“Learner Profile: Lin, Teng”
Today I learned a lot about my classmate Lin, Teng. She came from China like me, but she has already lived in New York for four years. She graduated from Flushing High School and did not go to college yet, but she wants a good degree from college for a new job like am accountant to instead of a cashier. She has studied English almost four years. She is good at speaking but writing is difficult for her, so she prefers to speak. She does not only like to work alone but also likes to work with classmates, and she likes reading in English. She has three goals this semester. First is improving her writing skill, second is passing the ACT, last one is entering the college.
Lawmakers Aim to Protect Farm Animals in U.S. Research
From http://nyti.ms/1zNURX of The New York Times
The article is about lawmakers who legislate to protect farm animals that are used for agricultural research. It says that it is very cruel to subject animals to illness, pain and premature death. It also says that it is very important to keep animals welfare in mind. The article then talks about some examples like piglets will be weaned after 56 days, increase from 10 days, to avoid trauma and stress on the animals. Finally, it mentions the legislation would require inspections and close monitoring of experiments. The article concludes that the government should pay very close attention to the rights of farm animals.
Why are Children Becoming Obese?
From David Kraft
According to the article, Kraft says that childhood obesity has became a serious problem for many reasons. First of all, the author says that children eat very unhealthy. The other reason is lacking exercises. He then talks about biology. Although it effects children, then mostly learn something bad habits from their overweight parents. In addition, he mentions that children do not sleep enough in night. This is also a big problem.
Childhood Obesity
Childhood obesity is a condition in which a child is significantly overweight for his or her age and height. Childhood obesity has become a big problem in our society during the past 30 years. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention state that nearly one of five children and teens are overweight and the rate raises up to one of three in Puerto Rico. It is a very dangerous sign. The childhood obesity will bring many physical and psychological problems such as diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, stigmatization and poor self-esteem. If you have children or you would love to have one, you should pay attention to it. This essay will describe proposed solutions to the problem of childhood obesity. Finally, this essay will propose the best one and explain its benefit.
The first solution is fining the obese children’s parents to reduce the rate of obesity. In Puerto Rico, where the rate of childhood obesity is much higher than U.S. average, the government is considering a law about it. The law is about that teachers need to send the obese children to healthy department and then children will be given a plan to control their weight by changing diet and exercise. If they do not lose weight after six months, their parents need to pay a $500 fine. After additional six months, if the plan still does not work, the fine will increase to $800. The governments are working so hard for it, because the rate has raised fast in the past 30 years. In their opinion, the people can be changed by this law and most of the obese families want to change their condition to improve their lives.
The other solution is proving more healthy food instead of junk food for poor family by lowering the price. According to many research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we can find that junk food has much more calories, fat and less vitamin, microelements that are necessary for our healthy. It mentions that healthy food is much better than junk food, but why don’t the childhood obesity families choose better one? The reason is very simple. The healthy food is more expensive and hard to buy. If we go into the supermarket, we can find soda, chip, and many foods like this easily and cheaper than healthy food, because the supermarket can earn more money by the junk food even though they are cheaper. In my opinion, on one hand, the government can make a law that tax more money with the junk food’s company; on the other hand, they can pay the money to help the healthy food’s company reduce the price. Also, they should suggest that supermarkets put the healthy food on the conspicuous place to make more people buy it easily.
In my opinion, the best solution is improving the environment by cutting down the discharge of cars and factories. I read a report of research about it before in internet. French scientist did some research that they put one mouse in a normal condition, and they put another approach highway. Then they gave the same diet and exercise to both mice. After fifteen days, the mouse that lived by the highway was fatter than the mouse that lived in normal, and in adults equate 2 kilogram we changed. The result shows that the chemicals in the environment from cars and factories can cause obesity. Base on this research, I think the environment has very important effects on our weight, so we can do something to change it like change energy of cars to electricity or tighten up the management of factories about discharge or plant more trees. Therefore, the government can make laws to reduce environment disruption to improve our living condition and control obesity. In addition, our family can do something for it too. For example, when parents are smoking, they should leave children apart; we should move to the countryside if we can; we can use the public transits instead of using cars or any personal transits. If we pay enough attention to it and do some simple things, childhood obesity could reduce soon.
The Key to Happiness
Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasurable emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Today, it seems it is harder for us to be happy in our society, even though we live better and richer than before. Why is the result so negative? I find something from a film “Happy” that we watched several days ago. It is a documentary directed by Robo Belic. The film discusses where the happiness comes from by interviewing couple people to find some. Based on the research, the film claims that happiness is 50% genetic, 10% circumstances, and 40 % “intentional activity”. Genetic means come from family. Circumstances are conditions around you in your life that you cannot control any more. “Intentional activity” is some things you want to do to make you happier. This essay will describe how to make us happier. Finally, the essay will propose the way that is best for me and explain its benefits.
I read a book Until I Say Goodbye that relates to this question “where does happiness come from”. I have read the first three chapters. This book talks about a strong woman named Susan Spencer- Wendel. She had a very perfect family, but suddenly a terrible disease came that was ALS. But the disease did not beat her down. When she knew there were only three or five years for her, she moved up to do something with her family and best friends instead of being upset and waiting for death with doctors who did not care about her feelings at all. Then she made and followed her “bucket list” immediately. In my opinion, Susan would not completely agree with the claim. Even though the adoption experience in childhood affected her very much, she always chooses live with joy “making the most of her life”. And after she was diagnosed ALS, she decided to travel with her family and best friends to plant memories with them and wrote a book to her children to learn the way to live after tragedy. She perhaps thinks that the most important is “intentional activity”. Only you can make you happier and affect your family and someone around you.
I completely agree with Susan. The same as Susan, I think each part of claim can affect our happiness, but the rate of them should be changed. Although genetic and circumstances can control our emotion, the most important part is intentional activity. It means that your decision about how you live will make up your mind. I think that my nice childhood and growth situation make me happy, but I feel my choices are the most important in my life. Two years ago, I had a neuropathy that made me cannot control the lower part of body suddenly. I lied in the bed in the hospital for a month, and took any test what I could do there. As a result, the doctors mentioned that is a neuropathy, but they did not find out how cause it. Until now, they and I have had no idea with it. After a treatment, I could control my body well except my left leg. However, the doctors said that I had only this sequel was so lucky; the fact completely destroyed my life. I thought that was my doomsday. After a long time (maybe two months), I chose to face the fact that my family helped me very much and if I gave up on myself, that would make my family disappointed and be very sorry for their helps. I decided to change my life style to forget the past. And then I came to New York to begin my new life that would bring my family happiness. I think if I did not choose keeping upset, no one could make me happy. So I think the intentional activity is the most important part.
Finally, I will keep my idea on and live with joy in my future. I will stay with my family and friends if I can. I would like to imagine my future such as I will finish my college first, and then I can find a good job; in rest time I want to travel with them; and so on. The important thing is not what to do but who do I do anything with. In the past, I would think that I had much time and it was wasted time to do anything except working. Now, I think it is just wasted time. Happiness does not depend on how much money you have. We need to change our mind now. If we decide to do something, we just should do it without waiting by thinking that we have much time. My key to happiness is keeping myself happy to make my family and my friends happy by spending more time to do something interesting with them instead of working all year long. I will do my best to complete my goal.
Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasurable emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Today, it seems it is harder for us to be happy in our society, even though we live better and richer than before. Why is the result so negative? I find something from a film “Happy” that we watched several days ago. It is a documentary directed by Robo Belic. The film discusses where the happiness comes from by interviewing couple people to find some. Based on the research, the film claims that happiness is 50% genetic, 10% circumstances, and 40 % “intentional activity”. Genetic means come from family. Circumstances are conditions around you in your life that you cannot control any more. “Intentional activity” is some things you want to do to make you happier. This essay will describe how to make us happier. Finally, the essay will propose the way that is best for me and explain its benefits.
I read a book Until I Say Goodbye that relates to this question “where does happiness come from”. I have read the first three chapters. This book talks about a strong woman named Susan Spencer- Wendel. She had a very perfect family, but suddenly a terrible disease came that was ALS. But the disease did not beat her down. When she knew there were only three or five years for her, she moved up to do something with her family and best friends instead of being upset and waiting for death with doctors who did not care about her feelings at all. Then she made and followed her “bucket list” immediately. In my opinion, Susan would not completely agree with the claim. Even though the adoption experience in childhood affected her very much, she always chooses live with joy “making the most of her life”. And after she was diagnosed ALS, she decided to travel with her family and best friends to plant memories with them and wrote a book to her children to learn the way to live after tragedy. She perhaps thinks that the most important is “intentional activity”. Only you can make you happier and affect your family and someone around you.
I completely agree with Susan. The same as Susan, I think each part of claim can affect our happiness, but the rate of them should be changed. Although genetic and circumstances can control our emotion, the most important part is intentional activity. It means that your decision about how you live will make up your mind. I think that my nice childhood and growth situation make me happy, but I feel my choices are the most important in my life. Two years ago, I had a neuropathy that made me cannot control the lower part of body suddenly. I lied in the bed in the hospital for a month, and took any test what I could do there. As a result, the doctors mentioned that is a neuropathy, but they did not find out how cause it. Until now, they and I have had no idea with it. After a treatment, I could control my body well except my left leg. However, the doctors said that I had only this sequel was so lucky; the fact completely destroyed my life. I thought that was my doomsday. After a long time (maybe two months), I chose to face the fact that my family helped me very much and if I gave up on myself, that would make my family disappointed and be very sorry for their helps. I decided to change my life style to forget the past. And then I came to New York to begin my new life that would bring my family happiness. I think if I did not choose keeping upset, no one could make me happy. So I think the intentional activity is the most important part.
Finally, I will keep my idea on and live with joy in my future. I will stay with my family and friends if I can. I would like to imagine my future such as I will finish my college first, and then I can find a good job; in rest time I want to travel with them; and so on. The important thing is not what to do but who do I do anything with. In the past, I would think that I had much time and it was wasted time to do anything except working. Now, I think it is just wasted time. Happiness does not depend on how much money you have. We need to change our mind now. If we decide to do something, we just should do it without waiting by thinking that we have much time. My key to happiness is keeping myself happy to make my family and my friends happy by spending more time to do something interesting with them instead of working all year long. I will do my best to complete my goal.
summery
1. Hospice
This chapter talks about when Susan stayed with her mother in hospital, she saw her mother could not move anymore and lived by the machine. She decided that she did not want to be in that situation. She contacted the hospice to help her live better at home instead of staying in hospital, for she could not take care of herself by her week muscle. John had no enough time to take care of her, for he needed to do full-time work and looked after two boys. After three weeks, something good happened that the doctors told her that she was not sick enough for hospice.
2. Funeral
Susan changed her idea about funerals after her got the disease. She felt sorry for her mother. Then she join the Baptist, but she thought she was a heathen in Baptist’ eye. Although she believed God exists in each of us, she also had many different opinions from her father. In the end, she decided to donate her body to science, for her believed it.
1. Hospice
This chapter talks about when Susan stayed with her mother in hospital, she saw her mother could not move anymore and lived by the machine. She decided that she did not want to be in that situation. She contacted the hospice to help her live better at home instead of staying in hospital, for she could not take care of herself by her week muscle. John had no enough time to take care of her, for he needed to do full-time work and looked after two boys. After three weeks, something good happened that the doctors told her that she was not sick enough for hospice.
2. Funeral
Susan changed her idea about funerals after her got the disease. She felt sorry for her mother. Then she join the Baptist, but she thought she was a heathen in Baptist’ eye. Although she believed God exists in each of us, she also had many different opinions from her father. In the end, she decided to donate her body to science, for her believed it.
According to the essay “How Your Birth Order Influences Your Life Adjustment”, birth order affects our life since we are born in many ways like relationship with parents and siblings, and how children see themselves and others. I completely agree. The author says that the oldest will become parental when a sibling arrives, and she or he will have a great self-concept to do many things that she or he can do to help her or his family. In normal times, I have seen news and stories that relate to it. For example, I often see that the oldest child takes care of the family well when his or her parent dead from newspaper and TV shows. And there are many stories about the oldest children take their responsibility to lead their siblings to be successful. I have some experiences like that. I have an old brother. In my childhood, most of the time I was taken care of by my brother because my parents were very busy with their business. Even now if I have some trouble, I will call him for some help immediately.
I read a story that tells us what love is. The story talks about a husband takes care of his wife who became a vegetative in an accident just after fifteen days of marriage. They got married after four years of love. Originally, this was a romantic story, but an accident occurred after fifteen days. His wife hit by a car, and hurt her head that caused her became a vegetative and did not move any more. Then he did not go away from his wife, but He did anything that he can do to help his wife instead. However he worked hard for it, his wife did not give any reactions. Yet there were many challenge came out. For example, his family was banquet by the expansive medical treatment; he had no time to work for money because he needed accompany his wife every time to take care of her. He did not think about give up. After he strived, he got help from his relatives and community. So he was not worried about anything but his wife’s health. Fortunately, his wife waked up after almost three years. In my opinion, it is power of love. I think love can change any things even the world if we believe it and work hard for it.
Midterm reflection
Now we are halfway through the semester. This is my second semester. I find I maybe cannot pass the text now, so I need work harder. However, I learn much new knowledge to help me improve my English. I feel luck that I can join the Mr. Kelly’s class because he is not teach us the English, but also teach us the college knowledge. It is very helpful in my future. I think I can pass the text, if I can follow the steps of teacher. In this reflection essay, I will describe what I have learned so far this semester, and what I would like to improve in the second half of the semester.
This semester our class participated in the QCC campus common read. Common read is a amazing program that QCC invite thousands of students to read a same book “Until I Say Goodbye”, and they campus many kinds of events to help reader read the book well. This book talks about a strong woman who named Susan who had a prefect family, but suddenly, a disease “ALS” hit her what made her loss control of her all muscle gradually. However, the diseases lead her so sad in beginning, she quickly recovered her mention. Then she made and followed her “bucket list” because she wanted to plant memories with her family and the best friends. During the reading, I participated many events such as watched a movie “Pay It Forward”; joined a speech by who got ALS; attended ceremony of poem competition and donated can food, and so on. Overall, the ceremony impressed me most. At that ceremony, we had a lunch together and learned many poems that were very excellent. At the end, we elected the best one and donated many kinds of items to help homeless to pay it forward.
In addition to participate in the common read, I learned many others in first half semester. I finished read the book “Until Say Goodbye” what was not only improve my reading and writing skill, but also led me know many other knowledge. Moreover, I did many grammar and reading excises. I feel that my English had improved very much. Specially, my grammar had improved so far this semester. Therefore, I think my vocabulary is poor, so I need work hard on it.
The second half of the semester I like do more reading in class, and learn more vocabulary outside of class. It can help me improve my English in both writing and reading skill. In the rest of semester, I will follow the step of teacher and spend more time on my studying. It will lead me pass the text and fit the college life well in future.
Now we are halfway through the semester. This is my second semester. I find I maybe cannot pass the text now, so I need work harder. However, I learn much new knowledge to help me improve my English. I feel luck that I can join the Mr. Kelly’s class because he is not teach us the English, but also teach us the college knowledge. It is very helpful in my future. I think I can pass the text, if I can follow the steps of teacher. In this reflection essay, I will describe what I have learned so far this semester, and what I would like to improve in the second half of the semester.
This semester our class participated in the QCC campus common read. Common read is a amazing program that QCC invite thousands of students to read a same book “Until I Say Goodbye”, and they campus many kinds of events to help reader read the book well. This book talks about a strong woman who named Susan who had a prefect family, but suddenly, a disease “ALS” hit her what made her loss control of her all muscle gradually. However, the diseases lead her so sad in beginning, she quickly recovered her mention. Then she made and followed her “bucket list” because she wanted to plant memories with her family and the best friends. During the reading, I participated many events such as watched a movie “Pay It Forward”; joined a speech by who got ALS; attended ceremony of poem competition and donated can food, and so on. Overall, the ceremony impressed me most. At that ceremony, we had a lunch together and learned many poems that were very excellent. At the end, we elected the best one and donated many kinds of items to help homeless to pay it forward.
In addition to participate in the common read, I learned many others in first half semester. I finished read the book “Until Say Goodbye” what was not only improve my reading and writing skill, but also led me know many other knowledge. Moreover, I did many grammar and reading excises. I feel that my English had improved very much. Specially, my grammar had improved so far this semester. Therefore, I think my vocabulary is poor, so I need work hard on it.
The second half of the semester I like do more reading in class, and learn more vocabulary outside of class. It can help me improve my English in both writing and reading skill. In the rest of semester, I will follow the step of teacher and spend more time on my studying. It will lead me pass the text and fit the college life well in future.
End of Friendship
What causes a friendship to break apart? It is a big problem that we need to think about carefully and deal with effectively. Friendship is a crucial relationship in our lives that can make us live well and enjoy the lives. Friendship means the relationship between you and your friends who you want to stay together with and do everything with. However, they do not have any blood relationship at all. Even more you regard them as important as your family. Although it is easy to make friends, it is a challenge to keep your friendship healthy. I think there are many major issues that can break your friendship apart. In this essay, I will discuss some reason to aware us to away from some dangerous relationships.
First of all, betrayal is an important cause of breaking a friendship. There are many examples in our lives and history. In China, we have an adage “Be successful by Xiao; and fail by Xiao”. It tells a story about betrayal of friendship. In Han, Xiao and Han were good friends. Xiao was a significant chancellor in the government, but Han was just a commoner. Xiao thought Han had a gift in military affairs, so he introduced him to his boss. As a result, Han did very well in the army and became the supreme commander. Even though Han did very well, the king felt he imperiled his kingship and asked Xiao to call Han into the palace to kill him. Xiao did not warn the Han; instead he did what the king asked him to do. He chose betraying Han to keep his position. By the betrayal, it did not only end the friendship, but also killed Han. In my opinion, Xiao should have warned Han because they were good friends. Although it would have led him to lose his position, he could hold their friendship and save Han.
Selfishness is another major cause. Even though selfishness is natural, we should learn how to control our thoughts to take care of our friends who surround us every day. There are two different kinds of selfishness. One is that you do or say anything that you want in front of your friend. For example, your friend hates the smell of Chinese chives, and he or she told you many times. Yet, you do not be careful and eat it before going to the appointment. It would make both of you embarrassed and finish your friendship. Another is that ignore your friend require and only think about yourself. In another word, if your friends call you out more than three times and you do not have any special excuses, they would not call you one more time. It means that friendship is over.
Finally, “a fair weather friend” will break a friendship apart and hurt you very much. “A fair weather friend” means that the friend close you just wants to share what do you have. If you fail or drop into some terrible situation that you need some help, the friend would disappear at once. In China, we call this “The friend who only wants your meat and drink”. If you call the friend for a meal, they will arrive on time and maybe earlier. On the other hand, if you call them for some problem, they will find many excuses to avoid it. However, they will call you later on and say “Why didn’t you call me earlier”; “Next time you need to wait for me to fix it, I have many ideas about it”. You should stay away from them because this kind of friendship is not real one.
In conclusion, friendship is a most important part of our lives, so we need to value it and should take care of it by learning how to hold on it. You can achieve it by developing these skills despite its difficult.
What causes a friendship to break apart? It is a big problem that we need to think about carefully and deal with effectively. Friendship is a crucial relationship in our lives that can make us live well and enjoy the lives. Friendship means the relationship between you and your friends who you want to stay together with and do everything with. However, they do not have any blood relationship at all. Even more you regard them as important as your family. Although it is easy to make friends, it is a challenge to keep your friendship healthy. I think there are many major issues that can break your friendship apart. In this essay, I will discuss some reason to aware us to away from some dangerous relationships.
First of all, betrayal is an important cause of breaking a friendship. There are many examples in our lives and history. In China, we have an adage “Be successful by Xiao; and fail by Xiao”. It tells a story about betrayal of friendship. In Han, Xiao and Han were good friends. Xiao was a significant chancellor in the government, but Han was just a commoner. Xiao thought Han had a gift in military affairs, so he introduced him to his boss. As a result, Han did very well in the army and became the supreme commander. Even though Han did very well, the king felt he imperiled his kingship and asked Xiao to call Han into the palace to kill him. Xiao did not warn the Han; instead he did what the king asked him to do. He chose betraying Han to keep his position. By the betrayal, it did not only end the friendship, but also killed Han. In my opinion, Xiao should have warned Han because they were good friends. Although it would have led him to lose his position, he could hold their friendship and save Han.
Selfishness is another major cause. Even though selfishness is natural, we should learn how to control our thoughts to take care of our friends who surround us every day. There are two different kinds of selfishness. One is that you do or say anything that you want in front of your friend. For example, your friend hates the smell of Chinese chives, and he or she told you many times. Yet, you do not be careful and eat it before going to the appointment. It would make both of you embarrassed and finish your friendship. Another is that ignore your friend require and only think about yourself. In another word, if your friends call you out more than three times and you do not have any special excuses, they would not call you one more time. It means that friendship is over.
Finally, “a fair weather friend” will break a friendship apart and hurt you very much. “A fair weather friend” means that the friend close you just wants to share what do you have. If you fail or drop into some terrible situation that you need some help, the friend would disappear at once. In China, we call this “The friend who only wants your meat and drink”. If you call the friend for a meal, they will arrive on time and maybe earlier. On the other hand, if you call them for some problem, they will find many excuses to avoid it. However, they will call you later on and say “Why didn’t you call me earlier”; “Next time you need to wait for me to fix it, I have many ideas about it”. You should stay away from them because this kind of friendship is not real one.
In conclusion, friendship is a most important part of our lives, so we need to value it and should take care of it by learning how to hold on it. You can achieve it by developing these skills despite its difficult.
Honorable
Today, the world is becoming faster and faster. In our fast, modern world, most people only focus on economy and efficiency. At the same time, they may neglect something about tradition and manners. I think there are many universal manners. Specifically, I will discuss one important part of them: honorable, and I will talk about why this traditional manner is also important in our society.
In China, when children are very young, parents tell them keeping honest will bring good luck and nice reward, and once you loss it that you will loss more stuff even life. We always tell them a fable to show their children how important it is. The fable is named “100 kilometers of gold and one life”. Hundreds of years ago, there was a man who had many business in two cities, so he needed to take a boat as a transform to deal with his business between two cities. One day, his boat suddenly sank. And then he called help loudly. As a result, a fisher came and picked him up, and the businessman told the fisher to give him 100 kilometers of gold to thank him. However, the businessman only gave the fisher 10 kilometer instead when the boat parked, and he said that was enough for the fisher to live well his whole life. The fisher accepted it despite being anger because he had no idea about it. Several days later, unfortunately, the businessman’s boat sank in the same river, but this time he did not received any help even though he shouted loudly before he drowned in the river because the fisher told everyone who worked on the river that this businessman was not honest at all.
I also read some foreign story about it when I was young. The fable is named “The honest flowers”. A long time ago, there was a kingdom that the king had no child to carry on the kingship, so he wanted to select a suitable kid to be a prince. Then he held a game that he called all children in the country to join. The context of game was that he would give every child a seed and asked them to grow it, and after three months, the child who could grow the most beautiful flower was the winner who would became the prince. Three months later, all the children brought many kinds of beautiful flowers back except one child who only took an empty flowerpot. And then the king asked why. Thus, the child said that he worked very hard but did not work anymore, and he asked the entire farmer but they also had no idea about that. The king was very happy and said this child was the prince from now on, and he explained that the seed he gave every child was not able to grow up because the seed was bowled.
Both of the fables are similar. They tell us that keeping honest will bring good luck and nice reward. In contrast, if not, we will lose more things than we can get. We can find that even though the person who only focused on the present benefit would get what he want, they might lose more things at that time and maybe lose all of his life in future. We call it short term gain. On the other hand, the person did not only care reward and did everything that they consider it right, and most of them must get the benefit and interest in the future. We identify it as long term gain. There are many universal, global, good manners that ancestors have given us the advice that they had concluded for a long time by their experience, and honorable are one of them that can help us to get successful, so we need to keep it whatever the world is. The good manner can help us in a long time.
In conclusion, I saw some research on a website. It claims that if we interviewed people in the street about which kind of the people you should make friend, most of the people would answer that honest, justice, and so on. As a result, the traditional manner is also a significant in our community today. I also did an interview with my wife about this idea, and the report was similar to the research. So we should do it in our daily.
CAT-W 1
According to Hillman, “Aerobic activity” like “Just 20 minutes of walking” would help students get a higher score in the test, whatever their weight or health. Furthermore, there is research by Swedish that can prove it. They take a longtime to observe more than a million 10-year-old boys. As a result, they find that people who have a higher IQ can do many things better than others. However, the IQ and muscular strength have no clear relationship. Kuhn totally agrees with it, and he says that aerobic exercise can make people sober and keep brain clear. Both Hillman and Kukn suggests that children need to do more exercises instead of playing video games what is not useful for their study. I strongly support it, and I think video game is not only no use, but also has a harmful effect.
Video game would lead children to stay in front of the TV all day long. It is so bad for their bodies, Communication and study. First of all, if they sit and stay home all day long, they will have no time to do some sport to build their bodies to keep healthy. On the other hand, they must not cook any healthy food and take junk food instead. It will destroy their bodies. Secondly, video game will make them live in their fantasy world and lose contact with the real world. Once they spend too much time on video game, they will have no time to make friends and communicate with new friends. They will lose their social skill. At the end, they will become afraid of staying with others. In addition, video game often leads a low score. Obviously, students use most of their energy and focus on video game, so they must have no interest in studying. As a result, they get a low score in test and that make them give up themselves, so that they would spend more time on video game. It is a vicious circle.
In our society, it is easy to find out the children who wallow in video game. I saw a serious example in the newspaper. It said that a boy who was playing video game all the time and did not care about anything except his game. Even though his parents were strict in managing, it had no faction because the boy tried to cheat his parents by any methods that he thought of to save time to play his game. For instance, his parents locked the computer and TV, but he would go to internet bar or his friends home to continually play game. Then he spent all of his energy and money on it. At the end, he suddenly died in front of computer at internet bar by staying awake for two days and not having enough food. It is a tragic event by the video game. It reminds us the harmful effect of video games.
In conclusions, video game is so bad for our family’s study and heath, so we need to keep away from it. On the other hand, we can do more “aerobic activity” with our family instead. It will keep our smart and healthy.
According to Hillman, “Aerobic activity” like “Just 20 minutes of walking” would help students get a higher score in the test, whatever their weight or health. Furthermore, there is research by Swedish that can prove it. They take a longtime to observe more than a million 10-year-old boys. As a result, they find that people who have a higher IQ can do many things better than others. However, the IQ and muscular strength have no clear relationship. Kuhn totally agrees with it, and he says that aerobic exercise can make people sober and keep brain clear. Both Hillman and Kukn suggests that children need to do more exercises instead of playing video games what is not useful for their study. I strongly support it, and I think video game is not only no use, but also has a harmful effect.
Video game would lead children to stay in front of the TV all day long. It is so bad for their bodies, Communication and study. First of all, if they sit and stay home all day long, they will have no time to do some sport to build their bodies to keep healthy. On the other hand, they must not cook any healthy food and take junk food instead. It will destroy their bodies. Secondly, video game will make them live in their fantasy world and lose contact with the real world. Once they spend too much time on video game, they will have no time to make friends and communicate with new friends. They will lose their social skill. At the end, they will become afraid of staying with others. In addition, video game often leads a low score. Obviously, students use most of their energy and focus on video game, so they must have no interest in studying. As a result, they get a low score in test and that make them give up themselves, so that they would spend more time on video game. It is a vicious circle.
In our society, it is easy to find out the children who wallow in video game. I saw a serious example in the newspaper. It said that a boy who was playing video game all the time and did not care about anything except his game. Even though his parents were strict in managing, it had no faction because the boy tried to cheat his parents by any methods that he thought of to save time to play his game. For instance, his parents locked the computer and TV, but he would go to internet bar or his friends home to continually play game. Then he spent all of his energy and money on it. At the end, he suddenly died in front of computer at internet bar by staying awake for two days and not having enough food. It is a tragic event by the video game. It reminds us the harmful effect of video games.
In conclusions, video game is so bad for our family’s study and heath, so we need to keep away from it. On the other hand, we can do more “aerobic activity” with our family instead. It will keep our smart and healthy.
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As we know, nowadays, people are much more careful of the quality of life, but there are two sides of it as a coin and it is so difficult to look after both of them: material side and spiritual side. According to the article “What is Quality of life” by Francisco Orzoco, people have different opinion with this between different countries. However, most people thought the material side was more important. Orzoco said that the spiritual side could help people live happier and consider themselves as useful to others even though it would not prove them good environment. In contrast, the material side could do it, but it also made people feel alone and stressful. I strongly agree with the author. Specifically, he said that “you do not have to make more money than you need”. This means even though money can improve quality of life, people should be content with their lot and enjoy their lives at the present.
In my country, China, when I was a child, I read a fable related to this. The fable talks about two monks who lived in the same temple. One day, they discussed about going to sea because neither of them had ever seen it, so they decided to make a trip to see it. One of monks worked hard after making the decision because he thought it needed a lot of money to enjoy the trip. After a long time, he saved sufficient money that could support a very nice trip, but he dropped out of his dream because he lost interest in it. Instead, he kept working hard and thought that making more money to take a long distance trip could be more interesting. On the other hand, another monk moved immediately when he decided to see the sea even though he also did not have enough money. He worked on the way to the sea and enjoyed the process of the trip. As a result, he reached the coast and approached the sea. Which one had higher quality of life? I think the second one did because the first one only focus on more money could led to more happy and ignored why did he work for money. Thus, he would not feel satisfied and happy even though he had a lot of money.
Similarly, I have some experience about this, and I think it can make sense of why I have strong emotion about this. When I graduated from college in China, I worked in a company as a businessman. And then my thoughts were similar to the first monk that I needed to make more money to make my family live happy and comfortable. After I got married, I spent more and more time on my business and ignored my family because I thought I needed to earn more money to improve my family’s life such as bought a big , new house; proved good education for my kids; and so on. Suddenly, a disease beat me down what made me cannot control my down part of body and cannot move it any more. Fortunately, I was almost cured after three months lying in the bed. This accident led me change my thoughts as a lesson. As a result, I moved to the United States and began my new life with my family. Now, even though we do not have so much money and live in a small apartment, we can stay together more time and enjoy life. I think this way can give us higher quality of life by we are content with our lot.
In conclusion, more money will improve our lives environment and may lead to happy life. However, we need to use time to earn money. Therefore, we need to balance them.