Undergraduate / "The university fund project" - Why are you considering The Ohio State University? [4]

Why are you considering The Ohio State University?

The university fund project in Ohio State first caught my attention, because I'm applying for a similar project in my school in which we try to raise funds by running marathon. The purpose of our project is to support sports and the disabled children. With this experience, I hope I can do something special to Ohio State University.

I'm applying for fisher college of business because it has a creative learning atmosphere and will provide prospective students with strong analytical and cooperative skills which are necessary for dealing with real-world cases. I am very confident because I successfully took part in the Guinness World Record's " The Largest Percussion Ensemble" on 2 July 2002, during which, I got to know that team-work is really important through this program and I benefit a lot from participating these activities.

All above are the external elements of my decision. No one can make sound decision without following his or her heart. So am I! I believe the Ohio State University will bring me the opportunity to enter and experience a unique, global learning environment - one that with different world views and the energy of motivated students who are interested in changing the way people do business. I believe I will have a huge gain through this experience, which will make my life more brilliant and give me valuable tools for my success oneday .That's the main reason that I choose Ohio State University: starting my new life there.

Ohio State University, starting my new life there.

Writing Feedback / Music can kill much time if people are bored - sound is part of our lives [2]

169: People listen to music for different reasons and at different times. Why is music important to many people? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.

Sometimes I really believe that music has a power which can make people relaxed. Almost everyone listens to music everyday. We will be happy when we hear our favourite song. Sounds like a magic,right? But it dose.

Music or even just a piece of beautiful sound, can release some motion which cannot be found easily in real life, especially which is from movie. For instance, what comes in your mind when hearing "my heart wil go on" from Titanic?... in my mind, I seems I can feel the truly love between Jack and Kate. Everytime I hear this music, I can't help crying because of move, there is something special in this music, which make me also fall in love with someone.

Music is one of best ways to relax according to a research on "How can people relax", music is in third place following stay with family and travel. It also shows that people who are in higer position listen to music more frequently then ones in lower position, what's more, it indicates that in daily life, music seems to be the top 1 method of relaxig for everyone. For example, students listen to it before the exams because it will reduce nervise. Besides, listening to music help going to sleep well and deeply.

More notably, no one can deny that music is another language people can use worldwide. Here is a old saying goes " no border in music", people from everywhere can communicate with each other with music. Sometimes it is better than real language such as English and Spanish, etc.

Amoing the benefits shown above, more basicly, music can kill much time if people are bored, you can see people listenning to their MP3 players in the metros, buses and cars.

In sum, music is a part of our lives, which benefits us a lot.

Writing Feedback / Treating pets as family members is not a good way for human beings even though they are our friends. [3]

(182): Many people have a close relationship with their pets. These people treat their birds, cats, or other animals as members of their family. In your opinion, are such relationships good? Why or why not? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------

Last week I met with my friend, she saied to me that she wanted me to see her daughter Lucy some day. So I pick up a day to her house. But when I arrieved there, I found lucy was her dog. My frieng loves it very much, she spends whole night with it and talk to it. She said she cannot image her life without lucy.

Indeed, it is no denying to say many people like my friend now have a close relationship with their pets. They not only treat them as animals but also as friends, or even family members. In my view of point, the disadvantages of this relationship far overweight the advantages.

As we are human beings, thinking is one of the most remarkable characterisitics for us to tell from animals. Whatever we think about, we need to communicate with other persons, and we want to get feedback, which pets cannto fulfil, they cannot understand what we say, neither talk to us. Having too close relationship sometimes may make people lose communication skill for society.

Notably, from a scietific research, it is said that people who have close relationship with their pets prefer to say alone than people who don't. That way, to a greater extent, have influenced their social life. My friend is a case, she had been a very active girl when she got her dog, she invited people to have dinner, hang out when she was free. While, after she got her dog, every time we called to her, she always refused to come out. Instead, she spent her whole space time with her dog. Gradually, no one invited her to have dinner, or go to a movie.

To sum up, treating pets as family members is not a good way for human beings even though they are our friends.

Writing Feedback / Personal life of famous person is no longer "personal" [5]

Q: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Television, newspapers, magazines, and other media pay too much attention to the personal lives of famous people such as public figures and celebrities. Use specific reasons and details to explain your opinion.

------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------

With the remarkable development of public media, the personal life of famous person is no longer "personal". Personally, I cannot agree more with that today's television, newspaper, magazines and other media pay too much attention to them.

Every day, there are plenty of journalists waiting outside of the homes of famous people. They take photos about the things they do and the people they meet. If there is something strange happened, the tomorrow's title page will appear the news of this person. Sometimes it is absurd and annoying, and to certain extent, has disturbed the normal life of those people, or even been harmful to them. The typical example is Princess Dianna, who is died in a traffic accident. After she had dinner with her boyfriend, the couple found there was a journalist who wanted to take photos with them. Wanting to get rid of him, the couple drove faster and faster so that they didn't notice another car coming to them. This situation also happened in other countries, many Korea TV stars have suicide themselves because of the highly concerned by the public, which also occurred in China. This situation has showed that public should give these persons a room to relax and work.

Another situation often happened to these super stars is that the news from them is always not about their works. It is more likely that public is now interested in their relationship with other people, instead of their hard work. When you read the newspapers, the most news appeared in them are like one has broken up with his lover, the couple of star C and D want to divorce, or even star E enter the relationship between F and G, etc.. However, as far as I am concerned, it is the private part of people's lives, nobody should tell other ones about their private life, even though they are famous.

To sum up, because of the too much attention paid by public media, famous people cannot live normally, which should be stopped.

Writing Feedback / toefl -- needed land / protecting environment [5]

Q: In your country, is there more need for land to be left in its natural condition or is there more need for land to be developed for housing and industry?

The concept of protecting environment is gradually aroused wild public concern in China and the government has already taken action to do so. However, there is still more need for land be left in its natural condition in terms of trees, food and climate.

We need more natural lands because we more trees to protect our country from drought. As we all know, trees can avoid the water flowing away, and they can also create the oxygen we need every day. However, according to a reported, 80% of the original natural land has become farm land in the late 70's, which is the result of over cutting. At first, only some farmers cut down trees to plant their crops in order to feed their family. While, as these farmers realized that plant additional crops would offer them more profits, they started to cut amount of trees down. Even though there is a remarkable improvement since Chinese government carried out the policy of returning farm land back to forest, not all of them can be return to the condition they had been.

Besides, we need rich lands because we need food. The action of 70's farmers did has made the permanent harm to land as tremendous elements has gone once the original land is forced to turn into the farm field. However, not all the original land can be used for farming, certain number of which cannot be used, so they finally become the waste land. With the expanding of the scale of waste land, many field lands are affected by reducing the production and producing the low-quality crops.

Also, protecting the climate is also one of the reasons to need natural lands. In every rural parts of China, there exist a lot of factories, especially the chemical factories, which produce a plenty of waste water and gas. Instead of recycling, these factories poured the water into the river, which lower the quality of water In China as well as that of air, as a consequence, aggravate the climate of the whole country.

To sum up, from a sustainable perspective, more natural land is needed in China. Only in this way can keep the balance of environment.

Grammar, Usage / Some sentence meaning questions [5]

1, Should the novelty of sleeping in a nicely appointed igloo wear off, you can always step outside and gaze up at the Aurora Borealis.

in this sentence, what is should mean?

2,fear not, what dose it mean?

thanks !!

Writing Feedback / toefl -- success and luck [7]

Q: "When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success." Do you agree or disagree with the quotation above?

People always ask how to success, some think it is because of hard work, while the others think it is from luck. As far as I am concerned, I accede to the part of hard work, but disagree with the last sentence. The following are the reasons why I think so.

As the proverb goes; "practice makes perfect". People can achieve their dreams by trying again and again, no one can succeed without practice. Let me take myself as an example, when I was a young, my mother took me to learn violin. Personally, I think it is one of the most difficult instruments in the world. It was so hard for me that I couldn't play a complete piece of music when I met my teacher in the next week. I felt extremely disappointed at that time, and I really want to play it well. So that evening, I started to practice as soon as I went back home. I was every awkward in the beginning because I cannot make my hands do different things. But I tried again and again, never gave up. To make my hands be balance, I began with one-hand exercise, and it seems worked. When I went to my violin teacher again, she was so surprised about my remarkable improvement and said; "Good job, girl.", which is one of the most exciting words I have heard till now, so I will never forget this experience. It is the practice that makes me successful.

However, besides hard work, success consists of a lot of factors, among which, luck accounts of the largest. Even though success is mainly result of hard work, we cannot neglect the existence of luck, which is not rational. According to the research on "how the successful men succeed in U.S.", 65% of which say they accomplish their goals only through practice, while 95% of people involved say it is the combination of work and luck that make them successful, even if the hard work is more important than luck for sure. In this conclusion of this report, the author said it indicates the clear ideas that luck is the second basic element for success.

To sum up, it is not so critical to say luck has nothing to do with success. Even though the hard work is the most important element, luck is still not dispensable.

Writing Feedback / Skill is more important than a theory, but without any experience - knowledge, it fails. [10]

Q: It has been said, "Not everything that is learned is contained in books." Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?

Do you know what dose knowledge means? According to the dictionary, knowledge means that anything one can learn from. Generally, there exist adequate sources can people get knowledge, such as teachers, parents, library, internet, etc, they can be divided into two categories - books and experience. Some argue that the knowledge gained from books is more important than that gained from experience, while others hold the totally different perspective. As far as I am concerned, I absolutely accede to the second opinion.

Accurately speaking, it is theory that we learn from books, and experience let people improve the ability. Deeply saying, books contain academic information helping people understand how things happen, why they happen and how to solve them, and the personal experience accentuates the skills the individual need to hand with different situation in the real society.

Undoubtedly, it is indispensable that people should get that kind of information. However, only having the academic theory is far less than enough, we should learn something from the personal experience, or even from the others'. In my view of point, the theory told in the books is based on the consumption that the environment is fixed and unchanged. While the real life is a flexible system, in which the change varies every second. If people apply every situation said in books to the real case, he will be upset in the end. That is to say, no one can survive merely with the academic theory.

While, from another perspective, let me take an extreme opposite point as an example, what about the person who only have the skills? Let me suppose that a boy without any education, will he become a successful man? Actually, there still exist some cases in real life. For instance, in ancient China, many emperors are farmers, who don't have access to the education, for them, the key to success is their experience, which is more suitable for living than theory.

To sum up, even though both of the sources are indispensable, skill is more important than theory.