Nov 30 In Class Writing

I am going to make a speech about how can people prevent themselves from getting COVID-19. This speech includes strategies of staying away from COVID-19. First, I am going to list some background of COVID-19. Then I will give some strategies to protect people. Some resources are selected from the website of World Health Organization.

Nov 18, 2020 In Class Writing

The most significant historical event that has positively shaped the future of my country and people was the reform and opening-up policy. Based on this policy, Chinese government allows foreigners to invest Chinese companies, which brings enough resources to develop the economy. The reform and opening-up policy also helps China attend WTO, so China became the biggest factory on the Earth.
One of the reasons I chose the reform and opening-up policy is because this policy changes the city(Shenzhen) I am living in right now. Forty years ago, Shenzhen was just a small village next to Hong Kong. Now, Shenzhen’s GDP is fourth highest in Chinese city.

11/11 In Class Writing

I read Meijing Zhao’s disscussion. We both chose The Power of Silence to discuss. But Meijing did not discuss it with her own experiences, she shows how effective the presentation is. For the second example, Beijing uses Martin Luther King Jr’s speech. She express how effective the parallelism can be in a presentation. Parallelism can strengthen people’s emotions.

Essay 2 feedback

After reading the feedback of Essay 2, I realize I have something needs to improve. First, I did not give a clear publisher and publish location of the article I used. Second, I did not use APA in-text citations and references correctly. Third, I did not give a clear statement for some of my points. But I believe I did a good job on connecting ideas between the article and my own experiences. I think I can improve these problems by doing a better organization.

10/28 in class writing

I work with Hang Yang and Aditya Kumer. Hang Yang mainly talks about people do not want to be different from others. Hang Yang explains why people do not want to be different from other and gives an example about children would bully someone that are different. Hang Yang’s point is similar with mine, because we all mentioned that we do not want to be different and we put effort on being normal.

There are many people who are addicted to the social medias. For example, when I hang out with my friends, people always playing on their phones instead of talking to each other. I think that’s because people do not want to feel that they are abandoned on the social media. However, People should care about their personal lives and health and stop worrying about virtual platform presence. It will help to feel more confident and pleasurable in personal lives.

Sept 19, 2020 In Class Writing

Partner: Zhiheng Wang, Elizabeth O’Connor

After reading Zhiheng’s discussion, I found out Zhiheng’s points are more detailed than mine. Zhiheng talks a lot about pathos, ethos, and logos, and how can these three rhetorical strategies apply to visual arguments. Zhiheng gives an example of a Thailand environmental ad, which explains why visual arguments are effective.

After reading Elizabeth’s discussion, I found out Elizabeth’s discussion is similar with Zhiheng’s discussion. Elizabeth also talks about how ethos, pathos, and logos can apply to visual arguments. Elizabeth gives two examples of how images can influence people.

Oct 14, 2020 In Class Writing

I read Barack Obama’s twitter. In this tweet, Obama gives out four reasons of voting to Biden. The four reasons are getting this pandemic under control, building a fairer economy, taking on climate change, and protecting our health care. All of these four reasons are problems that American people are caring about.I believe Obama uses ethos and pathos to make his points more persuasive. Obama mentions four things that people currently care about to make people vote. Obama also posts a video of instruction of voting. At the beginning of the video, Obama repeats that why is it so important to vote, and emphasize the four reasons of voting.

09/30 in Class Freewriting

Mobile payment has became popular in global world.In China, people can live without cash, but they cannot live without mobile phones. In China, there are two giant internet companies, which are Tencent and Alibaba.In the United States, there is Apple Pay. Tencent and Alibaba’s business cover all Chinese people’s lives and provide a new lifestyle not only for Chinese people but also other continents. In China, if there is someone who did not bring their id, the policeman will scan their QR code on WeChat or Alipay, then the policeman can see their id on it. Basically, most of the Chinese people can hangout with their friends without taking their wallet or other information, but they cannot go without their phones. When I was in Thailand, there were many stores that provide WeChat Pay and Alipay. This happened in San Francisco as well. I went to Barney’s in San Francisco, the sales recognized I am Chinese, so when I was paying at desk, the sales asked me if I want to pay with WeChat or Alipay. I was shocked, because I just wanted to take out my card and handed to him. When I first came to the United States, everywhere only took cash or card. After I came back to China a few years ago, I still felt difficult to change my habit of paying.

Outline

Topic: How would the mobile payment change the world.

Introduction: Mobile payment is becoming popular around the world.

Background: Three giant internet companies in China and the United States. (Tencent, Alibaba, and Apple)

Examples:

– If someone who does not bring his/her id

– My own experience in Thailand and the United States

– Advantages of using mobile payment.

– Disadvantage of using mobile payment.

– A prediction of mobile payment in the future.

Conclusion

In Class Activity Sept 23

This article talks about what would change Chinese relationships with Europe if there’s no invasion of Mongolia. Because of the invasion of Mongolia, Chinese Imperial had to focused resources inland, which weakened the marine force of China. So that Chinese merchant could have more interactions with west Europe without the Mongol invasion.(Horst Jürgen, 2017)

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