Editorial: Are they really protecting our privacies?

Oversight vs. Privacy: To be anonymous or not?
Dec. 20
When reads to the news that a policy may be launched and users would be required to submit their real names and identification card numbers to web operators when opening a blog or posting comments on bulletin boards, most of the netizens would response with surprise and ask why, rather than consider such is a positive measure to protect their privacy. I would also be one member among the puzzled crowds.

As far as I know, internet not only provides us with plenty of resource and instant information, but offers us a space to express my own feeling and opinions about some topics. Especially to those who are under great pressure in the daily competition and need some ways to relax themselves, the internet actually provides them the very chance to get rid of the pressure by expressing the morose feeling or some discontentment to some someone or some problems in reality. If the “limited real name system” really puts into practice, the passion and the desire of those netizens, including me, to comment or to express the real thought will be cooled and gradually disappear.

In addition, with a large population and included nearly 120 million users in China, once the website which gathers lots of the private information of citizens be hacked by hackers and all the privacies are leaked out, who should be to blame and who can make promise that this situation would not happen. Are they really protecting our privacies? I strongly advice the policy makers and the followers consider this case carefully.

Child

Review : Citizen Kane

There misses to this movie

Talking about Citizen Kane, I think it’s funny for the missing of us for several times.

The first time I came across he was the last summer holiday, when I was exhaust after retuning home from the evening Latin dancing course and seating myself before the TV set pressing the buttons on the remote control. He came into my view in the 6th channel of CCTV at the scene of his interview by a journalist and making a speech in public. The black and white picture always cannot grasp my attraction and I though of it as an outdated movie, so without any hesitation, I changed my channel.
The second time I was in the DVD shop when I was told that I can got one more among the particular gifted area for free after my paying for 5 DVD at one time. The Citizen Kane was among the gifted area and I coincidently chose the one next it, the sixth sense which I was showed and impressed in Missy’s class one year ago.
The third time, also being the last time we missed was in the newspaper-reading class this semester when Graham played his DVD for us. Black and white movie always got a magic to fall me into a sleep so quickly than you can imagine and meanwhile, I didn’t refuse the invitation to sleep, so when all my classmates were watching the remarkable film, I was fascinated in the dream. Well, when the movie came to its end and I was waked up to be told that we have to write a review, I decided to make the full use of the resource through internet to download the movie and making my class up. And this time, finally, Kane and I would never miss each other.

About the movie

Citizen Kane comes out to be the greatest motion picture not only in the black-and-white era of movie history but in any era. As a film, Citizen Kane is a powerful dramatic tale about the uses and abuses of wealth and power. It's a classic American tragedy about a man of great passion, vision, and greed, who pushes himself until he brings ruins to himself and all around him. The whole story of Kane’s life was told by the connection of six people’s memories from different aspect. Among the story, two things impressed me most. The first one is the last word of this remarkable finger--Rosebud. The second is his stress that he is an American.

Rosebud
From the beginning, at the time Kane died, he left a word “rosebud” and a journalist was sent by the press to investigate Kane’s relative and friends to find out what was hidden behind such a last word of the great person. However, the journalist failed. This is what made the audience believe that “Rosebud” was of great importance to reveal some secret about the hero. When the plot developed from that part to the end, I watched the whole movie carefully and kept on guessing, trying not to miss every detail which has relation to the truth. However, the answer is out of my exception. It’s a sled! The sled which he played with when he was a child and the very one he left outside his cottage covered by the snow, and the very thing finally melting in the fire. Many people felt a little bit ridiculous and so confused about such a thing. However, just this little and unimportant-liked thing gave the reflection of the desire of purity and nature of such a powerful finger after the American have pursuing the American dream the whole life.

I’m an American
Charles Foster Kane, the greatest newspaper tycoon, himself was also the hero of the news to the US news-buyers. He is the one who concerns so many discussions. Someone said that he was a communist; some may say that he was a fascist and some may say he is the pusher of the reform of the democratic system. But he himself kept on stress that he is an American.
Actually, he is an American. His whole life was a sample of an American who persisted in the American dream of his own. And his effort and brilliant has pushed him the summit of the glory. His glory of success and the achievement he gain just represented the desire and hope of all the American people about their career.

The American dream
What is American dream? The American Dream is the belief that in the United States of America, hard work and determination can lead to a better life, usually through the earnings of money. In the understanding among Chinese people, some consider the American dream to be having two children and living in a department containing two living rooms, one guest hall and one kitchen. They are in a wish that when they come to the old age, their lives may guarantee with financial security and medical safeguard. Currently American dream sarcastic the middle class in America. Lifestyle is lived by a sizable minority. The American Dream has been criticized for its emphasis on material possessions as a way of finding happiness.

Restaurant review

Before I was about to type something down about my review on restaurant, I have been sat in front of my computer for a long time, without a single word can be typed. I don’t know whether there was something deserved to be recorded because the disappointment and the unsatisfactory, even the enragement have already made me become wordless about whatever the food or the service, with which were provided by the school canteen. Maybe I can find my satisfaction in those restaurants outside the school gate, when a hot fried bread of special Shandong flavor was placed on the palm of my hands or my mouth was stimulated and hotted by the spicy food of Sichuan flavor. Maybe we can have a party and devote ourselves completely to the singing, drinking, gaming and laughing…all kinds of enjoyment and happiness in the karaoke room when some special day or some special thing deserved to be cerebrated. No matter what the joyfulness and the previous memory left by the gathering in those restaurant or karaoke room outside, the third canteen inside still have an important place in my heart, not because of the food but because of the days, in this four years college life I and my beloved friends have shared our stories, laughing, morose and all kinds of feeling while we were mealing, however, to me, the most particular one is my friends cerebrate my birthday party, the first one in my college voyage there.

That day, on June 11, 2005, when my first year was about to come to its end as all kinds of final exams was approaching and I was sitting in the library, busying preparing for them, my cell phone vibrated suddenly and a message rushed in, in a hurried-liked voice asking me to find a computer to up line because there was some problems. A kind of feeling that being needed filled my heart and went to the digital hall to seek whether there might one computer available. I succeeded. When I check in my QQ, in the group discussion area, hundreds of messages containing my classmates’ blessing and good wishes to me appeared on the screen. Warmth, happiness, gratitude, and all kinds of feeling filled my heart in a flash. I’m so surprised and so gratitude to them, to all my beloved classmates. That night, in the first floor of the first canteen, they had prepared the fruits, drinks and all sorts of worth-tasted food and snacks as well as those funny games thought out by them for me. Under the rotating fan in the heated summer day, we sat around the round table, enjoying ticking and laughing, enjoying the youth and enjoying the happiness passed through every body and contributed through the heart of everybody.
My beloved friends thank you all!
Sometimes, a place becomes special to us not mainly for its function but for its witness of a special thing happened. Just because of the night, the people, and the previous memories brought by these very people, the third canteen, the nasty food offered by it, and any other no pleasure experience and feeling brought by it, we can just smile and just let it be. Be gone, let it be…

Discussion: should women join the armed force?

It seems that during the passed two years of my college life, most of which, I’ve spent on all kinds of performances and social activities and actually they’ve brought me great tiredness of physically. This semester, when I am in the days of my third year in the college, my pen gets more busy as well as my brain brought by the academic study. Thanks to my teacher of the Advanced English course and my Newspapers Reading teacher, for our progressive and master of argumentative writing, they provide us more chances and strictly force us to write. Practice makes prefect. Of course through the process of composing passages do make ourselves more profound in logical thinking and wording in expressions. And meanwhile, great satisfactory and happiness have brought to me.

This week, the topic of my advanced English course discussion is should women join the armed force. What do you think about it? Leave me massage and tell me your opinions about it. Below is my opinion about the topic, if you don’t agree, debate it.

Should women be allowed to join the armed force? Some may say that if they want to and they are qualified for those hardships, why not? Some may argue that women are born of weakness in physically and of course they can not be equal to the tough task, so they should not join the armed force. As to me, I think it depends. But to a great extend, I do agree that women should be allowed to join the armed force.

Normally, women are actually weaker and less strength than man in physically, because they are less possessives of muscle tissue than men in general. If they were sent to the front line in battle, they would not be competent to fright against men. But everything has its exception. There are still some particular women who are stronger than men due to training in physically for some time. As long as the standards of height health and fitness aren't changed, they can fright as well as men, so why this kind of women should not be in the combat?

Besides, whether women should join the armed force depends on the position in which they would be placed. Female has a multitude of abilities and once proven can be placed where they can best serve the army. Women are more sensitive to the subtle changes of things and easier to capture the expression changes of opponents and meanwhile women are more observational than men. They are better detail thinker. So if woman do as a secret information analyzer or conduct as a “lady 007”, she would be full of talent and capability to these kinds of task. In addition, women can also be trained as a good pilot. Nowadays, more and more women’s face appear on the sky and show us that they are making the contribution to the defense of the whole country and its people.

Judging form the statement above, I do believe that to a certain extend, while women were in the armed force, they can also show their intelligent and ability as well as man, even better than men.

Commentary: about the two Newspapers

When the seven-day’s Chinese National Golden Holiday Week came to its end, again we have to come back form leisure and step forward for our academic study. In the Newspaper Reading Course, Graham, our foreign teacher who had just spent a wonderful time in Hong Kong, brought us back a sort of English-writing newspaper, maybe the one of most popular with the Hong Kong citizens, called South China Morning Post. Meanwhile, he also remembered to bring back the documentary movie, Citizen Kane, which he promised to show us before his travel.

South China Morning Post is absolutely a big guy. Whatever judging from the news coverage or its adversity of the contents, or ever judging from the advertising pages or the supplements, it’s totally different from the China Dairy, our most popular English-writing newspaper in mainland, which by comparison to a great extend would lose its charm and attraction.

China dairy is the one only to be sold for the native Chinese people. Even if you are not very profound in English language, or your academic background just goes to the secondary school, by knowing the English’s basis grammar points and its sentences structures, moreover, a certain vocabularies can make you understand the whole passage and the news items. Because of such a long period since I’ve read this newspaper and others, I find almost all of the passages within are just rewritten into English from their Chinese language original. And the contributors in it are mostly Chinese natives, maybe most of who are English majors and to a great extend can be regarded as a good writers. However, seeing from another angle, maybe this easy-to-understand style just what the press need to make it be hot and acceptable by the public.

However, the South China Morning post is a international one.Firstly, let’s focus on the expressions in the news paper. It’s not that kind of easy like you read China Dairy. Frequently, passages and news in it are worded by the slang and idiomatic phases. When the passage comes to the Opinion Section, the concrete but humorous expressions hidden in it require the reader has a better master of English. Maybe in a word we can say that this kind of newspaper is choosing its readers. Secondly, the abilities of the contributors in the press are totally distended from that of china dairy. Let’s take a look at the historical reason. Due to the “One Country, Two Systems” policy, when Hong Kong finally came back to China since over 150 years’ departure, it also brought back the advanced educational system which has been applied to this land and proved to be an most fitting one for its economic development and the city’s prosperity. Children there learn to speak English since they were sent to the kindergarten. They have been cultivated with the “English thinking” since very young. So as they are growing up in physically, their minds are at the same time becoming more mature and logical, so does their ability of mastering English. So when these good English masters, even the oversee backers and the foreign learned people are employed by the Press, each of they shows his talent and the cooperation of the team work makes this newspaper turn to be successful.

Memory..remembering..

Review:to my passed two years in GDOU

Two years has gone. Sitting in front of the computer, the first time I throw myself into the memory, into the time that now is sleeping peacefully in my heart, to recollect every story happened in those beautiful days, to wake up the slept happiness, the miracles and surprise and also the glories we created on the performance stage, and to retaste the purest love and considerateness between my beloved fellows and I. Now, to me, all of these seem a little bit far away and as the time is keeping flowing down, these memories seem to be gradually forgotten by me, by us even by time. However, the cast of that preciousness would never turn pale and would never be covered by the dust of today’s busy work and great pressure and loses its brightness. What it would be is to be polished to be much brighter and to be fresher each time when we looked back and took it out.

Every time when I was asked about the opinions about my college life, I always response with the same answer that college is the place where my dreams’ flowers boom and where the first time I learn how to be. We are dream pursuer. We sow hopes to this land, keep watering it with our persistence and resolution, and we witness it sprout and become prosperity and finally harvest the achievement of academic study.

I remember David, the vice principal of our English department as well as my basic English teacher, had sent us “three learned to be”, which was unforgettable to me, in his instructive speech on the freshmen- welcomed meeting at the first beginning of the first semester as a freshman. He said that while we were in college, in this small society, we should learn how to learn, how to behave and how to be. Actually, the process of life is a process of explosion. During the sailing, we should find out the most suitable way to ourselves to study, to learn how to behave in a proper way and how to show respects to others. The most important one is to learn how to be, how to be more independence, to be much braver to confront with the difficulties, to be more confident to be challenged, to be more sophisticated in dealing with the interpersonal problems. And finally we would become successful and be a real man. These words often inspire me in the coming days while I was conducting my work as a member of the Student Union. Organizing an activity in the student union requires our collaborations, requires the team work and help form each other. Just like the saying goes: two heads are better than one.

I think I should thank those busy days working in the students union, for offering me a chance to have a try on different kinds of work I have never touched before, through which brought me so many working experiences and turn to become more and more mature after tasting the failure and victory. I think I should thank those students with who I collaborated. Just their passion and seriousness towards every job and their patient and determination in solving problems make me realize how important these attitudes are.
Besides the precious experiences in students union, what make me more unforgettable are our stage performances. Our laugh and our tears on the stages, our singing and dancing under the spot light left the great impression in my memory. Maybe in one word I can say that we grow with the expansion of our stage. From the first time we got the first place in the Freshmen English Drama competition only in our English department to the second place of the Imitating Show Competition of the whole university.
to be continuted...