Essay "Dinosaurs"

   In "the Dinosaurs" by Italo Calvino, the most important character trait which Q displays is shamefulness-- which he always feels scary and regretful of what he did and shame on himself as a dinosaur he tries to become someone else.
   At the beginning of the story, Q was so disappointed to live as a dinosaur and he always feels shame on himself. To Q, he does not want to choose to be a dinosaur if he could. Q always feels more scary on himself more than how much he makes others scary. Once Q says to himself "the more I learned how we made others tremble, the more I trembled myself."(P100). This shows how the level that Q feels of himself when someone feels scare on him. From this quote, I feel that not only it really prove the emotion that Q has, I noticed the diction in this sentence is wisely-- The author did not choose "scary, afraid" these kinds of words to describe how Q feels scary on himself, the author rather to use "Trembled" which is perfect. Trembled is the actions when people feel scary and do it, which the author used it to describe the emotional. For Q, he could see how much he makes scary on others, and that shows how terrible others think he is. In another hand, if he is just all right, people won't feel trembled at him any more.
   While Q and Zahn join the conversation with the people, one of those guys mentioned about the dinosaur which makes Q feels uncomfortable-- Q afraid that those guys would talk about the dinosaur and found out he is the ones. Q is nervous, careful, and shamefulness. "In the end they changed the subject, I could breathe again."(P101) A person becomes nervous without breathing does not mean they do not breathe, it means that they do not noticed they are breathing because they focus a lot onto a subject. This is also a good diction because "stopping Breathing" shows how Q is too nervous on the topic. Q actually afraid that people would notice he is a dinosaur and try to kill him-- and this is what brings Q feel nervous about.
   Last, there is also a small fact that shows Q is shame on himself. When he heard about the ancient lord  by dinosaurs and noticed about "Now I knew that the more the dinosaur disappear, the more they extend their dominition."(p107) Even though for Q, he knows that if the dinosaurs nation die faster, then the ancient lord would lead the world faster. Unfortunately, Q did not spent so much cares about it because he hates dinosaur which he is one of them. As usual, people would do something to stop it, but he did not! He does not care about it. All in all, these three facts show how Q are shame at being a dinosaur.

Response to "Right and Wrong Part one" By Vincent Liu

I found this quote from Vincent's Blog and I like to talk about it:

These two theories are not perfect, and they have many flaws. My first theory states that a person shapes their sense of right and wrong by their personal experiences in life. This not always true. For example, a person can grow up in a family of criminals, but they can actually choose to not follow in his or her family footsteps because they decide that whatever their family doing is wrong. If my first theory is correct, this example can't be true. Being born in a family of criminals means that you are expose to doing crimes everyday, and you are heavily influenced by the bad people around you for every second of your life. How is it possible that with all of this influence, it can't even shape a person sense of right and wrong?

     I agree with Vincent at this point. Sometimes people judge things right or true by their experiences or what olders told them. I am not saying that anything old people say is no right, but no one in this world is perfect and everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes when the olders get misunderstanding and told people to do the wrong things, this is what basic what Vincent has mentioned about. How would a person iderntify someting is wrong without other people say so?
     Since I was little, my parents or my family members always told me what is right to do, which is not.

 I absolutely believed them because their experiences are more than mine and at that moment, I cannot even identify if they are reight or not. I just believe it. This really expressed how older people are effected the younged people which Vincent has mentioned about.
     Anyways, in conclusion, I still think that people should define "true" or "falese" by their own expriences and not by what other people have taught-- the things you see will never "lie" to you because it is truefullness.
Sometimes, the suggestions that the olders mention about could be anxiety, then do the things you believe is true.
    Waiting for the second part of the story. Yah!

Superman Can't Fly

   What happened if a superman can't fly? As we know, superman is a cartoon guy who tries to save people in their lives. I was a Superman fans since I was still in kindergarten. I liked them because they are awesome and different superman has different super powers. Flying is the basic thing that a superman should have(how could a  superman quits without flying skill when he gets kick ass?For sure, no one deducts his power, he just, can't fly!). Whatsoever, this kind of superman is weak at his powers.
   Back to the topic, what happen to a superman if he can't fly? Would he still try to help people out even though it is more dangerous than before? What is the definition of a "superman"? My own opinion to it is that a guy who does good things and contributes a lot to the society. To fight some bad guys and save people from the detonation and fly away is just the cartoon version which is unreal in our life. It is cool and we all hope for this person comes to us, but it is impossible, at least sure for now.
   It will be pretty cool that someone just wearing a suit and comes help people even though he is a person who is without any super powers. Actually, if someone just wants to do some good thing to the society, for example, he or she might just go and help the older,  or do anything else to help. To me, I think they are the "superman"-- does superman have to have super power? NO! Flying is just one of the skills that a superman has-- they have to have a heart-- a heart which tries to help people out-- a heart which always cares others more that himself.
   For me, I  like this unflyable superman more than the one in the cartoon-- just do not ask me why.

Vocab List

1.Aspect
2.Reliance
3.Entity
4.Welfare
5.Deduction
6.Investment
7.Adequate
8.Amendment
9.Derive
10.Perspective

Response to"Today I was ashame of my own blood" by Amber Gomez

It took me few minutes to finish reading Amber Gomez's Blog post, I found a golden line:

I hate that I feel slightly ashamed of what my blood is out there doing. The truth is, I don't know what is going on on the battlefield. I don't know what they are doing, I don't know what they're thinking, so I don't know how to respond. Also I feel terrible because now every person that watched the video today has had to think at least once today "Damn, those soldiers are awful." We shouldn't have to doubt our own country.

    What Amber is talking about is the film that Mr. Fargher shows us these few days. The film is about the  how the Iraq War involved with Americans and so many soldiers die. Basically what Amber is mentioned is that she feels bad because those soldiers die and in another hand they die because they are protecting us. Amber said that she was shamed on her blood because she thinks in the past, Chinese people killed a lot of different nation of people. And then she said she will immediately to go ask her uncle if he did kill someone in the war.
     I disagree of what Amber said. In the war, if one side of the soldiers would be scary to kill the enemy, then the another side of soldiers will come to kill this side of soldiers. As a soldiers, you won't have any choices-- Kill someone or get killed by someone. And also, I think that as old as her uncle is, he would not involved any big war unless he is a soldier. There are many things that were not the soldiers' false to kill people-- it is the leaders' false-- they try to attack other nation to get more territory or more authority.Whenever somewhere has a war, there would be a lot of people die in the war. It is not the soldiers' false because no one wants to kill someone they do not know for no reasons.
    Here is a quote that I really like about, and it is from a Japanese officer,"You need to think about you will get killed before you raised your gun." What it basically means is that from the moment that you have your gun up and try to shot someone, you need to also think about someone will also kill you by a gun. This is why it is called a warr-- which will easily take people's life.
   Amber feels scale and pity in the war, which everyone in our class does. However, this is what the result of having a war and she should not feel shamed of what her blood's relationship is. I know the problems will always not started from the soldiers, but always end with them, which we called scrafied. Aren't the people just making a war because they have nothing to do? No! It does not make any senses. This is what I think aboyut it.

Quickwrite--" I am, I have, I do"

Quickwrite--"I am, I have , I do."
    I think what Steinberm mean by this picture is that he is shadowing his childhood. The three key words are "I am, I have and I do". Fist of all, I think "I am" is the first key word， because when everyone is still a kid, he or she will always dream about that I am am a superman, or I am peron who has the secret weapon. We also have dreams on the job that we want to have after we grow up. "I am going to be a doctor after 20 years!" this is what my little course always tells me. For him, he would not know how many hard works he will need to do if he wants to be a doctor, he is just saying it. He does not have any responsible with what he is saying--who is going to remember a 3 years old child is talking about. Therefore, this is what basically I think what he meant by that.
    Second,  Steinbern mentioned " I have". What I am thinking about it is that he is in a period which 30-40 year-old. He was having his job, and making money. During this time, he was recalling to his childhood time which repressents to what he has "done". For sure, Steinbern went to elementary, middle, and high school, he must have his experiences on different periods of school. I think what he meant by "I have" is that what he has done and contribute to humanity and his voice is confidently and proundly.
    Third, when he turns old, his life is full of happiness and he feels pround on everything he have done. As a pointer, I think he believe nothing is impossible unless you try. "I do" is not showing that what he is going to do, is also showing what he already did. I think he is pround to say that because he was having a wonderful life, this is why he is so pround and says," I do!" So basically it is following order of young to old to draw this picture. And this is what I think about this meaningful picture and from here, I learn a lot of things that Steninbern tries to tell the audiences about the tips to go through our life.

Opening Statement

Opening Statement

         Hello everyone, my name is Peter Chen, and he is my partner, Jasiu. Today we are debate topic is Global warming and we are Con. we believe global warming is natural and humanity activities do not effect it at all. We have all heard about the treat of man-made global warming. We have been informed that it is cause by the increase of CO2 and human activities o. Therefore we need to sacrifice many things to save our planet because it is all fault! Do Not worry, its not true! you have nothing to do with it.
        The causes of global warming are broadly divided into two categories-- natural causes and anthropogenic causes which is man-made cause. First of all, Co2 is a very weak green house gas if it is one at all. water vapor is what causes the greenhouse gas effect. Second of all, humanity just make 5 percents of world’s Co2, and Co2 cause 5% of the green house gas effect,if Co2 is a green house gas. temperatures control co2, not co2 controls temperatures. Jasiu will explain this on his power point. it is the sun that controls the earth’s and the solar system’s temperature. Earth and other planets are warming up too. in addition to that, there has been times when the temperatures were higher than today an Co2 had nothing to do with it. Third of all, earth is not the only planet that is warming up. Fourth of all, there is "no real scientific proof" that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man's activity. Fifth of all, warmer periods of the earth's history came arounf 800 years before rises in CO2 levels Therefore both of us believe global warming actually is a kind of natural stuff that the planet have.
     On the packet that Mr. Sutherland gave me shows 14 evidences, here are the one of all that I feel like they are important: Human releases of CO2 cannot cause climate change as any increases in CO2 are eventually balanced by nature could just built up not bigger than 1 percent of it! So what makes this happen? Natural phenomenon which we will show our evidences next. Thank you!