http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuLEkHK0VQM&feature=related
A representive from U.N. is giving the respond about for Taiwan join U.N. One of the journalist asked the representive about, "is Taiwan will never become a member of U.N. when it has its human history or support by other countries (U.N. membera)?" Representive answered, " It is for the U.N. members to make the decision." Journalist asked, " How can they decide on it when they can't even respond to their (taiwan) request?"
In this news, we can tell that U.N. members are having a hard time to making decision whether sould they let Taiwan join U.N. or not, because one of the powerful member is strongly disagree with it, which is China. From other news i watch, it shows a lot countries are sort of understand China's pressure to male the decision. Since China is one of the largest country and disagree with it, it a long way for Taiwan to work on to join U.N.
Monday, February 18, 2008
AOD #5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVKrMNQdGgc&feature=related
It's a news about two conflict happened in a international youth sport competition (in Thailand). A Taiwanese girl won the first place (swimming) and was bringing the Taiwanese flag with her to the stage. But one of the Chinese representive took away the Taiwanese flag from the girl and then started to aruge and fight. ANother Taiwanese boy won the 2nd place in the swimming competition, while the boy was walking toward to the stage, a Chinese girl took away the flag. And then when the boy was on the stage getting the prize, a Chinese representive took away the flag again.
From this event, we can see how Chinese strongly disagree Taiwan is a independent country. From my point of view, I think the players have the right the bring up the flag they they believe that represents them. I understand why those Chinese people did it, but we still need to repect each other and not use violance. It could be a example of creative conflict if all of us are willin got learn and change, including Taiwanese too, not just Chinese.
It's a news about two conflict happened in a international youth sport competition (in Thailand). A Taiwanese girl won the first place (swimming) and was bringing the Taiwanese flag with her to the stage. But one of the Chinese representive took away the Taiwanese flag from the girl and then started to aruge and fight. ANother Taiwanese boy won the 2nd place in the swimming competition, while the boy was walking toward to the stage, a Chinese girl took away the flag. And then when the boy was on the stage getting the prize, a Chinese representive took away the flag again.
From this event, we can see how Chinese strongly disagree Taiwan is a independent country. From my point of view, I think the players have the right the bring up the flag they they believe that represents them. I understand why those Chinese people did it, but we still need to repect each other and not use violance. It could be a example of creative conflict if all of us are willin got learn and change, including Taiwanese too, not just Chinese.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
AOD #4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKtOCbLniZc&feature=related
This video is about the routine for the Olympic flamen 2008. The routine is to start from Japan to China, China, and then from Taiwan back to Hong Kong. Taiwan refused about the routine because from the routine, we can tell that the last 3 stops represent the terrtories of China. So Taiwan suggest change the routine from Japan to Taiwan, Taiwan to Hong Kong and then back to China. Thefirst routine shows Taiwan is part of CHina, and the second routine shows Taiwan is a country (draw in the video).
The Chinese Olymic responsor was on a phone call or a speech said " Taiwan is China's terrtory. And you really think ... treat it as a country?" So we are still not sure how it will go, but there is a lot negotiations and active listening that they will have to work on.
This video is about the routine for the Olympic flamen 2008. The routine is to start from Japan to China, China, and then from Taiwan back to Hong Kong. Taiwan refused about the routine because from the routine, we can tell that the last 3 stops represent the terrtories of China. So Taiwan suggest change the routine from Japan to Taiwan, Taiwan to Hong Kong and then back to China. Thefirst routine shows Taiwan is part of CHina, and the second routine shows Taiwan is a country (draw in the video).
The Chinese Olymic responsor was on a phone call or a speech said " Taiwan is China's terrtory. And you really think ... treat it as a country?" So we are still not sure how it will go, but there is a lot negotiations and active listening that they will have to work on.
AOD #3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzQ_3Sia7og&feature=related
I found a video in youtube. It talks about a treaty/policy that Canada and China was having trouble with. The treaty/policy is about trading between Canada and China. China says you have to admit that Taiwan belong to China and support China for getting Taiwan in the future to able to sign the treaty. And then Canada came up with its respond, “1. Canada doesn’t want to be a part of it (conflict between China and Taiwan). 2. Is this means that if you want to be in a partnership, I will have to help you take down Taiwan and give it to you? 3. For what reason I should admit Taiwan is part of China. If I want to have trades with Taiwan, I can’t use China’s permission. I have to get the permission from Taiwan.
I was so surprise that Canada came up with such smart responds. And that was true that you can’t force someone to do something to make a deal. I used to active listening skill; I found out everything Canada said was true. I learned instead of saying no, we can find some ideas or ways to convince others by looking deeper into the meaning of the actions.
I found a video in youtube. It talks about a treaty/policy that Canada and China was having trouble with. The treaty/policy is about trading between Canada and China. China says you have to admit that Taiwan belong to China and support China for getting Taiwan in the future to able to sign the treaty. And then Canada came up with its respond, “1. Canada doesn’t want to be a part of it (conflict between China and Taiwan). 2. Is this means that if you want to be in a partnership, I will have to help you take down Taiwan and give it to you? 3. For what reason I should admit Taiwan is part of China. If I want to have trades with Taiwan, I can’t use China’s permission. I have to get the permission from Taiwan.
I was so surprise that Canada came up with such smart responds. And that was true that you can’t force someone to do something to make a deal. I used to active listening skill; I found out everything Canada said was true. I learned instead of saying no, we can find some ideas or ways to convince others by looking deeper into the meaning of the actions.
Friday, January 18, 2008
AOD #2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umJlJwsCVIA&feature=related
I watched a youtube video this week. The video is about a Chinese representive is giving a speech. The speech is about, “We, the China government doesn’t agree letting Taiwan join W.H.O. because Taiwan is not a country. Taiwan is part of China…….. so on.”
From his speech, it sounds like Taiwan is still under control by China’s government and gets benefit from China. But from what I know, Taiwan has its own government, and Taiwan does not really get helps from China (government). China had public dialogue speeches showed how much they care about Taiwan as their own people, but attacked Taiwan 60 years ago, tried to use force to take over Taiwan. China fired Taiwan for 3 days 3 nights and gave up because it took too long to take down Taiwan. And Taiwan had already developed a strong government of its own, and I as a Taiwanese believe that there is no way for me to obey the Chinese government because of different point of views. SO even though China take over Taiwan, most of the Taiwanese won’t interact with China well.
I watched a youtube video this week. The video is about a Chinese representive is giving a speech. The speech is about, “We, the China government doesn’t agree letting Taiwan join W.H.O. because Taiwan is not a country. Taiwan is part of China…….. so on.”
From his speech, it sounds like Taiwan is still under control by China’s government and gets benefit from China. But from what I know, Taiwan has its own government, and Taiwan does not really get helps from China (government). China had public dialogue speeches showed how much they care about Taiwan as their own people, but attacked Taiwan 60 years ago, tried to use force to take over Taiwan. China fired Taiwan for 3 days 3 nights and gave up because it took too long to take down Taiwan. And Taiwan had already developed a strong government of its own, and I as a Taiwanese believe that there is no way for me to obey the Chinese government because of different point of views. SO even though China take over Taiwan, most of the Taiwanese won’t interact with China well.
Friday, January 11, 2008
2nd Quarter- AOD #1
Issue: China thinks Taiwan belong to them, and does not admit Taiwan as a country
There are two main parties in Taiwan’s government. One is called Nationalist Party (Blue) and another is called Democratic Progressive Party (Green). The blue party was the first party and was most likely obey China. The green party is formed later by the citizens of Taiwan. Now the biggest problem we have is that China is not letting Taiwan join United Nation.
China said that Taiwan is not a country, its part of China. And to be able to join U.N., you have to be a country. The Green party started an act called “U.N. for Taiwan,” and going to have a vote for the independence of Taiwan. The Blue party does not agree with it. They do want Taiwan to join U.N., but of we have the acts like that, will mess up the relationship with China, which mean a fight or war might start. So I believe that a lot of negotiations are needed here.
There are two main parties in Taiwan’s government. One is called Nationalist Party (Blue) and another is called Democratic Progressive Party (Green). The blue party was the first party and was most likely obey China. The green party is formed later by the citizens of Taiwan. Now the biggest problem we have is that China is not letting Taiwan join United Nation.
China said that Taiwan is not a country, its part of China. And to be able to join U.N., you have to be a country. The Green party started an act called “U.N. for Taiwan,” and going to have a vote for the independence of Taiwan. The Blue party does not agree with it. They do want Taiwan to join U.N., but of we have the acts like that, will mess up the relationship with China, which mean a fight or war might start. So I believe that a lot of negotiations are needed here.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Portfolio: Reflective Letter
As a new student to Puget South Early College, I was very nervous to take college level classes. I was so afraid I might have messed up or misunderstood, especially the writing class which I worried the most. To me, writing is always a way to express my feelings and thoughts, just like write an angry letter when I am mad, and make up a song or poem when I am happy. There is no limitation for me in writing. Maybe there are some mistakes I always make but as long as I can be creative and express it freely, I do not think there will be anything problems. But at beginning of the class of Writing 101, my style of writing did not work well. Since I am an ESL (English as Second Language) student, an immigrate and not an English native speaker, the language is my weakness, but as the class went on I learned what I need to write a good essay by reading my classmates’ essays. The two essays that I have prepared for this portfolio will show my changes of writing style in a good way from my writing experiences in this class.
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I did not do well on my first essay since I had never write a college essay before and always practiced writing in ESL level in the ESL class. To tell my strength on my first essay which is the “Bacon’s Rebellion”, the only two things I was good at were to describe what was happening during that time and compared it with the modern world. As a new student to the college with a little weak English skills, I did not get what am I suppose to do with the essay, so I did it the way that I used to write for my ESL essays, and it did not work. And the weaknesses I had on this essay were not having enough historical evidences, quotes, clear arguments , good hook , and some grammar mistakes. The most important part I made mistake was not giving a good theme, which did not show a clear argument. So what I did was keeping the most important and useful information and rewrite other parts. I added my voice of argument, give quote, changed a hook and focus more about my topic since I was out of topic at first time. And I believe the revised version of first essay will show a huge difference from the original one.
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On my second essay, I did a better job because it was a partnered essay. I was glad to work with my partner. I gave him my ideas and words, and he fixed and wrote it down for me, so this essay actually looked smoother then my first essay. It was an essay about a loyalist having an interview with a patriots, and I believe my partner and I brought out good questions for each other to explain each side’s situations. And the only weaknesses we had was a little mistake on the grammar and did not have a good citation, because instead of giving a citation to our source we gave an annotation. So I fixed the grammar and used a website called “ esaybib” for the citations. There was too much things to change around on the second essay, but after fixing it, it looked a little bit better.
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For my final, I think I did a good job because I tried my best and used what I have learned in this class. I know it might not be prefect, but to me it was the best work I have ever done this quarter. I was a little bit in hurry so I made a lot grammar mistakes, but I printed out a copy for myself to correct my mistakes right after the test. And this time, I might have a good hook and showed a sense of understanding the quote. And it is pretty much the end of the quarter, I learned how to focus and not to be off the topic, and more understanding of how to use historical evidences on the essay to support my argument. Over all, I learned more about college writing and grew from the ESL writing. I am glad I took this class which will help me to prepare for writing essays in the future and got a sense of how might the classes look like if I was in a class of big number students in a university.
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I did not do well on my first essay since I had never write a college essay before and always practiced writing in ESL level in the ESL class. To tell my strength on my first essay which is the “Bacon’s Rebellion”, the only two things I was good at were to describe what was happening during that time and compared it with the modern world. As a new student to the college with a little weak English skills, I did not get what am I suppose to do with the essay, so I did it the way that I used to write for my ESL essays, and it did not work. And the weaknesses I had on this essay were not having enough historical evidences, quotes, clear arguments , good hook , and some grammar mistakes. The most important part I made mistake was not giving a good theme, which did not show a clear argument. So what I did was keeping the most important and useful information and rewrite other parts. I added my voice of argument, give quote, changed a hook and focus more about my topic since I was out of topic at first time. And I believe the revised version of first essay will show a huge difference from the original one.
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On my second essay, I did a better job because it was a partnered essay. I was glad to work with my partner. I gave him my ideas and words, and he fixed and wrote it down for me, so this essay actually looked smoother then my first essay. It was an essay about a loyalist having an interview with a patriots, and I believe my partner and I brought out good questions for each other to explain each side’s situations. And the only weaknesses we had was a little mistake on the grammar and did not have a good citation, because instead of giving a citation to our source we gave an annotation. So I fixed the grammar and used a website called “ esaybib” for the citations. There was too much things to change around on the second essay, but after fixing it, it looked a little bit better.
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For my final, I think I did a good job because I tried my best and used what I have learned in this class. I know it might not be prefect, but to me it was the best work I have ever done this quarter. I was a little bit in hurry so I made a lot grammar mistakes, but I printed out a copy for myself to correct my mistakes right after the test. And this time, I might have a good hook and showed a sense of understanding the quote. And it is pretty much the end of the quarter, I learned how to focus and not to be off the topic, and more understanding of how to use historical evidences on the essay to support my argument. Over all, I learned more about college writing and grew from the ESL writing. I am glad I took this class which will help me to prepare for writing essays in the future and got a sense of how might the classes look like if I was in a class of big number students in a university.
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