Hussain Maashi
In last year Saudi Arabia introduced taxes for the first time. these taxes were only used for products that are bad for public health like soda and cigarettes. The prices of those products get higher and people were upset about! Me too at the first time but after a while I realized that it was a good thing because I saw my brother smoke less and people start looking for the bad effects of soda to know why it's price get higher like cigarettes!
I remembered all of this last week when we read about the laws to reduce the use of these products. In my opinion this laws are for the best of our community but it should be in public areas only (like working places) because it is effecting other people too. But when it comes to personal life I don't think companies or organizations have the right to control it.
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Dr. Moniza’s lecture about the culture differences was incredible! She is a great speaker and presenter. The information she gave us were so important especially for us, international students. For me, the most interesting part of her presentation was when she told us about her story when she first come to Macomb. When I were lessening to her I was thinking about my self! Everything she said felt the same for me. The first impression of the new place, culture shuck, making new friends and starting a new life. Because I still new here and still going through this process her information was very valuable to me. The other thing was her rich academic knowledge and experience. Listening to her experiences ether when she was a student or when she became a professor give me a view from both sides. Last week we read the article "Addicted to Phones" by April Frawley Birdwell (2007) and I was amazed by the information in that article considering that it was published more than 10 years ago!
I thought that problems with using phones came out when people start using smartphones! But the source of the problem that the writer discussed in his article was the desire of people to be in touch! Whether by phone calls and text messages or by apps. To be honest I feel sometimes that I'm addicted to my phone. I feel that I spent most of the day reading things and watching videos on my phone. I know that is wrong and I hope I can change this behavior soon. Because of my feelings I was looking on the internet sometimes and reading about this problem. There are a lot of researches, articles and personal experiences for people who left their phones for a while and how amazing their life's become! I think we all should try this experience to have an amazing part of our life back. The writer said "Addicted also causes changes in the brain" which seems completely true to me. Our brains are flexible continuous behavior could change it over time, just like how we got our instincts. The idea of patterns is to allow the reader to understand what's written! For example, if a writer is writing about a problem he/she would use a use a problem-solution pattern where he/she describes the problem and then gives the solution.
there are tons of patterns like the previous example and by using them the writers could give a clear texts for the readers. I think patterns are the same in Arabic language "my first language" because I couldn't think of any different ways of writing! In scientific writing you could find all patterns also, but perhaps the most commonly used ones are problem-solution, cause-effect and definition. patterns are extremely important to understand what you read and by understanding them we can understand the overall idea of the text we read and also it helps us summarizing it into smaller ones if we need. During my undergraduate studying time I wrote a few papers. I wasn't alone and my professor helped me all the time editing, finding sources and explaining the right way of writing without plagiarism. |
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