Best of the semester -3

That students should wear uniform to school or not has been discussed for a few time.  Majority of people regard that students don’t wear uniform to school as liberty and a policy the authority concerned should implement, while what I think is that wearing uniform to school is more convenient than wearing leisure wears.  It’s because students don’t spend too much time chosing which clothes they should wear before going to school.  If students dress in leisure wear to school, it may take quite a little time to those who want to look more beautiful and handsome to decide the clothes, which contributes to them to go to school late.  Additionally, some continue to argue that students don’t have to wear uniform to school, but the condition now in every school backs up that students wear uniform to school looks more regular and can be identified.  If students get lost while going field trip; the police can help find them more easily.  Moreover, if students wearing uniforms were attacked by the gangs and passed out, passersby can call the school to help make contact with their parents by telling their student numbers.  Last but not the least, no one can argue against the fact that if students wear uniform to school, they can be safer.  That is, if a stranger or a thief runs into a school, securities, teachers and military instructors can catch him immediately before he hurts students, makes school into a chaos and commits crimes.  Taking into account all of these points, it should be clear that student should wear uniform to school.

Best of the semester -2

     My favorite movie is Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, a science fiction, which is about how the main characters Harry, Ron, and Hermione figure out the clues left by Albus Dumbledore to struggle with Lord Voldemort.  The movie is filled with magic, adventure, love and strong friendship between each other.  I am fond of this movie, for I learn a variety of precious things from it.  To begin with, it takes guts to accomplish every mission.  Since the three main characters are brave enough to defeat the demon, I hope I could be more courageous like them to fulfill significant tasks, face the difficulties, and challenge plenty of adventure to improve myself .  Additionally, mutual trust is the key to the success.  In the movie, the three charters trust each other in the war so that they can win.  As far as I'm concerned, if I believe that my teammates can defeat other team on the relay race, I will be more energetic and there will be more likely to win the race.  Last but not the least, it is of crucial important of doing the best to achieve the goals.  Harry figure out the clues and fight the Voldemort with all his effort.  As an old saying goes, “Where there is a will, there is a way.” implementing my goals with all my mind instead of giving in to obstacles, maybe someday all my goals will be carried out.  As what are mentioned above, not only do I learn many things from this movie but I get lots of pleasure from this movie as well.

Best of the semester -1

     I was a hardworking athlete and once won a championship in a race, but everything changed owing to a terrible accident, which occurred on my way home after the race.  I was hit by a truck and passed out immediately on account of shedding too much blood and breaking one of my legs.  Although I was sent to the hospital at once, I lost my consciousness for at least one month.  After I came to myself, I felt depressed on everything, for I found I can’t do anything well with only one legs.  Moreover, I had negative attitude toward my life, trying to kill myself.  One day, however, while I was fooling around in a wheel chair in the hospital, there was an elder man, who lost one of his legs, trying his best to walk with a stick.  Although he fell down again and again, he never gave up.  A thought suddenly came to my mind that I should practice walking instead of keeping feeling depressed day after day, and then I made up my mind to practice step by step and take part in Olympic Games of physical disabilities five years later.  Finally, my efforts paid back and I won a championship again.  As the proverb goes, “Where there is a will, there is a way.”  If I tried, there must be some opportunities for me to succeed.

Discussing effect - 1 (Revised)

Global warming has been an important issue for several years.  On account of global warming, there are more and more influences coming with it.  With the temperature rising, the icebergs melt away and the sea level rises day by day, which finallyl threatens coastal areas.  Therefore, people who dweller in coral reef islands such as Tuvalu have to move to other countries.  Additionally, we’ll have food shortage.  Many plants can’t grow and animals can’t live in the environment of high temperature.  Little by little, lacking food will bring about famine in many countries.  Besides, animal diversities will decrease, for some animals aren’t able to reproduce in high temperature.  In the end, animals will never exist.  As what's mentioned above, there will be more and more problems resulting from global warming.  All we can do now is to protect the environment from being worse.

Discussing effect - 2 (Revised)

      I've lived in a small town called Acton for around twenty years.  It is safe, quiet, and clean; moreover it has only 2,500 residents here.  Moreover, we know each other very well, always help and concern with each other.  We all lead comfortable lives in this town, which has not changed very much in the past 100 years, but something is about to change in the small town.  It is last month that Stanley Manufacturing decided to build a large factory in our town.  Although this decision may bring more jobs for us, I’m afraid that opening a factory here will trigger lots of pollution.  The air here may be polluted by some chemicals, leading to our respiratory systems lack of function.  The chemicals will also pollute water; therefore, we will drink dirty water, and we will get sick.  It will also be much noisier here, which may contribute to our bad hearing.  Plus, it will be more dangerous than before.  With the more job opportunities in the factory, many people will move from other countries to here to work in the factory.  As many immigrants moving to Acton, there will be fewer jobs for everyone.  Then the criminal rates will increase and everyone here will live with worry.  Last, the more people dwell in Acton, the less people will concern with each other.  We will know little about our neighbors and never help each other in the long run.  To sum up, I don’t want Acton to change and hope every inhabitant here can lead simple lives here in the future.

Discussing Cause 2 (Revised)

After reading the paragraph, I learn about some reasons why Michael Willians’s business failed in around 4 months.  First, Michael opens the store on small side street just outside of town.  Compared with the shop in the shopping center, there aren’t lots of people buying CDs in his shop ,since it’s scarcely for them to find his shop.  When it comes to business hours, Michael opens his shop on Monday to Friday at 1 pm to 5 pm when there are few people walking past the store.  If Michael opened his store at 12 pm to 6 pm not only on daily but also on weekends, his shop might not turn down now.  Additionally, most of the customers to Michael’s shop are at the age from 40 to 61.  But the CDs, hip-hop and rock, selling in Michael’s shop are all much more suitable for the young people aged from 11 to 30, who are less than the middle-aged and the old in Michael’s shop.  As for the payment, people can only pay in cash and checks and credit cards are not accepted, which cause that people turn down their willing to buy CDs.  Maybe some people only have credit cards or they can’t pay for a CD for they don’t have enough money at present.  As what mentioned above, those are why Michael failed to run his shop well.

Discussing Cause 1 (Revised)

There are many reasons that influence me to choose English as my major.  To begin with, my father who likes English very much inspired my interest in English as I was little.  In my childhood, my father sometimes talked with me in English; moreover, he paid money for foreign teacher in order to give me more opportunities to practice English fluently.  Therefore now I want to learn more in English.  Additionally, I hope I can be a great English teacher in the future.  For the purpose of meeting my expectation, I choose English as my major to master in English.  Last but not the least, speaking English has become a mainstream in every countries nowadays.  If I master in English, then when I get into trouble in other countries, I can express my thought in English to local people and foreigners with more details so that they can help me deal with my problems.  As what mentioned above are what impact me on choosing English as my major.

Expressing an opinion-1(Revised)

Whether students should wear uniform to school or not has been discussed for a few time.  Majority of people regard that students don’t wear uniform to school as liberty and a policy that should be implemented by  the authority concerned, while what I think is that wearing uniform to school is more convenient than wearing leisure wears.  It’s because students don’t spend too much time choosing which clothes they should wear before going to school.  If students dress leisure wear to school, it may take quite a little time to those who want to look more beautiful and handsome to decide the clothes, which contributes to them to go to school late.  Additionally, some continue to argue that students don’t have to wear uniform to school, but the condition now in every school backs up that students wear uniform to school looks more regular and can be identified.  If students get lost while going field trip, the police can help find them more easily.  Moreover, if students wearing uniform were attacked by the gangs and passed out, passersby can call the school to help make contact with their parents by telling their student numbers.  Last but not the least, no one can argue against the fact that if students wear uniform to school, they can be safer.  That is, if a stranger or a thief runs into a school, securities, teachers and military instructors can catch him immediately before he hurts students, makes school into a chaos and commits crimes.  Taking into account all of these points, it should be clear that student should wear uniform to school.

Expressing an opinion-2 ( Revise )

     I strongly insist that our authority concerned must use the death penalty as a form of criminal punishment.  Although some people insist that using the death penalty as a form of criminal punishment isn’t a good way to deter the crime, for the judge could pronounce erroneous sentence, which may trigger their family feel sorrowful, I think there are few possibilities for the judge to announce the wrong sentence as they would look into the crimes thoroughly.  Some may stand up for that human have the right to survival, so it doesn’t justify using the death penalty to decrease the crimes.  However, the counterargument is that those who commit homicide don’t treasure their live and others’, so if not using the death penalty to diminish the crimes may cause more cases than ever before and there will be more victims killed by the murders.  Additionally, no one can argue against the fact that if the criminals are sentenced to life imprisonment, people are under no obligation to pay money for the criminals to have meals in prison.  Due to all of these reasons, one must conclude that we should use the death penalty as a form of criminal punishment.

Discussing effect - 1

Global warming has been an important issue for several years.  On account of global warming, there are more and more influences come with it.  With the temperature rising, the icebergs melt away and seas rise day by day.   Finally, rising seas that threaten coastal areas, so people who dweller in coral reef islands such as Tuvalu have to move to other countries.  Additionally, we’ll have food shortage.  Many plants can’t rise and animals can’t live in the environment of high temperature.  Little by little, lacking food will bring about famine in many countries.  Besides, animal diversities will decrease, for some animals aren’t able to live in high temperature.  In the end, animals will never exist.  As what's mentioned above, it will be more and more problems resulting from global warming.  All we can do now is to protect the environment from being worse.

Discussing effect - 2

        I’ve lived in a small town called Acton for around twenty years.  It is safe, quiet, and clean and has only 2,500 residents here.  Moreover, we know each other very well, always help and concern with each other.  We all lead comfortable lives this town, which has not changed very much in the past 100 years, but something is about to change in the small town.  It is Last month that Stanley Manufacturing decided to open a large factory in our town.  Although this decision may bring more jobs for us, I’m afraid that opening a factory here will trigger lots of pollution.  The air here may be polluted by some chemicals, leading to our respiratory systems lack of function.  The chemicals will also pollute water; therefore, we will drink dirty water, we might get sick.  It will also be much noisier here, which may contribute to our bad hearing.  Plus, it will be more dangerous than before.  With the more job opportunities in the factory, many people will move from other countries to here to work in the factory.  As many immigrants moving to Acton, there will be fewer jobs for everyone.  Then the criminal rates will increase and everyone here will live with worry.  Last, the more people dwell in Acton, the less people will concern with each other.  We will know little about our neighbors and never help each other in the long run.  To sum up, I don’t want Acton to change and hope every inhabitant here can lead simple lives here in the future.

Comparing 3 --Revised

Julie and Judy are my good friends and they have some similarities in some ways.  As for appearance, Julie has long hair and so does Julie.  Moreover, Julie’s eye size is similar to Judy’s.  When it comes to personality, Julie is as quiet as Judy.  Additionally, Julie doesn’t like to do complicated things and neither does Judy.  As to capabilities, two of them are good at drawing and writing.  Last but not the least, they are at the age of seventeen.  As what is mentioned above, Julie and Judy are alike in many ways, if Julie doesn’t wear a pair of glasses and isn’t taller than Julie; it’s easy for me to make mistakes.

Contrasting 2 -revised

There are two people sent resumes to apply for a new English instructor in my school.  One is Debra Fines, and the other is Lynn Whitnall.  Debra has more education than Lynn.  The former studied philosophy at PhD Linguistics in University of Pennsylvania, MA English in University of Toronto and BA English in McGill University, whereas the latter only studied Spanish in International High School.  Besides, Debra experiences more employment than Lynn does.  Debra was a swimming teacher, a teaching assistant at Linguistics Department in University of Pennsylvania, and an instructor at Intensive English Program in University of Vermont; now she is a consultant and author.  Unlike Debra, Lynn was an English Instructor in Tokyo Girls High School, now she is a Spanish teacher in International High school.  Additionally, Debra has published English books, but Lynn hasn’t.  When it comes to their language ability, Debra can speak English and French.  On the other hand, Lynn is fluent in Spanish, French, and Japanese.  Compared to the two resumes, I would like to hire Debra Fines because she has more English experience than Lynn does, and I hope Debra Fines can do the job well.

Discussing Cause 2

After reading the paragraph, I learn about some reasons for why Michael Willians’s business failed in around 4 months.  First, Michael opens the store on small side street just outside of town.  Compared with the shop in the shopping center, there aren’t lots of people buying CDs in his shop, for it’s scarcely for them to find his shop.  When it comes to business hours, Michael opens his shop on Monday to Friday at 1 pm to 5 pm when there are few people walking past the store.  If Michael opened his store at 12 pm to 6 pm not only on daily but also on weekends, his shop might not turn down now.  Additionally, most of the costumes to Michael’s shop are at the age from 40 to 61.  But the CDs, hip-hop and rock, selling in Michael’s shop are all much suitable for the young people aged from 11 to 30, who are less than the middle-aged and the old in Michael’s shop.  As for the payment, people can only pay in cash and checks and credit cards are not accepted, which cause that people turn down their willing to buy CDs.  Maybe some people only have credit cards or they can’t pay for a CD for they don’t have enough money at present.  As what mentioned above,  that are why Michael failed to run his shop well.

Discussing Cause 1

There are many reasons that influence me to choose English as my major.  To begin with, my father who likes English very much inspired my interest in English as I was little.  In my childhood, my father sometimes talked with me in English; moreover he paid money for foreign teacher in order to give me more opportunities to practice English fluently.  Therefore now I want to learn more in English.  Additionally, I hope I can be a great English teacher in the future.  For the purpose of meeting my expectation, I choose English as my major to master in English.  Last but not the least, speaking English has become a mainstream in the society nowadays.  If I master in English, then when I get into trouble in other countries, I can express my thought in English to local people and foreigners with more details and more clearly so that they can help me deal with my problems.  As what mentioned above are what impact me on choosing English as my major.