Friday, June 18, 2010
The things that changes in my life
I've been to ISU for about 2years. I live a pleased life here, and i have already changed a lot after i try another living environment. When i was in my home country, i didn't study very hard and i didn't know the effort that my parents did to support my life. After i came the Ames, i made many friends and learned more things from them. I recognized that i can't live for just myself. I take the hope of my parents. And i learned the word "responsibility", which is the right and limitation in human life. Everyone should suffer the effects that he or she has done before, no matter the good or bad changes for their physical life or abstract mind.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Personal Mission Statement
I am committed to be a good, honesty, and responsible people in my rest of life.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Analysis: Silent Spring
In Rachel Carson's essay Silent Spring, she utilizes many evidences and statistics to tell the public and government that the DDT has too much harmless for the environment. For example, in the article, she write "In 1947 the production of young birds began to decline. Some nests contained no eggs; others contained eggs that failed to hatch. Between 1952 and 1957, about 80 percent of the nests failed to produce young". In addition, she also expresses logos in her article. Like in page 370, she uses some quotes from Dr. James DeWitt of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Besides the logos, she uses pathos in the essay. In the beginning of the article, she writes one place that has comfortable environment and attractive wild animals to express her good hopes and wishes.
My First Summer in the Sierras
Q: What are the major themes in this piece? Are there any minor themes as well? Is there any kind of "subtext" in this essay? What kind of murmurs run below the surface?
A: The major themes in this essay is to express the feelings when traveling in the Sierra. The author write this article as a journal, and he utilizes many examples to show the emotion in Sierra. For instance, he uses bear and grasshopper in the writing to express some pleased sense. And this article does not have the minor themes and "subtext".
A: The major themes in this essay is to express the feelings when traveling in the Sierra. The author write this article as a journal, and he utilizes many examples to show the emotion in Sierra. For instance, he uses bear and grasshopper in the writing to express some pleased sense. And this article does not have the minor themes and "subtext".
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Q: find specific examples of abstract and concrete language. What are the effects?
A: abstract example: A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves. They have precise dogmatic insight of the intentions of the Creator, ad it is hardly possible to be guilty of irreverence in speaking of their God any more than of heathen idols.
The abstract examples of this essay will arouse more emotional thinking to the readers, not as the concrete ones which may lead people think more critically.
A: abstract example: A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves. They have precise dogmatic insight of the intentions of the Creator, ad it is hardly possible to be guilty of irreverence in speaking of their God any more than of heathen idols.
The abstract examples of this essay will arouse more emotional thinking to the readers, not as the concrete ones which may lead people think more critically.
Industrial Tourism and the National Parks
Q: What specific details stay in your mind ? Why? How do these small details lead to larger ideas?
A: The most attractive and specific details in this article is the author point out the puzzles the National Parks facing. This piece of writing is very interesting. Because the author expresses his own experience to the readers. He shows his emotion as the one who facing the trouble when he writes this essay, not the one does not have the deep and direct feeling. And he utilizes this small details leading to his solutions to the public and the government. He writes this essay to draw more attention to protect the environment of the National Parks.
A: The most attractive and specific details in this article is the author point out the puzzles the National Parks facing. This piece of writing is very interesting. Because the author expresses his own experience to the readers. He shows his emotion as the one who facing the trouble when he writes this essay, not the one does not have the deep and direct feeling. And he utilizes this small details leading to his solutions to the public and the government. He writes this essay to draw more attention to protect the environment of the National Parks.
Speech at Grand Canyon, Arizona, May 6, 1903
Q: Break the piece down paragraph by paragraph. How does each piece act as a "building block"? How does the writer create dramatic tension or interest through these building block?
A: Breaking this essay down paragraph by paragraph. The speaker first expressed his inner sense to the audience. And then he showed why he had been invited to the speech. Next, the speaker said the problems and some solutions to the Grand Canyon in Arizona. At last, he encouraged the audience to prevent the Grand Canyon.
A: Breaking this essay down paragraph by paragraph. The speaker first expressed his inner sense to the audience. And then he showed why he had been invited to the speech. Next, the speaker said the problems and some solutions to the Grand Canyon in Arizona. At last, he encouraged the audience to prevent the Grand Canyon.
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