The Adventure in Toy World

Kenny likes candy very much and he often eats too much candy even at during bed time; moreover, he never brushes his teeth seriously so that his teeth are badly. Unfortunately, although he feels a toothache sometimes, he doesn’t care about his bad teeth at all.

On a sunny Saturday after noon, Kenny went to hiking in the woods with his family. Usually, he walked as fast as an unleashed dog at the front of his family.  He turned around and suddenly, Nobody is behind me. What’s going on? Where’s my family? he thought.

“Hello………  Anybody here?”  Kenny yelled loudly. But nobody answered him. It is horrible! The fear came to him gradually. I am lost. What do How can I do now? He was all adrift like a lost lamb.

At that time, he felt somebody was hiding in the brushwood and looking at him. He grew more afraid, and then he ran as fast as he could. A group of black monsters ran after him like his shadow.  Kenny was looking back as he was running.  Don’t catch me. He prayed.  Finally, he lacked the strength to run any further, and those black monsters besieged him. Kenny looked at them; and he was scared by them. They were monsters without face, mouth, ears, nose, just with two eyes, two hands and two legs only. Who can help me? Kenny realized his doomsday was coming.  “Ah……………..” he cried as loudly as a scared lion. Indeed, his crying was without effect. Black monsters held his hands and opened his mouth to beat his teeth awfully bad/terrible rudely.

 “LET HIM GO......Let him go……” a voice said as aloud as thunder. Kenny saw a big bird—no, it isn’t a bird—it is a big helicopter with red and gray color like a bald eagle. My helicopter—my Christmas present from my grandparents last year. Kenny rejoiced secretly in his mind. “Help me…….help me……..”  He yelled to his “eagle” helicopter.



Mr. Potato



“Mr. Potato?” – His another toy—a birthday present from his mom. Kenny was surprised about that. Mr. Potato was a savior and jumped from the helicopter and fetched out a piece of mint like a leaf. All black monsters were afraid of this mint leaf, and then they ran away.

 “Whoa…… a magical leaf!” Kenny said.

“Sorry, master. I came later.” Mr. Potato said.

“Why all my toys appeared here? Am I dreaming?” Kenny asked.

“In fact, there is toy world. You can see all your toys here.” Mr. Potato answered.

“Who are those black monsters? I don’t have any toys like them.” Kenny asked more.

“They are cavity monsters. They always attack people who have decayed teeth, because they feed on the decay food on people’s mouth. And you have many cavitiesy teeth and that’s the reason why they attacked you. But they can’t suffer the clear smell of mint leaf.” Mr. Potato explained to him.  

“Oh….. I see…….” Kenny said, “But I don’t want to stay here. How can I go home?”

“There is a mystical world dominated by the King Toothbrush and the Queen Toothpaste. They have powerful magic can make your wish come true.” Mr. Potato gave an adviced for him, “I can show lead you the way. Let’s go!”

Then Kenny took a ride on his toy plane and came to oral cavity kingdom with Mr. Potato. The King Toothbrush and the Queen Toothpaste were sitting in the throne.  “Welcome to toy world, Kenny.” the King Toothbrush said, “I can make your wish come true, but…… you have to do a task first.”

King Toothbrush

Kenny couldn’t wait for any second and immediately asked, “What’s task I have to do?”

King Toothbrush answered, “Clean your teeth as white as snow, because nobody can leave toy world with yellow teeth.”

“Ah….uh……” Kenny hesitated for a while, “it seems difficult to me…….”

“You don’t have any other choice; that’s the only possibleity way to go home.” King Toothbrush added, “Ginger bread man will help you, go ahead.”

Ginger bread man

Ginger bread man took Kenny to bathroom and showed him an instruction of teeth clearing that have many illustrations to teach people how to brush their teeth. Kenny read it carefully and then he brushed his yellow teeth again and again—one time, six times, a dozen times, two dozen times…….. Until he brushed his teeth were like snow!!!

Finally, his yellow teeth as  turned to white as like snow. Kenny danced for joy as happy as a freeman, “I did it…..I did it……. I can go home now……….”

“Congratulation!!!” everybody celebrated to him.

“Kenny. Please tell me your wish now.” King Toothbrush asked Kenny.

“I want to go home…I want to go home……” Kenny gave mouth to his long waited wish.

“I will make your wish come true. But before you leave toy world, I’d like to give you some advice. First, don’t eat too many candies; second, don’t eat candy at bedtime; third, brush your teeth clearly at least twice every day.” King Toothbrush said three requirements to Kenny.

 “I understand know…. I will remember that. I don’t want to see cavity monsters again!” Kenny repented to say/ I hear and obey, your majesty.

“That’s great. I hope you have healthy teeth.” King Toothbrush smiled, “now, please close your eyes, I will send you home……..”

When Kenny opened his eyes, he found he was laid on at his bed. Then he was excited for leaving toy world and back to the real world.

“Good morning! Kenny.” His sister greeted to him, “did you have a good dream last night?”

That’s a dream…….Kenny realized, “Hey, sister…. I was dreaming ………last night!!! It was super hairy………….” 

The Punishment

My seven-old stepson often misbehaves usually does bad behaviors or says naughty words, and he often gets punishedments for those things that. Such punishments as: no  he can’t watching cartoon TV programs on the weekend; he must practicing more piano everyday; he stood standing in on the corner of wall to think about his wrongful actions and ; also, how to avoid doing such actions in the future for ten to thirty minus (the punishment time depends on how serious his action were  he did).

On One day, we had just finished our visiting on Hoover Dam in Nevada and my husband was driving drove our rental car on the highway. Suddenly, my husband abruptly said, “Damn!” because he was missed an exit.  At that time, my stepson was exciteding and laughing loudly, and then he immediately said, “Hey, dad, I heard you use said a bad word just now.”

 “Did I?”  My husband denied quibbled about saying a bad word his bad word speaking.

“Yes, you did it!” The arrogant boy--like a serendipitous discoverer--said with  that certainly.

However, my husband still refused to acknowledge his own mistake. “I said, ‘d-a-m’ Hoover Dam that we visit this morning,” he explained for his false, “but not ‘d-a-m-n!’--you got it?”

“Then why did you sayid this word after you missed one of exits?” the little boy disbelieved for the explanation of his dad.   

“He is was right,” I arbitrated for the dispute between dad and son at that moment, “you said a bad adjective word, not a noun word.”

 “You see…….two witnesses can approve that!!!” the young boy was cheered by for my judgment and said, “Let me think about how to punish you, dad…….” He pondered for a while and said, “You don’t like to watch Mickey Mouse; you don’t need to practice piano; the only punishment for you is just the last one—standing on the corner of the wall for ten minus!!! Yeah…………lalala……….” He exulted for the punishment, because he had a companion to stand with him that night  tonight.

Finally, my husband had no choice but to accept this punishment. And father and his son stood on the corner of wall and kept laughing at each other for ten minutes at that night……..  

The cover letter

My dream job: working at Safeway as a baker

Dear hiring manger,

My name is Dingmei Huang and I am writing to apply for a position as a baker in for your bakery department.

I am very interested in cake making so much and I can make variety of cakes. For example: foam cakes such as anglefood cake, sponge cake and chiffon cake; shorteninged cakes such as butter cake, pound cake and biscuits. I am an expert in foam cakes and decoration for cakes. And I still continue to study and learn to make more and more different cakes and desserts right now. For instance: Tiramisu, New York cheesecake, Puff, Soufflé and caramel pudding etc (I have already enclosed some pictures of for my cake works; please take a look for them).

I am a hardworking, dexterous and friendly person and have a strongly sense of  responsibility about for everything. For example: I can focus on my baking and decoratingon for a long time (two hours or more); I can finish a delicate mousse cake within 60 minutes from mixing to decoratinon excluding baking and frosting time; I am very friendly and easy to communicate with and coorporate with other colleagues in my past work  job experience.     

This is an exciting opportunity for me to work at my favorite store. I greatly admired Safeway because after I came to the United States, it became a necessary part of my daily life. I deeply believe Safeway is one of the best grocery stores in Washington States, and it certainly has is the ingredients for everyone’s life. Hence, it I would be an honor to work for Safeway to make amazing cakes for everybody. I am certain that I would be an excellent baker for your bakery department. I sincerely faithfully hope you will could give me a chance to prove show myself.   

Thank you for your time spends reading this letter, the enclosed resume and portfolio. I look forward to hearing from you soon. 

Sincerely,

Dingmei Huang

 My cake works as following:

Children under 5 shouldn’t watch TV

Television is a necessary part media of our daily life, and it affects everyone, including children.  Also, It is a controversial topic that whether watching television is good or bad for children.and the argument is going on until now.  In my opinion, I agree children under 5 five shouldn’t watch TV. There are many reasons for this.  some reasons as following:

First of all, some people think TV can help to develop children’s brains; but lots of evidences also shows that nothing can replace the human connection in brain developing for young children. Young children ranging from one 1 to 5 five is the most important developing  mental stage; because their brains are sensitive and develop fast quickly before age two  2, and they will receiver abundant information to help them to develop their brains every day. Some reporters contend that the interaction of parents and children is the best way to develop children’s brains at any age. That is Nothing can replace it—even TV screen that is full of colorful images and garbled gabble sounds. There is a trueth story that illustrtes can approve that. I have a friend who has a baby boy. She went to work and left her baby to her old-aged parents. Her parents couldn’t play with the baby all the time because of their old age and low less energy. So they turned on the TV at home all the day. The result is visible that TV  obviously was a good baby sitter for them—it works 24 hours for free with  and no break; but all the watching  they did result in late speaking development  lately for the baby. Finally, the baby boy’s language skill is under average now—evens a little stutter until he was 6 years old. It is true that everyone is very busy with  for their work and life nowadays, but parents can’t neglect children’s development, and need to take responsibility for playing an active role in the healthy development of their children.

Secondly, some TV programs have a few violent scenarios that can affect young children’s behavior. Most evidences indicate that violent television shows lead to violence and aggressive in children between the age two  2 and five 5. In fact, young children can’t distinguish right or wrong to some extent, because their brains haven’t developed completely; and  so they like to imitate behaviors whatever behaviors they watch on from television. (Also, children learn by imitating others.) There are some statements from papers can verify that, as following:

 

Those statements mentioned above can manifest that children who watch violent TV programming are tend to be more aggressive than the other children who watch nothing. My personal experience of my stepson is a good example for it. He began to watch TV when he was 18 months old. His favorite TV program was football games. Right after he watched TV for a short time later, we found his behavior was very rude and aggressive. He used to push down and hit other kids like a football player. Worse, he bit teachers and even made classmates bleeding  a couple of times. After that, his teacher called for a behavior observer to inspect his behavior in daycare center for several days. The observer suggested to us that don’t let him watch any TV programs with aggressive  has more  behavioral scenes, including sport games and fighting carton shows. Finally, his bad behaviors almost disappeared, and his temper was more peaceful after we controlled his TV time seriously( two hours every week). According to this experience, I believe deeply that TV programs can unconsciously affect young children’s behaviors .    

Thirdly, heavy TV watching can affect children’s health as well, such as: their children’s eyes, weight, sleep and mood etc. The most serious effect for young children is the damage to of their eyes. Scientists say that the human’s  eye is designed to look at things in 3D using stereoscopic vision, so looking at flat surfaces for long periods of time can affect the correct development of sight. This is especially harmful in children under six 6. In addition, heavily TV addicted children are lack of physical exercise  activities and enough sleeping. Hence, most of those children suffer health problems, such as  e.g., overweight problem, obesity, tiredness, mania etc. Moreover, TV addicted children would get angry easily if they can’t watch TV. Also, My stepson is a typical case for that. He began to wear shortsighted  light glasses (his vision was 20/40 with glasses in right and 20/50 with glasses in left) when he was five  5 years old, because he watched too much TV when he was young. After that, we controlled In all, TV can influence children’s health indeed.  

Finally, spending much time on watching TV can also interfere with children’s learning and relationships with others. Some researchers explain that TV viewers tend to receive information passively in a directly way instead of discovering new things by themselves. On average, TV addicted children gain less fewer knowledge than normal children because addicted children don’t like to think about any problems deeply. As a result of, they simply rely on  just can obtain direct information what they saw and heard on TV.   On the other hand, TV occupies much precious time in addicted children’s daily livesfe so that those children don’t have enough more time to play with their friends, or even no to spare time share with their family.  That impacts the relationship between children and their friends and family and leads to bad social skills for children. Thesere is a statics show some more details for us. 

        To sum up—as a coin has two sides—TV has its advantages and disadvantages. But parents need to can make informed their own decisions about whether turn on the TV for their children. In my opinion, it is absolutely bad decision to turn on the TV for young children who is under five less than 5 years old. Parents should spend more time, and to read for their kids or play with them rather than taking a simple thoughtless action—pressing one button for their kids. (In the long run, it will be worth be effort.) 

Persuasive Essay

Topic: Children shouldn’t watch TV under 5 years old

Reason  1: Watching TV is bad for developing young children’s brain.

Example: Some reporters contend that young kids are sensitive to learn all basic skills from people and real world rather than TV screen.  

Example: One of my friend used TV as a babysitter, as the result of that, the baby was too late to speak language.  

Reason 2:  Some TV programs have a few violent scenarios can affect young children’s behavior more or less.

Example: Some evidences indicate that young children can’t distinguish right or wrong to some extent, and they like to imitate behaviors from television.

Example: My stepson is a good example for it. He began to watching TV when he was toddler; and he had very badly behavior even thought he was only 3 years old at that time.

Reason  3: Heavy TV watching can affect children’s health.

Example: Watching much TV can take away children’s healthy activities; it can also affect their weight, sleep and mood etc.  

Example: TV can damage young children’s eyes. My stepson is also a typical case for that. He began to wear short-sighted glasses when he was young kid.

Reason  4: Spending much time on watching TV can also interfere with children’s learning and relationship with others.

Example: TV addicted young children know less knowledge than average kids.  

Example: TV addicted young children usually have few friends, and they don’t communicate with their family more often, because TV occupies their much more spare time.

Conclusion: In my opinion, it is bad decision to turn on the TV for children who is less the 5 years old. Parents should pay more time to read for kids or play with them.  

Outline for writing

Topic: Television: Advantages and Disadvantages

Paragraph one: brief introduction of television and television effects children in many aspects.

Part one: advantages of television

1.     Different TV programs can teach children different know ledges.  

2.     TV programming can open up children’s eyes and develop their thinking about society.  

3.     Watching TV is a more effective learning method than reading book.

Part two: disadvantages of television

1.     Some TV programming that has a few violent scenarios can affect children more or less.

2.     Too much TV watching can affect children’s health.  

3.     Spending much time on watching TV can also interfere with children’s study.

Final paragraph---conclusion. Knowing different television programs clearly and taking advantages of it well.  

A Sincere Letter to New Immigrants

Dear New Immigrants:

        Welcome to an extremely diverse country— the United States. New life will be excited and challenged for new immigrants. There are few useful tips I’d like to give you; and I hope those tips can help you integrate into this country and live better as soon as possible.

      1.     Smile at for everyone

Keep smiling when you are greeting and chatting with others.  As you may have heard,  we know American is a country of smiling faces, so you have to remember to that show your smiling face to others—even strangers—whenever and wherever you can. It seems like a difficult task for some people who don't have doesn’t has this custom in his or her original country. But now, you are a new immigrant to this country, and you should adapt and adjust yourself quickly as soon as you embark on a new life in the United States. As the saying goes that:  when in Rome, do in Rome as Rome do.  

      2.     Make Eyes contact when you talk with your talker

In the United States, eyes contact is an act of showing respect to others; and it is very important body language when you are talking to others. If you don’t have eyes contact or avoid looking at a talker’s eyes, American might would think you might be able to telling a lie or disrespect to the speaker talker during the conversation. You need to learn how to use eyes contact when you speak  or listen  with your talkers; despite the fact that most new immigrants don’t like to look directelly in each others' eyes at talker’s eyes in their own country.

      3.     Drive carefully and legally

New immigrants, please drive carefully and legally every day, because you might not be able to afford tickets!.   It This  is said that American is a country driven by automobiles; hence, people—new immigrants are no exception— who are living in the United States depend on vehicles every day.  As a result of lots of cars, drivers should pay attention to driving. On the other hand, most drivers admire about his driving skill to others, how careful and legal he is. However, it might not be true for every driver. There are some situations easily always neglect  overlook by us, and easy to get tickets; but, you need to know such as don’t run yellow lights, don’t take a short cut through drive-through, don’t drive in the on HOV lane when you are single driver, don’t drive and driunk (including a few beers), don't go over speed limit—especially in school zone (20 mile) etc.     

     4.     Make an appointment before a meeting

Making an appointment is a very common custom in all important meetings. For instance: medical appointment, dental appointment, job interview, parents-teacher conferences  meeting, even friends visiting etc. Almost all meetings need an make appointment in advance, so new immigrants don’t forget to do that before you go to a meeting.  If you don not, maybe you may be  would wasting your time.

      5.     Insurance is necessary

Insurance can reduce and pay for your loss, protect your benefit in case accidents happened; and help your  to live easier and better in the United States, so it is a definitely necessary for  to new immigrants. There are all kinds of insurances that impact and affect your lifeve, such as car insurance, medical insurance, dental insurance and house insurance etc. Nowadays, insurance is also an optional matter in many other countries. However, it is a necessary matter here; otherwise, your life might be able to throw into dilemma without insurance. Last, if you were low-income family, you could apply for Medicaid (Medicaid helps pays for the medical care to the poor).  

      6.     File tax returnsing  on time duly

Please remember to file your tax returning before 15^th of April every year. To pay taxes is an obligation of every citizen and resident; therefore, new immigrants should make and file your tax returning on time every year.  Perhaps, this is a totally new conception for some people who didn’t know that before they came to the United States;. bBecause some governments make taxes for their citizen compulsively; so people from those countries have no idea  about this for that. It doesn’t matter. New immigrants can find a lot of relative information about it on the from Internet. Libraries also offer free tax help. Just don’t forget to make and file your tax punctually.

      7.     Stay positive and avoid being negative in public

Americans are very polite people, and they always stay positive rather than being negative in public. You can often hear Americans praise and compliment for others, like “Great… Awesome….” —even to for  a passerby—in all public places. Encouragement is a basic policy for education and socializing in the United States, especially in conversation. Hence, don’t make say any negative comments words and sentences in public conversation, even though you think the person isn’t very  awfully nice. You only can pour out that to your close friends and family. In addition, speaking in a low voice is also another polite cumstom  way in public.

There are just a few I just concluded brief tips for new immigrants from my life experience; and you will find out know more and more tips, and live better and better in the future.  Have a nice life in the United States.