2009年10月24日 星期六

Higher Education

Listing
Higher education is the education of university, it includes many different kinds of education. You have to pass the entrance exam, and then you can be the student of university. You can regard it as the last steps before you start your work career. Higher education is the place to spread higher culture and knowledge. After you finish your courses, you will get the degree, diploma, and license to prove you have completed higher education.

Time-order
In the past, higher education is regard as very difficult education. Regular people cannot pass the entrance exam because it is too difficult to do it. We can hear someone keep taking the entrance exam for several years, but now you never hear that. In the present, higher education is easy to get it if you have enough money. No matter what scores you get from the entrance exam, you can be the student of university. Because of the phenomenon, higher education is considered ordinary education like secondary education in the past.

Cause-effect
Now higher education is more and more common, and everyone can get it easily. Everyone has academic degree, so it makes higher education lose its original value. Because of such changes from the past, many people have to get higher and higher degree to face the changes of society. You can see many people go to cram school to get much training in order to get a better job.

2009年10月19日 星期一

How to Write a Good Essay

It is important that the first step in writing is not writing but thinking. At first, you have to think about the topic and then writing some words and ideas. After that, you can connect with these words and ideas to a sentence. Several sentences will make up a paragraph. When you write sentences, you have to take notice of your topic sentences because topic sentences play an important role in your essay. If you have a clear topic sentence, your readers will understand your essay clearly. After a good topic sentence, a good supporting sentence is essential. Supporting sentences are like the foundation of a house. If a house does not have a good foundation, it will collapse. Good supporting sentences give information that supports and explains the topic of the paragraph. Finally, you have to write concluding sentences to sum up your essay.

2009年10月12日 星期一

Daughter to Father

Daughter to Father by Lindsay Lohan is talking about confessions of a broken heart.


Situation
A daughter confessed to her father who has gone and left her alone. A daughter missed her father so much, so she kept asking to her father why have to go.

Conflict
The daughter was broken, but she still hoping her father could stay with her. She didn't know her father very well, but she still wanted to her father's care. No matter what her father did to her, she still loved her father.

Struggle
The daughter struggled to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders. She confessed to her father how she loved him and how she wanted to him.

Outcome
Finally, the daughter dreamed of another father who would never leave her alone. She wanted Daddy to hold her when she needed. Actually, she wanted to know about her father's news.

Reflection
A daughter had domestic violence in her childhood, but she still loved her father. She just wanted a father to hold her when she had a fear. But now she didn't know where her father is, she waited for a postman to bring her a letter about her father.

2009年10月3日 星期六

The Little Rooster

The Little Rooster adapted by Starfall is talking about a story of a man and his little rooster.

Situation
The story is talking about a man wanted to have a long sleep but his little rooster always woke him up. After he gave the little rooster away, he had a long sleep but his garden was filled with weeds.


Conflict
A man had a little rooster and the little rooster got up very early everyday. The man wanted to have a long sleep, but the little rooster woke him up.


Struggle
The little rooster got up early in every morning, and woke up the man. When the man was up, he would go to plant his garden.


Outcome
The man was angry and gave the little rooster away. Then he could have a long sleep everyday, but he didn’t weed his garden anymore.


Reflection
When the little rooster was not gone, the man would get up early and weed the garden. Even if he didn’t have a long sleep, he had a regular life and a plentiful garden. So when you choose one, you have to loose another one.