I have been told a thousand times to study hard in order to get a good job in the future since I was a child. Working is such a nature thing that it seems everybody must to, so it is rare of us to think about the reasons. Why do people work? For money, of course. Only for money? Definitely not. In the article “Work and Labor”, Lgor Shchegolev references the three conceptions of work that people labor as a way to exist, a way to improve one’s level of life, or a moral necessity. Some people work because the interest that they don’t want to work from the heart. Some people work because the interests that they work without consider morals or money. The author believes it is important to understand big differences between work and labor, and the combination of work and labor improved our world. In this essay, I will analyze the reason for people work or labor. I agree with the author’s opinion; to sum up, I think the reason for people to work are to make a living, to achieve their own values, and to prove their existence. We need to follow the rules to live in this society that we need money to trade for things to live. How much money we have directly decides how high quality of material lives we can access. Some people consider the slavery the most when they choose their jobs. They may choose a job they are not into at all, just because they feel satisfied with the slavery. It doesn’t mean they are not working hard. They have the ability to separate work from their lives that they may still diligent in their work for they can earn much more money in order to do what they like after they finished working. Some of them use the money they saved to make their dream come true, such as travel the world or move to a better place and so on. The rest of people who work for money may have a low education, under pressure by poor economic status or taking the responsibility of their families. In addition, people nowadays also pay more attention to the benefits and the pension when they choose a job. They work not only to make a living in present, also for the future when they get retired. In order for them to enjoy their rest of lives without working but adequate money for materials. There are two ways for people to work to achieve their own values. One way is people work for their interests. Lgor Shchegolev states in his essay that a job interested by a person made his existence more existing and gave meaning to his life. This kind of people sees their job as their lives that they work spontaneously. Their jobs are usually creative or pioneering. Artist can be a good example for it. The greatest Dutch painting master, Rembrandt Harmenszo created more than 600 pieces of oil paintings and more than 2000 pieces of drawings of his life. Even at the time his innovative technique wasn’t praised by nobles led him became penniless and frustrated; he didn’t stop painting and insist to his own idea. Another point I want to talk about from Deniel Yankelovich’s three conceptions of work what Shchegolev cited in his essay is moral necessity. People are social animals that work is the most important connections of people to the society. Work gives the chance for people to master indeed social skills to get along and cooperated with others. That is why people think work is necessary for everyone’s life. There are also many people who do not work either for everything I mentioned above, instead, they work only for killing times. It often appeared on people who may feel boring after they get retire. Last Sunday I saw a research discovered that many elders who do not or lost their spouse start their lives after retired that staying alone at home but nothing to do became depressed. They once
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People who have a high I.Q. are considered smart and intelligent. Everyone dreams of being smart. The I.Q. seems to stabiles and be decided when we born. Will you feel ambitious if we have opportunity to make our I.Q. higher, which means everyone can be smarter? According to the article, some past studies from University of Illinois analyzed about children can improve their I.Q. by doing aerobics activities. Another study shows that children who are fitter tend to have higher I.Q. then other children. In addition, researchers suspect that only aerobic exercises, like running, swimming stimulate the brain, and make children’s I.Q. higher, but other exercises are helpless for that. Though this is an exciting study result, it still needs more evidence to prove, but I think we should do exercises instead play video games anyway, whatever it can increase our I.Q. or not.
There are no argue that excises are good for our health, keep our shapes, reduce our stress and so on. There are lots of people go to gym regularly or do exercises in the park. Aerobic exercises have many advantages more than strength trainings, which are mostly seen in gyms. Aerobic exercises are fit for almost everyone because it is not powerful as the strength trainings. People won’t feel as tired as strength training after doing aerobic exercises. Children can do it to help growing or perhaps increase their I.Q. Women can do it to maintain healthy and keep their shapes. Men also can do it when they feel tired of they would like to try something different. The experiment introduced in the article explains how different affections happen on teenagers after they did aerobic exercises or play videos for 20 minutes. The result came out that aerobic exercises increased their test scores immediately, which of people who played videos are not. It is easy to get the conclusion that doing aerobic exercises are better for teenagers’ brain than playing videos. The explanation of the result is aerobic exercises let people using more body muscles, which are not allowed when they seating in front of the computer to play video games. In conclusion, aerobic exercises always bring us benefits. Therefore, no matter it can help us increase our I.Q. or not, it is always a smart choice to do it. Friendship is as important and indispensable as kinship and love, these three traits are important for our spiritual wellbeing. We rely on our friends. Friends always warm us, keep us company and give us advice. We want an endless friendship as we all desire long lasting love. To know the essential reasons that break apart two friends can help us improve ourselves to maintain long friendships, and also recognize what kind of people are not our real fiends that to get rid of hopeless friendships. In the article “The Friendship Bond”, the author Parlee states the two most crucial things to build friendships are trust and acceptance, and to be open with and trust one another make friendships deeper as well. He finds from a survey that loyalty and the ability to keep secrets are also crucial elements in friendships. Though I strongly agree with Parlee’s conclusion that people end their friendship when they feel betrayed, and if their friends have different opinion on one thing, I think selfishness is another crucial reason. People who are disloyal will not have a long lasting friendship. A disloyal person easily betrays their friends that they cannot be trusted. They can tell your secrets to someone else, talk bad behind your back, and even take away your girlfriend or boyfriend. We live in this world and improve society by our cooperation. How could it works without trust? Friends who are disloyal always pretend to be your friends. They smile at you and encourage you when face to face; they talk bad immediately when behind your back. If you have any friend like talk about others’ bad things or secrets, your mind should be on the alert that you might meet a backstabber. As the saying goes, “Birds of a feather flock together.” People easily make friends if they have some shared interests. On the other hand, friends easily break apart because they have different opinions. It reminds me about my friend Penny who are out of touch now. Penny was my classmate and also my best friend when we were in elementary school. We talked and laughed, had fun and shared secrets. We stuck together every break time between the classes; we played and did homework in each other’s home after school. We had once lost contact after I graduated from the elementary school and moved to another city with my family. After almost 10 years, we found each other through the Internet. We were both excited to reunion with the best childhood friend. It is a pity that time changed us; we do not have same interests any more. The meeting of the reunion was full of awkwardly silence. We automatically never contact each other again after that, though we have each other’s number. People easily become friends when they experience same things, but this kind of friends easily to break apart because lack of same interests. Selfishness makes people hard to get along with, especially to their friends. One kind of selfish people tend to be fair weather. In other words, they only contact you when they need help, and you will find they are hard to contact with when you are in trouble. They like take advantages of friends and never give back. However, some of them give aid to their friends with ulterior motives. They ask you to remember their aid and expect you to give return in the future. They choose friends by valuing people based on what they can get from him or her. Once they think you are useless that they cannot take advantage of you anymore, they will leave you without hesitation. Another kind of selfish people are egotistic. They like to compare themselves with their friends, and they tend to make friends with people who they thought have lower social value. They believes themselves are smarter and could not be wrong, thus they like to be the leader to guide their friends. They give up a friendship when they feel inferiority by finding the friend of them is actually better than them. By the time you finish reading this essay, you should understand the causes break apart two friends are disloyalty, selfishness and different interests or opinions. If you are cherish your friendship, I hope you are not the kind of person I mentioned in all of the above. Furthermore, to have a pleased friendship, you would be better to keep away from those kinds of people. It's always discussed in a two-people-relationship that who love more deeply, and I will say the answer is definitely women. Emotional, sensitive and perceptual are always described women. Men usually be considered careless, rational and crude.Women are more meticulous than men in many situations, so they have much more feelings and tend to care much more about their relationships. The social status of women is much lower than men for a long time in the history. The main ideology for women that they must be loyal to only one man for their whole lives. In the last century, devoice could be a devastating affection for the rest lifetime of a woman. The irony is that not even a man ever was criticized by him treated his wife or after he got divorced. It was also common that a man has many wives at that time. Worse still are some countries keep this unfair custom. Women also be taught to devote to the family after they got married since long time before. They are required to take care of the children and housework of their family. However, men are asked to go out to work to help with the family expenses. Furthermore, women are to be wished by their parents to have a good marriage and a happy family to fulfill their lives. On the other hand, men carry expectations of their family, such as complete parents' unrealized career or take over the family business. They are usually ambitious about their business or achieve their own value by making improvements to the world or human beings. In a word, all these legacy perceptions of history and general ideas of modern society influence on women more or less to love more deeply than men.
In my point of view, the oldest child seems to have the most difficult life when he grows up. The article “Born for Each Other” reveals the oldest tends to be self-assured, responsible, a high achiever, reserved, and strict. To demonstrate how these personality traits lead him to have the most difficult life, I will focus on his reserve, strictness, and strong sense of responsibility. “He may become a perfectionist and worrier who find it difficult to take criticism or tolerate others’ mistakes, and he may be slow to make friends, perhaps content with only one companion” according to the article “Born for Each Other.” People who are reserved tend to build barriers to impede the communication with others, which makes it hard for others to detect what they think and what they feel. Additionally, strict people can do a perfect job, but they may not be perfect in interpersonal relations. They always make people uncomfortable. On the other hand, to endure other’s imperfection make them feel frustrated as well. People who don’t have any friends are miserable and difficult to live with. Furthermore, the life of the oldest child can be difficult because he worries too much about others. The responsibility of the oldest child is first developed when he becomes parental to his younger siblings. The oldest child believes he is better in many situations than others. For this reason, he tends to be anxious because he carries too much unnecessary burden from others. He also can be tired because he thinks he needs to do everything by himself. In addition, his headstrong attitude may hurt himself when people don’t listen and follow him.
Everybody wants live a happy life. Will it be easier for us to be happy if we know the keys to reach it? The movie “Happy” by Roko Belic is about scientists find ways to measure happiness and discover why the happy people feel happy. “Happiness is 50% genetic, 10% Circumstances, and 40% intentional activity,” said in the movie. The quote reveals there are three major components are responsible for how people live with happiness. The genetic means what we get from our parents as the time we were born. The appearance and parts of our personalities are the perfect examples for the genetic facts, what affect us to be an optimist person or a pessimistic person. The genetic means the environments we are in. Where are we, our economic status, and the things happen on us which we can’t choose are considered the circumstances facts. The intentional activity is something we do by our wishes. It is the only thing we can choose though the three components. This essay will analysis the claim through some research and personal experiences, finally inspire the readers to live with happiness.
The three keys lead to a happy life can be reflected on Susan, who wrote the book “Until I Say Goodbye.” In the book, Susan got ALS when she was forty years old. ALS is a deadly disease and no cure. She wrote the book to record her last year live with joy, and show her strong and fearless to her disease to every reader. I believe Susan will agree with the quote of the movie. According to her book, she didn’t have a happy childhood because she was adopted by a family, which of the mother is care about her appearance. Susan’s step mother always makes fun on her because Susan wasn’t beautiful as her. She said in her book that she wanted her biologic mother to take her out from that family when she was fourteen. The facts Susan realized that she got ALS is the circumstances affected her happiness. She was shocked and scared at the first several months the ALS came on her. Her happy life once turned drastically to be hopeless. She quit her love job with tears because of her sickness. But soon she decided to live with joy in her limit days and write a book. Her choices are the intentional activities, what made her feel happy again. She made and followed her bucket list, such as had trips with her best friend to see the northern light, too see one of her daughter wear a wedding dress, and so on. She talked to her husband about how to die. Building memories with her family and friends and the book made Susan happy and fulfilled. In Susan’s case, the genetic is important when she was young. Although sometimes the circumstance affected she live in happy, she still can back to her happiness by her intentional activities. Base on my own experiences, I partly agree with the quote. I will not argue the three components of being happy, but I think the percentage of the claim is not stabilized, which can be changed in different periods of our lives. I was born and raised in a normal Chinese family. I inherit normal look and normal personalities from my parents. My childhood was happy but little bit boring, everything was kept on the rails. I stepped on my life path by the guilds of my parents that I did not have much choices by myself. My parents decided where I live, what I eat, and what kind of behaviors I should have. Now I look back, genetic and circumstance played important roles in my childhood. As the time I grew up, my parents considered me as adult and respect my decisions. Some of my personalities changed as well. I started accept some food which I hate before, and my parents no longer to force me to eat what I still hate but they think good for my health. Genetic works less and less on my happiness, instead are more and more intentional activities. My life had a big change since I moved to New York with my family two years ago. I was out my comfortable zone and lost my friends. My life suddenly became uneasy and lonely. Fortunately, People are flexible to acclimatize themselves and go over the bad situations. We have the ability to adjust ourselves and seek bright side of the circumstances to get used to it. These intentional activities make us strong to handle the changes of our lives. After I went to school and work a part-time job, I have new friends and acquainted with this city. Life in here turned easier and happier. Intentional activity is the most important key to leading a happy life when we grow up. I will do many intentional activities to approach my goals and satisfied myself in the future. My long term goals are find a love job and have a blissful family. To avoid no permanent gain in happiness, I rather choose a job I really in to it, no matter how is the salary. Besides, it’s all known when we focus on the things we like, we forget everything else, include time and bad things. To finish ESL program and graduate from college are my short term goals. In additional, research shows our brain release chemical “dopamine” makes us feel happy while we doing something new or un-normal. I would like keep trying new things, travel around the world in the future to make more dopamine to being happy. Finally, hope every reader comprehends the keys to being happy and custom their own intentional activity list, then worth the time to read this essay. According to the article “Local Government Seek to Reduce Obesity in Kids,” the research shows the childhood obesity rate in Puerto Rican has grown rapidly in the past 30 years. Obesity may cause not only physical diseases, but also effects children’s psychological health. Do you have or do you know any child who is obese? Have you ever thought what government can do to help them to lose weight? This essay will describe proposed solution to the problem of childhood obesity. Finally, this essay will propose the best solution and explain its benefit.
The new law in Puerto Rican states that parents will get a fine if their obese child doesn’t lose weight. The governor believes childhood obesity can be changed. Their parents have responsibility to let their obese child lose weight. Learning from the article “Experts ‘Appalled’ by Puerto Rican Bill to Fine Parents of Obese Children.” Some experts think the law is unbelievable and unfair. Experts explain that people can choose not to be obese, but it is hard to change, because the causes of obesity are complex. The critical side of the law was also pointed out in the article “Local Government Seek to Reduce Obesity in Kids” that people who have overweight problems maybe cannot afford the fine. The law will make their life even harder. My classmate Jack suggests the government lower the taxes of vegetable and fruits and also increase the taxes of fast food to reduce childhood obesity. We all learnt form the article “Why are Children Becoming Obese?” that the bad eating habit is one of the reasons children become obese. From Jack’s own general idea, he thinks people will tend to buy more vegetables and fruit in this situation. Sometimes awards may be more effective than to fine people. “Policies should support parents, not to penalize them,” said by Rebecca Puhl in the article. I recently read an article in The New York Times that Dubai has already raised a program named “Your child in gold.” The article says the Dubai government award two grams of gold for every kilogram a child manages to shed over two months. In my opinion, the best way to reduce the problem of childhood obesity is to provide healthy food to the parents who have a low socioeconomic status and reward money to their obese children after they lost weight. There is research shows bad eating habits tend to happen to poor people because they can only afford the cheap fast food. Parents can make meals for their children by using the vegetables and fruits they get from the government instead bring their children to fast food restaurants. In addition, I think to reward children money can motive them to lose weight by themselves. When I was young, my parents always rewarded me with the things I wanted, like toys, clothes, when I got good grades in tests. As the time I considered the rewards was I earned by my hard working, and I kept working hard to earned more. The article “Why are Children Becoming Obese?” by David Kraft is talk about several reasons cost children obese problem, which are the bad eating habits, the lacking of exercise and sleep. First of all, Mr.Kraft thinks children eat too much junk food and snacks at school. Parents should better not bring their children to restaurant, but to make meals for them at home. Secondly, Mr.Kraft calls it “doubly unhealthy” that children like stay at home and always sit with snacks in their mouth. This is to say children need go out and do more exercise to keep a good diet. And then, He presents parents’ bad habits of eating and exercising can set a bad example for children. He also believes this reason is more important than the biology factors. Finally, he says children who don’t get enough sleep can increase the overweight problem as well.
Article: http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/other/why-you-should-live-alone-at-least-once-in-your-life/ar-AA8Un1B
According to this article, the author thinks people should live alone at least once in their life.To support her opinion, she gives the example that she got lots of benefits from the two years she lived alone. She enjoyed lived alone because she could do whatever she likes. She felt independent as well. She conducted financial management on her own, felt free to make schedules. She traveled alone several times without hesitation. Besides, the author also lists other advantages of living alone: First of all, people change to a good lifestyle easier by lacking of the interferences from who lives with them. Secondly, people who live alone can design their own style to their place, whatever they like to keep tidy or not. In addition, they can always get their mail firsthand. Furthermore, they feel free to be as loud as they want in their place. |
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