My Presentation

My presentation is about Anna Frank and her social life. Even though she stayed in the Secret Annexe most of the time, she still had contact with other people who lived with her. It is not hard to know her daily life because she wrote everything down on her diary. Therefore I would like to get to know how her character was shaped and how she was socialized. This topic is related to my Sociology class because one of the topics is about Socialization, which aims to study how a person is shaped through interacting with the others.

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Magazine Post: Kid Rock

Summary:
The article is about Justin Bieber, one of the most popular singers right now. Like everybody else, this pop star hates when someone else try to take awful pictures when he is eating. It shows that pop stars are just humans after all. Even though Justin is a successful singer, all he wants to do now is to be the lead star in a movie.

Personal response:
I always hear people say:"Which girl is not in love with Justin Bieber?". Actually, I'm not his fan and unlike many girls, i don't have the crush on him. And I simply don't understand why he is so popular. There are so many people with talents outside. Why Justin Bieber? After reading this, I realised it's not just luck that brought him to where he is now. He also puts effort on that.

Vocabulary:
1. viral (adjective): causing disease
e.g. After Justin's clip went viral, he quickly signed Island Records.

2. crumple (verb): crease
e.g. The disease crumpled him.

3.overwhelm (verb): defeated

The defense was overwhelmed by superior numbers.

Week Six Anne Frank

If I were Anne Frank, I think she would write about her feelings in her diary at the time. I think she is a smart and mature girl. And she has got lots of different thoughts. That's why she could write about her feelings better than her peers. She can deliberate her emtions better then me. She sees things in different perspectives. I think she is unique and the feelings that she has are very special.

If I were her, i think she would also write about the people whom she met. She has the ability to describe people well. They all feel so real. She knows how to use words to describe people. She knows how other people feel. That's why it would be great if she includes more about people whom she met.

Teen Vogue Magazine: Cruel Intentions

Sometimes people can bully one another by just saying mean words to the others. One of the victims, Bella, said " I know I'n not ugly, but when you hear it so many times, you start to believe it." In my opinion, no one should bully one another with words like ugly and fat. We do not have to right to judge people from the way they look. I hope everyone can treat othe people nice because it's sad to see someone suffers because of what people say to them.

Vocabulary:
dread (verb): be afraid
e.g. She dreads going to the dentist.

October 18 - Character Trait

Continuing On Anne Frank

I believe most of my classmates choose the main character for their presentation. However, I did not choose Anne Frank. Instead, I choose Mrs. Van Daan.
 
The reason why I chose her is not because she is nice. Contrarily, she is mean, awkward and self-centred. I chose to describe her because her name always appears on Anne's diary.

As I have mentioned, she doesn't have a good personality. That's why I do not admire her or emotionally connect with her. And I believe I am not similar to her because I would never flirt with Anne's Dad if I were her.
I think there are a lot of things about her should change, especially the way she treated Anne Frank. She should try to be nicer to Anne and her mom since they were living together; and there is simply no reason for her to be mean because Anne has done nothing bad to her.

Personally I do not hate her. However, I do not agree with what she did and I think she ought to change her attitude.

Newspaper Response 2

Nobel Prize Given To Jailed Chinese Dissident
To look at the news, press here

A. Summary

Liu Xiao Bo, an impassioned literary critic, political essayist and democracy advocate, won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of “his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.”

However, what the Norwegian Nobel Committee did has aroused Beijing’s authoritarian leaders' attention. The senior Chinese official, which claimed giving the prize to Mr. Liu would seriously harm the relations between the US and China.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry reacted angrily to the news and the Chinese government summoned Norway’s ambassador to protest the award. Chinese government claimed that Liu Xiaobo is a criminal who has been sentenced by Chinese judicial departments for violating Chinese law.

B. Personal Response

At first, I believe people in China would know about Liu Xiao Bo. However, what I thought is simply not true. In Hong Kong, we have got more freedom even though HKSAR is a part of China. Therefore it is not surprising that people know about Liu Xiao Bo.

I didn't know it is different in China. Until I asked my classmates about Liu Xiao Bo. It is surprising to know that some of the people in China do not even know this man. In China, news about Liu Xiao Bo are prohibited. People in China hardly know about this man. Even though some of them know Liu, what they have learned about him may not be truth.

I think everyone has the right to know more about things surround them. Covering simply is not a good way for handling things. To become a better country, China still has a long way to go.

C. Vocabulary
1.commend (verb): get approval
e.g. The general commended the soldier for his bravery.

2. rebuke (verb): disprove
e.g. She often rebuked him for carelessness.

3. entail (verb): make someone to take responsibity
e.g. This job would entail your learning how to use a computer.

October 11 - Setting of your Novel

Are you keeping a diary? If not, did you ever write about your daily live or did you ever read someone else's diary? The book I chose is about a girl, Anne Frank.

Anne is a Jewish girl. Her life was not easy. During the World War II, she has to hide just to escape from the Nazis. She wrote down her story in her diary and this 13-year-old girl even named her diary as Kitty. As far as I read, she has fled her home in Amsterdam and moved to the "Secret Annexe", an old office building with her family. Every day they lived with fear because they were afraid that they might get caught and get killed. They spent most of the time in that Annexe and they were cut off from the outside world. This story feels so real to me. Unlike the other books, it is not based on imagination and someone's else opinion. It is a true story about lives with threat and anxiety.

I feel so sorry for Anne and her family because they have to live a life like this. But at the same time, I am glad to see that Anne is such a tough girl. And her story really inspires me a lot. Sometimes I feel sad for some really minor failures in my life; sometimes, I feel like I have got nothing. But the truth is that I am blessed. I have so many things that Anne didn't have. I have freedom. I can go out whenever I want and do whatever I like. I have got so many friends. Anne reminds me how lucky I am to have all of these.

Besides, I am really impressed by Anne. Even she was just a little girl, she had a mature mind and she thought like an adult. For example, she said, "mummy and daddy would never dream of shouting at each other. The cause was so trivial that the whole thing was a pure waste of breath." She seems to be so sophisticated. Often when I read her diary, I feel that I am even more infantile than her. Is she being too mature or it's me, who is being too childish?