000+08:00

陳宇儂
97413208
英文2A

Chances for College Students

When I was little, my mother always reminded me that I must study hard and became a university student. At that time, many people only finished high school. Rarely people finished college education.
At that time you could get a great job even if you only finished the high school, and there were only few universities then. But, as I became a primary student, many people were concerned whether I had a high degree or not. Nowadays, there are thousands of university students walking on the street. Only 30% of them might get well-paid jobs.

Nowadays it’s not enough for students to finish their high school. They know the only way to get a good job is the high degree of university. They have to get scores; they have to step over other people and become the top of class. So many of them to transfer to better schools than the old one; they studied hard just for the top university. For their goals, they can make as far as they can.

Even you are a university student. There are many problems you need to worry about. For instance, many people studied at university and it’s not special anymore. The better way is that you get a master’s degree so that you have more opportunity. For what? Students’ life was becoming more and more competitive.

Once I had talked my friend. I told her I wondered if university students know their life goal. She told me that university students changed their thoughts while the society was changing. They have no idea about it. And lives are full of tests, examinations, projects, speeches, and reports. I totally agree with her points of view that students must not be like studying machines.

I wish that students must think of themselves. They should realize what they are going to achieve for their goal, and take a rest if they are tired.

(Essay) Negative Effects Of Television

2009-06-02T02:30:00.000+08:00

陳宇儂
97413208
英文系2A

Negative Effects of Television

Television has become a “member” of almost every family. You can turn the TV on when everything is done: you have your work done. No one is bothering and you feel absolutely happy.

But we should be concerned about the negative effect the TV has on the children. Every parent works hard to earn money, but when they come back home, they are not eager to spend time with their children, and that causes the effect: kids are allowed to watch everything they want to watch, and TV plays like a babysitter. And the parents never realize they should put responsibility on kids. As a result, kids learn everything from TV, including both good and bad things.

Children learn that they can get what they want and being stronger. Kids are affected easily during the development and may become aggressive; it may because kids to have unbalanced and unhealthy actions towards people. For instance, we have heard the kids held guns and went their schools to shoot their teachers and schoolmates no long ago. They can do that as well if one day they become violence.

Or TV often has sexual scenes which may teach the kids to have early sexual contacts, which destroy the healthy development of a child. Television also has a great influence on the self-image of people. We have watch perfect bodies hundred of times per day, and they all look completely perfect. So this causes eating disorder in many people, especially the teenage group. They just want to become one of the like on TV.

A person, especially a child spends a lot of time in front of TV, which really hurts his or her eyes. After a long period of watching TV, the child also loses ability to focus and pay attention. Even if the TV program watched is not violent, long hours’ of watching TV everyday may have deep impact on the child’s personality. Most importantly, it prevents the children doing their homework, resulting in very bad learning manner for school work.

All of the above negative effects cause many problems in our life. It turns our lives into an addiction and suppresses the real life by illusions and violence.

(Essay) How to make a delicious sandwich

2009-06-02T02:28:00.000+08:00

英文系2A
97413208
陳宇儂

How to Make a Delicious Sandwich

I like to eat toast in the morning; it’s an easy-made breakfast. So, I know toaster and how to use toaster to heat toast for breakfast. But it’s the first time I saw the sandwich machine in my foreign friend’s house.

Once I was invited to my friend’s house and saw her mom making sandwiches by using the sandwich machine. I was very curious so I went forward to check what sandwich machine looked like, because it’s my first time to see such a machine. Her mom felt that I was so curious about the sandwich machine, and then she said to me she would teach me how to make sandwiches by using the machine. I was so excited and nervous before I started to do it. At first, I was afraid the result would be terrible, and I was afraid to touch something I never used before for fear that I would break it. But her mom told me it wasn’t that difficult, so I started to learn to do it.

She said I needed to switch the machine’s power on and wait it to be hot. At the time of waiting it to become hot, I must prepare ingredients of sandwich. The ingredients contain eggs, hams, cheeses, tomatoes. First, I washed the tomatoes, and then I sliced the tomatoes and hams; actually you can buy hams from markets that have already been sliced or you can buy the original one and sliced them at home. Cheeses are sold in ten pieces a package; they are not very expensive. Then, the most important was eggs. The pan was on the stove with fire opened until it was heated. I took a big bowl and determined how many eggs would be enough to make sandwiches. And then I stirred the egg yolks and egg whites together. After eggs were well stirred I put some oil in the pan, and after the oil was hot enough I poured the eggs into it. She told me I must remember to stir-fry the eggs, not just fry them. After the eggs were half-baked, I poured it onto a plate.

The next step was sandwich making. I took a piece of toast and put it on the kitchen table, and then I put a piece of ham, a piece of tomato on the top of the ham, then a piece of cheese. After that I stir-fried the eggs again with some black pepper. Of course I didn’t forget to put the last piece of toast on it. The Final step was to put the sandwich on the sandwich machine and closed down the machine. On the machine there is a light of small hole. When the light turned red, it meant the sandwich was done.

Different than other sandwiches, this sandwich was more delicious. When I took a bite, the melted cheese was hot and tasted good in the mouth. Now I know how to make delicious sandwiches by using the sandwich machine.

(Essay) The types of my favorite songs

2009-06-02T02:23:00.001+08:00

英文系2A
陳宇儂
97413208

The Types of My Favorite Songs

I love to listen to music, but I am not like other people who often listen to the music that is popular at a time. The part of music that attracts me is the attitude of the writers and the tone, because the songs represent the writers’ mood and feeling. Through the songs people can receive what the writers try to express, so I often listen to Jazz, Rock, and R& B. These three types of music contain different languages but they are all my favorite song styles.

When I really want to relax my body, or do the exercises at home I will listen to Jazz music. I do not have the exact time to do exercises I just play it to release my body. Jazz music is much faster and more relaxing. It makes me want to dance, doing any kind of motion to let go of my body while the music is on. Sometimes I prefer to do it on my bed. It is healthful for my body.

My second favorite song style is Rock, which I listened to when I was in a bad mood or very sad. Rock is very different from Jazz because Rock is quite noisy and screaming. But the tone of the music is like magic that can flush all my unhappiness, even though the things are still right there, but at the moment I can feel I have strength to solve problems, and I am not scared anymore. When I have something to face or have to make a choice, I always listen to Rock music, letting the music go through my mind and I can think deeper and deeper.

I often just sit on the chair and do nothing. This happened when I was quite tired or sleepy; for example, sitting on the MRT or buses, I do not think or do anything. I do not like to be disturbed by others, I want my own space. And R&B music can help me get away from my busy life and clean up my soul.

The three types of music have different functions for me, and they have brought my life with happiness.

Parents are the best teachers

2009-06-02T02:21:00.000+08:00

Chris Chen
英文系2A
97413208

Parents are the Best Teachers

No teacher can replace a parent in the world; thus, I support the idea that parents are the best teachers for their children on the grounds that parents are the persons most intimately acquainted with their children and more often than not children are not only too ready to follow the example of their parents.

To begin with, unlike teachers, from the children’s birth, parents are already with them; hence, parents are the most intimate persons for children. Because of their intimacy, parents know best how to teach their children. On the contrary, it is almost impossible for a teacher to understand every student in a class. Parents, on the other hand, know their children better than anyone else in the world. Consequently, knowing their shortcomings and advantages, parents are better teachers.

Furthermore, children tend to copy what their parents do. Drunkards’ children usually will become drunkards in the future. Doctors’ children usually will become doctor, too. The truth is that children follow their parents’ examples, whether good or bad. Children coming from a dysfunctional family usually have more difficulty in life than do those coming from a healthy and normal family. As a result, parents who exert good influence will be their best teachers.

In short, I agree that parents are the best teachers in view of the parents’ intimate relationship with their children and the pattern of learning between children and parents.

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Whe the worst has happened

2009-06-02T02:18:00.002+08:00

陳宇儂
Chris
英文系2A
97413208

When the Worst has Happened

Being raped is every woman’s nightmare – but knowing what to do if it does happen may help you deal with the trauma.

This is very interesting sentence when I saw from the newspaper.

I still remember the story that my friend told when I was high school. The girl, she studies her university at overseas. One day she goes to a party of her friends, the party always finishes lately, but she thinks her flat is close to place of party that she can walking home. So, she didn’t think of anything. Until everyone is tired, she thanks to friend for nice party and she going home. She got raped when she went home by seven black men, after that, someone finds her but she already out of her mind. She couldn’t recognize anyone, if someone touches her, she screams.
I was heartbreak after I heard this news. I’m a girl so I wouldn’t like such things happen to anyone, because I don’t want it happen to me as well. But what if it happened, what are you going to do?

A magazine which I read it writes the follow three points:
First, during the attack, you can target sensitive parts of his body – such as his eyes, ears, throat, and penis. Use your keys, handbag, knees and legs to hurt him. Sometimes active resistance can lead to further anger and harm. If your attacker is armed – or if there are two or more of them – it becomes much harder to fight and you may choose to protect yourself by being passive instead.

Second, after the attack, you must get to a safe place as soon as possible and tell the first person you can trust about the rape. He or she can asked to be a witness if you go to court. And don’t throw away or wash your clothes, no matter how mush you want to. If you choose to press charges, your clothes may offer important evidence (such as hair, blood and semen) against the rapist. Put these items in a paper bag or wrap them in newspaper. Don’t keep them in a plastic bag, as plastic can destroy this type of evidence.

Third, psychological help can makes you feel better after you had been raped. Rape survivors all have different reactions and responses. Feeling paranoid, humiliated, powerless and fearful are all emotions to be expected when one is recovering from raped. They will be guilt and shame. But, a psychologist or rape counselor will be able to work through these feelings with you and help you realize that your response is a normal reaction to an abnormal experience.

I believe that information teach us many things. When the time is late, then you should not walk alone; be aware the strange actions of people that around you; do not be alone when you go out; never walk on the road there are only rare people, when something happen no one will help you ; most importance is you need to be careful no matter where you are.

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Diamonds Aren't Everyone's Best Friend

2009-06-02T01:44:00.000+08:00

Ring/賴沛彤
J5

Diamonds Aren''t Everyone''s Best Friend
In the middle of dinner, Victor got down on one knee. Taking Claire''s hand in his, he spoke the words she had been dying to hear, "Will you marry me?" Claire beamed as Victor reached into his pocket, pulling out the velvet-covered jewelry box. Nestled inside was a two-carat diamond. As he placed the ring on her finger, the look of joy on her face turned to horror as blood began to drip from the ring. This blood wasn''t her own, but the blood of the thousands of men and women who died as a result of the diamond she was now wearing.This example is an exaggerated illustration of the blood diamond trade. Blood diamonds are not red, nor are they dripping with blood. These are precious stones that are mined in countries that are considered war zones. The gems are then secretly sold, with the proceeds funding the war efforts of terrorists or of less-than-honorable military regimes.Africa may be the cradle of civilization, but in it sleep age-old feuds that have taken countless lives. The majority of the world''s diamonds come from Africa. Countries such as Angola, Sierra Leone, and the Ivory Coast are known to produce some of the most pristine diamonds on earth. These places are also known for their bloody wars and conflicts.In 1974, Portugal''s rule of Angola came to an end. Soon after independence, fighting among different factions broke out. The civil war lasted 27 years and took over half a million lives. Many of the bombs, bullets, and grenades used to kill were purchased using funds from the sale of diamonds. These diamonds found their way onto the fingers, wrists, and necks of the wealthy around the world.For years, the diamond trade was stained with the blood of these sorts of operations. However, the public as well as governments around the world eventually became informed about its violent nature. Sanctions against the diamond industry in these countries made a difference and now most of these conflicts have been resolved and the trade is sparkling again.

This article is from a website which I introduce to you before. There are many good articles. I choose the one which I feel interested. This article is talking about blood diamonds. Before I read this article, I really like diamonds. I think diamonds are very beautiful and noble. When I was a little girl, I always bought some diamond rings. Of course, they were just toys. Every time I wore the toy rings, I thought I was a pretty princess. See, diamonds can drive most girls crazy. No matter how old are you, you will love diamonds. But after I read this article, I think diamonds are evil. Nowadays, men always use diamonds to purpose. After women saw them, they will always say "Yes, I do". I think that the diamond’s glories are very dazzling. They are also very attractive. There are too many people want to have one. Maybe some of them want to show off, some of them just think the diamond means” I am rich.” Nobody will care about the people who die because of diamonds. Since I watched a movie which called “blood diamond,” I felt so sad. I did not know that Africa's people be treated like that. I still really like diamonds, but I feel worry. If we keep buying diamonds, the Africa’s people will be killed and hurt. I think we can reject to buy diamonds, and there will no more people want to get them. I know it is impossible. I still hope someday this can happen and there will be no more people feel hurt.
I have to write 300 words that I will have1500 words. After I wrote the article, I found there were only 265 words. I have to write 35 words, so I want to tell you a joke.
A six-year-old girl asks her mother, - "Mommy, how old are you?"The mother replies, - "Honey, that's a very personal question. Youare not supposed to ask a woman her age."Then she asks, - " How much do you weigh?"The mother says, - "Honey, that is also a personal question. Peopledon't want to be asked about their weight."The girl goes on, - "Mommy, why did you and daddy get a divorce?"The mother says, - "That's a very sensitive subject. When you areolder, I'll tell you."The next day, the girl goes to the kindergarten and tells her friendabout the conversation she had with her mother. Her friend says, -"That's easy!! Look at her driver's license. You can find all theinformation in there."So the girl finds her mother's driver's license in her purse, looks atit for a while, smiles big, and runs to her mother. - "Mommy, mommy, Iknow how old you are! You are 32! I know how much you weigh, too! Youweigh 130 pounds! And I also know why you got a divorce! You got an"F" in sex! "

Words:303
Total: 1509

Journal 5

2009-06-02T01:09:00.001+08:00

英2A 96210494
黃婉綾 Annie

Journal 5

I thought a lot recently and recalled many things. I had a copious life when I was a freshman. I remembered that we had a lot of activities. The camp let everyone know each other more. There were many cool shows for us. We had a Halloween Party and we made the Jack-o'-lantern. Tim was a kind teacher so everyone liked him very much. We had a uniform day and everyone introduced ourselves. For example, we could talk about the hometown, the school, the family, the favorite things, and so on. The PE class was the most interesting class to me because our teacher was very cute. He was always kind to us and prepared the food for everyone. We had a tug of war and won the runner-up. We really liked the PE class. We played the role in the English classes. Everyone should play the role seriously. Moreover, we made short movies. I remembered that our movie were “Are you ready to die?” and “You will never know”. We really enjoyed making the movies. Our director liked the blooding types. Therefore, our two short movies were all blooding. The basketball club won the champion of the freshman cup. I really liked to play basketball with my teammates. We always played happily in the court. The shows were cool in the English night. We won the first and the reward. The show was really special and it made us united. There were really a lot of activities in the first year of college life. I really liked them and enjoyed them. In the second year of college life, I also had a busy life. We went to Yilan and had a good time. We also played the fire. Moreover, I went to the classes and still joined the basketball club. We had to practice the basketball on Tuesday and Thursday every week. Sometimes we had the basketball games in our school or in other universities. When I had a free time, I went out with my classmates or my roommates. We liked to go to eat delicious food and see movies. I often had dates with my friends or my family. I liked to go shopping and have a chat with them. I also had a part-time job. My boss was very cute and sweet. And my coworkers were also very nice. I was very happy that could know them. I really wanted to earn money by myself and I had to save money. Due to the rent of the room, I should earn some money for it. I also loved to touch the new things because I could learn a lot of different things. I remembered that I went home on Mother’s Day. I really missed my family. I chatted with my dear mom and went shopping. Every time I went back home, I felt happy and relieved. I really liked and enjoyed my cool life.

Words: 488

Journal 6

2009-06-01T23:44:00.002+08:00

范振笙 Roger
96210435
Final exams are coming. All the college students are nervous before exams. So am I. I’m afraid that I can’t follow my study schedule. If I failed at this examination I will have a bad summer vacation. So, I have to work hard at the last few days to increase the answer rate. I also have many things to do at the fellowship. We are busy on preparing a party for graduates. What I have to do is handling between school and fellowship well. If I want a good summer vacation, I have to pass the final exam first. Then I can plan what I can do in the vacation. I want to learn many things in this summer. First, I want to play the guitar well. Second, I want to learn how to cook. Third, I must have to improve my English skill. Final, I would like to enjoy breaking dance that I haven’t practice for such a long time. I think with this plan that I will have a meaningful vacation. And the most important thing I have to do is spreading Gospel in other countries. I still remember last vacation I went to Ilan with church people. That trip became the most memorable things in my life and I hope this time I will get another great experience.
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Strengthening the Old People Benefits by Adding Taxes

2009-06-01T23:04:00.002+08:00

96210478
李紫綺
Olivia
Argumentative
98/5/16

Strengthening the Old People Benefits by Adding Taxes

Old people account for a large percentage of population in Taiwan. Thus, the old people welfare becomes important. And the requirement of old people benefits is increased.

In Taiwan, the government provides three kinds of care service. One is home health, another is home care, and the third is institutional care. Actually, many old people are poor, not because that they don’t have the “money,” but because they are “old.” Those old people lack the support from family and society.

One reason is that some old people are abandoned by their child. Many young people say that they don’t have time to take care of their parents. They send their parents to the nursing home. If government can provide families with sufficient money to care for the old people, they don’t need to be sent to the nursing home.

The other reason is our country doesn’t have a very complete system for long-term care. According to the WHO in 2000, there are only five countries that have legislation for the long-term care. Those countries are Germany, Japan, Holland, Israel, and Austria. We can learn from other countries’ benefit systems for old people. For reducing the problem of old people, we have to offer a complete system of old people benefits. We can supply old people with both stuff and money.

We can provide old people what they need half in cash and half in stuff. We also can give the allowance in cash. In this way, our system of the old people care will be more complete than before. So I agree to strengthen the old people benefits by adding taxes.

MuSic iS mY LiFe!

2009-06-01T21:29:00.002+08:00

Journal 5

I Love Music

Recently, I'm sure exactly that I can't accept my life without MUSIC. I think music have already occupied a part of my life because its can purify my heart and spirit. When I listen to music, my mind always be melted by music and it's so hard to let my heart come out. That's absolutely charming me a lot. There are some special things that I really want to do. The things are that learning how to play piano, B-BOX, and imitating different voice from different people, especially B-Box. Because bbox can make a lot of voice that is really like real voice of any thing, I can't believe humans are able to make that voice like many instruments. Now I'm totally charming by B-BOX, I love it really. I know there is one person that he is good at B-Box in Taiwan. If I have a chance and enough money, I will learn from him.

There are some websites about excellent B-Box skill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtnC-0yUKIM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kY4PZXgNIo&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rocE6waNFic&feature=related

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May-December Love, Ya-Da! (Journal #6)

2009-06-01T21:25:00.003+08:00

英2A
96210346
Janet 陳荷婷

May-December Love, Ya-Da!

　　In my life, it’s necessary for me to read books and of course, they must be the issues I’m interested in. Recently, here is a popular soap opera called “敗犬女王”, describing a woman over thirty-year-old searches for love and is under pressure of others’ judgments. The reason why this soap opera becomes well-known is about its unique topic-- May-December love. Just at the same moment, I also borrowed a book called “May-December love, Ya-Da!”(姐弟戀萬歲) from the library and that makes me relate to the play I just mention.
　　In my opinion, I don’t prefer to fall in love with a man younger than me because as for me, it seems that elder guys have more responsibilities handle everything as well as their behavior won’t be childish but minds are much considerable. Well, I change my stubborn view a little bit after reading “May-December love, Ya-Da!”(姐弟戀萬歲).
　　“May-December love, Ya-Da!”(姐弟戀萬歲) is a sketchbook, whose author is separated into two parts: one is the female writer, telling a whole story of her own and the other is the painter, transmitting what the female writer says into several funny and cute comics. The writer had the same point of view as mine at first and unfortunately, it made her extremely hurt at a few times while she was in a relationship with matures. Therefore, she made up her mind to date with a younger man and surprisingly, the first try was also her last because this young man became her husband and now they’ve been marrying for eight years!
　　Here are some suggestions provided by the female writer about how to get along with boyfriends who is younger than you:
1. No matter how poor he is right now, please don’t help him to pay the bill in order not to let him have dependence in the future.
2. Keep the way you are. Don’t change your personality because if the young man falls in love with an elder woman, he must be attracted by something specific that only mature females have.
3. Not staying with the old men who have only retired plans, women can prefer young guys because they’re more potential to be dream catchers as well as lead you a new journey.
　　Believe or not, it sounds quite practical, is it?

Total Words: 403

Trip to Jin-Shan (Journal #5)

2009-06-01T21:22:00.002+08:00

英2A
96210346
Janet　陳荷婷

Trip to Jin-Shan

　　Today is the last day of four days vacation. Normally, people won’t go out but prefer to stay home because it is usually the rush time and easily getting traffic jam for the trip goers; nevertheless, my parents still decide to take me to have fun. And Jin-Shan Old Street(金山老街) is our goal.
　　Actually, I haven’t heard anything about Jin-Shan before. The only thing I know is that its location is farther from Yang-Ming-Shan. Therefore, as I got the decision from my parents, the first thing coming to my mind was, “It must be a lot of winding roads during the trip!” Not to my surprise, it surely is! Most of us in the car are getting dizzy and worse of all, one of my cousins can’t help but throw up. What a poor kid!
　　After the dangerous and terrible hours, eventually we arrive at Jin-Shan Old Street(金山老街). Wow! Each of the land is full of crowds and there are various of street vendors setting along the streets. I can clearly hear the yelling from the vendors and feel their strong passion. All of a sudden, there is a strange situation that catches our eyes—almost every folk on the street has at least one or more delicious dishes in their hands and moreover, it seems that all of them have made a deal to go to the same place and dine there. Of course it won’t be free under the poor economy circumstance nowadays. Thus, we just stand aside and make sure what’s going on. Finally, we have a conclusion: in order to economize the labor cost, the restaurant owner decides to let the customers take what they want to eat and give them a direction toward to a dining place and let them find seats themselves. By the way, it’s also a challenge about human honesty because you pay after eating. I really admire the one who thinks of this idea. No needless to say, we have an incredible lunch and satisfied with it, too.
　　Every old street has their own traditional styles. And today’s does largely broad my horizon! Next time I hope I can be back to here again.

Total Words: 373

The reflection of Walter Mitty(journal 5)

2009-06-01T21:17:00.000+08:00

97413241

Freyia Lee

The reflection of Walter Mitty

Recently, I have read “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” the famous fiction which was written by James Thurber. The protagonist in this story is called Walter Mitty who always day dream himself as a hero to receive difficult challenges in his life. Walter Mitty is a man who has good temperament and a sense of humor, but his wife is a overbearing, fastidious and strict woman. Under the circumstances, his wife can be regard as the main fator to bring influence in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
At the beginning of the story, when Walter Mitty was driving his wife to the beauty shop, his wife became to chatter about everything. “Driving too fast,” said his wife. This event has lead him into another fantastic scene which made him became a commander driving the Navy hydroplane. To compare the personality between Walter Mitty and his wife, I think Mrs. Mitty is more practical than Walter Mitty. She is described as a independent woman in this story. Actually, Mrs. Mitty is controlled the life of Walter Mitty and she is not like general woman who always suppressed by their husband. The author, James Thurber has created a incident that a husband was dominated by his wife so as to use humorous and ironic way criticizing the social system that the woman must obey to their husband. Even though Mrs. Mitty seems to bring lots of problems and setback to Walter Mitty, this also can make Walter Mitty falls in his daydreaming easier. However, the fantasy also help us to evade from the realistic society for a moment.

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My favorite food

2009-06-01T21:08:00.001+08:00

Tracy 96210605
葉詩蘋 3/6
Classification

I like food so I want to introduce my favorite food. I classify them so that everyone can understand what kinds of food I really like. As a Chinese proverb says “People take eating as the most important things.” I can’t imagine what it will be if there is no delicious food. The following is the classification of my favorite kinds of food.

First, fruit and vegetable are good for our health. For example, I like to eat watermelon. I usually feel hot in summer. At that time I eat watermelon which let me feel cool and comfortable. How wonderful the feeling is. I also like spinach very much. Eat it you will feel you are like a strong man. It means it can protect to our body. Anyway, eating fruit and vegetables can be good for health.

Second, I also like milk and eggs, and they are good for our health, too. They can supply us protein. Milk tastes sweet. Drinking it, I will feel I am in love. So milk is something with happiness flavor. Eggs can be cooked by many ways. I just like it no reason. Especially, I like the eggs which are in convenient stores. The eggs taste delicious and smell good. The clerks even added tea’s into the eggs. It is real terrific.

Third, I also enjoy steak and fish which are good for our health. For example, when I come back to Ping Tung, I ask my mom to cook fish soup. Eating fish can strengthen our immune system. Another, I think tasting meat lets me happy. They also can supply protein to our body. However, we should control how much we eat them. Because they can’t eat too much, they will be bad to us.

The above are my favorite food. We must eat food to strengthen our energy. However, I should control the amount of meat I eat. If I eat too much, I can’t get good health. So I ask myself to eat more fruit and vegetable. Doing exercise is also a good way to discipline our body. Let’s be a healthy guy. Don’t forget to eat healthy food. And say good bye to fried chicken and other junk food.

Should women just be housewives?

2009-06-01T21:05:00.000+08:00

英2A 96210494
黃婉綾Annie
Argumentative Essay
98/5/11

Should women just be housewives?

In ancient China, the women could just be housewives. They should stay at home and do housework. They couldn’t have their own jobs or ideas. They should serve their husbands. The men had the highest authority. The women were very poor because they could just be housewives.
My grandmother often told me her growing story. For example, my grandfather worked in the bank. He was so busy and went out every day. However, my grandmother could just stay home to do a lot of housework. I think that my grandmother couldn’t have her own life.
I refute these thoughts. The women should have their own authority. No one can deprive them of their authorities. We should realize that everyone is equal. We can’t limit any one to stay at home. It’s really unequal to them.
Everyone has his or her own ideas. And women also have their own thoughts. Maybe they want to do their favorite things. Everyone should respect them and let them do what they like. They really want a lovely life. I think we should spend more time understanding them.
Finally, I really feel the women in ancient China were very poor. Nevertheless, many ideas have changed in our society. Most people respect women and the women have their own jobs. Many women nowadays can do what they want and they have the authorities to decide their own life.

Seldom Going Back to My Hometown

2009-06-01T20:58:00.001+08:00

英2A 96210494
黃婉綾 Annie
Cause-effect essay
98/5/3

Seldom Going Back to My Hometown

I come from Chiayi and I study at the Chinese Culture University. Because of the busy life, I seldom go back to my hometown, Chiayi. There are some reasons for my being unable to go back home as I expect.
First, I have to go to classes. This is the most important thing to a student. I should go to classes seriously and study hard. I also have to spend much time studying. I have to prepare for the midterm exam and the final exam.
Second, I join the basketball club. We have to practice the basketball on Tuesday and Thursday every week. Sometimes we have the basketball games in our school or in other universities.
Third, I have dates with my friends. Sometimes my college classmates and I go to eat or sing. My dear roommates will go shopping with me. Last week my best friend came to Taipei and she called me to want to have a meeting. I just knew that I couldn’t refuse her.
Last, I have a part-time job. I want to earn money by myself and I have to save money. Due to the rent of the room, I should earn some money for it. The rent is too expensive for me. It costs twenty and seven thousand dollars half year.
I really think that my college life is very busy. Because of these reasons, I can’t go back home often. My family always call me and they say that they really miss me. I also miss them and the delicious food of Chiayi. I really hope that I can go home on Mother’s Day. Sometimes I feel so tired because there are many schedules for me. I really want to relax and have a trip. I don’t want to become the person who seldom goes back home.

College Students Living Away from Home

2009-06-01T20:51:00.000+08:00

96210451 英2A
余宛諭
Cause-effect essay
98/5/1
College Students Living Away from Home

For a college student who leaves home and goes to college far away from the hometown, living on their own is very hard. I think many college students leave their home for the first time. They usually have complicated feelings. Maybe some feel happy because they can leave their parents. Or some feel sad because they have never left their parents and they need to live by themselves. And I think there are three effects of college students’ leaving away from home for studies.
The first effect is the time that they stay home with parents are little. It becomes less because their school is too far away for them to go home frequently. Maybe their school is in Taipei, but they live in Kaoshouing. It’s too far away to go home everyday. So these college students need to use the holidays to go home. It becomes very inconvenient. And they can’t often see your old friends, either.
The second effect is money. Because they don’t live in their home, they need to rent house outsides. And they need to buy food by themselves. They need new books in the new semester or taking the MRT. All these take money. So they spend a lot more money when they live outsides. Before they live their home, their parents pay less money. But when they live outsides for studying, their parents spend a lot more money on our living expenses.
The third effect is on our mind. Sometimes I hope that I can go home to eat my mom’s dinner as other college students who don’t need to live outsides. Some college students can’t endure the kind of mood at first. So these students need to learn how to take care of themselves and control their mood. Maybe these students will become more independent than other students in a certain way.
Even though I need to study outsides, I can learn many experiences. I can learn to live independently. And I can become stronger. So studying outsides is a good experience.

Homosexuality

2009-06-01T20:41:00.000+08:00

96210451 英2A
余宛諭 Sunny
Argumentative Essay
98/5/16

Homosexuality

Normally, people love or have sex with the opposite sex persons. But there are some people who love people of the same sex; we call them homosexuals. In the society, some people can accept them but some people can’t. Because they think that homosexuals violate morality, they can’t agree the kind of love. But I think that these homosexuals don’t make a mistake, although they are disliked by some people. It’s unfair to them.

Some homosexuals dislike the opposite sex by nature. And some homosexuals are hurt by the opposite sex, so they change their sexual orientation. They think that people of the same sex can understand each other better. These homosexuals have some disorder in their mind, so they can’t love or have sex with the opposite sex as normal people.

Most homosexuals can’t tell their parents that they are homosexuals. They just contact with the same sex stealthily, because most parents can’t agree that. These parents must be very angry at first, because they can’t believe that their children are homosexuals. Or maybe they will kick their children out. But getting angry doesn’t solve any problem. I think these parents can learn to accept the fact. And these parents can give more care to their children.

I think that the homosexuals are also humans; they should not be treated by unusual judgments. These homosexuals may not insist on everyone’s agreement, but they want the basic respect from everyone.

Crazy day ((Journal 4))

2009-06-01T20:31:00.005+08:00

96210451

Sunny

Crazy day

　　Last week, I got a message that there were holding a cosmetic clearance in Taipei. There were many cheap cosmetics. Its brand is "Stila". Because the company met the financial meltdown in America, they couldn't continue their company. So they closed the company suddenly. And then the Taiwan's branch company also couldn't manage it, they closed the company, too. The brand "Stila" also was a department store's brand. So its price was not very cheap actually. But they sold many kind of cosmetic for very low price. Some were for 50 NT dollars, or some were for discount. It's very cheap for ordinary people, especially for women. So when I got the message at first, I wanted to go to the clearance. Because its price very attracted me, I couldn't say no. So I decided to the first day of the clearance.
　　That day when I arrived at the clearance about three o'clock p.m; there were so many so many people. I thought that there were thousands of people; and the line was very long and winding. Because the company rented a very small place to sell their products, they thought that may be not come many people. But they were fault; thousands of girls came to the clearance. And when I arrived there, I just knew that the seller provided the number cards to the waiting line's people. But the number cards were already gave completely at nine o'clock a.m. And people who had the number cards could go into the inside to choose their products; and the company defined 30 minutes for shopping. And every batch let 50 people into the inside.
　　But some people who didn't have the number cards complaining. They said that the company didn't say to give the number cards at first, some girl got angry with the company. And I heard some girl who came to early, they said that the merchant gave the number cards at the morning. He was very confused, because he didn't know which lines were first. The place was very crowded, and the line divided into two lines. The merchant couldn't make a decision, because every line all said they were first. So those people got an argument at the morning. And worst of all, someone fell down in a swoon, then the ambulance came to here. It's so disorderly!
　　I thought I was too late to come here. I didn't have the number cards, so I couldn't get into the clearance. But I wanner to find some other way to get into it, so I stayed there for a second. Some girls told me that I could go another waiting line to line up for the cell phone's register. Because the first day only gave 600 numbers cards, it's not enough for the waiting people. So the merchant decided to register 300 the waiting line people's cell phone number. Every register will be notify which day could come to the clearance. But when I lined for the register for a while, a woman who is the company's manager said to us " You guys don't stand in a line anymore! The register all finished already. Please came here tomorrow early! " We all felt to be stunned, because we spent the time to stand in line but it exchanged us nothing. Some people very angry; and some people thought to forget about it. Soon the crowded people dispersed. The first day was the end with disorder.
　　I thought if I wanted to get into the clearance, I must come there very early! So I decided to choose another day. I waked up 5:30 o'clock a.m on Sunday. And when I arrived there, there already had people standing in a line. I was the top 12, so I started to line up. The store opened at 11 o'clock a.m. I waited for 5 hours. Finally, I could come on in there, but it's just the beginning. Everyone got crazy to grab everything, I didn't prepare at first so I bought seldom things.
　　This is my first time to stand in line the kind of the clearance, it let me knowing that the people are so crazy for the lower price thing, so am I. It's a very crazy experience to me, it is also the worst tired day to me!

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Journal 6

2009-06-01T19:55:00.000+08:00

Journal 6
96210397
黃筠玲 Ariel
Diary 06.01.09

Last week was Dragon Boat Festival. Of course, I backed to my hometown Keelung and had a family reunion. I like the feeling that my family members set together and have a dinner. Because since my older sister and I study in college. Both of us not back home regularly. Sometimes my sister has free time but I am not and sometimes I do. Even in the Chinese New Year, I had back to Taipei earlier because of my part-time job. Thus, I’m very cherishing this chance that I can back home with my sister. To celebrate this time we all together, my mom cooked the dinner by herself and cut the fruit into slice for us. I had a very great night that day. I think I should back home more regularly that my mom can cook more delicious food for us! (143 words)

Weasel Words

2009-06-01T19:32:00.000+08:00

Journal 2
96210397
英2A 黃筠玲
Weasel Words

The first time I saw the word “weasel words”, I felt confused. I don't know what's the meaning and why did it appear in our textbook? So, I search on the net and read the article in our textbook. Amazingly, the words means to offer an excuse to deline or avoid an action. Besides, the relationship between the words and advertiment is very closely. Why? Because to do an advertisment, you have to emphasize the pruduct's advantageous position. You must convinced consumer to buy your product. If your advertisment doesn't sucessful, it will result your sale volume lower than others. That's the reason why advertisment is very important. However, as a merchant, you must want your product's sale volume very well so you might exaggerate its affect. Maybe you emphasize on its packing or advertisment. Therefore, buying things at home is possible. You can use computer or internet. It's very convient but you can see or touch the real product before you receive the it. So the risk is exist. Maybe the advertisment is very good but the product not.Consequently, consumer should recognize the advertisment's authenticity by themselves. If we be cheat by the advertisment, it is very unworthy. Once, I saw the advertisment on TV, it said that their facial cleaser is very good. It can make your face skin more smooth than before and then I bought it. But few days passing, I didn't feel it's affect. I felt my face as same as before. After that, I learned how to recognize the advertisment. Weasel words is no use to me !(262 words)

Making Friends through the Internet

2009-06-01T17:40:00.001+08:00

96210541
胡佳麗Anli
英文2A
Argumentative Essay

It is popular to make new friends through the internet, and people have the chance to encounter others that they may never meet in their conditions. In the past time, it is hard for people to keep in touch with each other frequently if they are in the different areas unless they are willing to spend many expenses of the cell phone, let alone making friends with different areas. Nowadays, it is convenient to chat with people because we can use MSN to contact them every day, no matter day and night. But I think there are full of deceptions so I don’t agree it is a good way to make friends through internet.
We can’t know the person you talk on internet completely because we just receive the description from the person. But I think we need spend time to acquaint someone and observe their personalities. It is a dangerous way to know friends; maybe the person hides his bad points and exaggerates his good point. More than, they will trump up fake identity. Because it is not a direct way to understand what kind of the person is.
There are many situations to lose much privacy. We often reveal much personal information when we are chatting. For example, people careless leave their e-mail address, cell phone number or identification card number. Maybe those will be used for malicious purposes.
The worst situation is meeting internet fraud. We must protect ourselves if the person asks us out. It may happen sexual abuse incidents by accident. So we must ensure someone is able to help us if needed. And we are cautious about our own safety.
Making friends through internet may be able to broaden our perspective on life. But, in the meantime, we are increasing more and more dangers for us. So we must notice the issue. On the other hand, if we continue to ignore the problems; many people will still suffer the terrible consequences.

Spending Too Much Money

2009-06-01T17:34:00.002+08:00

96210541
胡佳麗
英文系2A
Cause and Effect

Everyone has his or her tastes, and I am no exception. Shopping can help me to relax. So I usually go shopping when the examination is over. Or I often buy something to make myself happy when I am in a bad mood. But if I don’t spend money carefully, I will waste a lot of money and can’t make ends meet in the month. There are some situations to cause the bad consequence. First, I like my friends to stay with me to go shopping. Because friends can provide me some different ideas while I don’t know how to make a decision. And we can chat with each other on the street. I don’t feel lonely because I know my friends are around me. And they often tell me many good of things about the products that I consider buying. So I can’t control myself from buying them. These products cost me a lot. Second, it’s hard for me to control myself if I see the products are on sale. At that time, the department store is a good place to buy something cheaper. And I can find many famous brands that are cheaper than last time. Clothes and shoes make me crazy. But they also cost me a lot. I think I have to quit the habit, because shopping is not a good way to make myself happy. Recently, it is not easy to get money, I should notice how much money I spend. And my parents work so hard, I can’t just think for myself. I am too selfish. The most important thing is I should use money on useful things. I will think twice before spending money. That can help me live a better life.

How to Plan a Trip

2009-06-01T17:29:00.001+08:00

96210541
胡佳麗
英文系2A
Process Analysis Essay

I often arrange some entertainments to kill time when I have free time. For example, taking a trip is a good choice. I usually discuss where we can shop or there are enjoyable places with my friends. At first, we choose scenic spots to visit. How do we choose? We often browse many magazines to find much information of tourism, deciding where to go. Next, we map out some details. For instance, we will notice how the weather will be in the place we want to go. We look over the weather report, and we will take umbrellas with us if the day will be a rainy day or think about another way to avoid being soaked. And we often check the shortest and easiest way to reach the destination, we won’t waste time. That is to say, if we lose the way at that time, we will miss many things. And then, I think the most important thing is to count the expense we may spend. It makes us decide to what to eat, and avoid buying superfluous stuff. Finally, we will take a lot of pictures to record our journey and buy some souvenirs, because the pictures have a lot of meaning for me. And I think that planning a trip is very useful. It is a good habit, and helps us make an arrangement to have a good time.

Three Kinds of Consumers I Met

2009-06-01T17:24:00.000+08:00

96210541
胡佳麗
英文系2A
Class

I like to go shopping when I was a child, so I have a lot of experiences about shopping. In my opinion, there are three types of consumers. The impulsive consumer is the first type; the hesitant consumer is the second type, and the considerate consumer is the third type.
First,“The impulsive consumers.”These consumers always spend money quickly. They are easily convinced by the sellers or their friends, and buy a lot of stuff which is not really necessary. So the kind of consumers will lose their money easily if they don’t notice how high the price is or if nobody warns them to stop.
Second,“The hesitant consumers.”In fact, I think those people tend to lack confidence in themselves. What do I think so? Because I found they need someone to encourage them, or they seem unable to decide what things are suitable for them. Even though they discover a stuff which they really like, lacking confidence makes them incapable of making a decision. So the hesitant consumers usually make many bad excuses to buy things. Actually, the reason is that they can’t find their advantageous points.
Third,“The considerate consumers.”Most of them are smart because they have known what kind of products they really want. They won’t waste their money and time. If they want to buy something, they will visit more shops to compare the prices. Besides, they take notice of discounts in every store.
Finally, I think we should know what kind of consumers we are, so that we can avoid wasting time and money. And I agree with the considerate consumers, they can help us become more careful.

Journal 5

2009-06-01T17:22:00.000+08:00

范振笙 Roger
96210435
This serial vacation my classmates and I had a wonderful time at the northern coast of Taiwan. We have planned this trip for a week ago. Unlike the other students went hometown gathering with their family during a traditional Dragon Boat Festival. Some of my friends and I rode scooters crossing the mountain to the beach. On the mountain road we saw many beautiful scenes. It was very comfortable a slight wind blowing on my face when I rode. We took a rest at a convenience store at the road side and bought some drinks and garbage food. Not much time we had already been our destination. There was the beautiful sunshine and the blue ocean. We rented a shed and put our packages quickly then ran to the sea. We had a good time at the White Sand Bay. At there, we played at the shallow of the sea, made a sand statue, and teased a dog with a ball. We threw the ball around us making the dog chase the ball. That was very funny. End up, the ball was broken by the bite of the dog. It was so tiring and we really enjoyed at the beach. Leaving the beach, we had our dinner at Dan Shui. There were many famous snacks. I hoped that I can eat all of them once a time. Finally, we went to the Fisher Harbor. There were many good atmosphere restaurants with pleasant music suiting lovers to visit. It was a enjoyable trip and I expected that we can plan next journey very soon.
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Taipei Xia-Hai Temple(journal 5)

2009-06-01T17:12:00.003+08:00

It is a very popular legend in Chinese. People often go to worship the god who unites persons in marriage or is a Matchmaker. There is a temple about the god in Taipei, its’ name is XiA-Hai Temple. According to the report, there are 7215 couples got married in 2007 due to the miracles of the Matchmaker. Why is Xia-Hai temple so popular? Because a lot of people say the temple is very efficacious. People visit and pray for some hopes. And the hopes often come true. For example, single women or men go to worship for getting better half. And then, they will meet the persons who suit themselves. The god, a 43-centimeter-tall statue of the Matchmaker has been in the Xia-Hai temple since 1971. People describe the Matchmaker has a long white beard with a smile on his face. He has a marriage appointment book in his left hand and a walking stick in the right hand. The Matchmaker hands out red threads to single people in order to help them find their better half. The best time to pray to the Matchmaker is on Valentine’s Day(February 14), Taiwanese Valentine’s Day(July 7 of the lunar year), and The Birthday of the Matchmaker(August 15 of the lunar year) .There are ways of praying. We must buy an offering set at the counter, and the offering set include lead money, a red thread, and sugar, but we just buy them at the first time. And we must face the incense burner and pray to the God, too. While praying, we have to introduce ourselves briefly, such as our names, ages, and the address and we can pray to the god to give the blessing on everything. The most important thing is that we can describe what kind of personality of the person we would like to meet, and then the Matchmaker will help us to meet. When we get married, we have to bring a box of engagement cookies to express our gratitude. Actually, I believe the legend, because I really want to meet a person who really suits me. I had kept a relationship with someone, but this is not a good memory. I’ve been upset recently, and I can’t believe there is a real man in the world. I am afraid of being hurt again. Someday, my friend told me the temple, and she said I will get happiness if I pray the god honestly. I don’t know whether I will meet the guy in the future, but I believe the Matchmaker will give me blessing.

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The Computer Entices Me

2009-06-01T16:25:00.000+08:00

Belle
97413186
蕭雅文
2009.04.28

The Computer Entices me
When I entered the university, my parents bought a computer for me. That is the first time that I got my own computer. At first, I didn’t download any games, music, and movies. I was afraid of the virus which would destroy my computer. After a while, I forgot this kind of thing. And I started to download a lot of games, music, and movies. My ways of using the computer has caused several serious problems.
First, I spent much time using MSN. I used MSN to chat with my friends on-line. Although it was free, it wasted a lot of time. My friends and I were chatting for several hours. The nighttime had past and I did nothing. Even if chatting on MSN could improve our relationship, it wasted too much time.
Second, I played computer games till mid-night and so I overslept the next morning. I always put my ear machine on and indulged myself in my own world. Every time I gave myself a challenge. If I won, I could go to bed. If I lost, I had to play till I won. It was awful for me to do this.
If I had to use the computer to do my homework, I always forced myself not to play computer games and play MSN. I searched the information that I needed. But I didn’t know when I started to visit the others’ Blogs or to browse entertainment news. When I finished my homework, it was already midnight. And thus I always can’t give teachers my homework on time.
The computer still entices me a lot. I will control myself as possible as I can. I want to concentrate on lessons and study hard. I want to do something beneficial myself and do not become addicted to the computer and the Internet.

A Lot of Students Go to Cram School

2009-06-01T15:19:00.000+08:00

Belle
蕭雅文
2009.05.18
A Lot of Students Go to Cram School
Nowadays, many parents like to send their kids to cram school. They want their kids to promote their studies or their skills. However, there is something wrong with kids to cram school. Most parents don’t know what their children want.
First of all, many students go to cram school after school. When they go home, it’s usually late at night. It’s too tiring for them to review that day’s curriculum, and they even have no time to do their homework. On the weekend, they still have to go to cram school and they also have no time to learn their schoolwork.
Second, they depend on cram school’s teaching and don’t concentrate on the school’s lessons. Because they can attend the class in the cram school, they don’t care whether they get knowledge from school or not. In other words, to go to school is equal to wasting time. Gradually, they will neglect school’s courses.
Third, they study hard from morning till night, so they don’t have leisure time to relax. They always study and have no time to do exercise. It’s not good for their health. That will give them too much stress so they can’t do well on their studies.
Judging from the above, if children really want to do well on their schoolwork, they can make effort by themselves. It’s not necessary for them to go to cram school. And they will have much time to do what they really want to do.

My First Part-Time Job

2009-06-01T14:53:00.000+08:00

Belle
97413186
蕭雅文
2009.06.01
My First Part-Time Job
I got my first part-time job in the 2009’s winter vacation. This plan had drafted before the winter vacation. I drafted this plan not only wanted to learn some different experiences. The most main purpose was that I wanted to save money to participate the Work & Travel USA in the 2010’s summer vacation. I was active to attend the interview. Fortunately, I got my first part-time job in the Dream Mall. I worked in a counter which name is Timberland.
Timberland is a counter which sells many products such as shoes and clothes. I wouldn’t go to work everyday. I went to work only on the weekend and a week of the Chinese Lunar New Year. I had to work 8 hours a day from 13 o’clock to 21 o’clock. In the Chinese Lunar New Year, I had to work longer than on the weekend. I had to stand all the time and couldn’t eat and drink at the counter.
Because I had no experience of part-time job, the manager only asked me to present a bill of expenses at first. Gradually, the manager required me to fold clothes, iron clothes and introduce the commodities to the guests.
It’s hard for me to introduce the commodities to the guests. I prepared everything before going to work. I searched the commodities which we sell online to understand what the characteristic of our guests. I practiced introducing commodities at home. I requested my sisters to disguise guests and I introduced the commodities to them.
I didn’t do well at first. Gradually, I became more practiced and I could talk to guests more nature. I obtained a valuable experience in society in this winter vacation. I realized it is hard to go to work. I had to treasure the time when I go to school. Besides, I have to thank Dad and Mom. They work so harder to bring up me. I will study hard to repay to them.

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Global Warming

2009-06-01T12:53:00.001+08:00

In these days, I watched news that scientists claim that there would not be any ice on the ocean four years later. That is quite a severe problem, because the melting of ice would make the altitude of the sea rise, and the water may cause damage to the environment and human’s residence. And some country might be immersed, becoming “Atlantis”. And the polar bears may extinct because their habitats would melt to become water.
The main cause us the waste air given out by automobiles and factories. The CO2 included in waste air will maintain the heat energy from the sun, keeping the global in a high temperature. The more CO2 is in the air, the hotter the globe gets. In order to reduce the global warming, there are some ways to follow.
What I can do for the globe is not to drive cars but ride bicycles, so I can produce less CO2. Then, as a student, I can use paper repeatedly, and finally recycle it. If everyone does the steps, the environment would be better.
Cronus

Abolishing The Death Penalty?

2009-06-01T12:52:00.000+08:00

In the recent years, death penalty has been abolished in many countries
and some states in U.S.A. They say lives should be valued. As to the issue, I have different comments.
My opponents say that everyone has the to live, so we cannot put him or her to death. If he commits a serious crime, he just has to be put in jail. They say lives are valuable. I was confused by the statement. If the criminals’ lives are valuable, then the victims’ lives are invaluable, are rubbish? Did criminals think of the sufferers’ human rights while violating them? I do not think so. Why can they criminals hurt others?
Human Rights Groups also say that everyone can be condoned even if they committed crimes, so those condemned criminals should be given a chance to repent. I am puzzled, “Did the criminals give the sufferers a chance?” I do not think so.
I think the death penalty should not be abolished to prohibit convicted criminals from committing crimes again.
Cronus

The last Wish(J5)

2009-06-01T10:03:00.002+08:00

E2A
96210630
Selina彭郁雅

The last Wish
Do you believe the last wish? Some people say that a lot of patience will hang on until they accomplish their wish. Everyone’s birthday have different meaning. So do mine. I think it's real, because my mother told me an experience about my grandma. My grand mom was 52 years old when I was going to born. Unfortunately, she got rheumatism, and it's really serious. Even doctor told my mom that grandma will leave anytime. Doctors can’t do anything. Grandma knows that I was going to born. And I think she is waiting for me, I was born on August twenty. She seat on the wheelchair and went to baby's room see me. She knows I am healthy. That night, she pasted away. My birthday has two meaning one is happy I'm group up again and another one is my grandma's dead. So I really believe that. Somehow I sometimes think grandma is always protecting me and be with me. And those who can accomplish their wish before they past away is the luckiest person in the world. Not everyone can have that chance! Because some of them died in accident, they even don’t have time to think what their last wish is. I have heard they say another way to finish the last wishes. That is they will become ghost to finish the wish, and they will leave until the wish be done. Some people might think its nonsense. But I think it’s not. What’s your last wish?

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The Fad of Singing Contest (Journal 5)

2009-06-01T02:14:00.003+08:00

英3B
97403512
Mindy
Journal 5

The Fad of Singing Contest

Recently, there is a popular phenomenon in the world. That is the singing contest. The singing contest bandwagon is starting to roll. Many people want to be a shining super star. There has a singing stage for people who like singing, whatever their age, gender and appearance. However, those people who have become popular rapidly are not only having reputation but also having torment and pressure.

Actually, singing contest has been hold for many years. In Taiwan, there is A-Mei, the pop music artist, who won the “Five Lights Singing Contest” in the early ages. Needless to say, contest is really a good way to be a famous entertainer. Nowadays, the Millionstar has been broadcast five seasons. In the first seasons, Zong-Wei, Yang is a hugely popular competitor. He has unique voice and appearance. Also, the different styles of program attract audiences.

The advantage of the singing contest is that it could let people who have special voices stand on the singing stage. From the TV, we can see many different people come from different family and background. It’s really a stage that those singing lover can show them heartily. The recent hot news is that Susan Boyle, 48 years old, competed on Britain’s Got Talent and on the second place. Even she was not the winner of this show; a disc company has already signed a contract with Ms. Susan and will publish her own album.

On the other hand, those singing contest will produce many excellent singers. When the fad was over, some singers will be forgotten by audiences. It will affect on the TV rating. When the Millionstar broadcast on the first season, the TV rating is grown rapidly. However, audience will change their interests on other TV programs. The competitors will have big pressures. People will notice their behaviors and dresses, when those competitors become public people. The other famous competitor in the Britain’s Got Talent is Connie Talbot, a six year-old-girl. She sang “Over the Rainbow” and looked like an angle. She is just a child. If she be a entertainer, she will lose her innocent childhood.

To sum up, the fad of singing contest makes many people’s dream come true. Because of the singing contest, the competitors may be changed their life from an ordinary person to a household person. Otherwise, to prevent the competitors from forgetting by audiences, those singer need to prove to be more than just a passing fad or they will be a person that nobody cares about.

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Journal

2009-05-31T23:49:00.001+08:00

I want to discuss one thing. It is about attitude of finding a job no matter the job is pat-time job or full-time job. If we have a positive attitude, we don’t have to worry about our futures. A few days ago, I heard my roommate, Yang, was crying. Of course, as her roommate, I should ask her what happened and I should comfort her. When I ask her tell me what happened. She said:” I spent all day finding a job. I have already tried my best to find a part-time job, but I cannot find one. Why?” I advised her that she could find the job in 7-11 or in the restaurant? Or the place is far away the school? But you know what? I got a surprise answer. I really heard she said that no, she doesn’t want these job. The first job cannot make her get a lot of money; the second job is so tiring, and she had already had a lot of similar experiences, and so on. All of the answers are complaining. I start thinking everything makes sense. She couldn’t have a job because she asks too much. Sometimes finding a job is not difficult, but finding an ideal job is really hard. I really don’t think how hard to find a job if we don’t care how tire it is, how much money we can get. By the way, a few days ago, some people object that the interests of banks are too high to make them afford them. I want to say something to those people. Buy and pay. If you cannot afford the money, please do not buy. No one force you to buy those things. Please don’t use credit cards, then work hard to earn more money to pay. Stop complaining. (words: 302)

Journal 5

2009-05-31T22:44:00.000+08:00

Class: English department
Student number: 96210419
English name: Judy
Chinese name:賴瑾萱

March 22, 2009

March 22, 2009 is the day that I cannot forget forever because I met many things at that day.

First, at the morning, as I got out of my Cousin’s car I hurt my arm and knee, then when I went into the classroom I hurt my knee again, but these not the worst accident in that day. The worst accident happened while I went to toilet. When I wanted to leave toilet, the funny and horrible thing happened, I fell down from the stair which in front of the toilet. Until now, I still do not know why I would fall down at that time.

When I went out of the toilet, I did not notice that there’s a stair in front of me, so when I went forward, I fell down. It was a strange situation. At the moment that I fell down, I tried to let myself to stand steadily but no use, and my pose was also strange; I made my body turned around, let my hand hung straight on my head, and used my chest to touch the floor. It was really hurt and when I got up from the floor, I felt dizzy, and this symptom continues existing till that day’s lessons were over. This experience was so horrible to me, but now when sometime I remember this event, it makes me laugh.

Although that day was Monday, not black Friday, it’s still not my day.

Total words: 245

journal 5

2009-05-31T22:23:00.001+08:00

Journal 5
1. We have a traditional festival－Dragon Boat Festival. My mom, my sister, my aunt, and I made Zong zi on last Sunday. We made two hundred Zong zi. We don’t eat Zong zi which are not made by us. My mom’s brothers like to eat the Zong zi which are made by my mom. Every year, our fingers will be a little injured, because we have to tighten the ropes to the Zong zi. It is very delicious!

2. Craig wanted us to make an oral presentation. In his book, I saw the title－ Describing places. I was very happy, because I can describe Japan. I’ve finished the PPT. But, I am nervous now! There are a lot of Japanese pronunciations, like Sen-so ji(淺草寺), Meiji-gingu(明治神宮),etc. It’s hard to pronounce. I put a lot of pictures in the PPT. I really like them, because that was my first time to go to Japan and that was also my first time to take a plane. I won’t forget it!

total: 181 words

jounal#4------movies

2009-05-31T21:02:00.000+08:00

I really watched a lot of movies recently (in April and May), like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Ip Man, Yes, Man, Valkyrie, Knowing and Angels and Demons. Wow~ I totally watched 7 movies in two months.
So cool~haha~ and let me share some my thoughts about these movies with you.
I think Benjamin is a really good movie, either in the pilot, the characters (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett), and the way that the movie expressed and the scenes (many different counties). It describes a man who is an old man when he born and became younger when he grew. His life is really differing from normal people but on the other side his life is also colorful than other people. It’s a really good movie for me.
And Shopaholic, many people recommended me to watch, but I think it’s so so for me. The pilot is not too special. It describes the lady who can’t stop buying of brand stuff. And finally a man who she fell in love helped her to stop to keep going to buy brand stuff.
Ip man is not bad. The story happened in china that the time was governed by Japan. And there has a man is good at gong fu, who uses it to defend Japanese. It’s kind like a history movie.
Yes, Man is a funny movie. It describes a man who always says “no” to anyone, to his life, and he totally like a mouse potato. He stays at home almost every day and does nothing or just watching DVDs. He even forgot his friend wedding day, of course, his friend got angry about this. One day, he met a man who told him that all he has to do is saying “yes” to your life. So he did. And the fortune seems to be luckier than before, he owes to the answer “yes.” Until his girl friend want to break up with him, it’s like someone hits his brain for wake him up, and he realizes that you say “yes” when you actually want to do. I think it’s kind of strange. Because normal people know this thought, however, this movie still has told some nice truths for us.
The content of Valkyrie is come from an adaptable story. It happened in German that the time was governed by Adolf Hitler. And there were a team that wants to kill Hitler because they don’t like the violence authority which everything was controlled by him and he killed people with no reasons. We know they didn’t success to kill him according to the history. But the process really let me feel nervous.
The main character of Knowing is Nicolas Cage and I think he is a really cool actor. The story is talk about someone who picked up by aliens can hear the voice which came from them. And aliens will talk them a lot of numbers which are the date of accidents. And the disasters all happened on the exactly day that they predicted. And they also predicted the end of the world; only two children can survive in this disaster. Just like Adam and Eva.
I really really really like to watch movies.I think some movies can bring the thoughts which can let me to think my life, my family, my study for me. These thoughts like a bridge connect with me and movies. I think my life can’t live without movies.
Totally: 580

Journal4

2009-05-31T18:00:00.000+08:00

Class: English department
Student number: 96210419
English name: Judy
Chinese name:賴瑾萱
Go to Tainan

Few weeks ago, my family and I went to Tainan for a vacation. It was a long journey. We planned to stay in Tainan for two days, but when we on the way to Tainan, everything was out of plan.

When we went on the free way, we met a huge traffic jam; it took us a lot of time. At the lunch time, we decided to get off the free way to have a meal at Chia-yi, but we couldn’t find where the restaurant that we wanted to go was. My cousin was the driver and he decided to check the restaurant address on GPS. Unfortunately, the GPS which he borrowed from his friend was useless. We couldn’t find anything we wanted from it.

Then we went to a famous hakka restaurant in Chia-yi, by the way, this reataurant was not found in GPS, it was found by my aunt, she had been that restaurant few years ago. It located nearby Chia-yi train station, maybe not very clean but very delicious.

After we finished our lunch, we continue our trip, and we met the traffic jam again, so we totally spent almost nine hours to Tainan. When we arrived the hotel, the dinner time almost over, luckily, we still can have our dinner in the hotel. This was my first day in Tainan.

At the second day, we met many historical spots, like Provintia and Anping Fort, these historical spots were pretty, but my most impressive memory was not that. The food of Tainan was my most impressive memory. At there, we ate a famous sushi store, delicious snack, and yummy beef soup; the only weakness was these wonderful dishes made my weight gain, but I thought that it was valuable.

At the third day which we needed to go back to home, we stayed in the hotel for whole morning and had lunch in the hotel’s restaurant, and then at afternoon we drove back to our home.

On the way home, I thought maybe we could use fewer time than we used to go Tainan and we could arrive home early. At the first time, everything was just as my thought, but then we found that Tainan was too huge and we did not know where the entrance of free way was, fortunately we saw a police standing on the block and we went to him and asked about the way to the free way.

Finally, we found the free way and went on it. Until now I still do not know one thing which is why we still spent almost nine hours on driving car in the situation that there was no traffic jam on the way when we went home.

This trip have taught me that Taiwan seems very small, but in the matter of fact, it is a hugeland.

Total words: 477

Cutting Down My Weight (Journal 5)

2009-05-31T15:02:00.001+08:00

寇希妤Krista
英文2A
96210567

Nowadays, more and more people want lose weight. I'm no exception. Cutting down the weight is become a fad these days. Most people want to losing weight because become thinner not only looks better and more beautiful but also increases one’s confidence. The most important thing is that people bear in mind the interest of health; therefore, many people feel like losing weight. I love to eat lots of delicacies. I love to go to many kinds of restaurants to taste different food of different countries. And I also love to eat at night markets. I increase five kilograms since I entered in the college. I was very shocked, when I stood on the body weight scale and saw the number of my weight. My face looks more and more round and sometimes double chin might appear, my arms looks like swollen, my belly looks like pregnancy, I have love handles around my waist, and so on, so I decided to cut down my weight. I think swimming is one of the healthiest forms of exercise, and it is my favorite sport. I love to go to exercise with my friends, because we can support each other. I really enjoy working out, because I will feel happy, and after it, my cheeks will have healthy glow. I am also on a diet. I am dieting to lose weight. I want to get a beautiful slender figure. I hope I can become more sylphlike and more graceful after going to the fitness center and swimming.

(260 words)

Planning an Activity in a Club

2009-05-31T00:30:00.001+08:00

Tracy 96210605

Process Analysis

In my sophomore year, I participate in a club in our school. I make many friends by joining the club. We play happily. I even learn how to plan an activity. The following are my steps when planning an activity. I want to introduce how to plan an activity in a club, because it is important and useful for us in the future.

First, I will think about the content in an activity. For example, playing some games or making dumplings or the stories telling contest is fun. So, I must brainstorm how to enrich my activity in the first step.

Second, when I finish thinking the content in the activity, I will write a proposal for it. I must write down the budget and the reason why I want to hold the activity, etic. When finishing it, I need to type it in Word on the computer.

Third, I will talk about the activity with some important members in our club. For example, we will discuss the date, food, places and so on. Therefore, I can have suggestions and comments from others so that I can do the activity well. On the other hand, I will assign the various tasks to different people.

Fourth, I will register the activity on the school website. The teacher will review my paper and check our activity. If she agrees on it, we can hold it.

Fifth, the last step, all I have to do is to advertise our activity and invite people to join it. Whenever people join us, they can play happily and enjoy very much.
I have learned many things since I joined the club. For instance, I can plan an activity, make many friends and bargain with businessmen and so on. However, I felt frustrated when I bumped into trouble situation. I really believe doing a thing is not difficult. If I am enthusiastic for it, I think I will succeed. After all, nothing is impossible. Planning an activity isn’t difficult to me as long as I work hard to do it.

Want a Part-time Job

2009-05-31T00:22:00.000+08:00

96210605 Tracy

cause and effect

I hope I have a part-time job. However, my parents don’t promise me to have one. I become frustrated why my parents do not allow me to get a part-time job. Why can’t I have a part-time job?

I am jealous of some classmates who can learn making pizzas, making ice-creams… They tell me when they work they feel happy. They work not only for killing time but also for earning money. They can even make boyfriends and girlfriends. It’s a pity that I can only stay in the dormitory. I can have a chat with friends for my free time on the Internet.

I hope I can work in the ice-cream store with my co-workers and make many friends to improve my relationship in order to broaden my eyesight. I can also learn how to serve the customers.

On the other hand, my friend, Shirley works in a coffee shop. She has learned how to make a good smelling coffee. Shirley also learned to changes herself when having a part-time job. She knew how to smile. Because of smiling, she got the number one waitress in the coffee shop. Shirley told me she cherished her job. At that time she had no money. The boss found and asked her if she wanted to work there so that she could have money to buy things. Hence, because of the boss encourage, she discovered she had a perfect talent in making coffee. Therefore, I believe Shirley has got success. She told me as long as I try hard nothing is impossible. She supports me to find a job.

I think that’s why I want a part-time job. I know my parents are worried about me. Maybe, I need to share my friends’ stories with them. I should persuade them. I don’t want to waste time in my college life. I want something that can enrich my boring life. Maybe, having a part-time job is a good idea.

Door Prohibition of Dormitory

2009-05-30T23:41:00.002+08:00

Tracy 96210605

Argumentative Essay

In Chinese Culture University, we have girls and boys dormitories in our campus. However, girls need to go back to the dormitory before twelve o’clock a.m. On the other hand, boys can go back to their dormitories any time. So that is a controversial issue to many CCU students.

In my impression, the school authority decided to limit to time opened for the girls’ dormitory for the sake of safety. So they closed the dormitory door at 12 am. However, there is no such a regulation for the boys’ dorms. They can have more time to get in and out of their dorms. It causes a great deal of effect on the girl students. They debate the issue very much. The following are the two reasons in the issue.

First, parents and teachers worry about girls’ safety. They hope there is a rule to make them go back to the dorm early. And the schools think they can prevent thieves’ or strangers’ from intruding the dormitories. All they have to do is protecting students from bumping into accidents. Apparently, it is an important reason for such a regulation

The second reason is that if there is no time limit, the dorm will be noisy any time. Maybe, it will affect the sleeping students. With the regulation, the quality of the dormitory can be improved. Hence, everyone should support such a rule. We should let the rule keep going, because it is reasonable and necessary.

However, why do the boys’ dormitories have no such a rule? It is unfair to many girl students. And school authority still ignores the problem. Are all the boys all safe? Is the quality of the environment of the dormitories good enough? I guess not. We should suggest that the same regulation is applied to the boys’ dormitory. After all, all parents hope their children are protected well.

I think the rule is reasonable. However, boys and girls should be regulated by the same rule. We hope that school teachers can solve the problem. After all, it is good for everyone, isn’t it?

When I join in the students association(Journal)

2009-05-30T23:35:00.001+08:00

I feel happy I change into an adult. Because I own a strong ability to learn many things from the PingTung Association. At first, I often wanted to give up because I couldn't endure the difficult things. Now I get success I can get over many things. For example, I can make colorful posters which I have never done them before. I also can make a chart in Excel. I can't believe myself I can do a lot of things. It really changes the black life into the colorful life. Anyway, nothing is impossible. We are the first group in this PT Association so we do our activities as hard as possible. I hope everyone can be pleased to enjoy in our club and cooperate to hold a activity each other. I hope that everyone can enjoy much when joining the association.
Joining a club is a good way to challenge myself. I can know many friends who face the difficult things in our club. Maybe it affects me a lot in the future. I can even use the experiences to combine with my profession to create my new life. Joining a club can broaden my eyes. I hope I can always a happy student. And my friends and my families can be healthy. And the world will be peaceful forever.

total words 221

Tracy 96210605

Happy Dragon Boat Festival(Journal)

2009-05-30T22:18:00.003+08:00

I want to share the tradional Festival in Chinese. It is called Dragon Boat Festival. It is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Dragon Boat Festival have the oringinal mean. For example, we can lead a peace life and get away the evil spirits. And we also want to remind a great man who was called Chu Yuan. It has emphasis on the dragon boat. So there are the dragon boat races in this day. Every team will have a game in the river. They must work hard and have copperation to drive their boat to win the flag. And we also eat a traditional food called tzung tzu and drink a wine which can let us be healthy. When the Dragon Boat Festival is coming, I can't wait to taste my favorite food, tzung tzu. My grandmom can make the tzung tzu. It always smells good. I can't forget that delicious flavor. I like it very much. In this day, my sister and I will stand on eggs at noon successfully. If you do sucessfully, you will be lucky in the future. I can't even imagine why people can stand on eggs in that day. But we still feel happy. Of all the major holidays celebrated in China, Dragon Boat Festival has the longest history. Occurring at the beginning of summer when insects thrive, the festival was distinguished from other occasions in earlier days as a time for reminding family members to take care of their health. The Chinese continue to heed this wisdom, however, by replacing the traditional customs of hanging calamus and moxa, drinking hsiung huang wine, and giving sachets, with more advanced methods for protecting one's health.

total words 292

Tracy 96210605

My favorite actor(journal)

2009-05-30T19:24:00.002+08:00

John Christopher Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky. He has one brother and two sisters, one of whom is his personal manager. His family moved repeatedly but finally settled in Miramar, Florida. At 16, Depp dropped out of school to be the guitarist for the rock band The Kids. They achieved some local success so they headed out to Los Angeles, California. There, Nicolas Cage, Depp's friend, recommended that he try being an actor.
Depp made his debut in the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984. Three years later, his appearance in the TV series 21 Jump Street made him a teen idol. Depp's first leading role was in Edward Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies has brought him the most recognition. He is a good actor, and his modeling is varied. Most of the movie, he is play the leading role, I all very like. Especially is the Pirates, Jack Sparrow. I like very much. Every time he has new movie to show us, always bring some surprised for us. No wonder he always have charismatic. Depp now lives in France with his partner Vanessa Paradis and their two children.

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Pet are living in the lap of luxury(journal)

2009-05-30T19:13:00.002+08:00

Although birthrates are decreasing in Taiwan, pet ownership is on the rise. Nowadays, pets are considered members of the family and are pampered like babies. Just looking at the two most popular pets, dogs and cats, it is not difficult to find evidence of their luxurious lifestyle.
Not only is a wide variety of food and health supplements available to pets, but many pets also sleep more comfortably than humans. Pet mattresses are now designed to look like little beds for royalty, luxurious tents, and even fruit! You also no longer need to keep an eye on food bowls. Timed feeders can automatically provide for your pet at mealtimes.\Many owners like to dress up their dogs and cats, and the pet industry has responded. From sportswear to punk outfits, pet clothes can be tailored for a perfect fit. If you end up buying your dog an outfit for every occasion, there are even wardrobes especially for pet clothes.Many claim that pet owners today lavish too much time and money on their pets. From the owners' perspective, though, no effort is too great to give their pets a happy life.
The pets have good life than before, and the pets are considered members of the family. I love the dog very much. And I wanted to have a Red Poodle. I live outside by myself; I very need a pet company with me. The Red Poodle small and cute very fit me to rise. Now some insurers have pets’ insurance, let pets’ life more protection.

words:255

This semester

2009-05-30T15:38:00.003+08:00

This semester will be end.It is very soon, and I will be a third grade student. I am very worry about my future, because I think that it is hard to achieve my dream. I know that English is very important to me, because I will study abroad after graduating at university. I always afraid of my study abroad life, because my poor English. And I choose a different subject im my research in stitute. In university, my subject is English, but I want to choose the fashion design as my subject in my research institute. It is hard to me, because I never learn anything about design such as painting. computer painting.make clothes and so on. I really worry about everything so I always nervous when I think my future. I just only have two years to prepare anything about my compositions and many data which I have to prepare. I have to learn English well especial oral. A good way can improve my English is Work & Travel In American. My mother promiss me that let me go to American next year. But I have to practice oral well. And then I have to work in a design company , because I have to have an experence about desgin.

Eva
96210591
total words:211words

The Best Job in The World

2009-05-30T15:23:00.004+08:00

English 2A
沈姍儒 (Jenny)
96210401
Argumentative

Should Taiwan Be Required to Follow the Hot Issue of Great Barrier Reef?

These days, Great Barrier Reef is very popular news all over the world. They offer the world’s best job to attract people all over the world to join the activity. Because of the desirable outcome, our government will follow their way to improve Taiwan’s tourism. Our Tourism Bureau decides to provide everyone $7000 NT per day to take part in a similar activity and the total participators will reach 100 people who are divided into 50 groups. There are two people in each group. They should spend four days traveling in Taiwan. Finally one lucky group will be chosen to get one million NT dollars to travel all the famous landscapes in Taiwan for one month. But this group should write a blogger about Taiwan Tourism to publicize it all over the world as they finish their trips. But I don’t think following Great Barrier Reef’s policy is a good idea to improve Taiwan tourism. There are some reasons to explain why I am against it.

Where is the Great Barrier Reef? The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for 2,600 kilometers over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometers. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia. In 2009 Tourism Queensland promoted the Great Barrier Reef with a website worldwide encouraging people to apply for "The Best Job in The World” seeking a "Caretaker of the Islands" to "house-sit" the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef for half a year, from Hamilton Island, the largest inhabited island in the region, "just off the coast of Queensland with a wide range of restaurants, activities, shops and tours".

First, I don’t agree that our country offers a great amount of money to follow the event “The Best Job in The World” in Taiwan. Because the great money comes from every person who works hard to pay taxes, why should we provide it to someone who just does his job for fun? It’s not very fair. The government always takes our money to other countries which can’t help us much if we get in troubles from international problems. I mean we don’t have useful diplomatic nations to help us and neither an unambiguous international status. I think we should use the money to help many poor people in Taiwan, especially during the period of economic recession. In Taiwan there are still many poor family cannot afford their children food and education now.

Next, I think Great Barrier Reef is not a well-known island, so they should use this kind of way to gain their international fame. Taiwan, however, is more famous than that island. Needless to say, Taipei 101 has the biggest contribution to let people all over the world know us. And I think Taiwan is famous for its delicious food and beautiful scenery. Therefore, we have the great competition and advantage to develop Taiwan’s tourism. Don’t forget Taiwan has been a Formosa from ago to now. So, I don’t think we should use this way to get our international fame like Great Barrier Reef.

About the Final reason, I think if our country really wants to increase Taiwan’s tourism, we should create our own way to develop it. We should not just follow or imitate others’ thoughts to improve Taiwan. Everyone should have his or her own idea about everything. I suggest Taiwan should have our own special feature of developing tourism.

In conclusion, according to this event, we must consider what our characteristic is? And we should use the best way to improve Taiwan. I have to say every thing has its own way to perform itself. For example, Great Barrier Reef is not a famous place, so they use money to attract people to there; we don’t have to do the same, since Taiwan is very well-known. On the other hand, we should notice the issue about how to reduce poor families in the modern society, not just give money to rich people.

Improving Myself

2009-05-30T15:14:00.002+08:00

English 2A
沈姍儒 (Jenny)
96210401
Cause and Effect

A Problem with Managing My Time

Managing my time well is a very vital thing for me. As a matter of fact, I’m a little bit confused with what is a good standard of managing time. Recently, I have often examined myself to see if I am a good time planer?” And what is the main cause that results in my inability in managing time well? I’m not sure what my answer is but I know some problems with managing time in my mind.

First of all, I think when a high school student becomes a college student, he or she will have a great sense of freedom and he or she can divide everything by himself or herself, including time. So, this will bring a problem to students--wasting time. Take me for example. I had a lot of quizzes every day as I was in senior high school. However, now, there are not many tests in my college life. Sometimes, I think I waste a lot of time doing nothing. A serious problem is that I don’t memorize new words every day and forget many words I have already known.

Next, every college student knows that an experience of part-time job or participating clubs is a very important thing in college life. Then, I think I can’t play a good role in these types of activities. Because these activities should take much time, I can’t keep a balance between studying and joining activities. For example, when I was a freshman, I was a member of dancing club; at that time, I went dancing many times. However, I have a part-job now and I never go to the dancing club in these two semesters because I have to do my homework. But I still want to go to dancing club; the problem is I don’t have time to do it now.

Finally, I think there are few exams in college. Needless to say, most college students always prepare their midterms or final exams one day or one week before. This bad situation causes many college students to hurt their health seriously. Their biological time may be disrupted. Actually, I have poorer health in these years. I think this is a serious problem that I should overcome.

In conclusion, I feel managing time well in college is very important because it will influence our future. At the same time, every one ought to know that he or she doesn’t have the second times again as time goes by, including our health. I must learn to manage my time well.

My Perfect Mother (journal)

2009-05-30T01:10:00.000+08:00

姓名:夏郁婷 Shia
班級:英2A
學號:96210559
Journal

My Perfect Mother
I have a perfect mother who is a housewife. When I was a child, she always takes care of us very well. She will prepare our breakfast and our clothes, and take us to school every day. After school, she take us go home, then she start to cook our dinner. She is a great mother and a wonderful wife. My dear mother is a responsible woman, and she is a considerate person as well. When she has free time, she always swimming and does exercises with us. Sometime, she likes to go shopping, and she almost buys our clothes and our shoes. She is a frugal woman, and she seldom buys herself clothes and cosmetics. My mother is an omnipotent housewife, she can cooks many delicious food, and she always does housework very well. She is a very enthusiastic person, and she always kind to everyone. When her friends need helps, my mother always helps them do her best. I think she is a nice and great woman; she can do many things at the same time. She can do many things very well; she doesn’t like to refuse people. My mother has a good interpersonal relationship, she has many good friends. Sometimes, I feel my mother has a little blunt. She always forgot many important things. When she has a trouble, she doesn’t know what to do. When I have a bad mood, I often tell her, and she always tells me what to do. She will make me become better, and she will help me a lot. Now, I study in Taipei, she always comes to Taipei. She very concern about my things, no matter in study or in other part. When she has free time, she will cook much food, and sent to Taipei for me to eat. I think she is the greatest mother in the world. My dear mother is a simple woman and a nice person. My mother always thinks her children still likes child, so she take care of us very well. Now, she already fifty years old, but she still has many energy, and her health still keep a good condition. My mother and my father love each other very much, and their sentiment is very good. My mother always obedient to my father, she is a mild wife. We all love my dear mother very much, she is a great mother.

Words: 420

Can College Students Choose Their Own Courses?

2009-05-29T22:08:00.006+08:00

洪嘉君
Elva
96210371

Argumentative Essay

Can College Students Choose Their Own Courses?

In Taiwan, most courses in universities are arranged by school except some general knowledge courses and some elective courses which can be chosen by students themselves. But can college students choose some courses that they really want to learn about their major subject? Or can they choose any courses that they are very interested in?

I am a college student now, so I know the requirement for choosing courses by ourselves. We want to have freedom to choose the courses by ourselves, so we will be more interested in these courses to learn the knowledge. I consider that college student should have the right to choose their own courses.

Some professors or even some college students don’t agree that college students can choose courses on their own. But I think it is beneficial for every student and course arrangers in universities. On the one hand, the courses arrangers don’t have to work hard and handle the complicated process of choosing the courses. And on the other hand, college students can also choose their own courses by themselves.

But some people will wonder if college students really have the ability to choose the right courses for themselves and to attend them. I consider that if college students can choose the courses they really want to attend, and they will attend these courses. They have to be responsible for their own education, so they won’t ignore them.

In short, I think college students should have the freedom to choose their own courses. I know some schools have started to think over this issue, and I think the issue will be solved in the best way.

Judy(CERC)

2009-05-29T15:58:00.000+08:00

Class: English department 2A
English name: Judy
Chinese name: 賴瑾萱
Student number: 96210419
Cause and effect essay
Date: 2009/5/1
Taking the Bus

Taking the bus is the most different thing to me between senior high school and university. I’d never taken the bus before I got into the college, and it is a trouble to me.

I was scared when taking the bus to school the first time. There was a long line which was waiting for the bus in front of the bus stop, and beside this line, there were still two lines waiting for the bus. At that time my thought was: Wow! It’s so terrible! By the way, I still remember I waited for it for a very long time and it made me feel tired.

Another reason which makes me not like to take the bus is there is always a lot of noise on the bus. For instance, I used to have a nap on the bus before the bus arrived school, but not every time I can fall asleep because there are always some people who like to talk in a loud voice. This situation bothers me a lot.

The other reason why I don’t like taking the bus is that I will feel sick on the bus. Because of this reason, when the bus driver drives faster, I will feel more uncomfortable. This is the most important reason why I don’t like taking the bus.

Those three causes make my way to school and the way home becomes my nightmare. Fortunately, I am almost used to it now, and I hope someday it won’t be my nightmare anymore.

Violation of Traffic Rules

2009-05-28T23:19:00.000+08:00

王詩婷Sylvia
96210389
Argumentative

Violation of Traffic Rules
There are nearly 2 million cars and motorbikes in Taiwan. And the density of motorbikes is almost the top of the world. One of my friends said, “It’s like a suicide to ride a motor in the Taipei.” I am a rider, and I agree with her. Sometimes when I rode in Taipei, I really hated the messy traffic and those who didn’t follow the traffic rules. I think if we want to have the safer traffic and decrease the mess, we should not violate traffic rules. Here, I come up with four reasons which cause people to violate traffic rules.
First, “the time” makes them break the traffic rules. For example, people will run the red light or exceed the speed limit or ignore a sign of traffic if they are going late for work or meeting. In that time, they won’t think too much because they just care about the things which they are being late for. However, it’s a really dangerous thought because if someone has the same thought with you, then you guys will crash on each other.
Second, “the convenience” also makes people violate the traffic rules.
For instance, people didn’t wear the helmet or follow a sign of traffic because maybe they think the place that they want to go to is not far away. So it’s unnecessary to wear it or observe the rules. Of course, it’s convenient but you can’t predict the accidents which may happen at any spots, any time. So we should be cautious when we ride or drive.
Third, some riders who like the excitement will ride very recklessly. The way they ride is the most perilous, just as street racing. Furthermore, some riders may think they look cool or handsome when they ride fast. It’s really a bad idea. Because if the accident happened, it not only hurt yourself but also the people you crashed upon. Don’t forget some guidepost says, “Nine out of ten accidents occur because of driving too fast.”
Finally, this situation always happened to young people. That’s right. They are riding with no license. They don’t know how dangerous it is. They may just think riding motorbikes is a cool thing. But they can’t take the responsibility for it if the accident happened because they haven’t reached the legal age. We should not make troubles to our parents.
I think safety is more important than anything else. Though we are going late for something, we should not run the red light. In addition, we should wear the helmet and observe the signs of traffic although it’s inconvenient. Last, we should not ride or drive with no license because it’s not a responsible behavior. If everyone can observe the traffic rules well, I think our traffic will become better and the accidents will decrease.

Idol Pursuers

2009-05-28T20:50:00.001+08:00

英2A
96210346
Janet 陳荷婷

(Argument)

Idol Pursuers

　　No matter what age you are in, I believe there is always someone or something that you admire so much and set it as a model. And it is not hard to find this circumstance often happens to teenagers due to the convenience of mass communication nowadays that makes those teenagers accept the instant world news as soon as possible. Naturally, the most popular thing they’re usually talking about is idols! As for parents, most of them dislike their kids to admire idols and furthermore they consider it to be a kind of pejorative behavior; nevertheless, I take the points of view of teenagers because I am also an idol pursuer.
　　Education is what parents are extremely concerned about. Thus, in order to make their children receive good education, most parents try their best to remove anything that might affect kids’ learning, and unfortunately idols are one of them. They view idols as witches in the medieval, good at seducing human beings as well as harshly pushing them into death. How terrible idols are!
　　In my opinion, I totally disagree with parents’ consideration! Take myself as an example. I’ve been a Japanese idols pursuer since I was in the junior high. Even though I have been crazy about idols, I never forget my study and even find something new to learn from my idols, such as Japanese, Japanese culture, etc. Because of idols, I have extensively broadened my horizon and now besides speaking Chinese and English, I can also write and speak a little Japanese. What a surprise!
　　The second reason why parents oppose their children’s worshiping idols is because of money. Once the idols release their new singles, albums, video products, or hold concerts worldwide, teenagers who are idol pursuers must take out all the money they have or try to save it for activities concerning the idols; for instance, they start to save money from meal fees so that they need to endure hunger and turn to ask help from their friends. Of course parents must get angry toward this behavior and think, “I work so hard for my dear kids, but they use the money for idols! Is that fair?”
　　Well, about the second reason, I think the problem is not on idols; instead, it’s the problem about teenagers’ improper attitude. If they confess to their parents why they need more extra money peacefully or how they’re going to do with the money at the very beginning, I believe both sides will find a perfect method finally and not argue with each other. And parents can take idols as stimulation for teenagers to work hard and push themselves to achieve their goal. It’s just the same way as the teachers who often use that kind of praise for little children.
　　If you want to be a sensible idol pursuer, here is my suggestion: as long as you keep doing what you need to do and realize where your position is, then idols won’t be an obstacle. Instead, it’s a great motive for you to improve yourself.

Healthy Club ( Journal 5 )

2009-05-28T15:06:00.002+08:00

96210397
Ariel 黃筠玲
Journal 5

Recently, my friend and I have a new habby- healthy club. We always go there after the class. The first impression that we want to go to the healthy club is at the gym in our school. We saw a lot of equipments in the healthy clun in our school. We want to have a physical training to our muscles that can make us look more thiner, but the bad thing happened. We are not the member for the healthy club. If we want to use those equipments, we have to make an appointment and pay the money. Therefore, we found another healthy club in Shilin. We can go Shilin Sport Center! In Shilin Sport Center, they have healthy club, swimming pool and dancing class. We can go there after school and the ticket only takes 50 NT dollors. Thus, we go there every weeks. We use the equipments, swimming and dancing there. Both of us have a good time. Besides,after we exercing, we can go to Shilin Night Market to buy some fresh fruit and shpping there. Then, we can back home and prepare the homework next day. I like this kind of life. It's very colorful and substantial. According to the report, exercing can make people more happier and healthier. It's good to our body. Nowadays, we go there regularly, not only eat dinner and watching TV at home. I think this kind of life is more meaningful. In my opinion, if you feel bored to your life. I suggest you can go to the healthy club. It's can colorful your life and make you feel more happier and healthier. ( 275 words )

My great-grandfather

2009-05-27T14:38:00.002+08:00

My great-grandfather passed away in this month. He is my mother's grandfather. He was ninety years old when he left the world.I miss him very much. My great grandfather is an awesome old man. My mother told me that she was afraid of her grandfather when she was a child. My maternal uncle often cry when he was a little chijd because my great-grandfather got angry. I remember that I dared not talk with him. Because he was less smile than my great-grandmother. After I became a grown-up, I found that my great-gradnfather was a nice old man. He just didn't like to express his felling , he just didn't like to speak everything. Two weeks ago we held a funeral procession for him, and burn much money and a beautiful cottage home for him. He passed away before the Dragon Boat Festival. How sad!!! Actually I want to take many picture with my great-grandfather when everybody come back my hometown in the festival. I knew that he had a poor healthy body. Last time I came back my grandmother's house in New Year Holliday, I found that his face became desolate and swelling. I worry about his body and take some picture at that time. I really gratify to have those pictures. And he died of peritonitis, and he want to die at home. We sent him back home when the doctor notified us that we had to take him back home. After learning this news. everyone was sad and cried. Actually we all know that my great-grandfather was hard to live beyond twenty-four hours when my uncle sent him to hospital. All of a sudden the disease suffer from. I can't take picture with him in the Dragon Boat Festival I am sad, and I will miss him.

Eva
96210591
total words:310words

Pin Money

2009-05-26T23:45:00.000+08:00

范振笙 Roger
96210435
Argumentative

Parents give their children spending money is one kind of loving performance. Children can use it to buy anything they want and they have the total right to use the money. But parents easily give their children too much money and spoil them with material things. Some people claimed that children shouldn’t have money in their pocket. But should parents give their children pocket money?
It’s a terrible thing if a child misuses his money. Children don’t make money by themselves so they have no idea about how hard to earn money. They may use money carelessly in the beginning, but it will be better after they know how to spend money well. What parents have to do is teaching children to use money in the right way and train them not to spend allowance on the useless thing.
If a child has no money he may be considered poor and stingy. In my childhood, poor children were easily mocked by his classmates. Children with money can make friends easily. They can use money to socialize with their classmates or friends. And they can treat his friends if they are really good for him. Having money can help him establish his friendship.
Saving money is a good habit. Giving money to children regularly can make them develop the habit of saving money. They can learn how to set a goal and accumulate money for a purpose. To reach the goal they have to resist the luring from the temptation of the luxury item. If they can manage their own money they will learn how to increase their money.
This is a material society. Money is important to our life. So parents should let their children learn how to use money when they are in childhood.

Being Single or Married?

2009-05-26T23:29:00.002+08:00

Freyia Lee
97413241
李佩蓉

Being Single or Married?

Recently, the idol drama“My Queen”has been popular in Taiwan and the word“failed dog”from this drama has caused enthusiastic discussion. What is the meaning of“failed dog”？ This word is used to humiliate a woman who is over thirty years old and is still single. A Japanese writer has published a book called “The Bark of Failed Dogs, ” it described a woman who is over thirty years old and who is still single, she will be called “failed dog,” no matter how successful she is in the workplace or how beautiful she is. However, if she is married or even has children, no matter how ugly she is how incapable of making a living, people would call her “victorious dog.” Many people may ask “Are the failed dogs equal to the loser?” or “Are the victorious dogs equal to the winners?” Judging from the above, the big difference between these two characters is the marriage. In general thinking, some people said “To women, marriages are their final destinations”, but some people said “To women, marriages are just as graves.” Whatever marriages to women are, we are going to find out the advantages and disadvantages of failed dogs and victorious dogs?
Most of the victorious dogs only care about their husbands and children. They almost do not have time to care about themselves. For example, they have to prepare dishes for their family or wash clothes everyday. Sometimes, they have to pick up their children to school or take them to the cram school. In fact, they almost did not have freedom not even dreams. However, they will not be alone on any festival. They can celebrate Valentine’s Day with their husbands, and Mother’s Day with children. In a word, victorious dogs can enjoy the happy family life, but they have to tolerate a great quantity of housework.
On the other hand, the failed dogs are freer than the victorious dogs. Failed dogs do everything and make decisions just for themselves. They do not have to consider how much money they have spent or what time they went home. Most of the failed dogs are independent. Some of them can earn money as much as men do. For example, Chih-ling Lin, the famous model who is over thirty years old but succeed in working in Taiwan. Because of their achievement, they do not desire marriages. To them, marriages are just like the shackles that limit their personal development. However, it does not mean they do not need somebody to love. In fact, sometimes they may feel lonely on some special festivals, or they may celebrate them with their friends. Now, many movies like “Sex and the City” or “Bridget Jones's Diary” express the stories of theses failed dogs and show how elegant life they have. In a word, failed dogs can have their freedom, but they always have to face the problem by themselves.
In conclusion, it is not important to judge whether failed dogs and victorious dogs are losers or winners the thing is both of them can find the ways to enjoy their lives.

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Rewrite

2009-05-26T22:31:00.000+08:00

96210397
English 2A
Ariel 黃筠玲
Cause-effect Essay

Is Part-time Job Necessary to Students?
Recently, most students have a part-time job to earn pocket mney. They go to work after school or on Holidays and they get more friends or pocket money from their jobs. I can roughly categorize these students into three types in the next three paragraphs.
The first types of students are those who lack money. They have to make money by themselves. Maybe their families get some problems. Their parents lose their jobs or they want to buy some stuff but they don’t have enough money and so forth. That is the reason why they have to get more money. Nowadays, we can know from the news that some employees are fired by their companies because of the bad economics. If you are their child, you may have to find a part-time job to support your family.
The second types of students are those who want to get more experiences. They want to learn some skills that are different from those in the textbook. Working in different places, they can learn different things. For example, students can learn the serving skill in the restaurant, and if students work in the convenience store, they can learn the management skill. Thus, more and more students want to have a part-time job.
The third types of students are students are who always feel bored on holidays. They don’t want to watch TV or sleep. They want to go out, but they have no partners to go with them. They always waste their time on holidays. Therefore, they want to get a part-time job and have a more meaningful life. These kinds of students are usually happy when they are working because this is not a job but a hobby to them.
Generally, I think the part-time job is necessary to students. In my opinion, the students who want to get a part-time job must have their own purpose. They want to make money and get more experiences or have a colorful life. The three reasons cause more and more students to have part-time job than before. In conclusion, having a part-time job is not a bad thing because we can learn a lot from our job.

Rewrite

2009-05-26T22:14:00.000+08:00

96210397
Ariel 黃筠玲
English 2A
Argumentative Essay

Should the Advertisement Be Banned?
Recently, I saw a lot of news talk about the advertisement about an online game. In the advertisement, we can see a girl is not dressing many. Besides, the focus seems to be her breasts because in the advertisement the girl sways her breasts constantly. Thus, the National Communications Commissions decided to prohibit the advertisement. They think the advertisement objectifies the female. Should the advertisement be banned?
First of all, there are a lot of voices saying that the ad objectifies the female. In my opinion, it’s an interesting advertisement. It’s a good idea to publicize a product. If every advertisement should be restricted because of a controversial scene, I think it will stifle the creativity of an original mind. It’s just an original expression.
Second, some people say that it’s too exposing for a girl in the advertisement. I don’t think it in this way. The girl just shows her perfect figure. Her figure is great and she can show it to others. If this kind of advertisement should be banned, why didn’t the photo albums? They also show women’s attractive figures. Therefore, I think it’s not a big problem.
Third, some people say that the model is just eighteen years old. This kind of advertisement will have bad effect on her. To me, it’s not a big deal. The model is eighteen and she is not a baby. She has her freedom to choose her part-time job. According to the report, the girl needs money to support her family. Her job is not illegal and why should she be banned? The most important, I think, is the girl is an adult; she must have the ability to recognize if the thing’s right or false.
Finally, I think advertisement shouldn’t be banned. It’s an original expression. We shouldn’t regard the advertisement as porn. The advertisement just wants to achieve its effect and it’s just a publicizing method. People have taken this advertisement too seriously. In conclusion, if the advertisement is not illegal, I think it’s alright to be broadcasted on TV.

Ending the Death Penalty?

2009-05-26T17:29:00.001+08:00

Krista寇希妤
96210567
Argumentation

The death penalty is the heaviest penalty from ancient to now. Nowadays, ending the death penalty is an issue that people are arguing. Some people are against to end the death penalty, but some agree and support it; besides, they found an association called Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty. And some people think the death penalty can be replaced by life imprisonment. No matter if people are against or support it, they all have their opinions and reasons. For me, I strongly oppose ending the death penalty.
Some people advocate ending the death penalty because they think it can protect the human rights and no one can be deprived of the right of live. Then what about the victims’ human rights? The murderers had hurt the victims; their human rights shouldn’t be respected.
Moreover, some people said that the murderers would reform themselves, because the instructors in the prisons can correct murderers’ errors and make them a fresh start. And the murderers will know the value of life. Maybe some victims’ family members think to punish the murderers can’t bring back the life they lost but only inflicts harm on another family; therefore, they choose to forgive the murderers and give them a chance to start with a clean slate. To contradict it, the injury of victims’ family had been made and it was a lifelong sorrow. They chose to forgive the criminals because the harm had led to irreversible regret forever.
A few people think the judgment may be erroneous. The person who had been sentenced to death penalty may be innocent. But, in a democratic society, to have a heavy penalty is uneasy. If a person is sentence to the death penalty, he can still appeal for innocence at a higher court. Therefore, in this situation, if a person who is sentenced to the death penalty, he or she must deserve the punishment.
To sum up, in order to protect the personal safety, respect human rights, and prevent crimes, capital punishment should not be abolished.

The Film Review of "Birth" (Journal 5)

2009-05-25T12:24:00.003+08:00

Sally

Journal 5

I watched a film several weeks ago. The title of the film is “Birth.” The film is talking about the reincarnation. In the beginning, there was a man jogging and then he died suddenly. At the same time, a baby was born. After ten years, the man’s wife, Anna (performed by Nicole Kidman), was engaged to Joseph (performed by Danny Huston). They had a dinner party to celebrate their engagement at Anna’s home.
Joseph met Anna three years ago. At that time, Anna had been single for seven years. Because Anna couldn’t forget Sean, who was her dead husband, she refused Joseph many times. However, Joseph never gave up and his sincerity moved Anna accepting his proposal. Then a weird thing happened: a little boy showed up in the dinner party. He said that he wanted to talk with Anna. Incredibly, he said, “Don’t marry Joseph.” The little was about ten years old, so Anna thought, maybe, he was joking at first. However, the boy wrote a letter to her, and again telling her not to marry Joseph. After knowing this, Joseph decided to see the boy’s father.
At that time, they knew the name of the little boy was just Sean, the same name as Anna’s ex-husband. To solve the problem, Sean’s father asked Sean not to bother Anna again, but he answered, “No, I can’t.” When he saw Anna leaving, he collapsed. And this made Anna feel very shocked. Anna became hesitant because she thought that the little boy might be her dead husband, Sean. Then Sean left a message to her several days later. He wanted Anna going to a park, and she knew where it was. The park was actually just the place where Anna’s husband died.
Although the little Sean knew a lot about Anna and Sean, he still didn’t remember everything. When Sean’s secret lover was showing up in front of him, he said, “Don’t tell Anna.” It seemed that the little Sean knew who she was, but when she took the letter which written by Sean to him, he completely didn’t know that. Then he escaped from Anna’s home because he couldn’t accept the truth that he had betrayed Anna.
I think he decided to tell Anna that he was Sean because he didn’t want Anna being sad again. Her ex-husband’s death was deeply breaking Anna’s heart once. If she knew that Sean had betrayed her, she might be despaired. I think it was right that the little Sean gave up being with Anna. After all, he was too young to be Anna’s husband.
Joseph had lost his temper because of Sean and left Anna for a while. Finally, Joseph accepted Anna’s apology and married her. It seemed awful that Joseph had done, however I think it was for what he endured was too much. And in fact, Sean couldn’t be the original Sean anymore.

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Why Should Students Wear Uniforms?

2009-05-25T02:48:00.003+08:00

Sally
Argumentative

Before we went to the university, we had to wear uniforms when we were in school. At that time, we might think wearing uniforms was natural and right. However, nowadays there are more and more people saying that students have the right not to wear uniforms. Although what they said is reasonable, I still think that middle school students should wear uniforms.

The first reason why middle school students should wear uniforms is that students look ordered in uniform. It is unnecessary that students wear showy dress. If they don’t wear uniforms, they have to think about what they wear every day. I admit that wearing uniforms does not look so pretty, but I believe that dressing up everyday will be an annoying thing to high school students. Besides, the duty of students is not dressing well but studying.

Second, I think it is easy to recognize and identify the students when they wear the school uniform. If some strangers come into the schoolyard, they will be distinguished from the students in school. On the other hand, if students just wear casual clothes in school, it’s difficult to take them apart from the outside comers. Therefore, students wearing uniforms also can protect students and prevent hooligans from having the opportunities to enter the school easily.

Third, I think it is very fair that everyone wears the same uniform. Because there are rich students and poor students, they might compare with each other and the rich ones may look down upon the poor ones. This is an awful thing in school. The rich ones might wear different clothes everyday, but the poor ones might just wear the same. As a result, the students who come from the poor family would feel inferior. So I think wearing uniforms is a good way to make students feel that they are no different from others.

To sum up, school life is like a small community, and the uniform is just like a symbol of the group. It is a normal rule to wear uniforms when students are in school. Students must concentrate on their lessons rather than on what they wear. In conclusion, being a student, the first thing that we should do is wearing uniforms.

After Four Years

2009-05-24T16:45:00.000+08:00

賴沛彤
96210460
Ring
CE
09/05/01

After Four Years
What will I do after I graduate? I am still thinking about this question. There are a lot of college students nowadays, but most of them do not have the good jobs. They graduated from colleges. Why can they get the good jobs? I think there are three reasons.
There are too many college students. The colleges become more and more. Almost every student can enter the colleges. To graduate from college is not a special thing like before. Although college students become more and more, the jobs college students can do don’t increase. That’s why many college students cannot get the jobs they like do.
Second, many college students just play for four years. After these students graduate, they even do not know what the subject they studied for four years is about. Many students just play all day long. They only study before the exams. After the exams, they forget what they just studied before the exams. Everyone can graduate from college easily nowadays. Because the students did not learn enough from college, the companies would not hire them.
The last reason is that we do not know how to make us become special. You cannot just study, study and study. You have to learn more things and you have to know what you really like. The more things you learn, the more suitable job you can get.
Although we are only students, we need to think about this question. What will we do after four years? Find out what you really like to do and just do it.

Having no Time to Play with Friends

2009-05-24T16:02:00.000+08:00

英2A
蔡雨庭 Rainy
96210621
Cause-and-Effect Essay

Having no Time to Play with Friends

When I was freshman, my friends and I often played and ate delicious foods everywhere. We almost chatted on MSN everyday and we knew each other’s recent conditions. And there were many classmates living in the dorm so we could chat and play cards until midnight. It seems that I spent most of time staying with my friends. But now it changes. I spend less time staying with my friends.
First of all, I started to take a part-time job last summer. Now, I just ride the motorcycle to my workplace hurriedly when I finish the last class on the day. I can’t have dinner with my friends just because I have to arrive at the workplace on time. If I have an appointment with my friends, I should tell the boss that I want to rest on that day in advance. My friends often invite me to go out, but I have to work. From then on, I can’t find the balance between working and dating.
Second, now I live with my sister and I have a dog, too. My sister has to work and she always comes back home at seven to eight o’clock in the night. So I have to feed the dog and take care of it during the dinner time if I’m free that day. From Monday to Friday, I am really a busy guy. Maybe I can go out with my friends only once a week. However, I really enjoy the day when I am able to be with them.
Last, all of us get more pressure than before. Some of us prepare to get the professional licenses, and some of us just concentrate on this semester because some classmates didn’t pass all the courses last semester. Now, we have our own ideal goals to get and think about our future. We start to put more emphasis on our studies.
Our life has changed a lot. But fortunately, we can go out together once a week. I know we all become busier but we still care about each other. We can chat during the break between classes. Although we are busier, we are still concerned about each other.

The Ban of Hair Restriction

2009-05-24T15:55:00.003+08:00

Mindy
97403512
Argumentative Essay

The Ban of Hair Restriction

　　　The ban of hair restriction is a special policy of education in Taiwan. When the society of Taiwan becomes more democratic, many students are opposed to this prohibition. In my opinion, the ban of hair restriction should be lifted for three reasons: retaining the right of people, not cutting hair every month, and not standing for a student’s work.
　　　In early ages, the junior high and senior high students with long hair is impermissible. Schools ask girls to have short hair, and ask boys to have crew cut. When the government lifted the martial law, the ban of hair restriction became less strict. As a result, the Ministry of Education lifted the restriction on hair four years ago.
　　　First of all, some scholars consider that it will deprive students of the human right and students will lack the right of self-conscious on hair. Student couldn’t have the hair cut which they like.
　　　Secondly, the instructors and teachers in the school will check students’ hair every month. The schools may claim that students need to have neat and tidy appearances; students’ appearances are representing a school’s tradition and the passion for study in particular. However, I think the hair will not affect a student’s behavior. On the contrary, the ban is lifted; students won’t need to cut hair every month.
　　　Finally, if the ban of hair restriction is lifted, most parents are worried that their children will spend more time on their hair style and thus result in poorer academic performance. For example, students who dye hair or have strange hair cut usually like to play and become rascal. However, I think students have their own idea to make their hair style.
　　　To sum up, now most schools have lifted the ban of hair restriction, except some strict private schools. Schools have lifted the ban of hair restriction, except some strict private schools. Students will not have ban behavior because of hair. I believe that to lift the ban of hair restriction is better for students.

Internet Addiction (Journal #3)

2009-05-20T01:09:00.000+08:00

英2A
96210346
Janet　陳荷婷

Internet Addiction

　　Internet, this vocabulary is known by every single mankind and it is too hard to be removed away from our lives; nevertheless, if you trace back to the previous development of the Internet, you will discover that almost every person use ordinary ways to keep in touch with others and search things you need, just as the Internet can do for you nowadays. Well, they’re totally replaced with the Internet and it won’t go back to the old days again.
　　Of course, Internet has become a part of significant routines we need to do in our daily lives. For instance, we can’t only browse the websites to get the instant and fast news in local but all over the world; if you don’t have televisions at home, please don’t be so upset! You still won’t miss your favorite programs throughout the BBS on Internet; furthermore, it is convenient to buy the stuff you need in the process of auctions or shops on the Internet. See? Isn’t Internet wonderful?
　　However, due to this kind of benefit, it develops one “disease” called Internet Addiction. And recently I notice that lots of my friends are also infected. They all have a common symptom which is about lacking of time arrangement. Because they extremely depend on the Internet, they may just immerse into the virtual realm so that forget what their schedules are in real lives. Therefore, here comes the pejorative result—the longer you use the Internet, the more time you will lost. Worst of all, this kind behavior will cause you to get nearsightedness. How terrible it is!　　Although it is unavoidable to use the Internet in our lives, please don’t just look on its bright side and ignore the bad effect. The Good science and technology is taken for pursuing better human beings’ life quality, and that is the main purpose, isn’t it?

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Having a Part Time Job

2009-05-17T18:50:00.002+08:00

范振笙 Roger
96210435

Most college students want to get a part time job. They might have many reasons to take a job. For example, they want to buy something that their parents don’t want to afford them. Having a job, a student can earn more money, absorb more social experiences and cut more leisure time. But if we spend too much time on part time jobs, it may also cause many problems.
I had a part time job before. The job was serving customers in the Holiday KTV at mid-night. Because doing this job was too tiring, I always felt sleepy in the class. I couldn’t concentrate on what the teacher said and I always got bad grades. I had no other time to preview and review the textbooks. The job did affect my academic performance deeply.
I had to work almost every day, so I had no time hanging out with my friends. During the time, I was not so happy and I felt so lonely. And my job and my workmates became the most important things in my life. Actually, I forgot that I was a student. Working at night for a long time is not good for my health. I became tired and sick easily.
I really got more money when I had a part time job. I could use that money to buy anything I want. But having a job, I also sacrificed many things.

Being Absent(CE)

2009-05-16T18:36:00.000+08:00

英2A
吳瑞翎(Ruby)
96210354
(CE)
Being Absent
We are college students now. Sometimes we hear teachers saying that someone is absent. What are the effects of being absent for class? The effects are we don’t know how to write our homework, we have no friends, and we become lazier and lazier.
The teachers will give us some homework to write. For example, our teacher Craig gave us the words, and we had to look up the meanings of them. The most important of all, we needed to type them up. But someone was absent that day, and he handed it in with hand writing. Craig was angry! So, attending classes, we can know how to write our homework.
Second, if we don’t go to school often, our friends will forget us. We will have no friends. If we need help, maybe they don’t want to help us. They will think that we don’t go to school and don’t help them either. Why do they want to help us! So, being absent will let us lose friends.
Third, if we don’t go to school often, we would become lazier and lazier. We would think if we don’t go to school, we won’t have any homework. If the teacher asks us why we don’t write homework, we must answer that we didn’t come to the class the week before, so we don’t know the homework. The excuse will let us become lazier and lazier.
Being absent will result in some bad effects. We don’t know how to write homework, we have no friends, and we will become lazier and lazier.

Why is the Job Hard to Find for College Students?

2009-05-15T20:00:00.002+08:00

Olivia

Cause and effect

Why is the Job Hard to Find for College Students?

Nowadays, everyone wants to find a long-term stable job. The world economics is becoming worse in the recent year. That is the reason that causes people to lose their jobs. Approaching graduation time, many college students worry about their future.

Some students are not really interested in their own major. Therefore, they do not concentrate on their study. When they graduate from the college, they will find that they have learned nothing from the college. And without another professional skill, they are unable to find their jobs.

Maybe some college students have already applied for some jobs, and the company informs that they have opportunity to have an interview. Some of them will give up the chance. Because they think the salary that the company pays is less than what they expect. They are proud and they think that they can rely on their talent to find the better job than the previous one.

Now, many companies all like to employ the ones who have good attitude towards work and the ones that can deal with many things by themselves. Many college students are easy to give up, and they will flee and don’t want to slove the problem. The result is they change their job frequently.

Above all, we can know why it’s hard for the college students to find a desirable job, and show their ability to do their job well. If the college student avoid the situation that I mention. I think the company will be willing to accept us.

Book Influences (Journal #4)

2009-05-12T08:23:00.002+08:00

英2A
96210346
Janet　陳荷婷

Book Influences

　　What will you affect your emotion or give you a serious strike to your mind? Well, as for me, besides people around me, the second influential one to me must be books.
　　I love to read books except reference ones, of course. My favorite kinds of books are about novels, fictions, romance, etc. And they always make me insane for them every time. Because of those fabulous books, they don’t only broad my horizon but create another new unrealistic world as well as add into my own life. Therefore, sometimes I will be extremely influenced by books; for instance, once I read one book called 妳在誰身邊，都是我心底的缺, the characters in the story did touch my heart and successfully they made me burst into tears and I could not help immersing in this gloomy mood for almost a week! Or even though it is a happy ending in the end of the book, I am still getting upset and a weird feeling of emptiness after finishing it. I think that is because I don’t want the whole story to end.
　　After all, I love those sweet-sour influences that books bring to me! No matter how sad or joyful one is, they always teach me a lesson and make me learn more.

Total Words: 222

What I would want to be for one week.

2009-05-10T16:55:00.001+08:00

Student Name: Jia 張玲佳
Student Number: 95255133
Major: Business Management 3B

What I would want to be for one week.

If I could be a guardian angel for one week, it would be great because I have always dreamed of being able to help the poor, weak and sad people in this world. As a guardian angel, I would be able to fly around the world and use my magical abilities to make everyone stronger, happier and warm from all the love I give him or her.

I have heard a lot of legends about Guardian Angels. Guardian angels are always with us wherever we go and they are a symbol of hope and salvation. A guardian angel’s mission is to keep us safe in this world as we grow up and live our lives differently from each other.

I would like to be a guardian angel for one week, not only for their nurturing nature, but also for their ability to travel from places to places quickly. I have always wanted to travel around the world and meet new people so that I can get to know different kinds of cultures better. To my friends, I am a patient listener and a great moral supporter whenever they feel down. Not only would I want to be able to spread love, happiness and peace with my friends, but also share my embrace with the whole world, just like a guardian angel. There’re so many people in this world in need of caring and love that I only wish I could do something for everyone – for all the starving children, the poor people without homes, the cold and hungry animals and tired families that struggle everyday to live.

When I grow up, one way to accomplish my dreams of being a guardian angel is my hopes of becoming an air stewardess. Not only would I have the options of traveling around the world, I would be able to serve other people, making them feel safe, comfortable and happy. I believe that experiencing new cultures and people will help broaden my horizons.

Therefore, if I could be a guardian angel for a week, so I can bring warmth and care to people’s lives, hope to all humankind and tell everyone “You are not alone in this world,” it would not only be great, but a fulfillment of my life’s dream.

Word: 387

Control, or Be Controlled

2009-05-10T15:01:00.001+08:00

英2A
96210346
Janet 陳荷婷 (CE)

Control, or Be Controlled

　　In Taiwan, it is significant for everyone to be educated and most people believe that the more education you receive, the higher well-paid jobs you can obtain. Therefore, in my opinion, before becoming a college student, most teachers use this belief as a token of success in order to push the students to study hard so that during my senior high, all I can remember is “Study, study and study!” Fortunately, now I am a college sophomore. As for me, the biggest difference between a senior high and a university is about the time control, which was also a serious problem of mine in my freshman life in college.
　　Needless to say, we are freer in college; nevertheless, this sudden freedom shocks me as well. It seems that I am getting astray and there is no one who can give directions just as senior high teachers always did in the past. Thus, I did make my own rules about time control and separated them into two parts: one is entertainment, and the other one is learning.
　　Entertainment—after being a member of college students, I soon made a lot of friends here and all of us went out together at least once every week. It was absolutely okay to me to spend almost my whole time with them at first, but after a few months I found the money that I spent for just one month was too terrible when recording my account book. I couldn’t but give up this crazy behavior immediately.
　　Learning—because of having much more free time, I became used to borrowing different kinds of books to read and enjoyed them very much; however, I was so addicted to them that I couldn’t pay any attention to those reference books in my major courses. Not surprisingly, I got a serious strike on my head in my first midterms of college life. What a disaster!
　　These pejorative experiences teach me a good lessen—do not abuse the freedom we get. Now I am still learning how to be responsible to myself because I don’t want to have any regrets for my college life.

Smoking on College Campus

2009-05-08T22:10:00.002+08:00

Elva
96210371
Cause-Effect Essay

Smoking on College Campus

I find that some college students smoke on the campus at Chinese Culture University, even though the government had limited the place to smoke. I don’t like the smell of smoking, so I always have to escape from it. I think there are also many college students annoyed by some students’ smoking on the campus. And smoking on the campus will cause three bad effects.

The first effect is many college students like me who don’t like the smell always want to escape. Cigarette smoke is very annoying for the students who don’t smoke.

The second effect is if some college students don’t follow the new rule there will be more and more students smoking on the campus and even everywhere. If there is no rule to limit smoking strictly to just one particular place, the situation will become worse and worse.

The last effect is the most serious effect, which is smoking is not good for our health. For example, cigarette smoke can harm students’ bodies and hurt their lungs. Sometimes the dirty air will go onto the things like clothes, chairs, sofas, or lamps. If people touch these things which have bad materials of smoking, the bad materials will also hurt the health of people.

These bad effects not only trouble some college students but also hurt their health. I think college students who smoke on the campus have to quit smoking. It is the best way to solve these problems.

The Effect of Staying Up All the Night

2009-05-08T14:57:00.002+08:00

Freyia Lee
97413241
李佩蓉

The Effect of Staying Up All the Night

Now, more and more people like to stay up late all the night. No one can deny that staying up all the night is a very bad habit for anyone. Staying up late all the night not only influence you health but also destroy your plan.
According to the research, a regular time for sleep is 11:00 pm~ 1:00am. A person must sleep at least eight hours. If you do not let your body take a rest in the important four hours, your body will become worse and worse. If it is not necessary, you had better not stay up late all the night.
If you do to bad late, you will certainly get up late, and maybe you will oversleep. It is a very serious problem. If you oversleep on you midterm exam day, then it is too late for you to regret.
You always can see some students sleep in the class, there must be two reasons: first, the class is boring. Second, the students stayed up the night before. Even if you go to class, you still want to sleep and you will be in s very bad spirit. Under this circumstance, you will learn nothing, it not only harms your health but also waste your time.
The influence of staying up the night not just make you feel tired, in fact, it may influence you whole life. Many diseases come up when you are getting old. In conclusion, do not make this habit become a part of you life.

260 words

Late for Classes

2009-05-06T22:32:00.001+08:00

王詩婷 Sylvia
英文系2A
96210389
Cause-effect essay

Late for Classes
I think many college students have this problem; that is, they can’t arrive at the class on time, especially the class at eight o’clock. I have the same problem. I read an article before and it said, “College students are more punctual when they went to work than school. How come? What kinds of reasons affect them so that they can’t go to the class on time? The possible reasons are that they go to bed too late and have many activities after class, and they usually have part time jobs.
First, most college students will spend a lot of time playing computers or watching TV at night and they usually forget the time when they are immersed in them. And the next day, of course, they can’t wake up on time because maybe they slept only 3 to 4 hours last night.
Second, students always have many activities after class. For instance, they deal some affairs of clubs or go outing with friends, etc. So the time in which they can rest becomes less.
Third, they need to work on the weekdays or weekends and the work hours usually exceed eight hours. So if they work during the week, the time they can work usually is at night and it may make them unable to wake up in the morning.
I think if college students want to solve the problem of lateness. They have to control their time well. For example, they can write down the things which they plan to do on their schedule book and finish them on time. Controlling time is a good way to make our life more regular and thus reduce the chance of lateness.

Effects of Not Getting Enough Sleep

2009-05-06T21:07:00.003+08:00

Sally
Cause-Effect

After I became a college student, I moved and lived in the area near my school. Because I live outsides, I don’t have to care about my parents. They are strict to me. They always asked me go to sleep early when I was at home. But now, I often don’t get enough sleep after I lived outsides by myself, and there are many bad effects caused.

The first bad effect is I often oversleep in the morning. Sometimes I had already heard the alarm clock ringing, but I would ignore it and keep sleeping. I often thought that I would stay in the bed for just one more minute; however, I got up later than one minute many times. Thus, I would be late to go to school. I think that being late for the first class is awful habit for a student.

If I didn’t get enough sleep, I would be in a bad mood in the next morning. It was very difficult to get up early the next day if I didn’t go to bed early the night before. Sometimes, I might be angry to my roommates who woke me up although they did that for my good. Also I would be in low spirits all day long because I felt sleepy in the class. In addition, I couldn’t concentrate my attention on taking my notes, so I often had to borrow the notes from my classmates.

Due to not getting enough sleep, I sometimes keep staying in my bed although I have a class in the morning and I will be absent for the class. I think it is bad for me because I would be flunked for my poor attendance rate. Thanks to my roommates’ trying hard to wake me up, I wasn’t late for classes. Otherwise, I can’t imagine what might happen if I were flunked.

The worst problem is that my time of work and rest seems a little in disorder. I often feel very nice and full of energy when the time of sleeping, but I feel very tired during the day. Seeing my sick face, my friends often asked me why I looked so bad. After knowing the reason, they would advise me not to go to bed late so often.

In conclusion, getting enough sleep is important for us to have a good mood as well as a healthy body. As a student, I have the reasonability to be on time in every class. To correct the bad habit, I think the best way is to have a regular time for work and rest from now on.

The Problem of Time Management in College

2009-05-06T11:36:00.001+08:00

Mindy
97403512
Cause - Effect

The Problem of Time Management in College

There is a saying goes, “Time flies like an arrow.” As we all know, time goes fast and we need to catch any opportunities. After I became a college student, everything has to be arranged by myself. Therefore, I have more time in college than before, but I always do nothing or surf the Internet in the dormitory or at home and lack good management of my time.
To begin with, I usually study only one week before the mid-term. No doubt, the college is not like the junior high school and the senior high school that have a lot of quizzes. Nobody asks me to study. It caused me to study in the midnight during exam time and not to get high grades.
On the other hand, I think that I always do thing in a day. When staying in the dormitory, I will become an Internet addict. Even though I have papers or homework, I still like to do them by the deadline. I don’t think about what the immediate thing I can so later.
Finally, the important thing is that I didn’t follow my life plan. For example, I set a goal that I must get 700 grades for TOEIC in the third year of college. However, I have not taken TOEIC test yet. The reason why I didn’t have the test is that I didn’t prepare for it. I think I shouldn’t set a big goal and don’t work hard for it.
To sum up, the management of time is of great important to all of us. I think the four years in college can let me learn much or nothing considers that I need to improve my life by having a better time management. I need to think what things take the most time and what things are worth spending time. Only by doing so, will I be more efficient and save more time.

2009-05-04T00:03:00.000+08:00

蘇芳儀Grace
96210583
英文2A
Process Analysis
How to Play the Piano Well
I have learned to play the piano for a long time. During the learning time, I found that playing the piano was not a difficult thing, actually. Just following some guidelines, many people can play the piano well.
First of all, I think we should be interested in the piano. We have to like the piano, and then we have the desire of playing the piano; otherwise playing it would become an unhappy thing.
Second, look over the music score. We would be careful about the key signature which changes the tone. That can influence the fluency of music. We also would pay attention on the special place we should be careful about such as. The behavior can prevent us from playing wrong.
Then, start playing. At the beginning, we cannot be able to play the new song smoothly. We have to be patient to practice again and again until the music would be played smoothly.
Finally, enjoy the piano time. Enjoy the melody. We can feel what the song is about, such as sadness, happiness, and so on. We follow the feeling to play the piano, and the way makes us enjoy it.I think these guidelines are helpful. Those can not only help us play smoothly but make us become to love playing the piano more. Maybe you can try the guidelines.

My friends and I in This Semester

2009-05-01T13:48:00.000+08:00

賴沛彤
Ring
96210460
Journal 4

Time passes very fast. I am in grade two now. This semester just like last semester. I go to school and studying everyday. Maybe it is just the same. But there is something different in my life, I become happier. I am a shy person. I do not know how to get close with my friends. I have to spend a long time understanding them. After I understand my friends, I will become talkative and outgoing. I love all my friends, but I really need a long time. After I think I understand my friends, I will really trust them. I always feel sad about this. Because after I start to love them, we will graduate soon. We do not have much time to get together. Luckily, I have four years in college. I love my friends. Maybe I still not really talkative and outgoing, I still love them. I change a lot because I was too quite in grade one. And my friends thought I was a freak. I think I am really happy to make friends with them now. Maybe we do not have much time to go out everyday. Because we have a part time job, everyone is busy. We still love each other. And the happiness thing is they get boyfriends, too. I feel really happy for them. I know their boyfriends will be nice to them. I hope all of my friend can find a person who really loves them. And I hope we can be friends forever and ever.

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Pop Art (journal 4)

2009-04-29T01:55:00.001+08:00

96210541
胡佳麗
Anli
Last month I went to see an exhibition. It is about pop art, and the artist who is Andy Warhol is very famous in the world. He creates a lot of amazing work and change people’s conservative impression. Many people say he is one of the most significant artists in the recent years That is to say, Andy Warhol is not only a promoter but also a leader of pop art, he dominates all pop art in the world. He turns pictures of famous people and some brand products into pop art. Such as Marilyn Monroe, Mao Tse tung, Campbell soup cans and Coke Cola cans. I never heard the person before, because my friend admires him very much, he wanted me to keep him company to see the exhibition. In fact, I was not interested in pop art before I went there. And I found I cannot take my eye off these, so I became Andy Warhol’s one of fans after I saw his work. Most of them are colorful, variable, and originality. There are a lot of related products to sell in a place. Like T-shirts, note books, Mark cups, and handbags. My friend spent much money on them. But I pondered much; I decided not to buy them, because it was too expensive. In fact, those products look so exquisite. Andy Warhol is called Pope of Pop. He said Art is business, Business is art. Some people criticize his work are not art, because he copy or plagiarize others. But I think he is a special artist in my mind.

263 words.

About This Semester

2009-04-28T22:55:00.002+08:00

Journal 4
Ariel 黃筠玲
96210397

Time runs very fast. After the mid-term exam, I know the final exam is coming soon. In this semester, I think I learn a lot not only on study but also on work. The study become more difficult than before. Sometimes, I want to give up them. The Linguistics and the English literature,I almost can't affort them ! But I know that's not the reason to give them.In the mid-term exam, I study very hard for them .Because I am a student. I have to learn it. I have to learn how to overcome it.So, when I met the difficult question, I always take a deep breathe and think how to do it. This method was succeed. I do well in the Linguistic in the mid-term exam. therefore, I think it is useful if you face and overcome your problem. It can get the key to solve it. Moreover, in my part-time job, one of my coworker she was quit the job few days ago. I love her very much we do anything together. We work together, go out together and so forth. When I got problem about the work she always help me a lot. Now, she had quit the job, I felt so sad. But on the other words, I think she find her ways to do. She know how to do and achieve her goals. It's not a bad thing I think.
According to the two event, I think everything we should to learn it, not only the study but also the work. We should become mature than before. We should overcome the problem we met. It is necessay and helpful.(274 words)