-- 好故事

My job in a factory

Working in a cylinder factory was the worst job I ever had. First of all, the work was physically hard. My job was burning a long steel tube in a stove. When the end of the tube turns red, I’ll take it to the next step in the production line. This step will take me 2 minutes and I have to work 10 hours in a day. The second bad feature of the job was the working environment. When the sun shined through the hole in the workshop roof, you can see metal dust in it. The temperature was oppressive <s>suffering</s>, which was almost 40 degrees in summer and negative 10 degrees in winter. Finally, the worst of all was the pay, for ten hours a workday I took $8 home. Well, it was 1999.

-- 很好写。

-- I wouldn't capitalize prince since it isn't a proper noun or other type of word qualifying for capitalization. If one was to say for example prince andrew, then the words need to be capitalized -> 'Prince Andrew'.

A fragment of a novel(1)

Two reasons make the man have to protect the Prince. First, the political situation: the cabinet minister is trying to grab the real power of the government and make the royal family a figurehead. The other is to make sure the Prince doesn’t do something stupid like his prank in the charter flight that maybe cause an accident.

But he didn’t know the real purpose of the Prince’s coming to this country. Now the Prince and his entourage are conspiring to steal a painting from an art museum here. There is a rumor that the former king drew a picture while he was studying in London. He hid a letter to his mistress on the backside of the painting. It will be a bad move on his part if the minister gets his hands on that later. It will be a scandal. They should make a plan to take back the letter so that it wouldn’t come to pass.

-- 很好写。

-- A few of the words corrected are verbs about something that happened in the past. In general but not always, an 'ed' or a 'd' is added to the verb to show it happened in the past.

-- Proper nouns such as the word Arab are normally capitalized. Names get capitalized (first letter of each word capitalized).

-- the word 'on' is typically used with 'the coast'. 'On the coast'.

-- British use 'learnt'. We in USA use 'learned'. Both are fine.

-- there were a few spelling mistakes but I understood the meaning. Well written!

I learned historical knowledge of the world

I had learned <s>the</s> world history in middle school. But it is very simple in the content. Recently, I learned western history and Arab history. It broadened my horizon. I know there were two civilization centres other than China in the ancient era.

They traded with each other, and learned from each other. Also, there were clashes and wars between them. The Crusader Army defend against the Arabic troops at the territory of East Rome. They built castles <s>at</s> on the eastern coast of Mediterranean. The wars lasted for more than 200 years. It still <s style="background-color: rgb(204, 232, 204);">have</s> has influence in the modern politics of Middle East.

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-- viscous is an adjective. the noun form should be use in this particular phrase. An example is 'Chocolate syrup is viscous'.

-- grammatically the third sentence is correct. However, it is more concise and less redundant to avoid using the word 'books' twice because we already know from the first use that this refers to books.

making simple sentences

thirst:

Every morning I wake up <s style="background-color: rgb(204, 232, 204);">that</s> I need to drink a cup of water to quench my thirst.

thickness:

The value of books was determined by the content of books, not thickness. (passive voice misuse? )

The content of books will determine their value<s> of books</s>, not thickness.

viscous:

The viscosity of liquid is necessary to present to the Hollywood horror film.

-- It's understandable and well written.

-- Media is the plural form or media.

-- 'Could' might work but 'Can' is more common where I am.

-- upon might work but 'of' more common where I am.

Please help check this. -- How Could We Get an Objective Opinion upon History?

Please help correct me. Thanks a lot!

How Can We Get an Objective Opinion upon History?

Sometimes it’s hard for people to get a whole picture of history. Because most of the media and books hold a biased opinion <s>upon</s> of their own countries, especially when it comes to politics. So how would we know that all our historical knowledge is not built on a false foundation? What can we do to fight that?

Maybe we could distinguish the facts from opinions, spin on the facts, read a lot about same period of history of authors from different backgrounds, check carefully to see if the facts are truthful and reliable, then contrast them to come to a conclusion ourselves. It would take tons of time, but the effort will be worth it.