Dear Mom,
I have always appreciated the way you treat me, take care of me. You wanted me to move to the U.S and live with my sister. I understand by living with my sister, I have somebody take care of me. Furthermore, living cost will be less expensive. However, it does not help me at all in learning English which is my important job that I need to accomplish. Indeed, we are living in the core of vietnamse community. I can go out, buy everything without speaking any english word. I become rely on my sister because she is willing to do everything for me so my job is to go to school, study everyday. Therefore, I do not have more chance to practice English neither learn to be self-reliance.
Your daughter.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Summarize/Paraphrase Practice
Karen Kaplan (2011, November 16). Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 16, 2011, from http://www.latimes.com
The U.S goverment should consider banning smoking in the car. Two major reasons stated in the article are the second-hand smoking and the driving safety. For instance, Kaplan (2011) stated the major reason is to avoid the danger of intensely concentrated secondhand smoke in the car. In fact, she gave some data to diccuss the risk of secondhand smoke (par.5). In addtion, she argued that smoking while driving is not safety since the driver could lost their attention (par.6). The author also acknowledged that the doctors in the BMA report prefer to focus on the distracted driver as a main reason to ban smoking in the car rather than the secondhand smoke.
The U.S goverment should consider banning smoking in the car. Two major reasons stated in the article are the second-hand smoking and the driving safety. For instance, Kaplan (2011) stated the major reason is to avoid the danger of intensely concentrated secondhand smoke in the car. In fact, she gave some data to diccuss the risk of secondhand smoke (par.5). In addtion, she argued that smoking while driving is not safety since the driver could lost their attention (par.6). The author also acknowledged that the doctors in the BMA report prefer to focus on the distracted driver as a main reason to ban smoking in the car rather than the secondhand smoke.
Analyzing an argument
Trashing the Grand Canyon. Los Amgeles Times. Retrieved November 14, 2011, from http://www.latimes.com
In this article, the author claimed that the money given by some organizations to the national park might have the negative impact on the park policy. It is a claim of policy, which appeals to reason. The author mentionned the banish of selling water bottles in the Grand Cayon park can diminish the amount of the trash in the park since plastic bottles are a biggest single source of trash in the park. However, this solution might not be applied since the patron of this national park is afraid of loosing sponsering from Coca-cola. The evidence is come from the email leaking to NY Times. This email metionned that the Park patron will hold off the decision until getting sponsoring from Coca-cola. This is a weak evidence since the source of the email was not indentified; and the information cited was not justified. Therefore the evidence is not credible.
In this article, the author claimed that the money given by some organizations to the national park might have the negative impact on the park policy. It is a claim of policy, which appeals to reason. The author mentionned the banish of selling water bottles in the Grand Cayon park can diminish the amount of the trash in the park since plastic bottles are a biggest single source of trash in the park. However, this solution might not be applied since the patron of this national park is afraid of loosing sponsering from Coca-cola. The evidence is come from the email leaking to NY Times. This email metionned that the Park patron will hold off the decision until getting sponsoring from Coca-cola. This is a weak evidence since the source of the email was not indentified; and the information cited was not justified. Therefore the evidence is not credible.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Journal 13: Second source
Epstein, Samuel; Fitzgerald, Randall (2010). Healthy Beauty : Your Guide to Ingredients to Avoid and Products You Can Trust. BenBella. Retrieved November 02, 2011, from Ebook Library.
The authors mentioned some ingredients containing in the Hair dyes products which can lead to cancer. They infer that there are many chemical products which are really toxic. Therefore, they offer some advice to prevent consumers from the risk cancer.
This book is useful because it is really related to my topic and can becom a good evidence to demonstrate my issue.
The book might be credible since it was written by the authors who have specific knowledge about chemical product and healthcare. For example, Doctor Epstein is professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine in University Illinois and achieve some reward for is researches.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Journal 12: Annonated Bibliography
Sanjosé, S., Benavente, Y., & Nieters, A. (2006). Association between Personal Use of Hair Dyes and Lymphoid Neoplasms in Europe. American Journal of Epidemiology, 164(1), 47-55. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwj187
Dr. Silvia de Sanjosé was working for Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain, in 2005. He was conducting a research to demonstrate that using dying hair product increase the risk of Lymphoid Neoplasms. The article is useful because Lymphoid Neoplasms is an abnormal mass of tissue which can lead to a cancer. Since the result is related to my topic, I can use this topic to argue whether or not dying hair damage human health.
Dr. Silvia de Sanjosé was working for Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain, in 2005. He was conducting a research to demonstrate that using dying hair product increase the risk of Lymphoid Neoplasms. The article is useful because Lymphoid Neoplasms is an abnormal mass of tissue which can lead to a cancer. Since the result is related to my topic, I can use this topic to argue whether or not dying hair damage human health.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Advice
The best advice in my life was from my mother when I was an adolescent. At the age of the adolescence, kids begin to change physically and mentally. They tend to listen to their friends rather than to their parents. Therefore this is really difficult to the parent for keepping theim away from trouble. I used to be a bad teenager because I don't want to follow my parent's advice. I was always thinking that my parent did not understand my feeling and I became disobey. I hated someone tell me that I need do this, I should do that. One day after a moment talking to me, I continued avoiding all my mother's advice. She was really sad, she looked at in my eye and said: " I know you don't want to listen to me, you think mom was always wrong. You don't need to follow my advice now but just keep all that in mind because one day you will need it. Someday you will see that your mom was right. No one can give you a better advice than I do because no one can love you more than I do." That speech really woke me up. I was not following all advice but I was trying to not ruin anything because I don't want to upset my mom. Now, I grow up and realize mama was right.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
American Food
The U.S. is famous with the development of fast food restaurant. People can realize that KFC, Burger King, Mac Donal's or Pizza Hut are appreared in everywhere they go. Therefore, people can definitely state that fast food is American food. Although the Americans were not the father of hamburgers or pizza, the U.S is the only one place that makes them flourish and be famous around the world.
Otherwise, fast food could not be determined as the only traditional American food. The settler of the U.S came from around the world, they brought with them their own cultures and their own traditional food. Therefore the tradition of American food is the diversity. After a longtime, these foods are changed to fit the taste of the big part of American population who came from different countries. The American cuisine is really typical. For example, American seafood is totally different in how it is prepared. We cannot find exactly the same dishes in any other restaurant in the rest part of the world unless it was an American restaurant.
As the U.S is the big country, American traditional food can be varied by regions. For example, when people talk about crawfish, it can remind them Louisana eventhough there are crawfish restaurants everywhere. In addition, when we look at the menu of pizza, there is often one kind on which they put some pineapple piece and they call Hawaiian style.
All in all, it is really hard to say what is the American food not because they don't have any but because there are a lot of different dishes. Otherwise, turkey and potatoes can be also considered American food since they cannot be missed in the American dinner at the Thanksgiving.
Otherwise, fast food could not be determined as the only traditional American food. The settler of the U.S came from around the world, they brought with them their own cultures and their own traditional food. Therefore the tradition of American food is the diversity. After a longtime, these foods are changed to fit the taste of the big part of American population who came from different countries. The American cuisine is really typical. For example, American seafood is totally different in how it is prepared. We cannot find exactly the same dishes in any other restaurant in the rest part of the world unless it was an American restaurant.
As the U.S is the big country, American traditional food can be varied by regions. For example, when people talk about crawfish, it can remind them Louisana eventhough there are crawfish restaurants everywhere. In addition, when we look at the menu of pizza, there is often one kind on which they put some pineapple piece and they call Hawaiian style.
All in all, it is really hard to say what is the American food not because they don't have any but because there are a lot of different dishes. Otherwise, turkey and potatoes can be also considered American food since they cannot be missed in the American dinner at the Thanksgiving.
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