Journal 16

“ Find a job that you love doing and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

 

It seems that if we can find a job that we can enjoy it, and love to do it, we won’t feel that we are tired of working, and feel bored on it. However, it is not easy to find our ideal jobs. When we are choosing a job, we consider about the income, our interests, parents’ expectation, the reputation and the power of the jobs. It is very hard to find a job that we really want to do. In the reality, only few people do what they love to do. Most people choose their jobs because of the income or the power. Sometimes, we even don’t have a chance to choose a job, but a job picks us to fit into it. Actually, I have been looking for a job that I can enjoy it in my life for a long time, but I still cannot find it, and I am still wondering on what kind of job should I have. But, I believe that I will figure out it one day. I will come to my dream job, or it will come to me.

Journal 15

Brooks, David (2010, April 19). Riders in the storm. The New York Times, from http://www.nytimes.com

 

Brooks disagreed with Sustein’s (2001) idea that Internet may kill the democracy. (par. 1) Sustein stated that Internet allow people to personalize their own newspaper. This could lead people only choose the stories that already interest to readers instead of having controversial opinions. “ We like hearing evidence that confirms our suppositions. We filter our evidence that challenges them.” (par.4) Although this idea was supported by some studies, Brooks questioned these studies that focus on the content of the websites, not the people who visit the websites. He used Gentzknow and Shapiro’s ( par. 13) studies to show that the Internet is more ideologically integrated than old-fashioned forms like face-to-face association. I agree with Brook’s idea. Even though the Internet has some impacts on society, the Internet let people has a wide of information.  

Journal 14

Dear Mom and Dad:

 

How are you doing these days? I am doing well on my school and preparing for TOEFL test. After three more weeks, this semester will finish. I have an important event to discuss with you: take a trip with my friends. I understand what you are concerned about. You might think that this is the second time I request to take a trip in this year. You might consider that I play too much and I don’t focus on my studying. You might worry that I haven’t gotten any admission from any school. You might question me what I want to be, and where is my future.

            Instead of having fun, taking a trip with my friends could help my studying. Like all the international students, friends are my support, my family, and my core life. Although uncle and auntie take care of me here, sometimes I still feel very lonely and sad. When I miss you, and miss Taiwan, my friends help me to go through all the hardship. After hanging out with my friends, I feel better and fulfilled. My friends are my escape of stress and studying.

Moreover, I believe that taking a trip can help me to think of my future. During the school time, I cannot relax, and don’t have time to think about my future. Every Monday through Friday, I have a busy schedule from 8 am to 4pm, and after class, I always stay in the library until 9 o’clock. Also, because I am in a higher level this semester, I have a lot of changeling homework, like longer reading, more academic vocabularies, and research paper. Therefore, before next coming semester, I want to take a trip with my friends, and relax a little bit. I believe that after the trip, I will feel fresh again and can focus on studying TOEFL and GMAT.

            I don’t expect that you allow me to take a trip, but I really need a vacation after working hard in a semester. Hope everything goes well with you. Take care of yourself. I love you.

Sincerely,

Daughter Wendy

Journal 13: Summarize/Paraphrase

Joan E. Solsman. (2010, April 15). Goggle’s profit jumps 37%. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from http://online.wsj.com

 

Compared to last year, the Google’s first quarter earning has a great increase: 37%. (par. 1) It shows that the market in online advertising is experiencing an upturn. Because the economy is recovering and the business of large advertisers is continually coming back, Google is able to have a great number in this year. (par. 2) According to the report, the earnings jumps from 1.42 to 1.96 billion, and a share grew from 4.49 to 6.06 dollars. (par. 5) Also, Google hired around 800 employees in the first season. (par. 3) Mr. Pichette mentioned that it is a “ very positive” beginning of this year. (par. 2)

Advice

What kind of person you are: a person likes to give advices, or a person likes to hear advices. For me, I am very bad at giving advices. I always give some useless advices to my friends, but they said I am a good listener. Every time, my friends come to me ask for advices. I always give some stupid responds. One time, a friend asked me what she should wear on a date. I told her did not dress up, and wore the worst clothes she had. It was a test to test her boyfriends loved her or not. Of course, she didn't take my suggestion. Another friend asked me what she should do when her parents were going to divorce. I asked her who were you going to be with. It is very obvious that I am not good at giving advices. I think sometimes I just want to let them laugh and feel relaxed before solving the problems. But, sometimes it brings some negative effect that my friends didn't think that was funny. Therefore, I only give advices to my closed friends; otherwise, I will loose friends. Most of time I will be a listener first until I really understand the whole issue. 

Research

I was major in Finance, but I want to change my major to Marketing or Advertising. In addition, I am also intesested on pictur books. Therefore, I combined these two to my topic: market in children's books. About children's book, I might talk about the writing and illustrating in children's books; about market, I would like to give some background, sales, trends and new media in children's book. I took some makreting classes in undergraduate, but to children's book, I willneed to do more research about this field.

1. What are the componetns in children's books?
2. What are the differences in children's books between western and eastern countries?
3. What's the future for children's books?

American Food

I have been in the United States for seven months, but I still cannot be used to American food. For me, American food is very different from my home country, Taiwan. Compared to Taiwanese food, American food is always too rich, too oily, too sweet and too salty for me. The typical American food is hamburgers, sandwiches, French fries, soda, cheesecakes, chocolate, chips and deep-fried food. Above these food contains too much oil, sugar, salt, and has very high calories and protein. Having this kind of food in a long time could let us get fat, and damage our health.

 However, Taiwanese food is much healthier than American food. For example, comparing the main food in Taiwanese and American food, rice is much better for human than bread. By making bread, you need to add butter, eggs, salt and sugar. However, rice is the very much rawer and more original. You don’t need to add other artificial food. If you having bread for long time, you will find out your face become round due to adding leaven in bread. Moreover, you can also tell differences between Taiwanese and American foods from watching cooking show. In the American show, chiefs always put a lot of oil, and they make a lot of deep-fried food. In contrast to American show, Taiwanese chiefs more often use boiling or steaming ways in cooking. In this way, Taiwanese food is lighter than American food.

I am not saying American food is not tasty, but there is a lot of improvements that they can make their food healthier.  Here shouldn't has a contradiction between tasty and healthy food.