The effects of MP3 and MP3 player [final]

　　　Each innovation has catched everyone' eyes when it comes out first.　But after a period of time, people will look this innovation as an important thing if it is useful in some specific parts in our daily life, or it will be forgot soon.　When talking about music industry, everyone knows MP3 and looks it as one of everyday items.　　　
　　　Are you addicted to music?　No wonder MP3 is so convenient that you do not have to take a CD(Compact disk) out which can save only ten songs at all!　It transforms voice records into digital files because MP3 files need less storage size than voice files.　Right after that, MP3 players are seen everywhere.　You can clearly see this innovation actually brings a lot of effects.　That is, everyone loves to take their MP3 player out to everywhere as long as they want to listen to the music at any time.　The reason why they act like that is not only because it is smaller than a CD walkman, but also because it can save many more songs than a CD.　In addition, you can easily download all kinds of music online resulting from the high-speed Internet nowadays.　　　
　　　Although the convenience that MP3 brings sounds really good, but there is still a problem about the copyright.　Do you know downloading music from the Internet where is not authorized is illegal?　Because of people's carpetbag acting, it is really harmful for the music industry and many popular singers may refuse to publish their new albums.　People always try to get free songs on the Internet, but singers will refuse to sing anymore.　But I think it is not useful to stop this behavior.　The most important thing is that our government and the related music organizations should pay more attention to this problem.　　　
　　　In fact, advantages usually accompany disadvantages when a new innovation is coming.　But for our life going better, all of us should have to promote morality of life at the very start.　After that, the innovation of MP3 and MP3 player will actually brings the good effects to us.　It has changed our life, and made a big step in modern life.

The effects of the MP3 and MP3 player [#2]

　　　Each innovation has catched everyone' eyes when it comes out first.　But after a period of time, people will look this innovation as an important thing if it is useful in some specific parts in our daily life, or it will be forgot soon.　When talking about music industry, everyone knows MP3 and looks it as one of everyday items.
　　　Are you addicted to music?　No wonder the MP3 is so convenient that you do not have to take a CD(Compact disk) out which is can saved only ten songs at all!　It transforms voice records into digital files because the MP3 files need less storage size than the voice files.　Soon after, the MP3 players published in everywhere.　You can clearly see this innovation actually brings a lot of effects.　That is, everyone loves to take their MP3 player out to everywhere as long as they want to listen to music at any time.　The reason why they act that is not only because it is smaller than the CD walkman, but also because it can save much more songs than a CD.　In addition, you can easily download all kinds of music online result from the high-speed Internet nowadays.
　　　Although the convenience that MP3 brings to sounds really good, but there is still a problem about the copyright.　Do you know downloading music from the Internet where is not authorized is illegal?　Because of their carpetbag acting, it is really harmful for the music industry and many popular singers may refuse to publish their new albums.　People always try to get free songs on the Internet, but singers will refuse to sing anymore.　But I think it is not useful to stop this behavior.　The most important thing is that our government and the related music apparatus should pay more attention to this problem.
　　　In fact, advantages usually accompany disadvantages when a new innovation coming.　But for our life going better, all of us should have to promote morality of life at the very start.　After that, the innovation of MP3 and MP3 player will actually brings the good effects to us.　It has changed our life, and made a big step in modern life.

The Effects of an Invention or Innovation in Modern Life[#1]

　　　Each innovation has catched everyone' eyes when it comes out first. But after a period of time, people will look this innovation as an important thing if it is useful in some specific parts in our daily life, or it will be forgot soon.　When talking about music industry, everyone knows MP3 and looks it as one of everyday items. This innovation transforms voice records into digital files, and brings a lot of effects.　No wonder it is so convenient because you don not have to take a CD out which is saved only ten songs at all!　You can just take your MP3 player out which is not only smaller than the dimemsion of a CD, but also saved much more songs than a CD.　Moreover, you can take out your MP3 player to go to everywhere, as long as you want to listen to music at any time.　Although that sounds really good, but there is still a problem about the copyright.　Result in the high-speed Internet, you can easily download many kinds of music online. But It is really harmful for the music industry.　Sometimes, if there are advantages that may compared with some disadvantages, but for our life going better, all of us should have to promote morality of life at the very start.

I love to make hadicrafts!!

Today, I discussed English skit with my group members.　They are all the new friends that I met in another English Movie class.　At the first time they saw my pencil case, they were so surprised with it because it is a handmade thing, and it is also special. They told me that this is the first time they see this kind of pencil case. Because it is made of eight zippers which is sewing together. ha, it's cool isn't it?!


This picture is one side...



This is another side...

Compare And Contrast Living At Home And In The Dormitory[ Final ]

　　　There are many differences between living at home and in the dormitory.　Living at home is more convenient and private than living in the dorm.　In comparison, because you no longer live with your parents, living in the dormitory is a good opportunity to train you to be independent as well as to learn how to create a good relationship with your roommates, and you have much freedom, too.
　　　I have lived in the dormitory for almost seven years since I graduate from junior high school.　In general, behaving well is important when living with roommates.　For instance, if your roommates are used to staying up late, you have to ask them to talk in undertones and turn off the light.　Try to communicate with them politely.　But if you are at home, you can take it easy.　Also, for respecting your roommates, you have to keep the public environment clean.　Besides, you can chat with your roommates about school life or something. By taking care of each other, you begin to create a good friendship with your roommates gradually.　And the last as well as the most important one is that you can arrange the time by yourself.　It is good but also difficult.　Having more freedom means you have to control yourself. Unlike at home, your parents cook for you, buy daily necessities for you, take care of you, and show you what is right or what is wrong all the time.

　　　Although it is inconvenient and sometimes you will lose your privacy compared to living at home, you will realize the advantages if living in the dormitory for a period of time.　I love to live in the dormitory than to live at home.　What is your prference?



老師：我有個問題～
這句：Having more freedom means that you have to control yourself.
*加了that 在word會出現文法錯誤耶!

reply for the comments of Assignment2 [#1]

．To Stanley:
　　　Thanks for your comment.　In the last paragraph I said that means I really love to live in the dorm, better than home.　How do you feel?　Have you ever lived in a dorm? :)


．To Meigo:
　　　yah! I really LOVE to live in the dorm.　I can discuss homework with New and Pei :) and soon I can reslove the problem I have.　It's really fantastic!! 　Last semester, you will live in a dorm too. :)　Hope you will enjoy the dormitory life!!

．TO Ruby:
　　　thanks for your opinions:)　I've checked and revised them.　I love to arrange my time by myself.　If my roommate is unpolite, I will communicate with her, if she doesn't want to bother me, I will ask the landlord for help.　Oh, I really love you to hear that you say to me" you are independent" and I prefer to live in a dorm.　Ha, maybe I'm a weird guy, I don't know.　I miss my families not very often.　I go home once a month. Unpleasant living experience... yes!I have.　It's about the sanitory.　some will pee or even dreck outside the urinary.　It's disgusting and terrible.

Compare And Contrast Living At Home And In The Dormitory[ #2 ]

　　　There are many differences between living at home and in the dormitory.　Living at home is more convenient and private than living in the dorm.　In comparison, because you no longer live with your parents, living in the dormitory is a good opportunity to train you to be independent as well to learn how to create a good relationship with your roommates, and you have much freedom too.

　　　I have lived in the dormitory for almost seven years since I graduate from junior high school.　In general, forming good manners is important when living with roommates.　For instance, if your roommates are used to stay up late, you have to ask them to talk in undertones and turn off the light.　Try to communicate with them politely.　But if you are at home, you can take it easy.　Also, for respecting your roommates, you have to keep the public environment clean.　Besides, you can chat with your roommates about school life or something, take care of each other.　Then you begin to create a good friendship with your roommates gradually.　And the last as well the most important one is that you can arrange the time by yourself.　It is good but also difficult.　You have much freedom means you have to control yourself. Not like you are at home, your parents cook for you, buy daily necessities for you, take care of you, and show you what is right or what is wrong all the time.

　　　Although it is inconvenient and sometimes you will lose your privacy when comparing to live at home, you will realize the advantages if living in the dormitory for a period of time.　I love to live in the dormitory than live at home, but it depends on you.

The present for you!

Ha, this is the present I gave my friend this weekend. This weekend is the 100th day before he leave the army. so I use PhotoImpact to draw this picture.
Actually, I don't know how to use this software. So I waste almost 3 nights to make it. After I finished it, I'm really excited!! Because I think this picture I draw is very similar to the real person. ha. If you get this kind of present, Do you feel happy? ^^

The Movie- The Devil Wears PRADA

　　　The devil wears prada is a screen adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel of the same name. This is a stroy about a young woman who stumbles into the hectic world of high fashion and publishing. There are Anne Hathway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Stanly Tucci, Simon Backer, and Andrien Grener playing the key supporting roles.

　　　Meryl Streep as Maranda Priestly. She is the editor-in-chief of RUNWAY magazine. She is the most powerful woman in fashion. So, she is feared by many in the fashion world.

　　　Anne Hathway as Andera Sachs. At first, she has no knowledge of fashion industry, has never read that mangzine, and doesn't know who Maranda Preiestly is.
But then she is hired as the second assistant for the boss of RUNWAY fashion bible.

　　　However, after a period of time, she begins to realize that the job that "million girls would die for" may just kill her. Because of her strain job, she almost lost her friend, and lose herself. So that she has to decide wheater or not the job is worth the price of her soul.

　　　It's very important but also difficult for everyone to make a dicision between the job and the life. If you want to get a high-raise job, you must pay for it, maybe the time you use to be with your friends and your family or something.

　　　I hope after I gradute I don't have to worry about it.

Compare And Contrast Living At Home And In The Dormitory[#`1]

　　　There are a lot of differences between living at home and in the dorm. Living at home is more convenient and private than living in the dorm. Contrary to live at home, because you don’t live with your parents anymore, living in the dormitory is a good opportunity to train you to be independent as well to learn how to create a good relationship with your roommates. I have lived in the dormitory for almost seven years since I graduate from junior high school. At the very start, I resisted the environment and the atmosphere there, but soon I understood I must accustom to this kind of challenge. The first thing is to form good manners. For instance, if your roommates are used to stay up late, you can politely ask them to talk in undertones and turn off the light just left a table lamp. But if you are at home, you don’t have to do that because you have your own room. Also, you have to keep the public environment clean because you are not in your single room, and you have to respect all your roommates. On the other part, you can chat with your roommates about school life or something, take care of each other. Then you can happily create a good friendship with your roommates. And the last as well the most important one is that you can arrange the time by yourself. It is good but also difficult. Because you will be more independent than you are at home, that is you have much freedom so that you have to control yourself. Not like you are at home, your parents cook for you, buy everyday items for you, take care of you, and show you what is right or what is wrong all the time. Although it is inconvenient and sometimes you will lose your privacy when comparing to live at home, but if living in the dormitory for a period of time, you will realize the advantages different from living at home.

Why did you choose your major?[Final]

　　 The reasons why I chose my major are because of money and interest. When I was a 12-year-old girl, I was attracted to computer. Why after typing only a few keys, then I could get a lot of information on the screen? How could I get the e-mails from people who lived in other countries just in a few seconds? Although the transmission time was a little slow actually, I was curious about the mysteries inside of computers.　　
　　 The first reason why I chose my major is because of money. It was the first time that I had to choose one major for myself after I graduated from junior high school. But it was not an easy thing to do, so I asked my parents for help. They just gave me some advices, and told me that I had to make a decision by myself, because it was my own way, not theirs. By thinking about it carefully for a few days, I set my goal in being rich. Then I was on the outlook for finding a good job for my future so that I can earn a lot of money. Hence, I made up my mind to choose a hot department which is named information management (IM). Then I concentrate on my study so much, because I think I will be more professional than anyone else in IM field someday. Therefore, I will be rich in the future. Although everyone thinks it is difficult to achieve, I regard it as a challenge or training so that I can face it courageously from now on.　　　
　　 Another reason why I chose IM is for the most important factor- my interest. I remembered after touching the real computer in front of me the first time, I had a special feeling in my mind. It seems like a motive power which attracts me to catch it. Then I found out that I really would like to get to know more about computers and the Internet. After that, I searched the resources on the Internet and tried to use programming language which is named Visual Basic to write some codes to create a webpage. I really enjoyed it and had a lot of fun. So I think interest is a best way to keep up concentrating on my study.　　　
　　 In conclusion, not only because IM was the most popular department that everyone wanted to choose, but also it is interesting. If you make yourself to know more about IM, you will be fascinated with the world of computers, too. Finally, with my own strong will and great interest, I think choosing IM as my major is the best decision that I have ever made so far.

Why did you choose your major? [#3]

　　The reasons why I chose my major are because of money and interest. When I was a 12-year-old girl,I was attracted to computer. Why after typing only a few keys, then I could get a lot of information on the screen? How could I get the e-mails from people who live in other countries just in a few seconds? Although the transmission time was a little slow actually, I was curious about the mysteries inside of computers.

　　　First reason is because of money. It was the first time that I had to choose one major for myself after I graduated from junior high school. But it is not an easy thing to do, so I asked my parents for help. They just gave me some advices, and told me that I had to make a decision by myself, because it is my own way, not theirs. By thinking carefully for a few days, I set my goal in being rich. Then I was on the outlook for finding a good job for my future so that I can earn a lot of money. Hence, I made up my mind to choose a hot department which is named information management (IM). Then I concentrate on my study so much, because I think I will be more professional than anyone else in IM region someday. Therefore, I will be rich in the future. Although everyone thinks it is difficult to achieve, I looked it as a challenge or training so that I can faced it courageously from now on.

　　　Another reason why I chose IM is for the most important factor- my interest. I remembered after touching the real computer in front of me the first time, I had a special feeling in my mind. It seems like a motive power which attracts me to catch it. Then I found out that I really would like to get to know more about computers and Internet. After that, I searched the resources on the Internet and tried to use programming language which is named Visual Basic to write some codes to create a webpage. I really enjoyed it and had a lot of fun. So I think interest is a best way to keep up concentrating on my study.

　　　In conclusion, not only because IM was the most popular department that everyone wanted to choose, but also it is interesting. If you make yourself to know more about IM, you will be fascinated with the world of computers, too. Finally, with my own strong will and great interest, I think it can still be the best decision to choose Information Management as my major.

Why Did You Choose Your Major? [#2]

　　　The reasons why I chose my major are because of money and interest. When I was a 12-year-old girl,I was attracted to computer. Why after typing only a few keys, then I could get a lot of information on the screen? How could I get the e-mails from people who live in other countries just in a few seconds? Although the transmission time was a little slow actually, I was curious about the mysteries inside of computers.

　　　It was the first time that I had to choose one major for myself after I graduated from junior high school. But it is not an easy thing to do, so I asked my parents for help. They just gave me some advices, and told me that I had to make a decision by myself, because it is my own way, not theirs. By thinking carefully for a few days, I set my goal in being rich. Then I was on the outlook for finding a good job for my future so that I can earn lots of money. Hence, I made up my mind to choose a hot department which is named information management (IM). If I concentrate on my study more, I will be more professional of IM than anyone else someday. Therefore, I will be rich in the future. Although everyone thinks it is difficult to achieve, I looked it as a challenge and faced it courageously.

　　　Also, it was not only for money, but also for the most important factor- my interest. I remembered after touching the real computer in front of me the first time, I had a special feeling in my mind. It seems like a motive power which attracts me to catch it. Then I found out that I really would like to get to know more about computers and Internet. After that, I searched the resources on the Internet and tried to write some codes using programming language which is named Visual Basic. I really enjoyed it and had a lot of fun. It is a good way to keep up concentrating on my study, too.

　　　In conclusion, not only because IM was the most popular department that everyone wanted to choose, but also it is interesting. With my own strong will and great interest, I think it is still the best decision I had done by myself to choose Information Management to be my major that year.

The first time to join this class

I'm a little bit afraid to take these kind of courses about English, in fact. Because I'm afraid to talk to others in English... I will get too nervous. And soon forget all that I want to tell. It's so embarrassing. But I think I should go through it at this time, to overcome the sequence. And I really want to improve my English ability,too! So I come to this class myself... When I came to this classroom... I surprised with the one that I saw... yah! one of my classmates is my friends that I've known before. Thank heaven!　It gaves me a lot courge, actually! This is my first time to join this class, I've heard some English materials on the Internet, I will use these materials as my assistants. In class, I listened to the mp3 of "voanews.com" , i think i can't heard it all clearly, so i have to listen it over and over again... i think i will improve a lot in this semester!! ^^just go ahead, betty!

[Practice] Outline Your Points

Topic Sentence:All foreign students have the same difficulty-the English barrier.

　A. One area of difficulty is the words of English.
　　1. old word which people nowadays don't use anymore
　　
　　2. there are a lot of English words that combine to make different meanings
　　　a. for example, "to work out" versus "work"


　B. pronunciation
　　1. different pronunciations are for different meanings
　 　　a. for example, "conduct"

　　2. understand the accent of American
　　　a. for example, northerners have a different accent from southerners.

　C. The technological language doesn't exist in other countries

Concluding sentence: Many foreign students find that learning English is the hardest part of college life.

Why Did You Choose Your Major?[#1]

The reasons why I chose my major are because of interest and money. When I was a 12-year-old girl,I was attracted to computer. Why after typing only a few keys, then I could get a lot of information on the screen? How could I get the e-mails from people who live in other countries just in a few seconds? Although the transmission time was a little slow actually, I was curious about the mysteries inside of computer.

After I graduated from junior high school. I was on the outlook for finding a good job for my future because I wanted to earn a lot of money. Then, I made up my mind to concentrate on practicing programming so that I could be a good programmer in the high-tech industry and soon reach my target. Hence, with my own strong will and my parents' advices, I chose Information Management to be my major. Not only because 'Information Management' was the most popular department that everyone wanted to choose, but also because of the most important factor - my interest.

See, there is a comment!!

I'm so surprised with the comment from my article which is named 'My best friend-Betsy'. I think it's a encouragement for me to continue bloging.

Someone I Admire

I admire my father because he is a very talented man that i've never seen before.
He is good at repairing the electronic products. Everytime when one equipment broke down, he always can fix it well for only a short time. Also,he is not only a good repair man but also a good counselor who can solve the problem that I have. And give me some advices to overcome the difficulties disturbing me. Because of his talent, so I really proud of him.

The Last Time I Gave Someone A Present

I last gave my friend a present on Febuary 14th of this year. Febuary 14th is Valentine's Day. So I decided to make a handicraft for my friend because I think to give one a handmade present is special and commemorable. Therefore, I tried to make a fake chocolate cake using clorful non-woven cloths. The white as the buttercream, the brown as the chocolate coating, and the red as the strawberry. Then I sewed and adhered them together. Surprisingly, it's not only a fake cake but also a box. In order to fill it, I put a handmade card and chocolate. Of course, the chocolate is edible, certainly. When my friend received my present, he was smiling happily. As long as my friend likes the present I made, it's worth it to spend a lot of time to make it.


○Click to look a picture of the fake cake○

The Skit

In my daily life English class, we played a skit about taking a foreign friend to the night market in Taipei. I'm so nervous but also a little excited because we had only ten minutes to practice the conversations that we had to talk to each other in the skit. After five minutes, the skit was over. Although I really worried about it before we finished it, but now I think it's a special experience for me, because I was not so nervous as I expected before when we were acting.

My Best Friend - Betsy

My best frend has a similar name as mine. And our figures are almost the same,too. We've known each other for nearly sixteen years since we were classmates in elementary school in Chunghwa. The first time we met in the same classroom, we didn't talk a lot. But when we were fifth grade students, we usually went to school together. And then, we became best friends.

She is older than me by about seven months. Actually, she looks so mature that everyone believes she is my older sister when we go shopping together. She wears her brown curly hair in a fringe and is always smiling broadly. She is an innocent girl. Now, she's majoring in Early Childhood Care & Education in Taichung, because she really loves to be with kids. She wants to be a teacher in a kindergarten after she graduates. Hence, she took a part-time job as a babysitter in her free time. Also, she practices teaching in a day-care center to get more experience.

She is an extrovert but I'm not. And her views of love, money and life are all different from mine. Even though we have many dissimilarities and live in different cities now, we still keep in touch by MSN and cell phone. Sometimes we go shopping and have dinner together. I think our friendship will last for good.

Introduce about Betty

Hi, everybody!
My name is Liu Li-Ting, and you can call me Betty, Bet, ting-ting, or "Ant"- it is my nickname.
I come from Chunghwa, but I've studied in other counties for almost seven years.After I graduate from junior high, I had studied in Taichung for five years, and I live in the dormitory of the National Taichung institute of technology(NTIT).During the last two years, I have studied in National Taiwan University of science and technology(NTUST) and I'm majoring in Information Management(IM),not only improving my specialized field knowledge but also having a lot fun. Now, because there is no empty space to live in the dormitory of the school, I live with my relatives, my uncle,aunt,and a hunting dog named "Golden",near the school.Therefore,I can save a lot of money,because I don't have to rent the house myself in Taipei!!

So, I think you've known that I'm in two year college of NTUST in the first paragraph, right?! And I'm a senior!! In this semester, in order to improve my English ability, I take five different kind English courses(that is because I don't have to take any obligatory courses), Computer Assisted Language Learning ,English Writing(so now I type about myself to let you know much more about me !), Daily Life English,Engish movies, and Oral Drills in English, so that I could reach my goal - to get a high grade in TOEIC exam before I graduate this year.

OH, I almost forgot to introduce my family>//<~~
There are five members in my family, Father, Mother, two elder brothers and I.
My mother is a insurance executive. One of my elder brothers is a soldier. My father and one of my elder brothers are public officals. I've receive a lot of advices and assistance from my dear family. Consequently, I hope to get a stable career so that
I could earn and save much money by myself.

And the last thing I want to tell you is that my hobby!
I really love to sing, especially the popsongs. So, if you do, too, maybe we can go to karaoke together someday!!ha

If you want to know me much more , remember to come here again^^
I will post ramble recently. See you!

What is a very important skill a person should learn in order to be successful in the world?

*choose one skill and use specific reasions and examples to support your choice.*

Everyone needs one skill that different from others and doing it very well,such as painting, dacing, jogging, studying, writing and speaking. You must want to ask why we need these skills,right? That is because of the talent! If you have a special talent different from others and even doing much better than any others, then you doing this skill very well, and this skill could do you a large favor.

Therefore, I think the speaking skill is the most important skill that we should held. In fact, everyone can talk to other by words, but "talking" has an special art inside that you may don't know. Besides another skill could bring you famous, you still have to communicate with others by talking. At this time, having a good speaking skill will take an important role.

So, the first thing you shold learn is the 'speaking art'. When we get trouble or have a bad mood or even get angry, we have to talk to others with calm and fair emotions still. When we have a meeting with the boss in the office, we have to consider all the aspects that we should notice, and speaking out all you want to say smoothly and orderly. And then,the second thing that you have to notice is the facial expression when you talk. If you say it carefully, then you can't be a funny facial expression. If you tell a joke, then you wouldn't frown your eyebrows, you must be smling!! At last,you still have to know the body language when you talk, because the motions that you do when you talk can make a good impression to others. And the other thing is that you have to be serious because one gesture could mean different meaning in different countries .

To improve your speaking skill is easy. You can usually talk to others to learn how people to communicate. And to study the speaking art from the books. For a period of time, you will find you will improve a lot.