Monday, November 17, 2008
Compare/contrast for book/movie
In the noval there was the way each of them thinking and feeling about others but the movie didn't show it. At the end of the book, it only showed that Little Seastress left the town because she wanted to be the person in Balzac had its own opion. In the movie, it showed that Luo and the narrator were thinking about when they were young and they all fall in love with Little Seamstress. I thought the book was more interesting then the movie because in the movie it showed too much information. But in the book, the author wanted to created a scene to let you think what would happenend for them for the future.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
p.3-20
1. The headman assumed the violin was a toy. Luo and the narrator fooled the village about the name of the song which they called “Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao.” If there was something that was talking the good of Chairman Mao then they would think that was true. The re-educated boys showed the village was fool because they were not educated.
2. Towards the end of 1968, the Great Helmsman if China’s Revolution, Chairman Mao, launched a campaign that would leave the country profoundly altered. The universities were closed and all the young intellectuals who had graduated from school were sent to the countryside to be re-educated by the poor peasants.
3. Luo’s father was a dentist. Narrator’s parents were doctors. Luo’s father’s crime was because he dared to mention the names of Mao and his consort in the same breath as that of the worst scum of the earth. The narrator and Luo were sending to the poor village because there was a law saying that the person who was educated from school must go re-educated in the village.
4. Luo punched the narrator because he was sad that his father admitted that he slept with the nurse. He could not believe what he heard because he thought his father didn’t do anything wrong just that other people blame on him.
5. They called the mountain Phoenix of the Sky because it was composed some twenty villages scattered along the single serpentine footpath or hidden in the depths of gloomy villages and they felt the same way as the music.
6. Alarm clock allows Luo and Ma changed time whatever they want so this showed us that technology and education overpower and trick the ignorant peasants.
7. The re-education last for one year. They were despondent that they had to work in this village.
8. Luo’s gift was the clock. He gave it to them and he could change the time easily. But it also made people don’t know what was the real time.
2. Towards the end of 1968, the Great Helmsman if China’s Revolution, Chairman Mao, launched a campaign that would leave the country profoundly altered. The universities were closed and all the young intellectuals who had graduated from school were sent to the countryside to be re-educated by the poor peasants.
3. Luo’s father was a dentist. Narrator’s parents were doctors. Luo’s father’s crime was because he dared to mention the names of Mao and his consort in the same breath as that of the worst scum of the earth. The narrator and Luo were sending to the poor village because there was a law saying that the person who was educated from school must go re-educated in the village.
4. Luo punched the narrator because he was sad that his father admitted that he slept with the nurse. He could not believe what he heard because he thought his father didn’t do anything wrong just that other people blame on him.
5. They called the mountain Phoenix of the Sky because it was composed some twenty villages scattered along the single serpentine footpath or hidden in the depths of gloomy villages and they felt the same way as the music.
6. Alarm clock allows Luo and Ma changed time whatever they want so this showed us that technology and education overpower and trick the ignorant peasants.
7. The re-education last for one year. They were despondent that they had to work in this village.
8. Luo’s gift was the clock. He gave it to them and he could change the time easily. But it also made people don’t know what was the real time.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
To live
1. During the Revolution, it was hard to survive. So their only goal was to stay alive.
2. All the men had same condition as him. They all had to go to fight for their country. They could not tell their family and when they died their family would not know about it.
3. Even though Jiaz’s two children were all died, the life had to go on, too. So she had to adapt the live without her children staying with her.
4. When he was rich, he wasted his time on gambling even though he had told his wife not to. But when he became poor, he realized that money was not important, the most important thing was to stay with his family.
5. Mr. Niu would be killed when he was caught by the government because he was the leader of this town. Government would let the people who had their own thinking way to stay alive.
6. The boy wsa killed he was sleeping and the driver was going back, then he died and the driver got injured. Even though the boy had more serious injury then the driver, but they only send the driver to the hospital because they thought the boy’s life was not important.
When the girl had her baby born, there were no proper doctors in the hospital so she died. In that century, people who smart and had power would be caught by the government because they afraid they would lead the people to take over their power.
7. People worked hard to help their government to control the other countries. When they need steel to make the weapons, everyone gave their own things to the government.
8. They were not rich, but they all suffer from the war and they were happy about their life to stay with their family.
9. Government didn’t want their citizens knew about the truth and the bad thing they do. They didn’t want citizens had their point of view of government made wrong thing and afraid if they knew the truth, the citizens would take over the government.
10. My rate for this movie was four points. The director and the actors explained the life in China well. I thought when Fugui and his friends were and singing and didn’t know there were all soldiers out there. So when they got caught, they went to the war. And when they waked up and the morning, they saw everyone died. When they trying to run away, they got caught by the Red Guards and sent to their home. It was very scary and sad when I saw that people died in this war. I didn’t like the director explained two of his children died. Because they did not do anything wrong and I thought Fugui and his wife were sad because all if their children died from the accidents.
2. All the men had same condition as him. They all had to go to fight for their country. They could not tell their family and when they died their family would not know about it.
3. Even though Jiaz’s two children were all died, the life had to go on, too. So she had to adapt the live without her children staying with her.
4. When he was rich, he wasted his time on gambling even though he had told his wife not to. But when he became poor, he realized that money was not important, the most important thing was to stay with his family.
5. Mr. Niu would be killed when he was caught by the government because he was the leader of this town. Government would let the people who had their own thinking way to stay alive.
6. The boy wsa killed he was sleeping and the driver was going back, then he died and the driver got injured. Even though the boy had more serious injury then the driver, but they only send the driver to the hospital because they thought the boy’s life was not important.
When the girl had her baby born, there were no proper doctors in the hospital so she died. In that century, people who smart and had power would be caught by the government because they afraid they would lead the people to take over their power.
7. People worked hard to help their government to control the other countries. When they need steel to make the weapons, everyone gave their own things to the government.
8. They were not rich, but they all suffer from the war and they were happy about their life to stay with their family.
9. Government didn’t want their citizens knew about the truth and the bad thing they do. They didn’t want citizens had their point of view of government made wrong thing and afraid if they knew the truth, the citizens would take over the government.
10. My rate for this movie was four points. The director and the actors explained the life in China well. I thought when Fugui and his friends were and singing and didn’t know there were all soldiers out there. So when they got caught, they went to the war. And when they waked up and the morning, they saw everyone died. When they trying to run away, they got caught by the Red Guards and sent to their home. It was very scary and sad when I saw that people died in this war. I didn’t like the director explained two of his children died. Because they did not do anything wrong and I thought Fugui and his wife were sad because all if their children died from the accidents.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Systematic
Definition: Having a system, method, or plan; carried out in a step by step procedure.
Related Words: system; systematically; systematize
Sentence: He is systematic in his approach to work.
Selective
Definition: a. Careful in choosing b. Highly specific in activity
Related Words: select; selectively; selectiveness
Snetence:People can be selective of buying things.
Punctilious
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Defintion: a. Attentive to the finer points of etiquetter and formal conduct. b. Very careful and exact.
Related Words: punctiliously
puncctiliousness
Sentence: He is a punctilious person so he is attention to the small detail.
Prudent
Defintion: Excercising caution, good judgment, or common sense in handling pratical matters; giving thought to one's actions and their consequences.
Related Word: prudence
prudently
Snetence: His wife is prudent manager of the money.
Minutiae
Defintion:Minor or trivial details.
Related Words: minute
minutely
Sentence:He is very sensitive to the minutiae.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Meticulous
Defintion: a. Extremely careful amd precise. b. Excessively concerned with details.
Related Word: meticulously
meticulousness
Sentence: When you are doing your test, make sure you are meticulous to check your answer.
Judicious
Defintion: Having or exhabiting sound judgment; sensible; wise.
Related Word: judiciously
judiciousness
Sentence: When you see someone is having a fight, it would be judicious to remain silent.
Foresight
Definition: The ability to see what is likely to happen and to prepare for it accordingly; careful thought ot concern for the future.
Related Word; foresee
Sentence: He is foresight when he does his job so now he earns a lot of money.
Fastidious
Definition: a. Difficult to satisfy or please; exacting. b. Possessing or displaying careful attention to detail.
Related Word: fastidiously
fastidiousness
Sentence: He is fastidious about his clothes so his clothes are very special.
Diligence
Definition: Constant and earnest effort to accomplish a task; careful attention.
Related Word: diligent
diligently
Snetence:He has a lot diligence to make his work on time and perfect.
Spoonerism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: An accidental but humorous distortion of words in a phrase formed by interchanging the initial sounds.
Sentence: He wanted to say wave the sails but he said save the whales, which is a spoonerism.
Simile
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduce by like or as.
Sentence: “He danced like a bear”, it is a simile.
Portmanteau word
Part of Speech: compound noun
Definition: A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words.
Sentence: The word bash is combine from bang and smash.
Palindrome
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: A word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward.
Sentence: Make a palindrome is funny but hard.
Onomatopoeia
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: The formation or use of a word that imitates or resembles what it stands for
Other Form: onomatopoetic
Sentence: When you use onomatopoeia in the poem, it will make it full of energy.
Malapropism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: The use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but humorously wrong in the context.
Related word:malapropistic
Sentence: He wanted to write about the sunny day but he write pony day so he had malapropism.
Colliquial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: 1. Used in or suitable to spoken language or to writing that imitates speech.
2. Informal in style of expression.
Other Form: colloquialism
colloquially
Sentence: He write a colloquial speech so he got a low score.
Coinage
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: 1. The invention of new words.
2. The process of making coin.
Other Form: coin
Sentence: All the money comes from the factory of coinage.
Acronym
Acronym
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: A word formed from the initial letters of a name or by combining initial letters or parts of series of words.
Other Form: acronymic
acronymous
acronymically
Sentence: The acronym for Professional Gamer is PG
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
affix
Part of Speech:noun/verb
Definition: 1. A word element, such as a prefix or suffix, that is attached to a base, stem, or root.
2. To fasten, joint, or attach
Other Form:affixable, affixal, affixial,affixer, affixment
Sentence: I affixed a label on to the bottle.
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