part time job before adult life

I choose to write something about the part time job before adult life as my final blog, hope everyone can like it.

With the rapid development of economy, people’s living standard is growing steady, so children are faced with new opportunities and challenges. How to help children ready for adult life draws public attention. It is universally acknowledged that parents should not let their children do the part time job. Admittedly, if children do the part time jobs, their time of doing homework will be reduced, may be this will affect their study. These people insisting on this point, nonetheless, fail to aware that parents should let their children to do the homework in order to get ready for their adult life.

It should be underscored that this will enrich children’s social experience. To be specific, after doing the part time job, children will gradually adopt the life of adult. A case in the point is that, my uncle’s son, he was asked to do the part time job at the age of ten. Three years after, however, he became accustomed to do this. Nowadays, he can deal with everything such as renting the housing by himself, earning money by doing the job of tutor, and traveling to some place by himself very well. Therefore, it is clear that doing the part time job will enrich children’s social experience.

Based on the reasons and examples mentioned above, it is clear that letting children do part time work is really help to them to get ready for adult life.

SNOW

Snow is a common natural phenomenon in circumpolar latitude region . Because of the cold weather in winter, snow forms in the atmosphere. The water in the atmosphere get together and forms into very small droplet. As these droplets become bigger and bigger, the atmosphere cannot hold their weight and the droplets begin falling down from the sky. Cold weather freezes these small babies into crystal. If you have a close-up view of these small things, you will recognize that every of them have a different, complicated and regular shape. It is because the temperature and surrounding water vapor content is various.

there are many interesting stories about snow and me. When I was a child, my father always makes a snow slide for me in the back garden of my grandmother’s.  Actually, not only my father makes, but also I and my sister. My hometown is in the northeast of China, so the winter is extremely cold. One snow slide can easily last for the whole winter.  We also enlarge the snow slide after each snow. The slides are different in every winter, different in shape, different in size and different in location. That was really the most enjoyable thing in the winter

In human’s mind, the snow always represents pure, peaceful and sometimes give us a feeling of sadness. People like snow in different reason. Some individuals love snow because it can make the world quiet. They hate noises. Someone loves it for giving us a lot of fun, such as skiing and making slides like me. Even a few people like it just because they like cold weather. Snow is like a pretty melting girl. It, however, sometimes becomes a horrific evil. It brings countless of disasters to the world. Snow disasters destroy the house and the power unit. It creates a huge number of economy losses every year.

My favorite Dog Wangwang

I write a blog about my dear dogs, I hope everyone can like it!

It has been two months since I came to Virginia tech. I miss my family very much especially my pet dog Wangwang.  The big boy dog with white straight hair has stayed with me for two years. During the period Wangwang stayed with me, I never felt lonely and looked it as my best friend, even a family member. However, two years ago, Wangwang was my aunt’s treasure. The first time I met it is a forever memory in my whole life.

One day in the summer holiday, I was playing the interesting online game, the World of War Craft, as usual. Suddenly, the door alarm was ringing, and I heard my mother’s exciting voice ‘ Chris, your aunt comes with a lovely dog.’ I logged out the game instantly and ran out of the room. The first sight of the dog made me out of control. It twinkled its big bright eyes and shook its white head. It seemed that Wangwang smiled at me and it loves me very much. My aunt said that she would travel to Hainan, so she wanted my family to look after her treasure, Wangwang. Certainly, we agreed with a pleasure mood. The following days we spent together were happy and we slept together. As time going, my aunt came back and missed her dog very much. But what surprising all of us is that Wangwang cried! Each time my aunt tried to leave, it was struggling to my embrace. Consequently, my aunt gave up and told me Wangwang belonged to me.

In these two years, it is an alarm that jumps over my face and wakes me up every morning. It is a rubbish bin that listen my sad and furious experience. It is a toy that plays with me. Now, I miss Wangwang.

soccer

 Soccer, a worldwide sports with high requirement of team work, is also a combination of speed and power.This is why I love soccer. I love running on the green ground,especially with a cool but shiny weather. I start my soccer career when I was in primary school. But I can hardly remember any interesting things about it.The most exiting thing happen in the middle school is my class team took the crown on the school championship. I was the left forward in my team.  I can clearly remember the last match. Our class against Class 8, the strongest team in our grade.  Everyone felt sperturbed in that match.  we tried our best on defensing and prolong the time. At last, we won after the penalty shootout. I love the team Chelsea, because its my team cloth in my class.

Luckily in the high school, my class team also won the crown, not only in our grade, but also in the whole school. The most exciting thing is, I have goals in most of the matches.we had an excellent team work and easily got NO.1 in the champion ship. Our team took a funny group photo before we graduated.

I was very happy after knowing many friends of mine from different country love soccer. I bought new shoes and clothes and enjoyed playing soccer with my friends. However, I did not play very well. My friends are all very skillful and stronger than me. I need to practice myself in both speed and skill. More important, teamwork is always the key to win. 

Dance with Emotion

     After watching the dance performance of those excellent dancers, I feel the magic and attraction of the dance world. The dance performance, lighting and costumes blend seamlessly into a performance as aesthetically and emotionally engaging as it is fascinating. All the dances are look like telling stories. In terms of genre, Mark Morris Dance Group’s “Jenn and Spencer” and Alvin Ailey Dance Company’s “Wade in the water” all belong to the contemporary modern dance. However, I can find some elements of ballet. As we all know, Dance is usually performed with emotion. In comparison, the emotions on these two works are different. Let us talk about the Mark Morris Dance Group’s “Jenn and Spencer” which with the sad emotion first.

            “Jenn and Spencer” is performed by a girl and a boy who look like couples. Thus, I take this dance as a loving story. At the beginning, they dance in the same symmetry action. Their gentle movements carry the strong emotions which show the entangled but happy time. Sometimes, they are closed to each other; sometimes, they are far. Two people are eager to close but not possible, so they can just hug for a short time in such a tragic dance conflict. Different music should be combined with different dance and different emotion in different periods. In the second part of “Jenn and Spencer”, the girl dances as an elegant sculpture while the boy dances around her, which show that he adores her as a goddess. Under the girl’s proud and the boy’s doting on her, the girl makes the movement of flying on his feet. Then, their movements are exchanged: the girl walks, runs, and dances around the boy. However, they are struggled rather than happy. They just use modern dance’s technology “from falling down to climbing up” and “from tense movements to relax movements” to performance their struggle process in their hearts. Only by these movements, we can see the tragic aesthetic image. In the third part, the pas DE deux changes to the solo with lively emotion. The change in dances expresses that they are independent but still happy in love. The movements in the fourth part are together and slow. They passed their passion stage and can walk together to the future. Unfortunately, the ending is not beautifully as our expectations. The girl abandons the boy and runs away.

Tragic problem actually focuses on the ambivalence inside, so the key to a successful dance performance is whether the dancers can create a series of exciting dances (especially the pas DE deux) in the critical moment which can impulse the story’s development.

            Alvin Ailey Dance Company’s “Wade in the water” is an energetic dance in a happy emotion. The water is flowing gently, so the dancers use the movement of writhe to show the beauty of the lines. The dancers writhe and shake their heads, waist, and arms. From the dance performance, we are likely to see the change in water velocity. In addition, the “water” leads the dancers to the same movement. The white costumes and the blue ribbon bring the audience to a real water world. The blue ribbons look like the water, while white dresses are like some spoondrifts. The whole scene on the stage is full of the modern dance’s aesthetic energy.  The dance movements are Majestic but full of tension. The infinite energy is hidden in every seemingly light action which leads audiences to feeling the beauty of body and power. We are likely to immerse in the atmosphere of religious devotion. 

            The Alvin Ailey Dance Group absorbs a huge amount of the dance elements of the traditional South American spirit dance. In that way, the performance brings the special happy scene to the audience. Meanwhile, it integrates the contemporary modern dance style and ballet which show the beauty of both dance lines and powers.

           

Unconventional medicine

There are many examples of unconventional or alternative medicine. I have knowledge of a few. One is acupuncture, it is a traditional Chinese cure of various illness. It is about injecting thin needles into the body and it has many benefits for the body. It could cure many things, including illness, pain, inches, etc. For example, one person has back pain, and he requests a doctor performing acupuncture on him, he could feel the needles on his back but it is not painful, this is the mystery of acupuncture, even though there are needles, they are not painful. Another example is gua sha, which is scrap away fever or disease in Chinese meaning. Gua sha is a traditional way to cure many things such as pain or illness. It is done by making a little bit forceful stroke on the skin and leave marks on skin, the marks are from the forceful strokes, and this is to let illness or disease to go away. Another example is herbalism in tea, it is amazing that some tea leaves have many benefits to the body, and if one drinks tea daily, he could maintain healthy without much effort. Such as green tea, which is said to improve metabolism and gives energy. The reasons as to why tea herbs help the body is a mystery. There are many other examples, overall, a good number of unconventional medicine is very good for health. 

I had a personal experience with unconventional medicine. When I was a child, I had a eating disorder. I did not like most food, I do not remember exactly what happened but I had a difficult time swallow food because I had no appetite. Then my parent found a Chinese doctor to help me. He pushed my stomach by concentrating on specific points on the body, I didn't know how he had done that, but only one push, I felt much better. The result was that my appetite improved, and I had a much easier time eating food. I think he concentrated on specific points on the body, similar to acupuncture, the points on the body are connected, so pain in one area could cause problems in other areas, also, cure in one area could have positive effects on other areas. This is only my experience, I am sure there are many experiences of other people with unconventional medicine. My opinion is that unconventional medicine might not be highly regarded among health professionals, but they should be more accepted among the general public. Sometimes people have to be open minded and try new things, once they have tried, they can decided whether it is good for them or not. Most unconventional medicine are harmless and worth the try

What can make a public place more appealing?

I still searched a topic on the internet and then wrote this essay for it. Hope everyone like it.

What can make a public place more appealing? I think different readers may have different understanding about it. In my opinion, restaurant and culture are the important facts that can make a public place more appealing.

The most appealing public place in my country is Xinhai Park, and it is famous for its restaurants. Dalian is famous for its seafood, as well as Xinhai Park. There are a lot of seafood restaurants in Xinhai Park, people like eating different kinds of seafood in this restaurant, such like oyster, lobster and shrimp. They like eating seafood without cooking; what is more, they’d like to eat them with mustard, they are delicious and popular. It is a special place that has a lot of restaurants just support seafood without cooking. A lot of people from different place are attractive by its seafood restaurants and come there to have a taste. In conclusion, Xinhai Park is famous for its restaurants and this special characteristic really make Xinhai Park more appealing than other public place; it will be useful if other public place can have their own special restaurants.

Another reason that makes Xinhai Park more appealing is because of its culture. Xinhai Park was built by Dalian government in 1959. Additionally, there is a magnificent book statue in the center of the park, and there are 2000 footprints in that book, which means that there were 1000 martyrs took part in Dalian Independent War, and helped our citizens won this war. In my own judgment, this is a great culture which will always tell our next generation how difficult to get a better life in our modern society; so that our generation will cherish their lives and make their own efforts to develop our country, our world. To sum up, if a public place has some cultures like Xinhai Park, it will be more appealing for tourists.

In summary, Xinhai Park is an appealing place because of special restaurants and attractive culture. However, Xinhai Park has a big problem as well; there hardly has enough parking place for tourists. In my perspective, Xinhai Park should provide more space for tourists to park their vehicle, and it will be getting more and more appealing.