2007年3月19日 星期一

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.

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I am so happy to know your mother is getting better now.After reading your essay,I know why your face always wears a smile and I admire your optimistic attitude for all difficulties. I do not think everyone can do as optimistically as you do.Most people complain when they face difficulties,but that can not increase successful,yet decrease.
Do you know J.K Rowling,the author of Harry Potter,who is a divorced,enemployed single mother,and never gives up her wish to write a novel.She does do it successfully.Now she is a famous writer in the world.Therefore,I also approve of optimism that is a way to success and to delight.And I will give you some comments to your writing skill in your essay.Your essay is clear and touching,but some sentence forms need to vary and that will increase "attracting" readers' attention.Then in the outline,if these example sentences are parallel,it will be better.To sum up,your essay told me a lot of ways to be happy and it gave me some different thoughts about happiness.Thank you for your ideas about it.

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Basically, your essay is clear and grammar is correct. I like your ideas about happiness although they are not new-creative ideas. I like your examples to explain your thoughts. However, there are three places that you can revise a bit; if you do it, I think it will be better .First, the length of the sentences in your essay is too long. Maybe you can do some change. Another is word- from-mistake:” whole live” in the third paragraph, “live”, the word is adjective not noun. So I think “live” changes into “life” that will be appropriately. Do you think? The other is to decrease the same word repeats over and over again—“difficulties.” Find another word to replace it. That will not only increase vocabularies to a writer but also attractions to readers. In conclusion, I consider that your essay is good.