FE#6
Vacation activities
In summer vocation, I like to go to the mountains. I spent almost half of my summer vacation in the mountains when I was a college student. There are many reasons that I like to spend my vocation in the mountains. First, the temperature is more comfortable and the air is fresher than where I live. Second, I like to enjoy the free time alone. I don’t want anything to bother me when I am on vacation. Third, it is the season when it is the time to collect beetles. I like to go into the forest to catch insects. However, I can’t go out in the winter vacation. I just can stay at home and watch TV the whole day.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
To enjoy my free time
Many people like to handout with friends in their free time. Sometimes, I like to handout with friends but sometimes don't. I need to do something to run away from relationship, schoolwork and joib. So, I find a way that isolation can release my pressure. When I want to be along, I like to go into the nature especially beach. According to the sound of waves and insects, and the fresh air of the nature, I can feel calm. I remembered, the habit was starting when I broke up with my first girl friend. My friend and I went to the beach and see the ocean whole day. We drank and told for a long time. Sunddly, I feel more confortable and better. After that, I alread love the smell of the ocean. When I am upset, I alway go to the beach by myself. The nature can cure my bad mood.
However, there is a disappoint that there is no ocean nearby my school and SIUC. I can't go to the beach to speand by own free time. Fortunately, there is another way which can make me relex. I like to make a cup of tea and read the novel on the bed. Sometimes, the isolation is not so bad. Therefore, you should remember don't let the bad mood come into your mind when you are alone. To control the isolation carefully, you can enjoy your life and your own free time.
However, there is a disappoint that there is no ocean nearby my school and SIUC. I can't go to the beach to speand by own free time. Fortunately, there is another way which can make me relex. I like to make a cup of tea and read the novel on the bed. Sometimes, the isolation is not so bad. Therefore, you should remember don't let the bad mood come into your mind when you are alone. To control the isolation carefully, you can enjoy your life and your own free time.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
SR#2
Yumin Wang
EAP2 A Writer’s Workshop
Summary Response #2
To Ban sell Small Swordfish
According to the author’s (1999) article “Commerce Department Makes Final Import Ban on Small Swordfish,” the swordfish imports must be managed. In NOAA’s “National Marine Fisheries Service,” they made a decision to announce a ban. In this ban, importer and fishermen were asked to stop selling undersized swordfish. The new rules can protect swordfish less than 33 pounds. Through effective management, we can control the number of Atlantic swordfish. There are already 22 countries that join this plan.
We should work hard to save the swordfish because it is a very important marine resource and has a role in the food chain. This plan can help us to save swordfish. However there are still some problems in it, such as diet favorite, fishing equipment and rules.
First, not everyone likes to eat adult fish. Many people believe young fish are more tender than adult fish. They like to eat small swordfish rather than eating adult swordfish. If there are many people who like to eat young swordfish, it is hard to ban fisherman supplying this kind of swordfish. Demand and supply always combine together. So, trying to change their thoughts is the first step.
Second, the traditional way of fishing the swordfish is using lances or fishing rods to catch them. However, these kinds of ways are too slow. Consequently, fishermen like to use long lines to catch the swordfish. There is a harmful disadvantage of using this new way, can catch all swordfish whether they are big or small. All countries should ban this kind of fishing way to protect small swordfish.
Third, NOAA’s rules only affect in the United States and some members of this group. Most other countries didn’t join this plan. Of course, they have their own reasons, that they depend on marine resources a lot, or their people like to eat small swordfish. For instance, Japanese like to eat raw fish, especially the tender meat of fish. So, Japan didn’t join this plan. If we want to solve this problem, we must work on this plan in the United Nations. Then, these countries will join this plan by the UN’s rules.
In conclusion, saving the swordfish is not an easy job that can be done by a few countries. We should invite as many countries as possible to join the plan. Saving the swordfish should not stop catching the swordfish. Just skip the smaller swordfish, so that they can reproduce later. In this way, we will have continuity marine resources.
Reference
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . (1999). Commerce Department makes final import ban on small swordfish. NOAA NEWS. Retrieved on Oct. 29, 2008 from http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s137.htm
EAP2 A Writer’s Workshop
Summary Response #2
To Ban sell Small Swordfish
According to the author’s (1999) article “Commerce Department Makes Final Import Ban on Small Swordfish,” the swordfish imports must be managed. In NOAA’s “National Marine Fisheries Service,” they made a decision to announce a ban. In this ban, importer and fishermen were asked to stop selling undersized swordfish. The new rules can protect swordfish less than 33 pounds. Through effective management, we can control the number of Atlantic swordfish. There are already 22 countries that join this plan.
We should work hard to save the swordfish because it is a very important marine resource and has a role in the food chain. This plan can help us to save swordfish. However there are still some problems in it, such as diet favorite, fishing equipment and rules.
First, not everyone likes to eat adult fish. Many people believe young fish are more tender than adult fish. They like to eat small swordfish rather than eating adult swordfish. If there are many people who like to eat young swordfish, it is hard to ban fisherman supplying this kind of swordfish. Demand and supply always combine together. So, trying to change their thoughts is the first step.
Second, the traditional way of fishing the swordfish is using lances or fishing rods to catch them. However, these kinds of ways are too slow. Consequently, fishermen like to use long lines to catch the swordfish. There is a harmful disadvantage of using this new way, can catch all swordfish whether they are big or small. All countries should ban this kind of fishing way to protect small swordfish.
Third, NOAA’s rules only affect in the United States and some members of this group. Most other countries didn’t join this plan. Of course, they have their own reasons, that they depend on marine resources a lot, or their people like to eat small swordfish. For instance, Japanese like to eat raw fish, especially the tender meat of fish. So, Japan didn’t join this plan. If we want to solve this problem, we must work on this plan in the United Nations. Then, these countries will join this plan by the UN’s rules.
In conclusion, saving the swordfish is not an easy job that can be done by a few countries. We should invite as many countries as possible to join the plan. Saving the swordfish should not stop catching the swordfish. Just skip the smaller swordfish, so that they can reproduce later. In this way, we will have continuity marine resources.
Reference
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . (1999). Commerce Department makes final import ban on small swordfish. NOAA NEWS. Retrieved on Oct. 29, 2008 from http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s137.htm
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
FE#4
Sport-difference
I like to play table tennis. But it is not a popular sport in the United State. When I went to the recreation center to play basketball, I saw some people playing table tennis in a room. I was so excited about that because I thought there were few people who play table tennis in the United States before I came to America. The most different thing is many people don't use an academic paddle. They use the paddle supported by the recreation center, but we use good paddles in Taiwan. Second, people don't play very well here and few people like to play this in America but there are many people who play table tennis in Taiwan. We can find the table tennis clubs everywhere. These are differences in America. However there is a coach playing with us. My American friends are getting better in a short time.
I like to play table tennis. But it is not a popular sport in the United State. When I went to the recreation center to play basketball, I saw some people playing table tennis in a room. I was so excited about that because I thought there were few people who play table tennis in the United States before I came to America. The most different thing is many people don't use an academic paddle. They use the paddle supported by the recreation center, but we use good paddles in Taiwan. Second, people don't play very well here and few people like to play this in America but there are many people who play table tennis in Taiwan. We can find the table tennis clubs everywhere. These are differences in America. However there is a coach playing with us. My American friends are getting better in a short time.
FE#3
Holiday
There is a traditional holiday called Ghost Festival. People say, "There are many ghosts are released from hell once a year." We should serve them food to ask them not to trick us. It is similar to Halloween. Halloween is a kind of celebration in the United States. Both adults and children enjoy the holiday and even get many parties. But the Ghost Festival is more serious than Halloween. People are afraid of the ghosts in the whole month. Parents always ask us to be careful because many accidents are caused by ghosts. Now more and more people don't believe it and don't care about this festival. I am one of them.
There is a traditional holiday called Ghost Festival. People say, "There are many ghosts are released from hell once a year." We should serve them food to ask them not to trick us. It is similar to Halloween. Halloween is a kind of celebration in the United States. Both adults and children enjoy the holiday and even get many parties. But the Ghost Festival is more serious than Halloween. People are afraid of the ghosts in the whole month. Parents always ask us to be careful because many accidents are caused by ghosts. Now more and more people don't believe it and don't care about this festival. I am one of them.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Ghost Festival
There is a traditional holiday called Ghost Festival in Taiwan. It is really different from Halloween. Almost whole Auguest is Ghost Festival. There are many ghosts that are released from hell. The ghosts will come to eat even they will find someone instead. My grandparents always ask me to leave away streams or ocean because old people believe the water ghosts are bad. It is a serious festival, we are not celebrating it happily. Recently, more and more people don't care about the legends. We still go to swim and travel in Auguest. The Ghost Festival always let me scare and get a lot of stress when I was child. So I really hate this festival when I was young. I didn't go out because many activities which about Ghost Festival on the road. It was easy to make me think about ghosts. I had a lot of nighmare during this month. However Halloween seems a happy holiday though it is respect death. Adouts and children can have fun in this day. So, I like Halloween more. But, there is one thing between these two holiday. Children also can get candy in the Ghost Festival. People want to give candy to the ghosts by this way. It is also a religious day when monk will help some of the ghost to be human again not to stay at hell foreve. Those are differents among Halloween and Ghost Festival.
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