2008年12月25日 星期四
Date: 26-12-2008
From: Taipei times
Teenager survives getting hit by lightning, then wins money in the lottery
There was a magical thing happened to a girl. She was struck by lightning and went on to win US$20 in the lottery the next day. The scientists couldn’t answer the question that she was struck by lightning why she didn’t die at that time.
After reading this article, I feel that life is mysterious and profound. I am jealous with her. How lucky she was. Because luck doesn’t happen to everyone in the world, I think she would even cherish her life after undergoing such thing on him.
I am not always living in good lucky life, but I am also not living in unlucky life. In my life, sometimes, I am living in a happy condition by good luck, but sometime, I am living in bad condition by misfortune. To tell the true, I enjoy this life, because I feel some bad condition that can make me grow up. Therefore, I like to live in a general life.
If someone has much good luck around him all the time, maybe he can’t face some events which are bad. (182words)
2008年12月18日 星期四
Date: 19-12-2008
From: Taipei Times
Singaporeans jailed over kangaroo picture
On 26th May 2008, three Singaporeans who wore clothes with a picture of a kangaroo dress as a judge entered the Supreme Court. But the judge thought they ignored to despise the Supreme Court. Therefore, the three men were sentenced to between seven and fifteen days in jail by the judge. And the judge also ordered to each play court costs of NTP$ 109300.
The kangaroo court is expressed against the judicial system and no unfairness in Singapore.
Singapore is a developed nation. Their residenters have a high English grade and have a high living standard. So I think Singapore is also a democratic and free country.
However after reading this article, I feel Singapore is not a very freedom of the democracy country.
Maybe, I was born in a democratic country. Thus, I was very surprised that three men were sentenced who touched the national law. If the three men did the same thing in my city, I was sure that they were free. (170words)
2008年12月11日 星期四
Date: 12-11-2008
From: Taipei Times
Teen crowned fastest text messenger in Sweden
My Reactions:
This article is talking about the history of the text message and a girl who crowned the fastest text messenger in Sweden. She used 61 seconds to write a 141-character SMS message full of difficult-to-spell words and correct punctuation. Thus, she won 2,650 euro (NT$122,500) prize.
After reading this article, I am interested by the reward. So I want to practise how to type the text messages quickly. Maybe there is a company to take place the same activity like that someday in Taiwan.
On the other hand, do you know why the text message was invented and was set in the cell phone? Originally, the inventers created the text messages that the purpose was for helping the deaf, because they couldn’t listen to any voice.
However nowadays, the text messages are very popular by teenagers and young people for the charge is cheaper than using cell phone to call your friends and Text messages are a convenient way to send telephone numbers. (168 words)
2008年12月4日 星期四
Date: 05-12-2008
From: Taipei Times
London buses may advertise there’s probably no God
My Reactions:
It is a piece of interesting article. There is an advertisement which is affixed on the London buses. The advertisement says “People who rejected god would go to hell”
After comedy writer Ariane Sheine knew this event, he objected to the Christian adverts on some London buses. Therefore he decided to spend money on the advertisements, too. The advertisement says “There probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
I feel myself is very strange. Sometimes, I am happy but sometimes I am unhappy and upset. My moods are changed very often by the environment around and the things at my side. After reading this article, I feel maybe it is mode by the god to have different moods. Actually the god is very mysterious for me. Although I don’t know what time have existed the word of “god” in the world, I wish god in the world was a truth. If the god were, I could tell the god about my wish or anything what I want to talk. (185words)
2008年11月27日 星期四
Date: 28-11-2008
From: Taipei Times
Obese Canadian inmate released because Big House too small
My reaction:
This article is talking about an obese prisoner who comes from Canada. He was arrested for selling drugs and was sentenced to five years in prison.
Fortunately, a judge later reduced his sentence because of the hardships for him in the prison which means that the 195kg man was claimed to have endured in the prison which was designed for smaller criminals.
I feel it is so poor for him to live in a small cell. I don’t understand why the prisoner needed to sell drugs, because it is a bad thing for people and for himself. I hope he doesn’t do it again after being released. At last, the prisoner said a sentence for the daily, ‘‘I made some mistakes and I paid for them’’ what he said is very meaningful for me.
On the other hand, people always said that too fat is not good for us. But after reading this article, I feel that too fat is not bad. Maybe sometimes it would help you like the prisoner. (180 words)
2008年11月20日 星期四
Date: 20-11-2008
From: Taipei times
Myanmar’s cyclone
My Reactions:
Burma was a very beautiful country, but a horrible tsunami changed this place. The tsunami made the thousands of people dead and millions of people hunger.
After listening to this news, I feel so sad for what their government did. I don’t know why the Burmese government stopped the International Rescue Organization to help their people since the tsunami had happened.
When I saw the victims of a natural calamity in the pictures, I was much affected. They didn’t have any house for living, they didn’t have any meat to eat, and they didn’t have any clean water for drinking.
For the Burmese government, were their people’s lives really unimportant? In Burma, the government not only forbids them to demonstrate but also forbids them from the freedom of speech.
Comparing with Burma, I think Taiwan is a happy place compare with Burma. At last, people can talk what they want. To take about Taiwanese government is able to protect their people and prepare so many services for them. (169 words)
2008年11月6日 星期四
Date: 06-11-2008
From: Taipei times
New Zealand council wants to dig up dog’s grave to prove it’s dead
My Reactions:
It is a very special article for me. I don’t believe this case could happen on the world. This article talk that a dog killed a protected fur seal on the beach in New Zealand. Therefore, the dog had to be killed by the national law.
In order to protect the dog’s life, the dog’s host told a lie. He said that after his dog killed the protected fur seal, his dog died of a kidney infection and then he buried the dog’s corpse in the back yard. Of cause, he finally was found out the case of false pretenses.
I feel the dog’s host is very poor. The dog’s host not only had to pay NT$21,400 for this case but also lost his dog because the dog was sentenced to be destroyed.
I think he loved his dog so much, thus he decided to tell a lie to protect his pet.
He refused the police officer to dig up the grave of the dog to prove whether the dog died, so now he might be appealed by the Council official. (186words)
2008年10月30日 星期四
Reaction Article #5
Date: 30-10-2008
From: Taipei times
Postman hoards thousands of letters in Germany
This article is talking about a lazy postman in Germany. In the daylight he had to work because of making his money and in the midnight, he had to study because of take a diploma. So it made him in a bad hardship. At last, he chose a foolish way to solve his hardship. The foolish way was to be a lazy postman. When he got a lot of letters in his company, he didn’t deliver the letters to the addressees and brought it home to abandon into a trash box. Of course, he was found out finally and was arrested to a jail.
After this article, I don’t dare to believe that he could do such thing. I think he should not do that, because it is an irresponsible behavior.
Maybe those letters were very important for some people. If people couldn’t receive his/her letter, they might be hurt by this event.
For example, if I sent a letter to my friend but he didn’t reply me. I must be unhappy whit him. But the truth is the lazy postman abandoning my letter. I think I would be very angry. (186words)
2008年10月23日 星期四
Date: 22-10-2008
From: Taipei Times
Chinese giant becomes world’s tallest dad
My Reactions:
It is good news for Chinese; the tallest man of the world is coming from China. His name called Bao, who stands 2.36m tall. He was confirmed the world’s tallest living man by the Guinness Book of world Reads in 2006.
Bao is a kind man and he always helps others. Once there were two dolphins that ate some garbage into the stomach at an aquarium in northeastern China. When he had known this event, he went to the aquarium immediately and he used his long arms to pull plastic rubbish from the stomachs of the dolphins. It had been a hero’s action, although he just helped the two dolphins.
And now he has just become a father and his baby named “Tianyou”. Tianyou is only slightly taller than the general Chinese babies. I think he would be a good father in the future days.
But I hope his baby would not be getting so tall, too. It will become a difficult thing for him to get marry with a girl for himself; If Tianyou is taller than his father in the future. (184words)
2008年10月15日 星期三
Who says penguins can’t fly?
Date: 16-10-2008
From: Taipei times
Who says penguins can’t fly?
Originally, it made me so surprised to finish reading the article topic "Who say penguins can’t fly?" Because I never thought the penguins can fly in the sky. Until I have finished all the content of this article. Finally I realized that the penguins could fly in the sky because they were in an airplane. Therefore, the penguins can’t fly in the sky by themselves.
Actually, this article is talking about the poor penguins which were washed up on a Brazil beach by a flow of warm water. At last, the kind environmentalists took them back to their frigid home in South Pole by airplane. The penguins were fitted with bands on their flippers to determine the success of the rehabilitation and then were released into the ice ocean. I am moved deep in my heart about this a good deed of the environmentalists. I think that the penguins would be very happy to come back their hometown meeting their parents or friends or children.
So I hope they will have a good day after this bad event. (185 words)
2008年10月9日 星期四
Japanese aquarium puts dolphins on weight-loss plan
Date: 09-10-2008
From: Taipei Times
Japanese aquarium puts dolphins on weight-loss plan
The article of Taipei Times is talking about some fat dolphins. That dolphins were getting fat so that they had some difficulties to perform their water tricks, therefore, the audiences who want to watch the performance of the aquarium had been less interested. So the Japanese zookeeper of the aquarium decided to conduct a dietary plan for them.
People always say “Hey man, you should keep fit” but I had never head “Dolphins, you have to be on a diet”. I am very surprised and interested about the article. I understood that too fast is not good for human or animal. It will bring us so many inconveniences in our daily life and also bring the illness to us when we are in an old age. I agree being on a diet is good for us, but don’t forget to take exercise, for it is also important.
I hope the zookeeper of the aquarium can also use other way besides being on a diet to the dolphins. Because I think it will be better for the dolphins. (200 words)
2008年9月26日 星期五
the first article about monster pig
The article is about a monster pig which was abandoned in the forest by his master.
At first, the pig was found by Coroline Hayes (the aggrieved party).
She started to adopt him and named him Bruce, she treated him very well but someday Bruce changed suddenly his character and attacked Coroline Hayes. Eventually Bruce was caught by the staff of the zoo.
I feel the pig which attacked Coroline Hayes is poor. I think the pig is not deliberate.
It is illogical to attack Coroline Hayes, because I feel the aninal have intellingent.
May be some had happened on the pig. I hate the man who abandoned the pig, anyway he shouldn’t leave him to let him alone in the forest .
Beside that sad matter, also it had some interesting thing, example the staff tried to catch the pig but always fail. This paragraph is very interesting to me, and I hope the pig will be safe not be killed by the staff of the zoo. (190words)