16 February 2008

animal rights

Do you like animals? Do you have a pet? Don't you think that dogs might be one of your best friends in your life?
I like animals whatever it is dog or squirrel, chipmunk or jellyfish...
In my opinion, I do believe that animals should have their own rights like human beings. They have their rights not to be suffering from human, get pain from human, fear from human and so on. Haven't you ever seen a dog keep staying beside its owner's side? Don't you know that a horse may cry for its family member? Animals also have feelings like human being. They know what is happiness, what is sadness. They can even think. They understand their owners' behaviors. They can recognize their emotions. They know what they should do or should not to do. A Tibetan mastiff will fight with others to protect its only owner.
It true that we need to fight against with different kinds of dieases, but in some cases it is not necessary for us to use animals to do research. Since animals are animals, they are not same like human beings. Even people could influence other different new dieases through using the data which were testing by animals. We need to protect ourselves as well as aniamls.
They are friends of ours!!!

10 February 2008

Grace's journey

This is the first book which I have ever read before for such a so short time even in Chinese...
This is the first book which I have ever read before since it is a kind of thick even in Chinese...
This is the first book which I have ever read before in such beautiful language in English...
This is my first real English novel...
It is Alias Grace by Margarte Atwood...


I like reading this novel...although there's lots of difficult discerptions, especially at the beginning of the novel...To read this novel I have just used dictionary twice during these two weeks...I've learnt that it is possible to read a novel without looking up in the dictionary all the time...I enjoy this experience. Also I've learnt some expressions from this book what I want to use in my free writings sometimes...A very big BUT, I am not satisfied with my reading part because of the time limiting...I jumped several parts so that I could catch up with our group members...So, I mark myself 6...

I enjoyed the discussion time bescause I like to collect different opinions from different persons and then think them over in my mind. I am a thinking person, I guess some of you have found that I prefer listening to speaking...I know it is not good for me in some areas, but I really like to listen...In this case, I put 7 on my discussion part...

Written review is a nice part of the novel project because I have learnt some skills of writing this kind of articls. And also from this section, I can present some of my points of view. To be honest, I was satisfied with my book review(:One of the reasons was that I finished it in the lab...^__________^ So that I gain an 8 for myself...

The most disapointed work is presentation. I thought I was back to the time before Advanced One. I don't know why...I just was speaking without organization...I knew what I wanted to present to my audience, but just...I don't know...absolutley have no idea what has happened...It was awful...I have 5 on 10 for my presentation. But as an audience, I like others presentation pretty much. For Obasan, I found it was easy to understand and the presenters are very nice(: For Cross Bone, I was interested in it because it was similar to DaVinci Code...For Life of Pi, I was absolutely attracked by these two presenters. I was brought into the novel and thought about it...I want something philosophy, I like something psychology...I'd like to read it Life of Pi!!!I, an audience, was 7. For my whole project, I marked myself 6 again.