英語 – 第 5 頁 – 世新大學小世界

Pingxi Sky Lanterns’ Environmental Issues

2020-07-03 張栩陵 2521 Views Eco-friendly sky lantern, Pingxi, Recycling of sky lantern, Sky lantern, sustainable sky lanterns

Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival was voted by the Discovery Channel as the second-largest New Year’s celebration in the world. It won the National Geographic Magazine editor’s recommendation“2016 Top Ten Winter Tourism First Choice”. In this festival, combining the New Year’s wishes and the Chinese Lantern Festival tradition, the sky lanterns carry the prayers of the people. When the lanterns are lit, hopes slowly rise, and the flames of prayers dance in the air.

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Should Schools Set Up Unisex Toilets?

2020-07-02 a105010133 2552 Views equality, gender, open-minded, respect, unisex toilets

What is unisex toilet?
A unisex toilet is a public toilet that everyone can use regardless of gender. These toilets are usually placed together with simple stalls or compartments and are designed as separate rooms for individual privacy.

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Sunset Industry: The Decrease in Number of Book Rental Stores

2020-07-02 李凱欣 2349 Views BaiLuDong, Bookrentalstore, Industrytransformation, JinChengBookRentalStore, ManManChih, Sunsetindustry, 漫漫喫, 白鹿洞, 錦城租書店

Walt Disney once said, “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island.” Though book has been regarded as a source of knowledge, bookstores in Taiwan are shutting down fast due to high rent and shrinking sales, as well as the changes in people’s reading habits.

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Falling in love with Vinyl Records

2020-07-01 張嘉穎 1596 Views CD, classical, music, thebeatles, vinyl, vinyldecision, vinylrecords

As streaming media like Spotify or Apple Music have dominated the era, there is still a reminiscent voice spinning around this generation. Vinyl records known as gramophone records can record both sides of one disk, with each side of the vinyl playing from 3 minutes to half an hour.

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Do Card Games Really Harm the Kids?

2020-07-01 劉于緁 1847 Views card games, kids, TCG, Trading Card Game

In Taiwan, “Trading Card Game”(TCG) is usually considered a symbol of violence , nerdiness and childishness. Therefore, some Taiwanese parents forbid their children to play TCG, since they think these games would bring negative impact to their children and could cost them huge amount of money.

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Art of Pastry from France to Taiwan

2020-06-30 沈麗容 1665 Views Culture difference, French Chef, Innovation, Pastry

As an ambitious chef, Chef Courant had been to three different countries before coming to Taiwan. The reason why he came to Taiwan is not because of his passion to travel, but the desire to promote French pastry. It is his great desire to share his skill with people around the world. Chef Courant began to study culinary arts and pastry at the age of fifteen in France and wanted to make it his life time career. Eventually, his dream came true.

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Experimental Education Giving More Options to Students in Taiwan

2020-06-30 龍俊佑 2930 Views Ci-Xin Waldorf School, Experimental education, Gleaners' Project

After the three laws regarding experimental education(實驗教育三法) were revised in 2017, experimental education initiatives were expanded to include universities. This is indeed a great improvement for Taiwan’s educational environment.

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Traditional Brewing Art of Taiwan Black Bean Soy Sauce

2020-06-29 李凱欣 3854 Views Blackbeansoysauce, Foodsafety, Foodsovereignty, Handmadeblackbeansoysauce, Soysauce, Taiwanblackbeansoysauce, Taiwanbrewingart, Taiwanbrewingculture, Xiluo

Indispensable to daily cooking, especially among Chinese, soy sauce has become a crucial seasoning in cooking Chinese dishes. Black bean or soybean sauces have evolved as time passes with people nowadays usually prefer buying soy sauce sold in supermarkets at affordable prices. In fact, most of these low-priced soy sauce consist of harmful additives that might endanger our health.

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Culture Differences in Wearing Face Mask between Orientals and Westerners

2020-06-29 葉潔丹 2055 Views COVID-19, Culture gap, Face masks

Demand for face masks is getting higher because of the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic since January, 2020. At first, Taiwan’s government organized the “National Mask Production Team,” constructed 60 production lines as quickly as possible and successfully increased daily production to ensure enough supply of masks from 1.88 million to 13 million a day .

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