Journal 12: Your First Source

Giles, J. (2006). Water crisis happening now. Nature News, . http://xerxes.calstate.edu.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/fullerton/metasearch/record group=001790&resultSet=050255&startRecord=9

Jim Giles is a reporter for the San Francisco bureau of new scientiest. He writes about science, politics and the environment. He point out there is a team analysis that water crisis would not arrive until 2025, it is happening now. Hundreds of scientists from more than 100 different institutions contributed to the study. There are many countries especially Africa are have series water crisis problems. One-third of people are living with water crisis in the world. I want to find out how serious they are and what is happening with water shortage.

Journal 11: Research Question

I choose water shortage as my topic for this research paper. The motivation that I want to choose this topic is I was so shocked after I saw a grogram about the water shortage in Kenya.

Honestly, I did not realize that water crisis is such serious in some countries. Also, there are many people can not drink clean water in the world. Their dream is to drink clean water and far from desease while we have many water waste in many cities. Also, because of water crisis in this areas, it caused social problems like crims of woman and children. For most of them, they need to go a long way sometimes a day to get water which is gray water. It is really hard to imagine.

I want to write a research paper about it that many people can pay attention on it. Think about those poor people, think about our future life, I think at least we should learn to save water.

bomison & tara

Journal #10: Advice

We may receive many kinds of advices from friends, teachers, and parents in our life. Before I come to USA, the most advice from my parents and friends are safety and healthy.

I know why they so concern about it. As we know, gun is legal in USA. Also, we see many news about gun abuse in American schools and public place. Some people protest gun control in USA. I think it is really a serious problems in USA. As a result, they gave me many advices about it. For example, do not go somewhere alone, be ready to go outside with friends; and better do not go out at night. I think what they concern it nessary. I have a friend in San Francisco, his car was robbed by a blank guy with gun. In my country, I seldom can hear about crime with gun that happening around me. But in USA, it is really happening. I think their concern is right and I do not want them too worry about me. I try to follow their advices. So after I came to America, I try my best to go out with someone else and do not go out alone at night. For the healthy, I think that is important for all of us. Without healthy body we can not do anything. We can not study or work. So health is important for us.

I think if you can receive an advice from your friends or anyone else, it means they care about you and concern of you. So for me, I like hearing the advice from friends and parents or elder people.


sireesha & sherry

Journal 9: American Food

When we talk about American food, the first thing people think about is hamburger and pizza which are fast food. And people always think that American food is bad for health.

I think the American have many people from other countries and immigrants, so there are many kinds of food not only the hamburgers. But I think most Americans like eat fast food. They are easy and quick. The reason that people like to eat fast food is people are so busy and they have many stress. As the American style, people always say “time is money”, so they work hard and busy. They do not have many times to make food. For truly, I just realize that make food is really a complicated thing after I come to the America. American food also has other food like steak, too. But compare to the food in my country, food in America are either too sweet, or too salt. It should take time to accept it. The supersizing thing is that I found the snake here are also either too sweet, or too salt.

China has an idiom that said if you go into a town be accustomed to it. Now I am better to eat American food.


Lien & Sherry

Journal 8: Optimistic Quote

Winston Churchill said “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty ". I think it is really good words to express the attitude when people facing the problems. It means when you facing bad things, you should thinking positive aspect; if you seek for the bad in every thing, then you would never know what it feels like to discover the good.

I believe that when you thinking thing positively, you can see many other good things that around you and you can see many new things which can give you more opportunities. I think more opportunities means you do not far from the success. Also, I think thinking positively can make people happy. When people is happy, the things what you do may solve better and also well for your health. Optimist is the one who looks on the bright side of things, or takes hopeful views and opposite is pessimist. I think pessimist thinking the things in a strange and wrong way. There are many suicide happened with the person who have the emotion of deep pessimistic. For me, I can not say I am an optimist, but I try to be an optimist. I try to thinking optimistically. But it is not an easy thing to think every thing optimistically.

All in all, not only we should have healthy body, but also we should have healthy psychology. Let us thinking positively and be a optimist.

Sherry & Vive