Goodbye! Congratulations!

Dear Sean and my classmates

I'm so glad to be at same class with you. Everyone is easy going and so kind to help each other. After these few months, I learned many tips about composition and made many friends. Even though we had so many assignments, we all did it. When I writing this letter, I feel a little sad because we may leave. Nevertheless, this is the best way to wish you all dream comes true.

Good Luck!!

Best Regard

Evelyne

Reaction to Baraka

The movie Baraka makes me think in many different way, and many scenes in the movie impress me. I am touched by the "Manufactured world". It's like a metaphor to our life now and reminds that this the real world. Roads are built connecting everyone. People live in a crowed world. We just like chicken being taken good care of but in limit room. In the city, most people's eyes reveal worry.

When watching the scene, I felt depressed. Only when the nature and religion scenes make me feel peace. In my opinion, people can have real happiness when they back to the nature and far away from competition.

Journal 15: Anticipating Your Parents' Objections

Dear Mom and Dad

I'm so thankful to what you have taught me. You always give someone a hand even a stranger. When you see someone who looks needing help and begging, you always give him money. Sometimes I know that they are not what they look and stop you giving money. I know you will not be happy to hear that but these "poor-guys" may be fake. Trough watching news, I know that some people pretend to be pity to get sympathy and get financial aids. In fact, there are more poor people needing help. I really understand that helping people who need is a good thing and I want to help people who "really" need our help. Maybe we can donate to some charity foundation like Tzu-chi or Red Cross Association to make our money more efficient.

Sincerely

Evelyne

Summarize/Paraphrase Practice

Goodwin Jenifer (2011, Nov. 25). Four common meds sends thousands of seniors to hospital. USA TODAY. Retrieved Nov. 27, 2011, from http://yourlife.usatoday.com

Some common medicines in our daily life seems to occur adverse drug reactions. Goodwin (2011) reports that four types of medicines - two for diabetes and two blood-thinning agents- result to two-thirds of drug-related emergency hospitalizations (par. 2). According to the study cases identifying 65 and older, nearly 48 percent of the hospitalizations occurred among adults 80 and up and also nearly 66 percents were of unintentional overdoses (par. 6). The four medicines are cited in different percentage to emergency hospitalizations (par. 7) and different side effects (par.8). Prior research has also found that older adults are nearly seven times more likely than younger people to have an adverse drug event that requires hospitalization (par. 12). Patients and doctors should word together and discuss whether the drug is necessary to prevent serious problems in the future.

Analyzing an argument

Poloti, D. (2001, November 24). Argentina’s Big Mac Attack. New York Times. Retrieved November 27, 2011, from

http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/24/argentinas-big-mac-attack/

In this article Poloti claims that the curious low price of McDonald's most famous burger means how Argentina government pressures businesses to keep certain prices frozen and manipulates economic statistics in its interest (par. 6). The government tried to influence the Economic Big Mac Index ti hide the truth of world's highest inflation rates (par. 8). Also, the Economist found that the gap between its average annual rate of burger inflation and its official rate is far bigger than in any other country(par.9). Poloti thinks that price-fixing or data-cooking should not be a way to the long term economic problem which has eroded the peso’s competitiveness (par. 11). According to the data the author used, it is a very strong evidence to persuade readers.

Research Day

Allen, A. (2007). Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver. New York: W.W. Norton.

Arthur, Allen wrote this book which including the history of vaccine and development. Not only the effect but also the defeat of vaccine. I choose this book because it also introduce some experiments about that if vaccine would cause autism. I think that I could get some information about the relationship between my article.

First source

POLAND, G. A. (2011). MMR Vaccine and Autism: Vaccine Nihilism and Postmodern Science. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 86(9), 869-871. doi: 10.4065/mcp.2011.0467

Dr. Gregory Poland is the chair director of Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group. The article focuses on the misconception created in the mind of public regarding the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. The author states that there is no credible scientific evidence that the MMR vaccine causes autism and offers information on the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). The author notes the role of the media in creating confusion among the public and states that there must be responsible reporting of information. This journal interested me to find out the relationship between vaccine and Autism. Even though it may be proved no connection recently, I still would like to try to study more resources about the argument. Another aspect I interested is about the social role of a scientist which may has huge influence on all over the world.