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九十九年第一學期
應用英文寫作 Profolio
指導教師: 朱瓊芝 老師
姓名: 蕭琬真
系級: 機械三B
學號: 973003526

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An Email of Appreciation
From: Wendy-Shiao@hotmail.com
To: ncukittychu@gmail.com
Subject: [Appreciation] Thanks for TDEX 2010's Success
Dear Kitty,
Thank you very much for helping me with the TDEX (Taipei Design Exhibition)
2010. I feel very pleased to work with you and be thankful for your help.
I still remembered that you just stood up and volunteered to help when I had a big
problem and don't know what to do. I was deeply touched and really appreciated
for your supports. You made me know what team cooperation is. To say a truth, I
have always done works by myself since I was a student. I thought that I have great
ability to finish every work. But this time, I felt it is much happier to share ideas
with partners than just to do it all by myself.
Once again, thank you for giving me so many ideas about the exhibition. Please
send my regards to your family, who also share many thoughts with me.
Best regards,
Wan-Jhen Shiao 蕭琬真:)

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Love Letter
Dearest,
It is very important to express my feeling that how much you really
mean to me. There was a time that I didn't believe in love. I really
thought it never existed, but this is the time that makes me want to
thank you. Thank you everything, because it is you that taught me love,
and how to love. Before, I feared love. But now, I know I can't go on
without love.
It is really strange that you could always make people smile and feel
warm. Before meeting you, I was a person who just wanted to get good
grades and wanted to become a doctor. I even didn’t believe everyone.
But you changed me. The kindness and humor you give to the patients
deeply make me touched. The imagination you have always makes
people happy. The changes I see in everybody that's around you. You
allow me to open up my heart and trust again. Because of you I find
there is good man in the world. You unload all my unhappiness. I feel
that I am much happier than before.
I love you. I've loved you for so long. The happiest thing to me is to help
many people with you in the Gesundheit lnstitute. I think I can’t live
without you forever. I thank you and I will forever cherish our memories
and I know there are many more to come.
Love always,
Carin

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Resume
Katharine Parker
108 23rd St. SE, Salem, OR 97301, United States of America
1-800-321-1234
0988-105-308
katharine2000@gmail.com
Objective Position as Project Director
Qualifications
 Strong background in Business Administration practices and concepts
 2-year experience in Harvard Management Consultancy, Inc. as a Guidance Counselor
 Qualification of Project management and Enterprise Resource Planning
 Excellent Spanish ─ A1 grade of Spanish Proficiency Examination
 Experience as leader of college organization ─ student chief of Harvard University
 Industrious, organized, developed
Education
Master Degree in Business Administration, Harvard University, Massachusetts May 2008.
Graduated with Honors. GPA: 3.9
Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley May 2006.
Graduated with Honors. GPA: 3.7
Concentration in Enterprise marketing and International trade management
Honors and Awards
 The first place winner of Business Case Deliberation Competition of Harvard University,
2008
 One of the top three students in the Business Administration Department, Harvard
University, 2007, 2008
 A member of the third place team of National College Volleyball Competition, University
of California, Berkeley, 2006
 Scholarship granted by the Business Administration Department, University of California,
Berkeley, 2005, 2006
Experience
 5-year experience of Volunteer work in International Committee of The Red Cross , Dec.
2006~ present
 2-year experience in Harvard Management Consultancy, Inc. as a Guidance Counselor,
Sept. 2008~ 2010

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Meeting Minutes
Sloane Curtis
Meeting Minutes
October 14, 2010
I. Call to order
Dan Wanamaker called to order the regular meeting at 14:00 p.m. on October
14, 2010 in Conference Room A.
II. Introduction
Dan Wanamaker introduced everyone the new creative director, Darcy McGuir.
III. Roll call
Wendy Shiao conducted a roll call. The following persons were present:
Dan Wanamaker, Darcy McGuir, Nick Marshall, Morgan Johnson, Estella Marlin,
Alex Chris, Adam Bryant, Roger Hilton, Alicia Louis, Wilson Swift,
Thomas Alexander, Nora Huebsch
IV. Approval of minutes from last meeting
Wendy Shiao read the minutes from the last meeting. The minutes were approved
as read.
V. Open issues
a) In the 90's, men simply stopped dominating how the dollars were spent and we
lost our compass. Woman between the ages of 16 and 24 are the fastest growing
consumer group. The girls who were born in the mid 80's control our advertising
dollars. Female driven advertising totaled 40 billion dollars last year. But Sloane
Curtis' share of that was zero.
VI. New business
a) Come up with something for Women products and get in the fastest growing
women consumer group, have a piece of a 40 billion dollar pie.
VII. Adjournment
Dan Wanamaker adjourned the meeting at 15:30 p.m.

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VIII. Next Meeting
The next meeting is scheduled on October 15 at 8:30 a.m. in Conference Room A.
Minutes submitted by: Wendy Shiao
Minutes approved by: Dan Wanamaker

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Memo
Memo
TO: Dan Wanamaker, chairman
FROM: Wendy Shiao, executive secretary
DATE: October 14, 2010
SUBJECT: The policy of getting in the women consumer group
In the 90's, men simply stopped dominating how the dollars were spent and we lost
our compass. Woman between the ages of 16 and 24 are the fastest growing consumer
group.
Because of the change of consumer type, Sloane Curtis has to change our strategies of
advertising products. So, we are getting in the fastest growing women consumer
group and it’s an important time to change and make our better future.
Everyone have to come up with something for Women products in next meeting. The
next meeting is scheduled at 8:30 a.m. on October 15, 2010 in Conference Room A.
Memo submitted by: Wendy Shiao

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Formal Letter
October 21, 2010
The Language Center
National Central University
300 Chung-Da Road,
Chung-Li, 320, Taiwan
R.O.C
Dear Language Center,
It is the desire of most NCU students that you could open more language courses to
a campus with more than ten thousand students of the school.
As we know that you have opened some courses like French, Japanese, Spanish and
German, but the amount of these courses are still so few to all the students. We can
see that in the beginning of a new semester, many students go to these classes and
desire to take the password card to get an attending permission of these courses. As
a result, only some lucky guys could get into these classes. This really makes people
disappointed.
I am sincerely hoping that more language courses can be offered by you, and the
students who are wishful to learn more foreign languages could participate in the
program and learn.
Sincerely,
Wan-Jhen Shiao (Miss)
Junior
Mechanical Engineering

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Recipe
Ratatouille
5 tomatoes 4 petals of garlic slice
1 eggplant cut into round thin slices 1/2 c. olive oil
1 zucchini cut into round thin slices Salt and black pepper
4 onions cut into small cubes Provence spices
2 peppers cut into strips
Put the tomatoes into boiled water for 2 minutes, take out and remove the peel.
Combine olive oil, garlic, peppers and onions into a stewpot. Cook about 5 minutes,
reduce heat to low, cover and let cook 20 minutes. Add Provence spices, tomatoes,
and cook 15 minutes. Add eggplant, zucchini, and cook 30 minutes longer. Season to
taste with salt and pepper.

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Instruction
Instructions《How to make pressed flowers》
1. To start with, prepare
woodblocks, sponges, absorbent
boards, tissues, rubber bands,
scissors, tweezers, glue, and
sealed box.
2. Next, put the flowers materials
on the tissues.
3. Then, place the sponges and
absorbent boards between the
tissues layer by layer. Also, set
the woodblocks on the bottom
layer and upper layer.
4. Later, pile it up and fix it by
rubber bands.

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5. Now, put the pressed flowers
into a sealed box and wait about
3 days until it dry.
6. After the flowers becoming dry,
take it out and prepare drawing
papers, paints, brushes, and
color pencils.
7. Paint the background and stick the pressed flowers on the
drawing paper.
8. After finishing the decorations,
mount the picture into the
frame, and we just finish it!

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Midterm Writing/
An Email of Congratulation
From: Wendy-Shiao@hotmail.com
To: ncukittychu@gmail.com
Subject: [Congratulations on the great achievement!]
Dear Kitty,
Congratulations on the Teacher of the Year Award 2010 of National Central
University.
The award came as no surprise to me. You have taught very attentive since you
entered the college and the ways you teach are so active and interesting that students
love to take your classes so much. You are also enthusiastic about holding activities
for student to take part in. Moreover, you pursue further education of other domains
as well. You are really a model teacher for us to follow.
I am sure you’ll continue demonstrating your outstanding instructions as you did in
the past years, and I wish you a very cheerful and fruitful teaching also learning life.
Best regards,
Wan-Jhen Shiao 蕭琬真:)

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Report
Nearly 100% execution of NCU
donative monies for Typhoon Morakot
December 5, 2010
Last August, Typhoon Morakot slammed
into Taiwan unleashing floods, mudslides and
misery and inflicting heavy losses to many
schools of the south of Taiwan. The National
Central University originated a plan called”
Typhoon Morakot- Welfare Fundraising”. All
the teaching and administrative staff
contributed to the fund with an open heart and
collected about 1,630,000 NT dollars offerings. The other days, they held a result
reporting meeting, and amounted to help 3 counties, 11 high schools. Furthermore,
one of the recipients, the principal of Bingdong Ciang-Yuan elementary school, Cai,
Youfu, also attended the meeting and was sincerely thankful for the help.
Last October, the president of National Central University, Jiang, Weining,
appealed to the staffs for “One day income donation”. All personnel expressed great
love and abundant sympathy to the actions. Hao, Lingni, chief executive for the
program, said that every coin represented the responsibilities. She appreciated the
efforts all the colleagues made so that they could give assistances to the in need
schools and make the program proceed smoothly. She also said the typhoon made she
have deeper recognition of Taiwan. It’s the gap between the city and countryside.
Many students in the remote districts couldn’t afford to pay even the breakfast.
However, she thought that the moneyed helps would be limited but only the eyesight
and education could make their world become rich and colorful.
“Our school was near the Lin Bian River, the water flooded about 60 centimeters
high. It’s too ghastly to look.” the principal of Bingdong Ciang-Yuan elementary
school, Cai, Youfu said. He’s also thankful for the volunteers from NCU, helping
them cleaning the campus.
He said the compassion that many people gave warmed up their heart, and they had
confidence so that they could rebuild the campus. Also, they had the grateful mind to
the society’s assistances. The helps that everyone devoted gave them hopes and made
them could reappear the life-force.

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Autobiography
Autobiography
Forest Gump
I was born in a small simple town of Alabama. My mom and I live together. I had
difficulties in walking when I was little. She always gave me hope and taught me
never gave up when I was frustrated. She had all the love and patience that she
managed to bring me up and make me a sensible and educated person.
Jenny was my first friend. Though I was a little different from the others, she
treated me sincerely and always helped me. I still remembered the first time that I
found I could run as fast as the others. That day, I was teased by other classmates.
They ran to me and tried to hit me. At that time, my best friend, Jenny, told me to run
as fast as I can. Then, I found that I could play good in running. Also, I entered the
college and became a member of the football team. After graduation, I joined the
army and was sent to Vietnam. I made two important friends there, Bubba and
Lieutenant. In the troops, I also learn how to play ping-pong, and I went to China to
have competitions. Unfortunately, Bubba died in an air attack. I felt very miserable
and decided to reach Bubba’s dream, having an own shrimping boat. So, I started to
shrimp and established Bubba-Gump shrimping company to commemorate him.
Just like my mom said:” Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what
you’re going to get!” All the things I did were not scheduled to do or to have. Also, to
bring up my son, I expect him to explore the world by himself, try many things and
figure out the lovely things he likes. I’ll do as best as what my mom did to me, giving
him all my love.
To summarize my lifetime, all I’ve done was being myself and do what I want. Just
tried and did it as best as I can. I think I'm full with blessing just like they said:”
Stupid is as stupid does.” All the obstacles made me stronger and more independent.
Also, the happiness made me grateful and thankful. I didn’t know if we each had a
destiny, or if we were all just floating around accidental like on a breeze, but I think it
may be both.

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(Wendy Shiao)

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Facilitates your life! Umbrella
You couldn’t live in NCU without this umbrella. Unlike the others,
the newest reformations make the umbrella more useful, durable
and multi-functional. It’s particularly designed for users who live in
NCU. You don’t have to worry about the fierce wind will blow your
umbrella. You don’t have to be drenched by a heavy rain anymore.
Furthermore, it could also prevent you from being solarized by UV
rays. Many different kinds of patterns to choose, you can have your
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Essay
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The fast food industry provides high-calorie, high-fat, high-sugar, but
poor-nutrition foods. These kind of junk foods cause health problems, including
obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure. However, the fast food industry did not
admit the impacts on national obesity. This essay will illustrate some of the reasons
for blaming the fast food industry.
The proportion of children obesity is growing faster and faster. The fast food
industry makes many fantastic commercials. The corporation even creates cartoons to
advertise their products and gives toys as gifts to make great popularity among
children. Some small children even do not know the bad effect which the fast food
causes to their body. They are brainwashed by the packing and only see the wonderful
side which is in front of them. Therefore, these companies should take the blame for
the negative influence.
The business owners argue that there is no proof showing that the obesity
problem has direct relation between the fast food. They also claim that the consumers
make the choice. In some conditions this is true. However, though we cannot prove
the fast food directly results in national obesity, we are sure that this kind of junk food
could not make good effects for our health, too. Hence, they should not make good
cover or remarkable commercials to attract people. On the contrary, they should post
the warnings on the products to tell people the consequences which the fast food may
cause.
The healthy problems caused by obesity become one of the top ten leading
causes of death. The fast food industry use the great marketing to fascinate people and
cover the facts which make our health become bad. The businessmen have infinite
desires and continue to expand their enterprises. Thus, they need to be blamed and be
urged to make some changes.
The fast food industry should take some of the responsibilities for national
obesity. The junk food they provide does make harms to people. We cannot act like
we did not see the issues and tolerate the behavior of the fast food industry.

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Final Writing/Report
Report on James’ Collection Show, Sep. 25
For the most part, I think the idea of the combination between eastern and
western style was well and nice. The eastern mode tended to be reserved, simple
and gray. On the contrary, the western form was likely to be colorful, vigorous, and
mature. I believe that the conjunction might develop into a new fashion and I really
expect for that.
However, I must report a few concerns. First, the designation was absurd. I
was surprised to see the strange tailoring of the clothes. Every production was like
the same. I didn’t observe the main idea of the combination. More serious, it
became weird and flat.
Second, the use of colors was totally odd and bizarre. The color matching
could not catch my eyes. I wouldn’t even want to see it more and don’t think that I
want to put it on. They were obsolete and I could not understand the design point.
Finally, the main idea of intersection between eastern and western was
disappeared. I don’t think these designs present vogue or fashion and they were
even far away from that.
I do not wish to give the impression that the whole design was worthless. I
know that the designer must had paid efforts into the work. However, I really hope
that we can see the remarkable and marvelous creations. I think it is a good way for
the designers to understand more about the cultures of the western and eastern. So
that it is helpful to make touch and extraordinary designs.