chapter 3 - Sweatin' fot Nothing

1.
People take elevator instead of walking the stairs, drive cars to their destination insead of walking. At the same time, they pay a great amount of money on health club, Stairmaster. Barlow thinks these "extra exercise" cause waste.

2.
In paragraph 5 says that people keep wasting energy that will led to the world run out of the energy and pollute the earth. In paragraph 6, he compars the past and the present. He takes chopping wood and running for examples. In the past, people chopped the wood or ran a long way because they had actual needs. But now, people do works beyond useless. In paragraph 7, writer says that we can get these exercises in our normal life, we don't have to pay extra money to get them.

3.
Let those people in health club's exercis generate the energy suport the eletricity of the club even supply the energy to the neighborhood. Use those extra exercise well.

4.
I think is waste. Because the writer writes that the life we have now, full of the basic waste. Compare with the past century, we waste energy and pollute the world in rapid way. In the end of the essay, he writes his solution of this problem in s humorous way, basically, he wants these people don't waste these energy.

5.
Yes, I agree. I think people should take every chances they can exercise in their lives, such as walk the stairs and walk to their destination. We shouldn't pay to walk up stairs.

My Special Place (2nd version)

During senior high school, especially the time before the University Entrance Examination, every day we were exhausted for those tests. After classes, we still had to stay at school for self-study. Those days are suffering. Luckily, I had a place to vent my stress. During the day, it was the playground crowded with student playing basketball. At night, it is my own special place where I could be relaxed and enjoy the peace.

There are two playgrounds in my high school. I spent more time in the one which is behind the gym,smaller but hidden. You can see inside of the gym through the big clean window. There is a swimming pool in the gym so you csn see people swim inside throu the window. During the PE class, this playground did give me some pain when I had to run around the playground over and over again. But when we sat on the stairs, watching those handsome basketball players playing basketball. It was also a kind of pleasure.   

While we were self-studying at night, I usually sneaked out the classroom for an hour. I liked the playground when nobody else there. It was quiet and safe since you didn’t have to worry about being hit by a basketball. The lighting in the gym would light the court at night. It was nice to sit in front of the window, seeing people swam in the gym. Swimming is one of my favorite sports. During the time preparing the test, I didn’t have much time for swimming anymore. Sometime I lay on the ground, feeling the quiet and peace. It felt like time was stop, nothing else mattered. I looked those shining stars in the sky, thinking about what it felt to look down from the sky. In this place, I had no pressure from parents, teachers and tests. I don’t have to care other people’s opinion. I was alone but surrounded by peace.

However, there were few times I got caught and had to run away from teachers. It was quite exciting actually. It felt like I was acting “Mission Impossible “. When I went back to the classroom, some friends would curious about where I go. I always lied to them that I went to the library. Though they are my friends I still didn’t want to share my secret place with them. The quiet is more valuable than friendship to me sometime.

After graduating from high school, I still go back to school sometimes, the playground always full of student playing basketball. Sometimes I just sit there, watching them playing basketball. They remind me those days, the time I spent in this playground. Although the time has changed, I can still remember the felling of being hugged by peaceful and quiet atmosphere here.               

My special Place (1st version)

During senior high school, especially the time before the University Entrance Examination, every day I was exhausted for those tests. After classes, I still had to stay at school for self-study. Those days are suffering. Luckily, I had a place to vent my stress. During the day, it was the playground crowded with students. But at night, it is my own special place where I could be relaxed and enjoy the peace.

There are two playgrounds in my high school. The bigger one you can see it from the classroom’s window. It is closed to the Administration Building, which means more easily to get caught because we were not allowed to leave the Academic Building after dinner. Another one is behind the gym, which is smaller but hidden. You can see the swimming pool through the big clean window near the court. The lighting in the gym would light the court.

While we were self-studying, I usually sneaked out the classroom for an hour. I liked the playground when nobody else there. It was quiet and safe since you didn’t have to worry about being hit by a basketball. I would sit in front of the window, seeing people swam in the gym. Swimming is one of my favorite sports. During the time I prepared the test, I didn’t have much time for swimming anymore. Sometime I lay on the ground, feeling the quiet and peace. It felt like time was stop, nothing else mattered. I looked those shining stars in the sky, thinking about what it felt to look down from the sky. In this place, I had no pressure from parents, teachers and tests. I don’t have to care other people’s opinion. I was alone but surrounded by peace.

However, there were few times I got caught and I had to run away from teachers. It was quite exciting actually. I felt like I was acting “Mission Impossible “. When I went back to the classroom, some friends would curious about where I go. I always lied to them that I went to the library. Though they are my friends I still didn’t want to share my secret place with them. The peace is more valuable than friendship to me sometime.

After graduating from high school, I still go back to school sometimes, the playground always full of student playing basketball. Sometimes I just sit there, watching them playing basketball. They remind me those days, the time I spent in this playground. Although the time has changed, I can still remember the felling of being hugged by peaceful and quiet atmosphere here.               

chapter 2 (II)

Time to Look and Listen

1.
I think that give us strong impressions and feelings about that time how her classmates treated her.
And she wright about herself in a struggle situation about her own family background and other's opinions. She also write the specific incident that shows it was really happened.

2.
education
In the last paragraph, he wright about "Education is the key to understanding." Discrimination and stereotypings will always exist in every society. Educate our kids to understand other races or religions is the way to avoid those hurt might happen. Like the author's mom try to teach those kids about their culture, so her brother's classmates will treat her brother with respect.

3.
 "Education is the key to understanding."

4.
I think she is not tyr to pursuade us, she is trying to tell us not to judge people or race and their culture before we really understand them. Maybe apart of her try to let off the steam, but ultimately she wants the society to realize the problem should be noticed and we should focus on the education.

5.
Though she doesn't wright the specific date, in paragraph 6, she wrights about the civil war in Lebanon and also in paragraph 9, she wrights "when initial reports.....", she uses each incident to show each time.





Footprints on the Flag

1.
I think she respects American's flag because she was willing to wipe the flag clean. And I also think she still lives under the shade of China since she kept compare American and with China.

2.
I think the situation in American and China is obvious a conflict, the author compare the certain action will have different consequence in each country. And the changing of author's thoughts toward American is another conflict.

3.
I think the most important one is conflict between American and China. The author kept saying what would happen if the artist was live in China, espically the freedom of speech. 

4.
I think she may think that certain limit of freedom is necessary. She wright that she  think to the artist, it was too much  freedom that allow him to be secular.

5.
I think both of parts of the artist and the author wright about her childhood in China are realistic. I guess artists are usually emotional and sinical, and in a Communist China, the situation she decribes were probably happened. 

Chapter 2 - On Using Narration

A Fowl Trick to Play on a Lawn Tractor (not quiet understand...)
1.  she was curious about the trash compactor.

2.  he think the noise was came from the tractor because he had been regreat about buying that tractor for so long. he has prejudice.

3.   man and machine; man  and peahen; imagine and reality

4.  the relation between man and peahen ....

5. Do not be deceived by the surface.





Learning, then College

1. She mentioned that she made a decision to  take time off before college that changed her life forever

2. She didn't use a specific time point.

3. Using flashback shows that the writer is illustrating in her point of view, not just telling a story.

4. Explore the world before you devote your life to something else .

5. She told us that dision she made, gave her a different point of view which different to other people who didn't support her idea.