To Be A Pilot !

My interesting job is pilot. However, to be a pilot is not easy. It requires good vision, language ability, strong body and clear mind. Beside these, you should have a smart brain to solve many problems in the airplane. When you fly in the sky, security is the most important thing to everyone; many things would influence you, like wind or weather. Making plane and making passengers safe is the pilot's job. You should control everything in the plane. Although being a pilot is difficult, I still want to try it. I want to make my dream come ture, and also hope that day will ccome soon! (Patrick)

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Chinese Talk: The girl lives in the moon

A long long time ago, there were ten suns in the sky. They lived in the cave at night, and they would go outside to keep the world light and warm in the daytime. But there was a special rule in their jobs, that was only one could go outside per day, or the earth would be dry and the creatures would die. Therefore, they took turns and each one would stay in the cave for 9 days, and had one day free. That made them feel bored, and they often complained about that. One day, they made a decision that they would go outside together, and one day they did it.
It was terrible for ten suns to appear in the sky. Human and animals could not stand the heat and a lot of creatures died. This condition kept on for a few days, but smart human could do everything for that. A few months later, when the earth almost lost all life, the hero appeared. He was the #1 shooter, and he shot down nine suns, and left one. As soon as possible, the earth recovered, and the people smiled again.
The people let the hero become their king to thank him. But it was the wrong decision for the people. The hero lost his humble heart and was more and more period. He hurt his people every day and didn’t care for his people. Moreover, because he wanted to control his kingdom forever, he found two miracle herbs which would not let him become old or die. Why did he get two herbs? He had a beautiful wife, and he wanted to share the kingdom with her. His wife loved him deeply, too. But she was very kind to her people, and she could bear to let her husband hurt the people. So she took both herbs to prevent her husband from living forever.
Unluckily, both herbs were too much. She felt her body become more and more light. At the same time, her husband found out she took both herbs, and he felt so sad. He tried to chase his wife back, but he could. His wife was too light, and flew into the moon. The king was so angry, he tried to shoot the moon down, but a god made him lose the power of the shooter. His wife received a new life and lived in the moon forever.

By Fred

Real Brotherly Love

This story is Korean folk tale.
A long time ago, in the country, two brothers who were poor farmers were living there. The older brother was better a little bit than the younger brother even though they were very poor. One day, the old brother thought that it's better to bring some grain to the young brother because he could eat food on time, but he thought his brother could not. So he decided to do his plan. At night, the old brother brought some grain from his granary to his brother's granary secretly. After he did it, he felt very good and slept happily. But, the next day, when the old brother saw his granary, he found that the amount of the grain was not changed. He thought it very strange and at night, he brought some grain again. However, it was still not changed. He thought it really strange so he decided to watch his granary at night secretly. At night, he hid among the trees and he was watching his granary. Suddenly, one guy came close with some grain. He is the younger brother !!! Yes, he thought the same thing as his older brother. And the older brother hugged his younger brother and they cried together. And they were living very happily for a long time~

Chongmin Jeong

Internet users

There are a lot of people who use the Internet, but the point is why they use it and do they use it in a positive way or in a negative way. We also need to think about what the government should do with these people who use it in a negative way. As we know there are some who people use the internet to buy all kinds of stuff, but the thing that people care about is security. Some people use the Internet to steal from other people and they have many ways to steal, for example, creating fake websites, sendimg folders that have a lot of patch that help the people who try to steal to get the IP number from the users computers, also sending any passwords that users use. There are a lot of programs from famous company to try to catch these hackers but also when they put anew program the people who want to steal find another way to steal. The other negative way some people use the Internet to find inappropriate relationships with teenagers and we know that is very strong in the United States. People who use it in positive way are more than people who use it in negative way. We have to stop these people and we should punish them. That’s what the government should do.



Suliman Aluqeel

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Globalization and indrustrialization in the Chinese toy market

Armah L.Kamara
EAP1 Writer’s Workshop 1
1/29/07



Globalization and industrialization in the Chinese toy market

In his article,” Lament of Chinese toys of old”, Kelvin Platt (1999) mentions that, the Chinese toy market has been greatly affected by the globalization and introduction of modern toys which have made many changes to Chinese cultural preservation. Children no longer want to see or play with old toys, such as, opera mask, hand-inscribed paper balls, pinwheels, and other antique playthings because they feel those are not very entertaining and they prefer modern toys like electronic games, watching movies or having robots which bring great excitement.

However, Liang Zuwang, a former toy manufacturer and collector, organized an exhibition, in which he says, it is important for children to have modernized toys because of the computer age, he wants the Chinese toys of old to be preserved because it helped the children to use their imagination and helps keep in focus or preserve the past of Chinese culture and its evolution. He also says these toys like the hand-painted clay figures, stilt-walkers, or a craftsman preparing to mend an iron bowl, showed how people lived in the 1800s.
Therefore, he wants the Chinese populace to rally and preserve these toys of old so the richness of China’s cultural past can be realized and appreciated from generation to generation.
Platt, K. (1999,Dec 24). Lament of Chinese toys of old. Christian science monitor. P.6

A vivid idea of the Navaho culture

Armah Kamara
EAP1 Worker’s Workshop 1
01/29/07


A vivid idea of the Navaho culture

In a World today full of many cultures (the shared beliefs and values of a particular group of people) some cultures have tried to influence other cultures in many ways such as, food, language, religion and so forth. The author explained how people attached strong beliefs and concepts to where they are from or the importance of being connected to something that make you feel recognize in a broader prospective. He emphasized that these objects are not only for decoration but also as a mark of distinction.

In his article,” My Navaho home in Los Angeles”, Thomas Whiterock (1995), gives detailed descriptions and meanings of items and symbols in his mother’s home to his friend, Tung, who is from a different cultural background. For example, he explains the difficulties faced when the Navaho people refused to change their staple food, corn to wheat in a province given them by the Scottish. This was an important aspect of their culture because it keeps them together as people of substance and integrity.
However, he further lamented that the Navaho home was full of rich items and symbols of both natural and artificial components, which attract the attention of people who come across these objects, and symbols because of their characteristic designs. In his text, he named the rain stick, a stick with a tube-like design, where seeds are placed in to make the sound of rain fall, which was used for a ceremony during the harvest season thanking their gods for giving them plentiful rain for their crops to grow. He also explains the importance of some colors, which played vital roles in their culture. Like, red, which means a symbol of wisdom, red and black meaning knowledge. He mentions natural objects like the silk butterfly, which was mainly respected as a messenger, taking their prayers to heaven, and most interestingly, the sunflowers, which grow as a symbol of favor from their gods.
In relation to his work, I believe that the Navaho culture is of great value in connecting people of the past to that of people who live today because you cannot live without the past to build the present, or without the present to build the future as we move from one generation to another. For example, the ladder in the Navaho home was used to get the children to their room, which was up in the Hogan, and this ladder has been transformed to form of stairs to get in the upper part of a house.
Even though, we move from country to country in search of better living conditions, people still eat their main diet as a mean of survival, which keeps the cultural heritage alive. For example, in Liberia, rice is our staple food and if I eat a day’s meal without rice, I would say, I have not eaten today because of the lack of rice.

It is good to keep a focus of your cultural past because no matter what it may have been like, someone will love and cherish it because it helps to keep us together and determine the right way forward in our journey in life.

Reference: Whiterock, T. (1995) My Navaho home in Los Angeles. In B. Lee (ed.) (1995). Celebrating Diversity: A multicultural reader (pp. 94-6). Lexington, MA: D.C. Health.

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Educating girls is a real lifesaver

EAP1 S/R
Lynette

In the article, "Educating girls is a real lifesaver" by Victoria Brittain and Larry Elliott, the authors say, the education of girls is very important to reduce the poverty. There are many young girls who are not educated and have problems such as early death, serious diseases, and they live like slaves in poor countries. Moreover, as these girls are growing, this pattern repeatedly happens dooming even the next generations. The authors state poor countries can break the cycle concerning the fate of girls by educating girls. Also, educated girls can help the development of economies when girls are in schools.

Girls who are educated can help to improve national economies for two reasons. One, girls are more intelligent, in specific part, than boys. When people educate girls for the development of a girl’s abilities, their abilities might increase the income of companies in these poor nations. For example, girls have a better language ability than boys, fluency and verbal expression. For that reason, there are many announcers and reporters in broadcasting stations, and employers hire many girls who are educated. Also, girls are good job at handling many tasks. so many companies that produce detailed stuff want female workers and teach females.

Two, educating girls has a very good affect on the next generation. In order words, when girls who are educated become mothers, they raise their children wisely. Educated girls know how important education is. They teach their children when their children do not know something or have questions about class work. For instance, many mothers tend to stuffy English more and more in Korea. They want to help their children with school work and teach their children themselves. Moreover, wise mothers teach their children how to use money. This means that children gain an understanding of the word economy, and then they can save money.

In conclusion, educating girls is an effective way to start a growing economy, and this is a root cause in order to be a strong nation.

Reference
Brittain, V. & Elliott, L. (2004). Educating girls is a real lifesaver. In Mikulecky, B. S. & Jeffries, L. (Eds.), More Reading Power (p.23). White Plains, NY: Pearson Education.

Educating Girls Is a Real Lifesaver by Ayu Usui

Ayu Usui
EAP1 W.W.
　　In the article ”Educating Girls Is a Real Lifesaver” by Victoria Brittain and Larry Elliott, the author s discuss how many people know that the schooling of girls is a certain way to help poor countries economically, and individually. Actually, there are many countries that don’t educate girls because of customs that started long time ago. Girls were excluded from education for this reason, and continue to be presently. Some people think girls schooling isn’t the way to escape from poverty. Presently, this thinking is changing to be more progressive. However, in many countries that still have conservative societies, there are many women who still don’t have access to education and they sacrifice themselves for their families and societies. The author states that education is the way to decrease baby death. In fact, that’s true and we can say that this kind of problem cause some environmental problems so we can’t neglect these changing.
　　Schooling girls is vital problem because that causes many other problems such as economical, social and environmental. Also the problem is related with not only girls. First, schooling girls has some effects on economic because when girls are educated, they can get the jobs. And decreasing employee has some good influence on economy. It helps the country’s economic level, that is, the level is going up and the country will be wealth. Second, for raising social level, girls should be taken education. If they get education, the social level is going to high because people who are educated are orderly except special people. For example, the crime rate is high in low education class and its opposite in the high education class. And it’s proved by researchers, that no education cause many crimes. Third, environmental problems are caused by lower level education. If people got enough education, they can think about environment and take care of that. However people who don’t have enough education use the ground selfish. Therefore, the problems such as global warming and raising sea level happen. In conclusion, there are many serious and urgent problems because of no or low education, so girls must be received education.
 
Reference;
Brittain,V. and Elliot,l.(2004). Educating Girls is a Real lifesaver. In Mikulecky,S,B. and Jeffries,L. (Eds). More reading Power. (pp23). White plains, NY;Pearson Education.

The Path to Successful Future

Hassan Muslli
EAP1
Essay


The Path to Successful Future


What high school students care about is what they’ll do in their weekend, want kind of boy or girl they want, when they’ll get a new car or get out of school. But the main point here is how this students wake up and thinking about their future without a clue from their parents and their teachers, and it’s important to know how they decide of which major they take. Students must start to plan for the future from the first year of high school.

Making a plan about the major is very difficult especially when the teenagers don’t have much information about the majors and jobs. So, the beginning will be from the teachers and give the students more information about all majors and give them the freedom to see themselves in these jobs. Let them to take some tests and show them how they did in these tests. Moreover, it’s more important to understand their skills and theirtalent. The plan will be easier if there are some help.

When they finish the high school here will be the next step. Choosing the path of the future, and it’s the time to decide what the students want to be. This is not easy specially if the student didn’t take the tests or learned about the different major. So the problem will be what they are going to do. So they just see what their friends doing and do the same thing. And here is another problem. They discovered in the meddle if the way that major is different from their skills, so they change the major to something else.

Future for the children is just to be rich and successful, and this is something good to choose. But what happen in high school is like a nap from this stuff and leave it to another time so in the last year in high school they mention that they need to choose the way to be famous and successful, so they want to be doctors or engineers. In addition. They need important help to wake them up to start planning to the future from the first year of school. In conclusion, if we teach our children about good jobs in our life their mind will discovered there are a lot of important things to care about like choosing the path of the future.

Reference:

Randall S. (31, July 2006). Choosing a College Major: How to Chart You Ideal Path. Retrieved (02, Aug 2006) from www.quintcareers.com/choosing _major.html

EAP1 "Educating girls is a real lifesaver"

HeeKyung Nam
EAP 1

SUMMARY RESPONSE

In the article, “Educating girls is a real lifesaver” by Victoria Brittain and Larry Elliott, the author discuses that one of the best ways to reduce poverty is the education of girls in poor countries. The young girls of poor rural communities are illiterate and have big problems because they are living deprived of the basic essences of life. These girls deal with terrible situations such as premature births, back-breaking work, etc. However, there are bigger problems because poverty and anguish are linked in a repeating pattem not only among the fust generations but also the next generations. To improve this problem, girls has to improve in conservative countries for the education of girls to happen. They can be relieved of poverty and can live better lives though education.
These days, people think that the young girls of poor rural communities do notneed education and only boys need education because people of poor countries havefeudalistic customs. However, poor countries should have an educational liability untilat least the middle school for girls, because education plays an important role in everyone’s life. Countries should give a chance to girls and all citizens to live happy lives. For example, girls can live happier lives if they look for their loving works and can join their livelihood though educational liability. Thus, educational liability is important to everyone’s lives.
Second, young girls need a social organization of protecting their children. If girls should go to school in order to be educated, girls need an organization that takes careof their sons and daughters. For example, when girls go to school, their children can play with children of about the same age and can learn social skills though teachers. Then girls can study hard in school and can feel comfortable about their children’s well-being.
Third, poor countries should remove sexual discrimination. If there is gender Discrimination in a country with a one sided gender development, it can not difficult not only the other side gender’s development but also a balanced development. When both men and women’s skills are developed, the country gains benefits. For example, it has different from man and woman’s ability. If only boy’s ability develops, the country’s development very difficult because it can demonstrate only a half ability among country’s population rate.
In conclusion, I think girls should have education in the poor countries. So a citizen contributes to a privilege of happy life. In order to have a happy life, at least until the middle school, poor girls should have compulsory education. Also, while girls go to the school, their son and daughters were talked care of teacher of a social organization. Then poor countries should remove a sexual discrimination among their feudal custom to country’s benefit.


REFERENCE
Brittain, V. and Elliott, L. (2004). Educating girls is a Real Lifesaver. In B. Mikulecky and L, Jeffries. (Eds.) More Reading Power(p23). White Plains, NY: Pearson Education

"Educating Girls is a Real Lifesaver"

Summary/Response

By Hyunsung Cho

The article,” Educating Girls is a Real Lifesaver” by Victoria Brittain and Larry Elliott, talks about poor countries where women receive little education. Women in poor countries have many problems such as disease, infant deaths, and a lot of births due to little education. Thus they need education because it can help the economies grow, reduce the infant mortality rate and improve the environment. In the last 30 to 40years, the countries that have accomplished
gender impartiality have been developing quickly. The poor countries need to change from conservative thoughts that women never need to be educated. Once they get rid of hidebound ideas, there can be equal payment and education. Every year, many children have been killed by infectious diseases. However, although some of the countries remain, they are indicating lower infant mortality rate through school education of girls. Also, the authors discuss
how poor countries in main farming areas such as Africa and southern Asia, are able to offer many opportunities in the development of agriculture though education. This could prevent environmental problems in these regions such as malnutrition and global warming effects throughout the world.
Women should be educated around the world in order to decrease social problems. It is very important for children futures and the equality of sexes as well as national development.
First of all, women’s education plays a pivotal role in children’s futures, mostly, women become a mothers, and mother’s education a degree influences the education of her children. For example, children who have mothers who are doctors appear to have a higher probability of also becoming doctors. In this way, education offers a lot of opportunities for children in the future.
Second, education should be available to women in order to have equality of the sexes. Education provides a lot of information and knowledge, and one will gain understanding of one’s rights and duties. So, women could against an unfair dealing and to claim own’s one a right, also it could fortify equality of the sexes.
Third, women’s education contribute to national development of third-world countries. There are clever people, men as well as women. So, countries should offer women a chance for education, and women’s ability should develop. There are many women scientists in Korea. They have been finding good research results by delicate of women. It contribute to not only one’s own development ,but also national development.
In conclusion, women’s education should be required because it influences families, societies, and nations. It is evident that education needs to be available to women.

Erittain,V. and Elliott,L.(2004). Educating Girl is a Real Lifesaver. In B.S.
Mikulecky and Linda Jeffries (Eds) More Reading Power(p.23) White Plains,
NY: Pearson Education.

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The stress of exams

In my Institute in IIMIT, (2005), last semester I had 19 hours per week. The subjects were very hard and there was not much time to study for the final exam. It was very stressful and I was afraid of not doing well in the exams. I did a schedule and a study group with some of my friends in the institute and tried to give every part a subject that he is good in to summarize it and do some questions and answers for it. We all got a copy of the summary and tried to study it individually. After we finished, we did a group to study so if any body did not understand any thing they will explain it to him. The good thing was that most of us did well in the exam.

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Stressful Situation

Mohanad doubi
Date : 06/6/06


Stressful Situation

In October 2005 I was in U.S.A it was me first week in there I laved in a dorm it name is boomer hell I want out of my roomer to smoke and I left my key in my room I did not know that if want out I well need the key to go back in so after finishing my sag ret I tried to open the door and it locked so I saw a phone and there is an emergence paten so I praise the paten and after 5 minute a coup came to me and he sad what is your problem and I told him what happen with me he open the door for me and he told me not to praise the paten again .