The Land of Conjurors

                   We all know that Woody and Buzz Lightyear are good friends in the movie ─ Toy Story .  However, there is another type of story to testify their friendship .       In Toy Town, there was a cow boy named Woody.  He always had a pistol taken by his side.  He was also a selfish and greedy guy.  But Woody’s friend, Buzz Lightyear, was a man with sense of justice and kindness.  Sometimes Woody and Buzz had quarrels, but they were still good friends.        One day they took a walk at the coast.  Woody saw a mermaid sitting on a huge stone and thought the mermaid’s beautiful tail was precious, so he decided to  shoot the mermaid by his pistol.  Unluckily, the mermaid died at once.  And then Woody soon took a scale from mermaid’s beautiful tail.  Buzz was so angry about Woody’s way of doing because of his greed.  But Woody didn't care about others thinking.  After they got back to the home, Woody had a bad night.  The terrible thing had begun.  Woody had nightmare

     This time we went to the Taichung Science Museum to discover something special and interesting.  We chose one of the themes called Life Science.  As a matter of fact, I had been to Taichung Science Museum  since there was a great deal of exhibition for wonders of science.  This time, however, I have some different thoughts while I was operating the devices which can teach us about the natural phenomena.    In Science Museum , there were various devices of science which captivate me.  For instance, I was attracted by a device which can cause tornado intriguingly.  Through this device, it can gradually form a mini tornado if you just blow one small breath inside the device beforehand.  By observing the direction of airflow which was drawn by the fan at the top, to my surprise, there was a real mini tornado which was come into being for a while.  Certainly, this phenomenon was caused by natural principals and the knowledge of human’s research.  Nevertheless, I was impr

Everybody knows the principal of getting married. Marriage is a promise for husbands and wives to   get together and   live happiness   forever. So it’s the time that you should   both   have mutual understanding and show consideration with each other, right? And, as you mentioned that men are tend to be a womanizer, which means   men who likes many women and have   short sexual relationships with them, lots of people blame men for their flirty character. However, you have to understand that not every man is inclined to flirt with women. Actually, if this situation occurred, it must have problem in marriage. But you know that whenever the problem comes up, you cannot always blame men for their character.   Besides, we somehow take in a stereotype which affected by soap operas and movies, and novels so on. Mostly, husbands are shown for bad side in having an affair with other women. But this time is not the problem of men. I think the problem might go to the wife. If the wife shows mor

           Friendship is quite important for  me I think. In this song, Gareth Gates uses his clear and sincere vocal to interpret what a friend can do some ways:  a truly friend can help you at all times, a honest friend can trust you at all times, a faithful friend can endure at all times. Such a good friend lasts forever, for life.        Nowadays people who desire to get along with their true friends is so hard to find. Sometimes you might make a friend cheating you or even betraying you. In this song, the beautiful melody and lyrics show the sentimental expression for it.          The song With You All the Time, maybe you just hear its name, and t his song is not so popular in demand. So  you feel not so unique and nothing special. For me, h owever,  it means a  lot since it occurs to me a movie illustrating some special friendship. In addition, if there are no beautiful melody and touching words in it, it will not attract me deeply in my heart.     

     Today I went to the singing class as usual. And I noticed I had made a good progress than before. Originally, I was stuck because my breath ran out of smoothness in singing. So I had tried many times to improve my breathing problem. Mr. Ruan was so kind and even gave me more chances to sing in front of everyone. Therefore, I felt full of gratitude to him for his teaching.      For me, I consider Mr. Ruan is the best musical teacher and singer so far. He encourages me to try again and again even though I might fail at the moment. Furthermore, I'm impressed that he never feels exhausted while teaching us how to sing. Sometimes I thought maybe he just owned his enthusiam in singing and teaching. However, it occurs to me that he owns something more than I've expected. That thing is the Love , which he treats students by dedicating himself to teaching and interacting with them eagerly. Besides, he shows his care and seriousness apporpriately, making us bend on singing. Most im

     What makes me happy? For me, t o be happy can be many ways actually . Sometimes our feeling and emotion can be transient or permanent. However, I like the happiness that can be everlasting. For me, my habits occupy the most part of my life mak ing me happy. For example, reading the novel and watching movies are my favorite things to do. I love it because the great meanings inside influence me a lot. It gives me the plot or foreshadows, inspiring me to contemplate . The spiritual soul inside also makes me feel mysterious. They are not a principle or sense merely teaches you how to do or what you should behave like something else.     In addition, s port also makes me happy all the time. When I feel sad or need to face the difficulties, I usually go playing the badminton. And I enjoy sweating on my whole body. During the process, that feeling makes me entirely free from worry. For me, it i s really a happy time to play!    Another thing makes me happy would be cooking. For

Richardo Pau-Llosa,  The Unlikely Origin of Metaphor       One morning day, there was a crowd of people waiting for Jesus and listening to his explanation of the parable which people had asked. Jesus applied the whale connecting to the sinners as a metaphor. As listeners became thrilled, Jesus had disappeared without a trace, leaving a faint image for people to figure out.                   For me, I would like to question at first, how  many authentic metaphors d oes the Bible hold? Actually, i t is pretty interesting for reading " T he U nlikely O rigin of M etaphor ."  At the beginning, Jesus came into a crowd of people very naturally. And later Jesus was welcomed by a crowd of people. It was a pretty peculiar phenomenon for the situation since everybody did not react to the coming of Jesus, yet it was Jesus felt surprised for everybody was waiting for him. Furthermore, in the paragraph 2, Jesus continued stating the question of whale th

We are nobody When things are getting knotty Maybe we might perform funnily Yet sometimes none of us get in rightly. We are called nobody For others walk by and say nothing, Considering that we must be part of air, certainly. Yet it seems we should exert ourselves, namely... We are just nobody As if he or she looked at us normally So we'd like to lift up our eyes hopefully For nothing can be changed differently. But you should know that... Sometimes our mind can never be blurted out honestly. And that's how we have become nobody.

My hometown Kangshan is located in Kaohsiung County.  There is a gorgeous specialty in my hometown called broad beans sauce.  The main ingredient is the broad beans.  The others are   seasonings such as Chinese red pepper, chili and salt.    The way to make this sauce is not difficult but really consumes lots of time.  Firstly, we have to put the broad beans into water to loose and soft it, and then the broad beans will peel off by it.    Secondly, steam the broad beans and put it to the place where is 30 degrees to ferment, and the germs will grow up.    After that, we need to put the seasonings mix up the broad beans.    Besides, we have to add some cold water for 400 grams and seal it with an airtight container.    At length, we need to stir it twice every week.    After 30 days, and then the thick broad beans sauce will be edible. As a matter of fact, broad beans sauce is so common in every store or super market.  However, Kangshan’s broad beans sauce is famous than others bec

Speaking of my meaningful object, actually I have a good many of them. But I think the most meaningful object for me is the badminton. It really played a vital role in my childhood. Recalling my childhood, I was in primary school. Someday we had a physical education of badminton. And that was my first experience to get in touch with it. So I felt very fresh on it. While playing the badminton at that time, I truly enjoyed the feeling in the process. Imaging that I stood in the ground of center with step of Chinese word─” 米 ”, then spread out if the enemies attacked. And it made me feel excited to make a counterattack. That was a great movement for me to show myself like being quick, resolute, and correct to hit the ball. It was so cool and fun to do this sport, so I asked for my dad to buy a new badminton racket for me. The new badminton racket was not so expensive. It was brilliant red. And it’s pretty light to hold. I just love my own racket. So when finishing the class, I was prepa

Today is a big day. Time flies! It is the anniversary of my retirement for being vice chief in Student Association. So after the class, Jean and I rushed into 伯鐸小劇場 . To our amazement, it brought us astonishment as if I looked back on my life on the stage. Because it refreshed me somehow for watching the performance of my juniors on the stage, my surprise just exuded somehow.       At the beginning, they were dancing cheerfully with great smile and it was pretty excellent which impressed me a lot. It truly showed the young life blooming. And then when I took a look on their faces, their emotions were so natural without any nervous or anxious feeling. Besides, the most impressive thing was that they were going to introduce the activity after the show. At the moment, the way they talked and the behaviors they acted were so marvelous than I expected on this stage. Confident, talkative, outgoing and even humorous as they were in everyone's sight.            For me, it seems that I 

She is not a serious person you take Not that kind of person you merely name Sometimes things just out of her way And she can hardly explain the fate But you should know this is not true for what she's made Yes, certainly, for my sake. Somehow the falling rain is drenching in her pain Let no one but her feel so vain. And she's not a serious person again When you see her train of thought, I would say no one but her understand One thing would keep her in mind, As if some treasure seemed to be found and make her fain, Keeping her walking from the beginning to the end. Now I close my lids and think of what I gain, But why the falling rain's still drenching in my pain? Let no one but I feel so vain.

Take one of your favorite stories from our course text , Sudden Fiction Continued , and comment on its characterization, narrative techniques, or other psychological or circumstantial aspects that make your selected story an evocative one.   60% Tergvinder's Stone   by W. S. Merwin   In W. S. Merwin's "Tergvinder’s Stone," a man called Tergvinder carries a plain-looking stone from the bottom of his drive. He does not explain much about the stone to anyone. Troubled by the insomnia, Tergvinder thinks that his problem in life can never be solved if discovering that he was still alive. However, Tergvinder does not face the problem rightly in reality. Although people around him take the stone of no use, Tergvinder regards it as his spiritual comfort for he seems to find the fellow-feeling from the stone in some certain attitude. The protagonist, Tergvinder, perhaps he does not know the illness has been invading him step by step. Here the illness does not w

In my childhood, sometimes I dreamed that I could live in a magical life. That was the period when I saw the movie in series of Harry Potter. It’s the movie from   England . For this reason, I would like to open up my imagination to create my fantasy of magical life. Therefore, I would think that there was a competition which was to make an excellent delicacy by using the magic. People should speak his or her incantation to show magical power, proclaiming the method of how to make the delicacy. Everyone would attend this activity very enthusiastically because they desired to win the prize and good reputation. So there was a school   where   was to cultivate the student to make gorgeous delicacy and I was also a student in this school. To attend the competition, all I had to learn was the magic lesson and to make lots of practices further. If I really did well on the competition, I would go to the field of magical cooking and take it as my career for the moment. It would be fun to le

     It was a cloudy day. After finishing listening to the speech, I said goodbye to my friends, thought it was prosaic and pedestrian for all, and left nothing so special. Somehow my fantasy broke out my mind, pondering if he came over or walked by, then I could have greeted him with my best. Yes, I could show my fervor to him for bumping into each other. I could say, "Hey! Lucas!" with my high-spirited sound and my radiance. Or I could greet "Hi, Lucas," with my benign smile revealing and tender voice speaking. Or rather, I just gave more inner intensity, greeting "Hello, Lucas..." with a deep feeling in my eyes and attractive sound. Yes, I'll do that as he would come for sure. But why, it seemed that I just only think of that, of him, and of the relationship between he and I.       And when I walked a while, I looked forward... hey, wait, someone came over here, looking so familiar. Gosh! It was him! Yes, undeniably, I would have prepared myself fo