my opinion

1-Smoking:I think smoking is bad habit
Smoking is a big reason for cancer.
The benefit of smoking is to noise the people who don't like the smoking
2-Fast food:it can make people to be overweight
I like the fast food, because it has a very delicious taste. Also, it has many ways to make it.
Fast food becomes the diseases, because it is a junk food
3-Marriage before the age of eighteen: people under the age of eighteen should be allow to marry
What is the problem when the person get married before 18? It saves him from the worst diseases.
The person before 18 isn't ready to face all the problem. Also, he doesn't understand the marry life. 
4-drink alcohol and drugs:I believe drink alcohol  and  drugs destroy many people lives
Alcohol becomes the diseases. Actually, it is a disease. It kills the mind.

5-Illiteracy:In my opinion,it can effect the economic growth

6-Driver license:people are not allowed to drive without driver license

7-Good way to learn English:I think listening is a good way to learn English

8-Action movies: watching action movies allow people to be entertain

Wang+Aram

Wang+Aram

1. Drive before the age of sixteen: Teenagers under 16 should not drive.
2. Marriage at the age of sixteen: People shouldn't married before the age of twenty.
3. Facebook: Facebook is a good tool for socialise.
4. Alcohol: People under 21 can drinking alcohol.
5. Communication: Text is more useful than e-mail.
6. Computer system: Windows is better than apple.
7. Ipad: A mini Ipad is a better choice compare with a Ipad.
8. The way of reading: It is better reading a real book than reading online.
9. Fast food: It is bad to eat fast food.

1-thesis statements

pro: I think that teenagers under 16 are not allowed to drive because they are immature and they don't know the risks of driving

con:I think teenagers who under 16  years should drive because it allows them to be responsible and have skills for  driving.

2-pro:In my opinion,people shouldn't married before the age of twenty because they still young and they ignore what life will look like after marriage.

con:I believe that people can get married before the age of twenty because they can adopt themselves in their new life even if they are young.

√Faisal Alhajri - Yushin Lin

Topics:

1. Smoking: smoking makes you feel like an adult.

2. Drinking : Drinking wine sometimes is a good hobby.everyone should at least taste high-class wine

3. Driving be for the age of the eighteen: people under the age of eighteen should not be allowed to drive.

4. television: Watching television makes people lazy.

5.dating before the age of 15,people should not be allowed to date

6 military female should not join the military due to their physical and strength

                                                                    Zhenxi Zhang
                                                                    Minjie Zhu



1.Pro: Smoking  let some people feel mature and like a adult.I think the major of young man want to become their father and wanner be a man so they choose smoking.

 Con: Smoking is harmful to our health. And when the young people smoking they will think he is a bad guy.


2. Pro: All we know, sometimes drink a little of wine is benefit for our heart.
Con: The law of the United States need the people who want to drink must have 21 years old, and if we drink a lot it will be harmful to our body.


3. Pro: Driving is dangerous, we must have the enough age can   control our mind and active clearly.

Con: Everyone have the different situation for themselves, we can depend on their own situation to deal with.


4. Pro: When we watch the TV, we will sit on the sofa or bed, we can not need to do something, just lie on. If this situation continue a long time, people will be become lazy.

  Con: Although watch TV makes people feel lazy, but this is also a good situation to let people feel relax. In our daily life, people has a lot stress, they need to have fun, feel relax.


5. Pro: If the people have not 15 years old, they have not known what the love is, and have not shoulder the responsibility.

   Con: I think fall in love is a activity for liberty, we should not control them.


6. Pro: Female have not enough strength and physical to join the military  to make war.

    Con: Nowadays, the war become more information and depend on technology, not only the strength. And it is not truly that the female is weak than male.

Rayan

1-Smoking:I think smoking is bad habit

Pro: i believe there are a lot of harmful things will effect you in smoking such as diseases, wasting money and get away from people.

Con: I think no because it helps people to relaxing, remove the headache and builds a community. 

2-Fast food:it can make people to be overweight

Pro: I agree that the fast food is not good for our health, wasting money and being a lazy person.

Con: I don't agree. the fast it helps me when i don't have time for cooking, good business and  

3-Marriage before the age of eighteen: people under the age of eighteen should be allow to marry

4-drink alcohol and drugs:I believe drink alcohol  and  drugs destroy many people life.

Pro: I think is true, because they causes many problem, wasting money and wasting our life.

Con: I believe they are 

5-Illiteracy:In my opinion,it can effect the economic growth

Aram+Wang thesis statement

Zhenxi

Minjie

1. Smoking: Smoking is bad for people.

Pro: Smoking has many negative effects to people. It is bad for people's health, it waste a lot of money, people will become addicted.

Con: Smoking has many positive effects to people. It helps people to relax, and people who smoking looks cool, sometimes it helps people more concentrate on their things.

2 Watching T.V.: Watching T.V. is bad to the children.

Pro: T.V. plays a very important role in our daily life, however, watching T.V. has many negative effects to children. Watching T.V. can cause obesity in childhood. Children may get many bad information from watching T.V., like violence, sexual abuse. Children may become isolated because they used too much time on watching T.V..

Con: Watching T.V. has many positive effects to children. Some T.V. programs may have many kind of knowledge that will make children learn many thing. Watching T.V. can also help children to relax.

T.V. is entertain, and can give children a lot of fun.

3. Do a lot of homework: It is a bad thing that give students too much homework.

Pro: Do a lot of homework may help students learn better. However, too many homework will give student a lot of stress, and make them don't have enough time to do other things they want to do. Overstress will make student can't do a good job on their homework.

Con: Do a lot of homework will improve students study skill. Many student don't do other study besides their homework, a lot of homework will make them learn better. When you practice more, you get more familiar with you knowledge. 

Faisal Alhajri - Yushen lin


1.  Smoking:  

A. I think smoking is harmful for your lungs.
B. smoking has several advantages such as relives tensions and relax yourself.

2. Watch TV:  

A. Nowadays. TV play an important role in our daily life, we can know many information on it.
B. TV play is bad thing in these day because it takes a lot of time.


3. Arrange married : 

 A. Arrange married is not good for people, it so constraint for us.
 B. Arrange married could be beneficial and advantageous , which would support and prosper mutual families in many aspects such as economy assist, family support.
 

4. Do a lot of homework:  

A.  Do more homework will give students stress, and they have not enough time do something they want.
B. Do more homework will give the student a lot of good skills to improve their language.

5. Uniform: 

A. In my opinion, students do not need to wear uniform every day because individual values and creativity are heavily emphasized on modern societies.
B. wearing a uniform may bring out many advantage such as responsibility, simplicity  and equality. 

smoking; not healthy and make cancer.
drinking alcohol; while you are driving; its wrong way and you make your self in dangers situation.
 drinking alcohol is legal and it make you lose your mind and do a lot of stupid things without control  your self.
The conditions of society 
The different between two country jeddah & Al khtif
The different between food
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louai Masri   K.S.A
Kumail Alabbad 

some topics

Hijab:

Some Christianity’s don’t like the Hijab while the real Christianity’s women wear a Hijab.

Soccer:

American people don’t like soccer, but they have all kind of sports.

They must like it, because it’s the most popular sport in the world.

Respect the Islam religion:

American government does not respect the most important thing in Islam. It is Joma’ah prayer on Friday.

They must to give a break for Muslims people on that day.

IPhone:

The last version of I phone is I phone 5 why make longer screen while its rival is Galaxy S 3 and they made it with wildly screen and HD.

I believe Samsung Company is better than Apple Company. 

topics

smoking: not good and harmful

a lot of assignments everyday: it makes the students lazy and confused

more than two quizes on one day: let the student skip some subjects and study one of them.

spending/saving money: saving money for bad situations is much better than spending the money for something not important.

Kinds of food: each person has a special kind.

Facebook/Twitter:  Facebook is the best social connecting.

iPhone and Samsung:

 Weam and Nellie


1-Smoking:I think smoking is bad habit
2-Fast food:it can make people to be overweight
3-Marriage before the age of eighteen: people under the age of eighteen should be allow to marry
4-drink alcohol and drugs:I believe drink alcohol  and  drugs destroy many people lives
5-Illiteracy:In my opinion,it can effect the economic growth
6-Driver license:people are not allowed to drive without driver license
7-Good way to learn English:I think listening is a good way to learn English
8-Action movies: watching action movies allow people to be entertain
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pros and cons

Faisal Alhajri - Yushin Lin

Topics:

1. Smoking: smoking makes you feel like an adult.

2. Drinking : Drinking wine sometimes is a good hobby.everyone should at least taste high-class wine

3. Driving be for the age of the eighteen: people under the age of eighteen should not be allowed to drive.

4. television: Watching television makes people lazy.

5.dating before the age of 15,people should not be allowed to date

6 military female should not join the military due to their physical and strength

Wang+Aram

1. Drive before the age of sixteen: Teenagers under 16 should not drive.
2. Marriage at the age of sixteen: People shouldn't married before the age of twenty.
3. Facebook: Facebook is a good tool for socialise.
4. Alcohol: People under 21 can drinking alcohol.
5. Communication: Text is more useful than e-mail.
6. Computer system: Windows is better than apple.
7. Ipad: A mini Ipad is a better choice compare with a Ipad.
8. The way of reading: It is better reading a real book than reading online.
9. Fast food: It is bad to eat fast food.

                                                                    Zhenxi Zhang
                                                                    Minjie Zhu



1  Smoking:  I think smoking is harmful for your lungs.

2 Watch TV:  Nowadays. TV play an important role in our daily life, we can know many information on it.

3 Arrange married :  Arrange married is not good for people, it so constraint for us.

4 Do a lot of homework:   Do more homework will give students stress, and they have not enough time do something they want.

5 Uniform: In my opinion, students do not need to wear uniform every day. 

Sheep should be eaten by wolves

One day, sheep sued the wolves with the crime murder. They said that wolves killed many sheep and they want wolves to pay it. However, the silver wolf, the leader of wolves, refuted this statement. It said that they have to eat sheep and complained that sheep never docile enough for them to eat. There are always some wolves die in hunger, and that are the sheep's fault. The silver wolf counterclaimed sheep with the crime murder. It gave the court some reason.

The first reason is they need to live. Just like sheep need to eat grasses to keep alive, wolves need to eat sheep to keep alive. Grasses also have lives and they had never complained that sheep eat them. So there is no reason that sheep can complain or even sue wolves. If they want to do this, the first thing they have to do is stop eating grasses, this is the only thing that make their lawsuit reasonable.

However, there is a more important reason that makes wolves eat sheep. It is for the world's safe. Just think about wolves don't eat sheep, then what will happen? The number of sheep will keep increasing. Do you really think the increase of sheep is a good thing? Absolutely not! Sheep need food. The increase of sheep will certainly cause the decrease of grass. Obviously, the decrease of grass will result to desertification, many grassland will disappear. This will influence the nature very terrible. Nature has its own rules. It lets wolves eat sheep, and it has its meaning. Break one part of the natural law will bring horrible disasters to this world. It's sheep's fate that eaten by wolves.

What's your judgement if you were the judge?

The USA is a Good Place to Live

    

       I have been to the United States for 1 year. I think America is a good place to live for human beings. 

       The United States is a large region in global and has not many people in it. People in the U.S has enough space for living, they can live in a large room and have a garden in their house, and it is not crowd for living and traffic. 

       The U.S has a good environment for living. My first impression for United States is there havs a good environment. The street is clean, it is hard to see the garbage on the road. The sky and river are so clean it is better than China.
       All we know, United States has advanced technology and education system. It is the reason that many foreign people choice to study in U.S, the American afford them good environment to achieve knowledge.
       From what Imentioned above, the USA is a good place to live. People will have a good time in there.

Captain America shouldn't be a member of the Avengers

Captain America shouldn't be a member of the Avengers

I love to watch an action's movies pretty much, especially in the super heroes movies. The Avengers is the latest action's movies that I watched. It has a wonderful computer graphic, but the story is always the same ending.

My favorite heroes in The Avengers is the Hulk, he is the strongest guy in the movie. When he get angry, his body will turn green and getting bigger. Also, The Ironman and The Mighty of Thor are an awesome characteristic that I love too. They both have their own ability. The Ironman or Tony Stark, he is very smart, he created his own iron suit that can fly and shot. The Mighty of Thor, one of my favorite heroes, he such a powerful because he is a got from Asgard, the land of god. He has a great weapon in the universe name Mjolnir, also he can call the lightning storm which is really really cool!

Otherwise, The Captain America is one of the super hero in the Avengers team that I think he has nothing special except the 'shield'. I mean he is handsome, strong, and powerful, but without his shield he is nothing. Also, he can fight but not good as Bruce Lee or Mike Tyson. You can imagine if either Lee or Tyson has captain America's shield they must be better than captain America definitely.

What do you think??

Smoking is bad for health

                                   Smoking is bad for health

    Nowadays, more and more people smoking even more and more teenagers including high school students try to smoke. In my opinions , smoking is a very bad thing.

     Smoking can cause lots of illness, such as cough, have a sore throat. Even you will get cancer if you smoking for a very long time . Most of smoker know Marlboro( a kind of cigarettes),in China the designer who design the cigarettes boxes. They draw rotten lung on the cigarettes boxes to remind smoker smoking is really bad for your health.

 SMOKING  

I THINK THAT SMOKING IS A BAD THING BECAUSE IT LEADS SERIOUS HEATH PROBLEMS AND DISEASES SUCH AS LUNG CANCER THROAT CANCER AND SO ON.THE BAD THING AND TERRIBLE IS ALL THE DISEASES RELATED TO SMOKING LEAD TO DEATH BECAUSE SOMETIME THE DISEASES ARE INCURABLE.I HAVE ONE SAD HISTORY ABOUT SMOKING.IT IS ABOUT ONE FRIEND WHO STARTED SMOKING SINCE HE WAS COLLEGE.HE DID IT BECAUSE ALL HIS FRIENDS SMOKED.HE DID IT TO SHOW OFF .THE THING IS EVERYONE DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME BODY SYSTEM.HIS FRIENDS STARTED SMOKING BECAUSE HIM BUT HE DIED THE FIRST.THE MORALE IS SMOKING CAN DESTROY PEOPLE LIFE EVEN WHEN THEY ARE NEW SMOKERS.

a lot of assignments

Some teachers give the students a lot of assignments because they think that helps them to learn better and they practise very well. In fact, it confuses them. Also, the students do not have enough time to do their business in their day. How can the collecte between all these together. especially, when they have many classes'  assignments.

Finals Exams in The End of The Semester

Finals Exams in The End of The Semester

          The IEC is one of the good programs to improve the English second language. I have been studying in IEC since February 2011, and it is very good program to develop my language. anywhere there are positive and negative things, and the negative thing i have seen each semester is the finals exams in last week in each semester.

St.Cloud

Do you want to live in St.Cloud?

for me no. As we all known, there are good services in this area, 
but there is no fun and bad weather that may heart us such as our 
classmate Nellie she got cold and went to the hospital. because, 
I'm international student, there are people who don't like that and i'm sure some of us had bad situation from the racism. Sometimes, i hear a shoot gun!! and nobody wants to put him self in the trouble. 

    Eid aladha is one of the best festival in the world. Eid aladha is for muslims only. Eid aladha always came in after the day of arafah. all the people are happy because all the families stay together. Eid aladha came before 3 days . i woke up at 8 a.m to take a shower and be ready to go pray because you have to pray in the morning special at 9 a.m . It was so cold in St.Cloud, but I went to pray. All the muslims slaughter the Sheeps because it's order from the god. after I finished pray i went back to my house to take a nap . I woke up at 12 P.M and i went to visit my friend and to say Eid Mubark . there were many people there . In the evening, I went to Saudi Celebration . It was awesome because many of my friends came there and we ate so much . 

last friday Eid Aladha

louai Masri
10-28-2012
writing class

        last friday Eid Aladha  

        

 last friday we had holiday celebrate for Muslims it's called Eid Aladha. In the morning we went to the 

hollenbeck and we pray the Eid prayer. We wear our traditional clothing. In the afternoon we went to 

the minneapolis with my friends.It was so nice because we had fun over there. Also, we went to some 

different places. we went to arabic restaurant and we ate some delicious food. when i got back to st. 

cloud one of my friend called me and he invited me in his house because he invited many friends in his 

house and he cooked good food, rice with fish and there was delicious dessert that made. 

Holiday

I always think there is noting different between holidays and the normal days. Day should be day. I can makes everyday like holiday if I am enjoy my time. Things changed this year. I became suffering on holidays.

Holiday, it should be a day that friends and family will get together. It is not just a day for people to relax, to remember something, to celebrate something. I never noticed about this before. I always don't care about it and just do what I want to do on holiday. To aware this made me suffer on holiday. I missed them. I missed my family, my friends, my mother's cookings, my father's words, my niece's crying, my friends' company. I missed all of these thing.

Be honest, there isn't a holiday I really like. Without them, my holiday can't be holiday. 

Happy Al-Eid

rakan Alolayani

10-29-2012 

Happy Al-Eid

         Anyone has religion celebrates, and about me and Muslims people we have two celebrations. They are Eid Al-feetir and Eid Al-adha, but today I will talk about Eid al-adha, because it was on last Friday. We went in the morning around 9 a.m. to pray. After that I went to my house, and I got enough sleep, because we will celebrate at night. I woke up around 6 p.m., and I went to Best Buy and bought new PS3. When I arrived home I saw Muslims students a lot of them Saudi and some of them international at my home, and my brothers asked me to go to our old apartment and get some dishes for cook Kabsah. The Kabsah is rice with lamb, and my brother cooked it for 2 hours.  We were at my house 18 students, and we celebrated with play some of Arabic music and play soccer games, hanged out, and spend wonderful time together. Around 9 p.m. the Kabsah was ready to eat, but we waited for some of us to come back. We started to eat the Kabsah at 9:30 p.m., and it was great. We had fun that day and I hope we will get much better than this celebration at our countries between our families.

Holiday Experience

                                     Zhenxi Zhang

Holiday Experience

          The weather is turning cool gradually, and there are big differences of the temperatures between day and night. I have special sense for autumn. Maybe just because Mid-Autumn festival in autumn.                                                                 

          In my childhood, when the round moon was hanging in the sky at night of the mid-autumn festival, my father always put a table in the yard, besides some moon cakes, there were also fruits such as watermelon, apples and grapes on the table. My grandma, mother, father, younger sister and I were around the table enjoying the delicious food and talking and laughing.

         Nowadays, I felt lonely in United States, I am deeply aware how worth it was to cherish. All my loves were around; there was rare worry in the heart and everything was so peaceful. The moonlight was warm, and our family was as whole as the moon then.
　　 The longer I am away from my hometown, the more seriously I am homesick. There are thousands of kilometers away between China and U.S. People often say that what you are thinking about is what you can see from the moon, but the place is difference although all we can see the moon.

Eid Aladha

       This Eid was the first Eid in U.S. It was on last Friday. I woke up around 8:30 a.m. I took a shower and I wore the Eid dress. After that, I went to pray Al-Eid prayer. I was amazing because there were a lot of Muslim people. I invited my friends to visit me in my home to drink Saudi coffee and spend the time together. I visited some my friends and back home to wait my other friends. We stayed and spent the time together from 10:00 a.m until 6:00 p.m. At 7:00 p.m, we have Saudi meeting with all Saudi students. We eat dinner and got a very good night together. After that, I back home with my favorite friends and watch TV.