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New Year Resolutions are similar with the goals of the new year. Actually, I made three significant New Year Resolutions: learn more about Spanish, develop my critical thinking, and find good friends. First, Learing more spanish is the most important new year resolution. Because I want to extend my forgein language and improve my language and liguistic competence, I need to study more spanish. Next, I will choose more classes about critical thinking to enhence the system of my thoughts. Meanwhile, better critical thinking can build up more logical thinking. For example, I am taking WGS100, which adds more valuable knowledge in my mind. In this way, I believe that I should have some improvements in my critcal thinking at the end of the quarter.At last, making friends is easier than finding good friends. Sometimes I appear to be overcome with homesickness because I did not find a good friend. So finding good friends also plays a crucial role in this year. To sum up, above three new year resolutions are not so easy to reach, but I will try my best to attain them.
 * My Three New Year Resolutions**

Time management plays a important role in my life. Because if I do not have a good time management, my life would be massed up. I believe everyone has a dream which includes different kinds of goals and plans. When we try to reach our aims, we have to make a useful time management to fill in our life. There is a famous conclusion from Harvard: If you use the time wisely, you will get closer to sucess. Meanwhile, you should schedule your time effectively and not waste your leisure time. Because the lifetime is limited, people have to realise that and make a fitable time managemetnt to yourselves. Personally, I just find the importance of time management this year. Maybe it is a sign which shows I become more mature than before. A rational Time management not only enhance the ability to manage your life, but also provoke you to reach your aims. If you do not have a good time management for your life, you will not achieve the pleasure from the life. By using time calender to manage your study or career, the success is waiting for you.
 * The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.--Goethe**
 * 1/10/2011**
 * Time management**

Tim management acts a crucial role in people's life. Because everyone's time is limited, time has to be managed in a good way. Furthermore, if you manage your time tightly, you would find that your life is happy. Otherwise, if your life does not have a time calender for your time, you would always act pessimistic and tired off your life. A useful time management increases the effective success. For instance Harvard has a famous conclusion about time management that success not only comes from hard work, but also a good management. If you catch up the right time management, the successful future is waiting for you. In addition, a helpful time management leads you to use the leisure time wisely. Even though you have a break, you still manage it wisely.

1/11/2011 Television is the most important media in the world now. Furthermore, television becomes more common and popular among people's life. Because television includes three important advantages: enrich leisure time, develop the worldwide view, increase language ability. First, television has different kinds of TV shows such as NEWS, drama, sports, music. Getting though these shows people would enhance their leisure time and provide more choices to find fun in their life. Next, television directly develop people's worldwide view, which let different countries people get closer too each other. For example, China's discovery show implies different countries culture and custom. After watching this show, people learn more about the global culture and extend their worldwide view. Finally, because television is common in people's life now, people would watch it all the time and learn something from it. Foe instance, China's CCTV9 indicates English learning program, which enhance people's study ability to accept a new language.

1/11/2011 Video ; 1. I think adults and children has different basic ability to learn to read and write. 2. Methods: discussion, literary compositon, read dozens of books each semester, give opinions, summarize daily reading, write own novel, take each other's work to suggest improvement. In my notes, I think the best way to improve the reading and writing is to read more and think more about the content, then to summarize the points. Writing the daily journal might be useful to enhance the reading and writing. 3. Read dozens of books each semester is a better method for children than adults because children have better memories than adults. In addition, even thought children do not have enough basic ability, their study ability is the best.

EXERCISE 2-1 1. The influence of the final examination 2. The adventages of the beach 3. Major comets always relate to weird stuff 4. Internal and external attributions

P24 Brainstorming: An important decision choose to study abroad, be more independent, take history class this quarter, live in school, study Spanish, learn how to drive a car, make friends with other countries' people, start to eat some spicy food, learn how to swim, develop self-confidence, study in library several time every week, create a better living environment, enjoy my life more, smile everyday, listen more advise from my parents, be a good student, try my best to do everything, overcome all troubles, think more about others, care about the health more, see more movies, reading more, study more critical thinking.

P32 1. The hotel business is just one type of enterprise that profited by the invention of computers. In the hotel business, computer ease the load at the front desk. With a computer, a clerk can make a reservation easily and quickly, without the use of cards, racks, or registration books. And with a computer, the clerk can get an instant update of the room status.This tells the clerk which rooms are available to guests.

2. Politica conventions in America attract all kinds of people besides delegates. Groups who wish to attract attention to theor political and social causes demonstrate outside the convention halls. The pro-life, the pro-choice, the supporters of nuclear energy, those against nuclear energy, and the pro-You are sure to see an artist or two doing chalk portraits of the candidates on the sidewalks. Others just like to poke fun at the candidates. Another social-political group is the one advocating more civil rights and better economic opportunities for minorities. For instance, at most conventions you will find at least a couple of people wearing masks of their favorite or least favorite candidates. Others dress in costumes and carry signs with outrageous comments about the candidates or the political process.

3. My family had just moved here from California, and she did not think I was up with the rest of my class. My teacher treated me as of I was about two grades levels below my classmates.An example of this kind of prejudice happened to me when I was in the fourth grade. I remember one time when all the students were being allowed to choose a book they wanted to read.When it was my turn to choose a book, she laughed at me and said,"Oh,that one is too hard for you. I'll choose one for you." I was so embarrassed. I thought that she should not embarrass me in front of the class like that.

2-12 1. First of all, teenagers work for their own current expenses.Young people want to make money for their future. Young people want to buy clothes, and they want to save money to buy a car or a stereo or a television. For example, my cousin Celia works at a clothing store and buys all her own clothes. Last week, she bought herself a nice leather jacket.And one of my friends bought himself a used car just from the money he made after school. My cousin Robert is doing this for his future. He also told me that he is saving money to set up a household after marriage.

2. The driving lesson I got from my fiance was very distressing one. I start off very well until my fiance started getting bossy. I did one wrong thing so he started shouting at me.The little incident occured when he wanted me to make a U-turn in the middle of the street. As I was trying to do that, I turned the wheels too hard and the wheels hit the end of the curb. My fiance started yelling at me as if he were crazy. I decided after this incident that my fiance was not the right person to teach me to drive. So I calmly put the car in park and started to get out to let him drive since I obviously wasn't doing it the way he wanted. But he grabbes my arm and told me to finish getting the car out of the middle of the street. He also wanted me to move the car because there were cars coming in both directions. Oh I forgot to tell you that when the tires hit the curb, the car stopped in the middle of the street.

3. The way women are shown in TV commercials today has changed compared with 20 years ago. Twenty years ago, commercials mostly showed women as brainless housewives. In those commercials, women wew concerned about grtting the best laundry detergents, the softest toilet paper, or the tastiest soup. They were portrayed as sort of dumb and silly, as if the most important thing in the world was getting hamburger on sale. In commercials today, women are shown as housewives, but they are not portrayed as so dumb. For example, the woman in the Dristan commercial I saw last night seemed like a normal, intelligent person.Women in commercials today are not just housewives. They are shown as professional working people, too. For example, in one telephone commercial, a woman with a briefcase is saying goodbye to her child and husband as she is about to catch a plane.

Accounting provides more skills and job opportunities than other major people. First of all. accounting focuses more on caculation and management, so people get more logical thoughts to the business market. For instance, learning accounting needs more math skills and logical thinking. Then, it provide more job opportunities because business market is vast and needs more accounting people. The global economy appears danger, so the accounting becomes more important in this society and business market. Meanwhile, more accounting people are needed at this time, and they find job easier than others. For example, more and more students choose accounting for job oppotunitis.Finally, accounting would be the most useful major all the time because the world cannot leave the business market. For example, people have to do the trade to support the life, so they have to make a trading market to do the business.

2-14 Brainstorm: nervous, scare about the test result, did not prepare well, sleeplessness before test, think more about the effect of the test, the stressful feelings, cannot be relax, cannot enjor the test, fearness, parents' reaction, the balance between hard work and test result is not equal, drink coffee before test, change the negative attitude, create more positive thoughts, ambitions, overcome the fearness, enjoy the test, do not think too serious about test, care about test result but do not care too much about it, use your knowledge to write the test, try your best to finish the test

Many students usually would feel anxious because they are nervous, scared, and sleepless before the test. Students can do three methods to combat test anxiety: create more positive thoughts, increase direct ambitions, and drink coffee before test. First, students should build up more positive thoughts to treat the test as a challenage but not a trouble.For example, students speaks to themselves some powerful words such as " Yes, I can" and" I am the best". Next, when students have the direct ambitions to do something, the percentage of the scareness would decrease. For example, when you take a history test, you know what you should focus on and you would be more confident about this test. In addition, you would be responsible of the test, so you would be so scare about the test result because you more care about the process of the test. At last, If you are sleepless before test, you should not be anxious and worried about you want to sleep during the test. Even though the sleeplessness is the fact, you still can choose to drink coffee to wake you up. Maybe the coffee would satisfy your thoughts about the weariness.

p104 1. The difference between writing assignment in college and writing assignment in high school is the requirement and style. For example, college writing needs more words than high school does. Also, college writing has the specific writing style such as putting the name on the left top. In addition, Not only does the writing assignment appear different in college and high school, but also the teachers are totally different. Because college teachers have more wide knowledge and experience, they would make serious system to teach students. And their job is to educate the students to become the professional and successful people. While, even though high school teachers also have good knowledge and experience, they more focus on the free teaching style. They need to lead students to be more creative and their duty is to et them to prepare well toward college.

p105 PLAGIARISM Plagiarism always happens in science computer and engineering. While there is a ACM's Publication,it stands for the longstand code of Enthics. The ACM Plagiarism Policy identifies plagiarism in many different ways which depend on the level of the plagiarism, especially according to the results of the plagiarism made. in ACM's Plagarism policy shows that all authors must take responsibility for the writing. Plagiarism should be controlled.

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P107 2. The hazards of storing chemical wastes causes more damage to the environment. :) 3. Living in a country is more comfortable than living in a city. 4. New York City is the famous city around the world because it is the largest city in the United States. T_T 5.Universities in the United States should add more humanities courses.

p111 6-4 1. This paragraph doesn't indicate the developed ideas. Fat people are not always happy because of health problems and social views. 2. This paragraph is good. 3. No clear statement. I would like to introduce the regional culture of my hometown, Hlatikulu, Swaziland. 4. This paragraph is good.

p.112 4. Watching television is a waste of time because of the negative influences such as violence. However, more and more people’s life cannot leave without television. Actually, watching television has three main positive efforts: enrich leisure time, know update news, and expand worldwide view.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Ohio university is a comprehensive university which includes high technology and education quality. While, I can suggest three improvements needed at this school: decrease international tuition fee, create a useful help center, and open more public class.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. The Chinese New Year is one of the most important festival in China. At this day, we would prepare a ceremonious dinner to celebrate this holiday. In addition, each family member should be together during this night. Then, other two important traditional way to celebrate Chinese New Year is “Red Bag” and Chinese New Year Live show.

2/1/2011

I. **Learning English isn't so easy.**
a lot of vocabulary, complex grammar rules, different writing styles, have to transfer the idea of Chinese to English, cannot understand some native speakers' words, the ideas cannot express easily, confused about the difference between English and Chinese, second language, practice English has some troubles, not well communication in English

1. A lot of vocabulary make learners feel frustrated. 2. Sometimes, it is hard to understand the ideas because English is the second language to me. 3. The thoughts cannot express easily in English.

II. **People go to shopping center for many reasons.**
enrich the leisure time, increase the pleasure of life, buy so many things, feel so excited if they find some things that they love, like a discovery journey, satisfy people's desire, change the mood, to look forward fun, buy some new things to celebrate the holiday such as Christmas Day, decorate themselves or family in clothing, the feeling of finding the thing you want

1. Go shopping enriches people's leisure time. 2. people would feel excited if they find the things that they like by shopping. 3. Buying new things brings good mood.

2/3 1 .people use the books as the reference materials. A. Future b. 2. good impression 3. practical reference and conveying impression.

2/15/2011 p186 1. "weasel words" is the words are used to mislead without lying. 2. encourage people to buy products

1. The weasel words are used to mislead without lying. 2. 5. The word"like" is the advertiser's equivalent of magician's use of misdirection. 3. Specific examples. 4. weasel words

2/23/2011 Exercise 9-8 movies: Drama films, Epics, Comedies the common characteristics of the members are ture stories or real-like situation. Drama film: Titanic, TheGod Father, 12 Angry Men , Forrest Gump, Good Will Hunting, American Beauty, Gone with the Wind, Braveheart, All about Eva, The Graduate, Citizen Kane, Roman Holiday Love:Titanic, Gone with the Wind, The Graduates, Roman Holiday Truth:The Godfather, 12 Angry Men, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Story:American Beauty, Good will hunting, All about Eva, Citizen Kane

3/2/2011 Movies includes different types of categories such as drama films, epics, and comedies. Moreover, one of my favorite category is drama film, which makes me feel something real and touching. Drama films can be classified by love story, life truth, and biography.

To begin with, love story usually contains a detailed background and created a fairttale ending. In addition, love story becomes people's favorite type fpr a long time becaise it has people's dream about romance. For example, "TIitanic" shows people that love would happen at first sight and love needs courage. Also, love can be existed forever. Moreover, " Gone with the wind" indicates that love can overcome any difficulties which may happen whenever and wherever. "Roman Holiday" implies that love has no hierachical limitations.

Furthermore, life truth brings more critical thoughts into the film, which enhance the influence of the film. After watching a film, you get the feeling of the real-like situation which let you look over your life in a new direction. This is the crucial part of the life-truth type film. For instance, "The Godfather" as one of the most classice drama movie which suggests that how to be a real and successful man. In"Braveheart", the attitude of the leading role is fighting for freedom until he died. My favorite movie is Forrest Gump which represents that everyone has the way to be successful.

At last, biography always uses the true story about a person which describes his/her marvellous life experience. Also, people can compare their own life to the biography of others to learn some positive things or correct the disadvantages. For example, "American Beauty" shows that a man fears growing older because he is losing the hope of true love and respects from people who know him best. It denotes that nothing can be perfect in life. "All about Eva" indicates a real life of an aging stage actress. "Citizen Kane" shows Citizen Kane's whole life experience to imply that life contains both happiness and sadness.

To sum up, the attractive parts of drama films include love story, life truth, and biography. What's more, drama films brings more deep thoughts of life to audience. Meanwhile, people always get the feelings with drama film because it bases on true story or real-like sitiation in life.

Generally, we can classify these hotels into three large groups based on location. 1. To begin with airport hotels accommodate the air traveler. a. short stay-overs or cancelled flights and business travellers a.low to medium 2. Furthermore,downtown hotels, also called commerical hotels, are located near large office complexes and retail stores in the major metropolitan areas. a. business traveler and tourists a. medium to high 3. Finally, there are also the resort hotel located near the beaches, mountains, or spas. a. vacationers and recreation-minded people a.high level of service In conclusion, most of hotels are located near airports, in the downtown areas, and in resort areas.
 * 3/3/2011**
 * OUTLINE **
 * Introduction: **
 * Body: **
 * Bring convience to traveler
 * stay for one to three days
 * provde a limited level of service
 * for daytime and nighttime activities
 * stay for three to five days
 * variety of services
 * destinations or part of a destination complex
 * stay for one week to entire season
 * provide guest entertainment
 * Conclusion: **