My Vacation Experience

In the fall of 2006, a lonely girl by the name of Jessica Jiang sits in the corner of a noisy classroom in Shanghai, China with a unique journey that dates all the way back in a hospital at Edmonton, Canada in the blizzard winter storm of 1999. The faces of the childhood friends flows through my mind, as well as the curiosity of the new things coming into my life. This all started from when I came to China from the United States at a age of 7 years old.

Beth was an interesting woman to say the least. She was very talkative and had an eccentric personality. She might have been a smidge under the influence on this very normal afternoon but she was still a nice and fun person to talk to. Ashley and Kevin and I got to know her and all about her family all too well sitting at the bar at TGI Friday’s.

     Mark Salzman’s purpose was to take you to China and introduce you to the people he had met on his journey. He had published this book only two years after he had gone to China. He desperately wanted to share an outsiders look into China and what influences were in his life. Mark wrote so fluidly that it was person to person.

“The best things in life are the people we love the places we’ve been…. And the memories we’ve made along the way.” by Unknown. 2017 started off terrible but then soon got better from a little help from God. My family found out we won a trip to Hawaii. My parents were deciding whether or not they should take us kids with, my brothers Chris was 18, Matt was 11, Nic was 8, and I was 15. Then my parents talked and the decided that it would be our last family vacation with just our family saying chris went to college the next year and probably will find a girlfriend. Hawaii I know made me look at life a different was saying everything that just happened to me.

Auslin recounts specific stories of his numerous trips to China to express the magnitude of the effect pollution has on everyday life. The author vividly remembers his first-hand experience with the smog in China,

In “Plight of the Little Emperors” by Taylor Clark the article talks about the difficulties of young children growing up in China.

The idea of escaping the bustle of the city for a quieter life is a common one in literature all over the world. Tao Qian and Xie Lingyun both wrote about leaving politics and the city, but neither was doing so to become a solitary loner. This can be seen when comparing Tao Qian’s poem Returning to Dwell in Gardens and Fields I and Xie Lingyun’s poem Visiting the Southern Pavilion.

My family and I decided to go on a trip to China for this winter break. The flight is extremely long, about 20 hours and you have to stop on the way. We landed in Xi’an, China and went straight to the hotel, which was very close by. We went for one main reason, to learn about the Han Dynasty and we figured that Xi’an was the best place to go since it was the capitol.

In William Bell’s novel, Forbidden City, Alexander Jackson, a 17 year old Canadian teenager who accompanies his father, Ted, to China for his job as a cameraman. Alex’s experiences during the trip involves learning, protests, and death, demonstrating his positive characteristics. As Alex travels to China, his curiosity in Chinese history and the protest for democracy improves his capabilities as a reporter by relating to the protestors. His selfless nature proves his loyalty to friends and families by putting his own life on the line when they need help. Alex’s wisdom and hardworking skills also make him dependable when others rely on him to help. As a 17 year old, Alex, has many positive characteristics which are shown during in the novel, Forbidden City.

This article that is based on the air pollution in China talks about how contaminated air is constantly killing people who live in major cities of China, especially because the levels of pollution are much higher in China than they are in the United States and other areas. This article displays an environmental and social issue because people expect that there will be no host for the 2022 Olympics if the issues with the environment and pollution keep up in China. This could be a major disadvantage towards the way the Olympics works and towards the amount of deaths caused by pollution in China.

Neil Shi has lived in Newcastle for years now, but before living in Newcastle, he lived in Nanjing, China. Nanjing is a busy town in the east of China, a place that is packed full of people, a place where there are always cars on the road and people on the street. Nanjing is a big place, with many shops, houses and its own version of a city centre. Here, almost everyone lives in flats, and there are narrow pavements and small streets everywhere. Now Neil was only three or four when his lived there, but he visits Nanjing almost every year, and he remembers everything about the place. “I can still remember the last time a visited, going out at night to the city centre. Those were some excellent nights out, gawping at the toys in the windows

When I am happy, I know the best restaurant in the city to celebrate. When I am bored, I know my friends are somewhere in the city I can hang out with. When I am tired, I know my home is in the city that welcomes me anytime. Beijing gives me a sense of safety and belonging. Although I do not know its dialect, the city quietly collects all my stories: when now I pass by Zhongguancun Street where my elementary school locates, I can still see the clock tower in front of our classroom building which I used to believe was the slowest clock in the world; when now I go to the Haidian Theatre where I always went with my high school friends during school breaks, I can still smell the caramel popcorn which I used to believe was the best popcorn in the world; when now in the evening I walk in Zizhuyuan Park where our family always took a walk after dinner, I can still see my parents’ figures which I used to believe, believe and will always believe to be the most trusted ones in the world …I am affiliated with the object, the smell, the people, and the city. This is the place where I will naturally miss and call my home when I travel to other places. Here, Beijing, is where I am

Accordingly, “Beijing---filthy, beautiful, decadent, bustling, chaotic, idle, lovable” (30) Lao She depicts his hometown Beijing as such as attractive and amazing place. In particular, Lao She sets the city as the significant backdrop of the story at the structure level as well as the important environment for the protagonist Hsiang Tzu. He states in this way: “The only friend he had was the ancient city” (31.) From the beginning of claiming the sole friendship between Hsiang Tzu and the ancient city Beijing, the story starts to explore the intimate relationship between the poor man and the machine that he relies on to make a living. Hsiang Tzu’s dramatic self-indulgence and experience shifts his life entirely because of the larger machine, the capitalist

Beijing is one place that has a huge problem. Their amount of pollution that they are releasing into the air is going to eventually become very toxic and no one is going to be able to survive. They are also one of the worst air quality countries in the world. There was a red alert that happened not too long ago and it finally hit a trigger that something needed to be done. “Now, in a swift policy shift, Beijing plans to issue a red alert on higher thresholds, despite government pledges to better address the toxic air” (Guo). Much of this issue is coming from the enormous amount of coal that is burned. After the alert was sent out, they had to close schools and also put strict limits on the use of cars. It would take years to even make half

Doctors at a hospital in the Jiangsu province blame the girl’s lung cancer on pollution. China’s pollution rates are high due to exhaust from cars, the burning of coal, and factory emissions. Since the economic boom the Chinese now own more than 120 million cars, while the United States only owns sixty two million. These high amounts of pollution from the exhaust has even higher effects on the health of Chinese citizens. Even with these dangerous amounts of car pollution most of the blame rests on the country’s large consumption of coal. China burns almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined, leaving auto emissions accounting for only twenty five percent of the problem. The World Resources Institute discovered that particle matter and Sulfur dioxide, both produced by burning coal, surpass World Health Organization standards in the majority of Chinese cities. In the northern city of Yancheng, a chemical plant turned the villages of Dongjin into a cancer village within a few years. Although China is armed with the world’s best environmental laws and regulations, its government faces huge challenges when it comes to enforcing the laws. There are many reason the laws remain unenforced, money being one, cutting corners on enforcement being another, so the pollution continues to worsen.