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David, Barboza, (2009, Nov 15) Obama begins first visit to China

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/world/asia/16shanghai.html

Obama comes to visit China for the first time. David Barboza (2009) says, in the New York Times, the purpose of this trip is tying the relationship between America and China (par. 1). Although the world’s economy is in deep recession, China economy still rises by eight percent (par. 7). Consequently, America is hoping that China’ new policy of currency will allow America to easily access the China market and speed up its exports (par. 4). Some America ministers say that China makes use of slowing down its currency to greatly increase its exports (par. 9). But the truth is that many Chinese companies exist and work in the US, and they also have to pay for the same business costs of America’s (par. 10). President Obama is very eager to work and cooperate with China for a better future of America. Let’s hope that the world recession soon slow down, creating jobs for many workers.

journal 12

Deforestation has become one of the most concerned problems. Many of forests disappear quickly. (Edward Harris. "A Vicious Cycle of Deforestation." Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) Feb. 3, 2008: A.6. SIRS Researcher. Web. 25 September, 2009.) It also results in many horrible disasters in the world. (.”( CQ RESEARCHERSept. 20, 1991, Vol. 1, No. 19, pp. 683-698, (c) Mary H. Cooper. "Saving the Forests." CQ Researcher Sept. 20 1991: 683-698. SIRS Researcher. Web. 15 October 2009.). This also leads to the vanish of biodiversity and watershed protection. (David Lamb, Peter D Erskine, John A Parrotta (Dec 9, 2005).Restoration of Degraded Tropical Forest Landscapes. Science, Washington. Vol. 310, Iss. 5754, p. 1628-32 (5 pp.) Therefore, people have to look for the solution to this problem. Some of them are: reforestation, plantations, and forest management. ((David Lamb, Peter D Erskine, John A Parrotta (Dec 9, 2005).Restoration of Degraded Tropical Forest Landscapes. Science, Washington. Vol. 310, Iss. 5754, p. 1628-32 (5 pp.)

journal 11

I have made a research of deforestation from the Wikipedia. There are many aspects relating to this topic such as: environments problem, economic impact, causes or controlling of deforestation. But I prefer ways of controlling deforestation. I want to know about how people are doing to prevent deforestation and what is the result. Solving this problem is not easy, and it takes lots of time because it depends on many things such as: effect, people or policy. However, preventing deforestation is really necessary due to the benefit of forest. Consequently, it must be a must. Governments all over the world pay much attention to this problem. They also invest money and human resource for plantation, forest management and farming. Let's look at what they are doing, and how they do it. My question topic is : what is the best way of controlling deforestation?

Topic research

Research paper seems to be so dreadful to many people, including of me. In my country, we also often did research paper one or two times a year. But we were not trained how to do it. Therefore, our research paper is not good in quality.
It is really a good chance for us to study how to make a research paper. Although my major is economics, i still want to choose somethings out of this scope, just for a little challenge.
I want to study more about the deforestation. And, of course, i will choose this for the research paper's topic.

American food

Whenever saying about American food, I always think of hamburger and fast food. Truly speaking, I do not like American food, because it is too fat.
In my country, traditional food is rice, meat or fish and vegetable. We just eat bread for the breakfast. We seldom use cheese or jams because it is expensive. Some years ago, fast food is never heard in my country, but nowadays it is becoming more popular, especially in the big cities, for the youth due to convenience.
In contrast, Americans are fond of bread. I see them eat bread all the time with cheese, jams, and meat. They also like fast food so much that even children get used to eating it. I heard from a newspaper that an American mother of eight children also let them eat fastfood. I do not think it is a good idea as fast food contain a lot of fat, and there is not enough fruit and vegetable in it.
If a friend said to me that " let's go eat American", it means that we will go to eat together, but each pays for himself. This is maybe the style of America, independence and fair. This is a little different from some countries where the men or those asking to eat out first will paid.
America also have many kinds of food. However, it is really famous for its hamburger. Its hamburger is so delicious because of the meat, the cheese, and the sauce, that other countries can not imitate.
However, whenever mentioning about America, I first do not think of its food. And I do not think that America is famous for its food. Instead, it is famous for economics, education, technologies or somethings like that.

journal 8

People have different thoughts about difficulties in their life. Some often ask themselves why they have to face up with so many challenges and do not possess a happy and calm life while others do their best to find the solution for their problems without any complaints. Personally, I totally agree with a saying: " A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Various perspectives of difficulties in life depend much on each one's habit and characteristic. For a hard-working student, quizz or examination is one way of practicing and strengthening academic knowledge while it is a big problem to those who do not feel interested in studying. According to the optimist's opinion, people will grow up after any obstacles they must face. Therefore, they do not dare to confront with any challenges and hoping that tomorrow will be better than tomorrow. I remember the day when my family knew that my mum was having a cancer. We were very sad and cried a lot as we thought that she would soon passed away and left us alone. But later, we recognized that the most important thing we should do at that time was bringing her to the hospital and carefully taking care of her. Moreover, we also needed to let her know that how much we loved her and we would be with her all the time. Now it has been ten years since that day; she made greatly recovery and still strongly lives with us. And nothing is more important and wonderful than her appearance in our life. Generally speaking, at that time it was really a difficulties for all of us. However, it was also the chance for us to strengthen our family relationship and to show our love and gratitude to the other members.

In conclusion, there is a reason for all difficulties or challenges happening in our life.This will help us to be more experienced and skillful in the future. Consequently, do not be afraid of any obstacle.

journal 7

It is not easy to look for a close friend. And people have different opinions of how to be close friends. From my point of view, I agree with " bird of a feather flock together".

I have a friend who shares with me the same interest in traveling, and we also have many other things in common. We have been for friends for more than 10 years, and live with each other for 4 years during the student life. We liked to go out for dinner in the evening, go shopping and movies at the weekend. Especially, we like to travel a lot. And we often went to a new place every month. It is really joyful and interesting to travel with one who understand us so much. We also can eagerly discuss about an attractive topic, or we can also keep silent to be own in our deep thought. Sometime, we also argued with each other because of disagreeing in something. However, this did not last so long and we continued our new routine.

I also have a friend who often shares with me her thinking. She is my neighbor for 15 years, and we have been friends since then. It can be said that all of my childhood was together with her. We often went fishing, catching butterfly, or played traditional games. As she is at the same age of me, we often went to the class and studied together. Whenever she was sad, she often talked with me and asked for advice. Later, when we were far away from hometown for college, we did not live close to another. However, we still often hanged out together.

Those are my close friends, and we share many things in common. Therefore, I think it is easy to be friends with those who have the same interests with us.