Smoking in Public Places (Final Draft)

Smoking in Public Places

I. Thesis statement: People should not smoke in public places because smoking
will produce second-hand smoke and pollute the air. Also,
smoking in public may cause fires.

II. Produce second-hand smoke
A. Make pregnant women bear an unhealthy baby
B. Harm other people’s health

III. Pollute the air
A. In a restaurant
B. In a bus

IV. Cause fires
A. Smokers litter the smoking stubs carelessly.
B. Smokers do not notice the smoking stub is still burning.

V. Conclusion: Thus, people should not be allowed to smoke in the public spaces for it is not only irrespectful of other people’s rights, but also harmful to smokers' own health.



About five years ago, my aunt got severe lung cancer because she let her customers smoke in her restaurant. She didn’t have the habit of smoking, but second-hand smoke caused her lung cancer. Hence, people should not smoke in public places for smoking will produce second-hand smoke and pollute the air. Also, smoking in public may cause fires.

First of all, smoking in the public places will cause second-hand smoke. Second-hand smoke will make pregnant women bear unhealthy babies. If pregnant women breathe in the second-hand smoke, it will cause the effect of reducing the weight of the baby, or it will lead to premature birth of the baby. Additionally, second-hand smoke will also result in other diseases. Second-hand smoke is the incomplete burning of nicotine, so it will have more poisonous substance than first-hand smoke and will cause lung cancer easily. According to the American and the Australian research, second-hand smoke will also raise the chance of getting paralytic stroke, heart disease and diabetes. Besides, the second-hand smoke will cause the women’s menopause coming earlier. Since second-hand smoke will harm other people’s health, people should not be permitted to smoke in public places.

Smoking in the public spaces will not only cause the second-hand smoke, but also pollute the air. For example, if people smoke in a restaurant, it will produce the smoke that makes people sneeze and cough because the substance of the smoke will upset the breathing tract, and it will make people burst into tears. Although many restaurants in Taiwan have smoking and non-smoking areas, the harm of smoking will not be reduced. The poisonous particles of cigarette smoke will still stay in the air for several hours after smoking, and people in the non-smoking area will breathe in these particles through the circulation of the air. Moreover, smoking in bus will make the quality of air in the bus worse. I had a bad experience that a man’s smoking resulted in my continuous coughing and being extremely uncomfortable.

In addition, smoking in the public place may cause fires. Many smokers always throw away cigarette stubs carelessly, and they often don’t notice whether the stubs are still burning or not; furthermore, it is the second main reason that causes fires in Taiwan. This kind of careless action is so dangerous because the stubs contain tindery substances. If a stub is still burning, it will cause fires. Even worse, if people throw away the burning stub in the forest, it may cause forest fire. This is a great calamity of natural environment because forest fire may last for one month, and it will lead to air pollution and the extinction of living things in the forest.

In short, smoking in the public space has many bad influences such as producing the second-hand smoke that will hurt other people’s health, polluting the air that will let people have uncomfortable feeling, and causing the fires that may do big damage to natural environment. Thus, people should not be allowed to smoke in the public spaces, for it is not only irrespectful of other people’s rights, but also harmful to smokers' own health.

Argument and Persuation - Smoking in Public Places (Second Draft)

Smoking in Public Places

I. Thesis statement: People should not smoke in public places because smoking will produce second-hand smoke and pollute the air. Also, smoking in public may cause fires

II. Produce second-hand smoke
A. Make pregnant women bear an unhealthy baby
B. Harm other people’s health

III. Pollute the air
A. In a restaurant
B. In a bus

IV. Cause fires
A. Smokers throw away the smoking stub carelessly.
B. Smokers do not notice the smoking stub is still burning.

V. Conclusion: Thus, people should not be allowed to smoke in the public spaces for it will not only be respectful to other people’s rights, but also be good for smokers’ own health.



About five years ago, my aunt got severe lung cancer because she let her customers smoke in her restaurant. She didn’t have the habit of smoking, but second-hand smoke caused her lung cancer. Hence, people should not smoke in public places for smoking will produce second-hand smoke and pollute the air. Also, smoking in public may cause fires.

First of all, smoking in the public places will cause second-hand smoke. Second-hand smoke will make pregnant women bear unhealthy babies. If pregnant women breathe in the second-hand smoke, it will cause the effect of reducing the weight of the baby, or it will lead to premature birth of the baby. Additionally, second-hand smoke will also result in other diseases. Second-hand smoke is the incomplete burning of nicotine, so it will have more poisonous substance than first-hand smoke and have the substance that will cause lung cancer easily. According to the American and the Australian research, second-hand smoke will also raise the chance of getting paralytic stroke, heart disease and diabetes. Besides, the second-hand smoke will cause the women’s menopause coming earlier. Since second-hand smoke will harm other people’s health, people should not be permitted to smoke in public places.

Smoking in the public spaces will not only cause the second-hand smoke, but also pollute the air. For example, if people smoke in the restaurant, it will produce the smoke that makes people sneeze and cough because the substance of the smoke will upset the breathing tract, and it will make people burst into tears. Although many restaurants in Taiwan have smoking and non-smoking areas, the harm of smoking will not reduce. The poisonous particles of cigarette smoke will still stay in the air for several hours after smoking, and people in the non-smoking area will breathe in these particles through the circulation of the air. Moreover, smoking in bus will make the quality of air in the bus worse. I had a bad experience that a man’s smoking resulted in my continuous coughing and extremely uncomfortable.

In addition, smoking in the public place may cause fires. Many smokers always throw away smoking stubs carelessly, and they often don’t notice whether the stub is still burning or not; furthermore, it is the second main reason that causes fires in Taiwan. This kind of careless action is so dangerous that if a stub is still burning, and it contains the tindery substances, it will cause fires. Even worse, if people throw away the burning stub in the forest, it may cause forest fire. This is a great calamity of natural environment because forest fire may last for one month, and it will lead to air pollution and the extinction of living things in the forest.

In short, smoking in the public space has many bad influences such as producing the second-hand smoke that will hurt other people’s health, polluting the air that will let people have uncomfortable feeling, and causing the fires that may do big damage to natural environment. Thus, people should not be allowed to smoke in the public spaces for this will not only be respectful to other people’s rights, but also be good for smokers’ own health.

Argument and Persuasion - Smoking in public places (First Draft)

Smoking in public places

I. Thesis statement: People should not smoke in public place because smoking will pollute the air, and it will produce second-hand smoke. Also, smoking in public may cause fires.

II. Produce second-hand smoke
A. Prevent pregnant women from bearing a healthy baby.
B. Invade other people’s health.

III. Pollute the air
A. Restaurant.
B. Bus.

IV. Cause fires
A. Throw away the smoking stub carelessly.
B. Not notice the smoking stub is still burning.

V. Conclusion: Thus, people should not smoke in the public spaces for it will not only respect other people’s rights but also is good for smokers' health themselves.

About five years ago, my aunt got severe lung cancer for the reason that she let all of her customers smoke in her restaurant. She didn’t have the habit of smoking, but second-hand smoke caused in her lung cancer. Consequently, people should not smoke in public places because smoking will produce second-hand smoke and it will pollute the air. Also, smoking in public may cause fires.

First of all, smoking in the public places will cause second-hand smoke. Second-hand smoke will prevent pregnant women from bearing healthy babies. If pregnant women breath in the second-hand smoke, it will cause the effect of reducing the weight of baby, or it will lead to give the premature birth of the baby. In addition, second-hand smoke will also result in other diseases. Second-hand smoke is the incomplete burning, so it will have more poisonous substance than smoking and have the substance that will cause cancer easily such as lung and breast cancer. According to the American and the Australian research, second-hand smoke will also raise the chance of getting paralytic stroke, heart disease and diabetes. Besides, the second-hand smoke will cause the women’s menopause come earlier.

Smoking in the public spaces will not only cause the second-hand smoke, but also pollute the air. For example, if people smoke in the restaurant, it will produce the smoke that make people sneeze and cough because the substance of the smoke has will upset the breathing tract, or it will make people burst into tears. Although many restaurants in Taiwan have been divided into smoking and non-smoking areas, the harm of smoking will not reduce. The poisonous particles of smoking will still stay in the air for several hours after smoking and people in the non-smoking area will breath in these particles through the circulation of the air. Moreover, smoking in bus will make the quality of air in the bus worse. I had a bad experience that a man’s smoking resulted in my continuous coughing and extremely uncomfortable.

Third, smoking in the public place may cause fires. Many smokers always throw away the smoking stub carelessly, and they often don’t notice that whether the stub is still burning or not; furthermore, it is the secondly main reason that causes fires in Taiwan. This kind of careless action is so dangerous that if the stub is still burning, and it meets the tindery substances, it will cause fires. Additionally, if people throw away the burning stub in the forest, it may cause forest fire. This is the great calamity of natural environment because forest fire may last for one month, and it will contribute to air pollution and the extinction of living things in the forest.

In short, smoking in the public space has many disadvantages such as producing the second-hand smoke that will hurt other people’s health, polluting the air that will let people have uncomfortable feeling, and causing the fires that may do big damage to natural environment. Thus, people should not smoke in the public spaces for it will not only respect other people’s rights but also be good for smokers’ health themselves.

Cause-Effect Essay - Language Proficiency and Success (Final Draft)

Language Proficiency and Success

I. Thesis statement: Language proficiency will lead people to their success in career, interpersonal relation, and acquisition of new knowledge.

II. Career
A. Get jobs easily
B. Do jobs well

III. Interpersonal relation
A. Leave good impression on people easily
B. Express oneself clearly

IV. Acquisition of new knowledge
A. Effect of good listening ability
B. Effect of good reading ability

V. Conclusion: If people have good language proficiency, they can succeed in their career, interpersonal relation, and acquisition of new knowledge. Thus, people should try their best to get good language proficiency in order to have successful lives.




Language plays a vital part in people’s daily life for it is a tool of communication. In my opinion, language proficiency has important relation to success. Good language proficiency will lead people to the success in their career, in their interpersonal relationship, and even in their acquisition of new knowledge.

First of all, good language proficiency will make people succeed in their career. People will get jobs easily resulting from their good language proficiency. For instance, when a person has an job interview, if that person can make full use of his/her good speaking proficiency to present him/her, then he/she may get the job easily. In addition, having good speaking proficiency will lead people to do their jobs well. If a salesperson has good speaking proficiency, he/she can persuade his/her customers to do business with him/her more easily. Language proficiency is so significant that it will help people be successful in their jobs.

Good language proficiency will also contribute to people’s good interpersonal relationship with other people. If a person has good speaking proficiency, he/she will leave a good impression on other people easily because he/she can present himself/herself persuasively. Additionally, good language proficiency can be the reason for expressing people’s ideas clearly. If people can speak well, they will also have good proficiency in the organization of content, so they can express what they think clearly. Also, they can avoid unnecessary misunderstanding of other people. Therefore, people’s successful interpersonal relationship can be a consequence of good language proficiency.

Third, good language proficiency will result in people’s success in their acquisition of new knowledge. For example, good listening proficiency is helpful to people’s understanding when they are learning new knowledge. If a student has good listening proficiency, that one can understand what the instructor says more easily; then, that student will have more confidence in learning, and may have more chances to succeed in his/her study. Besides, good reading proficiency is useful for people’s comprehension when they want to know about new information or knowledge. People can get new information or knowledge by self-study through reference books or by browsing many websites on the Internet. If people don’t have good reading proficiency, they can’t easily get the main ideas of what they read, and they may not successfully acquire what they want to know. Hence, good language proficiency can be the reason for the success in the acquisition of new things.

To sum up, having good language proficiency is essential in our life in many respects. If people have good language proficiency, they can succeed in their career, interpersonal relationship, and acquisition of new knowledge. Thus, people should try their best to get good language proficiency in order to have successful lives.

Cause-Effevt Essay - Language Proficiency and Success (Second Draft)

Language Proficiency and Success

I. Thesis statement: Language proficiency will lead people to their success in career, interpersonal relation, and their acquisition of new things.

II. Career
A. Get job easily
B. Do job well

III. Interpersonal relation
A. Leave good impression on people easily
B. Express oneself clearly

IV. Acquisition
A. Listening ability
B. Reading ability

V. Conclusion: If people have good language proficiency, they can succeed in their career, in their interpersonal relation, and in their acquisition of new things. Consequently, people should try their best to get good language proficiency to gain successful lives.

Language plays a vital part in people’s daily life for that language is a tool of communication. In my opinion, language proficiency has important relation to success. For example, good speaking proficiency will lead people to the success in their career, interpersonal relation, and even in their whole life.

First of all, good language proficiency will make people succeed in their career. People will get job easily resulting from their good language proficiency. For instance, when a person has an interview with his/her boss, and if that person can make full use of his/her good speaking proficiency to show why the boss may hire him/her, that one will get job easily. In addition, having good speaking proficiency will lead people to do their job well. If a salesperson has good speaking proficiency, he/she can persuade his/her customers to do business with him/her easier. Language proficiency is so significant that it will help people be successful in their jobs.

Good language proficiency will also contribute to people’s good interpersonal relationship with other people. If a person has good speaking proficiency, he/she will leave a good impression on other people easily because he/she can promote himself/herself persuasively. Additionally, good language proficiency can be the reason for expressing people’s ideas clearly. If people can speak well, they will also have good proficiency in the organization of content, so they can express what they think clearly. Also, they can avoid unnecessary misunderstanding of other people. Therefore, people’s successful interpersonal relationship can be a consequence of good language proficiency.

Third, good language proficiency will result in people’s success in their acquisition of new things. Good listening proficiency is helpful to people’s understanding when they are learning. For example, if a student has good listening proficiency, that one can understand what the instructor says easier; then, that student will have more confidence in learning, and may have more chance to succeed in learning. Besides, good reading proficiency is useful for people’s comprehension when they want to know about new information or knowledge. People can get new information or knowledge by self-study to reference books or by browsing many webs on the Internet. If people don’t have good reading proficiency, they can’t easily get the main ideas of what they read, and they may not successfully acquire what they want to know. Hence, good language proficiency can be the reason for the success in acquisition of new things.

To sum up, having good speaking proficiency is essential in our life in many respects. If people have good speaking proficiency, they can succeed in their career, interpersonal relation, and in their acquisition of new things. Consequently, people should try their best to get good language proficiency to gain successful lives.

Cause-Effect Essay - Language Proficiency and Success (First Draft)

Language Proficiency and Success

I. Thesis statement: Speaking proficiency will lead people to their success in career, interpersonal relation, and even in their whole life.

II. Career
A. Get job easily
B. Do job well

III. Interpersonal relation
A. Communicate with other people easily
B. Express oneself clearly

IV. Whole life
A. More confidence
B. More ambitions

V. Conclusion: If people have good speaking proficiency, they can success in their career, interpersonal relation, and in their whole life. Consequently, people should try their best to get this language proficiency to get more success in their life.




Recently, a survey shows that language proficiency has important relation to success. For example, good speaking proficiency will lead people to the success in their career, interpersonal relation, and even in their whole life.

First of all, good speaking proficiency will make people success in their career. People will get job easily by their good speaking proficiency. For instance, when a person has an interview with their boss, and if that person can make full use of his/her good speaking proficiency to show why the boss will hire him/her, that one will get job easily. In addition, having good speaking proficiency will lead people to do their job well. If a salesperson has good speaking proficiency, he/she can persuade his/her customers to deal business with him/her easier. Speaking proficiency is so important that it will help people success in their jobs.

Good speaking proficiency will also contribute people to have good interpersonal relation to other people. If a person has good speaking proficiency, he/she will communicate with other people easily because they can promote himself/herself plainly. Additionally, good speaking proficiency can be the reason for expressing people’s ideas clearly. If people can speak well, they will also have good proficiency in the organization, so they can express what they think clearly. Also, they can avoid unnecessary misunderstanding from other people. Therefore, good speaking proficiency can lead people to success in interpersonal relation.

Third, Good speaking proficiency will lead people to make success in their whole life. For example, if a person has good speaking proficiency, they will have more confidence than the person who doesn’t have this proficiency. People who have good speaking proficiency will be braver to express themselves, so they can get more chances to be successful than the people who don’t have this kind of language proficiency. Moreover, a person having good speaking proficiency means he/she really do something successful, and they must have more ambitions to success in other aspects. Since they have more ambitions to success, they will succeed easily. Hence, having good speaking proficiency plays a vital role in success to their whole life.

Having good speaking proficiency is essential in our life in many respects. If people have good speaking proficiency, they can success in their career, interpersonal relation, and in their whole life. Consequently, people should try their best to get this language proficiency to get more success in their life.

Definition Essay - Happiness (Final Draft)

Happiness


I. Thesis statement: Happiness is to enjoy my own life, overcome the difficulties I meet, and have the people I love around me.

II. Enjoy my own life
A. Have a positive attitude to every situation I am in
B. Seize every moment I have

III. Overcome the difficulties
A. Process of overcoming
B. Feeling of achievement

IV. Have the people I love around me
A. Family members
B. Good friends

V. Conclusion: I will always try to pursue happiness by enjoying my own life, overcoming all the difficulties I meet, and having people I love be around me. Then, I will have happiness in my future life.

Happiness is a kind of emotion of enjoyment and satisfaction, and it can be described in many ways. To me, happiness is to enjoy my life, overcome the difficulties I meet, and have the people I love around me.

Enjoying my life is the source of my happiness. There are many ways for me to enjoy my life such as eating a big meal after the final exam, going to the baseball field to watch an exciting game, and the most important of all: having a positive attitude to every situation I am in. In the third year of junior high school, I was very sad because I was afraid that I could not pass the high school entrance exam, and I wanted to give up preparing for that exam. Fortunately, I met a good English teacher, and she told me that if I changed my negative attitude to a positive one, and seized every moment to prepare for that exam, I would pass it. Magically, I really became happier and passed that exam after I did what my English teacher had told me. From that time, I always take positive attitude toward every situation I am in, and seize every moment I have because it really helps me to enjoy my life.

People may meet many difficulties in their whole lives, and overcoming these difficulties may be suffering to some people. On the contrary, overcoming these difficulties is a kind of happiness to me. To tell the truth, the process of overcoming the difficulties is tiring and weary, but I always find some small pleasures in the process. That is, I can learn more experiences and knowledge from overcoming the difficulties. In addition, the feeling of achievement is happiness. Every time when I finally conquer my difficulties, I will have a happy feeling that I can really accomplish something, and I can defeat myself once again. Overcoming the difficulties really brings me happiness because it can teach me a lot of things.

Besides enjoying my life and overcoming difficulties, the greatest happiness to me is having the people I love around me. The year before last year, my mother got severe cancer in her left breast, and she only got fifty percentage of opportunity to live. Luckily, my mother’s operation was successful, and I suddenly realized that every person I love is everything to me, and I will never be happy if any person I love leaves me. Besides, I am happy when I share all my things with the people I love whether these things are good or bad. For example, my good friends and I always have a talk in our free time, and we always have the same feeling about what makes us happy and sad with each other. This kind of consensus gives me a lot of happiness because I can have such like-minded good friends.

There is a saying that if a person chooses to be happy, then the world around him/her will be happy; if a person chooses to be sad, then he/she will be the only one who is sad. Happiness is everywhere, and it depends on everyone’s attitude toward life. Therefore, I will always try to pursue happiness by enjoying my own life, overcoming all the difficulties I meet, and having the people I love be around me. If I can do these well, I will have happiness in my future life.

Definition Essay - Happiness (Second Draft)

Happiness

I. Thesis statement: Happiness is to enjoy my own life, overcome the difficulties I meet, and have the people I love around me.

II. Enjoy my own life
A. Have a positive attitude to every situation I am in
B. Seize every moment I have

III. Overcome the difficulties
A. Process of overcoming
B. Feeling of achievement

IV. Have the people I love around me
A. Family members
B. Good friends

V. Conclusion: I will always keep these three life’s attitudes in my mind: enjoying my own life, overcoming all the difficulties I meet, and having people I love be around me. If I can do this task well, I will have happiness in my future life.


Happiness is a kind of emotion of enjoyment and satisfaction, and it can be described in many ways. To me, happiness is to enjoy my life, overcome the difficulties I meet, and have the people I love around me.

Enjoying my life is the source of my happiness. There are many ways for me to enjoy my life, such as eating a big meal after the final exam, going to the baseball field to watch an exciting game, and the most important: having a positive attitude to every situation I am in. In the third year of junior high school, I was very sad because I was afraid that I could not pass the exam of entering senior high school, and I wanted to give up to prepare for that exam. Fortunately, I met a good English teacher, and she told me that if I changed my negative attitude to a positive one, and seized every moment to prepare for that exam, I would pass it. Magically, I really became happier and passed that exam after I did what my English teacher had said. From that time, I always take positive attitude toward every situation I am in, and seize every moment I have because it really helps me to enjoy my life.

People may meet many difficulties in their whole lives, and overcoming these difficulties may be suffering to some people. On the contrary, overcoming these difficulties is a kind of happiness to me. To tell the truth, the process of overcoming the difficulties is tiring and weary, but I always find some small pleasures in the process. That is, I can learn more experiences and knowledge from overcoming the difficulties. In addition, the feeling of achievement is happiness. Every time when I finally conquer my difficulties, I will have a happy feeling that I can really accomplish something, and I can defeat myself once again. Overcoming the difficulties really brings me happiness because it can teach me a lot of things.

Besides enjoying my life and overcoming difficulties, the greatest happiness to me is having the people I love around me. The year before last year, my mother got severe cancer in her left breast, and she only got fifty percentage of opportunity to live. Luckily, my mother’s operation was successful, and I suddenly realized that every person I love is everything to me, and I will never be happy if any person I love leaves me. Besides, I am happy when I share all my things with the people I love whether these things are good or bad. For example, my good friends and I always have a talk in our free time, and we always have the same feeling about what makes us happy and sad with each other. This kind of consensus gives me a lot of happiness because I can have such liked-minded good friends.

There is a saying that if a person chooses to be happy, then the world around his/her will be happy; if a person chooses to be sad, then he/she will be the only one who is sad. Happiness is everywhere, and it depends on everyone’s life attitude. Therefore, I will always keep these three life’s attitudes in my mind: enjoying my own life, overcoming all the difficulties I meet, and having the people I love be around me. If I can do this task well, I will have happiness in my future life.

Definition Essay - Happiness (First Draft)

Happiness

I. Thesis statement: Happiness is to enjoy my own life, overcome the difficulties I meet, and have the people I love around me.


II. Enjoy my own life
A. Have a positive attitude to every situation I am in
B. Seize every moment I have


III. Overcome the difficulties
A. Process of overcoming
B. Feeling of achievement


IV. Have the people I love around me
A. Family members
B. Good friends


V. Conclusion: I will always keep three elements in my mind: enjoying my own life, overcoming all the difficulties I meet, and having people I love around me. If I can do this job well, I will have happiness in my latter life.



Happiness is a kind of emotion, and it will be described in many ways. To me, happiness is to enjoy my life, overcome the difficulties I meet, and have the people I love around me.

Enjoying my life is the source of my happiness. There are many ways for me to enjoy my life, such as eating a big meal after the final exam, going to the baseball field to watch an exciting game, and the most important: having a positive attitude to every situation I am in. In the third year of junior high school, I was so sad because I was afraid that I could not pass the exam of entering senior high school, and I wanted to give up to prepare it. Fortunately, I met a good English teacher, and she told me that if I changed my negative attitude to a positive one, and seized every moment to prepare the exam, I would pass it. Magically, I really became happier and passed that exam after I did what my English teacher said. From that experience, I always take positive attitude to every situation I am in, and seize every moment I have because it really helps me to enjoy my life to get happiness.

People will meet many difficulties in their whole live, and overcoming these difficulties may be suffering to some people. On the contrary, overcoming these difficulties is a kind of happiness to me. To tell the truth, the process of overcoming the difficulties is tired and weary, but I always find some small pleasures in the process. That is, I can learn more experiences and knowledge from overcoming the difficulties. In addition, the feeling of achievement is happiness. Every time when I finally conquer my difficulties, I will have a happy feeling that I can really accomplish something, and I can defeat myself once again. Overcoming the difficulties really brings me happiness because it can teach me a lot of things.

The greatest happiness to me is having the people I love around me. The year before last year, my mother got severe cancer in her left breast, and she only got fifty percentage of opportunity to live. Luckily, my mother’s operation was successful, and I suddenly realized that every person I love is everything to me, and I will never be happy if any person I love leaves me. Besides, I am happy when I share all my things with the people I love whether these things are good or bad. For example, my good friends and I always have a talk in our free time. My good friends and I can understand what makes us happy and sad with each other. This kind of sympathy gives me a lot of happiness because I can have such liked-minded good friends.

There is a saying that if a person chooses to be happy, then the world around his/her will be happy; if a person chooses to be sad, then he/she will be the only one who is sad. Happiness is everywhere, and it will depend on everyone’s life attitude. Therefore, I will always keep three elements in my mind: enjoying my own life, overcoming all the difficulties I meet, and having people I love around me. If I can do this job well, I will have happiness in my latter life.

Comparison-Contrast - The Differences Between Speaking and Writing

Speaking and writing are both the tools of communicating among people. In addition, writing is closely linked with speaking because if a person has a good speaking ability, that one may also have good writing ability. However, there are still many differences between speaking and writing, for example, in the ways of acquisition, their complexity, and their organization.

Learning to speak is easier than learning to write. People are born to have the ability of speaking, and with the environment of a certain language that people are exposed to, they are able to speak that kind of language. On the contrary, people could only be trained to write, and people are usually taught many writing rules. For example, if a person wants to make his/her writing good, then he/she should follow the following four steps: discovering points, developing strong support for the points, organizing these points, and revising the written passages to ensure it is a good one. In short, people can write well only by being taught the skill of writing while they can speak well just because they are exposed to the language for a long time.

When two people are talking to each other, they can speak lots of fragment sentences and they don’t need to say a complete sentence because speaking is casual. However, writing needs complete sentences because if a person writes many fragment sentences in one essay, the whole passage will be in disorder, and it will not be easy for readers to follow. Whereas people are allowed to say many simple sentences to describe a thing or a person in speaking, people are usually asked to use transitions to link simple sentences into one or two complex sentence when they are writing. Complex sentences can make the writing briefer, clearer and more formal than speaking. For example, people can say that Mary is a girl, and she is very beautiful, and she is a good student, and she studies very hard, and so on; in contrast, people can’t write these run-on and simple sentences in their written passages, and they should use complex or compound sentences to make these sentences briefer.

In addition, speaking differs from writing in regard to their organization for speaking has less grammatical problems than writing does. When people speak, they seldom have problems of grammar because they just say simple sentences. The organization of spoken language is uncomplicated, so it is easy for people to speak without grammatical problems. On the other hand, written language has a complicated organization. If people write an article, there should be at least three paragraphs, and it will have more grammatical problems. For example, the verb tense should be consistent from one paragraph to another, and so are the pronouns.

To sum up, speaking and writing have differences in many ways. For example, speaking is easier to acquire, is less complex, and has less grammatical problems in organization than writing. Therefore, if people want to learn a language well, they should learn step by step. After they can speak to a certain level, then, they may start to learn writing, or they will have lots of frustrations in learning writing.

Example Essay - Misleading Advertisements

There are many advertisements that always overstate the products’ effectiveness in our daily life. One of the most notable example is weight-reducing advertisement. In addition, the height-adding and health-improving advertisements are also good examples of misleading advertisements.

People can see many different kinds of weight-reducing advertisements on cable television programs, and these advertisements are always broadcast all day. They will have many consumers tell audience their personal experiences, and their amazement at the strong effectiveness of this weight-reducing product. Furthermore, the average weight the consumers lose may be almost five to eight kilograms a month. These users will also tell audience that this weight-reducing product makes their face glowing with health because this product makes their chronic excrement smoothly and completely out of their bodies. However, the best way to reduce weight is to do more exercise and eat less food of high calorie, so I don’t think using weight-reducing products is a good way to lose weight, and these kinds of products may have side effects that will hurt people’s bodies.

Height-adding advertisements are also a good example of misleading advertisements. These kinds of advertisements always have a doctor explain the principle of adding height; then, a short user will appear and asks that doctor to help him. After one week, that short user will show up, and he would become taller by about three centimeters, and the user will have more confidence in themselves than before. One month later, the user will become almost another person because his/her height will increase about ten centimeters. Also, the user would tell audience that his/her interpersonal relation becomes better than before, and makes more friends of the opposite sex. However, people’s height will not increase so dramatically, especially after the growth period, so height-adding product advertisements are really misleading.

Health-improving advertisements are always broadcast on TV programs, and in this kind of advertisement there will be a linkman, an expert, and many users. The expert will do an experiment of healthy food, and tell the audience that this kind of healthy food is more effective than others. Then, a user will appear and tell the audience that he/she had cancer before, but since he/she used this product for one year, the cancer magically disappeared. Moreover, he/she will tell the audience that his/her weak body turns to be a strong one. However, if people want a healthy body, they have to keep their daily life regular and have a balanced diet.

These three kinds of misleading advertisements are easily seen in our daily life, and most people will believe their effectiveness. This kind of concept is very dangerous because if the product has poisonous substance, it will hurt people’s body severely. Therefore, people should test these three kinds of products before using them. These products may have side effects or people will lose their health without getting the effectiveness that the advertisements state.

Descriptive Essay - My Favorite Singer--Lee Hom Wang

My favorite singer, Lee Hom Wang, is a famous and successful singer in Asia. He had a tour concert in Asia recently, and he performed very well in the concert. In addition, he not only has good voice but also has talents in music. Moreover, he is very friendly to his fans.

Lee Hom is crazy about music, so he has devoted himself to mastering many kinds of instruments, for example, piano, violin, drum, guitar, bass and percussion instruments. His talents in music helps him a lot in learning instruments, for instance, it takes him only three days to master one of Chopin’s Nocturnes while it may take other people one week. In addition, in his recent concert, Lee Hom’s fans seemed to fall in love with the melodious sound of his performance of piano. Moreover, Lee Hom has produced many popular songs, for example, his lyrical songs can touch people easily because when people are hearing these songs, the scenes of these songs will arise in their minds. He also uses jazz and hip-hop in his music, and these kinds of music make people relax when they are stressed. Furthermore, when people hear Lee Hom’s recent music, they can feel Chinese Opera in his music lively because he wants to popularize Chinese traditional music to the world.

Lee Hom not only has talents in music but also has good voice. His mellow voice brings people a new and fresh feeling, and people will be consoled by his voice. Besides, his voice is so pure that people will never feel the impurity in his music, especially when the background music only uses one instrument. Also, when people hear his voice, they seems to listen to Lee Hom tell his own story, and they will be touched deeply. Additionally, the voice in the concert was the same with the voice in CD, and even has more his affection than the voice in CD.

Lee Hom is a friendly person, especially to his fans. In his recent concert, when some of his fans asked him to turn to certain angle to let them take the pictures or asked him to shake hands. He did what the fans wanted him to do. Furthermore, the experience I met Lee Hom in a restaurant left me a deep impression. In the restaurant, I was surprised that he and his friends sat opposite to my friend and me. I wanted to take pictures with Lee Hom, but he and his friends were eating and chatting. Finally, I summoned my courage to ask him a favor, and I thought it would be fine that if he refused me. Then, I was amazed that Lee Hom gave me the biggest favor I have ever received. I got his signature, shook hands, and took pictures with him. His friendly attitude will let me be his fans forever.

Lee Hom is not only a superstar in Asia, but also a true musician. His talents in music don’t make him proud but urge him to write more good songs. I hope he can promote his songs all over the world and let his good voice touch and console more people.