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04/04 Traditional school is good for students

There is not only one study system for students to study such as using technology or studying at the traditional school. In my view, the system of traditional school is the best way to study. First, the students who are in the traditional school can learn some special skills by themselves, such as interpersonal relationship. It’s not a study skill, but it’s also important for students. For instance, if students study in a traditional school which has a lot of students, people will learn how to make friends with each other, and how to understand others. Second, students can easily improve knowledge in the traditional school. When they have some questions, they can ask teachers or classmates to get help. It’s a useful way to improve students’ study. All in all, I think traditional school is the best system for students to increase rich knowledge and learn some special skills.

04/05 The differences between two cities

Different places have different characteristics, especially two cities in two different countries. My hometown is Wenzhou,but I grew up in Beijing and I have lived there for more than15 years, I thought it was a fantastic place for human beings to live, but I have to say I don`t think like that anymore when I came to Athens. First of all, the population of Athens and Beijing is much different. Indeed, the population of Beijing is about 682 times larger than Athens. Next, the public transportation of Beijing is much convenient than here. Beijing has constructed several different kinds of public transportation, like, bus, subway, and taxi. After these two discriminations, the environment is the most significant point that is different from Beijing and Athens. For instance, people don`t have to wipe floor every day since there isn`t too much dust on the floor in Athens, but my mom has to wipe the floor almost each day because of dust which on the floor is so easy to realize in Beijing. 04/08There are many international students who come to the United States to study because they want to learn and use English well, which is becomming a international language.Also they want to increase their knowledge and have more wide relationships. First, English has already become a general language. Many people who come from different countries can speak English and the best way to learn a language is studying and living in this country which uses this language. Therefore, many students come to the United States. Second, when people stay in their own country, they just can learn basic knowledge from their country's universities. However, if people go to another country, they can learn more knowledge about this country. All in all, many international students come to the United States to study that it's really good for them who want to be better.

04/10 The skills that let people be successful Do you know what kind of skills can help people to be successful. In my opinoin, the interpersonal skill is the most important for people, because this skill can let people make many friends and easy to catch others' mind. First, people will have many friends if they learn this skills. Interpersonal skill is a subject that teach people how to community with each other. Also, you can choose some useful and helpful friends of them. Second, interpersonal skill can easy to catch others' mind. It will teach people how to pay attention on others and catch their mind. For instance, most of us know that understanding is very important for people. It's not only useful for keeping family relationship but also helpful for people who want to be successful. If people can easy to understand others, they will interact very well with their partner. Therefore, I feel interpersonal skill is the most important skill for people to be successful.

04/11 Obesity Obesity is a big problem in our world, especially obesity in children. The percent of obesity is increasing every year. People have to face this problem because it has already hurt health of children. It will cause some disease fro this generation. There are two reasons why obesity is increasing. First, people would like to eat fast food that are harm for health. Our world is a busy world and people don't have enough time to cook for themselves. They like fast food because it saves time to do their job or other things. Also, children like fast food because it is delicious. The fast food is real delicious in the taste, but it doesn't have any nutrition and harm for health of children. Second, people don't like do enough sports. I think everyone need do exercise at least one hour everyday. However, people don't have enough time to do sports. If they have time, they also prefer to sit in the front of computers or TVs to relax. Therefore, obesity occurs in our life and reduce our health.04/13HomesicknessHomesickness is a common problem among the international students. We often have some ways to overcome homesickness. In my opinion, to overcome homesickness international students need to stay in-touch with their families online. the internet is so convenient and useful. When we miss our families or have problems, we can talk with our families online. I think that it is a good way for international students. What's more, when international students have problems, they also can talk with their teachers to get some good suggestion. I believe that your teachers will glad to help you. Homesickness will affect students' feeling and study, so we have to overcome it and have good life during the university. 04/14Writing

I am not good at writing. But I like writing very much. First I think that writing is a lot of fun. So I like it very much. You can write your express and feeling on the papers. When you have some happy things or sad things, you can write them on your books. You will get a lot of fun from writing. Next I am not good at writing. When I write something, sometime I do not know how to use in English. I always think many time when I decide to write a essay. I always want to get more and more information about writing to improve my writing skills. I want to be a good writer. But now, I should study hard about writing skills. Finally, my teacher said that I have soma good things about writing. My writing is easy to understand. I always write some examples to let people understand. 04/15Chinese Value Different cultures and histories have different value and behavior. China is a mystical country which has a long history and include many different minority. If a visitor want to come to China, she has to know some special rules or habits that only Chinese will do that. First, Chinese prefer to being a group whatever they are doing. Maybe some visitors can't understand why Chinese like doing everything with others. We don't want be alone even though we just go to bathroom a few minutes. This is because of our history and our education. When we was young, our teacher always taught us that team has more power and wisdom than individual when people want to achieve or do something. Therefore, Chinese believe if they want to do one thing perfect, they have to being a group and using the group power. The visitors will see many Chinese and they separate in different team when they go to shopping, watch movies or have meals. Second, history and traditions are the most important aspect for Chinese. When they argue or talk something, they often use history examples to support their ideas. They think that the history examples are a indicate or experience for them to develop China and improve their lives, so the visitors will often hear Chinese say " long long ago......, this event show us ......" when they communicate with Chinese. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;">All in all, those are the small part of habits of Chinese. If visitors want to come to China, they should know those that are basic of Chinese culture first. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;">04/17

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;">The attraction of smoking <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;">Many people think that smoking is harmful for people’s health, but a lot of people still take up this habit. I think everything has two sides and everything is not absolutely bad or good. There are also some benefits of smoking that attract people. First, people have a great deal of stress from their families, study and work. They want to find a way to reduce stress and relax. Some people find that smoking is a good way to relax. When people are smoking, they feel very comfortable and forget the origin of the stress. It’s really good for people to reduce their stress. In fact, experiencing stress for a long time is worse than smoking. Second, smoking can help people lose weight. When people are smoking, they don’t want to eat anything because smoking can reduce people’s appetite. Therefore, many people use smoking to lose weight. All in all, smoking not only has harmful effects but also has benefits. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;">04/18CCEA<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">There is a new organization in Ohio University this year, it is CCEA. Many people who are my friends are in this organization.This organization focus on hepling international students and sovle their problems. For this quarter, they will hold a activity that is TOEFL practice. They will use free time such as Wednesday afternoon to help students who are still in OP to practice TOEFL, and also they will teach students how to read a article in a short time and use some ways such as SQ3R for reading. What’s more, they also have a activity to help American student whose majoy is Chinese. They will ask some Chinese students to help them to practice their Chinese and also American students can help Chinese students practice their English. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">4/19 (for this journal, I have already put it on the Tuesday, but I don't why it disappeared. Therefore, I put it again. I am so sorry about that. I will check the journal if it post successful)For those days, I practice how to summary and response in my core class. I find some weakness and strengths in my practice. I think my grammar is weak in my wrting summary and response, but grammar is the mistake that I should not make and can avoid. Also, sometimes, I will forget mention if I support the idea of the article. When I introduce my opinion in the response, I not only use my experience and examples but also us some example from the article that seems cheating. I will practice more times to avoid those problems and hope in the furture, I can write a perfect resonponse and summary. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">04/21This Saturday is my friend's birthday. We have a wonderful plan for this day. Before we go out to celebrate her birthday, I will help her to make up, because she think my skill about making up is better than her. Also I am glad to help her everything. After that, we decide to have a dinner for our friends who we have already long time no see, because this quarter, all of us have a busy schedule and don't have enough time to get a party together. Of course, we will go to a Chinese restaurant, We all miss Chinese dished very much. After we finish the dinner, we will go to the party that hold by the a organization and inlcude many Chinese. The party may end at 9:30, after that, we may go to our firend's home to continue our party. I think that day will be a crazy day <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">.04/24The benefit of learning economics in college <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;">I think the business college is the most popular college in our world. In my country, many people like to learn business or some specialized subject about business, because they can easy to find a job in the future. What’s more, many companies need people that own business knowledge. Economics is a very important part of business and also it is base of business. If we want to learn more knowledge about business and lean better, we need to study economics hard and get more knowledge about it. It is easy to lean others about business. Therefore, economics is very benefit of our other subject in the future.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;">04/25 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;">Cross Culture <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Different culture treat time as different way. They have their own definition of time, rules of punctuality and beliefs, so people have to learn other countries’ rules to avoid misunderstanding. There are some positive effects of Robert’s idea. First, time is very important for people, especially for a employers who work in other country. When people work in a new country, they have to know the rules of time in there. For example, a person who comes from Brazil which treats time with casual attitude work in America. For Americans, time is important as money or life, and they can’t accept others who wast time. The Brazilian may have conflict with his partners or boss. Alao, people may lost many foreign friends because they don’t know their rules of time. For instance, I often go to Brazil to visit my parents and sister who have already live in Brazil many years. My sister has many friends in there. I know she lost a Brazil friend because of time. She decided to a party with the friend, but the friend was late more than one hour, After that, her friend didn’t think it’s a serious problem. My sister was very angry because of ther friend’s attitude. Therefore, learnin a new country’s pace of life, rules of punctuality and attitude of time can avoid many problems. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">04/26 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">The case of the Torture <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Today, I read a article that name is " The case of The Torture. In my opinion, I can’t agree this author any more. I think torture is very important and necessary way for people to find an acceptable mesasure for future crime. I feel all of people will agree that millions of lives are more important than one or two. Therefore, under some situations which are dangerous, we have no choice and we must do something that maybe people think it’s illegal. For example, there are one person who kidnaps others. The people are in dangerous and maybe will be die by the person. We can’t just wait the person’s lawyer or have to heard the person to admit her or his crim. We don’t have much time to wait the crimer and the citizens’ may die becare of lossing time. Under this situation we can use the special measure such as torture. What’more, some people think that torture is inhumance, on the other hand we alos can think war is not injumance and mass murder is far more ruthless. However, I just think torture is necessary and I also think that people need decide the right measures matching right situations. The author also said that torture is not punishment, so we cant use torture as punishment for people. 04/27The different Types of Trasportation There are many different types of transportation, such as airplane, ship, train and bus. The different transoortation have different function for people to use. We can classify transportation into two ways: transportation for travel and for daily life. The first type is for travel. When people have enough money and time, they will like to travel to relax. There are some transportation for travel : airplan, ship and train. The advantage of them is fast and speed, because the trip has long distance. The second type is for daily life. People go to their companie for their work and will take their car. The cars, buses and bikes are transportation for daily life. When people go to a short distance, they always use this type transportation. All in all. we can use more transportation than before because of the improvement of technology/ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">05/01 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 24pt;"> In the Ohio University, we have a big library near the Gordy Hall which has many language courses. There are seven floors in the library. Students can use each of floor to study. Students especially can use the second floor to find information and print their homework or project by the computers. If students want to borrow the book as the reasearch for the homework, they can use the 3,4,5,6 and 7 floors. There are many books, novels and journals in the library. For those floors, they have quite area for students who want to study by themselves and keep a quite environment. If students don’t bring their computers and there are no more computers in the second floors, they also can borrow the laptop in the library. I think the library is very useful for the university life.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">05/02Cell phoneThere are many inbentions in our life such as the cell phone. I think the cell phone is a bery useful inbention, but I don't think it should be used in the pulic places. First, peope will pay too much attention to the cell phone if they use cell phone in public place. For example, if students use cell phones in class, they won't pay attention to class, and they also can't learn very well because they don't hear that teachers teach in the class. What's more, using the cell phone in public also will disturb others who are working some important things such as meeting or doing homework. Second, using cell phone also will reduce people's work. For instance, students usually need one hour to do their work in class. However, people will use more than double that time to do their work and the work may not be done well, if students use the cell phone in public place. All in all, in my opinion, I don't think people should use the cell phones in the public places because of those bad effects.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">05/03HomesicknessHomesickness is a common problem among the international students.We often have some ways to overcome homesickness. In my opinion, to overcome homesickness international students need to sta in-touch with their families online. The internet is so convenient and useful. When we miss our families or have problems, we can talk with our families online. I think that it is good way for international students. What's more, when international students have problems, they also can talk with their teachers to get some good suggestion. I believe that your teachers will glad to help you. Homesickness will affect students' feelings and study, so we have to overcome.

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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 24pt;">The story of “The Moonstone” was written by Wilkie Collins. It described a story of a large yellow diamond wich named the moonstone. The diamond was kept in a temple. However, the temple was destroyed by a Muslim army. The leader of the army took the diamond. The diamond had three curses which also bring disasters to the owners and their families. Finally the leader of the army was killed. The diamond was given to others and also continued to bring disasters. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 24pt;">The main character worked for Mr Franklin and Ms Rachael. His name is Betteredge. He had a wife died five years ago and left her daughter. His daughter named Penelope. She was educated by Ms Rachael and became Rachael’s maid when she was old enough. Mr Franklin got the yellow diamond in India. He was also afraid of the three curses. After he discussed with Betteredge, he decided to let the Bank keep the diamond for him. They had a peaceful life for two years so that Mr Franklin decided to give the diamond to Ms Rachael on her birthday.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 24pt;">05/07 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 24pt;">Today, My friends with me went to the Warlmart, at the beginning, we feel very happy because of the weekend. However, there is a bad thing that cause our feeling turn to angry. We went to a Chinese Buffe and ate our lunch. At the end of the lunch, we found a blackbeetle on the table and near our food. We are very suprise that a restaurant has blackbeetle. We don’t think it is a usually situation in the restaurant and maybe it is a emergency. Therefore, we call the waiter to check that and want to know why there is a blackbeetle on our table. However, the attitute of the waiter cause us very angry. The waiter just said it is a common situation because it is summer now. She also told us don’t be worry, because the blackbeetle didn’t appear in our food. We are very angry about the attitute of the waiter. How the restuarant can treat the cusomer as this?

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 24pt;">05/10 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 24pt;">I want to introduce the person who has already got of OPIE. His name is Jin Yi who is an amazing person in our mind. He creates a ferly when he studied in the POIE. At the first time, he just got a about 390 point of the TOEFL test, but he only use two quarters and got of OPIE by 560 points of the TOEFL test. Jin Yi tell us that he usually spend more than 15 hours in the library. In the library, he just practices many exercises about English that not only include the homework that teacher gave to him but also many exercise that he found from the internet. Also, he will spend free time on remembering the vocabulary; he thinks that the vocabulary is a basic element of learning the second language. If people want to learn another language, they have to start with the vocabulary. As the result, it will be easy to learn the language. When I heard his experience, I thought many things about the English. Now, I also do some other practices when I have free time, and every Wednesday, I will go to the CCEA to hear the speech about how to improve our TOEFL score and do some exercise from them. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 24pt;">05/11 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I came form China and my major is Business which is very significant part of colleges in each university. I have to take many course about business, economy and management. Today, I want to introduce a course that I have already taken in the past. I think accounting is the most hard one for the college students. Accounting is a study of processing and summarizing business and financial transactions, and the function of accounting is that analyze all of the data and report the result. When I took this class, we had a lot of data that we should analyze and then estimate the vaule of the benefits of the company, so we can offter the company a specific assumtion or indication that how they can develop their company based on. My accounting professor also taught us some formulas and methods that we have to remeber, because those formulas andmethods are only used for accounting and many questions have to use thoes to calculate. I also learn many definition of some principle for the accounting, for example, there is a way for company to sell their goods that called FIFO which means first in first out. For example, when the company buy some inventory in different day, by this way, if company want to sell their goods, they have to sell the frist time that they buy and sell of the first time, and then they can sell the second time that they buy. Therefore, when I took this course, I spent a lot of time to study it and feel very tired. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">05/12 <span style="display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">Today I saw a article, and it maintains that Mark Osterloh wants to give money to people who vote and hope them can sell their voting, but some people think that his plan is illegal and he can't do that. However, osterloh don't agree that, he thinks there's no law against that people use money to tempt voter to vote for whoever they want. I agree that people can sell their voting to get money. The first advantage is demand. Some people who don't care their vote and want to sell voting to get money. Maybe they need money to buy a house or their food; I think many people will chose give up the voting to get money when they really need money to live. The second advantage is easy for people who need voting. Some people want to get voting to be them successful, but voting is a really hard problem for them. If they can buy voting, it is easy to them be successful and also voter can get something they like or need. The last advantage is that all people can participate in vote. In fact, if there are some really good ideal that some people don't like it because of less shelf-interest and may some people who don't know the ideal and not to vote, the outcome is that we lost a good ideal to improve our country.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">05/15 " Hero" is my favorite song which Mariah Carey singed. For this song, it talks about Michael Jordan, who is a very famous basketball star. It describes the spirit of Jordan how he like his basketball. Jordan treat the basketball not only as a job that can earn the money to his family, but also as the habit or lover that he can enjoy of this and feel very happiness from the basketball. Also, this song talks about the last game that Jordan plays in his life, he finally kisses the ground which is his favorite place and never want to leave. I like Jordan very much because of his sprite of basketball, so I think the song can sing out of the people's feelings who like Jordan. 05/17 Time Writting <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">As we know, most young people are keen on living in big cities, and a lot elderly people like living in the small towns. In big cities, there are lot entertainments that attract teenagers, such as shopping malls, movie theaters, and bars. On the other hand, retired people may be bored with the city’s life. They have lived in metropolis for a long time. So they may want to change the life style. As a young person, I prefer to live in the countryside because small towns are quiet, not so much stressful, and safety. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">The first reason that I choose to live in a small town is that it is quiet. A small town always has a tiny population and large space. So it can make me feel more release, and this feeling I cannot enjoy in the urban. For example, there are a lot of people living in urban. So no matter whether it is the daytime or the evenings, there always are many people make noise. I cannot have a good rest in this kind environment. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">In addition, living in a small town makes people feel less stressful. For example, a lot people work in metropolis and have a keen competition in their jobs. So it is easily for people feel stressful in the big cities. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Moreover, living in a small town is more safety. There are too many people living in big cities, so the crimes are easier to happen in big cities than in the small towns. For instance, as we know, the crime rate is very high in some of the U.S. big cities, like New York and Los Angeles. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Generally speaking, I prefer to live in a small town, because of how quiet they are, more release, and safety environment. The metropolis has its own positives, but I think the small town is more suitable for me to live. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">05/18 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Chinese language

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 12pt;">Many people said that Chinese is the most difficult language to learn. However I do not think so, maybe it is because I am Chinese. Actually, there are many differences between Chinese and English, such as the writing system, word order, and the dialects. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The first difference that I want to talk about is the writing system. Chinese words are so different with English words. English words are made up of 26 letters, and Chinese words are made up of different lines. For example, three English letters s, u, n form the word sun; but in Chinese, sun writes as <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Second, the word order is different. Such as “time”, people, and actions are always in different positions. For instance, in English, people can say “I went to the dining hall with my friend yesterday” or “My friend and I went to the dining hall yesterday”; but in a regular short Chinese sentence, a person won’t be put in the latter part, and the time never at the end. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Third, the kinds of Chinese dialects are much more than the kinds of English dialects. Different places have different dialects in China. Especially in the south of China, sometimes people who come from other provinces cannot understand their dialects, not even one word. However, in the English speaking countries, people from different places may have different accents, but they still can understand each others’ English. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">There are so many differences between Chinese and English, and I think these three are the most obvious.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 宋体; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 宋体; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">05/19

The difference between females and males

There are not only physical differences between females and males such as the hair, high and weight, but also nonphysical differentces between them<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">— <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">for example, emotional and academic abilities. There are two of the differences I have noticed. First, the behavior of shopping is a obvious difference. Women have a desire to be beautiful, so they like to buy anything they want when they go to shop. Females are stronger than males in the desire of good looking. Shopping can make women <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">s beauty possible. Because it helps a girl dresses up and makes them beautiful. Therefore, most girls shop for cosmetics and clothes. Girls shop for not only what they want, but what others have, and they always want to be better. When girls get together, they talk about things they have. No one want loses in the war. However, males will not consider too much about shopping. In their mind, shopping is just a task as eating or washing for their life. They think shopping is a simple thing that they can just make a list and go outside to buy them. Men won <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">t spend a lot of time on shopping or talking about shopping, because they prefer to finish something that they think it is useful and meaningful <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">— <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">for example, watching football game and finish their work. Another differences between females and males is the attitude of weight management. I think losing weight and to be more thin is a goal for most females during their whole life. Females always think they are too fat and have to lost their weight even thought they are very thin in others <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">mind. They will try their best to lose weight, for example, women will just eat one or two meals per day and do many exercises. I think that is a way which not very harmful for people <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">s healthy than others <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">scared way. For example, females will eat diet pill to help them reduce their weight, as a result, they become unhealth because they can <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">t obtain enough nutrition. What <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">s more, I hear one way for women to lose weight which require women to eat a kind of insect that will assimilate people <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">s fat in order to reduce weight. Of courese, it is a stupid way, because the insect will grow in people <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">s body and cause people to died. However, Males do not care about the weight. They think it is enough from them to just remian the health, because they pay more attention on their work or games. They never use any absurd way to lose weight. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: '宋体'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">05/21 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> The life in Ohio University <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 宋体; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 21pt; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">I come from China, and now I study in Ohio University which site in the Ohio state in the United States. My university does not have a large region, but its range still very useful and efficient for students. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: '宋体'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">At the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">first <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: '宋体'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> time, I was very amazing about the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">landscape <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: '宋体'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">, because <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Athens <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: '宋体'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> is pretty beautiful and has many afforest. I think I will own a wonderful feeling when I study in there. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> I have to reside in the dorm of the university <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: '宋体'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> when I came to Athens <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">, because I am one of the international students who come from distinct country and the university has to maintain us more secure. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: '宋体'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">However, after two years, I can get of the dorm and rent a house with my friends, so next fall quarter, I will move to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">River Park <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: '宋体'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> and live with my friends. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">During the free time in the Ohio University, I often participate in some group such as English practice group and Chinese Culture Organization .The previous day I start my academic, I have to finish the English program. I perceive that my low English skill restrict me to start my academic class, so I have to study English first. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: '宋体'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">I have already study English many quarters and I think my English improve step by step. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">I am in CS3 now; I make a new friend who transfers her major which is journalism to the Ohio University. In addition, my major is administration, and I plan obtain the degree in 2014. I hope I can achieve the goal. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: '宋体'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> In <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">brief <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: '宋体'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">, I am very like my university and I make a lot of friends in here. I think I will have a good university life in there. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 宋体; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: '宋体'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 21pt; vertical-align: auto;">05/23 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 宋体; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 宋体; font-size: 19px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Finding a right method to learn language is very important. I have a friend come form China who is studying in University of Iowa and she told me practice and exercise is the best way to learning language. I have been learning English for eight years, but I am still not good at it. I summarized two reasons: I didn’t do practice usually before I came to America; I had never pay attention to class when I was in middle school and high school; and I never did my homework, and never studied vocabularies or grammars before I went to America. I have tried many ways which help me much to study English, such as watching movies, listening to music, remembering vocabulary, and practice. Now I think the ways that I can study English well are do my homework and practice. In brief, try yourself to find a right way to learning language, it’s really important. 05/24 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">The story of “The Moonstone” was written by Wilkie Collins. It described a story of a large yellow diamond wich named the moonstone. The diamond was kept in a temple. However, the temple was destroyed by a Muslim army. The leader of the army took the diamond. The diamond had three curses which also bring disasters to the owners and their families. Finally the leader of the army was killed. The diamond was given to others and also continued to bring disasters. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">The main character worked for Mr Franklin and Ms Rachael. His name is Betteredge. He had a wife died five years ago and left her daughter. His daughter named Penelope. She was educated by Ms Rachael and became Rachael’s maid when she was old enough. Mr Franklin got the yellow diamond in India. He was also afraid of the three curses. After he discussed with Betteredge, he decided to let the Bank keep the diamond for him. They had a peaceful life for two years so that Mr Franklin decided to give the diamond to Ms Rachael on her birthday. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 宋体; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">05/25 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 宋体; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">This week, I read a article, and according to the articel” Where Do We Stand” Lisa Davis said that people will conflict and misunderstand because different culture use different personal space. Therefore, people should learn the nonverbal of different countries to avoid this problem. There are many advantages to aviod misunderstanding. First, in an increasing lobal world, there are many multinational which include multitudious employees who come from different countries. They have to learn the rules of different culture if they want to work together very well. Also, many international students come to other countries to study. They need to know some actions that may cause conflicts in other countries. For example, When I first came to the United States, I often met some Americans who I don’t know and they would greet to me. At first time, I was so confused and didn’t know how to respond. The Americans may think I don’t like them or I am impolite. This experience shows people that if people want to fit into other countries, they should to learn their difference. Therefore, Lisa Davis’ opinion has advantafes for people. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 宋体; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">05/29 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 宋体; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The review of the restaurant that I never been <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I hear my friends said that there is a very good restaurant in Athens when I first came to Ohio University. Its name is Long Hui which is near the Walmart. When I went to here, I saw that there are very overall food. For example, for many Chinese restaurant, they may only have severy food and some seafood, but not very many seafood and also will not be fresh, because they focus on order. However, for this restaurant, there are many kinds of food and also different kinds of seafood for us and will be more fresh than other Chinese restaurant. What’s more, the price is anohter reason why I want to go. My friends said that the price for per person is $7. I think it is cheaper than others if you want to eat seafood. All in all, when I make new friends, I usually will tell them this restarant and suggest them to try.