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Rapprochement Breach and Civility

“The social status of children is according to their parents, as a vision shown and suggested in November 1990 at YWCA Taipei City, that children are divided by two parents groups.”

But grown-up children are not children anymore. That he as an adult shall be with civility, such as civility to underlings, women and children, should not delay in developing.

For upward movement in society of his own self-fulfillment needs, with social status inherited from his own parents group, good command of language from prestige education, he should neglect the difference between two parents groups to pursue goals in his future. But he is only denied by disclaimed opportunities and the claim to his own rights to return to where he should stand on the breach of rapprochement between that two parents groups to carry on with his civility developing.

Postscript:
1. rapprochement breach
2. civility
3. ally, alliance <——> protocol abolished, alien
4. status quo
5. upward movement in society

by Dawn Break, September 22, 2013

Almost a decade ago when I still kept the 1600cc Toyota problem car which was that kind of car mostly you would see on the street painted to be yellow as taxicabs, I drove that Toyota Altis 1.6 Break Into Style model new car to the Tamkang University for graduate classes. One day in Taipei City near Tamsui I drove in the McDonald’s Drive-through Service to buy a hamburger for lunch. That McDonald’s was located at Beitou, Taipei City with a language Institute beside that fast food restaurant. That McDonald’s restaurant had several parking spaces beside the drive-through track, and I parked that Toyota Altis 1.6 onto the parking space to be using the drive-in service at the McDonald’s and had my lunch, then. That Toyota Altis 1.6 actually was the Breeze Center 2001 spring acquired sample Prius 1.5 and was altered to be Altis 1.6 2002 winter new car on the Toyota assembly line, although the engine number was marked and adding serial number to be matched with the car selling date, it probably could be easily sniffed out and spotted, for example, by some advanced RFID technology or something like that. Therefore I had heard a lot of discussion about this problem Toyota car, although I did not believe them at all and considered them as rumors. What I really try to say here is that, that day when I went to the McDonald’s I was using the drive-in service to park my problem Toyota sedan to have my lunch. I did have that McDonald’s lunch, a perfect and comfortable meal. They said that you’d better use the drive-through service, instead of drive-in, but I did not listen, you know. It was explained there that if you were drive-in, quarrels would happen more easily than if you were drive-through. Isn’t that ironic?

Later in summer of the same year, I discovered that there would be some professional killer having been trying to approach me for some killing and it was successfully defeated by a congressman from Chicago on that day. That was my hero, and he told me that I was an American. I had a Child Abuse Case account registered in the United Nations since 1979 and I was called for some testimony or to be as a referee in 1996 in the New York City before I was forced back by the pressure caused by my grandmother’s death and dropout from Baruch graduate program after I had applied in person for the green card with my Social Security Number account registered by the City University Baruch graduate school for the human rights concern out of my grandmother’s death during the United Nations and US Congress called for a testimony. I heard that besides me, there were a lot of human rights cases like my child abuse case account registered in the United Nations. For example, there was an Iran nationality human rights case registered in the United Nations account, probably the same Child Abuse Case as mine. The depiction was delivered as that the Iranian had beard to be appeared more muscular, with more prominent silhouette to be appeared more handsome. I almost jealous him when that day heard such depiction, you know. But the matter is that earlier on that day the Iranian of the United Nations human rights account was in a drive-in theater to have some quarrels with some familiar figure which seemed to do with my green card identity theft issue and then got shot dead on the drive-in theater. “It was a United Nations human rights account as well but why don’t you defend him?”, decrying by some human rights advocate. Later it was probably reported to the police using my English or even Chinese name by identity theft suspect, actually at the same day I appeared in the Toyota Music Box suffered an attempted killing in the Far East island, definitely an alibi you know. The Toyota advertisement program in the television was with the US singer Britney Spear, that could be an artificial intelligent to host some program events.

These years before the Taipei county to be upgraded to the New Taipei City, some lobbyist came from the USA was ever advocating for their drive-in theater business. They planned to introduce the drive-in theater with movies and picnic spree peddlers held in the spaces such as the desolate farmland near my house just like when I was a teenager some outdoor movie projected in front of my house beside the street. They said that there were lots of drive-in theaters which could be found near the main cities in the USA and it would be a major suburban holiday outdoors amusement which the urban citizen could be engaged with their cars in vacation surrounding the cities, and one thing worth it was that it would be an event so significant that it was a parallel to the American life. Interesting enough? The Ironic Drive-in.

DB, August 24, 2013

Raindrops were falling in the sweltering weather, gurgling in the Rockies Range through the valley divided into two streams. It seemed lucky not getting the C- ampoules hypodermic syringe injection, or having nothing to blame for a lost child from in vitro fertilization. There could be of no difference to submerge into the Rhone or the Mississippi River for every pore through volumes of documents.

Then we got to name the wines. I knew there would be Johnnie Walker for whisky, Remy Martin for brandy and Heineken for beer. Heineken? Not Budweiser? Eric once quarreled with Nicole in Michael Crichton’s novel, Prey, “Shut up, butt breath.” “Shut up yourself, weasel puke.” Butt breath? Butt wiser? That’s Budweiser. Several years ago I got a free treat from local pub for two Budweiser beers. Then came the dialogue blame for the 2002 product promoting event of Heineken near Lucerne in Switzerland. “You let him pay with the Citigold for the free beer? Oh, what the loss it could bring to us from that promoting festival only charging him for a reason to identify him?”

What I could relate of any words to it should be, pity, although it seemed to be not suitable or even not proper in certain contingencies. But the boulder and the Colorado River with a psychology magazine would keep that feeling at bay, at least I was thinking so.

DB. August 20, 2013

Lolita in Vladimir Nabokov’s novel embodied love imperfections. Emma in Jane Austen’s novel described the misconstrued romance with her young friend Harriet Smith. Maybe these two types of girls could not attract their lovers to fall in love with them out of the inferior physical conditions. The bad physical condition would affect not only the mating performance, it would influence every aspect of the life of an object of chronic investigation. Shakespeare said,

“To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles…”

To improve this bad physical condition, we could see the theoretical possibility of growing meat had dominated the public imagination for quite a long time, and then we saw that in vitro meat started out as a opinion discussion then turned to a fighting near the far away island to catch at least for a glimpse of the public attention. We could say that in vitro meat was like to grow meat in the test-tube, and probably it would be done for the economic reasons. Because the in vitro meat was the meat of in vitro cultivation stem cells from animals, we could add this meat to the most processed food such as hamburger patty that could benefit our bodies. It would not be the question whether it was of horse meat or true beef for a vegan to answer. It would be just a meat from the test-tube for the observers to feel pity.

DB, August 13, 2013

From the mountain looking at the river mouth the direction was facing the Taipei harbor. There was a temple providing lodge for the tourists. How could a yellow submarine be passing by the water without stirring and splashing the pool around? No way. Was the killer whale calling back by the nature? I am not sure. The fresh water supply of the delta was used to attract incoming fleets. And the killer whale? It was a recent movie to portray this fish alike creature or just mammal instead of portraying a shark, in the movie The Jaw. There was a little pond that we used to discard household garbage there, and it was turned to a pond from a pit, leading to complex underground tunnels. You know, just like what were happened to the pit so as it was happened to the pond, I heard someone saying just like this.

And there was the World of Warcraft game, Julia, the player character of mine, with her scimitar or sword swimming in the river, and to the exotic foreign land circling around to seek a fierce shark to complete her quest in the game. That was a shark, not a dolphin in the laboratory mission. And we see that the killer whale was performing that in an amusement show.

DB, August 12, 2013

That day before I registered Wikipedia, in the morning inside an Internet cafeteria, I had noticed the Déjà vu of psychological phenomenon repeated to appear and something was tried to manipulate the memory. In several hours on the same spot, in order to maneuver to get the registering process more smoothly like the mirage taking off, tumultuous turbine noise with backdrop setting off the far side connection intrigue, clearly conveyed the ingenuity of the plot.

The next day I was with full confidence to confide the related details of the law provision by the concise Psychology terminology by the French word the “Déjà vu phenomenon” to back off the negotiating process in only several sentences. I did not escalate the bargaining process as the day before that I adopted to maneuver with the mirage turbine noise of tumultuous sound, or behavior such as wriggling of a huge body on the lobby ground for some wave offering. This wave offering was the man Mr Robert advised me more or less to do some after my grandmother had died in August 1996, that if I could do it in advance maybe my grandmother would not die. Besides the suggestion, there was another one to advise me to express adequate emotional outlet in order to show the anger toward my grandmother’s death and in order not to be mistaken as a cruel man without any feelings. That the suggestions in 1996 which I adopted was really good therefore I let it planted deep in my heart.

That Déjà vu phenomenon was a kind of useful trick, when I learned it in 1996 it was called the reward system problem from the website of a man called Brian. Brian had a brother shot his own head with a gun and this prompted Brian to set up the website. The website of Mr Brian introduced the phenomenon by describing that certain chemical concentration in the brain would lead to the reward system malfunction, that is, making decision without meritorious orientation. Recently this phenomenon was discussed in the Psychology Today magazine with a terminology coined to be Déjà vu, defined to be a kind of short circuit or crosstalk in memory as the Déjà vu phenomenon.

And Mr Robert’s birthday was in August. I didn’t tell him correctly what was my birthday in my sophomore age in 1990, but later I regret to told Mr Robert that my zodiac sign was of Aquarius. Mr Robert had asked for my name and kept down on a paper.

D.B. August 11, 2013, National Central Library

“Have your taxi waiting, (almost) close my door. Close your game, cause I feel better…” That was when the bonus track chanted English singerDido. Not diddle or dildo. Dido from the CD cover she looked a little like the actress Meg Ryan in the movie You’ve Got Mail with her song Thank You in the MTV. But this album was Life For Rent, and the yellow cab waiting outside the local Citibankbranch before it was shutting down. I had a paycheck deposited into my Citibank account which was still active on that day, July 29, 2004, that I carried it back from the Taipei City ZooMcDonald’s with two malicious Toyota dealer members negotiated earlier in the morning until afternoon. One could be dealership owner and the other a rich family offspring saleswoman, they had been involved with the fraud before the deal on November 2, 2002 and failed to notify me thatToyota would buy back Toyota car with window heat insulation defect in Toyota advertisement before the car was brought back. That Toyota car had many problems, though I had bought it fromthe Toyota company with government goods tax official receipt, and had been regularly driving the car to the local Toyota automobile maintenance plant to care the new car, as my university classmate Mr. Yang suggested in August 1996 when he was driving his Volkswagen with us on the interstate of R.I. as a freshman of the Brown University.

And the New York Times said that the son of their chief executive officer Mr. W , addressed as a lawyer of the Citibank headquarter, got shot dead in the New York Citibank office, in the online edition and later in the printed edition. I heard that later in their Citibank New York office Mr. W’s son was still there, but seemed to hold an MBA degree. My university classmate Mr Liu with the local Citibank’s legal affairs apartment secretary Ms. Sue engaged was there when the Chief Executive Officer’s son got shot dead on scene, just after they were arguing for something. That son of Mr. W had a law degree, though. My classmate Mr Liu at the time had a New York Timessubscription in that agency alike shared Citibank office, and with Ms. Sue from local Citibank he got a bargain with some officer for the US immigrant affairs to cover their misdeed of cheating on my social security number and 1996 applied green card. That sounded like a perfect deal, though Ms. Sue of Citibank secretary got a detention earlier this year for unknown reasons. They seemed to be waiting for the local law court’s decision to put me into the psycho-asylum by currently entangled libel law suit, by no means of any ethical concerns.

D.B., August 9, 2013

When we are rambling through the boutique street in the skyscraper building, we can see bags, apparel, golds, diamonds and so on, arranging elegantly in the display window. Tiffany’s, Cartier’s, diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Extroverts are always showing enthusiastic attitude toward people, and easy to ask and get those diamonds to become their best friends. But if they hate it, we can find that in the old television advertisement that diamond with the ring is thrown into the sea. Therefore they could not be finding back again.

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Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend Lyrics
from Great American Legends: Marilyn Monroe

The French are glad to die for love.
They delight in fighting duels.
But I prefer a man who lives
And gives expensive jewels.
A kiss on the hand
May be quite continental,
But diamonds are a girl’s best friend.

A kiss may be grand
But it won’t pay the rental
On your humble flat
Or help you at the automat.

Men grow cold
As girls grow old,
And we all lose our charms in the end.

But square-cut or pear-shaped,
These rocks don’t loose their shape.
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.

Tiffany’s!
Cartier!
Black Starr!
Frost Gorm!
Talk to me Harry Winston.
Tell me all about it!

There may come a time
When a lass needs a lawyer,
But diamonds are a girl’s best friend.

There may come a time
When a hard-boiled employer
Thinks you’re awful nice,
But get that ice or else no dice.

He’s your guy
When stocks are high,
But beware when they start to descend.

It’s then that those louses
Go back to their spouses.
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.

I’ve heard of affairs
That are strictly platonic,
But diamonds are a girl’s best friend.

And I think affairs
That you must keep liaisonic
Are better bets
If little pets get big baguettes.

Time rolls on,
And youth is gone,
And you can’t straighten up when you bend.

But stiff back
Or stiff knees,
You stand straight at Tiffany’s.

Diamonds! Diamonds!
I don’t mean rhinestones!
But diamonds are a girl’s best friend.

Songwriters
Gordon, Martin

Recently I read this passage from Chapter 47 in the novel The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, share with all of you, my friends:

Sophie shifted her position so they were sitting side by side. Langdon suddenly felt like they were two kids huddled over a Christmas present.

In contrast to the warm colors of the rosewood box, the inlaid rose had been crafted of a pale wood, probably ash, which shone clearly in the dim light. The Rose.

Langdon had harbored several fantasies about what they might find inside this box, but clearly he had been wrong on every account. Nestled snugly inside the box’s heavily padded interior of crimson silk lay an object Langdon could not even begin to comprehend.

Crafted of polished white marble, it was a stone cylinder approximately the dimensions of a tennis ball can.

Each end of the cylinder was affixed with an end cap, also marble, making it impossible to see inside. Having heard liquid within, Langdon assumed the cylinder was hollow.

“And inside?”
“Once the cylinder slides apart, you have access to a hollow central compartment, which can hold a scroll of paper on which is the information you want to keep private.”

“Liquid what?”
Sophie smiled. “Vinegar.”

She paused, closing the box lid and eyeing the five-petal Rose inlaid on it. Something was bothering her. “Did you say earlier that the Rose is a symbol for the Grail?”

DB, December 13, 2012

Psychology’ s so-called Big Five personality trait includes five basic kinds of personality factors. The first factor in the Big Five personality trait is the extraversion-introversion inclination. That is, the degree to be outgoing, easy to get along with, or friendly. We can also count out the number of friends to see whether a personality trait is extraversion or introversion. The second factor is the neuroticism inclination. If you say that someone is neurotic, you mean that they are always unreasonably frightened or worried about something that you consider unimportant. The third factor is the agreeableness inclination. If someone is agreeable, they are pleasant and try to please people. Sometimes if a person was too agreeable in personality trait, the biased reward system in brain is what to blame. The fourth factor is the conscientiousness inclination. Someone who is conscientious is very careful to do their work properly. A conscientious man or woman has the ability to know what is right and what is wrong, and they always try their best to do the things right. The fifth factor is the openness inclination. If you describe a person or their character as open, you mean they are honest and do not want or try to hide anything or to deceive anyone. If you describe a situation, attitude, or way of behaving as open, you mean it is not kept hidden or secret.

In summary, extraversion-introversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness are factors of Big Five personality traits.

DB, December 12, 2012

What made Bryan close the door? Is it because Mary said that Daniel would come over tonight? In your shoes, will I feel like a ten-day’s distance? For ten days ago, I was young and bright, climbing mountains riding train through tunnels, breathing the fresh air in the ski resort, rushing to the bakery, watching the moon going upon the windowsill, and driving, my, a blue manual Toyota sedan, around the world. How do you define that “ten-day’s distance”?

Just for fun. An associate professor in his prestige university wage, a forty years old middle age professional man, hesitating with a moot choice between following suit the pedestrian tour and buying the expensive EuroStar train ticket, in ten day’s distance. And I could see that he was there and it was not very long ago. Just for fun. Well, do you ever dream of that Canadian girl with a young Finnish boy in the French Cathedral? Sounds like asking me when I was in my university days, occasionally glanced the dormitory roommates bringing girlfriends coming over for a couple of times in the weekends. Because I was so shy away to even ask a single question about it. Forget about it. You know that center is mine.

Have your taxi waiting, just come over. What does that actually in your mind, that you are thinking of? Just chatting, doing nothing and eating strawberry, Lydia or Lily, have you ever really love a woman? What make you to ask this question? In that blossom rotating lotus when you are eating the lotus fruit? I think you will understand how I define such a question of “a ten-day’s distance”, in my own experience.

DB, December 7, 2012

Extroverts are less likely to be in solitude than introverts for several reasons.

One reason is that when extroverts are developing their personality traits in adolescent hood, they have to keep a couple of friends and even sustaining relationships to become an extrovert when they turn adult. And those friends and relationships tend to last for life long. Therefore extroverts have a good chance to be surrounded by friends and partners who were their adolescent friends, and they are less likely to be in solitude.

Second, except for the amount of time extroverts need to spend in these kind of social engaging activities, extroverts have to be proactive in attitude for initiating a social dialogue, holding a party with friends, breaking ice in a difficult relationship, etc. Such philosophy will benefit extroverts to win friends who will come around them, therefore we probably will not see extroverts in solitude.

We can add a third reason of facility issue to explain why extroverts are less likely to be in solitude than introverts. When we are trying to conjure up an image that a chubby face boy comes into a gymnasium with a soccer ball, the other day we may find out that this boy is spending the rest of his pastime in still and quiet activities such as reading, writing, etc., in a place, say, off-campus cottage. Such time consuming pastime activities would occupy most of the boy’s time and finally we may find that the boy is alone and in solitude. And the boy is an introvert for sure. The extraversion personality boy, in contrast, will be less likely to be so.

DB, December 6, 2012

Obstreperous tears are finally running, in a simile, into a toxic sea, where it would turn, turning and turning, turn out to be from a river which the rescue hero who had ever won the spelling bee champion in high school and later became a German architect who built the shuttle to surface and pick her up. The world is toxic.

“The original picture is a computer synthesized one as well. Besides, this suspect was near the murder criminal spot. We cannot say he has nothing to do with this murder case.”
“Our leader said that we had already lost one of our man, and the foreign investigating crew just want to take another for revenge.”
“I had been running out of my money, if my agent contract cannot be getting passed, my life will be in difficulty…”
“Let’s hand in that synthesized picture which is submitted from the local businessman(85-degree Cafe), they had filed complaints about their customer and let us lead the investigation.”

It was autumn in 2008 after the local No.79 McDonald’s outlet near my house closed in May of the same year, prompted me to go into that agent running 85-degree Cafe(or selling to agents in 2010) for six months regular consumption until that year end. Several times intangible encouragement in that cafe and pressure in my house to join the video game in spite of the speak-out declining by the very customer, myself. The pressure was including some death prisoner’s execution notice before coercing to go online.

But joyfulness the video game was also bringing. When on foot went into town, the Taipei City, buoying me up to denote the message on the air that, “O’Mark is coming to town,” in parallel to the video game scene of Stormwind City of a player role created myself, and this saved me from that boring pedestrian tour lasting three hours or so one way to the prestige National Taiwan University(NTU) campus to simply use the university library utility of network computer for some harassment reports writing. I was forced out “their library” in NTU by the police in the campus and from the municipal police station for some dozen times for the whole year in 2007. When they were aware of such conflict events occurred in their campus, the twenty-something university students in the NTU classroom near the library were greeting me while their instructor was still on the podium to say that video game giving you presents for the coming Christmas, which turn out to be some magic royal roses showed up in the game. The passages in Genesis, Exodus, etc. in the Bible was also adding to my post which was recording my game progressing during the same time.

That’s the joy in the world, which turns out to be toxic, for I was coerced to file a subversion lawsuit in the district court against a plaintiff sued a case without any necessary legal elements to consist, a libel crime. The libel crime sued target was my Yahoo blog, which included those very game progressing posts along with Harvard Business Review(HBR) magazine reading digests.

DB, December 5, 2012

Paragraph Development, 2nd edition, 1990 Prentice Hall, Inc.,
Martin L. Arnaudet, Mary Ellen Barrett, English Language Institute,
The American University, Washington, D.C.
Lesson 1 The Topic Sentence, Paragraph Unity

Exercise 1-5, Identifying Irrelevant Sentences
(a.) The following paragraph contain sentences which are not directly related to the main ideas of those paragraphs.
Exercise:
1. The general population often resists innovations, whether practical or aesthetic. 2. When the early experiments in the field of aviation began their work, there were many who said, “If God had wanted man to fly, He would have given him wings.” 3. The Wright brothers made the first powered flights in a heavier-than-air craft in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. 4. Even today there are many who strongly object to modern art and music as being nothing more than “splashes of paint and honking horns.” 5. The painter Picasso’s well-known masterpiece “The Three Musicians” is done primarily in blues and browns.

(a.1) The key words or phrases in the topic sentence: resists innovations, practical or aesthetic
(a.2) The irrelevant sentences to be rid of from the paragraph: 3, 5

Exercise 1-6, Identifying Suitable Topic Sentences
(b.) Select the most suitable topic sentence from the three choices, then try to explain why each of the other two items is not appropriate. Possible reasons:
It is too general.
It is too specific.
It is not a complete grammatical sentence.
It does not relate to the supporting sentences.

C. Despite apparent differences, the operation of the computer and the telephone have much in common. The operation of both devices can be thought of as being divided into three phases: input, processing and output. In the case of the computer, the information which is fed into the machine — the data — is the input; the internal operations of the machine constitute the processing; and the result — usually a printout — is called the output. The telephone, too, acts on information presented to it and produces a result. The input is the actual dialing of the number. The switching system which locates the number can be considered the processing phase. Finally, the telephone rings on the other end of the line, indicating that the call has been completed; this constitutes the output.

B. Computer terminology, such as input and output, is frequently used in other contexts. The operation of both devices can be thought of as being divided into three phases: input, processing and output. In the case of the computer, the information which is fed into the machine — the data — is the input; the internal operations of the machine constitute the processing; and the result — usually a printout — is called the output. The telephone, too, acts on information presented to it and produces a result. The input is the actual dialing of the number. The switching system which locates the number can be considered the processing phase. Finally, the telephone rings on the other end of the line, indicating that the call has been completed; this constitutes the output.

(b.1) Choose a Topic Sentence
A. Both the computer and the telephone are helpful inventions.
B. Computer terminology, such as input and output, is frequently used in other contexts.
C. Despite apparent differences, the operation of the computer and the telephone have much in common.

(b.2) Defend Your Choice
1. I did not choose letter A because it does not relate to the supporting sentences(which are describing the three phases of the operation of both the computer and the telephone).
2. I did not not choose letter B because it is not a complete grammatical sentence.
NB. If B. states without the ending “is frequently used in other contexts” to be as this “The words such as input and output are computer terminology,” we can choose to defend that the reason not to choose B. is because it it too specific.
3. (Optional) I did not choose letter C because                                     .

DB, December 4, 2012

Paragraph Development:

Topic and topic sentence

(a.) Limit a topic sentence with the eight categories of control words.

Exercise:

1. extroverts dominate in the U.S. and Germany for individualism. (place)

2. Extraversion personality could be cultivated in early adolescence. (time or period of time)

3. extroverts prefer schmoozing and social life because such activities boost their mood. (quality, description)

4. Extraversion and introversion are in the same cluster of cognitions, emotions, motivations, and behaviors personality factors. (showing similarities)

5. extroverts get bored by too much solitude while introverts thrive on reflection and solitude. (showing differences)

6. Extraversion-introversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness are Big Five personality factors. (a number of things; a list)

7. Embrace the extrovert’s personality will spend more time overall in social activities. (effect)

8. extroverts are promoted for individualism in American culture because the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. (cause, reason)

(b.) Use key words chosen from one to three categories to limit your topic to the kind of information, topic sentence.

Exercise:

Topic: Extraversion personality

1. Students who want to embrace the extrovert’s personality and cultivate in the U.S. culture will spend more time overall in social activities in their early adolescence. (place, effect, time or period of time)

2. Psychology’s so-called Big Five has five basic kinds of “personality” factors. (number)

3. extroverts are less likely to be in solitude than introverts for several reasons. (differences, cause)

DB, November 29, 2012

Yesterday, from the International Herald Tribune(I.H.T.) news report saying that Mr Yasir Arafat’s widow in July called for an exhumation. The BCC news says that Arafat’s widow objected to a post-mortem at the time of his death but asked the Palestinian Authority to permit exhumation to reveal the truth. The CNN news report says that France is leading the investigation, forensic experts from Switzerland and Russia took their own samples for independent analysis. Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, along with the Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, for their work on the Oslo accords in 1993. According to the BBC online news yesterday in electronic written form, Mr Arafat died on November 11, 2004 in French military hospital in Paris.

I remember in those years around 2004, many celebrities in Taiwan died in the Banciao community which Breeze Center Mr Liao Cheng-han invested. The Changhua Mr Koo Cheng-Fu of the China Trust Bank was included. Besides, there was a correspondent from Japan died in the community later of the same timing. Earlier in this September when I was getting in touch with the Toyota manufacturer customer service via the internet, their ignorance of my notified lawsuit of fraud and murder attempt against Toyota company in the district court, out of the Toyota car sold with 2002 October Toyota Corolla Altis 1600 c.c. Break into Style model new car, actually was a 2001 January model of 1500 c.c. rebuilt the engine parts to be 1600 c.c. model. The faked new car from Toyota company was also one of the sample cars which the Toyota company donated to the Breeze Center general manager Mr Gang Ichiro in 2001 June for public relationship purpose as the gift cars contributed to the lottery activity for the customers of the Breeze Center in open day celebration and the Union Bank and the Breeze Center co-branded credit card promotion. The car engine series number was falsified and marked by the Toyota manufacturing firm right upon the assembly line, with an official customer receipt printed customer’s name, Toyota company logo, address of the Toyota manufacturing firm, the falsified new car engine series number and the customer purchasing date which was filed to the district court as evidence, but the Toyota still denied with ignorance to the query from the victim customer with the excuse that the district court totally ignored the legal efforts made by the very victim. The Toyota car manufacturer’s ignorance behavior indirectly revealed the truth that the Japanese correspondent unfortunately died in 2005 within the Banciao community next to the very customer who purchased the Toyota problem car, was from their Toyota company in Japan. I remember that in National Central Library there were a lot of newspaper reports in I.H.T. newspaper after their correspondent’s death report. Those reports were about the Toyota company’s succeeded CEO at that time went to Washington D.C. for testifying their company business in front of the US congress in 2006. But it was several months later after the correspondent’s death. Amid those tremendous quantities of newspaper reports it was never mentioned the place where that correspondent actually died.

Weird enough, but still even more stranger was that the Breeze Center CEO Mr Liao Cheng-han, also CEO of the Heyson soda drink company on March 17, 2008 died with a gun shot right in his invested Banciao community at the entry of the underground tunnel connected to the community, the press released date including newspapers and television media was in 2008 November, six months later. The public memorial ceremony was held in his home at Taipei City within only one day to be closed, because Mr Liao Cheng-han had been buried in Taipei County and excavated from his tomb to be exhibited in his own home. Three celebrities from government and entertainment circle came to the ceremony and felt horrified. The government official the next day ordered the public memorial ceremony to be cancelled, with one local television ever shooting Liao’s death body released in the news report for certain broadcasting period. We could also say that it was kind of exhumation for Mr Liao Cheng-hand of Breeze Center and Heyson company CEO, under sort of official investigation in November 2008.

DB, November 28, 2012

Essay writing exercise:

1. Guide Book: Paragraph Development, 1995 NCCU, Center for Public and Business Administration Education(CPBA), Lesson 1 The Topic Sentence, Paragraph Unity;

(a.) The first sentence of a paragraph is usually called the topic sentence. You may have noticed in your reading of certain English texts that it is possible to place the topic sentence at the end of the paragraph(as a kind of conclusion), or even in the middle(as a kind of link between the two parts). It is even possible not to have a topic sentence at all; in this case, we say that the topic sentence is implied or suggested.

(b.) How do you limit a topic in a topic sentence?

2. Exercise: Using control words from the eight categories to limit topic.

ex1. Sapphire is mined from Eastern Australia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, China (Shandong), Madagascar, East Africa, and in North America in a few locations, mostly in Montana…(place)

ex2. Sapphire has become more popular within the last five years… (time or period of time)

ex3. Sapphire is bright blue in color…(quality)(description)

ex4. Sapphire and emerald have a great deal in common…(showing similarities)

ex5. Sapphire is softer than diamond…(showing differences)

ex6. Six different colors could be represented by the precious stones and jewels: ruby, amber, emerald, sapphire, amethyst and obsidian…(a number of things; a list)

ex7. Jaguar made in sapphire color makes the car more popular…(effect)

ex8. Sapphire color is preferable for several reasons…(cause; reason)

(c.) Usually, key words chosen from one to three categories will be adequate to limit your topic to the kind of information which can be developed into one paragraph.

3. Exercise: Write a topic sentence of the topic:  Sapphire

ex1. There are many reasons for Jaguar made in sapphire color increased popularity in Taipei…(number, description, place)

ex2. Taiwanese generally prefer sapphire to emerald…(place, differences)

DB, November 27, 2012

This Sunday I was reading the Bible, Matthew 24:1-Matthew 24:51, about Jesus sitting on the Mountain of Olives, the disciples came to him privately and asking him about when and the sign of the Christ coming. I remember in spring of 2004 I went to the movies at theater in Taipei City, The Passion of the Christ, starring Mel Gibson, it was about the story of Jesus Christ. Just like the Bible scripture text says, Matthew 24:49, “and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards,” the prison keeper and the Roman soldiers beat Jesus very hard, and then Jesus carried his cross himself to the mountain where he was crucified. When Jesus’s brothers all went away with his words in Matthew 22:21, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s,” and his reply to the Sadducee’s who say there is no resurrection, about marriage at the resurrection in Matthew 22:23, he was telling the Roman soldiers that the prison keeper who had beaten him was killed and the relatives of the prison keeper just came to see him and asked him questions. We can find this in Matthew 24:51, “He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Jesus was supposed to be weak and have loose bowels, and the Roman soldiers seemed to have the same symptom. Jesus Christ said to the Roman soldiers that the cause of loose bowels diseases was because the cup and dish they were eating were not clean, Matthew 23:25 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.” Matthew 23:26, “Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.”

When Jesus Christ’s brothers were all left, and in the mountain of Golgotha mentioned in Matthew 27:33, it began to rain. The Roman soldiers could not find any of Jesus’s brothers to release him from the cross and carry the cross back. Therefore the Roman soldiers pricked into the abdomen of Jesus with a spear and Jesus Christ “gave up his spirit”, Matthew 27:50.

DB, November 26, 2012

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. When the first Stone Age primitive raised the stone to hit the small animal, the power of violence come to dominate a new era after the Jurassic period hiding from the dinosaur as the prey. Where’s Julia been to before Jack Forman seeking her to the white wall laboratory of Xymos in Nevada desert? We see in the novel that she hit her daughter so hard to be recorded, would she finally survive with Jack Forman? I think that Jack’s daughter Nicole and Amanda who playing with Jack’s son Eric should be a blonde, and maybe I might have met her in New York City or elsewhere before. Whatever the endgame will turn out to be, they may be just fading like a flower, just like the lyrics in Sweden singer Roxette’s song.

What if your university instructor introduced herself by saying that, “Call me Mississippi”? Does she mean that she is a Miss Hippie? Just like Miss Rose, Miss University, Miss China, cream of the cream, crop of the crop, something like that? No, it’s the lyrics from pop singer Train’s Drops of Jupitor. It is not what Carl Jung said in his personality theory. But we can still find that in psychology discipline of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory. Physiological needs and safety needs, for example, must be satisfied before the higher level needs such as self-actualization needs. Women are often encouraged to pursue their own career and stay in the office waiting for promotion, but somehow they would not ignore the glass ceiling existed in their career life. On the other hand, men should plan for themselves to accumulate enough resource to get that promotion done. For men, isn’t it just ironic?

My pen pal in university freshman year was an English major whose campus was at Taipei. She wrote me to say that she was of a short stature, and her letter paper was printed with Tom Cruise’s figure as watermark. She enclosed a maple leaf with the letter and told me that a senior with tall figure help her to get that maple leaf. We did not keep in touch with each other since my freshman year ended. She did not contact me either. Hmm, was that sort of relationship we could say to be fading like a maple leaf?

DB, November 24, 2012

The girls are always saying that they keep an eye on me and that I should have noticed them and know them. But I cannot remember that I had met them before, that even having a talk with them could be only a whim for a greeting that has been suppressed now, that the experience could be only once in a blue moon even I long for. Maybe they fear that cold mountain style cruel world would hurt me, and that with the distance they keep, it serves to protect me. This obsessed me for quite a long time when I was still developing the view upon the outside world from my university years. When later I learned to know that girls sometimes change because they are growing up. They have a new world to navigate, and that world excites their young hearts to totally engage in themselves. Things would be different from the moment on.

The moon I see in Lyon was hanging upon the steeple by the sky of a hillside church in the early evening. The long shadow was cast behind me in a summer night of depressing atmosphere. The cafeteria had just been selling out their last green vegetable dish to a late coming female overseas student. The bakery then was extending their hands to open a welcome door with fresh French bread delivered to a tourist like me. The night was still young.

The moon I see in Interlaken was beside the mountain from the balcony of the Bellevue Hotel, hanging above the running water, so fresh and so clear in the sky. The river bank painted with a little boy playing ball by the riverside, which could remind the tourists that children could be drown in the torrent of the rushed water if they were not careful enough with the adult nearby. That was sort of sad situation, and it was the memory of the moon on the balcony of a hotel in Switzerland.

DB, November 23, 2012