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On the one hnad, tdaoy we took our wirtng eaxm and on the oehtr hnad I am wtrniig bolg so sleplnig is not vrey iptnmorat aetfr tihs mneomt. At laset tlil the EAP 3, if I psas of crusoe. That’s why you are rdniaeg tihs etnry lkie tihs! In fcat, if you can read it! Bcuesae smoe popele can’t. If you can, it deos not maen taht you are a guiens but at laset you are not sptiud taht mcuh! Let me use smoe caopmilectd and mroe porbmliaetc vcauborlay to mkae it hrdaer. How was taht? Slitl albe to raed? Good. Let’s try smoenhtig else. Alan dige os shodi! Aha, you can’t udnerasntd tihs one, huh? That’s buescae it is not Egnilsh, my bad! I have a sutggeosin as well. We can keep this blog thnig as a way of cmmoiucniaton drunig hdolaiys, that wluod be ncie. Ok, that’s it. Finally, that was great to be with all of you guys, we had lots of fun. Best wishes.

Judge

Is first impression important for you? For example, if you met someone for the fist time, would you feel like I want this person to be my friend, or maybe completely opposite, you think with yourself that I hate that guy! In fact, I usually do this but not exactly like above. For example, when I came to EAP program I did something like that. I liked some of you at the first time and I did not like a few! :) Do not be mad, at least I am honest! Of course the good point about my weird habit is I change my mind after I know the person without any prejudice. If I like someone and then I realize that person is not what I thought I will change my opinion easily and obviously same for the opposite situation. I know we should not judge people by their appearance but that’s the way I feel. I found a nice article which is somehow related to this topic. I hope you like it.

TWO TOUGH QUESTIONS

Question 1: If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?
Read the next question before answering this one.

Question 2: It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three leading candidates.
Candidate A: Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists.He's had two Mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10martinis a day.
Candidate B: He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.
Candidate C: He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.

Which of these candidates would be your choice? Decide first, no peeking,then scroll down for the answer.


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Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler!!!
And, by the way, the answer to the abortion question: If you said yes, you just killed Beethoven!!!

* Source:Ethical Question's website

Blog!

Till a week ago I really liked this blogging assignment, but for these recent days it is more like a nightmare! It seems there is no word as “blogging” in English because Microsoft word drew a red line under it but you know what, I won’t change it because you can understand me and that is the purpose of the language. If you can not understand it, you better use some of the strategies we have learned during our reading classes. You can break it into two parts and after that you will notice there are a blog and an ing, so you nailed it finally. You are almost on fire!! You know what the problem here is? Microsoft word did not accept even the blog itself, so you are in trouble again. That strategy didn’t work for this one. As a matter of fact, since blog is not a word, no strategy can help you out here. See where the problem is? Then, what can you do now? In fact there is not much you can do now, but you know what shouldn’t you have done? You shouldn’t have started reading my blog at the very beginning, because of the reason I explained yesterday in the previous post! Sorry for wasting your time, take care.

Assignment!

I noticed something today!!! Since I have 9 blogs so far and our final date for blogging is December 7th, I have to write a new blog everyday till that day to finish this assignment! In my previous blogs I usually tried to write something interesting but from this moment I just want to write in order to do my blog assignment so do not look for something interesting! Well, I have to keep writing because it is not 200 words yet but you can stop reading right now. Wait! Don’t go! Do not leave me alone! …. Ok… I can understand, there is nothing for you here, so that’s it, have a nice day or night, see you tomorrow and bye. Let me see what I can write about now. I can write about … HEY YOU!!!! You are not supposed to be here anymore! What if I wanted to write about something personal?! I didn’t expect that from you!…. But that’s all right, you are here because you are a good friend and you didn’t want to leave me alone. But you know what, you should have gone because you just wasted your time! Wait, You can’t claim now, I warn you ahead that there is nothing interesting here. Guess what? I counted my words, I mean I used word to count it for me and now this is more than 200 words. You can stay here if you want but there is no reason for me to stay so I am leaving. Come on, I think we both better go together. I do not like to leave you alone, because you didn’t leave me alone before and you read till the end of this useless blog entry! ;) Have fun.

Poor Birds!

Could you imagine a world with one gender?!? I mean (not Amin!) if all of us had same gender what would happen? How do you feel about that?!? Do not think about that specific issue for a while! I think that world should be very boring. In my opinion, men and women complete each other. The differences which different genders have, make the world a better place for living. For example, boys are smarter so they can make fun of girls! In result, there is more fun! ;) Just kidding! I suppose the reason of marriage is that completeness. I saw a picture- a sad picture!- in the internet which I used it for this entry. It seems one bird missed its partner. I think it is a very sad sad situation. Since the result of my older poll is obvious :) I am going to create another poll with a strange question! I know none of us like to be in such situation, and I hope that never happen to us, but.... just answer it if you like. That would be nice to know your ideas.

P.S: For going to Paul’s blog click on his link in my page. It is different from the one we had.

Perfect Couple

Hello every one. In my previous blogs I usually tried to write about different topics. However in the two of my recent blogs, I had a topic which was somehow related- men and women. Regarding to your comments, it seems that topic is somehow interesting for my friends. In result, I decided to continue this topic in another entry. I read this short story this morning and I thought it is by some means associated with this topic. I would like to share it with you. Here it is:

Once upon a time, a perfect man and a perfect woman met. After a perfect courtship, they had a perfect wedding. Their life together was, of course, perfect.

One snowy, stormy Christmas Eve, this perfect couple was driving their perfect car along a winding road, when they noticed someone at the side of the road in distress. Being the perfect couple, they stopped to help.

There stood Santa Claus with a huge bundle of toys. Not wanting to disappoint any children on the eve of Christmas, the perfect couple loaded Santa and his toys into their vehicle. Soon they were driving along delivering the toys. Unfortunately, the driving conditions deteriorated and the perfect couple and Santa Claus had an accident. Only one of them survived the accident.

Question: Who was the survivor? (Scroll down for the answer. Trust me, it's worth it)

Answer: The perfect woman survived. She's the only one who really existed in the first place. Everyone knows there is no Santa Claus and there is no such thing as a perfect man.


**** Women stop reading here, that is the end of the joke.

**** Men keep scrolling.

So, if there is no perfect man and no Santa Claus, the woman must have been driving. This explains why there was a car accident!



Men keep scrolling ….

By the way, if you're a woman and you're still reading, this illustrates another point:

Women never listen!!!

I hope you like it. ;)

Amin.

The Meaning of "ABCDEFG"

For these recent days, we had lots of homework and assignments. In result, most of us didn’t write that much in our blogs. Fortunately or unfortunately, this semester is going to end and in couple of days unfortunately, we have to have 12 entries. This is my 7th entry, so I need to write new blogs every 2 or 3 days to get the job done. Today, I saw a funny picture in internet which might be interesting for you as well; accordingly I decided to put it here. What do you think about that? Do you agree with that? Personally, I think that might happen in some cases. In my opinion, we better try to know that person first, and then put energy, emotion or whatever we want to put in a new relationship! Otherwise, we might regret. To go off the topic for a while, I remembered a quote from Newton. I couldn’t remember the exact words, but I try to paraphrase it. If you love a girl, let her go. If she comes back, she is yours. If she doesn’t, she never was! Anyway, as I was saying, be careful!!!

P.S: Thanks the guys who voted on my poll. The result shows one or both of these possibilities. Boys are smarter or boys participated more!!!

Shall We Dance?

Dance, dance and dance! I think most of you know that I like dancing very much. I really enjoy dancing and even watching others dance. In my opinion good dance is some type of art. There are many clubs in our campus which teach different types of dancing, such as Latin and ballroom dances. If you are interested in dancing I really recommend those clubs. The other thing is some dance movies. In these movies the whole story related to dance, such as “Shall We Dance”, “Take the Lead” and “Saving the Last Dance 1 & 2”. I like those kinds of movies as well. Finally, I would like to write about different type of dance in different cultures. Every culture has its own special dance. I tried to find some different type of dance in you tube (maybe they are not the best of their own type, but tehy are the best that I could find), and I will put their links here for some of my friends who might be interested.

P.S: Go and see Behzad’s blog about Tehran!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ913L-ABeQ Salsa (Latin dance)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGbzsVJlHRM Persian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHPIyW23TZk Lezgi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Ki_yAWTkE Hopak (Ukrainian)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBsN_sxbWYw Arabic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KZgCJDQQPM Techno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnLVRQCjh8c Ballet (Very emotional)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYFDYX4i2EY&feature=related Break Dance

Women Vs Men

Once, during one of our reading classes we had a discussion about gender differences in creativity. Considering that, I did a little research on the internet* about gender differences in intelligence. I would like to share that with you.

It seems that most of the studies show no significant difference between men and women in that area; however there are more man than women in very high and very low IQ (intelligence quotient) groups. Also, men are usually perform better on spatial and mathematical abilities test while women perform better on tests of memory and verbal. I also found a reason for expecting higher average IQ tests for men, and that is the advantage of bigger size of men’s brain. What is your personal opinion? I will create a poll about this, here in my blog, but that is much better to vote and also write your opinion. That would be interesting! ;)

*Wikipedia

Good Old Days

We had taken this picture the last night before I left Iran. In this picture you can see my two best friends. We used to go everywhere together. I have lots of great memories with them, happy and sad. Well, maybe you think sad memories are not great but I think sometimes sadness and difficulties make a friendship more powerful; I believe we can recognize our true friends in hard days. I hope I could meet them soon.

Shaghayegh

If you want to understand my reason for this entry -of course besides doing homework!!- you can read Behzad’s and Oksana’s blog! Well, her name is Shaghayegh and she is a remarkable!! Iranian singer; however, she lives in US because in Iran it is illegal for women to sing!! Based on Islamic rules of course. I can not understand why, but that’s the way it is!

Sports

Hello everyone. This is my second entry but before going through that I want to thank all of you who leave comments in my blog. In this entry I would like to talk about sports. Which kind of sports do you like? What are the most popular sports in your own country? If I want to answer those questions myself, soccer would be my answer for both. I like soccer a lot and it is my favorite among sports. After soccer I would choose horseback riding which I like very much as well. About my country, as I mentioned soccer is the most popular sport and after that wrestling is somehow popular in Iran. I would like to know about your choices and also about your countries.

Friends!

I am not sure how should I write in my blog. Do I suppose to write like an essay, for example do I need to have a Topic Sentence for beginning or it is more like a free writing?!? Anyway, I do not have one so do not look after it! As you can see my title for this entry is Friends. Maybe you though I want to talk about my friends. Well that’s not my reason but I could talk about them for a while. Actually, I have two kind of friends, the first group is in Iran whom I missed so much, and my new friends here, you guys! But that title refers to a TV show called Friends which I like so much. As a matter of fact, I am a friends fan. I do not know if you have ever seen any part of it, but I strongly recommend it. Watching Friends is so much fun and on the other hand it could help you a lot in your English, especially in your Listening skill. For now, that’s it!

The First One

Just to see what would happen!!!