Because of love

“ Over the years a person
Rain has also taken over the wind
There were tears at fault
Recall of what

Love too will understand
Will be lonely will look back on
Finally have a dream finally have you in mind

Walking with a friend's life
Those days are no longer
Life sentence
Life, love a glass of wine
A friend had not been alone
You will understand soon as a friend
There are also injury pain
I have to go there”

This is a Chinese song and I translate it into English. It is talking about friends. I can still remember before I came to America, all of my friends get together and sang this song for me. I cried.

The first half year for me in America is nearly end and I will go back to China during Christmas holiday. I have learned a lot from my classes. I can speak better English and give a good presentation in front of my class. I can see my writing paper are improve a lot. I have suffered a lot. I live by myself. I have to take care of myself. I have nearly lost myself. I always feel that I am super lucky because I met so many good person and friends there. They help me a lot. They take care of me as their sister. They encourage me and protect me.

I have felt tired and lonely. I always miss my family and friends in Beijing. I want tell them how I miss them. I want tell them that I grow up. I can cook for myself and I can clean my apartment by myself. I want tell them I am healthy and I met a lot of good classmates. I want tell them the America education system and theory is totally different with China. I can really learn a lot from my class. I want persuade them to study aboard, because they will see a totally different world. I want tell them there is no one can instead them in my heart. I want tell them they are always in my mind.

     America is famous for their freedom. It is shows on the mass media too. They can say everything they want; they can sing everything they want to. Because of the “freedom of press” which the press is technically free to publish all the news, provided the information can be obtained. It’s a guarantee in the U.S. Constitution. Artists have the power to create any kind of topic movies, for example, the movie stories which talk about homosexual is the most popular topic in the America movie field now.

    America is one of the strongest countries in the world, therefore, their opinion and move influenced all over the world. Their media products affect a lot of teenagers. They show how America society looks like. Teenagers like to follow how the actors or actresses act and dress. They are ideal and fashion.

     There are some media sources tell people we can create our life. They encourage hard study and work, and our dream will be realize one day. There is a movie talk about how a pretty girl learns how to be a great lawyer and be successful at the end.

     There is an another movie called “Hua Mulan” in China. Hua Mulan isChina's most famous woman warrior lived and fought in the fifth century AD. Her father was conscripted to go to war, but he was too sick to fight, so Hua Mu-Lan offered to go in his place. Her father rejected the offer, but she insisted. She suggested they have a sword fight and if she won, she'd go. Mu-Lan won the fight.
She cut her hair, put on her father's armor and joined the emperor's troops using her father's name. For over ten years, she fought as a man without her true identity being discovered. Her was bravery at the front lines and extraordinary fighting skill so impressed her general that he offered this soldier his daughter's hand in marriage. Somehow, the marriage never took place and Mu-Lan returned home and became herself again.

     All the movie talk about different people chooses different way to life, they all affect people’s life.

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I have read the topics on the page 237. I found all of them are focus on two key words which are gender roles! But I am not really clear what gender roles are.

If I want to write a good essay for these essay topics that I have to understand what gender roles are.

May be nurse is a kind of gender roles that most of nurses are women.

I think gender roles are kind of characters that people think in their mind. For example, people like to define that women are emotional and men are stronger than women and people believe that women are good at taking care of people and men are good at protect people. Therefore, women are suitable to be nurses or housewives and police or firemen are good choice for men. They are really like traditional rules in people’s heart. But since 20 century, the world change a lot.

More and more women do business in the International Company and government. They show their great advantages to the society that they are good at thinking and working. I don’t know exactly why people are focus on women who are successful in their field; especially they are more successful than men in the field. Maybe some people are jealous them. Ha

We have woman Emperor in old ancient China. She was a great woman. It must be very hard for her to get that position.

I believe, either women or men have the same ability to be successful on any certain issue. It most depends on how much you work on it.

Gender roles

My mother taught me to be an independent woman in the future since I was a child. The gender roles between men and women are change a lot. More and more men need to do housework at home. Another fact is that girls have the power and opportunity to choose the one they love.

Since women can get the same opportunity to study in the school and have stand on the same stage with men. Women get more and more opportunity than before. People began to reconsider the relationship with male and female. Women can get job at any field, even get job in the field which used to belong to men. Men loose more job opportunity in the business or other field, and their jobs’ types are changing a lot. Some of them work at home and take care of the child, some of them like to do the housework and help other families take care of the babies. For example, more and more work in hospital as nurses, and people find that they do a really good job, because they have the strong power which women don’t have, so people use men’s advantage to help patient.

I believe everyone has their special and different strongpoint and it not based on the gender.

First of all, I have to say that fall break is really a long holiday, it last for a week and 3 days. It is so surprise and happy for me that we don’t have fall break in China.

I did a lot of things during this fall break. I have met my academic advisor in the coldest day since I came to Richmond. I went to Washington this Thursday and it brought me a lot of fun.

I think I love Washington; I like the building and road which it presents. I feel extremely miss my hometown when I was travel in Washington, maybe because both of them are capital city for one country. Both of them are independent city and not belong to any state or province.

The most exciting thing is I already book my flight tickets for Christmas holiday that I can go back to Beijing during the winter holiday. I miss my home a lot.

I can still remember before my mother went back to Beijing, I have told her that I will not go back to Beijing this winter, but I regret now.

I have come to America for 4 months. I become used to the life I have now. Richmond is really a good place to study, because there don’t have a lot of entertainment which attract you to spend time on. Washington is much more different. There are so many things waiting for you to discover. There are numbers of museums you can visit and more special restaurant site beside the beautiful road. All of them seem really nice.

Winter seems coming, the weather change a lot. I am kind of no idea what should I need to wear. Some my friends told me the classroom will be really warm, but the outside is cold. So, what should I need to wear???

That’s it!!!  Hope everything good in “Fall 2”!!!!

I choose the topic three in page 101! Analyze the qualities of good teachers and /or good students. Consider such things as goals, values, teaching and learning styles, behaviors, and character traits. This topic is a little similar to the topic we just write about in our time writing, what quality to be a good teacher.

We have met bunch of teachers in our life, some teachers leave me a really deep impression, and some teachers I even can’t remember their names.

I choose this topic because I feel it will be really interesting. We discuss how to evaluate a good student much more than assess a good teacher.

I can remember when I was a high school student, our school will give us a form to fill. The forms are evaluating teachers. We always do these kind forms really seriously! We may give really low scores to the teacher we don’t like! The things we afraid is that if someone will really read it and give us some answers.

I am thinking about my thesis. Should I choose discuss both students and teachers or only choose one. Or should I give some words to definition what is a good teachers or students or something else.  I know it will be an interesting essay, but don’t have enough idea now.

I am thinking about what are basic qualities a teacher should have. I think I may just discuss about the teacher part for more specific describe. I have thought about to find some professor which teach education in our college, they are specialist in this field, but it may a challenge to myself.

I may consider the teachers’ qualities and make them related to the “internet” and “IQ”. I believe it may really interesting and easier.

The whole things are still massy in my mind, there are several ideas in my mind, I want to choose the best one to work on.

Describe a way in which Gardner’s or Goleman’s theory of intelligence might influence some aspect of formal education-for example, teaching methods, curriculum design, or assessment

I have read some pages about Gardner’s theory before in my listening class, it doesn’t sound so surprise or perfect, but it do be considered and use in the daily school schedule. Also, I find the formal education do have change and become close to the Gardner theory.

Logical mathematical and linguistic are like general skills that schools teach the students, like math, English. Bodily- kinesthetic is like our P.E. class. I always feel proud of my high school, because we have the best P.E. class in Beijing. Why I say that is because we have P.E. class every day. Monday, Wednesday, Friday are general exercise, Tuesday and Thursday are special sports, girl can choose play basketball, dance, or taikongdao, boys can choose soccer, basketball, handball and taikongdao. We also have swimming class in the summer. I really miss those classes.

Musical is also a kind of skill which society already focus on a long time. I have piano class since grade one when I was in my elementary school. Also we have music class from primary school to high school, those class is always the most interesting class and relax time during whole week. Some children do show some geniuses on certain subject.

We also have dance and art class, it’s really full of creative in the art class, I like it even though I’m not good at it. I kind of hate dance class, because I’m really terrible at dance, ha, but some of my classmates they have geniuses at dancing; they interested in it, and take part in some big games.

Interpersonal and intrapersonal and Naturalist are more show in the daily life or answer the question or write an essay!

For conclusion, Gardner’s theory aren’t that kind of mystery, they are all around our daily life.

Describe an experience you had in which the Internet was either helpful or not helpful as you were completing a school assignment.

I have taken a speaking class in this summer session; the first assignment that our teacher gave us was making a camp with your group member and gave class a presentation. I have took part in the camp when I was in the elementary school, honestly, I couldn’t remember a lot about my camp experience and I didn’t feel a learned a lot of knowledge from somewhere, but the most important thing is I had a lot of happy memories with my dear friends for whole life. Therefore, I want my camp at somewhere which full of happiness and memory. So, I choose Disney land.

I have never been to Disney land before, but it is like a dream place since I was a child. My mother told me a story before I slept every night when I was young, and the story is from a beautiful country where prince and princess lived in. I choose build my camp in this dream place. Unfortunately, I don’t have the Disney land experience, but I want to make this camp seems more reality; therefore, I need bunch of messages about Disneyland. I search on the Google and find some visitor websites which introduce the basic information about Disneyland, but they were not enough, so I just go straight link to the “Disneyland.com”.

It is a really beautiful website, and I found everything I want!

Firstly, thanks to it clean and really good organize that I can clearly find what I need. For example, it shows me how they separate their space and each one have a link that you can know details about it. The most attractive part is they put a short video on the top, and when you log in this part of land, the video will give you a short introduce about this park. The videos are so beautiful and useful those just make me crazy. I repeat to saw the videos again and again and just couldn’t stop it until I can really get there. When I started to make my PowerPoint for presentation, I tried to use some short sentences or some excellent words to describe each part of parks, but I couldn’t think anything else to describe what I have search and learned on the internet. Therefore, at the end, I decide to put a link which link to the short video in my PowerPoint, but because of some unexpected reason that the little video didn’t work on the presentation day. Anyway, my presentation still achieved a big success. Part of the success is from my hard work and the other part should thanks to the perfect Disneyland website.

This is just an example that I work with the material which come from the Internet and help me a lot in my assignment. I really acquire a lot of benefits from Internet. I can find the messages and materials I need in the shortest time and use them in the right way. I saw a lot of creative work on the Internet which gives me a lot of afflatus to create my own work. I agree that Internet may make people lazy and less creative than before, but there do have bunch of information that we use and learn from it! I never want to deny how important and helpful that Internet in my life.

For conclusion, I will keep work with Internet when I do my assignment and I also believe I will produce more good quality’s works by the help of Internet.