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Topic: People attend college or university for many different reasons ( for example, new experiences. career preparation, increased knowledge). Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
College is a place that the students can learn more and new knowledge and experience in it. Of course, different people have different reasons for studying in college. For example, some people want to go on to further study after they graduate from college; some people hope to find a good job after studying in college and also some people wish to exchange their present situation through studying in the college. In my opinion, no matter what reasons people study in college for, studying is just a preparation for their future life.
First of all, students can gain new knowledge and experience from the studying in college. There are many teachers, professors with abundant teaching experience who teach students lots of new knowledge and help them to solve problems with their study. With their help, student can learn a lot of basic and professional knowledge which is very helpful for their future work and study. After they finish their study in the college, students can go to work in the society and contribute to their different fields.
Secondly, students can learn how to arrange their own time reasonably. Before their studying in college, their life may often be arranged by their parents, and their study by their teachers. It is very different for them to live and study in college, because students studying in college have to arrange their life and study by themselves. They have right to arrange their part time, such as when to get up, when is the sport-time, when to finish the assignment etc. This is important experience for students' work and life in the future.
Thirdly, studying in college gives students the opportunity to live with other students and learn how to cooperate with other people. Usually, people feel uncomfortable about having to live with a stranger, because they do not know each other and perhaps their habits and personalities are different. But for the long run, it is good for them. They have to cooperate with each other and solve a lot of problems they will face together. Gradually, they can learn how to care for and understand other people. It is a preparation for students to go on to cooperate with other people in society.
All in all, students can not only gain lots of new knowledge from their books but also can learn much more necessary experience, such as how to arrange time and how to cooperate with other people. Therefore, studying in college is very important for their future work and life.

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Topic : How to do movies or television influence people's behavior? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.
The impact that modern mass media has had on our daily life, and society in general, is undeniable. No doubt it will become even greater as the scope of mass media continue to grow, as the relevant technologies become more and more sophisticated, and so fascinating that virtually nobody will be able to escape. Already, it can be seen that are exercising influence on our youthful generations: they grow longhair regardless of their sex, commonly part of which is dyed gold; they wear jeans in each and every season, usually the knees of which are deliberately tattered. Boys are fond of earrings or other odd pendants, and girls are keen on Marlboros and weird coarse language.
The major means that mass media influences the public is by creating topics of discussion in the society. Mass media offers people (the consumers) issues to talk and think about. Titanic had brought a worldwide uproar by its extolling and fascinating view of immortal love; Prime Color and Wag the dog met with national debates on the rights and duties of the Resident of the United States. Antiwar movies such as Tears of the Sun and All Quiet On The Western Front among numerous others have been raising many questions. Is any war really to uphold justice? Is it really worthwhile that an individual makes sacrifices to his country, and at the same time ignores his own family or his personal values?
Mass media also shapes our understanding of what is important, and what is not important. The "important" issues are to be found on the first pages of the newspaper or in the beginning of a television program. The "unimportant" stories are the ones that are not being told at all. The "not very important" stories are probably very short and hidden in the last pages. In fact, censorship is present in all mass media, including distributing means such as the Internet. By prearranging public issues, the mass media makes decisions for us. Even though there are critical thinking individuals in any society, they are a definite minority, the public is whole indeed lack the skills of critical thinking, and therefore they are often led by the media.
In brief, mass media, by offering topics and affecting the ways in which we discuss "the important issues", has a strong influence on our perception of the truth, of the world or of the structure of our society. We have to admit that it has a role in our lives as a source of information, experiences, entertainment, amusement as relaxation.

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By Gary Levin, USA TODAY
Sometimes Emmy voters choose a favorite, but Sunday they spread the love around.
HBO's The Sopranos, shut out of acting categories for its final season, won TV's top award for best drama. NBC's freshman comedy 30 Rock didn't have many viewers last season, but it won the Emmy for best comedy.

And ABC had a good night in top acting categories: Sally Field won best drama actress for ABC's freshman Brothers & Sisters, her third Emmy. America Ferrera took best comedy actress for another first-year series, Ugly Betty. James Spader was a surprise winner, claiming his third Emmy, for Boston Legal. HBO won a top award, not for James Gandolfini but for Ricky Gervais, the British creator of The Office, with best comedy actor for showbiz sendup Extras, co-produced with BBC.

In supporting categories, it was a year for first-timers. Katherine Heigl took home her first Emmy trophy, winning best supporting drama actress on ABC hospital drama Grey's Anatomy and trumping two of her co-stars, Chandra Wilson and Sandra Oh. Terry O'Quinn won best supporting drama actor for ABC's Lost; and Jaime Pressly won best supporting actress for NBC's comedy My Name is Earl, also marking that series' first acting award. Only Jeremy Piven was a repeat with his second consecutive win as best supporting actor in a comedy series for his role as obnoxious agent Ari Gold on HBO's Entourage. He'd also been nominated in 2005.

In movie and miniseries categories, Westerns won out. AMC's Broken Trail won best miniseries, as did its stars, lead actor Robert Duvall and supporting actor Thomas Haden Church, both with their first Emmys. HBO's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a big winner in last weekend's creative arts awards, won best movie. On the non-Western front, Helen Mirren won her fourth Emmy as lead movie/miniseries actress in PBS' Prime Suspect: The Final Act, which also won writing and directing awards. Best supporting actress in the category went to Judy Davis for USA's The Starter Wife.

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CBS' The Amazing Race continued an impressive winning streak with its fifth consecutive Emmy in the reality-competition series, edging out the far more popular American Idol, which has never won.

Comedy Central's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart won best variety, music and comedy series for the fourth consecutive year. But after 24 nominations and zero wins, NBC's Late Night With Conan O'Brien snapped its losing streak by winning the Emmy for best writing in that category, also won by The Daily Show for the past four years.

The Emmy for drama writing went to David Chase, creator of HBO's The Sopranos, for "Made in America," the series finale that aired in June, while the departed series also took the directing award for the "Kennedy and Heidi" episode NBC's low-rated special Tony Bennett: An American Classic won three awards, for variety, music or comedy special; best performance in one; and best direction.

The comedy directing award went to Richard Shepard for ABC's Ugly Betty, and comedy writing honors were given to Greg Daniels for NBC's The Office.

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首先,我觉得最重要的问题在于出国的动机,各种动机都有,很难说哪个对,那个不对.但是我觉得有几点还是应该强调,虽然很多人都在说这个.就是出国并不是走向成功的唯一一条途径,也不是适合每个人的选择.……

  对于学术界,论文是硬道理,不在乎学校的好坏,论文发表的杂志级别,和论文本身的价值说明几乎一切.而在商界中,能否打造知名的企业,能否挣到钱是真格的.政界中,怎样为百姓谋福利,让国家富强是最重要的.当然名校会给我们一个很好的契机,很好的发展平台.比如如果你在Cavendish实验室,哈佛, 斯坦福,等等...你能接触到世界级的人物,你看到诺贝尔奖获得者不再有当初在中国时候的激动,你甚至可以和他们聊天,通信.甚至觉得他的这个课讲的并不是很好.……

  还有很重要的一点就是出国可以开阔视野,这里的开阔视野不同于我们上小学时候知道的那种开阔视野,也许应该说是亚当夏娃偷吃禁果后的那种开阔视野.你到先进的国家看看,无论什么方面,你都可以更深刻的知道自己身上肩负为祖国富强奋斗的担子有多重,中国离世界的差距有多大.你也许会第一次知道什么叫爱国,什么叫国际地位.当你看到有的白人对你不懈一顾的样子,你心里不是仅仅骂一句Fuck, 你会知道什么叫需要强大祖国的撑腰……

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我就是这样与社会上的许多人一样长大的，也是渐渐的失去了思考的能力。幸好我选择了出国这条路，使我学到了很多很多。刚开始我出国的目的是，学先进的技术，日后有好的生活，少干活，多赚钱。直到我写申请材料，特别是PS时，我才开始认真的思考我自己想要什么，我为什么要出国，我以后想做什么。我看了别人的ps和申请结果，明白到，凡是成功的人（不单是拿到offer就算成功），都有一个共同点，他们出国的目的就是想学自己感兴趣的……

  我很赞同一句话："You fail to plan, you plan to fail." 而plan的第一步就是think……

  于是我开始思考人生的目的是什么。最后的结论是，快乐的生活……

   可能有人说我崇洋媚外，但我觉得所谓的崇洋媚外，应该是你问他这个东西中国好还是美国好，他说美国好，你再问他为什么，中国能有什么办法改进，他又说不出来，它就觉得美国样样都比中国好……

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“有人说我是梦想家，但我坚信我不是，无论如何，人应该努力成为他命中注定要成为的那个人。”
——乔治。巴顿

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楼上的确实是变态。。