1.What is smog and its harm
2.The cause of smog
3.Some solutions
I watched a speech by Jake Ma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZfp0ZUsBdM
He was keeping eye contact with the audience from left to right. not just one single group in the middle. Even though he is not a native English speaker, his voice is full of confidence and changes his tone depending on the situation. He did not move a lot but his gesture makes his audience easy to follow his point.
Something I find is the same within Aditya’s response is that Dick Gregory living in an environment was challenging. After the Thursday, it even worse, he lived in “shame” in his life for many years and can’t get rid of it.
There is a good perspective that Aditya said that is different from me. Dick wants to donate money for improving and showing his worth to his class. What I thought is he wants to get the feeling that he has a daddy.
Individual writing
For the most significant historical events that have shaped the future of China, the 1911 Revolution (Xinhai Revolution) must be on the list. Basically, the 1911 Revolution overthrew China’s last imperial dynasty.
I think the Chinese dynasty period is very dark. The emperor decides everything no one can oppose it. From my point of view, I think this event is the first step for China to begin to move towards a modern and civilized country. The Qing Dynasty was a dynasty where the Manchu was the emperor.
Because of this, the Manchus stipulated that all Chinese should be like it. The earliest image of the Chinese with long braids was the result of Manchu’s implementation. If you don’t have this hairstyle, you will be killed.
This event allowed everyone to understand what democracy and republic are. He lifted all restrictions that restricted freedom, such as men without braids and girls without foot binding. All ethnic groups in China are equal in law. He left a very important point in Chinese history。
First, I read the response from Jasper. We both think making sure to understand the purpose of the arguments is necessary and it leads us to connect with the audience. Jasper gives a very good example of it compared to just talk about food insecurity for people with talks about the solution to food insecurity. Two topic looks the same but they have a different focus, which I think is a good example to explain.
Then I read the response from Meijing. for the second article, we may have a different perspective. For me, I’m focusing on how to persuade the audience to form me directly like I will explain everything to persuade them. But Meijing focuses on the audience, like understanding audiences’ position to prepare presentations will be more effective. In addition, we both think to be prepared to answer and give a solution to the obstacles or barriers is important to convince our audience.
In the breakout room, I discussed with Feng Lin and Meijing Zhao.
After reading Feng’s response, I feel like that we have some experience with the power of silence of a speech. When someone felt bored or slept in class, the teacher would stop talking and look at those students with an expressionless face. In general, When someone gives a speech, he/she suddenly stops talking. By using this strategy, it will get attention and address the important part of the speech.
In addition, Feng and I both think Heritage Language loss in Second Generation East Asian and The Power of Silence is the two most effective presentation of the reading.
Today, I discussed with Runze and Ruki in a breakout room.
In Ruki’s response, I have known that he had a hard time when he was in high school, get isolated, can’t get the love from the host family.
In Runze’s response, he talks about the experience when he took an Africa music course, and he seemed to be an outsider in this class. It’s hard for him to catch points like. If you don’t the culture, some jokes, or slangs you may not understand. I have the same issue as well, and it happens every day. Sometimes I still can not understand what the people saying. So I have the same feeling as him.
Different from mine, two of my group mates are talking about their personal experience but I write about my roommates’ experience. I think maybe the personal experience is more directly than others’ stories.
Essay 2 Feedback
After I review the feedback there are several aspects I need to improve.
One is In my introduction, I need to declare the where has article come from and make some information to show its reliability. That is what I lost in my essay.
Then, in the second part of the body paragraph, I just analyze some information in the article but I forget to leave some comments on how that information supports the main arguments.
At last in the conclusion. I need to add a takeaway message from the article. After I read the article. I have known that the restaurant industry is suffering a hard time during the pandemic of both owners and workers. In addition, the article also provides a perspective that the industry itself needs to change like Increase employee benefits and security
I think the extremely serious problem needs to be solved is the environmental problems. human beings’ activity causes a lot of pollution in the environment.
might some people say, it is necessary for the human to use some polluting product in our daily. like the gas, industrial consume, or something.
but one thing that we can make effort to earth is to reduce plastic products such as plastic bags or plastic strew in our daily life. which is not really necessary for people. plastic bags only bring convenience to people but it is harmful to our environment.we should found something to replace using it.
plastic bags are hard to digest by time maybe a couple hundred years even more than a thousand years. one thing is that the “plastic bag kingdom” in the pacific ocean. plastic products are king animals like a sea turtle, whale. they are died of full plastic waste in their stomach.
The new statistic shows the fact that microplastic has existed in most animals. people eat the animals so people will get a harmful effect.
In Elizabeth’s response, I found a different perspective of this essay. she focuses on the language that English is not grandma’s mother language but they talk in her own’s way to communicate with her grandchildren. Maybe what she speaking is includes some grammar mistakes, but it also provides a more close and realistic connection with the audience.
I also get a good idea about the friendship between grandma Wong and her friends. In Elizabeth’s response, she wrote The essay’s argument regarding language differences and cultural identity is that even if there are different languages and backgrounds they are all still connected to one another because they all have one thing they care about most, which is family. I have the same idea as Elizabeth that those people are considering the family as the most important part of their life. But Elizabeth explores more that is even though they may have some cultural difference and don’t know about the culture of one another, they become friends become they have the same faith and value.
Zhiheng, Hang, Alisha
In today’s class, I read two group mates’ response
I start with Elizabeth. She summarizes the main point of the section in the book “Using visual media in your academic writing can have all the reach and versatility of more conventional verbal appeals to pathos, ethos, and logos. Often even more”. Moreover, she gives examples to illustrate it. Apollo 8 “earthrise” and poster from presidential candidates. Different from my writing, I like to give an example out of the textbook.
For Feng, he also focuses on the main topic of this section that is visual arguments, the images, have a powerful tool to support arguments. He uses an example of the Chinese government. They print pictures and tests on the wall to promote their policies and their concept and value to the people. Nowadays it becomes a cultural signal in China. His example is familiar to me, so when it comes to someone who does not know about it, they can check it out and leave a deep impression about visual arguments.