Good and Bad Memories

One of the amazing things about the human, that he can remind most the events or moments in their life. The memories can came in different forms. Some of these moments or events are good and the human wish if it is happening again. Otherwise, some events people are hate thinking about it. The worst memories are which effect at the persons and make their life disaster. Nightmare is another way that reminds people about bad memories. In my life, all my memories usually related to something. First, some of my memories related to place. For example, I have bad memories about the United States before I came to here. Also, my grandmother still did not know until this moment I am here in the United States. Because my father died here, all my family was against to complete my study in the United States. My grandmother have a bad feeling if I study here I will died. Second, some memories related to song. I have a nice story was happen to me that related to song. When I was in California I met a nice American girl and she listen to Arabic song. She loved the rhythm of the song and told me to translate the words of the song. I stayed for six hours using my dictionary trying to translate every word in the song. The song was very romantic and talked about leaving the friends to another town. Before I leaved California, she sent the song to me by e-mail. I was shocked how she could find it and I remember her each time I listen to this music. In conclusion, I hope for any persons to have more good memories than bad memories.

Delicious Arabic Food

To tell the truth, I like several varieties of food. My first food choice often is “Falafel”. Today, I am going to tell you about this food. It's so delicious. I like it because it is healthy and easy to make and cook especially here in the United States. Also, you can eat it at any time, breakfast, lunch, or dinner. It is made of beans, which is a famous vegetable in the United States, but, it is not good for people who have allergy to beans. In order to make it, first you have to put the beans in water and leave it for twenty four hours. Then, you should take out the beans and grind them with a special tool until it becomes like dough. After that, you would add the salt, black pepper, coriander and parsley together. Then, in the small kitchen piece, you put this dough into vegetable oil in a cocker. Now, “Falafel” is ready to be eaten with some tomatoes and onion to decorate the plate. This kind of food is popular in Syria and Jordan. Now, it has become famous in Saudi Arabia more and more. In addition, many big and small restaurants serve Falafel and people like it a lot.

Do Not Stay Alone

In life, people encounter many events. Some of these events make them happy; otherwise, some events make them sad. People have different reactions to these events. Our religion taught us how to deal with any disasters and decrease the influence of these disasters. Also, how people work as group and how they help each others. In my society, people usually close to each others. Also, they feel about their friends, families, and neighbors and chare with them their problems. Really, we cannot leave someone stay alone except if we know why he do that. This reason makes suicide rare in our society not like other cultures. Also, people become friendlier and try to produce the assistance all the time. I think I have different reactions with my issues. If I have some troubles with my mother for instance than I just go to my bedroom and sleep for three or four hours. Moreover, if the issue in my work then I stay with my friends and discuss with them the situations. Sometimes, I have been in bad mood, so I like to ride my car to the desert and listen to classic music to find solution for what I think about. In fact, I am a person like to be between other people. Since, I came to the United States everything is change. I usually stay alone for long time because we have a lot of assignments. In addition, I came here to improve my ability in English and develop my basic skills. Now, I usually write my secret diary when I remember my family and miss them. This is in a brief my experiences and my opinions about be alone.

Yes We Can

“We can make change”, that was slogan of Obama campaign. I like this slogan because it means that people can make their destiny. The election is something strange in our country. I enjoyed watching elections in 2000 and 2004, but in 2008 I was in the event. I wanted to see how the Americans can choose their president. One of the interesting things about the election is that some Americans ignored me when I asked them about who they would choose and gave diplomatic answers. I had to follow-up each step for Obama from the beginning. I had huge confidence that Obama will be the president from the beginning. He has all the characteristics of a successful leader. I like all his speeches. He has a special way to convince people. The amazing thing about this election was Obama, the first American African candidate for the United States president, that he had all huge support from people and got a lot of money. I was wondering whether he would lose after spending all this money. I like his choice for the running mate. I think Biden was a great choice from Obama. The attack advertising was great idea to get more voters. Obama faced a lot of difficulties, but he faced bravery. The last day in the election before the polling hours were scary. I was watching the news and tried to find any information that showed who won. November 4, 2008 was the day of the change for the United States.

My Dream

Each person has one or more dreams that he try in many ways to meet. Some of them are easy to get and some of them are hard. When I was a child, I had a big dream that I wanted to be a surgery. My mother was proud of me because of my dream. I wanted to protect any children from losing their father. I was suffering a lot from losing my father because my father dead when I was a child. When I played with the other children I liked to portray a surgery. It was a great feeling. However, the fate was stop in my way. Since, I graduated from the high school. I applied to the medicine university in my city. The challenge was the university just accepted 200 students each year and had difficult test to join this university. I tried to pass the test, but I failed. I was sad because I lost two things the opportunity to help the people from losing someone they love and making my mother keep proud about me.
Next, I was adult, so I was looking for realistic dream. The second dream was a successful businessman. I chose the prince Alwaleed Bin Talal as role model. Also, I put his picture in every place in my room. I started my first step to make the dream in 1998. I opened a small store to sell cellular phones and Accessories of the cellular phones. The second big jump was investing my money in new business in Saudi Arabia that was advertising. I started with four employees and rented digital printing machine. Now, I owner a small company, which called Dimensions advertising, that have 28 employees and two branches. I had a big fear before I came to the United States, because there was no one can manage the company after I left. My uncle learned the work very fast and he control every thing. My last dream is to find beautiful girls that respect me and the marriage life. I hope from God to give me long time to accomplish my entire dream.

Fluency Exercise # 4

Learning by Technology
Internet is the famous way that has a huge influence on learning technology. In the internet, millions of web sites are providing many ways that help you to learn English. It is really amazing that you get lessons about any subject for free. The advantages you can get from learning by using technology are numerous. First, an intelligent class is helping the teachers to support his idea and make teaching easier. For example, some teachers use internet to find video aids for a specific subject. Also, teachers are facing some problems to explain some information to the students, so watching movies make the vision clear for the students. I believe the effect of eyes more than listening. Second, free electronic dictionaries one of the ways that make me save money. I do not need to carry the soft dictionaries or portable dictionary. Third, some websites provide some section that helps to improve your skills such as reading, writing, listening, and grammar. I hope the technology improves more to make learning English easier.

Fishing Farms

In “Fish farms drive wild salmon populations toward extinction” the author states the reason for the decrease in the wild salmon population and driving them to extinction because of the spread of sea lice in fish farms. The author says that sea lice may terminate the salmon life during four years or at least in a couple of generations. Moreover, the author points out those sea lice infect the youngest salmon in the fish farm so that it causes death for these juvenile salmon. In addition, the author mentions that the fears of net pen aquacultures are increased and how they affect other species. The author explains how the sea lice are transferring into the salmon’s skin in the ocean. Also, the author asserts that the youngest salmon are affected by the wild salmon, which have sea lice that come from the ocean to the fish farms. Furthermore, the author states that the number of salmon increased and sea lice decreased, if the fish farms on the migration path are closed for that time. The author explains how to solve the sea lice infestation in two ways: move to new farms far away from the river and close the fish farm completely from other wild salmon.

It is apparent that the author’s opinion is wrong in this article. The author is relating all salmon problems to the fish farms. Fish farms are one of the best solutions that we have these days. All the problems that the author mentions can be handled in different ways. For example, any disease can be cured by scientists, or they can isolate the salmon who have sea lice. The author should focus on the big problem such as global warming and how the fish farm will help in it. Using fish farms would help to reduce the effect of global warming, sickness, and enemies.

The primary reason that people should tend to use the fish farm is the effect of the global warming. The fish farm is an artificial environment built by human beings, so they can control everything inside the farm. Moreover, global warming increases the temperature of the earth, but because of this farm, they can control the temperature of the farm and make it appropriate for the salmon. Also, they can separate the salmon from the external environment if there is a serious threat from the global warming. They also can increase the number of salmon in the farm if there is more demand for salmon because of the decline in other resources of food. Thus, fish farm is a good solution to reduce the threat of global warming.

Moreover, we can learn to overcome the diseases that are affecting wild and farm salmon. The scientists should make many experiences in the salmon to fight all the sickness that make the salmon exposed to extinction. In addition, the United States and Canada are two of the big countries that consume the salmon in the world, so they have to spend some of their budget to conserve this important resource. Government must involve and regulate the amount of fish inside the fish farm. This regulation will help to get rid of the stricken fish. The youngest salmon should be put in net pen aquacultures to protect them from the illnesses found in the adult salmon and be fed the necessary food. Therefore, people have to use the fish farm wisely to protect their salmon from disease.

Finally, keeping the salmon away from all the perils is the third reason we should use the fish firm. Scientists and companies who take care of this invention should find new solution to raise a small fish farm in every home. Cheap and accessible fish farms will eliminate the illegal fishing. Fish Farm aids to catch other fish that depend on salmon to get their food, especially seals. Also, people should save the salmon from some animals such as bears and wolves. Choosing the suitable environment helps the salmon to make proliferation in large amount without any disturbance. Thus, fish farm protects the salmon from their enemy.

Global warming, illness, and foes are three reasons that make the fish farm the best place to protect salmon from extinction. We should take the extinction of salmon seriously because many poor people will depend for their food on salmon. Also, the whole world must spend more money to find more inventions to encounter the global warming, pollution, and random fishing to keep fish from extinction. It is difficult to clean up the rivers and oceans, so government should support this kind of inventions. We ought to treat the issue seriously; otherwise, we might lose the delicious taste of salmon.


Reference

SeaWeb (2007, December 16). Fish Farms Drive Wild Salmon Populations Toward Extinction. ScienceDaily. Retrieved October 28, 2008, from
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071213152606.htm

Celebration in Saudi Arabia

I am jealous from the American people because they have eleven federal holidays and many other unofficial celebrations. Some of these celebrations it does not make sense for me especially Halloween. Some people believe that dead people can return back in the body of animals in this specific day October 31. Although I have desire to see my dead father for five minutes, it is impossible. I respect what the American people believe and why they do this celebration. I really like strange costume cloths and eating delicious candies. For example, the taste of candy corn remembers me with traditional candy in my country. In the U.S., people respect their dead people by this celebration. In my country, we have two official religious celebrations. “Eid Alfitr” is the first celebration for all Muslims. It become after Ramadan, which is month that all Muslims are fasting. We celebrate for three days in this Eid and it is called “small Eid”. People visit their family and friends, so they have a lot of fun and play with the firework. Also, they serve a lot of food and candies from the morning until mid-night. The second celebrate is the biggest celebration for all Muslims that called “Eid Aladha”. We celebrate for four days that become when proximately million of Muslims visit a religious place in my country called “Makkah”. Men, women, and children dress nice cloths and go to mosque to do Eid prayer. Then, people sacrifice an animal such as sheep, goats, cows, and camels. People divide meat to three parts. They give poor people, relatives, and part for their home. In the night, we make a big grill party and celebrate with family and friends. In our city, we have unofficial celebration that we called “Gargian”. This celebration usually occurs before two days of Eid Alfitr. It is just for the children. They wear tradition cloths and have saying nice anthem. They hang out in the neighbors looking for candies and gifts. I hope you enjoy have a brief information about celebration in our country.

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Protecting Salmon

Lundy (2008) in his article “New life in old river; Clyde’s amazing transformation from dead fish zone to cleaned-up waterway teeming with salmon” states that many kinds of sea animals, especially salmon, returned to the Clyde River after it became free of pollution. The author says that the Clyde River had very dirty waterways, and you saw the dead fish with your eyes thirty years ago. Moreover, industry garbage and shipbuilding were two main reasons for Clyde pollution. In addition, he points out that the river became clean after the decrease in shipbuilding and development of the sewage system. Also, the author mentions that one of the amazing things was the returning of many salmon to the Clyde River after years of absence. The author asserts that Clyde’s river has not become fully cleaned up and there are some water pollution areas in the river because of litter and sewage work as an example. Finally, he points out that the ways that Sepa uses to protect the Clyde River from pollution.

It is clear that pollution is one of many harmful things to sea animals’ lives particularly salmon. People have to work hard to solve this problem; otherwise, the salmon and other fish will disappear. The author’s ideas that the Clyde River is cleaned up and the salmon is in the river because of that is invalid. He should not to say that because maybe there is some impact of pollution. Some people may start seeking to fish for the salmon and get diseases. People should try to save salmon from extinction by following these three ways: organize fishing, provide proper environment, and avoid trading in big quantities.

First, organizing fishing is one of the ways to save salmon from extinction. Many countries have problems with random fishing. Moreover, they cannot control people and regulate some conditions for reasons such as the fact that they do not have a sector that should be responsible for sea life. For example, in the United States and Saudi Arabia you cannot go fishing without having a license for that; otherwise, you will be punished. There are some ways that help to organize the fishing like banning some areas that have some eggs of salmon and protecting the areas that are threatened by extinction. Some fishermen use equipment for fishing that hurts the sea world. Banning some areas when they are threatened with extinction are two examples for organizing fishing.

The second way to save salmon from extinction is to provide a proper environment. Fishermen and specialists in fish world choose the right world will help to make proliferation for salmon. For example, many countries have serious plan to prevent anyone from fishing to protect the salmon and wildlife. There are wonderful salutation for protect the salmon is salmon farms, which have big places that are equipped with new equipment and a big number of salmon in the same place. This farming salmon assists to increase the number of salmon quickly. Many countries are supporting this idea these days. In addition, government must become strict and have certain plan about cleaning up rivers and oceans. Educating people and changing some of their bad habits and charging factories for their pollution are some solution to get healthy environment. Farming salmon is one example that helps to provide a proper environment.

Lastly, traders have to eliminate selling salmon in big quantities in order to save salmons from extinction. Many traders are against this decision because they earn millions of dollars. Governments have to regulate selling salmon in big amounts. There are two ways to solve this problem. Governments have to make bounds limit for each industries in years. Also, governments must increase taxes for selling the extinct fish. Moreover, many people in the world like to eat salmon which makes the demand high. In addition, governments have to make laws that prevent the random selling of salmon in the entire world. In addition, governments must enforce fishermen for legal selling. Also, they should make penalties for illegal selling. Prohibiting illegal selling is an example of way that would help to save salmon from extinction.

In conclusion, organizing fishing, providing proper environment, and eliminating trading in a big quantity are three ways that would save salmon from extinction. People should think about the environment more than thinking about getting a lot of money. Many poor countries depend on fishing, so the impact on the sea environment will affect their economy. People often complain from the random fishing. Also, some industries have big ships with equipment that has high technology in the sea to search for the fishes in large quantities, so that will help to make fish extinction.


Reference


Lundy, I. (2008, March 15). New life in old river: Clyde’s amazing transformation from dead fish zone to cleaned-up waterway teeming with salmon. Evening Times. (p. 4). Retrieved October 21, 2008, from Lexis Nexis database.