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Beautify an Enclosed Balcony with Plants

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  The very first thing I noticed at very beginning when I arrived at Troy is that there are few apartments. The apartment I mean is at least six floors. People lives here with villa or country house, which is quite cozy and has more space to garden . However, there many people including me lives in a solo apartment with enclosed balcony. Before I went to college, I and my parents lived in an apartment, but we didn’t give up gardening to beautify the room.   First, you have to understand enclosed balcony is a terrible living situation to plants. Because the sun light, wind, and rain and dew are limited, so you should start with indoor plants .   Then, you have to give up most of heliophile(sun plants). What’s even worse is that most flowers with bright showy color need full sunlight like rose, chrysanthemum, sunflower, etc.   Unfortunately, the apartment when I was a child lived with an enclosed balcony, besides that, it is a very small enclosed balco...
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Sleep with Right Noise

  Before white noise apps get popular, I have already used sounds from rainymood as my background music when I am doing homework or meditation. The sound is pure rainy sound, you can adjust the volume of both rains and thunders, and the homepage of the website is a rain, which is continuous and endless.     Nowadays, there are hundreds of apps applied white noise for people, including tropical rainforest along the Oregon coast, water drops from a temple of Japan, Cologne thunderstorm. White noise consist of every sounds that you can image. The most interesting of white noise to me is that I sit on the chair that less than one square mater while the thoughts have thousands of miles far away from where I am.   Although it is the time that we have to keep ourselves busy, I can ’ t stop myself find a moment staring blankly. Sitting in front of the desk, and enjoying the breeze that doesn ’ t contain the off-gas. White noise creates a world that I can s...
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Opinion: The Digital Divide between the Rich and Poor

There is an important topic in the   communication area, which is the digital divide, meaning the gap between people who can access the internet or can ’ t. But nowadays, there are more and more people have internet access , but the gap still exist s , and even get larger, just like the help of quality resources from internet or distance education can rarely help the children from the  rural remote countryside.   Sesame S treet(1969), language learning TV show(the 80 ’ s), and the distance education(now),etc. those are things to help the qualified educational resources not longer limits by time or location. But eventually, what they did is to increase the difference between the children of affluence and poor children. The existence  of these continually intensifies  the polarization between the rich and poor.   With the development of the country, the probability of a county that can ’ t access the  internet or can ’ t pay for a phone has be...
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A Bite of Spring

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  This year must be the most beautiful spring I have experience ever, the little town is blooming, with gentle zephyr. The temperature is not too high but warm enough for a colorful dress. Spring is like the age of youth, short, but memorable, fulling of delightful adjectives.   Today, I will show you three desserts to taste “ spring ”  and try to lock the memory of your own spring.   First, grass jelly with pear nectar. Heating the grass jelly powder with boiled water, one powder needs three times water, then wait or keep it in the refrigerator until it becomes a jelly-like shape. Pear honey can be easily done by mixing honey with flowers of pear. But the flower should be removed the stamen, or directly picked up the petal from the grass, and putting washed petals into the boiled water no longer than 10 seconds.   The flowers of pear three are the most beautiful flowers of the world, like peach blossoms and Sakura (cherry blossom), all of t...
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Symposium Summary

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Annual symposium of hall school of journalism and communication were h e ld this morning at Trojan Center. The major part of it is the presentation that Mr. Craig Pittman gives, which is focusing on how to be the most destructive force on campus.       The topic is really a journalist-style, which is “ little paper, big headline ”  in his words. Thanks to the “ Destructive ” , which is interesting, and attracts people ’ s attention is  a  very short way.   Mr. Pittman talks a little bit about  himself, and his books and express the appreciat ion  that time that Troy gives him. He believes Troy is the school that help him into the person he wants to be. And he gave us some outstanding views which from his own experience at The Trop.   Here are some point s  that I learned from the lecture.   First, as hard news, especially those relates to the political news, we should pay attention to  five thin...
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How to Start Exercising from Zero

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    A healthy life is the basic that you can live normally and the key to keep ing  you happy. There are two major parts that you can easily start with, which are exercise  and food.   What Americans  impressed me most is that most of them treat sports as their daily life. Gym of the university is crowded and there are  lots of people still plays tennis basketball even it ’ s raining .   I am not very fond of exercising , so this post is for those people who don ’ t like exercising but still wants to start their gym life.   The moment you want to start exercising is the moment that you eager loneliness. The very first reason that I start running that I found this is my own time. Yes, nobody will bother me at that time. I do appreciate those laughs and fun time with friends but everyone needs a time that they can stay alone with themselves.   Exercising totally trap us into our own world, which kills two birds with ...
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Slow Down Yourself before Deadline

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Sometimes I will particularly be agitated especially there is  too much homework to do.  In past , I would force myself into the zone whether I am at  the right moment or not. So I can finish all of the stuff as soon as possible, and turned all of them in with an exhausted status. However, not only the score can ’ t be well in this situation, but also the anxiety will stay for awhile.   So, how to light up yourself, to be prepared for the mess that in front of you? The first thing you should do is slowing down the time. Yes, the deadline is coming up, and everything just starts over, the most significant thing is to adjust the feeling, to smooth the anxiety.   It ’  might sound crazy, but cleaning is the easiest way to warm up. Cleaning up the desk is easy and save time, can bring you to the light life in very short time. Just like classifying the textbooks and papers or dropping all the trash on the desk, like some useful papers or cards. ...
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