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.

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.

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.

Journal 8: Optimistic Quote

Winston Churchill once said,"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." This quote has truly represented the real world. Actually, everything has a positive and negative aspects. So one issue either positive or negative depends on how people see through it. For instance, to turn an opportunity into a success is never an easy work. An optimist will consider the difficulties as necessary challenges to be successful while a pessimist will see the contrary.
I agree with this statement since it can be applied for every single field in life such as at work, study. For example, there are always the competition at work. An optimist knows that competition will give him or her a chance to be success. Indeed, if he or she can overcome this challenge, he or she will get a higher position in his or her company and earn more money. Meanwhile, a pessimist consider getting the higher position in a company is unreal since a huge difficulty is always ahead.
I consider myself as a pessimist because I always think about the worst part of a situation. I always see the difficulties on everything such as working, studying until I have them done. In addition, one of my optimist friends tells me what is your future is less important than how you act for your future. Therefore you need to do your best and so all. However, I would say the result is the most important. If you cannot obtain your goal, all your efforts are worth for nothing.

Journal 7: Birds of a feather

Going along with the life, people have chance to meet each other. When they go to school or work, they have classmates, teachers, roommates or colleagues. Also there are people who you come across on the ways or on the buses. However having a real friend who you can share everything in life with is not easy because sometime people establish a relationship on purpose, the nonprofit relationship becomes more difficult to obtain. Since then, I feel very lucky when among people I have met, I can finally find out one who is best friend ever. Some say that your best friend should have the same characters as yours so you can easily understand each other. However, when they see my friend and I, they can figure out that we are really different in term of the physical features, characters and also the view of life but we are still friend for more than ten years.

First of all, our looking is totally different. Actually she is smaller, much thinner than me. Therefore people always compare us like a number 10 when we walk together. She is really pretty and shining where ever she comes. Moreover, she has a good style. She knows how to dress perfectly since she is a stylist designer. Meanwhile, I have a really bad taste so sometime she has to help me choose new clothing when we go shopping together.  

Second, her characters are really different from mine. For instance, while she is an open person, I am really reserved. Indeed, she is talkative. Unlike me, she can make new friends easily and they enjoy the conversation with her, but I usually cannot talk freely with new people. Though she is very gentle and soft, I rarely does. For example, I barely see her be angry. She has a perfect self-control. Her voice is tender and extremely convincing. Therefore at the most of the time, she is only one person who can calm me down since I can never hire my angry. I am too straightforward that makes me get into trouble sometime. 

Finally, because she is a kind of romantic person, therefore she always has troubles of love, while I am realistic enough to help her get out of that. Therefore we can greatly compensate each other. Furthermore, we have different opinions about most of aspects in life. For example, she thinks getting a job that she really likes is extremely important while I say money is the most important.

All in all, we never understand why we can keep our relationship for the whole time when we are diffenrent in every aspects. However I really appreciate this friendship. Even now we have our own lives and our own concern, we can not help each other but we know we can mentally support each other. 

Journal 6: Talking with animals

Nowadays, people have dogs, cats as their pets. They feed, caress and talk with the pets even these little animals cannot speak. Therefore, if animals could one day talk, that would be a good news for whom love pets. However, this day would also make the world become chaotic because each animal can express its opinion and they would make a big noise.
First of all, human life would be really affected if animal can talk. Mankinds have controlled these animals for very long time ago. Their lives depend on human being. If they can talk, they would propably complain about how people treat them. Indeed, how you can cruelly eat the turkey or the fish whose just have talked to you one minute before.
Moreover, these animals can make a big noise. For instance, in the beautiful morning you will feel very happy to hear birds singing. Therefore, when the birds instead of singing, they speak, that would really destroy your feeling.
After all, life should be as it is right now, the fact that animal can talk does not seem good. However, if this day comes, I would ask animals whether or not they care about the freedom. Also, I would ask the pets whether they want to be fed by human as a domestic animal or they want to return to forests and live their wild lives. Since I am always wondering that people say they love their animals but why they still keep them at home and they treat those animals by following their humors. It is just like I was always wondering which person really love flowers, the one who cut all the beautiful flowers in one's garden and put them in a big pot and the other one who waters one's flowers each day and admires the way that those flowers grow up in one's garden.

Journal 5: Temporary home

"This is my temporary home
It's not where I belong
Windows and rooms that I'm passin' through
This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going
I'm not afraid because I know this is my
Temporary Home

My favorite song is "Temporary home" sung by Carrie Underwood. That song is really striking me at the first time I listened to because of the lovely melody and the meaningful lyrics.
Country music was never my favorite since I was thought that this kind of music is old, Therefore by the time my sister shared this song to me, I had predicted that it would be bothering. However the emotional voice of Carrie Underwood makes this song be smooth, tender. I feel like seeing a pure, calm lake which bringing to me a peaceful moment.
Moreover, the lyric is the best part of the song. The lyric tells us three stories of three different personnages. They are an orphan 6-year-olds boy, a single mom with her little girl and a grandfather passing away. They are in their hard situation but they are not afaid because where they are is just their temporary home.  The song is perfectly fit my view in life which is every hard moment people have got in life is just temporary therefore they should prepare to fight against it with an optimism.

All in all, the melody and the lyrics are a perfect combination. The combination inspires me when I first listen to and encourages me to step on my way. It is the great song that you should not skip over eventhough you are not a country fan and then, listen carefully each word which is very simple English but powerful.