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February 06 MessagesPart One
People laugh and cry.
Some give up & some will try Some say Hi & some say Bye. Some are honest,others lie And if others forget you, never will I... Part Two Sweet words are easy to say.
Sweet things are easy to buy. But sweet people are difficult to find. Life ends when you stop dreaming. Hope ends when you stop believing. Love ends when you stop caring. Friendship ends when you stop sharing. So share this with whomever you consider as a friend. To love without condition, To talk without intention, To give without reason, And to care without expectation is the heart of a true friend... These are messages that my epals left in my blog. I think they are nice so I copied them and uploaded them here to share with you all. November 11 My View On Environmental ProtectionⅡLooking from the outer-space, we will see a greenish blue planet-our mother earth, where we have evolved, cultivated and lived for thousands of years. Take a look at it. The green part represents the land and the blue part the ocean, both of which may appear to be clean from this long distance, but if we go closer and finally expose ourselves to it, a totally different story will present itself.
Neither the land nor the ocean is fortunate enough to escape the door of being polluted. Deforestation, desertification, salination and even population are looming before us as imminent environmental problems. Piles and piles of logs are delivered to big cities leaving only bleak stakes to take their place. Over-grazing has caused an oasis to end up another desert. All the above remind me of a popular song called "where Are the Flowers Gone". And now I want to ask myself a series of similar questions, such as "Where are the flowers gone?","Where are the rivers gone?","Where are the whales gone ?" etc. It is high time when we were to answer these question, and found a solution to them. Take desertification for example, it's due to our irresponsible acts of cutting down forests without restoring them; over-grazing and unreasonable agricultural activities. To deal with it, we need to enhance our managerial as well as technological expertise. If we don't want a room for standing only in the future but enough room for a comfortable life, we need to stick to the family planning policy. And I really don’t consider stopping littering and of dong that.
We can only live on earth once but never twice, and we only have one mother earth but never a pair, further more, we have no choice but never a pair, furthermore, we have no choice but choose earth as our habitat, so we do have a good reason for making every effort to protect it I believe, if we persevere in carrying out and implementing the strategy of sustainable development, we will bestow, not just ourselves but also our children and our children's children, a beautiful blue planet, one that looks beautiful regardless of whether you are on it or in the outer space, and a promising future. October 19 Answering Life’s most Difficult Question By Patrick MacDonald
As a parent, one of my most difficult tasks is to explain to my children why things happen. I can fall back on my considerable knowledge of science to help me deal with questions like "Why do people act the way they do?" or the most difficult question of all: "Why do things have to die?" I was confronted with this question recently in dealing with the loss of a pet. This particular pet was a cat that had lived with us for almost 10 years. She has shared in the good times and the bad and has provided comfort to every member of my family. My son is taking this loss especially hard. Sure. he has seen death on a limited scale in the loss of a fish or an occasional hamster, but they don't really survive long enough to create a lasting bond. They don't rub up against you, purring and meowing, beffing for attention. They don't respond to your emotions and jump into your lap or lick your hand to lend moral support.
So how do you explain to a child the concept of life and death? How do you comfort him when he feels he has lost such a close friend? Like anyone else, I draw on my past experiences.
I would study my feelings regarding death and try to establish a means to explain why this had to happen and what good will come from it.
I remembered my maternal grandmother’s painful death to cancer, a close personal friend dying of a heart attack while serving in the navy and the lost peers I cherished as a child. The experience that helped me deal best with my son’s feelings was the loss of my favorite pet to a fire.
I remember vividly the firefighter apathetically carrying my friend by the tail from our burnt home and dropping her lifeless body on the ground. I spent several stunned moments pondering why this happened. Then I foot to the task of giving her a proper burial－one that a good friend would truly deserve.
As it stood, I had to settle for burying her in my backyard, muttering some magic words to release her spirit and spending several hours crying beside her crude grave.
Realizing how much these simple actions had helped me deal with my own loss, I now approach my son to explain death. Try to tell him about the cycle of life and how everything that lives must die someday. Most important, I have to understand his feelings and allow him time to grieve. Like me, he will never truly get over the pain or the feelings of loss, but he will learn to accept them someday. Until that day comes, all I can do is listen to how he is feelin, provide a shoulder to cry on and support him as any parent would.
So, why do things die? Well, son, things die so that they can be remembered by future generations. And most of all, death is necessary so we should appreciate the value of our own lives.
October 14 My View on Environmental Protection ⅠHuman beings have been asking for what nature can offer, since the day they were born. The greed of human beings disables themselves to escape from the severe punishment of nature. The global warming, greenhouse effect and a variety of pollution have already been warning human beings that it’s high time for human beings to pay back.
How can we human beings pay off the debts owed to nature?
As more and more environmental problems arise, people gradually concern themselves with the problems. And governments and organizations concerned have already taken some actions. But the effect is so tiny, compared with the amount of destruction we do to nature.
So what can we do to make environmental protection more effective?
Personally I think we can take three general steps, that is, preventing the occurrence, control the process and dealing with the consequence.
Since we all know that to eradicate THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES WE NEED TO CUT OFF THE INFECTIOUS SOURCE FIRST, to stop the pollution or something similar, we do almost the same. We should legislate to make factories which may cause environmental problems illegal and fine the people who are responsible for them. Besides, we should strengthen the public’s consciousness of environmental protection by all means.
To carry out the second step, we should be more rational or sensible. It’s clear that the development of industry is the foundation of the nation’s economy. We can’t tear down all factories in a short time. Obviously, if we do so, it’ll influence the economy a lot. So it’s a long-term task. It takes time.
Some environmental problems, like various pollutions have already exist, so what we can do is carry out the third step----- to deal with them. In this section, we require a lot of money. We need money to deal with the waste; we need money to plant trees; we need money to do what is needed to be done.
In a word, we need both time and money. This is the serious cost of the behaviors of human beings.
October 04 On WritingWriting is art. It requires the writer to be both creative and thoughtful.
As an Englishmajor, or rather a language learner, we should master at least five skills, listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translating(interpreting). Writing is a comprehensive but basic skill. How well you master a language can easily be seen through by your writing. Writing requires you to have a good knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, culture, history and so forth. Writing is a basic skill for a language learner, for it's one of the only two media(the other one is speaking) for you to express your thoughts and your feelings.
To create this special space, my only purpose is to provide a platform for us to improve our writing and to realize the communion of resources.
Learning a language can't be a personal affair totally. You have the right to decide whether you'd like to learn a language or not. But when you decide to learn a language, learning to communicate with others should be the first thing that you should learn before you begin to learn a language. Language is enriched through communication. So communicating with other learners about how to learn the language as frequently as possible is necessary for a learner who have the desire to master a language really and truly.
Open your arms, and let's swim freely in the ocean of writing.
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