For the final project for English, we are assigned to write a formal research paper on desired topics. I always interested in spaces and universe, so I choose to do a topic called " The Fermi paradox". The Fermi paradox is an attempt to explain the existence of extraterrestrial civilization due to the absence of evidences. It was firstly purposed by Enrico Fermi, an Nobel-price atomic scientist. Although, many others scientists had suggests their theories to support the paradox, for instance, the Drake's Equation, the Kadarshev's Scale, or the Great filter theory. The milky ways galaxy consists of roughly 400 billion stars, and from estimations, their should be over a million planet fulfilled with life. Furthermore, by using the Drake's equation ( N = Rs* fp* ne* fl* fi* fe* L ) their should be at least 10 active intelligence civilizations ( like humans ) in our Milky Way alone. Also, there are far more older planets, and there should be older civilizations with higher technologies than us. According to the Kadarshev's Scale, we could categorize those intelligence civilizations in to 3 types; planetary civilizations, stellar civilizations and galactic civilizations. Although, there's no signs of any of theses civilizations at all. Many theories such as the Great Filter are used to explain the paradox. The theory suggests that there must be some "evolutionary transition or step” that was preventing lifeforms to become type III civilizations. We, humans, might already surpassed the filter or the filter maybe in ahead of us. This assignment teaches me many things. The topic I had chosen is very hard, and I had struggles paraphrasing and summarizing these datas. Also, I submitted the assignment very late, due to my poor time-management skills. Although, this assignment had improved me on my writing skills, and teaches me a lot on citating. ![]()
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In my opinion, a good summary writer should be a good reader and a good writer. The main reasons for the summary is to making the reader understand the text and save their time. In order to write a summary, it’s important that the person needed to read all the text, because you couldn’t shorten the text by using main ideas if you never actually read it. Good reader could concentrate on the texts and also understand it clearly. Even though, you understood the text clearly, but you must be able to make the reader understand the text too. So being a good writer is very important for writing a good summary. Good writer could arrange the words that the reader could understand, but also uses their own words. This writing assignment was a "wrap-up writing" that conclude all about "writing s summary". It asked that "What skill is important for writing a good summary".
I was very sleepy while writing this assignment. So it was very confusing and hard to understand. So, even though it wasn't related to English, but I know that I should sleep early, so that I can concentrate more in my class. This is a poster where I get an article and do a summary about it. The article is about countries that banned or doesn't have McDonald's.
At first, I though that it was a quick project that I can rushed at the last minute. But it was actually take me sometime to do it, and also, I submitted this assignment late for a day. So, I learned that I should not be lazy. I was assigned to read 4 given articles and write a summary for each. It was a text about Charles Darwin, Alternative Medicine, Body tissues-Organs-Systems and The function of Emotion.
From this assignment, I read the texts over and over again because I didn't concentrate on it; which wastes my time and I almost didn't finished it on time. So I learned that I should read carefully to not waste my time. There’s no doubt that college offers us tremendous amount of knowledge and chances to improve ourselves. Although, studying in college can be a massive waste of money, time and opportunities. Which all of these exchange with a piece of paper. Getting a college degree doesn’t mean that a person succeed in their life. Instead, to be happy, to maintain sustainability and to accomplish your goals is the real success in life. Many successful persons we recognized drop out their college and started to chase their dreams, such as Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. Not only college didn’t teaches on how to think , but also, college are not for everyone. Moreover, graduates remains unemployed. For these reasons, college can’t guarantee successful in life. One third of college graduates remains underemployed or unemployed (Dorfman, 2017). According to the statics, 19.4% of graduates from Greece remains unemployed, followed by 14.9% in Spain (McCarthy, 2015); not to mention the rate of underemployment. This shows significant failure in college education systems. It shows that college failed to provide enough knowledge and experience that is required for a job. This prove that degrees can’t guarantee successful in life at all. Additionally, it is true that getting high degrees can be a factor for a person to get their desired job. However, skills and experiences is the majority of getting hired. College granted knowledges but not skills for life. Graduates still needed to gain their experiences in the real world, not in the college walls. So why a person need to waste 4 years in the college, instead of going out to the real world. As referred above, college isn’t for everyone and some jobs doesn’t require degrees. Everyone of us have his/her personality and individual differences. As same as difference in learning styles visual learners (maximize learning by seeing) , auditory learners (maximize learning by hearing) and kinesthetic learners (maximize learning by movement). College tends to be auditory and visually learning, for instance, lecturing. It’s obvious that some student are kinesthetic learners and college can be unconventional. Additionally, many jobs nowadays doesn’t require degrees anymore, such as technician, programmers, singer, gamers, craftsmen, or other specialists jobs. For instance, a skilled makeup artist in United States have an average salary of $63,710 per month. These jobs requires experiences, skills and talents where college can’t give. Attitude and passion leads us to a successful life. The real success in life is to get over obstacles and follow our dreams. College can’t teach on how to think critically, we must learn by ourself. For a larger image, a famous media proprietor and talk show host named Oprah Winfrey had dropped out her college. She once had give a speech about her conversation with her father, “He'd say, 'Oprah Gail' -- that's my middle name -- 'I don't know what you're gonna do without that degree.' And I'd say, 'But, Dad, I have my own television show.' And he'd say, 'Well, I still don't know what you're going to do without that degree.' And I'd say, 'But, Dad, now I'm a talk show host.' He'd say, 'I don't know how you're going to get another job without that degree.’”. In the end, she had proved that her decision paid off, her net worth is estimated at $3.1 billion nowadays (Devaney, 2017). In addition, successful person such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jay Z, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey or even Lady Gaga shared two same things in common, their strong attitude and their spirits in their passion. To sums up, college degrees can prove that a person have quality and praiseworthy. But that’s doesn’t mean you have succeed you life. The true succeed in life is to gain experiences in this big world, find your dreams and accomplish it. This essay is a persuasive essay about "College didn't Guarantee Success in Life". It's true that college offers knowledge, but it didn't guaranteed that a person will be success in their life.
From this assignment, it teaches me many things. I learned to do a research before actually writing an essay. Also, I learned to plan and write a persuasive essay. It was a hard, but worthful assignment. Hero is the name where every one wanted to have. Heroes were persons who we recognized from their courage and spirits. From that, they always receive huge respects and praises. But there’s was a hero that I admired and influenced on my life. The hero who don’t have extraordinary power. The hero who doesn’t need respects and praises from the others. The hero who didn’t wear capes but wear aprons. The hero who take care of me since I was born. The hero was my mom. My mom was in late forties, but she looks as young as the thirties. Sometimes people thought that she was my sister. My mom have deep brown eyes, shoulder length hair and a long face. She loves to stay fit all the time, she woke at 5 every morning for a daily jog. She also love to take cardio activities, such as yoga and dancing. Although, she likes to wear extremely colorful and unusual clothing. There was a day that she wore a long red funky dress, high heels, fashionable sun glasses and a Mickey Mouse Hat. She’s usually very kind and generous, but don’t even dare to make she became angry, she can be as scary as your nightmare. Every morning after she finished her daily jog, she rushed to make breakfast for everyone in the house. Then, she dressed up and take my little brother to the school. After that, she go to her office and pick my brother up in the afternoon. I know that she was very tired, but she never complained about it. Moreover, she is one of the best person to talk about problems and concerns. Because she is a good listener, and she always find a solution to make the situation better. She always understand a teenager like me, and she always teach me to use reasons not emotions. Over all, she was my hero and my beloved mom. She teaches me everything, from educative stuff to skills for life. Without my mom, there will be no me today. And I wanted to tell that I love my mom. Descriptive essay what a type of essay that describe thing in many ways. This was a descriptive essay that I wrote about my mom.
From this assignment, I learned to plan and draft for an essay. This was also my first time to write a descriptive essay. He/She was my classmate in the class 1002. I met he/she since the start of the school. At first, he/she rarely talked,I thought that he/she was a quiet and shy person. He/She also looks a bit scary too, because he/she has a tanned-skin, a fierce look and somehow looked like a depressed boy/girl (I'm sorry, but it was the truth). However, that was completely wrong! After a few weeks of school, he/she was actually very friendly, talkative and sociable. He/She was very sporty too, he can play any sports and excellent at basketball. He/she was one of the person you'll wanted to be friend with. But it was a bad news that he can't stay with you at the weekend, because he had to go back to Suphanburi to meet his family and his buffalos. The the main concept for this writing is to describe a person without telling the person name. I uses many describing methods such as his/her physical appearance, achievement or even behaviors. And after that, we guess the person as a class.
From this assignment, I learned to describe a person in many different ways. Describe a major environmental problems and what you believe should be done about it.4.5 billion years ago, our planet, the earth, was formed. 600 million years later, one of the most marvelous gifts that the god has given to the earth, lives, had begun. Everything went well until 200 thousand years ago, a kind of organisms with amazing intelligence ever existed had evolved and begun to take everything in this planet for its own benefits. The organism that considered itself as a dominant organism on this world, human, has brought chaos to this world along with its development. As humans have lived on the earth, many natural resources have been used without any limits causing the environment to deteriorate. The three major issues on the environment include global warming, pollution, and natural resource depletion. One of the main environmental issues that has been discussed for many years is global warming. The global warming is an environmental problem occurred from increasing of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, methane, and CFCs are some examples of the greenhouse gases which can trap heat and keep the heat within the earth’s atmosphere causing the raise in temperature of the earth. While using many natural resources of humans like burning fuels in car, producing electricity from natural gases gave mankind energy, it also produced greenhouse gases at the same time. As the global warming has become more and more concerning problem, many countries around the world have decided to make an agreement to reduce emission of the greenhouse gases. However, a large amount of the greenhouse gases still be released due to the demand in the energy and industrial products of humans, so it tends to be impossible to stop the emission of these gases. In addition, the things that humans can do for the environment is to reduce deforestation and increase plant growing because photosynthesis of plants can absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen for living things to use. Although this could not solve the whole issue, it’s still better than ignore this problem. Another chief problem is pollution. The pollution is also a considerable environmental problem which can be classified into two major types, including air pollution and water pollution. Since machines have been developed, they were used numerously to replace humans in industrial fields. Nevertheless, water has also involved in some processes of manufacturing, it was used in contact with harmful chemicals, heavy metals, radioactive waste and organic sludge which will be released directly into lakes and rivers. In some cases, garbage and human litters were dumped into water bodies causing problems to aquatic animals and also ecosystem. The industrial chemicals were found in fishes which are later consumed by humans. Not to mention air pollutants, the air pollutions are mainly caused by burning of fossil fuels from vehicles, power plants and emission from factories. In result of respiratory problems and heart problems. Also, acid rain can be formed by water droplets combine with harmful gases and fall down to the ground dealing the great damages to humans, animals and plants. As humans need to rely on industrial products, it would be difficult to eliminate all of the pollutions. Thus, the things that mankind should do for our world is to do the water treatment before release it back to the environment and also decrease the amount of gases that can be released. A further point to consider in the topic of environmental problems is natural resource depletion. The depletion of natural resources is the running out of resources which caused from mankind. As the humans have lived in this world, the population of human has increased continuously. Along with this increasing, the need of habitats and resources increase rapidly, while the number of the habitats and resources tend to decrease due to the deforestation, using of fossil fuels, natural gases and oil to provide energy to the humankind. These resources consuming caused the trees, oil, fuels, and other natural resources to decrease and run out because these resources take a lot of time for them to be recreated. Therefore, depletion of the natural resources should be solved before there will be remain any resources for the mankind to use, so the thing that we can do is to limit the uses of the natural resources or use them wisely and worthily. As regard to the discussed issues, it is clear that our world has faced to many environmental problems like global warming, pollution, and also the depletion of natural resources. Nonetheless, there can be no doubt that most of these issues were occurred from the humankind. It is undeniable that the earth would not be polluted without humans, and these issues affect not only the humans but also the rest of this entire world. For these reasons, the humankind should take responsibility for these environmental problems. The challenge for the society is to find the ways to solve these problems together. These issues would not be able to solve by the laws or governments of every countries, but these issues would be solved by the collaboration of everyone. In addition, we should realize that nature can live without humans, but humans cannot live without nature. I was assigned to write an essay on chosen topic, which I chose environmental problems. Because nowadays, these problems became more and more serious. And I'm covering three major environmental problems including global warming, pollution, and natural resource depletion.
Since I had studied at MUIDS (Mahidol University International Demonstration School), my writing skill had improved in some certain ways. That's because most of the assignments and projects were assigned in writing form, such as e-portfolio and reflections for English classes. Which is great because I got great chances to practice and improve on my writing skills. Therefore, I think that I had improved on my vocabulary ranges. I started to use varieties of words that I never used before, searching synonyms of some words in the thesauruses and looked up for some words in the dictionaries. However, I always wanted to improve on my grammar and sentence structure. Even though, I had already learned both of it in English classes, but I didn't understand it that much. Remembering all the tenses, structures and all those thing is a hard task for me, and it reduces me confident in writing. Which I hope that I could slowly develop and improve my writing skills in every way. I noticed all these thing by comparing my writing with a few essays I had written a year ago, and I hoped that I could gradually develop and improve my writing skill in the near future.
I've got a chance to pair up and wrote an essay about environmental problems. Which this assignment was to review our own essay and our friend essay based on a rubrick including 8 common errors in writing. I was surprised due to the number of mistakes I have done without noticing them. The left picture was self-review of my essay and the right picture was a review form other pairs.
From this assignment, I learned to check check common errors in writing and also learned to write properly. Also, this work reminds me to check and review my work to reduce mistakes. |
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