To: Franny Howes
From: [yadong li]
Date: [Feb 27,2009]
Re: Genre Memo for [Blog analysis]
Franny:
Part 3 is a blog analysis. The author is invited by Washington Post to write what is happening in China, and the relationship between China and other countries, typically a comprehensive introduction of China. I use rhetorical analysis to separately analyze purpose, audience, mode, and ethos of this blog.
Sincerely,
[yadong li]
Friday, February 27, 2009
GENRE MEMO for part 2
To: Franny Howes
From: [yadong li]
Date: [Feb 27,2009]
Re: Genre Memo for [photo analysis]
Franny:
Part 2 is a photo analysis. This is a living photo of two children from a poor family that lives in Yunnan province. I took this photo in my journey for recall as purpose, so the audiences are basically me, my family and friends. I describe the feature of these two children and the environment showed in the photo, and I introduce the difficulty of their live and analyze the issue which China is facing that related to this photo
Sincerely,
[yadong li]
From: [yadong li]
Date: [Feb 27,2009]
Re: Genre Memo for [photo analysis]
Franny:
Part 2 is a photo analysis. This is a living photo of two children from a poor family that lives in Yunnan province. I took this photo in my journey for recall as purpose, so the audiences are basically me, my family and friends. I describe the feature of these two children and the environment showed in the photo, and I introduce the difficulty of their live and analyze the issue which China is facing that related to this photo
Sincerely,
[yadong li]
GENRE MEMO for part 1
To: Franny Howes
From: [yadong li]
Date: [Feb 27,2009]
Re: Genre Memo for [video analysis]
Franny:
This video is a one piece of horror movie The Ring from YouTube. It is typically the best part scenes of this movie that audience may remember. The audience is the people who forgot this exciting scene and want to recall it. What I analysis is the difference of American horror movie and Asian horror movie, and I think this is due to the difference of Asian and American’s culture and way of thinking so that the ghost that they make is different to another.
Sincerely,
[yadong li]
From: [yadong li]
Date: [Feb 27,2009]
Re: Genre Memo for [video analysis]
Franny:
This video is a one piece of horror movie The Ring from YouTube. It is typically the best part scenes of this movie that audience may remember. The audience is the people who forgot this exciting scene and want to recall it. What I analysis is the difference of American horror movie and Asian horror movie, and I think this is due to the difference of Asian and American’s culture and way of thinking so that the ghost that they make is different to another.
Sincerely,
[yadong li]
papper #2 part 3 blog analysis
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/pomfretschina/2009/01/10_million_have_lost_jobs_in_c.html#comments
I would like to analyze a blog which names Pomfret’s China. This blog is under Washington Post website. The whole blog is writing about Chinese politics, economics, cultures… almost everything of China. The author, Pomfret, went to China in 1980 first time, then in 1988 and 1989 he was there covering the student-led protests in Tiananmen Square (this issue is complicated). After that he returned to China in 1998 and bought a house in Beijing as a place for accommodation. At that time he decided to open this blog to introduce China to the western. Most of article he wrote was about politic of China, the latest one is “A New U.S. Policy for China?” which was updated at January 13, 2009 (seems like he has not updated his blog for a long time).
The purpose that he opened this blog, I think, is to introduce a “real” China to the western. I believe before he first came to China he had read many news and articles about this country, but when he arrived at China, what he saw was different from what these western news and articles describe, and he understood that there was misunderstanding between this oriental country and the westerns, and he needed to be the man who stood out that tell people the truth.
The audiences basically are from the entire world (how I know? Check the names in comments, some of names are “weird”, so seems from Asia or South America or…). There are many reasons that people would like to read this blog: some of them may be students majoring Asian politics in colleges and they need citation of others opinion of China from the Internet for his or her research; others may care some hot topic of China like whether pollution happens in Beijing during 2008 Olympic games (the weather was good during that time). Also, there are a small group of Chinese student, like me, want to know how western think of China.
The mode of this text is definitely the blog mode, that is some websites provides spaces for people, let them post whatever they want to write on the Internet; the blog owner can set up if the blog is open to public; other people who have authority can go over the blog and make comment for each article. Currently most of website offers many accessories like able to add picture or music to make more fun of blog. On the Pomfret’s blog the background is blue without music and pictures. The owner is not editing it as a beautiful or cool one because the topic of articles is serious. However, there are too many advertisements on it which is not what the owner like, I think.
About the ethos of this blog, I think Pornfret’s article is unbiased, he is not criticizing or complimenting China; he just gives truth that what China is doing which may affect other countries, and questions that he thinks people should pay attention. Just like what he wrote in his blog:” China is an amazing place; there are many stories to tell. I hope we can tell them together”.
I would like to analyze a blog which names Pomfret’s China. This blog is under Washington Post website. The whole blog is writing about Chinese politics, economics, cultures… almost everything of China. The author, Pomfret, went to China in 1980 first time, then in 1988 and 1989 he was there covering the student-led protests in Tiananmen Square (this issue is complicated). After that he returned to China in 1998 and bought a house in Beijing as a place for accommodation. At that time he decided to open this blog to introduce China to the western. Most of article he wrote was about politic of China, the latest one is “A New U.S. Policy for China?” which was updated at January 13, 2009 (seems like he has not updated his blog for a long time).
The purpose that he opened this blog, I think, is to introduce a “real” China to the western. I believe before he first came to China he had read many news and articles about this country, but when he arrived at China, what he saw was different from what these western news and articles describe, and he understood that there was misunderstanding between this oriental country and the westerns, and he needed to be the man who stood out that tell people the truth.
The audiences basically are from the entire world (how I know? Check the names in comments, some of names are “weird”, so seems from Asia or South America or…). There are many reasons that people would like to read this blog: some of them may be students majoring Asian politics in colleges and they need citation of others opinion of China from the Internet for his or her research; others may care some hot topic of China like whether pollution happens in Beijing during 2008 Olympic games (the weather was good during that time). Also, there are a small group of Chinese student, like me, want to know how western think of China.
The mode of this text is definitely the blog mode, that is some websites provides spaces for people, let them post whatever they want to write on the Internet; the blog owner can set up if the blog is open to public; other people who have authority can go over the blog and make comment for each article. Currently most of website offers many accessories like able to add picture or music to make more fun of blog. On the Pomfret’s blog the background is blue without music and pictures. The owner is not editing it as a beautiful or cool one because the topic of articles is serious. However, there are too many advertisements on it which is not what the owner like, I think.
About the ethos of this blog, I think Pornfret’s article is unbiased, he is not criticizing or complimenting China; he just gives truth that what China is doing which may affect other countries, and questions that he thinks people should pay attention. Just like what he wrote in his blog:” China is an amazing place; there are many stories to tell. I hope we can tell them together”.
paper #2 part 2 photo analysis
I took this picture in July, 2007, the time before going to the United States. At that time I was traveling to Yunnan province which is located in the west of China. There was a Non Government Organization (NGO) that served Luku Lake area which was one of the places of interest in Yunnan. I contacted them by accident, and the leader Lao Zhai invited me to go to local family with him, so I accepted. From the conversation with Lao Zhai on the way of one local family, I knew that the NGO’s purpose was to help local family to find financial assistances for their children’s tuition fee, because their parents were unable to afford it. From the picture you can see that it was a beautiful place where the two children were on the half way up of mountain playing in flowers. However, their faces were depressed, without any smile, and even though living in the beautiful place it seemed like they were not happy. The children’s clothes were very dirty, and their hair had not been cut for a long time.
These two children are belonged to the family that we were going to visit. After a short conversation I knew that this family was struggled their live. Their annual income was approximately 5000 Yuan (about 700 US dollars), most of income was from farming, they only ate rice one time each week, and potatoes were their main food, let alone ate meat. They feared sick, because they did not have medical security, and they did not have money to go to hospital. Lao Zhai and I had a rest in their house for a while. I looked around and found out that there was no electricity provided in this house. I could not imagine how terrible it was that lived in the dark after sunset every day. This family was trapped, isolated on the huge mountain area.
This is just one small segment of the issues happened in current China that the development of west and east parts are unbalanced. The life quality in east area, especially in coastline area, is almost same as the quality in development countries. Nevertheless, as I have described, people in some east are still struggling on food, sick, water and electricity. To solve this problem, I believe more fundamental facilities need to be built, and children from poor family need more assistants for their tuition fee that let them be educated.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
a typical day of my life
The day I describe is the first arrival in the United States. I recall that I was exhausted due to long flight time in the air. My first stop was Houghton,MI. I had imagined there should be many skyscrapers, but I just saw a few little houses which made me very disappointment(after that I went to New York so I know US does have some modern places). My luggages were delayed, I didn't know what I should do. Fortunately someone picked me up and provided food to me. I started excited because I saw so many Chinese here, which made me not feel lonely. At that day I knew I new life started, and I would do my best.
Monday, February 23, 2009
#2 papers part 1 Video analysis
Compare Japanese horror movies and American horror movies
Horror movie is one important genre in the movie industry. There is always a group of people that like to “abuse” themselves (that’s what my mother said to me). I watched many horror movies, especially enjoy Japanese horror movies, and I will introduce the differences between Japanese horror movies and American horror movies.
American horror movies use visual horrible scenes to scare audiences. In American movies, you always see the ghost’s terrible face through entire movies, and victim’s blood which is because they are slaughtered by monsters or ghosts. American horror movie, in my opinion, is extraordinary disgusting; in the movie, people are hunted and captured just like the quarry, and they are cut, boiled. A strategy that American directors like to use is that they give the face of monsters or ghosts a large feature, so that audiences could see their tooth, with the whole mouth of victim’s blood. However, you seldom see these bloody scenes in the beginning or the middle of the Japanese horror movies; instead, you are brought into a designed environment which is so common in daily life that you feel like you are truly in this environment when watching. Ghost is invisible or unapparent, but you know it exists and is watching you somewhere. The most extremely horrible scene usually happens at the end of movie when you are immersed and trapped in this story which is designed by the director. One example is The Ring, which is one of the most successful Japanese horror movies in the world. In the last part of this movie, the actor finally failed to escape from the curse; His TV turned on automatically and showed a video that a "girl" wore white pure dress who had died thirty years ago came out of a dumb well , scrambled to the TV, and finally moved out of show to be real! The actor was so scared that he was difficult to scream, he even could not stand up to run, but scrambled to the door for escape. You can see that the "girl" didn't crash to the man, but slowly walked with weired shaking. Compare to the American ghosts that are aggressively crashing to split out the victim, Asian ghosts, just like the "girl" did, are more likely to give the victim mental pressure, which makes Asian people more scared. I believe this is because Asian people usually think implicitly that are used to looking for something behind what they see, not like American people that think directly and decidedly.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
photo analysis
http://image.baidu.com/i?ct=503316480&z=0&tn=baiduimagedetail&word=%E3%EB%B4%A8%B5%D8%D5%F0&in=24752&cl=2&cm=1&sc=0&lm=-1&pn=13&rn=1&di=817215521&ln=2000
this picture portrays Chinese premier Wen Jiabao consoled a child whose parents had died because of a earthquake happened last year in the west of China. the child was crying, and the premier had his arm around the child's shoulder; his face showed pity. There is a mirror behind these two people that reflected a flash from photographer and some people stood in front of the premier and the child, so it is obvious that this photo was not originally designed but was opportunely shot. This photo is sentimentalized. The photographer chose these guys to represent three groups of people: the child is the representative of people who lost their families and wealth felt desperate at that time; the premier represented the central government that will rescue the sufferers and give them hope and support; the people who stood in front of the child and the premier represented the mass common people who would give the suffer favors to help them. I can understand how painful the child was because he had lost his family. Also, I understand the central government will help the people like this child who had suffered disasters from the earthquake. This photo showed a hope that China had courage and confidence to rebuild it's land.
this picture portrays Chinese premier Wen Jiabao consoled a child whose parents had died because of a earthquake happened last year in the west of China. the child was crying, and the premier had his arm around the child's shoulder; his face showed pity. There is a mirror behind these two people that reflected a flash from photographer and some people stood in front of the premier and the child, so it is obvious that this photo was not originally designed but was opportunely shot. This photo is sentimentalized. The photographer chose these guys to represent three groups of people: the child is the representative of people who lost their families and wealth felt desperate at that time; the premier represented the central government that will rescue the sufferers and give them hope and support; the people who stood in front of the child and the premier represented the mass common people who would give the suffer favors to help them. I can understand how painful the child was because he had lost his family. Also, I understand the central government will help the people like this child who had suffered disasters from the earthquake. This photo showed a hope that China had courage and confidence to rebuild it's land.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
25 things
1. I want to learn how to play piano
2. I like to play starcraft
3. I like to watch movies
4. I am good at playing badminton
5. I went to women bathroom by accident last week ( I am a male )
6. most of time I am serious
7 I am waiting for starcraft 2
8. I decide to stay school during summer break
9. I like to read politic news, but I hate politics
10. I am gonna to prepare my resume this end of year
11. I hope the Chinese and US stock-markets go up this year
12. I like money
13. I like drive, but I am lazy to take care a car
14. I hope to be assigned into Business school this end of year
15. I don't feel comfortable in club, but I like dance
16. I want to learn dance, especially cha-cha
17. I am a good singer
18. I believe myself
19. Chinese restaurants in lansing sucks
20 I miss my mother's cook
21. I hate people are late for appointments without telling me in advance.
22. IM east are usually crowed in sunday afternoon
23. I have no plan for spring break
24. seems like it's difficult to get a job for finance major
25 I may not go to graduate school before 30
2. I like to play starcraft
3. I like to watch movies
4. I am good at playing badminton
5. I went to women bathroom by accident last week ( I am a male )
6. most of time I am serious
7 I am waiting for starcraft 2
8. I decide to stay school during summer break
9. I like to read politic news, but I hate politics
10. I am gonna to prepare my resume this end of year
11. I hope the Chinese and US stock-markets go up this year
12. I like money
13. I like drive, but I am lazy to take care a car
14. I hope to be assigned into Business school this end of year
15. I don't feel comfortable in club, but I like dance
16. I want to learn dance, especially cha-cha
17. I am a good singer
18. I believe myself
19. Chinese restaurants in lansing sucks
20 I miss my mother's cook
21. I hate people are late for appointments without telling me in advance.
22. IM east are usually crowed in sunday afternoon
23. I have no plan for spring break
24. seems like it's difficult to get a job for finance major
25 I may not go to graduate school before 30
Sunday, February 15, 2009
homework due FEB 16,2009
well, it's a advertisement of Adidas. This advertisement includes currently the best NBA stars that are well-known in the world. it's a short story that Kevin Ganett calls players practice basketball together. The main scence is in a basketball gym. Players run very fast, shooting and dunking the ball. The slot swichs very fast, which is to show "fast". Musics and some talking are embeded in the advertisement.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Can you escape?
you could escape temparary, but hte troubles, challenges and accidents are following behind you and eventually catch you. You must face your destiny, and you mush deal with it. Escape is a way that a coward always does, and I don't want to be a coward. I like challenges, which improves my ablities, and I win honor from it.
However, if the oppsites are really stronger than me, I may choose escape for a while, because it it not meaningful to fight with weak strength.
However, if the oppsites are really stronger than me, I may choose escape for a while, because it it not meaningful to fight with weak strength.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
homework 4
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/business/worldbusiness/24power.html?_r=2&scp=9&sq=price%20controls&st=cse
social perspective
social perspective
This article discusses a new Chinese “notice” to power generators, railways and coal industry to address a shortage. This “notice” relates to the whole Chinese families, because from the article I know that the electricity factories will shut down once or twice each week, which causes electricity is rationed to the families. I think one consequence is that due to high air-condition use during summer, some families will not get electricity for air-condition, so that they will suffer hot air and feel uncomfortable, that is to say people need electricity factory provide enough electricity for local family’s use, which means this new “notice” should be inefficient.
Another issue from the article is that Chinese central government do not allow local government charge tariff to the customers. I think this is unreasonable because the local power factories will suffer more debt so that it is difficult for them to run longer, which will cause them collapse and local people will not get power. Some factories may violate the “notice”; they may not shut down each week. To do this, they may use “special” way, which may cause corruption.
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