By the reason of that I really do not have ideas about how to write the blog entry. I visit haoshuai’s blog and the things she writes give me some thought. So I decide to write my first literacy---language.
Language is obviously a vital tool. Not only is it a means of communicating thoughts and ideas, but it forges friendships, cultural ties, and economic relationships. Language is such a literacy that we may ignore but play a critical effect in our day-to-day life.
We can come back to the history to figure out the importance of language. For example, the scholar Benjamin Whorf has notes that language shapes thoughts and emotions, determining one’s perception of reality. John Stuart Mill said that “language is the light of the mind.”
With the development of the modern society, changes occur everywhere and everyday, however, the importance of language becomes more and more apparent. To me, who use English as a second language, language, of course, is knowledge and literacy, and in our world today knowledge is one of the key factors in competitiveness. We come to the United States, which use English as its office language. We need to speak, write, listen, and read all in English. In order to do well in the study and adapt to the circumstance here, we are supposed to learn English well.
Here is a story happens in my sister’s home when I visit her with haoshuai in spring break. According to the two story haoshuai writes, I thing the reason causing the misunderstand is the pronounce. Consider that we live in different countries, so we have accent. As a consequence of it, it sometimes leads to some confuses in one word. For it is different for us to pronounce “glass” clearly distinct from “grass” . What’s more, when I try to teach him Chinese, it seems really hard for him to speak a word like our Chinese, the native speakers. In this case, confuse happens. Another story I want to say is for haoshuai and I come from different cities in china, we have our own dialects as well. So when I talk to my sister in Fuzhou dialect, she has totally no idea what we are talking about. Same things happen in Mark. Every time we sit together and chat in mandarin, the office language in china, Mark seems to be curious about what we are talking about, so he keeps asking “what? What?” He says he really wish he can understand Chinese. It is a funny story, but I think it reflect the importance of the language. It is certainly a literacy in our daily lives
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
respose to Literacy in three metaphors
In “Literacy in three metaphors”, which is written by Sylvia Scribner. The writer defines the literacy as three characters, the “literacy as power.” “Literacy as a state of grace.” “Social meaning of literacy: a case study.” In general, I agree with what the writer says, however, I have some own view towards the meaning of literacy. To me, literacy is sort of grace. And as we talk in class, all the asset we have can be defined as a literacy. So piano, hand-writing, music, singing, dancing, text message are all literacy instead of just writing. And literacy plays an increasing important role in our modern society. For example, as the growth of the modern society, computer slowly replace the labor work, in that case, it is very important for a worker to have the basic computer literacy. What is the same is that the accountants are all supposed to own the basic finical literacy. It is no doubt that the more literacy you have, the more skills you master. And in the modern society, only the people who master the most skills can stand out and win the competition.
Friday, February 27, 2009
genre memo
Genre memo
To: Franny Howes
From: wanglin
Date: 26, February 27, 2009
Re: Genre Memo for critical analysis for three different task
#1
This is an advertisement and it is in a video form. The feature of it is that it is very funny and can leave us a deep impression and that is what the advertisers want. The typical form of this genre is that it communicates with others in the pictures associated with sound. It persuades audient with its story, a story that is funny or educational or something else. The audient for this advertisement is all the consumers, especially the youths. And the purpose is to advertise their products and persuade the youths to buy their products. My text is to analyses the content of the advertisement using the critical thinking methods. Think deep about whether the things in the advertisement are true or it just a path to get to their goal. And after thinking and doing some researches, I figure out that what they want to convert to costumers is a fake.
#2
This is a photo about the passing of the torch all around the world for the Olympic Games. The typical form of this genre is to catch some moment that can lead the audients to think deep. Some moment occur in our daily life, some are touched, some are encouraged. However, the pity is that we often ignore them. Do you ever remember the first time you learn to walk. Do you ever notice an very old couple watch the setting sun hand in hand. These are all small things that occur in our daily lives. And the photo is to record them in a special way. The audient of the photo is the people all around the world especially Chinese people all around the world. And the purpose of the photo is to honor jingjing, a brave girl and encourage Chinese as well, also, it blame the people of their believes of the independence of Tibet. My text is to analysis the different view that Chinese and Americans may have to the photo due to their cultural diversity. And make a conclusion that we should take this difference into account so as to avoid the conflict.
To: Franny Howes
From: wanglin
Date: 26, February 27, 2009
Re: Genre Memo for critical analysis for three different task
#1
This is an advertisement and it is in a video form. The feature of it is that it is very funny and can leave us a deep impression and that is what the advertisers want. The typical form of this genre is that it communicates with others in the pictures associated with sound. It persuades audient with its story, a story that is funny or educational or something else. The audient for this advertisement is all the consumers, especially the youths. And the purpose is to advertise their products and persuade the youths to buy their products. My text is to analyses the content of the advertisement using the critical thinking methods. Think deep about whether the things in the advertisement are true or it just a path to get to their goal. And after thinking and doing some researches, I figure out that what they want to convert to costumers is a fake.
#2
This is a photo about the passing of the torch all around the world for the Olympic Games. The typical form of this genre is to catch some moment that can lead the audients to think deep. Some moment occur in our daily life, some are touched, some are encouraged. However, the pity is that we often ignore them. Do you ever remember the first time you learn to walk. Do you ever notice an very old couple watch the setting sun hand in hand. These are all small things that occur in our daily lives. And the photo is to record them in a special way. The audient of the photo is the people all around the world especially Chinese people all around the world. And the purpose of the photo is to honor jingjing, a brave girl and encourage Chinese as well, also, it blame the people of their believes of the independence of Tibet. My text is to analysis the different view that Chinese and Americans may have to the photo due to their cultural diversity. And make a conclusion that we should take this difference into account so as to avoid the conflict.
#3
This is also a video. But it is a funny story that tells people a principle in our life. “What is a friend?” We live in a community that is made of people. So we need friend. The typical of this video is expressing the message with words, sounds and picture. It is very funny and attracted so people like them. In that case, the message it wants to convert to people is more acceptable. The audient of the video is mainly the youth because they like the form. The purpose of this video is to teach people a lesson in a special way, a more acceptable way. My teat is to critical analyses the principle it want to show to us. I generally agree with it, but after critical thinking, I think it is not complete for it nevertheless lack of some important aspects. So I add them for the purpose to make the principle complete.
Wang lin
assignment#2
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_cj00XMzA4NDYxMzI=.html
This is a video of advertisement. It has its commercial effect. As we see in the video, the boy buys two Coca Cola. When we see this, we might think, it is an advertisement of Coca Cola. However, to our surprise, the boy uses them as a stepping-stone in order to buy the Pepsi Cola. And then go away with the Pepsi Cola, leaving Coca Cola there on the road. It is a very short advertisement, but it gives me a deep impression, and that is what the advertiser looking for---using short and simple story or something else to give audients a deep impression.
At the first sight I think it is funny and deeply influential. However, when I think deep about it, I came up with some question; for example “What message does this advertisement carry and aim at passing to us?” “Does the message reflect the true in our day-to-day life or it convert the wrong message to people just for the purpose of increasing quantities they sell?”
Obviously, now that it is an advertisement of Pespi, it intents to convince consumers that Pepsi is good and we are supposed to buy and drink it everyday. However, since Pepsi is a soda, it means soda is good and we need to drink it in our daily life which I totally disagree with.
Soda is one of the drink people drink in their daily life, but as I know, soda contains many side effect to people especially the couple who are going to give birth. The scientists form Harvard do an experiment on the killing of sperms associated with the cola, a kind of soda. They conclude that cola will directly hurt sperm and affect men’s reproductive ability. What’s worse, it likely results in a babies born disable. In addition cola do harm to the sperm, it prevent the absorbing of calcium and affect children growing up.
We send and recessive message all the time. Video is certainly a form we receive message, but since some commercial purpose, it may contain the mislead message such as the Pepsi advertisement. In that case, we need to develop the ability of tell the fake from the true and benefit from it.
http://image.baidu.com/i?ct=503316480&z=0&tn=baiduimagedetail&word=%BD%F0%BE%A7%BB%A4%CA%A5%BB%F0&in=14234&cl=2&cm=1&sc=0&lm=-1&pn=7&rn=1&di=76255300&ln=140
2008 saw many changes in China, both good and bad. 2008, the Olympic Games was held in China. 2008, the Tibet wants to independent from China. And the photo is a famous photo online that is popular among all Chinese. And the thing happened in the photo will never fade to the time in every Chinese’ memory.
As we see in the picture, there is a beautiful disable girl seating in the wheel chair. She tightly holds the torch with her body in order to protect the torch from being attracted by the men. She is so brave that acts like an angel. And there is a guy being overwhelmed by a gun. As a Chinese, we all know, what she protects is not just a torch, but the represent of China; the represent of the peace of the world and we admire what the girl has done in the picture. This is a story happens before the Olympic Games. As a rule, before the Olympic Games, the torch will be passed all around the world. Local time April 7, 2008 in Paris, a beautiful girl seating in the wheel chair get the task to pass the torch. Her name is jingjin and she is a fence-player in the national queue. After selecting, she gloriously became a member of passing the torch in Paris. When she started to pass the torch, some Tibet people who support Tibet to independent from China attacked Jingjin and the torch. The stirring moment, which shoes in the photo, came. Jingjin turned her body and protect the torch with her body. And the attacker immediately is overmastered by the local police.
However, the Americans, who have no idea of this history, may see the photo in a total different ways; they may focus on the gun and think that the gun attack people at the first sight instead of the protecting act by jingjing. They react that way due to the lacing of knowledge of this history. A few questions like “what is the picture portrays?” “Why is the gun attack the people?” come to their minds. As we Chinese, the photo seems to say: “we Chinese will never give in to the arm and we will never give up the right to keep the unit of our mother land, China. We will try all we can do, even sacrifice our lives to protect the peace of our mother land.” Also, the picture encourages Chinese people who are living overseas as well. After that, Chinese people all around the world begin to get together to protect the passing of the torch in their areas. In the case, we Chinese let the world to see our solidarity and our decision and strength to protect our mother land. On the other hand, the picture may mean no educational meanings to the Americans, for as much as they have no knowledge of the event. Consider what if they know the event, will it encourage the Americans the same as it does in Chinese people? The answer is absolutely no; by the reason of that it cares about the unit of China but some of the Americans totally do not care about it and some even support the independent of Tibet. As a consequence of this, instead of being encouraged, they may feel and act in an opposite way.
A picture can mean two opposite meaning to the people in different countries. It results from the cultural diversity. Even in American, people may react in different ways for the different believes they hold. As a result of this, I think when we communicate with others, whatever forms we use—photos, conversations or videos, we should take the cultural diversity and the various views different people may have in order to reduce the unintended conflicts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZHmsVRshwU
We all need friends, but as we grow older and older, we meet more and more people. Some of them are our friends, but some of them are just strangers. Everyday there are always people stepping out of our lives and new people stepping into our lives. The fact leads us to think a problem: “what is a friend?” or “what is a true friend mean?”
The video use a very funny way to give us the answer of what is a friend. It uses the model of question and answer and combined the words with cartoon people. It attracts people at the first time they watch it. Also the words are great and give audients a deep impression of what a friend is. It states “a friend id someone who will compliment you.” “a friend will cheer you up when you are sad.” “A friend will let you win sometimes.” “A friend will remember your birthday.” “A friend is fun to be with.” “And a friend will make you smile.” At last it concludes: “it is nice to have a friend.”
In general, I agree with what the video says, but I think it just misses something. I think we should add something in order to make it perfect. A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. They make you to put on nothing, only to be who you really are. You can say what ever you think, so long as it is a true yourself. They will stand by your side forever even in the condition that others may easy to misjudge you. They can avow your little vanities, hates, envies and embarrassment. They understand you, you can cry with them, laugh with them., share them what you have in mind and secret as well. And the most famous saying is that: “A friend in need is a friend indeed.”
Nothing can be perfect, so does the video. I love it, both the words and the way it express the ideas to its audients. But I just think the content is not integrity. So I think it should add more content into it so as to make it perfect.
This is a video of advertisement. It has its commercial effect. As we see in the video, the boy buys two Coca Cola. When we see this, we might think, it is an advertisement of Coca Cola. However, to our surprise, the boy uses them as a stepping-stone in order to buy the Pepsi Cola. And then go away with the Pepsi Cola, leaving Coca Cola there on the road. It is a very short advertisement, but it gives me a deep impression, and that is what the advertiser looking for---using short and simple story or something else to give audients a deep impression.
At the first sight I think it is funny and deeply influential. However, when I think deep about it, I came up with some question; for example “What message does this advertisement carry and aim at passing to us?” “Does the message reflect the true in our day-to-day life or it convert the wrong message to people just for the purpose of increasing quantities they sell?”
Obviously, now that it is an advertisement of Pespi, it intents to convince consumers that Pepsi is good and we are supposed to buy and drink it everyday. However, since Pepsi is a soda, it means soda is good and we need to drink it in our daily life which I totally disagree with.
Soda is one of the drink people drink in their daily life, but as I know, soda contains many side effect to people especially the couple who are going to give birth. The scientists form Harvard do an experiment on the killing of sperms associated with the cola, a kind of soda. They conclude that cola will directly hurt sperm and affect men’s reproductive ability. What’s worse, it likely results in a babies born disable. In addition cola do harm to the sperm, it prevent the absorbing of calcium and affect children growing up.
We send and recessive message all the time. Video is certainly a form we receive message, but since some commercial purpose, it may contain the mislead message such as the Pepsi advertisement. In that case, we need to develop the ability of tell the fake from the true and benefit from it.
http://image.baidu.com/i?ct=503316480&z=0&tn=baiduimagedetail&word=%BD%F0%BE%A7%BB%A4%CA%A5%BB%F0&in=14234&cl=2&cm=1&sc=0&lm=-1&pn=7&rn=1&di=76255300&ln=140
2008 saw many changes in China, both good and bad. 2008, the Olympic Games was held in China. 2008, the Tibet wants to independent from China. And the photo is a famous photo online that is popular among all Chinese. And the thing happened in the photo will never fade to the time in every Chinese’ memory.
As we see in the picture, there is a beautiful disable girl seating in the wheel chair. She tightly holds the torch with her body in order to protect the torch from being attracted by the men. She is so brave that acts like an angel. And there is a guy being overwhelmed by a gun. As a Chinese, we all know, what she protects is not just a torch, but the represent of China; the represent of the peace of the world and we admire what the girl has done in the picture. This is a story happens before the Olympic Games. As a rule, before the Olympic Games, the torch will be passed all around the world. Local time April 7, 2008 in Paris, a beautiful girl seating in the wheel chair get the task to pass the torch. Her name is jingjin and she is a fence-player in the national queue. After selecting, she gloriously became a member of passing the torch in Paris. When she started to pass the torch, some Tibet people who support Tibet to independent from China attacked Jingjin and the torch. The stirring moment, which shoes in the photo, came. Jingjin turned her body and protect the torch with her body. And the attacker immediately is overmastered by the local police.
However, the Americans, who have no idea of this history, may see the photo in a total different ways; they may focus on the gun and think that the gun attack people at the first sight instead of the protecting act by jingjing. They react that way due to the lacing of knowledge of this history. A few questions like “what is the picture portrays?” “Why is the gun attack the people?” come to their minds. As we Chinese, the photo seems to say: “we Chinese will never give in to the arm and we will never give up the right to keep the unit of our mother land, China. We will try all we can do, even sacrifice our lives to protect the peace of our mother land.” Also, the picture encourages Chinese people who are living overseas as well. After that, Chinese people all around the world begin to get together to protect the passing of the torch in their areas. In the case, we Chinese let the world to see our solidarity and our decision and strength to protect our mother land. On the other hand, the picture may mean no educational meanings to the Americans, for as much as they have no knowledge of the event. Consider what if they know the event, will it encourage the Americans the same as it does in Chinese people? The answer is absolutely no; by the reason of that it cares about the unit of China but some of the Americans totally do not care about it and some even support the independent of Tibet. As a consequence of this, instead of being encouraged, they may feel and act in an opposite way.
A picture can mean two opposite meaning to the people in different countries. It results from the cultural diversity. Even in American, people may react in different ways for the different believes they hold. As a result of this, I think when we communicate with others, whatever forms we use—photos, conversations or videos, we should take the cultural diversity and the various views different people may have in order to reduce the unintended conflicts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZHmsVRshwU
We all need friends, but as we grow older and older, we meet more and more people. Some of them are our friends, but some of them are just strangers. Everyday there are always people stepping out of our lives and new people stepping into our lives. The fact leads us to think a problem: “what is a friend?” or “what is a true friend mean?”
The video use a very funny way to give us the answer of what is a friend. It uses the model of question and answer and combined the words with cartoon people. It attracts people at the first time they watch it. Also the words are great and give audients a deep impression of what a friend is. It states “a friend id someone who will compliment you.” “a friend will cheer you up when you are sad.” “A friend will let you win sometimes.” “A friend will remember your birthday.” “A friend is fun to be with.” “And a friend will make you smile.” At last it concludes: “it is nice to have a friend.”
In general, I agree with what the video says, but I think it just misses something. I think we should add something in order to make it perfect. A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. They make you to put on nothing, only to be who you really are. You can say what ever you think, so long as it is a true yourself. They will stand by your side forever even in the condition that others may easy to misjudge you. They can avow your little vanities, hates, envies and embarrassment. They understand you, you can cry with them, laugh with them., share them what you have in mind and secret as well. And the most famous saying is that: “A friend in need is a friend indeed.”
Nothing can be perfect, so does the video. I love it, both the words and the way it express the ideas to its audients. But I just think the content is not integrity. So I think it should add more content into it so as to make it perfect.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
a tipical day in my life
As with any other days, it is a common day in my life. At seven o'clock in the early morning, my clock rings. I have to get up and do some washing. Then I go to the cafeteria to eat my breakfast with my roommate. After enjoying the delicious meal, we go to the business complex for our IDES class. the class lasts for 50 minutes and then I go to Bessay hall for my WRA1004 class and she goes to the library to study. At about 10 o'clock, I go out of Bessay hall and go to Wells hall for my macroeconomic class. It also runs for 50minutes. At about 11:10. We take the No.30 bus to Hubbard and go to cafeteria to eat lunch. The time for reaching our room is about 12:30. And we begin to search the Internet. At about 1 o'clock, I go to have a sleep, it probably lasts for 2to 3 hours. Then I get up to watch some movies. we eat supper at about 5:30. At 7:00, I go to have a shower and talk to my family for about 1 hour. At 9 o'clock, I begin to work- doing my homework, do some reading. At about 1 o'clock. I go to sleep and that's my whole day. I t repeats day and day that I cannot even realize the time flying.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
a photographic image analyze
This is a photographic image I got from one of my friend. I fall in love with it at the first sight. It is very simple but contain much. As we see, there are two footprints on the beach. Obveriously, one is from a man and one is from a woman. The photographer wants to depict a membory that a long time ago, she and he came to a strange place. It is such a strange place that full of challenge and dismay. But they went together, they went hand in hand. The childish faces were filled with tears and laugh. They went throught the beach, leaving the footprints that stay together. She make this photo in order to record the hard time they spent together and the confident that they will face the difficulities in the rest of life together.
Photographers, like writers in a certain extense, affect people in their ways. When I first saw the image, I was totally touched by it. I felt very warm. It is a prove that they got through the hard time together. The footprint on the beach gives me many image; for example, what happens in tha past time and what is about to happen in the future. But the most important is that they stand together! Only this can make me feel warm and touched. I think the photographer did a very good job at choosing the image, it stands very close to what she wants to express.
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