Response Summary

In the article Gay Couple Adopting Child by Angela (http://www.echeat.com/essay.php?t=26502), the author suggests that gay couples shouldn’t adopt children. She says gay couples adoption will create an ambiguous gender identified environment to their adopted children and probably causes children’s misunderstanding of tradition social values. In addition, author suggests gay parents are abnormal and immortal which will probably lead to discrimination and bully from heterosexual parents raised children. On the other hand, author points out the religious views of gay adoption, the author claims” Many religions and cultural practices term homosexuality as a crime.” ,“ A neighborhood with such an environment will pile up discrimination and pressure on the gay parents and the children.” and thinks gay couples will stay away from religious practices and social events. To sum up, the author strongly recommands that gay couples are parentally unsuitable. In my opnion, the views of the author in this article are too arbitrary. Her views content a preconcieved discrimination toward not only moral standard of queer couples, but also upbringing capability and donation love toward their children, which are unfair. As a matter of fact, every two in love with each other should have the right to form a family, including gay couples. Why their affection should be questiond? Hence they have their rights to form a family, then they should have all rights and be able to compose their family with all elements a family should have, which include children. I believe gay couples should have legally certificated with their children adoptions if they want to. After all, as the most constitution of demorcracy government claims that everyone is born equal and should have their rights to pesue their happiness.

Spring Vacation !!!

Ha~here comes the spring vacation! I have plenty of plan. First, I am going to go to Kenting. It has been quite a long time since I went to Kenting last time. There is big series of rock'n roll and music concert which hold during spring vacation. Although it costs a lot of money. I still think it worth to go there and have a fun. It's spring time, after all. Everybody deserves a good time and good start at the first season of a year. Fortunately, we have a whole week vacation which allow me to do some arrangement without worrying about schedule. I wish I could have fun there. Actually, I think I will. I get some friends who are going there, too. Furthermore, they hold a party there. Isn't it sound great!? The only thing I woeey about is to get back Taichung on time so that I won't miss the classes next Monday. Ha! I cannot help but exciting. This is the biggest annual music activities in south of Taiwan. It attracts hundreds of thousands of people to visit Kenting during spring vacation. People who love rock'n roll, people who seek for fun, or people who just wanna see some chicks in BIKINI hanging around the lovely south Taiwan beach. NO matter what is your reason to come to Kenting. Make sure you are ready to have a big big fun
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Learn with Efficiency (ESSAY)

In the article “College Lecture: Is Anybody Listening?” by David Daniels presents a common situation takes place in colleges in the United States. According to the author, he declaims that the lecture system is one of the reason lead to the lack of both basic skill and general culture of college graduates. For example, as the author’s words in the article, “Lecture is easier on everyone. Professors can pretend to teach by lecturing just as students can pretend to learn by attending lecture.” The author through the example by his own college experiment and an imaginary figure of a freshman who is called Mary to presents the severe problem between teaching and learning on a lecture class. He also says that the one problem of lecture is to pay attention. He points out that between plain voices of professors; there is a time lag between speech and comprehension which burns out the concentration of students. On the other hand, the author says lecture also harms professors. It makes professors’ teaching feedback minimum because of lecture classes can neither judge how well students understand the material nor benefit from their comprehension. However, author admits that the lecture system won’t disappear in university because it has economically necessary. That is true, but in my opinion, I believe there are some ways for us, as a college student, to learn efficiently.
First of all, I believe the pre-prepared before the class and to digest after the class is necessary, which is so-called preview and review. Preview and review can make you get good control of material and to shorten your comprehension time compared with those very first listeners. On the other hand, preview and review will reduce pressures of mid-term or final exam. Studying once a few materials at one time will much more easier than large amount of them when exam comes. For instance, I remembered there were several times I experimental try to preview material which will teach in next class and it really helped me a lot. One time I even forgot to bring my text book with me to the class but I did preview at home. To my astonishment, I could still understand what teacher said. As the significance of review need not to mention, everybody knows that it is the most important and most efficient way to get good picture of what you are studying. The good efforts of preview and review will reflect on your score on the exam. ]
Second, after you have spent time on previewing before classes, you can’t just sit there and do nothing in the classes. Therefore, my next method to learn efficiently is the note taking. I believe that you can even don’t bring text book to the classes but make sure you bring some blank papers and pen with you. Sometimes the notes on the classes are more useful than any other materials when you are going to prepare the exam. I had some experiences of browsing through the notes which I took on the classes of some subjects then go straight to the test because the lack of time. Although I didn’t get really high score, I had general ideas about the material of the test. On the other hand, note taking not only help you to deal with the exams, but help you keep concentrate and awake in the classes. The point is, if you keep writing something on the classes then you will not lose attention easily and give you no time for daydreaming or nodding off. However, there are particular ways to take a note. It is important to take a note with layer. You can’t just write down whatever you listen. First, you have no time for that. Second, it will make your note as an alien writing which even can’t read by alien. As a result, make sure you getting the title and extending the contents with layer are the better way to take note.
Last but not least, raise your hand for question! Asking questions will make you get even better comprehension because you can never ask penetrating questions about something unless you get the basic ideas about it. As a result, asking questions becomes an assay for both you and the lecturer. After you give a penetrating question, the lecturer has to use his/her specialty to answer. In addition, it is a timely way to solve your problems when you do previewing or note taking. On the other hand, asking questions is also a way to express your individuality which can impress your teachers and classmates. Like I remembered when I was at junior high, classmates in my class wouldn’t afraid of asking questions at that time. In the matter of fact, our teachers encouraged us to do so. It sometimes even became a debate between students and teachers. This kind of situation helped me a lot with my creativity, organization abilities and judgmental abilities.
The truth is that lecture classes cannot be changed in college, but there are still methods to help you to get more efficiencies at these courses. Through the three steps I mention above. I believe even the lecture classes which are criticized by the author in the article” College Lecture: Is Anybody Listening?” can give some useful knowledge to students and serve its utility.