Bulimia and anorexia

I went to a site on health information, which talked about anorexia, bulimia and eating disorders. This web site is trying to show us a statistic which has done on people who have the problems of bulimia and anorexia. On this web site, I read how the statistic of bulimia and anorexia is hard to elaborate because people who have that problem don’t like to talk about it, and there are people who have that problem but they don’t realize if they have it. One study shows that symptoms of bulimia in young girls are about 10 percent. Another study has been done on all people and they found out about 20% and 35% have that problem.

Bulimia and eating disorders are cause by the society and media because of socialization from their parents. For example girls are taught to be pretty, which means thin or having an athletes body, then they start to practice bulimia and eating disorders. Also men are the cause because they hate girls or women who are fat. Media has a part in the cause of that problem. When television is making advertisements it shows girls what they can take to become thin. To sum up I can say bulimia and anorexia are very dangerous for health because they can provoke death and diseases. by Gilbert

JUDGE JUDY

It's a nice show. Judge Judy solves people's problems which is very good and there are many positive things in that show for the audience to learn from other people's mistakes. I saw this show one time and I really loved it, even though there are a lot of cases that are kind of stupid and funny.If you are interesting yoy visit the site and read more about Judg Judy and her show and you will really like it.

Sometimes even though it's a very interesting show, they make the judge act funny and they make her get nervous sometimes. Whatever, I think we need this kind of show because we learn from it and it makes us know what is happening in the world outside.

In my opinion we need this kind of show in the TV to learn from other people mistake and and we have alot of peoblem in our society the judge in this she is very strong and she is female and that interesting because usually the females are sweet and kind they are not strong but in this show Judge Judy proves that the women can be strong and successful.


http://www.yobeat.com/issue11/judy.htm



BY:N.B

Growing up Male or Female

Growing up Male or Female
Both of boys and girls don't know if they are boys or girls, and then the society teaches them that. The boys and girls in the united state are treated differently from other countries. For exampe, baby girls tend to be dressed in bink clothing and baby boys tend to be dressed in blue clothing. In addition, about greeting style the girls kiss each other but the boys use a hug or shake hand. Baby girls tend to play by dolls and baby boys like to play cars. The girls care about appearance but boys don't. Terms of languge,the parents are teaching their kids by comparing between”he”and”she”and also by the way parents talk to them. For example, females are more polite than males and the parents are more emotional with girls like,” Could you turn the T.V, please?” “Turn off the T.V”. Girls always try to be polite and care about their beauty, and they ask men for help even if they can solve their problem, and also they care about their beauty to attract the men more than to be independent, and their parents always telling them not to cry and solve your problems. The parents are less emotional with boys. Also boys fear being feminine, and the care about their attitude (Elkin and Handel 1988;power and Shanks 1989). The girls are near to their parents than boys. The girls take care of them when they get older, rememeber the birth days, but boys don't expect to remember these stuffs because they are independent. The girls are less active than boys in the environment because their parents ask them to come to home early, but not boys. Many parents have been teaching their kids gender-neutral socialization. They are trying to raise kids more equal roles.
This situation is very difficult for the parents because of toy stores being filled with gender-specific toy.
Omar

Anorexia/Bulimia

I went to http://www.something-fishy.org/whatarethey/bulimia.php.

I’m talking about Anorexia and bulimia.

Many people have abnormal problems. Some of them suffer from Bulimia. They eat food in a relatively short period of time and in quantity. They always punish and blame themselves it become not only be rough in speech but also handle a thing roughly. In short, grow wild. Bulimia has many kinds of mental problems; they are overcome with apprehensions, a feeling of unrest and look anxious. They can’t control their eating behaviors and mind. So they just eat although they don’t want to; after that they experience pain the vomiting again. These things decline in health. They may seem to be nothing more than a dangerous obsession with weight worry on the surface. That’s both Anorexia and Bulimia. They don’t want to be too much just want to be free and find their normal life.

Recently most people desire to have perfect appearance. Anorexia and Bulimia reflect the trends in society. It became this way; if they are not thin or slim they can’t be alive, in a struggle for existence, and people become different in their cognition gradually also. Which is thin and which is chubby? What should our standard for judgement be?

Anorexic and Bulimic people realize that it is foolish and invisivility is more important than visibility, which is knowledge, a mental attitude.

Hanna

Stay at home dads

The site is talking about dads who stay with kids at home . There are some pictures in this site . Also , there are sections which you can enter and search about what you want. It is a free site , and if you have question , there is section which you can enter and put your question and your email . On the other hand , the site’s owner brings some people , and those people are talking about their lives and their experience .

In my opinion , I do not agree with staying fathers at home with kids , because
The fathers should work and get money for their family . Also , this is the man’s nature .
I have read things which are very nice . One of them , a man whose name is Eric ,and
He said my staying at home well for me and my wife . Althogh , the men tend to be outside the home , he stay at home . Because the girls tend to be at home and tend to
Cook and clean , they always stay at home and take care of kids . This is which the
Society taught us when we was children .



MISFER ALMARRI
02/ 09 / 06
AE2

Doom

I went to web-siteDoom, which is made computer game by ID software, that is among land mark titles in the first-person shooter genre. They have made many kinds of a series of Doom since 1993. Doom has a story in which demons suddenly come out of the teleportation gates, so space marine, who is a character in the game, strikes down every demon. In addition, this web site tells generally about Doom such as game play, making of Doom, engine technology and history. In the article, I found very interesting a paragraph which Doom caused harm that is a period of school shootings in the U.S. when it was found that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who committed the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, were aid players of the game. They killed their classmates and teacher in the state of confusing an actuality and unreality.
I don’t like to play computer or video games such as Doom, which is the most violent game, but I feel that I want to play Doom just around once or twice while I read the explanation of Doom because it gave me an interest about its story. Well, young people are probably more interested than me. Nowadays, a lot of young boys spend time playing virtual games out of school. It is becoming a social problem. One of problems is that it has a possibility that young people can confuse actuality and cyberspace. So we can hear that some people who get addicted to virtual games kill people because they want to get people’s item that is used in the game. Other problem is young boys who spend most time playing virtual games cannot do anything but play games. They just paly games alone inside of their own imagination, although they need to study for school, play with friends out of the house and make many friend. As a result, parents and teachers cannot control what children do the whole time. So, they should help children to find something that they can enjoy such as sport, board game and educational computer game. And children is important to realize that playing virtual game is just hobby.
I think this web site tells just information of the Doom, but it is the same as public relations that take consumers into the Doom.
by Ray

Doom 3

The web site of Doom 3 is very scary; they have a picture of a monster on it and when you enter the web site you will hear a lot of scary sounds and they are making the new version of doom and it will be in 2007, you can see the advertisement of the game and also you watch who plays the game.

I think it is a good game but it depends on the gender because girls don’t like this kind of game and I think the society is fighting these games because of what happened in the school. Everyone knows what school.

Mohanad doubi
Ae2

Jerry Springer show

Jerry Springer show
The Jerry Springer Show is a popular TV Show in the U.S. The TV Show invites some people to join the Show and encourages fighting on the show; if they fight each other, they can get high pay, so participators always fight on the TV show, because that can get a lot of viewers' attention, so, the show can get a lot of money and make sure it can keep going. People like watching someone’s stories and talking about that, usually talking about someone who is stealing someone’s husband or wife; it always can catch people’s attention. It’s important to get people’s attention. Jerry Springer shows five stories every week, and you can vote on the website, to choose who’s the winner. If you want to get tickets for free, you can sign in your information on the website; you have opportunity to get the tickets.

The Jerry Springer show looks like it helps people solve the problem, but it’s not true, they always do something wrong, and make families break, because they enlarge the problem; they just think about how many people watch their show, even if it makes a family break, they don’t care about participator’s feeling. Many participators fight on the show, but mostly male participators fight on the show, female participators are more calmer than male participators, because socialization teaches male, they don’t cry, so, they accumulate a lot of emotion; when they can’t accumulate any more, they will blow up, and be uncontrolled; that’s why male participators are more uncontrolled than females.

by Alan

Anorexia/Bulimia

There is no statistics on eating disorders because most of the people who have this disease are shy or they don't know what their problem is. The percantage of this disease in the girls is more than boys. Young women 10, other investigation found between 15% and 20%. The disorder in eating could kill people; the reasons many girls have this disorder is that they want to be slim. The other reason is the media all the time adverties girls follow this advise. Furthermore,many girls have a harmony proplem,so even if they stop eating,nothing is going to change. The kind of food the people eat, I mean junk food,because it's cheap,but it has a lot of fat. In addition,many girls don't want to eat because they don't control themselves when they eat.

In my opinion,these problems came from the media,and physical bodies,and they from desire to be slim,so thereis no solution to these problem because depending on people who have this proplem so the best solution I think it is doing exercises or eating healthy food and being confident of themseves. However, most of young girls want to be princess and they want to be more attractive for the men,so I think this is a natural diseas.
Omar
Statistcs on eating disorders

(Anorexia)

I went to the the anorexia website
It was about anorexia. It also talked about the causes and effects in the long range. I thinke it was really interesting website but i was hoping that they put some real stories about girls who had anorexia or still have it. This big dilemma is more common among girls than boys. In fact, i don't think that there are boys who have anorexia. However, girls have this problem because society teaches them, from the moment of birth, the importance of beauty. And girls always think that if you want to be beautiful you must have the perfect body.

When i was in my country i had anorexia but i had no idea that it's a serious issue. It's so common here in the U.S.A but it's not that common in my country. When i read about the consequences i discovered that i have some of them right now. In conclusion, i must say to all the girls who have anorexia or will have it you should think carefully before you do something stupid that might take your life! samah ali

Anorexia

Anorexia is a phenomenon of eating disorder that mainly affects girls and young woman, we can recognize sick woman with some facts. Usually she has a low body weight and refuses to keep a normal body weight. A more certain fact is she believes she is fat, even when she's very thin. There are some causes of anorexia. The main cause is a cultural problem. Some cultures in the US, have an ideal of extreme thinness in women, they may define themselves on how beautiful they are. If one women has anorexia, her body doesn't get the energy from foods
that it needs so it slows down. And also it would be harder for her to get pregnant. But we have some ways to get better. She must get back to a healthy weight. Or treatmant of medicines that help reduce feelings of depression and anxiety. Then she will be comfortable in mind and healthy.

I think anorexia is a universal problem. Because anorexia is a common problem for girls or young women, not only in the United States but also in many other countries. So we have to make a solution for this phenomenon. A woman who has anorexia always suffers from an imperative idea that she has to be thin. She thinks a thin body is beautiful. But that thinking is wrong. The true beauty is a healthy body with healthy mind. So we have to let every person know. Then people's thinking will be changed so there is no woman who suffers from anorexia, ever.

I went to Women's health.gov - overview website

Esther

Growing up male and female By Gilbert

Brown and Hood (2002) in “Growing up Male and Female”,talk about four different methods which the society uses to bring up their children according to their gender. First of all they say newborn babies do not know whether they are boys or girls; they learn their gender roles by observing how the society treats them because babies are treated according to their gender. Baby girls are dressed up in pink closing and boys in blue. The society doesn’t give them the same toys. For example boys are given cars, guns trucks and girls are given dolls and beauty sets. Second they talk about when babies start to talk; the society teaches them masculine words and feminine words like “him” and “her” or “he” and “she”. Parents talk to their children in different ways, more politely to girls than to boys. I mean they use more emotion and feelings with their girls than with boys.Next Brown and Hood talk about behavior in which girls are tought to be “ladylike” polite, pretty, gently and sexy. They are tought also to rely on boys for help; they are though to express their emotions. Then boys are tought to be “Man like”, for example, they tell boys not to cry and not to loose. Because of this socialization boys grow up with a fear of being female. The authors talk about parent’s expectations of daughters and sons. Daughters are socialized more about the family; for example they expect them to remember birthdays, to take care of newborn baby in the house. Sons are not expected to do this stuff; they are expected to be more interested in the world, for example, getting a job and making money. The authors continue by discussing gender neutral socialization in which parents want to socialize their children into equal gender roles, but it is hard for them because of stores which make and sell specific gender toys; war toys for boys and domestic toys for girls. Parents try also giving their children gender neutral toys but it doesn’t work because of gifts from their relatives and friends.

Weblog Assignment #2

Go to the weblog of your choice. Find out as much as you can from the website.

Then, write two paragraphs, each of several sentences. The first just tells what you see. What's there? Who is it for? What does it do? The second will tell how you feel about it and why.

Possible topics (remember, we've been studying socialization

Daytime television

Jerry Springer Show
http://www.jerryspringertv.com/

Judge Judy
http://www.yobeat.com/issue11/judy.htm

Daytime television overview
http://television.aol.com/

Anorexia/bulimia

Statistics on eating disorders
http://web4health.info/en/answers/ed-other-incidence.htm

Women's health.gov - overview
http://www.4woman.gov/faq/easyread/anorexia-etr.htm

Something fishy- website on eating disorders
http://www.something-fishy.org/whatarethey/bulimia.php

Video Games & Doom

Main site of Doom 3
http://www.doom3.com/

Doom (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom

Dads who stay at home

Stay-at-home Dads (or visit any of the three stories at the bottom)
http://www.ivillage.co.uk/parenting/pracad/parcare/articles/0,,186674_618693,00.html

Contemporary Guide for Stay-at-home Dads
http://www.nationallampoon.com/nl/08_features/homedad/homedad.asp

Three Pigs

My mother told me a folk tale like "3 pigs".A long time ago, there were three pigs and they were brothers.When they grew up , they all wanted to leave their parents and want to built their owned house outside.The elderpig built a house with straw,so it was built quickly. The second pig built a housewith wood. He built slower than the elder pig. The youngest pig built a house with stone. The two of the elder pigs all laughed at the youngest pig because it was built very slowly.One day ,a big wolf wanted to eat these three pigs. The strew-made house and the wood-made house were all destroyed by the big wolf easily. The two pigs run into the youngest pig's house .Because this house was build by stone and it was very strong,the big wolf couldn't destroy it. This story wants to tell us that brothers need to work in cooperation. Every difficult thing will be sloved.
by TU CHAI HAO

Gold Axe And Silver Axe

My mother told me a story, that’s “Gold Axe And Silver Axe” . The story is talking about two men who live in a forest, and they cut trees every day. One day, a woodcutter went to work near the lake; when he wanted to work, his axe fell down into the lake. He was very worried, and tried to find his axe. When he went to give up, suddenly one woman rose up from lake, and talked to the woodcutter. She said, “What’s going on?“ the woodcutter said, “I lost my axe, and I can’t work. The woman said, “ I can’t help you.“ She went down the lake; after a few minutes she took a silver axe and asked the woodcutter, “Is this your axe?” He said, “ it not mine. The woman went down again, and rose up. She took a gold axe said, “Is this your axe?” He said, “It’s not mine." The woman was very surprised that he was so honest. So she gave him a gold axe, silver axe, and his own axe. The woodcutter went back home, and told the other woodcutters, the other woodcutter wanted to got those axes, and he did the same thing as the honest woodcutter, but he didn’t tell the truth; he said, “I lost his gold axe!“ The woman didn’t want to help, so he missed his axe.

by Han Tsung Tsai

The Cunning Fox

Once upon a time there were three friends in the jungle, a lion, a wolf and a fox... one day they went to look for something to eat because they were starving... by the end of the day they had hunted three animals as prey: a camel, a pig and a goat.Then the lion asked the wolf to divide the loot... so he hit the wolf severely until he died. Then the lion asked the fox about his opinion... the fox said, "The goat is for your breakfast, the camel is for your lunch and the pig is for your dinner". The lion really liked that...So, he asked the fox "Who taught you this fair division?". The fox answered,"It was the death of the wolf"
In conclusion, we find out how the strong can prevail and the weak can't...and also we know how the cunning fox saved his life by using his mind!
samah ali

The Rabbit and The Turtle

this story talks about emulation between the animals the rabbit was the fastest,and he defeated them all one day he wanted to run with the turtle and he knew that the turtle was too slow . the racing began and the rabbit ran fast then the turtel he sid whe am running she is too sloow and he slept and the turtle was working and she won

the end


mohanad

Sun and Moon

A long time ago, one brother and sister lived with their mother. Their mother made rice cakes and sold them for their living. One day, When mother came back home, she met a great tiger. The tiger said to her, "If you gave me one rice cake, I won't eat you, ever." So she gave a rice cake to him. But a few minutes later, the tiger said to her, again, "If you gave me one rice cake, I won't eat you." So she gave a rice cake to him. Finally the rice cakes ran out. The bad tiger caught the mother later, then ate her. At the same time, the brother and sister were waiting for their mom but mother didn't come back home. Tiger started to find them in order to eat them. Brother and sister ran away from the tiger.
Finally the arrived at some field. And they prayed, "Please help us, god. If you let us live, please give us a good string, or give us a bad string." After then a good string came down in the sky. So brother and sister went up with the good string. And then, the tiger also prayed. "Please help me, god. If you let me live, please give me a good string or give me a bad string." But a bad string came down in the sky. So the tiger fell to the ground and died. God pitied a brother and sister. He gave them each a job. So brother became the sun and sister became the moon.

Esther

angel and man

Hanna

Once upon a time a man lived deep in the mountain with his mother.
He was not married. He always desired that He would get married but nobady wanted to be with him because he was poor. He always felt so sad about that. One day when he was walking around, he saw that angels came down to take a shower in the lake. He just stole a glance at them and then he realized that if he took away the angel's clothing, she wouldn't fly back into the sky, so he put the angel's clothing somewhere out of sight. Finally an angel who couldn't fly became his wife. His mother told him never give her clothing until she got three babies because she obviously would leave him, but if she had 3babies, she couldn't leave with babies in her arms. The angel always missed the heavens; also, it always gave him great anxiety. So a long time later, he gave it to her when they got two babies. She didn't hesitate, and she put it on very quickly and then flew up to the sky with 2babis. He deeply regretted his behavior.

Lila and Wolf

There was one young girl whse name was Lila. She was living with her mom and her grand mother lived on the other side of the forest. One day her mom asked her to go to her grandmother to give her something. Before that day, the wolf who lived in the forest kidnapped her grand mother as a hostage. While Lila was walking to her grandmother's house, the wolf was follonging her and she didn't know that. When Lila became close to arriving at her grandmother's house, the wolf was running to arrive before she got there. Furthermore, he was covering half of his face. Therefore,Lila got her grandmother's bedroom. She began talking with the wolf because she thought that she was talking to her grandmother. Lila said, "because I can smell you well." then Lila asked her,"why are your eyes big?" The wolf said, "to see you clearly." After that, the wolf asked Lila to come close to give him a kiss, and the wolf attacked her. At that moment, her grandmother hit him with her stick several times and he ran away from the house.
Omar

The Lazy Boy Who Became a Cow

A long time ago in Korea, there was a man who didn’t like to do anything. He thought lying down and taking a nap was the best way in his life without work. One day, although his mother requested something to him, he pretended that he didn’t hear. Then his mother was angry for his behavior, so he had to leave home unavoidably. He saw an old man on the way when he was going somewhere. The old man had a mask that looked like a cow. The old man said, “if you wore the this mask, you could live at ease, like a cow that feeds on grass and takes a nap comfortably.” The lazy man wanted to wear the mask, so he wore the mask. Then suddenly he was changed into a real cow. He was very surprised at what happened. The old man took away the boy who was changed into a cow, and then put the cow on the market. After that he sold him to a farmer. He told the farmer, “If you feed a radish to a cow, it must die. That’s why you don’t give him a radish. And you should whip the cow to get him to work.” The lazy man worked hard for the first time in his life. He worked every day and was whipped harshly from early morning to night. He couldn’t bear everything, so he decided to die. After work on the way to home, suddenly he ran to the radish field, and he ate one. Thereupon, he turned back to his original form. He found out his mistake, and he worked hard after this happening.
by Ray

Story about Maconco (burundi)

There was a man whose name is maconco, he married a king's daughter. One year after marriage he told his wife to go to her father and tell him this, Maconco needs your lovely cow and if you don't give it to him, he is going to kill himself and when the wife told her father about that he said it's impossible. Only what I can do is to let him choose another not my lovely cow. Then his daughter started crying, then the king got emotion then gave her the cow. when Maconco saw the cow, he was happy, but after that he needed the king's dog, if not, he was going to kill himself. His wife went back to her father and said, this time Maconco wants your dog; if not, the same condition as last time. The King didn't agree to give his dog. Then his daughter went back and lied to Maconco that her father told her he will give you the dog after two days. Then the wife went after two days and stole the dog from her father. When the king learned that his dog has been stolen by his daughter,he sent his army to get his dog from Maconco's house, then they ended by killing Maconco.
By Gilbert.

Happy New Year...Welcome 061 new students!

CESL 056

What is below this post was done by CESL students in 056, and can be most easily accessed through the archives by clicking on October 2005, November 2005, and December 2005. What is above this post is work in the new term, 061.

Listening - Final

I. Kip Kinkel pleads guilty...

Go here to kinkleplea.ram.

Remember to go to the harddrive; go to applications; open up Real One (the tape player), then come back; this will be on your desktop.

II. Kinkel sentenced.

Go here to kipfinal.ram.

Same story!

Violent Girls

I looked at ’Bad girls go wild’ in the Newsweek. I learned 3 things. First of all, percent change in juvenile arrests for aggravated assault, 1980~2003, the number of girls increased 96%. Second, today one in three juveniles arrested for violent crimes are female. Last, a lot of juvenile females assault both girls and boys violently. I think that plenty of young females who make violence lack love from family or people around them. Therefore, people who know her should take care of her with love. In addition, they need to talk about their mind before committing crime.

I have asked those questions to some people. They answered something in common with each other. First, what can you tell a violent girl, if you meet her? People answered that there would be so many other things girls could enjoy and make their life better doing so. Second, how should they be punished? People replied that they would educate them about the future side effect caused by the physical fighting and the violent activity girls do to other people. Third, have you ever been attacked by a female? People gave an answer that a female had never attacked them. Last, do their parents have responsibility for their children’s violence? People responded that parents were responsible for their children’s violence so that they should be educated in good parenting. I agree with all of people’s opinions and I got the answer that I needed from people. However, nobody talked about her needing parental love and care. First of all, people who know her should take care of her with love so that it can prevent them from violence and crime.

Jeongki Lee

DNA Testing and the Death Penalty

I look at DNA Testing and the Death Penalty. I learned 108 people including 12 death row prisoners were forgiven because of use of DNA testing in the U.S. on June 2002. They use DNA testing to help confirm the innocence or guilt. In 2001, at least 14 of the 38 death penalty states now give prisoners the right to DNA testing. I think DNA testing is very important thing because DNA is very definite. Many prisoners were saved from death penalty after DNA testing.

I asked 4 questions to 3 Americans. I asked these questions. 1. What do you think about DNA testing, is it good or bad? 2. Why? 3. What do you think about the Death penalty? 4. Why is the murder rate going down? Everyone said DNA testing is good because some guy said DNA testing can be use in the courts. An other person said it shows the proof and other person said it can find the criminal easily. Question 3's answer was divided into 2 opinions. 2 people said Death penalty is good. One person said it is bad because many innocent people die. 2 people have no idea about question 4. One person said family value in society has improved over the last several years.

Chiemi

Hackers History

I talked with my neighbor Darrel, about hackers . He thinks hackers are immoral and he doesn't know about the history of hackers because he believes that is a bad thing because they go through people's privacy and they are trying to steal the people's documents. Next, about what's the best way to stop these people, he thinks very family has to study the nature of greed and explain to all families from now to the end of time. In conclusion, I think to stop the hackers the first solution is from the family first to teach their kids.

CAPITAL Punishment

Capital punishment

This website, which I read about “Capital Punishment- Pro & Con, talks about capital punishment, but the content is not by professional people, for example they said, “Just for fun”. There are eight students who expressed their belief about the death penalty. Specially, the people argue against capital punishment. In “Hard to kill a wrongly convicted criminal”, there are four people who suggest their opinion. Edward Laijas thought that innocent people will be wrongfully executed all in the name of justice. Jon Manning proposed that this slow execution rate is the process of appeals; from sentencing to execution there is about a seven to eight year wait. Abel Martinez put forward that people who kill someone in self defense should not be treated as one who kills just for the sake of killing. Jessica Spinler thought that the possibility of an innocent person being put to death is another argument some people have against the death penalty. Considering these opinions, I find the strongest reason that argues against capital punishment, is that, people cannot completely trust the law. “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” is what most people agree with, but the truth is so difficult and confusing. So the law and judgment are the most important problems whether the death penalty is permitted.

In my interview, we talked about the following questions:
1. Do you agree with capital punishment in America? Why?
2. Do you agree with capital punishment everywhere? Why?
3. What crime should result in capital punishment in America?
4. Do you know what religion is against capital punishment?
All people do agree with capital punishment in America, even everywhere. They think that the murders were so cruel, to serve victims we need to consider their feeling and life. Then they only know that the homicide should result in capital punishment in America. Concerning that, people have different opinions about the relation between religion and capital punishment. Especially, Christians are in the same situation also. There are two things which are interesting for me. The first one, most people who are against capital punishment are Christians, but I unexpectedly heard the Christians agree with the death penalty. The second one, in my textbook, their discussion focused on the relation between the capital punishment and decreasing the murder rate, and whether to support the death penalty. In my interview, they never proposed how to decrease the murder rate with an extreme penalty, and they just talked about justice and righteousness. So I think that most American don’t care whether the capital punishment can decrease the murder rate, they just care whether the abolition is equal for the victims. Finally, in my opinion, I disagree with the capital punishment because I think the murderers never consider how certain the punishment will be when they were killing someone. Next, what value is the execution in the world? The death penalty just makes the murderers who were captured be gone. Then, nothing is changed and that the tragedy still is the same situation. However, if the murderer could be reformed, their stories will be good examples, and even affect some evil people to be correct. Maybe it is so difficult for this vision and it is like a dream. But I prefer to choose the little chance for the world and that I don’t want to make one more murderers in the world.

ManJung

Murder and death penalty

I went to www.deathpenalty. org, and i tried to search hpw death penalty works with murder. I read about the US especially, there are some state wich use the death penalty for murder but others don't use it. For example Kansas and New york, which adopted the death penalty in 1994 and 1995 respectively. If thesr states are even more dramatic. In 1990, the murder rates in death penalty states and states without it was 4%. By 2000, murder rate in the death penalty states was 35%hight than the rate in states without the death penalty. In my opinion, the death penalty doesn't work because criminals don't fear execution; as you know, there are some criminals who kill poeple after they kill themselves, and also thier target is to kill then they can say, " I will kill you; after that they will execute me"> That is a kind of encouragement that the death penalty gives them. I suggest to those states which use death penalty to give up and panush them with life in prison.


Idscussed with some Americans thier opinions on the death penalty. One group agrees with it and said the execution is a good punishment of murder because of the family of the victim ,if they don't see the killer or heard his/her news in prison; they will be happy and also they will forget the victim. Another group said if someone commits a murder the goverment has to throw the book at him, they to put him in prison npot kill him. That is because if they kill him , he will not feel the panushment. Then all of them said, death penalty and life in prison don't decrease the murder.

By Gilbert

DNA testing & the death penalty

I investigated DNA (deoxyribonucleic aid) testing using the website,"DNA testing & the death penalty." DNA is an essential molecule which is part og every cell in our body such as skin, saliva, semen, blood or hair, etc. DNA testing helps accuratelu convict or exonerate. I heard that there wew a lot or suspects who received a wrong decion in the world, so DNA ersting is very important to solve many crimes. I hope that a wrong decision and crimes will be lost.

I asked some questions to three Americans. First is “What do you think about DNA testing?” and they said, “It is very practical to solve some crime. It is terrible that DNA testing can specify a person from one hair.” Second is “What do you know about DNA testing?” and they said, “I don’t know too much well. But I know that DNA testing can help them get much information from small things such as hair.” Third is “Do you know some crimes which were solved thanks to DNA testing? If you know some cases, please tell me.” and they said, “I don’t know in detail but there are many crimes which were solved by DNA testing.” Finally I asked that “I learned that the death penalty increase the murder rate. Do you know the reason?” and one guy said, “I don’t want to receive a punishment, so I think that, on the contrary, crimes decrease.” and the others said, “I think that there is a person enjoying thrill in a criminal. Also, someone wants to die but he isn’t brave enough to die by himself, so he tries to use the death penalty. ” I had an opinion of the former but I understand this fact thanks to them. There are many reasons that didn’t occur to me like they said. However, I don’t know the relation between the death penalty and the murder rate exactly. I hope someone will clarify this relation and carry out the best measures as soon as possible.

Hiroto

Violent Girl

I looked at a weblog whose name is 'Bad Girls Go Wild'. I learned women's violent crime is extremly increased. Moreover some crime was more blutal than male's crime. And also I learned age of women who commit violent crime is getting younger. I think these phenomenon is natural. Nowadays the right of woman is enccourage, and women always assert themselves like man, so aspect of violent is opened as well. In addition, nowadays there is a lot of violence in media. I think nobody is sure violent media never influences a girl's behaviour.

I asked three American people. Two of them are undergraduate students at SIU, and one of them is a teacher who is middle-age in CESL. I asked four questions. First, why do you think girls are more violent than they used to be? Both students said, they think nowadays women try to equalise with men. So girls' attitude is changed. And society is getting more open to them. The teacher said their families have problems. So she thinks they who are violent have a mental problem, so people who have a mental problem are increasing in this country. Second, how should they be punished? Both students said they should be punished the same as men are punished, like being sent to prison. But the teacher was different from the students' ideas. She thinks prison is not helpful to them; they need counseling to heal their minds. Third, do you know any violent girl? Both students said that they have known one violent girl. Finally, if you see a fighting between female would with violence, what would you do? One of them would ignore them and the rest of them will call the police or make them stop. AS you see, different generations have different ideas except on the last question. I agree with all of them. Ther are a lot of reasons. I think family is a basic socializer to them. But parents are too busy to manage their child, because of their job. They are opened to violent media without censorship by their parents and also they lack modeling.

DIKI

Paparazzi

PAPARAZZI

In the website (http://www.gawker.com/news/paparazzi/index.php) there were 4 sections that talked about paparazzi. One is “paparazzo and Moral Arbiter”. This is a section that records an interview with a paparazzo, Ron Galella. This guy thinks that he is right to shoot any celeb even though we think that their behavior is bad, but his arguments justify himself. Another is “Gossip Round: Mary-Kate Will Kick Your Ass”, which collects five gossip about famous people. The exaggeration seems to be a characteristic of the news. Although people considered whether the news was true, they still made an effort in believing in the rumors. Next one is “Have you No Sense of Decency, Paparazzi?” Here is a statement that paparazzi not only do something for their profit, and some paparazzi declared themselves to be the friendly paparazzi, because they allowed celebrities to retain some control over choosing the pictures that appear. The last section is “‘People’ Stalkerazzi Not as Smart as Your Average Stalkerazzi”. The article seems to emphasize roles of the action through the event that Jeffrey Weiss and Don Sider were arrested. In fact, paparazzi are in the supporting role and the editor is just the leading role in the whole action. And the behavior of the paparazzi should be considered a multiple foul.

In my opinion, the biggest dispute is about the behavior of the paparazzi. Surely, we know they did something that we feel is evil. But we also know this fact that everyone likes to see paparazzo’s achievement, just the celebrities’ pictures. Do we sense evil for our behavior that we like to obverse someone’s privacy? I believe that if everybody stops looking at these magazines which do invasion of someone’s privacy, then “paparazzi” will be a historical word. That’s because they will not be able to get any profit from their evil pictures.

Man-Jung


LONDON PAPARAZZI

I went to website whose name is “London Paparazzi”. This site is made by Jack Ludlam, who is a paparazzi. First he introduced himself. He said that he has been doing “Celebrity Photography” for a long time. He is also available for conference photography, P.R. events, etc. And I also can see a lot of his pictures.But I don’t know most of the people who show up in his pictures, because I think most of them are British celebrities. And he also introduced BBC’s TV documentary, whose name is “Inside Out”, because this documentary is based on his story. He expressed his opinion about paparazzi using one sentence, “We’re a nation obsessed with stars, fame and celebrity.” And he also told us a few hot tips about the best place to take a picture. In addition, there is Jack Ludlam’s guide to the top celebrity spotting place in London. And he explained about his work. He said, “People want to see celebrities and some celebrities want to be seen. We’re in this together”. However they also asked a question about star’s privacy and they want to know what we think by using e-mail. I think paparazzi have a deep impact between the right-to-know of the public and star’s privacy. If I were a star, I would hate paparazzi, because whenever and whatever I’m doing, somebody would watch me somewhere. How a terrible it would be! Stars are people before celebrities. For this reason, I think paparazzi are not good.

DIKI



Faking the Paparazzi

I read news which is from BBC in London on a Web-site. It is a story about The Kingly club which lies to paparazzi. The Kingly Club is employing doubles to act as decoys, which it hopes will knock certain photogrophers off the scent of visiting celebrities. One day they invited Tom Cruise, who is Hollywood movie star. They said the idea came after Tom Cruise was provided with a decoy when he visited the venue. It was successful. Thy have as one of then purpose that paparazzi are not against doing their job. So, they are going to have a little joke at the expense of the snapper for their guest because of faking out the paparazzi. It showed that paparazzi is a serious problem in the UK. To be sure, phptpgraphers can take photos of public people. However, they refuse to face the camera, because paparazzi have their photograph taken indiscriminately. Therefore I think that public people should find a method for feaking paparazzi even though they don’t Stop taking photographs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3950771.stm
decoys to fool paparazzi


PAPARAZZI

I examined "PAPARAZZI" and went to the website, "Gawker-New York City website about paparazzi," so I want to tell you about "PAPARAZZI."

The website has 5 articles, "Paparazzo and Moral Arbiter," "Gossip Roundup: Mary-Kate Will Kick Your Ass," "Have You No Sense of Decency, Paparazzi?" "Gossip Roundup: Paparazzi, Car Crash, Yadda," and "People Stalkerazzi Not as Smart as Your Average." The author discussed paparazzi's acts, mind, role, effect or how to take picture of celebrities in the articles. For example, in the case of Ron Galella, one of the paparazzi, he goes to one celeb's house and knocks the door. Then she opens the door and he takes some pictures of the inside of her house. Next he goes to her neighbor's house and shoots from neighbor's garden to take her private pictures like wearing sexy clothes or no clothes. He thinks this act is right even though we think his behavior doesn't have common sense.

I think paparazzi's behavior goes to excess. Certainly I often imagine the noble or gorgeous life of celebrities and we would like to know about their private lives. But famous pepole have privacy like us also. And sometimes the act of paparazzi will be the cause of the celeb's death or will imply things that aren't true, for example, Princess Diana's death. Her car was chased by some paparazzi when the car caused the accident. In this case, we can say the paparazzi's behavior is the biggest reason of this accident. Thus the paparazzi's behavior has caused some tragedy. I hope paparazzi do the action with common sense and such a tragedy or false implication is lost.

Hiroto


Paris Hilton

I went to"Paris Hilton caught up in paparazzi." This report was on 14 October 2005. This article said that Paris Hilton and Bijou Phillips fought paparazzi in Los Angeles. They were leaving the club after partying with Bruce Willis, Lindsay Lohan and Eddie Murphy. After that a brawl happened in the street. Paris's bodygurd attacked a photpgrapher who got too close to him and he yelled "Don't ever touch me." Paris tried to stop the conflict. Paris is usually known to share her schedule with paparazzi. I think this event is bad for both of them because paparazzi usually shoot candid pictures of her. If she always is protected from paparazzi, they can't get close to her. But I think paparazzi have no morals. They should have more morals.

Chiemi Fukunaga


The above posts are a compilation of November posts from this weblog and have been changed slightly. To see the originals, scroll down.

weblog assignment (core)

Read and respond to one of the following:

Time to end recidivism
The Nation, R. Aborn (recidivism=rate of returning to prison after being released). Do you agree with Mr. Aborn?

Capital Punishment- Pro & Con
Students make arguments- choose two. What do you think of them?

Celebrity Crime (click on one): Choose one, try to get the outline of the crime. What do you think of it?

hacker hoaxes claims that major viruses were actually hoaxes (tricks)...do you believe this?

Frontline's report on Hackers...choose one, click on it, and tell what you think!

Secret DNA testing should be banned (in UK)...BBC...what do you think?

110 inmates freed after DNA testing (but their lives are ruined)...try to get the main idea & tell what you think.

DNA testing & the death penalty...what do you think?

deterrence and the death penalty...lots of interesting facts...how do you feel about some of them?

Death by murder: safest and most dangerous places. What do you think?

Bad girls go wild: girl-on-girl violence

LMC List. Ex. #4 & 5

Here it is (#4):

indict.ram

Remember: Go back to Real One, and open it; it will be on your desktop.
Good luck! Listen as many times as you like!


Here is #5:

genome.ram

Remember: Go back to Real One, and open it; it will be on your desktop.
Good luck! Listen as many times as you like!

LMC Listening Assignment #3

This one is about hackers. It is

here.

Remember,
1) click and it will download on your desktop
2) go back to Real Audio (the tape player) and make sure you are in Real Audio.
3) find it on your desktop and open it.

Listen as many times as you want!

LMC Assignment #2

Here's the next one!

Here...

Remember,
start Real One by going to the Mac Hardrive, opening up Applications, and scrolling down to Real One.
Once it's open (it looks like a tape recorder), come back here and open this. It will land on your desktop.
Then go back to Real One, and find this, and click on it...it'll start!

When you're done, I'll give you the script.

LMC Listening Assignment (AE2 Core)

Directions: You may have to go to "Applications" to make sure "Real One" or Real Audio is open and available.

Then, open This link and answer the questions that are given to you. You may listen as many times as you want. After you are finished, you will receive the transcript.

If this works, we'll do some more!

paparazzi

PAPARAZZI

In the website (http://www.gawker.com/news/paparazzi/index.php) there were 4 sections that talked about paparazzi. One is “paparazzo and Moral Arbiter”. This is a section that records an interview with a paparazzo, Ron Galella. This guy thinks that he is right to shoot any celeb even though we think that their behavior is bad, but his arguments justify himself. Another is “Gossip Round: Mary-Kate Will Kick Your Ass”, which collects five gossip about famous people. The exaggeration seems to be a characteristic of the news. Although people considered whether the news was true, they still made an effort in believing in the rumors. Next one is “Have you No Sense of Decency, Paparazzi?” Here is a statement that paparazzi not only do something for their profit, and some paparazzi declared themselves to be the friendly paparazzi, because they allowed celebrities to retain some control over choosing the pictures that appear. The last section is “‘People’ Stalkerazzi Not as Smart as Your Average Stalkerazzi”. The article seems to emphasize roles of the action through the event that Jeffrey Weiss and Don Sider were arrested. In fact, paparazzi are in the supporting role and the editor is just the leading role in the whole action. And the behavior of the paparazzi should be considered a multiple foul.
In my opinion, the biggest dispute is about the behavior of the paparazzi. Surely, we know they did something that we feel is evil. But we also know this fact that everyone likes to see paparazzo’s achievement, just the celebrities’ pictures. Do we sense evil for our behavior that we like to obverse someone’s privacy? I believe that if everybody stops looking at these magazines which do invasion of someone’s privacy, then “paparazzi” will be a historical word. That’s because they will not be able to get any profit from their evil pictures.

Man-Jung

PAPARAZZI

LONDON PAPARAZZI
I went to website whose name is “London Paparazzi”. This site is made by Jack Ludlam, who is a paparazzi. First he introduced himself. He said that he has been doing “Celebrity Photography” for a long time. He is also available for conference photography, P.R. events, etc. And I also can see a lot of his pictures.But I don’t know most of the people who show up in his pictures, because I think most of them are British celebrities. And he also introduced BBC’s TV documentary, whose name is “Inside Out”, because this documentary is based on his story. He expressed his opinion about paparazzi using one sentence, “We’re a nation obsessed with stars, fame and celebrity.” And he also told us a few hot tips about the best place to take a picture. In addition, there is Jack Ludlam’s guide to the top celebrity spotting place in London. And he explained about his work. He said, “People want to see celebrities and some celebrities want to be seen. We’re in this together”. However they also asked a question about star’s privacy and they want to know what we think by using e-mail. I think paparazzi have a deep impact between the right-to-know of the public and star’s privacy. If I were a star, I would hate paparazzi, because whenever and whatever I’m doing, somebody would watch me somewhere. How a terrible it would be! Stars are people before celebrities. For this reason, I think paparazzi are not good.

Feaking Paparazzi

I read news which is from BBC in London on a Web-site. It is a story about The Kingly club which lies to paparazzi. The Kingly Club is employing doubles to act as decoys, which it hopes will knock certain photogrophers off the scent of visiting celebrities. One day they invited Tom Cruise, who is Hollywood movie star. They said the idea came after Tom Cruise was provided with a decoy when he visited the venue. It was successful. Thy have as one of then purpose that paparazzi are not against doing their job. So, they are going to have a little joke at the expense of the snapper for their guest because of faking out the paparazzi. It showed that paparazzi is a serious problem in the UK. To be sure, phptpgraphers can take photos of public people. However, they refuse to face the camera, because paparazzi have their photograph taken indiscriminately. Therefore I think that public people should find a method for feaking paparazzi even though they don’t Stop taking photographs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3950771.stm
decoys to fool paparazzi

Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton caught up in a fight between Bijou Phillips outside Los Angeles on Wednesday night. The paparazzi took a photo when Paris Hilton rode on her silver Bentley. The bodyguard who saw this happening attacked to the photographer. Paris Hilton did not care about this event.

The Fox network has canceled Hilton's TV show due to their scheduling problems. The TV show began in 2003 and carried on. Rumors are that Paris Hilton and Nichole Richie had developed a strained relationship and could not bear the sight of each other. In addition to this, Fox TV wanted the film separately, but Paris Hilton called off her engagement two weeks ago. Because of this, Fox TV did not see any future about this programme.

http://news.sawf.org/Entertainment/3362.aspx

PAPARAZZI

I examined "PAPARAZZI" and went to the website, "Gawker-New York City website about paparazzi," so I want to tell you about "PAPARAZZI."

The website has 5 articles, "Paparazzo and Moral Arbiter," "Gossip Roundup: Mary-Kate Will Kick Your Ass," "Have You No Sense of Decency, Paparazzi?" "Gossip Roundup: Paparazzi, Car Crash, Yadda," and "People Stalkerazzi Not as Smart as Your Average." The author discussed paparazzi's acts, mind, role, effect or how to take picture of celebrities in the articles. For example, in the case of Ron Galella, one of the paparazzi, he goes to one celeb's house and knocks the door. Then she opens the door and he takes some pictures of the inside of her house. Next he goes to her neighbor's house and shoots from neighbor's garden to take her private pictures like wearing sexy clothes or no clothes. He thinks this act is right even though we think his behavior doesn't have common sense.

I think paparazzi's behavior goes to excess. Certainly I often imagine the noble or gorgeous life of celebrities and we would like to know about their private lives. But famous pepole have privacy like us also. And sometimes the act of paparazzi will be the cause of the celeb's death or will imply things that aren't true, for example, Princess Diana's death. Her car was chased by some paparazzi when the car caused the accident. In this case, we can say the paparazzi's behavior is the biggest reason of this accident. Thus the paparazzi's behavior has caused some tragedy. I hope paparazzi do the action with common sense and such a tragedy or false implication is lost.

Hiroto

Paris Hilton vs. Paparazzi

I went to"Paris Hilton caught up in paparazzi." This report was on 14 October 2005. This article said that Paris Hilton and Bijou Phillips fought paparazzi in Los Angeles. They were leaving the club after partying with Bruce Willis, Lindsay Lohan and Eddie Murphy. After that a brawl happened in the street. Paris's bodygurd attacked a photpgrapher who got too close to him and he yelled "Don't ever touch me." Paris tried to stop the conflict. Paris is usually known to share her schedule with paparazzi. I think this event is bad for both of them because paparazzi usually shoot candid pictures of her. If she always is protected from paparazzi, they can't get close to her. But I think paparazzi have no morals. They should have more morals.

Chiemi Fukunaga

Reading for weblog by Gilbert

I went to www.kinja.com/topic/politics that web site talks about a political digest.Also it contains thet newestwriting from weblogs picked by editors at kinja.the content changed frquently,like every 5 minutes.In fact this web site doesn't have his own news; it gets news from weblogs.On that web site ;i read one title about why doesn't the adminitration fight back, by john, who is saying "i don't understand it.The democrats are mounting the most scurrillious political complain that has been seen in American politics since the civil war.The administration can easly win the argment over Iraq, but instead it has abondoned the field to the enemy.Why the enjoy being puching bags at the white house."

Reading for weblog by Gilbert

I went to www.kinja.com/topic/politics that web site talks about a political digest.Also it contains thet newestwriting from weblogs picked by editors at kinja.the content changed frquently,like every 5 minutes.In fact this web site doesn't have his own news; it gets news from weblogs.On that web site ;i read one title about why doesn't the adminitration fight back, by john, who is saying "i don't understand it.The democrats are mounting the most scurrillious political complain that has been seen in American politics since the civil war.The administration can easly win the argment over Iraq, but instead it has abondoned the field to the enemy.Why the enjoy being puching bags at the white house."

Weblog assignment

For thsi assignment all we will do is write a paragraph about what we see and where we go. Go to your page (it could be an article), look around and report on what you found. In your paragraph you will link again to the site...you can see how I did it here.

If you are doing Paparazzi, choose one of these:

http://www.londonpaparazzi.com/londonpaparazzi/home.html
London paparazzi

http://www.gawker.com/news/paparazzi/index.php
gawker- new york city website about paparazzi

http://news.sawf.org/Entertainment/3362.aspx
Paris Hilton vs. paparazzi

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3950771.stm
decoys to fool paparazzi

If you are doing Rumors & Weblogs, try these:

http://www.drudge.com/
drudge retort- see it for yourself!

http://kinja.com/topic/politics/
kinja, online rumor source (up to the minute)

http://www.jdlasica.com/blog/archives/cat_participatory_journalism.html
JD's blog about weblog journalism

http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000787031740/
political bloggers: the new paparazzi! (article with many many comments...interesting!)

055 students WELCOME new students

good bye and good luck ae2 055 students!

What is below this post was done by ae2 students in 055- August to October 2005. It will be available in vol. 62 of CESL Today, the CESL program newsletter.

Interesting Halloween-By Selina

According to Halloween, which can be called Halloween E'en in Ireland, means the night before the "All Saints", observed on November 1. In an old English the word “Halloween” meant "sanctify". Roman Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherians used to observe All Halloween Day to honor all Saints in heaven. Participants made sacrifices, offered up prayers for the dead. During Halloween, children dress in special clothes to try to look frightening, for example, as ghosts or witches. People cut the pumpkins to make it look like faces and put a light inside. Children go to door to door and say "trick or treat". Then people will give them some candies.

Some Americans told me that they wore costumes on that day. If people want to give the children candies, they will put the light in front of their door. There are some "haunted houses", which are open on that day. People can walk in them, and some strange things will come out. Our hall will hold a Pumpkin Carving Party. We can enjoy apple cider, cookies, and see a Halloween Movie while carving pumpkins. The person who is good at carving will win a special prize. Our hall will hold a pumpkin chucking contest some days later. We can come throw pumpkins for distance. Ten years ago, if someone wanted to go to downtown by car, his or her car will be broken by stone or set on fire . People broke the windows and fought in the street. So bars are shut down since then.

By Selina

Reference:History of Halloween Retrieved from:Halloween.com

Staying Single

Staying single is one of the alternative life styles in the USA; in recent years the numbers of Americans who like to stay single has been increasing. Discovery Health Online has interviewed Dorian Solot, who is a director of The Alternatives to Marriage Projects, to figure out some information about the unmarried movement among Americans at and she gave the percentages of people who are unmarried, but she said these numbers are not true for staying single because you must like to be together without being married. Also she talked about some reasons for staying single and how this is not big problem for having good children.

For knowing more about the staying single style I asked a 37-year-old American male about his opinion; he is single and he doesn't plan to live with someone together. He thinks to have your freedom even in very tiny things is important; he told me "the best thing in the world is to come down from your bed from which site that you want, to have your dinner when and where! As you like without a lot of questions and stories during the meal time……….To have your freedom, stay single". He thinks there are some disadvantages of staying single and they are not that bad, but he didn't name them for me. When I asked him about his life when he getting very old, if he doesn't have someone to take care of him, he said this not a problem, because he can go to the nursing home, and in this point he thinks to be single is good for him, that he can make a lot of savings so he can go to the best nursing home and get much better care, but if he chooses to be with someone, his partner will get old, so she can't take care of him, and if he has children they will be busy about their life and they may send him to a nursing home anyway. Also I asked a 22-year-old American lady who is single, but she postpones having a husband or boyfriend till she is in her 30s. She believes she can get her freedom if she is with someone that she loves and they understand each other very well, and she think it is not important which alternative life style you are in to be successful in your life.

These are just very personal opinions; I don't think they are telling us why some American people have been chosen the single-hood life style; they may be reasonable or not, but the fact is to be single has become very normal in American society.

Widad

Carbondale's halloween festival

"Haroween is just a pleasant festival," I had thought until I studied about it. I knew only that originatlly had an image of driving out the evil which tries to possess someone, but recently it was given new image by some people. I studied about Halloween history in Carbondale by the articleDairy Egyptian: Back to campus August 1996: halloween still haust SIUC, Carbondale, and had conversations with two Americanpeople. In the article, the riots continued from 1989 to 1994 until "fall break was created." "overturned cars, indecent exposure, slam-dancing and crowd-driving are allevents...," I can understand how awful it was when I just read the article.

I asked two American people why that riot happened and they answered with some reasons:"Carbondale is near Chicago; Carbondale's bar fee is less expensive than Chicago's, Atmosphere, stress or some other things. By creating "fall break,: which got studects to haveCarbondale to keep them from rioting, some of the riots have not happened lately. However this has caused a decrease in bar owcer's profits from Halloween. I understood they have so many problems, but I don't know whether it is better to select that "fall break" or not.

Sosuke Uematsu

Stepfamilies

A stepfamily is a family in which one or both of the adult partners bring children from a previous relationship, in other words when the father or mother of a child remarried. People use the term "Stepfamily" because this term means "working together with the expanded family memebers." Being in a stepfamily could have problems and the biggest problem is the relationship between the stepson and the stepmother or stepfather and especially te discipline. Although ther are some tips taht can help to make a good relationship with the stepchild and be succesful: communication, spend alone time together, be honest and open, all members of the stepfamily need to get to know each other well before a remarrege take place.

According to my survey about how American people think concerning stepfamilies, people in the US are more open minded about being in a stepfamily than International people; Americans think that the main problem is focused in the relationship with the stepmother or stepfather and the stepson, mostly with discipline; Americans people think that to be in a a stepfamily and to be successful the adult and the stepchild need to have a good communication as a friends, and explain to the kid that he or she is not taking he place of his/her mom or dad, and the members of the famil need to have activities where all of them can participate and fell like a real family again. I you are thinking of remariage and you need help there is a group named Stepfamily Association of America (SAA).

Hoi Lin

MASK OF THE DRUNKEN

I was surprised at reading the terrible story of "Halloween in Carbondale" -http://www.dailyegption.com/fall100/10-27-00/hupdate.html. It was 1994 when there was the last celebration on the Strip involving Halloween in Carbondale. The young drunken groups were violent to the society. There were riots! The policeman used tear-gas to arrest them. After 1994 the policemen strongly controlled the young drunken groups in Halloween.

Around 10 years ago, what happened in Carbondale? The young opened a big party and enjoyed their party with alcohol. Even though they know most students should have a good time and be responsible, what made them becomed violent? Some American said, "I don't know!" "They are young, drunken!!" "Stay at home with candies on Halloween."

What made Carbondale young people become violent at Halloween? Some Americans pointed that a number of young people who couldn't get good grades and didn't belong in school live in Carbondale with alcohol. It's inevitable for them to get angry. Maybe they resolve their anger through drinking alcohol like the other cities of young people. Every weekend they enjoy alcohol, making trial problems individually. Alcohol makes them be free, be happy. Futhermore they got mask of the drunken who are violent, uncontrolled, unacceptable to society. They reveal their hidden animal instinct which has been controlled to be good by socialization. They enjoy some bad activity for fun itself together in Halloween. The group with the drunken masks, after hiding their faces behind masks are very dangerous to society. Alcohol brings up a drunken mask in deep heart in Halloween. Drunken people are more likely to cause violence as a group. They are rebellious, defiant against society. So we try to find out the way for young people to solve their problem. We have to be more interested in young people.

SOONY

Carbondale Halloween

I read some websites about Halloween violence and Carbondale Halloween. According to websites, there are a lot of violent things that happened. For instance, people broke some windows, trees, and cars. Moreover, some people fought with the police. The people also throw beer at the people downtown. I think that happened because the police always were not serious at Halloween.

I talked with American students about the violence in Halloween. They told me that all the violence came from people who live out of town, for example, Saint Louis, Marion, Edwardsville, Champaign, even Chicago. In their opinion, the people did the violent behavior because they drank too much. However, I think the main reason is the history of Carbondale Halloween and the crowd.

By Mohammed Ali

Staying Single

In America, half of people choose staying songle now. More women are unmarried (48%) than men (44%). In the 1950s and 1960s, men were marrying at 23, and women at 20. In 1998, it was only slightly higher, 27 for men and 25 for women. The reason for staying single is women no longer need husbands to support them, and men no longer need wives to cook and clean. Divorce rate is 50%. In Japan, 25-29 year old women's unmarried percentage is 54% and 25-29 year old men's is 69.5%. Unmarried-for-life women are 5.8% and men are 12.4%. The reason for staying single is the same reason for men and women. They think, act, and live freely. The divorce rate is 30%. Staying single and divorce rate will increase. Most of my classmates said staying single is freedom. They can save money, they don't have to worry about anyone and it's not necessary to pay attention etc. But they think staying single is lonely and they can't speak to anyone. My opinion for staying single is the same opinion as my classmates. In America, 50% of people choose staying single and 50% of the married people divorce. It is interesting for me to look at these result.

I asked 2 Americans, Kim and Melissa. They had similar opinions. Kim said permanently single people don't know anyone who they would like to have a romantic relationship with and they can be content by themselves, but they are lonely. Melissa said permanently single people don't want to have trouble and they can live more easily, but they are lonely. Both of them think staying single is lonely, and my classmates had the same reason too. In America half of people want to be unmarried, but Kim and Melissa seem to want marriage. I think 2 Americans and my classmates had similar answers and I think so too. My class is international, so opinion of staying single is common worldwide, I thought. I was interested in these reasons.

Chiemi Fukunaga

Halloween itself

People usually cut a pumpkin, called "Jack-O-Lanterns", and make a face at Halloween. Children go door to door and say "trick or treat" which means that they will do something bad for people if people don`t give children candies. They also play the game, "bobbing for apples". Why did Halloween start? People thought dead people came back to get a new body so that they could continue to live at Halloween. So, they offered foods to keep ghosts away from them. It`s interesting that children disguise and go door to door because there is no holiday like Halloween in Japan.

I asked three Americans about violence in Holloween. They said people broke windows and turned cars over three years ago. They think alcohol leads to violence since drinkers feel that they can do anything. One guy said that people wear masks and costumes, so nobody knows who they are. It easily brings violence. Another said Halloween is more negative than other holidays because symbols of Halloween are witches, skeltons and so on. So, people become more violent at Halloween. But these years, police are around the Strip, so violence has decreased, said another guy. I think wearing masks helps people do bad things and the fact that Halloween is based on scary things is also an important factor.

By Wakako

Staying single

I read the website Unmarried America: Equal Benefits For Singles. According to the website, there are 87 million unmarried and single adults. Some of them have complaints against penalties for them. For example, there is the pension. If a married worker dies before starting to recieve the benefit, a surviving spouse can inherit them. But, for singles, their money goes back into the pot. Some classmates said people stay single because they can avoid problems of husband and children and enjoy their single life. The biggest benefit is to have free time for themselves and the hardest part is being lonely.

I asked two Americans these four questions.1.Do you know anyone who plans to stay single forever? 2.Why do they prefer that option? 3.What do you think are the biggest benefits of staying single? 4.What is the hardest part of staying single? Neither of them know anyone who plans to stay single forever. John said people stay single because they don't want to dedicate themselves to one person. The biggest benefit is they have more freedom for themselves and the hardest part is being lonely. Brandon said people stay single because they can save money. The biggest benefit is they can't get a broken heart. And the hardest part is they have to cook. Their answers were similar to that of classmates. I think most young American people want to get married, because they were puzzled to find answers for these questions. Both of them said questions were very difficlt to answer. I think they haven't thought about staying single.

Saori Tabuchi

Halloween Itself

I learned some things about Halloween, so I want to tell you about them. Halloween is celebrated here in the U.S.A with a variety of activities on October 30. It is traditionally observed by children who dress up in costumes and go door to door saying "Trick or Treat" so that the residents will give them candy. The original idea is this:Ancient Celtics believed that the evil spirit and the witch appeared on October 30, the day before of All Saints' Day (Hallowmas). The Celtics made Halloween to repulse the evil spirit and the witch. And the culture has spread to the West. The custom of Halloween was brought to the U.S.A in the 1840Åfs by Irish immigrants. The purpose of wearing the costume which is symbol of scary things, is to drive away the evil spirits, who see the appearance and are surprised.

I interviewed some Americans and learned many things from it. First, Americans usually buy a few bags or candy treats such as small chocolate bars etc. and pass these out on the designated "trick or treat" night in their town. Unfortunately, the woman I talked to also eats quite a few of these herself. Second, many college students will decorate their dorm rooms like a Haunted Houses with pumpkins, lights and many symbols of scary things. Traditionally chidlren of high school age and below go to those places to be scared or be brave, depending on your perspective. Many houses and dorms will have costume parties also. Finally, about two years ago, there was violence in Carbondale Halloween. Students got into trouble over the Halloween weekend on the "strip" or on north 51 that goes by KAYA and the other bars and restaurants. There were incidents of fights and an attempt to block the street for outdoor party, for example, overturned cars and broken windows etc. These incidents were made by heavy drinking crowds.

Hiroto

Communes

Twinoaks

100 People Sharing Our Lives •

"Twin Oaks is an intentional community in rural central Virginia, made up of around 85 adult members and 15 children. Since the community's beginning in 1967, our way of life has reflected our values of cooperation, sharing, nonviolence, equality, and ecology.
We do not have a group religion; our beliefs are diverse. We do not have a central leader; we govern ourselves by a form of democracy with responsibility shared among various managers, planners, and committees. We are self-supporting economically, and partly self-sufficient. We are income-sharing. Each member works 42 hours a week in the community's business and domestic areas. Each member receives housing, food, healthcare, and personal spending money from the community." (using "www.twinoaks.org")

Why do they prefer to choose such closed life style? Such different lifestyle has reflected what questions are in our life. There are two features in current society- busy and isolated, even though our life is more convenient and that communication is more improvable. For this reason, some people want to search or establish a new society which is ordinary and relative, Twin Oaks Intention Community just as well. However, if you want to get such a quality life that you need to lost something. For example, you won’t own more individual money and private housing if you want to live here. So the system doesn’t fit for anybody. Most my classmates have no intention to live in communes even though this life will improve their spiritual life. Especially, Privacy seems to be the strongest why they refuse. Thus it can be seen, privacy is the most important requirement to housing so a good commune should put in time and effort to privacy. When you are pleasure with giving up your privacy and sharing lots of something, and you can try to live in Twin Oaks Intentional Community. Maybe it will be your Utopia.
In my interview for living in communes, the one said, “The biggest disadvantage is separation of the world.” “The biggest advantage is closed with people.” another said, “The biggest disadvantage is too much strict.” “The biggest advantage is nothing because it is evil.” There is a common opinion between them- People who live in this community are controlled, no real freedom. Really, many regulations put on these residents so that they could own cooperation, sharing, nonviolence, equality, and ecology. It’s very interesting that the community is giving us a picture filled with peace, love, health but you also lost freedom. Can we command the best life losing freedom? At least, I’m seeing “100 people” who think so. In my opinion, it seems to practice Marxism, and these people can fit and enjoy this life. Eventually, I think that there is no system can make the best life for everyone but different systems fit different people. As some people like to live at Carbondale, others don’t. So It’s the most important to seek this lifestyle fitting you.

weblog assignment (core)

Each assignment is roughly the same: Become familiar with some aspect of the topic, go ask TWO Americans (hopefully with different opinions) about it, and write on the weblog about what you know, what happened, and what you think. All of the links will be on the AE2 Weblog.

Staying Single:

Look at the website of Unmarried America and tell us what you think.
http://www.unmarriedamerica.org/

Or this weblog with information about cohabitation (Cohabitation Nation):
http://www.cohabitationnation.com/

In addition to the four questions on the handout, try to find out what people think of people who choose to remain single. Has the pressure to get married decreased everywhere? Do most people still want to get married? Is this any different in the US and in other countries that you know of?

Stepfamilies:

Look at the website of Stepfamily Association of America and tell us what you think.
http://www.saafamilies.org/

See if you can find Americans who are in stepfamilies. Are stepfamilies different in the US and in other countries? More common or less common?


Communes:

Here are two very interesting communes:

The Farm
http://www.thefarm.org/

Twin Oaks
http://www.twinoaks.org/

Choose one. Become familiar with what it is and what's special about living there. Copy the webpage or the most interesting part of it if you want. In addition to the questions on the sheet, try to find out what people think of communes in general. Is this any different from your country?



Carbondale Halloween

About Halloween itself

In addition to the questions on the sheet, try to find out these: Why is Halloween more likely to see violence than other holidays?

History and Customs of Halloween
http://wilstar.com/holidays/hallown2.htm

Halloween History
http://www.halloweenishere.com/history.html

History of Carbondale Halloween

Split up the following articles. Share what you've learned with your group.
You do not have to be an expert; just learn what you can.

Carbondale's Riots Return from the Dead
http://www.dailyegyptian.com/fall00/10-27-00/

Halloween problems not unique to UW
http://www.dailycardinal.com/media/paper439/news/2003/11/04/News/Halloween.Problems.Not.Unique.To.Uw-547927.shtml
(about rioting at UW Wisconsin, but gives history of Carbondale too)

Halloween still haunts SIUC
http://www.dailyegyptian.com/btc96/btc.entertainment/halloween.html

Violence in groups

Concentrate on the reasons. Here are some possibilities:
-Alcohol causes violence, or at least makes it more likely. There were too many people drinking too much alcohol.
-The people who did it were from out of town- taking advantage of a situation. Some were probably former students
-Carbondale has a number of students who couldn't get good grades and didn't belong in school; anger is inevitable
-Groups make people more likely to cause violence. LeBon's theory: The mask of civilization is removed.

Here are some other cases of Halloween violence. See if you can learn from them:

Univ. California Santa Barbara
http://www.dailynexus.com/news/2004/8279.html

Cal. State Chico
http://www.newsreview.com/issues/chico/2002-10-17/follow.asp

Univ. of Wisconsin
http://badgerherald.com/news/2003/11/03/violence_erupts_on_s.php

Univ. of Hartford
http://www.hartfordinformer.com/media/paper146/news/2004/11/04/News/Halloween.Incidentsimilar.To.1991.Riot-793458.shtml

My favorite musician

Hafiz Abd-elrahman, the Flute player, is one of the best Sudanese musicians. He plays instrumental contemporary music, which is not common in Sudan, so that makes his works special. Before the 90s he had been shown in Sudanese Public T.V., but what made him famous was his first ceremony at the university of Khartoum, the top university in Sudan, with one of his best songs, "EVER LASTING DAYS". For me, when I listen to his music I get some relaxation and a lot of memories from my country.
Widad

'Sumi Jo'

My favorite musician is 'Sumi Jo' who has emerged as one of the most beautiful voices in contemporary music. As a coloratura soprano, She is true diva of the highest order. She is a vocalist with Korean upbringing. She stands for Korean culture worldwide.
-Soony

Musician: Langlang

Langlang is a famous musician who comes from china. Although he is only 22, he is good at playing the piano. He obtained the international youth music prize when he was 15. From 1999 to now, he is performing with the global majority of first-class symphonies, which has raised him in the international musical world. He believes that music is telling stories in fact.

By Selina

My Favorite Band

My favorite band is Heavenly Melody. First, it is composed of 4 men and 4 women. And each person sings the different pitches: soprano, alto, tenor, bass. They don’t need instruments to polish their sound. My idea is that the most wonderful instrument is the human body. Next, the music is gospel songs. I like its melody and words. Especially, I love words of gospel songs. That is because these words always give me hope and faith and love, and I can face anything. Finally, these singers have good behavior and mature thinking. Today, most singers have good singing voice, but they have no good behavior and mature thinking. Can you worry if your children are listening to songs of licentious singers? I surely worry my kids do. In sum, Heavenly Melody is the best band in Taiwan, and it is my favorite band forever, I think so.

I like Heavenly Melody

ManJung

My Favorite Band

My favorite band is YUZU. They are very nice guys, so I want to tell you about "YUZU". YUZU consists of two Japanese guys. They are very popular in Japan. One is Yujin Kitagawa, whose part is vocal(low), acoustic guitar, harmonica and tambourine, and the other is Koji Iwasawa, whose part is vocal(high), acoustic guitar, harmonica and harp. They can play guitar with beautiful harmonic song, and also the lyrics of their songs are great! Their songs always encourage me and make us happy, so I like them and play their song on the guitar if I have free time. I think everyone likes their songs. Their song was even chosen as the theme song of the Olympics. In the end, I recommend that you listen to YUZU's song even though you can't understand Japanese. YUZU will surely make you happy!!
This is YUZU's homepage.
http://www.senha.jp/yuzu/
http://www.senha.co.jp/yuzu_new/new_new/full_main.html

Hiroto

My Favorie Band

My favorite band is Mr.Children. You may feel this name is funny. We call it Misuchiru in short. It's a Japanese band which consists of four men. Ther're very famous and popular musicians in Japan. I have never heard any people who don't like them. I think Mr.Children is one of the bands who represent Japanese musicians. They play Japanese pops. When I was a little child, they were already well-known. Now, they still attract more people. People are attracted by his cool and beautiful voice and identify theirselves with the words. I also like their natural, artless and cool mode.

My Favorite Musician

My favorite musician is Aiko. She is a Japanese musician and writes lyrics by herself. She sings with playing the piano. I like her lyrics because the lyrics that she writes express fine emotions very well, so I can be in sympathy with them. Besides I especially like her voice. Her voice makes me feel relaxed.

The singles and albums that she has released have sold well, so she is known well in Japan. I sing her songs every time when I go to Karaoke. Wakako

The Favourite musician

My name is Omar. I am from Saudi Arabia. I'd like talk about a favorite musician. My favourite musician is Fairuz. She is from Lebanon. In my opinion, she is the best songstress in the Arabic Countries. She sings three kinds of song that I like to listen to. The first kind is mountian songs this kind of music is very famous in her country . The second kind is publicity songs. Last kind is nationalism. In conclusion, She has the best voice I have ever heard.
By Omar

My favorite musician

My favorite musician is Alejandro Fernandez. He's one of or great Mexican musicians. His type of songs are "rancheras"; he sings with a mariachi band. Lately he's singing pop and his new cd "A corazon abierto" is my favorite, because all the songs have a very romantic message and my favorite song is "Que voy hacer con mi amor?". I have not been o a concert of his but I would love to; I'm just waiting for the next concert when I come back home. Besides being a great singer , he's very hadsome and sexy.
Hoi Lin

My Favorite Singer

My faorite singer is SMAP. SMAP is group name. They are 5. Thier names are Masahiro Nakai, Takuya Kimura, Goro Inagaki, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and Shingo Katori. They are very cool. they released many songs. Their most famous song is "Only one flower in the world." The Japanese name is "Sekai ni hitotu dake no hana." It is a very good song, so the CD's sales are more than 2 million CDs in Japan. I like this song, but I like another song better. It is "Orange." It is a very good song. They are actors too. Their drama is very popular in Japan. Their popularity has expanded to East Asia.

Chiemi

My favorite musitian

My favorite musitian is Billy Joel. He is active as a solo singer now,
but he formed a band whose name was Echoes in 1964. Afterwards he worked with
The Hastles, which is a Long Island band; besides, he moved on to a rock duo named Attila and then he began recording his first solo album.
I like Billy joel so much because of his songs that have a special attraction to draw all people's attention. I guess it is a gentle, powerfuly, and sometimes pensive voice. For example, one of his famous songs,"Tell her about it" explesses about love strongly. I always listento Billy Joels songs.

Sosuke Uematsu

My favorite singer`

I would like to talk about my favorite singer. His name is Emrah and he is from Turkey. In adition, he was born in Istanbul. Moreover, he became a singer when he was a child. For instance, his first album come out when he was 13 years old. However, in the begining, Emrah was talking about how life is terrible in his songs. After a couple of years, he changed his style. In fact, he started to sing love songs. Finally, I like to listen to him a lot because his sound is different than other singers and he makes me feel relaxed.

by Mohammed Ali

Welcome to Carbondale, AE2 055 students!

Congratulations 054 graduates!

What appears below this post belonged to the class of 054 (July and August 2005). 054 student weblogs can be found on the template at the side.

#1 http:// www.travelchinauide.com
#2 http:// www.chinasite.com

I like website #1 better than website #2 because the page of the website is bright color. Therefore, the viewer can read easier and feel enjoyable. the color in the website is a mix of blue, white, and yellow. So I feel relaxed and comfortable. Also, blue is my favorite color. However, the website has a lot of pictures about people or famous places in China. Moreover, you can find any information about China.


The color in page of website is very important. So I don't think we can read the website without color. The color in the website is like salt in the food. However, I almost agree with the article, but I disagree with Black and dark blue. In my opinion Black makes me gloomy and feel tired, but I don't think it means power. Also, I don't think dark blue means government or is not good for the young and lively. In my opinion dark blue is nice and beautiful future.

Montreal's website

I like the first website because I suppose that brown has an adult, stable, and calm image. And, the color isn't dark, but also light so it's easier to read sentences. As you know, Montreal is a French-speaking city, so we can enjoy French culture. In there, there are many theatres, art museums, the center of architecture, casinos, jazz bars, and clubs.

I think this color design is cultivated, newly high quality, enjoyable, devoloped city image.
http://www.montrealcitytourist.com/

I like the first website because the color of the background on the website is the grayed greened brown, which present brown is earthy, outdoors and warm, but considered dirty and dull, and gray is modern, intelligent, solid, clean, but also boring, dull, sad, and old, and green is nature, environment, youth, spring but also envy, could be trouble for color-blind. I suppose that the principals combined with the urban city's good and bad point. Some part of town has cleaness and brightness, but the other has darkness and dirtiness. And, as you know, Montreal is a French Speaking city, so we can enjoy French culture, fully. In there, there are many theatres, art museums,t he center of the architecture, casinos, jazz bars, clubs. It may match with the image of the city, fashionable, an adult, stable, calm image, and designs cultivated, newly high quality,enjoyable, development, European city. Moreover, the CONTRAST of the color is good because the character's color is black and the background's color is the grayed greened brown. So, it can be said that it has a strong contrast. Also, TEXT isn't written in all bold, all italics,or all capitals. It represents the SIMPLICITY and CLEANLINESS. Besides, it has a strong ALIGNMENT which is the left. And, links are on the left, too. Actually, it makes a peaceful.Totally, these techniques makes that to be intelligible and comfortable to watch. It's significiant for us to choose a few or some one in many websites.

Midori Ogasawara