THIRD JOURNAL

This journal is a memorial and also a stimulation for me.
Cherish what you have.
It was on 26, September, 2007, a piece of sad and startling news was told—my best friend’s father died of cancer at the age of 45. The God took away the life of a nice person without mercy. My sorry for his death was immeasurable. However, from the last stage of his life, I learned to be resolute and cherish time, from which I greatly benefited.
Tracing back to the Chinese New Year in 2007, when tens of thousands of households lighted up lights for family reunions, my best friend’s father was suffering form the torment of illness by himself, receiving the judgment of the Death. As a tough man, he decided to bear all the hardship on his own. He cheated his own daughter that he sickened with normal tumors because he was not willing to take away the joy of her life and wanted her to live happily forever. From his consideration, I came to realize that the greatness of a father’s love did not require the polish of redundant words and things. Meanwhile, I learned how should a true man lived his life; that was never letting beloved ones shade tears.
However, no truth could be concealed like papers could not wrap up fire. His daughter finally learned the truth. On day in March, my best friend and I went to hospital together to visit her ill father. I was astonished as soon as I got in the hospital room because the atmosphere of the room was warm. Fruits brought by other visitors were orderly arranged on bedside cupboard. A cactus on windowsill faced the sunlight and grew well. It was the exact symbol of vitality. Her father greeted us with ardor and spent strenuous effort to get up from the bed to talk to us, to look at us with a smile. Although the torment of illness had made him wan, sallow and emaciated, the way he talked, his facial expressions and behaviors did not reveal any clues to the fact that his life would come to the end soon. I thought that was what a truly tough man would behave. He taught us to cherish life and time and not to regret at the last moment of life. He said that people could feel sorrow but not have regret in their lives. Our conversation lasted for a long time, which greatly benefited me. His plain words were rich in the true significance and philosophy of life.
Eventually, I saw my best friend’s father off at his last journey of life. He lay in the cold coffin and left us forever. Whenever meeting with setbacks in life, I would think of his toughness at his extremity of his life. When I dawdled, I would remember his words—we were not eligible to waste the short life and precious time. His great image would surely exist in my mind because his teaching would be firmly stamped into my heart.

outline for c&e

The outline of cause and effect essay
Topic: population growth
Type: one cause and several effects
Thesis statement: the population growth has caused a series of serious problems.

Topic sentence 1: the population growth has caused issues to the environment.
Supporting details:
1. More pollution produced by people are discharged to the environment
2. To meet the residences of more people, more land will be used to built buildings instead of landscaping, which is bad to the environment
3. More people need more resources which are very limited in the earth. Our larger demand to the nature will definitely broke the order of nature which really does harm to the environment.

Topic sentence 2: the growth of population also affects the economy.
Supporting details:
1. More population will result in the situation that supply falls short of demand which has a potential of becoming into inflation.
2. The government will spend more expenditure to satisfy the residents’ basic living demands instead of put money in capital goods.

Topic sentence 3: the growth of population is a factor that leads the problems of our society
Supporting details:
1. More population leading the society tends to be a unstable one.
2. More population causes more unemployment
3. More population causes poverty.

ouline for c&c

Thesis statement: the terrain of US and China shows many similarities and differences.

Type: Block Organization

Similarities:
1. Both of the countries are near the ocean.
2. There are two parts outside the mainland in both countries
3. Both of the countries have some peninsular.
4. Both of the countries are full of many kinds of terrains. (Highlands, plain)

Differences:
1. The distribution of the main mountains
2. US: both sides are near the ocean China: only the east side is near the ocean
3. The shape of main rivers ( US : vertical China: horizontal )
4. The distribution of different types of terrains.
5. The distribution of the main fresh water lakes of the two countries.

SECOND JOURNAL

There are two things that I want to talk in this journal. These are “to be puncture” and “I moved to a new single dorm”. Obviously, they are not related. Therefore, I think I will tell you one by one.
The first I think I am going to talk about is “to be puncture”, which I think is a more important one. First, I want to apologize again for my being late for 12 minutes for the appointment with Joy on this Thursday. It turned out that she had two appointments after me. That I being late really influenced the two students afterwards. So I want to also apologize to the two students after me for losing your time. I suddenly realize the significance of being on time, which is both important for myself and others. Being late can cause a series of issues. Imagine, if Joy and the two students had something to do after this appointment, they would be late for it because I was late. And with the chain, a lot of people would delay their time because of my being late. Who the hell am I? How powerful am I? How can I losing others’ precious time? I swear to myself never being late again and being 5 minutes early for everything.
The second thing which I think is less important is that I moved to a single dorm. However, I am still very happy of this. Before, I lived in a double room with a person from India. By and by during living with him, I realized there were a lot differences between him and me, which really annoying me and affected my living and studying very much. Due to the different time of morning classes, we slept in a very different time and usually he stayed very late at night and the noise he made really pissed me of. The more I got angry, the hard for me to go to sleep. I bunked some morning classes at 8 am due to the lack of sleep at night. And even more, he forbids me to eat instant noodles because he couldn’t stand the smell of them. I realized that it inappropriate for us to live together anymore so I applied for a single room which I think is good for both of us. Now, I have to say that living in a single room is extremely awesome. I can sleep early and without any disturbance. And by the way, I slept very well since I moved to the single room. In my opinion, the quantity and time of sleeping time is quite important for our health and appearance.
To sum up, I am happy for these days and I have learned quite a lot since I came to US.
ASASA… FIGHTING!!!