Essay

Advantages of Cartoon

The future generations of human beings are children. Teaching children to become pure and useful people is the important duty of adults. Children need much more useful skills and right concepts to live in this complicated society. One of methods of teaching children at home is watching cartoon videos. Most children around the world also like cartoon, so that the best things which adults want to teach children are also collected in cartoons. Many advantages of cartoon include gaining knowledge, learning morals, and dealing with some family’s problems.

First of all, watching cartoon helps children to have a lot of benefit knowledge about language, math, and color since a little baby. About language, children always trend to imitate many simple words they like so that vocabulary cartoons are a cool means for kids to learn reading, listening, and spelling. Furthermore, there are lots of basic lessons of addition, subtraction for kids to practice counting. Moreover, cartoons with varied colorful images make kids to recognize many different colors. For instant, "Clifford the Big Red Dog" is a popular one showing how to counting, spelling.

The second advantage of cartoon is helping children to learn more morals such as benevolence, honesty, bravery, diligence. Almost all cartoons distinguish obviously good and bad, pure and evil characters to help children improve their thinking in right way. There are many cartoons following myths, folktales such as “Sleeping Beauty”, “Enchanted”, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, “Peter Pan” and so on. They are necessary illustrations for kid to fellow. If children have evil or cruel thoughts or behaviors, they will be judged and kept away by other people. Watching cartoon, children love many nice characters, and want to be similar with them. Gradually, they behave kindly to become the best people.

The final advantage is dealing with some recent problems of family. In daily life, many modern family have lots of difficulties between parents and children. Parents do not understand their children's feelings. They can not be harmony or even kids also hate their parents. Some cartoon or other children's TV shows effectually help many family to pass through these. For example, "Sesame Street" is very well-known program talking about War Injuries. Some soldiers return home from war looking very different. They could be in a wheelchair or lost one arm. Their kids are very upset and miss many things they did together in previous days. They wish things could go back to the old way. The "Sesame Street" show them to talk openly and be familiar with the new changes.

All in all, in busy society, cartoon is very useful for both parents and kids. Cartoons help children not only to have fun, excitation but also to learn more knowledge such as language, maths, and the right behaviours. Then, kids could become helpful people and meet many high requests of this morden life. Futhemore, cartoon deal with many hard social problems. Cartoon also help parents to know more about their kids' thoughts, and the way which parents grow up their kids.

Journal Entry #32

Three Day Weekend

Normally, I do not have many activities on weekend, except my homework. On Friday, this day was very funny. After attending the Academic Advisement for ALP, I had a call from Choae to ask me to go somewhere for relaxing. I and Choae decided to go to Target for buying something. I bought a PC stereo headset and . I think the stereo headset could help me talk with my family and my friends in Vietnam by Voice of Yahoo Messenger easily and conveniently, especially this expenses just included the monthly Internet fee. After going to Target, we had some coffee nearby CSUF. We talk about our plans for next semester. So amazing, we met our conversation partner, Tasuza, with his girlfriend at there. They are so a beautiful couple. After that, we said goodbye and I came back home. On Friday night, I discovered my new stereo headset is so useful. I chatted with my friend for many hours without fees. On next Saturday, I had whole day at home, with doing homework, cleaning my room, washing my clothes, and chatting with my friend. On Sunday, I persisted my homework and practised the listenning skill. All in all, I spent my weekend in restoring my energy and improving my English.

Journal Entry #31

Thanksgiving is coming up soon. What three things are you most thankful for?

Things I Almost Thank

In my life, I missed and loved many persons extremely. First of all, my parents had to work hard all their time to give me a human life, so that I am most thankful to my parents for creating my life. They gave me food, knowledge since I was a little baby. According to personal fundamentals and moralities they taught, I became a human being gradually. All of those have based on my parents' labour. Now I am still studying abroad, just spending a lot of money, so I am thankful for many expenses of tuition and living here. Second, I am also thankful to many persons surrounding me who helped me when I had some troubles, and gave me experiences of this life. In my life, I missed a lot of people who is my teachers, my friends, my colleagues. They gave me a wonderful life time, many exciting activities, much more knowledge, experiences. In conclusion, I am thankful to all of them for my fantastic life.

Journal Entry #30

Tell Lies

Living in life, people sometime tell lies for good or bad purposes. There are likely many lies for helping themselves, helping others, and hurting others. First of all, helping-themselves lies could not be bad, nor good. If you tell a lie without making problems or hurting others, you could do that. Second, helping-others lies are absolutely good, if these lies do not make problems to others else. There are rare lies to help others by hurting yourself. But sometime people still do many things like that. Finally, most hurting-others lies are bad. Do not tell these lies. If you do that, many people would recognize soon, and your prestige would decrease. After many your lies, they do not trust you again. To sum up, people should recognize the best purposes to tell lies.

Journal Entry #29

Does it matter what strangers think of you? Do you care if everyone likes you or are you content just being yourself? Write a paragraph explaining your answer.

Use Your Love to Behave

Firstly, being a person who everyone also likes is actually difficulty. Nobody is almost good or perfect, so nobody could be integrated with all other persons. That is the reason why a person could only have a few closed friends, or all people surrounding you could not be your closed friends. As a result, if someone hates you, that is not strange things. Simply, they are not in harmony with you. Secondly, I think there are always a good side and a bad side in one person. The good side make people come closer and the bad side make them far away or to have some evil thoughts to another. Fortunately, if someone like you, by your good side, you should persist this wonderful relationship. Unfortunately, on recent day, your friends might change their habits or tastes. This make your former relationship worse step by step or broken. That is not your mistake, even if they could hate you. With two points above, you should remember that you should behave with all your love to others or your works. If you are proud of your kindness, you should not worry about some strangers think of you. Even if they also hate you, you should be not sad or worried. Because some days later, they will overall realize that you are a kind person. All in all, keeping your kindness is a difficult duty in tiring life to have some fantastic relationships.

Journal Entry #28

Date: October 29,2007
Class: 4C
Group: Tom , Mira, Thao Dao, Ai

A Suburban Hospital

It was a rainy and windy night in a suburban hospital. A doctor was tired from being on duty all day long. He walked slowly into a dark obsolete elevator. In that elevator there was an old woman with white hair and shriveled face. He asked her about her heaith, and how long she had been there. The old woman said it was too long to remember how many years she had been there. The elevator slowly went down and opened when it stopped at the fifth floor. The fifth floor was the place where the dead are stored. Surprisingly, there was a little girl who wanted to get inside. He was shocked and chilled to the bone to see her. So he pushed the close button quickly to prevent the little girl from getting in side. After that, the elevator kept going. The old lady asked why he prevented the little girl form getting inside. The doctor replied the little girl had a number on her neck that the doctors always print on the dead. She nodded and took off her jacket slowly... She had another number on her neck.

Journal Entry #27

Please post your pictures from the ALP Halloween party. Summarize the night and tell me what I missed!

You know I always take the bus to Fullerton. Some routines at night are rare, even are not on service. The weather is also cold. It is dangerous to walk alone at night. I think absolutely the Halloween party was so exciting, I always want to join all of the parties. I also do not want to disturb anybody else to pick me up. So that it is so pity that I do not have pictures to show.

Bonus Entry

Parrot imitates the fire alarm

Conwell and his son fell asleep on the couch hearing a fire alarm, so that it awoke him up. He saw his house on fire. He realized that his parrot imitated the fire alarm to save his life. It was fortunate that he and his son was on the couch, not in bed room, so that they could hear the parrot. And it also was fortunate that the fire destroyed bedroom. The reason why the fire happened was under investigation.

Journal Entry #26

I am going to Las Vegas this weekend. If you were going to Las Vegas, where would you go and what would you do? Lastly, do you have any suggestions on how I can win a lot of money? Which games do you like to play?

Las Vegas

I know very little about Las Vegas. My knowledge of gambling is aslo little. Every times of this playing, I always loss my money, so that I could not give any suggestions on how to win money. However, If I have a chance to go to Las Vegas, I would go there just to have sightseeing. I think gambling is so exciting and relaxing if you have enough money. Do not forget that you have not much money to splurge on gambling. Furthermore, do not forget that you would only win, and do not be sad if you loss, because that is your choice and that is just a game. After all, I wish every one will win in every games in Las Vegas.

Journal Entry #25

Compare and Contrast of Basketball and Football.

There are many team ports around the world, but basketball and football are most popular, and provide physical and mental benefits to people who play them. Like basketball, football help the players learn self-discipline, how to play together. In both of two ports, the players can be replaced by another when they are tired, or injured. Another similarity is that by using one ball, the players of two groups achieve the ball to get it into goal or basket. Absolutely, there are many differences between these. A basketball team has five players, while a basketball team consists of eleven ones. As a result, basketball needs not as many players as footbal to practice. The football is played on wide grass outside, on the other hand, the basketball is played on a wooden floor, inside or outside. The players of two ports also run by feet; however, football players just use feet to kick the ball, while the basketball players use hand to throw or pass the ball to the teammate. To sum up, these ports are easy to practice, beneficial for heath so that they are pupolar.

Journal Entry #24

Compare and contrast of Burger King and Mc Donald's.

Burger King(BK) and Mc Donald's (McD's) are very popular fast-food chains in American. However, McD's is a much bigger system of restaurant on virtually very corner than BK. They have many main traits for your option. Both of BK and McD's have equally price. Having $4 to $5, you would get the meal consisted of a sandwich, fries, and a soda; however, McD's is little cheaper than BK. Furthermore, BK seems to have many better fast-food. BK hamburgers are always broiled, not stuck in microwaves. Many persons said that they like BK more than Mc'D because BK have better taste . However, many kids like McD's more than because of many free little toy. To sum up, I think BK is better choice.

Journal Entry #23

How to find a marriage partner.

According to many diferent cultures, and the thinking of every persons, there are many various way of finding a marriage partner. The below method to find a friend of life is private mines. This is not exactly way because I do

not anybody else or agency to help me find my lover. I want I myself will find him out with our true love. So that, this is the most difficult and spending much more time way. The first stage is finding a lover. With this way, your true love may be around you, but in the first time, you can not recogize him because he is only one of your friends. You must spend much time to be close friend or just a few time to fall in love. The second is knowing step by step about many bad habits of your lover. In this stage, you will have many arguements because of many reasons as jealousy, pravite profit, anything else,.. If you could deal with all problems, and still love him, the final stage will become. This stage is wedding with the true lover because you know what will happen to you with your friend of life. To sum up, this way of finding a marriage partner spends much time, but this is the best way to find out the important partner of your whole life.

Journal entry #22

How to make your favorite dish. Give the recipe and instructions for making your favorite dish. See the example on page 105 (Eggs).

Fried Chicken Wing with Fish Sauce

This cuisine is a delicious Vietnamese dish. It is not much time to cook, and people usually treat their guests to this. To prepare this cuisine, you need chicken wings, oil, fish sauce, sugar, pepper, salt, garlic,..First, you wash carefully chicken wings with salt, and dry these wings with blotting-paper. Second, you make the mixture of chicken wings, fish sauce, garlic, sugar, and pepper for a half of a hour. Next, you put a frying pan over high heat, and then, fill the frying pan with oil. After having the burning oil, pour the mixture into oil. When the chicken skin become brown-yellow. You can prepare this with salad, tomato. This picture can help you have clear image of this cuisine. In conclusion, I really like it and actually It is my delicious favorite cuisine.

Journal Entry #21

How to Lose Ten Pounds in Two Days

It is so hard to lose ten pounds only in two days, so you just use cosmetic surgery. Just many hours, doctor will cut a lot of fat out from your body. You will have many day after to regain heath. But after that, your weight could increase again if you still remain the old way of living. This is a unsafe method to lose your weight. Furthermore, It could be dangerous. I do not know another method to lose weight only in two days. However, there are several better methods of losing weight, but people must spent more time to lose their weight. One of those is doing exercise as much as you could to burn fastly your calories. There are many exercises such as boxing, karate, tawoondo,etc.. Other method is dieting. You should drink water, pure fruit juice, eat as little as you could, forget meat, just eat fresh vegetable. If you forget eating for two days, just drink water, you could lose many pounds. But after no eating, you eat a lot, so the opposite result will happen. With two above methods, you must have to be patient, or determined to lose your weight. In conlution, some people choose the first unsafe method, because it spent a short time, and be sure to have result; however, other poeple choose two above safer methods.

Journal Entry #20

Three Types of People in This World.

People usually was classified into three different types with definite psychological traits. First of all, they are the most confident, creative, positive, highly intelligent, with a calm, cheerful, attitude. Nothing can deter them, or dampen their spirits. They work with inexhaustible vigor; high alertness; greatest wisdom; knowing exactly all their means to achieve their aim. In spite of being the pioneers, originals, they are just subtle, calm, not greatly elated. Especially, they rarely have psychological problems. Second, they are emotional, sensitive, susceptible with obstacles. In spite of their extremely hard work, they can not be pioneers because of their less confidence. They always seem busy, can not manage their work time. When they faced with obstacles, they work hard with extreme worries, sometimes with fretting, fuming. When they fail, they easily get stress; dampened; or feel dejected. When they succeed, they feel on the top of world, have increasing enthusiasm. Third, they are totally dull, insensitive, unintelligent, lazy kinds. If they fail, they are not surprised because of their lack efforts, concentration. They easily give up obstacles. They carry on any actions without knowing what they are doing or why they do that. Almost their actions be compelled. Sometimes, they seem selfish. To summarize, there are definite traits with different degrees of intelligence, emotion.

Journal entry #19

Being Single Has Many Advantages.

Being single means no-boyfriend or no-girlfriend status. Being single is more beneficial. The first advantage is freedom. You are free to do whatever you want, whenever you want. For instance, for the guys, instead of staying with their girlfriend every weekend, they could enjoy drinking at bar with their buddies. For the girls, instead of watching a baseball game in which her boyfriend was one of players, she could be at a beauty salon, or go shopping. So that, they can go out with anyone they like without worrying about someone's jealousy. They can have a joke with a cute guy or hit on cute girl. The second advantage, they are just obligated themselves. They have more time to improve their knowledge, skills and appearance. Being single you can focus on more important things such as your work, studies, etc.. They do not waste their time and money on unuseful masters. And the final reason, falling in love, they feel happy or get hurt, feel dejected, or dampened. Unfortunately, they can get stress, have some psychological sicknesses.

Journal Entry #18

Many Advantages of Sports

There are three advantages to play sports.The first advantage of sports is health. When playing sports, it helps to prevent daily sickness, some slump or heart diseases, hypertension. The second advantage is having attractive appearance. Nowadays, people come more obese. And the main method of obesity is playing sports. Playing sports regularly, they could have strong muscle, nice shape of body. And the other advantage is relaxation of human life. In human life, there are so many things make people exhaust or fail into stress. People have much more funny, confident, even intelligent when they play sports. In conclusion, Playing sports have much beneficial for human life.

Journal Entry #17

Summarize the Movie "My Big Fat Greek Weeding"

This is a funny movie about a weeding between a Greek woman with non-Greek man. Her name is Toula and his name is Ian. Toula is so old according her father's thought, she is over thirty, single, works in her family's restaurant. From childhood, she followed a Greek school to look for a Greek husband, that is her father's willingness. She is bored with her appearance, and she want to change all boring thing - surrounding her. She goes to college, and changes her appearance more attractive, takes a computer class. She meets Ian. They have dinner, go out together, with their father do not know. After that, her family find out, her father is very angry because of a non-Greek man. But after Ian's effort, Father of Toula accepts him step by step. And the family of Ian have a attempt to accept the strange Toula's family. The difference of two families is due to the difference of cultures, it make movie funny. In the end, they get married with two families' happyness.

Journal Entry #16

Most Embarrassing Moment

When you love someone before meeting him. That's me. The first meeting made me embarrassed, but I love that cute moment. Not exactly the first knowing his face. We worked in the same company, but different offices. And We met two times before falling in love in one previous year, but just said a few words to have manners. So that I can not image his face in my mind. Because of the distance, We get closer by Internet without seeing face to face. On that day, we make a date to know the feeling and our appearance. When I arrived, he stayed right at me. I just looked at the ground and hang my head in shame. I began being so cold to shake step by step, likely could not stop. I just smiled and still shook despite the hot weather. I do not remember what we said at the time, but maybe some simple question of heath with some broken words. But we were so shy and looked like two children in shame. It is so funny. For me, It was so short and I want to have that same moment again on recent day because we are so far away.

Journal Entry #15

Halloween

Halloween was come from the ancient Celtic. The Celtics lived 2,000 years ago in Ireland, the United Kingdom. On this day, the Celtics celebrated their new year, as the end of summer, harvest and continuing the dark, cold winter, associated with the death. Celtics believed that on that day the ghosts of the dead returned to earth to cause trouble and damage crops. So that the Celtic priests fired crops and animals as sacrifices on that day to protect them without troubles and damaged crops during the long dark winter. This day was also combined with the traditional Roman festival. The Romans also commemorated to honor saints, goddess of fruits. The symbol of this celebration is pumpkins, apples, bats, many scary thing. Nowadays, people celebrate as a funny festival with the traditional scary costumes, decorate their house with pumpkins with smile face, bats, burred lights.

Journal Entry#14

My Weekend

I do not want to go out or Universal Studio. I just want to stay alone and see any happy faces. Indeed, I can not be normal. Recently, I feel like that. I do not know how long this feeling exits so far. My weekend, I just stay alone. I just do not need happiness or friends. I just want to do my homework, use computer, listen my favorite songs. On Friday, some ALP students of my class go to PHO 88's to have delicious lunch, but I just stay in library. On Saturday, I went to my ant's house, for do she want me to change my recent living-place to live with her. I feel that I must move to that place. Because after my refusing of living with her, she was so angry with me. So I was so confused. On Sunday, I had a day to prepare small birthday party for a rather stranger, but I have to do it. That's all, my weekend is so boring.

Journal Entry#13

Reasons to Eat Fruits and Vegetables.

According to nutritionists, eating fruits and vegetables help to prevent many kind of dangerous diseases. First of all, many researches show that they can prevent heart disease, and stroke. Next, It is so good for people who had hypertension already. After having low-fat diet and a lot of fiber, the cholesterol in their blood is slow down clearly. Another diseases are many kind of cancers, such as stomach, lung, kidney, etc...Many evidences show that eating tomato is so helpful to prevent prostate-cancer of man. And the last, to have a bright and healthy eyes, you must need fruits and vegetables. It is clear that fruits and vegetables are so necessary for your heath and to have long life time.

Journal Entry #12

My Bedroom

I am so missed my family, my country, so I will describe about my bedroom in Vietnam. That is not exactly my bedroom, that is mine and my younger sister's. Now in that room, my younger sister stays alone there. When opening the door of that room, you can see a so bright room because there are a large window and another door always opened. The another door combines out-space and my room. From my room, you can see a few trees in this out-pace. So every early morning, when I waked up, I can feel the first sunshine and fresh air. My sister and I just have one bed . That is the reason why I feel miss her so much now. When I had nightmare, she always knew. It was so funny that I was so scare when I slept alone. I wonder my younger is scare or not when she sleep alone.

Journal Entry #11

Weddings in My Country

My knowledge of Vietnamese traditional weddings is just simply inconsiderate. Followings are some little bit of things that are different form another countries. Firstly, mother of groom would ask predictor to know the date of wedding ceremony that is lucky for whole long life of the the couple. Some necessary preparations are such as the wedding cards, choosing the wedding dress and rings, the place to celebrate. In family of groom will choose a person to be main spokesperson in the wedding ceremony, and the bridge's family will be too. On that day, the whole family of groom will go to the family of bridge with some traditional and valuable offering.

Journal Entry #10

In America, the legal system includes lawyers, judges, and jurors. How does the legal system work in your country? Who decides whether a person is innocent or guilty?

I just know a little about the legal system in VietNam because my major is not law

Journal Entry #9

What is a friend?

For exactly, what is my friend. First of all, I think a person who becomes my friend must have some personalities like me. But I am always (coi mo) to make new friend, but to become my best friend,...I think my best friend would be honest, not tell a lie to me, they always happy when I am happy, when I ask for help, they are willing to help.when I have some problem,

Journal Entry #8

My Dream Vacation.

In my dream, I will always want to live in a wild far inland. There is a deep blue ocean surrounding an inland with a lot of green trees. I dream living in a small house that is especially in a tree with enough furniture I need and nice decoration. And absolutely, I will live with the person I love in that house. Surrounding my house, I want to have green grassland with some kind of flowers, fruit trees, and a fantastic waterfall with having many small fish in pure lake below. In this place, I can swim in ocean or in lake, eat some food nearby, hear many songs of birds, see many cute white rabbits, baby heer, and many other lovely things. That is my dream I hope to be there in recent days with all of person I love. May be the kind of my vacation I love is to go natural and wild sightseeing. I don't know why, but so many things above can explain the reason.

Journal Entry #7

My This Weekend.

Finishing the final class on this Friday, all of the students of 4C-LAP was so happy that a few guys jumped up. My group decided to go to the 88 PHO's for having Vietnamese lunch. Then we went to friend's house to wait for the celebration of 50 years CSUF established. About 7 pm, we went back to school to enjoin it. It is so cold, and almost people sat down on grass-land. First of all, there was a lecture of celebration. Then, some singer and dancer made the stadium more excited. But the rhythm of music I really didn't like made I want to go home so early.

Journal Entry #6

An Unforgettable Experience In My Life.

There are some thing that was unforgettable in an specific or defined life time; but after many years, this thing must be forgotten and another is unforgettable in last time. I had a first date with a person in many years ago, but now that must be forgettable and I have another date with another person which I think is unforgettable and I will keep it in mind. My experience life is that somtimes we should leave many things that used to being unforgettable, and keep going another thing should remember. And now the memory will be kept in my mind. I just met him two times in our company because we worked in different banches. We just exchanged some reports by email. After a few exchangings, we talked about ourselves and realized that we fell in love. Finally. we decided to make an appointment. I still remember the felling before meeting him, I had made a flutter, and shaked a lot. And said in my mind: " That's him. It's right. I met him already." We talked so much and it is so funny that I had still shaked a lot.

Journal Entry #5

My favorite season

In my country, there are two main seasons. We call dry and wet season, or.... sunny and rainy one. I love rainy season, so it seems strainge. In rainy season, the weather is so cold, lots of tree are greener, stronger, and fresher. There are so many kinds of flowers, fruits to enjoin in this. In fact, I love the rains, see dark sky, enjoin the fresh air, and so romatic to walk with freind in rain,...I don't know why I feel very comfortable when It's raining. The rain can make me smile. According to another, In rainy season, it's so wet, humid, make traffic jam, and sometimes having accidents. It is a negative respect of this one. But I love it really.

Journal Entry #4

Letter to the dean to persuade him to change the class schedules.

Dear my dean,
We're in 4C - ALP class, we've the recent schedule having a little trouble. In Tuesday and Thursday, we have 1 class in morning and 3 classes in afternoon. These ones in afternoon during 11:30 am to 3:45 pm, so we have lunch in 9:45 to 11:30 am. It seem early to have lunch, and we seem tired to study all these classes in afternoon. Could we have 2 classes in morning and 2 classes in afternoon and so that we could have lunch in time and be better to study?
I am looking forward form you.....Could you reply me soon.

Journal Entry #3

A Person Who Has Made a Difference: My Uncle

A person who had made a difference is my uncle. He motivates me to improve myself. He is very cool and intelligent. Seven years ago, he worked for a government university and research institution in Vietnam. He was the best professional so that he was elected to study abroad by a government sponsor. After that, he went to America to research his major with the hope to get a Masters degree. For a long time of doing research and working, he has had a job in his major in Utah, and his family has come to live with him. After all, I do not know exactly what he did. However, I know everything has been so hard, and that result is enough for me to respect him very much. In conclusion, I am so proud of him and want to be like him.

Journal Entry #2

My favourit sport just be swimming. I am not good at swimming, but I like it. I just can swim for a last few months. There' re two reasons I like this sport. Firstly, If I am alone, I could go to swimming with myself. Just do that I feel happy, and the main feeling is not lonely. It make me happy when I am sad. That is one of main reasons why I like swimming. And the nexts, after one hour in swimming pool, I always feel stronger, excited and I feel hungry, and then I eat a lot. So this sport make many girl have a good appearance, may be attractive. It is really so good for many girls.

Journal Entry #1

I’m proud of being Vietnamese person. My name is Nhan Ai, that means in American humane or loving people. Do you think my name’s so cute. I’ve just been two weeks for the first time. I lived with my mom, and one younger brother and one younger sister in Vietnam, they’re so kind. I’ve been here to study ALP to get Master degree. In Vietnam, I had an accounting and auditing degree in HCM university, and I’m an accountancy.I like studying American, but I’m not good listening skill…, commonly I feel that I’m not good in American, that’s the reason why I’m here….You know, I talk so much but almost just with my close friend, so I hate doing anything without them, may be I just go out, watch TV, or anything else with my friend.