Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Styles of Popular Music

Introduction:
Music is truly the one universal language.Three of the more successful styles are reggae, punk, and rap.
Body:
A.One successful style of popular music is Reggae.
1 Born on the Caribbean island of Jamaica in the 1960s.
a.Spread throughtout the world in the 1970s.
2.Developed from mento.
a.Some musicians changed mento into a music style called ska by adding a hestation beat.
b.A few years later, other musictions changed ska, and reggae was born.
3.Reggae's special sound comes from reversing the roles of the instruments.
a.Guitar plays rhythm and bass plays melody.
4.An important influence on reggae music was the Rastafarian cult.
a.Unusual sound mixes
b.Extra-slow tempos
c.Strange lyrics
d.Mystical-political themes
5.Bob Marley-best known reggae musician
2.Punk
3.Rap
Conclusion:
To sum up, popular music changes constantly. However, all contribute to the power and excitement of popular music in our time.

Monday, December 22, 2008

Qualities of a Good Paramedic

Being a good paramedic is such a recondite erudition. In the reality, every patients we are facing are real humans, and each person’s life is so important. To this reason, we have to put more attention to it. There are four qualities of a good paramedic as follows.
The first and the most important quality is to have an enthusiasm in helping others. For example, if a paramedic always smiles and is enthusiastic to us, our heart will be so warm and have a good mood. Second, we have to possess abundant knowledge and skilled techniques. These two qualities have quite large importance because we are facing real human in the reality. If we don’t have those qualities, though we have enthusiasm, we can do nothing at all. Third, we have to have a strong and healthy body. For example, my mother was a nurse before. She said that the pace in the hospital is very fast. Besides, nurses always have to transport medical appliances. If we don’t have a strong and healthy body, we will get tired all the time.
All in all, what qualities a good paramedic has to posses are having abundant knowledge, skilled techniques and strong body. Besides, the most important one is to have an enthusiasm in helping the people in need. Those are what a paramedic has to possess.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

A trip to Kaohsiung

After class, I speedly rushed to the Taoyuan high-speed railway station. It was an excited trip that I have never been to such a far place by myself. The traveling time from Taoyuan to Kaoshung took me about one and a half hour. When I arrived at the station, Monica was there already there. Then we went to the nightmarket and had some snack, then turn back to school. Though the school was quite small, KMU was more convenient than CGU. Amazingly, since you walk out to the school, there was a Carrefour just in front of you!
It seemed crazy that we stayed up and chatted all night. Then, the second day, we went to some spots and have seafood for lunch and dinner. At night, we went to the nightmarket again, but not the same one. Then we went to see another senior high school classmate’s volley ball race. It was really a good experience to a far place.