A Letter to Malfoy!

Dear Malfoy,

I’m a reader of stories about Harry Potter, and I know you from the stories. Today I’m writing for you to tell you my opinion about you. As I know that you are luckier than other students because you were born in a purebred wizard family, and your family is also richer than other families; therefore, it would be better if you pay more attention to your friends and don’t be jealous with them. I really don’t know why you are always jealous with Harry Potter, and why you want the school discard him out? Is that make you happier or you want to do that just only because Harry Potter is more famous than you? In my opinion, a good or bad person is recognized by his action; as Harry Potter, when Hermione hide herself in the restroom on the Halloween day, and the big Troll want to kill her, Harry and Ron returned to save her by themselves. Also, when Harry knew that there is someone wants to steal the Sorcerer Stone to help Voldemort recovering his power to destroy Hogwarts, Harry had tried to protect the stone to save other people lives. By doing those things, every body love him very much. You are in contrast Malfoy, you just know about yourself, and you can do anything to make you feel happy, you don’t need to know about the other people’s lives; therefore, those are the reasons why many people don’t like you. In short, no one is perfect in his or her life, the most important thing is that person knows the mistake and overcome the mistake. So you should change your conservative mind, and you should be friendly to other friends. By doing that, I’m sure that every people will love you, Malfoy.

Thanks for spending time to read my letter!


- My opinion about Malfoy: Malfoy is a student of Slytherin house at Hogwarts, he is a jealous student, he is always jealous with Harry Potter, and he doesn’t want to lose others. Malfoy can do anything to discard Harry out from the Hogwarts School. For example, when Malfoy knows Harry plays the Quidditch team, Malfoy cannot play for the team; he used money to buy his seeker position in the Quidditch team. In addition, Malfoy is a conservative person, he has the same thinking as his father, Mr. Lucius Malfoy, he thinks that the Muggles and the people who are not purebred wizards shouldn’t agree to study at Hogwarts because Hogwarts school is only used for teaching purebred wizards.

Research about Oral Presentation

Hello everybody! I would like to make a research about "Stress" because there are more and more people have stress nowadays. What I'm really want to know about is the causes of tress, and how to overcome stress. And here are some information about my research:

1. General Encyclopedia:

- The name of the encyclopedia is Americana; year of publication: 2004; volume number 25.
- Summarize: According to J. INGRAM WALKER, M.D. (Duke University Medical Center) Stress, in psychology, a demand, threat, or other event that requires and individual to cope with a changed situation. In this book, the writer is also mention about some symptoms of stress that we may recognize before stress such as nightmares, recurrent memories of the event, sleep disturbance, and difficult in concentrating. In addition, the treatment an prevention of Stress are also written in the book; for example, limiting alcohol, eliminating smoking, sharing emotional feelings with others, and having a variety of hobbies or other interests outside work.

2. Subject Encyclopedia:

- The name of the encyclopedia is The International Encyclopedia of Education, publication in 1994, volume 10.

- According to M. Boekaerts, the writer of the article Stress, Coping, and Learning, the two examples of school situation that cause stress are: (a) waiting to take an important exam and discovering that one has studied the wrong material; (b) having a conflict with a teacher and being sent to the school principal. In this article, the writer gave some situations and he explained more about reasons why people have stress.

3. Compare and Contrast the two types of encyclopedia:

- Both the two types of encyclopedia are mentioning about the same subject; In the general encyclopedia, we can only find the information about a general information or a huge information on the topic that we want to know; on the other hand, in the subject encyclopedia, we can find the information with specific details. Therefore, in my opinion, both the two types of encyclopedia are important because if we want to have a good knowledge about any topic, we cannot only search information about a specific detail but we have to know about it in general and in specific.

- Therefor, in my oral presentation, I'm going to talk about the causes of stress, the symptoms of stress, and the treatment and prevention of stress.

4. Key term list:

- What does "tress" mean

- What's tress

- Causes of tress

- Symptoms of stress

- How to overcome stress

- Kinds of tress
- Stress' treatment

- Stress' prevention

- Effects of stress

- influences of stress

5. Other Sources:

- http://www.encarta.com

- http://www.revolutionhealth.com