Memory

Memory is the most beautiful thing in life no matter it is good or bad. I think memory is the journey about what you have meet before. Sometimes I can spent the afternoon lost in memory because it is really interesting and only you know about the feelings which couldn't be expressed by any words. When I look at photographs, it always brings back many pleasant memories for me, I love the feelings and enjoying in it. Some memories you can choose to keep in your mind, but there must have some bad memories you want to forget. There is no doubt that the memories you have are part of your life, so I think I will keep my all memories in mind no matter it is good or bad.

Friendship

The relationship between friends is very important. There is a proverb in Taiwan says " When you at home, you depend on your family; when you go outside, you have to depend on your friends." I think it is truth because friends is very improtant to most people, including me. I think I cannot live without friends, and sometimes I feel that friends is more important than family. Some of them can accompany you for a long time ever forever, but some of them are not. To have some friends indeed is a wonderful thing in life, you can know what they think about in some things which you can't make decisions. So on matter how life goes on, I wish the friendship between me and my friends can last forever.

Whale Wars

After watching the vedio, I think I agree with Paul Watson and his group. Hunting whales is too cruel and Japanese just hunting it for food, every years they doing this illegal thing and never stop, and the most controversial thing is they claim that they killed whales for research. I don't agree that, I think Japanese should be honest about what they really doing, even it's illegal. They can't cheat people all over the world saying they have reasons to killed whales for science, but the truth is not. I don't think the low should be published about hunting animals because animals have their freedom to live, humans just let them alone to live out their nature lives.

In this vedio, we watched on Paul Watson' side, I have a little argue about their actions. I think they don't have to give offence to Japanese, it is not the best way to solve the problems. Conversation is very important, I think they have reach an agreement peacefully instead of use weapons to attack each other. Violence cannot solve any problems, I think Japan's government should do some self-criticism about their policy, on the other hand, Paul Watson and his group also have to negotiate with Japanese rationality, so that the peoblem will be solve as soon as possible.

Issue - Weather

Winter weather hard to predict this year

In recent years, the weather has become much warmer than before include winter. Global warming problem is getting worse, it effect most creatures and brings a lot of problems such as iceberg disappear and extinction of polar bears, hole in the ozone layer, changing weather, etc....

I think the most problems are cause by human's behavior because people are not always pay attition to earth problems before they do something bad to nature environment, so the damge is become worse. Environment protection is a very important issue now, so I think we should do something to rcover the damges. We can recycle all the renewable recources, use less air conditioner...... such like these. I wish everyone can love our earth because earth is unique.

Animal Cruelty Law

After reading this article, I think the law about animal may enforced part of people. Government enabling some laws to protect animals, I think although some strict policy that government had published, the effect is still relate to human's own behavior. I think if the problems about animals wants to be solve, the most important thing is not how strict of punishments, is about how poeple think about the problems and care about aimals from heart. So I think we should solve the problems step by step, maybe strict laws is a good policy because fine for money is the most easy way to punish people. My suggestions is that government must have to enforce the policy, don't just for show, I wish the problems about animals can be solve as soon as possible!

Animals Taiwan

This group which is wants to improve the environment of animals and try to protect them. They try to effect people by some charity activities. This group also help some stray and abandon animals, especially dogs. I think this group is very great, they care about animals and try to help them. I wish more and more organization like this will exist in Taiwan because so many animals wait for our help and looking for a warm place to live. So I'm admire this group and I wish I can give some help to help animals, too.

Animal police

After watching these videos, I feel sorry for animals which is wounded with chains and curcify by human. It is very cruel and I don't know why people want to do this. I think animal police is a great organization that help animals from danger, I think Taiwan should have some organization like animal police, too. Animal rights is a very important problem now, I think people should protect animal instead of curcify them. In videos, the animal police help cat from trapped under car, I think it is very cool because you can save a living being by your own hands. I wish everyone can had a benevolent feeling towards all animals. After all, animals also have their rights to live.

A Nice Day

Yesterday I had a dinner party with my high school friends. We went to a famous cake buffet restaurant. In there you can eat everything you want when in tea time, so it is very super value. We all had a time there. We talked about school things and shared some experience about part-time jobs. One of my friend told us that she is going to study abroad, we all felt exciting about that. She is a very cool girl because she has a lip-ring. Wow! I feel hurt about that. But it's really cool! To sum up, we all had a good day!!

Midterm Exam

This midterm week was the tired week ever! We have a small study group and everytime when midterm or final exam, we study together and stay up all night. Last sunday we studay all day long for literture. It was very very tired but we couldn't stop because we have too many not finished yet. So we studay more than 24 hours but we sleep just 1, 2 hours. I hope we can get high grades and pass every exams!

Unit 2 - Questions

1. In my opinion, students chose to cheat because they didm't prepare for tests and they afraid they will fail in the end of semester. Most students chose to cheat always say they afraid to get low grades, so they have to do that. I think it is not a correct way to grt high grades. I remember when I was senior high, once we took the exam and a student took a note under his examination papers, he copy the answers and passed the note to another student. But finally they still get zero grades because teacher found their answers is same even the mistakes, too!

2. In Taiwan, if you cheating on exam you will get low grades on the subject or be fail. Some tough punishments such as get warning or school will send letters to your parents to let them know you cheat on the tests. I think most of these punishments can not deter to cheating, some students don't care about the punishments, they just want to pass the exam. So I think there is no way to deter students to cheat unless they can be honesty for their onw mind.

Assignment

In my opinion, I think copying someone else's idea and taking notes for test is cheating. People cheating in test may because they didn't prepare for it or they affraid they can't pass the exam, so that they cheating for high grades. Actually it is very unfair to other students, I think the punishment should be powerful, such as get zero grades for the class or having more homework and reports instead of. I think if you cheat, you can't have any reasons. So just think more about the punishment befor you cheating.

Cheating or Not cheating

1. Copying a few pages from Wikipedia and turning it in as your assignment. cheating
2. Asking someone else to write a few paragraphs of your paper for you—but you still do most of it. not cheating
3. Asking someone to proofread your assignment and fix the grammar mistakes for you. not cheating
4. Having someone read what you wrote and tell you if they can understand it or not. You take their ideas and fix what you wrote. not cheating
5. Using an article from an English language learning website by copying it and turning it in. cheating
6. Finding an article online that says exactly what you were thinking, so you just turn that in. cheating
7. Reading an article that you found online, thinking about it, and then writing a response in your own words. not cheating
8. Doing a writing assignment for one class and then turning it in for two, three, or even more classes because you are too busy to do another writing assignment. not cheating
9. Finding some writing online, but changing some of the verbs and nouns before you turn it in. cheating
10. Finding a paper online, but changing all of the verbs before you turn it in. cheating
11. Copying an article that you found, but you don’t get caught so no one ever knows about it. cheating

Issue

Wanna Go to College for Free?
I think school tuition is a problem for many family now. In Taiwan, college's tuition is more expensive than high school, so even though some students apply for a good college but they can't afford to pay the expenses. Nowaday most students grant a loan to go to college, but after gratuate they still have to pay the money back. I think students in Taiwan have to bear a lot of pressures, and parents also have to worry about the expenses. I think it is impossible for go to college for free in Taiwan, but I still hope the tuition can be decrease a little so that the pressure of money where be solve a lot.

Yesterday I saw a movie named Matilda which we learn about it in English children's literature class. This movie is very interesting and all students enjoy in the story. We talk about character's personality, plot and make summary for some chapters. It let us learn more about this story step by step. I think it is interesting to learn the book story first and then watch the movie, we can clearly know the movie's plot. So I can't wait to learn another novel next week!

The Weather

Today is so hot! Recently the weather is still like summer time. Actually I really don't like doing exercise in hot weather like today because I'm easy to perspire and it is uncomfortable when your body is sticky and soaking after doing exercise. So I wish the weather can be cool soon because it is unreasonable have such hot weather in November!

Assignment

Question 1
The standard penalty for a first-time violation of the Honor Code is a one-quarter suspension and 40 hours of community service. If the student is in his/her final quarter of enrollment the standard practice is to convert the one-quarter suspension into a two-quarter delay in the conferral of the degree.

Question 2
1. Disciplinary Warning 2. Reprimand 3. Restitution
4. Disciplinary Probation 5. Suspension 6. Dismissal

Question 3
CBS news producer fired for plagiarism
A CBS News producer was fired because an editor for The Wall Street Journal called CBS News to point out the similarities of the April 4 notebook item to Zaslow's article.

DT columnist fired for plagiarism
Columnist Ty McDonald took direct statements, ideas and content from "Plagiarism and intellectual loot," a post on Christiaan Briggs of his two articles. It is the responsibility of The DT to inform its readers of instances that compromise the integrity of the newspaper and the academic institution it serves.

Columbia Professor Fired For Plagiarism
A Columbia University professor was fired for violating academic integrity policies. She was relieved from her tenured position after plagiarizing the work of two former students and a former colleague. She accused the findings against her of being"biased and flawed." She also claimed that her skin color made her a target in this case.

Question 4
After read the following examples of plagiarism, I think I agree with the punishment because they all dishonesty with they exam. As a student, all we have to do is study hard and show what we learn, we should prepare for exam instead cheat on exam. In these cases it's common to happen in our daily life, I think we should be honesty with every exam even if you can't sure whether your answer is right or not. I think honesty is more worth than cheating for high grades.

Issue - War and Military

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,189
Recent years the war is become less than before. Everyone want a peace world forever, but there is some problems between some countries. The war between US and Iraq began in March 2003, no one want this war began, but it still happened. I think the war is the problem between two countries, but the cost is human's life in these two countries. Military should fight for their own country, they have to leave their family, their home and all their friends, they even don't know whether they can alive or not after war. In this report it says there already dead 4,189 people in the war. this is such a sad news. I think if the war didn't happened, 4,189people even more can alive and continue their lifes. No body want a war began in their country, so I hope there can be a peace world in the feture and no more war will happen, so that everyone will have a happy life, the relationship between countries will be peaceful, too!

Rain City

Keelung is always raining. Every time I go home, my mom always tell me that I must bring the umbrella back with me. Actually, I already used to the weather of Keelung. There will be three or four days raining in a week, if in winter days, it maybe raining everyday. Sometimes I also hate the weather always raining because it is very inconvenience to go outside. Some of my friends live in south are also cannot adapt the weather, they think it is too damp. Although the weather is always wet, I still love this city I live because I think hometown is the most warm place in everyone's mind!

Family

The weather become colder because winter is coming. I go home on Thursday this week so that I can have one more day to relax myself at home. Tonight I took a walk with my mom. We walked along the road and talked a lot. I shared my mom the things happened in school, she also told me about her work things. I think there are no things can be more precious than stay with your family. As for me, I can get along with my familt only on weekend, but they still have to work, so we just have a short time to get along. I think family is very important to me, I love them so much. My older sister will go abroad tomorrow, I wish she can have fun and take good care of herself. We are family, so I hope we can be a happiness family forever, no matter what will happen!