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

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

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

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

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

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

What do you do that for?

Dear Marcus

Hi, this text explain about "Skydiving", a kind of exciting extreme sports in worldwide.There are reasons for do it. For example, interesting to fly is attracted for person, who wants to test herself or himself and to conquer a fear of heights.

Of course a skydiver have to beleive equipment and his or her paking the parachutes. In many countries, there are classes for learning it and that they reach a top of speed of 190 kilometres per hour during 10 seconds after leaving the plane and this is very exciting for them.

On the other hand, the people usually think why a skydiver do it. May be a death wish! But results indicated this sports is very safty in all of countries. Although there are some dangeres in the way and specially driving to the jump is always more dangerous than jumping out of a plan and sometimes have seen a variety of accidents that is not very much but it is important. However this risk are accepted by skydivers.

Over all , I think skydiving sports is very interesting sports. I`d like it although I didn`t learn it. But I know in my country, some people do it.

However,there are other extreme sports such as ski,moto cross,rafting,snowkayaking,speoturism and etc that all of them are very well for express exciting and feeling gladly for all of people in the world.

Regards,

Homa

Tourism

Dear Marcus


Hi, I read this text at 15 minutes and I found that there are some advantage and disadvantage about tourism industry.

First of all, advantages of tourism industry are improving countries,exchange culture between people worldwide and common understanding, decrease their challenge and actually a good source for Income and Investment!

On the other hand,tourism industry can increase limited for some of people`s life who lives there. So governments in countries have to pay attention its.

Now, I would like to tell you and another my friends about tourism industry in my country,Iran.Iran is a very beautiful country and it has a variety of visible places . Of course I think advertisment rule is very important for it.e.g media, so designing International Conferences for exchange culture and relationship between countries and ways to improve tourism industry is a good idea about it. Such as International conference of tourist promotion between Asia and the Middle East in Tehran,April 3 ,2009 and so Tehran 3-5 March 2007 for three days about tourism of Islamic countries already . So each country introducing the culture and tourism attractions of his or her own country to persuade others to see these attractions themselves.

The bottom there are 3 Adress for Hotel tourism in Iran.
www.Expedia.com(Iran Hotel)
www.Mircorp.com(Tour Iran)
www.Iran Gasht tour.com(lovely Iranian Hotel)

Over all, I would like to introduce” Darabad” in Tehran, the Capital city of Iran.
Darabad is a former village on the slopes of the Alborz mountain range to the north east of Tehran.
Darabad today is home to Iran`s most famous Museums for natural history, the nature and Wildlife Museum of Iran be protected by law.

Yours sincerely

Homa

Instructions

At the end of the first lesson, your teacher will give you an article to read at home.
Take your time. Read the article and the question and think about your answer.

Next, log on to the blog and start a new post. Begin like this:

I read an article about…
It was interesting because…

Then write your answer to the question.

In your second lesson, you will return the article you read and take another. This time, read the article and the first person’s answer on the blog. Then post a comment on the first person’s answer and give your opinion. Don’t worry – it isn’t necessary to agree. If you have the same opinion as the first writer, try to give another example to support your ideas.

This will continue for the whole course. Keep a note of the articles you've read in your Reading Record. This will help you to see your progress more clearly

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