Time goes pretty fast

Oh~can't believe that~~~~we almost finish this bIg meeting~!
In the last 5 weeks, I really like the unit "Descrimination". I learnt a lot from this unit, for sure not only the English skills, but also makes us have a critical thinking!!!!!!!!!!

We won't feel strange and like have never heard about it, cuz descrimination happens everywhere and it's very common in the world.
For more reasons about why I like this unit, I have already written a lot in my blog" Should people judge a man from inside or outside"...............

I pretty like this idea that we express our opinions on the blog and command for each other.....it's like a discussion, just we are not face to face~but it's good to let each other know what u r doing and where u r, even though we can't see each other everyday..............and also we could say what we want at here, even some problems we meet. We can help each other, give some advice..........it's a good way to solve problems or express sth that u don't want to tell the people around u~! So....let us continue it!!!!!!!!Why not?!AH?

Does video game make u better when u feel angry?

Today, I read an article which named"physical interpersonal Relationships and social anxiety among online game players"(Lo, Wang, Fang, 2005). In this article, according to many experiments, experts have shown that people who are addictive on playing online games have less fullfilling interpersonal relationships than people who are nonplayer or only spend veryyy little time on it. Morover, those heavy players have higher levels of social anxiety than others who don't addictive on playing online games.

According to research, authors express that a significant percentage of teenageers who are the heavy users of online games have many serious social problems, such as they waste too much time on playing online games instead of attending school or scholl-related activities, some teenageers imitate the violent or destructive behaviours from the games.
many things can trigger people's social anxiety, such as losing job, losing house, losing friends.......some people think they can't solve these problems or they would rather to find another way than coping with problems, such us playing online games in order to aviod problems.

In the online games, people can do what they want, they don't need to have responsibilities as in the real world. However, authors explain that many personal factors which players create and desire to reach lose the meaning in the online games, such us socioeconomic status, physcial attractiveness, education level, social class.

In the future, researcher expect that they could more understanding the potential shifts in real -world interpersonal relationships and social anxiety with playing online games. Morover, they could find out the limit of playing online games which causes an increase in social anxiety.

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I'm very well this morning.......everything was fine................but..............I felt not very well in the afternoon......

suddenly, i got a headache........I don't the reason!!!!!!!!!maybe our building is bad ventilated!!! maybe the weather makes me sick!!!maybe i'm just too tried and need a rest..........

The headache makes me worried about the test of text book tomorrow.........

Hope everything can be fine.......and the headache doesn't bother me any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Please!!!!!!!!!!!!

The life of inside

Now, I’m starting to read a text book named “psychology applied to Modern life”. My Major

in the university is about business, but I think I will have a long journey in the 4 years. To a large

extent, I would like to try to find what people think inside. Sometimes, I’m really enjoy in trying to

figure out the reasons or the causes of why people do something in their personal ways. So, I choose

the topic which is about psychology.

In this text book, the contents are very interesting and useful. It pointed out many common

questions people could have in their daily life. Doctors present their observations which can show the

causes or the correlation between the variables. Some points make me have a speculation, such as why

people are often in a conflict situation: people feel they don’t have enough time, but they spend most

of their leisure time on one of the technology inventions,television; more and more people are in the

middle or upper classes, they begin to consider luxuries, however, most people are not satisfied with their financial well-being; according to the development of our society, people have more choices which are available in the life, but over

choices can undermine their happiness and make them feel depress.

Another point also very interesting is the direction of people’s life. Many people have problems in their daily,

no matter which kind of problems. Most people think some problem that they can’t solve by themselves. Therefore,

they are trying to find something or someone to help them. For example, people who need some advice from a total

stranger would like to call Dr. Debbie on the radio, even though most of them are wasting their time. Because the

Dr. never give them a clear answer or he can lead them to a wrong direction. Moreover, sometimes her or his

advice can make them more confused. The question is why people keep calling; even most people know they won’t

get the answer from the Dr? The same thing happens on the SelfHelp books. Authors write the selfhelp books to

“help”people who have common problem in their daily life. They make a title which can attract people’s attention,

such as “To be happy”, “To be more popular”…..which can make people have many imaginations. Most people will

jump into the trap, because they care about their weight, looks, social status, and sex appeal. When they meet some

problems, they hope someone can tell them it’s not their fault. The book will make many promises that can convince

people buy it, if they want to solve their problems easily. The same question is why people keep buying those ridiculous self-help books, even though they know most of them don’t provide clarity in communication, and sufficient visual support,

and particular kind of problem.

Well, today I’m gonna finish this reading~~~~~

Ps: very glad to discuss with my friend in the class, cuz it’s really helpful!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday, I finished my reading in the dream~ so the last part of section one made

me a little bit confused……

well…..Geraldine help me to get out from the confusing~~ thanks a lot!

Research paper

Ha……………..finally~~~~~I finished my presentation for my research paper on Friday~~~~~

Actully, I’m not feel very well on that day~ anyway~ I tried to do my best for it~!

Hehe~I have a problem on writing. If u ask me to explain sth, I prefer to do that by speaking,

not writing, because it’s hard for me to express or explain some ideas on writing. When I want

to explain one idea, the ways that what I speak and what I write is different. My writing makes

readers more confused. I think the reason why I can do sth better by speaking is I feel more relax

when I speak, however, I need to consider many detail on writing, such as grammar.

Another main reason is the logical ways of thinking is different between Chinese and English

writing and thinking. For example, in order to explain on thing clearly, we should say 3 steps to

explain that. In English writing, we should write 3 steps one by one, however, in Chinese writing,

we can write no.1 step and no.3 step to explain the idea. The reason why we skip the step 2 is

because we think reader can figure out it according to the step 1 and step3. However, I forgot

one of my English teacher says “you should remember that your reader are not smarter as you

think” so, I should explain all the steps for the readers with more organized structure.

Anyway, it’s a challenge for me~but like what Helen said “ A huge challenge,

but I can handle……” haha~~~~~~~

My happiness~~~~

Well~~~~finally we finished the paper part of research project~I'm so glad that I finished the paper~but more important thing is I'm happy that I really learn sth from this project~

There are several skills I learnt in this project. Firstly, I learnt how to summary a long article to a short one or just few paragraphs. To begin with, I should make a plan for organization. I need to find the themes and main ideas. Moreover, when I write it in a short paper, I should use briefly words and sentences to support these main ideas.

Secondly, paraphrase is another skill I learnt here~ because no matter which topic we want to talk, we need many explanations and evidence which are found from different resources to support our mean ideas. Sometime, the ideas what I want to present are not mine. Therefore, I need to paraphrase authors' ideas from their books or articles. Furthermore, I need to show that these statements or theories from which authors, which website, which magazines, or which articles (references).........I learnt a lot about paraphrase in the class and from the book " To Be Honest"~~

Moreover, another skill which is also very important for our study, especially for some students who will attend a university is how to search the recourses in a library or using the library website. As we know, when we write sth on the paper, we should have a critical thinking. We should make sure what we write should be the truth. Therefore, where u find the recourses for supporting ur ideas is extremely important for doing a research project. Usually, the recourses from the library can convince people. To know how to find materials what u need in the library is the key to do the research. According to the explanations from the person who works in the Concordia university library, most of us have already handled this skill.

I also developed my writing skill in the paper part of research project. Based on the correction from lili and Adrianne, I know how to construct my sentences in different ways to explain ideas and how to let readers follow my themes in the paper.

For me, I'm satisfied with my paper; even there still have some problems. Maybe I will change another title which could more attractive. I think the content is fine, just the reasons for people keep doing " slow suicide" is hard to explain, because the reasons are similar with people who shoot themselves, slash their wrists, jump from the skyscrapers........ They don't have big differences.......However, if I cut this part, readers will feel this paper miss sth and not completed.

Well......anyway~I feel happy for the process of doing this paper~I eanjoy it~people could be happy for families getting together, people could be happy for enough food, people could be happy for learning~