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Chandler planed to purpose to Monica. He made a reservation in a restaurant and tried to make all the things perfect. However, Monica's ex-boyfriend, Richard, went to that restaurant, too. He ate dinner with Monica and Chandler so Chandler couldn't achieve his goal successfully.
After the night, Richard found that he still loved Monica. He went to Monica's work place, showed his love to her and purposed. Concerned about Chandler, Monica refused Richard.
One noon while Chandler and Monica were enjoying their lunch, they talked about marriage. Chandler pretended that he wouldn't get married because the high rate of divorce. Monica was very sad about that.
After Joey explained the fact to Monica, she realized all the things, being ready to marry Chandler. Finally, they were engaged.
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I like Monica because she is a calm and considerable woman. Whenever the other five characters met problems, she would calm them down and analyze the situation for them. Helped them make decision.
I don't like Phoebe because I really couldn't accept the way she acted. She was always doing strange things.
3.
Watching "Friends" let me have the chance to listen the native speaker spoke the native langue. I can learn the common way about how they use words in their daily lives.

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Book: Daddy Long Legs
Author: Jean Webster
Publishing Year: 2008
Reprinted by Bookman Books. For sale in Taiwan only.
Number of pages: 28/184

Jerusha Abbott was an orphan in the "John Grier Home". She was eighteen years old. It was time for her leaving John Grier Home and finding a job to made living by herself. Luckily, Jerusha's ability of writing was noticed by a trustee, who gave himself a anonymous name "John Smith". He decided to sent Jerusha to college and he would pay all the four year tuition for her. In addition, he would give Jerusha 35 dollars per month as her allowances. And, Jerusha had to write a letter one month to Mr. Smith in return.
In the letters, she had to write him about her studies and her school lives but he would not answer any letters to Jerusha. In the letters, Jerusha called Mr. Smith "Daddy-Long-Legs". It was because one thing that she knew was that he was a very tall man. She had ever saw the shadow of his legs reflected on the floor, which stretched very long. So she used the name- Daddy Long Legs.
I love the way Jean Webster wrote this story. When I read the story, it seems that there is a friend describing her new lives to me, instead of hearing friend A telling a story of somebody else. The feelings are different.

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Book: Moby Dick
Author: Herman Melville
Publishing Company: Thomson
Year of Publishing: 2005
Number of pages: 246

Killing the Moby Dick was not an easy job. Captain Ahab and his crew had shipped for a very long time to find Moby Dick. If there was a ship passed by, Ahab would call the captain and try to get all the information about Moby Dick.
The first ship was Samuel Enderby. Its captain lost his right arm whiling he was trying to hunt Moby Dick. The second ship was Rachel. The captain lost his own son whiling they were trying to hunt Moby Dick. And, the third ship was Delight. The captain on it lost his five members whiling they were trying to hunt Moby Dick.
After hearing those terrible news, Captain Ahab still wanted to find Moby Dick and kill it in person. No matter how long it would be or how seriously the loss he might have. One of his crew, Starbuck, had begged to Captain Ahab to sail home for many times, but Ahab didn't change his mind.
Later, he and his crew met the Moby Dick. The first war against Moby Dick was intense. Many people injured badly, including Captain Ahab. But this failure didn't stop Ahab. He still insisted on the same goal – killing Moby Dick.
There were total three wars against Moby Dick. The last one was very miserable. All the people were dead, Captain Ahab was included. Only Ishmael was alive.
It would be very unlucky for me to be Captain Ahab's sailor, because I should hunt whales, get the valuable oil and go home with considerable wealth. Not running the risk of my life just to kill a dangerous whale like Moby Dick.
After I finished the novel, I wondered why the members on Pequod didn't cooperate together to oppose Captain Ahab for his craziness. If they did, everyone could have saved their lives.

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Book: Moby Dick Author: Herman Melville Publishing Company: Thomson Year of Publishing: 2005 Number of pages: 246 "A Victim of Moby Dick"- I started from this chapter this time. In the chapter, Moby Dick appeared, and it killed one person. "Is it really cruelly?" I had the question. From the beginning of the book to the part I had read. Moby Dick was described as a terrible monster. It hurt people, killed people and left. It was every whale-killer's biggest enemy. Those who had ever planed to killed it all failed. However, I don't think Moby Dick did something wrong. People had killed countless whales at that time, for their wealth. Whales were killed because of the blubber(whale's oil), which was very valuable. Humans have the right to live on the world and whales have the same right, too. So, what Moby Dick did to the humans was only a rebel against humans. Every being is equal. 49777066 薛幃予 Acc Gils P.S. I had read 21 pages in RJ3 and 29 pages in RJ4.

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Book: Moby Dick Author: Herman Melville Publishing Company: Thomson Year of Publishing: 2005 Number of pages: 246 Ishmael signed up on the whaling ship for three years. As time passed, Ishmael found that Captain Ahab's purpose was to kill Moby Dick, for his own revenge. One of the crew didn't agree on Captain Ahab, he thought he got on the boat was to hunt whales, not to satisfy Captain Ahab himself. Someday, for Ishmael's first time, there came a chance to whale-hunting. All the crew was divided into 4 groups. They transferred from their ship to small boats. On the boat, Ishmael saw how Starbuck, Stubbs and Flask encouraged their own members to keep paddling in different ways in the turbulent sea. However, something bad happened. Ishmael's boat was crushed by their big ship because of the heavy fog. Ishmael and his partners were safe but this event really shocked Ishmael. If I were Ishmael, I would feel very uneasy on the ship. I don't know what will happen and how to avoid it or how to save myself. Everything is so uncertain. 49777066 Acc Girls 薛幃予

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Among all the strategies the author mentioned, I have apply two.
Study Efficiently: I like to study math in the morning, Chinese in the afternoon and English at night. I spent a long time to find what time is appropriate to me to study for each subject and where is the most ideal study place for me in my high school.

Listen Actively: I take notes whenever I am in the class. Taking notes can not only help me review after class but also make me pay attention to what teacher is teaching.

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I am going try the three strategies: plan your days, capture insights and keep a journal.

Plan your days: I do write down what I should do on my notebook but I have never thought that I could arrange them in priorities. From now on, I will do this.

Capture insights: I keep thinking while I am waiting for the bus, sitting in the car or eating. Sometimes, I will come some ideas out, but I don't have tried to write them down so I easily forget about them after few seconds. Now, I will try it.

Keep a journal: I do keep journals-on small pieces of paper, not on a notebook. So, I may lose the pieces before I read them again. Now, I will be as carefully as possible to collect them into a data folder and keep them well.

3.Questions

Q1: what does this sentence mean" his changes reduced the number of motions required to lay a brick from 18 to 4 and one half"?
Q2: in the "Read for understanding" article, why does the author think not to underline or highlight anything when we first read something? I used to doing so.

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Name of the book: Mody Dick Author: Herman Melville Publishing company: Thomson Year of publishing:2005 Number of pages:246 Some ancient words appeared in the book, such as "thy" "whosoever" "ye", when I read this book this week. Ishmael and Queequeg signed up the whaling boat named Pequod. Ishmael wanted to meet the Captain Ahab before go sailing. He failed, but Ishmael heard a lot about Captain Ahab from other people. On the whaling ship,Captain Ahab kept behaving odd and nobody knew why. Someday, without warning, Captain Ahab gave everyone an odd news, if someone could catch a whale with white head he would give him a reward. We can't judge a book by it's appearance, also I think we can't judge a person unless we know him well.People may undergo some hard time that really beat them deep. The bad memories may make them bahave strangely. 49777066 薛幃予

About Languege Learning & Acquisition

1. I have tried to read easy English books for children ,I know every words but sometimes I still do not understand what are the books about.
2. It is hard to learn slang.

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Name of the book: Mody Dick
Author: Herman Melville
Publishing company: Thomson
Year of publishing:2005
Number of pages:246

This book has 18 chapters and I have read 3 chapters. Ishmael is a school teacher but he wants to do something different in his life. Sailing is the way he likes.
This time Ishmael decided to go on a whaling ship instead of a merchant vessel. When Ishmael headed to the whaling ship he had planed, the bad weather made him stay at an inn, where he met a new friend-Queequeg.
The first time when Ishmael saw Queequeg, he thought Queequeg was a rude and savage man. Soon, he found Queequeg was not such a terrible but a friendly guy.

The reason why I chose this book is that it is a famous novel but I haven't had a chance to read it before. This book really indicates the nervous relationship between people who live in modern cities and who live in the places that are not so thrive.

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