by Jasmine Niu When you were little did you see your mother wearing high heels to work, to have dinner with friends, or to attend a party? Did you sit beside the shoe cabinet and look at those beautiful heels with curiosity? Fashionable but painful – this is the first impression that most girls have of high heels. Sometimes you may hear women saying, “High heels! Who can live with them? Or without them?” Why is there such a complicated relationship between women and high heels?
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A social networking site is like a competition or a massive online role-playing game where the sole object is to collect “friends.” It’s a world-wide phenomenon. People are spending more and more time in front of the computer meeting potential friends and partners. Popular social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo offer users fun features and applications that help them connect and interact with people in the frenzy of our everyday lives.
Although it may seem like we’re all friends on Facebook, the sad truth is that we’re lonelier than ever. Social networking sites can only make initial connections; they cannot begin to develop the depth of real friendship. I have 1,428 friends in my online world, and they can be categorized into three basic groups: people I occasionally see in body and flesh, people I have forgotten about, and people from various websites that I will never actually meet. Social media can be a reassuring extension for people who feel satisfied and loved in their daily life, but for those lonely folks, Facebook status updates are just a cruel reminder of how much better others are at making friends and having fun. We must realize that the internet, however much it has transformed our lives, is no substitute for meeting people. There’s no excuse for being lazy, no short-cut or magic potion when it comes to friendship. By Yu Aoki
For many decades, one stereotype has permeated Japanese society: “man works, woman stays at home.” Although the situation has been improving in recent years, the current one is far from ideal, and people’s ideas are difficult to change. Japanese Prime Minister Abe now wants to promote the “Dynamic Engagement of All Citizens,” and he claims to want to create a society in which every woman can also play an active role. However, lots of young women seem to have anxiety about their future. Some university girls think that they will have to quit their jobs in order to devote themselves to childcare. On the other hand, some don’t want to have kids so that they can concentrate more on their career. We can see in either case that girls think it is hard to make work and family coexist in their lives. By Sean Lin Human beings are not solitary creatures. Not only do we gravitate toward other individuals and seek to build communities, but some of us also develop strong bonds with other species. Since prehistoric times, animals have participated in the development of many aspects of human civilization, most notably hunting, agriculture, and transportation. Archeological evidence has suggested that the domestication of dogs, the first domesticated animals in human history, can be traced back to the dawn of the Neolithic Age (circa 10,000 B.C.). In the following 7,000 years, many of today’s common domestic animals were also brought into the human community.
By Pauline Leclercq Muslims do not eat pork, in India the cow is a sacred animal. But in France they eat frogs, which is quite unusual – but not as unusual as eating dogs in southern China.Almost every civilization eats some kind of meat, as if it was a basic standard of living around the world, even if what is called meat is interpreted in different ways. These examples show how meat has a place in our daily lives; yet many studies suggest that, globally, we are eating less meat now than ever before. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the production of meat sharply increased, without people realizing the impact on our health as well as on the environment. Now that many scandals have occurred, vegan and vegetarian movements are increasing, and environmental issues have pushed us more and more to think about our ecosystems.
By: Jenny Chongsujipunt Food truck culture is really on the rise.
During the past Chinese New Year break, I visited a night street festival back in Thailand. I noticed that long lines always seemed to form in front of food trucks, people waiting patiently for hours just for a single burger or a cheese sandwich. The food truck phenomenon has hit Thailand as well as the world. Why, when, and how did it become such a big trend? Let’s start on our hungry journey! by Ogita Chizu The Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido, known as one of Japan’s largest winter events, is a popular tourist attraction. Every winter, about two million people come to Sapporo to see a large number of splendid snow and ice sculptures lining Odori Park, the grounds at Community Dome Tsudome, and along the main street in Susukino. During the festival in February, Sapporo makes people feel as if they are in a winter dreamland of crystal-like ice and white snow.
by Lisa Herbers Every day nearly 40,000 girls are married before they are 18, and 36% of them are under 15.
More than 200 million girls have been victims of female genital mutilation. And 35% of women worldwide have experienced intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence. I’m sure we can all agree that this is horrible and something ought to be done about it. But would you call yourself a feminist? And what do you know about the history of feminism and the history of feminism in Taiwan? by Hazel Woon
As the adage goes, “never judge a book by its cover”. Well, sometimes you just can’t help how that cover looks. People who have the unfortunate syndrome commonly known as the Resting Bitch Face (or RBF) will know this the best. What is a Resting Bitch Face? Here, have a picture to help you out: Stan Ho
Every March before the muggy and stuffy plum rainy season brings the campus to a dead silence, spring weather brings life and vigor to nature and to us. Spring brings the sounds of cooing pigeons and buds begin to flower on the trees, adding a splash of color. Azaleas, the symbol of NTU, adorn every corner with their dove-white and violet-red to enchant students and teachers. It is said that in the 1940s, a professor from the department of horticulture collected some wild azaleas and planted them on campus, and in the 1950s the horticultural experiment institute donated several other species to NTU. From then on, azaleas embedded beside every road have become familiar scenery at NTU. |
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