Great Views In China

Inside beach in Japan

Hello, everyone! What are you doing now?

I hope you are good, and enjoy the great time in Montreal.

Now , I feel a little bit borning, so just send some interesting things share with you, hope you can see them.

Those pictures were found in web, they only said it is in Japan, it is really a big surpsise, isn't it ?I f you know where is it ,please tell me ^.^

Best wiishes to all of you!

Pre-discussion

1.Should government be responsible for keeping consumers safe?

In my opinion, I strongly agree the answer should be “yes!” Government should be responsible for keeping consumers safe.Government have to follow their duties, also keeping consumers safe is an important duty should do well. Sometimes, as consumers can protect themselves but it’s a hard work for them.However, to government it is easier, because they are stronger and powerful than individuals. In addition, I think the basic duty of government is keeping its public’s safe, no matter which aspect of safe is.



2. Should government be responsible for protecting the “common good”? What is the “common good”?

Yes, government should be responsible for protecting the common good. In my views, I think the meaning of “common good” is the advantage of everyone. We live in public environment, and we just one life, therefore, we need someone to protect the common people’s lives. This important duty should be do by government, because they are the most powerful organization in the place.

RESEARCH PROJECT

Before I did this project, I think I could not did well as those models that teachers
showed to us. However, now I did it, and also I think it may be better than some of
models. After that, I think my writing improved a lot. I know how to write such a
long paper and how to write references, also some of grammars more clearly than before, such as how to use “pain” and “painful”. During this process, I really tried to use paraphrase to write some sentences and also used the method--- summary. In addition, this is the first time I know how to do research and get books, articles from the library, that is very useful to my future study in the university. While I think my research papers are not excellent, because although I correct it by many times, it still has some mistakes. Also, my feeling about this writing is also not good. Anyway, I hope it good.

I really enjoy listening to the presentations that was very great. Because everyone’s presentations were prepared very well, they were lectures to me. In addition, some of them were really interesting, and from those I got knowledge from different aspects. Also, I think that was a good method to learn from each others, learn what is good, what we should not do it in our presentations. Some of them used great PowerPoint to show examples to audience very clearly, some of them used blackboard did it. No matter what they used in presentations, they did the great jobs to show us their research very clearly. During the process of preparing for my presentations, I knew how important about practice and some sentences you need to say during presentations. For example, how I can start the presentations ,how I connect each ideas , when I forget something what should I say…… In fact, I did not think I did a good job of my presentations. Maybe I was too nervous, therefore I spoke too fast, some words did not speak clearly, and also looked at my notes and PowerPoint too much. Anyway, I finished it, I learn from it, that is good, isn’t it? I strongly believe next time I can do better job.

Improving Academic Performance

That is a good reading, not just helps us to practice English and also get some good methods to study. I like this kind of reading so much, because I can learn some useful thing for my life.

There are a lot of study habits, if you have some good of them that will help you a lot, such as setting up a schedule for studying and playing, and find a right place to study. As we all know, in university, students have classes and social practice in different time, and because we do not want miss some of them and also keep good balance between them. Therefore, have a schedule is very useful. In addition, in my views, write down a study schedule is important, especially for some who can not control themselves well without their parents. For some students, when they go into the university always leave their homework until deadline and some of them can not finish their research paper and fail the course. If they have a schedule and push themselves to follow it, that will be better. In my case, if I want to study I prefer go home or library. For me, those are the right place to study. At home, it is more comfortable, I can wear what I want, a comfortable seat, desk and …… In library, I can pay more attention on books, because that environment pushes me to do like that.

In addition, in this reading also shows a important method that can improve the quality of study---------SQ3R reading system. It has 5 steps: Survey, Question, Read, Recite and Review. Follow those steps can get more information from books and remember more.

Lectures play a important role in university, although I am not in university yet, I know “getting more out of lectures”. Some students in university said the lectures are very hard to understand, if they go to those lectures equal to waste their time, they can read book by themselves and also get good marks. Sometimes it really works, but I believe attend lectures can save time. Because we can at least know some points and know which points are more important, therefore after lectures we should pay more attention when we read those parts, instead of read all of them but do not know which are more important. For sure, we study not just for good marks but we can not say marks are not important. Like when I did my Lecture Project, I could not understand all of them because I did not have any background of it. However, I still can got some important points and use them in my research paper. That is enough, isn't it?

Some of my friends always finish their homework at midnight, as a result , the quality of homework are not good and also they can not have a good brain rest . Therefore, friends, go to bed early and have a good rest.

Have a good weekend!

Public Lecture

On May.8, 2007 I went to a public lecture about palliative care in McGill University. From May 7 to 13, 2007 is palliative care week, also this year is the tenth anniversary of the Sandra Goldberg Memorial Lectures.

In this lecture, they mention about “palliative care is not just about cancer” , it should not just give at the last moment when people will die. Dr. Gain Domenico Borasio shows us lots of examples to support his ideas. Also, he tries to use those examples and facts to let public know how importance palliative care is in our life.

There were 3 speakers in this public lecture. The first one was a mid-age lady, and she was a host of this lecture. She started the lecture on time, and told some information about this lecture. However, she was not good speaker because she always read her notes during her speaking. The second speaker was better than the host; he is a little bit older than the lady. When he was speaking, he used power point to show the information and spoke clearly. The third one is Dr. Borasio. He comes from Germany, but he can speak English very well, that is very important to audience to understand. In addition, he used power point to show us lots of examples and facts.

The audience in the lecture maybe was 100. 85% of them were older people, the age were between 50-60. Some of them asked simple questions during 10 minutes, and also there was special one, he told us his own experience about palliative care.

In my opinion, I really like this project, and really enjoyed it so much. First of all, it was the first English lecture I went outside class in Canada. Secondly, I think it was a good chance to know more about the life in Canada. Also, it was a good model to show us what a good speaker is and what bad speaker is. Therefore, when we do our own experience we can pay attention about those points. In addition, it also was a good chance to know the classmates better; we ate dinner together, talked with each other and shared our interesting experiences in our life. That was good for us to build more deeply friendships with each other.

Population--my opinions

When I was in childhood, in china just had few cars on the street,fewer people than now, and also less busy traffic. However, because from I began my education, i always in the best schools in our cities, there are so many students in one class--at least 60! Therefore, we just had very little space for each person, sometimes it was hard to cross between desks......

Now, in china still have large population, we already use family plan to control, but because the population base in too large,so it is still a seriouly problem to the govement! However, now in my city and also some others ,some not very good schools need to face a problem---close! There are not enough students to them,because the birth rate is reducing a lot! Also, because the family plan just alow some parents have one baby, so some of them use some methods to know the gender of baby, then choose male. In addation,in China, the law about family plan now is allowing some couples have two babies---if these two people are the single in his and her family. However, because the fees of one baby is already expensive to them ,so almost of them still perfer to choose having one baby.As a result, in schools ,it is very hard to make banlance of male and female! One of my friends is a teacher now, she told me in her class have 45 kids now, 32boys and just 13 girls!

Family plan is really good to control growth of population but it has lots of problems! How we can get better banlance of them, i think the best way is educating people better! Tell them how the important of this problem,and tell them the right idea about how to face and deal with this seriosly problem!
We just have one earth ,just one world can live on,at least until now we do not find another one can instead of it! Therefore, we should pay much more attention about it, because the large population has lots of problems,such as food shortage,and bad environment, also not good quality of life!

Population --SAQ

1. My grandparents (mother’s side and father’s side) both have 5 children. My parents just have one child—me! In my opinion, I want to have at least one, if can be one boy and one girl ---that is wonderful!

2. As we all know, china has the largest number of population---1,318,000,000, 20.01% of the world population. Too much population cause lots of problems, so lots of Chinese go to broad to enjoy better quality of life. For example, education, food, health care and public establishment are not enough to supply those large number of population!

3. Now, we have 6,661,000,000 population in our world.

4. There are lots of factors can influence the population of animal species. However, the most important factor is environment; it includes lots of things, such as contaminative food, less natural environment — less trees and flowers. Thus, animals do not have enough natural food. Of course, those factors also influence human population. We eat dirty food too, thus, we have bad heath, maybe some of us can not have baby because the dirty environment.

5. In my opinion, I strongly agree that government should control population. Everything has limited, also our earth .Not just in some lager population countries, also in others, because we live in the same world, and only one earth, we should do our best to help ourselves and our offspring.

Happiness! Haha! Hehe! Heihei!

What is happiness? I think there is no answer, because everyone has their own views about it. However, there are some facts can be accepted widely about this topics.

Almost people believe that money can not buy happiness.
That is true, because lots of researches show that very rich people are not the most happiness person, also, the poorest people are not the most sadness person. In my view, I strongly agree that we should not pay so much attention about money, and of course we can not make our life’s goal for money. Maybe some of people will say they know lots of people when they win lottery, they looks very happy. But I have to say that according lots of researchers’ article, they said in fact we have two types of happiness. The one is short term happiness, which means that it just can lasts for few days, or even some hours, then people will back to their baseline of happiness. Another one is long term happiness; I guess you will say, it means happiness can last longer. Congratulations! You are right! However, do you know how we can keep it clearly; I guess lots of people will say no. Also, I can not say the right answer to you, because in my mind, I think everyone has different ways to get happy, therefore, they have different ways to keep it. Nevertheless, I think no matter what the ways are, they are focus on our personality. In addition, by nature selection, we get some genetic from our parents, also it can influence our ability.

Do not always say I am not lucky one; I hate something or someone…… Try to enjoy your life around you, try to say I am so lucky I have……now, I like this, that……Then you will find your life will really change a lot.

Happiness

Happiness is a kind of enjoyment feeling. Everyone has different explanation about it; also each person has different feeling about things. For some people, buy a beautiful cloth or get a call from their lovers, they feel very happy. For some people, they think those things are too small, they do not feel happy. For them, just the big events can made them feel happy, such as find a good job, win Super 7……
Therefore, we know that everyone has their own ways to get happy, and enjoy their life. However, whatever the way is, happiness really play a very important role in our life.

Euthanasia??

Euthanasia become a new debate topic for humans, but why we have debate about it?
How human do that king of killing? Should everyone has that right or not?Why we need it?
Why lots of people say "no"about it?If it is allowed, which kind of problem we will face?
Different people{male or female},or different levels of people have different opinions about it,why ?Let us try to fing those out!

So Cute!

Does the school bus safe?

Have you ever thought about the safety about school bus ?Maybe lots of people will say no, because they do not have kids in their home. However, now many of the school kids' parents worry about this problem a lot.

There were some school buses' additents made lots of parents begin to worry about their kids safety. There were not too much but still let them at least feel not good,therefore,
some of them opt to drive their kids themselevs rather than entrust them to a school bus.One
of the reasons they think school bus is not safe,beacuse school buses do not have seat belts.
Usually, in the whole world, when people begin to study or test driveing ,they will know they must use seat belts every time, even you are not driver but if you by car you should use seat belts ,too.However,nowdays most of school buses do not have seat belts.There are some reasons why school bus desginers did not put them in school buses.As we all know, now the population is growing so fast ,more and more children should take it ,but the cost of the school bus is expensive,therefore ,they need each school bus can take more children.However, if they add the seat belts inside school buses, it will reduce the numbers of seat in each buses.As a result, nowdays almost school buses do not have seat belts.

However, does the seat belts really is the mainly reason caused so many accidents? The answer is no .From the reaseah,we know that lots of kids died in accidents were not because seat belts. 31% of students die while boarding or getting off the bus, and also some of them died being driven by their parents, riding bicycles and walking.

In my opinion, the school bus should have seat belts, because it is really important to keep safety to kids. Even it is expensive but it is worth because everyone just has one life. If we know it is dangerous why we do our best to protect ourselves instead of lose life.
Also, as parents, they should not worry it too much, it is really happen but not everyday, every school bus, therefore, instead of worry and drive kids themselves, they should to
teach kids how to protect themselves.

My opinion about skyscrapers

Nowadays, more and more skyscrapers appear in our world. In addition, those skyscrapers are more higher than the old one, it likes a competition about the height of buildings. However, when we see these great views of them, there are some debates about should we encourage or stop to build skyscrapers. In my opinion, I strongly believe that we should not stop to build skyscrapers because they can really help us especially in the future, and also bring some benefits to us.
Have you ever been to one of the skyscrapers to enjoy the great view ? It is really great. When I was 9 years old I went to the highest skyscrapers in my city ,it was a TV tower, when I saw the great views I said: So cool! Until now I can remember that feeling of happy, surprise……I think not only me had this experience also lots of people. Therefore, it becomes the first reason why we should build these kinds of skyscrapers, because it can be a place we can enjoy our life!
Also, it can urge the development of technology of build .As we all know ,we can build such great skyscrapers because we have the wonderful techniques of build. Like I said before ,now it likes a competition, so if they want to build more greater one they need to find more great methods to finish it, such as the more faster lifts, and also need to find out the protections of
lots of problems ,for examples, earthquake ,fire and powerful strong wind.
The most important reason I agree to build skyscrapers because I think it is the best solution of the fast growing population in our world. The fast growing of population is the one of the most serious problems in our world now, and although our earth looks very large but there is only a few lands can let humans live, because lots of places are oceans. Therefore, we must find a good solution to use the limited land let more humans live. Now, we can say congratulations to ourselves, architects find the best solution to solve this problem by building super high skyscrapers. All of those high buildings can use less land but let more people work and live in.
Maybe some of you will say skyscrapers can bring the negative effects to us, such as over spend or others negative effects on economic, however, in fact, those skyscrapers make our markets more prosperity. First of all, build the super size of building needs the huge numbers of the material ,and usually it needs allover the world markets to supply to it, therefore, all of the world’s economic can come up. Also, many of people are interested about the new thing, therefore, if the new highest building appears in our world, it can allure more people to visit it. As a result, it can let lots of different trades more prosperity, such as hotels, airplane companies, and also let more people have jobs.
In my opinions, everything has 2 sides, when they think about should we keep it or stop it, we should think about which side effects have more values to us. Therefore, focus on those reasons I think we should not abolish skyscrapers at least.

Skyscrapers-Taipei101

Identification

Official name Taipei 101

Location

District Xinyi
City Taipei
Country China


Technical Data
Height (struct.) 509 m 1,671 ft
Floors (OG)
101
Construction end
2004

Building in General

Type of construction
high-rise building

Status
completed


Facts

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Taipei 101 is the world's tallest building, surpassing the height of the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur in late August 2003.
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Taipei 101 holds the world record in three of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's height categories: tallest to the structural top, tallest to the roof, and highest occupied floor.
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The outdoor observation deck is the highest in the world. It is expected to be surpassed by the outdoor deck in the Shanghai World Financial Center.
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This was the first world's tallest building completed in the 21st century. The next will most likely be Burj Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
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The 89th floor holds an indoor observation area, and an outdoor observation deck is located on the 91st floor.
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Taipei 101 is the first and currently only building in the world to break the half-kilometer mark in height.
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The highest section of the spire was installed on 9 October 2003. At the official ceremony on 17 October, Taipei's mayor Ma Ying-Jeou fastened a golden bolt to signify the official topping-out.
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Before the spire was installed there was a separate topping-out ceremony on July 1st, 2003 for completion to the roof level. The president of Taiwan and the mayor of Taipei participated in the event.
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An 800-ton tuned mass damper helps stabilize the tower in high winds and earthquakes. This damper is an enormous ball of welded steel plates hanging inside the top of the building, and is visible from the restaurant and bar which encircles the space around the ball.
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The design is inspired by traditional Chinese architecture, with a shape resembling a pagoda. The sectioned tower is also inspired by the bamboo plant, which is a model of strength, resilience, and elegance.
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The tower's design specifications are based on the number "8", a lucky number in traditional Chinese culture; it features 8 upward-flaring sections, and is supported by 8 supercolumns. The Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai also employs this numerology in its design.
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Most aspects of the design, layout and planning were reviewed and approved by a Feng Shui master.
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The elevators are the fastest in the world, rising at 1008 meters per minute (60.48 km/hour) and descending at 610 m/min (36.6 km/hour). The top speeds are 34 percent faster than the previous world's fastest elevators in Yokohama Landmark Tower .
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This is one of the few buildings in the world equipped with double-deck elevators.
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Each elevator is designed with an aerodynamic body, pressurization and emergency braking systems, and the world's first triple-stage anti-overshooting system. The cost for each elevator is over $US 2 million.
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Exterior construction elevators and the construction elevator shaft were fully disassembled in late February of 2004.
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The Taiwan Stock Exchange rents 7 floors in the building.
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Inside the base of the tower is the large Taipei 101 Mall, which opened before the tower on November 13th, 2003.

The first english blog

I alredy have 2 blogs but all of them are in chinese,however,today all of us get the new blogs in english at the same time!It is the worderful time ,everyone looks very happy !