“Leaner Profile: Anna”
Anna is my old classmate from Joao’s class .She is from He nan ,China .There are four people in her family including her parents . She also has an older brother . She has been livedin USA for four years . She lived in Elmhurst ,Queens. She usually takes one hour commute to school because she needs to transfer subway to Q27 bus .She worked at a restaurant as a waitress last year but she didn’t want to work anymore this year . Because she wants to focus on studying .This is her the third semester in CLIP program and she wants to be a freshman next year . She wants to be a nurse in the future because nursing can get a very high salary in NYC. She thinks it’s very important to work hard.
“Advantage in Attending Classes”
Attending classes is the best way to study for university students. In my opinion, there has lot of advantage of attending classes every time. As we know, college courses are very difficult and it’s very common to take long time to understand. If you attend classes, you can ask questions immediately which you don’t understand .In addition ,some collegeprofessor also have their own business at the same time. In the class, they will teach us their skills from social experience .It’s very useful to learn when we are students.Another advantage of attending classes is we can establish our own networkship.Therefore ,attending classes could benefit students and teachers in both side.
Miss Ever’s Boys is telling an early medical history from 1932 to 1972. It happened in Tuskegee, Alabama. Tuskegee is a small poor countryside town and most people who live there are blacks. They were farmers with little education. At that time, they got good news from the “government”, the “government” could help them cure the syphilis. A nurse named Miss Evers is black too. She was very positive about this case. She helped the doctors and tried to persuade her friends. But after a few months, she found this was an experiment about the different symptoms between black and white men.The doctors only wanted to improve the science. Her friends couldn’t get any treatment from hospitals and some of them already died. She couldn’t do anything and be self-accusation. After 40 years, the US government refer to stop Tuskegee Study. They compensated those survivors and ended the unreasonable Tuskegee Study. I really like this movie because it shows the kindness between people. Miss Evers’ boys love their life so much and they are happy all the time. But according to the law at that time-Jim Crow Law, blacks was separated with white. They didn’t regard black as people. I can’t understand why black should treat like. Even though, they are poor and had no choice to do what they want. Nevertheless they are still trying to survive. This is an ugly event of America history, but after the Tuskegee Study, Americans established the law of human rights. They are still in effect today.
Gattaca Summary and Reflection
The movie named Gattaca is talking about a high technology in genetic area. The main character Vincent, he was the last natural baby. According to his genetic report, he had poor eyesight, heart problems and only could live for 30 years. However, he had a big dream which is going to space and becoming an Aerospace Engineer. But the standard of working in the space corporation is perfect genetic code. So Vincent took the identity of another main character named Jeromel Eugene who has permission of work at Space Corporation but couldn’t walk because of accident. He was a great scientist but he felt sad about his disability. Then, he wanted Vincent to complete his dream at Gattaca. He provided his hair, blood and urine sample for Vincent but Vincent’s fate wasn’t good, someone started to investigate because a director was murdered. During the time, he fell in love with Irene working in the space corporation. But she also confused about Vincent’s identity. In sum, his girlfriend Irene helped him to achieve his dream and keep the secret.
The movie described an inequality world. People could divided with genetic code. Someone who was born with perfect genetic code could have high level jobs. However, someone who was born with weak genetic code only has the chance to do simple work. People thought they were underclass. They were called Invalid. But Vincent studied hard and didn’t bow to his fate. He believed in himself and he also was one of the best workers when he worked at the space corporation. He is so smart and brave. By comparison, Jeromel Eugene has perfect genetic code but he couldn’t face his disability. He got drunk every day and felt listless. Finally, he decided to commit. In my opinion, everyone is equal in the world and people could change their fate if they fight.
CAT-W Practice One
Have you ever thought about how birth order can influence your family position? The article “How your birth order influences your life adjustment” was written by Lucille Forer. Mr. Forer thinks the birth order could affect the life adjustment in every family. One point from Mr.Forer is birth order could children’ and other people mind. Another point from Mr.Forer is birth could also change the way of children’s behavior. In my opinion, parents are the children’s best teacher. Therefore, parents’ education could influence children’s personality and behavior. In my opinion, parents are the children’s best teacher. Therefore, parents’ education could influence children’ personality and behavior.
First, parents’ education could influence children’ personality. In the article, Mr.Forer said “Parents usually expect their oldest child to be more capable and more responsible than the younger children. Certainly, parents will always tell their oldest child,” As an older brother or sister, you should take care of your younger brother or sister.” If they make some mistakes, parents will always blame the oldest one. Sometimes the oldest one thinks they are the second parents when their parents left. In school, most of the oldest ones will also love to protect and take care of their classmate. Because they think they are stronger.
Second, parents’ education could also influences children’ behavior. For example,my father always thinks a good manner is very important. He always told me you should be polite when people talking to you. So I always have a good attitude when people talk to me .I think this a good behavior.
In conclusion, Mr.Forer thinks the birth order could influence children’ life adjustment. In my opinion, parents’ education could also influence children’ personality and behavior. I think Parents’ education is the most important factor could influence children’ life.
CAT Practice #2
In the 21st century ,is cell phone a part of your life ? How long do you use cellphone for each day? The passage “Hang It Up” was written by Jess Scaccia. Ms.Scaccia thinks cellphones are vey harmful for students. One reason is cell phone make students unable to pay attention in the class. Ms.Scaccia thinks the reason of students using cell phone is a part of parents’ problem. Parents think is a tool to connect with their children when they are in hurry. But the truth is children use the cellphones to play game or texting. In my opinion, cellphones bad for children. Using cellphone too much could harm their health and social life with parents.
First, using cellphone too much will harm their health. According to research, a high school student could text 800 words for one day. That’s very traumatic for their finger. Another reason is students who interested in games they don’t have time to do exercise. For example, my younger brother likes to play game if he has time. When I saw him, He always played games. Sometimes I asked him to hang out with me. He said no. He is very heavy and almost 200pounds.He would like to spend his time to play game instead of doing exercise.
Second, using cellphone too much will harm children’ social life. Ms.Scaccia says,” A student with a cellphone is an uninterested student, one with a short attention span who more about his or her social life than education.’ In my opinion, the reason why the children care more about their social life is they want to talk to their friends and boyfriends. But the relationship between them and their parents seem like not so well. They don't like to talk to their parents because they think their parents couldn’t understand them.
In conclusion, using cellphone too much will harm children’ health and the relationship between parents and them. I think parents should consider about this issue. Maybe not allowable to use cellphone in the family is a good situation.