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.

#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.

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.

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

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.

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.

homework 4

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/business/worldbusiness/24power.html?_r=2&scp=9&sq=price%20controls&st=cse

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.