Thursday, November 20, 2008

FE#6

My Favorite Dish
Have you ever eaten Chicken leg over fried rice? It is my favorite food. The materials are chicken leg with skin, some vegetable (depending on you), egg, green onion and rice. It is very traditional food. Therefore, I use many season from China, such as soy sauce, Chinese vinegar, white pepper and bean sauce. Now all the predation steps are finished let cook the chicken leg over rice.

At first, clean the chicken leg and use hot water to get the blood out of the leg. And then, put oil and sugar into the pan until the oil becomes hotter and sugar become dark red. Put the clean chicken leg into the pan and blend the chicken until the chicken is done. During this process, put soy sauce and Chinese vinegar into the pan. Still blend it about 10 minutes. Put bean sauce and water together using mid-fire to cook it about 30 minutes. And then, just keep it on the fire; we go to the next step. Fried rice.

Second, it is fried rice. Put oil into another pan. Put green onion and egg into the pan and blend the egg until the egg is cooked. And then, put rice into the pan; blend the rice and egg together. Cook it 5 minutes.

All the steps are finished. Just put the chicken over the fried rice. The very delicious food, the chicken leg over fried rice, is done. It is very delicious and has lots of nutrition.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

S/R#2

Military, Please Go Away from Dugongs


In Takehiko Kambayashi’s article “Ruling to protect dugong could put Northern Okinawa aid at risk,” the author states that, the American military should protect the marine mammal when they want to build a proposed base near the animals’ “home”. First, the author explains that the U.S. Defense Department found the problem between the military base in Okinawa and the dugongs. Some people think that military need to research the dugong in Okinawa because there are many dugongs near the military base. Second, the author shows that there are many U.S. troops in Japan. Therefore, U.S. government should discuss the situation about military and dugongs. “The 35,000 US troops stationed in Japan.” (Kambayashi, 2008) Third, the author argues that U.S. put many troops in Japan, so they need protect the sea animals. The government has money to build a luxury spa. However, they do not have money to protect the dugongs. At end, the author states, “There is no place like Okinawa on earth.” (Kambayashi 2008) That means we need to protect the ocean and protect the dugongs.


In the author’s opinion, the dugongs should be protected by the military. I agree with that. In recent years, the world is not peaceful. War is often happened. Animals were killed by the war. Therefore, we need protect them and help them get a safety place to live. In fact, military should consider where they should build a base if there are many sea animals live in this ocean, the United Nations should make a law that protect the sea animals and if it is must use a war the solve the problem, do not use chemical weapons.
First, military should consider where they should build a base if there is many sea animals live in this ocean. People must not just think about themselves. They build a military base just consider their own benefit or convention. However, they kill a lot of animals when they build some military bas into the sea. For example, Okinawa, Japan has lots of dugongs. However, the U.S. military build a base that makes lots of dugongs died. “A federal judge said a US military base propose for the depressed area must evaluate impact on the marine mammal.” (Kambayashi 2008) Therefore, where should build a base or not is very important to protect dugongs and animals life.
Second, the United Nations should make a law that protects the sea animals. We all know protect dugongs and sea animals are not just a national problem. That is global problem. Thurs, UN should give each country a law that can control them to protect the dugongs and sea animals. For example, if there are many dugongs and animals, it must cancel the ship route. That can protect the animals because the pollutions problem will go down. Controlling is important to save the dugongs and sea animals’ life.


Third, if it is must use a war to solve the problem, do not use chemical weapons. That is a pretty difficult rule because chemical weapons is very powerful and useful. It can change a trend during the war. However, we must stop use chemical weapons. It is really dangerous. On December 7th, Japan attack U.S Pearl Harbor. Japan use the chemical weapons. Until now, Pearl Harbor is still dirty. No animal can live there. That is terrible. Therefore, stop using the chemical weapons is necessary.


In conclusion, protecting animals is very important because if the animals disappeared already, that means people live alone on the earth. There are many ways to protect the sea animals. In the military situation, we only can do is we need peaceful world. No war, No military pollution. Although it is only a dream, we can do something to reduce the problem. UN need control the problem as soon as possible because it is not only one country can solve the problem. If people do it well, the dugongs and sea animals will live forever.

Reference:
Kambayashi Takechiko (2008, February 5th) Ruling to protect dugong could put Northern Okinawa aid at risk. The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved on October 29th, 2008 from: www.csmonitor.com

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

FE#5

Drawing Your Vocabulary

Everyone thinks learning a foreign language is very difficult, especially vocabulary. It does not mean vocabulary is head, but we waste time an vocabulary. Sometimes it does not work. Everyone hates vocabulary. However, I have a good idea that helps us to learn vocabulary, drawing a picture in your mind. What is that? That means when you have to remember some vocabularies, you can think a picture about the definition of the word. For example, “nice”, if you do not know the meaning of this word, you can draw beauty in your brain. And then you feel interested about this word. After that you found you can remember “nice”. Is it not magical? Draw a picture of a word. You can remember the word very quickly and you will hope you want to remember a lot of vocabularies.

Monday, November 3, 2008

FW#4

IMac is a kind of PC, but it is good at education. In IMac, you can find all programs about how to learn a language. IMac include dictionary, language transition and lots of programs about education. For example, I try to write a essay in English. However I do not understand grammar clearly. The IMac can help me to fix the problem. Another example is when I write an academic paper and I do not know how to write “so” in an academic way. I just put so in the IMac dictionary, and then the IMac can tell me which is the best word that is similar to “so”. IMac is really improving my English. In fact, I can write English essay more academically and I know how to use grammar as well. I am surprised that technology can help me improve my second language. If I have the opportunity to teach Chinese students English, I will allow them buy an IMac PC. That is really helps us to learn a second language.