Do parents or other adult relatives should make important decisions for their older (15 to 18 year-old) teenage children? Some people, especially teenagers, may argue that teenagers are old enough to make important decisions for them because they are old enough to know what to do is beneficial. Others and I, however, think that parents must be the decision makers when it comes to critical problems. The first reason is that parents have more experience than teenagers’. Another reason is that parents have to spend money on some critical issues so that they have the right to make decisions.
First, parents experienced more than those teenagers, so that parents know more about what the teenagers’ future will be. For example, parents know the benefit to study in universities but some of the teenagers may not know. Some teenagers, especially those who do not like to study, may think that attending university for further education is so boring that can do nothing beneficial to their career. But in fact, parents’ opinions are right. So, parents should make decisions for teenagers on issues such as “attend university or not”.
Second, old teenagers are not completely independent because that they cannot make much money by themselves. For example, Tim, a 16years old boy thinks that the price of AIG’s stock may rise in 4days and he wants to spent 10000$ to buy them. But can he do that without parents’ permission? No. because Tim has no money generated by his own before. He needs financial supports from his parents. In this case, the decision making right belongs to Tim’s parents rather that Tim. Another example is that Sam, a boy from a not rich family in Illinois, gets UIUC’s full scholar ship and U Chicago’s admission without any financial aid. Which school he should go to is not up to Sam, in stead, up to Sam’s parents for the same reason.
To conclude, teenagers at 15 to 18 age can make normal decisions (important decisions excluded of course) most of the time. In these cases, parents can give teenagers advices and the decision making right belongs to teenagers. However, when it comes to important issues especially related to large amount of money expenditure, the decision making rights totally belongs to parents.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
esl assignment again
C&E
Topic: the harmful effect of smoking
Thesis statement: smoking is bad for our health
Cause: the action of smoking
Effect:Topic sentence 1: the nicotinic smog of cigarettes contains numerous kinds of toxins that can cause cancers and reduce the smoker’s life-span and contributes to a number of cancers.
Supporting details
There are at least 20 kinds of toxins in cigarette.
The most powerful toxin is nicotine. We can easily kill a dog by injecting one drop of nicotine to its vein. Also nicotine will hold back the smoker’s absorbing the vitamin C.
Nicotine smog, which constructed by nicotine and carbon monoxide, can temporarily increases the smoker’s heart rate and blood pressure, straining the smokers heart and brain’s blood vessels.
The smog can also pollute the smoker’s lungs and cause the lung cancer.
Topic sentence 2: smoking not only causes physically diseases, but also mentally diseases such as neurasthenic.
Long term smoking can cause neurasthenic diseases and psychotic disorder because the nicotine can damage the smoker’s brain and neural system.. The symptoms of the long-term smoker are that it is hard for them to control temper and they are easy to irate.
Topic sentence 3: Second hand smoke is also harmful.
Passive smoking is the inhalation of smoke, called secondhand smoke (SHS) or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), from tobacco products used by others.(wikipedia) A wide array of negative effects are attributed, in whole or in part, to frequent, short term and long term exposure to second hand smoke.
Here are some details about these negative effects:
1.Generally increase the rate of cancer which includes lung cancer and breast cancer.
2. increase the rate of diseases such as renal cell carcinoma and brain tumor.
3. Really bad effect for children growth if they are exposed in passive smoking.
Conclusion: Smoking is harmful to our society. Smokers should try their best to abstain smoking.
C&C
Topic: the difference and similarity of choosing cats or dogs as pets.
Difference:
1 Cats are wild and half domestic. On the other hand, dogs are totally domestic.
Supporting details:
cats often go to the outdoor for mostly a whole day, but dogs in the other hand, just need to be walked for half an hour every afternoon.
2 Cats are dishonest. However, dogs are honest and loyal to their masters.
Supporting details:
Cats are wild in their mind and cannot be fully trained. They will happy to be pets when masters give them good living conditions, otherwise, they are easy to leave the houses and never come back. But dogs are not that kind. Dogs are loyal to their masters even though their masters are really poor.
3. According to Taoism, men should not keep cats as pets and women should not keep dogs as pets because dogs belongs to yang and cats, in the other hand, belongs to yin while men belongs to yang and women belongs to yin. When men and cats, or women and dogs are together, the harmony between yin and yang will no longer exist and that may cause some problems. Although it is just a theory without scientific evidence, there is still some evidence based on facts.
Supporting Details:
Actress such as Paris Hilton, Emma Watson keep cats as their pets. In the other hand, athletes such as Alen Iverson, who’s favourite pet is bulldog, and Kobe Bryant choose dogs as their pets.
Similarities:
1 People can have fun with both cats and dogs.
2 Both cats and dogs need us taking care of.
3 Both cats and dogs can be important members of the family.
Hey joy, I just make a slightly rewise about my C&C (write more details about my 3 point) because I did not got any comments on my 1st draft C&C outline because of my late submission. So sorry.
Topic: the harmful effect of smoking
Thesis statement: smoking is bad for our health
Cause: the action of smoking
Effect:Topic sentence 1: the nicotinic smog of cigarettes contains numerous kinds of toxins that can cause cancers and reduce the smoker’s life-span and contributes to a number of cancers.
Supporting details
There are at least 20 kinds of toxins in cigarette.
The most powerful toxin is nicotine. We can easily kill a dog by injecting one drop of nicotine to its vein. Also nicotine will hold back the smoker’s absorbing the vitamin C.
Nicotine smog, which constructed by nicotine and carbon monoxide, can temporarily increases the smoker’s heart rate and blood pressure, straining the smokers heart and brain’s blood vessels.
The smog can also pollute the smoker’s lungs and cause the lung cancer.
Topic sentence 2: smoking not only causes physically diseases, but also mentally diseases such as neurasthenic.
Long term smoking can cause neurasthenic diseases and psychotic disorder because the nicotine can damage the smoker’s brain and neural system.. The symptoms of the long-term smoker are that it is hard for them to control temper and they are easy to irate.
Topic sentence 3: Second hand smoke is also harmful.
Passive smoking is the inhalation of smoke, called secondhand smoke (SHS) or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), from tobacco products used by others.(wikipedia) A wide array of negative effects are attributed, in whole or in part, to frequent, short term and long term exposure to second hand smoke.
Here are some details about these negative effects:
1.Generally increase the rate of cancer which includes lung cancer and breast cancer.
2. increase the rate of diseases such as renal cell carcinoma and brain tumor.
3. Really bad effect for children growth if they are exposed in passive smoking.
Conclusion: Smoking is harmful to our society. Smokers should try their best to abstain smoking.
C&C
Topic: the difference and similarity of choosing cats or dogs as pets.
Difference:
1 Cats are wild and half domestic. On the other hand, dogs are totally domestic.
Supporting details:
cats often go to the outdoor for mostly a whole day, but dogs in the other hand, just need to be walked for half an hour every afternoon.
2 Cats are dishonest. However, dogs are honest and loyal to their masters.
Supporting details:
Cats are wild in their mind and cannot be fully trained. They will happy to be pets when masters give them good living conditions, otherwise, they are easy to leave the houses and never come back. But dogs are not that kind. Dogs are loyal to their masters even though their masters are really poor.
3. According to Taoism, men should not keep cats as pets and women should not keep dogs as pets because dogs belongs to yang and cats, in the other hand, belongs to yin while men belongs to yang and women belongs to yin. When men and cats, or women and dogs are together, the harmony between yin and yang will no longer exist and that may cause some problems. Although it is just a theory without scientific evidence, there is still some evidence based on facts.
Supporting Details:
Actress such as Paris Hilton, Emma Watson keep cats as their pets. In the other hand, athletes such as Alen Iverson, who’s favourite pet is bulldog, and Kobe Bryant choose dogs as their pets.
Similarities:
1 People can have fun with both cats and dogs.
2 Both cats and dogs need us taking care of.
3 Both cats and dogs can be important members of the family.
Hey joy, I just make a slightly rewise about my C&C (write more details about my 3 point) because I did not got any comments on my 1st draft C&C outline because of my late submission. So sorry.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
How to avoid being a procrastinator
As a college student, we have to face a lot of campus activities and numerous homework and also homework’s deadlines. So, a good time-management skill is really useful and crucial for us to survive in our university: we should avoid us being procrastinators. Now, let me share some of my own experience and point of view.
The most effective way to avoid procrastination is that we should make a daily schedule, such as, when should we get up? When should we leave our dormitory for class? Shall we study at 7 to 10 pm every Monday to Thursday and play dota at every Friday night? After we made this schedule, we have to print it out and paste it in front of our desk to remind us to follow the schedule. Then, we can by a calendar to put on our desk. This calendar is used for reminding us about our deadlines of homework and our time for appointments. Once we know the schedule of our homework deadline or our appointment, we just write them on the calendar and follow it. The advantage to write things down is it can be a better reminder to us about our plans because we can see the reminders as soon as we sitting in front of our desk.
Second, we should bring up good habits for our time-managements. We should put our assignments and homework in the first priority. Do not finish our homework just before the deadline. We should finish our homework as soon as we can, maybe we can finish our homework assignment several days, say 3days, before the deadline. No wonder that we can enjoy these 3 days doing whatever we want without worrying about our homework. On the other hand, if we put all our assignments at the deadline day, we have no choice to study continuously, of course with a low efficiency, for many hours, otherwise we will grade zero on out assignments. As a result, we should control our life by ourselves, not be controlled by the assignment deadlines.
Also, we have to boycott the seductions such as video games, fraternity parties, during our working time in our schedule. What I mean is, we should follow our schedule. For example, if I originally plan to finish my Calculus assignments, which dues on Sunday, from 7 to 9 am at Thursday night, but my best friend John, ask me to play DotA with him at 8. Though I really want to play dota with him, I still have to finish my homework. See, after I finished the homework, I have numerous hours to play dota. On the other hand, if I cannot boycott the seduction from John, I may spent my whole Thursday on playing dota with John, certainly, I may play basketball with Tony at Friday night and go to Frat Party with Cindy at Saturday. When I realize that I still have a maths homework undone, it is Sunday night already!
To conclude, writing down our schedules, buying calendar as reminders and protesting different kinds of seductions can help us avoid procrastination. Remember, we are the host of our live. We control our lives by ourselves, rather than our actions are controlled by time, if we avoid being procrastinators.
The most effective way to avoid procrastination is that we should make a daily schedule, such as, when should we get up? When should we leave our dormitory for class? Shall we study at 7 to 10 pm every Monday to Thursday and play dota at every Friday night? After we made this schedule, we have to print it out and paste it in front of our desk to remind us to follow the schedule. Then, we can by a calendar to put on our desk. This calendar is used for reminding us about our deadlines of homework and our time for appointments. Once we know the schedule of our homework deadline or our appointment, we just write them on the calendar and follow it. The advantage to write things down is it can be a better reminder to us about our plans because we can see the reminders as soon as we sitting in front of our desk.
Second, we should bring up good habits for our time-managements. We should put our assignments and homework in the first priority. Do not finish our homework just before the deadline. We should finish our homework as soon as we can, maybe we can finish our homework assignment several days, say 3days, before the deadline. No wonder that we can enjoy these 3 days doing whatever we want without worrying about our homework. On the other hand, if we put all our assignments at the deadline day, we have no choice to study continuously, of course with a low efficiency, for many hours, otherwise we will grade zero on out assignments. As a result, we should control our life by ourselves, not be controlled by the assignment deadlines.
Also, we have to boycott the seductions such as video games, fraternity parties, during our working time in our schedule. What I mean is, we should follow our schedule. For example, if I originally plan to finish my Calculus assignments, which dues on Sunday, from 7 to 9 am at Thursday night, but my best friend John, ask me to play DotA with him at 8. Though I really want to play dota with him, I still have to finish my homework. See, after I finished the homework, I have numerous hours to play dota. On the other hand, if I cannot boycott the seduction from John, I may spent my whole Thursday on playing dota with John, certainly, I may play basketball with Tony at Friday night and go to Frat Party with Cindy at Saturday. When I realize that I still have a maths homework undone, it is Sunday night already!
To conclude, writing down our schedules, buying calendar as reminders and protesting different kinds of seductions can help us avoid procrastination. Remember, we are the host of our live. We control our lives by ourselves, rather than our actions are controlled by time, if we avoid being procrastinators.
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