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.