if someone recommend me, she would say.... To Whom it May Concern, I am delighted to write this letter of recommendation for Pi-Hsun Chang (Josephine Chang ). I work in Children Cancer Foundation which has long-term relationship with Cancer Children Service Club (CCS club). When I first saw Pi-Hsun, she was a sophomore and was the vice president of CCS club. I impressed that she is always with smile, consistently pleasant, and very courteous. Surprisingly, Pi-Hsun devoted herself into those children with cancer. Not every student is willing to do volunteering. She is a warm-hearted person, demonstrating motivation and enthusiasm to care those children. Company and caring children with cancer is not an easy thing, needs to be attention on many sides. Children with cancer are weak and their resistance is low. Everything they touch should be sterilized before. However, I saw Pi-Hsun noticed every detail and was very circumspection. Most important of all, she is feeling of responsibility, and showing leadership, independent thinking and the ability to take control of a situation. We held many events together, such as children’s meeting, children’s camp and so on. Every time, she was active and careful in connection, finding place, arranging activities. I remember that Pi-Hsun was the person in charge of the 2010 summer camp. She took control the situation immediately when it was suddenly raining and temporary black out, and to finish up with a perfect ending. Besides, she showed her concerned for all of members, not only the children but also volunteers, that all people like her. All in all, Pi-Hsun is a take-charge person who is able to take care with everyone and handle things efficiently and effectively. I strongly recommend Pi-Hsun as graduate student in your department.

TOEFL writing practice 3 (if anyone can check the grammar, I will be really appreciate:)) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? When teachers assign projects on which students must work together, the students learn much more effectively than when they are asked to work alone on projects. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. Just as books nourish our mind, so do group members enlighten us. Human being is a kind of group living specie. We cannot live with ourselves alone. When we live together, we can feel warm, care each other and grow up. There are some main reasons that I support the statement that the students learn much more effectively than when they are asked to work alone on projects. The first reason for my stance is that students working together have more power. There is a Chinese idiom, "Three common people success a genius". It is means that people work together would have more power and be more successful than a genius person. For example, in running competition, that three people share the running distance is easier that only one person runs. Group working has more power and can share the loading of task. The second reason that can be perceived by every individual is that a person working alone usually makes his thinking in a small box. Group working would create more ideas, we sometimes called it bran storming. For example, there is a company, which wants to choose their marketing strategy. If there are ten people, each person provide a strategy, there would be ten strategies. The company could choose the best idea and revise it from other ideas. Last but not the least, group support can let people have more strength to complete a task when they have problems. People working together can share their feelings and support each other. For example, in my English study group, we usually share the knowledge which we learned. In addition, the most important part, we would share our feeling and encourage each other. We not feel lonely in the road of learning English. If I didn't have these friends studying English together, I probably can learn English well. Thus, I know, it is excellent in group studying. As we all know, there are two sides to every story. Therefore, undeniably, there are some merits in working alone, such as that you can schedule your time more flexible, you would not have any argument from others and so on. Nevertheless, from those points that I mentioned above, I still believe that group working is better. Human is group creature, after all.

TOEFL writing (if anyone can check the grammar, I will be really appreciate:)) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Young people today have no influence on the important decisions that determine the future of society as a whole. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. Just as books nourish our mind, so do technologies improve our lives. Among the great factors which influence me, I strongly state that people now are more happy and more satisfied with their lives than people were in the past. There two conspicuous aspect that I hold as my reasons. The first reason for my stand is that through the world changing, recreation in people's lives is more and more important. For example, when my father was a child, he had to study all day, because the harder he studied, the more money he would earn. Nevertheless, people now do not think so. We emphasize doing sport, taking a travel, and playing, not only studying. People know it is important to take a rest after a hard working day. People get happier and more satisfied through these recreations. The second reason which can be perceived by every individual is that since medical care improvement, people become happier. Nowadays, we have excellent medical care. People can get treatment and be cure when they face disease. Thus, people have longer life expectancy. Many people have more time to chase their dreams, unlike people in the past, who have to work for their full life. More people enjoy traveling the world or learn other skills after they retired. The main reason is that medical care get more and more improvement, people live longer and longer. For example, my grandfather learns English and travel around the world after he retired. And he said that he is really satisfied his life now. As we all know, there are two sides to every story. Therefore, sometimes people would be unhappy and unsatisfied. For example, people might think there is more stress since the quickly changing world; people might want more and more things when they have money. Nevertheless, from this two main reason that I presented above, I still believe that people are happier and more satisfied with their lives now.

TOEFL test Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more enjoyable to have a job where you work only three days a week for long hours than to have a job where you work five days a week for shorter hours. Just as books nourish our mind so do family members enlighten us. Is working only three days a week for long hours better? There are some reasons that I hold as my aspect. The first reason for my stand is that I cannot take care well of my family if I work for long hours a day. The reason is that I have two children and I have to take care of them by myself. If I have to work for long hours, I cannot pick up my children, cannot cook the dinner and cannot read the story before they sleep. Although, if I work for only three days I would have more time to company with them or have a trip with them. Nevertheless, I would have no time to do the things I mentioned above. Also, if I work for five days a week, I can have the same time from school time of my children. The second reason can be perceived by every individual is that working too long would decrease the effectiveness of working. Especially for me, I am easily feel bored when I repeat do something for a long time. I am a therapist. I find that if I treat a few patients a day. I can give them better treatment not only because feeling bored but also feeling tired. Thus, I believe that working shorter hours would be good for patient and me. Last but not the least, working for longer hours a day would let my family being estrangement. I would be tired for those three days and I would not speak to others only want to take a rest. I believe although I have other five free days, I have the same time to company with my family. Because they have to go to work or go to school. As we all know, there are two sides to every story. Therefore, undeniable, there are some merits of work for longer hours a day, such as avoiding the traffic jam, having longer weekend and so on. Nevertheless, from those reasons that I mentioned above, I take, still , side on the statement that working shorter hours but five days a week is better. Family time is most important thing to me.