summary and response

RAP2
Chien Meng- ChunSummary and response
Nuclear Power

In the article’’ Nuclear Power is Safe, Clean, Efficient Source of Energy’’, the author states that it is stereotype that nuclear power is not safe. Therefore, he gives some evidences to prove that not only is nuclear power safe; it also has some other advantages. Firstly, the author mentions that nuclear will had became safe and reliable because it had mad steady improvement in the past four decades. Moreover, he also states that nuclear power has also been getting more efficient; furthermore, the economical aspect has became much better because it does not need electricity from coal and electricity from gas- fire. Finally, he claims that nuclear power can supply more power than oil, nature gas, and hydropower; in addition, nuclear power is renewable resource and has no problem of limitation. Actually, the thing that author emphasizes is that we should request to start to use the nuclear power because nuclear power is clean, secure and efficient.It is clear from the article that we should change our stereotype about nuclear power. In the past, we could hear the news that nuclear power was not safe because it had pollution problem such as radiation. However, the author explains the advantages of nuclear power: nuclear is economical to use, it is renewable, and it will not pollute the earth. Therefore, it is essentials for use to develop nuclear power.First, nuclear power is economical to use because it can produce more energy. For example, many countries set up to built nuclear power factories on their own country because they think that it they are too dependent on other countries’ energy is not a-long-term idea. Because if a country is too dependent on other countries’ energy, not only will that country has to pay the price of energy, but that country also has to pay the price of importing. Actually, it is not economical and it is risky plan because they cannot stop using foreign-imported energy. Therefore, building nuclear power is really important because we can save import money; moreover, we do not have to rely other countries’ energy. Indeed, we will not also have problem if the country that supply us with energy has shortage on energy. In spite of the fact that building nuclear power is expensive, if a country are willing to develop nuclear power, not only they can use the energy which supplied by themselves, they also can sale the energy to other countries.Moreover, because nuclear is a renewable resource; it will not run out. We know that our world is too dependent on non-renewable resource, if we always only develop non-renewable resource continually, the earth cannot supply any energy in the future. For instance, it is useful to develop coal and oil, but they are non- renewable resource. Actually, using renewable resource not only can make people feel confident, but also can save the energy on the earth. For example, we only have one earth, and all the non- renewable resources in the earth are limited. If one day all the non- renewable resources are run out, how can human keep living on the earth? Therefore, developing renewable resource such as nuclear power is the best way that we can use the energy forever.Finally, it will not pollute our earth if we develop nuclear power. Many kinds of energy pollute the earth when we develop them such as coal and oil. For example, coal and oil will produce CO2 while we develop them. Also, hydro energy and wind energy will kill fish and birds as we develop them. Moreover, develop biomass will pollute the air the most. However, nuclear power has only few pollution problems because it does not release CO2 and it does not kill the fish and the bird. Indeed, we only have one earth; hence, we cannot ignore environmental problem. Only if we choose to develop nuclear power can we solve the environment problem. In the pest time, many countries do not willing to develop nuclear power due to the fact that nuclear power has radiation problem. However, if we can use high technology to build nuclear power now, it can be believed that nuclear power can be the least pollution energy on the earth.In conclusion, nuclear power is the best energy that we should call for every country’s government to start using it because nuclear power is economic energy. Moreover, nuclear power is renewable resource that we do not have the problem of limitation. Finally, nuclear power will not pollute our earth. I deeply believe that only developing nuclear power can solve our environmental problem. Actually, air pollution, green-house, and climate change are all environmental problems, and if we are willing to develop nuclear power, it is the best answer to our earth. Reference:Nuclear is safe, clean, efficient source of energy. ( 2006, October 3). GrandPapid Press. Retrieved February 14, 2007, from LexisNexis database

TOEFL

EAP2
Chien Meng- Chun
Is TOEFL Should Be Used?
Everyone knows that TOEFL is the most important thing for every family; moreover, we all know that we need many ways to bring up the children such as we need patient, or we need an enthusiastic heart to bring up a child. However, what in the earth is the best way to bring up the children well is an important topic for every family. Actually, due to the fact that parent always busy on their jobs and children are spent a lot of time on school; furthermore, children and parent usually have ‘’general gap’’. Therefore, some experts state that parenting class plays an important way for parent. According to Claire (2005), she states that parenting class can help you about how to raise children well and it would be welcome to offer some information and advice that how to be a positive parent.
Firstly, because some of parents always work all day long and children spent most of their time on school as well; therefore, not only will children become apathetic to their parent, but their parents will unconcerned to their children’s education and homework as well. For example, children usually spent 8 hours on school from 8 am to 5 pm, and parents also spent 8~10 hours on their jobs from 10 am to 8 pm, moreover, they will spent 10 hours from 11 pm to 7 am on sleeping at night time. Therefore, parents only have 3~4 hours to get along with their children. On the other hand, due to the fact that parents only have three hours to deal with their children, parents will became unconfident on raising children. For instance, a large number of parents will have no time to concern their children’s homework; moreover, they also have no energy to listen their children’s story after they get off duty. Because they have no any information about their children, they will become unconfident to their children gradually. Consequently, attending parenting class is the best way to get information about school and education; besides, you also can learn how to handle your children at your home.
Moreover, because many parents have no any experience about how to bring up children until they have children; therefore, parents have no idea about the expectation at each age such as children should learn walking by their foot before they are one years old; in addition, children should learn being independent before they are eighteen years old. Therefore, parents should attend parenting class do get the information about the expectation at each age. On the other hand, because parents will not deal with children or educate children until they have children; hence, parent always cannot image what their children’s world is or they cannot understand what their children think about. For instance, most of children will ask their parents a lot of question because children always are very curious about everything, but then their parents usually do not have patient to answer the question because their parents do not try to understand their children’s world. In fact, this problem will cause many negative influences in their children’s life. However, this serious problem can be solved if parent admit that they cannot understand their children’s everything and they try to get more closely to their children, and attend parenting class.
Finally, because almost every parents are 20 years older then their children; thus, the relationship between parent and children will exist the problem of ‘’generation gap’’. This is really important problem for every child and his parent. In fact, we all know that children will be very traitorous when they are 14~16 years old, but parents usually do not know how to handle their behavior because of generation gap. For example, parents and children’s interest are not the same because of the difference between their age, after that, children we not like talk to their parents anymore especially in children’s traitorous period. What’s more, parents also cannot bear their children’s traitorous period, then the relationship between them has just exist altercation but not communication. Another problem, because of the generation gap, parents always do not know how to discipline their children and how to manage the stress and anger themselves. For instance, parents always like to compare their children to other’s children and give children too much stress; thus, as long as their children cannot have good grad, their parents will discipline their own children emotionally. Therefore, parents can learn the skill that how to make family much happier if they attend parenting class.
However, some parents do not agree with the statement that they should go to parenting class because they will be ashamed of attending parenting class, and they also think that love is come from nature and they do not need to go to parenting class to learn how to love their children. Actually, in spite the fact that love comes naturally, we still have to learn that how to let our children feel the love of ours. For instance, most of parents use opposite way such as punishment or pandy to show that they love their children. Actually, parents should learn how to use positive way to bring up their children, but what is positive parenting? According to Claire’s article, ‘’ Positive parenting means using warmth, respect, consistency, good communication and empathy in the way you behave with your children. ’’ (2005, par 3 ) Therefore, using positive way to love their children will be the best way if parents are willing to attend parenting class.
In conclusion, because children and their parents only have few time to get along with each other; thus, children will feel apathetic to their parents, and parents will become unconcerned on children’s homework. In addition, because parents have no experience on educating and teaching; therefore, to know what their children is an important thing that parents should face it. Finally, because of generation gap that parents do not know how to handle their behavior or how to manage stress and anger; additionally, parents should attend parenting class to deal with their children especially on their children’s traitorous period. Therefore, parenting class should be common in the future, and it can be believed that if parents attend parenting class, their family will be much happier.

research paper

Let’s Do It, Nuclear Power!





Chien Meng- Chun






EAP2, Writer’s Workshop
Heidi Wright
March 2, 2007Abstract
The topic of this paper is nuclear power. It claims that to support the advantages of nuclear power, nuclear power use should be encouraged. There are four reasons for the arguments. The first is that nuclear energy is economical to use, second is that nuclear power will not pollute the earth and the air. The third reason is that nuclear energy is renewable energy; finally, nuclear power is safe to use.
















Outline
Let’s Do It, Nuclear Power!
Thesis: We should support the advantages of nuclear power and nuclear power use should be encouraged.

I. Introduction
A. '' the role electricity plays in our life is obvious. We live with the benefits
of electricity everyday'' ( '' Electricity: Benefits/ Effects'' n.d., para.6).
B. Nuclear power produces electricity, but nuclear power is on issue.
C. Thesis: nuclear power use should be encouraged.
1. Nuclear power is economical.
2. Nuclear power will not pollute the earth
3. Nuclear power is renewable resource.
4. Nuclear power is safe to use.
II. Background
A. What is nuclear power?
1. '' a kind of power, especially electricity obtained from reaction by
nuclear fission and nuclear fusion'' ( English Dictionary- with Mult-
Lingual Search, 2000, para.1).
B. How can nuclear power work?
1. Developing uranium to make heat first.
2. Using high temperature water to make steam
3. Using steam turn to generators.
4. Electrical power sends around country
C. History of nuclear power
1. Nuclear power has been used since 1956… (Brain, 2006, para.2)
D. What is argument of nuclear power?
1. ''Not only can nuclear power not stop global warming; it is probably
not even an essential part of the solution to global warming''
(Bradford, 2006, para.3).
III. Main Arguments
A. Nuclear power is economical to use.
1. Electricity use was grown by 58 percent ( ‘’Lipper and Stone’’, n.d.,
para.9).
2. Nuclear power is the cheapest energy
3. ''Nuclear power is one of the most economic forms of energy
production'' (‘’ Electricity: Benefits/ Effect’’, n.d., para10)
4. Compare with other energy such as oil and natural gas.
5. Many experts believe that nuclear power can keep producing more
electricity for us in the future.
B. Nuclear power is renewable energy.
1. ‘’ the earth has limited supplies of coal and oil…’’ (‘’ Nuclear Energy’’,
n.d., para.8)
2. Example of resolution that if we are too dependent on other non-
renewable energy.
3. Using nuclear power is the best way for our earth
C. Nuclear power will not pollute our earth.
1. ‘’ Nuclear power plants produce electricity though the fission of
uranium, not the burning of fuel…’’ ( ‘’Lipper and Stone’’, n.d., para.9).
2. Example of the statement, the pollution dropped by 80 to 90 percent
in France because France changes the energy from oil to nuclear
power.
3. Nuclear power is the largest emission- free source of electricity in
everywhere.
4. By using nuclear power, we can solve the problem of greenhouse, the
quality of air standard also can be increased.
D. Nuclear power is safe to use.
1. The opponent’s statement: power is an unsafe energy to develop.
2. There are too many accidents on working nuclear power and also the
radiation problem is one of the most important problems ( ‘’Forum:
Nuclear power - unsafe, dirty and expensive’’, 1999, para.5).
3. Some experts argue that radiation is a natural phenomenon and
radioactive matter has existed since the beginning of the universe.
4. Problems of safety and danger can be solved as long as we can use
high quality technology to build nuclear power.
5. It can be believed that we can build high technological nuclear power
factories to avoid all the problems.
IV. Conclusion

A. Four reasons
1. Nuclear power is economical.
2. Nuclear power will not pollute the earth
3. Nuclear power is renewable resource.
4. Nuclear power is safe to use.
B. We should suggest government to develop nuclear power.

















Let’s Do It, Nuclear Power!
Everyone who lives on the earth knows that electricity plays an important role in our life. In the article'' Electricity: Benefits/ Effects'', the author said that '' the role electricity plays in our life is obvious. We live with the benefits of electricity everyday'' (n.d., para.6). It is clear that human cannot live without electricity, but how can electricity be produced? In ''How Nuclear Power Works'', Brain claims that ''Nuclear power provides about 17 percent of the world's electricity’' (n.d., para.1). He also states that ‘’nuclear power supplies about 15 percent of electricity overall in the United States’’ (n.d., para.1). In the past, people and government only focused on the disadvantages of nuclear power and ignored that how important nuclear power was. For example, people argued that nuclear power is not safe. In addition, people thought nuclear power was pollute the air and had radiation problem. However, these days, high quality technology companies have noticed these arguments; thus, they begin make progress to build and use more high quality technology to solve all kinds of problems. According to the article'' Electricity: Benefits 'Effects'', the author discusses that ''The use of nuclear power provides answer for many problems in the area of the environment, safety, economics, reliability, sustainability, and even waste'' (n.d., para.5). From this statement, we can understand that we should use nuclear power because nuclear power is economical to use, nuclear power does not pollute the earth and it is renewable resource.
The definition of nuclear power is ''a kind of power, especially electricity, obtained from reaction by nuclear fission and nuclear fusion'' (English Dictionary- with Mult- Lingual Search, 2000, para.1). People who work on nuclear power develop uranium to make heat first. After that, they use high temperature water to make steam. Third, they use steam turn to generators. Finally, electrical power sends around country. Actually, nuclear power has been used since 1956, the large- scale nuclear power station opened at Caldir Hall in Columbia, England (Brain, 2006, para.2). However, it became a national argument many years ago. According to (2006) Bradford ''Not only can nuclear power not stop global warming; it is probably not even an essential part of the solution to global warming'' (para.3). On the other hand, many countries are still using nuclear because it has some positive points.
The first reason to support nuclear power is that nuclear power is economical to use. Lipper and Stone state that between 1974 and 1990, our GNP, which is the measurement of a nation's wealth, grew by about 50 percent. In the same period, electricity use was grown by 58 percent (n.d., para.9). Because population still keeps growing now, the requirement of electricity also keeps growing; thus, many experts are studying that which energy is the cheapest one. In the article'' Electricity: Benefits/ Effect'', the author states that ''Nuclear power is one of the most economic forms of energy production'' (n. d., para.10). Indeed, this author also discusses that ‘’the average electricity production cost for nuclear power is the cheapest source of energy. In 1999, the average cost of power generation by nuclear power as 1.83 cents per kilowatt- hour, for coal-fire plants 2.07 cents, for oil 3.24 cents, and for gas 3.52 cents. The produce of solar and wind are also above nuclear power’’ (n.d., para.10). Moreover, if a country develops nuclear power, it only needs money to purchase fuel and for operating. Nuclear power does not need the extra price for building more equipment or finding other energy resource. For example, oil needs a complex procedure for digging and transferring so that people have to pay more money for extra equipments. Also, many countries have to depend on foreign- import oil energy and the cost for importing is very high. Therefore, using nuclear power instead of using oil is the best way for every country. In ‘’Nuclear Power and Society’’, Lipper and Stone claim that ‘’ at the time of the 1990, oil accounted for about 4 percent of US electric supply; nuclear power was about 21 percent’’ (n.d., para.11). Many experts believe that nuclear power can keep producing more electricity for us in the future.
The second reason to support nuclear power is because it is renewable energy. In the article’’ Nuclear Energy’’, the author states that ‘’ the earth has limited supplies of coal and oil. Nuclear power plants could produce electricity after coal and oil run out’’ (n.d. para.8). It is true that oil and coal are limited resources, and this statement tells us that we cannot depend only on oil. Moreover, nuclear power has no problems such as nuclear crises which is like oil crises and nuclear shortage problem. Actually, using renewable resource not only can make people feel confidant because it will not run out, but also can save the energy on the earth. For example, we only have one earth, and all the non- renewable resources in the earth are limited. If one day all the non- renewable resources run out, how can human keep living on the earth? Therefore, by developing renewable resource such as nuclear power is the best way that we can use the energy forever.
Third, nuclear power will not pollute our earth. This is the most important reason to support developing. Lipper and Stone state that ‘’Nuclear power plants produce electricity though the fission of uranium, not the burning of fuel. Consequently, nuclear power plants will not pollute the air’’ (n.d., para.9). Actually, not only will nuclear power not pollute the air, it also can offer an alleviation of the global carbon dioxide (CO2) problem. For instance, France used to import oil more than triple its current nuclear power production, after they cut their dependency on foreign imported oil, the pollution dropped by 80 to 90 percent. With our improving of high technology, nuclear power plays a significant role in clean air policy because it is the largest emission- free source of electricity in everywhere. Consequently, using nuclear power not only can solve the problem of greenhouse, the quality of air standard also can be increased as long as we use nuclear power instead of using other fossil resources.
However, the opponents argue that nuclear power is an unsafe energy to develop. In’’ Forum: Nuclear Power- Unsafe, Dirty and Expensive’’, the author said that’’ nuclear power plants only seem safe because government safety standard have been too lax’’ (1999, para.5). Moreover, he asserts that there are too many accidents on working nuclear power and also the radiation problem is one of the most important problems for the residents who live near nuclear power factories (1999, para.5). Nevertheless, some experts argue that radiation is a natural phenomenon and radioactive matter has existed since the beginning of the universe. In ‘’ Radiation: Nature, Measurable, Controllable’’, the author said that ‘’ All people experience natural and man-made radiation, about 82 percent of our total exposure to radiation comes from natural sources: radon gas; the human body itself, which contain radiation elements’’ (n.d., para.3). However, it can be believed that we can build high technological nuclear power factories to avoid all the problems. According to the article’’ Plants Safety: Definition in Depth’’, the author claims that ‘’ A nuclear power plant has numerous built in sensors to watch temperature, pressure, water level, and other indicators to safety’’ (n.d., para.4). Basically, problems of safety and danger can be solved as long as we can use high quality technology to build nuclear power.
In conclusion, nuclear power has proven to benefit to our society. As a result of this technology, the United States and France have decreased it dependency on foreign- imported oil. They have found out that there are more advantages of nuclear power than oil because nuclear power is economical to use, nuclear is a renewable resource and nuclear power will not result air pollution. Consequently, we should call for our government to start using nuclear power due to the fact that use nuclear power can solve all that environmental problems such as greenhouse, air pollution and climate change. In addition, if our countries are willing to use nuclear power, we can save the money on importing foreign energy. Besides, to cherish our earth and to ensure that we can use the energy forever, using renewable such as nuclear power is the best way . To sum up, it can be said that the use of nuclear power energy greatly is much better than the use of other energies.
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