Blog Assignment #7

In Christa Kurman's article "The Horse Racing Industry: Issues and Reforms", at the beginning, the author claims that even though horse racing is a elegant and ornamental sport, nowaday, horse racing is facing being banned because it is regarded unsafe. People concerntrate more about the sport of kings under intense public scrutiny.
The following 10 paragraphs are counterauguments. The second paragraph is talking about Thoroughbred. As people want thoroughbred of horce, it costs a large labor force and money to bred high quality horse. Also, in the next paragraphs, the expensive cost, 26.1 billion dollars, is higher as loss of horse. According to WAll Street Journal, the only attractive aspects of horse are small, narrow legs and large bodies. But people overlook their sound. The average price of a one year old Thoroughbred race horse is $101,347. And the trainning is hard for horse. Moreover, the author talks about the solution from her research. She thinks invention of new types of ynthetic track surfaces and a possible alternative to dirt track "Polytrack". She thinks injuries are big problems and in her mind, some given drugs may help a lot.
In this article, writer gives many specific example. At the beginning, author gives the result of a research that 38% of Americans want to ban this sport. Also, she gives an much representive example of Native Dancer. From its career, the author can clearly explains about cost and risk of Thoroughbred. In her article, we can see citation everywhere.
By using these examples, readers can make better sense of the disadvantages of horse racing and the feasibility of her suggest solution. This reaserch paper is much persuasive as author makes it both intersting and logistic. The corrct use of citation and examples also make this article more persuasive.

Blog Assignment #6

In the 7th paragraph of " A Way With Words, or Away With Words", author uses three citations from two sources. They are "data suggests that when teenagers transition to college, they naturally shed some of their adolescent linguistic ways in favor of more formal wrting conventions", "[the] data contains few abbreviations or acronyms. Spelling is remarkably good, and punctuation isn't particularly bad either" and "most students realize that they need to put their adolescent spellings behind them by the time they get to college". In the 7th paragraph, author tends to tell readers that students' writing by using txt language become less as they grow up. Using these sources can make sense of his point. Because as the citation, these source are from data, which are more denpendable. At the end, the source can be a good conclusion.
This article is about students' using adolescent spelling. At the beginning, author talks about its convenient and parents' tripedation. This paragraph，in the middle part, acts as transition. After this paragraph, author writes about something on the other hand compared to previous paragraphs.

Blog Assignment #5

In China, after every dynasty takes place of the former one, the first thing they must do is writing history. They would like to say they stand for justice and their behavior of dynasty change is fulfilling absolute decree. They describes former dynasty's administration management corrupt. That's why they overturn it. Because winner uses history to change people's minds so that to control them especially their thoughts. History belongs to culture. Controlling culture is the most important thing for a dynasty.
However, if the history is written by loser, what we learn nowadays would be totally different. For example, in "From Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", if history is written by Indians, it would say how terriblely the Eroupen did to them. They would accuse invader of their behavior. Surely, what loser describe about history is not accurate, but it is in another differently angle. Of course, loser will emphasize their pity and innocence, and criminal actions of invaders. Indians will say how big they offered help to newcomings and would describes English as devil. Since historical events happened, people have no method to change it. Winner will erase their immoral activities while loser will concertrate on winner's immoral activities. And,emotions are different. Winner's history consists of happiness and proud while loser's history consists of antipathy and regret.

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Q1:
Living in a completely unfamiliar situation like studying abroad always makes people nervous and scared. It is common that people seek for someone from the same country so that they have topics to talk. They can communicate about anything. They have same culture deposites and can understand each other's words and thoughts. The US students can not understand what Chinese thinking about. They don't know Chinese culture and customs. Some even look down upon Chinese. I live with Chinese and mostly make friends with Chinese.
Studying abroad cause people feel lonely and scared. They need abreact to remove these bad feelings. Staying with people from same country let people feel safe. They can communicate better than communicate with Americans. Besides, people from same country will unite and news will spread fast so that they will benefit a lot.


Q2:
stumble:make an error
sarcram:A form of humor that is marked by mocking with irony, sometimes conveyed in speech with vocal over-emphasis
rumble:a loud low dull continuous noise

Nonverbal Communication

In normal communication, nonverbal communication helps a lot. We use gestures, eye contact and some body language when speaking. In the US, when people talking, their eyes are on the person who is speaking or listening. However, in China, young peosple should not stare others eyes especially when talking to older. Because this behavior shows young people's respect. Such behavior makes Chinese easy to be shy when talking. In China, using finger to point to someone for a long time is a kind of rude behavior. In the US, these kinds of behavior is natural. Chinese people do not hug usually. Americans like "Give me five" which Chinese people never use.
On the contrary, there are some actions that both Chinese and American use such as shaking hands when meet. As everything goes international, in some formal situation, people's actions are the same in different countries. Noding heads means yes and sometimes means "hello". Smiling makes people move upward.
All in all, nonverbal communication is no long independent in a country. Body languages and eye contact spread all of the world. It is no more amazing that in a totally unfamiliar country, you can live as you live in homeland.

Real me

First image of a stranger always provides people reasons determinating him what kind of people he is. So, people pay attention to their first images, especially for managers because they have a lot of meetings. As a student, to me, it is also very important because I stand not only for myself, but also for my homeland.
I prefer my first image to be modest, honest and friendly. As China's 5000 long history and culture, modesty has gone deeply into people's hearts. On the other hand, modesty makes me gentalman and can quickly shorten distance between stanger and me. Honesty shows my genuineness. When stranger sees your genuineness, it becomes easier to make friends with him. Friendly helps a lot. No one likes cool man who is hard to touch. Being friendly so that you will have a large group of friends who will help when you in trouble.
The goal is really head to reach. I try best to be modest, honest and friendly. However, there is no standard to judge how I do. I think it is not too far from real me. I like chatting with friends. Of course, sometimes I prefer staying alone. Receiving 20 years Chinese culture, I am modest and honest, but shy compared to American. I hope I will be what I portray to be.

Review of Mother Tongue

This post is to describe language differences between two generations and in formal and informal situation.
In China, where 5000 years' culture received deeply, use of language much differ between two generations. For me, I can use any words when talking to my friends. We young people prefer using fresh words which are created on the Internet and much newer. It is common that when we talk to our parents, our parents cannot understand what we say as the words they do not know. Besides, when I talk to my parents, I should show enough respect by culture. We are forbid actting like brother with parents.
When it comes to formal situation, I should use Putonghua. On top of that, I should not use imformal words from Internet. In formal situation, we also need to pay attention to our body language. On the other hand, we can use both formal language and informal language when having informal conversation.