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How to Use iPad as A Study Tool Ipad as a recreation tablet to us can be a really useful tool to improve our efficiency of study. Not just because it has a screen or it can connect to the internet, there are many apps and websites that are ios originally downloaded or you can find it in the app store. Today, I am going to talk about how to maximize the utility of an iPad of all aspects according to my experiences.  Plans: Calendar(Comes with iPad) 1. Add a new event     a.You can set the time before the event to remind you      b. You can set the location of where the event is going to take place     c. You can tell the app to repeat the same even(same time) every day, 1/2week, month, or year.      d. You can use different colors to classify various events, like your hobby, study, doctor, and many others. 2. Overview the events of the month or even year     a.Looking at your schedule of a whole week and twenty-four hours a...

Howl's Moving Castle     Today I am going to introduce a very interesting and thoughtful movie I like, it is "Howl's Moving Castle". It is a Japanese animated film based on the same-name novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, then rewritten and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Hayao Miyazaki had written many famous animations such as "Laputa: Castle in the Sky", "My Neighbor Totoro", and "Spirited Away". This movie has heavy anti-war, feminist, and compassion themes. Also, it has a beautiful scene at every second of the movie. 

Mayhem: Bag of Fast Food     This is an advertisement made by the Allstate cut-rate insurance with an idea of a fast-food trash bag causing mayhem. An interesting idea of this ad is it uses the point of view of a fast-food trash bag being thrown out to the road, and the trash bag is acted by a real person that can talk.      The author of the ad wants the audience to understand cut-rate insurance from Allstate could repay all of your car damage. Just like the car hit the barrier on the road because of the "fast food trash bag" at about 00:07 of this commercial, the "trash bag" said: If you got cut-rate insurance, you can get repay for this...".       The ad wants to promote people buying cut-rate insurance in order to pay less for every car damage because mayhem could be everywhere. The value of this commercial is to not cause any car damage just throwing anything outside the car window while ...

 Simple Taste      I open the pantry door, searching for something that can fill my empty mouth but my full stomach after dinner. I look around, see a bowl piled with all kinds of the most wonderful snacks Smarties, KitKat, JollyRancher, and so on, but none of them could meet my requirement. Until my sight attracted by a round, flat, tiny cylinder shape. It's wrapped in a clear package, so I can see the color. It has a white center and with red stripes at the side of the cylinder shape, looks like a bright star is shining red light, this classic color combination makes me think about Christmas.     I picked it out from all the other colorful packages, it feels colder than the temperature of my hand and feels a little bit sticky because of the thin plastic wrap touching sweat on my palm. I can't wait for any longer, speedy untwisted the two sides of the package, the rustles sound made by the texture of the plastic wrap is especially pleasing to my ears. I th...

Entry #2 Get Start on Watercolor When you just started to learn about watercolor, you need watercolor paints, it can either be pan, half-pan, or tubes. Half-pan has a smaller size, so it is easier to carry around, and you can have a paint box to carry any kind of paint you want. If you ask me what kind of brand to buy, I will recommend you to buy the best, which is usually the more expensive ones because the less expensive watercolor tubes have less pure pigments, and cheap ones doesn't have bright coloration. Sometime the less expensive watercolors does this (picture below). Same with paint brushes, the ones with higher price are better, and you can choose the different size and type you want. Next, you need to choose paper, there are cold press and hard press paper, the cold press you will use for less detail picture, on the other hand, the hot press paper will use for more detail pictures. Some additional equipment you might need are palettes(plastic or ceramic), kitchen paper (...