Yanlin Weng (Teresa)
Level 3A
Zach Kelly
2/1/13
Draft #3
Diagnostic
Bellah believes that individualism has a bad effect on American society. I agree with that. Individualism is when people want to do something but they don’t need other people agreed to do. This is selfishness. It affects everyone. These kinds of people often pay too much attention to themselves. They can ignore opponent’s feelings, sometimes they would hurt opponents but they don’t know. Maybe they don’t care about the opponent’s thinking, because they only think that they are winner. In the end, these kinds of people can be winners, they own a lot of money and power, but they could be losing something valuable, like friends, family and happiness.
American people’s life is so fast. Every day they work, and they are competitive to improve their lives. For example, in school, students compete to get the best grade in the class; at work, workers compete to do the best job to get the high position. Competition is good, but some people use the wrong way to do that. So many people maybe change and become the individualism slowly. It is bad for American society and affects everyone’s life. In the modern society, we must learn more about helping each other.
Level 3A
Zach Kelly
2/1/13
Draft #3
Diagnostic
Bellah believes that individualism has a bad effect on American society. I agree with that. Individualism is when people want to do something but they don’t need other people agreed to do. This is selfishness. It affects everyone. These kinds of people often pay too much attention to themselves. They can ignore opponent’s feelings, sometimes they would hurt opponents but they don’t know. Maybe they don’t care about the opponent’s thinking, because they only think that they are winner. In the end, these kinds of people can be winners, they own a lot of money and power, but they could be losing something valuable, like friends, family and happiness.
American people’s life is so fast. Every day they work, and they are competitive to improve their lives. For example, in school, students compete to get the best grade in the class; at work, workers compete to do the best job to get the high position. Competition is good, but some people use the wrong way to do that. So many people maybe change and become the individualism slowly. It is bad for American society and affects everyone’s life. In the modern society, we must learn more about helping each other.
Yanlin Weng(Teresa)
3/19/13
Zach Kelly
Level 3A
Draft 3
Today I attended a presentation called “Cancer and Minority and Immigrant Populations” from 10:00 to 12:00 in M136. This lecture is more solemn than those I attended before because it was a full house, there was a camera to record a video, and the cameraman took the picture. The presenter was Abraham Aragones. First, he discussed the most common types of cancers, and how to prevent them. Second, he mentioned the cancer disparities, like the number of new cases and deaths, the rates of late stage diagnosis and quality of life. Finally he told about the barriers associated or causing disparities. Now more and more people get cancer, in the lecture we can learn more about cancers and how to prevent them.
Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. It is serious disease, once the person gets the cancer, it is difficult to heal and even can cause death. Right now cancer has a high mortality rate, so we must pay attention to it. Why do people get cancer easily? The presenter said tobacco, obesity, physical inactivity, poor nutrition and infections are the risk factors for cancer. Especially the tobacco, African is higher cancer rate because of smoking. We know the most common types of cancers are breast cancer, colon and rectal cancer, lung cancer and prostate cancer, but how can we prevent them? This is the most important question that we care about. For instance, to prevent cervical cancer, at least once a year, you have to see the doctor to check it, find it early and treat it. Not smoking is another important way to reduce the risk of cervical cancer. Not only these three cancers but all cancers need to be prevented. In my opinion, there are a lot of prevention cancer methods, for example, eating healthy food, do exercise, know your personal and family medical history, periodically to check your body, practice safe sex and so on. If you can do all of these methods, maybe cancer will far away from you, so we must develop good living habits and reduce the incidence of cancer.
In conclusion, we have to pay attention to our health, and if we learn more about cancers, we can effectively prevent them.
3/19/13
Zach Kelly
Level 3A
Draft 3
Today I attended a presentation called “Cancer and Minority and Immigrant Populations” from 10:00 to 12:00 in M136. This lecture is more solemn than those I attended before because it was a full house, there was a camera to record a video, and the cameraman took the picture. The presenter was Abraham Aragones. First, he discussed the most common types of cancers, and how to prevent them. Second, he mentioned the cancer disparities, like the number of new cases and deaths, the rates of late stage diagnosis and quality of life. Finally he told about the barriers associated or causing disparities. Now more and more people get cancer, in the lecture we can learn more about cancers and how to prevent them.
Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. It is serious disease, once the person gets the cancer, it is difficult to heal and even can cause death. Right now cancer has a high mortality rate, so we must pay attention to it. Why do people get cancer easily? The presenter said tobacco, obesity, physical inactivity, poor nutrition and infections are the risk factors for cancer. Especially the tobacco, African is higher cancer rate because of smoking. We know the most common types of cancers are breast cancer, colon and rectal cancer, lung cancer and prostate cancer, but how can we prevent them? This is the most important question that we care about. For instance, to prevent cervical cancer, at least once a year, you have to see the doctor to check it, find it early and treat it. Not smoking is another important way to reduce the risk of cervical cancer. Not only these three cancers but all cancers need to be prevented. In my opinion, there are a lot of prevention cancer methods, for example, eating healthy food, do exercise, know your personal and family medical history, periodically to check your body, practice safe sex and so on. If you can do all of these methods, maybe cancer will far away from you, so we must develop good living habits and reduce the incidence of cancer.
In conclusion, we have to pay attention to our health, and if we learn more about cancers, we can effectively prevent them.
Yanlin Weng(Teresa)
3/19/13
Zach Kelly
Level 3A
Draft 2
Love does not dominate; it cultivates
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” this quotation means that if you love someone, you don't need control him or her, you have to give your lover for free space and encourage him or her become what you need and help each other. This is the necessary attitude for two people who love each other get along. To treat other with love, we must have tolerant heart, especially since you will live together forever; you must not dominate you lover. Right now most families break up because they had a strong controlling. It is not enough to keep the family completely. When you become a family, you have to learn how to cultivate each other to get better.
In my opinion, love often organizes the premise of family. If you are not in love, you can’t get marriage together; if you are a family, you have to keep it. You are encouraging and helpful each other. Love is nothing controlling, it is about forgiveness. For instance, you must forgive all disadvantages of your family members. If you just control, you often receive the opposite effect. On the other hand, if you open your heart and give some private space, and cultivate common interesting, you can keep the family warm. It is important for everyone.
3/19/13
Zach Kelly
Level 3A
Draft 2
Love does not dominate; it cultivates
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” this quotation means that if you love someone, you don't need control him or her, you have to give your lover for free space and encourage him or her become what you need and help each other. This is the necessary attitude for two people who love each other get along. To treat other with love, we must have tolerant heart, especially since you will live together forever; you must not dominate you lover. Right now most families break up because they had a strong controlling. It is not enough to keep the family completely. When you become a family, you have to learn how to cultivate each other to get better.
In my opinion, love often organizes the premise of family. If you are not in love, you can’t get marriage together; if you are a family, you have to keep it. You are encouraging and helpful each other. Love is nothing controlling, it is about forgiveness. For instance, you must forgive all disadvantages of your family members. If you just control, you often receive the opposite effect. On the other hand, if you open your heart and give some private space, and cultivate common interesting, you can keep the family warm. It is important for everyone.
YanLin Weng(Teresa)
4/23/13
Zach Kelly
Draft 2
The article His Parents Said, ’Not with a White Girl’, by Diane Carr, is about the author who is the white women got marriage with the Korean men. To outsides this is a mismatched couple who has different color and culture, but they can get on well with each other. When the author was young, she made boyfriends with different race. Her parents didn’t consent because they prejudiced with her boyfriends. They thought the author and her boyfriends have different economy, education and opportunity with culture. Finally, her parents respected her choices. Racism is one of the world’s major issues today. We must take away this racism and get on well with different races of people.
Since ancient times, racism always exists but it has never gone away. Racism is a kind of discrimination that the people frown upon other people who have different races, like culture, color, education, economy and so on. This discrimination is often the result of an attitude called prejudice. In America, the racial discrimination is everywhere. The racial conflict often happens. For instance, the black people are treated as slaves by the white people. They often have the lowest salary, insurance and many unfair treatments. Nowadays, the racism isn’t just between the white and the black. Many other races in America are discriminated by local people. This is the bad social phenomenon. We need to change it.
This article reminds me of a book I read called, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. In this book, the author said that
4/23/13
Zach Kelly
Draft 2
The article His Parents Said, ’Not with a White Girl’, by Diane Carr, is about the author who is the white women got marriage with the Korean men. To outsides this is a mismatched couple who has different color and culture, but they can get on well with each other. When the author was young, she made boyfriends with different race. Her parents didn’t consent because they prejudiced with her boyfriends. They thought the author and her boyfriends have different economy, education and opportunity with culture. Finally, her parents respected her choices. Racism is one of the world’s major issues today. We must take away this racism and get on well with different races of people.
Since ancient times, racism always exists but it has never gone away. Racism is a kind of discrimination that the people frown upon other people who have different races, like culture, color, education, economy and so on. This discrimination is often the result of an attitude called prejudice. In America, the racial discrimination is everywhere. The racial conflict often happens. For instance, the black people are treated as slaves by the white people. They often have the lowest salary, insurance and many unfair treatments. Nowadays, the racism isn’t just between the white and the black. Many other races in America are discriminated by local people. This is the bad social phenomenon. We need to change it.
This article reminds me of a book I read called, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. In this book, the author said that
YanLin Weng(Teresa)
4/15/13
Zach Kelly
Draft 1
The one of famous Korean folk story the tiger’s whisker is about the young wife named Yun Ok received some advice from an old man who was famous for helping people with problems. Yun Ok didn’t satisfy with her husband’ behavior, so she needed to improve this problem. She asked the old man for advice. The old man needed her to bring the whisker of a living tiger, and Yun Ok agreed to do it. She brought food for the tiger every day and successful trusted the tiger. Finally she got the whiskers from the tiger. But when Yun Ok brought the whisker to the old man, he tossed it into the fire and said that she needed to do the same with her husband. At the end, Yun Ok got the advice what she wanted. This story tell us that nothing is difficult than trusting the tiger. In this story, the old man’s advice was that let Yun Ok to bring the whisker of tiger and let her know how to do the same with her husband. I think the same thing is Yun Ok can use the patience and politeness to treat the tiger; she has to do this thing to his husband. I agree with the old man’s advice. First, if you have patience to the vicious tiger, you must have patience to the kind husband. Patience often keeps the family completely. Second, if you have politeness as treat the tiger, you must have politeness to your husband. Third, you must communicate with your husband as you can communicate with tiger. Communication can solve the problem. The lack of communication causes the reason of the broken family, so we must pay attention it. According this story let me understand treat family just as treat animals or friends; we must have patience and politeness to communicate with family. If you can do that, family can perfect.
4/15/13
Zach Kelly
Draft 1
The one of famous Korean folk story the tiger’s whisker is about the young wife named Yun Ok received some advice from an old man who was famous for helping people with problems. Yun Ok didn’t satisfy with her husband’ behavior, so she needed to improve this problem. She asked the old man for advice. The old man needed her to bring the whisker of a living tiger, and Yun Ok agreed to do it. She brought food for the tiger every day and successful trusted the tiger. Finally she got the whiskers from the tiger. But when Yun Ok brought the whisker to the old man, he tossed it into the fire and said that she needed to do the same with her husband. At the end, Yun Ok got the advice what she wanted. This story tell us that nothing is difficult than trusting the tiger. In this story, the old man’s advice was that let Yun Ok to bring the whisker of tiger and let her know how to do the same with her husband. I think the same thing is Yun Ok can use the patience and politeness to treat the tiger; she has to do this thing to his husband. I agree with the old man’s advice. First, if you have patience to the vicious tiger, you must have patience to the kind husband. Patience often keeps the family completely. Second, if you have politeness as treat the tiger, you must have politeness to your husband. Third, you must communicate with your husband as you can communicate with tiger. Communication can solve the problem. The lack of communication causes the reason of the broken family, so we must pay attention it. According this story let me understand treat family just as treat animals or friends; we must have patience and politeness to communicate with family. If you can do that, family can perfect.
YanLin Weng(Teresa)
5/4/13
Zach Kelly
Draft 1
According to the article” The Woman Who Died In the Waiting Room”, by Jeneen Interland, it is about the woman called Esmin Green died in the hospital’s waiting room. She went to see the doctor, but still waiting the doctor until she died. However, nobody paid attention to her. As Esmin Green’s death, nobody feel surprise because since the early 1960s these mental hospitals began closing their doors en masse. Many hospitals have a lack of psychiatric beds, doctors and nurses. The one of important reasons is the hospitals don’t afford the treatment to the patients who have no money or insurances. So it is unfair to the patients. In my opinion, hospitals have responsibility to treat the patients who are the poor, the uninsured and undocumented.
There are many patients who died in the medical accidents. Some patients prefer to buy the medicine by themselves instead to the hospital because they know if they go to the hospital, they have to wait for a long time until see the doctor in the waiting room. It wastes their time. On the other hand, some patients don’t want to the hospital because of the expensive medical bills. They don’t have the insurance to pay for them. In view of their poverty family, the expensive medicine fare could not afford. Sometimes they have to give up their treatment. If the hospital can afford an opportunity to receive treatments for their illnesses without having to pay much or any money, the patient will accept to treat. Another reason is the patients who are undocumented immigration. They afraid that they would expose their identity in order that the hospital cannot afford the treatment for them or send back their counties. If the hospital has no worry to treat them and keep the secrets for them, the patients will prefer to go to the hospital. So the hospital has to equal treat the patients whatever who you are.
The article remains me that I read the book the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot. Henrietta Lacks's cells were priceless, but her family can't afford a hospital. Tissues taken from cancer victim Henrietta Lacks in 1951 have made big profits for the drug companies, but today her surviving children can't afford health insurance. I remember that one of Lacks's sons asks Skloot: "If our mother is so important to science, why can't we get health insurance?" Because they don’t have health insurance, they can afford to pay for expensive medical bills, even they ill. Certainly, for a country that is only now facing up to the consequences and implications of universal health insurance, the story of Henrietta Lacks is a telling one.
Difficult to see the doctor is not a secret for everyone. An expensive medical bill is the most important reason if you don’t have health insurance. For instance, after I check up, the outpatient service will send me the bill. It records the money that the insurance should pay. It is about 6oo dollars. If I don’t have health insurance, I must pay it by myself. It is a lot of money for me, I cannot afford it. My friend who just came from China is the new immigration. She applied the insurance, but still didn’t receive the card. She needed to see the doctor. Because she didn’t have the insurance, she had to pay herself. I didn’t remember how much, but she said it is very expensive as some as China. I suggest the government should have special hospital that are provided to the patients who are uninsured or poor,
In conclusion, situation like what has been describing in the article could have been avoided. Hospital needs to distinguished between what illness should be given priority and what should not. Hospital should pay more attention to the patients. The doctors should be considerate not to put financial rewards above what they should to do. They just need to consider how to take good care of the patients.
5/4/13
Zach Kelly
Draft 1
According to the article” The Woman Who Died In the Waiting Room”, by Jeneen Interland, it is about the woman called Esmin Green died in the hospital’s waiting room. She went to see the doctor, but still waiting the doctor until she died. However, nobody paid attention to her. As Esmin Green’s death, nobody feel surprise because since the early 1960s these mental hospitals began closing their doors en masse. Many hospitals have a lack of psychiatric beds, doctors and nurses. The one of important reasons is the hospitals don’t afford the treatment to the patients who have no money or insurances. So it is unfair to the patients. In my opinion, hospitals have responsibility to treat the patients who are the poor, the uninsured and undocumented.
There are many patients who died in the medical accidents. Some patients prefer to buy the medicine by themselves instead to the hospital because they know if they go to the hospital, they have to wait for a long time until see the doctor in the waiting room. It wastes their time. On the other hand, some patients don’t want to the hospital because of the expensive medical bills. They don’t have the insurance to pay for them. In view of their poverty family, the expensive medicine fare could not afford. Sometimes they have to give up their treatment. If the hospital can afford an opportunity to receive treatments for their illnesses without having to pay much or any money, the patient will accept to treat. Another reason is the patients who are undocumented immigration. They afraid that they would expose their identity in order that the hospital cannot afford the treatment for them or send back their counties. If the hospital has no worry to treat them and keep the secrets for them, the patients will prefer to go to the hospital. So the hospital has to equal treat the patients whatever who you are.
The article remains me that I read the book the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot. Henrietta Lacks's cells were priceless, but her family can't afford a hospital. Tissues taken from cancer victim Henrietta Lacks in 1951 have made big profits for the drug companies, but today her surviving children can't afford health insurance. I remember that one of Lacks's sons asks Skloot: "If our mother is so important to science, why can't we get health insurance?" Because they don’t have health insurance, they can afford to pay for expensive medical bills, even they ill. Certainly, for a country that is only now facing up to the consequences and implications of universal health insurance, the story of Henrietta Lacks is a telling one.
Difficult to see the doctor is not a secret for everyone. An expensive medical bill is the most important reason if you don’t have health insurance. For instance, after I check up, the outpatient service will send me the bill. It records the money that the insurance should pay. It is about 6oo dollars. If I don’t have health insurance, I must pay it by myself. It is a lot of money for me, I cannot afford it. My friend who just came from China is the new immigration. She applied the insurance, but still didn’t receive the card. She needed to see the doctor. Because she didn’t have the insurance, she had to pay herself. I didn’t remember how much, but she said it is very expensive as some as China. I suggest the government should have special hospital that are provided to the patients who are uninsured or poor,
In conclusion, situation like what has been describing in the article could have been avoided. Hospital needs to distinguished between what illness should be given priority and what should not. Hospital should pay more attention to the patients. The doctors should be considerate not to put financial rewards above what they should to do. They just need to consider how to take good care of the patients.
YanLin
Weng(Teresa)
5/14/13
Zach Kelly
Draft 1
I have already spent for one year in QCC CLIP so far. In here, I can strengthen my English skill, such as speaking, writing and reading. Different teachers have different approaches to teach English. Some teachers like to make games with their students, or teach songs, or watch movie; some teachers just give activities or home works to do, or take tests more time. In my experience, I remember one of better way to practice my speaking English is a game called “A what”.
In the first semester, my English teacher tough the game called “A what”. It can practice our pronunciation’s game. All students and teacher made the big circle in the classroom. Teacher wrote the difficult pronunciation word in the blackboard called “Constitution”. We should repeat this word again and again in the game in order to remember it easily. The game began the teacher who was a leader. He said to the first student who was next to him,” this is constitution.” The student replied to the leader,” A what?”. “Constitution.” The leader said. Then the first student turned to the second student who closed him, and repeated “constitution”. When the second student replied,”A what?” the first student turned back to the leader and asked again”A what?” Then the leader informs the first student that it is “constitution” once again. The first student repeated to the second student and said “constitution”. The second student turned to the third student in the same and said ”constitution”. The third student said, “A what?” to the second student. The second student said the same to the first student until to the leader. The leader repeated “constitution”. In this way, the student and leader responded “constitution” and “A what” again and again until the last student. It sounds boring, but we ended in the relax time.
Although this game is simple, it can relieve the strain on classroom learning atmosphere. Some teachers just know that how to teach students to study hard, but they don’t know sometimes students need to relax and take a break. If we can put the study and game together, it is the best way to study. Furthermore, we can do it. While we were playing this game, we always laughed. Teacher always did the special expressions and actions in order to active classroom atmosphere; we always didn’t say the standard pronunciation in order that all the students laughed. In this game, we could learn the cooperation and response. When the student said to you, you must respond to the next student quickly. It embodies the spirit of solidarity, to ensure the consistency of the game.
According to this game, I find an approach to strengthen my pronunciations. When we learn the second language, it is the most difficult to speak the pronunciations. There are a lot of approaches to strengthen pronunciations, such as read aloud, speak more times, watch TV or movie, listen music. Playing game is different with other ways to strengthen pronunciations. It can put entertainment and learning together. In this game, I can repeat the word more times in order to remember it easily. Now when I read the word in the book that we use in the game, I will remember it because I spoke it more times in the game.
In conclusion, learning English is boring, but if we master the ways, we can receive the different effects, like playing games about practice pronunciation, watching movies about listening and speaking, listening music about the listening. Playing the game can improve my learning English’s interesting. This is my important experience in CLIP. I hope everyone can find the best ways to learn English.
5/14/13
Zach Kelly
Draft 1
I have already spent for one year in QCC CLIP so far. In here, I can strengthen my English skill, such as speaking, writing and reading. Different teachers have different approaches to teach English. Some teachers like to make games with their students, or teach songs, or watch movie; some teachers just give activities or home works to do, or take tests more time. In my experience, I remember one of better way to practice my speaking English is a game called “A what”.
In the first semester, my English teacher tough the game called “A what”. It can practice our pronunciation’s game. All students and teacher made the big circle in the classroom. Teacher wrote the difficult pronunciation word in the blackboard called “Constitution”. We should repeat this word again and again in the game in order to remember it easily. The game began the teacher who was a leader. He said to the first student who was next to him,” this is constitution.” The student replied to the leader,” A what?”. “Constitution.” The leader said. Then the first student turned to the second student who closed him, and repeated “constitution”. When the second student replied,”A what?” the first student turned back to the leader and asked again”A what?” Then the leader informs the first student that it is “constitution” once again. The first student repeated to the second student and said “constitution”. The second student turned to the third student in the same and said ”constitution”. The third student said, “A what?” to the second student. The second student said the same to the first student until to the leader. The leader repeated “constitution”. In this way, the student and leader responded “constitution” and “A what” again and again until the last student. It sounds boring, but we ended in the relax time.
Although this game is simple, it can relieve the strain on classroom learning atmosphere. Some teachers just know that how to teach students to study hard, but they don’t know sometimes students need to relax and take a break. If we can put the study and game together, it is the best way to study. Furthermore, we can do it. While we were playing this game, we always laughed. Teacher always did the special expressions and actions in order to active classroom atmosphere; we always didn’t say the standard pronunciation in order that all the students laughed. In this game, we could learn the cooperation and response. When the student said to you, you must respond to the next student quickly. It embodies the spirit of solidarity, to ensure the consistency of the game.
According to this game, I find an approach to strengthen my pronunciations. When we learn the second language, it is the most difficult to speak the pronunciations. There are a lot of approaches to strengthen pronunciations, such as read aloud, speak more times, watch TV or movie, listen music. Playing game is different with other ways to strengthen pronunciations. It can put entertainment and learning together. In this game, I can repeat the word more times in order to remember it easily. Now when I read the word in the book that we use in the game, I will remember it because I spoke it more times in the game.
In conclusion, learning English is boring, but if we master the ways, we can receive the different effects, like playing games about practice pronunciation, watching movies about listening and speaking, listening music about the listening. Playing the game can improve my learning English’s interesting. This is my important experience in CLIP. I hope everyone can find the best ways to learn English.