Monday

Walking is the best exercise (Final Version)

Are you always worrying that there’s no time doing some exercise? Do you often find it hard to gather some companies to do an exercise together? Now you don’t have to worry about it anymore, there’s an exercise that can solve these problems. You can do it alone and you are free to do it. You are never limited by time or any places. So make a guess, what is that ideal exercise? Well, it’s walking! Walking is the best exercise. It can benefit your body, make you much healthier, let you live in a good condition, and help you get away from cancer. Moreover, by comparing with other exercises, there’s no charge for walking, and you can do it anywhere at any time.
There are a lot of evidences that walking has both physical and mental health benefits. Studies show that regular walking can lower our cholesterol levels because walking stimulates the production of good cholesterol that can remove bad cholesterol from our body. To obtain this benefit, walking must last at least 30 minutes a day. Also, walking can lower our weight and body fat. Walking for 30 to 60 minutes burns our body fat, helping us lose weight. In addition, walking can make our heart stronger. Walking strengthens our heart muscles and increases circulation through our body, which brings more oxygen and nutrients to our organs. Walking for 30 minutes not only can lower the risk of heart disease by 40% but also bring a longer life. Research shows that walking 30 minutes a day lengthens our life by 1.3 years. Finally, a simple act of walk can reduce joint swelling and strengthen our muscles. Walking is not as likely to cause injuries as other exercise. It is a low-impact exercise that does not place too much strain on our muscles and joints. It reduces stress on joints and strengthens the muscles around our joints. Besides the physical health benefits, walking also has mental benefits. Those who walk regularly feel more confident. When our body gets healthier, we feel more confident and happier. Also, walking help us deal with negative emotions. Walking stimulates a surge of dopamine which induces feelings of happiness. Therefore, we feel less stressed, anxious or depressed after taking a walk. Finally, walking helps us sleep better. A stroll before bed relaxes our mind and body, helping us sleep more deeply. A good night's rest increases mental health, helping us get energy.
After knowing the physical and mental health benefits of exercise, there is one benefit of walking need to be mentioned the convenience of walking. Walking is the less limited exercise so that we can do it easily. Nowadays, people are always busy at work or their study, and they do not have enough time to do exercise; therefore, doing exercise regularly becomes a difficult dream. However, walking can make this dream come true. Walking does not have time limit. As long as you want to walk, you can do it anytime. For example, you can walk on your way to school rather than taking a bus. Or if you take a bus, you can get off before your destination and then you can walk to it. In this process, you not only save your money but also do exercise. In addition, you can also take a walk everywhere so that you do not need to go to the particular place to exercise. For example, you can take a walk around your house, or you can also take the stairs rather than take the elevator. Furthermore, walking is the cheapest exercise. You only need a pair of shoes to walk. Therefore, you do not need to pay for the gym and buy some extra equipment. Finally, walking is suitable for everyone. There are no restrictions on gender or age. Everyone can do it by themselves and do it everyday. In the morning, you can walk alone to start a new day. During the lunch break, you can take a walk with your friends to make your body gain some temporary release. At night, after a tiring day, you can walk your dog around your house to relax your brain and body. It will help you have a better quality of sleep to end this busy day.
But why do we want to do exercise? For most of us, it is because we want to become healthier. However, there are too many exercises that people can chose to do. Therefore, some people may think basketball is a great choice to do exercise. They will think while playing basketball, they can feel happy and also get healthier. But actually, basketball is not really a good exercise for us. As we all know basketball is a kind of fierce exercise. During a basketball game, it is easy to bump into other people and then get hurt. Also, while playing basketball, we have to suddenly jump, run and stop. This kind of behavior is very easy to injure our body. Besides, playing basketball is not very convenient because when we want to play basketball, we have to find someone to play with us first. And then we have to find a place to play it. The most important thing is that we have to carry the ball. As a result, we can not play it anytime and everywhere. Likewise, some people may think jogging is better than walking because they are very similar and people may think jogging is more effective than walking for getting healthier. Actually, jogging is almost like walking. We just need a sneaker and can do it anytime and everywhere. But compared to walking, going jogging is more easily to get hurt. While running, our feet will leave the ground simultaneously for a short time, and then touch the ground again. This behavior will put stress on our knees and ankles. But walking can provide the same benefits as running without the increased stress to the body. Then, it is known to all that swimming is the best choice to do exercise. In fact, it cannot be denied that the benefit of swimming is as good as walking for our body. Swimming can make our body become healthier and cause fewer injuries. Also, it is suitable for everyone. But it still has a disadvantage. That is inconvenience. When we want to go swimming, we have to know where the swimming pool is. Even if we found the place, we have to make sure it is not crowded with people. In addition, it is time consuming to prepare for swimming. Nowadays, many people are busy to work. It is not suitable for them by taking too much time for just swimming several hours.
As a result, walking is the best exercise. By comparing with other exercises, you have found that there are lots of benefits of walking. It is really convenient and easy to do so. It can help your body, provide you with a good life and prevent you from cancer. You will also gradually find your life become much more colorful and find yourself are becoming much healthier by doing it. Therefore, don’t hesitate anymore. Stop making any excuses and say you don’t have time or money to do an exercise. Walking is the best choice for you and you are always welcome to it at any time. So how about standing up now and go walking together!

Walking is the best exercise (First Version)

Are you always worrying that there’s no time doing some exercise? Do you often find it hard to gather some companies to do an exercise together? Now you don’t have to worry about it anymore, there’s an exercise that can solve these problems. You can do it alone and you are free to do it. You are never limited by time or any places. So make a guess, what is that ideal exercise? Well, it’s walking! Walking is the best exercise. It can benefit your body, make you much healthier, let you live in a good condition, and help you get away from cancer. Moreover, by comparing with other exercise, there’s no charge for walking, and you can do it anywhere at any time.
There are ample evidences that walking has both physical and mental health benefits. Studies show that regular walking can lower our cholesterol levels. Walking increases circulation that breaks down and removes cholesterol out of the body. To obtain this benefit, walking must last at least 30 minutes a day. Also, walking can lower our weight and body fat. Walking for 30 to 60 minutes burns our body fat and builds muscle, helping us lose weight. In addition, walking can make our heart stronger. Walking strengthens heart muscles and improves circulation through our body, carrying more oxygen and nutrients to our organs. Walking for 30 minutes not only can lower the risk of heart disease by 40% but also bring a longer life. Research shows that walking 30 minutes a day lengthens our life by 1.3 years. Finally, a simple act of walk can reduce joint swelling and strengthen our muscles. Walking is not as likely to lead to injuries as other types of exercise. It is a low-impact exercise with numerous health benefits. It reduces stress on joints, strengthens the muscles around our joints, and helps us maintain bone strength. Besides the physical health benefits, walking also has mental benefits. Those who walk regularly feel more confident. When the body feels healthier and looks fitter, confidence rises. Also, walking assists individuals to deal with stress, anxiety and depression more effectively. Any exercise allows for a surge of dopamine, a chemical that induces feelings of happiness and contentment. Finally, walking helps walkers sleep more deeply. A stroll before bed relaxes the mind and body for sleep. A good night's rest always increases mental health. Sleeping well helps energy to soar, a cycle that walking encourages.   
After knowing the physical and mental health benefits of exercise, there is one benefit of walking need to be mentioned the convenience of walking. Walking is the less limit exercise so that we can do it easily. Nowadays, people are always busy at work or their study, and they do not have enough time to do exercise; therefore, doing exercise regularly becomes a difficult dream. However, walking can make this dream come true. Walking does not have time limit. As long as you want to walk, you can do it anytime. For example, you can walk on your way to school rather than taking a bus. Or if you take a bus, you can get off before your destination arrives and then you can walk to your destination. In this process, you not only save your money but also do exercise. In addition, you can also take a walk everywhere so that you do not need to go to the particular place to exercise. For example, you can take a walk around your house, or you can also take the stairs rather than take the elevator. Furthermore, walking is the cheapest exercise. You only need a pair of shoes to walk. Therefore, you do not need to pay for the gym and buy some extra equipment. Finally, walking is suitable for everyone. There are no restrictions on gender or age. Everyone can do it by themselves and do it everyday. In the morning, you can walk alone to start a new day. During the lunch break, you can take a walk with your friends to make your body gain some temporary release. At night, after a tired day, you can walk your dog around your house to relax your brain and body. It will help you have a better quality of sleep to end this busy day.   
But why do we want to do exercise? For most of us, it is because we want to become healthier. However, there are too many exercises that people can chose to do. Therefore, some of people may think basketball is a great choice to do exercise. They will think while playing basketball, they can feel happy and also get healthier. But actually, basketball is not really a good exercise for us. As we all know basketball is a kind of fierce exercise. During the basketball game, it is easy to knock into other people and then get hurt. Also, while playing basketball, we have to suddenly jump, run and stop. This kind of behavior is very easy to make injury to our body. Besides, playing basketball is not very convenience. Because when we want to play basketball, we have to find someone who wants to play with us first. And then we have to find the place to play it. The most important thing is that we have to carry the ball. As a result, we can not play it anytime and everywhere. Then, some of people may think jogging is better than walking. Because they are very similar, and people may think jogging is more effective than walking for getting healthier. Actually, jogging is almost like walking. We just need a sneaker and can do it anytime and everywhere. But compare to walking, going jogging is more easily to get hurt. While running, our feet will leave the ground simultaneously for a short time, and then touch the ground again. This behavior will increase the stress to our knees and ankles. But walking can provide the same benefits as running without the increased stress to the body. However, it is known to all that swimming is the best choice to do exercise. In fact, it cannot be denied that the benefit of swimming is as good as walking for our body. Swimming can make our body become healthier and make less injury. Also, it is suitable for everyone. But it still has a disadvantage. That is inconvenience. When we want to go swimming, we have to know where the swimming pool is. Even if we found the place, we have to make sure it is not crowded with people. In addition, it is consuming time by preparing for swimming. Nowadays, many people are busy to work. It is not suitable for them by taking too much time for just swimming several hours.   
As a result, walking is the best exercise. By comparing with other exercise, you have found that there are lots of benefits of walking. It is really convenient and easy to do so. It can help your body, provide you with a good life and prevent you from cancer. You will also gradually find your life become much more colorful and find yourself are becoming much healthier by doing it. Therefore, don’t hesitate anymore. Stop making any excuses and say you don’t have time or money to do an exercise. Walking is the best choice for you and you are always welcome to it at any time. So how about standing up now and go walking together!

Saturday

Three Kinds of Teachers (Final Version)

Education nowadays in Taiwan merely focuses on textbooks, exams and scores without concerning the benefits of students and their right to be educated. Because of Taiwan's score-oriented education, there are few teachers encourage students to express their thoughts, but a lot of teachers only care about what kind of grades students receive in class. In general, teachers in Taiwan can be classified into three kinds. Each teacher has different teaching style that may have different influence on their students.
The first kind of teachers are those who always encourage students to take part in class. They ask students to share their ideas and teach them how to support the ideas with valid examples, which helps them develop the ability to think logically and make right decisions. Also, they teach their students how to learn, to sort and evaluate information, and even make judgments about evidence and sources. Finally, they allowed their students to have enough time to practice questioning, debating and researching. These teachers really care about their students and never blame them for having different ideas or different perspectives towards things. This kind of teaching results in a better classroom discipline and a greater student learning.
The second kind of teachers always urge their student to improve their academic performance. They ask their students to highlight the main point, to summarize and analyze each chapter and even require them to take notes of everything they said. In addition, they often prepare a lot of handouts or pop quiz and force their students to swallow a great number of homework even though their students can not digest them well. They also ask their students to remember everything from the textbooks for getting better marks. This “duck feeding” teaching does not train students to be creative but makes them work like copy machines without ability to organize ideas.
Finally, there are teachers who care about nothing. They tend to be neither support nor demand and thus often miss the warning signs from their students who are having trouble or under great sufferings. Also, students may feel unimportant and withdrawn without emotional support from their teachers. These teachers’ attitudes have negative effect on their students. In addition, they may not even care about students' academic performance since they teach nothing except repeat what the textbooks say and read it out loud like a parrot. This kind of teaching often leads to a depressing relationship between teachers and students.
To sum up, I admire the first kind of teachers who have a positive influence on their students. Students respect these teachers and know that they can go to them with problems of any kind no matter how big or small. This kind of teachers are the example that the other teachers should learn from.



Living in the Dormitory or Living at Home (Final Version)

Most students face a problem after they enter the college “Should I live in the dormitory or live at home?” There is a great difference between living in the dormitory and living at home. If we live in the dormitory, we can save time studying rather than spending time taking MRT or bus to go home. Also, if we live in the dormitory, we can know our classmates better and easily become friends. Moreover, we can learn how to be independent by living in the dormitory. Without our parents’ help, we can try how to solve problems by ourselves and be maturer.
In contrast, if we live at home, we have to take time to go to school and come back home. It pretty wastes our time and thus our studying time or space hour is much shorter than students who live in the dormitory. Secondly, we may not be familiar with our classmates than students who live in the dormitory because they have more time getting together. Finally, it is difficult for us to be independent since we have our parents be with us and always take us under their wing, our chances to solve problems by ourselves is less.
To sum up, living in the dormitory is better than living at home. It can be a turning point for us to be a truly grown up men.


Sunday

Three Kinds of Teachers (Second Version)

Education nowadays in Taiwan merely focuses on textbooks, exams and scores without concerning the benefits of students and their right to be educated. Because of Taiwan's score-trend education, there are few teachers encourage students to express their thoughts, but a lot of teachers only care about what kind of grades students receive in class. In general, teachers in Taiwan can be classified into three kinds. Each teacher has different teaching style that may have different influences on their students.
The first kind of teachers are those who always encourage students to take part in class. They ask students to share their ideas and teach them how to support the ideas with valid examples, which helps them develop the ability to think logically and make right decisions. Also, they teach their students how to learn, to sort and evaluate information, and even make judgments about evidence and sources. Finally, they allowed their students to have enough time to practice questioning, debating and researching. These teachers really care about their students and never blame them for having different ideas or different perspective towards things. This kind of teaching results in a better classroom discipline and a greater student learning.
The second kind of teachers always urge their student to improve their academic performance. They ask their students to highlight the main point, to summarize and analyze each chapter and even require them to take notes of everything they said. In addition, they often prepare a lot of handouts or pop quiz and force their students to swallow a great number of homework even though their students can not digest them well. They also ask their students to remember everything from the textbooks for getting better mark. This “duck feeding” teaching does not train students to be creative but makes them working like copy machines without ability to organize ideas.
Finally, there are teachers who care about nothing. They tend to be neither support nor demanding and thus often miss the warning signs from their students who are having trouble or under great sufferings. Also, students may feel unimportant and withdraw without emotional support from their teachers. These teachers’ attitudes have negative effect on their students. In addition, they may not even care about students' academic performance since they teach nothing except repeat what the textbooks say and read it out loud like a parrot. This kind of teaching often leads to a depressing relationship between teachers and students.
To sum up, I admire the first kind of teachers who have positive influence on their students. Students respect these teachers and know that they can go to them with problems of any kind no matter how big or small. This kind of teachers are the example that the other teachers should learn from.

Should Teens Have Cell Phones? (Final Version)

With the uae of cell phone growing rapidly for children and teens these days, cell phones have become a major concern for many parents. Different families have come to different conclusions on this issue. In some families, parents allow their kids to have their own cell phones, even kids who are not yet in their teen years. In other families, parents think it is unnecessary for their children to own a cell phone. Therefore, it often leads to a dilemma between children and their parents.
My parents are those who feel it is unnecessary for their kids to have cell phones. When I was in senior high, my parents told me that I could get a cell phone when I turned sixteen, so I asked for one as a birthday present. However, they broke their promise and said I could not get one because cell phones are fashion accessories and gaming devices that would only distract me from my schoolwork and waste my time. They thought it could be a distraction for me, even if it was just waiting for a call or message. They worried that I would waste time playing games or photographing since even the simplest cell phones seemed to come with games and a camera. Also, they believed cell phones had negative effects on my health. They believed the potential health risks of using cell phone were brain damage, hearing loss, radiation and tumors. Finally, they concerned about high phone bill costs which was just another expense that they had to pay for.
I knew my parents wanted to protect me from the dangers and abuses of cell phones as much as possible. However, they said I could get one when I turned sixteen. They are the ones who said it so I had the right to ask for one and I was quite sure I could use it properly. First, having a cell phone allowed my parents and I to keep in contact at all times, no matter where I was. I could never find myself without an opportunity to call my parents or emergency services if necessary. In addition, having a cell phone could help me develop my personal responsibilities. I would be responsible for taking care of my cell phone and not losing or damaging it. I would keep it to a limited number of minutes or text messages that my parents allowed me to use. Finally, if I had a cell phone, I would have no excuse for not calling home when I was going to be late. My parents could also use GPS to keep tabs on me at all times.
In sum, whether children have cell phone already or not, I really think phones can actually help parents keep kids safer. Parents should trust their children with this big responsibility. They can teach their kids how to use it responsibly and set the necessary limits. Thus, the dilemma between parents and kids can be solved.
 
 

Three Kinds of Teachers(First Version)

Education nowadays in Taiwan merely focuses on textbooks, exams and scores without concerning the benefits of students and their right to be educated. Because of Taiwan's score-trend education, there are few teachers encourage students to express their thoughts, but a lot of teachers only care what kind of grades students receive in class. In general, teachers in Taiwan can be classified into three kinds. Each teacher has different teaching style that may have different influences on their students.
The first kind of teachers are those who always encourage students to take part in class. They ask students to share their ideas and teach them how to support the ideas with valid examples, which helps them develop the ability to think logically and make right decisions. Also, they teach their students to learn how to learn, to sort and evaluate information, and even make judgments about evidence and sources. Finally, they allowed their students to have enough time to practice questioning, debating and researching with them. These teachers really care about their students and never blame them for having different ideas or different perspective towards things. This kind of teaching results in a better classroom discipline and a greater student learning.
The second kind of teachers always urge their student to improve their academic performance. They ask their students to highlight the main point, to summarize and analyze each chapter and even require them to take notes of everything they said. In addition, they often prepare a lot of handouts or pop quiz and force their students to swallow a great number of homework even though their students can’t digest them well. They also ask their students to remember everything from the textbooks for getting better mark. This “duck feeding” teaching doesn’t train students to be creative but makes them working like copy machines without ability to organize ideas.
Finally, there are teachers who care nothing. They tend to be neither support nor demanding and thus often miss the warning signs from their students who are having trouble or under great sufferings. Also, students may feel unimportant and withdraw without emotional support from their teachers. These teachers’ attitudes have negative effect on their students. In addition, they may not even care what kind of grades their students receive in class since they teach nothing except repeat what the textbooks say and read it out loud like a parrot. This kind of teaching often leads to an depressing relationship between teachers and students.
To sum up, I admire the first kind of teachers who have positive influence on their students. Students respect these teachers and know that they can go to them with problems of any kind no matter how big or small. This kind of teachers are the example that the other teachers should learn from.