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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.

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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.