Survey

I. Introduction

Smoking has influenced people’s health more and more. Now people have concentrated on their health. Seal said, “smoking has been linked to many other disease” (1998, p.31). We have a survey about smoking. We just want to research what is the difference between male and female smoker, and why people cannot give smoking up.

II. Purpose

EAP1 Writer’s Workshop students did this survey on a Thursday in July. We just want to know what the basic different between male and female smokers is and whether females depend more on smoking. According to this survey, we wanted to know how did these smokers started and why they cannot give it up.

III. Hypothesis/Hypotheses

Although there are a lot of female smokers, male smokers are still a big group. We think that smokers want to reduce their stress through smoking and wanted to know what they think the best way to quit smoking.

IV. Materials

We had seven questions from this survey which included14 questions for smokers and 11 questions for non-smokers. We just want to know the condition about smokers, whether they smoke in public or private, why they cannot quit smoking and what they think is the best way to quit smoking.

V. Methods

We asked 43 people, all students in SIU, on Thursday, July 23. And they all answer the survey carefully. I think that we get a wonderful survey from these volunteers. Although this survey was just retrieved from students at same university, we still think that we can find some information from this survey.

VI. Data

See appendix A

VII. Result

Before the survey, we just guessed that people want to reduce their stress so that they tried to smoke. Now from this survey, we know that 42.9% people started their smoking since friends smoked. Family member smoking caused 4.8% people’s smoking. 42.9% people started smoking since too much and 9.5% people thought that exams are the main reason.

VIII. Conclusion and Discussion

From the survey, we thought that we just guessed one reason right, which people started smoking because of too much stress. I was surprised that at the same percentage with too much stress are friends smoking. That says that friends influence everyone including good ways even bad points. If people’s friends always smoked, the people should be smoking, too. So people should know what is the advantage point we can study and what is the bad point we should avoid.

IX. Reference

Seal, B. (1998). Smoking. In Academic Encounters: Human behavior. Pp.31-33. New York: Cambridge University Press

Wealth is everyone’s goal

In the article “Achieving fame, wealth and beauty are psychological dead Ends”, the author said that earning money and pursuing maybe not improve your life. The author thinks that the growth and relationships are more important to you. The people who just graduated from university may want their lives to proceed. However, more goals like pursuing the wealth would cause the psychological and physical symptoms. Although young adults need hard working outside, to complete the goals for their needs is better.

In my opinion, I do not agree with the author's point. I think that wealth is still everyone’s goal. Wealth gives us reputation, health and dream. Because of reputation, we get praise from others. Because of health, we can have a good body. Because our dream, we can complete our wishes. However, they all depend on wealth.

Because of wealth, we can use money. This point is not to say, money is the basic meaning of wealth. After we own money, we can set up an organization to help others. For example, Bill Gates has a big organization to help others who need help. Nowadays, more and more superstars understand that helping others is an important thing. Moutoumount is a NBA star. He helped his country, which is in Africa, to build a hospital. This wealth helps people get a good reputation.

Because of wealth, we can get health. A lot of people said that these businessmen have more stress than the others, and they always get psychological and physical symptoms. However, they have more experience on this side, and can solve every problem easily. Although they are always under big stress, they all know how to deal with stress. Many people under no depression, but they have no thing to do every day, so they still get disease. Rich men have more money to cure their body and poor men just die and are helpless. So I think that wealth is a safety belt for your body's health.

Because of wealth, we can make our dreams come true. It is not to say, everyone has dream. When businessmen look at their private gardens, poor men still live in a bad house. When businessmen help their parents to enjoy the better life, poor men still struggle to find food. When businessmen travel all over the world, poor men still look at their bad houses. That is the dream. Because of wealth, businessmen make their dreams come true, poor men still have a sad life.

Wealth is everyone’s goal. It lets us enjoy this beautiful life. Wealth lets us have reputation, health, and make our dream come true. The significance of wealth can never be exaggerated too much. Wealth is cornerstone of one’s development. Because of wealth, we can totally enjoy our life.

University of Rochester (2009, May 14) Achieving fame, wealth and beauty psychological dead ends. ScienceDaily. Retrieved July 9, 2009, from  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514111402.htm

How to release stress

In Bernard Seal' article, he introduces the idea of how to cope with stress. The author said that stress always comes from loss of control. Understanding the meaning of degree of control is important so that you can release stress, too. The author also claims that personality is another factor to manifest stress. Sometimes stress helps people, other times it hurt our health. Using stress well is an important thing.

In my opinion, I think that the best ways of releasing stress are physical exercise, psychological exercise, and personal factors. Physical exercise can release your body stress. Psychological exercise can cure your mind problems. Personal factors means that suitable stress is good for our life.

Physical exercise can release your stress form your body. People will have some symptoms from their body, such as headaches, stomachaches and feeling weak. From those symptoms, people may get disease easily. Physical exercise could solve this problem effectively. People could go exercise to forget depression. For example, people can play basketball after working. When you communicate with your players, you will enjoy this wonderful time to reduce stress. Others exercise like yoga, swimming and boxing also make us able to cope with stress.
Psychological exercise can remove your depression from mind. People suffer mind disease which always comes from more stress. The significance of psychological exercise cannot be exaggerated too much. Psychological exercise can make your brain relaxed. For instance, your can listen music if you feel bad after study. You can read humors stories to forget difficult thing.
Sometimes personal idea is also an important thing to everyone. To some people, suitable stress is good for people to working. People could transfer stress to energy, so that they could complete their task quickly and wonderfully. For example, people could make every task as a challenges, so every difficulty is not even a burden for people. It is to say, suitable stress is really good for people. People need stress to contribute their working.
It is no doubt to say, physical exercise, psychological exercise and suitable stress is help people improve the stress problems. Suitable stress encourages to people, more exercise could make people feel better than ever before.

Seal, B. (1998). Coping with stress. Academic Encounters Human Behavior: (pp.15-16). New York: Cambridge university press

Summary

According to Mary McNamara's article "Michale Jackson, not a black or white story", Michael Jackson is a double-sided man. The author introduces the idea that Michael Jackson comes from two sides. One side said that Michael Jackson was perfect in the music history. He was very successful much like Napoleon in the last century. Another said that he is freak. And he had much gossip in his life. Although he has died, and somebody said the drugs are the reason, he still is a complex man in the history.

McNamara, M (2009, jun.25). Michael Jackson, not a black or white story. Los angles times. Retrieved from July 1, 2009, from http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/06/acomplicated-man.html