Monday, December 25, 2006

Male-Chauvinism

Chauvinism originally means excessive、unreasonable or extreme patriotism. Today, when mention about Chauvinism we usually regard as Male-Chauvinism which means men should always be better and more powerful than women. As we know, women have been treated unfairly no matter in the West or the East. Because of native difference, it is so hard to judge the edge of equalization that people still have been aspiring for equality.

Male-Chauvinism is just like a monster’s shadow which has been following behind women for more than five thousand years. Besides abridge women in houses and constrain their talent, most women had to stand the abuse of their spirit. What’s more, according to Marxist each family is a social factory because it produced power of labors. It had been a long time that perpetuation of the existing stratification system and sex stereotype had crucify women.

In 18 century, industrial revolution had brought a huge transition. Even women had to go to factory and worked as low-cost labors. As well as nursery school had become more and more popular, woman had realized their importance and they started to ask for the sexual equality.

Nowadays, feminist has raised; Sex-role revolution so far seems successful. However, we haven’t acquired the true equality. In Taiwan, not only most young women refuse to sacrifice themselves as a slave, but also men can’t accept this kind of thought so they’d rather to marriage a foreign bride without love basis. Those problems produce more other problems, such as education and act of discrimination. It proved that people are still live under Chauvinism.

Chauvinism is still widely discussed to day and the revolution seems never ending in human being’s history. Here comes the problem again—why history instead of herstory? In fact, we can’t compose human being’s miracle without each single sex. How to respect and use oppositely characteristics well is a big lesson all we have to study.

Monday, December 18, 2006

Teachers Just Don't Understand

Ronnie was not only a student but also a wife and a mother as Mrs. Johnson. Her daughter was sick so terribly that she worried a lot. Her husband had to work in the middle night in the cold wintertime. In the second morning, they discussed about their difficulties including her baby’s next surgery, her husband’s instable job and his health. She really worried about these things and even cried but her husband told her” Everything will be OK”.

In school, Ronnie had been called by the teacher. She had been blamed loudly because she didn’t do homework. She said that there were too many things annoyed her last night so she couldn’t do it but her reason was regarded as an excuse. While she was asked to do go to the vice-principal out of the classroom, she met Frank and told him” Boy, these teachers sure don't understand. ”

Boy, it must be a real story which may take place everyday around our society. It seems that life is always a struggle. While facing our life, we really need courage to face it and grow up. People always blame others as if they can do better. In fact, we are not in the conditions so we can only see part of the whole than people may jump into conclusion and complain. People usually can’t tolerate other’s fault but themselves’. Not only the teachers but also everybody including myself, as long as you are human beings you may make the same tragedy such as the story.

Stressed out

Stressed out
As a usual mother, in the story, Joan had to wake up in the middle night in order to feed her baby and prepare the breakfast for the whole family in the early morning. She still had to go to work. What’s worse, she was blamed by the boss. This afternoon, her car bumped into another one. When she counted her bill, she really stressed out.

As if she couldn’t stand anymore. There were too much things upset her. She wanted to relax or run away from the stress but it seems impossible.

Today, many people lead a busy life such as hers. How to overcome our stress is an important point to our modern life. Of course, under stress is not always a bad thing. How to handle stress well is all we have to learn.

Princess Smartypants

It was a story about Princess Smartypants. Writen by Babete Cole.
Princess Smartypants was a pretty and rich princess so many princes wanted to marry her but she didn’t want to get married because she wanted to live with her pets.

Her parents asked her to marry a prince instead of staying with her pet. She set many difficulties to scare away the princes so that the Queen and the King couldn’t blame her. But Princes Swash buckle did whole she asked him to do. It upset Princess Smartypants. She gave him a kiss and turned a gigantic warty toad. After seeing this situation, no one dare to marry her any more.

Is own a strong personality a bad thing? What is worthy to insist on is all we have to consider clearly. To Princess Smartypants, maybe we may though it was unreasonable, but she though it’s her best choice and nothing can replace. If she can’t feel better from a marriage, why we insist so much?

Monday, December 11, 2006

Made in Taiwan

Today, products that made in Taiwan have touched human's being daily life everywhere around the world. Bill Gates was impressed much by the innovative work in Taiwan. Because of its unyielding commitment to innovation, in many fields, Taiwan has become the world's number one, including LCD, PC cameras, and DVD discs, 90% of the globe's wireless lans are made in Taiwan. What is more, bicycle manufacturers in Taiwan had won 3 medals from. There are many global brands, such as Asus, Acer, BenQ…etc. In 2004, the world economic forum announced that Taiwan is the fourth most growth competitive nation. Researches and developments (R&D) are the life blood of innovation. With 90 R&D centers, Taiwan has become the leader in technological produce.