The passage I read about in this week is The Publication of Your Personal Profile on the page 33 of the Arak Anthology. I’m going to pick up some citation to discuss about.
The first citation appears in the second paragraph, indicating the fact that the number of users of MySpace and Facebook is increasing those years. It gives a background information that enables author to draw the conclusion that “private is not so private anymore” (Megan 33). And it helps us to understand how the people are happy to publicize their private.
Another citation I pick up is in the third paragraph. It’s a quota from Chris Hansen that it points out the reason why the young people will be willing to share their private to the other strangers, giving a support to the point that “any outsider can then gain access to all of the user’s private information”(Megan 33).
The third one will be in the forth paragraph. The citation appears as an experiment that it proves that most of people will easily be faked by a artificial profile. So it provides a strong evidence for the point that even the people will restrict their profiles, the other are also easily to get the information from them.
The last citation is placed in the seventh paragraph. The author gives a possibility that “potential employers will judge potential employees by seeing their profiles” (Megan 34). It is a interesting assumption that it seems seldom to occur in the daily life, so the author presents a scenario from a movie, which is convincible and descriptive. It also shows the variety of citation.
Megan Ramires, Arak Anthology 16th Edition, 2009-2010, Department of English, University of Delaware
2009年10月25日星期日
2009年10月11日星期日
Some thinking about our history
The excerption of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee reminds me of the history of the Anti-Japanese War. In 1937, just as the Europeans invaded the American continent and vanished the Native Americans, Japanese Army used the 7.7 Event as a cause to declaim the war to China. The Japanese Army began to utterly invade China after few day of 7.7 Event and occupied the whole part of the north of China in a few months, spreading its force throughout most of the nation and triggered a unprecedented war that resulted in 200 million of casualties within 1938 to 1945.
Although that was a very moment for everyone because the total war endangered the survival of China, the invader was defeated by the Chinese Army combined of Communist Party and Kuomintang. What we learned about such history is that the Chinese Army, as a victor at last, fought so bravely to defense every inch of our nation and they suffered a lot for the shortage of weapon, ammo, food, clean water and warm clothing. Defeating the enemies in such drastically difficult circumstance, the Chinese Army was respectful and unforgettable.
However, the content of the textbooks of Japanese history education fueled resentment of Chinese in these years. Because of the Jingoism, some experts have distorted history of the invasion to China, serving as way to install a drastic revision of Japan in WWII for the adolescence. Fact has been altered that they even dear to deny the carnage in Nanjing City, in which the Japanese Army had slaughtered about 300 thousand of resident and soldiers who has surrendered. What’s worse , they even modify the cause and the process of the invading war as a way the help Chinese people get rid of feudalism and embrace the democratic society.
As the nationalism is still the mainstream in both China and Japan, I can never accept the misrepresentation in the Japanese history textbooks but I comprehend that because power police is required to share a sense of connection and loyalty between people and their rulers, so that may be a best way to release the guilty among the public about WWII and to rise nationalism or even jingoism again for obtaining more interest from the other countries in the future. As a result, I’m still mildly skeptical about the history written by our historians. To make an analogy, as the Japanese can modify their monstrous crimes, we can also modify our goodness and strength so that it can be more acceptable for the Chinese, because the government of China, as an autarchy government, also need nationalism to establish the loyalty of our nation and to maintain the stability of the society.
Surely, the same history will be distinct from a certain position and the contrary one, leading to depute about that history. Nevertheless, one thing is clear that we cannot underestimate the possibility that the government tries to modify their sin or magnify their goodness, leading us to hold a strong belief of nationalism but to give up discovering the truth of history.
Although that was a very moment for everyone because the total war endangered the survival of China, the invader was defeated by the Chinese Army combined of Communist Party and Kuomintang. What we learned about such history is that the Chinese Army, as a victor at last, fought so bravely to defense every inch of our nation and they suffered a lot for the shortage of weapon, ammo, food, clean water and warm clothing. Defeating the enemies in such drastically difficult circumstance, the Chinese Army was respectful and unforgettable.
However, the content of the textbooks of Japanese history education fueled resentment of Chinese in these years. Because of the Jingoism, some experts have distorted history of the invasion to China, serving as way to install a drastic revision of Japan in WWII for the adolescence. Fact has been altered that they even dear to deny the carnage in Nanjing City, in which the Japanese Army had slaughtered about 300 thousand of resident and soldiers who has surrendered. What’s worse , they even modify the cause and the process of the invading war as a way the help Chinese people get rid of feudalism and embrace the democratic society.
As the nationalism is still the mainstream in both China and Japan, I can never accept the misrepresentation in the Japanese history textbooks but I comprehend that because power police is required to share a sense of connection and loyalty between people and their rulers, so that may be a best way to release the guilty among the public about WWII and to rise nationalism or even jingoism again for obtaining more interest from the other countries in the future. As a result, I’m still mildly skeptical about the history written by our historians. To make an analogy, as the Japanese can modify their monstrous crimes, we can also modify our goodness and strength so that it can be more acceptable for the Chinese, because the government of China, as an autarchy government, also need nationalism to establish the loyalty of our nation and to maintain the stability of the society.
Surely, the same history will be distinct from a certain position and the contrary one, leading to depute about that history. Nevertheless, one thing is clear that we cannot underestimate the possibility that the government tries to modify their sin or magnify their goodness, leading us to hold a strong belief of nationalism but to give up discovering the truth of history.
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