Study alone VS group

A study habits is indeed a personal matter. Some people prefer to study alone while others prefer to study in a group. Personally, I love to study alone. However, I can still recognize the advantages of two study methods.

First of all, it is very beneficial to study with other students. You can share information about the topic of study. Not everyone hears everything which the teacher teaches in class. Comparing note between each other is the best way to help you not to miss important points. You can agree with each other on many topics of study. Other students can present different perspectives. They can point out what you may not think about before and help sharpen your point.

Study with other students also help you pay attention to the study. If you are in a study group, you have to force yourself to be at a certain place in order to review the materials at the time scheduled. This is a good way to cultivate discipline for yourself. Th group will review all the materials and textbooks and learn about them together. It is not a waste of time if everyone is well-prepared in advance and appreciate the importance of study group.

Certainly the study group does not help at all if your group does not seriously pay attention to the study but your friends like to talk about other matters, you should isolate yourself in order to study alone. Staying with these who do not want to study can always make you lose concentration. There will be several disturbances and you hardly get anything from listening to their viewpoints about topic of discussion.

In sum, whether you study alone or with a group depends on your study habit and personally. If you need silence for study, you should study by yourself. If you are sociable, you should still study by yourself because you enjoy talking about trivial matters. This is the reason why I prefer to study alone. When I am in company with other people, I love to play. I do not want to study.

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Group study

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The lecture states that earthworms cause a significant problem to the ecosystem of the forests by destroying solid cover. This definitely make an adverse impact on native plants and destroys animals' habitat. This point contradicts with the point in the reading that earthworms are beneficial to solid and forest as a whole.

In the lecture, the professor cites evidence about the damage caused by earthworms in the lake shore in Menizota. This research was carried out by an ecologist. She notice that duff in this area disappeared together with wildlife flower flower. This resulted from the fact that earthworms ate up duff, and they left not enough nutrients for plants to grow. This observation contradict the idea in the reading passage that earthworms not only help decompose compost pile and produce fertilizer, but also bring duff deeply into the soil.

Beside, the study also shows that earthworms destroy animals habitat. As many kinds of animals live in duff, they also disappear when duff is destroyed, including larger animals that feed on them. This contradicts with the notion in the reading passage that earthworms are beneficial to various kinds of animals in the forest because it is an important link in the food web

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Studying at home or traditional school system

If I can choose between studying at home by using a computer and television or studying at a traditional school system, I will choose a traditional school system. It may come from the fact that I am used to this form of study and I do not think that technology can replace teachers and the classrooms.


Actually, technology can easily fail. Computers may be down and computer programs my be in infected by virus. Television can be broken and electricity can suddenly go off. In those situations who will teach me. If I stay at school and accidentally television and computers stop working, I still have a teacher coming to teach in class and modifying the lesson. The teachers can pass on knowledge from their teaching experience and can teach creatively, which computers and television cannot do.


If I do not study in a traditional school, I will miss an opportunity to interact with other students. I think that learning how to play and work with others is one of the most important lessons we can learn from school. It prepares us for living a life and for cooperating with other people. Staying with others also help us discover who we really are.


Another concern about studying at home is that we easily lack concentration. In my opinion, staying alone at home can make me more easily distracted than studying among a large crowd of students at school. At school, everyone pays attention to the same subject. However, at home it is easy to shutdown the computer or television and do something else. I may tell my self that it is all right to play games first and then go back to study. It is also possible that actually I still do not study that lesson at all.


I do agree with the use of technology in class. In my opinion, computers and television are the excellent channel for students to get access to a large number of information. Nevertheless, I do not believe that it is the only tool for student like me to have. I do need teacher and other classmates to help me get the most excellent education.

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Notebook computer make much more easier to mobilize

Good supervisor

Although the nature of work may be different, good supervisors all have common characteristics. A good supervisor must treat her subordinates equally. She will not treat any subordinate better or worse than others. On the contrary, a poor supervisor will have favorite subordinates. Sometimes, she will use them to keep an eye on others. She expects them to tell her that other employees are talking about her. Such a behavior has led to ill feeling among employees apparently

A good supervisor must give clear and easy-to-understand instructions. She will not often change her mind about what she wants her subordinates to do. She does not lose her temper with confused subordinates who want her to explain the instruction again or in more detail. A good assignment of responsibility is on of the qualities supervisor.

She knows how to make use of the skills of each subordinate to the maximum benefits. Meanwhile, an incompetent supervisor insists on doing everything by herself. She is not willing to delegate responsibilities to others.

A good supervisor will evaluate the performance of her subordinates based on reasonable standards, not from personal feeling toward the employees. She will tell her subordinate about what those standards are so that they will equally reach them. She will give both compliments and criticisms straightforwardly. She also gives advice when it is necessary. A poor supervisor, however, will criticize without giving advice or ways of improvement.

Most importantly, a good supervisors will set standards for her subordinates responsibilities from her behavior. She words hard and takes care of the subordinates as valuable assets of the company. This boosts up moral among the employees which will definitely benefit her business.

Throny problem

Our achievements as perceived result from hard work rather than natural ability. Some people were born in a rich family, but they do not succeed because of laziness. In my view, there are three principal to support this idea.

First, all success is derived from taking action. If we hesitate and never take action, we will never archive because the ideas are merely a dream. Although what we dream for is in our skills based on talents, we will never succeed if no action is taken. For example, students want to get over 600 scores in TOEFL in order to enter universities but if they do not study the contents of the test and practice, it is difficult to get the scores as expected

Second, despite having special gifts in some aspects, we have to face obstacles in the pursuit of defined objectives. Only natural ability cannot help solve problems. Those who will succeed have to perform persistently and are ready to learn new skill and expertise in materializing our dreams. Even Thomas Edison once said that 99% of his success came from perseverance and only 1% resulted from inborn intelligence.

Thomas Edison

Support the arts or protect the environment

It is difficult to decide either to support the arts to protect the environment. However, in my opinion I may choose to preserve the environment. Actually, the arts help maintain our culture and are a source of entertainment. Nevertheless, we need the environment which protect our health in order to survive. Therefore, we need to protect the environment now in order to avoid having health problems, maintain the ecological system and protect the world for the next generation.

pollution from factories and cars cause damage to the environment. Moreover, it brings about health problems especially for children and elderly people who have a weak immune system. We have to make sure that there is control of the quality of air pollution in order to prevent health problems which result from breathing in polluted air into the body.

We also need to pay attention to the ecological system. Trees and humans depend on each other. The bad environment is dangerous for the ecological system. For example, if a spices of plant dies because of environmental changes, the animal which depends on that plant will die as well. In case we have to depend on that animal for a source of food, it will definitely become a big problem.

If we do not care about our environment now, it will become worse and our children will suffer from its consequences, they will not have clean air to breath in or natural beauty to appreciate. What a pity!

Without clean air to breath in and without the healthy, ecological system. Human spices will not be able to survive. This is the reason that why the environment protection is an important matter. If we have the healthy environment, we will have healthy children who can participate in and an appreciate value of arts

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Parents

All my life I have been fortunate enough to have a very good relationship with my parents they support me, give me valuable advice and teach me a lot about the way I should live my life. Parents can be very important teachers in our lives. However, they may not be the best teacher.

Parents may be too close with their children in term of emotions and feelings. Sometimes they look at their children with the eyes of protectors. For example, they may limit their children’s freedom by considering about children safety. While the teacher may think that travelling to big cities will be new valuable experiences for children, parents have an opposite view that it may be too risky for their children.

Another problem is that parents my participate that their children have interest similar to theirs. They seem to be unable to separate their children from their feelings and thoughts. If they like science, they may try to push their children really like art, writing or fixing cars.

Parents usually cultivate their values in the mind of their children. The question is whether the children should be attached to what they believe. Sometimes, a gap of age results in different viewpoints. When their children were young, they usually thought that their parents were always  right. However, when they grow up, they will see many different perspectives. Sometimes parents cannot adjust themselves to rapid changing social and technological changes. For example, students who have friends of different races and backgrounds at school may find that their parents have short-sight perspectives. Student who like computer may also discover that their parents do not understand and realize the importance of digital revolution.

In sum, what is the most important thing to remember is that we all have many teachers, such as our parents, teachers and our friends. Besides, books, newspapers and television also teach us. Both these people and media have given valuable thoughts and viewpoints to our lives.