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Journal #10-I hate snow( I got a small car accident)

chao — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:25:07 +0000

It snowed again tonight. I got a small accident half a hour ago, when I was on my way to library. It happened when I wanted to made a left turn. My brake didn’t work and my car hit the snow on the side of the road. I tried to move the car, but it was useless, because the wheels were in the snow and could not be moved. At that time a truck passed my car and sounded the horn, also I could see three boys in the truck laughing at me. I was very disappoint and helpless. Then an old man came to me and tried to give me some advice and help me get out of that situation; however, it still didn’t work until another youny man came to help me. With their help, I got out of that situation. When I wanted to say thank you to them, they both got their cars and drove away. So I can just say thank you here. Thank you so much and I will be careful.

Journal #9-No snow please

chao — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:40:37 +0000

I like winter, but I don’t like snow. Because it cannot only make the weather become more cold, but also bring people many troubles. People should clean their houses and cars. Also, when they are driving on the road, they should be more careful. Unfortunately, my car was hit by someone, but I couldn’t find who did that. Even though it was not to be noticed, I still feel very angly. No snow, please!!!!

Animal Experimentation

chao — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:56:46 +0000

Animal experimentation
Have you ever asked yourself whether you regarded animals as your friends or materials? This question can be related to a very controversial issue the animal experimentation. People debate whether animal experimentation can be used to achieve medical research or not. Since thousands of lab animals die every year, at this point I would say people’s opinions can determine animals’ lives. Also, according to a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago Divinity School Seth Perry, since experimentation is just a way to test the hypothesis, equivalent exchange won’t happen between improvements in the medical area and lose of lab animals’ lives. (Perry, 2007) Although, scientists sometimes may achieve some medical researches with the help of animal experimentations, the fact is the number of animal life loses is much higher than the medical advancement gains.
Supporter of animal experimentation state that using lab animals to do some medical research can be regarded as a reduction of human suffering. I would say that sometimes animal experimentation may help people to reduce the suffering; however, it’s totally an unmoral way. First, animals are another group to live on the earth, so they are also the owners of the earth. How can people just use them as sample to do research? Also, due to the different genes, one species reacts to a given drug or chemical in a particular way does not necessarily entail other species will react in the same way. The fact is thousands of animals lose their lives every years for being the experimental samples. Therefore, it’s a waste of animals’ lives to use lab animals to do some medical research, and people shouldn’t be so cruel to reduce suffering by using lab animals instead.
The second argument of those supporters are that since people provide food for animals and they cannot say no to refuse to be the lab samples, so animals can be used by human as a sample to finish some medical research. However, this argument is incorrect. We can use a simple example to prove this argument is incorrect. Parents also give their children food. Can they deal with their children whatever they want? It’s unconstitutional and absolutely not. Despite the fact that human beings provide food to animals, animals still have rights to have a peaceful life, even though people provide them food. Food is not equal to life. Also, it’s not fair for animals to be the lab samples, since they cannot talk and refuse. Many babies and dumb people also cannot talk. If we use those supporters’ ways to choose lab samples, babies and dumb people can also be the targets. Consequently, those supporter’s opinions are absurd and ludicrous. And we cannot use animals to do whatever we want.
Those supporters’ final argument is animal experimentation is less costly than human being. After hearing that, I want to ask those people who support animal experimentations a question. Is there any price for life? Are you going to sell your life if some buyers give you a very high price? I think the answers are mostly not. Since there is no price for lives, how can those supporters say animal experimentation is less costly than human being? Also, as a huge and important group of member lives on the earth, animal should have the same right as human beings, and life is very precious for every living thing. Not only people should treasure their lives, animals’ lives should also be protected. Therefore, supporters’ this argument wasn’t convincing, and the choosing of experimentation sample cannot be determined by price.
Now, since I oppose all the opinions from those supporters, they may ask me to find out the solution of animal experimentation.
I would say that animal experimentation is not the only way to achieve the medical research, and my first solution is to enact a law to protect lab animals’ lives, and the law can let volunteers help the scientists to test the reaction of new drugs. Therefore, with the help of that law, people are not allowed to meddle with animals, since animals have rights to live their life peacefully.
The second solution is that as the improvement of biotechnology, scientist will be able to use only one cell the test the reaction of a drug. According to the information about biotechnology on Wikipedia: “since the 1970s, it began to be used by the Western scientific establishment to refer to laboratory-based techniques being developed in biological research, such as recombinant DNA or tissue culture-based processes.” (Wikipedia, 2007). We have the reasons to believe scientists are able to combine different cells together to create new organs. The purpose of experimentation for medical research is to test the reaction of organs to the new drug. Therefore, we can just use organs which are put in the culture dish to test the reaction of organs to the new drug without losing lab animals’ lives.
Also, people should consider the morality of Animal experimentation. The best the way to stop animal experimentation is to make people feel it’s unmoral to use thousands of lab animals’ lives to exchange a few medical improvements. Therefore, people should be taught heart to heart that animals’ lives are their own, they also have rights to have a peace life and people are not allowed to meddle with animals. If animal experimentation supporters’ opinions are changed and they think it’s unmoral to use animals as experimentation samples, animals will live in a peaceful environment without being samples to test some hypotheses.
In brief, it’s unmoral to use animals to finish some medical research. Because animals and human are living in the same world, animals have rights to enjoy themselves without being used as experimental samples. Moreover, it’s not fair for the animals to use their lives to exchange medical improvement for human beings. Therefore, in my opinion, people should realize animal experimentation is totally a huge mistake and should be prohibited forever in order to protect animals’ lives and let them have a peaceful life.

Journal #8-My dog-digger

chao — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:28:50 +0000

I adopt a dog from animal shelter, her name is Digger. She is nearly 4 years old. She is the smartest dog I have been seen before. We spent lots of time playing together. I love her so much. This weekend many friends came to my apartment to see her and play with her. She brought me lots of fun

Journal #7-Animal Rights

chao — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:46:08 +0000

Nowadays, even though animals seem to be protected well, there are also some problems about animal rights. We would say that animal shelter can be a great helper to protect small animals such as, cats and dogs. However, the room of animal shelter is limited. When the “new” animal come to the animal shelter and there’s no room for those “new”, the “old” ones will be killed. I don’t think it’s fair for those “old”. And why can’t we build another animal shelter? Also, there are still many people using animals to do some experiments. It’s another big issue. Therefore, I think animal right can be a good controversial topic

Jurnal #6-Discovery Channel

chao — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:17:12 +0000

Today, I want to introduce a very funny TV program-Jon & Kate plus 8 on discovery channel. It talks about Jon and Kate’s life. At first, Jon and Kate had two daughters, but Kate wanted more kids, so they decided to have another. However, this time their family added six children. This TV program is about their interesting life, it shows on Tuesday at 10pm the Discovery Channel. I’m sure you will like it.

Journal #5-I don’t like CPS homework

chao — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:51:01 +0000

Now my life is full of CPS homework, it’s not only boring but also needs a long time to finish. The professor of CPS let us finish 8 projects about Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Also, each project has 3 parts. It takes me about 1.5 hours to finish each part. Therefore, in total I need to spend 36 hours working on those awful homework. If you want know the professor’s name in order to avoid choosing his class, just leave an comment. And then I will tell you a funny way to know his name.

Jurnal #4-Essay 3 is more difficult.

chao — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:59:06 +0000

I think essay 3 is much more difficult than essay 1&2, because I have never written an essay about Compare/contrast Survey Essay and I have never added graph to my essay to compare some information. However, I feel lucky and happy because it’s useful for me to learn another kind of essay to improve my writting skills.

Journal #3-Which essay was more difficult to write: Essay 1 or Essay 2?

chao — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:14:27 +0000

The difficulty for essay 1and essay 2 is not based on their title, the difficuty is that when you heard the topic, if you there were some ideas came to your mind. Therefore, essay 2 is more difficult for me, when I heard this topic, I had no idea about it. However, essay 1 is more much easier, because I can talk about my own opinions and stories. Essay 2 is about cause/effect, it was difficult to talk about it without using outside sources, I should write it all depend on all my experience. That’s the reason essay 2 is more difficult for me.

Journal #2 – Cause/Effect Prewriting

chao — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:12:04 +0000

Nowadays, people are living in a planet which is now “having a fever”. The global surface temperatures are likely to increase by 1.1 to 6.4 °C between 1990 and 2100. As the issue is becoming more and more serious, more and more scientists are learning about its causes and efforts. The biggest cause is due to more and more greenhouse gases are produced and put into the air. As the development of people’s standard of living, more and more people have their own cars. Even though having a car can make the life easier than before; it also bring a huge problem at the same time. Cars can only use 25% of their gases and the rest are putting into the air as CO2. Another big sourse of CO2 is from Power Plants. CO2 emissions stem from the burning of fossil fuels for the purpose of electricity generation. Due to the rising of CO2, the earth is “having a fever”. As a result of the earth’s “disease”, people have to face lots of terrible problems. The high temperature can cause many heart diseases, influence the ski industry and brimg the extreme weather. Therefore, for our generations, les us try our best to make the earth cool by using energy-saving lights, buy a clean and efficient car and plant more trees.