it is the end~~~~

It is c0ming to the end of our English course in this semester. It is a happy time that we have finished the whole course with good performance; however, it is the time to say goodbye to all of my classmates. This whole course provides me a good experience spending a semester in the same room with my dear classmates and tutor happily. I will appreciate it forever!

Positive and negative effects of ethical consumption

Recently, people are getting more and more concerned about their health and the living environment. As a consequence, ethical consumption stands out as one of the hottest topics among the world. However, both positive and negative effects of the ethical consumption can be found in my home country, China,
Firstly, ethical consumption has positive effects on social development and economics in China. “they carry huge influence and have a key role to play in helping us to protect the environment” (Smithers. R & Hickman. L, 2006). Indeed, ethical consumption helps people protect the environment. For example, using once-used shopping bags does a significant negative effect on the natural environment. Hence, ethical consumption provides people a good way to protect environment by the usage of recycled papers and shopping bags. For instance, some of the big cities in China, such as Beijing and Shanghai, have the supermarkets which provide recycled shopping bags; furthermore, they also allocate reward points to the shoppers who prefer to use recycled bags. Ethical consumption also contributes a lot to human health. A women who was an online organic product seller, said in Part I that “I don’t want my kids to be exposed to chemicals” (Wei T. D, 2007). Thirdly, using more recycled packages helps save more energy and materials in the China’s society. If everyday each person can save a bag when they are shopping, that counts a lot for the whole country. As a result, the energy or the money saved per day could be used in other ways in order to help China to increase its economics. Therefore, ethical consumption has positive effects on both social developments and economics in china.
Secondly, apart from the positive effects, some negative effects can be caused by the consumption of ethical products. First of all, “price was an issue for most shoppers, with many 0people on limited budgets wanting a greener choice” (Smithers. R & Hickman. L, 2006). Price has a big effect on people’s behaviors of choosing product in China because China is still a developing country. Its economics is not stronger enough for its citizens to spend more money on higher price products.
In conclusion, both positive and negative effects can be caused by ethical consumption in China on the area of social development and economics.

Recess week - film review

The Island
In this film, a cloning industry cloned people for rich men in order to get the organs produced by cloning persons. These cloning people all dreamed to go to an island which was called “the last clean island for humans” without knowing that they were not real men. When the dream of Ewan McGregor (main character) came true, he was excited. At the same time, he felt something unhappy was on the way. After a short time, he found out that they were not real human beings. What was worse was that going to the island meant to be killed for their organs. After knowing these facts, he decided to help all the cloning people escape from going to that island. During the fighting, he fell in love with Lincoln Six-Echo who was a cloning person as well. After a hard time of fighting, they succeeded and had their own freedom in the end. After watching this film, I am impressed by Ewan McGregor with her courage and brightness as a model of modern women. She believes that woman can make dreams come true by their own talents, which can makes women more independent in modern world. Furthermore, this film also indicates the importance of living healthily since all conflicts rising in this film are due to get healthy organs. Being an independent person and living healthily are two points I learn from this film. I would like to recommend this film.

Paragraph I: Compare and Contrast

Although emotional intelligence is required for all human beings in their daily life, it may vary among different professions of different fields. Taking athletes and doctors as examples, both of them need high emotional intelligence in their working circumstances. However, different aspects of emotional intelligence are required by athletes and doctors respectively. Being athletes requires more intrapersonal emotional intelligence than that of doctors. Firstly, self-awareness as one aspect of intrapersonal skills is highly required by athletes. In other words, athletes need to be conscious of what his/her athletic level is in order to make improvement. Secondly, athletes need more self-motivations to overcome obstacles and cope with stresses in their hard training processes. Furthermore, courage, perseverance and passion which belong to intrapersonal emotional intelligence are more needed for athletes than doctors. In contrast, doctors need more interpersonal skills than intrapersonal skills. First, due to their frequent communication with the patients, doctors have to be able to understand their patients’ feelings and manage the patients’ moods. Second, doctors need to work cooperatively with each other during a treatment or an operation which requires more interpersonal skills to success. In conclusion, to be successful in both areas, both of athletes and doctors should have high emotional intelligence though there may be different aspects of emotional intelligence required respectively.
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FIRST POSTING: MY LIFE'S MEANING

My Life’s Meaning

It is a good subject for me to cover since I have never gone through this topic seriously before. What is the meaning of life? What does it matter to me? At the first glance of these questions, I cannot come up with any idea since it might be a little bit deep and thoughtful for me. However, after drinking a cup of coffee on my comfortable chair, I think life might not be full of challenges and chasing money or high careers as some other people may think. In my opinion, life itself dose not have exact meaning, in contrast, its meanings are coming from people’s mind. In other words, what is the meaning of life depends on how a person thinks it is.

For me, I do not require life to be filled with endless competitions and hard work. On the contrary, life should be harmonious, happy and comfortable as long as a person himself/herself thinks it is meaningful. That is to say, no matter what roles people play in life, a cleaner or a president, as long as he/she is satisfied with it and that job does contribute to our society, his/her life is a meaningful life for sure.

Aside from harmony, happiness and comfort of life, we should have positive life attitudes, which I think is the most important part of life. With positive attitudes, one can think actively compared with the other side of negative ones. For instance, just like a half bottle of water putting on table, as a viewer, there might be two kinds of opinions coming out. Some people with positive attitudes may say that there is still half bottle left which is so great. However, some others with negative attitudes in life may think that half of the water has gone which is so sad. Actually, when facing problems in life, most of the time people with positive attitudes will work through it and consider all of the problems as chances of fostering their abilities of reaching their final successes. Hence, life will be more meaningful with a positive attitude.

In conclusion, I want my life to be full of harmony, happiness and comfort as well as I should have positive attitude toward my entire life.

Hi, dear friends, I am new here!

This is a new blog since our handsome tutor, Blackstone, strongly reccommended it to us.

As I see it, it is really a good way for us to improve our English and do peer review with each other.

I will make my best endeavours to learn English and " warm my handsome tutor's heart".

Hehe…… ^_^