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.