Reliable Friend

“A life without friend is like death without a witness”, the quote is a Spanish proverb which shows the importance of friends. During a human lifespan, he will meet all kinds of people and seek friends from them, so the characteristics of a good friend become very significant, but views on which are the most important characteristics vary from one to another, some prefer friend humorous, and some make friends with the one who is reliable. As far as I am concerned, whether the friend is reliable is a top priority.

Firstly, “a friend indeed is a friend in need”, a reliable friend could make me friend and help me in a bad situation. I used to believe that I had many friends because I had many people to play with, we play computer games, PS2 (a kind of video game machine) together. But once I find myself be in a trouble and turn to them for help, they all got various excuses to refuse my supplication. When I was in deeply desperation, a reliable friend came to help, who actually didn’t play with me very often. He tried his best to help me solve my problem, with words encouraged me, lead me be confident and finally held out through the difficulties.

Secondly, a friend who is reliable always be honest to me. I don’t want a friend who cheated me even he did something that I would not like; a cheat will make me uncomfortable when I realized that someone lied to me----he lied to me once, what else he had said would be trustful? Nothing is trustful. I will not continue the friendship with him. Since a reliable friend will not lie to me, I can build a solid relationship with him, and we can trust each other which I think is very important between friends.

Last but not the least, a reliable friend is the one who point out my shortages and let me correct. Many people will likely to tell me that I am so good, so perfect, but with their words, I could not find the real situation of myself. But a reliable one will seriously say to me like” Hey, Franklin, I think you are so addicted in computer games these days, I think you should back into study.”With his reliable words, I could understand my problems and then solve it.

With 3 reasons above, reliable friend would help me whatever the situation is, would be honest to me and would point out my disadvantages, reliable is the most important character in my point of view.

Campus Shooting

Thesis Statement:Campus shooting has become one of the most serious problems in the US, which resulted from several reasons :( 1) abnormal psychological condition of all the teen killers. (2) The violence influence from the media and the Internet. (3) There is not a good measure to help these abnormal persons.

Topic Sentence 1: Abnormal psychological condition of their inner world is the primary basement of killing others.
Support Evidence:
1. In March, 21st in Minnesota, the 16 years’ old boy who shot 16 people made 9 of them died thought himself as a born Nazi.
2. In April, 16th in Virginia, the Korean student who killed 32 people was shown his cruelty in the tape he sent, also according to some students and teachers in the university, they thought him unsociable and eccentric.

Topic Sentence 2: The violence show on the TV, the violence game and website in the Internet are also a reason lead the shooting happened.
Support Evidence
1. In 1999, a horrible campus shooting happened in Columbine High School in Colorado, two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebond killed 13 people including 1 teacher. After the shooting, a research agency Simon Wiesenthal Center find that they have played a violence game “ Doom”, a very famous FPS ( First-person shooter), and what they dressed, a raincoat, was just like the heroes in the game.
2. Some killers also were found tracks of surfing some violence websites.

Topic Sentence 3: At last, the society doesn’t have a good measure to help those students.
Support Evidence:
1. Back to the shooting in Virginal, teachers and students had realized that the killer was in bad psychological condition, but no one turns out to help him, even the university agency.
2. For other killers, there should be some ways to help them, because their anger or abnormal situation all cumulative in their heart, there should be some way to observe and help.

The Shaw Shank Redemption

Since the first movie was produced in1888, innumerable movies have been produced throughout the world---From “Gone with the wind” to “Casablanca”, from “All Quiet on the Western Front” to “Schindler’s List”, from “Hamlet” to “Brave heart”, many of which are very classic and impressed. Talking about the most impressed movie I have watched, “the Shaw shank Redemption”, the first movie comes into my mind, teaches me to be optimistic to the life and never give up.
Andy, the hero of this movie, always is optimistic to his life, which impressed me and moved me a lot. He used to be a successful and talented banker, but he was sent to the Shaw Shank Prison because of false murderer conviction of killing his wife and her lover. In that jail, every prison was treated like a dog, they had to work without rest, they would be mauled even they made a little mistake, they also look down others and fight with other jailer. Everyone was hopeless and out of optimistic, but Andy became an exception. He also wanted to encourage others, once he played a wonderful CD named "The Marriage of Figaro" through the broadcast system, which was not allowed, and the prisoners standing on the playground were shocked and amazed because they could not believe that there were still something so beautiful in the world which is hope. As a result, Andy got punishment, but he reminded others of hope. Throughout the process of prison-break, hope is the source of his action and the persistence and freedom. Just like the words said in the movie, “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” All his action totally moved me and let me know that no matter whenever, wherever I am, holding a hope in my hands will finally guide me to success.
Andy also impressed with his persist and the spirit of never give up. And that’s the reason why he could escape from the jail. In the beginning, Andy wrote letters twice a week to the state government to ask for a donation in order to build a library in the prison, and he kept on doing it without any intermission. After a year’s persistence, he got five hundred dollars. Unexpectedly, this did not live up to his expectation, after writing letters for two years; he expanded the library to the biggest prison library in the state. In addition, as he wanted to escape the prison, he spent fourteen years in digging up a tunnel with a little rock hammer.
Although some persons think that this movie would arouse social disorder by telling a story of jailbreak, it still one of the best movies in the world and the one I like the most, it will be in my memory forever to encourage me to be optimistic and not to give up whatever the situation I am in.