Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Citation writing practice

Have you ever tasted Ben&Jerry's ice cream? If not, you should probably go and try, because I assure you it is the most delicious ice cream you would have taste. However, Ben&Jerry's ice cream is noted in the states, but Ben p&Jerry's Foundation is not,many people still don't know this foundation even exists(Ben&Jerry's Foundation homepage). What is Ben&Jerry's Foundation? In short, it's an unprofitable foundation that is beneficial to our society and environment(benandjerrysfoundation.org).
    One of the trustees of Ben&Jerry's Foundation, Jeff Furman, is going to deliver speech at graduation to all the students and faculty in Cheshire Academy. When people ask him how he learns Andy studies, he says "I get my education from doing things, being immersed in them and trying to figure them out"(Jeff Furman). It's very true right? Because Learning is a life-long process, and education is a crucial element in everyday people's lives. As far as I'm concerned, learning is not only about studying hard than everyone else,  stay late in the library, or memorizing 500 new vocabulary words a day. From my perspective, learning is a gradual process; people learn from hundreds of times of practicing, and we can learn from our experience. When you look at something new, it's not necessary for you to look up instructions; instead, the best way to learn is to do it ourselves. I think this is the spirit that Jeff Furman is going to delver to us.
     Jeff Furman's role in Ben&Jerry's Foundation is basically predicts the trend of their business and provides their foundation team with explicit business plans. Yet you may not believe that, when he was a senior in Cheshire Academy, he dreamed about being a chemical engineer.(Cheshire Academy Homepage). But in the end, he becomes a business man instead, which is out of my surprise. His path to success leads me to think that life is changeable. When people talk about how great they will be in the future, and what plans they will have, they always dream big. But after reading his story, I think living in the moment is the significance of the key to success. For example, success is like a tall and towering skyscraper, but the foundation is very important to this skyscraper, because the foundations holds the whole building. And what Jeff did when he was young was to build the foundation one step at a time, so the skyscraper would be strong and unshakable.

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