2009年5月5日星期二

10,000 rule

10,000 rule
This article is talking about a person’s success in not depend on his smart but because of his diligence. The author think talent is very important. It is given by our parents, it wouldn’t be change. But genius is called genius, because of the practice as much as they can, experience is the golden rule. The success of Bill gates mainly because of the school give him lots of time to practice. Before he operates his own company, he already spent more the 10.000 hours on researching computer’s programs. The author thinks the success is not an individual genius result, but combination of many factors; Such as family, friend, history, geological, culture and others. The only success rule is that to accumulate all of the factors. If a person who has 195 IQ, but he lived in a poor farm. There is no one factor can help him to develop his talent. Experience is the rule to lead success.
As we know there are many successful people, they are in different places, different era, and different background. We always complain why we are not enough smart, but the truth is we are not work hard enough. There is a idiom called perseverance will prevail. This means as long as you work hard enough, anything could be done. The famous band Beatles once they were invited to perform for five hours a day, and continue it for seven days, just because of this performance which makes them to be famous. If you don’t think you are not smart enough, please work hard. If you think you are very smart, please work hard. Another idiom called clever people may be victims of their own cleverness. The IQ for everyone is not a big difference; the only difference is if they would like to work hard. 10.000 hours rule is just let us know success is not a occasion.

No Creditability no society

No Creditability no society

the biggest invest bank Lehman Brothers suddenly announced bankruptcy in a week. The Chinese well-known dairy company has serious safety problem. A very safety thing may kill you in the next day. Who can we trust?
Creditability is the most important social source. We believed that there is no spoil in our water. When the traffic light turn to red, we know the cars will stop. When we put all of our wealth in the bank, we know they wouldn't take our money in there account. If there is no creditability in our society, the society wouldn't exist. Like the socialist Niklas Luhmann said we can't get up in the morning when we lost hope for our society. Wendao talked about how creditability is so important for our society in his article. There are many social problem happened due to the lost of creditability in some aspects.
We lived much better than the people lived in the old time. Our society, technological developed really fast, but we are begin to loss the basic thing, creditability. The society is so complex. Every product is done by a long procedure. Because of our creditability for every step every person, we trust there is no problem in it. Every person is honest and fulfilled responsibility. However no one is perfect, our personality is not perfect. We are selfish; even do some bed thing only to pursue the optimal profits. We set all kinds of low, discipline, rules to protect the final quality. We are trying to keep our creditability. When the problems happened, we always trust ourselves at fist, even ignore the original personality that we have which is honesty, I believed people are all good at first. Maybe these kinds of laws can limit our desire, but we have to use our own honesty and creditability to limit our behavior. So that the society could develop healthy and strong.

The globle reading day

The globle reading day
The globe reading day is April 23th, it is said that many famous authors birth or dead on that day. This article talks about the reading situation now. we should pay attention on reading again. Colin mentioned that as the high technology developing, especially the user increase in computers, we spent more and more time on computer no matter study or work. It has become necessary thing in our lives. As a result, the people who spent on reading are less and less. Even many people like to read news, magazines, and books on line. Colin claimed if more and more people choose not read the paper books, our culture will decline. He recommended us go to the bookstore in our spare time, do not on the internet after finishing work. in many aspects, computers provide the convince and bother our lives at the same time. So that we lost of much fun in our real lives.

When I reading this article Colin is talking what I think. In the past, we evaluate a person’s value that based on how many books does he have. But now we don't need to go to bookstore to read. We can find everything online. Here is my personal experience. Before I go to college, I almost don’t touch computer at all. I used to take notes using the pen, teachers only use blackboard to teach, do all homework and research using my pen and books. However, when I go to college it totally changed, teachers use PowerPoint to teach, do homework online, some students use computer to take notes, all of the information are proved online. So it seems like I can’t study or finish my any work without computer. I spent a long to get used to it, but I still feel uncomfortable. Beside study, most of my spare time is online. Shopping, chatting, watching movies or TV, listening to music, reading, etc. I prefer to stay at home and not go out. Even my personal had changed, I am not outgoing as before and don't want to connect with other friends. Going back to read book, I am impatient when I read something online. I like the paper smell and feel peaceful when I read paper books. So as I lived in a modern society I have to used to it even like it. However I still thing something never wouldn’t be changed, no matter how society develop. Such as culture and tradition. Reading is one part of culture.
I described reading online is just like a fast food, you haven't taste its flavor then you have finished it. Books are our spiritual sources, fast food is not good for our health and it destroyed our body.

Disaster recovery aid is not the only way to light up the hope, it is that we respect our lives

Disaster recovery aid is not the only way to light up the hope, it is that we respect our lives

An Beichuan cadre suicide on April 20th. It is the second government cadre died after the earthquake in last year. These people survived during that disaster, but can’t get out of the effect due to the earthquake. It happened just in a few second but it could leave a deep hurt in our lives and it’s hard to recover. Brone claimed that the government should not only provide material sources but much care about the survivors’ psychological recovery. During that disaster, many people lost their family, their family members, even the whole homeland. We can image how much hurt do the have no matter physical or psychological. We lack of professional psychological recovery experts, so if a not experienced or professional worker did this job will give the patients’ second hurt. This job needs to take a long time to recover. The report showed that the people seen or experience disaster will have a forever hurt in his or her mind that 60% are men and 50% are women. However almost 70% of them don’t have a serious hurt in their mind. Brone said the professional help is really important, but the self recovery is more important. Leave or stay all need a big courage. We have to accept the truth that it happened and wouldn't come back, we have to live much stronger.

I can feel the hurt of survivors. We can't forget that day, and all of Chinese people wouldn't forget that day. May 12th 2008. Even I don't have any relatives who lived there or some people I know. It is as same as the other survivors who have experienced the disaster. I have to say the life is not easy. It is hard to protect and treasure our lives. I believe that if a person decided to end his life that needs more courage than live. We need to go back to look at what we walked in our life road. The accident changed our lives so that we need to have a totally new view to look at it. Rethinking the meaning for our lives is what. At this moment we should be happy because of we still alive, we have so many opportunities to enjoy the rest of our lives. To treasure our lives is what we have to do now. The disaster recovery aid is not the only way to light up our live hope, it is that we respect our lives and treasure it. The earthquake has happened almost a year, we will use the respects to our lives to remember the dead people.

Charity maybe only an interest

Charity maybe only an interest

Bill gates is a ideal for many young people. they dream their names on the cover of wealth one day. However when you ask them what kind of career they want to achieve this honor, then they are silence. Because they think wealth and status at the first. Not interest. When bill gates dropped off from school to working his interest, he never thought he could be the wealthiest person in the world. His dream is that every family and every person have their own computer. When he retirement, he put almost of his wealth into charity. The people blamed him monopolize before that start to praise him. Yes, he earned many from the people who used his computer; however he used this money to the people who lived in the third world and sickness. So what should I say now. many people will say why these charitarian always in developed countries. The charitarian at now are different from who’s in the past. They don’t wait until they old then do charity. They are doing charity career. The charitarian is looking for more profits but not for themselves. They did it for the whole society. Poliea talked the background of charity in his article.
Many rich guys didn’t change their career. They make profits for themselves in the past and then make profits for commonweal. They still doing what they interested in. they have common at changing the world. Bill gates is a good example. In the developing countries, is it the same? Is the rich guy will donate most of their money to commonweal? It is a so complex question. It is hard to answer shortly. However in many rich countries, their rich guy wouldn't donate his money to commonweal. But most of the common people do volunteer in their whole life, no matter rich or poor. The rich guy who lived in developing countries they want to do charity, but because of the long time poor, they haven't satisfied the wealthy feeling. I guess that is the biggest difference between developing countries and developed countries rich guys. So I could say charity maybe only an interest.

2009年3月2日星期一

5 journals(midterm)

The happy class of Harvard

There is a class named happy in Harvard which is really popular elective cause in Harvard University. The instructor graduated from Harvard and he is a active student. He joined sports club, students association and studied in London for a while. But he didn’t feel happy at all during his college time. He thought that happiness is the only standard and final distention for one’s life. He explained how unhappy life effect a person’s life even he is rich. People are seeking for money and wealth that lost happiness. If a society is filled of depression, the society will be a depression. He pointed out factors that related to a person’s unhappy. There are 10 tips that helped people to be happy. Because of his experience he told students how the importance of happiness. Many students really enjoyed his class.
After I read his article, I really want to take that lesson. In the modern society people are pursuing wealthy, because of this they lost the basic propose of life which is happy. Now there is someone who teach us how to be happy, it sounds a little funny. We are busing with something else, and ignore happy. We always think that a big house, a new car, having a lot of money can make us happy. Does it really make us happy? Does the process make us happy? We should think more about this. When I read this article at the first time I feel sad about this. Because we need a teacher tell us what is happy and how to be happy. But after I read it, I think this class is teaching you how to enjoy your life, there are many good and happy things happen on you, you need to find it. To tell you having a healthy life attitude enjoy your life no matter what’s kind of life do you have. the 10 tips that the author listed in the article I used them to be my happiness tips. They help me a lot and give me directions when I was lost. The last sentence give me a deep impression. A student came out after that class and said “taking this class is a enjoyable time, it is really interesting and worth to learn, the special thing is when students left classroom, they always feel the spring is coming. That’s way I always reminder myself to read the 10 tips, I want to keep refresh and looking forward. They are good medicine when I was depressing and hopeless. I benefit a lot.


The power of faith
This is a no doubtable game. The ability gap of two teams are very big. The iraq must lose this game, a no peaceful country how to win the soccer game. It is impossible. But the result is Iraq win this game just because of the faith in their heats. The other players have a high level skills and dominate the pace of the game, the Iraq team never gave up, no matter how good for the other they still trying their best to compete a little chance for their team. This is not a typical game report, it is a report of players psychological game. The audience are cherring for both of the team, but they gave Iraq players hope and confidence. The author’s description get into readers heart to feeing the exciting game but the spiritual interaction
This is a totally different style from the typical sports report. When we watching a game, we always think who will win, who has a level of sport skills we almost forget the background of the team and the inside of the players. Iraq is a country like this. The war never stop in Iraq. People lived in a unsafe and dangerous country. In our mind they always expecting a peace homeland and lost all of interests of people’s life. But I found the more precious thing after I read it. Sometimes we can’t change the bad situation, we can’t choose where I can live. Especially when troubles came, we can’t escape, and have to face them and solve them. so at this time we need confidence and courage to get though it. Not all of us brave, however the players in the field teach me how to face the difficulty. They try their best to show that even our country having war but we still very optimistic to enjoy our life. People said everyone is equal, but we have to accept the truth, which is not true. Can you say the people lived in Iraq is the same as people lived in America? Of cause no. the soccer players told us even our material life has a huge gap, but being a person we are the same. If someone ask how can we win the game. The answer is the power of faith. We believed that only if we try our best, the miracle could happen.
Only if we have faith, confidence, and courage, anything is possible. It is what I learned after reading this article.

Home
What is home? What is the definition of home? Every person has his own definition. It could change as you change. It is a article that talking about the definition of home change as the people’s age change. When we are little, the home is where our parents are, there is our home. When we young home is not a only place but be many places. The college dorm could be consider a home. When we are in the middle age, where is my companion is, there is our home. When we are old, where is our children, there is our home. Most of the time home as defined as a place, but in most of time, home is a place in our heart, not just a specific place. It could say like this, home is a kite’s holder. No matter where is the kite going, it must be concerned by the holder. That is the home.
I can deeply feel what the home is. I studied in another country which is far away home. Homesick usually happened in my first year in college. But most of time when I was homesick, I always think is the atmosphere in my family, just a specific thing we did together. Not only a place you live. Home is a place that you lived with the people you loved and concerned. The home is place you want to share happiness and cure sadness. My favorite two descriptions about home are “home is a harbor; we are the boats. Home is a kite’s holder; we are kites”. When I think about home, there are some segments in my mind, such as my mom yell me to have the lunch, she reminder me to take the umbrella in case raining, arguing that I didn’t think I was wrong, and so on. when we at home, we always want to get out, because we think home limit our freedom. But when we far away from home we really want to go back, because it is so warm. Just like something when you lost it you realized how precious is. If you tell me what is home, I can tell you what is forever.


No waiting, younger women are saying yes to motherhood

This is article is talking about young women staring in their motherhood. The women were waiting to have babies longer and longer in the past 40 years, the main reason is that women put their energy to career. But at the recent years, the mother’s mean age at their fist childbirth tend to younger. It because of their attitude is changing. They want to have family and career at the same time. This article gave some examples to lay out the different attitudes towards to having children when they are young in different situation. One of women will go to work after their children go to school, she thought that career is important for her but family is more important right now. Another example is talking about a famous basket player Sarah. She said that she wants her children to have benefits from young parents. So if you have a baby too late, the children wouldn't get benefits or it wouldn’t good for children. They want to their children to have their own grandparents, because it is very important.
As the human society was set up, men and women have their own role and responsibility. Women were considering staying at home and caring babies in the old time. As the society developing, women recognized that they can do the same job as men. They should have the same right with men, because the society was as patriarchy. The feminism appears as followed. As the article said, in the past 40 years women were trying to prove their ability and equality. They gave up to be mom when they were young and focus on career. It leads women who delay having the first child longer and longer. There are some problems which appear as followed. The good thing is many young women realized that family is as important as career. Women are going back to family and try to balance the two roles in society.



the road, no matter wide and narrow.

We always like to compare everything, even a apple we eat today and another apple I ate yesterday, we think these two apples are test different. We like to compare something happened now and it happened before. We try to find the difference between them. a teacher said we lived in the past experience. If you can’t find the same, the pain will come out. That is the article talking about.

We should know ourselves is different in each second, and don't need to use any minute to be a standard, your live will be good. The different segment of your life combine to your whole life. We want to be good all the time, and ignore the difficulties. That is impossible. We can’t live in any single part of our lives. Any of segments wouldn't be erased. If you only have on type of style life, you life will be a glass of water and really boring. No matter the road is wide or marrow, we have to enjoy it. Because once we can understand the meaning in the background, there is no difference between good and bad. Life is the process of water that from the start to the end. The most beautiful part is the process. We can’t separate it, which is a whole, any port of them are missing, this is a fragmental artwork.

2009年1月28日星期三

Summary of the globalization of eating disorders

The globalization of eating disorders
Jian Li
Eng250 FD
Mr. Perez
Summary

Summary of the globalization of eating disorders

The globalization of eating disorders has become a big problem. Susan Bordo using facts and examples explain how the body image, media, and culture influence the standard of the beauty and lead to eating disorder.
At the fist part, author used a example to give a attention to the readers that engaged the body image. Then Susan explained how the magazine affected the looks of body image. Especially, as the western think to be slim is beauty, so that if you are a big, voluptuous body, it makes terrible look.
Secondly Susan pointed out that eating and body problems have become a global phenomenon. Here are some typically examples that can support her idea. The women and girls feel comfortable no matter what body image they are in Fiji, however after the media go into there, the aspect of body image has been changed and eating disorder problem came as following. The example in central Africa could explain how the global media broken the traditional cultures of beauty. Voluptuous women have been celebrated in their traditional culture, but slim is beautiful. In order to make readers clearly know how the happened, the author point out that the media become a educational way that teach people how to be cool. The parents, teachers and clergy let children know that what the appropriate body image is the global requirement. As Susan’s book has been translated into other languages, and become a popular book. She notices that Asian was affected too. She gives an example can show it. In China, The little fat was good look in once upon time, then turn into a awful person. It lead to some people who have eating disorder problem.
In Susan’s book, she not only explain how body image was important for women but also for man. Magazines show that what is a cool man, how body image could be cool. So some men were influenced by the magazines.
In the last part of her article, Susan tried to give suggestions or ideas, which encourage people to solve eating disorder problem. How to set a right valuation of beauty and body image. To start education from family, school, and media.