tag:blog.vcu.edu,2007:/jiangy3//817 2007-08-04T10:12:23Z Jackie @ vcu Movable Type 3.34 tag:blog.vcu.edu,2007:/jiangy3//817.7330 2007-08-03T00:47:54Z 2007-08-04T10:12:23Z

This is not the first time of my canoing. But it is the longest one, definitely!~~~ 5 miles!~~~ The trip covers approximately 5 miles of the Upper James River. James River, just like the Hangpu river in Shanghai, plays an important role in the daily life of the local people in Richmond. tag:blog.vcu.edu,2007:/jiangy3//817.7268 2007-08-02T01:35:56Z 2007-08-02T07:35:14Z

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Thanks to ANtonil J. Garcia, the Director of Jazz Studies of VCU, who gave us an live show and also a handout to serve as a guide for us to continue the exploration of jazz long after we return home. The music and history of jazz provide the exploration of other subjects, including language, history,social studies,math,physics,religion and even psychology. The sensations inherent to jazz make the bridge to learn and share applications relevant to the study of other subjects. ]]> tag:blog.vcu.edu,2007:/jiangy3//817.7057 2007-07-30T23:03:28Z 2007-07-31T04:44:51Z

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We had a big meal in her place. I like apple pie!~~~ I love the decoration in her house so much which is made by themselves. Her hunband made the woodwork, and Carmen is now working in her beautiful garden. We talked lot about family with them. How to make a good relationships? Who made the major decision? How to take care of the kids? There was onething very impressive to me. Carmen thinks that: in the relationship between the couples, there is no 50% and 50%, it should be 100% and 100%, which means that you should do your best to please your partner and donated to your family. I guess that's why she has such an nice family. ]]> tag:blog.vcu.edu,2007:/jiangy3//817.6917 2007-07-27T05:20:45Z 2007-08-02T07:36:18Z

POE Museum, which I visited this evening, boasts the world's finest collectio of Edgar Allan Peo's editions, memorabilia and personal belongings. Eventhough I know nothing about Poe, I did have fun there. I like the party, the music!~~~ When chated with the people in the party and played with the kids, I knew more about the daily life of the local people in Richmond and enjoyed the happy ambience there. ---------------- With little Peter I met at the party, who is three now. He is so beautiful and cute. Cos he is still learning how to speak, when I asked his name, he just say "ah!~~~~" He is there with his parents, his aunts, his baby brother and his cousin. This is his first party and I guess he like it. ]]> tag:blog.vcu.edu,2007:/jiangy3//817.6673 2007-07-24T06:16:25Z 2007-07-25T05:07:20Z

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I like sea food!~~~~~~~~~~~~ ]]> tag:blog.vcu.edu,2007:/jiangy3//817.6659 2007-07-24T04:01:49Z 2007-07-24T04:05:37Z

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On today’s lecture “multi-media and reporting in America” by Dr.June Nicholson & Dr.Debora Wenger, we had been given an abstract image of the different climate of China and the U.S press. Because of the different system of these two countries, the press goes in quite different ways. And my question is “Does the press provides a balanced and fair coverage to events within and about China today?” China is hot – it is very hot, which we can see in the internet news and the American ones. And I am not talking about the weather. Economists and historians claim that China’s economic development is unprecedented in modern history. The United States and Great Britain, both major world powers during the 20th century, took many decades to reach the level of development that China has reached in the span of only two decades. Yet along with this rapid growth and development come many problems as well. While China has effectively become the manufacturing hub for much of the world, it has done so at the expense of industrial and manufacturing job growth in other countries. The new phenomenon of “outsourcing,” or the location of service and manufacturing jobs from the home country of a business to another country, is seen by many as threat to the health and well-being of workers in industrial nations, like the United States. These concerns appear almost daily in the press. Now stories like these about China are not just the stuff of the daily stream of news accounts. They also represent the very foundations for the ways people think about China. The media, in other words, don’t simply report the news – they make it. For example, if the media take a particular view on an event, like the War in Iraq, such a position may become the basis for how individual citizens think about the matter. Then, does the press provides a balanced and fair coverage to events within and about China today? In my point of view, there may be no single image – neither a positive nor a negative one. There are variations from one paper, and one city, to another. American newspapers in different cities and different sections of the country treat China differently. As we can see on the news paper and even in the lecture given today, most American Press treats Chinese issues objectively. In the end, of course, I believe images in the press matter, and they matter very much. People vary as do American institutions from one part of the country to the other. The best one can do is to be alert and sensitive to the images in the press and the way they help to construct our view of social realities. If we acknowledge these as facts of life in the modern world, then surely we will have gained greater insight, and, as a result I would hope, people will be motivated to dig ever more deeply into the facts of life in and about China today. tag:blog.vcu.edu,2007:/jiangy3//817.6506 2007-07-20T04:03:42Z 2007-07-20T05:40:02Z

In this film, Harry Potter is in his fifth year at Hogwarts,and is shunned by the wizarding community for claim that Lord Voldemort has, after 14 years, regained a body and been restored to full power. Because Umbridge, who take over Hogwarts through the support of the Ministry teaches them inadequate, textbook lessons devoid of actual magic. Thus, "Dumbledore's Army" is founded. Which is attractive in the film and even in the novel for me:Harry prepare twenty-seven of his schoolmates in case of a battle with Voldemort. The duel erupted between Voldemort and Dumbledore is supposed to the most amazing part of the whole film. And because of the IMAX, it seems much spectacular than it can be imagined when I read the novel several years ago. Harry Potter is one of my favorite films. Because it makes me think about the reality and the fantasy, which suggests that sometimes there might be miracles happen around us and we should believe in ourselves and never surrender our faith.Just like the end of the film, Dumbledore discusses with Harry the contents of the prophecy , that "either must die by the hand of the other, for neither can live while the other survives." But, Harry is happy that he and his friends have something Voldemort doesn't have, something to fight for - love. Just like after the agonising internal battle, Harry says that it is Voldemort, not he, who is weak and that he will never know love or friendship, and for that Harry feels sorry for him. Sadness is easier, 'cos it's surrender. I say, just make time to dance alone, with one hand waving free... ... ]]> tag:blog.vcu.edu,2007:/jiangy3//817.6427 2007-07-19T05:51:43Z 2007-08-02T07:31:16Z

Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth. ... ... ]]> tag:blog.vcu.edu,2007:/jiangy3//817.6417 2007-07-19T04:10:38Z 2007-07-19T04:47:51Z

Individual freedom cann’t exists without economic security and independence. ------ Franklin Roosevelt Dr.Tim Thurber gave us the lecture on “America during the 20th century” today. When he shows us the chart of the changes of income after tax, a question occurred to me: “How is the social redistribution in America now?” If we look into the history of US, we can see the prosperity and wealth are not equally divided among Americans, nor have they been. During the history of America, great wealth can influence, and has influenced, the course of politics in America. In my point of view, as a society in which capitalism is the dominant force in the economy, economic inequalities are likely to arise. In the early years of modern industrial capitalism in America, the inequalities were sharp and deep. For just as corporate wealth has become concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer large corporations, so, too, there the very rich and the very poor. Today virtually all sociologists take for granted that the dominant players in the modern economy are not people, but the large corporations, and among them those corporations that control the greatest amount of assets.For example, the largest corporations in America today not only control a vast amount of wealth and resources, but they also calls a “corporate community”. It has taken form because of the social networks that bind one large corporation to another large corporation. Sometimes such networks happen as a result of friendships, or clubs. But most often the networks occur at the highest decision-making level of the corporation—the board of directors. tag:blog.vcu.edu,2007:/jiangy3//817.6308 2007-07-18T08:55:18Z 2007-07-19T06:05:45Z

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