Composition I

Prejudice

When people walk past strangers , they can’t help but make judgment of others. They keep thinking about something like “He wears a pair of dark glasses and he must have a bad temper” or “What she wears is over and she must be a rude girl”. They don’t know each other but they create a personality of others. This is how "prejudice" is invented. The word “prejudice” refers to prejudgment: making a decision about something or someone before aware of the relevant facts of a case or event.

People can easily make judgment of others and prejudice against someone because of different race, sex, age, appearance and religion. Take “People in Sichuan love spicy food” for example. The speaker of the sentence makes a judgment that all the people in Sichuan love having spicy food. However, we don’t understand every individual in Sichuan and it is impossible for us to know whether everyone of them likes spicy food. It’s just our prejudice of the people in the region. Therefore, if one day you make a friend who comes from Sichuan, you might ask him/her that if he/she likes spicy food. If we have to give a present to a friend in Sichuan, we might give them a spicy food. It’s all because of our own prejudice.

I am one of the people who easily make judgment of strangers. Once I had a part-time job in an English cram school. On the first day I went to work, I met one girl who came from Taipei. She liked laughing loudly and she wore a mini-skirt. I didn’t talk much to her on the first day and I didn’t even understand her very much. I couldn’t help but think that she was not easy to get along with and I thought she looked like a conceited person . I thought I wouldn’t be good friend with her. However, after we got along with each other for a few days, I found she was totally different from my impression of her. She was kind, innocent, humorous and passionate. What’s more, she was humble in many ways. I just made a wrong judgment due to her hometown and her appearance. Afterwards I found how foolish I was and my prejudice was almost wrong.

The novel “Pride and Prejudice” is also a good example of the wrong judgment. The main character Elizabeth Bennet, who often judges others by her first impression, has a stong prejudice against Mr. Darcy. Finally she finds out the truth and falls in love with him. Prejudice can change due to understanding.Therefore, the word “prejudice” is widely used to refer to hostile attitude towards people based on only few reasons or even by judging someone without knowing them. Consequently, the result and fact is totally different. It is a common phenomenon among humans and a human nature. If we can try to live a day without judging people, it might be a new world in our eyes.

Composition II

Uniforms

There are always people on the street you can recognize that they’re students and what schools they go to. Wearing uniforms to the public schools seems a normal thing. However, lots of people are discussing and arguing about this issue. Some people think public school students should wear uniforms but some others don’t think so. In my opinion, wearing uniforms to school has lots of benefits so we shouldn’t abolish the rule.

Some people might say that if students wear uniforms, they will lack creativity. They think it can arouse their new ideas and the potential of creating new things just because they won’t be “ruled by trivia.” Nevertheless, when people say so, they don’t think of what the real purpose of students to go to school is. Creativity is an important thing but it must be based upon education and fundamentals. If you don’t have enough knowledge, all you think is a mess of daydreams. Anyway, if you don’t concentrate on your studies, you cannot get enough knowledge and going to school is just wasting time and money. Therefore, if public school students wear uniforms, they don’t have to waste time worrying about what they should wear and they can only focus on their studies. You just need a few minutes to put on your school uniforms every day.

What’s more, those people who are against wearing uniforms think they can be in a good mood and look good by wearing their own clothes. However, wearing casual clothes will lead to some discrimination and self-abasement for poor students. If we wear uniforms, the rich and the poor all look alike and the poor don’t have to worry that they don’t have enough money to buy new clothes. It is fair for everybody and students won’t judge others just by one’s appearance.

Still others think that everybody has their human rights and also do the students. They can decide what they want to look like. They say that wearing the uniforms is like the prisons and they think that students lack liberty. Anyway, uniforms represent your identification with your own school. If students like their own school and they regard themselves as one member of the big family, they will try their best to behave well. In addition, students will care about the reputation of their school and they will be united. It’s also good for schools to make their students get the great education.

To be brief, wearing uniforms at public schools is good for students, parents and schools. The main purpose for students to go to school is to get good education and concentrate on absorbing the variety of knowledge. Students will learn that the appearance is not as important as true ability. If students are distracted by those meaningless things and cannot do their best, it will be a real pity!

International Affairs

Last Tuesday night, we had a meeting in the Language Center. It was for the office of international affairs. We are going to join a camp for foreigners this summer vacation named Chinese Camp.(I think it is because they come to Taiwan for learning Chinese.) I'm not the team leader but I have to help them. On the meeting, we watched the films which they took last summer vacation and we put our name card on. There was aan interesting thing happened to me. After I entering the classroom, I saw someone who I had seen before. I thought she might be my schoolmate when I was in the elementary school. I kept looking at her and thinking. I could not sure because I had not seen her for a long time. So I decided to ask her if she knew me.I was afraid that she forgot me. Luckily, she remembered me well and she even could call my name. She also studied in Chung-Hsing and I thought it was really cool to come across the one who you knew when you were still a little kid.

Last Thursday we also had lunch together for international affairs!!! We ate lunch at Leaf and it was really delicious. I hope that it will go well for the international affairs and I can have lots of good friends!!!

Rainy Days

I think the weather in Taichung is good. It dosen't rain a lot as the north of Taiwan or hot as the south of Taiwan. It doesn't often rain in Taichung so when the weather turns bad throughout Taiwan and it begins to rain in Taichung, we who get used to good weathers will become uncomfortable and unhappy. I say that we are spoiled by the good weather. I hate rainy days a lot so I don't think I will be happy to live in the north of Taiwan especially Keelung. When it starts to rain, I don't like to go outside. However, the only thing I can do is just complain in my mind, I still need to do something. Recently, there are lots of rain outside, and it starts to rain in Taichung. I still have to work outside so I have to get used to it!!! Oh~