Brain Storming of RR 5
I wanted to do a research on my Essay 3, the personal profile, not only because I like it, but also because I think it will be interesting and attractive to the readers, or my audience.
Since it was a personal profile, the initial resource is not so easy to find. So I just wanted to show some pictures and videos of the Chinese cook. I am goanna show how they cook, how they study and what they think about their job. The main point of my essay is the flexibility of the Chinese chef, so I will prefer to focus on the pictures which will show the spirit of them.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
in Class free write
Sarah has suggested us getting hot chicks.
At first Sarah said that there a lot of smells attracts women, like baby smells, body smells and mouth smells. However, she also told us that hot chick's smell can cover all these smells. Which means that hot chick has a great attraction to women. In that way, it is reasonable for us to get enough chickens. In this video, Sarah used a psychological formula which seems like If A can get B and B can get C, then If you get A, you can have C.
At first Sarah said that there a lot of smells attracts women, like baby smells, body smells and mouth smells. However, she also told us that hot chick's smell can cover all these smells. Which means that hot chick has a great attraction to women. In that way, it is reasonable for us to get enough chickens. In this video, Sarah used a psychological formula which seems like If A can get B and B can get C, then If you get A, you can have C.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
in CLlass free writing
Well, Prof. Irvin just gave us a good example. Having class at 8:00 am is not a big question in summer but never in winter. Just imagine that you were lying in your lovely bed and stay totally warm but your alarm clock of your troublesome cell phone had just troubled you again. How would that mood be??
Ah, breakfast is another problem. I can totally understand why there are no enough supply in the morning. The staff is enough but nt the food!!
Another big thing is that my dorm hall, Brachman is too far away from the main part of the school. Before the class began, TCU gave us a chance to choose our own dorm hall but it did not give us the detailed information of the dorms.(like Brachman is very far from the Market Square but is very close too other sports court. Clark is close to the Alberston)
I'd like the frog shuttle and I took it for alomst very workday, but I do really think that the AC should be on at anytime.
Next week I will have a ENSC exam so I just signed a later time.
In general, I got on well with my roomy. However, he is always listening to music in a loud sound which I would never tolerate. I just told him and he changed his behavior when I said but next time and next next time, he just kept on doing the same thing. I was wondering whether he had a problem with his ears.(I am not saying this with anger)Because I can even hear a big sound even if he was wearing a earphone.
Should the parents kick out the children at the moment their children become 18?
Well, I haved heared that some parents in the U.S always do this thing. I have to agree that children are always burden of each family. Parents should worry about their tuition, their study state, sometimes they even need to worry about their boy/girl friend. So when the children come to 18 they just let them leave home to live alone, learning how to survive in the world.
But I do really not agree with this behavior. Things are totally different in Asian countries.
I believe that maybe each person who comes from western countries will disagree with me and they might think that when one is 18, they should be free from the hand of their parents.
Ah, breakfast is another problem. I can totally understand why there are no enough supply in the morning. The staff is enough but nt the food!!
Another big thing is that my dorm hall, Brachman is too far away from the main part of the school. Before the class began, TCU gave us a chance to choose our own dorm hall but it did not give us the detailed information of the dorms.(like Brachman is very far from the Market Square but is very close too other sports court. Clark is close to the Alberston)
I'd like the frog shuttle and I took it for alomst very workday, but I do really think that the AC should be on at anytime.
Next week I will have a ENSC exam so I just signed a later time.
In general, I got on well with my roomy. However, he is always listening to music in a loud sound which I would never tolerate. I just told him and he changed his behavior when I said but next time and next next time, he just kept on doing the same thing. I was wondering whether he had a problem with his ears.(I am not saying this with anger)Because I can even hear a big sound even if he was wearing a earphone.
Should the parents kick out the children at the moment their children become 18?
Well, I haved heared that some parents in the U.S always do this thing. I have to agree that children are always burden of each family. Parents should worry about their tuition, their study state, sometimes they even need to worry about their boy/girl friend. So when the children come to 18 they just let them leave home to live alone, learning how to survive in the world.
But I do really not agree with this behavior. Things are totally different in Asian countries.
I believe that maybe each person who comes from western countries will disagree with me and they might think that when one is 18, they should be free from the hand of their parents.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Rhetorical Response 4
Well, we can see the common reading contains plenty of resources cited from other place. I think this is one of the features of an argument essay.
In my opinion, argument essays always let out two main ideas about one thing. In the common reading, the two ideas were “we should allow people to own a gun so their right can be protected” and “we should not allow everyone to have a gun so that the society will be better”.
We can find that there is an individual right to own a gun, but on special conditions. I mean, the right to owe a gun has reasonable restrictions.
However, people always worries about whether their rights can be ensured or be protected, so there is a long time debate on whether it is suitable for an individual to own a firearm.
It is a contradiction between the public right and individual right, for example, if you have a pistol or a rifle with you, and you injured or someone, can we say that the person guaranteed his right to have a gun? Then what about the injured one’s right to live on the world?
All of the above is another feature. That is argument.
Anyone who want to convince others with his own idea should give examples and most important, the process of the provident.
What’s more, we should factor all the evidence we find and the topic itself. For example, we can factor the topic of the right to bear arms from these angles below:
The safety of the society, the right of individual, the effect of other country, the political and economics impact on the whole world and so on.
In the argument article, we should give both sides of one question but never do it in a subjective way. We need to remember that what we are going to do is to convince people in a objective way and they should be convinced by all the facts but not only the facts which supports the idea of our own.
Just like the common reading elaborated:
Different experts have declared their different ideas. One parts says that too many firearm injures have proved that it is so dangerous for the society if every citizen has the right to have a gun. Statistics are clear; we can see that private citizens own more than 200 million firearms, increasing by 4 million annually. (From From The Right to Bear Arms: Constitutional Law, Politics, and Public Health
Owing a gun can also lead many social moral problems such as the using of suicides. What’s more, there will be a great burden in the economy of the country and the whole world. The tax payers must spend a lot of money in protecting the right to own a gun, and also the issue to control the gun in order to avoid firearms misusing. That will be a big contradiction and it is difficult to solve.
However, there is surely another point of view. Not owing a gun may be just an ideal thinking. Just imagine, you do not want to hurt or injure anyone, so you do not have a gun with you. But how can you guarantee that other people will not hurt you or even want to kill you? Here comes out another method, which says owing a gun is only to defense oneself. We can use guns for the great common good.
Apart from cited evidences, we can still work on ourselves to solve those problems, for example. If I were required to do a argument essay of the topic of the same as common reading.
I will do it in this way at the end of my article:
Since both of the two ideas are reasonable, how can the country court choose? I suggest we should go to the history.
Maybe at first we should seriously define what arms mean. In 1787, there is little information about the arms. However at that time,
To sum up, to do an argument successfully needs plenty of resources and a clear process of proving the idea. The argument should be reasonable and objective.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
in Class free write
As a personal profile, The man with an irony mask did a very good job in more details.
The words are more than the article about Badu. The whole essay was used to express the statementof his mind. Details in actions can indicate the insie world of someone from different angles. But I think someone's own word can do that job more drectly and more straightly.
The author brought in Stephen's own experience in the circle of entertainment. For example, the author talked about the characters he played, the skills he own and his unique appeal in the movies.
The words are more than the article about Badu. The whole essay was used to express the statementof his mind. Details in actions can indicate the insie world of someone from different angles. But I think someone's own word can do that job more drectly and more straightly.
The author brought in Stephen's own experience in the circle of entertainment. For example, the author talked about the characters he played, the skills he own and his unique appeal in the movies.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
in Class free writing: Favourite Part
I think my favourite part of Home Girl is the describtion of Badu in her house, with her little baby girl. She was in such a relaxed state. In her house, you can totally not sense that she was a pop star because everything she did just indicated that she was just a normal mum. When her baby came to her chest, she just played with her and said"I got you, I got you" I think when one read this paragraph, he will think much about the sence in his own childhood, because that was very unforgetalbe and sweet.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Rhetorical Response 3
Unlike usual article about a person, this is not like a biography or a made-up story.
All we see in this profile are descriptions and details about a real person, who has her own theory, emotion and life experience.
Erykah Badu was a very famous pop star. It seems that people like this kind of celebrities are very far away from us because we might not know much about their world and their life. They are always shining on the stage, like real stars. People around them are always reporters, journalists and their numerous fans. We can often not consider them as normal people. Michal Hall’s article about Badu changed my idea about how to read a celebrity and how to write a profile about a person.
Hall seems more willing to give us an image of Badu which indicates that she is also a normal woman apart from a popular star. A normal girl, a normal mother, or we can even say she is just a normal artist. “The 35-year-old Badu asked Ysheka, one of her assistants, to bring a bottle, and when it came, the toddler climbed back into her mother’s lap and drank quietly.” This is image is just common life. Badu is just a normal mother when it comes to her baby. Hall gave us a lot of details about Badu. I think the reason why Hall can get so many details is that he made his first interview with Badu in Badu’s house. I think this action is well worth learning from. A person might be easy to be himself/herself when he/she is in his/her own house. Maybe it is Badu’s nature to be energetic on the stage. Maybe it is also Badu’s nature to be soft and gentle to her children when she is in her house. However, when we visit her in the house, the only one we can see is a lovely mother who takes real good care of her babies. This state can not be usually seen by the readers, so this becomes one of the attractions of this article.
We can see “she looked as if she’d just come from a morning cruising thrift shops, wearing a black shirt, white plaid pants, purple leggings, and an apron because she’d forgotten to put on a belt.” The details make the reader feel that they were there, seeing how Badu looked like and we can all sense that she acted just like our own mothers.
Let’s take another example, when her baby girl Puma came to her, look how she reacted.
“Puma had wandered off during our interview, but now she returned and crawled up into her mother’s lap, hugging her belly. She wasn’t fussy anymore, and Badu held her close. “I got you,” she said. “I got you.””
What a sweet scene. I believe anyone among us felt warm when reading this paragraph. The mother in her house, with her own baby was totally different from the singing star we saw on the stage. I think this is what Hall was trying to tell us through these details.
When we talk about details, there are always two key factors. One is actions and the other is people’s words. It does not have to be dialogue; it can be just one word or one sentence. We can know Badu is versatile woman because she told us. “I paint, draw, sew, design clothes, sculpt, build, and raise children.”
Nevertheless, what I paid more attention to is not about what she straightly told us but what someone else told us. When Badu and Hall were in the dancing school, Badu danced and her skill surprised everyone present. Rosann McLaughlin Cox, the founder of the school’s dance program, said to no one in particular:
“See her back there? She looks like one of the babies!”
Through this word you can totally understand how perfectly Badu did even we readers were not there. But we can still see, right?
That’s the charm of the details of people’s words. All the details make the people act out of paper. We can even understand them even without talking to them.
Hall likes to put some early life experience of Badu in his article between different paragraphs of different interviews. I think this is a method to make readers understand the cultural or social background of the early life of Badu. Let’s just take me, a normal reader as an example. For me, I am Chinese and I do not know much about the pop world of the U.S. So when I see the title I did not even know who Badu is. However, when I read the paragraph describing her early life, I can also understand because there were backgrounds there. I think this is how Hall connects Badu’s experience to the whole culture of America.
The second and the third interview of Badu came together, one was in the school and another was on the trip in a car. I think that would be a good idea. When I originally think about my own essay 3, which is the profile. I thought a lot about where I should make my interview. I can simply choose a Café like Starbucks every time but I do not want to. I think special place can make people think more different.
All we see in this profile are descriptions and details about a real person, who has her own theory, emotion and life experience.
Erykah Badu was a very famous pop star. It seems that people like this kind of celebrities are very far away from us because we might not know much about their world and their life. They are always shining on the stage, like real stars. People around them are always reporters, journalists and their numerous fans. We can often not consider them as normal people. Michal Hall’s article about Badu changed my idea about how to read a celebrity and how to write a profile about a person.
Hall seems more willing to give us an image of Badu which indicates that she is also a normal woman apart from a popular star. A normal girl, a normal mother, or we can even say she is just a normal artist. “The 35-year-old Badu asked Ysheka, one of her assistants, to bring a bottle, and when it came, the toddler climbed back into her mother’s lap and drank quietly.” This is image is just common life. Badu is just a normal mother when it comes to her baby. Hall gave us a lot of details about Badu. I think the reason why Hall can get so many details is that he made his first interview with Badu in Badu’s house. I think this action is well worth learning from. A person might be easy to be himself/herself when he/she is in his/her own house. Maybe it is Badu’s nature to be energetic on the stage. Maybe it is also Badu’s nature to be soft and gentle to her children when she is in her house. However, when we visit her in the house, the only one we can see is a lovely mother who takes real good care of her babies. This state can not be usually seen by the readers, so this becomes one of the attractions of this article.
We can see “she looked as if she’d just come from a morning cruising thrift shops, wearing a black shirt, white plaid pants, purple leggings, and an apron because she’d forgotten to put on a belt.” The details make the reader feel that they were there, seeing how Badu looked like and we can all sense that she acted just like our own mothers.
Let’s take another example, when her baby girl Puma came to her, look how she reacted.
“Puma had wandered off during our interview, but now she returned and crawled up into her mother’s lap, hugging her belly. She wasn’t fussy anymore, and Badu held her close. “I got you,” she said. “I got you.””
What a sweet scene. I believe anyone among us felt warm when reading this paragraph. The mother in her house, with her own baby was totally different from the singing star we saw on the stage. I think this is what Hall was trying to tell us through these details.
When we talk about details, there are always two key factors. One is actions and the other is people’s words. It does not have to be dialogue; it can be just one word or one sentence. We can know Badu is versatile woman because she told us. “I paint, draw, sew, design clothes, sculpt, build, and raise children.”
Nevertheless, what I paid more attention to is not about what she straightly told us but what someone else told us. When Badu and Hall were in the dancing school, Badu danced and her skill surprised everyone present. Rosann McLaughlin Cox, the founder of the school’s dance program, said to no one in particular:
“See her back there? She looks like one of the babies!”
Through this word you can totally understand how perfectly Badu did even we readers were not there. But we can still see, right?
That’s the charm of the details of people’s words. All the details make the people act out of paper. We can even understand them even without talking to them.
Hall likes to put some early life experience of Badu in his article between different paragraphs of different interviews. I think this is a method to make readers understand the cultural or social background of the early life of Badu. Let’s just take me, a normal reader as an example. For me, I am Chinese and I do not know much about the pop world of the U.S. So when I see the title I did not even know who Badu is. However, when I read the paragraph describing her early life, I can also understand because there were backgrounds there. I think this is how Hall connects Badu’s experience to the whole culture of America.
The second and the third interview of Badu came together, one was in the school and another was on the trip in a car. I think that would be a good idea. When I originally think about my own essay 3, which is the profile. I thought a lot about where I should make my interview. I can simply choose a Café like Starbucks every time but I do not want to. I think special place can make people think more different.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
in Class freewriting
I like the photo Johnnie & Zeek most. What most attracts me of the photo is that it is the only real picture among the five. I love real things because it can definetely reflect the real world, Even I can not tell who is Johnnie or Zeek.
These two guys were looking at the same dirction, but if you pay more attetion, you will find that they were not looking in the direction where you are. It is a black-white picture, so I think it is an old picture.The man who stood on left looks fuuny because his suit was a little bit tight for him. The two people were at ease and they seemed happy. I think it is really a historical picture.
These two peole stand aside each other, so I think they were good friends. Maybe they just started their career together and that was only a trip of the off-day. Maybe Zeek was just riding past his best friend Johnnies house and Johnnie invited him for dinner after Zeek's tiring journey.Or maybe they were sodilers when they were young and Johnnie saved Zeek's life when a bullet was coming directly to Zeek. All of the above make me feel interesting of these picture.
The photo has only two colour, black and white. These two colours seem to be the best story teller to tell old stories because everytime I see a black-white picture, I will consider it as an old picture and image the story beyond this picture. Black-white also makes me experience my own memory. For me, I haven't had any blakc-whie picture.
The firts image I notice was the two guys. They seem relaxed and at ease, they were smiling even they did not stand close to each other so I guess they have a good relationship with each other. Maybe we can make up a blakc-white picture by some software like Photo Shop, however, the archetecher style in this picture is totally different from the modern style. The reflection of the windows delivered the idea that they were in the countryside.
These two guys were looking at the same dirction, but if you pay more attetion, you will find that they were not looking in the direction where you are. It is a black-white picture, so I think it is an old picture.The man who stood on left looks fuuny because his suit was a little bit tight for him. The two people were at ease and they seemed happy. I think it is really a historical picture.
These two peole stand aside each other, so I think they were good friends. Maybe they just started their career together and that was only a trip of the off-day. Maybe Zeek was just riding past his best friend Johnnies house and Johnnie invited him for dinner after Zeek's tiring journey.Or maybe they were sodilers when they were young and Johnnie saved Zeek's life when a bullet was coming directly to Zeek. All of the above make me feel interesting of these picture.
The photo has only two colour, black and white. These two colours seem to be the best story teller to tell old stories because everytime I see a black-white picture, I will consider it as an old picture and image the story beyond this picture. Black-white also makes me experience my own memory. For me, I haven't had any blakc-whie picture.
The firts image I notice was the two guys. They seem relaxed and at ease, they were smiling even they did not stand close to each other so I guess they have a good relationship with each other. Maybe we can make up a blakc-white picture by some software like Photo Shop, however, the archetecher style in this picture is totally different from the modern style. The reflection of the windows delivered the idea that they were in the countryside.
in Class Freewriting
Siyu Xie my New Oriental Teacher
Yuanyuan Yin my instractor
Mark Zhou the first Chinese guy I know here
cook
magic
teaching
model
designer
Yuanyuan Yin my instractor
Mark Zhou the first Chinese guy I know here
cook
magic
teaching
model
designer
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
in Class Brain Storming of Essay 3
1 The Game War Craft 3
2 How to wash clothes effectively
3 How to combine different kind of clothe
4 Ridng a bike (not using my hands)
5 Making schedules
6 How to communicate with different people
7 Telling a joke
8 Inventing a new funny game
9 Treating a wounded person or dog
10 Laughing and screaming!!!
11 Singing songs
12 Making people laugh
singer
garderner
cook
joker
There are always experts in the academic field, but I think there are more experts in our normal life.
In my opinion, the cooks(especially the chefs) are the artists in the real world. They turn the normal material into decilious food. They made the meat, the vegetalbe lovely to taste and also graceful in shape, colour and so on.
I think I might go to visit a cook off campus to ask him about how he or she learned cooking and what else experience did he or she have. Why he or she chose the restraunt where she was working? (She might only be a housewife who can cook well. Then I will ask why she chose not to work but doing housework at home)
Did he or she study the cooking stuff in a school or just studied by himself/herself?
What washis/ her original idea about this career and what made him/her give up/go on fighting?
Is there any dish or meals he/she is best at? I might watch the cooking progress.
I think there will alway be something I can ask and I am gonna do a questionair sheet for the several interview for him/her.
2 How to wash clothes effectively
3 How to combine different kind of clothe
4 Ridng a bike (not using my hands)
5 Making schedules
6 How to communicate with different people
7 Telling a joke
8 Inventing a new funny game
9 Treating a wounded person or dog
10 Laughing and screaming!!!
11 Singing songs
12 Making people laugh
singer
garderner
cook
joker
There are always experts in the academic field, but I think there are more experts in our normal life.
In my opinion, the cooks(especially the chefs) are the artists in the real world. They turn the normal material into decilious food. They made the meat, the vegetalbe lovely to taste and also graceful in shape, colour and so on.
I think I might go to visit a cook off campus to ask him about how he or she learned cooking and what else experience did he or she have. Why he or she chose the restraunt where she was working? (She might only be a housewife who can cook well. Then I will ask why she chose not to work but doing housework at home)
Did he or she study the cooking stuff in a school or just studied by himself/herself?
What washis/ her original idea about this career and what made him/her give up/go on fighting?
Is there any dish or meals he/she is best at? I might watch the cooking progress.
I think there will alway be something I can ask and I am gonna do a questionair sheet for the several interview for him/her.
in Class free writing
Last week, I finally finished my essay 2.
That's kind of great work because the time and energy I spent were not just on the
essay itself, but also on the sources and the citations. Although it was a little complex for me,
I am still satisfied because I did a research for myself and I did really learned more when I was doing this research. The time for me was so tiny last week, I had to go over my classes for two exams which made me not able to go to the writing center to get some advice in my grammar. I hope I did well in grammer in my essay 2. However, I still e-mailed the Writing Center for some suggestions of doing a citation. They gave me a quick response to me and I think that was very helpful with my essay 2. In a word, the reseach and the essay was a tough but valuable experience for me.
That's kind of great work because the time and energy I spent were not just on the
essay itself, but also on the sources and the citations. Although it was a little complex for me,
I am still satisfied because I did a research for myself and I did really learned more when I was doing this research. The time for me was so tiny last week, I had to go over my classes for two exams which made me not able to go to the writing center to get some advice in my grammar. I hope I did well in grammer in my essay 2. However, I still e-mailed the Writing Center for some suggestions of doing a citation. They gave me a quick response to me and I think that was very helpful with my essay 2. In a word, the reseach and the essay was a tough but valuable experience for me.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
in Class free writing
You know the English writing class is always easy to catch up with, but the time for assignment seems always not enough for me. I will take a mid-term exam for History so what I should do mostly is to read the thick history book. However, here comes our new assignment of draft 2. So I have to spend the extra time (for me it means the time for sleeping.)to do this job. I have totally no idea how should I allocate the time. Oh, I hava a quiz in Microeconomics tomorrow!! Only God can save me.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
in class free writing
What I am thinking about recently is that what to write about in essay 2.
As I know, essay 2 is a discovery research, which means I can not write about sth that I have known much about. Then I wanted to do some research in Chinese food, which is very interesting for me and for the reader. I also wanted to know more about the rings, because, for me, rings has been a big temptation to me since I was very young and it contains a lot of cultural charm in the human history. What's more, I also have great interest in some social psychological problems. There are a lot of things which make me confused to choose. In the end, I decided to choose the rings, which attracts me most.
However, if I can not find enough resources about it, I will maybe change my mind to start another topic.
Then what do I plan to write about?
I want to express my original feeling of rings when I was very young.
Then I want to introduce the culture of the rings: where are they from? what are they originally used for?when and where did they come into our daily life? why it become a symbol of some rites or the status, just like when people get married they should put on a ring or a pope should have a ring? how did I feel when I firstly put on a ring?
That's what I want to research
Nowadays, people tend to express themselves by what they appeared, a great part of "appear"
is what they look like, we are wearing different clothes, trousers and different jewelry. Some people get tattooed and some people prefer to leave the tag of the new clothes just on their back.
However, sometimes the people misusded them, especially the rings. Even this is a time to express personality, there is still misunderstanding.
As I know, essay 2 is a discovery research, which means I can not write about sth that I have known much about. Then I wanted to do some research in Chinese food, which is very interesting for me and for the reader. I also wanted to know more about the rings, because, for me, rings has been a big temptation to me since I was very young and it contains a lot of cultural charm in the human history. What's more, I also have great interest in some social psychological problems. There are a lot of things which make me confused to choose. In the end, I decided to choose the rings, which attracts me most.
However, if I can not find enough resources about it, I will maybe change my mind to start another topic.
Then what do I plan to write about?
I want to express my original feeling of rings when I was very young.
Then I want to introduce the culture of the rings: where are they from? what are they originally used for?when and where did they come into our daily life? why it become a symbol of some rites or the status, just like when people get married they should put on a ring or a pope should have a ring? how did I feel when I firstly put on a ring?
That's what I want to research
Nowadays, people tend to express themselves by what they appeared, a great part of "appear"
is what they look like, we are wearing different clothes, trousers and different jewelry. Some people get tattooed and some people prefer to leave the tag of the new clothes just on their back.
However, sometimes the people misusded them, especially the rings. Even this is a time to express personality, there is still misunderstanding.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
My Thinking of Wrting A Discovery Essay (Rhetorical Response 2)
At first, I should say that I feel fortunate of having read these two essays before I begin my own essay 2. Obviously, these two essays are both discovery essays. The two articles have a lot in common which I should learn from.
When we first read an article, we always read its title first to see whether it is attractive or interesting. Also, it should leave some questions for the readers so that they will be happy to continue reading.
On seeing “Tattoo Crazy”, I learned that the author is going to tell us about something about the tattoo, then I could not help asking “Why is tattoo crazy?” That’s the question which led me to go on reading it.
Like Lori Gangi, Ellen Parker also did a good job in making a good name of his article, “We Proudly Brew Starbucks Coffee” is a common sentence in every Starbucks, however, readers will ask why the author use this sentence as its title.
Also, I learned that a good discovery essay should have a opening paragraph which contains the main material of the whole essay.
Lori Gangi’s “Tattoo Crazy” tells us about what he find and think about the current problem of tattoo or people get tattooed. Nevertheless, Ellen did a better job, he described the scene that he drank the coffee in the Starbucks with his father when he was very young. Ellen used a lot of details to tell the reader about the coffee, the dessert, and the feeling of drinking a hot coffee in the childhood. We can sense a lot from the description.
Both of the two authors told us the origin of what they were writing about. Lori Gangi at first told us that the tattoo came from Europe, and when the tattoo culture came to the U.S, it first landed on New York. He also described what kind of people got tattooed as a pioneer. Unlike Lori, Ellen told us when the phenomenon of Starbucks coffer began and how the Starbucks Company proceeded to become a big company which sells their coffer world wide. However, just telling something can not prove anything; the two of the authors also did a good job in telling things with statistics. Lori used the percentage of people who got tattooed and the percentage of people who were or likely to be prejudiced because their ink on their body to prove that it has been a big social problem about the discrimination of the tattooed people. Ellen also used the number of the Starbucks’ consumers to tell us that how popular the Starbucks coffee is amongst people. In my opinion, in a discovery essay, we maybe don’t have to prove something that we are not sure about. However, if there is something from the library or the internet that we didn’t know at first, maybe it is the best way to give some statistics to the readers.
A discovery essay needs resources and method. Maybe it is not necessary for us to express our own opinion of the problem because we do not know much about them. However, we still have a chance to share our feelings. I think to make a connection between the topic and us is the best way to make the readers feel touched.
When Lori was in high school, he thought that an individual with tattoo is more likely to be a bad person. I think it is just what some people think even in current society. Then, he found that to get tattooed is just a choice to express one’s personality and there is no certain connection between tattoo and bad people. In the end, Lori himself decided to get tattooed. The process of his change makes us think, just like him. Sometimes we learn a lot from books, internet and the professors, nevertheless, Lori had given us a good example telling that “Life is best teacher for everyone”
I think we should contain our personal feeling in our essay. That will make our article more impressive and moving. If you can not touch yourself, who else are you expecting to touch?
All of the above is what I think about the two essays in the reading packet, I hope that will help me with my second essay.
When we first read an article, we always read its title first to see whether it is attractive or interesting. Also, it should leave some questions for the readers so that they will be happy to continue reading.
On seeing “Tattoo Crazy”, I learned that the author is going to tell us about something about the tattoo, then I could not help asking “Why is tattoo crazy?” That’s the question which led me to go on reading it.
Like Lori Gangi, Ellen Parker also did a good job in making a good name of his article, “We Proudly Brew Starbucks Coffee” is a common sentence in every Starbucks, however, readers will ask why the author use this sentence as its title.
Also, I learned that a good discovery essay should have a opening paragraph which contains the main material of the whole essay.
Lori Gangi’s “Tattoo Crazy” tells us about what he find and think about the current problem of tattoo or people get tattooed. Nevertheless, Ellen did a better job, he described the scene that he drank the coffee in the Starbucks with his father when he was very young. Ellen used a lot of details to tell the reader about the coffee, the dessert, and the feeling of drinking a hot coffee in the childhood. We can sense a lot from the description.
Both of the two authors told us the origin of what they were writing about. Lori Gangi at first told us that the tattoo came from Europe, and when the tattoo culture came to the U.S, it first landed on New York. He also described what kind of people got tattooed as a pioneer. Unlike Lori, Ellen told us when the phenomenon of Starbucks coffer began and how the Starbucks Company proceeded to become a big company which sells their coffer world wide. However, just telling something can not prove anything; the two of the authors also did a good job in telling things with statistics. Lori used the percentage of people who got tattooed and the percentage of people who were or likely to be prejudiced because their ink on their body to prove that it has been a big social problem about the discrimination of the tattooed people. Ellen also used the number of the Starbucks’ consumers to tell us that how popular the Starbucks coffee is amongst people. In my opinion, in a discovery essay, we maybe don’t have to prove something that we are not sure about. However, if there is something from the library or the internet that we didn’t know at first, maybe it is the best way to give some statistics to the readers.
A discovery essay needs resources and method. Maybe it is not necessary for us to express our own opinion of the problem because we do not know much about them. However, we still have a chance to share our feelings. I think to make a connection between the topic and us is the best way to make the readers feel touched.
When Lori was in high school, he thought that an individual with tattoo is more likely to be a bad person. I think it is just what some people think even in current society. Then, he found that to get tattooed is just a choice to express one’s personality and there is no certain connection between tattoo and bad people. In the end, Lori himself decided to get tattooed. The process of his change makes us think, just like him. Sometimes we learn a lot from books, internet and the professors, nevertheless, Lori had given us a good example telling that “Life is best teacher for everyone”
I think we should contain our personal feeling in our essay. That will make our article more impressive and moving. If you can not touch yourself, who else are you expecting to touch?
All of the above is what I think about the two essays in the reading packet, I hope that will help me with my second essay.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Class Wrting
According to the professor's speaking in class, I became totally lost, wondering how I did in essay 1 because it seems that we will have a long way to go and it is certainlly tough for us. I have never been in such a self doubt situation because I do never know what the standard of a good essay in the U.S is. However, I have read someone else's essays and I don't think I did a very bad job because everytime I can get some information from my own country, what makes my essay more creative. Recently my life was filled with everything about the classes, the essays, the quizes, the test we will take next week and i have a lot of things to read. History, microecnomics and also the enviromental science. I am so exhasted.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
in Class wrting: Questions about essay1
Is it strongly remmended that we had better to turn in the essay1 and also the drafts to you before next Tuesday?
What to write about? An impressive experience? Can I write an essay about a weard experience or miserable one?
I don't know how does the writing workshop work. Is that mean we are going to write one article together or just disscuss about a certain topic?
Can you tell me what is 'double space'???????????
Can we search some imformation about what we are going to write about online??
What to write about? An impressive experience? Can I write an essay about a weard experience or miserable one?
I don't know how does the writing workshop work. Is that mean we are going to write one article together or just disscuss about a certain topic?
Can you tell me what is 'double space'???????????
Can we search some imformation about what we are going to write about online??
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
in Class: Freewrting 2
Let me talk about the first two weeks in TCU, it is interesting to have class in the morning, I am a night owl but also get up early, sometimes I can not understand the teacher's lecture but it is also amusing because the atomsphere is good for me. People disccuss and talk about all the things related to the topic or the conversation. However, I am not so accustomed to the assignment here because it is totally different from that in my country. In my country, I mean in high school, I usually get up at FIVE THIRTY and then ride to school. We have classes for about ELEVEN HOURS and after that we would have a self study lesson unitil NINE P.M!!!!!!
Can u ever believe that ??
I do think that you can never ever imagine what kind of life it is.
However, we can still find something interesing in this boring life even it is so tough for us student to go through. We fight together and have a fierce copetition between each other.
Everyone devoted all his or her time to studying, we don't have free time and who can save us??
JUST US.
Can u ever believe that ??
I do think that you can never ever imagine what kind of life it is.
However, we can still find something interesing in this boring life even it is so tough for us student to go through. We fight together and have a fierce copetition between each other.
Everyone devoted all his or her time to studying, we don't have free time and who can save us??
JUST US.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Sunk Into The Internet
At first, I think I should be honest that I haven’t totally understand this article, the biography of Blake Stone. I come from China; there may be a different point of view in love from that in Western world. Absolutely, there are a lot of internet users in my country and also a lot of people communicate with each other online. Of course, with communication, here comes love.
However, is a love on internet really reliable?
Is a love certainly unrealistic just because it’s based on internet?
I don’t know.
The only thing I know is that Blake Stone failed in his love online. Or we can say CanlendarGAL, SxyLdyAnne also failed. Then what on earth is the reason why they failed? I think there must be something we can figure out.
First, there is always a saying, do not judge a person according to his appearance. That’s true. However, when it comes to love, I don’t think it will also work. Just imagine, how many of you had a good feeling of your boyfriend or girlfriend just at the moment of seeing him or her at the first time? The answer is obvious. However, on the internet, especially in a common chat room, people always tend to not show their face because it will decrease their charm and their attraction. Here comes the problem, when you are communicating with some one called Sweet Honey. You are focusing your mind and thinking that the lovely Sweet Honey must be a pretty girl who has the same idea with you and you are almost going to fall in love with her. What if ‘she ’ is just an old man? Will you feel heartbroken or just lose yourself? Blake Stone is smart and some kind of fashionable, however, he is silent online, will anyone know that? He is just considered as a normal guy. Who knows such a silent boy has piercing slate-blue eyes like Harry Potter?
Meanwhile, if you are in love with an internet boy or girl, maybe you will spend more time and energy. It will be a habit to fix your eyesight on the screen and wait for the reply of every message you type on the keyboard on the computer or your cell phone. I have been to TCU for about 2 weeks and I found that a lot of people are in this kind of situation exactly, and I also sensed the same thing when I was in my country, this is interesting because people prefer to communicate with a cell phone than communicating with the people who are just sitting around them. After a simple greeting, they just go back to their IPHONE or laptop.
Just as the ‘Masquerade Ball’ in the story, even it sounds fantastic and interesting; it is still a white screen only will scrolling text. Is that really amusing? Maybe, even I don’t think so. Then why do this young people devote themselves into it?? From my point of view, they are just so bored in the real world.
Maybe Blake Stone sensed the same thing, so he didn’t show up regularly in the chat room even he joined it. However, he just joined it but did not enjoy it. That’s why he always sits silently in the chat room without a word. That’s another point.
Some people just do not want to devote all of their time to the internet activity, but they can only choose to do that because the peer pressure. For example, I have a friend in my high school, he never surf internet and he does not chat or use any software to communicate with his classmates or friends online, then he felt so lonely and cut out off from the whole world. Then I suggested him chatting online with someone with the internet. He did it and he felt good of it but I felt miserable. Is that so necessary that we can only connect ourselves to the world with cell phones and laptop? Just see how depressed Blake is when he finally found the truth and left the ‘Masquerade Ball’.
To be honest, I am definitely not an opponent against the internet, for myself I like to communicate with each other with it. However, I just want to write this article to say that internet should not be the only bridge between people and people. Though it is convenient, it is also unreliable in some way. I can be reassured if I know the guy or the girl in real world when I chat with him or her online, but I can’t do the same thing when I even don’t know if he and she is really ‘he and she’!! That’s what exactly I mean.
However, is a love on internet really reliable?
Is a love certainly unrealistic just because it’s based on internet?
I don’t know.
The only thing I know is that Blake Stone failed in his love online. Or we can say CanlendarGAL, SxyLdyAnne also failed. Then what on earth is the reason why they failed? I think there must be something we can figure out.
First, there is always a saying, do not judge a person according to his appearance. That’s true. However, when it comes to love, I don’t think it will also work. Just imagine, how many of you had a good feeling of your boyfriend or girlfriend just at the moment of seeing him or her at the first time? The answer is obvious. However, on the internet, especially in a common chat room, people always tend to not show their face because it will decrease their charm and their attraction. Here comes the problem, when you are communicating with some one called Sweet Honey. You are focusing your mind and thinking that the lovely Sweet Honey must be a pretty girl who has the same idea with you and you are almost going to fall in love with her. What if ‘she ’ is just an old man? Will you feel heartbroken or just lose yourself? Blake Stone is smart and some kind of fashionable, however, he is silent online, will anyone know that? He is just considered as a normal guy. Who knows such a silent boy has piercing slate-blue eyes like Harry Potter?
Meanwhile, if you are in love with an internet boy or girl, maybe you will spend more time and energy. It will be a habit to fix your eyesight on the screen and wait for the reply of every message you type on the keyboard on the computer or your cell phone. I have been to TCU for about 2 weeks and I found that a lot of people are in this kind of situation exactly, and I also sensed the same thing when I was in my country, this is interesting because people prefer to communicate with a cell phone than communicating with the people who are just sitting around them. After a simple greeting, they just go back to their IPHONE or laptop.
Just as the ‘Masquerade Ball’ in the story, even it sounds fantastic and interesting; it is still a white screen only will scrolling text. Is that really amusing? Maybe, even I don’t think so. Then why do this young people devote themselves into it?? From my point of view, they are just so bored in the real world.
Maybe Blake Stone sensed the same thing, so he didn’t show up regularly in the chat room even he joined it. However, he just joined it but did not enjoy it. That’s why he always sits silently in the chat room without a word. That’s another point.
Some people just do not want to devote all of their time to the internet activity, but they can only choose to do that because the peer pressure. For example, I have a friend in my high school, he never surf internet and he does not chat or use any software to communicate with his classmates or friends online, then he felt so lonely and cut out off from the whole world. Then I suggested him chatting online with someone with the internet. He did it and he felt good of it but I felt miserable. Is that so necessary that we can only connect ourselves to the world with cell phones and laptop? Just see how depressed Blake is when he finally found the truth and left the ‘Masquerade Ball’.
To be honest, I am definitely not an opponent against the internet, for myself I like to communicate with each other with it. However, I just want to write this article to say that internet should not be the only bridge between people and people. Though it is convenient, it is also unreliable in some way. I can be reassured if I know the guy or the girl in real world when I chat with him or her online, but I can’t do the same thing when I even don’t know if he and she is really ‘he and she’!! That’s what exactly I mean.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
in Class: Athourity
1 The Game War Craft 3
2 How to wash clothes effectively
3 How to combine different kind of clothes
4 Ridng a bike (not using my hands)
5 Making schedules
6 How to communicate with different people
7 Telling a joke
8 Inventing a new funny game
9 Treating a wounded person or dog
10 Laughing and screaming!!!
11 Singing songs
12 Making people laugh
I think I have become a good rider on the bike, I can ride a bike without using my arms and my hands. When I was 14, I once did some shopping and I had to carry a big case of drinks and several plastic bags of snacks to go home by bike. It is too difficult for me, so I had to lift all the staff with my hands and I was not able to keep balance with my hands. At the moment, I sped up and found that I can keep balance only with my feet! It surprised me and afterwards, I began to practice doing the same thing on the way home from school. After about one week's practicing, I became accustomed to do that and then I can carry more things on a bike because I have two free hands! Maybe someone thinks that it is so dangerous to ride a bike on the road like this. However, from my point of view, if only you can keep balance , you can just do it!
2 How to wash clothes effectively
3 How to combine different kind of clothes
4 Ridng a bike (not using my hands)
5 Making schedules
6 How to communicate with different people
7 Telling a joke
8 Inventing a new funny game
9 Treating a wounded person or dog
10 Laughing and screaming!!!
11 Singing songs
12 Making people laugh
I think I have become a good rider on the bike, I can ride a bike without using my arms and my hands. When I was 14, I once did some shopping and I had to carry a big case of drinks and several plastic bags of snacks to go home by bike. It is too difficult for me, so I had to lift all the staff with my hands and I was not able to keep balance with my hands. At the moment, I sped up and found that I can keep balance only with my feet! It surprised me and afterwards, I began to practice doing the same thing on the way home from school. After about one week's practicing, I became accustomed to do that and then I can carry more things on a bike because I have two free hands! Maybe someone thinks that it is so dangerous to ride a bike on the road like this. However, from my point of view, if only you can keep balance , you can just do it!
in Class: Freewrite
Recently I have just come to realize a fact that writing things is not so difficult as I thought.
I used to think that we can not write anything or any idea without reading or getting to know anything about what we are going to write about.
However, the ahthor of the book The Curious Writer, Bruce Ballenger seems to have given me a good idea which is called write as inquiry. I can not quite understand what it does mean, but I tried this idea. Our professor in English writing class told us that we should not prepare before wrting. We should write to know the world?? It is totally different from what I used to accept!!
Using a blog? Reading a story? I do know nothing about that and I think I should write with some reasonable method. Actually, I failed. I came back to think that WRTING IN ENGLISH IS STILL A LITTLE DIFFICULT FOR ME~~~~~
I used to think that we can not write anything or any idea without reading or getting to know anything about what we are going to write about.
However, the ahthor of the book The Curious Writer, Bruce Ballenger seems to have given me a good idea which is called write as inquiry. I can not quite understand what it does mean, but I tried this idea. Our professor in English writing class told us that we should not prepare before wrting. We should write to know the world?? It is totally different from what I used to accept!!
Using a blog? Reading a story? I do know nothing about that and I think I should write with some reasonable method. Actually, I failed. I came back to think that WRTING IN ENGLISH IS STILL A LITTLE DIFFICULT FOR ME~~~~~
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Introduction of Shuai Yuan
My name is Shuai Yuan, I am from China. In Chinese my firstname means handsome and I like people call me 'Shuai'. I am a freshman in TCU and my major is business. This is the first time for me to come to the U.S. To be honest, I am not so accustomed to the life here. Yesterday was my firstday of class in TCU. The classes here are totally different from those in my country.
I decided to come to TCU because the business school here is fantastic. If I am the chancellor of TCU, I think I will arrange more shuttles and supply a electric map on compus for the students because TCU is really a big school!
On my point of view, a good teacher should be humorous and patient. If I have the chance to have dinner with anyone, maybe I will choose my grandfather to ask for some advice in studying abroad.
Even I am not so good at English now, I am still interested in talking in the class, because I think talking and wrting are two of the best ways to communicate with each other and share the ideas of different culture. I took this course mainly because I want to know how the western people write and how can I do a good job in my essays. I used to write e-mails or text message, but I rarely write an article or essay. So I would like to finish this class with an A in the end of the semister.
I have read some part of the syllabus(even I have not totally understood it) and I think there will be an obvious improvement in my English wrting.
I decided to come to TCU because the business school here is fantastic. If I am the chancellor of TCU, I think I will arrange more shuttles and supply a electric map on compus for the students because TCU is really a big school!
On my point of view, a good teacher should be humorous and patient. If I have the chance to have dinner with anyone, maybe I will choose my grandfather to ask for some advice in studying abroad.
Even I am not so good at English now, I am still interested in talking in the class, because I think talking and wrting are two of the best ways to communicate with each other and share the ideas of different culture. I took this course mainly because I want to know how the western people write and how can I do a good job in my essays. I used to write e-mails or text message, but I rarely write an article or essay. So I would like to finish this class with an A in the end of the semister.
I have read some part of the syllabus(even I have not totally understood it) and I think there will be an obvious improvement in my English wrting.
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