The article “School nest eggs need explanation” reviewed some of the wealthiest universities’ annual income. Almost every university has increases its tuition. The money we have to pay for college is getting so ridiculous that the U.S. Senate has to put pressure on them to keep tracking where our money go.
As an international student, I can definitely feel the “pain” my parents are having. It costs a lot of money just going to school in a foreign country, with a 15% increasing tuition each year, they might have to consider if I still can go to DU the next year.
The spokeswoman of CU (Colorado University), Gigi Reynold said that 90% of the endowment from CU will be donated with specific causes of mind. And that is too general, not specific enough to comfort civilians. Harvard University offers financial aids to poorer families, but editor doesn’t think it is a good idea for every school, because some other schools don’t have as much endowment. Editor used ethos in this part of argument. Instead of collecting so much money from the students, then offer them scholarships and any other kind of financial aids, I think they can drop the tuitions a little, to achieve the same goal.
This article doesn’t have any pathos writing pieces in it, since it is a documentary kind of writing. At the end, editor said that “we’d prefer they remedy the situation I can see ethos has been used here. It shows the editor’s emotion, and his opinion about reducing the tuition. This article is very straight forward, easy to understand where editor wants to lead us to. Very little ethos has used. I think it is a good idea if more of the examples about how unaffordable school tuitions are to the average income families.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Letter to Denver Post
Dear Denver Post:
After reading the article “Silencing science won’t prevent global warming”, there are a couple things I want to point out. First of all, multiple arguments and opinions about different matters should be acceptable in this world, and I’m sure they are.[Ethos] Without argument I don’t think we could ever progress. The theories that we have proven are developed throughout a long period of time. We have proven ourselves wrong for so many times before we have finally got the true answers. We need different thoughts and arguments to be able to keep moving forward.
There is nothing wrong telling the high school kids both sides. You are making them to believe in what you say if you just to give them one perspective. Plus those high school kids are old enough to know what they want to believe in; or whether if they should say yes to the things we give them.
The speech by Running should have given, even though the “globe warming” theory is unproven. But we sure can see what we have done to the environment. The skies on crowed cities are not as blue, some of them you can’t even see the blues anymore. Unexpected weathers are in our daily life. We know that sea level is increasing rapidly, due to the melting of ice in both poles. There are huge snow storms in central China this year, which is very rare to see. Do you know how much heavy metals you can find from freshwater fish and some of the meat we are eating? Nothing is natural anymore. Who caused all these to happen? We did. There is no point to prove “globe warming”, it is happening in every way. We really need to take this seriously.
After reading the article “Silencing science won’t prevent global warming”, there are a couple things I want to point out. First of all, multiple arguments and opinions about different matters should be acceptable in this world, and I’m sure they are.[Ethos] Without argument I don’t think we could ever progress. The theories that we have proven are developed throughout a long period of time. We have proven ourselves wrong for so many times before we have finally got the true answers. We need different thoughts and arguments to be able to keep moving forward.
There is nothing wrong telling the high school kids both sides. You are making them to believe in what you say if you just to give them one perspective. Plus those high school kids are old enough to know what they want to believe in; or whether if they should say yes to the things we give them.
The speech by Running should have given, even though the “globe warming” theory is unproven. But we sure can see what we have done to the environment. The skies on crowed cities are not as blue, some of them you can’t even see the blues anymore. Unexpected weathers are in our daily life. We know that sea level is increasing rapidly, due to the melting of ice in both poles. There are huge snow storms in central China this year, which is very rare to see. Do you know how much heavy metals you can find from freshwater fish and some of the meat we are eating? Nothing is natural anymore. Who caused all these to happen? We did. There is no point to prove “globe warming”, it is happening in every way. We really need to take this seriously.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Smoking?
This article "The right to smoke" says that if letter-writer Brian Cook had his way, no one will have the permission to smoke at their own houses any more. Writer Maxwell doesn't smoke, but he couldn't stand that Brian Cook was about to limit the activities you can do at your own property.
I believe that everyone would agree with writer Maxwell to go against Brian Cook. No one has the rights to control anyone else's private life, especially at their own places. But in this case, we are talking about smoking. I believe that there are many of us out there, trying to convince others to stop smoking, because smoking is just not good for anyone. In this case, it is not a bad idea to stop people from smoking at their houses.
The idea of doing whatever you want to do at your own houses is very good, but i doesn't really work out with smoking here. Emotional appeals can not lead many of us to think the way writer Maxwell does. I think he did poorly on this piece of writing.
I believe that everyone would agree with writer Maxwell to go against Brian Cook. No one has the rights to control anyone else's private life, especially at their own places. But in this case, we are talking about smoking. I believe that there are many of us out there, trying to convince others to stop smoking, because smoking is just not good for anyone. In this case, it is not a bad idea to stop people from smoking at their houses.
The idea of doing whatever you want to do at your own houses is very good, but i doesn't really work out with smoking here. Emotional appeals can not lead many of us to think the way writer Maxwell does. I think he did poorly on this piece of writing.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Talk about Pathos.
Looking at the picture from article "Troops just 'military property'", I can see this soldier is wounded, he has one of his leg wrapped, walking with crutches in the snow. His head is lowered, you can see the pain he is suffering on his face. I feel sorry for him just by seeing the picture of the article. The notes tells us that troops wanted this injured soldier to be back on duty even though his doctor comfirmed that he is not fit fr duty. At the beginning auther mentioned that the wounded soldier is her brother-in-law. It is a personal matter, most of the readers must be moved emotionally. In this article, we are against the troops, author made the troops the bad character, because her brother-in-law has to return to the war with injuries. Readers can feel the emotions easily, this is an good article for the usage of pathos.
But the article "Mail ballots not secure" doesn't work out as great. The writing method is boring, author tells us it is unscure carrying ballots through mails, he said "I would have walked away with hundreds of ballots". He tol readers his idea, but seeing a mail delivery truck driving with doors opened doesn't happen to many of the other people. I can not feel what author wants me to feel. Pathos does not work out successfully.
But the article "Mail ballots not secure" doesn't work out as great. The writing method is boring, author tells us it is unscure carrying ballots through mails, he said "I would have walked away with hundreds of ballots". He tol readers his idea, but seeing a mail delivery truck driving with doors opened doesn't happen to many of the other people. I can not feel what author wants me to feel. Pathos does not work out successfully.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
i love this class..
Well this week we are workng on our facebook project. There are so many funny comments and interesting things going on on facebook. It was hard for me to make up stuffs which doesn't exist at the first place. But I think I am getting it now, I love the imagination side of me.
Monday Dr. Schonberg pulled out thirty minutes from our class, gave us time to post comments on facebook. It felt weird sending messages to each other but you dont know who you are actually talking to. But I had lots of fun, there were a big number of us trying to find out who they were talking to by sending out funky comments and see who laughed.
I chatted with three of the female friends, and it seems that our conversations are going very well. Ethicl appeals can be seen all overthe places, i need to switch into some other rhetoricals.
I am starting to like writing now, this is fun.
Monday Dr. Schonberg pulled out thirty minutes from our class, gave us time to post comments on facebook. It felt weird sending messages to each other but you dont know who you are actually talking to. But I had lots of fun, there were a big number of us trying to find out who they were talking to by sending out funky comments and see who laughed.
I chatted with three of the female friends, and it seems that our conversations are going very well. Ethicl appeals can be seen all overthe places, i need to switch into some other rhetoricals.
I am starting to like writing now, this is fun.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
A letter to my instructor
Dear Dr. Schonberg:
How are you?
My First Year Seminar class last quarter was a science related class, called Models of Computing. In this class we studied automata. Automata are some kind of virtual machines which model computation. In order to increase the capability of computers, automata are termed deterministic finite automata (DFA), pushdown automata (PDA), and Turing machine (TM) three major branches. Compare to other first year seminar classes, I didn’t have much writing assignments in my class. But my professor was extremely strict about our writing. He wanted us to be able to write out statements to explain our solutions good enough, so that anyone who doesn't have to have a computer knowledge background can understand and know how to solve the problems. In another words, he only accepts papers with high quality writings.
Last quarter all the classes I had were science classes, the only time writing skills could be used was on lab reports. But I found out that it is easier to write out a lap report than free writing. I can write better when I have a goal to aim to. And it is easier to write when you understand what you are really writing. I learned a lot from my first year seminar professor. But my practices are far away from enough.
I was a sophomore in high school when I first came over from China. Because of my international student status, I have gotten many “passes” for my writing assignments. And now I have realized how much time I have wasted these three years.
To me, writing is a fun thing to do, if I don’t consider it as homework or assignments. I write journals daily, it is fun to just sit and write down what happened that day. It makes me laugh so hard reading what i wrote a while ago. I used to write in Chinese when I first started writing journal three years ago. It’s easier to write in my first language. But after staying here for long enough, I slowly started writing in English instead. It was so nature. I didn’t even notice it at the beginning. Now I find myself having a harder time writing in Chinese than in English.
Everyone used to write letters to communicate with one another decades ago. But with the technology these days, we mostly use phones, webcams or e-mails to replace letters. And there are smiley faces in between sentences, not too many of us still use written English fluently. We write down how we would speak. It’s easier to understand each other that way as well. Today’s writing is very different than old days’.
I don’t think I have had enough preparation from first quarter for my writing. As a writer, I am lacked of vocabulary and the ideas of writing, and I know these two things takes a long period of time to make up, but my goal this quarter in writing is to improve my ideas of writing and to build up my vocabulary capacity. And I am looking forward to graduate your class with a huge improvement in writing.
Best wishes.
Haixiang Hu
How are you?
My First Year Seminar class last quarter was a science related class, called Models of Computing. In this class we studied automata. Automata are some kind of virtual machines which model computation. In order to increase the capability of computers, automata are termed deterministic finite automata (DFA), pushdown automata (PDA), and Turing machine (TM) three major branches. Compare to other first year seminar classes, I didn’t have much writing assignments in my class. But my professor was extremely strict about our writing. He wanted us to be able to write out statements to explain our solutions good enough, so that anyone who doesn't have to have a computer knowledge background can understand and know how to solve the problems. In another words, he only accepts papers with high quality writings.
Last quarter all the classes I had were science classes, the only time writing skills could be used was on lab reports. But I found out that it is easier to write out a lap report than free writing. I can write better when I have a goal to aim to. And it is easier to write when you understand what you are really writing. I learned a lot from my first year seminar professor. But my practices are far away from enough.
I was a sophomore in high school when I first came over from China. Because of my international student status, I have gotten many “passes” for my writing assignments. And now I have realized how much time I have wasted these three years.
To me, writing is a fun thing to do, if I don’t consider it as homework or assignments. I write journals daily, it is fun to just sit and write down what happened that day. It makes me laugh so hard reading what i wrote a while ago. I used to write in Chinese when I first started writing journal three years ago. It’s easier to write in my first language. But after staying here for long enough, I slowly started writing in English instead. It was so nature. I didn’t even notice it at the beginning. Now I find myself having a harder time writing in Chinese than in English.
Everyone used to write letters to communicate with one another decades ago. But with the technology these days, we mostly use phones, webcams or e-mails to replace letters. And there are smiley faces in between sentences, not too many of us still use written English fluently. We write down how we would speak. It’s easier to understand each other that way as well. Today’s writing is very different than old days’.
I don’t think I have had enough preparation from first quarter for my writing. As a writer, I am lacked of vocabulary and the ideas of writing, and I know these two things takes a long period of time to make up, but my goal this quarter in writing is to improve my ideas of writing and to build up my vocabulary capacity. And I am looking forward to graduate your class with a huge improvement in writing.
Best wishes.
Haixiang Hu
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