I did a lot of things and failed in the end because of the laziness, and I feel I'm more like a cheater of my own life as the cheater in exams or papers. The same attitude toward things makes the two combine. Yeah... I'm not responsible of my own, and I did a lot irresonsible stupid things to procratinate the real important things. Now I'm taking the results. Doing three challenge quesions in a few hours really can't be good enough for teachers to see. I... I'll soon revise them individually and turn in... :(
I don't want and don't dare to procrastinate anymore.
#2. Animal Cruelty Law The amendment, however, allows for the killing of animals that pose "immediate danger" to a person's life, health, freedom or property or to public security.
Sometimes I wonder that if an animal kills a person, and it will become a serious news; however, I think animals, including humans, exist equally, and everyone has the right to live on the Earth. We human just misuse our intelligence. As for the law, it's not that strict actually because animals can't speak up for their own, and so we are the only way which can provide them better welfare. I think the law should have been passed a long time ago, but the fact is there, so the proper things we could do is to follow the law, and I suggest that the government can constitute an legal organization to support this law precisely. Oooh! And I suppose that all the animals should be protected, too.
In the primitive period, animals didn't belong to any creatures, so I feel shamful that they become wanderers in the city or on the road nowadays, but aren't the habitants of this world? And now it seems like that there shouldn't be any animals roving on the streets. :(
#3. Animals Taiwan Website
The purpose of the website is to gather people who care about animals and want to stop the suffering of animals . They are a volunteer group. The website provides the phone numbers of animal hospitals. God! I need it! I should have known this web. And they inform people of news about animals. My dad browses this kind of website every day. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you for informing this website.
In my opinion, I think two wrongs make no right. First, Japan is an island surrounded by seas, and it seems more likely for them to hunt marine life for living. However, over-hunting would be too cruel for animals, and I think the Japanese government is supposed to limit the numbers of taking WHALES for research. For example, they can distribute four to five whales for the researchers per year so that the researchers can't over-hunt the whales.
Second, the environmentalists should be permitted by some legal organizations, and they can propagate the meaning of why they protest against Japanese to do so, and advocate reforming the system. Not just go ahead themselves, but to take some legitimate methods.
Hunting whales is concerned the whole marine system, I think. So the environmentalists should specify the details and help people understand how serious it is. And so should the Japanese goveronment do something to improve this situation. They can cooperate instead of fighting.
#1.
During the high school years, there had been a short period that most people in my class cheated on an English magazine extra-reading test on every Tuesday. And where the answer had been got was from mine. That was a dilemma since I was supposed to keep this kind of dirty things away, but most of my best friends did ask me for the answers politely. At that time, students had to pass the test paper to the teacher assistant (one of our classmates) and the test was taken during the Midday Rest, and it means that there was no teacher there to see everything happen in the class. The TA didn’t copy my answers, but I could notice that it was a long way since I had turned my paper to the back. This kind of stuff had finally stopped since someone told the whole thing to our class teacher. Ooh… I would like to skip the process of that. That was a surprising and releasing experience.
Cheating not only happened on English exam but also on the history, geography and even math tests. To be honest, I did cheat sometimes on history tests, so I’m going to explain the reasons in my own perspective.
I cheated on history quiz once, copying some of the cloze answers, because I didn’t prepare for that. I know it’s not a responsible behavior. I did that since I wanted to keep my grades from failing (under 60 points). I think the main reason of why people cheat and copy is that some of us may want to take the responsibility of ourselves and for our parents, but we do that without any efforts before the tests, so we cheat on quizzes as compensation. People want to do something and get the seeds without actual actions.
#3.
As the above mentioned, someone told this thing to our teacher, and everyone in the class was asked to the teacher's office individually since the teacher didn't know how many of us did cheat on tests, without any evidence, neither could the teachers find out who did that actually. So she started to give up. However, all of our classmates didn't cheat on any quizzes anymore. I think that's because eveyone realized something. Something might be that they knew how disappointed the teachers were, and they were afraid of getting caught again. I think the morality did help in the end. Cheating happens on papers, quizzes, exams and so forth. Here are some methids that might help:
1. Setting cameras during tests. (The Chinese Professor did it last semester; people still cheated in any ways.)
2. Gather the classes in one room and take random seats.
3. Do homework paper in class
4. For each homework, give zero to those who copy others or the Internet after first warning, and the grade of the copy one doesn't count. It means that give them one chance and don't count the grade of the first time of her/his copy.
5. Cultivate Morality. This is the hardest part but takes effect for some students.
Uhhhh... It's difficult to think of any possibilities and perfect solutions. :(
If I come up with any ideas, I will add it in.
No, I don't have a boyfriend; instead, I'm having a crush on someone's boyfriend. That's shameful, right? I've been suffering from this unmentionable.
I had met him at CHU before I attended. At first, I didn't know and didn't presume that he is unavailiable. We chatted and exchanged our life experiences during the initial period of fresh(wo)man life. We got along very well, really, and I thought we were meant to be together. He is different than most boys I met in CHU; he is creative, humorous and tall and wise.... he is just my type, and we have a lot in common. He treated me very well and different than he did to the others, especially, and so that I misundertood his kindness.
He has a girlfriend, and they've been dating for over four years. That's a shock to me, but fortunately I found the truth at the very beginning. After I knew that, I started to see the girl in every occasion of the club. I would have expected that I didn't know the existence of her. She lives in Taipei, same as him. She doesnt study in CHU.
Well... Initially, I was really upset that the supposed soulmate just went out of the scene. When I noticed that the girl brings him happiness, I realize that he doesn't belong to me in any place. I feel happy that my love gets his love.
Now, the boy and I are still as same as we were before. Only the secret hidden within my heart has been changed; it hasn't been revealed. Still, I feel the same as I was. He doesn't know that.
I treasure the time that I can be with him. He treats me different than others; the same, special. But I change the way I love him. I like to see him smiling, and I expect that I could be infected with his happiness. On December 3rd and 4th. We'll performance together. Good Luck to me. :P
When:December 3rd PM12:00 Where: the M building (square) What: Band performing for charity of helping mentally retarded children get music instruments to play.
A smile makes a person bounce from hell to heaven.
I like to give smiles, and actually I call them laughters.
When I feel down sometimes, I will look up in the mirror and tell myself some encouraging words and give the reflection a smile. It really helps when I try to think of everything in a negative way.
And guess whose smlie I like most.
I don't want to flatter anyone, but all the smlies I got are bliss to me. Please give me a smile whether you are in bad mood or good mood; it's for your own good. I force you to smile to me, and you also get the chance to make yourself feel better. That doesn't cost you anything, right? Do it. :P oooh... If you can laugh out loud when you see me, I'll feel very very very happy. (Not laugh at me, but if laughing at me makes you feel better, then I will accept.)
Ummm... I think I didn't work very hard for this class, but I do think of it everyday and I try not to copy anything instead of the words within. And I think it's probably a hard work for people to update fresh things everyday, but we chose it and we have to accept its rule. Plagiarism is really not an appropriate way to deal with our own things, so for those who cheat on their work, we can warn them in the first place. If they keep doing things like that, just flunk them since they don't treasure the thoughts that God gives to us and do not respect the right of the hard-working.
Everyone cheats once in his/her life. If (s)he does regret it, it's not necessary to force (s)he to die. To fix their mistakes, I suggest that teachers ask them to read some more books and write their opinions in class. That's not a punishment, but the meaning of education is to improve students themselves, so I recommend this method. Actually, I can't think of any penalty that is really approriate for them. In my opinion, punishment won't make anything better unless they regret the things they did and decide to fix it. And after they regret, I think the better compensation is to improve their knowledge instead of making up, that wastes time.
1. Copying a few pages from Wikipedia and turning it in as your assignment. Cheating 2. Asking someone else to write a few paragraphs of your paper for you—but you still do most of it. Cheating
3. Asking someone to proofread your assignment and fix the grammar mistakes for you. Not cheating
4. Having someone read what you wrote and tell you if they can understand it or not. You take their ideas and fix what you wrote. Not cheating
5. Using an article from an English language learning website by copying it and turning it in. Cheating
6. Finding an article online that says exactly what you were thinking, so you just turn that in. Cheating
7. Reading an article that you found online, thinking about it, and then writing a response in your own words. Not cheating
8. Doing a writing assignment for one class and then turning it in for two, three, or even more classes because you are too busy to do another writing assignment. Not really cheating
9. Finding some writing online, but changing some of the verbs and nouns before you turn it in. Cheating
10. Finding a paper online, but changing all of the verbs before you turn it in. Cheating
11. Copying an article that you found, but you don’t get caught so no one ever knows about it. Cheating
Sometimes, people come to me and complain about what they're doing; a job, an assignment, or a test preparation. I always try to tell them: Don't make it a job.
Yeah.. We have to be responsible for our own things instead of work. Every task that WHO gives you, is a step forword dreams.
"When life gives you lemon, make lemonade."
"Jeff gives you assignment, __________________."
I believe that most of us would rather write a love letter than do it as a task, right? Think everything in a positive attitude, and you'll feel fabulous about the world.
When you want to complain about something or a person, think about what they've done for you.
If you couldn't think of anything good, then ask others for suggestion instead of bothering others to listen to you whine. Either your friends or an acquaitance can both helop you.
Hmmmm.... I'm optimistic enough. I wish I could pass the positive energy to you.
Don't live your life so hard, okay? Call me anytime when you want to whine.
#1 According to the website, the standard penalty for a first-time violation of the Honor Code is a one-quarter suspension and 40 hours of community service. If the student is in his/her final quarter of enrollment the standard practice is to convert the one-quarter suspension into a two-quarter delay in the conferral of the degree.
#2 The six possible punishments are disciplinary warning, reprimand, restitution, disciplinary probation, suspension and dismissal.
#3. High school principal fired for plagiarism A high school principal in Naperville, Illinois has been fired after he delivered a former student's speech without attribution.
A CNN reporter fired for plagiarism A reporter for CNNfn Interactive was fired over an investing story that resembled a Wall Street Journal personal finance column.
#4 I don't agree with the punishment in those cases. In my opinion, everyone has the right of going to school for educating, and I think the penalities shouldn't include forbiddng students' right of learning at school. Therefore, one-quarter suspension doesn't make sense to me. Nevertheless, I think the punishments are so human that they can't really realize how serious the problems are. (Am I too serious?)
I know it's been a totally different life since the moment I was given out.
I can't deny the truth that some of my friends were born with silver spoons, and most of them couldt whethe have fun everyday and worry abour their hair is too short or clothes are out of fashion. Actually I don't care about those appearance things but the chances they could have got before I was born. Ummm... I envy them sometimes; sigh for myself always.
I'm the one who likes to compete with others so that I can prove the only ability I have; prove that I'm at least better than other people in one area. But somehow I feel myslef lower than those who have more chances than I do.
Hey! I sigh, but I'm still striving for chances that I gain myself. I believe that chances will become treasure through the hard-working and the efforts.
After weeks of considering, I decided to change the Education issues to Psychology. Since Education issues are too serious for me, and it takes a long time to search and learn something new. As far as I'm concerned, I haven't had the ability to do what I'm not familiar with. But I suppose that both of them are corresponding in somewhere.
Well, I've done an assignment about Video Games. And I chose a topic that didn't seem to relate to video games. It's about Otaku. And I think it relates to psychology to a certain extent.
Otaku is a Japanese term for those who are enthusiastic about certain things. For recent years, it has been defined as a person who sits at computer desk all day long, and looks like a pervert lingering around public areas or parks. The average ages of Otaku range from 10 to 40, and even younger. Most of them while away their time doing nothing but playing PC games instead. Temptations for playing video games are poisons. One of them is to escape from the reality. Other reasons are fulfilling the dreams that can't be carried out, and doing things that is guilty or is not allowed in the view of society.
The urgent problem is that the logic of games is set in certain types, which means Otaku are exposed to the same old thoughts in it. It's terrible for human beings to think and live in the same circle. Furthermore, the relationship of the community is getting worse since most of the Otaku will turn down friends' invitations, or even their friends will stay and build up a virtual empire together on the screen; eventually, the friendship becomes void and meaningless.
The authorities should focus on the Otaku issue since teenagers are the great powers for the community, and the government should take measures to prevent these new pillars from rotting. The world is becoming far more convenient than ten years ago, and it's a new epoch of super many people being unemployed. To improve the competitive advantage of our own, perhaps we'd better manage to brainstorm every moment when meeting a new problem, rather than surrendering to the reality and spoiling ourselves as an Otaku does. Being an Otaku is not that bad, but it goes against the meaning of why individuals exist on earth. After all, we are the kind of animals that have our own thoughts. Keep standing out the priceless spirit within, and don't waste the gift from God.
Umm... It takes patience to read the paragraphs. Okay, here is a reward. Let's take a short quiz.
Imagine that today's your birthday. You receive lots of birthday cards. You read all of them and "WOW!". There was a suprising person who sent the card to you. Who was that surprising person? And you opened all the presents that you got today. WOW! The biggest one. Who gave it to you?
I'm sorry for the poor description of the game. But I guess you can understand what I wanna say. And we'll see the answer next time at the end of another article. :P
A deep emotional relationship between a father and a daughter.
An exaggerating facial expression on an innocent girl's face.
Wondering if there is a chance to become a top model someday.
Or being covers of fashion magazines.
Surrounded with love.
Born to be a performer.
Memories are coming back.
I've never thought that I could be so different than before.
While feeling down at noon, I went upstairs to get some CDs; in the meanwhile, I found the old albums, and then I stopped to retrospect these memories.
Sometimes we can forget what others just do to us by thinking of other things. Exactly, the mood had just changed while the sweet time I fell in the albums.
Yeah...
Life is full of sweet things, yet it depends on what you look forward to it.
So many years have gone by, I used to be the one who helps others' dreams come true, and I never thought of there would be a person does the same thing to me oneday. Never wish for miracle; it will happen on time.
A few months ago, I'd helped one of my friends in Acappella club rehearsing songs for some performances. During that time, I told him I'd like to rehearse an old song called "Dynamite". However, it's too hard for him and other members to do the bass part and chorus part. We ended the notion.
After finishing some important performances, I don't have much time to rehearse with them. Actually, I was not gonna join the club in the first place, and I did those rehearsal for friends. Okay, get to the point. I've never heard of anyone remembers my words and wants to fulfill it for me. He, Justin, told me "I will complete the song!" last night. Hooooohh! Great! That's heart-warming.
No matter he does this for me, or for extra advantages he might get in the future; I appreciate for his help. And I'm looking forward to the performance.
It was an exciting day! I had my first speech this morning, and everything was out of control. The fonts went to wrong places since there wasn't the same font on the school computer, and I started to talk nonsense out of my plan. Man proposes and god disposes.
I should have thought of these problems, and actually I've thought of these before going to school. Apparently, hesitation makes hesitation. I didn't put the fonts in my USB drive. How foolish I was! And I was doomed to fail and feel embarrassed in the class and my first speech show. Sigh.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
However, I did enjoy my speech though I screw it up by having no idea what to do on the stage. This situation is similar to the first time I was singing in front of the audience. Blank, blank, and nothing left. Practice makes perfect! I did a lot nice performances after those embarrassed experiences.
I think this is the reason I chose this class. I'm here to learn, not here to be perfect all the time. As long as I went back to my seat, I realized that I just challenge myself by making mistakes. How optimistic I am! :P
Yeah, I feel better now. Gotta go to the class for my kids. Hey yo!
Though I've been breaking the contract for a week, believe me, I'll soonly catch up on them!!! I have a lot stories to be told, but I haven't had a time to complete. Wait for two days and they'wll come up.
Actually I'm the one who disagree with sleeping while teacher is educating us something in class; meanwhile, I believe it's the teacher's job to make students learn something useful in class instead of wasting time on some boring pages. Furthermore, I think most of the reasons that students sleep in class are related to the teachers teaching method.
However, it depends on the teacher's purpose for teaching. If he/she teaches for making money, believe me, both of the teacher and students won't enjoy the class, and bad attitude will be conducted to students. It makes a bad cycle.
And there are some teachers lingering on area of WANNA-TEACH-THEM-WELL and DOING-NOTHIG-WITH-THE-WISH. Of course most of the teachers I believe they all want to help us, but some of them do it in an inappropriate way and which doesn't suit us at all.
But I'm a good student, and I don't sleep in class even if I think it's a super boring class, I still believe I can learn some other things in it such as analyzing teachers' thoughts. Since there are not so much good students around this environment, it's better for those who really want to teach students with a patient heart and interesting learning methods to come and help students in Taiwan. It's a hopeless learning island since most people have been bribed into doing nothing but making money for their own. The whole test system is twisted to an unbelievable horror! How many of them really care about those who want to be educated well!?
But we will find a way to upgrade ourselves instead of being submerged in this world.
It's not easy for us to choose among interests and things that we should do as a student.
But is that so hard to understand that I've been trying my best to balance them and make it a win-win situation?
Why can't some people think of others' perspectives instead of always considering his/her advantages?
I like performing; however, the way you claimed what music and performance are really makes weak. You disappoint all the people who supported you at first, turning us off.
And eventually I realize it's not my problem about being into what I'm interested in, and it's you who twist the real meaning of it and destroy instead.
It's weird to talk about WHO-I-LIKE in English version, especially on this blog. Actually I love this kind of topic, but I haven't had any thought of anything related to Love. Ummm.. Let's start a little bit.
Some may already know that I had a crush on a wise boy for a long time and we called him "Mona". He was the leader of _______ club, and I met him in CHU before I came in.
The first day we met, I had a very bad impression on him. I even thought I would never go to the club again. But somehow we met again, and he did attract me when we talked more.
Okay, I wanna skip the happy memories of this story since I can't think of any attractive words to describe it.
At the end of October I have two important exams. I have to prepare really sufficiently, and properly make use of my time. But every time when I think of it and being scared of it, it just past an hour, and I still didn't do anything connected to them. That's disappointing since I'm gonna do the same thing again just as now I'm talking about my failure on this blog.
Let's talk about things I'm proud of. Some say that I'm the performer born-to-be. That's exaggerative, I'm not so good. I don't really love music at that extent, but I do love to perform in front of everyone. I'm proud of whom being confident at their specialties.
That's really hard for me to pick up a topic between my own hobbies and some Serious Things that help me attach to the world. I was struggling myself. And it ended up, I chose the Educational issues. I'm interested in it sometimes, and need to refresh information always. So I don't wanna just share something or question things about the Music field, and instead I wanna learn more knowledge which benefits my further future.
And there is one thing left, my whole family branch all do things about Education. Some run businesses of kindergarten, and some teach in universities. I've been already surrounded by the Educational environment at the young age, and so that'll be interesting for me to get much into it and receive the true things.
Hummmm.... I don't have inspiration now, let's listen to the song calledListen. Being moved by this.
First of all, it's been a week and I haven't come up any idea of my issue homework, though. Alright, I wanna talk about something interesting, tonight.
I love stage. I enjoy applause, especially from those who love me singing...
I used to be a rock song performer, but recently I've been interested in a new style of music called "Acappella". I will upload the film another day. Okay... I must have to say "What a small world!" Justin and I met at the Elite bookstore, and I bumped into my English teacher of high school. Then I informed her I would have a show later in a club meeting. Unfortunately, she had to meet her friends and so I just left after saying that. However, WE were going to the same place! I was sooooo surprised!!! And tonight I also met my high school Math teacher!!!
How wonderful and how small the world is! And now I'm going to introduce some people inthe pics.
Andrew, my English tutor at high school. He always thinks of things in a creative way. A hungarian teacher who always MAKES ME SURPRISED.
Today's meeting was a Talent show & tell. Justin, the best partner and the best performer! My favorite speaker, Clinton. A very nice and considerate man. I love him! He can always make everybody feel like home, and make us laugh!
Tim and Sylvia, my favorite couple. I love them talking about everything!
My high school English teacher, as you can find her at the previous article(yesterday). It's her who makes me keep learning English and being interested in it. Love her!
These are the people I met tonight in the WCC. I love the feeling of gathering together and talk about the old days.
As being a nineteen-year-old, it's probably to be like energetic and full of power. But it turns, I'm just like a ninety old lady lives in the teen spirit with osteoporosis. Actually I feel tired all the time except singing on a stage, but I do enjoy eveything I join in with the eyelids down to the eye sockets.
I was always full of energy, smiling all the time and opening my heart to everyone who came to me. And I'm finding the feelings back.
It's really boring when people talk about their daily lives all the week, and so I've been trying to explore more feelings and thoughts within Cynthia.
I know I will eventually gain what I've paid, but let's call it a day, I'm sleepy when coming back home. GOOD NIGHT MY BLOG BROWSERS
It's been a long time since I learned English, but still I don't dare to talk and chat with anyone in English, even with my brothers.
I've been to lots of clubs about speaking and practicing English such us WCC(Windy City Club as you can see in the pic) and TM club(Toast Master).
The last time I could speak out fluently was that when I went to an English Summer Camp.
( And I appreciate my teacher in high school who recommened me to go there.)
It's not as easy as singing an English song.
I've been making efforts to learn how to speak to a foreigner. But I felt really frustrated when I met Jeff at Yummy Cafe and I didn't know how to express what I wanted to say. However, being embarrassed can always notice me to improve myself more.
(He praised me for speaking in good accent.) (Actually I learned English accent from Avril Lavigne.)
In Taiwan, children have the rights to study for free till grade 9th and so elementary and junior high schools are partly subsidized by the government. Therefore, I thought pupils at school could be offered a completely educational care.
Apparently, some of them didn't get into their jobs well. The importance of education I think it's to explore one's potential for different areas instead of punishing them for failing on a test.
Eric, one of my cousins, is clever and creative. He always thinks of something that would amaze me. I teach him English after school recently.
One day his mom, my aunt, told me that Eric's scores on English at junior high school were gradually down. And I was surprised since he's always done well on my tests. After examining if it's anything wrong about my teaching method, I realized that Eric's English teacher didn't teach them step by step, and she just skipped lots of grammar using and vocabulary that would appear on the test paper.
And I'm wondering, there are so many pupils who don't get a tutor to teach them one by one and how would they pass the exams? What should a teacher do to help his/her children in class? Maybe it's not just scolding them on low grades, and teachers should examine on their teaching ways, knowing that they didn't make the kids understand. Today Eric's mum told me that Eric was punished for being not able to finish a flute song. I'm confused by the meaning of a teacher's existence.
I went to her concert on Sep 5, and I took this pic.
Actually I'm not expecting my journals will be writing at the level of a 2nd year university student majoring in English. I'm even wondering if the scoring standard is not fair for the native since there are two "foreigners" and some seniors here in this class.
Though I would work harder than before and realize how far the distance is between me and those better ones, it makes me confused if I work hard but still can't catch on the foreigners' high grades. Well, I believe Jeff will do us a justice, right?
This is a term I learned from "The Sims" and I think it's much alike the on-line game "Second Life", but I believe the latter is a lot more fun. People make their dreams come true in the virtual reality, and create a brand new life that they might never have a chance to fulfill it, and even some run their business there and make the real money. It seems everything will come true in life only if we have the courage to challenge everything. I can't wait to try on this video game, and to broaden my horizon since there are so many peoples from all over the world, cultures, thoughts, creativities and different lifestyles interchanging in this virtual life. It really attracts me.
But in another perspective, being a stage rocker might be not so difficult in the game life, it's still not me on the real stage enjoying the applause, then I realize, it's satisfying when carrying out the plans on our original schedules; however, games are not the real life. Just as people daydream about making life perfectly, but without taking measures it won’t happen anyway.
I think “Second Life” is perfect for us to experience and experiment the life goals we set, and we can learn how to social with people, solve problems and think of solutions instead of being stunned when dealing with all of them. After all, games are created for practicing and entertainment, and we should utilize them efficiently to help us get a better life quality. It must be perfect if we could work on both methods, practicing goals on games, and to fulfill it in true life.
I'm not sure whether you'll come and see this today, but still I have to say "You are really a great and humorous teacher.
I don't know much good words to praise people, so I guess "Excellent" is the only best word I know from my high school teacher and from rubber stamp.
Thank you for teaching Cynthia patiently and making me learn so much, but not enough!
I'm gonna rock on in your class and try my best to learn the knowledge you've tried to impart to us.
In the end, hope your son(Izac?) grow up happily (I wanna say a lot but "happily" is the only word I could describe my thoughts. XD)and Family happy forever and students all enjoy your class.
As Jeff said in the Public Speech class, I need a lot of time to collect information about my topic and so I'm supposed to reduce using MSN for just babbling. I tried, but I failed. We all know what we should do at every moment, the point is what you've done for it.
Ur... I wish I could learn more English idioms so that expressing the exactly things in short will be possible.
This is the first time that I don't worry about the using of English grammar or vocabulary, and I feel really good :D
Jeff, thanks for giving us a material to express our thoughts, but can you tolerate the mistakes we make on almost every line?
