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June 19, 2008

     about two weeks ago,the Chinese government finnally took measure to command the supermarkets to stop providing plastic bags to the customers free. So nowadays if we want to get a bag from the supermarket, we should pay 20 cents per bag,otherwise,without taking bag with ourselves,we have to take everything in our own hand back home which appearently is very very unconvenient. Before the proposal being put into practise, there were little warning about it. So I still remembered that day I went to a nearby supermarket and took many things to the cash desk only to be told that I had to took all these things without a bag if I didn't pay money for a bag. we need time to get used to this situation. But I think the Chinese government didn't do a good job on this thing. Maybe we should follow France.nowadays the French supermarkets als don't provide plastic bags to their customers. Several years ago, then the supermarkets are allowed to provide plastic bags while realizing that plastic stuff really did harm to our environment. So the supermarkets printed some words on every bags to the customers like"please care our earth and bring your own bags." The french government also shot some charity advertisment took some other measures to encourage the citizens to bring their own bags to the supermarkets. As time went, Frenches were used to taking bags to the malls and supermarkets by themselves. Then French government found that it was right time to take measure to command the suermarkets to stop providing plastic bags to the customers and the customers were not very suprised to it. Every thing was fine and went smoothly.

   In the field of public service, some developed coutries really do a great job which can be set as the example to others. So everytime we want to take some measures, we should consider whether it is scientific and humanistic. and it is actually a good way by following some good examples.In many cases,there are many other countries taking  measures in the similar fields before us but their measures seem to be very different. Some turn out to be sccessful but some failure. So we can compare them and study why some are so sccessful,what are their advantage and how they make differences on people's life. Then we can take some measures similar with them and have a good effect in our society.

   But there are also some other facts in China. China has the biggest population on the earth and the situations in different places are totally different. So it must be very very expensive to generally educate the citizens to realize somethings.There are 23 provinces and 4 municipalities in China. The situations in differnet areas are very different. In the field of public education,Chinese government have to take very different measures. In these areas, Internet would be perfect, and in those areas, TV advertisment maybe fine , and in several other areas, it is hard to find out a proper solution. the diversity of course can make it at high expense.

    So it is very tough to carry out a perfect proposal in China. And it seems that every time the government make a decision,he would encounter countless problems because it is really hard to satisfy 1.3 billions people at the same time.

June 8, 2008

   I get three days off because of the Chinese traditional day,
Dragon Boat Festival.And in these days,it rains heavily outside
so I spend all of my time on the internet,writting articles,
searching study related materials and chatting with my good
friends through the internet. It could be a leisure time for
me because I needn't deal with the a mass of homeworks and
the boring courses.But oppositely I feel very tired and sleepy
after sitting in front of the computer and google lots of
information all the day. I don't know why.It should be enjoyable,
isn't it? During the weekdays,I always dream of the time when
I can search online without any time limit.
   I begin to wonder the answer for this question. Maybe we are
not born to the internet although nowadays we are used to
living on the internet.we communicate with others through
MSN or Skype,we buy things on the websites and even we get
married with someone we meet on the social web. But we should
know that the nature of human beings are somehow against
internet and other kinds of machines.That is why we need
go outside to breathe the fresh air and take exercise with
our friends.And that is why we are always eagering to going
outside to appreciate the beautiful landscape and our lover
than other only sitting by computer and watching the vedioes.
    Our life is for the natural world outside.
    However,on the hand,we have to accept a reality that we
can't live without internet any more.The computers are not
a simple machine any more,it have become a very important
part in our life.we have put so much things on it and it is
a carrier of our passion and emotion. For example,I meet so
many friends in englishbaby and we exchage our MSN adress or
other contact. If I don't chat with my friends throughout
the days,I would be mad of course.And internet have become
my best way to study english and learn the international culture.
I have to say that I love internet very much and I learn so much
things on it.But I should also spend more time to go outside
to see what happen in the reality.

11:00 PM Jun 09 2008

fathma

fathma
Taiwan

I suppose that you could see what happen in the reality and save much time by way of Internet too.Laughing

June 5, 2008

 Microsoft is absolutely a excellent company.Its inventions and products make our life much more convenient than before.The Windows system,the MS office.We can't simply live without its products.  But in my eyes,one of MS's products is so terrible to us. It is Power Point. So please let me ask you a question,in your calssrooms or meeting rooms,do the teachers or the orator give speeches with PPTs behid them and do the contents in the PPTs attract you? Please give me the honest answer.                                                                                     

      OK,at least in my eyes,most of the speeches with PPTs turn out to be failure.In my classes,my teacher use the PPTs to teach students and almost write nothing on the blackboard throughout the classes. His courses turn out to be boring and little students listen to him because the formulas and the words in the PPTs just can't attract the students' eyes. The classes aren't  totally active and we students just stare at the PPTs and our brains are blank.

     In human's history,there were lots of famous public speeches but almost none of them was with PPTs. The orator himself should be to focus but not the contents in PPTs. He or she should use their enthusiasm,their passion and sometimes their humour to attract the audiences instead force the audiences pay attention on the plain and boring PPTs.

    Maybe you would say that nowadays the orators can't give speeches without PPTs behind them because they can help the orators much more easily to make themselves understood. In some ways,it is true.So we should begin the consider a question that what we can  post in the PPTs and what we shouldn't. As to this question.My suggestion is we can post some necessary pictures in the PPTs but we should delete the long-winded descriptions and comments which can simply destroy your performences.

    In a successful speech,the orator must be who can successfully make himself attracted and make the performence interactive.