Yuexiang+Chi

Jan 12, 2011

How does computer technology effect prople's life?

The computer technology effect our life in communication and entertainment. The development of internet improving the communication between individuals, and also different countries. I, as a example, is a student from China but study in USA. Every morning during 7am to 11am, I talk with my parents in skype. My parents are all in China, but we still can keep connection with each other on the internet. The communication is going to more easiler and faster because of computer technology. If you ask a boy what do you do everyday after class, I can promise there will be about 60% guys will answered playing WOW, a popular online game recent days. For girls, they chatting online, or post pictures on their facebook. Internet makes everything possible just on the little screen but a wide and great connection world.

Jan 12, 2011

A person I admired.

The one I admired is not really a media professional. He is my high school classmate who is a really good artist and designer. I see him as a role model because I really like his work. In high school, he was popular because of his amazing artwork. He can make an animation and radio himself. Every clubs asked him for posters. And I can saw him worked everywhere in the campus. Almost every poster on the wall was his works. He is also a good photographer. He had held a showcase in campus to display his photos. When I was looking for a college, a famous art school was already offering him. Right now he is study in an art school in British. I admire not only his fantastic idea when he designs, but also his bravery showing others his artwork. It is really important when I start to have a career. It’s always good to show what do you know and what can you do in finding a career. What I learn from him also has join many different events and get experience can help you involved in a better group.

Jan 14, 2011

My definition of success.

Last I was organized my old work from last year. There is a short essay titled "My definition of success". I read what I wrote, then laughed. In short, my main idea was "do what I want, and have what I want is my success". I thought it and figured out that this is not a success, it's lucky. get everything you want is lucky. because when we are in the way to success there are so many hardship to cross. Sometimes we may get lost in the way. We may lost things in order to achieve success. Luck is everything is there for you, you don't have to do any hard work. Success means we do but we may or may not get it. It's a hard process. But always if you go though this process, there is success. RIght now to me a successful life is make myself proud.

Jan14, 2011

Hayao's animation feature, My favorite animator.

Hayao is good at using metaphors to shown different ideas which he want audiences to consider. The subconscious and Active is what he always used in his animation. He never directly tell what’s the main idea, audience have to find it themselves. In the movie "Spirited Away". The little girl who is the main character Chihiro Ogino. The “no face” represented people’s desire. This is what I believe Hayao want tell us. The “no face” use gold to attracted people, when he (or it) successes he will eat them. People’s desire for money, gold, any benefit to themselves was never stopped. But the result of being greedy is eaten by own desire and lost themselves. Hayao is a great story teller. Every single time I watch his movies, I got something new. I just want be like him, tell a good story and make people think.

week3:

Jan 22, 2011

taking the examination, as a method of selecting the best students is common in the world, it is not unique to us, but why we have so many protester of it? the college entrance examination as a fair selection mechanism, it has an important meaning. if we destroy the college entrance examination, it will inevitably produce more confusion and unfair. i see the gate of the university, only more open to the riches and the powerful. today in china, the grade report will easily be changed by money. those children, who have a rich and powerful family, what i mean by powerful family is the person who stand in the high level in the society. they just spend less work to get a high score, and the truth is they can always and easily get what they want. there is nothing the education department can do to protect fair from the "money and puissance is supreme" society. with a perfect file, many riches' son or daughter will go to a top college. the real hardworking students whom are poor but perform great in school cannot successfully into a top college. to the numbers of rural poor students, no money and no influence will be a painful injury. therefore, destroy the national college entrance examination will close the door in which poor people can change their life. i believe the college entrance examination is the most fair in the unfair.

Jan 22, 2011

be proactive

I was reading this article for my media class. my professor strongly encourage us to read it ourself, and try to learn how to be a proactive person. in the article "be proactive", the author explained that a proactive person should be influence others not be influence. and they will be a great leader, and problem solver. for a proactive person, they can thinking things in a different way. they can be very subjective. any hardship is always a great experience. they never afraid about be in front. they affect others by their reasonable saying and action. i really be a proactive person.

Jan 22, 2011

If there is a day i woke up, and figured out i become a boy, i would be so surprised first and then happy. i really want to be a boy if i can choose my gander. boys can do everything they want, can be dirty, can fight, and obstinate which in my hometown cannot happen in a girl. i am able to say what i thought and what i want. as a girl, sometimes we won;t say something to our friends even we are uncomfortable with what they did. i guess it will be ok for boys to speak out. i will spend time with friend playing video games, instead of having a tea or coffee with friends and chatting. my room will be unordered and i can though everything on the ground. my skin care productions and make ups will all gone, the only thing lift on my desk will be the residual food from yesterday. when i become a boy, i don't have to take shower everyday, and never care about my hair every day morning. i can wake up in 10 minutes before class. i will never worry about missing in a strange place. but i have to take care girls when they are in trouble, and every time they need help i have to be there and help them. spend only 10 minutes in shopping instead of 2 hours. no pink in my room.

Jan 22, 2011

i think if abolish school attendance right now, most students might choose not to go to school. because they have under the compulsory school's education for years, in their mind school is terrible. however if abolish the compulsory school attendance for students who first come to school, the situation might be different. those young students are still curious they might be choose to go to school to figure out if it is interesting for them. so there can be 2different situation. here if compulsory school were abolished.

week 4

Jan 30, 2011

why do girls like shopping: Women have desire to be beauty, so they come to buy anything they want. Females are stronger than males in the desire of good looking. Shopping can make women’s beauty possible. Because it helped girls dress up and make them beautiful. Therefore, most girls shop for cosmetics and clothes. Everyone has vanity. Most shoppers are young girls, and always have stronger vanity than boys. Girls shopping for not only what they want, but what others have, and always better. When girls get together, they talks about things they has. No one want lose in the war. Moreover, shopping makes women pretty, so they can become popular which made them happy. Desire is one reason for why girls prefer shopping.

Jan 30, 2011 Students can decide to get a job while in college, but it could turn out to be a lot of extra work. Might the work be worthwhile in the future? Some people might agree, but others don’t. it may not be easy to make this decision. Students must gain experience from working. If a job is in the field that interests the student, then the job should be a good idea. Students might be get future work in the same company they worked for in college. They could say that students can get jobs that take a lot of time that would had been spent doing homework and studying. When that happens, their grades drop; they might graduate late and have a hard time finding a full-time job. Of course, money should have influenced a student’s decision. If a student has found it hard to pay for tuition, then a job can be the answer. The student can get experience and money, too. When students who work go for jobs after graduation, they should demonstrate previous experience. It must have helped. Jan 30, 2011

News is different in the television, magazines, and the newspaper. Even newspapers and magazines are all printed news, they describe event in different view. And television show news in video, give more direct and strong experience. Newspapers are toward the news which must be really new and their news article included more detail and information about the news, but less opinion. The magazines contain more opinion. It has more discussion in recent large effective events. Compare to newspaper and magazine, the Television had less description in words. Television gives clear and direct feeling to an event. In most time, it can show clearly how the interested party of the event feels by interviewing them. The similar of these three mediums is the topic which is new and effective. For example the Haiti earthquake appears in newspapers, magazines and television. In my opinion, television should contain the more information. Everyone has different opinion about news. Television news gives more detail by showing the video. After watching the video, people can find out more information which others cannot find. Everyone paid different attention in different point.

Jan 30, 2011 medium are national and widely disseminated. Their value is in making people knowledgeable. By reading the newspaper, individuals can get different information from different part of life, and some of the information is international. Medium had a large influence to the society. However, the situation start to change when the internet begin play a important role in our life. People in my age like computer more than newspaper, magazine, and television. In the future, I believe there will be some change in medium because the widely use of internet.

week 5

Feb 10, 2011 Medium had a large influence to the society. However, the situation start to change when the internet begin play a important role in our life. People in my age like computer more than newspaper, magazine, and television. In the future, I believe there will be some change in medium because the widely use of internet.

Feb 10, 2011 As a campus newspaper, The Post has a common shortage. Because it’s hold by college students and it’s talk about the campus life, there is less information in the newspaper. The Post only has 6 pages. Therefore it consists of less information and area. They separated only two directory branches. That’s the main problem they had in The Post, I thought. However the editor tried their best to contain more possible news in this newspaper. The web site of The Post actually includes more information than in the newspaper. In my opinion The Post can add some information that student really interested in the newspaper, and more in web site. For example, the club activities or college activities can be add in The Post.

Feb 10, 2011 "Seasons in the Sun” have been covered by many singers. The most famous two will be Terry Jacks and Westlife. The oldest version of “seasons in the sun” is a French-language song. By translating the song to English version, Terry Jacks makes the song more popular and famous in 1974. And then in 1999, Westlife’s “Seasons in the Sun” become the Christmas Number one in that year. Personally, I like Terry Jack’s “Seasons in the Sun” better. Because his singing really helps me imaging the dead man who is sad about leaving. Even it’s in a faster speed, the emotion is more upset in Terry’s song. And he is trying so hard to accept the fact that he have to facing the death.

Feb 10, 2011 I have seen a advertisement. the background image is a man holds a sandwich and laugh. The word said, “Oh goody, it’s Monday.” It affects people by using this image and the ad words. It shows that this sandwich is a good way to start a week. The man’s laugh seems like full of energy, he might have a good week. When we think about Monday, our face will looks so bad. In people’s mind Monday is the dreariest day in a week. This advertisement change customers’ mind that Monday can be good when you eat their sandwich. The advertisement takes a whole page in the magazine Time. It strikes readers’ eyes. The manufacturer put it in the Time magazine is wanted to catch the white-collars. They take a big part of the readers of the Time. Their work is busy. Most times they can only eat fast food as meal. The sandwich gives them a good choice, and the image shows the sandwich can make the week full of energy and happy. In American today, because of the financial crisis, individuals work under the pressure. In the advertisement the man laughed. This smile has relax and pleasant.


 * week 6 **

Feb 12, 2011 I learned alot from the shootout team. It's a really fun experience I have ever had. Our directer really know what to do, so we a re in step by step. even it's 48 hours shootout, we finished in 24 hours. we never rushed. I like doing lightings, even i just do whatever they tell me what to do.

Feb 12, 2011 In Seth Godin’s writing, “Brainwashed”, the Acknowledge the Lizard telling us the main reason why we are afraid to make arts. The main reason is we don’t want to be laughed at. Therefore we don’t want to dislike others. Being difference makes us fear. We must ignore this feeling, stop care too much about other’s laughing. The last layer is Learn. In short, learning is never stopping. We learn everyday from different people and experiences. Learning something everyday, and challenging us.

Feb 12, 2011 Common Chinese schools teach English in traditional ways as one single subject. In the original Chinese way, grammar is the most important and article reading gets less attention. In China, most schools make English one course. They combine writing, reading, listening and speaking together. Therefore, every class has no any special focus. However, Chinese teachers prefer to teach grammar and vocabulary. Grammar gets a large percentage of attention when under the normal English learning system in China. In my own experience, for example, each lesson was start from a short article, and my English teacher explained each sentence clearly. Reading is not as important as leaning grammar, so articles in the textbook are short. In other words, traditional English education doesn’t really have focus on reading. Students do not have to read long novels or any long passages. Things are different in international schools. Feb 12, 2011 International schools in China teach English by divided it into four different classes, which are writing, reading, listening, and speaking. Under this education system, writing has become the most important part of English. In normal Chinese school, students don’t know how to write an essay, and all they have to do in writing is write fifty words paragraph. This situation is not possible in international schools. For example, when I studied in international school, I was asked to write essay and have to follow the structure. Grammar and vocabulary are use for writing. Exams in international schools include asks students to write a paragraph and an essay. Reading articles is different with normal schools, which is common and encouraged. In my experience in international school, I read novels and made project. Timed reading was also necessary.

WEEK 7

1, In Seth Godin’s writing, “Brainwashed”, the Acknowledge the Lizard telling us the main reason why we are afraid to make arts. The main reason is we don’t want to be laughed at. Therefore we don’t want to dislike others. Being difference makes us fear. We must ignore this feeling, stop care too much about other’s laughing.

2, The conflict also shows in the shape. The golden products are all in a triangle **shape**. Compare to the naked man who is holding a cross, is in a rectangle. The conflict is clearer. Look at the **lines** in this picture, most of them are diagonal.

3, After I reformed the picture, it changed. According to the rules of third, now we are focus on the man. We first see the cross in his hand. And then some falling legs in the right. The man seems want defended himself, so he won’t hurt by those large body. 4, In my picture, the elephant is higher than the man, but it is still small and far away from us. The man in our eyes is bigger. I think his defense or fight will success. WEEK 8 1，when I am working on the first blog, even I am very familiar with the animator, Hayao Miyazaki, but I actually never considered how does his animation affect me and educated me. His animations have many different aspects for me to learn. Therefore writing a blog assignment is also a good way to learning things beside class.

2， I actually think it’s a pretty good way to challenge myself. I was thinking if we post our working on Youtube, and let more people evaluating the works may challenging us a lot more.

3，The last layer is Learn. In short, learning is never stopping. We learn everyday from different people and experiences. Learning something everyday, and challenging us.

4，The conflict also shows in the shape. The golden products are all in a triangle **shape**. Compare to the naked man who is holding a cross, is in a rectangle. The conflict is clearer. Look at the **lines** in this picture, most of them are diagonal.

week9

1. the toefl test is coming soon. therefore for review we should work on reading and grammar. they are the most basic part in a toefl and the easiest to review for.

2. recent days i was reading a book named "Les gouttes de dieu". it is not really a book though. it is a japanese manga. anyway from the book name, i think you may get an idea what it will talk about. it is about wine. before reading this book, i really have no any knowledge about wine. This is a good book to leading you to the world of wine. I really get attracted by wine. it seems a mysterious to me, but it is a world of wonderful. but the thing is i am in america and i am not allowed to drink. too bad.

3. I really like my media class. it is fun and active. i think the reason why i take digital media as my major, is because i want a exciting life. I like what i do and enjoy it. Hope i can make money in it.

4. this is the last journey i write, i am going to miss it. But i really hope i can get out of opie next quarter.