My favorite restaurant in Boston

Today, I'll introduce my favorite restaurant in Boston to you, actually, I didn't go to many restaurants in Boston, I just went several restaurants, most of the time, I cook for myself. I think I prefer to eat Chinese food, no doubt, I have eaten Chinese dishes for almost 20 years. I can't change my eating habits in a short time.

The restaurant I'm going to introduce to your guys is also a Chinese restaurant which is located near Chinatown. Its name is 京鳳園（Jingfengyuan）. It's a small but sweet restaurant that offers authentic Chinese food, including different kinds of staple food , many typical Chinese soup and various traditional dim sum.
Let's talk about a kind of staple food first, it's also one of my favourite, which is fried noodles ( chaomian ).

The picture above is a kind of fried noodles. As can be seen, it tastes a little bit greasy, because the dry noodles and meat are fried by oil. The noodle is also includes some vegetables that make the noodle tastes not too greasy.

Second dish I want you to know is hot and sour soup. However, it's not greasy like you see in the picture. Just like the name of it, it tastes a little hot, at the same time, you can taste a little sour flavour. Actually, the mixed taste of hot and sour is very special. It's a kind of thick soup that includes egg, mushroom, bamboo shoots and tofu.

The last one I'll say is green onion pancake which is a common dim sum in China. It's a crisp pancake that is panbroiled by oil. When you are eating the pancake, you can smell the shallot flavoured. As the picture shows the material of this pancake are egg, flour, shallot, salt, water and oil. Mixing the material together, then put some of the mixed material into a pan and fry it. It's very easy to cook.

I'm not a good chef, but I'm try to make my meals changeful and delicious. Anyway, if you really want to have a taste of Chinese food, I suggest you to go this restaurant. It's worth mentioning that the waitress who is a friendly girl is very nice, she can provide customers good service.

The solution of the historical truth of Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day, as one of the most important festivals for Americans, people can't give up this holiday. although it has cultural conflicts. However, I think nobody will think about the blood history about Thanksgiving when they are celebrating the festival. So it's not so necessary to concentrate on the unhappy history. People can regard Thanksgiving holiday as a simple holiday and celebrate it. The history has already become history, we don't need to force us to struggle with the thing that has past. It has no significance, because the history can not be changed. The only thing the government can do is getting people to know the truth and treating the native Americans well. We hope there is no more racial discrimination in the United States.

In my country, I don't know any similar things like the history of Thanksgiving. Maybe it has, but I don't know, I think the reason could be, if our government wants to hide something, they will never let you know. Even if the hidden thing being found, the mainstream media and official media might avoid to report it.

The documentary, Bowling for Columbine

After Obama won the election, I read some news, one is compared with last October, the number of gun sales has risen by 108,000; another is the KKK didn’t endorse Obama, the president may be killed by this group. These are the eternal topics about gun control and terrorism. As can be seen from the news, Americans are lack of security.
Moore’s movie, Bowling for Columbine, which tried to find out the reason that America has so much violence than other countries and the solution to this issue. Actually, the movie didn’t give us a clear-cut answer to the gun control issues. But I can see there is a close relationship between the media and violence. TV as one of most efficient tools to show people information about social events, it has a huge influence on people’s emotion and behavior. When the TV program give us negative news, it will make people scared. In the movie, the TV repeated “ a black man” again and again, which makes people have a mental alertness to black men and people will have this kind of impression that they are living in danger, the government can’t do enough to protect them; they will lack of security. In that case, they need to protect themselves by having guns. However, more guns may cause more violence, then the TV report the violent news. That’s a terrible circle. I think, media, as a important public information exchange platform should give us more positive news rather than making people frightened by reporting so much negative news.

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Danmian's article about the issue of terrorism

How do you think the issue of terrorism, both here and abroad, has made the issue of gun control more complex?
I think the issue of terrorism, both here and abroad, has made the issue of gun control more complex. Some of terrorisms bought a lot of guns from shops as their weapon to shot people, especially in school. They made people scared and panic. So I think the national government must control guns in every country. It’s the best way to decrease the issue of shooting. In Chinese, the government control the guns seriously, the citizens can’t buy any guns from shops, only the police can have guns to protect themselves and other people. So there are less shooting issue in china than other countries. But actually, there are few shooting issue happened in some public places. So sometimes people scared about terrorism and they always fight against the terrorisms by parades. And the government always find the terrorisms and fight with them. And in some public places there are some machines to check each people wheather they have guns. Especially during the Olympic games, you can see the machine everywhere. I think it can deal with this problem.

The issue of terrorism

Almost every country must perplex by the issue of terrorism, it's a global issue. In the US, there are some terrorism groups that may involve American citizens into dangerous. They have weapons; they may kill someone without reasons which will mess up the social orders. Some people think that this issue has made the gun control more complex, however, I don't think that's true. Take China as an example, the government forbid Chinese citizens having guns, but terrorists are also existent in China. Whether the government allows people have rights to have a gun or not, the issue of terrorism can not be avoided.
Solving the issue is not a easy work, both governments and citizens have a long way to go. For governments, they should give good ideological education work about terrorism to the public. To help people realize the adverse effects on society of terrorism. Well, the most effective way should be improving the life quality of citizens, so people have no excuses to join any reactive groups. For us, general public, the most necessary thing we should do is not participating any terrorist organizations. If possible, exposuring any illegal group or providing clues to police. Do what a good citizen should do.