Final Journal: Goodbye! Congratulations!

    

   Congratulations! We did it. From the last few months I learn a lot from Sean to how to organize different kinds of composition. It's useful for me. Result in studing composition this semester, I can finish several main kinds of essay in 30 minutes. It's amazing. Althrough the research paper is most useful for university studying, it is the most difficult part of this class. Now I have a general idea about research paper. I appreciate Sean and every classmate to help me and spend the wonderful time with me. It is said that teacher and classmate for one semester, friend forever.

Journal 16: Reaction to Film

       Baraka is a non-verbal documentary, which was filmed in 152 different places in 24 countries. And the word Baraka means "blessing". Out of thousands of scenes from this film, one scene touches me most. The powerful scene to me is that one child is begging money and food from passers-by and the only toy he has is an old and dirty toy car. He looks little and helpless and doesn't have enough nutrient ,food and clothes. He cannot go to school. This scene lets me remind the pictures that the African sick children who have not enough money to get good treat. There are so many poor children who need help and so many wealthy people who live a luxurious life. More orgnization need to build to help the poor children and we should also do somethings to help them.

Journal 15: Anticipating Your Parents' Objections

Dear Mom,

  I really appreciate the way you take care of me. You ask me to take more education and spend all of my time on studying. When I talk about I want to find a part-time job from the campus, you are worried about that I will not have enough time to study and I will be too tired on studying and working. Actually I know how to schedule my time ,and I can take care of myself. What's more, I can learn more from the job and in the mean time I will learn English. It's good for me. I hope you can stand by me.

Tinna

Journal 14: Summarize/Paraphrase Practice

          

Jon Healey. Government: Paying for unemployment - latimes.com. Opinion L.A. - Barack Obama, immigration, Michelle Obama, opinion, elections, Jonah Goldberg, campaign, politics, op-ed, editorial, letters to the editor, health care, healthcare reform - latimes.com. Retrieved November 14, 2011, from http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2011/10/government-paying-for-unemployment.html .

 It seems California is one of the lowest tax state in unemployment insurance taxable wage. Jon (2010) reports in this article from the LA Times that California have a taxable wage base of only the first $7,000 while most other states is based on $12,000 to $37,300. In addition, it also has a lower tax rate than most states. So there isn't enough reserves to provide unemployment benefits during a deep recession. People doubt about the ability of states to create reserves for a downturn day.

Journal 13: Analyzing an Argument

Andrew Harrer. Supreme Court to decide: Is GPS tracking too '1984'? - latimes.com. (n.d.). Los Angeles Times - California, national and world news - latimes.com. Retrieved November 14, 2011, from http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-gps-20111110,0,3813779.story

In this article Andrew Harrer pokes fun at that the police should be allowed to affix an electronic tracking device to a suspect's car without a warrant and follow his every movement for a month (par. 1). His point that  there's something creepy about round-the-clock electronic surveillance  (par. 2) is a claim of policy which appeals to emotion: creepy. He thinks that GPS tracking, which allows police to follow as many people as they want for as long as they want without expending many resources, takes invasion of privacy to a new level(par.4).

Journal 12: First Source

    Brian Hansen holds a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in education from the University of Colorado. He noticed that higher education in the United States was undergoing a virtual revolution. More than 1,600 postsecondary schools offered some 54,000 Internet-based courses to an estimated 1.6 million students enrolled in online courses and degree programs, not only at traditional colleges and universities but also at institutions that exist only in cyberspace. Distance learning can make higher education  available to “the other 99 percent” — all the world's people who don't go to college. Indeed, according to one prediction, distance learning will push the global demand for U.S. higher education to 160 million students by 2025.

Journal 11: Research Question

      I used to hate research paper because I don't like to write articles. However, for the composition class, I have learned a lot of method about doing the research paper, which makes me feel better. The fist tool is wikipedia, which is not authorized, but a usefull tool to look for information you want to know a general concept about the aspect that you need. The second method is to search from the library website of CUSF, where I can find much information, such as books, articles from magazine, newspaper ,Internet,even government. Form that , a large amount of authorized material can be digged out. With the assistance , I decided to make a research about online distant education, which is a great complement for the insufficient educational resource.