Defination

Friend is a structure between people.It has two part: elements and scenario. Elements are the people relate to the structure; scenario is what happen to this elements.

Academic rigor is a expection from the teachers to the student on a course. And the expection is high that the student should work hard to overcome.

Academic success is that the student's achievements in academic life regarding study, society activity, life experience and other aspects which are helpful in their future life.

The examined life is a kind of life that can be challlenged by difficulities and can overcome those dufficulties.

Online gambling

I am against the legal online gambling, my opinion is based on the following reason.

Firstly, the online gambling cannot stop the teenage to gamble online. As the woman said in the viedo, anyone who have credit card can gamble online. Nowaday many teenage can have credit card now, or they may use their parents's or friends's. Therefore it is impossible to prevent them from gambling online.

In addition, online gambling will increase the crime rate. Currently, the govenments of where gambling is legal have to take a lot of efffors on the security because usually these areas' crime rates are high. If online gambling is legal, the crime rate is highly possible increase all over the nation.

And lastly, gambling donot encouge good value of making money. If people can easily gamble in their home. That may make more people addict on it. So people would rather gamble at home than go out for work. This will harm deeply to the nation's economic.

In short, I am against the online legal gambling. I think it is okay to gamble in those states that gamble are legal, but not gamble online at home.

Cause and effect of air pollution

The pollution of air is mainly due to two reasons: the factories emit waste gas and the automobile release exhausted gas .

Since Industrial Revolution, human began to build factories and produced produtions. Some kinds of factories can produce waste gas which can pollute the air. Everyday a lot of factories emit waste gas continually. If this waste gas emited arbitrary before process to a accepable level, the air will be pollute seriously.

Another important factor is the gas emit by the automobile. The automobile can emit waste gas when they are operating, therefore they can pollute the air as well. What's more, the number of automobile is incresing subsequently everyday. The pollution from the automobile may keep on incresing in the future.

Since the air pollution problem is very serious, people should take care of it and take some mesures to protect the air.

Reviem of "The End of Suburbia"

The documentary The End of Suburbia is a good film, but it still have some shortcomes.

This is a good topic that beside it explains that the life of subrubia may be end, it also remind people to cherish our oil resouce.The documentary make a good organization, and the speech of the documentary is clear and simplictiy so audience can know what they say. The quality pictures and videos are so good that audience will not feel bored. The length of documentary is about 100 minutes. This is a suitable length for a movie.

However, this documentary still not good enough. The suburbia life is highly depend on oil but we can find something to replace oil. Such as we can use electrical car. And the documentary mentioned that the earth has already past its" peak oil" period, but the documentary fail to consider that new oil fields may found in the future. Therefore this documentary is not a good one.

The End of Suburbia

What's the documentary's main claim?
The life of suburbia is going to end.

What's the background of the problem?
The life style of suburbia has been formed for many years. It seen it will end in future since oil may run out.

What reasons does the film-maker provide in support of the claim? Which reasons do you find the most convincing? Which ones are not so convincing?
Suburbia life is highly depend on oil, this one is not so convincing because we can find other resource to replace oil.


What evidences does the film-maker provide in support of the claim? Which reasons do you find the most convincing? Which ones are not so convincing?
The "peak oil" has been past, this one is not so convincing because we can find other oil resource in the fucuter; the price of oil is increasing these years, this one is convincing beacese we can find it in our daily life.

What counter-arguments does the film-maker deal with?
Hydrogen;solor;winds.

Whar are some of the implications of the problem? In other words, what is the cost of ination?
People have to live closely and it is difficult to find goods from far away.

Does the author discuss any solutions to the problem?
People should live closely so public transport will help; people should find jobs localy or even work at home.

Criterias of evaluate documentary

To evaluate a documentary film, we should have standard to follow. And the followings are what the criterias we discuss out.

1. The topic is should be a good topic that genernal people will interest in, orelse this documentary cannot attact people to watch. It is better that the documentary have good eduacation meaning.

2. The documentary should make a good organization, the sequence should clear enough to explain the topic.

3. The speech of the documentary should clear and simplictiy. It is inevitable that documentary include some difficult areas that ordinary people not fimilar with. Therefore the documentary should explain the topic in the clear and simple way that most people can understand.

4. It is very important that the date include in the documentary are correct since the documentary is to tell people the reality. And the date should strong enough so that they can convince the watchers.

5. Lots of good quality pictures and videos should be included in the documentary. It is very boring if the documentary just narrate the trues. Pictures and videos can increse the documentary's intersest and make it more lively.

6. Subtitle should added when necessary. For example, when interview an expert who speak language that most of the watchers not know.

7. The length of documentary should be suitable, 30 minutes to 90 minutes is the accetable range.

Resumptive, summative, and free modifiers

1.Many school systems are making a return to traditional education in the basics. [a change]

Resumptive

Many school systems are making a return to traditional education in the basics, a traditional education that focus on more old articles.

Summative

Many school systems are making a return to traditional education in the basics, a change supported by most people.

Free

Many school systems are making a return to traditional education in the basics, failing to meet the teaching standards.

2. Within the period of the last few years or so, automobile manufacturers have been trying to meet new and more stringent quality control requirements. [a challenge]

Resumptive

Within the period of the last few years or so, automobile manufacturers have been trying to meet new and more stringent quality control requirements, requirements that can enhance the cars' performance.

Summative

Within the period of the last few years or so, automobile manufacturers have been trying to meet new and more stringent quality control requirements, a challenge that may change the future cars' make standards.

Free

Within the period of the last few years or so, automobile manufacturers have been trying to meet new and more stringent quality control requirements, aware that changes have to make in order to win in the competitions.

3.During the election, John McCain and Sarah Palin have attempted to appeal to conservative voters in the South and Midwest. [a demographic]

Resumptive

During the election, John McCain and Sarah Palin have attempted to appeal to conservative voters in the South and Midwest, voters that have not decise which party they will vote.

Summative

During the election, John McCain and Sarah Palin have attempted to appeal to conservative voters in the South and Midwest, a demographic that is important during this election.

Free

During the election, John McCain and Sarah Palin have attempted to appeal to conservative voters in the South and Midwest, aware that the demographic is important in this election.

4.The city has witnessed an increase in youth violence related to gang activities. [a problem]

Resumptive

The city has witnessed an increase in youth violence related to gang activities, violence that include robbery, rape, etc.

Summative

The city has witnessed an increase in youth violence related to gang activities, a problem that should be concern as the major issuse of the city.

Free

The city has witnessed an increase in youth violence related to gang activities, ignore the young education for many years.

5.The internet has enabled better communication between members of the academic community. [interaction]

Resumptive

The internet has enabled better communication between members of the academic community, communication that allow people to know each other though the internet.

Summative

The internet has enabled better communication between members of the academic community, interaction that help students have better academic life.

Free

The internet has enabled better communication between members of the academic community, enriching the students' acdmic life.

6.Modern ads often portray women as innocent yet sexual.

Resumptive

Modern ads often portray women as innocent yet sexual, innocent that lack of this kind of knowledge.

Summative

Modern ads often portray women as innocent yet sexual, a style that to engage male watchers.

Free

Modern ads often portray women as innocent yet sexual, enjoyed by most of the male watchers.

7.The last two decades have witnessed a number of technological advances in medicine.

Resumptive

The last two decades have witnessed a number of technological advances in medicine, advances that increase human's average life.

Summative

The last two decades have witnessed a number of technological advances in medicine, breakout that never appeared before.

Free

The last two decades have witnessed a number of technological advances in medicine, providing people better medical care.

8.Increasing CO2 levels have led to worldwide changes in the climate.

Resumptive

Increasing CO2 levels have led to worldwide changes in the climate, change that enhance the earth's average temperture.

Summative

Increasing CO2 levels have led to worldwide changes in the climate, a trend that human should take measures to stop.

Free

Increasing CO2 levels have led to worldwide changes in the climate, making the world more and more warm.

9.The solution to automobile dependence is to develop a more extensive transport infrastructure.

Resumptive

The solution to automobile dependence is to develop a more extensive transport infrastructure, transport infrastructure that should large enough for rush hour transport.

Summative

The solution to automobile dependence is to develop a more extensive transport infrastructure, a way that the basic idea to deal with this problem.

Free

The solution to automobile dependence is to develop a more extensive transport infrastructure, provide people more transport rooms.

10. Al Gore has tirelessly urged world governments to develop policies in response to global warming.

Resumptive

Al Gore has tirelessly urged world governments to develop policies in response to global warming, warming that may affect human's lives.

Summative

Al Gore has tirelessly urged world governments to develop policies in response to global warming, a problem that we should face to.

Free

Al Gore has tirelessly urged world governments to develop policies in response to global warming, aware that the problem is very urgent.

A Comparison Between Ads From the 1950s and Current Ads

America advertisements have change a lot since 1950s, we can find many different when compare 1950s’ advertisements and modern advertisements.

The advertisements from 1950s is monotonous, the advertisements have only few kinds of styles. Mention product names many times, give a lot of function details, use young white actors and actresses are their common features. These advertisements sell their products directly and they mainly talk about their product’s merits during the advertisement time. It seems that they want to make the watchers remember the products by mention the product names many times. And the advertisements always tell the product details including product’s performance and how to use them. And a lot of these advertisement use music though the advertisement time to make themselves more lively.

In comparison with the advertisements from 1950s, modern advertisements are more funny and diversity. Many modern advertisements do not sell their products directly, the watchers may not know what the advertisements sell for until the end; and many advertisements are funny, the watchers may not stop laughing when watch them; a lot of computer technology are added to the advertisements though this will increase the cost; compare their own product with product from other company is also a common way. All these ways will undoubtedly give the watchers deep impressions and make people remember the products. Unlike the 1950’s advertisements, modern advertisements use all kinds of people to be the actors and actresses. This is a progress U.S society have made.

The changes of the advertisements result from the changes of U.S society. In 1950s, advertisements mainly face to wealthy housewives while today face to all kinds of people. Therefore in the advertisements we can see all kinds of people including young and old, white and black, and other kinds of people. And in 1950s, people usually not familiar with the some products like whirlpool , car so the advertisement spent a lot of time to explain how to operate them. Nowadays it is no need to do this since these products already common objects. And today the products have much more competitions, therefore they will compare products in the advertisements directly to get more market share. Besides, the companys spend more money on the advertisements such as add computer technology to make them more lively. These changes are inevitable since competitions are much more fiercely then before.

Description of a Process

Library website is a good place to search sources. Any people can use internet to access the library's website to search for papers. Since gruduate students always need sources during their studying, knowing how to search sources is very important for them. The sources searching process may a bit difficult for new students so this guide is wrote to help student get fimilar with the library sources searching.


Firstly, students should visit the library websit http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/, and then clicked the "Articles & Databases" under the search. After that students can chose the field they want to continual, for example they can choose "Education" option . Next step was to select the Database Name they want to prepare for the searching. In the searching fields, students should inputed the keywords and then click "Search "button then the results were shown. For example students can input "foreigner learning" if they want to search this kind of articles.

After that, results will shown. Select the item you want you can see the details of it. Then students can make this resource send to your email accouts.

Description

The persimmon looks like tomato, they both roughly looks like a ball but usually persimmon is a bit bigger than tomato. And the persimmon is also not as red as tomato. The surface of persimmon is smooth except the top of it which is covered by green leaf. The persimmon tastes sweet and soft. The seeds of persimmon are black, flat, and about one finger-nail large.

Durian is a kind of tropics fruits. This fruit has tea-green spiny husk and the spurs on it are not long. To eat this fruit, we must use knife to cut down the spiny husk and take out the yellow fruit . This fruit has strong smell so many people dislike it while many others like it because it tastes soft and sweet.

This animatronic human sculpture is make of bronze and stainless steel . This human robot crouchs itself with its right calf straight up while its left one close to the ground. Its body also bends forward and supported by two arms. The right small arm is lie on the right knee and the left arm supprted the body straightly by touching the ground. Its head turns right and this looks like that it is watching something.

Hamermesh(1986)

Some articles point out that miscommunication of the written word lead to poor business operating. Mamemesh had been collecting such kind of articles and thinking about how to teach his students. He doubted about the content of his course in business writing because his student seem lack of writing skills when doing jobs. So he invited some business people for interview talking about the business writing skill. From january to April, 1985, he had interviewed dozen of people involve in communication issue. The people's answers suggested that cited conciseness is important quality of effect writing. They also pointed out writing with error free is good quality. Conversational tone is also mentioned by these people. And surprisingly almost all people noted the awareness of audience as a necessary prerequisite to effective written communication. Surprising too was the mention of logical organization. Avice-president from an investment services company said thet it is necessary for writer to understand and express the corporate culture in writing. When ask to write these people took their writting expression seriously. All they were unanimous in citing good writing skills as a prerequisite for advancement in the job. Poor writing skill detract from effectiveness and give a poor image of the company and people now want to improvetheir writing skill because they realize the skill is curcial to achievement in the corporate world. After doing this research, Mamemesh felt that he can more effeciency ttech his students.

Feedback from interview

Kopits points out that people from different places have different reactions about "Peak oil", people from east coast consider it as serious problem while people from Houston can accept it as a daily issue.

Source searching

To search the source for the "foreigners belive learn language", I firstly went to the GWU library website “http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/”. And then clicked the "Articles & Databases" under the search. After that I chose "Education" option since learning can be classified to education. Next step was to select "Education Abstracts" to prepare for the searching. In the searching fields, I inputed
"language","foreigner" and "beliv*". Search button was clicked and then the results were shown. I chose the following as reference.

Saville, N. (2007, June 8). A global reach for mind and mouth. Times Higher Education Supplement, Retrieved September 16, 2009, from Education Abstracts database.

Sifakis, N., & Sougari, A. (2005, September). Pronunciation Issues and EIL Pedagogy in the Periphery: A Survey of Greek State School Teachers' Beliefs. TESOL Quarterly, 39(3), 467-488. Retrieved September 16, 2009, from Education Abstracts database.

Drewelow, I., & Theobald, A. (2007, Fall). A Comparison of the Attitudes of Learners, Instructors, and Native French Speakers About the Pronunciation of French: An Exploratory Study. Foreign Language Annals, 40(3), 491-520. Retrieved September 16, 2009, from Education Abstracts database.

I chose the these three because I think pronunciation is a very important part of language learning. Many foreigner learners may have such kind of problem: they can read and write the language they learn well but can not speak fluently. So we should take it important as language learning.

Paraphrase

The writer says that he will suggest the president to do the energy issues quietly first. He against that the president should take leadership on the problem. On the other hand, he thinks the govenment should study the issue quietly first and then tell other their plan to do with the problem. He illustrates that people do not like to hear bad news. If bad news are pubilsh to people, people will realize it is a horrendous problem and then the situation may getting worse.

Solar Energy

Solar energy as a heat source for homes has potential, but there are some problems that need to be resolved.

In one hand,solar energy is a unlimited resource. The energy come from the sun-light which can exist for a period much longer than we can image. Human do not need to worry about the remain of this energy just like human worry about oil. In addition, solar energy do not make pollution to the environment.Unlike oil or gas, using solar energy does not produce any CO2,SO2,etc, therefore solar energy is a kind of clear energy. What's more, the solar resource is not controlled by humans for profit. Every one can access it and use it.

But in the other hand, using solar enery stiil has some problems to be resolved. The construction cost of collection devices is high compare to the cost of oil collcetion deveices. And the collection and storage are not perfected due to the human technology limit. The solar energy collectors also somewhat unsightly which may prevent customers from buying them.

In conclusion, solar energy is a kind of energy with great potenial so it worth us to explore. However, the technology of human to use it is still not mature so there is a long way to go before we can master it.

Organic Soil

The organic matter can benefit soil. The benefits can be illustrated in several ways.

Firstly, the organic matter can improve soil structure so that the boots of the plants can be better growed in the soil. The organic matter can not only loosen hard soil but also give sandy soil holding ability. These can provide plants a more comfortable growing environment.

Secondly, the organic matter increases the soil's ability to retain moisture, it acts as a sponge to absorb water to the soil and reduces the soil's erosion. Since water play important role in plant's growing, we can see that organic matter benefit the soil a lot.

Finally, the organic matter raises the soil's level of fertility. When the organic matter breaks down it can be easily aborbed by the soil.In addtion, orgainc matter can build up humus. So that the soil' level of fertility can be raised.

In conclusion,the incorporation of organic matter into the soil is an important farming practice that can significantly improce the productivity and long-term viability of agricultural land.

Overcome difficulty

When I was studying in junior middle school, I am overweight and not good at sport. At that time it is not easy for me to pass 1000m running test. So I alway worried about how to pass it before that test.

Fortunately, a good friend of mine, suggest that I practice running with him every day. I accepted his advise and run 2000m with him every evening. At the begining I felt tired after the first 500m and wanted to rest every times. But when I saw my friend keep on running, I changed my mind and followed him. Inevitable that I feel painful at the first few weeks, many times I wanted to give up it while at last I insisted. It is very tough for me at that time but I overcame the diffculty. Day after day I can run faster then before, and at that semester I easily passed the 1000m running test. The time I spent was shorter than that of most of my classmates'.

That is a very important memory for me because it was my first time to overcome huge difficulty with all cost. Besides my hard work, my friend's help also benefited a lot during that period. It alway remind me of that memory when I face difficulties nowaday, and I overcame most of the difficulties since that time.

Time management

Graduate studenst should carefully manage their time because graduate students may very busy during their study periods. And as a graduate student, I think the graduate students should do the followings to manage time.

Firstly, graduate students should make a time table which includes all the important taskes such as cources, part-time jobs, assignments. The time table should detail enough so that the students will not get confuse when checking the time table. For example, the classes and jobs sections should indicate locations, assignments part should point out deadline.

In additon, the graduate students know clearly what taskes should do first. They should set the taskes with closer deadline to higher priority, they should do team works prior to the indiviual works. This method can help student to finish all works in time. It avoids the problem that one task is not finish when others are done.

Once graduate students are so busy so that they are unable to finsh their taskes. They should try to handle this problem. For example, they can sacrifice their personal time to go to the 24-hours study room before assigenments deadline. And they may explain their situations to professor and request for hand in delay. If all possibiliies have been tried and taskes still not able to finish, the graduate students should give up some less important taskes. Droping classes or ask for part-time job leave may improve their time management.

In short, the time management is a method to balance student's acquisitions and energy. Graduate students should know how to manage time so that they can learn more.