Broadcast – Students and choice of food

Somehow I didn’t set up properly – it gets a little too loud so you may wanna turn down the volume

Blog #11 – IMHO #2 (354 words)

Today we’re seeing young people don’t care about owning a vehicle anymore. The latest MercuryNews’ article “Young Americans less likely to drive” by Joan Lowy focuses on young Americans who rather connect through their iPhones than drive to see each other. Most of them wait until they’re 18 or older to get their driver’s license, so they can avoid going through driver training or education. Choosing a technology device to stay connected instead of driving around is an effect of economy downturn, where young people have to pay large bill for vehicle and insurance in a big, expensive city.

In my opinion, I think this is a sad outcome for the society; young people nowadays are assumed to have more freedom than the older, but in reality, they have less and less, because the growing society gives them too many problems that financially block them. Education costs, housing costs, daily basis costs, and so on, while jobs are getting scarce, because of the increasing population. Also I don’t like the fact that technology has interfered so much into how they communicate with each other, since they rather text or call than actually meet in person.

What would happen if youths no longer go out skating, driving around town with opened roof top, listening to their favorite music? They now stay home, lying in bed, and do nothing but only moving their fingers around the keyboard with no emotion on their faces.

“There isn’t enough information to say for certain that teens and younger adults are replacing trips with social networking and other Internet usage,” said Lowy.

The article has spoken up the difficulties of teen driving and mentioned the fact that it’s really hard to get them in group outside the technology world, and really have fun as they should be. Who will be blamed? Parents? Government? Society? Technology companies?

In a conversation through technology devices, we cannot tell each other’s real emotion because we are not able to see facial expression, gestures or attitude, what left are just all polished words. I think that leads to a relationship that people no longer trust each other.

Copy Edit the World #3

Pulled out from a random advertisement in UK – “Enrolment” ====> Enrollment. I guess it’s not carefully proofread because it’s “free”

A random advertisement in UK – “laterns” ===> Lanterns

On a local newspaper “Refridgeration” ====> refrigeration. Not so qualified though

Similes and Metaphors

Everybody has different kind of feelings of getting home after a long, hard day. I do have my own. I feel like a zombie turning back into human and kicking my socks off is like throwing my worries away. My bed is my kingdom and my mother is my royal chef who cooks me delicious food

Blog #8 – JAPANESE INTERNMENT MEMORIAL (640 words)

I had passed by this sculpture for several times but never had any idea of how much it’s meant to the Japanese-American people and their history. Before the field trip, I learned that it is called Japanese American Internment Memorial, which depicted a very amazing history of the Japanese immigrants. They went through a tough time when leaving their mother land and found a new future for their descendants.

Blog #10 – Fish Out of Water (400 words)

Last Wednesday April 11th, I went to an event at Dwight Bentel Hall called  ”Visual Journalism Day – Cuba: Evolution of the Revolution”, which literally opens my eyes to a new perspective. At first I wasn’t so psyched about the idea of attending an event of a culture that I never knew about. We always tend to tie to our own community too strongly that we may never have a chance to look at the world differently. Yes, that is my motivation.

Blog #9 – IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) #1 (344 words)

Anders Breivik – Man On A Mission or A Mentally Massive Killer?

The crime of Anders Behring Breivik is so horrifying that it can be very difficult to describe. In July 2011, he blew up the government buildings in Oslo (Norway) that killed eight people, before he executed 69 more people, mostly teenagers, at a camp of the Workers’ Youth League of the Labour Party on the island of Utoya. Breivik claimed that he belongs to the northern Europe’s far-right ethnic nationalism or a militant nationalist group fighting a Muslim colonization of Europe, on behalf of which he carried out the attacks. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia by the court-appointed psychiatrists.