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Also, post your culture brochure immediately/5/2/12
 * Please complete the online evaluation for this class. You must have received a link from the university. Thanks/5/2/12**

Your chapter presentations are due on April 24th and April 26th. Everyone must read all the chapters as listed below because I may quiz you on any day on any chapter! Please use the following guidelines when you present**. Please bring a draft of your presentation to my office on the 19th (anytime between 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.) or Wednesday, the 18th (anytime from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.) (20 points)** Use technology (power point, prezi, and you tube) – List the salient points from the chapter and present the summary. Show part of a you-tube video that is relevant to your chapter **(20 points)**
 * 1) Develop about 5 questions to ask your classmates in class. The questions must be from the chapter and it should engage your classmates. I shall collect the responses in class **(20 points)**
 * 2) Make copies of the summaries for your classmates to read **(20 points)**
 * 3) Discuss the chapter with your classmates by eliciting questions **(20 points)**

April 24th presenters April 26th presenters Chapter Presentations
 * 1) Chao Ning - The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts (83)
 * 2) Ma - School versus Education (50)
 * 3) Shen - Growing up (56)
 * 4) Xi - Everything isn’t Racial Profiling (95)
 * 1) Yihua - My Father’s Life (113)
 * 2) Kim D - College Pressures (128)
 * 3) Kim Y - The story of the good boy (192)
 * 4) Jung - What is Intelligence Anyway? (43)
 * I am happy with your novel summaries. However, the beginning chapters are missing. I presume you will be able to finish reading and posting the summaries in a month. Also you have not posted the classification essay/3/29/12**

Fabric thrown over the city

One day, the author went out early to see her teachers at Columbia. On her way to the destination, she happened to meet a driver told her some meaningful ideas. The driver said: today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don’t reject them, let them come through when they’re ready, don’t think you can plan it all out. Author agrees with this idea and thinks this idea already come to her head early.

Way to go (Where are the beginning chapter summaries?) Peace Pilgrim, a traveller, who walked back and force across the United States many times, she called no taxi, carried no money, just her friends picked her up and drive her here and there, she walked from one town to the next, sometimes, when she had to, she slept in a cardboard box under an overpass, and she survived it by wrapping herself in paper. she always believed in talking and listening to people, she believed in the life you living, she thought everyone in this world was kind, try to be trust. Shopping for nothing Grandma Maria, she likes to rode a bus from her department down to the heart of old St. Louis. She did that over and over because she felt less lonely while she riding a bus. She was too shy to ride in a taxi because first of all, it is expensive and my family never did anything expensive, secondly, she doesn't like the conversation with taxi drivers. Grandma Maria was often going to shopping but came home with nothing, no parcel, no sack. She just interested into the windows of stores. She enjoyed the way skinny mannequins could be rearranged like hand on hip, one hand carrying a picnic basket or a beach umbrella. we often explore the stores by ride elevators, exploring the section of stores. Men's sports, baby's shoe, all of them weren't ours, but we made them ours in a different way that is-if you held something inside your head, it became yours, too. You couldn't lose it. Roger was a thirteen boy. He attached a silver cart to his bicycle and pilled me around the neighborhood. We left without our parents. He turned where I said to turn. My father drove the blue Buick with three holes like nostrils in the side of the hood. Somehow he lost control of the car and I got hurt my nose. Once I was older, I made my dad go inside a store, which sold dress patterns. I stayed in the car and watched all the men inside laughing at him through the big window. My mother’s friend Irma drove us around St. Louis in a large white car. We gave her a vision test. When she pumped the gas pedal in her car, we felt dizzy. After my mother foe the drive license, she drove us everywhere. I loved roads we hadn’t turned on yet, but knew we would someday. To go farther than anyone could see from one set of streets, blocks, turn signals, to feel comfortable in different settings, even if you had never been there before-the other side of town, for example. In high school, when I was immortal, invincible, and could not drive, I participated involuntarily in a number of car wrecks. Amy, who would soon disappear from our school forever, drove through a stop sign in downtown San Antonio and a gray station wagon crashed into us. No one was hurt. Tina did not have to contact her parents because they were dead, so we had to call mine. My parents ordered me to stop riding in any car they were not driving. A year or so later, after attending a peace meeting held in the basement of a downtown music store, I stepped outside to feel windy gusts of cold sweeping the city. How strange to believe in peace on a world level and not be able to get along with members of your own family. Taxi, north from Jerusalem The arab drive threatened to stop because my friend and I were kissing madly in his backseat. We pretended we did not speak English or Arabic. We spoke only the language of kissing in that land of love and faith and fighting. Not one more word would ever pass between us. In the years that followed I have thought of the uncomfortable taxi drive more than the person I kissed in his car. What happens? Sometimes, when you take a taxi, it can be treated as a transaction for you paid money to take it. However, you will get a bonus if you lucky enough. Like author met some taxi drivers are smart enough to solve all the government problems or have more experience on something than normal people. Also, you may meet some bad or weird taxi driver; you have to get out immediately or just listen to them and answer them wisely. The thread This chapter is about author met a guy in campus called Dubby who have same initials with cat DC and Dubby turned to my partner in Psychology class. Before the middle test, author have a fever so she can’t go to school and didn’t reach to Dubby to remind he to keep the chart up-to-date until the last few days so they didn’t do well. Author didn’t get her license so she was Dubby’s frequent passenger. One day, they drive together and take a cat with them, unfortunately, they have an accident but they didn’t get hurt. After policeman came over and call author’s mother to come to take them home, the two people were taken cared but the cat was dead. Dora The author hasn’t been home for a few months, and she find that a strange woman were seated in the backseat of the car when she get home. She never meets this kind of situation, and she asked the woman’s name. The woman just answered “Dora” and she can’t speak English. The author don’t know how to do and drive home to ask suggestions from her parents. Her father said that take this woman to newspaper and ask someone to interview her, but her mother felt it would make her nervous so don’t agree with it. They try to find some clues from the woman’s expressions when they are on the different street. Finally, the woman smiled because they came to the street called “Dora”, and find her home fortunately. Random taxis On a rainy day, the author was waiting in the lobby to take a taxi. While she is waiting, she read the history of the hotel. The hotel has a lot of rooms, various tub and beautiful anteroom. She met a taxi driver who is in North Carolina and he loves Carolina so much, he thinks people in North Carolina people have true friendliness because they really care about people’s feeling, and not just empty talk. Greenhouse This chapter is about the first car which the author got from her parents and it is very poor and cheap. However, the author loves it a lot though it had ended up ten years ago. Now, it is in the field full of soil and sun-flowers growing inside it. In her perspective, no more cars like this one are natural and environmental. She also loves the later cars but cannot compared with the first one. Passport The author had been to three different countries and met three kinds of drivers such as Indian drivers, Paris drivers and Mexico drivers. In India, the driver was greedy to wait them and ask them for the large amount of money. In Paris, the taxi driver is honest and integrity because he send their lost things back. As for Mexico, it is a dangerous city and many people are robbed by taxi drivers so people there don’t dare to take a taxi. Sometimes, you become the driver of someone else and will get used to it. And car is a private space which you can do something you like, just follow your feelings.
 * Take me with you**
 * Dangerous Taxis**

The same bed The taxi driver asked the author a couple of questions like what she is going and what she thinks about now. She said that she is not sleep last night and read all of the guest books. And she found that on the bed of she slept someone got spider bites on it. So she can’t fall asleep anymore.

Monsters The author in the Scotland met a taxi driver who is honest and talked a lot with the author. They talked about the people in Scotland are more relax and live interesting because they don’t hope the political office wound do something good. On the other hand, American people will cynical about politics because they think they have power to control the politics. For instance, they can vote for a better person. Author felt they have a nice talk and really enjoyed it.

Brown The author happened to met a taxi driver who is a white man but he is like to become tanned because tanned will make you look healthier than pale. The author reminded that she has read a book which writes about people look down to darker color people, but they want tanned now and tanned will cost you a lot of money.

Rollentina Everything belongs to the one who experienced it so the author feel central human experience when she riding in a taxi, passing in a car. Once she is driving some persons to the airport, she drived very slowly because it is snowy and she is not a good driver. However, people in the backseat didn’t realize it and keep talking. The author learned that she can listen and watch when you felt tongue-tied.

Test Case When author take a taxi in Delhi, road closed made a desperate traffic jam. They were waited there for few hours, the taxi driver asked the author if she mind he take the new fly-over？ She answered that of course not. So they were flying over everyone else, but the author felt strange why other people don’t take this way. The taxi driver said that because no one trusted this yet and they were watched them to see what happens. So the author and the taxi driver were the test case.

Mouth of the rat When author spent her time in Florida, she didn’t see her taxi driver at the airport but another taxi driver would like to take her with another passages. It was an over-sized white limousine and she try to talk with them to break the silence. The talked about journey, occupation and houses. The author found they are nice gradually and the taxi said they were tried to act normal.

Sightseeing One day, in the morning of San Antonio, the author saw a man with a cat in the parking lot of the Sanitary Tortilla Factory. The cat has an observant gaze which made the author interested into this two. The cat likes to take a ride in the car everyday to see different places with this man.

Tips The author has to visit the international teachers’ conference, but the taxi was still not come after she has waited for forty minutes. She had to take a taxi with another woman together and share cost. On their way to the destination, the taxi driver keeps talking about everything along the road and these two ladies response him in turn.

Lending library One taxi driver had waited for author for three hours because she’s plane is late. The taxi driver said a book saved his tonight for waited so long, then the driver and author started to chat about favorite books. The driver’s favorite author is the author’s friend which made the driver felt happy and willing talk to the author more. This driver is encouraged by a book called “snow leopard” to visit many places and the author appreciate his life very much. At the last, the driver insists on lending the author a book to read.

Bruce Author talked about Bruce with a taxi driver once, and the taxi driver is a big fan of him unexpected. After that, the driver told author many star’s really character in daily life. Compared with Bruce, the other star are not nice to people though they have everything. So they think Bruce is a true star. Fun with grandpa Author dialed her father to speak to her child and found her father is driving now and her child is in the back of the truck. The author thought it is against the law to stay at there and driving with one hand. She started to teach them a lesson, but her child doesn’t listen to her and talked about the great time with grandpa.

Free day in Toronto When the author took her son to attend a children’s literature conference at a university of Toronto, she felt uncomfortable, so she go to hospital. At the hospital, she met several kinds of patients even met a friend who called Jennifer and worked there. Author felt that her son is grow up and love her so much through his responses to her sick. She also found that interesting story which is Dave Egger hitchhikers in Cuba and met a lot of people. Thus, she wanted to do it, too.

Criminal handbags When the author takes a taxi in New York, she met a taxi driver who was counterfeit bags before and got into jail once. He said that this is an easy and quick way to make money in New York and he want to go back to Egypt after he earned enough money. The author persuades him that it is a terrible way to make money and he can make money in legal way such as be a model of a magazine. However, he didn’t listen to it. At last, he mistaken the author to a wrong place but it is not a counterfeit.

After all that walking Driving is a dangerous thing which can caused death, especially when people take a taxi, it is means to give a life to a stranger’s hand. But we shouldn’t worry about too much because we can’t go to many places or do many things if we care about too much.

Roses It is a story about talked about flower with a taxi driver in Washington and compares the number of roses owned. In author’s perspectives, planting flowers is beauty and not a matter. When the author praise the tulips were keeping their heads on even in heavy wind, the driver said that it is just nature which explains everything.

EN1313 Chao Ning Iyengar 02/07/12

Culture shock


 * 1) ====As the situation that thee are a lot of Chinese students in U.S. goes on and it is unquestionable that more Chinese will study overseas in a rapid upward trend, the culture differences between Chinese culture and U.S. culture definitely set a tremendous impact on overseas students in some aspects such as living communication, religious morals, values and so on. Although there are a lot of variances between Chinese and American students, there are still some similarities which we cannot ignore. For the similarities are the bases of the coordination of the students. First of all, most Chinese students in U.S. are quite optimistic just as the Americans; they insist the future time orientation and as a result they believe in the future, believe in the infinity of the development of things, or believe that everything will be harvested in the future. Although there is a real inequality in the United States, these students have faith in the concept that everyone is equal before God.====
 * 2) ====Almost Americans are self-centered, or individualism. For example Americans generally agree that if the family makes a person feel a burden, there is no need to maintain it. People so not put emphasis on family responsibility, but personal values. The think “love” should be a way to make themselves happy, but not self-sacrifice. Americans want to live in freedom, unwilling to work for others. A pair of lovers get together to share their happiness but very few mutual cares. Last semester, I got a roommate, when she was sick, her boyfriend just even said. “You take good care of yourself, I will not bother.” Individualism can also be seen in the relationship of parents and their children. In American families, parents and children have very definite economic relationship. As I know from St. Mary’s University, lots of students here have the college loan. Parents do not pay the tuition for the college. Chinese people including overseas students have a strong sense of community, like doing the same things together. For example, overseas Chinese living in America like to do similar work, to send their children to learn the piano or the violin together, and any other leisure activities. This also lead to the separation with the main stream of U.S. society. My aunt told me that in American companies, only Chinese people or some people from other Asian countries will get together in groups to have lunch. On the other hand, American children have strong sense of self-reliance and independence, which is the shortcoming of Chinese overseas students. I also can see the differences in relationship such as the definition of friends. Friends is defined in American’s view, like friendship exists only in a specific context of time.====
 * 3) ====Though I changed a lot during there life in U.S. because of the need to integrate myself into that new environment, something important still remains in my deep heart or in my blood. Although many overseas students stay abroad all year around, some even settled there, they miss their motherland very much. Whether they have a green card or not, whether they got success or not, in the eyes of others and their hearts, they always are Chinese.====

EN1313 Chao Ning Kalpana Iyengar 03/08/11 Have you ever decided to study abroad, but are not sure whether it is worth your time to do this? If you ask anybody who has studied abroad, he or she will tell you that it is a life-changing experience and one of the most rewarding thing she or he has ever done before. I chose to study abroad rather than otherwise. Study abroad is the optimal way to learn a foreign language. There is no better and effective ways to learn a foreign language than to immerse in a culture that speak the language you are learning. You are surrounded by the language on a daily life and are seeing and hearing it in the proper culture context. Language learning happens most quickly under these circumstances. Study abroad provides the opportunities to travel. Weekends and academic breaks allow you to venture out and explore your surrounding. Since studying abroad often puts you on a completely different continent, you have the opportunities to visit. Some structured study abroad programs even have trip plans. Study abroad allows you get to know another culture first-hand. Culture differences are more than just differences in languages, foods, appearances, and personal habits. A person’s culture reflects perceptions, beliefs, and values that influence his or her way of life and the way that she or he views the world. Study abroad will help you develop skills and give you experiences, which a classroom can never provide. When you enter a totally new culture, it is scary at first, but it is also exciting. It is an opportunity to discover new strengths and abilities, and solve new problems. You will learn to adapt and respond in effective ways. Study abroad affords you the opportunity to make friends around the world. While abroad, you will meet not only natives to the culture in which you are studying, but also other international students who are far from home as yourself. Study abroad helps you to learn about yourself. Students who study abroad return home with new ideas and perspectives about themselves and their own culture. Study abroad expands your worldview. In comparison with original country, study abroad can open your eyes in term of the differences between different countries and different culture, different everything. Study abroad enhances employment opportunities. The world continues to becoming more globalized, China is increasingly investing dollars abroad, and companies from countries around the world continue to invest in the international market. Through an employer’s eyes, a student who has studied abroad is self-motivated, independent, and able to adapt with diverse problem and situation. Your experience living and studying in a foreign country, acquiring another language will make you apart from the majority of job applicants. There are many reasons to study abroad. It doesn’t matter if you plan to go grad school or start your career; whether you are a business student or an engineering student, study abroad can be for everyone. If you are little unsure about studying in a foreign country, you are not alone. Many students choose to study abroad as their first choice. Maybe there is little bit hard, but after you return home, you will describe your trip as a life-changing experience and you will go gain.
 * Why Study Abroad**

EN 1313 Chao Ning Kalpana Iyengar 02/27/12 Chinese Food Types China can be divided into many geographical areas, and each area has a distinct style of food, such as Chuan dishes, Lu dishes, Xiang dishes and so on. Every dish has its unique flavor and snacks. But there are five staple foods for Chinese peoples’ everyday meals. China is the world’s largest rice producer, and one of the earliest centers of rice cultivation. For thousands of years, the Chinese agricultural way of life, with rice as the center, has played an important role in china’s history. In the past, people had the belief that the precious things of life are the five grains with rice being number one, instead of pearls or jade. For the Chinese people, rice is the staple food in everyday meals. They eat it as Westerners do with bread. Rice is cooked by boiling or steaming, till it absorbs as much water as it can. Noodles are a staple food in Chinese cuisine, with a long history and wide popularity. Its first appearance can be traced back to the East Han Dynasty (25-220AD), and it became very popular during Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD). Its cooking methods are various. People can according to their likes and tastes, add different ingredients and materials to make a great variety of noodles. Vegetables are, in general, the second most fundamental part of Chinese cuisine, after the staple rice. Chinese people are fond of vegetables, especially leafy greens, and eat many different kinds at almost every meal, sometimes preserve and eat them as snacks. Many commonly used vegetables in Chinese meals are familiar to Westerners, such as cabbages, mushrooms, peas and beans, all leafy greens, chili peppers, onions, carrots, broccoli, bamboos shoots, etc. Chinese people prefer cooked vegetables rather than raw. Vegetables are cut thin strip or small piece. Cooked with meat, tofu, fish, seafood or noodles. They can also be used in soup, or as stuffing for dumplings, wontons, and steamed bums. Fish is eaten through out the coastal areas as well as the inland parts of china. During festivals or celebrations, fish is an essential dish as family dinner table. Fish is so important in Chinese food culture is because it is considered a symbol of abundance and prosperity. In Chinese, the pronunciation of fish, “yu”, sounds the same with the word for abundance, richness, or surpluses, and it is believed that eating fish will bring prosperity in the coming year. The cooking of fish is a delicate matter. At many Chinese restaurants, cooking fish tests a new cook, and a restaurant is often known by the chef’s skill in cooking fish. The history of soup might be as old as the history of cooking. Chinese soup has been an important part of Chinese food culture for a long time. It’s considered to be one of the most nutritious food types. There is a wide variety of Chinese soup; however, it can be characterized into two main categories: Thin soups-make with clear broth and cook quickly; thick soups-cook more slowly with all the stocks add together at once. Over all, there are five kinds of staple foods for Chinese peoples’ everyday meals. They are easy to cook, and all Chinese people enjoy cooking these foods.

EN1313 Chao Ning Iyengar 01/27/12

The first time I visited my aunt’s home **(Nice writing! Please go to the LAC for help with editing)/ 2/2/12** When I was 6 years old, my aunt leaved her family. She studied in the United State for master. She never came back home until after 10 years. I still can remember that when she came back home, she was cry, and my grandmother was cry as well. In fact I have no memories about her because when she leaved me I was so young. The only thing I know about her was she always could get perfect grades and she went to study abroad because she got the scholarship from the university of which she went to. My parents always told me I should be a person like my aunt, so I thing that is one of the reasons I came to America. On August, 8th, 2010, I flew from Shanghai to Los Angles, my aunt came to the international airport to picked me to and drove me to her home, which is in San Diego, almost two hours far away from the airport. This is not only the first time I visit my aunt’s home, but also the first time I came to America. On the way to her home, we talked a lot about her life here, which I haven’t been through with her for about 20 years. She said that is very hard for a Chinese living here, if I want to stay here in the future, there must be a very long long way to go. When we arrived her home, I got out of the car and pulled my luggage’s out, stood in front of her big, beautiful, amazing family house, what a wonderful live she has. My aunt has two daughters, but they have different personalities. The younger one looks like my aunt, she is lively, kindly, and she always talks to me a lot. The other one is like opposite, she doesn’t talk too much but she is studious.

My aunt’s house has two stairs, and I can have my own bedroom, I lived up stair. Every morning she gets up at about 7:00 and went to work at about 9:00. She comes back home at 6:00 everyday except picks up my sisters from school on Monday and Wednesday. We went to a Chinese supermarket once a week; she always bought some organic food. I don’t like that kind of food cause I think it is tasteless. But she sticks to feed me that food cause she said that is good for my healthy. She gave me a lot of personal time when I stayed at her home. Actually in my memory, she is a seriously person, I never make her feel angry. She is such a good learner that she still can get 100 grades even she is 34 years old now. She always tells my that a person should keep studying during all his life, cause the world is changing everyday, there are a lot of new stuff coming out, so you should keep learning and studying. She likes reading economic magazines. Every time after dinner, she always laying on the sofa, gets some reading. I spent about 2 weeks to stay with her before I came to this university. During my 20 years before, everything I know about her was from my parents and my grandparents, and 20 years after, I met her here instead of our hometown. I was kind of scared. Even through I’m living in a foreign country, I have my aunt at lest. I’m so exciting about looking forward to spend my spring break and summer vacation with my aunt’s family in the coming future.



Kalpana M. Iyengar EN1313 Quiz
 * 1) Process analysis is instruction in putting something together or try to explain why something happens, breaks a process down into logical steps; foe example, in putting the bicycle together.
 * 2) A directive process analysis tells readers how to do something, while information process analysis explains a phenomenon.
 * 3) Processes can be chronological, simultaneous or cyclical.

Good job with the graphic organizer, but the labels are too long
 * The open book quiz is too brief and incomplete. Please post the responses immediately/2/17/12**

EN1313 Please pick up the process essay, go to the LAC, edit the same, and then post it on the wiki/2/22/12/not posted yet/3/4/12

EN1313 Chao ning Professor Iyengar 04/25/12 What Did I learn From EN1313 I now feel, after being a member of this class, I have more confidence about my English skills. The class makes me a better writer, and I certainly have improved. I learned what makes a paper good or bad, what makes it easier to write a good paper, and how the manner that the class is held makes a difference. I also learned that it is much easier to produce a good piece of writing if I am kept interested. By choosing our topics, rather then have the teacher give us topics to write on, we often are much more interested in the subject. However, I feel I should taken my high school English class more seriously. Throughout high school, my English teachers were boring, and seemed unenthusiastic about their work. They acted like they were better than the students were. But this class is not, it is more like that you listen to what I have to say and you can add what you want later, it causes the students to think. These are the things that I learned throughout the semester. They are the things I feel were most important. I only hope to improve more next semester.
 * Please post your classification essay after visiting the LAC/3/4/12** [[file:Presentation1.pptx]]

EN1313 Chao ning 05/08/12

Slumdog Millionaire This is an Indian movie. The protagonist Jamal k. Malik, is a young boy from Mumbai, his brother Salim, and a girl Latika. They have different characteristics. Among the three people, I think Salim is megalomania; he is always in his own personal interest and desire rights. Jamal and Salim they live in their own way, they swindled, they can even describe an obscure building into a five-star hotel, without blushing, they took pictures for customers to make money, and use this opportunity to steal the shoes they put on the ground, then sell those shoes. They stealing all things that can be stolen, they ignore all rules. They unbridled doing things what they want to do. From these real reactions, we can clearly see the social hierarchy; everyone has their own space. As Jamal grew older, he decided to go back and save Latika. But his brother Salim does not, and he is unable to prevent his brother’s action, only return to Mumbai with Jamal. In the crude underground passage, Jamal meet the begger, which blinded the eyes by potion. Jamal was forced to leave the familiar piece of land, left Latika, however, he never gave up. He got a chance to link him to Salim when he was working at the call centre. Although he pretended to be staff, bit Salim still recognized him and expected him to go back. Salim believes that as long as there are women, wealthy, comfortable environment, time would allow Jamal wiped away the women, Latika. However, he was not aware of his brother. Jamal only wants to know, was Layika. Salim knew this is the gap betweem these two brother, and it is never can be avoided. Jamal can get all of the answers correctly because of his own experiences, but expect the last question. As children Lamal and Sali, were in school only long enough to read part of “The Three Musketeers” and thus they knew of Athos and Porthos. When they befriended Latika she became the un-named “thirs Musketeer. Although he didn’t know the name and his last lifeline on the game show offered no help, Jamal correctly guessed the third Musketeers was Aramis. After living a life of doing whatever it took to get ahead, Salim performed helping his brother’s true love escape from their crime lord boss, knowing he would be killed for doing so. After she left in his car, Salim locked himself in the bathroom, lined the tub with all the money earned in a life of crim and sat back seemingly at peace as Javed and his crew burst through the door with guns blazing. Jamal finally be together with Latika.