Summary of the Graduation Present (By Iris Chou)

1. What do you like best about your peer's summary? (Why? How might he or she do more of it?)

I think her writing construction is quite good because when I finish reading her summary I can know what this article is about. I thinkshe should write more about the last paragraph.

2. Is it clear what is being summarized? (i.e. Did your peer list the source, and cite it correctly?)

Yes, her summary is written correctly.

3. Is the thesis of the original essay clear in the summary? (If not, write out what you think that thesis is.)

Yes, the thesis of the original essay clear in this summary.

4. If you have read the original source, did you identify the same thesis? (If not, how does it differ?)

Yes, my summary is just written like Iris’.

5. Did your peer miss any key points from his or her summary? (If so, what are they?)

No, I think I didn't miss any points from Iris'summary.

6. Did your peer include any of his own opinions in his or her summary? (If so, what are they?)

No, I did not read about that in her summary.

7. Did your peer include any unimportant details in his or her summary? (If so, what are they?)

I think there isn't any unimportant details that my peer include in her summary.


8. Were any points in the summary lost? (If so, where and how might it be fixed? Why do you think it might be important?)

Yes, I think this article is focus on the sense of family so that the last paragraph is very important. I think she lost the last paragraph.

A Full Box of Kisses

A man punished his gaughter because she wasted a roll of gold wrapping paper. Then the daughter gave him a box but inside it was empty. When the man saw it he was mad at his daughter again. His daughter told him inside the box was full of her kisses, the man crushed and forgave her. Foe years when the man felt upset he would take a unreal kiss from the box, and remember how his gaughter love him . There is no more valuable things that anyone could hold this real sense from our family, friends, or God.

Summary of The Graduation Present

A young man awaited his father could buy him a sports car for his graduation but he got a leather-bound Bible. He was very angry and left his home for many years. One day he received a telegram telling his father passed away and he went home immediately. After he arrived home he saw the still new Bible and while he was reading the words that his father underlined, a key of a sports car which he desired dropped from the Bible and he saw the tag writting" Paid in all".

The Falcon of Wonders in Dubai

A developer said that Dubai, a part of the United Arab Emirates will spend $1.5 billion to build a city of life-size replicas of Seven Wonders of the World . There are three buildings will be designed on structures of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World". Others will be duplicated of more modern wonders. Inside the buildings there will be flats, offices, hotels and shoppind malls.

Internet Traffic Volume Categorized by Time

Chart 1: Internet Traffic Volume Categorized by Time

As we can see from chart 1, the largest percentage of the people who use the Internet is in the workday P.M., it accounts for as much as 37%. On the other hand, there is only 13% of people use the Internet in the holiday mornings.

My favorite film- October Sky

I have seen hundreds of movies. The most impressive one and also my favorite movie is "October Sky ". It was produced in 1999. The main actor is Jake Gyllenhaal. This film was about a boy Homan whose father was a miner and his father wanted him to inherit his career.

Homan's life seemed to be no options. But his life changed when he saw the rocket. He saw his future! Homan found three boys of his friends to make a group "Rocket Boys". They tries to send the rockets to the sky. But the rockets fell down many times. They never gave up and kept making rockets and doing their experimens. One day, Homan's family suffered the calamity. The Rocket Boys was disbanded. A few days later, one of Homan's school teacher Judy and Homan's mother tried to encourage them to continue their experiments so that they could reach their dreams. Then, they took part in a game and finally won the race and made thier dreams come true. The most impressive scene is that Homan's father didn't support him and never wanted to see Homan trying to send his rocket . But when the Rocket Boys sent their rocket in the race, Homan's father stood behind the crowd watching them. He felt proud of his son.

This movie encourages some people who has the great dreams. The character finally reached his dream although his dream seems faraway and people always think that is a joke. People always give up something easily when they feel tough or when they have frustrations. But I think there is no success without failure.

Rewrite sentences with weaker verb

1. Attractive people may have more favorable personal attributes than unattractive people.

2. Economic sanctions are probably ineffective.

3. Acoording to this survey, it shows that alcohol can highly causes people to become violent.

4. Passive smoking can highly causes cancer.

5. Recycling could be the best solution to the waste disposal problem.

6. Physical exercise may reduce depression.

7. Deep tunnels may highly be safer and less vulnerable to earthquake shaking than the shallow tunnels.

8. Private schools could provide a better eduation than the public schools.