How automobile change our lives? It is a little controversial to say, maybe, automobile is the greatest invention in last century, whereas nobody can refute how automobile industry far-reaching influence human society in multifaceted ways since its advent. Automobile brings enormous convenience to people's daily life. Regardless of working, shopping, travelling, etc., people always drive cars. Not only cars can deliver passengers to a long distance quickly but also can take cumbersome cargo. To some extent, automobile facilitates cities to develop bigger and divide into several areas by functions, such that citizens can live in a corner while work in another. Based on such convenience and efficiency, cities can absorb more population and are enlarged greatly. Thus, there could not have been so many super cities all over the world, if had automobile not been invented. In other words, automobile also enhance communications and convergence between different places far away each other. Automobile industrial contribute much more on employment aspect. Compare to other lightweight industries, like cloths and foot wear, automobile usually requires more investment, bigger workshops, and more assorted of technical experts and workers. It means more amounts and kinds of employee recruitment are needed, thus automobile industry is considered exerting more significant impact to native economics. In Fortunate top companies, there are amounts of automobile companies, such like GM, Volkswagen, Toyota, etc. They are all big employers and multinational, local employment rate is more or less affected by them. Even so, it cannot be neglected that automobile are detrimental to environment. Most non-renewable energy resources are consumed by automobile, and meanwhile contamination gas and other poison objects are let out. In order to govern air pollution, Beijing government ever restricted number of vehicles from hitting the road during Beijing Olympic Game according to its license plate number, which was proved effective that air quality became better. This can be seen as an evidence that automobile partly contributes to prior pollution fog indeed. It concluded that automobile played significant role in human history, positively and passively. Furthermore, it is probably that such impressive impact is still ongoing in the future.

Why don't Chinese children have their own opinions? Writing section is arguably the most difficult part of TOEFL test, especially for Chinese students. Not only typing above 300 words in a limited time is challenging, but expressing substantial opinion of test takers pull out their own hair for Chinese students, who are never educated to form their own opinions.There are multifaceted factors contributing. Way of parenting education in China takes mainly role for the result. Children's initial values, such as kindnesses, honesty, and loyalty, are from their parents. Not what parents teaching is inappropriate, but the way they teaching is. They get used to forcing their children to obey their opinions rather than asking children how they think. Children who doubt their parents are considered black sheep and punished accordingly. Thus as time passes, children become increasingly obedient and don't propose their opinions any more. Moreover, it kills most precious curiosity of children at their best age. As growth of children, schooling education start to exert more influences on their thoughts. Forming own opinion is not encouraged by school, same as in family. Good teaching form, like class discussion, which is popular and considered highly stimulating opinions forming in western world, is rarely seen in Chinese classroom. On the contrary, subjects as physics and math, are extremely emphasized for easily quantized as score to rank. Above subjects require tremendous exercises to achieve high score as need of entering higher school, which is stressful, time-consuming, and suffering opinion forming. Reading regularly is not all the rage in China. Nevertheless, opinions come from the process of absorbing others' opinions plus one's own thinking. In other words, forming opinions requires input in advance, like reading and discussion. Children in China are not encouraged to read regularly. Moreover, reading books not related to school testing is strongly obstructed by parents and teachers, for sake of being useless in term of improving score. Besides, schooling stress has taken up almost all time and energy of children, for whom squeezing out leisure time itself is luxury enough already. Sum up, in contemporary, education sense caused this chronic phenomenon. Fortunately, quite a few people have been aware of root causes of this issue and actively made revolution of education in developed areas in China, in spite of we have to wait a long time before seeing the effect.

proposal to italki dashboard layout How many users knew the meaning of following others on italki, I mean does it make any difference compare with before you following him/her? As what I just found by chance, the plain "SOCIAL UPDATE", near the bottom of dashboard, is clickable! I really want to piss on italki's dashboard design! 1, The Student Tasks keep displaying on the top, this tutorial should be for a fresh user right?How about adding a check to decide an experienced user and cancel it, or just providing a button to make it can be closed by user. This position of dashboard is most important and should be utilized effectively. 2, Recently Online block is totally useless, just remove it permanently. Unless you can implement an chatting extension on page, like facebook do. 3,Recent Updates, there is no any hint that both social update and language update are clickable, they subtly disguise themselves in white background, as plain description text. italki display language update default, I understand it's tradeoff to encourage user correcting others' post, which benefits users(me included), but it decreases social feature indeed. Could italki redesign the layout to show both simultaneously? Or just give users an obvious entry to social update. No idea if all of this bother only me.

Why Lose Weight? If you google "Why Lose Weight" almost all results of top pages point to assorted medical ads or professional discussion on how weight impacts health. Everybody knew it, so what? Success rate of losing weight is still quite low. People always fail to lose weight just for health, unless their lives got threaten (My coworker, warned by doctor his fatty liver may turn into hepatocirrhosis, managed to lose 40 pounds).Many people are not aware fuzzy motive caused their failure, thus making personal motives clear is key to succeed. At lease I found the particular one for myself. Assuming one day you encounter an obese stranger, before getting to know each other, you probably form an image in your brain by his or her appearance. The tags from figure part generally are: cumbersome, lazy, greedy, etc. How do those stereotypes influence your further interpersonal communication? It is more difficult for obese person to win stranger’s trust than thin people, who is considered more reliable in doing things. After all, people are busy and willing to give obese person no time to prove himself a capable and meticulous fatty. Everybody knows judging people by appearance is unjust but always fails to keep reminding themselves this. Obese people are just one type of the victims of such psychological effect. There is a subtle example to share below. A hot topic in China is Shi Yongxin, abbot of Shaolin temple, which is most prestigious religious body in China and even a symbol. Countless rumors construct him an image of corruption, abusing power, and seducer. People treat his anecdotes as truth to discuss. Until I read one his interview recording, in which he talked about the rumors with a tone of sincerity. By explaining the operation of Shaolin temple, he refuted that he couldn’t gain benefits or advantages by his position. On his side of the story, however, most part of prior rumors don’t stand up from logics. Why everybody inclines to believe his unfavorable image from mass media? I searched on web and newspaper and found one thing in common---each report is posted with his picture, AND he is a fatty, a very typical corrupt official image in traditional Chinese mind. I’m really shocked by this finding, because I was very fat then. Although no concern on diabetes, I decided to lose weight for fair socialization chances, which is my motive. And now, I have controlled my weight to some degree won’t impair my normal socialization at least.

Should government spend money on computer technology or basic needs? Recent studies suggest that computer technology, or IT, is becoming increasingly prevalent and permeates our daily lives, and even embodies people's basic needs. Spending money on former compensates latter to some extent. When it comes to education, one of most fundamental need is already boosted greatly by IT. Almost all teachers, either college professors or high school tutors, are accustomed to prepare class and do presentation with software. Besides, after class, such tools also guide students on their homework effectively. It is not only saving time but also supplying extra animated effect to promote class performance. As benefits brought by sophisticated educational software suite, government should equip them for public colleges. Health resource development in some degree relies on IT more than education does. Nowadays, blood check can be done soon and accurately with computer assistance instead of the time-consuming and error-prone process in old times, by doctor using microscope manually. Meanwhile, many prior giant and space-occupying medical instruments are minimized to a portable size even can be taken under arm, which bring tremendous convenience to public. Obviously, IT no doubt would benefit public more if government spent more money on this field. Finally, IT also exerts positive influence to public transportation. Both flights landing on local airport and subway operation are scheduled by computer, which need high performance and must gratify higher safety requirement. In Singapore, for instance, even traffic light cycle is not fixed but responses to variation of real time traffic situation on road, under computer monitoring and control. This is also a trend to develop related computer technology to resolve heavy traffic issue in big cities. It concludes that spending money on developing or buying computer technology is valuable for basic needs. Despite usually transforming technology to practice requires buffer time. Whereas if a government really has not resolved basic needs, like eating, living place, etc., just put computer technology aside firstly.

What is "out" mean here? I just listened and read a Mind subject article in Scientific American, which talking about relationship between stress and eating pattern, and a sentence confused me a little bit. I pasted the full paragraph below, "Stress can make some people (me included) lose our appetite. Other folks find comfort in food. But such behaviors may actually even out in the long term. Because researchers find that people who change eating patterns when stressed out may actually make up for those not-so-healthy impulses during easier times. So finds a study in the journal Psychological Science." In this sentence "But such behaviors may actually even out in the long term.", it is obvious that "out" play as a verb here, whereas I cannot figure out its appropriate interpretation even along with following sentences. I'll appreciate if anybody so kind to explain more clear what it means here. Thanks in advance.