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.

Journal 10: Advice

When I am standing in the crossings, I want to talk to my friends and my family members to seek advice. They also love to do that, so I have been given much advice. Most of them gives me supports when I am wandering , and furthermore some of them gives me much help. However, I am not going to follow all those advice. Everyone has a balance in mind. When they choose the decision, they will judge by themselves fist. When I chose the middle school, my family members all suggested me to choose one school that needed lower score to admit. At that time, I was so eager to enter another high school that I made my decision and finally passed the exam. I also give much advice to my friends. I and my friends become more familiar through changing advice and opinion.

Journal 9: American Food

   When I first time arrived at America 6 months ago, there were two things I could not endure. The first one was American food. The second one is California public transportation. Every day I ate the hamburgers, bread, pizzas, raw vegetable salad. In addition to those, I drunk cola ,juice and coffee. It is difficult for me to find a soup here on the dinner table, compared with soup in my every dinner fare in China. I was crazed about that. At that time , I don't want to hear about "Let's go eat American", and I made a dream that I went to enjoy the Chinese food with my friends. There were SiChuan hotpot and fish hotpot. I was so aborbed in that dish in my dream. With staying longer in California, I was surprised to find many different kinds of food here except traditional American in my mentality. I have visited some specific restaurants, such as "Little sheep hotpot", Sichun Restaurant and Chinese DongBei Restaurant. And now I begin to like pizza and hamburger and salad, but it refers to fruit salad.