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Writer's memo

Writer’s memo

To: Franny Howes
From: Ruicheng Liu
Date: 02/27/2009

I chose three different genres, such as a movie, a song and a picture. The first one is about a song. "Mother Nature Needs Us" reminds people of serious environmental contamination. Secondly, I talked about a famous movie named The Forrest Gump. It is one of my favorite movies. It more or less changed my way to look at life and adversity. In this essay, I wrote my opinions about this movie and what can I learn from it. The last one I wrote about a picture which is the symbol of a nonprofit organization.

Before I wrote this assignment, I reviewed what we learned in the classes. I think that writing these three essays is a good way to practice my deep thinking. When I watched or read the texts, I tried to interpret them and wrote something down then organized them. I like the content of my paper because it represents my thoughts and ideas. People can comprehend what I want to say. The approaches which I used to connect the sentences are not normal. This is my weak part of my writing. For example, I unconsciously use the word “and” to connect each sentence. I have a big problem that I do not know how to describe a subject or the feeling in detail because of scarcity of adjective and adverb.

Based on requirements of scoring standard, I suppose my paper can get 3.5 Since it satisfies most of the requirements, especially in terms of grammar area, I made few mistakes. At deep thinking area, I did much better than last time. Meanwhile, my paper’s organization is coherent and constant. It is easy to follow for readers.

Sincerely,

Ruicheng Liu

The- Picture

This picture describes four hands holding together that wear the Green Ribbon. It has special meaning to me because it was created after Wenchuang earthquake. It is the symbol of non-profit helping organization which offers goods and medical care to victims. It has special meaning to me since I experienced this horrible earthquake. Fortunately, I am still alive. I could not forget that day in my life and the feeling of closing death. People who had experienced this catastrophe could understand this picture more sentimental than others who had not. In my opinion, these four hands represent adamancy, union, faith and expression the love.

The inevitable fact was that tons of people died. Disaster brought huge pain to people. However, looking at these four hands, they hold each other strongly. There is not one hand but four in picture. It represents that we do not yield in front of damage since all of people stand in one line. We did not care about money and there was no strife and argument. What we did is to encourage people overcoming the disaster together. People were victim in disaster area, but none of them just think about their life rather they helped the children and women to move save places firstly.

Moreover, I can feel another meaning of this symbol strongly. It represents faiths that are hope and confidence. Disaster and difficulty are not horrible, but it is lethal thing if we lose our hope of living and confidence. Sometimes, the faith creates the huge power, especially in despaired. For example, during this disaster, a mother and her son were buried under broken buildings for five days. But they survived without eating and drinking anything. It was incredible but it was true. When reporters asked them how could they do that? The mother just said that she did not want to her son die and she tried to reduce her son scare and encourage her son to live! So they overcame the death with the faith.

It also represents the expression of love among whole people. Solders, nurses, road workers and volunteers were in first line of disaster and worked for day and night. Their goal was to save more people. Public raised the money and goods when they heard that a really big earthquake occurred in Sichuan Province. People who were in disaster area moved when they saw tons of people cared about their situation.

Movie --- The Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump.

Forrest Gump is so worthy to be watched that I saw it twice. What a moving and positive movie it is! After watching movie, people were shocked by Forrest Gump because the director’s idea had struck a responsive chord in the hearts of its audiences.”Life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re goanna get.” This is the most classical line in the movie and it really made people to think about their life. The future is completely unpredictable, hence we should cherish every single day and made it meaningful. For my view, this movie really teaches us the true meaning of life and the power of striving. At first, Gump was an unsuccessful person who had lower IQ and there was something wrong with his legs. And his friends always played jokes on him. Nobody would think he could be successful. This was the impression of him at the beginning. The results ,however, were that he obtained his friends’ respect, becoming a big football star since his speed, being rewarded by president because his great performance on the war, running over the United States and lastly, he got every surprising and romantic love.

So, what I am thinking now is that how could he do that? I firmly believe that if we know how he could do that , we can understand the real meaning of this movie.

First of all, Gump was honest and brave, who kept his own words. All of these assets are indispensable characteristics of a successful person. I was really moved when I saw he went back to very dangerous war field immediately to save his friend. He even did not think about his own life. It reflected the beauty of friendship.

Furthermore, he explored the a career as a captain of wrecking shrimps because he wanted to help others achieve their dreams. Though hard work, they made huge profits. Gump did not care about how much he should get even though the big success mostly depended on his ideas and organization. This is quite different from situations in the real world. Tons of people are eager to acquire reputation, position and money. For example, some scientists wanted to be famous. They fabricated the lab data or some important phenomenon to make them successful. While , this movie could teach us how to be successful through right methods.

Meanwhile, people can learn a new way to look at our life that isn't as bad as most people make it look like, from the successful experience of Gump. It is true that reality always makes people tired and unhappy. But if people have the target and good outline of their life, they could find life is more meaningful.

SONG-----"Mother Needs Us"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_867T6op1g

“Mother Nature Needs Us” is a name of a song. I listened to this song, it is not just a song but has a far-reaching idea expressed by the singer. As far as I am concerned, it is this idea that stimulates singer to create this song. She used an unique method to call on people to protect environment. By my emotional response from this song, I think that she use very happy, refreshed tone to remind people of this serious social problem. After I listened to it more than five times, I found that the lyric of this song is true becayse people can interpret real meaning of this song from the lyric.

At the beginning of this song, she told us recent environmental problem, such as acid rain, global warming and water pollution. Those are the strong points in this song. There is no doubt that environmental contaminations are not one country or area’s problem, they have become the global issue. Facing this problem, the singer wanted to use this song to encourage people to work on this issue together and find a solution. She imagined a beautiful world where people drank pure water and children could play under the clear, unpolluted sky. She firmly believed this should not be a fantasy but a reality if we could stand as one line and start planting the seeds.

What I am interested in is what seeds represented here? Do they represent the project of protecting environment, hope, or action of protecting our common atmosphere? I think all of those are seeds and useful approaches to change our current polluted world. Meanwhile, the author regards nature as mother. The fact is that we cannot survive without the love of mother. So it considerably illustrates the importance of a good environment. One line from the lyrics “we were blind but now we see” in this song has special meaning for the singer. What the singer wants to express is that “blind” referred to people damaged the environment in the past, such as hacking forest, water pollution. On the other hand, the words” now” and “see” prove the fact that people realized the problem and tried to find some ways to prevent our home from being contaminated.

It is worthy to listen to this song because it makes us feel that we should pay more attention to our environment and do something to improve the quality of our atmosphere.

A day witnessed love

the unforgettable day
A big earthquake occurred on 12.5.2008. when time was 2:28 at noon, I just waked up and surfed the Internet as usual. Suddenly, I felt my PC was moving and my body was winging. After few seconds, all staffs lied on top of frigeage dropping down. At this moment, i ran out of the door, saw my neighborhood hanging the fences. my asked him what happened ? he told me this was earthquake, dime it , what in my mind was that earthquake was far away from me and I never thought I would caught in this kind of disaster. Then i asked him did he caught in a earthquake like this. he said no. I realized that this earthquake was big and powerful and i cared about my girl so much. I went back my bedroom imidimetly, the took zheng tou on my head to prevent myself from hitting. I tried my best to go downstairs but unfortunately i lived the top floor of building. the more time passed, the less hope I felt. I do unremembered that when I was on third floor, I supposed the building would collapse and I would die. At that moment, my mind was really messy, my parents, my sisters ,my girl,my friends and my life , was it time to say goodbye to all of those??? No, I did not want to lose any of them so I used all of my energy to run. Hope was coming. when I was second floor, the building stopped ```. I run to the classroom where my girl was in. On the road, I saw everyone was scared and some of them liked me because they wanted to find their husband ,wife or children. Because all people blocked the road, it was very difficult to find my girl and more desperately, cell phone service was not available. I scrammed my girl's name along the crowed people.
luckily, I found her. I was confused that she seemed to feel good. when she saw me, she was really excited, the gave me a bear hug. I took her to very save playground and we stayed there for rest of the day. it means we did not sleep on that day. We did not stop calling our parents and friends but it did not work!
This was unfortunate day, but this day also witnessed the love and the friendship between my girl and me!

YOU ARE STILL HERO!! LIU XIANG

Liu Xiang (born July 13, 1983 in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese hurdling athlete and Olympic gold medalist who held the world record in the 110 metres hurdles with a time of 12.88 seconds.

This image potried Liu Xiang tried him best to compete with other athletes and at last won.

The pose, the hurdle can tell us the beauty of sports. Indeed, look at his eyes, what do you find? How do you feel? combatant spirit, explosive power and target . This moment made every Chinese in every corner of the world excited and proud. In my point, He created the myth like Obama. You know, tons of western people said Chinese never have chance to get in 8th in track and field. and fact is that we didn't do a good job in this field .However, when Liu Xiang won the Olympic game, all nationwide celebrated it . He brought something to public which can make people enthusiastic ---Heroism . I do remembered that almost my friends started liking doing sports when Liu Xiang became our common hero. This atmosphere is positive and refreshing.

Unfortunately, Liu Xiang got injurid when our own country held the Olympic game. As we know, this game is not only a competing game , but it also represented the great development of China. Everyone wondered whether Liu Xiang can get gold and all people believed him but as the same time, they also put the huge pressure on him. On game day, He really did everything he can do but fate always not fair. He gave up the game since injury. Spectors are all at the sea.

Indignation, disappointment and tears were expressed . After the game, lots of people thought Liu Xiang lose Chinese face.But , I think Liu Xiang has his right to choose what he want and as a professional athlete, he knows what he should to do. So Liu Xiang is still hero in my heart.

Reechen's list about himself ^_^

25 random things, facts, habits or goals about myself

1. I want to do my business during my college time.
2. I want to watch Lakers basketball game!!
   
3. It 's lucky to get Kobe and Jordan's signature.
4. To travel all over the us by car
   
5. want to Disney.
   
6. want to learn Spanish and English song
7. i like cooking by myself
8. i like food which is cooked by my mother
9. I do miss my families ,best friends and my girl .
10. Basketball and soccer are my favorite sports.
11. I like reading newspaper and always pay attention to financial report
12. i am outgoing person . haha a excellent friend.
13. I am not tall but my heart is big.
14. Ok, the short plan in this year is to obtain the scholarship and try my best to be honor college member.
15. I like listening music but aren't good at sing . hah
16. my lucky number is 6
17. I am willing to be volunteer .
    
18. I experienced Wenchuan earthquake . it's a catastrophe.
19. i like watching action and science fiction movie
    
20. i like swimming
21. summer and fall are my favorite seasons
    
22. I want to visit HK because I have never been there.
23. I like MSU
24. I am into EC201
25. I want to eat hotpot and Szechan foot
    

    
    

马云 Jack Ma

Jack Ma named one of The 25 Most Influential People on the Web
Author: AdminBusinessWeek has named Jack Ma, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, one of The 25 Most Influential People on the Web...
BusinessWeek29 September 2008
BusinessWeek has named Jack Ma, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, one of The 25 Most Influential People on the Web. Here is what BusinessWeek said about him:
For many Chinese entrepreneurs, Ma is a hero. A former school teacher, Ma, 43, is the founder and CEO of the Alibaba Group, China's premier e-commerce player. The company, headquartered in Ma's hometown, the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, controls Yahoo China and Taobao, the country's top consumer Web site. The flagship of the group is Alibaba.com, a business-to-business service that connects small and midsized importers and exporters in China with counterparts worldwide. Ma successfully guided Alibaba's $1.5 billion Hong Kong initial private offering last November and is now using that cash pile to expand into new markets in Japan, India, and Korea.
Each year, BusinessWeek assembles a list of the people who have the most impact on the Web based on input from its readers and staff. Other personalities who also made the list this year include Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, Steve Jobs of Apple, and Rupert Murdoch of MySpace.

It really has power to move me

This song named" You Were My Everything " by Aviation. It tells us a story between couples. The text is so good that we can know how much they loved each other and ,unfortunately , their love was going to broken. The man wanted to kept the girl and he driven the car on dangerous highway. At that moment, he didn't care about his save.What he what to do was to tell his girl how much he loved her. This scence makes people move.

My favorite sticker

what you are is what you decide to be

Every person is an individual in the world and has different personality,background and occupation. some people are leaders, lawyers and others are unskilled worker and so on. From my view, "what you are is what you decide to be" is a faith to every person. I means it really tells you what you want to be ,what you want to pursue. It has tremendous energy if you believe it. For instance, Obama, the first black president in us ,had created the miracle in the American history. I really like him because I can find some special characteristics from him such as passion, confidence, youth. Ok, let us think that why he won the run? Because he decided to be a president. So it illustrate that the energy of a strong faith.

The social perspective

"Pinched by Price Controls, Power Plants in China Scale Back "

This article is absolutely social perspective and indicates a serious social problem in My country. you know, some western presses uauslly reported unexisted things about China. As a Chinese, however, I can confirm the content of this report is ture. it reported some resons ,respongding to shortage. Along with speeding development of economic, the damend of resources also sharply increase,such as coal which was mentioned in passage. this kind of resource is not unlimited one, the more use the less leave. Moreover, In China, there are tons of illegal or informal coal mines which the save equipments are uncompleted,leading some extreme accidents such as mine explosion.

On the other hand, I think this serous issue was not only faced by China, but every country in the world also was. For example , "Shell chief fears oil shortage in seven yearsShell chief fears oil shortage in seven years" reported in Times.All of both articles discussed related issues- energy resouce

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/business/worldbusiness/24power.html?_r=1&scp=9&sq=price%20controls&st=cse

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/wef/article3248484.ece