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

Blog#5

Name: Wei Cao (Kevin)

February 20, 2017

ENG 100

Dr. Vince Fitzgerald

Blog#5

In my opinion, the success of play relies on how the play writer depicts the personalities of the characters, such as the description of contents, styles between character conversations. I especially present the role in CSI: Miami Detective Calleigh Duquesne. Calleigh is from Louisiana and specializing in ballistics and tool mark when she is working in the New Orleans Police Department; everyone calls her the nickname "Bullet Girl" because of her rich knowledge. Calleigh is an almost eternal optimist people, this contrary to her childhood. Compared with her together, our childhood is bright and happy.

   When Calleigh was young, her father and mother were addicted to alcohol; her mother was a declining aristocracy, desperation made her seeking comfort from alcohol. Not only this, but also alcohol made her father depressed, though, and to drown the pain he drank more. However, because Calleigh is the youngest in the family, her father love her and passed along his knowledge to Calleigh when he wasn’t drunk. Calleigh loved her father and yearned for his attention and recognition. She learned to use a gun and learned all the knowledge about the gun by herself. Common sense told us that the male like the military such as gun and fighter, however, in 21st century, gender orientation fuzzy, the girl can do anything boy can do, This trend gradually grew to be a normal social behaviour, not only in this tv show but also in the society, girls have more strong than boys, the more brave, even more than girls perseverance. And also girls are beautiful, they always full of lively, good-hearted, lovely. In other worlds, Calleigh like the other side of her father full of a sense of justice and the spirit for never give up when he was young.

   Calleigh rely on her efforts to go to university and get a full scholarship, she wanted to instead of her mother and lead decent lives, so she uses her mother’s name Duquesne. The girls can lead a happy life through their effort, not like her mother just complaining, or rely on men. Calleigh life experience tells us unattached women can be self-supporting. The young woman does not self-pity of their origin; they can change their life by themselves.

Blog#4

Name: Wei Cao (Kevin)

February 8, 2017

ENG 100

Dr. Vince Fitzgerald

Blog#4

    Today I finish all the first chapter about the author’s experiences in a concentration camp. To be honest, this makes me feel very shocked, the author not only described a sickening scene but also dissects the nature of man. For me, every experience in this book is a lesson, and I will cherish each one and use it to my fullest advantage. The young woman who have a simple story in this book give me a deep impression.

    It is true that prisoner’s inner self will be easy to lose when they don’t have any hope or future, the people who lose their “inner hold” will can’t find the meaning of live. They become indifference because their life has crushed them, leaving them a corpse walking around with no heart. But this young woman shock me, as a reader, I have the right to believe that cruel torture had already destroyed her body and her spirit had been crushed by hunger. However, she still works hard, laugh often and always in a cheerful mood. She knew the meaning of “freedom of suffering,” and she truly understands the meaning of life because in her eyes, the tree has the eternal life and its green color and vitality symbolize people’s energy, passion, and hope. The tree gives her the hope of life and encourage her to through the hard times. When most people missed the destination in their life, this young woman finds her spiritual pillar and push all her emotion on it; I believe her rest of life will be wonderful.

When people live in desperate circumstances, they will be afraid of death in the first. With the passage of time, they can’t find any hope and become indifference to life. Finally, most people choose to die even commit suicide. Only the people who find the meaning of life and switch the suffering to the test of their life, they can get sublimation of spiritual.

Word Count 324

Blog#3

Name: Wei Cao (Kevin)

January 31, 2017

ENG 100

Dr. Vince Fitzgerald

Blog#3

    To be honest, it’s my first time to read this kind of philosophical book. When I was young, I believe that I can’t understand the meaning of life, or in other words, I didn’t understand what life about is. However, when I first read a little bit about this book Man’s Search for Meaning, some little words and some little education in this book are like opening the door to a brand new world.

    The points which left the deepest impression for me is three ways people find meaningful lives. First, is “creating a work or doing a deed;” second is “by experiencing something or encountering someone;” third is “by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.”(P111) The first one, it’s the easiest one to positioning one’s life meaning called success. When people get success in their job or their life, they may clearly feel their value; they find the meaning of their life in some specific areas. The second one is little hard for me to understand, but in this book, the author use loves to explain it. Love not only can make two people willing to be open to each other and reveal our true selves but also can promote the people’s work enthusiasm and inspire their potential. The third one is to face the setbacks; I want to say a real phenomenon that more and more teenage lack the necessary frustration endurance, and always be negative, even commit suicide with some extreme manners.  If it’s human nature to avoid suffering and pain, why does Jesus tell us to expect it? Facing the suffering can make people achieve sublimation.

    It’s too early for me to finding life meaning, but I believe teenager, who observe life carefully, can find the wonders of life. Keep a good state of mind, and full with energy can help the teenager to search for life meaning.

Word Count: 326

Blog#2

Name: Wei Cao (Kevin)

January 29, 2017

ENG 100

Dr. Vince Fitzgerald

 Blog#2

In China, we have a Chinese proverb which says “Food is of vital importance to human beings.” Dietary is the most necessary material base for their existence and social development. That’s the reason that goes to food market become the part of daily life for most people. I go to Trader Joe’s food market every week, in my opinion, Trader Joe’s food market is markedly different from the other supermarket. It’s not only the place for the local people’s daily needs but also include their culture in this market’s design and the environment.

If you went to the Trader Joe’s market before, you might be attracted by the mass-tone moves performative and the whole room. The delicate color can be paired with early autumn tones and that it looks fabulous with the counter of log color. The original wood color gives us a nostalgic vibe. However, it also gives us a novel feeling because most of the population live in the cities, they used to huge tall buildings of steel and stone. A row of the counter of log color full of fresh fruits and vegetables has always captured the imagination, which people live in the countryside, eat delicious fruit when hungry, and have a rest in the fields when tired. There also have many items on the wall include a few pictures, a plant, inspirational posters or paintings, and any other mementos that make people feel good.

To sum up, all of these designs are the wisdom of artists. Light yellow is the main color with log color as the background, creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere. The decoration of the walls like the nature of lazy life, the Trader Joe’s food market wants to tell us to be happy every day.