Final weekly free writing- the UCD Fee

The student’s problem on UCD campus is high fees for parking, food, and vending machines. I tried to find a solution to this problem by interviewing fifty students.
On the average, they spent about fifteen dollars a day; they spent about three dollars and fifty cent for parking; eight dollars for food, and a few dollars is for drink or snacks from vending machines.

They had to find a part-time job for money, because the UCD students could not get the money from their parents. The grade was going down, because they spent more time on the job than the studying, ten percent of students drop a part of classes to make sure they do not fail the course. The shows affected the studying so much.

The UCD students spent about three dollars and fifty cents for parking. I think it is too expensive for students. The best solution is not work in part-time to make the money. The UCD students can’t do that; because it will affect their studying. So, I think the school needs to abate the price of the parking fee, and imitate the parking polices of high school and get a permit for parking. The other solution is for the government to add more grants to cover the fee for poor students, or get the poor students a special permit for cheaper parking or free parking.

The price of food in the campus is much higher than the price of a high school. The UCD students have to pay over one dollar more for food. The cause of the higher prices is a lack of competition as well as high rental for the business. I think the UCD campus needs to abate the rental for the business for restaurants, and then bring more restaurants. To increase the competition is among the restaurants, the restaurants make the food price lower. Also, the school can get the restaurants some preferential rights and consult with the restaurants, and try to get the patronage, or set up a foundation to provide money for poor students. The UCD campus can make a policy for poor students to get free food, which are the poor students help the restaurants to clear the table and floor.

The drink or snacks from vending machine is little higher than a high school, the UCD students had to pay more than twenty five or fifty cents for each snacks or drink. I think the UCD campus needs to compare with high schools, make a same price with high school. The UCD campus compares different vending machines companies, bring the cheaper vending machines companies in. school can get fee from those companies to help the poor students.

The UCD campus can organize a charitable entertainment every week in our city center, collect contribution to help our school to abate the school fee. If we can solve these problems, I think the UCD students will have a better situation; they will not worry the school fee again, and study well without the pressure.

Final weekly free writing- My Engl1020

This is my first year in the UCD, and I was enjoying with the English 1020 classmates. I think this is an interesting and helpful class. I have learned much more English knowledge; I capitalized on every chance we get to improve our English. My English gave us much chance to improve our writing skill by the weekly writing assignment. I liked those writing assignment because it was not very hard for me to write and it was very helpful too. But I though the weekly writing assignment was too long for me; I had to write 500 words for each essay before the midterm. But the teacher timely detection of the problem, and he changed his original request. So I just needed to write 250 words for each essay. I though it is a great change; It saved my time and it was much easier. Sometime I like the free writing essay because I can write whatever I want; I did not any plan to improve my English writing skill, and I think the free writing can help me a little bit. I like the Entry writing because it is easy and interesting; I can practice my writing in class.

We had a very nice and knowledgeable teacher, who is Joshus, Ware. So I had to admit that he is a very intelligent person, because he worked out the framework for teaching students of great help. But I think he needed give me more extra credit writing assignment because his class was hard for a Chinese student. Any way this is a great semester, and I like it so much.

Freewriting-Kung Fu Hustle

Director Stephen Chow got great success and immense gratification from Kung Fu Hustle. It was the best movie in 2004, and it brought much glory and applause to Chow. It gave a fresh impetus to the movie business of Hong Kong. Kung Fu Hustle combines action and comedy ingeniously, and they were showed by actors’ action and dialogue. Chow’s work showed the perfect union of craftsmanship and imagination, and he used the Chinese style musical instrument to combine with dance, and used the advanced computer techniques to make this movie become more vivid. This movie worked well in highly improbable plot situations, exaggerated characters, and often slapstick elements were used for humorous effect.

Chow was director and chief actor in this movie, and the production of this movie cost twenty million U.S dollars. Many famous actors performed in this movie. Action super star Jeff Lee impersonate a fire demon, Daniel Yuan and Kelly lee impersonated the owner of a stockaded village, new star Elizabeth Lien impersonated a candy seller, and Jack Yuan and Daren Long impersonated hired thugs. They conquered the hearts of their audience by their excellent acting. This was a successful production by Chinese and Hong Kong actors. There was an important breakthrough that the style of Kung Fu Hustle was different from departed Chows films.

In the beginning of the movie, they combined traditional music with Chinese dance by the hatchet underworld gang. I t seemed to be comical and original. They used diverse Chinese style musical instruments, which represented Chinese classic music art. The Chinese zither was transformed into a powerful weapon. When the people played the musical notations, they became one by one peerless combatants, and they could kill a person without blood.

The computer techniques were used to embellish action and background results in excellent vision and hearing effect. For the background they used a representation of Shang Hai in the 30’s and 40’s. The background collocation conformed to the requirement of Kung Fu Hustle style. The dialogue was exaggerated unduly, comical and interesting, but did not depart from real life. There were some defects contained in the movie, and the chief defect was that they did not use detail in some plots to show the character’s characteristic, facial expression, dialogue and action.Kung Fu Hustle was a great contribution to the movies of Hong Kong, which brought the movie business of Hong Kong to a new level. it was a great revolution.

TBC--BACKSPIN (youtube video)

Extra Credit -Daniel Alarcon(04/04/07)

This was my fifth time Copper Nickel reading meeting, on Wednesday, April 04, at 7 pm in the Recital Hall of the King Center of UCD. It was a great night for us, and Copper Nickel presented novelist and short-story writer Daniel Alarcon. When I was there, he was telling with other people. We could buy Daniel Alarcon’s new books, Lost City Radio and Wait By Candlelight outside the Recital Hall. Daniel was a famous writer, which I heart from my friend Fu Wang. I took over look the menu of the Lost City Radio, this book was very similar with Radio On The War, which I had read in China, but Radio On The War was telling the Chinese war, the Chinese soldiers fight against the Japanese soldier in the bad situation. It represented the Chinese soldiers’ bravery and selflessness.

There were about one hundred of audiences attend this reading meeting that I never saw before. First a lady introduced Mr. Alarcon, and then a bared-headed man made some jokes to the audiences. The opening was interesting and solemn. Mr. Alarcon introduced the story before he read, and he just picked two best sections for audiences. The first section is Norma and War; and Mr. Alarcon had a strong powerful sound in the interesting part-the soldier punched the young man’s face, before he got in the bus. This story described the life of soldiers and Norma in the war, and the soldier’s psychological activity in the war. I liked this story so much. Especially Mr. Alarcon’s reading style was so helpful for me, and I understood and followed the story well. He made the sound clear, and read the story by his heart. I could not listen to the second section’s title, but it was that describe the soldier’s life.

I compare Alarcon’s reading meeting with Danielle Dutton & Stephanie Young’s reading meeting. I found out Alarcon’s reading meeting was more interesting and helpful for me. Danielle Dutton & Stephanie Young’s reading meeting was not really interesting and too short, but I could learned more knowledge in the meeting. Any way, these two meeting were very good, and I hoped the students can attend this kind meeting. It will open your mind.

How to praise Alarcon’s success? I though I need to borrow Edward P. Jones’s praise, who is author of the Pulitzer Prize winner. "Daniel Alarcon’s stories are one of the reasons we go to storytellers — they present worlds we have only imagined or heard about in less truthful and poetic ways. And Mr. Alarcon, like the best storytellers, reveals to us that the world we have secreted in our hearts spins in a bigger universe with other hearts just as good and just as bad as our own. Long before you come to the poignant words, "I come see you, but instead meet your absence," you will know what I mean." After I read the Alarcon, I have become a fan of his.

Extra cridit-night reading meeting(04/02)

The Denver Mint Reading Series is presented by Copper Nickel, CU-Denver Live!, and the UCDHSC Writing Center, with support from the UCDHSC Department of English as a means of circulating to the local, regional, and national community American literature's new coins. I think it was a nice time to listen this poem reading at 8 PM on Monday night in room 440 of the Tivoli Student Union on the Auraria Higher Education Center, but I did not think this was a good reading poem for us because I could not understand as well, and Danielle Dutton read too fast, Stephanie Young read in a low voice. First Joshua introduced the readers Danielle and Stephanie to the audiences. Joshua tried to make some Jokes to the audiences, but I thought their jokes were not funny because the audiences were not laughing. Any way I thought Joshua has done his best, and his speech could win the applause of the audiences. The best job he did that he introduced the reading information for audiences, and we had time to prepare this reading and we knew what is going on. We knew what we need to write down.

The first reader is Danielle Dutton, who teaches fiction writing at Naropa University in Boulder. First Dutton read the poem “20 century pastoral”, but I was not sure this title is right or wrong because she read too fast. From the context we know this poem describe the nice pastoral life. The second poem is “Jane-fast and yet on to the point”, and it was a funny poem. Below is my suggestion for Dutton: I thought she can read the poem slowly by her heart that the audience can understand well. I thought she can introduce the poem to the audience before her reading, which can make her reading better. My reflection on her reading is that her reading is little boring because she did not read the poem by her hear. I thought she need make a strong sound and read it slowly on the important part or interesting part. Her reading style was easy to confuse her audiences, however, I thought some audiences would like her reading.

The second reader was Stephanie Young, and she was last reader in this reading meeting, whose book of poem is Telling The Future Off. The interesting was that her reading style was completely different with Danielle’s reading style. She read the poem “come on gray, but here stand up”, and this poem ideal was from china. She read the poem very slowly, but I did not really like this poem because there were many repetitions in this poem. May be it was a new writing style in America, but it was not a new writing style in China because this style was use in the Chinese old poem. Any way it was a good poem.

Health Child ??

This advertisement is about a McDonald child sitting on the floor, and he can’t stand because he is too fat. The rhetorical strategies are example and illustration, cause and effect, description, and definition, and they are used in this advertisement. The example is used here to show the unhealthy food make your body fat. There are French fires on the baby’s head; as we know the French fires include much fat and energy, and it will attack our health. Cause and effect tell us the McDonald food is unhealthy for our body, specifically French fries, and it will make your body even fat until your health has problem. The cause that if we eat more McDonald food, and we will have more fat stay in our body. The effect that fat will become health problem to hurt our body day by day. The description, it describes a very fat child wear French fires hat and towel sitting on the floor, and there is a big “M” on the towel. The big “M” represents the McDonald food. The child is too fat that is why he can’t stand, and it is an unhealthy represent. The definition, this advertisement to definite the McDonald food is unhealthy; it will bring the health problem for our body and make our body fat.

In this advertisement, the creator employs the physical appeal to show us what unhealthy food is. The creator employs a special example to create a social/cultural commentary. As we know the McDonald is popular worldwide, and the creator is easy to employs it to send out the message. The advertisement mercilessly lampooned world-famous brand, and the great irony is that the famous food doesn’t equal to health food.

Sex Appeal- Kelvin Klein Underwear

This picture advertisement is for Kelvin Klein underwear. We need to focus on the woman on the man’s back, and the man is enjoying with woman. It shows a lot of wild sex appeal, I think the man wants to do something else with the woman. The sex appeal is showed by the woman’s leg and her eyes, the man’s underwear and his muscle. The woman’s smooth slender leg is easy to grab the audiences’ attention, and her sex eyes show out a lot of sex appeal. The man’s sinewy muscle and sex underwear will give the attention much fantasy. Also the sex appeal is show by the man is intoxicated by woman’s sex body.

I think this advertising is the most effective method of promotion, because when the audiences see this picture they will have much fantasy. If the audience is male they will buy one or more for their girlfriend or wife; if the audience is female they will buy one or more for their boyfriend or husband. So I think this underwear advertisement is effective. Also I think this advertisement is Appropriate, because it takes advantage of woman and man as model to show the sex underwear, and this advertisement shows the human original wild sex. This advertisement doesn’t employ any of the exaggerated uses of pathos mentioned in the second chapter of Envision. Underwear and preface body make people feel sexy sometimes, so the advertisement use sex appeal advertising underwear does not demonstrate false, and it is an appropriate sex appeal advertisement. This is a great sex appeal underwear advertisement, and I believe this product will sell very well for young man and woman.

Analysis Essay: An Angle???

This was a black and white picture. The sun shined in the front the woman; it made the picture shine. Two sides of picture were shiner than the middle, and the top of picture was dark than the bottom, which made the picture more visual. A tone or value was halfway between a highlight and a dark shadow. The creator took the picture from shine to dark to demonstrate the laws of perspective. The wings of the woman were not real, and it was draw by the creator. Because we could see clearly art from the woman’s left wing, which was on the wall behind the woman; also we could see the shadow on the floor, which not match with the woman’s wings. The shadow was the tree’s shadow. The black wings tone in beautifully with the picture.


The size of picture was too small, because I could not see more detail about this picture. But it was ok, and we can see what happen here. The characters were not real clearly, and we could not see their expression as well. But the characters made the picture real and visual. I could see the child was putting his hand in the mouth and the woman was taking bag. There was a robber shadow on the right side of picture, and it was not a real one. It was drawn by the creator too. The choice material was not clear at all. When the creator drew the wings, the creator needed to make sure to pain the whole wings light black. Not like the picture show us, I think it would be more absorbing.


The argument of this picture was the wings of woman were not real. The persuasive statement of the picture that the woman was waits for some one or buy, and she will go to somewhere. The message of picture that it was changed by the creator, the alteration made the picture more visual.

Reflective picture- salvery????????

The picture was about the white people and their black servant by Rosalind Solomon. Form my observation of the stuff in the white and black picture. I found out this picture was about 70th or 80th. I could not believe my eyes. The servant looked like slavery and she had to kneel down on side of her owner. I felt the world was not fair, I thought she needs to find her freedom. But I knew chains were a badge of slavery and slavery was the antithesis of freedom. The black woman had completely lost her dignity. She lost her freedom, and she was inferior in the society. I felt humiliated by the white woman and her daughter was smiting. How could they do that??? We should not have racial discrimination. I was strongly opposed to racial discrimination. As I knew the racial discrimination issue was a political hot potato. I thought the government needs to make a law to discourage racial prejudice. This problem could not solve by one day or two. The road to the conquest of racial discrimination was long and full of the pitfall. In 21 century if we let this tragedy happen again, I thought we can kill ourselves.
I felt so happy in the life of today. I could not guess destiny, because the destiny was sometime cruel. If she did not want to be a puppet of fate; I thought she shaken off the shackles of some conventions, and did not believe that the fates preside over human destiny. Everyone was the architect of her own fortune.

Observation Picture- Street Performance

Street Performance

This was an old white and black picture, and this picture was about Street Show. There were many stores on the street, but in this picture we just saw the Tribune and Shirt stores. There two person was walking in the Shirt Shops. There were many car parked in the front of stores. In the front of Shirt Shop a black man was doing headstand performance; he wore white shirt and black trousers, and there was white besmirch on his buttocks. The bottom of leather shoes upward, and his trousers had wrinkled. He bent his legs to balance his body, and his hands supported his body too. His big head was with short hair, which he was easy to balance his body.
The crowd was around him, who wore nice suit. They enjoyed this black man’s performance, and they did not talk to each other. The white man put his hands in the pocket and watched the show seriously; he wore black over coat, who was in the left hand side. The guy was laughing, who wore gray white suit; he put one hand into his pocket and one hand was clipping cigarette. The third white was putting his hand in his heart, and watched the show. The middle man was blocked by the performer. I couldn’t see what he was doing. Three of them wore hat, and stood on the right hand side. They did not give any money to the black man; they just stood there watch the show seriously. There were not car past this street; it was so quite there.