100 years on...Olive wouldn't dream of moving!

1) She lives in the same house which she was born 100 years ago, she never married because she didn’t like to leave her parents and her family house.
2) Before the First World War her house was destroyed in a fire, but here parents was rebuilt it.

By:Farzad

plastics

Polyethylene was made in 1889 by a German chemist. Most of plastic bags are made from this material. Nowadays you can see paper and plastic bags in every supermarkets and shops. People use them everywhere easy and handy, but they do not think what will be happened after throwing these bags in the bin or nature. They are not analyzing in the nature so make a lot of soil and water pollution. Some countries try to forbid using it, but so far the plastic and paper bags have been using all over the world.

Posted by Shima

computers

dear marcus


I remember when i first started using a computer, i started using when had interact to change job, after that i changed ones mind about computer using in 7 years ago, my brother bought for me first computer.


I dont konw exactly when time comes computer in my country but i think most of people using computer 20 years ago and the internet system began in 1995 , of course my brother had it in the office in 1998. amoment the lods of people in my country using internet , they used internet at home, university, office, governmental job, and some etc........


we use internet for chating, email, give information, saveing informatin , global information, and some etc...........


best flash


Moon

Nowruz/New day

Dear Marcus

Today, I would like to tell you and others about” Nowruz”/ new day, because tomorrow (21 march) is new day for Iranian people and some other countrys` people that it starts as the first day of Iranian” New Year.”

Nowruz is celebrated and accepted by Iranian people and others of the world such as central Asia, south Asia, northwestern China, Crimea, Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and Republic of Macedonia. Actually, Nowruz marks the first day of spring and young nature that is the beginning of the year in Iranian calendar as well as Zoroastrian holiday in 330 BC which usually occurs since March 21st. As a result, Nowruz was originally a Zoroastrian festival, but it has unclear dated origin. Of course was maybe beginning by Zoroaster/king himself that was considered as a gift for other kings.

Iranian families gather together to the rituals and celebrate. They also visit their friends, pray for lucky and have the best wish of others in this year. This day probably will be International day for peace and sense friendly human in the world. Recently, the United Nation General Assembly in 2010 recognized the International day of Nowruz. Actually, describing a spring festival of Persian origin which has been celebrated for over 3000 years, and registered of the UNESCO list of the Intangible Heritage of humanity. Nowadays, the people who celebrate this day are over 300 million. It should be symbolize for peace in Iranian people and all of the countries in the world with recognizing the cultural and historical significant of Nowruz.

Best regards,
Homa

100 year..........offffffff

Dear marcus

I find two interested about Olive,this woman never married because she didnt want to leave her parents and her home and she hates seeing doctors ,but she walks with a stick . I think she to get glued on a past time , actually Olive wouldnt dream of moving.

The house , which was destroyed in a fire before the firest world war, was rebuilt by her parents Ellen and Frank. She loves her home so much that she has rarely even gone on holiday.


Best day

by:Moon

Greetings from Sydney, Canada!

Hi Marcus

please find following answer to the text questions:

1) They maybe inserted incorrect destination while they booked their ticket on the internet.
2) Yes I had, but not such big problem in the airline, we were to Penang during Chinese New Year’s holiday in the back home there was a bad traffic jam on the road due to heavy raining and old car overheated in the slope road, thus after eight hours continues driving we arrive in KL in the midnight.

Your truly

Farzad

The Gonbad Kavus Tower

The Gonbad Kavus tower is located in Gonbad city, in the north of Iran. It is one of the tallest towers which built from red-backed brick, but it stands more than 1000 years on a hill inside the city. A few centuries ago the old Gonbad city was damaged completely by a heavy earthquake, but the brick tower stood against the earthquake strongly. The tower was built in between 1006AD and 1007AD by order of Soltan Kavus ibn Wushmgir. There are different ideas about purpose of building , and some people believe that it is Solatn Kavus tomb.

The height of tower is 55 metres which is divided in two parts, first from the tower's bottom to the below of conic roof is 37 metres and second the conic roof is 18 metres high. The perimeter of internal bottom is 30 metres and the perimeter of external bottom is 60 metres. The internal bottom’s diameter is 9.6 metres. The earliest sample of Muqarnas (stalactite work) is used in the tower which is a decorative style of Iranian architect. The geometry of building is simple, beautiful and strong, it is in the circular plan and broken by ten right angle-flanged space in the exterior of building. There is a point about 100m of the bottom’s circle plan that every body can here his / her whisper due to sound reflect effect!

By:Farzad

Greetings from Sydney,Canada

Hi

This article told about a British couple, Emma and her boyfriend Raoul. They want to go for on holiday to Sydney,Australia, but in their travel had a big mistake from Raoul and they didn't have an interesting holiday.

The flight time from Britan to Australia about 22 hours and for this journry must a plane big and have least two part of journey to recive to Australia.Raoul had booked two tickets on the internet from Britan to Australia. When they got on a plane, Emma was slightly worried because the plane was small and had just 25 seats and she surpried to see a smmal plane like that going all the way to Sydney,Australia. After 9 hours 30 minutes the plane landed at Sydney,Canada. When they landed in an airport, they thought they are in Sydney,Australia airport, but that wrong, they landed on opposite side of the world. Then they realized they are in Canada. In that time they went to coustomer servise and one of them said:'we should be in Sydney,Australia, but we are in Canada now'. Finally they realized when Raoul booked the tickets, he booked from Britain to Sydney,Canada. I think he is stupid because he has made a big mistake in his life .

Have you ever had any travel or holiday problems?

No, I have not

By Abdolaziz Torfi Salmani

Sniff

Hi Marcus

I read a text about Joanna who doesn’t has smell and taste sense it is hard to say how can live out these senses, following are reply to the questions:

1) She doesn’t know good and bad smells, all smells are same as air for here, if there is a fire or a unsafe food she can’t smell, she cant smell even herself body, she doesn’t have any memory from previous smells, foods and drinks are same for here as no difference between taste and smell can’t be sensed, she always need mothers help to check smell of here foods and home.

2) I can’t image to be like as Joanna, as I believe all five senses (smell, taste, touching, vision, hearing) are necessary to have a perfect life. I have to be independent on daily routine, I like to enjoy from a delicious food and prevent to eat a rotten food, and without smell I can’t have a safe life.

Your truly

Farzad

CHOCOLATE

Hi Marcous

Every person, like chocolate then i think writer should explanation about habituated or to be addicted.People think if one person used drug its a addicted , but its better writer for writing gived helpe a psychoanalyst advised in the story.


First, alot of chocolate, its bad for health second shes eating chocolate a habit its a filing in the mind. I think she should eat choclate , and going to meet a psychologist.

Best wish

Moon

Computers

Nowadays using computer and internet is so necessary for everyone although students and researchers need it more. Unfortunately many of countries cannot access and use it easily, hope to hear, that governments are going to improve it.

Q1: When did you start using computers?

I`ve been using computer since 1998.

Q2: Do people use the internet in your country? Where do they use it?

Yes, they do. They can access to internet almost everywhere such as universities, cyber café, offices, homes, and even in many shops.

Hopefully in my country the majority of people can accesses the internet, but they are not happy with its quality and sits` filtration.

Posted by Shima

Colour

As you know that we can see rainbow on a sunny day after raining in the sky, but how does create it? In 1666s Isaac Newton discovered that rainbow is light of sun which can separate the white light to seven colors such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. He interested in physic and was done by some experience about it and repeated again with put a prism on the way of sun in a dark room at his home. Then he realized light is collection of variety colors that makes together white color of sun, and saw it when the ray of light passed of through the prism.

I like physics and my favorite subject at my school was Newton`s laws about the earth; discovery of Newton because very important for resolve some of issues about things which lives on the earth. I liked my physics teacher too much and got high scores on it.

Although Newton was a genius, but there are a lot of geniuses in the world such as Albert Einstein, the father of modern physics and the best know scientist, who published more than 300 Scientifics and additionally philosophical and political issues. Tomorrow is his birthday. (14 Marsh 960-1037)

Also in follow is one sample of many Scientifics in Iran and Moslem History.
Avicenna (Abu Ali Sina in person, Ibn Sīnā (Arabic: ابن سینا‎ 980 - 1037) was a Persian polymath and a famous physical philosopher of his time. Also he was an astronomer, chemist, geologist, logician, paleontologist, mathematician, physicist, poet, psychologist, scientist and teacher. *
“Persian Astrology has its roots in the Zend-Avesta, parts of which are very similar to the Rig Veda. Much of the survival of classical sciences like astronomy, mathematics, geography and philosophy in the Western world is because it was preserved and used by the Muslim world from about the 8th Century, when Europe was going through its Dark Ages. Astrology, being linked to astronomy at this stage, was also one of those disciplines preserved.”**



*Avicenna, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
** Arab and Persian astrology From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Best regards,

Homa

Hair

Hair
This is important know that the color or the length of our hair, show facts about us! And I agree with above point. Nowadays many of people, especially women and young people exchange their color hair, but with different emotion.
Monk, Sikh, prisoner, soldier and etc are a variety of groups that do it. People without hair, show lose our individual identity and become part of especial groups and they some times have to it. For example, prisoners usually have to be shaved heads; and soldiers have very short hair, too. Anyway they accept order from others. In the west, Skin heads choose to shave their heads as a rejection of traditional values. ” During the 1960s in the west, hippies grew their hair long. For them, long hair was a rejection of traditional values-just like skinheads! But their appearance was linked to peace and left-wing politics, they were against violence and war”. *
My opinions about that have color hair, maybe to due be more attractive better than before getting more popular and interesting way or just be different from every one else. Whatever that is a personal reason because our hair says something about us. My hair style is long straight hair and dyed its blond color for celebration already. In my country, there are some typical colors, especially in women such as blond, light brown, black, winy color and other colors in young people recently, but original color hair, has still been accepted for most of people, especially in men in my country.

· ESSAY SAMPLE ON “WHY PEOPLE DYE THEIR HAIR”2010, Essay Sample. All rights reserved
· www.essay sample.com


Best regards,

Homa

Flags

Hi Marcus

This time I would like to write something about the flag and reply to the questions of the text. All people in the world are proudding to their country’s flag as it can be a symbol of history, economy, policy, interests, favorites etc. may be too many solders martyred to defend their country against enemies attract and keep the flag to fly.

1) As I know Iran’s flag format since 559 BCE to 29/July/1980 have been changed 22 times, in the 12 of them a lion’s picture with a sword in the right hand and sun on the back was in the centre of flag but now it has been changed to the God name in Arabic letter. Our flag has three parallel color bands, the Green on the top is symbol of freshness, growth and somebody said Islam, the White in the middle means peaceful and honesty and the Red on the bottom is symbol of brave and martyr. I think lion, sword and sun in the old Iran’s flag were proved of the three colors of the flag:

2) I like my country’s flag same as billion people in the world, but I think previous flag was more interesting and pure Persian as there was no Arabic letter and no regional symbol which has been imitated from our neighbor Islamic countries, every body knows meaning of the lion symbol that was on the Iran flag for centuries and also self-explanatory three colors (green, white and red)!


I wish one day all people live together friendly without any borderline, ware and under a common flag!

Your truly

Farzad

Greetings from Sydney, Canada

This article is about a British couple who booked their tickets on the internet for Sydney in Australia, but their airplane landed at Sydney on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, a town with a population of 26,000.

It was a huge mistake. Internet has no idea why there are two Sydney in the world. Maybe these internet problems are very rare, but for me, I don`t trust internet banking, booking airplane or shopping. I prefer do it myself, no matter how much it takes, but at least I am sure I`ve done my work 100%.

Q1: How did the mistake happen?

A couple booked their ticket on the internet for Sydney but they meant the Sydney in Australia but their ticket was issued for another Sydney the Sydney on Cope Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

Q2: Have you ever had any travel or holiday problems? What happened?

Thanks to God, I haven`t had any problems so far.

Posted by Shima

Hair

Dear Marcus

I have read the test about hair, reply to the questions are following:
1) Hair style can be an evidence of people habit or behavior but it is not completely true, in my opinion mentality, relationship, knowledge, negotiation method, behavior, life style and so on are more important than hairstyle and we can not completely judgment about others based on their apparent.
2) My hairstyle is normal and a little curly.
3) Most of people have normal hairstyle, but some young men have long hair or sometimes they shave their hair completely and put on a hat. Some religion people in the name of Sufi have long hair, these gnostic men also have an regional dance (Sama) who believe it make them closer to the God.

Best regards
Farzad

100 years….Olive’s life

Today, I would like to say about” Olive Mar chant”, an English woman who has lived in her parents` house since a century ago until now! Although people usually change their house in a few years but she would not dream of moving such others. Now, she lives in old house where she was born in 1910. Olive never got married because she liked too much her parents and her house, so did not want to separate from both of them. This is surprising for me, maybe for you and others.
On the other hand, she is very healthy, has not gone to hospital during 100 years and hates visiting doctors because she has always taken care of herself with plays sports and eating vegetables. She has started her diet as vegetarian since 18 years ago. She has worked as cleaner for 40 years and liked gardening, sewing and cooking before her sight became damaged that she did not to do them. These are surprising for me. ” How has her home changed in the last 100 years? “I can tell you that her home is still un- modernize and there is no central heating. Even she has used lit with candles and oil lamps until electricity was installed in 1960s and building a toilet and bathroom.
In my opinion, Olive is an interesting woman, too relax and very house proud. Also she is very gladly from her life that can be wonderful and useful for others.

Best regards,
HOMA

Chocolate

Chocolate

It is true that chocolate is lovely for more people and I like it, but I do not eat very much. Nowadays is advertisement upon it for someone specially children, and sells a lot of them. However it is not good for health if is eaten a lot and used to eat it which can due a problem for our health and life.
She was eating a lot of chocolate since she was a child and nobody do not avoid hers from eat it. Then she continues to eat it a lot of. Now she does not stop it even if she wants to leave this action! She needs it every day, and eats lots of it, too. Her first bar is at 8 o’clock in the morning and then she has about 10 bars of chocolate a day until she goes to bed.
On the other hand, she knows that eating a lot of chocolate is very bad for her health. She knows that there is a lot of sugar things and fat in a variety of chocolate, so she got overweight, too. Although she decides to leave eating it, but she can not stopped it and used it. She wanted to help her to stop use it.
In my opinion, there are a few ways to help hers to leave it. First of all, she can start a lot of chocolate every time even more than before for breakfast, lunch and dinner for a week just it instead eating everything! And then sees herself if still like it? Or she hated it. Second way can be, lack of available to it such as in her house, in her family and leave somewhere that there is a lot of chocolate. Finally my advice to her is increasing to able herself to leave it, and of course all of these together can helpful for her.

Best regards
Homa

Farzad's Daily Routine

Hi

Farzad is a student in the class Academic Writing and Reading Level 1. He comes from Iran, but he lives with his family in Cheras in Malaysia in a big house. When he came to Malaysia , he worked an engineer in the Dell company.The company is so far from his house. Then he forced goes to work by his a BMW X6 car everyday in the morning except the weekend.

When he has work he gets up at 6 o'clock am. First, he take a shower. After that he eats breakfast and then he leaves his home at 6:35 am. After that he drives his car toward his work. Then he arrives to his office at 7 o'clock am. First he plans for his duty. After that he starts with priority work. Then at 12:00 am he goes to nearest restaurant from his office to have lunch until 1:00 pm. Sometimes he eats his lunch very fast because he has a lot of duty.

In the afternoon, he has meeting with his manager or client. At 5:00 pm if he finishes his work, he goes home. He comes back home at 5:30 pm. First, he takes a shower again and then he spends some hours with his children and asks them about their lessons and their daily activities. After that he checks his email and then he sometimes reads one of the favourite books. After that he takes dinner with his family. Finally he goes to bed at midnight.

By Abdolaziz Torfi Salmani

Tourism

In this article ,the writer complained that how tourism industrial can change ,the view of nature, life style,people, secourity and peace of a region.
The Coconut Island which was a peaceful , safe Iland , full of beautiful palms ,nowadays is crowded, noisey and unsafe .Olders local are unhappy but youngers are satisfied of making more money.

Q1-How do you feel about tourism in your country?
Actually, in my country there are many many places for tourists to go. There are many beautiful
monuments , beaches, mountaines,waterfalls,restaurants,shoping centers,and palaces.And also Iranians are really famouse in hospitality.But tourism industrial isn`t run good enough in there.
I thinks the goverment should have more attention to this industry.
Q2-Do you think beautiful places should be protected by law?
Many beautiful natural places were created in millions years and it`s not fair to be used only for one or two generations ,so not only the goverment but also the people should be care of God`s gifts.
Posted by Shima

Chocolate

Hi everybody

I started reading the article at 9 o'clock in the evening on Friday and after 7 minutes I finished reading. Maybe it is very easy for everyone in our class because it has easy words.

It was very interesting for me because it told about person who ate a lot of chocolate, but he can't stop eating that. When he was child he started eating chocolate. He has about 10 bars of chocolate a day. finally he want to know ways how he can stop eating chocolate. I can tell him one way to stop eating that like: first, he must reduce bars has chocolate a day and he does this way for maybe 1 or 2 months, finally he can stop eating chocolate.

Do you like chocolate?

Yes, I do. I like chocolate so much because the chocolate has the Material Nicotine, but I don't like food or meal have extra sweet. I eat chocolate when I have a class or an exam. Chocolate make me refresh and rest in that time.

How would you advise the writer?????

By Abdolaziz Torfi Salmani

Sniff

This story is about a girl who can`t smell.Joanna is really satisfie of her life ,without smelling and tasting things.Sometimes her diasability helps others ;changing her sister`s baby wont bother her.
Q1:What problems does Joanna have because she can`t smell?
She doesn`t know, is a fire because she can`t smell smoke or doesn`t know food is safe to eat or not ,and also she can`t smell herself.
Q2:Would you like to be Joanna?why?why not?
Of course not.
I don`t like to be Joanna.Smelling is a very important sence.Tast a juicy fresh strawberry ,smell the cutted grass or smell a new born baby are really graet ,which Joanna will miss for ever.
Posted by Shima

Oldest Stamp

What did you find interesting in this article?

I found all article's questions and the answers were interesting. It spoke about the stamps history. I know now that first stamp in the world was UK stamp, it was called Penny Black .The Penny Black was first sold in 1840 and it was very popular. It had a large picture of Queen Victoria on it. In 1885 a 14 year-old Swedish boy found a yellow Try Skilling Banco stamp. He knew it was unusual and he sold it. In 1996 this stamp was sold for an incredible 1,400,000 euro .That stamp is classified as the most expensive stamp in the world.

Do you like collecting things?

No, I do not like.

Abdul's daily routine

Abdul is a young Iranian man that comes to KL for studing and leaving. He almost gets up at 7:00 o’clock in the morning, and after take a shower sometimes has breakfast at home then goes to the British Council (BC) at 8:45. Usually the faster transportation at this time is LRT, so he uses it to arrive in BC at 9:15 after pass three stations. The ticket fare for each way is 1.60 RM that is fair to travel. The first class starts at 9:30 am and finish at 12:45 pm, they have a 15 min brake in the mid of class to refresh. The KLCC food court is a nice place to have lunch with the friends, chatting about difference subjects and always chooses chicken rice as a favorite food.

After lunch they come back to the BC and arrive in at about 1:45pm in the afternoon, the extra English class starts at 2:00pm, the teacher is a young trainer and very friendly as well with their same age so, they are very happy at all and have lovely fun together, this class finishes at 5:00pm, and then he uses again LRT to go home.

Take a shower, seat behind the computer for about two hours to use internet, drink a cup of coffee can be a fair way to relax him and prepare home works with a fresh mind, dinner at 9:00pm is a good break then finish the home works at about 12:00pm, brushing teeth and go to bed to start a new day by tomorrow.

By: Farzad

Computers

Dear Marcus

My first week of March reading text is about the computers and users, in some poor, moderate and rich country, it is interesting to say which computers’ population users and speed of the Internet become the main evidence to assess a country and its people are advanced, at the development or back warded. Yes its imagine but true as we are leaving in the speed world and only strongest in the economy, Information Technology (IT), and new technology will win the competition hence they can leave more comfortable. I believe that computers never can govern to the human as they don’t have mind and sense, they are only high technology machines that have been generated and developed by scientists to easy the work and life. Following are the responses to the text questions:

1) The first time that I used computer was 1990s in the Polytechnic University, while I was a mechanical engineering student, at that time we used punch card to load our program in the computer; it was a hard work and any mistake in the punching cause to wrong hole in the card then computer get error from the program and it did’t run. Our university is one of the first centres in Iran that used computers to register the students,planing courses and classes, getting courses and the computer PhD teaching the students how to write a program in some computer languages such as FORTRAN, Pascal and later C++ them how to run it, but for the large program you need too many cards as each program line had been punching in one card only at the maximum 220 characters.

2) Yes off course, some body buy a limited user name and password card from shopping for one, two or ten hours usage and connect through the Internet by using this user name and password. Nominal speed for such service is 52kbs but normally speed is lower than it, specially in the evening. somebody use the Internet in the popular cafes that also some times slow and fee is about 0.5$ and above. You can install an ADSL as well for high speed 100Mbs but it is nominal speed too, as Iran Internet connection is by axial cable in most places, the government are going to replace the axial cable by light fiber cable to get more speed and connectors. Another reason is that in Iran Internet is filtering due to some political reason and prevents hacker attack also pornography.
Most of the people in Iran have PC at home or laptop, in the famous Universities and research centre the high speed Internet is available but only for the Master of Science students, PHD and researcher. This Internet is not through the cable but they have a dish without any filtration and directly connect to the web from the satellite.

Computer word and IT is on the great development and nobody knows what the end of this new technology is, but you can guess, look at the photo for the new pen pocket computer! We have to say goodbye laptop!! Remember that NASA always has at least two models higher than commercial computers that we used for example when we are using series five of computers, NASA has series seven or upper!!! I can’t image how much is the speed of their computer and how does it work, anybody knows please inform us.

Regards,

Farzad

Tourism: Reading

Dear Mr Marcus,

Q1: what do you think of when i hear birdsong?
Ans: When i hear the bird chirping, the first thought that comes to my mind is that i can feel the nature with my first instinct as the sounds of the wind knots blowing and the atmosphere of the whole nature.

Q2: What is my favourite sounds?
Ans: The atmosphere of the nature as the trees swaying from left to right blowing from the wind knots and the bird chirping and singing in the early wee hours of the morning......

Your Sincerely,
Mehr Moon

Stamps

Dear Marcus

This is a third article I read and I enjoyed with read its.

I found this article very interesting because it talked about history of stamps and in past I did't know about the stamps history but now I know everything about the stamps, but I have one question I don't know its answer, that why the people use the stamps?

It talked about what kind of the stamps' shapes in past.

The first stamp didn't appear until 1840 and it cost just one penny. The first country used the stamps was England in 1840 and Brazil in 1843 ,...

In 4000 years ago very few people could write, so there were special people called scribes, who wrote letter for everyone else.

I think a lot of people aren't using the stamps because in this time or in this period have a good change about the technology , It make a new things like: mobile phone , internet, compute etc.The people can use the email or mail , sms for send their letters for everyone in everywhere of the world, but I think just the transport companies, public institutions like: in curt etc, and use the stamps to send by post office for another where.In my life I never didn't use the stamps because I didn't have any letter to send for anybody, but now I'm using the internet and email for send my notes and letters for my friends and my family.

Do you like collecting things?Yes,I do

I'd like collecting informations about the owners of revolution such as: Che Guevara, Omar Mukhtar,Gamal Abdel Nasser etc.

yours truly

Abdolaziz Torfi Salmani

Cheating

In this story, I dun think cheating is a worst thing. The writer was very hate people who are cheating in the sport , but I'm not agree with the writer. That is because, I was a basketball player before. At first, we didn't cheat at all~but the other team was so bad, they always cheated~If we still keep it like that, we were lose very fast.So, we need to cheated it, and got all the points.
Every spots, some of the player sure will cheating.

Veronica