Literacy--Net words

From quite a few years ago, the Internet has become one of the most important means to obtain information and news. Also it has become the most common way to communicate with others which take the first place of phone calls and letters. In just a short time of period, a great lot of software and programs were made and developed. For conveniences and concision, net friends create a large number of new nouns to define specific things and adjectives to describe things. Besides, shortened words are also made. As a result, I must create and develop my literacy of net words. The process of learning net words is interesting. Everyday when I surf the Internet I will pay attention to those new words that I never met before and search for their meanings. Gradually I understood quite many net words and also used them frequently. Following are tow of the words that I newly learned and use from then: 1. 山寨(copycatting) This Chinese term literally refers to the mountain strongholds of bandits. First borrowed to describe rip-off products, it has evolved to refer also to homemade products, such as video parodies of movies. 2. 囧(be sunk/sunken) This is an ancient Chinese character, pronounced jiong. It means “light shining through a window”. Young Chinese use it to express embarrassment, or a bad mood. Look at the character. Doesn’t it look like a disappointed face?
Actually I am thinking about making my own new net words someday. Till then my literacy of net words could be said to be at high rate.

Literacy

When I first heard this word, I thought it must be a very professional term. Finally, I realize it is so common that what we everyday do is a certain kind of literacy. The definition of literacy is the ability to identify, understand interpret and so on. To me, I think literacy is not just simply and I feel literacy is arts of identfing, understanding and interpreting. In another word, it is not enough to for example interpret, more it should be to interpret something profoundly, originally and roundly. In my opinion, literacy is a standard levels to judge what the degree of the ability is.

Big Eyes

Under the disheveled hair, there is a pair of bright and big eyes which is full of eagerness for chances to study. You may be not familiar this picture, but almost every Chinese know this girl who is holding a pencil. This picture is the public poster of the Hope Project, through which people seek resources from every aspect to help the children who are born in the countryside and lack opportunity to study.This picture was taken in May, 1991 by a journalist of China Youth Daily. He chose the right face of the girl, and took a close-up of her. This angle of view let people read the expression of this face clearly and let people feel being in front of her, which made them think I was having so strong and tight relationship with this poor girl and I would like to help her. At the moment she just noticed the camera lens. It was the truest moment. Those big eyes were communicating eagerness for books, classrooms and teachers, and the eyes showed the belief that knowledge would totally change their destiny and we would never life in such a poor, backward area and we got to change it. Further more, the photographer chose to develop this picture in black and write. To my way of thinking his purpose for this method is to create a faint atmosphere and set a sorrowful, sympathetic tone. Using this method in the picture reflects how poor she was and how urgently she needed help more profoundly. In the picture, there are two objects bearing a special meaning: the pencil acts as symbol of knowledge and the pair of big eyes represent need and eager. Rugged conditions of study and life the picture shows move a large number of people.This picture reveals am important and urgent social problem the Chinese people are facing---lack of educational resources. In Chinese culture, education for children is the absolutely most important issue in every family. For children, Chinese parents will sell houses, cars and companies to offer a favorable condition for study. This is quite different from the situation of America. I heard that many American parents do not offer money to their children especially for college study. The eventual goal of the Hope Project is to help the children in families which even do not have houses, cars and companies go to school. This picture is the first and most influential poster, like many other public posters, this poster reveals a social problem and the image realistically records what is happening.

Cinderella

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For a long time, by reading Grimm’s Fairy Tale and Andersen’s Fairy Tales, young children establish their first impression of the world at the very beginning of life. Cinderella, one of the most famous fairy tales around the world is known by almost every kid; and they are dreaming of being such a lucky lady.
A significant characteristic of Cinderella is that the pretty girl will be cared and loved. At the first sight, the prince falls in love with her, even though he absolutely dose not know her personality. Young children may not feel anything wrong with it, but it makes me feel the man is quite superficial and his love is cheap as well. A professor of Purdue University has conducted a research about the 168 fairy tales of Grimm brothers. She discovered that 94% of them mentioned looks, 13.6 times per piece, especially in one piece the author described beauty 114 times. In 17% of those fairy tales ugly were linked up with evil, and in most stories ugly ladies came to a sticky end. As a result, young girls may believe beauty success just because they have pretty face, and then they may ignore education and become eager in make-ups and clothes rather than careers. Maybe in future fairy tales, authors are supposed to start a story like “One upon a time, a common-looking princess lived in a castle……” rather than always start with “One upon a time, a beautiful princess……”
Is there anything unreasonable in Cinderella? At 12 midnight, everything becomes to what they are originally, except the crystal shoes. However, without the crystal shoes the prince will never find Cinderella; what we want is just the “Happy Ever After” mode ending. If this is allowed, how about the bad treatment Cinderella suffers from. After all, audiences of fairy tales are most children. It is easy to mislead them that stepmothers are pitiless and cruel—stepmothers are fixed to negative images.
Now that the topic is about fairy tales, we can not ignore the genre of Cinderella—genre of fairy tales. “Once upon a time…and they lived happily ever after” is special beginning and ending words. Good characters, evil characters, royalty, castle and magic are all elements present in most of these stories. And every coin has two sides. After all, beautiful princess including Cinderella are kind-hearted, have amiable disposition and suffer from unfortunate experiment at beginning that incite pity. Through fairy tales, children start to understand the world; their minds are full with niceness thanks to those beautiful things; they believe that evil will finally come to a sticky end because of fixed mode; children begin to learn words used to tell the stories. And the most important, fairy tales quicken imagination of children and encourage children emulate kindness of those princesses.
In conclusion, the proper way of dealing with Cinderella for parents is to discuss the plot and the characters with children and figure out what children are encouraged to do nor not.

This video is an advertisement of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Overall it leaves the audience a friendly, natural and touching impression. “One world, one dream” is the slogan for China’s 2008 Olympics. This video is made to introduce this slogan to the public.
The video contains an object of emotion—a baby. This video narrates a baby’s dream to become an athlete. This dream is not only to become an athlete but also to achieve success as the Olympic’ motto says “itius, altius, fortius” which means faster, higher, stronger. And this is what we people all over the world are always pursuing. A baby is so new that he has opportunities to learn, to create and to develop; he will make much progress as well. He is the hope and the future of human. The ad maker uses this symbol to represent all human beings and teach and persuade people the essence and the values of the Olympic spirit—Unity, Friendship, Progress, Harmony, Participation and Dream—this slogan reflects; he also expresses his belief that what we dream is what we will get. By the way, people believe that babies have all the pure moral merit. So choosing a baby as the object to reflect indirectly that the Olympics is fair and no such immoral indeed like taking drugs is allowed in the games. That immoral indeed is just like killing new-bored babies which is so evil.
Such a lovely baby and a nice dream imply that the tone of the video is hopeful, optimistic and lighthearted for the purpose that to illuminate the theme and the meaning of “One World, One Dream”. Only this kind of tone is accordant with the Olympic Games. Mentioning the genre of the video, it could be identified as a charity or commonweal advertisement in advertisement genre produced in narrative format. This format tends to be pointed to a specific main idea. Although it is not long enough for us to know whether the baby achieves and this is not quite important to what we are concerned, this format makes the whole story compact and the ad genre is thought-provoking.
Since the Olympic is rather a universal topic, there is no specific audience for this video. Every nation or area could take part in the Games; every person no matter a man or a woman has right to participant in the Games; what is more, everyone could turn on the TV set to watch it. At the end of the video, those lovely babies of different countries, different colors and different nations reveal the idea of the composer that the world is a family and we are members. Even aliens could be the audience, and then the video became a text to introduce the earth.
At last, the most successful and attractive part of the video is the way the composer uses to narrative the dream of the baby. It is so original to compare the movement of the baby to the sports the athletes are doing. Without one word or any other extra interpretation the video is still clear enough to express the theme.

Under the disheveled hair, there is a pair of bright and big eyes which is full of eagerness for chances to study. You may be not familar this picture, but almost every Chinese know this girl who is holding a pencil. This picture is the advertising map of the Hope Project, through which people seek resources from every aspect to help the children who are born in the countryside and lack opportunity to study.

This picture was taken in May, 1991. A journalist of China Youth Daily. He chose the right face of the girl, and took a close-up of the her. This let people read the expression of this face clearly and let people feel being in front of her, which made people think I was having so much relationship with this poor girl and I would help her. At the moment she just noticed the camera lens. It was the most ture moment. Those big eyes were communicating eagerness for books, classrooms and teachers, and the eyes showed the belief that knowledge would totally change their destiny and we would never life in such a poor, backward area and we got to change it. Further more, the photographer chose to developed this picture in black and write. I feel he used this method in the picture to reflect how poor she was and how urgently she needed help more profoundly. And that pencil was the signifier of knowledge and bright eyes were signifer of hope.

This picture moves many people. Now donating to the Hope Project is so common, and there are fewer and fewer children who cannot go to school.

25 things writing assignment

1. I hate cheese; its taste makes me feel sick, even its smell is disgusting.
2. I must have a more than 10-hour sleep every day to avoid feeling sleepy in the next day classes.
3. I grew 1cm taller in the last semester after I came to USA; it makes me so happy because I stopped growing taller since 2005.
4. My favorite juice is apple juice, and there are no carbonated drinks in my life anymore.
5. This spring summer I plan to do some shopping in Chicago.
6. ISS really brings me a hard time; I am not good at working at social and economic issues.
7. My cell phone is served by T-mobile, but I find the signal is not quite good.
8. I want to find an English name which sounds like my Chinese name.
9. I love dogs, but mum said it is not the time to have a dog, for she and dad are so busy to take care of him.
10. Though the food in the cafeteria is not as bad as I expect, I can cook better food than that in the cafeteria.
11. I seldom play on-line game, some of them are difficult and some of them are boring.
12. I want to learn how to dance, I have never been to a ball.
13. I have trouble understanding Americans' texts, there are too many words in shortened form.
14. I care my GPA so much, but at most time I don't want let others know.
    
15. One of my dream is to live in a Chinese traditional house looking like the house in the Forbidden City.
16. I don't know how to ride bike, in my city Chongqing people rarely ride a bike.
17. I can play the piano, though I haven't practiced for a long time. And I can play zithers(kucheng), it's a Chinese traditional instrument.
18. I want to marry a man like my dad, who is good at cooking, repairing, and most of all who is responsible gentleman.
19. My eyebrow is the most beautiful part on my face I think.
20. I want to learn to a language that doesn't consist of letters(a,b,c.....).
21. I want a SSN for driving license, but I don't want to work to get one.
22. Brad Pitt is a cool guy, but his wife is not as beautiful as people say, she looks fierce.
23. I am so lucky that I often guess the answer correctly in exams.
24. I like flowers, but until now I haven't received a rose in the Valentine's Day.
25. My lucky number is 6!!!