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**New year resolution**

 * I am going to eat every food in all of restaurants of my home town when the summer break approachs. All the other resolution come behind this will of mine. In fact, there is no possibility staying with my parents in the traditional spring festival. This is the first time for both of my parents and me to separate in different countries. I am happy. Anyway, I am sure that my parents won`t. Giving them a photo call in the morning of that important day becomes the second resolution.**


 * With the new year goes on, I have to remind me that some thing have to be changed. Changing is always hard but only by it can people make a difference. Last year, I failed in the CS1 because of only two blogs I haven`t submit on time. When the winter break is over and the new quarter comes, I realize writing something like blog will become a large part in my daily life. If I hate doing that as strongly as last quarter, I had better quit now. Overcoming it will become the third part of my resolution.**


 * Sometimes I find that I am the person born with the nature to screw everything up. This is why I need someone to give me a favor all the time. Friends, teachers, strangers who once appeared in my life and help me through every hard time in my life. If god only me three resolution to come true, I want to give up my first wish to wish they can all have their new year resolution coming true.**

**Jan. 10. 2010 Free writhing**

 * I** **am supposed to in a big group of waiting line for the ticket of the train to the my home if I were in my country in the night. I thought I have been thinking about too much of the life I used to have before and waste a lot of time. Exactly, it is the lecture of a dying genius professor about time management that reminds me. I always fail to be a good manager when I was in the high school. the professor say that too because no one can be a born good manager of time. It needs practice and practice again. I don't think the gold is the make life in order. but is to make life have sense. using the time wight lead to develop many other skill in a good rate. The**

Jan. 11. 2010 Introduction paragraph
Parents are always telling their children to spend less time in front of the television as my mother usually do, but their alway forgot a reason to keep children away from the TV. As far as I am concerned, research already shows that the way TV provides information is nearly useless. What is more, the damage certainly exists to a growing brain when a child is exposed to the light of the screen in a long time. However, you will not take this if your parents show you the result of the research. So the more wisdom way to tell the child to stay away from the box is to say that TV will make you become a fool.

Jan. 20. Home work
2-11 Put the sentence "group who wish to " in front of the sentence "Other dress in costumes and carry signs with outrageous comments about the candidates or the political process." Put the sentence "The pro-life people, in front of the sentence begining with " Another social-political group is the one advocating more civil rights and better econemic opportunities for minorities." 3. Put the part "My teacher treated me as if I was about two grade levels below my classmates. My family had just moved here from California, and she did not think I was up with the rest of my class" after first two sentences.
 * 1) Put the sentence "The hotel business is just one type of enterprise that has profited by the invention of computers" at the beginning.
 * 2) Put the sentence "For instance, at most conventions you will find at least a couple of people wearing masks of their favorite or least favorite candidates" after the first sentence.

2-12


 * 1) On one hand, teenagers work for their own current expense. My cousin Celia works at a clothing store and buys all her own clothes. And one of my friends bought himself a used car just from the money he made after school. On the other hand, young people want to make money for their future. An example of this is saving money for an education after high school. My cousin Robert is doing this for his future. He also told me that he is saving some money to set up a household after marriage.
 * 2) The driving lesson I got from my fiance was a very distressing one. I started very well until he started getting bossy. For example, the little incident occurred 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. Then the car stopped in the middle of the street, which I guess is why he was worried. So I calmly put the car in the park and started to get out to let him drive since I obviously wasn't doing it the way he wanted. But he grabbed my arm and told me to finish getting the car out of the middle of the street. After this incident, I dicided that my fiance was not the right person to teach me to drive.

Jan. 24
2.13

The teacher who change me the most is the English teacher in my high school time, because she always treat me not everybody else in the class. In academic study, especially in her class, she request me to remind new words faster and more accurately and also in the test she won't allow me to make the common mistakes. On the other hand, she forgives so much in the problem of my daily life. I always get up late, and as a result, I always be late to the morning self-practice morning class. But what she treat me in this problem is quite different from others by permit me to absent from it. In addition, I am her monitor of the class. Maybe she think there are more responsibilities for me to take, so for me I can be an exception of the law. But in this way, she leads me to realize how important for me to be stick on myself to be a model of the class.

2.14 Brainstorm: 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

Jan. 25
2. Generally speaking, I have two different feeling before I take a test. One is nervous, and the other one is excited. I think multiple choices is much better than others, thanks to the clues that always provided in the choices. And other reason is that this kind of text will be scored objectively without the judgment of human. Compared to the True/False, short answer, and essay, multiple choices text is much more common in the daily practice. As a result, I am familiar with this type more than I am with the others. What is more, multiple choices provides a way that if you do not know the answer, you can guess one.

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group 1
1. Yellow stone park, statue of liberty and disney land, those are amzaing places that I want to have a step on them when I intended to go to the U.S. But when I invite you to my country, I will introduce you some place that are really good. Great wall is my first recommandation, because it is the greatest work of human beings.

 2. The most cool thing is to have a skill to say a different language, which means you can find a better job or more chance to get a better job.

3 People cares their health, but they always do something to make theirselves sick. If they finnally get the cold, they are lucky. However, one day they are told they have the AIDS. So they have to worry a bit. The way AIDS spreads and hurts makes this disease so famous.

Feb. 1

6.7

1. learning English isn't so easy. Grammar is totally different from Chinese. The way thinking in English is different. Basic culture is different.

Differences in grammar and construction of English make it difficult for a Chinese student to learn English well.

The international students find it difficult to understand each other, because the way they think is different.

The difference between western and eastern cultures are in the way for a Chinese student to learn English.

2. you can see some unusual people on the bus

see the old friend, familiar stranger, famous writer

It always happens that you find who is sitting in front of you is an old friend of yours.

Feb. 3

6-12 Thesis Statement:There may be several reasons, but three stand out.

I. One reason people save their books is to use them as reference material. A.Professional people save some of those books for future reference. 1.A doctor- Gray's Anatomy and pharmacology 2.an English teacher- the Norton Anthology of British Literature 3.a lawyer- case book B. People who like to cook keep recipe books. 1.those who like to cook-recipe books 2.those who like electronic equipment 3.families with children - encyclopedias and reference books II. Another reason some people save books is to make a good impression. A. Some think that a library full of literary classics, dictionaries,and books about art, science, and history make them look well read and therefore sophisticated. B.some people like to reveal to visitors their wide range of tastes and interests. 1. they can subtly reveal their interests in Peruvian art, Indian music, phlosophy, or animals without saying world.

III. While some people may keep books for practical reference and for conveying an impression, I suspect that there is a deeper reason. A. Therefore, each book really represents an experience from which the reader may have grown or learned something. 1. has transports the reader to another place. B. In short, saving books makes me feel secure as I hold on to what they have given me. 1.The Standard First Aid and Personal Safety 2. Bulfinch's Mythology

Feb. 21 I chose this words because they are new to me.

ailments means some kinds of disease which are not serious. cosmetics means protection product you put on your skin inhibit means to prevent or stop hierarchy means a system with some levels in it exemplify means use example to prove something deterioration means getting worse and worse attainments means acchievement or success.

Feb.23 TV program: Movies:
 * 1) live state show
 * 2) news reports,
 * 3) detective shows,
 * 4) series shows,
 * 5) talking shows,
 * 6) sports programs.
 * 7) fashion shows,
 * 8) Talk shows,
 * 1) Comedy,
 * 2) romantic,
 * 3) action,
 * 4) science.
 * 5) Cartoon,
 * 6) educational

feb. 28

march 3


 * 1) Introduction
 * 2) Introduce
 * 3) Thesis statement: three groups based on hotels
 * 4) Airport hotels
 * 5) General characteristics: near airport
 * 6) Example
 * 7) Hilton
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Morriott
 * 9) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Holiday Inn
 * 10) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Downtown hotels
 * 11) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">General characteristics: commercial hotels
 * 12) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Example: Hyatt-Regency
 * 13) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Resort hotels
 * 14) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">General characteristics: near beaches
 * 15) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Example
 * 16) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Walt Disney World Resort
 * 17) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Conclusion: based on location-- three groups