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Earthquake in Haiti

I do not consent with the idea that America should be responsible for the disaster took place in Haiti. As an independent nation, Haiti should confront this problem by them. Of course, it may need certain amount of support but not political intervene. The United State government can send necessary material to help people in Haiti but not political officers nor military commander to unite them. As now, we know that Haiti is still in chaos. A majority of its citizens failed to accomplish the basic needs of human being. People do not know how to solve the accumulated number of corpses, and failed to have their stomach caulked every day. I have once seen a show about the aftermath of earthquake in Haiti on Mr. Jagger’s class.

 An American journalist discovered the pervasive hunger in Haiti and decided to give free lunch to those Haiti citizens. However, the outcome is out of his exception. No matter how much money he brought, he still could not satisfy the people in Haiti. There is never enough. Because so many people in Haiti suffered hunger, his decision brought Haitians not only excitement for food but also disorganization. In order to get the precious resources, people fight with each other. Therefore, I do not think Americans help could be effective unless Haiti can build an effective government.

  Of course, we should help every one who is now suffered. According current situation in Haiti, any kind of help would only be such a waste. Americans do not want to pour their money to something useless. Food in Haiti is not distributed equally; corruptions is still a sever topic in Haiti. All I advocate is to build a strong power-concentrated government immediately. A group with a leader can not run by itself. Only a strong government can assure the order of a nation.

Growing Up today

I agree with Mr. Christopher’s opinon that growing up today is really different comapared to our former gnerations. The first generation to grow up with the Internet and all it has wrought in the cultural mainstream is beginning to come of age. It is a generation for whom 900 numbers and scrambled scraps of flesh on the Spice channel have given way, in a few short years, to bulk e-mail ads for the Paris Hilton sex tapes and porn subplots on “The O.C.” It is a generation in which sexual frankness has become a permanent feature of the landscape, with uncertain long-term implications. Images and subject matter that were stigmatized a generation ago now flow and multiply from one mass medium to another, turning yesterday’s taboo into today’s in-joke. Adult film actress Jenna Jameson has moved from X-rated DVDs and downloads to the bestselling sex manual “How to Make Love Like a Porn Star” and, last year, a VH1 documentary. Dance moves once associated with strippers are as common on MTV as tight pants on rock stars. Pamela Anderson and Paris Hilton are famous equally for their TV work and their downloadable bootleg sex tapes. When he states, “Find a teenager and ask her if she thinks she will grow up to lead a free life…nearly every one of these 11th and 12th graders said ‘no’.” This hits home because I too do not believe that I will live freely. Everything has rules; this may be for the best, but I still feel like I can’t be myself when rules are involved sometimes. Rules can make things boring and unmemorable. Learning from our mistakes is what makes us human. I also agree that, living in today’s society, it is harder for our generation to succeed. “They are far more likely to be diagnosed with a psychological malady of the stress, depression, or attention-deficit variety and to be medicated.” These disadvantages want me to get rid of the numerous assignments given to us, but I still feel like the disorders are not the worst that can happen to us if or when we give up education

Best Inventions

I would choose the 3D camera as the best invention of the year. Its 3-D images can be viewed — without clumsy 3-D glasses — on the camera's back LCD screen or displayed in a special digital photo frame. As a fun of photography, I really consider it as a landmark in human sicence history. Pothograhers can not only experience the breadth of the picutre but also the deapth of its beauty. Of course. some one may consider it as a useless idea to take picture in 3 D version. Now let me explain about my view:

People in our days are tired for a two dimension version every day. Our lives are fixated in an x-y axis. We need to be provided another dimensional scene to explore the new depth of life. The 3D camer offers us with this chance to penetrate the constant form of life and adds new depth. When we take a photo, we do not only leave the image of subject but also the lively potrait of the subject.The 10-megapixel FinePix has two lenses, set about as far apart as human eyes, which snap shots of an object from slightly different angles. Those images are then combined into one, creating the illusion of depth. Just think about the 3D films. People loves to watch 3D film because of the paramount excitment it brings to us. And this 3D camera lets us to build our exictement by ourselves.

Celebrity

The celebrity I admire most is a Chinese engineer called Liang si Cheng. During his whole life, he tried to organize the history of Chinese traditional building and wrote a book about the gradual developemnt of Chinese engineering. He is the first person in Chinese history who wrote a book about the history of Chines building. He is also a talented engineering who designed the famous revolutionary monument in the Tian an Men Square. For me , he is not merely a person who owned great talent but also a people who dare to question the authority. After the Civil War, all the intellecual recieved great attack beacuase Chinese government afraid of the cacophonies of idea in China. Also, the Chinese governement called for a "absolute revolution". Therefore,they decided to destory all the "old" things, including books, buildings and idea. Many precious buildings encoutered the danger of being destory. In order to prevent the treausure of the Chinese history, Liang si Cheng, a man with great courage, stood up and brided the City manager of the Capital, Beijin, for his irrational plan. Although, Liangsi Cheng did not recieved the result he desired. He still saved many precious building from vanishing.Also Liangsi Cheng is very libral. During the World War II, Liang si Cheng once wrote al etter to American government for their decision to bombard Japan.

As a man with such great courage and brilliant mind, his devotion to the career not only benefit the Chinese people but also all human beings. His research in design provides great sources for the Asian engineering study and inspirational idea for all the designers. As a student in Princeton and Harvard, he also tried to combine the western idea and traditional chinese view about design together. He is a real great man.

social NetWork Problems

There are many potential problems with social networking sites and the teenagers that use them. Social networking online involves using Web sites to share information with others and connect with them by creating a profile that may include a personal Web page and a blog. 

The growth of social networking platforms has been phenomenal. Millions of people around the world with access to the Internet are members of one or more social networks. They have a permanent online presence where they create profiles, share photos, share their thoughts with friends and spend hours catching up with what their hundreds of friends are doing with their lives.

Social networking sites allow users to add friends, send messages and comment on others' profile pages. But the potential harm to an individual user really boils down to how much a user engages in a social networking site, as well as the amount of information they're willing to share. In other words, the Facebook user with 900 friends and 60 group memberships is a lot more likely to be harmed by a breach than someone who barely uses the site.

 The reason social network security and privacy lapses exist results simply from the astronomical amounts of information the sites process each and every day that end up making it that much easier to exploit a single flaw in the system. Features that invite user participation -- messages, invitations, photos, open platform applications, etc. -- are often the avenues used to gain access to private information, especially in the case of Facebook. 

Barbie Doll Empire

  In most people’s opinions, Barbie Doll is an unrealistic, unattainable model for young children to play with and want to duplicate. Children love Barbie because it projects the image of a perfect world. The nice clothes, beautiful pool, big houses and the handsome companion of Barbie doll propose a world of an ideal image. More significantly, Barbie is often blamed for the unhealthy practices many girls and women adopt in order to try to achieve a physique as attractive as the fashion doll's. Little girls, for a long time, had no choice but to play with white dolls, with the most popular choice being the Barbie Doll. This toy was thought of being the "ideal" model girls would want to look and be like when they grew up. As a young girl, I did not share the same experience with many young girls who grew up with Barbie. Instead, I did not play with Barbie at all. Because of my brother, I inclined to collect the models of superman and monster rather than Barbie doll. Therefore, my personal view on Barbie can not represent the whole influence of it. But one thing for sure, Barbie does propose some effects on children as most toys. If Barbie plants bad influence on kids, then what images do other toys propose?  

  Children enjoying play with toys because they can absorb fun easily and simply. Scarcely did any kids consider the influence that toys they were playing with would bring later in their life. In contrast, adults’ world is more complex. They always perceive something with extensive effects and overlook the initial intention of those subjects. How can the blame on Barbie dolls for the realistic value in children’s minds. Parents are always the most direct influence on children rather than toys. Children play toys is not for the intention to recognize the world but for the simple idea to enjoy life.

Wish You a Happy Chrismas Eve

Your  helmet was snug on tight/And yout held on to your gun with all your tight/ There were some gun shots in the distance/ And shout of enemies being captured from resistence/you felt a wave of sweat and damp/Bloody bodies scattered around the battlefield/ You know the war would soon end/But now, the country's mistake you must amend/ Dreaming of returning to your wife and kids, back at home/ All the people there wish you a happy Chrismas Eve.  

LIfe 101

  As the name “Life 101”, I consider this class is a simple instruction for many complex situations that we might encountered in later our lives. School is not a merely place where we learn our skills but also the place we understand how to use out skills appropriately. People today, especially for the young people who just graduate form University, find hard time to deal with jobs. For them, the people who lack real experience always fail to combine theological knowledge and daily action together. Therefore, “life 101” can make students use their knowledge better by modeling actual practice. If it is possible, teachers in “life 101” need to find more opportunity to let the students attach the society.

Besides this, the class” life 101” has another important responsibility also. It should help students to establish healthy mental condition while facing challenges. Living in such competitive society, obstacles and pressures are inevitable. The only way to fight back is to stand out and against it. However, we have witnessed so much suicidal cases about teenagers in our society. They are so fragile that they cannot even afford any kinds of insults, or even just a small joke. By teaching right views of facing challenges in “life 101”, students will not only find better solution to deal with troubles but also understand the importance of life.

The final job for teachers in “life 101”is to avoid accidents in school, such as school violence, cheating in test. Although it’s hard to alternate negative part of school to positive part immediately, this effort will finally be proved to be effective by time. Rome van not is built in a day. Teachers in the class need to have certain amount of patience to let student realize the harm that would brought by negative idea to others truly from their heart. Teachers can achieve this by doing research about other negative influence that poisoned teenager’s mind and try to forestall it at the beginning.

the influence of Taxting Message

Text messaging has become a popular means of communication. It has had an overwhelming impact on economic development in the global community, but most importantly, in bridging the proverbial digital divide. It is cheap, fast, and convenient. Yet, it has made us lazy to write, destroyed our command of the English language (or whatever language we use to communicate), and continues to cause post offices globally to lose revenue.

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the nfluence of Taxting Message

Text messaging has become a popular means of communication. It has had an overwhelming impact on economic development in the global community, but most importantly, in bridging the proverbial digital divide. It is cheap, fast, and convenient. Yet, it has made us lazy to write, destroyed our command of the English language (or whatever language we use to communicate), and continues to cause post offices globally to lose revenue.

Despite all of the economic benefits that text messaging brings to mankind, I strongly believe it is diminishing our ability to communicate and will adversely affect the current generation (Generation Z or Generation TEXT as I like to call the children of today) and future generations. Although some people regard as a positive example as human nature, which likes to explore new horizons to save time. Many people, especially teachers, view it as a violation for the traditional language. As A person who prefers formal language for both emails and text messages, I strongly assent the adjustment on taxing language. According the research on this project, as average taxing message sent per individual rise and people turn out to be more common with using their mobile phones, individual appear for simple methods to preserve time on typing taxing messages. Therefore, grammar is inevitable. With the increasing use of ceel phones, the simple style of tesing message may gradually becomes irremovable habits. Unfortunally, the major percentage of frequent cell phone users are teenagers, especially in highschool who are still learning literaure. As what teachers worry about, frequent use of taxing message will finally become a serious obstacle for teenages to learn the right way of literally expression. As the result, it will finally leads to the decline of traditional language.

 The fact that good old fashion letter-writing has experienced a decline, if not a demise, should be of great concern to literate societies since its replacement – text messaging – has done little in the way of preserving/strengthening our command of the spoken language and writing skills.