Blog#7 part2

Name: Wei Cao (Kevin)

March 22, 2017

ENG 100

Dr. Vince Fitzgerald

Blog#7 part2

    Applying my signature strengths to a task is necessary for me. From the information given from the character strengths profile, I had discovered that my first strength is honesty. The honesty and credit are traditional virtue of my mind and also the basic maxim to the human associates. In my opinion, if two people can become very good friends then it is only right to, be honest with each other. Because of this, we can enjoy to talk with our friends and have the “flow” with me.

    We all get through life much better and finish the task with the help of a friend. Not only the honesty but also my second character strengths judgment can help me to avoid some mistakes in the future. Judgment can help me think things through and examine them from all side, not jump to conclusions. As a task in the first part of Blog#7, I applied my character strengths to judge the two side of that meeting. We cannot judge things by perceptions, from the appearance, going to LA and joining the meeting are really waste my time; however, when you learn to look into two sides of this thing and find the positive side, you may know what should you do and more easy to close the “flow”.

Word Count: 218

Blog #7 part I

Name: Wei Cao (Kevin)

March 19, 2017

ENG 100

Dr. Vince Fitzgerald

Blog#7

    One of the tasks that I possible to do is going to the LA and attending to a meeting which I’m not interested it. My father told me this plan on Saturday, and he wants me to increase my knowledge from this meeting. I don’t like things to be out of my control because it makes me explain my future week schedule. However, after careful consideration, I decide to buy the air tickets.

    Last week, we had a survey test about our character strengths, my top five character strengths are honest, judgment, perspective, prudence, and creativity. For this task, even though I don’t want to attend the meeting when I first heard this tasks, my judgment help me to analyze the pros and cons of this matter, and my prudence helps me to make this decision.

Word Count: 138

Blog#6

Name: Wei Cao (Kevin)

March 5, 2017

ENG 100

Dr. Vince Fitzgerald

Blog#6

    In our daily life, newspaper, TV, internet all become daily necessities. For decades, they squandered this cognitive surplus watching television. It is true that watching TV can kill time, and it becomes the most simple and effective way to obtain the fresh information. However, people usually will only pay attention to appearance; we don’t know that Watching TV have subtle influence our thinking, culture, ideas, aesthetics and so on. Think about that our behavior is already be affected.

    The article Life According to TV, written by Harry F. Waters, still has a high research value in the 21st century. The Waters’ argument is mostly right over twenty years old. Watching TV can have massive influences on our behavior without our awareness. To achieve high ratings, television program producers must explore some exciting elements. For examples, compare two good rating TV show, either like a warm, American-made cartoon full of indestructible characters or like a dreary live-action film full of bloody violence. Those TV shows bring about extremely large effect for teenagers and distort the value of teenagers. This point of view happens to have the same view with Harry F. Waters that “Forty-six percent of heavy viewers who live in cities rated their fear of crime “‘very serious”’ as opposed to 26 percent for light viewers.”(Crime P127) From what I have mentioned above, we can see clearly that violence on TV has great influence on youngsters’ behavior that over watching television violence possibly causes an increase of adolescent aggression, and aggression is related with emotional reaction evoked by watching television violence.

However, TV show as a kind of public life has wide-ranging and long-term effects of the culture forms, which can spread appreciation for culture and language. Just as the popular saying goes, “every coin has two sides”. We can’t ignore the TV brings us positive side, which can lead more people to study from this. What we need is to teach teenagers to distinguish between right and wrong. When people have the rich spirit world, judge right or wrong, and resist temptation, can reduce the influence of TV on them.

Word Count: 353