Jialin
Jialin graduated from high school in the United States and she has not attended college. She is interest in nursing career, but now she is working in a nail salon. She has been in the United States for four years, and studied English for four years. For her everything about English is difficult, but especially speaking. She prefers to write English than speak, and she likes to read a lot of English. Her goals for this semester are to learn more grammar and vocabulary. She also wants to pass the cat-w exam.
News
According to the New York Times, on Wednesday February 4 2015, thirty one people were killed in a Trans Asia crash. A lot of people in Taiwan voluntaries to help to find some people that are missing in the chilly river. Before the plane fell into the river the pilot, who died too, tried to look for help by speaking from the radio. In this crash, there were twenty people missing and fifteen that were injured. A person who was going in a car posted a horrible video online which catches the moment when the plane fell into the river.
"Why Are Children Becoming Obese"
Many children have a serious problem of becoming obese in recent years. There are many reasons why more and more children are becoming obese. First is that some kids eat a lot of junk food, and do not like to eat vegetables and things that are healthy. The second reason is that children not exercise and prefer to be sat and watched TV. The third is because of their parents eating habits. The last reason is that children that get enough sleep at night are the ones that do not have weight problems than those that never get and amount of sleep at night.
"Childhood Obesity"
Have you ever asked why children are becoming obese? Do you know what results a child with obesity has? Obesity is a serious problem that children have because of becoming overweight. Childhood obesity can cause joint problems, diabetes, high cholesterol and blood pressure. Children who are obese are likely to be obese as adults. The importance of preventing childhood obesity is a great idea because children have the risk to die. This essay will describe the proposed solutions to the problem of childhood obesity. Finally this essay will propose the best solution and explain its benefits.
The article “Local Governments Seek to Reduce Obesity in Kids,” States that lawmakers in Puerto Rico are considering a law that would fine the people of obese children. The law consists on fine five hundred dollars from each parent that have obese child to help the child with a diet and exercise plan. There were people that were against the law for many reasons. Rodriguez is part of the government and his law assumes that people who are obese can chose not to be. Nikhil Dhurandhar was against the law. He said that it was not easy for children because they do not know why they are obese. There are many of factors that can cause obesity including the environment in a mother’s womb, and too much or too little sleep. Rebecca Puhl also disagrees with the statement that Rodriguez stated. She said that childhood obesity is a very complex issue, and the home environment is important. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in teens during the past thirty years. The CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) also mentioned that Puerto Rico, in particular, has a childhood obesity rates of thirty percent, and the other country averages rate is about eighteen percent. Another person that disagrees with the law of Puerto Rico government was Ted Kyle. He said that people who suffer from obesity have a lower economic status. He also said that it was absurd to put fines on people who are suffering from their economic conditions. In the article of “Experts ‘Appalled’ ” obesity researchers think that the law of fine parents of obese children is unbelievable and unfair.
My classmates also have good ideas of how to prevent childhood obesity. My classmate Sharmin has a good solution of how to prevent childhood obesity. She said that improving the role modeling of parents eating habits could be helpful for children that are obese. She also mentioned that at home is the best way to start a healthy life. My other classmates Weihan and Jian Hui had the same thoughts. They said that the best way to prevent childhood obesity is by doing exercise every morning and sleeping the appropriate hours
I think that obesity is an illness that some people could have because of eating habits. Sometimes children could be obese because of the environment in a mother’s womb. I think that the best way to prevent childhood obesity is eating healthy, doing exercise every day, and trying not to eat a lot of junk food. The best way to make this happen is by going to a nutritionist that can help to prevent obesity because a nutritionist is going to say what kind of food is healthy for your body.
The article “Local Governments Seek to Reduce Obesity in Kids,” States that lawmakers in Puerto Rico are considering a law that would fine the people of obese children. The law consists on fine five hundred dollars from each parent that have obese child to help the child with a diet and exercise plan. There were people that were against the law for many reasons. Rodriguez is part of the government and his law assumes that people who are obese can chose not to be. Nikhil Dhurandhar was against the law. He said that it was not easy for children because they do not know why they are obese. There are many of factors that can cause obesity including the environment in a mother’s womb, and too much or too little sleep. Rebecca Puhl also disagrees with the statement that Rodriguez stated. She said that childhood obesity is a very complex issue, and the home environment is important. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in teens during the past thirty years. The CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) also mentioned that Puerto Rico, in particular, has a childhood obesity rates of thirty percent, and the other country averages rate is about eighteen percent. Another person that disagrees with the law of Puerto Rico government was Ted Kyle. He said that people who suffer from obesity have a lower economic status. He also said that it was absurd to put fines on people who are suffering from their economic conditions. In the article of “Experts ‘Appalled’ ” obesity researchers think that the law of fine parents of obese children is unbelievable and unfair.
My classmates also have good ideas of how to prevent childhood obesity. My classmate Sharmin has a good solution of how to prevent childhood obesity. She said that improving the role modeling of parents eating habits could be helpful for children that are obese. She also mentioned that at home is the best way to start a healthy life. My other classmates Weihan and Jian Hui had the same thoughts. They said that the best way to prevent childhood obesity is by doing exercise every morning and sleeping the appropriate hours
I think that obesity is an illness that some people could have because of eating habits. Sometimes children could be obese because of the environment in a mother’s womb. I think that the best way to prevent childhood obesity is eating healthy, doing exercise every day, and trying not to eat a lot of junk food. The best way to make this happen is by going to a nutritionist that can help to prevent obesity because a nutritionist is going to say what kind of food is healthy for your body.
"friendship"
Did you know that friendship is important in every human being? As we all know every person is different, and has different thinking. To have a great friendship includes trust, respect, unselfishness and helping each other. To have a friend in our lives is important because they help you when you have problems. To have a positive friendship with someone is nice, but we all know sometimes people have disagreements, and probably that can make a friendship break apart. There are many reasons that make a friendship to break apart.
One reason that a friendship can break apart is conflicts with a friend’s family. Sometimes people separate each other because the family of the friend doesn’t like him/her. For example, people have different style of dressing and sometimes the family of the friend thinks that he/she is going to be a bad influence for the daughter or son. In this case, parents just criticize the outside of a person, and don’t get to know that person. In my personal experience I faced that situation when I had a best friend that my mom did not like because she said that she looked too crazy, and that she was going to make me do bad things. That really affected our friendship because I had to be obedient and follow what my mother said to me. At first it was difficult because I was used to being with her in the school, but then I got used to being alone.
A second reason that a friendship can break apart is if a friend decides to move away and go to different country or state, and make new friends. As a result, his or her friends are often forgotten. When a friend moves to another country, this leads to a lack of communication. Sometimes at first they might talk but then little by little they forget each other. Usually when that happens both of the best friends get used to being around other people, and make new friends. The same situation happened to me when I came to New York, and I had to leave my friends in my country. I missed them so much at first, and we usually talked more before, but now we don’t talk at all. Now I get used to being without them because I have new friends. Still friends in this country are really different. For instance, I had a friend for like one year, then one day she acted like she didn’t know me. We have not spoken since that day. Sometimes, the memories of that friend hurt the most. Whether I am happy or sad about losing a friend in the end, I usually make new ones, but sometimes I do not. After all, I am my own best friend.
A third reason that a friendship can break apart is when two friends no longer have anything in common or do not like the choices one of them has made. For example if a friend makes the decision to take drugs or is spending too much time with a boyfriend or a girlfriend. In some friendship at friends have a variety of things in common, but then one friend gets bad influences by others friends’ bad habits. I’m lucky because that has never happened to me with my friends. I think that every person has the right to do whatever they like with their life. However, sometimes the mother of the friend might tell him/her to get apart from that friend because parents say that is a bad influence. Bad habits really damage a friendship because some people do not like to drink or consume drugs. That might really bother them. That is why a friendship gets apart, but somehow they are always in our heart.
In conclusion, to have a friendship is important to everybody, but sometimes people don’t appreciate what other people do for them. It is hard when a friendship ends, but it is better because you might not know that person well. Life gives you friends; it is our choice to decide who stays in our lives and who has to go out of our life.
One reason that a friendship can break apart is conflicts with a friend’s family. Sometimes people separate each other because the family of the friend doesn’t like him/her. For example, people have different style of dressing and sometimes the family of the friend thinks that he/she is going to be a bad influence for the daughter or son. In this case, parents just criticize the outside of a person, and don’t get to know that person. In my personal experience I faced that situation when I had a best friend that my mom did not like because she said that she looked too crazy, and that she was going to make me do bad things. That really affected our friendship because I had to be obedient and follow what my mother said to me. At first it was difficult because I was used to being with her in the school, but then I got used to being alone.
A second reason that a friendship can break apart is if a friend decides to move away and go to different country or state, and make new friends. As a result, his or her friends are often forgotten. When a friend moves to another country, this leads to a lack of communication. Sometimes at first they might talk but then little by little they forget each other. Usually when that happens both of the best friends get used to being around other people, and make new friends. The same situation happened to me when I came to New York, and I had to leave my friends in my country. I missed them so much at first, and we usually talked more before, but now we don’t talk at all. Now I get used to being without them because I have new friends. Still friends in this country are really different. For instance, I had a friend for like one year, then one day she acted like she didn’t know me. We have not spoken since that day. Sometimes, the memories of that friend hurt the most. Whether I am happy or sad about losing a friend in the end, I usually make new ones, but sometimes I do not. After all, I am my own best friend.
A third reason that a friendship can break apart is when two friends no longer have anything in common or do not like the choices one of them has made. For example if a friend makes the decision to take drugs or is spending too much time with a boyfriend or a girlfriend. In some friendship at friends have a variety of things in common, but then one friend gets bad influences by others friends’ bad habits. I’m lucky because that has never happened to me with my friends. I think that every person has the right to do whatever they like with their life. However, sometimes the mother of the friend might tell him/her to get apart from that friend because parents say that is a bad influence. Bad habits really damage a friendship because some people do not like to drink or consume drugs. That might really bother them. That is why a friendship gets apart, but somehow they are always in our heart.
In conclusion, to have a friendship is important to everybody, but sometimes people don’t appreciate what other people do for them. It is hard when a friendship ends, but it is better because you might not know that person well. Life gives you friends; it is our choice to decide who stays in our lives and who has to go out of our life.
"CAT-W Practice"
The CAT-W prompt passage is about researchers Charles Hillman and Georg Kuhn. There are some positive impacts of a small amount of aerobic activity. Charles Hillman said that past studies from the University of Illinois found that just 20 minutes of walking before the test raised children’s score. They still don’t have any evidence, but the researchers suspect that aerobic exercise is helpful for children to increase their test score. There are millions of eighteen year old boys that are in the army, and have a great fitness and they had the higher I.Q’s. the professor at the University of Gothenburg, Georg Kuhn said that there was no proof that exercise leads to a higher I.Q, but researchers suspect that produces specifics growth factors and proteins that stimulate the brain. I agree with Hillman and Kuhn because I think that exercise is not just to maintain your body, it is also to relax your brain and think in a different way. There is variety of reasons why children should exercise before taking a test.
One reason why children should exercise before taking a test is because running improved test score immediately. Researchers said that they have tried that and really improve test score. In addition, they said that they tried by doing 20 minutes exercise and 20 minutes playing video games. They said that playing video games did not raise children test score. I personally think that this is a good method for professors. I think that exercise is good for your health, but also helps to relax your mind and make you think clearly.
One reason why children should exercise before taking a test is because running improved test score immediately. Researchers said that they have tried that and really improve test score. In addition, they said that they tried by doing 20 minutes exercise and 20 minutes playing video games. They said that playing video games did not raise children test score. I personally think that this is a good method for professors. I think that exercise is good for your health, but also helps to relax your mind and make you think clearly.