Tsin has reached one of the windows. She turns the lever handles with both hands and opens the wooden shutters. Dust flies everywhere and a shaft of light floods in. She squints against the morning brilliance and lets the incoming wind caress her cheeks. However, the air reeks of noxious chemical fumes. The stretch of woods beside the orphanage was leveled for the construction of roads and factories many years ago. Nature has always succumbed to this prevailing trend of modernization. The shady woods were the favourite haunt of Tsin and her friends. They enjoyed ambling through the tapestry of trees in hot afternoons, admiring the scenery and picking flowers without a care in the world. It never occurred to them that the woods would suffer such a fate. The thought of this brings tears to her eyes. She feels like she has lost a dear friend. How many people will actually mourn the demise of the woods like her? She dries her tears and proceeds to open the other windows. Instantly, the room becomes alive with light. Her eyes glide across the room, absorbing the sight that unfolds before her. The walls, which were once laden with children’s drawings and bible quotations, are totally bare. The book shelf against the back wall is gone too. There are only a few chairs left on the floor. Like what she has previously seen in the dark, they are either upended, tipped on their sides or lay in fragments. Her eyes now settle on the front wall. She is quite surprised to see the blackboard remain intact in its place. Similarly, the bronze cross still hangs above the blackboard. It has turned black with age, losing much of the sheen that is vivid on her mind.

Tsin is making her way to the centre of the room with slow, deliberate steps. She wants to find the spot where her seat was once situated. When she is sure of where it is, she kneels down on the dust-layered floor. It causes sharp pain to her rheumatic knees but she does not care. She gazes up at the cross, eyes turning misty again.

Many foreign missionaries remained in China during the Second World War. She intuitively believes that Reverend Baker and Mrs. Baker were among them. Their selflessness in caring for the orphans is unquestionable and it is unlikely of them to leave the children behind for their own safety. Did they survive the extreme adversity of the war? If they did, did they join the mass exodus of missionaries from China when the country was declared a republic in 1949? Most of those who had opted to stay behind for the sake of their flocks were caught and imprisoned. Religion was regarded as people’s enemy in China then. She hopes nothing bad happened to them but it is a wishful thinking.

Tsin’s uncle died in his sleep when she was thirty-four. After four years, his wife joined him. She took their death very hard but was able to get over her grief through prayers. Time lapped and receded, all her children grew up and finished their university education. They became successful professionals and got married one after another, having children of their own. She and her retired husband enjoy their status as grandparents very much. If the Baker couple had not taken her in, all this happiness would not have been hers. She could have been unscrupulously sold for money like what has befallen many other unfortunate orphans in China, suffering child abuse without having a chance to be adopted by his uncle and to meet her husband.

Tsin is now seventy-six. She finds herself very well-blessed for being able to set foot on the soil of Chung-san, her hometown again after sixty-four years. Some of her friends could not live that long to return to their birthplaces in China. She reached the Gwangdong town with her husband and two of her children two days ago. She was filled with relief when her children found out that the orphanage is still standing from the locals. They came to the derelict building this early morning. Everything she saw and touched harked back to her time with Reverend Baker and Mrs. Baker. The moment they came to the cloistered corridor, she insisted on going into the classroom on her own. She wanted to have a personal moment with it. She had missed it too much.

“Mama, are you okay?”

A soft female voice speaks from behind her. It interrupts her litany of memories. She looks over her shoulder and sees Yong Shi, her forty-nine year-old daughter standing behind her. She can also see her seventy-eight year-old husband, Nam and her fifty-three year-old eldest son, Yong Chin, smiling at her at the doorway. Her other children cannot come to Chung-San because they are busy with their work in Sarawak. The sight of them makes her feel calm.

“I’m alright,” replied Tsin with a nod. “Just recalling the past.”
“We will ask more locals about the whereabouts of Reverend Baker and his wife.” said Nam. He looks lovingly at his wife.
“Mama, I am sure we can get some reliable information about them,” reassured her son.
“That’s very nice of you,” said Tsin, her face smiling. “It’s okay even if you can’t find anything. The past is too blur and distant for us to grasp.”

Yes, the past is blur and distant. But love is everlasting. Reverend Baker and Mrs. Baker will always be remembered in her heart. And so will her uncle and his wife.

Tsin asks her husband and children to kneel down beside her. She leads them in saying a prayer of thanksgiving to God. Love binds their hearts together. It transcends time and boundaries. ]]> http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/grammar-please-proofread-my-short-story/feed/ 0 http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/essay-how-shall-i-refer-myself-in-a-report-writing/ http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/essay-how-shall-i-refer-myself-in-a-report-writing/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:57:44 +0000 Ahmet YILDIRIMOĞLU http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/essay-how-shall-i-refer-myself-in-a-report-writing/ Hi. I am about to start writing up for my personal Professional Engineer interview report. The report is about to share my working experiences in my course of career. Since this report will be something about my experiences, shall I refer myself as "the author", "the writer" or "my" in the report?

E.g.

This report describes and summaries the training and working experiences of the author/the writer/myself (???) since graduation in 2003 until presently, of which covering various sectors in Research & Development, Construction Industry and Property Development & Development. This report further indicate the positions held by the author/the writer/myself (???) and the detail duties, responsibilities and experience gained during his course of career.

TQ. ]]> http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/essay-how-shall-i-refer-myself-in-a-report-writing/feed/ 0 http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/need-english-research-paper-help/ http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/need-english-research-paper-help/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:57:44 +0000 Ahmet YILDIRIMOĞLU http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/need-english-research-paper-help/ Evaluative Standards. 

Audience Awareness

Critical Thinking

Self-Ananlysis

Information-gathering activities

Organization

Basic writing

Formatting

Paragraph Construction

I need help with all of this.

HELP APPRECIATED

It is a big time in a persons life when they are exploring different career fields. When you are in High School your parents and teachers are constantly telling you that you need to start looking for a career. A career is different from a job, a career could require an education or special training and is one’s lifework. That was the first thing that I looked at when it was time for me to decide on a career field. I have always had family that was into the radiation field, and that is when my Father recommended Radiation Protection. It had everything I was looking for in a career, but I didn’t know anything about how radiation protection started, so I did some research. The next several paragraphs are going to explain the discovery of radiation and the history of radiological protection and the jobs available today and their requirments.

Wilhelm Röntgen is the person who discovered it first in 1895, but most importantly he only discovered X-rays. About a year later in 1896 a French physicist named Henri Becquerel was the very first to discover radiation and give it the name “radioactivity”. By the early 1900’s the study of radiation was a widely accepted scientific endeavor. Early on scientists learned that not only was radiation a source energy and medicine, but it could be potentially harmful to people. Many early scientists died from this because of too much exposure to radioactivity.

During World War I, pilot’s airplane instruments were made with radium paint to make them glow in the dark so they would be visible at night. This made everyone catch on; by the end of the war companies were producing watch faces that could glow in the dark. The women who worked for these companies would paint the radium paint onto the watch and lick the end of the brush before they would put the paint on the watch, not knowing that they were swallowing radium and damaging their body. Over a two year period, nine women died from ingesting this harmful chemical. A dentist who treated one of the women discovered the connection between inflammation of the jawbone marrow and the radium paint. This started Radiation Protection around the world.

In 1915 a British Society adopted a resolution to protect people from overexposure to X-Rays. By 1922, American organizations adopted the British protection rules. Through the 1920’s and 1930’s guidelines were developed and organizations were formed to address Radiation Protection. After World War II, the development of the atomic bomb and the development of nuclear reactors, the United States government established policies that deal with human exposure to radiation. In 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was started and radiation protection was part of the EPA’s responsibility at that time. Today the EPA has a single division called the Radiation Protection Division (RPD). The RPD is responsible for protecting the general public and the environment from radiation exposure.

It might seem like the Radiation Protection field is a dangerous field to enter, but the reality of it is, radiation is all around us no matter where we go. It has been over a century since radiation was discovered and it has given people plenty of time to learn how to prevent a lot of radiation exposure. The people who protect the public and environment from radiation exposure are known as Health Physicists (HP) or Radiation Protection Technicians. People with these job titles can work at Nuclear Power Plants, Hospitals, Nuclear Weapons Plants or work as Environmental Health Physicists. To become a Radiation Protection Technician (RPT) you are going to need a few things.

Most companies require an individual to have less than 1 year experience to 5 years experience and or have an Associate’s Degree in Radiological Protection Technology but training is required in other areas. Some benefits included from working for a company are Health Care, Vision, Dental, Short term and Long term Disability, Accident and Cancer Insurances. Problems that a RPT might face on a daily basis may require the person to have knowledge of radiation biology, biochemistry, physiology and genetics. Academic training alone will not make a person a great RPT, but it is more the hands on practical experience in applying radiation protection principles. By no means is this an easy job.

This type of job has a lot of responsibility. It is possible for an HP to supervise as many as 70 to 80 technicians and professionals, such as chemists and radiochemists. There are some job sites that could require an HP to monitor data for as many as 2,000 permanent site employees daily. Some HP’s assist engineers and scientists to design new facilities and new radiation control programs. One goal is to help people understand the relative degree of risk for radiation exposure.

Could you please assess my essay and post your valuable suggestions?

Topic:

In some countries, people who commit less serious crimes are made to undertake community service* instead of a prison sentence. Some people believe that all people who have committed a crime should be sent to prison.

Do you agree or disagree?

Answer:

Over the past few years the crime rate has increased tremendously all over the world. In some places, criminal defendants are subjected to community service instead of a putting behind the bars. It is agreed that all those who commit an offence should be jailed. If the convict is left open in the community, there are chances that they repeat the crime and they may also form groups to influence other people in the community. These areas will be analyzed in the essay.

Firstly, it is important to know whether the crime was intentional or unintentional. In either the case, the suspect should be imprisoned. After monitoring their attitude in the prison for a certain time period they can be advised to do the community service. For example, if a felon left open in the community just because the offense was not very serious or did not harm anyone; next time when he plans for any illegal act, he might tend to injure or even kill people, an unacceptable offense. Thus, criminals should be convicted till their behaviour is completely acceptable by the society.

Secondly, there are chances that one bad person in the society can spoil few others. For instance, a culprit who has been left open to the community might not feel as being punished and tend to perform the more serious offense by forming small groups. As many people tend to get attracted to illegal and easy ways of earning money, they will join the leader. Thus, many people in the society will be influenced by the criminal.

In the nutshell, irrespective of the reason of the offence; the punishment should be generalized. Although there are many ways of punishing the criminal, it is generally agreed that the criminals should be imprisoned. This is because the criminal may perform the crime again by themselves or may even influence other people living in the society.

Nowadays, developed countries are very powerful and need more outside employers to help these countries. Therefore, they make a law that imports human resources from poorer countries to work in their countries. Unfortunately, this is a problem that makes poorer countries loses their citizens and they cannot develop as fast as developed countries.

Poor countries do not have enough natural resources, modern technologies and effective management, which causes many people that do not have jobs and these people become homeless. Besides, personal expensesthat they pay every month are so high and they do not have enough money to buy necessary goods. Therefore, they have to study for good jobs such as: workers, nurses, and so on to sustain their life. Moreover, if they have a lot of experiences in their jobs, they will try to find ways to work in developed countries like Australia, New Zealand, Europe countries and especially is America. That is the best way for them to find a new and wonderful life.
Their needs/ loans

Rich countries should pay more on qualified people that came to their country to work. Their citizens work well but may be non-citizens work better. Most of them come from Asian countries and they want to be paid higher. In my opinion, rich countries should aim to concentrate on jobs that they need human resources very much to help qualified people. For example, they can organize a society to open classes for qualified people to motivate their skills and improve their English skills. Most of Asian people are not good in writing and speaking skills. Besides, the government should open some programs to encourage qualified people work in national centers or community services.

To sum up, I think rich countries can develop their society by opening immigration law for qualified people to study, work and become their citizens. ]]> http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/essay-help-me-with-the-ielts-essay/feed/ 0 http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/learning-from-experience-or-book/ http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/learning-from-experience-or-book/#comments Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:56:06 +0000 Ahmet YILDIRIMOĞLU http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/learning-from-experience-or-book/ Learning is a spesific subject for people. Some people learn better from experience some people learn better from book. In my opinion, the best way to learning is getting experience. My arguments for this point are listed as follows.
First of all, information from books depents on author’s view. For instance, I went to United States two years ago. Before I went I had read a travelling book. I do not remember author’s name. He expressed his opinions about Manhattan and I created imagination for Manhattan to authors view. But when I went there I saw that Manhattan was very different place and I did not belive that situation.
Second, we can forget informations which we learn from books. Because, books can not affect us as well as experiences. We can know theorically but sometimes we may forget them. Also, we can not truly before go or see, However, we can not know some historical informations but for instance, if we go that historical place, the informations come our mind easily and ew realized them
In conclusion, books give us just theroical informations, if we want to know or to get experience we should live them. ]]> http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/learning-from-experience-or-book/feed/ 0 http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/essay-please-check-my-toefl-essay/ http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/essay-please-check-my-toefl-essay/#comments Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:56:06 +0000 Ahmet YILDIRIMOĞLU http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/essay-please-check-my-toefl-essay/ I’m new here, need you guys to check my essay. Thank you very much in advance.

Topic : There is nothing that an uneducated person can teach educated person.

In today’s world an education becomes more important for our lives. An educated person always have superior status than an uneducated person. One question that I often thought about is whether there is nothing that an uneducated person can teach educated person. Although education provides many benefits, in my opinion, I disagree that an uneducated person person can’t teach an educated person.

Firstly, the local knowledge or the rural knowledge such as how to survive in the forest without food, how to farming in the rainy seasons and how to cook the simple medicine by herb in the mountain, these specific knowledge are not contain in the general subjects that provided by school. Most of these local things came from their great grandfather. They shared this information by generation. Furthermore, most of these people are uneducated and it seem to be benefits when you go to their area.

Second example came from my experience, I have study about business. Once they invited guest lecturer to the class. He is the successful business man and he don’t even have his high school life. He studies till he was 8 years old because of his family financial problem. But by his courage and his vision make him to success in his business. This is the the real life experience that also hard to find in the university course.

Lastly, The kind of specific knowledge that involved in religion or spiritual. This kind of subject is not even put in the class lesson because each students has their own believes. They have to study by themselves. Most of experts of this kind of subject are an uneducated person. They learned this specialize subject by themselves too and this kind of knowledge became more and more important in today’s world.

In conclusion, They are many important lesson that provided by an uneducated person. Many of these lesson are unique and valuable to learned. You must not keep yourself only in the university or school subjects. Experience outside classroom is sometimes important than that you learned in class. ]]> http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/essay-please-check-my-toefl-essay/feed/ 0 http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/essay-please-review-opinion-essay/ http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/essay-please-review-opinion-essay/#comments Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:56:06 +0000 Ahmet YILDIRIMOĞLU http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/essay-please-review-opinion-essay/ Assignment –
In Federalist No. 51, James Madison wrote: " In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.How well do you think the Founders did with this daunting task? Be sure to fully explain the reason(s) why you have taken the position you have.Writing a short essay like this will prove more difficult that writing a longer paper. Remember it is not intended to be a research, but more of a "thought piece."

Essay
James Madison wrote the Federalist No. 51 to convince Americans that the new government would have a foundation in place to ensure that no one person or group would have too much power. Madison outlined the “checks and balances” portion of the new government which outlined the three branches of government which he believed would ensure that no one group would have over another group.
By creating the three branches of government (the executive, legislative and judicial) the delegates built a "check and balance" system into the Constitution. To implement this means of checks and balances, the three branches of government have certain powers to “check” the other branches and make sure that the power is balanced among them. The Legislative Branch makes and passes the laws while the Judicial Branch interprets the laws. The Executive Branch has the power to veto the law. For example, the president may veto a law passed by Congress. Congress can override that veto with a vote of two-thirds of both houses. Another example is that the Supreme Court may check Congress by declaring a law unconstitutional. Additionally, the president may appoint a Supreme Court Judge but the appointment must be approved by the Congress.
The American Government was designed to protect and represent its people and should be controlled by the people. A limited divided government is imperative to protect the rights of citizens. The founders realized that the division of power and the checks and balances would help maintain the liberties and freedoms of the individual. It is unquestionable that the checks and balances continue to apply in today’s American and are working as originally intended. There are many examples where the checks and balance system has been used in today’s government from the appointment of a Supreme Court Justice to passing laws in Congress. The system of checks and balances has been and will continue to be critical to the success of the American government. Without the checks and balances, there is little doubt that American would not be as strong a county as it is today.
In conclusion, the American system of checks and balances has worked well over the course of America’s history. The constitutional system of checks and balances was set up for a reason and has worked for two centuries. The system was meant to keep the three branches in balance to ensure that one branch did not have power over another. Even though there have been times when one branch has risen preeminent, overall the three branches have achieved a workable balance with no one branch holding all the governmental power. ]]> http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/essay-please-review-opinion-essay/feed/ 0 http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/would-you-please-correct-or-point-out-my-writing-thank-you/ http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/would-you-please-correct-or-point-out-my-writing-thank-you/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:06:34 +0000 Ahmet YILDIRIMOĞLU http://www.elt-ingilizce.com/would-you-please-correct-or-point-out-my-writing-thank-you/ Hi everyone, Please correct my writing the way I see my mistakes and improve myself. This is practice not homework. Thank you in advance!

It was March 2010 and it had been three months since I left my job. My jab was involved chemicals, which are dangerous for human. I was not interested risking my life in that situation so I left my job after nine month working for this company.

However, after I left the job things didn’t go as I planned and there was no body who understood how and why I left my job. The only tool that helped me express my self and tell my side of the story was my pen and paper through writing.

Since I left my job because of dangerous working condition, I was expected to collect unemployment benefit while I was looking for another job. However my case was directed to hearing committee and my case was turned over. I got so frustrated, I tried to appeal but my attorney decided not to work with me no matter how much evidence I brought.

At this point, I didn’t gave up instead I became stronger to present myself but as long as I know myself, I was not good at talking. I then started putting my side of the story in words providing enough evidence of the risk I had to take working at that particular company. With that evidence, I appealed for a secondary hearing. I was told I had my evidence was not enough for a secondary hearing. So again, I started to write putting together that happened while I was working there. Again, I asked for another hearing. Finally, my request was accepted at this time, and I won my case.

Thankfully, if I did not put my side of the story in words, I would have won the case. I’m glad I started writing. Writing helps me to express my self better than talking. When I write I think harder and I get to have the time to think of a word that expresses my self the best.

My involvement in the literature circle allows me to obtain deeper understanding of the story and involve in cooperatively shared reading experiences. I was able to go beyond the text and make text-to-my own life connection. This in turn gave me insight of the story and sequence. Changing of roles allowed us to look at different perspectives and interpret the text from different angles. Each of the assigned task/role: Discussion Director, Vocabulary Enricher, Literary Luminary and Connector exposed me to different viewpoints and have broadened my concept and own interpretation of the novel. Through literature circle I was able to discover my weak skills. Therefore such involvement would enhance these skills.
Employing technology for learning about literature allowed me to be effectively engaged in the reading process. The online participation allowed me to speak up and share my analysis with my group. In fact, such advantage outcomes of technology would allow students who tend to be quiet in the classroom to share their analysis and encourage them to be active participant rather than receivers. As for me, I believe that the technology-usage conferred me a great chance to communicate, discuss, interpret, make connection, organise my thoughts.

Scaffolding the literature circle into the learning environment would be an effective strategy for student’s reading enhancement. Students would learn and practice to guide and direct their own learning. Brabham and Villaume (2000 ) states that the changing of roles in literature circle allow students “to take responsibility for developing and discussing their own questions and interpretations for texts”. With this perspective, students would need develop self-regulating strategies and be independent readers.
In addition Lin (2004) states that there are four main benefits for using literature circles: stronger reader-text relationships, improved classroom climates, enhanced degrees of gender equity and understanding and learning environment more conducive to the needs and abilities of English language learners (Stabile, 2009). Based on such findings, the literature circle could be the most effective tool in developing students reading and comprehension.

Moreover, Literature circles combine the best practices of collaborative learning. Researches indicate that peer collaboration has a positive effect on student learning as it increases student learning, improves reading comprehension and content-knowledge (Fall et al., 2000). The computer based approach highlights the importance of technology in student’s learning process. The technology allows individuals who are far apart to collaborate on-line, encourages different perspectives views and creates a more positive attitude about learning (Stahl, Koschmann, & Suthers, D., 2009). Plead detect

Thank you in advance