How is Your Freedom Limited?

by Junyang

Have you ever asked the question “whose job is it to protect me?” From terrorist and suicide bombers, it seems reasonable to many that it is the government’s job to protect the people.

But whose job is it to protect people from themselves?

We have laws and taxes that protect people from harming themselves. For example, the tax on tobacco and alcohol was created to discourage people from using tobacco products and drinking alcohol. The prohibition of marijuana, cocaine, and heroin are ways the government helps protect people from themselves. It is a crime to use, and/or possess any of these substances in the United States.

Is it ethical for the lawmakers to impose these prohibitions and taxes on the American people?

I personally believe that people should not eat McDonald’s food because it is unhealthy. Obesity, and the other diseases caused by obesity, kills more people per year than all the illicit drugs combined. If I were a lawmaker, would it be ethical for me to start a prohibition on all foods that are high in trans fat? The penalty for purchasing tobacco products is a high percentage tax; the exact amount varies by state. The penalty for purchasing illicit drugs is a fine, possible jail time, and a criminal record.

Although there are many opinions on the role of government, it is my belief that people should be free to treat their bodies however they see fit, without the government penalizing them strictly on the substances they choose to consume. 

Bad English: "World Wild"

by Junyang

I was watching television with one of my friends and she mentioned that a Buddhist organization, that had a commercial, was “world wild.” I was pretty sure that she meant “worldwide.” I corrected her and we got a good laugh out of it. But as the commercial went on it showed the organizations presence in every single continent expect Antarctica. The commercial was highlighting how they helped the areas that were struck by the major hurricanes in the United States. Then I thought to myself “This organization really is ‘world wild.’”

I think that American English will be further developed by the immigrant population. With the huge influx of foreign students into American universities, I think it is inevitable that these bright young minds will contribute a lasting impression on American culture. Even though it was a mistake, I think “world wild” would be a good contribution to the English language because of the overuse of the word “worldwide” and “international.” Often times when an organization reaches one country outside of its own, it calls itself an “international” or “worldwide” company for marketing purposes. Technically speaking, when an organization deals with two countries it is an international organization. But I think the connotation of “world wild” does not describe an organization that deals in two countries. If a company which does business in Mexico and the United States calls itself “world wild” then I would say that company is false advertising. For example, Microsoft Inc. has products on literally every continent; I think it would be correct to call Microsoft Inc. “world wild.”

One beautiful thing about language is that it is ever changing and with the English language being the most international language, I think that the English language will change even more so people can better express themselves through words.

The Film "Mean Girls" a Portrayal of Real Life

by Junyang

The film Mean Girls is about a girl, played by Lindsay Lohan, who moves from a remote part of Africa to a suburban high school in Illinois. She experiences a culture shock from all the politics that goes through an American high school. As she is introduced to the social landscape, she discovers the social divides of the student body through the cliques. Although the film is supposed to be humorous, the description of the cliques does portray a stereotypical suburban high school. 

I have not been to many American high schools, but Walnut High School’s cliques are very similar to the one’s described in Mean Girls. The “cool Asians,” and “nerdy Asians,” are very well represented in that high school. And the “sexually active band geeks” are also strongly represented at that school. The film showed a whole table of band members kissing; that is not a rare sight to see at Walnut High School. The description of how cliques are divided by where they eat lunch and when you pass by the table of burnouts, the smell of marijuana overpowers the smell of bad cafeteria food and pizza. There were a few cliques missing that were described in the film, but they were possibly eating lunch away from the main lunch area. But the “mean girls” of the school could be spotted from a mile away. I feel the “mean girls’” arrogance and glamorousness from the distance. These girls were not necessarily beautiful, but they were stylish and they had the vibe that they felt better than everyone around them.

With the social divide among students comes bullying. The film Mean Girls makes the bullying humorous, but it can become a serious matter and really affect the young girls who are the victims of this mindless crime. It is not the confidence of the “mean girls” that I despise, but their ability, attitude, and will to make everyone else around them feel inferior. I think education and exercises to raise the self-esteem of every young woman would help minimize the effects of bullying. I also think that educating young women about the rewards of making others feel good, is better for the ego than making others feel inferior.

My Second religion-Bushido

During our life, there are many difficulties which needs us to deal with, and there are also many 

tragedy happends in our life, but my brothers, I'm here to tell you that :you shall not fear!

Today, I'm hereby to share with you about my second religion,Bushido,besides my first religion, 

Chritianity.

After you had read this, you might wonder what kind of person that Abraham is? but no worry, you 

may found your answer by following the coming contents.


First of all, people who have seen the Sakuras( the Cherry blossoms) before would realize that the 

best wayto enjoy the beauty of the Sakuras are when they gather together. This method is also pretty 

similar to the philosophy of Bushido,the team spirit. As a person who fully understand the truth of 

Bushido, one would also be able to understand the best time to enjoy the beauty of Sakuras is not the 

during the time when they blossom, but the time when they fade together, because there is one 

characteristic about them, which is when the time has come, every single Sakura would fade and 

falls without any regrets.This is the spirit of Bushido, to reach your pannicle in life, to show and 

maximize your personal value to the world, and at last, rest in peace with your glory, without regrets, 

just as same as  the time when the Sakuras are falling without recall.


The purpose and the regulations of Bushido is very similar to the Knights during Middle Ages and 

the Crusaders, they all have one thing in common, quote from the slogan of the Knight Hospitaller:

" Defence of the faith and assistance to the suffering" and feel no fear but glory and freedom in death.

 So, if you saw a heavy armed Crusaders carring a Katana, or a Samurai who is holding a flag with 

the mark of the holy cross (just like the photo above :P) in your dreams~don't feel odd about it~that 

could be me :)


My enemies are many, but I never retreat. In the curse of childhood, they said the shadows and shades could never be conquered. In the rage of the reality, they said oneself is ours strongest enemy. In the waves of dangers and barriers, they said fear could never be tamed. Now they say nothing. The straits is my garden,the pressure is the fountain of my strength,I say, I am Jireh Abraham, I am the brave.

 By:Jireh Abraham Chung

A Wonderful Trip In Santa Barbara

BY:AMY

About 2 weeks ago, I went to Santa Barbara with my friends. As we really wanted to visit the cute animal called Alpaca and Llamas , which are very popular and charming among teenager. It is common that theses kinds of animals draw a lot of attentions among young generations, however people may not know much about these kinds of animals. So today I want to introduce more information about the animal we visited in the small ranch.

The rare Alpaca is a charming and valuable member of the camel family. And their babies are called crib. They are naturally lived in the Andes which is located in the south of America. What’s more, the tour guide told us that it is not only can be enjoyed in visual sides but also their fiber can be used for selling, which is very expensive and luxurious. And when we asked the frequent of the new birth in their family, the tour guide told us that the new generation can be breed once a year.and what i want to emphasize is that the Alpaca is very gentle and quiet in the day time.when i gave them oranges they even didn't give any noise with running towards us.

 Besides, the other animal we visited are llamas, as we know the llamas looks like the ALPACA, maybe in our imagination we thought there are subtle different among them. Nevertheless, there are surely some differences among them. They are many functions among Llamas family, Including showing, packing, driving, wool, pets and breeding. And I think it seems like the donkey in rural areas in china, people tend to use it as a labor tool. But the llamas are much more good looking than the donkeys. Moreover, An adult llamas can carry 60-80 pounds 8-10 miles per day. How a useful animal it is! and the llamas gestation period is 11~12 months and they rarely have twins. although they do spit at each other, they seldom spit at people. Llamas hum to their babies and they also have a high pitched scream which is an alarm call. But from my experience ,they sometimes may pit at visitors, so you should pay attention when you have fun with them. In addition, I think it is very interesting when they have some behaviors like making hum and lying down on the floor when they are tired. I think that they are very gentle, clean animals and a joy to raise one. Though It is a little bit smelly if you stay here for a long time.

From this trip, i saw the animals i always enjoyed before showing on the websites. it was an unforgettable experience! have a visit ! my friends!

Skydiving

 By Eva
  Life is always full of new experiences. Two weeks ago I went to skydive with four of my friends. When I heard they were planing it, I thought they were so crazy and I would never join in them because I always believed that this kind of extreme-sports did not have relationship with me, so when my friend invited me, I refused without any hesitation. However my friend said only one word, and then I changed my mind. What she told me is that I had to try something new when I was young, and try to  challenge myself, and only in this way,when I became old, there would be beautiful memories left for me. Actually, people always complained that life is dull and always attempted to experence fresh things, so if a amazing was put in front of face, I had no reason to miss it. Espicially when I knew there would be a coach behind me and jumped with me, all of my fearness disappeared.

  The day we went there was a sunny day. After a series of procedures, we started to change our clothes. By the way, those unfair contracts we signed before skydiving are the worst contracts I have never met before. They shirked all of their responsibilities, and ruled clearly that even though their mistakes caused accidents, cosumers could not assue them. Except this, generally that day is amazing.

  When we finished clothes changing, our coaches taught some main points about what we should do when we were going to jump out. After that, we boarded a plane and then our plane went up to 6000 feet. On that way, I could hear my heartbeat. I was so lucky that I was the frist one to jump amoung seven passengers. The frist thirty seconds  were very very opressive since I could not breathe with that thin air and my ears were hurt because of the pressure. However, when height decreased and the parachute was openned, the world became beatiful again. I could breathe freely again and all the pain disappeared. It feels like I flied in the sky. I asked my coach whether we can turn around, and he was a nice man, so he made us rolled immediately. That felt really exciting and I even had a strange feeling that I could get rid off all constraint forever.

  In summary, this experience is unforgettable and I am so glad that I participated it. I hope one day, when I really become old I can tell my kids proudly that I didn't waste my youth.
 

By Rahman SEKER

ANALYSIS OF ARGUMENT 

Hi everybody. Today, I will write essay of the GMAT which is argument type. Before I write my essay, I would like to inform that nowadays, I am studying for the GMAT because I plan to apply to MBA (Master of Business Administration). I have just learned that how I can write analysis of argument. That’s why I would like to share my first experience on this type essay which is not familiar for me. I think your recommendations could be beneficial for me to improve my essay. The topic is the following appeared in a speech delivered by a member of the city council: “Twenty years ago, only half of the students who graduated from Einstein High School went on to attend a college or university. Today, two-thirds of the students who graduate from Einstein do so. Clearly, Einstein has improved its educational effectiveness over the past two decades. This improvement has occurred despite the fact that the school’s funding, when adjusted for inflation, is about the same as it was twenty years ago. Therefore, we do not need to make any substantial increase in the school’s funding at this time.”

The member of the city council concludes that Einstein High School does not require to make any important increase in the school’s funding at this time. The author  presents several premises to support this conclusion. The first is that the graduated students from Einstein High School increase the rate of attending a college or university from half to two-thirds.  The second is that Einstein’s educational effectiveness reflects its improvement. The final premise is that although the school’s funding which is regulated for inflation, is about the same as it was twenty years ago, Einstein’s improvement has taken place. However, the conclusion of the member of the city council does not follow logically from the premises offered because there are several questionable assumptions underlying the argument.

To begin with, the first assumption necessary to this argument is that a proper number exists between twenty years ago and today of the students’ rate attending a college.  If twenty years ago the rate of students attending a college is not comparable to today the rate of students, one of the author’s major premises is undercut. One major flaw that this assumption is that twenty years ago, the number of students could be more than current number of students. It would be unlikely that the rate of students attending a college then is comparable to those of today. Furthermore, the qualities of the students themselves are not the same as they were in the past. These major differences make the assumption that the past is similar to the future an unlikely one. This assumption makes the author’s conclusion a weak one. If the author could demonstrate that the rate of students attending a college twenty years ago mirrored those of today, the argument would be strengthened.

Regarding the second premise in the argument, the second assumption necessary to this argument is that a proper causal exists between improvement in Einstein’s education and attending a college of students. Even if Einstein’s educational improvement reflects the attending a college for students, it is unfair to assume that more students go to the college. Even if we assume for the sake of the argument that the author’s presumed students take special lessons from the other teachers: that’s why, improvement of attending a college for students is not related to Einstein’s improvement. Besides, admission requirements of colleges or universities are easier and more flexible as it was twenty years ago. For that matter, improvement in Einstein’s education might not reflect attending a college of students, in which event this assumption makes the author’s conclusion a doubtful one. If the author could represent that improvement of Einstein’s educational effectiveness in twenty years indicated going a college of students, the argument would be strengthened.

Yet, the final assumption necessary to this argument is that a proper causal exists between the school’s funding and the improvement of Einstein’s education. Even assuming that the school’s funding has not be changed for twenty years, we do not know how Einstein’s improvement has occurred. In other words, for any number of reasons can trigger Einstein’s educational improvement. Perhaps, students are more capable and skilled to attend a college with the help of Einstein’s facilities; therefore, the school’s funding could be increased. For this reason, the author cannot convince me that without increase in the school’s funding leads to Einstein’s educational improvement. Whether the author could prove that not changing in the school’s funding supported improvement of Einstein’s education, the argument would be strengthened.

Finally, because the argument includes several questionable assumptions, the conclusion does not logically follow from the premise. The author makes unwarranted assumptions about the school’s funding is not be modified by Einstein High School. In order to make the argument more convincing, the author has to address these flaws.

Odyssey

By: Grace

 

Hi, everyone, this week I’d like to talk about the great epic Odyssey.

This epic describes the return of a Greek hero Odysseus from the Trojan War. The Trojan War had lasted for 10 years because of Unassailable wall. At that time, a good idea occurred to Odysseus. He leaded the army to build a big wood horse and left it on the beach. Then the Trojan dragged the wood horse back to the wall. When received code, the soldiers who had hid in the wood horse rushed from it and occupied Troy at night.

In this epic, my favorite story is about Polyphemus. On the way to home, Odysseus and his crews found a cave which belonged to Polyphemus in order to search food. But Polyphemus ate some of the crews instead of entertaining them as an honored guest. Odysseus made him drunk with heavy wine and blinded his eyes. Then Odysseus and his crews dressed up as sheep to escape from the cave. Trouble by Poseidon, Odysseus and his crews landed at the island of the Circe. Circe turned them into pigs for their bad behavior at table. Odysseus ate a potion that gave by god and slept with Circe to return his crews to human. After had been dining and sleeping with the goddess for a year, Odysseus finally decided to back home and back to his kingship.

In the story of Polyphemus, hospitality is one of the basic keyword. From this part we can see that the relationship between the host and the guest is very delicate, and harmonious relationship requires the concerted efforts of both sides. On one side, the host should satisfy his guest and make him feel comfortable as far as possible, and at least should respect him. At this case, the wife and the son of Odysseus did well. It was the best proof that they gave the rogue guest maximum tolerate. In contrast, Polyphemus ate the visitors instead of treat them as guests. And he finally got his dessert for his unwise actions. On the other side, except showing respect to host, expressing your appreciation to host is also a necessary manner that every guest should have. Otherwise you will get into trouble. For instance, the crews of Odysseus had been turned into swine for behaving badly on the table. And Odysseus also gave his punishment to the rude guests. Hence, both host and guest have responsibility for their relationship. It is a significant content of interpersonal relationship not only in ancient but also in modern society.

Finally, Odyssey has many kinds of influence on culture later times, but in my view the greatest influence of Odyssey is the comprehensive concept of Gods. Odyssey describes a world that human live with Gods. The Gods are same as human expect their magic and immoral body. They are also jealous and selfish. Hero is the special existence between common people and Gods. Common people can become hero, as long as they are willing to struggle with their limited life. The value of life is greater than immoral body. Maybe this is also the reason for Odysseus to insist to back home instead of living with beauty forever. In conclusion, Odyssey plays an important part on the nation spirit of Greek.

ISI program (Friendship Partner)

By Kayla

  Hi, everyone! How are you doing? Last two weeks and this week, there are total 10 days of holiday. Did you go somewhere? Do you feel American culture?

  Anyway, today I want to talk about the program I found, called “ISI Riverside.”

 
  Before explaining the program, I’ll tell a short story. Because I usually go to native speaker’s house and have some traditional American party at there on the weekend, everyone always ask me how I met her, Nancy. She’s like my host mother, very cheerful and friendly. We became friend when I met her at my room. I thought she is my new housemate, so I was a little bit surprise, but I suddenly thought it is usual in the U.S that some adult go to university to study more deeply. Therefore, we talked a lot; our culture, where we live, why we came here, and change our number. However, I heard a sound from another room, and then a girl came out. At that time, I finally realized she is my housemate. After Nancy left, she invited me to several party, and I wonder a relationship between my housemate and Nancy, so I asked her, then she told me about friendship partner called ISI Program.

  ISI program: They help international students to learn American culture, so they hold some traditional parties. Also they take us to some places. For example, last time they took students to Grand Canyon and hike there. Moreover, they take us to grocery shop, because we don’t have a car. There’s more and more things that I didn’t experience and don’t know. I really thought that I was lucky meeting Nancy. In addition, this time I signed up for friendship partner too, and met with lovely family. However, I still contact with Nancy too, because she’s like my close friend now!
 
  This is a picture of my friendship family and my friend after thanks giving dinner at a church. However, I will have thanks giving dinner at the day too, so this was kind of thanks giving party with people in the church. It was really geat. :)))

  What do you think about this friendship partner? I think this will make your life at the U.S more enjoyable, and meaningful. Everyone is very kind, funny, and helpful. Too kind!! I hope this information will help some of you. Thank you for reading!!

 

P.S
*More information on Facebook ISI Riverside
*If you can’t see FB from some reasons, text me. Maybe I can help you.
  kayla-oxo-12@hotmail.co.jp

 
Thank you!
I hope everyone will have a great thanks giving holidays!

Of Media

Of Media

By:Rain

International media such as TV network and magazine always give people in an information age mixed feelings. Like many other things, media is double-edged. As primary channels of information, TV and magazine are convenient and economic sources of information for knowledge, entertainment, and shopping.

Interestingly, sometimes the same piece of information varies considerably in its influences on audiences of different age.

For example, in a TV commercial, a beautiful lady promotes a certain brand of perfume, which supposedly makes girls more attractive to boys. For potential grown-up buyers, the ad is useful because they might be spending time searching for such products.

We save time in shopping and making decisions by making use of such advertisements. However, a teenage girl might get the wrong idea about the concept of perfume. She could get money from her parents to buy the advertised product. Worse yet, she might use the appeal strategy employed in the commercial to get ahead in the future.

This is a classic bad influence of media for young people’s overspending and inappropriate behaviors. However, we find it very difficult to weigh between merits and problems of media, because they are often tightly incorporated.

For instance, violent scenes in movies are believed to be partially responsible for violence-related crimes, particularly those committed by young people. But on the contrary, such movies also give people a channel to release their anger, anxiety, and pressure. Moreover, these movies show us bad and evil as well as punishments for wrongdoings.

Imagine we live in a world whose media is completely clean in such sense. The dark side of media does not disappear just because we do not talk about it. Nevertheless certain kinds of information such as porn are better kept away from young people.

In conclusion, media should not be seen simply as bad or good because we need to use information properly to the best of our ability. But for certain segments of viewers, we should be very careful with regarding to the content of information and take measures to keep viewers from possible harmful influences of media.　

THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX

by Hardy Mpanano

I came across this concept and couldn’t figure out what it meant. At first I thought about popping out of a big box to come up with some brilliant idea, but it definitely sounded weird. Thinking outside the box is a concept that means, according to Dustin wax, “conceptualizing problems differently; and understanding your position in relation to any particular situation in a way you’d never thought of before.”[1] Thinking outside the box is supposed to help us to handle and analyze a problem in a different and original way in order to find a solution that we wouldn’t have found by thinking as we usually do. How are we supposed to do that?

The concept of thinking outside the box is a metaphor. The box represents “constrained and unimaginative thinking”.[2] It pictures the limited and restricted area in which our mind analyzes problems. In fact, we think by considering the different data and knowledge we have accumulated all over the years. If we do not possess enough knowledge to deal with a problem, it becomes impossible to resolve it. Sometimes, the complexity of the knowledge goes beyond our capacity to understand it and then is required a new way to analyze it. Not only to resolve complex problems, but thinking outside the box is also supposed to enhance our creativity by considering approaches which are new to us and give us access to a different perspective of our surrounding. Thus, we can be innovative and broaden our capacity to come up with original ideas.

In order to be able to think outside the box we should be able, first to think differently and recognize that we are actually limited in a way or another since our mind is primarily set to think in one way, which is the one we have been taught. As a matter of fact, we should try leave the comfort of our world and venture in an unknown area supposed to enlarge our conception of the world. This experiment can be scary for most people who would never try to attempt new experiences or who are used to a fixed way to see the world. This lead to the second condition, which is not to be scare to take risks to think differently. Let’s think about it! Most of the people follow a certain pattern of rules they have been taught to apprehend any situation. To be successful and to step aside from the crowd, one should be able to be original and effective in a way no one could have though about. Examples of many successful business entrepreneurs demonstrate the benefit of being original and creative; values generally appreciated in our modern world.

In sum, thinking outside the box means to put ourselves in different physical or intellectual conditions where we can be able to transcend our current condition to consider new possibilities which open our eyes to a new reality.

 

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[1] WAX, D. ( November, 6th), 11 Ways to Think Outside the Box, Retrieved November 15^th,2012, from http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/11-ways-to-think-outside-the-box.html

[2] The phrase finder. (nd). Think outside the box. Retrieved November 15^th,2012, from http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/think-outside-the-box.html

SELF EDUCATION.

By Rustam Rakhmetov.

Hello everybody. In this blog I want to share with you how I have learned English. I have been learning English for two years. I remember the day when I began to learn this language. It is the tenth of October 2010. I tried to learn English three times but the first two was stopped by me because of my laziness. Then I asked the question myself, "Why do I study English?". I did not have exact answer. Now, I know to do something effectively, especially learn any language, people need an exact goal. If people have clear goal it is easy to reach it. My goal was to win scholarship in order to study my master degree in the USA. When I began to study my first textbook I read the assignment from the book and I could understand nothing. From this point I began self education.

In this blog I don not want to describe all troubles I face. I just would like to share some information that I think may be useful for student who want study English. I began from the materials which I used from my intermediate level of English because in the beginning I used materials on my native language and you do need them.

The first source I like very much is engVid. It is the site of free English video lessons. There are lots of topics  from "how to write essay" till basic grammar. The most important advantage of this site is that students can chose any topic they want study according their level of knowledge. There are three levels beginning, intermediate and advance. Another significant benefit of aforementioned source is big amount of teachers. People may chose any teacher they want. If some of the teachers seems boring or not clear, students can chose the teacher they like more. My favorite teacher is James and Ronnie. I like their lessons because they are very funny. When I watch their lessons I always smile because they usually use jokes. Another merit is that lessons are not too long. In average they last from ten till twenty minutes and student do not feel tired. It is very easy to follow this source just shut your facebook off and listen to the one lesson before going to bed. Some material may be familiar to you but repetition is also good education.

http://www.engvid.com/

Another useful website is TED. It the most interesting video source for me because sometimes watching news or TV programs may be boring or takes to much amount of time. Why is TED so interesting? In this website people share their ideas or works, inventions or solving some social troubles. Usually it is people from different parts from around the word. You may meet someone from you country watching this videos or learn some interesting ideas. In addition if people have difficulties with understanding speech's performance, they can turn on subtitles and in the bottom of your screen you can read text of their speeches. Moreover, after you will have already finished to watch video do not turn off your video player. Read the comments under the video, usually that kind of video are watched by professors or smart people and they write very good comment. Sometimes you can read very interesting discussion. You will not read stupid teenager comments on not understandable slang. It can help you to develop your creative thinking. Just do not use "youtube" to watch stupid jokes, use TED!!!

http://www.ted.com/

Super source! The website kickstarter. I think all people like creative individuals and if you also have new ideas or inventions you can use this site. Actually, in this site inventors show their invention and look for financial support from reach people. I like this site because I can learn new ideas and the most remarkable point I like is the fact that all creative people so positive that charge me positive too. You can read articles and watch video that will improve your reading and listening skills. Who knows, maybe someday you can met "new Steve Jobs" on this site!

http://www.kickstarter.com/

There is short list I use. Here you are!!! I will be glad if you will find some interesting for yourself!

If you like psychology it will be interesting for you!
http://www.psychologytoday.com/

Short tests for TOEFL, GRE, GMAT. I'm sure it is necessary for students who want to continue study in the USA.
http://www.english-test.net/

It can help people while writing essay!!! Transition words...
https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/135/transw.html#anchor1696929

10 universities with free online courses
1. UC Berkeley webcast.berkeley.edu/
2. MIT Open Courseware ocw.mit.edu/courses/
3. Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiativeoli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning
4. Utah State OpenCourseWare ocw.usu.edu/front-page/Courses_listing 
5. Tufts OpenCourseWare ocw.tufts.edu/CourseList
6. Openlearn openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/index.php
7. JHSPH OCW ocw.jhsph.edu/topics.cfm
8. Connexions cnx.org/content/
9. Sophia sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/ 
10. University of Washington Computer Science & Engineeringwww.cs.washington.edu/education/course-webs.html


As you notice we can find a lot of sources and most of them are free!!! Don not waste time study NOW!!!