Mao Mao
Mao Mao is from China, and
he is studying at Widener University right now. He learned English when he was
studying in middle school. English is the favorite language for him. This is a
one of the reasons why he wants to study in America. He studied in China until
last year when he transferred to Erie First Christian Academy. It is a American
high school in Erie Pennsylvania. That was an important year for him because he
learned a lot of things from American high school, even from American society.
He is crazy for basketball and soccer. During the last year, he played
basketball on school team. The most important moment for him was when he won
the champion with his teammates. He also won the most improved player after the
season. He visited the United States a couple years ago. When he first time
came to the U.S, he felt a lot of different things. So he decided to study at
American university when he graduated from high school. Widener University is
the most suitable one for him because he can learn everything in this university.
The other reason is he loves Philadelphia, which is a really big city in
America. It means he can find more opportunities to improve himself. After
graduating from Widener University, he plans to find an internship first in
order to learn how to work in companies.
Dear Readers,
I have already studied at Widener
University about four months. These four months were very wonderful for me. I
learned many things from Widener University such as American history, college
life, and American culture. I believe these things will give me huge help in
the future. I really love writing because I can use my pen to describe anything
in my life.
I am really proud of my essay. It is the most interesting thing for me. Writing is a good way to express my emotion. Meanwhile, I also like reading other people’s essays and articles, it can help to improve myself. These four months, I believe I have already improved my writing skill. The reason is these assignments because I practiced a lot of time. I am good at writing and the essay structure. On the other hand, I also realized that I need to learn more vocabulary in order to come up with more beautiful sentences.
Mao Mao
I am really proud of my essay. It is the most interesting thing for me. Writing is a good way to express my emotion. Meanwhile, I also like reading other people’s essays and articles, it can help to improve myself. These four months, I believe I have already improved my writing skill. The reason is these assignments because I practiced a lot of time. I am good at writing and the essay structure. On the other hand, I also realized that I need to learn more vocabulary in order to come up with more beautiful sentences.
Mao Mao
My Favorite Childhood Place
Everyone has their own and
favorite childhood place in their mind. My favorite childhood place was my
garden. There are four reasons why my garden was the best place for me. First
of all, my garden is a such beautiful place. I planted many plants in there.
Such as sunflowers, roses, and chrysanthemums. They have different colors
during in the four seasons, it looks like a beautiful landscape. In addition,
it also has many insects, I am really interested in botany and zoology. So I
spent much time to observing these flowers and insects, fertilizing them and
writing down the data. My garden offers me a wonderful place to study botany
and zoology. She also taught me how to distinguish the varieties of plants and
insects. It was the most wonderful time in my life. Meanwhile, I really
enjoyed reading books in my garden. Reading books in a beautiful place is such
a great thing for everyone. Nobody would disturb me when I was reading. I could
totally enjoy the fun of reading. A wonderful place can provide a great mood
and attitude, it is a very important element. For example, somebody thinks
historical books are very boring, but I finished couple books about history in
my lovely garden, like A History of the World in
the 20th Century. It sounds hard, but I was very relaxed and kept a
great mood to read books in my garden. On the other hand, I also practiced
drawing. There has huge, beautiful things I can draw like flowers, insects, and
landscape. In fact, a great subject plays momentous role in painter’s works.
Because of my garden, I could have a excellent starting of painting. In
addition, my garden was heaven for me and my friends. We spent much time in my
garden after school. We played dodgeball, baseball, and chess. They all admired
me for my garden, which was the most wonderful and beautiful place. It always
been full of our laughing and happiness. Our favorite part in the garden is the
bench. After dinner, we lay in the bench and watched the sky, I can still
remember the beautiful stars and sky. Finally, there owned my childhood memory.
I built this garden with my parents. It was a huge work, but it still very
interesting. We bought seed, water, and soil. After that, we also spent about
three weeks to built this garden. This garden was the best gift from my
parents. I can feel their love, they want to give me a nice environment. The
garden means parents’ love. To sum up,
my favorite place is my garden, there owned my memory and I loved my garden. It
is an important place for me.
The Most Powerful Emotion
Love is the most wonderful
emotion in the world. There are three definitions of love. First of all, love
is sharing. It means you could share your stuff with best friends, like your
emotions, problems, and secrets. When you share your happiness with other
people, they will also feel happy. Sharing makes more people feel happy. On the
other hand, it also could let you have more friends. Sharing your problems with
your friends. They will help you to figure them out. This is the definition of
love. Meanwhile, love is giving. When you give someone great idea or help, you
will be in a great mood. Giving is the best quality of people. My favorite
quote is “The rose in her hand, the flavor in mine.” We need try our best to help
other people. Helping other people is helping ourselves. Maybe these people
will help us when we have some problems. This is the love. Finally, love is
care, like our parents always taking care of us. In school, our teachers take
care of us. They always give us a hand. Our classmates help us to understand
the problems. For example, our parents always give us the best thing, such as
education, food, and environment. They wish us could grow up very well. This is
the love. To summarize, although love has many different definitions, it also
is the most wonderful emotion in the world.
Chen Nan. "The Rose's in Her Hand, the Flavor in Mine." - People's Daily Online. N.p., 20 Nov. 2012. Web. 29
Sept. 2013.
Chen Nan. "The Rose's in Her Hand, the Flavor in Mine." - People's Daily Online. N.p., 20 Nov. 2012. Web. 29
Sept. 2013.
Different Talents
I saw a article in the
newspaper a couple days ago, and was talking about a math contest. There were
many Chinese and American students. When teachers corrected these students’
papers, they found an interesting thing. Most Chinese students use the same way
to figure out the question, and they can figure out very fast without a
calculator. However, these American students can use their own way to solve
these question. The reason of this phenomenon is the difference between the
Chinese and American education system. In fact, the difference includes
structure, method, and purpose.
First of all, Chinese high schools differ from American high schools in many ways, primarily in structure. There are some specific aspects, first one is time. A Chinese school day is much longer than an American school day. In China, most students have to stay at school about 12 hours. For example, in my high school, we begin school at 7:00 am, and until 8:00 pm, even until 10:00 at night to prepare their exam. Next one is school structure, in America, students have each class class in different classroom with different classmates. Chinese students have to stay in same classroom all day with same classmates. The result is American students can have more opportunities to converse with different people and make more new friends. However, Chinese students lose the opportunity to chat with other people.
Meanwhile, method is the main reason of the difference between Chinese and American education system. In most cases, Chinese education focus more on the facts and the knowledge from the textbook. Most Chinese students always write down these notes and repeat to recite these notes, even though they are not understanding these. Chinese class is base on the teachers lecturing and the students listening quietly. This means that students can do very well in class by copying down the notes, but it also means the students and teachers won’t have many conversations in class. However, American education focus more on the students own opinion. As we all, personal mind is very important quality in America. So most classes are based on discussion of the material. For example, teachers give the topic to students, and students talk about that with classmates. It means the students will have more discussions with teacher, so class discussion plays an important role in students’ grade.
Last one is purpose, in China, if you ask someone what his academic goals are, they will say great college. In fact, China is the largest population country in the world, it means students have to study very hard in order to study in a great college and find a high income job. The most important part is Entrance Exam, a very hard exam. So students have to spend a lot of time on reciting and practicing. So social competition caused the Chinese education system, school have to push these students studying hard. However, America education focus on students own opinion, their purposes are help students to understand the world.
Different countries have different education system, each education system has their own benefits. As for students, we need try our best to achieve our goal. To sum up, the difference between China and America is structure, method, and purpose.
First of all, Chinese high schools differ from American high schools in many ways, primarily in structure. There are some specific aspects, first one is time. A Chinese school day is much longer than an American school day. In China, most students have to stay at school about 12 hours. For example, in my high school, we begin school at 7:00 am, and until 8:00 pm, even until 10:00 at night to prepare their exam. Next one is school structure, in America, students have each class class in different classroom with different classmates. Chinese students have to stay in same classroom all day with same classmates. The result is American students can have more opportunities to converse with different people and make more new friends. However, Chinese students lose the opportunity to chat with other people.
Meanwhile, method is the main reason of the difference between Chinese and American education system. In most cases, Chinese education focus more on the facts and the knowledge from the textbook. Most Chinese students always write down these notes and repeat to recite these notes, even though they are not understanding these. Chinese class is base on the teachers lecturing and the students listening quietly. This means that students can do very well in class by copying down the notes, but it also means the students and teachers won’t have many conversations in class. However, American education focus more on the students own opinion. As we all, personal mind is very important quality in America. So most classes are based on discussion of the material. For example, teachers give the topic to students, and students talk about that with classmates. It means the students will have more discussions with teacher, so class discussion plays an important role in students’ grade.
Last one is purpose, in China, if you ask someone what his academic goals are, they will say great college. In fact, China is the largest population country in the world, it means students have to study very hard in order to study in a great college and find a high income job. The most important part is Entrance Exam, a very hard exam. So students have to spend a lot of time on reciting and practicing. So social competition caused the Chinese education system, school have to push these students studying hard. However, America education focus on students own opinion, their purposes are help students to understand the world.
Different countries have different education system, each education system has their own benefits. As for students, we need try our best to achieve our goal. To sum up, the difference between China and America is structure, method, and purpose.
Talking with Soul
Faith, an amazing and holy
word in most people’s opinion. The bible gives the definition of love in
Hebrews 11:1 “ Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what
we do not see.” According to the research, 84 precents of the world population
has faith. In fact, it effects us in many aspects. Three definitions of faith which
are power, self-improvement, and wealth of mental.
First of all, faith is a kind of power. It plays a very significant role in people’s life. When you live in belief you will not only stronger your heart, but also you will have greater motivation toward your goals. Meanwhile, you will see the huge changes in your life when you live in conviction. For example, it will encourage you to face these problems and solve them. When you have it, you will fear nothing. There are many martyrs died for their faith, such as Martin Luther King, the most famous lecturer. He knew some people want to kill him, but he still gave people speech about his dream in the public area. He can sacrifice everything for his dream and faith. This is the power of it. It can enrich my mind. Faith will help you achieve your goals. In most case, they have stronger a heart and willpower who has faith in their mind. It means they won’t give up, even they are in the terrible situation. So faith is a kind of mysterious power, and it could train people’ willpower and their heart. By this means these people have more chances to be successful because their faith encourage them not to give up until achieving the goals. “The power of faith and belief is real power.” by Remez Sasson. It is true. Faith is so important for us, and it is the not only is power, but also is self-improvement. Meanwhile, faith also can be defined as self-improvement. When you live in faith, you will have much positive attitude in your mind. It also offers much positive energy to you. Using bible to make example, about 84 precents of the world population has belief, a third of them are Christians, and bible is the most popular book in the world. Christians believe |
they have sin when they born because of first sin.
So they always try their best to help other people and be a nice person in
order to wash their sin. Such as Jesus, he is the only son of God, and he died
for people in order to help them to wash their sin. According to these
materials, faith can show a right way for people and help them become better.
On the hand, when you live in faith, you won’t lose yourself anymore. You will
find the real meaning of life. Conviction will help you to fix your problems and
make you become better. For example, some bible verses are talking about loving
other people, like in John 13:34 “A new
commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you,
you also are to love one another.” Faith will give you a correct direction and
guide you to become better.
At last, faith is the wealth of our soul. In the current society, an increasing number of people feel a lot of pressure. Most of them do not know what they really need. They just work every day and night in order to get more incomes. They have already lost themselves, because they do not have faith. These material stuff are not the most important elements for people. The difference between human and animal is human have soul and faith. But some of them already lost themselves. Money is the most important thing in their eyes. In fact, belief and soul are the most necessary stuffs for us. For example, many people work for church or school without salary, but they are not stupid. They just focus on their soul. Money cannot buy faith. There are a lot of people who are very rich. However they always feel alone, because they do not have faith. Some other people who are pretty poor, but they are always happy and enjoy their life. The main reason for phenomenon is because of faith. People can have no money, but they cannot have faith.,because it is the mental wealth. To sum up, faith is the most significant element for people’s life. When we live in it, we will have brave heart, improve ourselves, and harvest mental wealth. From Bible, Hebrews 11:1 |
Choose Correct Answer
Every action
have consequence, whether it is good or bad. I studied in American high school
last year, I found an interesting fact that every single teacher warned their
students not not cheat in the first class. Cheating is a serious problem in The
United States, even in the world. Cheating refers to a wrong way of achieving
goals. Most Americans think everyone cheats. This is one kind of American
stereotype. There are three ways to introduce the stereotype of cheating. they
which causes, effects, and solutions.
Firstly, we should know cheating not only occurs in our studies, but also occurs in our life. There are many reasons that cause students to cheat. The first cause of cheating is students are lazy to study. Many students copy other people’s work whenever they are given the chance. They do not want to spend time on thinking, writing, or calculating. They think they can save time by copying others’ work. On the other hand, we can say they are prefer playing games. Our society is developing, it means young people have an increasing number of games or machines that they can paly. According to the research, most young people spend 7 hours and 38 minutes a day on TV, video games, and computer.(Rubin Bonnie Miller. 20 Jan. 2010) They even spend one-third time on playing video game, this is no doubt why they have no time to do their work. The only way they can get it done is copying. They believe they can get great grades by cheating on the exam, so they spend more time on video games, and never care about their studies and work. When the exam comes, they begin to worry about it , but they know nothing about the exam, so they try to cheat in the exam. There is a another kind of student who are cheating on the it. They are not lazy, not always play video game, spend most time on study, but they still cheat. The reason is they are not confident, they doubt their answers and want to see other people’s answers to double check, but this is still cheating. First one effect of student cheating is that the student is not learning anything. Students’ main responsibility is studying, this is why we go to school. We need knowledge to improve ourselves. Cheating would make you lose everything. When you graduate from school, you will be repentant. Losing creativity is |
another main effect of cheating. It could makes
students lose their responsibility, and the students will never acquire new
knowledge. After a period of time, their creativity level drops every single
time when they copy or have someone else do their work. And these student's ability to think creatively and
successfully becomes to nothing. They will become a machine, just know how to
copy others’ work, never create their own and new ideas. The ability of think
creativity and successfully plays an important role for the world in the
future. Cheating will hurt your future and make you become a normal people. The
third effect of cheating is that students will become lazy. They do not want to
thinking, reading, and writing. Their life will be depending on other people.
They cannot control their life, because they do not have ideas without
cheating. The worst effect is students will have a terrible habit. In the
future, when students go to work, they will still cheat. This is absolutely bad
for their whole life.
An increasing number of people began to care about how to solve the problem of cheating. First of all, we need to tell them what is correct and what is wrong. Let them know the correct way to do something. Meanwhile, it is very necessary to tell them the bad aspects of cheating. On the other hand, parents should make a great model for their children, because parents are the first teachers for their children. School should to make up some activities to help children understand the damage of cheating when they in first grade. It is very necessary for these little children. Because they are 7 or 8 ages when they in first grade, they do not know what is right and wrong. So we need to give them correct concepts and ideas. It can help them to build right worldview and it also helpful for their future. In conclusion, cheating is a terrible action. It affects us in many aspects, and we need to realize the cause and effect of cheating to learn how to avoid cheating in our life. You get the good or great score, but it doesn't your real and actual ability. You should be honest to your teachers, parents, colleagues , and yourself. |