My experice of being an linguistic

When I was a child, I was kept given the concept that English is an extremely important tool, which can be treated as the key to keep up with the pace of the 21st century. It seems that in my childhood period, the importance of English education has already been well realized in China, as we can see various English teaching institutions were being hold and gaining tremendously profits every year. Children are force to taking that kind of extra-curricular courses since parents are always hoping their child to “win in the start line”.

English has become a required course as soon as I enter middle school, thus if counted, I have already learned English for about 8 years. However, it is not until the time when I come to US did I truly realized the real meaning and importance of owning that skill. Recall the time I was in middle school and high school, for me, the only propose of learning English is just to cope with the exams and gain good grade.

However, for me, English has now become a daily necessity. But thinking my life here, the importance of English is not only the tool which help me live in this foreign country, and what is  more important, it has largely enhance my horizon of seeing this world! By owing the English literacy, I found amazingly that I have gain the ability to get access to information and materials from over the world, instead of only China. Now I could know things from hugely increased sources, and the ability to read English based website and newspaper make it possible to get access to the most authority talk and thought by people. I was surprised to find there can be totally different point of view even when describing the same event between Chinese article and the rest of the world.

Basically, being a linguistic is a great experience since not only I could gain another tool of communicate, but it is also a great enhancement of informatics source and give me the chance to know this world better.

Connection between technology and literacy

Along with social development, our way of communicate has largely enhanced by the improvement of technology, as well as literacy enrichment.  it seems that the technology and literacy has nature connection, instead of developing independently, they always shape and promote each other. 

Recalling to ancient time when literacy is depend on paper-based read and write, the transmission of knowledge is mainly rely on book, which require tons of time to read, and write. People in that age seems living a quite monotonous life, their world is far less colorful than the one we enjoying. Thinking of our own daily life, you will see how great technology has shaped literacy as well as our life. No longer will we struggling in the library in finding a certain book, just by clicking your mouse,the whole world of  information associated will indicated on your computer screen. New developed technology, such as multimedia, has largely enhanced the type of literacy, to make it visualize, interesting, created and also entertainment. The prevalent of internet has changed the way we communicate. Modern people, especially our generation, is  likely to talk on internet, write on internet  instead of in realistic society. 

On the other hand, literacy also gives the direction for technology development. Since the purpose of technology is to satisfy what people need and lead them to live a better life. It must have nature connection with literacy, which almost associate with every element to living in this world. We need our creative idea to be expressed properly, then there comes multimedia technology, we need spiritual relax, then there comes technology innovation like camera, instrument, etc. 

To be brief, the connection of technology and literacy is so close, and they could not simply developed independently without each other.

Proposal of Assignment#4

Finally, it is time to decide the topic of  assignment#4. Actually, I indeed have some thought about it, and I would like to give a brief introduction to my plan here.

I have a friend studying film direct in Germany, she is kind of person love express herself by creative style of arts, such as making a DV record, taking photographs... Remember the first time when I learned the concept of literacy, whose definition is not confined to "the ability to read and write" but can treated as all kinds of assets associate to communicate and understand, she is the person first come into my mind . Isn't her style of life a good example of new way of literacy? Since everytime she make photograph or DV record, she put her own thought and understanding of life in it, which make them special and even become a kind of art. That's her way to communicate and understand of the world!

Recently she went to Greece alone for a short trip. For Greece is famous for its mysterious culture and history, she wanted to gain inspiration  and also get to know about  people living there. During the trip, she made tons of pictures and wrote some words under it in recording some experiences and thought. This gives me the idea that I can use her story in my assignment#4. To be specific, I will copy some of her trip pictures and make them connected ,  adding some words to make it a whole story. These are all Based on the content of literacy blog associate to "picture" I have write before.

As for the genre, I think I will use comic life. Although I am not familiar with this software now, I will certainly take time to learn it.

The kind of media presuasive to me

There are so many kinds of media existed in our daily life, television program, radio, internet web side, etc. I surf Internet everyday and more frequently get access to those media on Internet. however, whenever I open an website, what usually interest me is the thing associate with emotional or creative contents, such as the thing contend interesting pictures ormoving background music.
I am the kind of person prefer more visualize and interesting media format rather than long and logic articles. and if the advertisement can touch me by its idea and also well-designed, I will be definitely impressed. The genre can be various from an advertisement to short video, it does no really matter if it is a format of telling story or just a serious of impressing pictures, it will be persuasive for me if I can find something new or creative idea in it.

Literacy Assignment Self-reflection

During the passed a couple of weeks' of hard work, finally I have finished the literacy assignment, which includes five blog entry and a group map. In this self-reflection essay, I would like to give a brief recall of how works has been done as well as explain my role in our group map creation.

Remember at the first time I heard about the assignment, I completely had no idea what I should write about. The word "literacy" was unfamiliar to me, and it seems that at the level we are talking about, it even has a wider meaning besides "the ability to read and write". I was not sure what is the exactly meaning of it, thus could not decide what literacy I should write about. To solve the problem, I went to Google and Wikipedia. Typing in the word ''literacy", it gave me the idea that the modern literacy is no longer confined to "read" and "write", everything associate to helping us "understand" and "communicate" with outside world can be treated as a literacy. There is also a list of example, such as computer literacy, multimedia literacy, etc. This search helped me a lot when brain storming my own literacy encountered in life, and finally I have choose computer, emotion, multimedia, music and reading as my own life literacy in my blog entry writing.

As for our group map creation, the first thing we considered was what should be on the map. Since the concept of literacy is so broad, it is hard to decide what aspect we should use. so I suggested that we may first draw our own literacy map individually. Since each one has different assets and there also must be some common point between us, we may then get our individual map connected to draw a bigger one by showing these common point as well as differences. However, when this idea went to practical operation, problem comes out. For one may list general literacy such as "sports", "music" while others may concentrate in the extreme detail in a specific field, we find it was difficult to combine each person's map. To solve this problem, we write a temple in the Lab class indicating what type we are about to use, thus every one should follow this type when thinking of his or her own map.

The next problem coming to us is the how to draw the map. I have done a research on internet trying to find some good map temple we could use. The search proved difficult, for the temple I found was either too complex or too simple. I then remembered the map of Disney world which I was traveling during spring break. There are five big theme parks in magic kingdom, each one show its own characters and also have connection with others. Isn't it a good temple we could use? The idea then got totally approved by other members in my group.

In one of the lab classes, we collected each one's individual map and made a comparison to them. After overall considered the landscape of the Disney world map, we finally decided which literacy we should indicate in the map and where to mark them in the map. I am the person in charged of the final drawing of the map. It was not hard, since the blueprint has already in my mind after the group discussion.

During this assignment working, not only have I got a deeper understanding of literacy, but also learned the importance of team work. It is by the contribution of each group members that we finally finish this map assignment!

Multimedia literacy

It is no longer the  time  when literacy is mainly depend on paper-based read and write. Multimedia, which utilizes several different content forms to convey information(text, sound, graphics, animation,video, etc.), has largely replaced the basic literacy of "reading"and "writing", thus greatly enriched the diversity of literacy.

Multimedia can be largely associate with the creation of modern arts. By using various of computer program, many great and creative ideas can be well expressed. Since multimedia has enabled the presentation of many special effect (such as 3D effect) which is impossible to display by man-made painting, it gives rise to a far greater visual impact and infectivity. Giving examples to this,  just think of the advertisement and propagating poster we see every day.

Since the software of personal laptop has become increasingly powerful, it is no longer a dream for normal people to create their own multimedia product. By combining text, sound, images, as well as motion pictures and manage them interactively via a computer, people can make their own creative painting or even make a movie. 

As in our college study, multimedia has also taken an important part. Remember when we taking classes,  the power point used to give us brief outline of knowledge, the video professor shown in class, and even this  blog  entry I am writing for my WRA homework.. all of these are based on the multimedia!  In this modern society where multimedia is so prevalent,  it seems that we simply can not living without it.

Emotional literacy

Having the ability of express emotion is what distinct human from animals. We laugh when we feel happy and cry when we are sad. Living in such a human society, emotional communication is so important. We must know how we feel and communicate them to get emotional support and understanding from others, as well as showing our support and understanding to them. That is also the way we build our human relationship.
Can you easily identify the emotional information of others? Can you precisely communicate your own feeling? However, to be sensitive to those emotional feelings are of great importance when dealing with human relationships.
In temporary society, people tend to hide his or her real feelings by many reasons. For example, when you indeed get angry with someone, you are most likely to just pretend everything is fine to avoid the embarrassing situation. But imagine you are occasionally be the chairman of a big company and the person angered you are one of your employees, how could we expect he or she still has the chance to be promoted? But if he or she realized that you got angry and make remedy in time, he or she will definitely have more chance earn your favor again. That is why being sensitive to emotional change making the corresponding adjustion is sometimes crucial in our life.
Being sensitive to other’s emotional change is what make you succeed in your career and also be a popular friend. You know when to say the right word, do the right thing and when to quit in the proper time. People around you never feel uncomfortable, and they will thought you are rather considerate and intimate person. That is why learning emotional literacy is that important in our life.

Music literacy

Have you ever heard of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata? Whenever you listen to it, you may got a feeling that you are fronting the sea, from where moon is rising up slowly. Moonlight lighten up the sea water and everything becomes so peaceful and enjoyable. That is the power of music, there is no boundary between language, culture and religion, people understand it and get amazing emotional impress only by listen it by heart.

Music is one of the most fantastic thing exist in the world. Consist of several simple notes, it can convey the most complex feeling of the composer's. For example, when the composer is delighted by the beautiful scene, and edged to express his or her feelings, the tempo may become moderate. When other people listen to this, he or she may get the same feeling as the composer, that is how information conveyed by music. Hundreds kind of music has been created, dating from the ancient times, people get mental released from listening to them. It is kind of literacy, for it can be used as a way to communicate and transmit information.
Music is not only composed by humans, it can be heard everywhere in our nature. Do not trust me? Just have a deep breath in the early morning, close your eyes and listen it by heart! The bird is singing , the leaves are weaving..Can you feel the wind touching your face and whispering in your ears? When you listen this by your heart, you may find yourself getting so close to the nature, and may gain deeper understanding of our world and your own life, which you never thought of before.

Reading literacy

In the temperary society, it is no longer a topic if people has the ablility to read and write, since it has long been a necessary to survive in this world. However, the “reading ability” I refer to is not confine to ‘know the word’, but has the ability to understand behind the words. To what extent people understand the auther’s purpose, and how much they can take in are the problem I want to talk about. In this essay, I would like to explain this in two reading catergories-acdamic reading and literature reading.
In my acdamic study, reading is definitely essential to aquire knowledge, since almost all textbook, course materia and internet information are word-based. To understand the knowledge, not only do I need understand the word, but it is necessary to have certain acdamic backgroud. For instance, I must learn basic math formular and roles to understand an advace math text book. In other word, the extent of how well we learned from previous study contribute a lot in our further study progress. In my major field, the ability to read accouting report, professional lauguage related to economic and accounting analyze is essential. To gain this reading ability thereby could standing out in the compititive job maket, the only thing I could do is study hard and learn from the very basic thing.
. As for the literature reading, the ablity to understand is more related to the person’s experiences and understanding of the world. There are an old saying goes, a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes, even reading the same book, people may get extreme different understanding. Compare to acdamic article, literature book is more likely to be wrote in an abstract way, in other words, there are always more behind words. Every story has a deeper meaning, either a critical reflection of social problem, or auther’s personal philosophical understanding about world. This reading ability is also important, for it is widely related to a person’s character.
To be brief, reading literacy is the abiltiy we understand the word-based aritical, not only the suface meaning, but the deeper thought expressed by the auther.

computer literacy

Literacy is definitioned by the meaning of the ability of understanding, interpreting and creating everything that carries meanings. When being asked what kind of literacy do I have, the first one that come into my mind is the computer. But why is so? Just have a look at my single day of life: getting up in the early morning, the first thing I will do is to switch on my laptop, check the email, look at morning news, and check face book to see if there is something new happened among my friends. Then when taking the whole day of classes, I also carry my laptop. I would like to do this because taking notes on laptop is far more efficient and clear. Using laptop, I can also look at PPT without having to seat in front of the classroom to get a clear look at the screen.when finishing classes, I spent the rest hours of the day surfing Internet, using Microsoft-office software to do my homework and chatting online.So how could I imagine a day to survive without the help of computer? And I believed the situation is just as same as mine for the whole modern society. Especially for our generation, computer is just like a daily necessity we use and it also act as a platform connecting the whole global world. As for me, I go shopping, get connect with my family and do almost everything one can imagine on Internet. To keep up the pace of world where globalization accelerating in a fascinating speed, the master of computer literacy is not a additional skill but a basic requirement. However, the well proficiency in computer may also be treated as an asset, since employers are more willing to hire individual who can use computer helping their company runs in a cheaper and faster way. I take computer class since middle school, and still working hard to improve it. The well up in Microsoft-office software and surfing information ability help me a lot in both academic study and daily life.

What is literacy?

What make human different from a animal is that they has the ability to think and comunicate. Not only can we just using speaking lauguage as the way of knowing things, we can aslo learn things from the record privious individrals leaving behind. Although there are many ways to do this record, just like a song, or a story telling from generation to generation. The most effecient way is what people can "see" and "keep" it, either by word or visualize. In my point of view, the ability to understand and create that kind of way of record is what it is called literacy, whose category can be various greatly. A book, a movie or articles published on internet can all be treated as a kind of literacy.

Genre memo

To: Franny Howes
From: Bofei Wang
Date: 03/01/2009
Re: Genre Memo for “Genre portfolio”

In this genre portfolio assignment, the three types of genre I choose to write was movie, novel and TV show. In this memo, I would like to give a brief introduction to each of them.
The first genre I wrote was a movie. As everyone knows, movie has become an important part of our life, since it can provide great visual entertainment. Base on its content and purpose, movie can be divided into several categories- comedy, history, scary, ect. For it involves almost every aspect of life, each kind of people can find something he or she interested in. By using properate background music, light and shot angle, a movie can give a strong touch to its audience. Although the technique of theme production can be various from movie to movie, one thing is always in common, that is, the intendence of telling people something. A good movie is attractive not only by its plot, but also has the ability to leave its audience in deep thinking. The one I wrote is a suspense moive, which is a quite typical one in that type. There is a puzzle at the beginning of the story, someone dead, and the whole movie is to trace the killer and to find the truth. People who like logical thinking and adventure may enjoy it a lot. The thing make this movie especial is that it also combines religion and philosipy thought, which make the movie of great depth.
The second genre I choose is a novel. It can be the most common literature in our society, since it is often a lot of fun reading them. Novel always record a complete story, which has main character while the whole story developed surround it. The focus of the content may differs from history to individral life while its audience can be covered in every age and social position. A novel is a reflection of writer’s thought, it is his or her personal view about life. Reading a novel is like reading a person’s inner world- no matter the story is real or not. The novel I choose is a rather ridiculous one, but there is more behind the story. Just like novels of this genre, it satirized certain problems existed in temprol society. For the purpose of novel in this kind is always let people realize something they often see it blind, it’s aimed audience is just normal citizens, especially educated individrals.
This last genre is a TV show. It is a kind of entertainment TV program we watch everyday. There is always a host and several rater, every time it invited different people on show to present them. Many audience may on the spot and give their support to the player. It is quite a popular show, since people whoever seeking relax in his or her leisure time may enjoy it. The one I write in this paper is a talent show, and its purpose is to make ordinary but talented people reach their dreams of becoming super star. The form is typical but its idea is quite a new wave in Chinese TV show history.

Sincerely,
Bofei Wang

Genre Portfolio

Who has the sin? – Thought from the movie "seven"

“Ernest Hemingway once wrote’The world is a fine place and worth fighting for’, I agree with the second part.”, said by William Somerset.

-- superscription

There was a strong feeling of desperation when I finish watching this movie. Who has the sin? The whole story was about tracing the killer of a series murder- a tracing of “justice”. But where the justice actually lies? The “victim”, the obese man, a disgusting man who could barely stand up, can we tell he is innocent? The woman, who treasured only the outside beauty and even can not live without it, getting proud for this and ignoring her own ugly inside, can we say she is innocent? And even the tracer himself, David, whose position is the represent of “justice”, turn out to lost control in facing of wrath, which is part of the sins the killer wants to alert people, can we say he is innocent?

Gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, pride, lust and envy, which can be treated as the seven deadly sins of Catholicism, seem have been out of the mind of our society for long. In such a world where laws play its role efficiently, protecting the one should be protected and punishing the one should be punished, people just living under the regulation of laws and lead their own life. Seldom has they thought of the original sins, which are so commonly existed in our society, or even some of them did come up with the idea that it is “bad”, they just choice to see it blind. For people has get used to the way they originally lived, they just living under the default pattern of life and close his or her eyes to those dirty dot.
Is that one tend to live a happier life choosing to be numb as well in facing of the whole numbly world? Just as the famous Chinese writer Lu Xun argued in one of his article, it is kind of mercy not to wake up sleeping citizens in facing of destruction, which is a metaphor of the loneliness and pains people suffered when conscious to the darkness of society but fall to find ways to change. The situation is just like the killer in the movie. The awareness of the dirty dots and numbly society make him desperate, and feel unendurable to keep living. Instead of being unconcerned and compromising to those “sins”, he managed to awake people, although in the wrong way- to punish.
Although we can not deny that the way the killer choosed is too extreme, we can not just casting him aside without thinking anything. Just as the words said by William Somerset at the end of the movie: “The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for”, and he is right when saying “I only agree with the second part”. The world is

 far from perfect, but the only thing we can do is to fight for the best of it. Perhaps when each of us act in this way, the sins would eventually disappear and the world would become as fine as it originally is.

Critical Analyze of the novel-"The metamorphosis"

  Have you ever imagined that waking up the other day morning, only to find yourself changing into a weird animal? Things happened in Franz Kalka’s famous novel “The Metamorphosis”, which tells a story about travelling salesman named Gregor Samsa, and his experience of transforming into a horrible vermin. Samsa used to be the economic backbone of the family and they used to living peacefully and happily. After the transformed, his mom and sister change the attitude gradually and treating Samsa as a burden. At the end of the story, Samsa dead in desperate, still loving and concerning his family.

  The story is ridiculous but the meaning behind words is quite thoughtful. For it was written during the depression and unrest period after world war Ι, when many people are becoming lose faith about capitalism society. The story is a true reflection of the darkness of the society and the indifferent relationship between individuals. Just as the novel describes, the attitude towards Samsa has been converted from sympathy, concerned of the beginning to bored, and eventually disguised, from which we could see the whole world of coldness-even between family. It seems that all relationship between individual are built on benefit, no matter how close they look, nothing could left without a profit.
  Plenty of physiological portrayal is used in this novel, in expressing of the loneliness and panic of Samsa after his transform. Keeping recalling his past and thinking about future, the gap between expectation and reality make him feel desperate and painful, which is also the common phenomenon exist in society. It can be said that the world the novel described is both “real” and “ridiculous”. To say it is“real”, the inner world description is vivid and it is a true reflection of normal people’s thought, while on the other hand, the whole structure of story is base on emblem and are “mythic”. However, the point is not the fact that people could transform to a vermin, it is to understand the mood and spirit transcending the story itself, which is the real thing the author want to express.

The popularity of talent show- a reflection of social fickleness

  Everyone has a dream of becoming super star, but how can we be that just as ordinary people? A new talent show called “super girl”, which intends to help ordinary but talent people achieve their dreams, was introduced to China and becoming the rage throughout the year 2005 to 2007.

 It has been the heatest topic in one’s leisure at one time, it can be seen almost everywhere that people gathered, discussing who will win in the next show, whether the rater is fair, or anyting gossip related to the show. The profit has been huge, for millions of people vote by chargeable massage for their support player and advertisement profit was rather considerable.
  How could this show be so successful? People crying for the lose of their support player and yelling for their victory, it seems that the show has produces so many super stars successfully over the night. The tend of this kind of show has been booming ever since, for billion of teenagers and youth lining in the competitive selection spot and waiting for project themselves. However, to trace the sourcs of this phenomenon, I would say that it may due to fickleness of our society, which reflected by the ethos of pursuing rapid success and the willingness of rape without sown.

  The show also engage profound negative impact among teenagers. For there is a survey argued that when asking a group of children what they what to do in the future, half of them said “a singer”, or “a dancer”. While experts were confused by the result, one teacher explain in worry that children watch those talent shows and it has become the heated topic they talk about. Many of them want to become famous over night as well, just like the player did in the talent show. The situation may give rise to sever impact, since students may not concentrate on they academic study any more, as they thought they could be success as well in a far easier way.

However, As every success of a popular show or a best seller must have closely correspond to the public interest, they can also be the reflection of the public thought in certain period. And from the popularity of the “super girl”, we could see the strong sense of fickleness, which can be treated as an illness existed in our society.

A normal day of my life

Time flow quietly and quickly these days, for I have been in Michigan State for almost half a year, the scene I was leaving Beijing airport and say good bye to my family was just like happened yesterday. Life there was so peaceful and regular. Everyday just repeat itself but quite fulfilled.
I run a pretty regular time schedule this semester. I wake up 6:00 am everyday and eat my breakfast on 7 am, my classes are all arranged before 2 pm, thus I have plenty of time to do whatever I want after class. Normally, I take a snap after finish my class which could make me energetic afterwards. I am quite an internet addict and would like to spent the whole afternoon in front of the laptop, surfing the Internet, watching movie online or chatting on QQ. I am just quite used to living in that virtual world and enjoyed myself in it. I am also quite a active girl, I go to gym almost every night, playing table tennis, swimming in the poor or working out in the fitness room. I feel good and pressure released after doing these, and could better concentrate on my academic study later at night, which is the time I usually do my homework and review things. Going to bed before 12am, I can always find myself energetic the morning of next day.
Healthy and regular life style contribute a lot to the efficient study as well as good impression we give others. My life here is like what I described above, quiet but fulfilled, which I enjoy I lot.

Some Thought From Photogragh

This is a picture I had already seen in high school, our teacher show us in class and each of us had been completely shocked. The photogragh is about a stricken child, only 4 or 5 years' old, huddling up in ground. Only one meter away from him, a vulture is waiting for his dead and eagering to eat him. The constructs was simple, but extremly heartquaked. The child is so emaciated and it just looks like a small pile of steletom. In the modern world where millions of people are worring about their overweigh problem, hardly could we believe that such human being could suffering like this...

The vulture is staring at it's quarry, just like treating other small animal. This lead me think about what human being actually is, we think we are the conquer of the world, we have the strengh, we are advanced creater..but how about this? Away from all the civilazation human created, "human" like this is no difference than any other animals in the nature. Starving to death, waiting to become the food of other stronger animal...the sence seems cruel, but isn't it a ture reflection of nature world? Human, just like they origenally are, are just part of this natural world..

1. I have five dogs!
2. I love all kinds of sports, especially ping pang and swimming~
3. Time flow so quickly these days and I can hardly believe it already more than one month since I went back to China during winter break.
4. I have five classes this semester, I hate cse!!!
5. I did not pass bridge test1.5: (
6. this week looks pretty good, not much homework or due date. only have a easy quiz on Thursday..^0^
7. yesterday I went swimming, I was so tired because all other people in my line swim really fast, i did not want to fall behind, so swam as fast as i can...
8. weather this week become pretty warm, is the spring coming?
9. my sister's daughter just done her heart operation and it was very successful. god bless her...
10. my sister is preparing for her college entrance examination, she told me she was so nerves about it. poor child...
11. there is always empty feelings surround me, although i tried to be fully occupied in various of activities, i can still hardly avoid that feeling, just like life is meaningfulnesses and I do not know the purpose of all the things i am doing..:(
12. my mother once told me no matter what happened, the sun will always rise up tomorrow morning, all things gonna past.
13. maybe sometime i am thinking too much, trapped myself in every tiny thing is so worthless.
14. when i was a child, my dream is to be a scientist...
15. i love sunshine so much. be a girl like sunshine and let everyone feel warm and happy is the person i hope i should be.
16. my favorite season is autumn..i love the feeling of leaves falling on the ground.. it is so beautiful...
17. i move to case hall this semester, i think it is better than akers..
18. i am trying to lose weight now... but it is so hard..
19. i spent more than 5 hours on internet everyday.. it seems internet has become part of my life ...and it is just a habit..i think i am kind of addicted to it ..
20. I started working last Friday.. so tired it is...
21. I am kind of home sick now ...missing my mom and my family.. and also my dogs...
22. Friends in China is about to start their new semester..best wished to them ..
23. My private trainer in China said he will take my to his hometown, which is in northeast of China, when I back in summer..
24. I am trying to "good good study, day day up"...haha....
25. Eric is going to have his 20th birthday..happy birthday to him!!!!!!!!!

Children Know Everything

Just as an old Chinese saying goes: everyone was pure when he or she was born. As a child, we used to judge things only by "good" or "bad", in our mind, policeman can always be treated as hero and criminals will always be punished. We laugh whenever feel happy and cry for any tiny sadness; We show sympathe to begger and think everyone should be treated equally, no different between wealthy and poor, white and black.
However, we learn things as long as we grow up. We learn how to deal with complicated human relationships and know the "exist role" living in this society, which is do better than others-no matter at what cost. We may smile to someone we hate, make friends with him or her only for certain profit purpose. One can never find what others thinking about from his or her face, since everyone hide his ture thought and only communicate on "surface". We know that there is no absolute good and bad, people may be punished not because he or she did something harmful to society, but only has some profit confilction with current government.
As an adult, we indeed learned a lot. But can we say we know the world better than a child? We thought we know every skills in this society, but don't we feel tired by knowing all of these? Do we feel lonely even in a noisy crowd? The world should not like this! Maybe it is the children who know everything about ture life, which filled with love and sincere. Just living and thinking in the simplest way,

interpreting "I have a dream" from emotional perspective

I read Martin Luther King’s famous talk “I have a deam” and would like to explain it in the emotional perspective.
Looking over this text, obviously the author has used plenty of meaniful objects, such as “table of brotherhood”, “oasis of freedom and justice”…all of which associate greatly with the mood of love, hope and happinese. The author use these objects to convey his strong hope and also give readers that impression. It can be said that the object is a symbol to intensity author’s personal emotion.
The author has shown strong thetoric ability in this text, from which parallelism is the most significant one. “I have a dream, one day…” by using this sentence frequentely and correspondingly, the power of lauguage has been greatly enhanced. “let freedom ring -- from the prodigious hill tops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring; from the mighty mountains of New York.Let freedom ring -- from the…” many placename has given in this sentence, but we could see that author use the same sentence structure to express them. But instead of souding tedious, the repeat of the words make readers feel rhythmically and could othe hand affected by author’s strong emotion behind words.
Basically, this a public talk, and the main purpose of the writer is to encorage and to persuade. Thus, we could say that there is a “literature” tone though the whole article. By using a great of thetoric method, the article let readers feel enheartened.

link: http://www.cycnet.com/englishcorner/speech/dream.htm

"mother tongue"

After reading the article “ mother tongue”, there are several things that comes to my mind. First, it’s the profound impact envirnment may act in children’s growing up. Just as the author mentioned, no matter how hard she tried, she can never make Enlish as her strong suit in childhood, which may due to the poor lauguage background of her family. This can give reason to the situation that children with Highly educated parents are more likely to do good when they grow up.
At the end of the article, the author explained what good written English should be, by telling her own experience of becoming successful writer. Actually, instead of using complex word and grammar, writing should be as vivid as our daily talk thus can be easy understood by readers. For writing is a tool to convey ideas and to communicate, there should be far more behind words. Instead of confining his or her thought in the the lauguage-sturcture, a good writer can writing whatever style just base on his or her passion and creative imaginary.

Capacity Inventory

1.diffuse skills
2.organise capacity
3.learning skills(know how to learn new things )
4.planning skills
5.leadership capacity
6.good at sports?
7.interaction skills(working in a team)
8.Adaptability
9.music
10.creative

diffuse skills
(1)communication skills. (good at express yourself?)
(2)Has the affinity easy to exchange with the person
(3)easy to make a friend?
(4)good listener?
(5)get yourself comfortable in an unfamiliar circumustance
(6)humous, people keep concentrate and laugh when you talking
(7)keep good eye contact with talking to people
(8)know how to dress properly
(9)polite and gentle. carry youself well
(10)ability of get well with different kinds of people

Ralationship beween language and perceiving the world

Language is a tool that we commuicate with outside world. When we form an idea, it is the words and sentences that come to our mind. One the other hand, we aquire knowledge only by learning a certain language convey that information. The whole thought and belief of human world are built on the fundamental of language, our culthure, the concept of economic, ect. This is also belived by Mikhail Bakhtin, who says”Without the word, there is on world”. That is also to say, the language system in which we educated and think, shapes the way we perceive the surrounding world, And relatively, people in different language system learn things in different ways.
Despite of a few talented individral who owns a visual-base of thinking mood, most of citizens think in a verbal way, thus altering us the importance of laugugae education-which is essential for our children to better understanding the world.

To WRA 1004 Class

Hello, everybody. I'm so glad to take this class with you all this semester. My name is Bofei Wang and my major is accounting. I am a transfer student and this is my second semester here. I will take 16 credit's course this semester, so life will be pretty busy. However, busy is better than bored..^_^
I like sports, swimming and ping pang are my favorate. I am now living in Akers hall, but will soon moving to case hall for it is close to IM west, it is convient to do excercise..
again, nice to meet you all!