Pieces of April

Often hears about parents complain about their teenage children that were difficult to upbringing. In the ages of teenage, some of them have very intensive personality and reverse psychology. Nevertheless, most parents raised their children with great love, patience, and show the children more understanding and tolerance their mistakes. Parents would not give up the child, unless the child give up on herself. In the movie, April did not get her parents to understand, until April's mother has been terminated cancer. The Thanksgiving brought April's family together again, maybe this would be the last Thanksgiving that April's family reunion, and everyone wanted to leave a good memory. Although April had problem with her broke oven, and Bobby had struggled to borrow a suit, they finally solve the problems. 

One episode in the bathroom had make April's mother aware of the responsibility for growth April. She  was easily gave a conclusion to April that she was a bad girl and she let April to face her own fate. After April's mother realized her fault, the family spent a warm, touching Thanksgiving.

Overall, life have been treated April and her family well. At least, they had a chance to make up for the things they have done. But most of time in life, people do not have time or opportunity to make up mistakes. In general, people do not realize what they did wrong, until they lost the opportunity. 

The last scene of the film is especially touching. April's families are harmony together, her mother passed away with no regrets, April will continue to live with found memories. 

sleeping giant

SEO--increase visibility of website

SEO is to use some technics to make your website in the top places in Search Engine when somebody is using search engine to find something. An effective SEO strategy would significantly raise the traffic of the website. Both on-page and off-page SEO need to be considered in order to optimize the result. There are many ways to improve the visibility of a website or webpage.

First, make it easy for search engines to crawl the site. The search engines send spider to look over the content of the site. Thus, the site needs to be clear that the spider would easily navigate the site to appear on the search engine. Things would do to avoid the gates, such as, get rid of flash navigation and frames. The flash navigation sends an unfavorable signal to the search engine. The frames work well on the search engine, while also has some troubles. The navigation is in one frame while the content is in another, which brings the viewers to a page with no navigation.

Second, use keywords when create titles or descriptions. The titles are the most important variable to increase the ranking, because it appears in the title bar of the browser window. Use a clear and unique title could make it stand out from other websites, and the words have to be accurate to reflect which things are trying to deliver. When building the page content, ensure that the keywords appear in the first sentence to guide viewers to log on your site, which the search engine displayed in the search results.  It is necessary to keep it short and to the point that the prospect would use the words at the search engine and it makes search engines easier to follow what the keywords are. Also, put keywords on images could bring more traffic since some people are looking at the images from search engine. Sometimes, it would get better result if the site use relevant keywords instead of repeat the same keywords all over the page, since the search engine could grab more information from the page.

Third, use clear, concise text and good layout to make sure the readers would feel comfort about it. The content of the website decide how attractive could be for the readers. The page layout is as important as the title tag. If the website looks poor in design and do not have clear navigation, the readers would leave the website and find the source from somewhere else. A good appearance could make the prospect easier to find what they want. When people has good feeling about what they see on the website, they are more likely to spend longer time to look at it and they  may find something interest them.

Fourth, get more incoming links. The site links to other associated websites are crucial for enhancing the PR value. Do not uses spam, but to make related content, high quality sites link to your site. These series of reciprocal links would prominent web pages.

Fifth, constantly update the content. In order to create more traffic, it is a must do thing that update the site content timely. It is difficult to maintain people revisit the website if the site does not update more quality content. In addition, the competitors in the industry are trying to attract more customers; the customers might be poached to other sites and never came back.

Sixth, review the website stats. Using Google analytical tool to find out the keywords, which prospects like to use frequently. From understanding the visitors’ purpose and what they are interesting in, the site could change the keywords and improve the content, links that most appealing for resistor’s. This could make the site more efficient.

At last, one tip to improve the website visibility without much knowledge about website is to hire professionals. 

              Wal-Mart is the world’s largest retail store. Its stores are located in more than 15 countries. Wal-Mart sells various products with very fair prices, and that attracts customers. It also provides a simple and comfortable atmosphere for customers.

              For the exterior design of its stores, Wal-Mart puts its symbol outside the store as large as possible so that people cannot miss it when they are driving by it. Then, people will probably think, “We are out of milk. We should go to Wal-Mart to get some.” The parking lot is also considered as an element of atmospherics. If there are not enough parking spaces, consumers might go somewhere else. Wal-Mart uses blue to provide a comfortable and clean interior atmosphere for customers. Shopping carts are on the left side when you are walking in. Products are all divided into different categories in sections and each section is labeled by a sign above the shelves. This makes it easy to customers to locate what they are looking for. Wal-Mart always puts its discount products in middle of the aisles. It is easier to attract customers’ attention. Sometimes, the on-sale products are not exactly what customers want to buy, but they choose to purchase it because of the lower prices. Moreover, Wal-Mart is open 24 hours every day. Customers can come in whenever they want.

              Wal-Mart uses its unbeatable price and various products to attract customers. However, in my opinion, Wal-Mart should use more decoration in the store. Although products are all easy to find and well organized, the design of the store is not attractive. The blue color of the store feels cold. The interior lights are all fluorescent tubes which do not give off a warm light. I think they need to improve their customer service as well. I have asked employees where some product is located, and they have replied, “I don’t know. You should ask somebody else.” This does not leave a good impression with the customer, and I think customer service can also be considered as an important part of atmospherics.

               Although Wal-Mart is already having a good performance, it can still make improvements. It has good prices for all kind of products. And its products are also well organized. However, Wal-Mart can make its interior store design better. So does the customer service. 

Thinking of Islamic

Every religion has its own spirit and rules that need people to obey. Islam, as one of the biggest religion in the world, which has a lot of followers, has a very special religious observance that is Ramadan. Ramadan is the ninth month in the lunar or Islamic calendar which be named by Holy month.

        The spirit about Ramadan is rich people suffering the hunger and starving with the people who live below the poverty line. Generally speaking, all the people could be considered to poor would get help from the others. Through the public support to tell the poor, they are not suffering alone. It is the Islamic month of fasting, which means cannot eat, drink, smoke, even sex and all kinds of habits that prohibit. All the adults Muslims should fasting starting at the dawn until the sunset. This is the most important order during the whole year and the best time to show the honesty for Allah. Good acts are acceptable and respectful, and try to get rid of the lying, the desire in the mind.

      Donations become one of the main themes in Ramadan. Establish the shelters and non-profit community services for the poverty people. Thinking about the lives that have nowhere to live and no food to eat. Let all people remember the habitats that should have and avoid the bad portion in the soul.

       As well known, all the coins have two sides. The positive actions cannot cover the negative one. Prices of food get higher the week before the Ramadan. Furthermore, the wasting of the food becomes obvious than the daily time. Ramadan is not only effect the social level, but also the politic level.  From different aspects; such as, agriculture, economics and politics, people would see another view about Ramadan.

       The key point of Ramadan is like prophet Mohammed said, “Rich people should even avoid the poor asking for charity”. 

I like the melody of punk which can make you fresh when you listen to punk music. Punk music originated in the mid-1970s. It is from Britain, and it affects a lot in Britain. In 1970s, there was an economic crisis breaking out in Britain. The automobile industry almost went bankrupt; the spinning, coal and steel industries were in trap; the price of food and oil rose; a number of workers were unemployed. The young generation felt completely at sea and had no idea about that. At that time, the musical stars had a very important influence on the young people who doubted the society tremendously. It is the punk music that shows the disappointment and desperateness about the society from the young people. They criticized all the aspects of the society, involving shouting loudly, an odd hair style and dressing, and a frantic performance on the stage.

In Britain, punk music is considered as a movement against the government which was shiftless. The most important punk band in Britain is “sex pistols”. The best song I like from it is “God save the queen” which is imitated the British national anthem. Although this songs was banned everywhere at that time, it was still so popular that it got the No.2 rank in the ranking list of Britain music. In Britain, punk is a music which was used to against the government, while in America; it is supposed to be a new language that young people spoke to their parents. The important punk bands and singers are Ramones, Patti Smith, Nirvana, Green Day, and the Offspring and so on.

Nirvana is legendary and it is my favorite band. They created a lot of songs which make me crazy. “Never mind” was come out 20 years ago. However, it is still one of my favorite albums right now. “Smell like teen spirit” which is my favorite song brings Nirvana high reputation. When I heard this song at the first time, I just thought it was so aloud. But later I could feel his loneliness, and then I could not help keeping listening.

The other famous album “MTV Unplugged in New York” is also my favorite. In that concert, he played the songs by wooden guitar and sang the songs in the soft voice which showed the other side of him. That is a classical unplugged concert which changed many people’s prejudice to the rock music. Kurt Cobain sings “Where did you sleep last night?” in a very hoarse voice. It is no doubt that Kurt Cobain is a genius. In 1994, Kurt Cobain ended his life in his life by using a hunting gun. I think nobody know why he was suicide as why he sighed at the end of “where did you sleep last night?” A lot of people consider him as a “God of Rock”, so maybe God should not be in the reality.

Anyway, Kurt Cobain acted to live up to his music ideals, but what he left to the fans is heartbreak and recall. Although his business was better and better, he still became more extreme and cynical. He was so desperate that nobody could change his mind, including the crazy fans and his wife and daughter. So he chose a bullet to end his life. In his autobiography, he said that I didn’t have the passion any more, so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away. Because of this sentence, he became the rock hero in a lot of people’s heart. However, punk is still in development. There will be more and more people involving this kind of music.

Does anyone on this earth can live without love in the heart? I am sure everyone has an answer in their mind. When we look around, we can see the love between parents and their children, generation to generation. We can see the love between sweethearts or couples, even though they are gays or lesbians. We can see the love between human beings and their pets. We can see love spread in every corner of the world.

     In different culture, there is a different meaning about what the children represent to the parents. Some said children are the debts that parents need to pay back. The other said children are the gift from the god. I remembered when I was a child, I am absolute a naughty girl. I liked to go outside while it was raining. In order wear that stupid rubbers and played in the dirty puddles. Now, I couldn't understand why and how that I loved made my clothes and myself to stained with grease. Think about the past, everyone used to do silly things at childhood. However, that time I felt much fun about it. My Mom got angry with me many times because she is the one who need to clean all of my mud points. She slapped me on the buttocks, but I didn't cry, on the contrary, I was laugh. Then I walked back my room likes a cripple. At this moment, I heard my Mom cried. I was a kid that couldn't understand how badly feeling she had when she did something to hurt me. At present, I am ten thousand miles from home, I miss my mother, my father, also my grandparents. I believe family is always being together, no matter how far between them.

     There is someone, people might spend rest of their lives with each other. People fall in love with the others and want to be together everlasting. The feeling and process that fall in love it can't be describe. When they look their life partner in eyes, people can feel how much they love the other. It is like the sweetheart or the lover is part of life.

     I think I don't need to say so much about the emotion between human and animals. Human beings have feelings, so do animals. People are nice and kind to their pets. Many families make their pets to be a number of their families. Perhaps the pet is as important as a relative. When I saw a dog direct the blind cross the street, I begin to think not only human beings but also animals could be great. In the natural, we should take care of each other.

     Love is pure and exist. We should believe the power of love from family, affection, the emotion through human and animials. 

Everybody starts education with language; unfortunately, I start education with the most difficult language, and fortunately I start education with the most interesting language.  Chinese is a language has thousands of year’s history. In writing, Chinese has different performance between past and now.  In the past, people writing in a kind of old language what called “wenyan”, and they can use a little words to present a long story, and every word present a lot of meaning.  It’s very hard to learn wenyan, because you need to remember every word’s meaning in both now and past.

            Chinese in today is much easier than before, but it still has huge differences by different locations.  There are more than 55 nationalities in China, and every nationality has their own culture and language.  That’s the reason why there’re lots of local languages in China such as Mandarin. 

           Almost every child starts bilingual education when they are very young.  Although I accept bilingual education from 7 years old, I find lots of challenges in my American live.  In talking, when I communicate with some Americas I usually can’t have enough time to organize the words together and present my meaning correctly.  I also can’t catch every word when I listen to other, and I always guess the meaning just by catching some key words.  The biggest problems are that talk in phone or talk with some non-English sparkers.  To phone talking problem, it is very hard to communicate without any body language.  Another difficult thing is talking with non-English speaking people in English.  They use second language to communicate, and I use second language to communicate too.  That means language sets two barriers between two who both are non-English speakers.  On the other hand, talking is easily to present my emotion, because I can use body language to help my communication, and it is easily to talk English without caring the grammar problems.

            Compared with talking, writing in English is harder.  To a non-English speaker, I always think in Chinese, and then translate into English.  In this translation process, it exist a lot of problem to me.  For an example, every English word has a couple of different meanings, and for every meaning it has a lot of words you can use.  When I translate from Chinese to English, most of time I can’t always pick up one what fit the meanings I already have in Chinese.  Sometime I use some vocabularies what actually English speakers do not use, and that’s why I usually use some easy vocabularies.  Because of these easy vocabularies, my writing does not very like a professional academic writing.  The other issue in translation is that both the grammar and sentence structure are different from Chinese writing.  I need pay attention on the differences in grammar and sentence structure, so sometime I can’t translate correctly.  Another big problem is thinking style.  In my basic education, I know how to write a paper in Chinese thinking style, but now I need change entire thinking style.  Compared with Chinese writing style, English academic writing shows the main argument much directly, and need very close connection between each sentence.  Generally speaking I like English writing more than English talking; the main reason of it is that I have more time to organize what I want to say. An international student maybe has to spend ten times of working than Americans.  What I need to do is that read English much as I can, write much as I can and, and communicate as much as possible.   

        Artificial intelligence (A.I.), a scientific phenomenon that showed up the in 20^th century, automatic works are liberated people from hard work. During the past 50 years, the economy grew rapidly as well as issues surrounding A.I. People began to adapt their life style to the constantly changing high technology. By looking at the future of artificial intelligence, we can analyse how it will impact of human life, change our interpersonal relationships, our society and the ethics of A.I. robots. The AI issues became unavoidable in life.

       I saw an interesting story a long time ago; a lovely story from somewhere I can’t remember. It said, in those old days, we didn’t have cell phones, we didn’t have Internet, we didn’t travel abroad, and we didn’t have traffic. If I miss you, I will climb over two mountains and walk 5 miles to hold your hands. This seems ridiculous for our generation, but it was vivid and moving for my grandparents. Computers or cell phones are the root of modern technology in artificial intelligence; they changed the way that people live. Looking forward, A.I. will be part of our life and developing of robots will shock the world.

         I think society will be influence in many respects. First, artificial intelligence could replace a variety of tasks, thus, forcing some people to change their jobs, even making them unemployed. Society will become more competitive; it’s already hard to find a job even though they are not intelligent robots.

        Second, A.I. will affect society’s structure. On one hand, people hope artificial intelligence will replace a lot of labor or eliminate the child labor. On the other hand, people are worried that A.I. would cause new problems. In fact, the social structural is undergoing a change. The years of “human and machines” will end and ultimately to replace by “human and machines and artificial intelligence” social structural. Intelligent robots will be one of the intelligent machines. Today, people’s jobs could be undertaken by robot in the future, therefore, people will have to learn to get along with robots and adapt to a change of social structure. Overall, the labor issue will lead to unemployment that will impact economics, then cause disorder and conflict in society. In that situation, most people in the world will be victims; I believe this is a change that no one will expect.

        Despite social problems, let’s talk about how does A.I. affects our personal lives. First, the popularization and application of A.I. would affect humans in the way people think and concept. For instance, once the users began to believe the A.I. system could make the right judgments and decisions, people may not be willing to rack their brain, after a period of time, and become lazy and lose their sense of responsibility and sensitivity to solve the task. An example in our lives when students rely on calculators, their active thinking and numeral skills will decrease significantly. Over reliance on a computer’s recommendations would lose ability to analyze the cognition and increase misunderstandings. Assuming, everyone has a robot to do anything we want them to do, our brains will shrink, and so do our bodies.

        Second, A.I. has also caused some members of society feel a psychological or spiritual threat. In general, people believe that only humans have spiritual sense, and its distinguee people from machines. If one day, people begin to believe that machines could think and create, it may make people feel disappointed, even feel threatened. Human beings would be nervous because the AI may exceed human’s natural intelligence in the future. Perhaps, A.I. is able to make human beings become the slaves of the system. In accordance to an A.I. point of view, humans are likely to use machines to plan their own future, or even imagine how the planning issues working. In this society, some people welcome new concepts while other groups find this new idea troubling and unacceptable, especially when the idea are opposite of their beliefs.

        Artificial intelligence bring us incalculable benefits in the economy, at the same time, it causes some problems that people never face before. Generally, we could say the invention of AI is a good sign so far; therefore, people need to think about ethical, interpersonal and societal issues that are raised by the prospect of artificial intelligence.