Sun
Nov
8
Would you prefer study alone or with people?
I prefer study with people because usually when I study alone, I need more patients and feel tired easily. However, when I study with group, it is fun and I can even more learn many tings through study with people. There are reasons why I prefer the group study.
First, if I study with classmates, I can reduce some mistakes that I can not find by myself. When I have to solve some difficult problems in my subject, I sometimes can not find any clue for those. Also, I adhere to my own ways, but those are not always correct. If I collect many ideas from people, I can make better answers. I think this is the best way to reduce mistakes or make the answers.
Next, I can learn social skill through the group study. As I study alone, I do not need to persuade other people or understand them. Unfortunately, in that way, I can not learn that how to communicate with people or how to adjust my opinion against them. If I study with my classmates, I have to discuss and sometimes argue to understand them. Also, I can learn not only knowledge from textbook but also the manners for living. For example, I should keep the meeting time because if I am late, someone complains about it and can loose their time due to me. That kind of lesson is much more important for me to live with people than just knowledge from textbooks.
Finally, group study is much more interesting and fun. When I have to study some boring subjects, it sometimes is hard to keep it by myself. I will be tired soon, or even give up the study. However, I study with someone else; they can help me and understand some difficult parts of the subjects. Study with fun and exciting is very efficient way to learn something.
If you loose interests in your study, I recommend you group study. It will give you much more fun and even make you like study. You can just enjoy with people and talk to them about the subjects you have to solve. They can help you understand those. I think group study is one of the best ways to study efficiently.
Mon
Nov
2
JIWON, DID YOU POST ON ANOTHER TOPIC LAST WEEK AS INSTRUCTED?
FOR EVERYONE: THE MORE YOU POST, THE MORE PREPARED YOU WILL BE FOR THE FINAL.
rosebian:
shimj:
A city should try to preserve its old, historic buildings by not destroying it.
One reason we have to keep old building is because it represents the beauty of own country. For example, there are tourists to see and feel many architecture by traveling other countries. If many historical buildings were replaced by modern buildings, threre will be no tourists. It stops many people from learning other cultures.
Another reason we have to keep and preserve old and historical buildings is because buildings are one of essential elements that scientists observe. The design, pattern, artifacts, and all the remains from the old buildings are all significant to archaeologists. Therefore, the historic buildings are important to some people because it remind them lives of the past.
Hi Jiwon, i think you opinions about a city should to preserve historic buiding very well. You have a strong ideas even though it is a liitle short. However, i think you should change the last sentence of the second paragraph. Reason can be that people not stop learning other cultures if historic building is detroyed. They can have different ways for learning other cultures. I think you should change the word “stop” to “decrease”. Finally, you paragraph is very well. Thanks for posting…
IN YOUR INTRO, THERE ARE 2 SENTENCES, ONE FOR EACH SIDE. WHILE YOUR SECOND SENTENCE IS LONGER, I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT YOU EMPHASIZE THAT THIS IS YOUR OPINION.
IN THE STRESS PARAGRAPH, YOU COULD TALK ABOUT HOW STRESS LEADS TO ILLNESS AND ILLNESS TAKES TIME AND MONEY.
YOU COULD ALSO SAY THAT PEOPLE WHO WORK A LOT AND MAKE A LOT OF MONEY MAY NOT HAVE TIME TO SPEND THE MONEY.
rosebian:
Nowadays,some people choose a high-paying job with long hours that would give them little time with your family and friend because of money. However, many people choose a lower paying job with long hours that would give them more time with their family and friends because they know that spend time with their family and friends more important than to earn money, and the more people work, the more they get stress.
Most people choose a lower paying job because they want to have time with their family and their friends who are very important for their life. The time goes very fast, so if people not have a respect to their family. It will be too late that they repent when they lose the important person of their life. Moreover, we do not have enough time to pay attention to family and friends. Therefore, the more people spend time with their family, the happier they are.
Another reason that people choose a lower paying job is the stress. The time is very fair for everybody, because people may earn more money when they work long hours than another. It also means that they get more responsible than another who work in shorter hours. Worker will get more and more tired which can make them to become a painful person. Finally, people should work in lower paying job with short hours in order to have a relaxing life.
GOOD POINTS, BAO. PLEASE REMEMBER TO THINK ABOUT COUNTER-ARGUMENTS.
“ALTHOUGH SOME STUDENTS MAY SAY THAT IT IS A WASTE OF MONEY AND TIME TO TAKE SUBJECTS NOT RELATED TO THEIR MAJOR, I WOULD ARGUE THAT THIS TIME AND MONEY IS VERY WELL SPENT SINCE STUDENTS NEED THE GUIDANCE FROM TEACHERS TO LEARN HOW TO THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT SUBJECTS THAT THEY KNOW LITTLE ABOUT. UNDERGRADUATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ARE GENERALLY NOT ABLE TO SELF-TEACH AND THEREFORE BROAD UNIVERSITY CURRICULUMS ARE DESIGNED TO HELP STUDENTS GAIN EXPOSURE TO A VARIETY OF TOPICS. FURTHERMORE, STUDENTS MAY FIND THAT OTHER SUBJECTS RELATE TO THEIR MAJOR. FOR EXAMPLE, A STUDENT WHO WANTS TO BECOME A NURSE MAY FIND THAT LEARNING ABOUT PUBLIC POLICY MAY SHAPE HOW S/HE VIEWS THE FIELD OF NURSING.”
rosebian:
I think you have very good and strong ideas. However, many people will not disagree with you opinion such as students may waste their money because of tuition for unnecessary subject, or they will get more stress, so i think you should have argument in your third paragraph.
: Universities should require students to take classes in many subjects for three reasons.
1.The mine purpose of universities is giving a opportunity to accumulate knowledge of all students. Students try to learn more by taking classes. However, some students want to take classes only what they want. This will not help to collect their knowledge in many ways. Therefore, universities should require students to take classes in many subjects.
2. students will be given more options to choose their futures. If students take many different subjects, they will realize what they really want to do in the future. While they are learning, they will find which is good or which is not good for themselves.
3.It will give them wide sence by taking many subjects. People do not know what is going to happen in the future. If students learn as much as they can, they will know many kinds of information and they can apply to their real lives when they need.
THIS IS VERY NICELY DONE! I HAVE JUST A FEW COMMENTS:
YOU WRITE “OLD-FASHIONED” IN THE FIRST BODY PARAGRAPH. I COULD ARGUE THAT FASHION CHANGES VERY OFTEN SO THAT YOU MIGHT NEED TO BUY CLOTHES FREQUENTLY. I MIGHT CHANGE THIS OR ADD “…UNTIL IT WEARS OUT”.
“STUFF” IS A NON-COUNT NOUN.
INSTEAD OF “WEATHER ALLERGY”, I WOULD WRITE “WEATHER SENSITIVITY” AS I DON’T THINK YOU ARE ACTUALLY ALLERGIC TO THE WEATHER SINCE YOU GET USED TO IT.
vanvu:
I lived in the south of Vietnam where the weather is warm for a whole year. It is always about 80F (27C). I can go to the beach anytime I want without knowing how the weather is. Certainly, I prefer to live in places that have the same climate all year long. The reasons are that I can save money and time, do not get sick because of changing weather.
The first benefit I can get from that choice is saving money. When I lived in my country, I could wear the same T-shirts for a long time. I did not to buy a new one until it was old-fashioned. However, living in America where have four seasons, I have to buy clothes for each season. Especially, winter clothes are very expensive. Moreover, clothes are just a small issue for changing weather. We have many stuffs to care about when the next season comes. For example, people rush to buy housewares, blankets, curtains etc. to match the seasons. Besides, it take time to prepare a lot of things for new weather such as packing old objects, and arranging new ones. Everyday people must watch or listen the weather tomorrow at least once. I never do that in Vietnam.
Changing the weather is my nightmare. Due to weather allergy, my nose always is stuffed and runny about two weeks when the new season begins. I cannot breath and living without medicine and tissues. It is very difficult to concentrate on my studying or doing something. I feel tired and only want to stay on my bed. I have been in Richmond since last May. Fortunately, the summer had the same weather in Vietnam. Nevertheless, I could recognise the changes since last week that the fall began. The symptons of my allergy happened. I guess that they will happen to me three times a year for four different seasons.
To sum up, I like to live in the place that only have the same weather for a whole year. Saving time and money, never gettting sicks are my desires. Furthermore, I can go anywhere or do anyting I want like traveling to beaches, mountains without noticing the changing weather.
BE CAREFUL OF WORDS LIKE “CRAP”. IT IS TOO INFORMAL (AND IT IS A SINGULAR NON-COUNT NOUN, BY THE WAY.)
BOTH PARAGRAPHS TALK ABOUT TIME (WHICH IS FINE AS THE PARAGRAPHS ARE DIFFERENT ENOUGH). YOU COULD RETURN TO THE IDEA THAT INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY WILL SAVE YOU MORE MONEY IN THE END AND THEREFORE, IT MIGHT ACTUALLY BE MORE ECONOMICAL TO HIRE AN EXPERIENCED WORKER AT A HIGHER SALARY.
FOR ANOTHER PARAGRAPH, YOU COULD ADD THAT AN EXPERIENCED WORKER WILL BRING HIS/HER EXPERIENCE FROM ANOTHER COMPANY AND MAY BE ABLE TO TEACH YOUR COMPANY HOW TO DO THINGS BETTER.
tpqr11:
tmtredneck:
If i were the boss of a company, i would rather hire experienced employees at higher salary than inexperienced employees at lower salary.
One of the reasons that makes me think like that is hiring a experienced worked, you won’t need to spend time n money to train him. in business, time is very important and it means money therefore a good businessman can’t waste any seconds to do craps like that, because his opponents can steal the customers away from him quickly.
another reason is the effectiveness during working. it is so true that a experienced worker can do more and better works than a inexperienced employee. with a same amount of works and time, a employee with more experience in the job can solve faster and more than the one without experience.
i agree your two points that businessman does not want to waste the time and experienced employees is better than inexperienced employee are very signficant factors for businessman, but you need one other supporting idea.
YOU CLEARLY HAVE THREE POINTS BUT I WONDER HOW YOU WILL DEVELOP YOUR IDEA ON LONELINESS. THE SECOND SENTENCE UNDER POINT 1 DOESN’T SEEM TO RELATE TO LONELINESS IN PARTICULAR. WHY IS IT PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT NOT TO FEEL LONELY? YOU COULD ARGUE THAT LONELINESS CAN LEAD TO DEPRESSION OR YOU COULD TALK ABOUT HOW HUMANS ARE SOCIAL ANIMALS (AND THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE AROUND OTHER PEOPLE TEND TO LIVE LONGER THAN THOSE WHO ARE ALONE.)
sunglee:
Thesis : I prefer to spen most of my time with friends because keep me frome feeling lonely, it is enjoyable to talk with, friends teach me new things.
1. Friends keep me from feeling lonely. if i want to do something, i invite a friend or friends and we do it together.
2. I like talking wiht my friends. if l have a problem, i talk it over with my friends and they help me solve.
3. I learn a lot from my friends. I can learn many new things and interesting things by sharing with my friends.
