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.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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.
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