Family configuration in Taiwan

Because of decreasing birth rate and increasing divorce rate, it seems that the family configuration has been changed drastically. But a research shows that although the birth rate and divorce rate toady are different from the earlier period, the predominant family configuration in Taiwan does not change fundamentally. This research implies that most of the people still live with their parents just as the traditional family form. By the aspect of family configuration, it looks like Taiwan doesn’t have a Second Demographic Transition. But we can still find out that despite most of the grandparents live with their children, the proportion of the aged people living individually has been increasing recently.
I am going to give a further analysis about why Taiwan doesn’t have a Second Demographic Transition. Since Japanese occupied our country for several years, the death rate dropped because of the improvement of environmental conditions. After WW2, there are many grownups in this country, and their parents would choose one of them to live with. This fact results in more and more nuclear family after the war. However, we can’t ascertain that Taiwan is having a Second Demographic Transition only because of the increasing nuclear family. Because most of the parents still live with their children. That means that nowadays stem family is still the predominant family configuration in Taiwan. But by the end of 1980s, the procedure of family composing such as marry, companionate marriage, as well as family decomposing such as divorce, living separately has influenced the family configuration greatly all over the world. Whether Taiwan has a Second Demographic Transition doesn’t have a final conclusion. But there are much more factors to concern about what determine the family configuration in nowadays society.

Succes

In my opinion, success means a positive character that is extraordinary in particular field. For example, Albert Einstein is a successful person in science; Shakespeare is a successful person in composing and writing a play. No matter in sports, academic learning, dancing, singing, there are people who are outstanding, so I will regard them as successful people. However, to me, why they have got a chance to achieve their accomplishment does not happened occasionally. I think it is because those people own a different passion toward what they really want.
I went to see a celebrity’s speech last week. He translated the series of Lord of the Ring. Since I am interested in translating, I attended to watch his performance seeing if I could get some useful knowledge from him. His name is Lucifer Chu. Actually he majored in Electrical Engineering which stunned me of his translating achievement. What’s more, he spent all his salary which is about 35,000,000 creating a website called OOPS (http://www.myoops.org/twocw/). Seeing his achievement, I wrote an e-mail to him asking about his accomplishment.
The first question I asked is how he translated the whole series of the novel because he was a non-English major student. The only word he replied is “Love”. I was wondering what he exactly meant as soon as I saw this reply. Then I realized that the Love he said is probably means enthusiasm, patience, optimistic and devoutness. The second question I asked is how he trained his speech ability. He said that this question is much easier than the first one. Because after you practiced for one million time, you will know what happened. The second reply is as a proverb “practice makes perfect”. We have heard this phrase many times but seldom of us can really carry out practically.
Consequently, I surely learn some qualities and traits which a successful person should possess. In a nutshell, a successful person has a different “attitude” toward learning one thing. So I think a person who is devoting in one thing and finishing it completely can be regarded as a successful person.