Tuesday, July 24, 2007

What is happiness?

It is really hard to define the definition of the word happiness becouse each person has own opinion about this word. Some people said that happiness means money but some said it is not money. There fore, I can give the meaning of this word as everthing arround people that can make them feel confortable with. For instance, some people are really happy when they were shopping and some are reall feel good when they have enough sleep. My Happiness is travelling with my family across country and having a nice big meal.

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Lecture: Male and Female Communication Patterns

This lecture is talking about the how male and female use their word to communicate. A lot of experiments have been done in order to find out the differences between male communication and female communiction such how they start, end, present and argue. Then, the Conversational Coherence experiment was set up. The pairs of friends from different grade were sellected and were given 20 minutes conversation. As the result they found that the young boy group didn't talk too much and they couldn't staystill but the girl were paying attention to each other and describe all details about the topic. At the age of 11 to 12 the boys have many topics to discuse while the girls have only afew topics. At the age of 16 to 17 the boys weren't accept others problem they were trying to talk only about their problem but the girl focus on one topic and tried to listen about one problem. The last pairs is the pairs of the age 25, the guys don't have personal reflection but the ladies have personal reflection.

According to the TV Dabate we can see that the man are always want to talk alot even they are the experts. The Audience also want to listen to the men, when men say that they are experts, people believe, but when women define themselves as experts, no body believe.The statues also difind the differences between Male Communication and female Communication. When female is the boss, her suggestions are hard to be accepted. However, when the man make suggestions, everybody accept.

After I studied this lecture,i found that there are many differences between male and female communication. They all have different styles to communicate, sometimes when the girl use the same expession as the boy but the meaning is not the same. Also the men word are easy to be accepted but the girl ideas are hard to be accepted. All the styles that people use to communicate have advantages. Sometimes, we can take advantages on one style over another style.

Monday, July 2, 2007

Novel Project: Post-Reading Discussion

1. After i finished reading the Novel Alias Grace, I feel very satified because at the first time, I thought that I can't finish this novel as it is very complicated and long. Moreover, I found that I don't understand at all in the begining. However, as long as I read, I started to understand the story. At the end I found that this story is very interesting and also all the problem that i faced in the middle of story are solved at the end. Now, I'm very happy because I've never finished reading as long as this novel.

2. In my opinion the major themes of this novel is as the human being need faced with alot of problem and also this book want to tell us to be careful with our word. somtimes only a word that u speak with thnking can becomes a serious problem. For example, Grace in this book just said that she want Nancy to die. As the result, she was accused to be the mudderer and was put in the prison for nearly 30 years. Therefore, this story give alot of examples that are impotant for the real person's life.

3. The characters in this book is very mixed up. Sometimes I can't identify who was speaking that make me misunderstand and i have to reread it, especially, the first part. However, after i read the middle part I knew who was speaking in the first part. Also, there are a lot of characters that were put to express the story like the doctors in differents places and the husband of Jordan's landlady.

4. The dramatic importance of the plot in this book is not good in the first time because when i read it i felt that i didn't want to continue. It was so boring and the imformation is not related to what i want to to know. On the other hand, the middle of story is very inteesting and it also help me to understand the first part because the author explain all details and made me want to finish this book as fast as i can. It really made me want to know what happend in the end and also the plot in this book is very clear and detail. I can imagine that i was in the situations in the story .