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 * Final final exam topic:** **Based on consensus reached by the EN 1313 class members, we have decided to read an article on the Wiki (copies were distributed on Thursday) and write a detailed summar to present in class on the final examination!**

I seem to have lost your page. Can you ask Yun to help retrieve the same? I shall try as well. I am sorry. Kalpana M. Iyengar

** Tolerating Intolerance ** This paragraph is about a teacher tolerated a student’s narrow and limited view on racial discrimination and made himself realized his wrong through let him write his own opinion, and then discussed it with the other class. The teacher felt pleased that she helped students understand the issue better by a moderate and reason way. Many teachers may not have this patience to teach students like this way, and they like to correct student’s view in a serious way and not listen to student’s opinion. Most students would not put forward some extreme ideas in the classroom which will decrease the funny of class and limited the minds of students. For example, when I was in elementary school, teacher like to ask us what we want to do in future? Students answered: “scientist, doctor, musician, businessman and so on” In fact, when people at elementary school, they know nothing about these specific job of future careers. They replied with these answer is because they know these answer can please with teachers. If one student reply with “I don’t want get a job” which was truth, but it would be laughed at by other students. So most of answers in classroom seems lack of authenticity and made people felt boring. We hope more teachers can encourage students to say something true and have ability to tolerating intolerance which can make students grow and make a progress dramatically and make the classroom became vivid and interesting. The teacher also can felt a sense of achievement through these true exchanges.
 * Final Examination Review for EN 1313 Your final exam is on December 6th (Tuesday) 1. You will be asked to read an essay and answer a few questions based on your reading of the essay 2. You will be aksed to write an essay on one of the rhetorical modes/patterns that we discussed in class thrtoughout the semester 3. You must bring your final research essay to class 4. You are required to bring the portfolio to class as well 5. Please also bring any extra credit assigments to class (If you attended an interview with Prof. Dunitru's students, please write a paragraph on your experinec and post the same on the wiki. YOu will get 5 points extera credit foe reading your stories at the "Historias de la Vida Kahani" **Please bring your research essay and the book on "Evaluating Research" to class tomorrow and Thursday**

**Summary of Mr. Language person takes some of your questions** The whole article illustrated the humor of language from different aspects by conversations between questioner and Mr. Language. It was talked about the humor works through spelling, grammar rules and unlikely words or ideas together for a humorous effect. Mr. Language used some spelling mistakes to make a humor, such as he mixed up “you’re” and “your”for use. He said that “you’re baby is coming” and “your a loser” for purpose. He also used the language to express dissatisfaction about cable-television company, for example: “spit on the billing department.” So language is not only a communication tool, but also it is word game. Sometimes, some words were sounds alike such as “Barry Manilow” and “Busta Rhymes”, but you will never saw them show up at the same place. If you saw that, it is because you misunderstood. Then, Mr. Language listed some sentences which have two meanings, for example: a slogan of “Cadet 2” commode was “get more out of your toilet.” I thought the real meaning of this slogan is make your toilet became better used, however, it also can understand like that you can get some things from your toilet which sounds disgusting. Mr. Language makes fun of language and showed some ways of using language to create some humor. I thought that people need some techniques of using language to communicate more interesting.

**Classification of characteristics** Have you heard a famous saying that you can’t find two pieces of the same leaves in the world? This principle also applies to characteristics of human beings. Even twins can look very alike, but they may not have the same characteristics. For centuries, people have tried to place personality types into different categories. Following 1900s Philosopher Kants thoughts, characteristics can be divided into different mental functioning aspects: thinking type, emotional type and volitional type. People who belong to the thinking type are likely to think calmly, and can use reason to measure and control all action. They would like to observe initiatively, can understand comprehensively, have agile minds, good memories and rich imaginations Most people in this type have a good background such as high education which provide them ways and abilities to analyze problems and situations. However, many thinking people can be afraid of their own emotions. They like to analyze research, pulled away in the environment. They were too likely to be analytical and to not dare to take action; thus they may have lost some good chances. Obviously, thinking is a good thing because people were made to grow and progress through our minds. However, too much thinking cannot help solve problems and may even miss opportunities for action. In people's daily lives, you may find that some people are sentimental and sad-faced all day. This was spoken in abnormal psychology of being the emotional type of abnormal personality. The emotional type’s expression was that a certain mood was dominant in people's lives. There were still three categories in emotion personality which are the depression type personality, manic type personality, and emotional circular personality. These three personalities are all have a certain mood in their lives. For example: depression type personality people always feel sad and gloomy. These kinds of people were suitable to engage in an art field such as music, painting, and design. Because they have more feelings and are more sensitive than others, most of emotional-type people have talent for art.

People who have a clear aim and action initiatively were part of volitional type. This type of person has a very good self-control ability, has their own opinion and are not dominated by others, show calm and courage in emergencies or difficult cases, and treat work seriously and responsibility. These kinds of people can be suitable to do some professional work like doing some research on science or being a policeman. Because they have stable moods and they know the importance of perseverance. Thus this kind of person would have success based on their endurance. From the analysis of these characteristics, we know the merits and drawbacks of each characteristic and have a general knowledge of what ourselves belong to. No one’s characteristic is perfect, but we can make some progress in developing our personality if we know our weakness. A good personality can make life easier, happier, and more meaningful.

Recently, I watched a movie about racism in elementary classes. The teacher divided her students by the color of their eyes, and then treated them differently to show them that being discriminated is not an easy thing. This experiment is an excellent example of how discrimination and racism work. Racism is people of color being treated unfairly which started from hundreds of years ago and still exists now. Racism started prominently with the “slave trade” period, when people of color were being traded as commodities. They worked on plantations with poor conditions and no wages. People looked down upon them and regarded them as second-class citizens, so people did not socialize with them because socializing with people of color was a shameful thing in their perspective. People of color felt depressed and hopeless about being discriminated against. Gradually, people of color thought that maybe they really were inferior to other people, which hurt their confidence and influenced their work efficiency. The movie also gave us a good example on how to eliminate racism, which is educating people in their early stage and making them experience the feeling of being discriminated. The point was made that people feeling it themselves was practical and effective. However, educating people that racism is unfair and ridiculous is not enough. I hope that discrimination can be eliminated gradually in future and everyone can be treated fairly.
 * Racism experiment **

**Only two kinds of people in the world** These days I watched a famous Indian movie called “My name is Khan” which talked about a man with Asperger Syndrome from India fall in love with a single mother called Madira, but his last name made his stepson involved into a racial attack and died. The single mother felt depressed and angry to put all the responsibilities to Khan and asked Khan to tell the US president that he is not a terrorist. Khan did it and lived together with Madira again. Khan has some barriers to communicate with people and he can’t stand bright color especially yellow. However, these barriers didn’t prevent him to do good things and bring happiness to people. He treated people sincerely, and loves everyone around him. When he was young, he helped his teacher to drain off the water in yard. When he was fall in love with Madira, he found and shown the beautiful scenery to Madira. When he married Madira, he loved and cared her son as his own family. Though Khan has Asperger Syndrome and not acts like a normal people, he still has truly friends and families who loved him deeply. So if we want be loved, we should love people first. Love is unlimited liability and “love made us together.” Madira was a beautiful and warm-hearted woman and she knew what true love was. She accepted the love from Khan bravely and not cared about his disease at all. Think about the modern society now, most people get married with people for his or her wealth or status instead of love. They became more materialism and lost the most precious part of human life, to find a really lover. The really lover can make you happy and get inner peace which was different from material marriage. Sam was Khan’s stepson and became Khan’s friend later. He was a smart and filial child who cared his mother so much and don’t mind share love of her mother with another man. However, his bravado made he died when he has attacked by some teenagers. Sometimes, we should eat dirt when we in the dry tree to protect ourselves. Don’t do stupid thing at the expense of our lives which will hurt the people who love you. Khan’s mother told Khan that “there are only two kinds of people live in this world, good people and bad people.” Which illustrate that people can be divided by their behaviors of do good things or bad things and not judged by other guidelines such as religion, ethic or nationality. Never attribute all the bad things to Muslims, though Muslims have some extreme behaviors sometime. Most Muslims are good people who love themselves, their families and love peace. The whole movie was very touching and told us many profound truths such as how to love people around you, how to avoid unnecessary hurt and how to divided people. Love is short and rarity, so we should do right things to make us happy, to take care of people who we love and be a man who love peace. These are times of world peace and every person from different country, with different religions can coexisted peacefully is a great thing.

Interesting places in China 10/10/11

Chen Du 1 EN1313 Iyengar 10/02/11  ===== How to get to America for study from China? ===== ===== ===== The quality of education in the United States is famous throughout the world; because of this, many people want to go to America to experience the different learning styles and cultures. If you want to go to the United States to study, you can follow the steps which are discussed below. To begin with, you should graduate from your school. If you fail some courses, you can’t get a graduation certificate, and then you will not be able to study abroad. It is important to work hard to get the certificate, and you should make your grades as high as you can. If you have a high GPA score, then you can apply to a better school. Secondly, you should apply to schools in America six months in advance. Generally, people always apply to more than 3 schools, so they can compare and choose. You can apply to the school from the internet by yourself, or go to an intermediary agent to help you. The latter saves trouble because they will do everything for you. When deciding which school to attend, most people consider cost, school ranking, and local weather in the US. In the US, private schools are more expensive than the public schools, but you can get a better education and accommodation in a private school. And the southern regions of American are warm like in Texas; however, the northern regions of America such as Montana are cold. What’s more, the next crucial step is to procure permission to go abroad. To get an I-20 from an American school, you should bring all your materials such as graduation certificate and financials to Shanghai to get a Visa. In China, there are a lot of people who get visas every day, so you have to make a reservation with the embassy first. Usually, the visa officer will ask you some general questions to make sure you don’t have immigrant intent. You just have to reply to the questions honestly. Moreover, after you get a visa, you can book a plane ticket online or through a travel agency. Considering it is a long journey from China to America, you should choose a big airline company because they will provide a larger air plane that is suitable for people to sit for 20 hours, and will provide better food. Sometimes, booking a plane ticket earlier and through a travel agency can get a much cheaper ticket. And if you know the exactly time of your return, you can buy round trip air tickets which will be less expensive. Last but not least, you should go to the airport safely and on time. If you depart from the city that is not your hometown, you can arrive at that city one day in advance to avoid being late for the plane or if some emergency happens. At that day, you should very careful about everything, especially paying attention on your passport, tickets, cell phones and so on. Once you enter the airport, you should follow the directions to go aboard, and if you are lost in the airport, you can ask the work force for help. In my opinion, applying to the school and getting a visa are the most important steps, because most people spend a lot of time on them and they are easy to get trouble compared with other steps. So you should be most careful with those two steps. I hope you can go to American to study smoothly. === === ====== === === ===Chen, Du=== ===EN 1313=== ===Iyengar=== ===08/30/11=== === Dear Flower === ===When I was at six years old, my parents took me to Yun Nan province to spend our vocation. Like other vacations, my father always bought a lot of things for me but this time I refused because I want to have a dog. I said to my father:“I don’t want beautiful clothes this time, I want a tiny dog.’’ My father promised me and took me to a pet market right then. There were so many pets there and it was too hard for a six year old child to decide which to choose. Suddenly, I saw a man in the corner and there was a basket in front of him. I went over and found three beautiful dogs in it. I liked these little thing so much and I couldn’t move my eyes off them. I choose a white dog with some yellow dots on it. She looked so smart and beautiful that I wanted to keep her. She even knew she should pee in the toilet when we were in hotel. After our vocation, we took her home.=== ===Flower grew up gradually and she knew me very much. When I were happy, she seemed happier than me. She jumped with me, danced with me, played games with me. When I was depressed, she didn’t say anything, and she just accompanied me quietly. Sometimes, I sat on sofa the whole day, and she was not going anywhere just laid on my legs. When I was sick, she was on my bed to help me get over the disease.=== ===However, she is not a perfect girl, when I played with other dogs, she would get jealous of it and fight with other dogs. Though she did this, I still loved her very much. One day, she really grew up because she gave birth to a dog. She loves her baby so much and don’t let anyone to touch her baby. After seven days, her baby could open his eyes. She just left her baby alone, go out to take a walk and relax but shortly afterwards, she robbed food with her baby unexpectedly I thought maybe she didn’t love her baby anymore, so I gave her baby to my sister. After Flower found her baby was not there anymore, so she started to miss her baby. At that time, I couldn’t make her baby back on account for my sister and her baby was get along with each other. Fortunately, time can solve everything. Flower didn’t miss her child after two weeks.=== ===Good times don’t last long, Flower passed away suddenly when I was eleven years old. She was poisoned by rat poison when she played outside, so she died at night and all of my families were slept so no one noticed until the next morning. It was too late to take her to see a doctor. I still remembered her face when she died, and she was crying. I knew she was in pain and didn’t want to die. But I couldn’t help her,and we felt guilty about we didn’t take care of her, so we cried for a long time and buried her. It was tough thing to receive the fact and face it, for a long time, as long as people mentioned Flower in front of me, then I cried. My families and I didn’t want to go through this pain again so we decided not to keep a pet anymore. Although I couldn’t see Flower in my rest of my life, I could remember all details of things that we all have done. I felt comfortable when I reminded she was laid on my legs; I felt happy when I reminded of her jealous face; I felt more energy when I thought of her. My families were always mentioned Flower as she never left us. I hope she can live better in the heaven and God must like her so much for she was such a smart and beautiful girl.=== ===Chen Du=== ===EN1313=== ===Iyengar=== ===08/23/11=== === Marina Christina Robles === ===I have an interview with Marina Robles who is a really nice woman in the VP office.=== ===Marina Robles’s full name is Marina Christina Robles. Her first name is Marina which from a late Latin name, a feminine form of the family name Marinus and it means “of the sea.” Christina is her middle name, which represents female and comes from Greece. The Greek name Christina means “Christ-bearer.” As for her last name Robles which is Spanish and comes from the plural of roble “oak.” She got the name by her parents, and her parents also call her Cotsie for no reason. She likes her name very much, so she never changed it. However, if she has a chance to change it, she will choose Bella as her name because of the sound.=== ===People in China also have their last name and given name. They say their last name first then the given name such as Du Chen. Du is my family name and Chen is my given name. However, American people say their given name first, then their last name, for example Marina Robles. They often inherit their father’s last name, and get their given name by families, but they don’t name their children after any people. They look into dictionary to find a word which means good and sounds good for the baby. Even when these children grow up and don’t like their names, most of people don’t change their names to show respect to their family.=== ===From the interview, I learned the similarities and cultural difference about names, and it is my first time interviewing someone in English, so it is a good memory to me.=== Chen Du EN1313 Iyengar 09/05/11 Review questions of chapter 1 The importance of using sources effectively

The most important thing in a paper is not the resources, is how you do with resources to show your thinking.
Questions for thought and discussion chapter 1 The importance of using sources effectively

Yes, I always know that we should cite the resources. It is not only to respect the author, but also it is a way to show our honest.
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