- New classmate
- The new semesters came, and I got some new classmates. They come from all over the world, and let me talk about one of my new classmates, Marvin. He is twenty years old, and he comes from China, the same country as mine. Now he has been living in New York for about three years. His favorite colors are black and white. In his spare time, he likes to watch movies and to listen to music. He is also good at playing basketball. In studying English, listening is difficult for him, but his speaking skills are good. He is pretty good with technology, so he wants to be an IT worker.
“My Dream House”
- A house is the place that we live in every day. Everyone has their own dream house, and so do I. What is my dream house? I think it must be a big house with a beautiful backyard. My dream house is a three-floor building, and there are two parking places in front of my house. There are four bedrooms, two living rooms, two kitchens and two restrooms on every floor. In addition, there is a beautiful garden in the backyard and all kinds of amazing flowers are inside. I like to swim in my spare time, so there will be an exquisite swimming pool in my backyard. This is my dream house, a big house with a beautiful backyard.
“Arthur”
This chapter is written by Peter and it talks about his partner. Peter’s partner Arthur is a nudist. And some of Peter’s other workmates think Arthur is a maniac. During some work days with Arthur, Peter found he is really a maniac and Peter was bothered to be partners with Arthur. In the end, Peter found Arthur’s good idiosyncrasies, and thought Arthur may be a good partner.
I got to know Arthur by reading the chapter; and I think he is a really fun guy. EMTs and paramedics are boring jobs. They meet all kinds of patients every day and they spend most of their time on the ambulance. However, Arthur enjoyed his job; he could find something funny from his work. He had a joke with some old people to make his boring job interesting. And he also made Peter be interested in working. I think that is a real good thing. When we get a job, we do the same thing every day. It may be boring, so we need to find some interesting thing from our jobs. This can make us work well.
This chapter is written by Peter and it talks about his partner. Peter’s partner Arthur is a nudist. And some of Peter’s other workmates think Arthur is a maniac. During some work days with Arthur, Peter found he is really a maniac and Peter was bothered to be partners with Arthur. In the end, Peter found Arthur’s good idiosyncrasies, and thought Arthur may be a good partner.
I got to know Arthur by reading the chapter; and I think he is a really fun guy. EMTs and paramedics are boring jobs. They meet all kinds of patients every day and they spend most of their time on the ambulance. However, Arthur enjoyed his job; he could find something funny from his work. He had a joke with some old people to make his boring job interesting. And he also made Peter be interested in working. I think that is a real good thing. When we get a job, we do the same thing every day. It may be boring, so we need to find some interesting thing from our jobs. This can make us work well.
“Jobs and the Skills they need”
Everybody needs to have a job when he must work. And everybody wants to get the job they are interested in, has high wages, and is easy to do. However, no everybody can get the job they want due to everybody’s different skills. Every job needs different skills, even if you don’t have the skills the job needs, you can’t do well on the job. There are three major types of jobs, hands-jobs, orderly, mechanical work, and creative and artistic job. They need different skills.
Hands-on jobs need more physical skills. A farmer is one hands-on job do farm work every day such as cleaning the field, feeding the cattle, cad carrying the crops. Carpenters and bricklayers also belong to hands-on jobs. They also need some physical skills to carry the wood and bricks. In my opinion, carpenters are better than the other two jobs. It gets higher payment usually, but it needs a little hard skill to cut wood to the shape they need.
Orderly, mechanical works need some hard skills and a little physical skill. Computer programmer is one of the most mechanical works. They need enough the technology to make programs. And they must be good at computers. Another orderly, mechanical work, data processor, needs to deal with data every day. They are good at using word, excel, and power point. And they have great finger dexterity. Computer programmer is one of the jobs I want to do. I think there is more challenge on this job.
Creative and artistic jobs are different from those two types. They mainly need mental skills and also need a little physical skill. All kinds of designers need abundant imagination to design stuff. Painter is an artistic job, and sometimes painters must paint only with their imagination. They also need imagination and drawing skills. Of cause, carrying drawing board and holding it is not easy work. Creative and artistic jobs are very hard jobs. It is not easy to do them well.
It is a good idea to know different jobs and the skills they need before you choose your job. Make sure what kind of skill you have, then you can know what type of job you can do well.
Everybody needs to have a job when he must work. And everybody wants to get the job they are interested in, has high wages, and is easy to do. However, no everybody can get the job they want due to everybody’s different skills. Every job needs different skills, even if you don’t have the skills the job needs, you can’t do well on the job. There are three major types of jobs, hands-jobs, orderly, mechanical work, and creative and artistic job. They need different skills.
Hands-on jobs need more physical skills. A farmer is one hands-on job do farm work every day such as cleaning the field, feeding the cattle, cad carrying the crops. Carpenters and bricklayers also belong to hands-on jobs. They also need some physical skills to carry the wood and bricks. In my opinion, carpenters are better than the other two jobs. It gets higher payment usually, but it needs a little hard skill to cut wood to the shape they need.
Orderly, mechanical works need some hard skills and a little physical skill. Computer programmer is one of the most mechanical works. They need enough the technology to make programs. And they must be good at computers. Another orderly, mechanical work, data processor, needs to deal with data every day. They are good at using word, excel, and power point. And they have great finger dexterity. Computer programmer is one of the jobs I want to do. I think there is more challenge on this job.
Creative and artistic jobs are different from those two types. They mainly need mental skills and also need a little physical skill. All kinds of designers need abundant imagination to design stuff. Painter is an artistic job, and sometimes painters must paint only with their imagination. They also need imagination and drawing skills. Of cause, carrying drawing board and holding it is not easy work. Creative and artistic jobs are very hard jobs. It is not easy to do them well.
It is a good idea to know different jobs and the skills they need before you choose your job. Make sure what kind of skill you have, then you can know what type of job you can do well.
“How to Write a Process Essay”
Writing essays is an important skill in school. There are several kinds of essay, and every kind is different from others. A process essay is a real general essay. It explains the steps or stages in processes or procedures. According to the textbook, the process essay has two types: instructional and analytical. Instructional process essays instruct the reader how to do something. Analytical process essays tell the steps involved in how something works. Do you want to know how to write a process essay? Here are five steps to write a process essay: choose a topic, make an outline, create an introduction and a conclusion, explain more for each step, and organize all of those.
The first and the most important step to write a process essay is choosing a good topic. Whatever kind of essay you write, you must choose a topic. In your process essay, you will tell the reader how to do something or how something works, so you must choose a topic that you know well. If you don’t know it, ether, how can you explain it to your readers? In addition, you can’t choose a topic that everyone knows how to do it. For example, if your process essay talks about how to eat or how to turn on the TV, your reader will not be interested in reading it.
Second, you should make an outline; it is the basis to write an essay. A good outline should have a thesis statement and the topic sentence of every paragraph. Your thesis statement should tell the reader your topic and the important steps. Your topic sentence will tell the reader each important step. How many topics there are depends on how many important steps do you have.
Next, create your introduction and conclusion; it will make your reader be interested in your essay. A good introduction should have a “hook”, and it can grab readers’ attention and makes them want to read further. The conclusion is the end of your essay. In order to have more coherence, you should restate your essay thesis in your conclusion.
After you finish your introduction and conclusion, you should explain more detail for each step. Try to use the transition words to organize your essay, like first, next, before, after, etc. Don’t forget some important details. It is not that more detail is better for your essay, but you must tell the readers the important steps.
Finally, organize your essay and be careful about your order. Rearrange your essay and make each step in the order. You should read it and check if there are any mistakes. Are the words you used all correct? Is your essay developed with a good time order? Did you miss anything important? When you finish all of them, you have already finished your process essay.
Here are all the steps to write a process essay. After your read it, you can start to write a process essay. It also can help you read a process essay. Process essays are usual in our life, for example, the instruction books and recipes all belong to process essays. You can understand them better with this essay’s help.
Writing essays is an important skill in school. There are several kinds of essay, and every kind is different from others. A process essay is a real general essay. It explains the steps or stages in processes or procedures. According to the textbook, the process essay has two types: instructional and analytical. Instructional process essays instruct the reader how to do something. Analytical process essays tell the steps involved in how something works. Do you want to know how to write a process essay? Here are five steps to write a process essay: choose a topic, make an outline, create an introduction and a conclusion, explain more for each step, and organize all of those.
The first and the most important step to write a process essay is choosing a good topic. Whatever kind of essay you write, you must choose a topic. In your process essay, you will tell the reader how to do something or how something works, so you must choose a topic that you know well. If you don’t know it, ether, how can you explain it to your readers? In addition, you can’t choose a topic that everyone knows how to do it. For example, if your process essay talks about how to eat or how to turn on the TV, your reader will not be interested in reading it.
Second, you should make an outline; it is the basis to write an essay. A good outline should have a thesis statement and the topic sentence of every paragraph. Your thesis statement should tell the reader your topic and the important steps. Your topic sentence will tell the reader each important step. How many topics there are depends on how many important steps do you have.
Next, create your introduction and conclusion; it will make your reader be interested in your essay. A good introduction should have a “hook”, and it can grab readers’ attention and makes them want to read further. The conclusion is the end of your essay. In order to have more coherence, you should restate your essay thesis in your conclusion.
After you finish your introduction and conclusion, you should explain more detail for each step. Try to use the transition words to organize your essay, like first, next, before, after, etc. Don’t forget some important details. It is not that more detail is better for your essay, but you must tell the readers the important steps.
Finally, organize your essay and be careful about your order. Rearrange your essay and make each step in the order. You should read it and check if there are any mistakes. Are the words you used all correct? Is your essay developed with a good time order? Did you miss anything important? When you finish all of them, you have already finished your process essay.
Here are all the steps to write a process essay. After your read it, you can start to write a process essay. It also can help you read a process essay. Process essays are usual in our life, for example, the instruction books and recipes all belong to process essays. You can understand them better with this essay’s help.
Mcdonald’s Girl
This profile is about Kysha Lwein. She is an employee of Mcdonald. She is sixteen years old. She went to work when she was only fifteen years old because she is the oldest child in her family and she wanted to reduce the economic stress of her mother. Lwein thinks her job is funny and she still has motivation to work. She has made some friends in Mcdonald, and it makes her happy. There are not always fun. The customers and boss are not great. And she had wanted to leave here. She thinks she will have a better job and there is nothing she can’t do.
The thing that touched me is how Lwein and her mother took care of each other. Young Lwein went to work to reduce her mother’s stress. She knew how hard her mother was, and she wanted to help her mother. In addition, Lwein’s mother worried about Lwein’s long working hours. She did not want her daughter to work too hard. When Lwein felt badly on her job, her mother also felt mad. The emotion between Lwein and her mother is very moving.
This reminds me of Lucille Forer’s “How Your Birth Order Influences Your Life”. It stated the oldest child in the family usually gets more expectations from their parents. And the oldest child is more capable and more responsible than younger children. In my opinion, I think that is good for the oldest children in their family. That will make them be independent. And they can get more skills to work. Like Lwein, her early work makes her strong and she thinks there is nothing she can’t do.
This profile is about Kysha Lwein. She is an employee of Mcdonald. She is sixteen years old. She went to work when she was only fifteen years old because she is the oldest child in her family and she wanted to reduce the economic stress of her mother. Lwein thinks her job is funny and she still has motivation to work. She has made some friends in Mcdonald, and it makes her happy. There are not always fun. The customers and boss are not great. And she had wanted to leave here. She thinks she will have a better job and there is nothing she can’t do.
The thing that touched me is how Lwein and her mother took care of each other. Young Lwein went to work to reduce her mother’s stress. She knew how hard her mother was, and she wanted to help her mother. In addition, Lwein’s mother worried about Lwein’s long working hours. She did not want her daughter to work too hard. When Lwein felt badly on her job, her mother also felt mad. The emotion between Lwein and her mother is very moving.
This reminds me of Lucille Forer’s “How Your Birth Order Influences Your Life”. It stated the oldest child in the family usually gets more expectations from their parents. And the oldest child is more capable and more responsible than younger children. In my opinion, I think that is good for the oldest children in their family. That will make them be independent. And they can get more skills to work. Like Lwein, her early work makes her strong and she thinks there is nothing she can’t do.
Burnout and Recovery
While working or studying, there are always some periods we feel burnout. What is burnout? According to the outline article “Preventing Burnout”, burnout is a state of emotional, mental and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. Burnout is a potential problem in our life. It can influence our working, studying and health. So recovering from burnout is a very important skill. Now, let’s look how people overcome burnout.
In the online article “Preventing Burnout: Signs, Symptoms, Causes, and Coping Strategies”, the author talks about causes of burnout and how to prevent and recover from it. Burnout is often caused by our jobs. A long time working, no challenge and lack of reward for good work are all causes of burnout. Burnout is also caused by our lifestyles, like no time to relax, taking too many responsibilities, and not getting enough sleep. However, it is easy to prevent burnout by following the author’s advice. We can prevent burnout by starting the day with a relaxing ritual; adopting healthy eating, exercising and sleeping habits; taking a daily break from technology; and learning how to manage stress. In addition, some strategies like slowing down, getting support and reevaluating your goals and priorities also can help you recover from burnout. If you feel you will experience in burnout or you already have burnout, don’t worry. You can try the advice to overcome it.
The author of “Rescue 471”, who was a paramedic, overcame burnout by strong self-control and a new paramedic. In the book, the author, Peter Canning had burnout on his job due to the new company system, some terrible things that happened during his working, and some false emergencies. Even though he felt burnout, he was never absent. He knew if he was absent once, he would be absent twice or more. So he overcame his burnout with strong self-control. In addition, he trained a new paramedic who had motivation on this job just like him before. He learned something from this new paramedic, too. And he recovered the burnout of his job.
According to “Preventing Worker Can Boost the Bottom Line”, some companies motivate employees with different methods. Some companies always face the problem of employees’ burnout due to long time labor, no time to relax, and boring work. Brian Kelly is the vice president of Aptify, a Virginia software company. He solves employees’ burnout by giving them many paid days off to relax. Wist Office Products uses the method of switching employees’ jobs to overcome the problem. In addition, Point B Consulting CEO Mike Pongon deals with employees’ burnout by flexible schedule. Giving employees many paid days off to relax, switching employees’ jobs, and flexible schedule are good method to solve employees’ burnout.
In the online reading “Ways to Prevent Burnout”, there are some advice for students to prevent burnout. First, you can write all things down in your calendar and follow it. Second, you can also find some funny project to make you relaxed. And then you need to improve your skill of self-control. Learning to say no to burnout is a good way to improve your self-control skill. It is also great to help other students who feel burnout. Finally, sometimes it is good to break from your routine and plan a lesson with a colleague.
My solution of burnout is making a higher target. As other students, I also face problems of burnout from the bore of studying. Every time I feel burnout, I will go shopping. I do not buy anything; I just look at something expensive, like men belts, wallet, and watches. The price of them will give me motivation to work hard on studying. I want to buy some of them, but they are very expensive. How can I buy them? Study hard first. I also do exercise to make me strong. There are always some times that I am lazy to do that. Then I will look at the picture of some macho men like Jason Statham or Vin Diesel, look the muscles they have, and look how strong they are. That gives me motivation to continue exercising. The higher target is also one of the methods to prevent burnout.
These methods all can deal with overcoming burnout well. We can choose different methods with different burnout we get. Burnout is common in our life, so we need to learn some methods to prevent and recover it. When we get burnout, we should calm down and think about how to deal with it. Keeping a calm mental state can help us recover from burnout quickly and easily.
While working or studying, there are always some periods we feel burnout. What is burnout? According to the outline article “Preventing Burnout”, burnout is a state of emotional, mental and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. Burnout is a potential problem in our life. It can influence our working, studying and health. So recovering from burnout is a very important skill. Now, let’s look how people overcome burnout.
In the online article “Preventing Burnout: Signs, Symptoms, Causes, and Coping Strategies”, the author talks about causes of burnout and how to prevent and recover from it. Burnout is often caused by our jobs. A long time working, no challenge and lack of reward for good work are all causes of burnout. Burnout is also caused by our lifestyles, like no time to relax, taking too many responsibilities, and not getting enough sleep. However, it is easy to prevent burnout by following the author’s advice. We can prevent burnout by starting the day with a relaxing ritual; adopting healthy eating, exercising and sleeping habits; taking a daily break from technology; and learning how to manage stress. In addition, some strategies like slowing down, getting support and reevaluating your goals and priorities also can help you recover from burnout. If you feel you will experience in burnout or you already have burnout, don’t worry. You can try the advice to overcome it.
The author of “Rescue 471”, who was a paramedic, overcame burnout by strong self-control and a new paramedic. In the book, the author, Peter Canning had burnout on his job due to the new company system, some terrible things that happened during his working, and some false emergencies. Even though he felt burnout, he was never absent. He knew if he was absent once, he would be absent twice or more. So he overcame his burnout with strong self-control. In addition, he trained a new paramedic who had motivation on this job just like him before. He learned something from this new paramedic, too. And he recovered the burnout of his job.
According to “Preventing Worker Can Boost the Bottom Line”, some companies motivate employees with different methods. Some companies always face the problem of employees’ burnout due to long time labor, no time to relax, and boring work. Brian Kelly is the vice president of Aptify, a Virginia software company. He solves employees’ burnout by giving them many paid days off to relax. Wist Office Products uses the method of switching employees’ jobs to overcome the problem. In addition, Point B Consulting CEO Mike Pongon deals with employees’ burnout by flexible schedule. Giving employees many paid days off to relax, switching employees’ jobs, and flexible schedule are good method to solve employees’ burnout.
In the online reading “Ways to Prevent Burnout”, there are some advice for students to prevent burnout. First, you can write all things down in your calendar and follow it. Second, you can also find some funny project to make you relaxed. And then you need to improve your skill of self-control. Learning to say no to burnout is a good way to improve your self-control skill. It is also great to help other students who feel burnout. Finally, sometimes it is good to break from your routine and plan a lesson with a colleague.
My solution of burnout is making a higher target. As other students, I also face problems of burnout from the bore of studying. Every time I feel burnout, I will go shopping. I do not buy anything; I just look at something expensive, like men belts, wallet, and watches. The price of them will give me motivation to work hard on studying. I want to buy some of them, but they are very expensive. How can I buy them? Study hard first. I also do exercise to make me strong. There are always some times that I am lazy to do that. Then I will look at the picture of some macho men like Jason Statham or Vin Diesel, look the muscles they have, and look how strong they are. That gives me motivation to continue exercising. The higher target is also one of the methods to prevent burnout.
These methods all can deal with overcoming burnout well. We can choose different methods with different burnout we get. Burnout is common in our life, so we need to learn some methods to prevent and recover it. When we get burnout, we should calm down and think about how to deal with it. Keeping a calm mental state can help us recover from burnout quickly and easily.
Birth Order Influences Children
Everyone has different position in his/her family. The different family positions always depend on people’s birth order. Birth order is very important for children’s development. How does birth order influence children? In the article “How Your Birth Order Influence Your Life Adjustment”, the author, Lucille Forer states that birth order will influence children’s thought and behaviors because the parents always assume certain attitudes toward each child in his birth order. According this article, the oldest child in a family always gets more expectations from his/her parents and he/she has more responsibility than the younger children in the family. The middle children would do better than others in the family. And the youngest child is less able to do many things than older children. In addition, Forer thinks the only child would not depend on others too much.
In my opinion, the most important idea in this article is only child in the family would not depend on others too much. Most Chinese families only have one child because Chinese government used a policy to control the number of people. As a person who grew up in China, I realize more about only child and I have different opinion from Forer’s about only child. In fact, most Chinese only child gets more care and love from his/her parents. The Chinese always take care of their only child too much and spoil their only child. As a result, I think the only child would depend on their parents more, and I can attest to that with my example.
As the only child in my family, I always get more care from my parents, and I depend on my parents more. My parents usually cook for me, and they never need me to cook. Even though they work or go out and they cannot cook for me, they will buy some food or cook something for me before they leave. In addition, my parents never ask me to work. Even though I am twenty now, my costs still depend on my parents. They will buy anything I need, like clothes, computers, and phones. It does not only happen to me. Most of my classmates in China have the same experience as me. They also cannot cook. The only child in the family is dependent due to their parents’ spoil.
Only child being dependent is a general problem in China. Research from CCTV, the government TV station in China, said that more than 75 percent of only children cannot take care of themselves well in college in China. They even cannot make the beds. The only child becomes the person whom parents significantly care for. However, under the “significantly care”, only child are dependent.
The spoiled children become an important problem in the world. And most spoiled children are from only child families. Those children become spoiled and dependent because of the over care of their parents. I think the way parents educate their children also influence children’s life. Parents should use adaptive methods to educate their children, not focus on children’s birth order.
“Criminal Justice”
Today we listened to a presentation about two people who were in prison for 21 years and now have been free due to innocence. One of them was imprisoned because the cop mistook him for the person who killed his parents. Another was imprisoned because a girl mistook him for one of the people who killed her boyfriend. The presentation began at 12:00 to 2:00 pm in the science building room 112.
The speakers are Mr. Derrick Hamilton, who was mistaken for a murderer, and his lawyer Mr. Lonnie Soury who was also a QCC student. In fact, there should have been three speakers. The other speaker, whose parents were killed, couldn’t come due to his wife’s illness. And there were about one hundred audience members. Maybe, some of them are learning jurisprudence so they wanted to know the weakness of law. And others are interested in this even such as me. I thought if the court wants to declare somebody guilty and send him to the prison, they must have enough evidence. If the people really had innocence, how were they imprisoned? That was why I was there.
During this presentation, I learned how that happened. In January, Mr. Derrick Hamilton went to a party, and someone was killed there. The girl who was the girlfriend of the victim said there were three people who killed her boyfriend, and Mr. Derrick was one of them. Then, the cops arrested Mr. Derrick and sent him to the prison. However, Mr. Derrick didn’t know everything. In fact, that girl didn’t even know who killed her boyfriend. All of that were the cops said.
Another, whose mother was killed and father was unconscious, went to hospital watch his father. However, the cops catch him because the cops said his father waked up and said he was the killer and there were his hair in his mother’s nail. In fact, all of the cops said were not true. Then he was imprisoned, too.
The speakers showed us that there are 5-10% of those in prison are innocent with power point. And they think the reasons of wrongful conviction are false confessions, witness intimidation, jail house snitch, and coercion of witness.
After I had heard this presentation, I was surprised about the lack of American law. When I was in China, I often heard something that is similar to this. I thought that is only the lack of Chinese law. However, after I heard this even, I think every country needs to perfect its law. And the court of justice must deal with each case carefully.
Today we listened to a presentation about two people who were in prison for 21 years and now have been free due to innocence. One of them was imprisoned because the cop mistook him for the person who killed his parents. Another was imprisoned because a girl mistook him for one of the people who killed her boyfriend. The presentation began at 12:00 to 2:00 pm in the science building room 112.
The speakers are Mr. Derrick Hamilton, who was mistaken for a murderer, and his lawyer Mr. Lonnie Soury who was also a QCC student. In fact, there should have been three speakers. The other speaker, whose parents were killed, couldn’t come due to his wife’s illness. And there were about one hundred audience members. Maybe, some of them are learning jurisprudence so they wanted to know the weakness of law. And others are interested in this even such as me. I thought if the court wants to declare somebody guilty and send him to the prison, they must have enough evidence. If the people really had innocence, how were they imprisoned? That was why I was there.
During this presentation, I learned how that happened. In January, Mr. Derrick Hamilton went to a party, and someone was killed there. The girl who was the girlfriend of the victim said there were three people who killed her boyfriend, and Mr. Derrick was one of them. Then, the cops arrested Mr. Derrick and sent him to the prison. However, Mr. Derrick didn’t know everything. In fact, that girl didn’t even know who killed her boyfriend. All of that were the cops said.
Another, whose mother was killed and father was unconscious, went to hospital watch his father. However, the cops catch him because the cops said his father waked up and said he was the killer and there were his hair in his mother’s nail. In fact, all of the cops said were not true. Then he was imprisoned, too.
The speakers showed us that there are 5-10% of those in prison are innocent with power point. And they think the reasons of wrongful conviction are false confessions, witness intimidation, jail house snitch, and coercion of witness.
After I had heard this presentation, I was surprised about the lack of American law. When I was in China, I often heard something that is similar to this. I thought that is only the lack of Chinese law. However, after I heard this even, I think every country needs to perfect its law. And the court of justice must deal with each case carefully.
CAT-W 2
Under American economic fast development, Americans’ standard of consumption is improving. How do Americans change their standard of consumption? In the article “Materialism: Our Consuming Interest”, the author Linda Kulman states most Americans are willing to satisfy their wants even though they cannot afford them with their income. Kulman uses account of cars in Americans’ families, garbage, and shopping malls to explain Americans’ consumption. And Kulman thought American are insatiable because they want to show freedom and individualism.
I think the most interesting thing is Americans like to satisfy their wants. Everyone have the wants of expensive things. And under the economic fast development, people’s life improves. As the same time, people’s wants also improve. It is a good thing to improve our wants. It can make us have more motivation to work to make more money. However, if we still satisfy our wants that we cannot afford it. It will give us opposite effect, and I can attest to that with my friend’s example.
I have a friend who dropped school and became a theft satisfy wants. When I was in high school in China, I knew my friend Liang. He always went outside with his friends. Suddenly, he did not want to come to school. He asked money from his family and went to KTV and bars with his friends. He enjoyed that kind of life. And he asked more and more money from his mother. He always thought the money was not enough to spend. Then he started to steal. Finally, he went to the prison. Maybe, sometime we need to control our wants before it influences our life.
This article also remains me a report from “Chinese Newspaper” called “Chinese spend ten thousands to buy an iPhone 6 “. Few mouth ago, Apple Company published iPhone 6, but China was at the first published countries list. However, this couldn’t prevent Chinese to buy iPhone 6. They spent more than ten thousands Yuan that is about one thousand and seven hundreds dollar to buy an iPhone and an iPhone 6 only sell for seven dollar. And half of those Chinese could not really afford it. Did Chinese like iPhone 6 very much? The answer is no. Most of Chinese only used it to call and send messages. Then, why did they spend lots of money to buy it? They wanted. As you can see, not only Americans but also Chinese tend to satisfy their wants even though they cannot afford it.
Whether Americans, Chinese, or my friend, they still satisfy their wants. It is a popular problem in the world. Everyone has wants. And before we satisfy our wants, we should think about if it is wealth. In addition, we could change our wants as power to hard work. Do not we have enough money? Or do we want to buy something expensive? Just work hard, and when we success we can do that, such as Yun Ma, who is the richest in China, has one hundred and fifty billion Yuan and does not know how to spend them.
Under American economic fast development, Americans’ standard of consumption is improving. How do Americans change their standard of consumption? In the article “Materialism: Our Consuming Interest”, the author Linda Kulman states most Americans are willing to satisfy their wants even though they cannot afford them with their income. Kulman uses account of cars in Americans’ families, garbage, and shopping malls to explain Americans’ consumption. And Kulman thought American are insatiable because they want to show freedom and individualism.
I think the most interesting thing is Americans like to satisfy their wants. Everyone have the wants of expensive things. And under the economic fast development, people’s life improves. As the same time, people’s wants also improve. It is a good thing to improve our wants. It can make us have more motivation to work to make more money. However, if we still satisfy our wants that we cannot afford it. It will give us opposite effect, and I can attest to that with my friend’s example.
I have a friend who dropped school and became a theft satisfy wants. When I was in high school in China, I knew my friend Liang. He always went outside with his friends. Suddenly, he did not want to come to school. He asked money from his family and went to KTV and bars with his friends. He enjoyed that kind of life. And he asked more and more money from his mother. He always thought the money was not enough to spend. Then he started to steal. Finally, he went to the prison. Maybe, sometime we need to control our wants before it influences our life.
This article also remains me a report from “Chinese Newspaper” called “Chinese spend ten thousands to buy an iPhone 6 “. Few mouth ago, Apple Company published iPhone 6, but China was at the first published countries list. However, this couldn’t prevent Chinese to buy iPhone 6. They spent more than ten thousands Yuan that is about one thousand and seven hundreds dollar to buy an iPhone and an iPhone 6 only sell for seven dollar. And half of those Chinese could not really afford it. Did Chinese like iPhone 6 very much? The answer is no. Most of Chinese only used it to call and send messages. Then, why did they spend lots of money to buy it? They wanted. As you can see, not only Americans but also Chinese tend to satisfy their wants even though they cannot afford it.
Whether Americans, Chinese, or my friend, they still satisfy their wants. It is a popular problem in the world. Everyone has wants. And before we satisfy our wants, we should think about if it is wealth. In addition, we could change our wants as power to hard work. Do not we have enough money? Or do we want to buy something expensive? Just work hard, and when we success we can do that, such as Yun Ma, who is the richest in China, has one hundred and fifty billion Yuan and does not know how to spend them.