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2008年2月28日 星期四

I Don't Smoke!

This is an era of freedom, that is everyone has right to do anything without breaching the laws. However, when people try to do anything that they want, they should take few minutes to think about if the thing they will do will become other people's burden or not. If that will inroad other people's right, people should not do it. Therefore, no matter the government enacts the rule to limit smoking in public, people who smoke have to learn to respect others.

It is a hell for people who do not smoke to sit near smoking people. The smell of smoke is nasty, and the components of the smoke are harmful for human respiratory system. They will increase the rate to having lung cancer. Unfortunately, the rate is higher for people who do not smoke but inhale other's smoke than people who smoke. As a result, it is very unfair to let people smoke in public. Other people need clean space where there is fresh air to breath without worry of healthy danger.

In the other side, people who smoke also assert that the rule will abandon their right. They even propone the civil right in the Constitution to prove that they have to protect their smoking right. However, they forget the spirit of democracy and Constitution is based on a freedom avoid of breaching other people's right. Moreover, they still have right to smoke. For example, many restaurants have provides a smoking area for smoking people in which the air does not circulate to other area in the restaurants. With the isolated air condition, they can smoke and do not bother other people.

After all, before the government enacted the rule, people who don't smoke had to tolerate smoking people. Even although they hated the smoke of cigarette, they bore that smell because they showed their veneration of smoking people. Since the rule has enacted, the smoking people have to respect others. Moreover, for their and their children's health, if they could quit smoking, it is the best thing.

2008年2月24日 星期日

Wanted A Caterpillar!!



There is a bad news about my new friend, the caterpillar mentioned few days ago. When I went to the flowers this morning, I found it lost there. It disappeared there. I'm very sure, because I scrutinized every leaf of those flowers. However, there is no track about it. I feel terrible right now. I ever thought to record its life from a small caterpillar to a flying butterfly. All right, even it might not be a butterfly; I still want to watch this natural transformation.

According my imagination, there are two possible things happening on the caterpillar. First of all, it traveled to a remote place where the leaves are better for its appetite. Because the leave in the flowers where it was are old and shrivel, the leave might be too hard for it. The young bug might want delicate sprouts. This is a best way I prefer, in that it still lives.

On the contrary, the other way does not go as I hope. It might be the prey of birds. When I proceeded in the rescue operation, I heard the twitter from birds in the trees, which sounded like gloated laughs. Birds preying their food is a natural thing. Caterpillars always are listed in birds’ menu just after they hatched. Further, the small and sparse leave provide all but a safe shelter. There might be another reason why birds discovered the caterpillar. That is my observation which caught their acute eyes and revealed the position of the caterpillar. I have wondered the intelligence of a bird could help it discover my action relative to divulging something interesting to it.

After all, it has really gone away, I still went there to find any evidence of tracks it left. However, as I ever said it is not the time for this caterpillar to live in this season, and the nature really does it job to select the right one which deserves to survive.

2008年2月23日 星期六

Do Children Need Computer?

Children born in this technological society contact much information and face competition around the world. Although children in different ages have different needs, I think a computer probably is the best way for children to initially access the cyber world. Because a computer has various functions, including surfing internet, learning computer skills, and practicing typing, children can benefit from the computer, although it still has some drawbacks. However, the sum of advantages and disadvantages is positive.

In the bright side, children can learn computer languages, C, C++, Java, with computers. These languages play a significant role in their following life, especially if they prefer to devote in technology companies. Even though those do not work in tech companies, they will have high chance to use these skills to complete their assignments in schools. Moreover, the life around us is full of computers; as the result of this, it is better to let children familiar with the operation of a computer. When they play computer games, they facilitate the using of a computer unconsciously. Nothing can be compared with learning in playing.

However, the biggest drawback of a computer is that overly using computer causes people spend too much time on using computer. An obvious extreme example is children who play computer games too zealously stay up every night and finally feel illness. It is a general rule that when people do a thing too over, there is something wrong happening. If children can not control themselves, they could fail in school works.

After all, parents of children have the responsibility to watch their children and prevent them become addicted in computer. As long as children properly use computer, the problem will be solved. However, this needs adults' help, because most children have less self-continent in many things, not only using computers. Except of this problem, we still can not neglect the merits of a computer. In fact, I think there are many advantages of a computer when children use them in right attitude. Computers will help children grow and understand much knowledge.

2008年2月21日 星期四

A Wandering Caterpillar



Yestoday, I foud a small green caterpillar in front of my garage. I reconigned it as a caterpillar which eats a specific type of flower, because my grandmother ever grew that flower. When I sae it, I felt very surprised as the result of season, spring is not supposed to see this bug. There was a sound in my mind which told me to find somewhere to save it. Because it is a victim of grobal warming. Warm weather makes it hatch earily, and there is no much food, the leaves of flower. But I still found some flowers with few leaves, and then, I put it in a leaf. After that, I go to see the tiny bug everytime when I go outsides.

This morning, when I went to those flowers, I could not find anything like caterpillar resting in the leaves. I thought it might be eaten by some predators, like sparrows. However, before the sunset, I went there without any expectation, but I suddenly saw a green thing on the back of a leaf. That is the caterpillar. It must go someplace to resort and back the place I left it. What a funny caterpillar!

2008年2月18日 星期一

What Is The Value Of A Leader?

Team working is a efficient method to solve problems in any organization, for profit or nonprofit. In a team, there is a leader who targets the goal, supervises the working schedule, cares about teammates, and holds a party if the team could meet the goal. In order to facilitate the work in a team, the team leader must have qualified personalities, like charisma, vision, coordination between people, and of course, leadership.

On the other hand, the team members just follow their boss's commands to tilt the goal and do their own business. The risk of a team member is smaller than of the leader, because the responsibility of the success or fault is on the leader's shoulder. As the result, many people prefer to be one of the team members, not the leader. However, they forget the position is a opportunity to wield their power to present their ability; especially when the goal is difficult, the value of the people who are leaders easily glimmers and is saw by everyone. They could surge their position and wealth, after the teams they lead would succeed.

On the dark side, when the team fails to its goal, the payback is also considerable. Of course, as people could hold the most fruits after harvesting, they also might have to lose the most of their own when losing. The leader is always the target of critics after a failing. Moreover, even the team successfully completes its mission, the leader has put most of his effort to accomplish the job, maybe ten times more than sum of the other teammates. Considering the situation, the job of a leader is not as easy as other people admire.

What is the value of a leader? A leader can have a high position in a team; therefore the vision is far and clear, too. To be a member, people might understand their parts of tasks and have no idea what others do. A leader, opposite, has to oversea all the things during the working, not only the progress of schedule but members. If people are confident with their abilities, they must seize the chance to be a leader.

2008年2月15日 星期五

Query A Younger Person

When people who lack some aspects of knowledge have an aggressive inclination of learning, they gather information from anywhere, including books, internet, and people who know those things. These people include younger people than theirs. Because the purpose of them is to understand information, the age of the people is not an important problem as long as they have the knowledge and want to share what they know.

People who do not ask younger people have the preconception which tells them the younger people have few experience than they do. However, in this modern world where the information is increasing and renovating faster than any era of human history, professional people have their expertise in their terrains because it takes much time to absorb whole information in the specific profession. According to this, it is very possible that people can not know everything in the world, at least not detail. Therefore, any smart person might have questions in some aspects of knowledge that he is not familiar with, and he might meet a man knowing the knowledge is younger than he is.

Beside, the young people usually are eager to gather new information. When people are getting older and want to know what is going on in the world, they probably have to ask their children or younger people they know. For example, my mother did not have known about the searching engines, named Yahoo or Google, on the internet until I told her how to gather information from the internet. Actually, many things young people think are common; nonetheless, some elder people do not know their name and how they work.

After all, because knowledge is about all but people's age, we should not ask questions after considering people are younger or not. People who cross the barrier of age can harbor the universe in their mind. In fact, when people politely query other people questions, I think no one would disincline to answer those questions.

2008年2月14日 星期四

Personality

There are various people living in the world and of course, many personalities, too. Some people who are extravert love to explore new things and meet new friends, and they like something different from the usual. However, there are other people, shy and introvert, staying in the round-of-the-mill life, that is there is no accidence and surprise in their stewardship everyday.

People who like excitingly new things are more aggressive than people who do not love to change. As this result, these people arrange tasks quickly and cleave the unknown world bravely in the companies. According their personality, the companies which are in the fledgling stage need them to build new business and meet new customers. However, too much aggression is like a train without a brake might have some accidents. The conservative people have their reason to exist in the companies in order to function like a brake.

When people do everything overly conservatively, they fail to try anything new. They handle with things as they ever did. However, when a new thing happens to them, they might have no idea to do it. After all, they would live behind the step of the world.

Nonetheless, we have to respect people's right to live on their own styles. However, I am an ambivert man, which is the third possibility. When I am in the office to work, I enjoy the challenges from customers, colleagues, boss and subordinates. There is usually something new every day. But, when I go home, I want to stay a peace place where the things are the same, because I am fatigued and have no energy to wrestle the new things, and moreover, I need to pacify my brain and relax the body. I think there are some people like me, ambivalent.

Art In The Tech

The world needs different types of people to construct a society with various values. The artist who performs their ideas through the drawing, sculpture, and other kinds of methods give people the satisfaction of mind. On the other hand, the scientists who delve into researches of innovational inventions and uncovered discoveries provide people the satisfaction of curiosity and convenience. If we lost one of them, we could be like a patient who lacks some essential nutrition feels ill.

People living in a society where there is no art would lack their mind and feel bored and weary, because the art exists around us and resembles the spirit of thoughts at that time. Even the high technology instruments have art factors. For example, the outline of a cell phone which looks smooth and clear-cut, just lke a piece of artwork is designed to fit the shape of human hand. Moreover, no matter what products we use now, they are amalgamated with art. In fact, the art is not the pots or pictures in the museums.

However, there would be a disaster, if the scientists have never existed, we might live in the Stone Age. When we use our cell phones to talk to a friend living far away or prepare a project by a computer, we have to thank those scientists who devote themselves and even their lifes into researches. After several times failings, there would be an amazing invention enhancing people’s living.

When we think about the contribution of scientists, we can not forget the artists. Because many smart tools in the present consists not only the capacities of their functions but the cool design of their shapes. People do not cherish a product which has very powerful functions but looks very ugly. Therefore, a successful product has to blend the technology into art in order to catch customer's eyes.

2008年2月12日 星期二

Why not handy work instead of machine

The most difference between human beings and animals is utilizing of tools, because we are so smart that understand how to facilitate to work through various tools. Therefore, I prefer using these tools or machines to perform my works. They decrease working time, increase the efficiency and ease my effort.

After the revolution of industry in the nineteenth century, there have been many inventions making our life convenient. Some things which took a lot of time and effort to complete just need a few to do. For example, before the invention of trains and cars, it took several weeks to cross the American continent; however, we can use less than a week to do the same thing and even less time, if we take the plane.

Further, as all kinds of machines have been invented, we can enjoy efficient working processes. With the efficient processes, we can have more time to do other thing, particularly leisure time, which never happened before because of working. For example, the labor workers who might need three hours to knit a unit of clothes; nonetheless, it only takes 3 minutes for a textile machine, a loom. The boss of the factory can make more profit than before without additional time of producing. As the result, the workers can have free time on the weekend.

Not only do the machines benefit the manufacturing industrial but also individual. Take house-clean for example. In the past, when people wanted to clean their floor at home, they had to use brooms and much time. However, they can clean the floor by vacuum machines which can suck almost everything on the floor, and more importance is that it takes less time and effort.

When we have so many machines to help us perform tasks, we should enjoy the benefit of it.

2008年2月11日 星期一

Jogging and Swimming Relax Me

In the competitive modern society, there is much stress and pressure around us. Although some people can tolerate very extremely pressure of their environment, there has to be some ways for people to relax themselves. In this way, people can improve working efficiency. For me, the best way to soothe my tension of job is to exercise, including jogging and swimming. In fact, these two exercises can make me perspire very much and further, slack my muscles.

When I jog along the road, I feel the wind flowing through my skin, and this feeling is just like someone touches you very gentle and releases thoughts linking to the ponderous job. Not only does the jogging relax my pressure but also strengths my body, the heart, lungs, and muscles. Every time after jogging, I feel much better, and my health has improved a lot since I began to jog. The healthy body can help me to bear more pressure in the work; my performance increases.

In fact, I alternate the two exercises when I feel weary. The benefits of the swimming are well-known for many people. It can improve the coordination of body, strength all muscles in the body, and improve the capability of lungs. When I float in the water, I like to let myself float freely. Because, I find this way can temporarily stop thinking the tasks in the work and life and let me feel like a baby in mother's womb. In this situation, I feel peace and safe and relax.

Everyone has particular ways to release pressure, because the pressure affects people's life harmfully. If people do not find a way out, it might hurt the health of body and become a detrimental cycle. When people who have too much stress from the jobs do not find ways to release and accumulate the pressure in their body. They will feel illness and even sick as the pressure is stacked to a certain amount. Finally, they won’t work efficiently as usual and feel more pressure from their boss.

2008年2月6日 星期三

Semiconductor and Industry inTaiwan

Base on the economy improvement and the convenience of living, the invention of semiconductor is the most beneficial thing for my country, Taiwan. There is no such technological life around us without semiconductors, because it is the basic item in the modern instruments including computers, radios, cell phones and any kind of electronic equipment. My country is the place which manufactures these high tech toys.

Before building the factories to make electronic products, we engaged to manufacture traditional ones, such as textiles, plywood, or forages. These traditional products have low profit and require much human resource, but the basic salary of a worker had haven increased for a period of time. The cost of workers impels companies to find a way out. With the support from the government and the invention of semiconductors, the industry turned to produce electronic products for American and European companies which seek to lower their costs. As the result, my country has started prosperity since that time.

In the common people's life, the high tech companies in my country make the electronic products close to everyone with affordable price. These products which are expensive at first gradually exist around people's living. For example, the cell phone was an extravagant product. Only business people could afford it; however, everyone has a cell phone now. The computer, another example, plays an essential role in modern society, but before invented and lower price, the computer only exists in big companies and research laboratories.

There is a connection between the invention of the semiconductor and the prosperity of my country. If one of them disappeared at the past, the world would not so convenient and modern. However, at the time being, the industry of technology in my country faces cost problem as it happened before. I hope we can hold the spirit as we had at the transition in the past, and further, push the economy to another boom.

As I Was a College Student



Education helps students get around to the world and understand the universe. Although many people think the education in the universities is a process in which students through it gain professions and skills to make money after graduating, I prefer a university which provides myriad classes in order to satisfy students' need for knowledge. These classes are not prepared for work, but they are designed for students who hunger for knowing what they don't know.

The universities are not factories in which students, just like products, are taught by professional classes, like manufacturing processes, to have abilities for jobs in future companies, the customers. They are different individuals who have their interests and different goals for their unique life. Therefore, the colleges should not limit the classes just to fit the works. Further, the authorities in the colleges should provide the classes to fit students' needs. Because students whose future is unpredictable will face all kinds of challenges, what they learn in the universities may be used in the future.

As the result, not only students learn as many as they can during the college life, and colleges also open as many classes as they can. Moreover, no one can expect a person's future. In the competitive world, people change their jobs very often; sometimes, they even turn into a different course which needs different profession. Further, when some people who do survive in the competitive world, they would be promote to a higher position. For example, a student who majors in engineer might become a manager when promotion. As they situate higher positions, they need more abilities to exercise their power well and reach another promotion.

As long as the colleges provide various classes, their students will have advantages in the future. Limiting the types of classes constrain the future of their graduators. Colleges confident with their students, faculties, and teaching contents do not choose the future for students.

2008年2月4日 星期一

Jobs, Me, Life

For many people, jobs are the way to earn money in order to maintain needs of living. Some of them who are voracious do their best to gather as much money as they can in all means; therefore, they sacrifice many things in their life. However, I think I rather spend time with my family and friends than works, because if the money is enough to make my costs in life even, that is fine for me.

Actually, there are many benefits to earn less money and to share my time with family and friends. One of them is that you could stay more time with your children when they grow up. Many people who urge to work overlook their family. When their children have been adults, they, finally, remind that they seem to lose something, that is, the childhood of their children, which is never bought by money. Many educational experts find that the children who accept education without the company of parents will not perform well as those with parents who accompany with them. As the result, we can not reverse children's process of growth, so we have to cherish the time when they are still young.

Further, people who spend a lot of time working have less time for themselves. They might found they have nothing but money when they are too old to work, and then what could they do after they would not go to work? They would become lonely and solitary, because they have no friends. Moreover, when people drown in the tasks in the work, they easily neglect their health; as the result, they become illness as their fortune is increasing. Not only time but also health can not be bought from supermarket with credit cards.

After all, people who dedicate to their jobs have to sit down and consider one thing, that is are the jobs so important for exchange what they love? If the answer is yes, then those people are really working animals. However, if the answer is no, people have to change.