IC Spring 2009 Jessie My-Lien Ho
Ca Daily 1
Cb Daily 1
Ca Mid-term Cb Mid-term
Ca Daily 2
Ca Final
Cb Daily 2
Cb Final
Spring 2009 http://www1.pu.edu.tw/~mlho/home.htm
Literature and violence
Professor Kristina Bross Fighting Words Literature and Violence in Early
America
City of sieges: Literature, communal violence and urban space
Violence in Literature Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
Project Muse Children’s Literature
Chemotherapy 化療
refers to treatment of disease by chemicals that kill cells, specifically those of
micro-organisms or cancer. In popular usage, it will usually refer to antineoplastic drugs used to
treat cancer or the combination of these drugs into a cytotoxic standardized treatment regimen.
Radiotherapy 放療 the medical use of ionizing radiation as part of cancer treatment to control
malignant cells
The Poetry Foundation Light by C.K.Williams Listen to the poem Light, Read this poem Light by C.K.Williams
Head Wrapped in Flowers By Thylias Moss
Online Journal: Video A Very Valentine BY GERTRUDE STEIN Animated poem read by the poet.
Mariposa BY FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA Animated poem read by Andy Garcia
Butterfly of the air,
how beautiful you are,
butterfly of the air
gilded and green.
Light of the lamp,’
butterfly of the air,
stay there, there, there!...
You don’t want to stop,
to stop you don’t want.
Butterfly of the air,
gilded and green,
Light of the lamp,
butterfly of the air,
stay there, there, there!...
Stay there!
Butterfly, are you there?
Song by V. Monera
Read the Poem Butterfly
Poetic Symbiosis: Hart Crane and Federico García Lorca
Topics for Ca Daily Presentation 1
3/2
Group 1 Test-tube Babies P. 54/Track 18
A well-organized report on the topic.
earliest stage of development, from the time of first cell division until birth, hatching, or
germination. In humans, it is called an embryo from the moment of implantation until the end of
the 8th week, where after it is instead called a fetus.
Embryo
Obama's Inaugural Speech (Analysis)
3/9
Group 2 Fighting Aids 21* Pneumonia Sontag, Susan: Illness as Metaphor
Common sense about the illness as well as knowledge about it are included in this report.
Group 3 Violent Youth 59
What makes youngsters become violent are worthy of revealing.
3/16
Group 4 Cloning Human Cloning
subject of speculation Cloning Menu
http://www.globalchange.com/clone.htm
Are you in favor of or against cloning? What are the history, techniques, and ethical problems arisen from it?
Group 5 Making Money 33*
Have you decided on your future career? What are you doing to make it come true now?
Are there other values as important as making money?
Group 6 Fashion statement 19/7
Are there dress code for you?
Top
Topics for Cb Daily Presentation 1
Group 1 Drug Effect
Drug control 17
It’s really bad to be a drug addictive. What makes the drug population in society?
Tiffany Food Safety P. 22 Food Safety 23*
We should be more careful about the food we take.
Group 2 Anorexia 5*
Bulimia
Eating disorder has a close connection with a person’s self-image. Build on one’s self-esteem and
confidence is important solution to the problem.
Group 3 Single Parents 51 16 Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams) A Curtain Up Berkshire Review Rape,
Abuse & Incest National Network/ National Sexual Assault Hotline 2 3
What makes single parents to face so many problems and a life which is not only hard for the parents but
the young kids?
Group 5 Lost Language 31 Language and culture Last Speaker of "Extinct" Language Found
Eyak
Sometimes because the number of population in the colonial countries dwindles, or because of a stronger
neighboring country, some tribal languages are disappearing in the global scale. Should those endangered
languages be preserved in a more considerable way? What makes a language to come to existence? Does it pass
the culture and the way of thinking of the people to the future? Does the disappearing of a language bring
downside to the world?
Group 4 Predicting the future 47*
Do you know how to predict the future?
source: wiki
AstrologyZone.com Wu Xing 五行
traditionally translated as Five Elements.
The movements are:
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Wood (Chinese: 木, pinyin: mù)
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Fire (Chinese: 火, pinyin: huǒ)
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Earth (Chinese: 土, pinyin: tǔ)
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Metal (Chinese: 金, pinyin: jīn)
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Water (Chinese: 水, pinyin: shuǐ)
Generating:
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Wood feeds Fire;
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Fire creates Earth (ash);
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Earth bears Metal;
or the Five Movements, Five Phases or Five Steps/Stages,
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Metal carries Water (as in a bucket or tap, or water condenses on metal);
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Water nourishes Wood.
Other common words for this cycle include "begets", "engenders" and "mothers."
Group 6 Test-tube Babies P. 54/Track 18
What are the great differences between test-tube babies and human cloning?
earliest stage of development, from the time of first cell division until birth, hatching, or
germination. In humans, it is called an embryo from the moment of implantation until the end of
the 8th week, where after it is instead called a fetus.
Embryo
Top
Topics for Ca Mid-term Presentation
The Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Online MSNBC.com Video News 影音財經新聞
News English Online
Steve Jobs to 2005 graduates: 'Stay hungry, stay foolish' Click here. 他在 Standford University 的
Commencement Address 有聽了嗎? 點 Heard on Campus 可收聽; 點 Text of Commencement Address: 'You've
got to find what you love' Job says.可看文。
Impromptu Speech 2005 ~2006 英文系一年級即席演講題目 教育部全國大專英語演講比賽實況 比賽花絮 95
3/23 T242
Group 1 Best Anti-Aging ways A-- 85~89 (Good PowerPoint, yellow words against blue background is not clear. ).
This group introduced what is aging, the course of it and ways to resist aging. When Eric talked about food, the
verb should be “are” instead of “is”, such as plant sources. From plant sources are rose hip, guava and orange.
They also talked about physical exercise, anti-aging skin care products such as collagen and its uses, Hyaluronic
acid, Coenzyme Q10, Botulinum Toxin Injections (Botox), Facelift, and The ProLite Intense Pulsed Light.
How often do you exercise? Do you work indoors or outdoors? What do you usually do up to live your anti-aging
ways? Who need to have a facelift, politicians or performers? Heels are considered important parts hold body
weights while walking or exercising to increase bone density.
Do you care about longevity?
Are mercy-killing allowed in our society? Many people support the right of a terminally ill patient to die - but what if
the right becomes an obligation??? And what of the potential for abuse by impatient heirs???
Should dying patients have the right to order their doctors not to start or continue medical treatment? Should
doctors be protected from prosecution if they shorten a patient's life expectancy with pain-killing drugs?
A recent Dutch government investigation of euthanasia has come up with some disturbing findings. In 1990, 1,030
Dutch patients were killed WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. And of 22,500 deaths due to withdrawal of life support,
63% (14,175 patients) were denied medical treatment WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. Twelve per-cent (1,701
patients) were mentally competent but were NOT CONSULTED.
The Dutch experience seems to demonstrate that the "right to die" can soon turn into an obligation. This concept is
dangerous, and you could find yourself the victim if Euthanasia becomes legal in North America.
What these stories overlook is that today, in almost all cases, it is possible to kill pain without killing the patient.
When someone's pain is relieved that person usually wants to go on living. We need to reflect carefully on the
consequences of legalizing active euthanasia. If we enshrine the absolute right to die, will it then become illegal to
intervene to obstruct would-be suicide? Will pharmacists be obligated to sell a lethal dose of hemlock to anyone
who is temporarily depressed?
When we hope to die in peace someday, should we urge doctors to apply heroic medical treatment with us?
Are the sustaining of human life worth of trying?
Is it worthwhile to extend life just for only a few hours at the risk
of great pain? Do you not want to use morphine for fear that it might cause complicated problem?
Anti-aging addresses
how to prevent, slow, or reverse the effects of aging and help people live longer,
healthier, happier lives. It includes scientific research and applications in genetic engineering, tissue
engineering, and other medical advances, e.g., finding treatments and cures for Alzheimer’s
disease. It includes anti-aging psychology, e.g., coping skills for resiliently handling change, stress,
and aging.
The anti-aging marketplace includes nutrition, physical fitness, skin care, hormone replacements,
vitamins, supplements, and herbs. Alternative medicine and holistic approaches have often been an
incubator for approaches initially shunned by traditional medicine. Life extension is arguably the
most scientifically rigorous part of anti-aging, being a research program focused on slowing down,
repairing or reversing the underlying processes of biological senescence in order to deliver
improved health and quality of life. (Despite the name, increasing mean or maximum lifespan is not
necessarily the main goal).
Life Extension Foundation American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine Chopra Center for
Wellbeing
Anti-aging methods attack aging at the root of the problem. The study of why people age is called
“senescence”. It covers the deregulation of the normal biochemical state of the body and the
deterioration of body tissues; also commonly known as the aging process. The sun, the air we
breathe, the water we drink, different forms of radiation etc. are all working to damage our body
cells. Taking this into account, the best anti aging doctors looked at the hormone responsible for
repairing this damage, HGH.
Anti-aging guide
How to stay young
Anti-aging strategy
The Truth About Stay-Young Strategies: Which Ones Work, Which Are Worthless
By Tamar Nordenberg
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed" —
British author Anthony Powell in Temporary Kings, 1973
How to stay young*** Emotional Intelligence Quotient --A concept that involved a self-perceived
ability, to
identify, assess, and manage the emotions of one's self, of others, and of groups.
E.Q. = Emotional Quotient 情緒商數; A.Q. = Adversary Quotient 應付逆境商數; C.Q. =Communication
Quotient 溝通商數, Creative Quotient; IQ Intelligence Quotient 智力商數; SQ (Social Quotient) 社交商數;
LQ (Locating Quotient) 定位商數
Group 5 Current news A—85~88 (Economic, social, gymnastic, novelty) PowerPoint, local news; inspiring?
Elisa: Are their international news such as Asian countries or Europe?
Notes taken:
The report of baseball fans vent frustrations on Internet because Taiwan was defeated by China in the World
Baseball Classic. Does it seem too patriotic?
Mimics are interesting entertainment shows which CNN reporters reported as creative. They combined the daily
news with critical view and presented it hummer to make people laugh at political persona. They also concerned
financial problems in Taiwan, students in enrolling in college with really low grades. Novelty news includes flying
car and small car production, surprising foods. People are sleeping less because they have busy schedules.
Do you really think people would not see baseball games again? Are baseball teams amateur or professional? Do
you think students enrolling in college with 18 scores can make great progress? If you have a Peel 50, where
would you go?
Why do you see this news important?
What happened? Do you see the news as real or distorted? Are there balanced reports in this news?
What do you see fads in human society?
AIG says emergency aid used to pay other banks
Asian markets continue rise as Fed eyes recovery
Chinese Amway tourists arrive in Keelung harbor
News English online(right
Taiwan remains world's 26th-best country for business: Forbes
top)
Chinapost.com.tw
House passes bill taxing fat AIG and other bonuses
Lawmaking panel slashes credit card interest rate to 12.5%
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Lawmakers on a legislative panel approved yesterday a draft revision that sharply
lowers the ceiling on interest rates for credit card and cash card balances from 20 percent to 12.5
percent despite bank concerns of a liquidity crunch.
Members of the Judicial Committee of the Legislative Yuan endorsed a proposal from
Legislator Hsieh Kuo-liang of the ruling Kuomintang to replace the ceiling rate of 20 percent
as stipulated in Article 20 of the Civil Code with a floating rate formula.
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Group 2 Education in many countries B+~A-84~90 How about a further study on English
education in different countries?
Critical in bringing about education systems in countries such as New Zealand, Germany,
South Korea, the United States, and Taiwan. We all value education highly. The major
differences are high-lighted, such as in Germany students aged 6 to 14, in state-run school, it
is free. In America, bilingual education is popular, in Korea, English Education is stressed
since the third year of elementary school. What do you think about President Bush’s policy:
No Child Left Behind? What do you think are the important concepts in education? Do you
favor experiential learning? What is the role of innovation/creativity in Education? What do
you think about cooperative learning?
major problems and trends in contemporary higher education
Higher Education in Europe YouTube edd-ep tv 7:24 quality, student mobility, European country
for master diploma, recognition, global connection
Opening the doors of EU Higher Education to students from South East Europe
Language is not a problem. Implementing process, intervention, multilingual systems, an area cooperation.
Education in Taiwan
Canada
Educational Leadership
ERIC Education Resources Information Center
The Educator’s Reference Desk
Education for Sustainability is about fostering innovative and motivated people who think and act
sustainably - a goal supported through the holistic integrated approach of the New Zealand Curriculum.
**Key concepts such as cooperative learning, inquiry-based learning, experiential learning, innovative
and creative thinking, sharing ideas, reflective practice, and critical thinking are all essential
approaches to learning that underpin the NZ Curriculum's Vision, Principles, Key Competencies, and
Values. EfS provides rich future-focused opportunities to learn - encouraging students to become active
and positive members of their local, national, and global communities.
UNESCO category
UNESCO’s mission: Learning to Live Together
The concept is centred on the development of understanding, consideration and respect for others, their beliefs,
values and cultures. This is considered to provide the basis for the avoidance of conflicts or their non-violent
resolution and for ongoing peaceful coexistence. Beyond that, it implies recognizing difference and diversity as
opportunity rather than danger and as a valuable resource to be used for the common good.
A good number of countries are looking for ways to live together, including human rights and citizenship education,
education for peace, fighting against marginalization and all kinds of discrimination.
Group 3 China's pampered Pandas 嬌生慣養的中國貓熊 B-~A-- 80~87 The presentation concerns how
pandas communicate through scent marks, feeding in reserve, how to increase its population, and so forth.
Does the world need more pandas? Trista and Debbie introduced Kung Fu Panda
Taking the articles introduced by Time magazine as starting points, it can also be developed into a debate topic,
favoring panda captivity or not.
Pros
Cons
Chinese specialists are proud of being able to breed pandas in captivity. They then thought of returning the
pandas back to nature. Can panda survive in wilderness? What training should they receive?
A Year of Happy Pandamonium
In 2006 a record 31 pandas were born in captivity in China, triple the number in 2000.
Zhang's team plans to raise the captive-bred population from 120 to 300 within 10 years.
That would guarantee the species' survival for at least 100 years, increase the number of
pandas that can be reintroduced into the wild and provide more specimens for lucrative loans
to zoos around the world. (Pros)
Unpopular females have been scented with the urine of popular rivals, so that a male thinks
he's mating with a more attractive female. Zhang has shown them videos of pandas breeding
in the wild--basically, panda porn. He even gave one male Viagra--which didn't work so well.
"We'll never do that again," he said. "The panda was excited for 24 hours."
This can be a good topic for debate.
Are there negative and affirmative views of the captive breeding program?
Wild animals don’t breed well in captivity.
Is the experiment pointless?
What are the factors of China’s panda captive breeding program? W hy go to such lengths to breed
pandas if the threat of extinction has eased? (Cons)
The endangered panda is revered as a national symbol in China. Direct economic losses to
the forestry business were $3.3 billion and 232 forestry workers were killed, he said. (Cons)
National pride in the program's success and bureaucratic self-preservation are factors?
Jim Harkness: "Reintroduction is a heroic measure, costly and high risk. It should be a last
resort that is attempted only when the wild population is no longer viable." (Cons)
The 200,000-hectare Wolong Nature Reserve, for example, faces pressure from human
development and is barely large enough to support its wild bear population, let alone
additional pen-reared animals like Xiang Xiang. (Cons)
There also may be an economic motive. (Cons) Zoos are eager to donate money to China in
exchange for the right to display pandas. In the U.S., four zoos, including the National Zoo in
Washington, D.C., are each paying $10 million over a decade for their Wolong-bred bears.
Rebuttal: But Zhang denies the breeding program is aimed at raising money. "It is not
responsible for anyone to declare that the experiment is pointless," Zhang says. Xiang Xiang's
coddled siblings had better prepare to follow him into the dangerous depths of the forest.
(Pros)
News: Time
Xiang Xiang the first giant panda bred in captivity to be released by Chinese scientists into
the wild. had received some survival training, had been dropped off in a very rough
neighborhood. The forest wardens spotted him via one of a string of video monitors
positioned throughout the park. He had been bitten by a wild panda in a fight for territory.
"Our researchers found him and brought him back. The doctor treated him briefly, then sent
him back to the wild." says Zhang Hemin, director of the Research and Conservation Center
for the Giant Panda at Wolong. Unfortunately for Xiang Xiang, the tough-love approach
only compounded his problems. In a subsequent encounter with a woods-wise cousin, Xiang
Xiang tried to escape by climbing a tree. The hapless bear fell out and, from what rangers
could gather over their monitors, probably broke a leg. Since then, Xiang Xiang hasn't been
seen. Still, Zhang insists his charge had to be banished. "We did not want to keep Xiang
Xiang because that would have shown our experiment had failed," Zhang says.
a captive breeding program for the notoriously shy bears, a desire to save the species from
extinction. China produced 34 panda cubs, 1,600 wild pandas.
The fact that China's pandas are no longer in jeopardy makes it harder to justify the more
questionable aspects of its breeding programs. The 200,000-hectare Wolong Nature Reserve,
for example, faces pressure from human development and is barely large enough to support
its wild bear population, let alone additional pen-reared animals like Xiang Xiang.
Then there's the problem that, with the exception of ungulates like deer, animals raised in
captivity are rarely able to adjust to the rigors of the wild. Says Jim Harkness, former head of
the WWF in China: "Reintroduction is a heroic measure, costly and high risk. It should be a
last resort that is attempted only when the wild population is no longer viable."
So why go to such lengths to breed pandas if the threat of extinction has eased? Harkness
says national pride in the program's success and bureaucratic self-preservation are factors.
There also may be an economic motive. Zoos are eager to donate money to China in exchange
for the right to display pandas. In the U.S., four zoos, including the National Zoo in
Washington, D.C., are each paying $10 million over a decade for their Wolong-bred bears.
But Zhang denies the breeding program is aimed at raising money. "It is not responsible for
anyone to declare that the experiment is pointless," Zhang says. Xiang Xiang's coddled
siblings had better prepare to follow him into the dangerous depths of the forest.
Malice in wonderland
Do you admire the creativity that the Lewis Carroll put in writing Alice?
Malice in wonderland
movie book
time
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Group 4 Poverty B-~A 82~95 Most impressive are the photos, the map and statistics used to present the causes of
poverty, Can ask how people react to poverty.
What is poverty? How do people cope with poverty? Do you admire the oath that nuns and monks take to vow to
be poor?
A blogger once wrote:
What you do have to deal with is your own response to the confrontation with other people's poverty. You are likely
to experience guilt (at your own good fortune), anger (at fate, at the government, at the beggars themselves for
being, well, there to confront you with the reality of their existence), compassion, denial, a wide range of emotions.
This is what you have to cope with. The poverty itself, sadly, is for the poor.
India: Turn your fear into something positive - you can make a difference.
You can carry a bag of rupees and second-hand clothes and shoes.
wiki
poverty cause
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Almost half the world — over 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day.
(simply short of money)
The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the 41 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
(567 million people) is less than the wealth of the world’s 7 richest people
combined. (discrepancy in wealth)
Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their
names. (illiterate, lack of education)
Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed
to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.
(weaponry vs. education)
1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live
without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million
have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the
age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day). (No basic living needs)
Poverty is the state for the majority of the world’s people and nations. Why is this? Is it enough
to blame poor people for their own predicament? Have they been lazy, made poor decisions, and
been solely responsible for their plight? What about their governments? Have they pursued policies
that actually harm successful development? Such causes of poverty and inequality are no doubt real.
But deeper and more global causes of poverty are often less discussed.
Behind the increasing interconnectedness promised by globalization are global decisions, policies,
and practices. These are typically influenced, driven, or formulated by the rich and powerful. These
can be leaders of rich countries or other global actors such as multinational corporations,
institutions, and influential people.
In the face of such enormous external influence, the governments of poor nations and their people
are often powerless. As a result, in the global context, a few get wealthy while the majority
struggle.
More than 80 percent of the world’s population lives in countries where income differentials
are widening.
The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. The
richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income.
Most of humanity lives on just a few dollars a day. Whether you live in the wealthiest nations in
the world or the poorest, you will see high levels of inequality.
The poorest people will also have less access to health, education and other services. Problems of
hunger, malnutrition and disease afflict the poorest in society. The poorest are also typically
marginalized from society and have little representation or voice in public and political debates,
making it even harder to escape poverty.
By contrast, the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to benefit from economic or political
policies. The amount the world spends on military, financial bailouts and other areas that benefit
the wealthy, compared to the amount spent to address the daily crisis of poverty and related
problems are often staggering.
Some facts and figures on poverty presented in this page are eye-openers, to say the least.
…the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank as conditions for loans and
repayment
To attract investment, poor countries enter a spiraling race to the bottom to see who can provide
lower standards, reduced wages and cheaper resources. This has increased poverty and inequality
for most people. It also forms a backbone to what we today call globalization. As a result, it
maintains the historic unequal rules of trade.
Around the world, in rich or poor nations, poverty has always been present. In most nations today,
inequality—the gap between the rich and the poor—is quite high and often widening. The causes
are numerous, including a lack of individual responsibility, bad government policy, exploitation by
people and businesses with power and influence, or some combination of these and other factors.
Many feel that high levels of inequality will affect social cohesion and lead to problems such as
increasing crime and violence.
This issue explores topics ranging from the global food crisis of 2008, to issues of food aid, world
hunger, food dumping and wasteful agriculture such as growing tobacco, sugar, beef, and more.
Trade, Economy, & Related Issues
Corruption
We often hear leaders from rich countries telling poor countries that aid and loans will only be
given when they show they are stamping out corruption. While that definitely needs to happen, the
rich countries themselves are often active in the largest forms of corruption in those poor countries,
and many economic policies they prescribe have exacerbated the problem. Corruption in
developing countries definitely must be high on the priority lists, but so too must it be on the
priority lists of rich countries.
Since 1970, the world’s rich countries agreed to give 0.7% of their gross national
income as official international development aid. Since that time, billions have certainly
been given, but rarely have these rich nations actually met their agreed target.
US and Foreign Aid Assistance
United Nations World Summit 2005
IMF & World Bank Protests, Washington D.C.
Economic Democracy
Factors of Poverty ignorance (Ignorance means having a lack of information, or lack of knowledge.
"Knowledge is power,"), disease (absenteeism is high, productivity is low), apathy (Apathy is when
people do not care, or when they feel so powerless that they do not try to change things, to right a
wrong, to fix a mistake, or to improve conditions. "Pray to God, but also row to shore," a Russian
proverb, demonstrates that we are in God's hands, but we also have a responsibility to help
ourselves.), dishonesty (When resources that are intended to be used for community services or
facilities, are diverted into the private pockets of someone in a position of power) and dependency,
are to be seen simply as conditions.
Group 6 McDonald's wiki B- 82+1 (paper) (Only two members) A good paper but the way you presented it is too
serious on Mitta’s part and Alice seemed to be lost in the middle of presenting. The ads are interesting though.
We need to know the changes McDonald’s has made throughout history. How they are willing to concern the health
of the consumers, while emphasizing on comfort, convenient to serve takeout food, introducing “Forever
Young”brand, introducing cooking oil that contains no trans fats, etc. Since 1970s, it began to make substantial
progress towards source reductions efforts. You will not create much problem in packaging.
When was the last time you went to McDonald’s? What did you order? Do you worry about taking fast food when
you eat out?
Fast food culture
Stop blaming people or their genes--it's an abundance of unhealthy, heavily advertised,
low-cost food that underlies the nation's obesity crisis. (BRIDGET MURRAY)
It should be mentioned though, that fast food is an integral part not only of American lifestyle. It
has entered the cultures of many nations all over the world. Fast food is available irrespective of
what part of the world we find ourselves in.
Today the fast food industry is the most successful and magnificent one. The business is considered
to be profitable, since it doesn't require large income. Many fast food restaurants are now operating
as franchisees.
Fast Food stands or kiosks, which may provide no shelter or seating
McDonald Taiwan
Pepsico Inc., for instance, which owns Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, is
test-marketing restaurants in which all three operations are combined.
rap culture
wiki
Top
Topics for Cb Mid-term Presentation
The Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Online MSNBC.com Video News 影音財經新聞
News English Online
Steve Jobs to 2005 graduates: 'Stay hungry, stay foolish' Click here. 他在 Standford University 的
Commencement Address 有聽了嗎? 點 Heard on Campus 可收聽; 點 Text of Commencement Address: 'You've
got to find what you love' Job says.可看文。
Impromptu Speech 2005 ~2006 英文系一年級即席演講題目 教育部全國大專英語演講比賽實況 比賽花絮 95
3/23 T342
Group 2 Current news A—86~89 (Good ppt, Interesting news to talk about) One news has a catchy heady about
Islands of Great Barrier Reef, and a serious one about war crime
What makes the candidates stand out in competing for the caretaker job?
How are war crimes solved? What are some cases in history?
What are you going to follow up the news stories? Have some predictions?
Wanted: Paradise island 'caretaker'
Tourism officials in Australia are describing it as "the best job in the world".
They want someone to work on a tropical island off the Queensland coast.
No formal qualifications are needed but candidates must be willing to swim, snorkel, dive
and sail.
In return, the successful applicant will receive a salary of A$150,000 ($103,000, £70,000)
for six months and get to live rent-free in a three-bedroom villa, complete with pool.
The purpose of this job offer is aim at promoting tourism in Queensland. 以推廣昆士蘭成旅遊目的地。
The best job in the world, Tourism Queensland 大堡礁 Island of the Great Barrier Reef,
Queensland, Australia 記錄了您有趣時刻的照片和影片 行程包括哈密頓島的 qualia 體驗新的豪華水
療，在 Heron Island 試用最新浮潛裝備，或於 Hinchinbrook Island 一試大自然漫步。
Exploration and report back, feed fish, clean the swimming pool, collect mails, - Be enthusiastic 對工作的熱誠, holds the value of personality and creativity - 擁有的價值(個性和創造力) Skills of
communication such as friendly manner - 表現技巧(友善態度) At least one year of experience - 至
少一年以上相关经验
Sophie and Candice: Israel could face war crimes trial more
If you use weapon with densely populated people, you are going to be charged war crime at the
International Criminal Court at Hague. The land Gaza belongs to whom is not important to us, but
it sure will cause long-term trouble in the area between Israel and Palestine.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is urgently considering whether the Palestinian Authority is
“enough like a state” for it to bring a case alleging that Israeli troops committed war crimes in
the recent assault on Gaza.
The ICC, which has 108 member states, has not so far recognized Palestine as a sovereign
state or as a member.
The Case for War Crimes Trials in Yugoslavia
Mutter: AIG says emergency aid used to pay other banks
American International Group used emergency aid (which the government used as bail out cash to save
entrepreneurs from going bankruptcy) on bonus payrolls. All are angry about it.
Did U.S. Lawmaker pass motion to collect bonus tax?
Do you trust the government with the money? Should people watch out where money goes?
Credit card being closed.
Asian markets continue rise as Fed eyes recovery
Chinese Amway tourists arrive in Keelung harbor News English online(right top)
Taiwan remains world's 26th-best country for business: Forbes Chinapost.com.tw
House passes bill taxing fat AIG and other bonuses
Lawmaking panel slashes credit card interest rate to 12.5%
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Lawmakers on a legislative panel approved yesterday a draft revision that sharply
lowers the ceiling on interest rates for credit card and cash card balances from 20 percent to 12.5
percent despite bank concerns of a liquidity crunch.
Members of the Judicial Committee of the Legislative Yuan endorsed a proposal from
Legislator Hsieh Kuo-liang of the ruling Kuomintang to replace the ceiling rate of 20 percent
as stipulated in Article 20 of the Civil Code with a floating rate formula.
Tiffany’s topic: The language of flowers
B++86
The language of flowers
Challenging? She prepared ppt
without showing it.
Tiffany introduced some flowers – Daisy which represents optimistic hope, Forget-Me-Not meaning ‘don’t forget
me and honest true love’, Venus’s Flytrap, Iris representing a kind heart, White clover for bound, and Balloon
flower means ‘I won’t change’.
I got a small pot of balloon flower last year. It had some purple flowers blooming in front yard. But it has not
bloomed since last blooming.
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floriography, was a Victorian-era means of communication in which various flowers and floral
arrangements were used to send coded messages, allowing individuals to express feelings which
otherwise could not be spoken. This language was most commonly communicated through
Tussie-Mussies, an art which has a following today.
Trees spirit of trees
Group 1 Musicals B 78~86 (In ppt words are not clear owing to the beautiful background and the color; late script,
not clear.) It has a clear thread of the role of musicals in film industry. However, it may not be that
interesting since we the audience do not know your films at first, it might not be so interesting to just
listen to the review of the films and the stories it brought out. The papers were not placed in order.
The three musicals are introduced, Sound of Music, The Pick of Destiny, and Once.
Kyle said that they chose the three to represent classic, modern to show the change in musical by fusing rock
music in films. (enjoyable rock music, hot chicks)
The Grand Cinema
Taiwan Film and Culture Association (台灣電影文化協會); Hou Hsiao-hsien (侯孝賢); Taipei
Film House (台北光點), themes or points of view,…
Compared to the French art-house movie theaters, which are fully funded by the government, Spot
has to apply for the NT$2 million fund for each program from the Council for Cultural Affairs (文
建會), which reserves the right to reject any subsidy application.
The closure of Taipei's art-house movie theater President Cinema (總統戲院) and the temporary
shutdown of the Majestic Theater (真善美戲院) in Ximending (西門町) last year sent frantic
waves through local independent film distributors and art-house movie goers worrying that there
would be no space left for non-Hollywood cinema.
the Kaohsiung Film Archive (高雄市電影圖書館)
The Database of Taiwan Cinema
Iranian cinema
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Cinema.com
Post-Graduate School on Networking Thai Cinema
Group 6 Best anti-aging (ageing) foods A—85~88 Persuasive enough? Informative? Yes. Has an organizer,
someone who introduced the topic and drew a conclusion.
Do you care about longevity?
Are mercy-killing allowed in our society? Many people support the right of a terminally ill patient to die - but what if
the right becomes an obligation??? And what of the potential for abuse by impatient heirs???
Should dying patients have the right to order their doctors not to start or continue medical treatment? Should
doctors be protected from prosecution if they shorten a patient's life expectancy with pain-killing drugs?
A recent Dutch government investigation of euthanasia has come up with some disturbing findings. In 1990, 1,030
Dutch patients were killed WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. And of 22,500 deaths due to withdrawal of life support,
63% (14,175 patients) were denied medical treatment WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. Twelve per-cent (1,701
patients) were mentally competent but were NOT CONSULTED.
The Dutch experience seems to demonstrate that the "right to die" can soon turn into an obligation. This concept is
dangerous, and you could find yourself the victim if Euthanasia becomes legal in North America.
What these stories overlook is that today, in almost all cases, it is possible to kill pain without killing the patient.
When someone's pain is relieved that person usually wants to go on living. We need to reflect carefully on the
consequences of legalizing active euthanasia. If we enshrine the absolute right to die, will it then become illegal to
intervene to obstruct would-be suicide? Will pharmacists be obligated to sell a lethal dose of hemlock to anyone
who is temporarily depressed?
When we hope to die in peace someday, should we urge doctors to apply heroic medical treatment with us?
Are the sustaining of human life worth of trying?
Is it worthwhile to extend life just for only a few hours at the risk
of great pain? Do you not want to use morphine for fear that it might cause complicated problem?
Anti-aging addresses
how to prevent, slow, or reverse the effects of aging and help people live longer,
healthier, happier lives. It includes scientific research and applications in genetic engineering, tissue
engineering, and other medical advances, e.g., finding treatments and cures for Alzheimer’s
disease. It includes anti-aging psychology, e.g., coping skills for resiliently handling change, stress,
and aging.
The anti-aging marketplace includes nutrition, physical fitness, skin care, hormone replacements,
vitamins, supplements, and herbs. Alternative medicine and holistic approaches have often been an
incubator for approaches initially shunned by traditional medicine. Life extension is arguably the
most scientifically rigorous part of anti-aging, being a research program focused on slowing down,
repairing or reversing the underlying processes of biological senescence in order to deliver
improved health and quality of life. (Despite the name, increasing mean or maximum lifespan is not
necessarily the main goal).
Life Extension Foundation American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine Chopra Center for
Wellbeing
Anti-aging methods attack aging at the root of the problem. The study of why people age is called
“senescence”. It covers the deregulation of the normal biochemical state of the body and the
deterioration of body tissues; also commonly known as the aging process. The sun, the air we
breathe, the water we drink, different forms of radiation etc. are all working to damage our body
cells. Taking this into account, the best anti aging doctors looked at the hormone responsible for
repairing this damage, HGH.
Anti-aging guide
How to stay young
Anti-aging strategy
How to stay young*** Emotional Intelligence Quotient --A concept that involved a self-perceived
ability, to
identify, assess, and manage the emotions of one's self, of others, and of groups.
E.Q. = Emotional Quotient 情緒商數; A.Q. = Adversary Quotient 應付逆境商數; C.Q. =Communication
Quotient 溝通商數, Creative Quotient; IQ Intelligence Quotient 智力商數; SQ (Social Quotient) 社交商數;
LQ (Locating Quotient) 定位商數
Group 4 Hollywood and Pollywood B++A--85~89 Good PPT, Informative, Challenging? Provide the audience an
alternative.
Do you believe that the U.S. film industry has had an uncanny knack for taking the world's
cinematic styles and molding them? What do you think of cross-cultural influence in world
cinema?
Hollywood vs. Bollywood How about comparison? Both Hollywood and Bollywood highly promote
their films and stars. Bollywood's lead stars are making about forty percent of a two million dollar salary.
Peshawar
Pashto films
Drags to Bitches – a lip-synched comedy revue
Pollywood, the colloquial name given to the Pashtu language movie industry in Peshawar, Pakistan.
The "P" stands for Peshawar and the "ollywood" comes from Hollywood, the American movie
industry.
Politically Driven Films Turning Hollywood Into 'pollywood'
Should documentary films have to help politicians express their political views?
Washington Life Magazine 2006 ENTER THE GOLDEN AGE: One-on-one with Hollywood author George
Stevens, Jr. BY JODY ARLINGTON
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Group 3 Unbelievable
phenomena in the world A- 83~90 Clear PPT, and Pictures, this group
presented Loch Ness Monster, Bermuda Triangle, Crop circle, Stonehenge, Nazca Lines, with
introduction and conclusion. The mysterious natural phenomena are drawing us to want to know
more, its history, discovery, location, design, etc. With good intensions.
Do you believe these are natural phenomena or the pictures are fake, artificial photos?
Unbelievable natural phenomena in the world 1. Moving Rocks ? California at the Racetrack
2. Black Sun ?
Denmark 3. Rain of Fishes ? Honduras 4. Catatumbo Lightning ? Venezuela Over
Playa in Death Valley caused by a combination of water and changes in temperature
marshlands in Venezuela, a seemingly never ending storm takes place 140 to 160 nights out of the
year.
5. Climbing Goats ? Morocco A strange site can be seen when visiting Morocco ? literally
dozens of goats perched up in trees. The goats are generally found in the Argan tree, as they enjoy
6. Cave of Crystals ? Mexico 7. Fire Rainbow ? Idaho 8.
limestone Stone Forest ? China 9. Eye of the Sahara ? Mauritania a magnificent landform 10.
The Curtain of Fire ? Hawaii
eating the fruit from the tree.
Unbelievable: Investigating in to ghosts, poltergeists, telepathy, clairvoyance, and
other phenomena of the unseen world by Stacy Horn Reviewed by Diane Snyder
the Guinness World Records book has recorded feats and oddities from the ridiculous to the
sublime.
Burmuda Triangle Videos Earth's Strangest Phenomena
Aurora Borealis, the northern light
Group 5 Special
TV Programs B++ 85~87 PPT, videos, new, no introduction, no conclusion,
challenging? Fun?
Do you think that special TV Programs are produced for the markets?
Do you think the producers should have conducted a survey to know if the audience would like to
see them? Do you really like it? Why or why not?
VOA Special English on Satellite TV
On October 19, 1959, the Voice of America broadcast the first Special English program. It was an
experiment. The goal was to communicate by radio in clear and simple English with people whose native
language was not English. .. It helps people learn American English while they learn about American life and stay
informed about world news and developments in science.
VOA English Podcast
EWTN Television Special Live Coverage From Rome Holy Week Masses Celebrated by Pope
Benedict XVI Global catholic network
How to eat smarter
My notes
Video Nutrition Essentials: Eat Smarter, Live Longer
10 Tips for Changing the Way YouEat Chew Slower, Color Me Hungry, De-stress Before
Dinner, Down Some H2O, Clear the Area, Don't Multitask, Keep Food in its Place, Downsize Your
Dishes, Soup and Salad for Starters, Keep Seconds Out of Sight
You dump a box of thin spaghetti into a pot of boiling water, zap 3 cups of green beans in the
microwave, pop a loaf of frozen garlic bread into the toaster oven and pour a medium-size jar
of marinara sauce into a saucepan to simmer. While all that's bubbling, you chop up half a
head of iceberg lettuce and a couple of tomatoes for the salad, which you'll sprinkle with a
light dressing. Dessert will be two scoops of frozen yogurt per person and a plate of assorted
low-fat cookies for the family to share. Sounds pretty healthy, right?
Wrong. It's enough food for a family twice the size of yours. In addition, it contains some
nutritional traps that in the best-case scenario will make you fat and in the worst will
increase your chances of developing diabetes, heart disease and certain types of
cancer. Think you know the pitfalls? Some surprises.
Here are just a few of the problems:
--Most "light" salad dressings are too heavy on sugar and salt and too light on nutrition. A
better choice is a simple oil-and-vinegar dressing, which--although packed with
calories--contains lots of heart-healthy mono-unsaturated fatty acids and no
saturated fat.
--You're serving your family too many highly processed foods. The latest research shows
that such foods won't keep them satisfied for very long and may make them hungrier in the
long run.
--Having different kinds of cookies to choose from makes it more likely that your family will
eat more cookies than they should. The fewer our choices, the less we eat.
--Your portion sizes are far too generous. According to the U.S. Food Guide Pyramid, you're
giving each member of your family 4 servings of spaghetti, 112 servings of marinara sauce
and 2 servings of frozen yogurt. The whole meal contains 1,500 calories per person, or 80% of
the daily requirement for a sedentary office worker.
--Let's not even get started on whether the tomatoes should be cooked or raw, how much salt,
sugar and trans fat there is in the garlic bread, or how many calories are packed into
that marinara sauce.
It just goes to show that it's hard to eat healthy even when we try. We've all heard that
fruits and vegetables are good for us, that restaurant portions are too big, that we should
exercise more. But even a casual glance at public-health statistics suggests that Americans
don't know how to put that information into practice. Two out of three Americans are
overweight or obese. The incidence of Type 2 diabetes among children is climbing. And any
gains we've made against heart disease by quitting smoking may be about to disappear.
Diet books and magazine articles try to grab our attention by telling us everything we thought
we knew was wrong. (It's not.)
Even the government-approved labels on our food can lead us astray. Serving sizes bear no
relationship to the helpings we usually eat. Low-fat products are not necessarily low in
calories. And now the Food and Drug Administration says we should be on the lookout for
trans fat--a lesser-known type of fat that is every bit as bad for the heart as saturated
fat--though we won't learn which products are the worst offenders until 2006. Meanwhile,
the food pyramid, which serves as the basis for all meals prepared in the federal school-lunch
program, is about to be changed. However, the next revision won't be out until 2005.
"People can feel like a ping-pong ball," says Dr. David Katz, head of the Yale School of
Medicine Prevention Research Center and author of The Way to Eat (Sourcebooks; 2002).
"They are being batted in one direction and then another."
Some vegetable dishes, it turns out, are healthier than others, some grain products are less
processed than others, some fish are safer than others. You may think you are eating right,
but by making subtle changes in what you eat and how you eat it, you could start eating
considerably healthier.
Studies show that as much as 80% of heart disease and 90% of diabetes can be tied to
unhealthy eating and lifestyle habits.
YOU NEED LESS FOOD THAN YOU THINK
One way to counteract that is to boost your level of physical activity to increase the number of
calories you burn. It does mean you have to pay more attention to the "calories in" side of the
equation.
As you grow older, your body needs fewer calories to keep going. Certain exercises--like yoga
or weight training--help counteract the trend because they build muscle, which burns more
calories than fat. But at some point, to avoid gaining weight, you will have to eat less.
So, what are some smart ways of cutting back? Start by fooling both your eyes and your
stomach. Begin a couple of meals each week with an apple or a cup of soup. Either will help
curb your appetite. The apple, besides being nutritious and only 80 calories, is full of soluble
fiber, which keeps the stomach from emptying too quickly. And there is something about the
texture and consistency of soup (broth-, not cream-based, low in sodium and not more than
150 calories) that is particularly satisfying to the stomach.
ALL FATS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL
like fish, olive oil, avocados and walnuts--actually improve cholesterol levels in the blood and
significantly reduce the risk that the heart will suddenly stop. Good fats do more than help
protect the heart. They also seem to delay hunger pangs. "People on these high-starch,
low-fat diets are often hungry soon after they eat.
If you eat nuts, you're going to have to eat less of something else. What about the
Mediterranean diet? you ask. "If a cracker has 2% trans and 2% saturated fat, it's better than
7% saturated and 0% trans."
eating too much fish--long a staple of heart-healthy diets--may expose folks to dangerous
levels of mercury and other poisons.
…too much protein can lead to kidney and liver problems. What is known is that too much
protein of any kind can leach calcium out of your body and that eating lots of animal protein
usually means you're increasing your intake of saturated fat as well.
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Ca Daily 2
Group 1 Beauty
11*/4
Miss World, Miss Universe, Do you support beauty pageant?
Miss (2003) Taiwan Pageant 19~30 台美小姐 TM 選拔(2009)
Started in year 2000, Miss TaiwanTM Foundation has held Miss TaiwanTM Pageants and continuously been actively
involved in all kinds of community events. We are accepting applications for the Miss Taiwan world
SM
Pageant
2009. This Pageant will be held in July 18, 2009 in the Los Angeles area. Eight Taiwanese ladies will be chosen
based on their talent, poise and overall presentation. They are to represent Miss Taiwan World, Miss Taiwan
USA, Miss Taiwan, Miss Taiwan California. In addition, title holders of other states will also be present to be
officially crowned. Each title holder will receive a crown, sash, scholarship and prizes. This is a great opportunity
for young ladies to challenge themselves and make their dream come true.
Because this is a subjective experience, it is often said that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
There is evidence that a preference for beautiful faces emerges early in child development, , and
that the standards of attractiveness are similar across different genders and cultures. Symmetry is
also important because it suggests the absence of genetic or acquired defects. Large eyes and a
clear complexion, for example, are considered beautiful in both men and women in all cultures.
Neonatal features are inherently attractive and youthfulness in general is associated with beauty.
The Pythagorean school saw a strong connection between mathematics and beauty. In particular,
they noted that objects proportioned according to the golden ratio seemed more attractive.
Classical philosophy and sculptures of men and women produced according to these philosophers'
tenets of ideal human beauty were rediscovered in Renaissance Europe, leading to a re-adoption of
what became known as a "classical ideal".The ideal Roman was defined as tall, muscular,
long-legged, with a full head of thick hair, a high and wide forehead – a sign of intelligence –
wide-set eyes, a strong browline, a strong perfect nose and profile, a smaller mouth, and a strong
jaw line. This combination of factors would, as it does today, produce an impressive "grand" look
of handsome masculinity. Mixed race children are often perceived to be more attractive than their
parents because their genetic diversity protects them from the inherited errors of their individual
parents.
combination of Inner Beauty, which includes psychological factors such as personality, intelligence,
grace, congeniality (pleasing), charm, integrity, congruity (fitting) and elegance, and Outer Beauty,
(i.e. physical attractiveness) which includes physical factors, such as health, youthfulness, sexiness,
symmetry, averageness, and complexion.
Beauty presents a standard of comparison, and it can cause resentment and dissatisfaction when not
achieved.
Group 2 World
Cinema P. 60
Group 3 Fighting
Aids 21* Pneumonia Sontag, Susan: Illness as Metaphor
Group 4 Foreign Brides Mail Order Brides Online
Why Advantages
International Dating
Disadvantages
Why are their technological people asking to have a foreign bride?
Do girls worry about not having romantic encounters within Taiwan?
Do you like to meet a foreign boy friend? Care about cultural discrepancies? Language
barriers? Owning of the properties?
What are the criteria when looking for a life partner?
They’d be coming back as soon as they could afford it — if their "girlfriend" didn’t drain
their bank accounts dry in the meantime.
Thailand, like Brazil or the Philippines, is full of Western guys trying their luck with women
half their age.
It’s not easy getting old. Along with worrying about balding, beer guts and prostate cancer, many
American men suffer the flip side of the national individualistic character — they end up feeling
quite alone.
As school friends move away and get married, opportunities to make new social contacts
tend to diminish with age. And our modern lifestyles often dictate that we work alone in
front of a computer, shop alone in a supermarket and go home alone to apartments where
neighbors don’t talk to one another.
Until the Internet came along, the natural desire to meet the opposite sex did much to boost the
attendance at bars and evening classes in the hope of meeting that special someone. Drinking too
much beer and pretending to be interested in learning Italian were the only options left open to the
millions of Americans who simply didn’t know how else to meet anyone new.
But then the advent of online dating sites meant the American guy could go hunting without having
to get out of his dressing gown. Unshaven and unwashed he could woo any number of women by
complimenting them on their profile photo and including the right kind of charismatic emoticon in
the message to show his sensitive side. It made the first step in dating safe, voyeuristic and cheaper
than buying drinks all night while searching for the courage to approach the blonde on the other
side of the bar.
Which explains why some 40 million American men logged onto dating sites last year.
Yet there remained the fact that most of the women on American dating sites were … well,
American.
“They’ve lost their femininity!” an American expat once told me when explaining his choice
to move south to Mexico. “American women these days dress like men, talk like men and call
you a chauvinist if you ask them to make you a cup of coffee.”
I thought of the aggressive, sexless look of the supermodels and the passing of the days when men
tipped their hats to women in the street. Then the expat's Mexican wife came in, brought us each
another beer, wiped the table and went off to calm the crying children and prepare lunch.
Talk to American men who have married foreign women and 90 percent of them will have been
attracted to the old-fashioned values of another culture. Dinner on the table, clean clothes in the
cupboard and strong maternal instincts.
“Western women have been campaigning for equality for so long that happiness went out of the
picture long ago.” another friend married to a Thai wife told me.
I initially thought this was a bit over the top until I learned that even complimenting a female
co-worker can be considered grounds for sexual harassment. Have feminism and political
correctness taken all the fun out of American love?
Well maybe. But there’s also the fact that, for many, exotic is erotic and there’s nothing like a
foreign accent or complexion to hide the personality faults that stop domestic relationships getting
off the ground.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/08/love_abroad.html
Group 5 Predicting
Group 6
the future 47*
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Cb Daily 2
Group 1Violent
Youth 59
How do parents build up positive attachment with their own children?
Tiffany: Homeboys
29/9
Group 2 Fighting
Aids 21* Pneumonia Sontag, Susan: Illness as Metaphor
Group 3 National
Stereotypes 43
Group 4 Male
Crisis 35*/10
Group 5 Fashion
statement 19/7
Fashion statement
A number of cities are recognized as global fashion centers and are recognized for their
fashion weeks, where designers exhibit their new clothing collections to audiences. These
cities are Paris, Milan, New York, and London. Other cities, mainly Los Angeles, Berlin,
Tokyo, Rome, Miami, Hong Kong, São Paulo, Sydney, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Madrid,
Melbourne, Mumbai, Vienna, Moscow, New Delhi and Dubai also hold fashion weeks and
are better recognized every year.
IN Britain, it’s the accessory of the season, but will American women decide to make an eco-friendly fashion
statement their bag, baby?
We? l find out tomorrow - when a $15 medium-size canvas tote emblazoned with ?I’m not a plastic bag? hits
stores in New York and Los Angeles.
The message bag was created by British accessories designer Anya Hindmarch, who’s known for her
otherwise pricey pouches, in partnership with nonprofit campaign group We Are What We Do. The aim is to
encourage fashionists to replace plastic grocery-store bags with this not-so-plastic alternative.
In spite of the dubious premise that fashionists ever go to grocery stores - or even eat - the bags are causing
quite a stir. Keira Knightley was spotted with one in England.
Group 6 Art
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Art Taipei
米芾的書畫世界 The Calligraphic World of Mi Fu's Art
Ca Final
Please study your topic thoroughly to include the world trend as your topic indicates. Do not
count on your script much. Please leave about 20 minutes for questions since we do not want
to collect questions but need the audience’s feedback. Each student is to raise at least one
question to either one of the two groups during the sessions. There is a questionnaire to be
filled out before you leave about the question you give to the presenters/debaters.
6/1
Group 2 Tourism A-- 84~90 Improve the colors of words in PPT.
What common features do you see in European countries for sightseeing?
How many tourists go to London a year?
I would like to see the Opera House in Sydney if possible. Ester loves Manly. If she could tell
us her experience there, it would be wonderful.
We can see the beautiful sceneries in Europe have close connection with water, sea, or lake.
Would you love to reside in a house near the park, lake, or by the sea?
Spending in each area, cultural tips, transportation are practical messages to the audience.
To run an industry in tourism, what should one care as important concepts? To create
recreational convenience while one also looks into sustainability in making a low impact on
the environment and local culture. It could be economical if people come and leave without
doing much harm to the place.
What kind of rules should we make to guide tourists from abroad including Mainland?
The Globalization, The International Tourism and Developing Countries
Tourists and tourism development affect almost every country. They produce impacts upon
communities, environments and economies, some of which are beneficial and others that can be a
cause of concern. At the same time, tourism is a source of immense enjoyment and pleasure for
hundreds of millions of people and creates contact and communication between peoples from different
regions and cultures.
With the effects of globalization, tourism sector has lived some changes in the marketing,
tourist profile and technology areas. As a result of these changes, new tourism concepts have
emerged like sustainable tourism, ecotourism, soft-tourism.
Sustainable tourism is an industry committed to making a low impact on the environment and
local culture, while helping to generate income and employment for local people. The aim of
sustainable tourism is to ensure that development is a positive experience for local people;
tourism companies; and tourists themselves. But sustainable tourism is not 'ecotourism'.
Taiwan Ecotourism Association
Ecotourism is travel to fragile, pristine, and usually protected areas that strives to be low impact
and (often) small scale. It helps educate the traveler; provides funds for conservation; directly
benefits the economic development and political empowerment of local communities; and fosters
respect for different cultures and for human rights. As defined by the co-founder of the Center for
Responsible Travel, Martha Honey, Ph.D., in her book Ecotourism and Sustainable Development,
Second Edition: Who Owns Paradise?. Most serious studies of ecotourism including several
University programs now use this as the working definition.
Generally speaking, ecotourism focuses on volunteering, personal growth and learning new
ways to live on the planet. It typically involves travel to destinations where flora, fauna and
cultural heritage are the primary attractions. To avoid inappropriate development,
sustainable or soft tourism has been promoted as an alternative development model.
Group 1 Pop Art A= 84~88 Beautiful pictures and unique, a definition of pop art with
representative artists and artwork. The selected objects are to be added to enrich this report.
See this site with news of Andy Warhol in Taipei.
There is a close connection between advertisement, mass products and pop arts. Do you
considered pop art aggressive, ironic, bold, practical and yet attractive? Are the pop art closer
to people in general?
I kept two pieces of bookmark made of magnet with the image of Marilyn Monroe and Van
Gogh. They look beautiful and practical.
Famous lines from advertisement
"Think And Grow Rich" from Napoleon Hill: "Every adversity, every failure and every
heartache brings with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit"
I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details.
Albert Einstein
'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
'I don't much care where --' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
'--so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an explanation.
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
M.K. Gandhi
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really
great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
1958 – 1975 Abbreviation of Popular Art, the Pop Art movement used common everyday
objects to portray elements of popular culture, primarily images in advertising and
television. The term Pop art was first used by English critic, Lawrence Alloway in 1958 in an
edition of Architectural Digest. He was describing all post-war work centered on
consumerism and materialism, and that rejected the psychological allusions of Abstract
Expressionism. An attempt to bring art back into American daily life, it rejected abstract
painting because of its sophisticated and elite nature. Pop Art shattered the divide between
the commercial arts and the fine arts.
Seriagraphy
Pop Art made commentary on contemporary society and culture, particularly consumerism,
by using popular images and icons and incorporating and re-defining them in the art world.
Often subjects were derived from advertising and product packaging, celebrities, and comic
strips. The images are presented with a combination of humor, criticism and irony. In doing
this, the movement put art into terms of everyday, contemporary life. It also helped to
decrease the gap between "high art" and "low art" and eliminated the distinction between
fine art and commercial art methods.
The movement inspired a later related style named Capitalist Realism, led by German artist
Gerhard Richter.
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1Advertising, as the early agency Lord and Thomas put it, is "salesmanship in print." It is just that
simple, just that complex. Understanding advertising entails understanding the difference between
personal and printed or broadcast communication; the differences entailed in the
"decontextualization" of thought and feeling that systems of mass communication make possible.
With the invention of writing in human history, anthropologist Jack Goody observes, "Speech is no
longer tied to an occasion: it becomes timeless. Nor is it attached to a person; on paper, it becomes
more abstract, more depersonalized."1 For Goody, this opens the way to science, to the growth of
criticism, and to a more tolerant attitude toward one's own frame of reference. But the same forces
that enable people to see themselves as individuals independent of social and traditional contexts
make people susceptible to the appeals of mass media, including advertising. ( project Muse)
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Group 4 Child Abuse and Corporal Punishment A= 86~88 Useful info. Only two speakers.
Who especially care about children being abused? Teachers, counselors in counseling
centers.
Do you see corporal punishment a must in child education?
Esther: can they cure the trauma completely?
Elaine: Yes, by counseling and education.
Jessie Ho: Maybe we should teach people to learn to forgive. Only by forgiveness may we get
a sense of relief. Without hatred, we feel free from the past feeling of guilt. Then, we can
pursue the new self. We may not know that parents sometimes feel that they may not
influence their own children much and begin to neglect their own children’s behaviors.
Emotional abuse is a kind of pressure on children to love and care family, not to become a
betrayal. Children might be choking to death in this emotional need for unity. Sexual abuse
happens when there are chances for parishioners and teachers to get near to young people.
the physical or psychological/emotional mistreatment of children.
neglect, physical abuse, psychological/emotional abuse, and sexual abuse.
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Group 5 Travel Watch A= 80~88 Useful info. Pronunciation: sheep, beautify,
symbolize, bureau, tidal, Taoism, diving
Irene is rare speaker who writes her own script. Though she did not go on that trip, it
sounds like she was with them. It is much like journalistic writing rather than an
account of a trip because the verb tenses indicate a factual account rather than a real
trip.
The Globalization, The International Tourism and Developing Countries
The world’s top tourism spender during 1998 was by far the European Union, with an over
US$ 160 billion. The most important spenders among its members were Germany (2nd
world ranking), US$ 46.9 billion; the United Kingdom (4th), US$ 28.8 billion; France (5th),
US$ 17.8 billion; Italy (6th), US$ 17.7; and Netherlands (7th), US$ 11.0 billion. The other
members’ expenses during the same year ranged between US$ 8.8 and 1.8 billion. During the
same year, the United States (1st in world ranking by individual countries) spent US$ 56.1
billion; Japan (3rd), 28.8 billion; Canada (8th) US$ 10.8 billion; China (9th), US$ 9.2
billion; Russian Federation (13th) US$ 8.3 billion; Switzerland (14th), US$ 7.1 billion; and
Australia, US$ 5.4 billion. Also during the same year 45 countries reported more that US$ 1
billion in international tourism expenditure.
Tourism Economics
which countries are linked economically in world tourism and, more
importantly, analyses the structure of this linkage.
UK and Third World tourism UK's investment in international tourism, the hotel industry, tour operators,
and the role of British aid in developing tourism in certain Third World countries. examines more general
economic problems and social and cultural effects linked to the development of tourism. By the late 1970s,
many studies had revealed that tourism was no panacea for development, and the economic benefits it was
assumed to bring to developing countries were questioned. In the 1980s, this interdisciplinarian interest was
narrowed down to a concern with environmental conservation and the preservation of local cultures. This
change is linked to a growing interest in western societies in environmental/regionalist concerns and to the
emergence of an 'ecological/cultural' aspect of the tourist market. It also accompanies recent changes in the
style and structure of mass tourism to developing countries. The report shows how far tourist developments
affect many other projects and programmes aimed at helping Third World communities.
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Group 3
H1N1 B+ 86There are introduction to the virus and symptoms and how to avoid
getting the flu.
Swine Flu and You
If you were Yeh Jin-chuan, the Health Minister, what would you do to regulate for reducing
and preventing of the swine flu to spread in Taiwan?
Why are we afraid of flu? What do we do to prevent the epidemic from affecting us?
What is H1N1 (swine flu)?
Why is this new H1N1 virus sometimes called “swine flu”?
Are there human infections with this H1N1 virus in the U.S.?
Is this new H1N1 virus contagious?
What are the signs and symptoms of this virus in people?
How severe is illness associated with this novel H1N1 flu virus?
How does novel H1N1 flu compare to seasonal flu in terms of its severity and infection rates?
Compare the H1N1 and SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).
F&Q
Group 6 Youtube Broadcast Yourself B++83~87 Improve a lot and an interesting job
What are the kind of videos you like? You Tube XL is the new You Tube to bring in TV to the
viewers. What are the differences in techniques? Are the coca cola show merely fun or for ads?
The use of You Tube being criticized for porn, violence, violate copy-rights, etc. are there
regulations for it? What do you think about taking something from someone to do something
creative and share it with others?
Do you use You Tube much? How do you see the quality of the videos uploaded?
wiki wiki company Google bought You Tube
Google To Acquire YouTube for $1.65
Billion in Stock
The acquisition combines one of the largest and fastest growing online video entertainment
communities with Google's expertise in organizing information and creating new models for advertising
on the Internet. The combined companies will focus on providing a better, more comprehensive
experience for users interested in uploading, watching and sharing videos, and will offer new
opportunities for professional content owners to distribute their work to reach a vast new audience.
The YouTube team has built an exciting and powerful media platform that complements Google's mission to organize
the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," said Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of
Google. "Our companies share similar values; we both always put our users first and are committed to innovating to
improve their experience. Together, we are natural partners to offer a compelling media entertainment service to users,
content owners and advertisers."
"Our community has played a vital role in changing the way that people consume media, creating a
new clip culture. By joining forces with Google, we can benefit from its global reach and technology
leadership to deliver a more comprehensive entertainment experience for our users and to create new
opportunities for our partners," said Chad Hurley, CEO and Co-Founder of YouTube. "I'm confident
that with this partnership we'll have the flexibility and resources needed to pursue our goal of building
the next-generation platform for serving media worldwide."
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Please study your topic thoroughly to include the world trend as your topic indicates. Do not
count on your script much. Please leave about 20 minutes for questions since we do not want
to collect questions but need the audience’s feedback. Each student is to raise at least one
question to either one of the two groups during the sessions. There is a questionnaire to be
filled out before you leave about the question you give to the presenters/debaters.
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Group 3 The Influence of Civilization A=86~89
This topic probed into issues such as natural ecology, human cloning, and genetically
modified organism and nuclear power since civilization brings in both good and bad effects.
They examined the view that traditional societies lived in greater harmony with nature and
supported the sustainable living movement to push humans to regain that harmony with
nature.
(a good introduction)
Global warming is caused by the use of fossil fuel and deforestation. How can we reduce the
problem? Polar bears are a sign to global warming.
GM food can appear in our daily life. How can we avoid getting into GM food? Are there really
80% of soy bean coming from U.S.? Are all imported soy bean genetically modified?
Are you in or against human cloning?
Have you heard of Chernobyl disasters?
What can we do with the problems of global warming, pollution and extinction of species
which technology brings along?
I thought you are going to talk about how civilization influences the world on the bright side.
(A broad topic needed to be narrowed down)
***Western culture, ***Eastern World, *** The influence and enlightenment of
Confucian cultural education on modern European civilization, The Influence of
Christianity on Western Civilization, "Persian Influence on Islamic Civilization", The
influence of islamic civilization on european civilization during the renaissance period,
The Influence of the Ancient Egyptian Civilization on Modern Society, Under
the Influence: How Christianity Transformed Civilization, Artificial Light: Its Influence
upon Civilization, Women's Influence on Classical Civilization, THE INFLUENCE OF
THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN CIVILIZATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN CULTURES,
Scotland's Influence on Civilization, ***The influence of ancient Greece on Western
Civilization,etc.
Tiffany -- National Flags , flag background , B 82 Selected flags to introduce. Mind the use of
words.
Importance of a national flag: Red stands fir the joy of freedom and independence (not
independent). The word totem is introduced in a sentence: There is a totem with sun, moon
and fire in Mongolian national flag. These four little stars represent worker, farmer, literate
class and middle class.
Group 2 Cinema B++ 85 The title could be modified to fit the talk about the movies—The
Pianist, I am David, Life Is Beautiful and The Reader. This kind of talk might come with the
overview, synopsis, but we the audience might not see your analysis on some of the
characters and their actions. However, we still can see your intention in bringing out the
common thread of these films; that is, to show how German Concentration Camps had
harmed the people who were prosecuted. The music is sweet, calm, a contrast to the cruel
real world. Mankind’s soul deserves such kind of comfort in company especially at the time of
hardships. There should be some one who can open with a reason you chose these films and
end with what you have found in the conclusion.
Cinimax 又称 Max，是一个专门播放电影的有线电视网络，客户需订购才可收看。Cinemax
为 HBO 集团
The Database of Taiwan Cinema
Interviews
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Group 6 Green Building A- 84~89 No reference. A connection with sustainability of environment
is creative in application of green building concepts, designs, benefits, advantage and
disadvantage, Tadao Ando a Japanese Architect. Ironically, it seems to be something we can
not reach for in life because of the cost of it. Well, can we do it in a simple way, to just get close
to nature? Why is such kind of building expensive?
, also called "sustainable or "high-performance" building, means having a significantly reduced impact
on the Earth's resources compared to conventional building.
Taiwan Green Building Council
Group 5 Animation B++79~89 There should be one to coordinate all the animations you
brought up. What common features do you see in the characters you introduced? What can
you do in animation industry? Can we connect teaching with animation? I found Megan
become professional in reporting. Charlie the Unicorn is very interesting. One of them speaks
in a way a mother says to her own child. A lot of repetition is used to emphasize the words. So
much more can be explored about the use of animation and its influence on life and education
not to mention art.
Animation for education BBC ESL Web
Teaching with Animation guide computer assisted learning (CAL)
Animation teaching kit
Computer animation Computer Animation: A Literature Survey.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=37401.37405
A muscle model for animation three-dimensional facial expression
Abstract
The development of a parameterized facial muscle process, that incorporates the use of a model to create realistic facial
animation is described. Existing methods of facial parameterization have the inherent problem of hard-wiring performable
actions. The development of a muscle process that is controllable by a limited number of parameters and is non-specific to
facial topology allows a richer vocabulary and a more general approach to the modeling of the primary facial expressions. A
brief discussion of facial structure is given, from which a method for a simple modeling of a muscle process that is suitable
for the animation of a number of divergent facial types is described.
The Instructive Animation: Helping Students Build Connections between Words and
Pictures in Multimedia Learning. (ERIC)
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Group 4 Current News A= 88 Erica: Speech by Premier Liu Chao-shiuan 3 concepts on
change, challenge, chance; late marriage because of financial shortage; Cynthia: Contact
lenses and LASIK with eye problems (contact lenses inserted into eyes sounds better); Star
worked on H1N1 in Asia; Tata introduced Air France jet crashes in Atlantic; Nina called for the
ways people see leaders like Roh Moo-hyun.
The way we adopt news helps us learn some expressions like “put somebody in quarantine”,
vaccinated, Graft inquiry, drywall products” and so forth. Correct pronunciation should be
taken care of before presenting. Learning to put up news stories on air is another way to learn
good broadcasting.
Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday that "everyone guessed wrong" on the impact of the
economic stimulus, but he defended the administration's spending designed to combat
rising joblessness.
The White House has tapped Biden as its chief spokesman on that economic stimulus plan,
sending him across the country to drum up support for a plan that has yet to make the
impact it promised. On Thursday and Friday, Biden visited Pennsylvania, Kansas and
Michigan to highlight projects the stimulus has funded.
(CNN) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel could accept a
peace agreement with a "demilitarized Palestinian state" as its neighbor.
In his first speech accepting the concept of a two-state solution for the Middle East conflict,
Netanyahu set rigid conditions for moving forward. Among them: unequivocal Palestinian
recognition of Israel as the Jewish national state with Jerusalem as its capital, and full
demilitarization for a Palestinian state -- no army, no rockets or missiles, no control of
airspace.
"I say this in a clear voice -- if we receive a guarantee of this demilitarized unit, we will be
prepared to reach agreement to a demilitarized Palestine side by side with the Jewish state,"
Analysis of Public Servants Manpower(Executive Yuan and Subordinate Administrative Agencies
and Schools,2009 1nd Quarter) (Central Personnel Administration)
On Global Warming ABC News
Gas mileage, decreasing number of cars, fuel economy,
spend less on gasoline. Greening the economy.
RECENT WARMING OF ARCTIC MAY AFFECT WORLDWIDE CLIMATE - Recently
observed change in
Arctic temperatures and sea ice cover may be a harbinger of global climate changes to come,
according to a recent NASA study. Satellite data -- the unique view from space -- are
allowing researchers to more clearly see Arctic changes and develop an improved
understanding of the possible effect on climate worldwide.
What current news do you want to talk about?
Group 1M-Shape Society B+ 85 No script for me before presenting. Improved in presenting in
content and the interesting topic.
In a well-developed modern society, the distribution of classes is in a 'normal distribution' pattern,
and the middle class forms the bulk of the society. A very few people in this middle class may
climb up the ladder and squeeze into the upper class, while the others in the middle class gradually
sank to the lower classes.
However, in the emergence of the 'M-shape society', the middle class in the society gradually
disappeared. What was worse, the upward social ladder seems to have disappeared - opportunities
and fair competition become fewer and fewer. People in the lower class can no longer climb up the
ladder: they cannot earn a high-paid job or have stable employment, even if they have a high level
of education. The places in the upper class were reserved by the upper class for their descendants.
In Hong Kong, there are scholars, intellectuals and social-scientists arguing whether the conditions
of Hong Kong fits the notion Ohmae put forward: e.g. diminishing social mobility and upward
social ladder, the general income-decline and threat of unemployment of the middle-classes, the
change of competition rules for social advancement (such as pursuit for better schools) in which
status advancement is no longer based on merits or achievements, but on other certain criteria such
as family wealth or background. The lives of the lower classes seem more miserable than the past
even when there is still economic progress and rise in the GDP. It has become a concern for the
government as the income gap between the lower classes and the upper classes has been widening
in recent years.
Read this chapter: SMEs in the M-shaped Society
Read Taipei Times TSU needs to change image, values By Huang Kun-huei 黃昆輝
An M-shaped society is one in which incomes are concentrated at two extremes and the middle
class dwindles.
M-Shaped Taiwan Income
Meanwhile the mean income of the 700,000 households with the highest income went
from NT$1,621,747 to NT$1,741660 from year 2000 to year 2006. Thus, their mean
current income is over NT$145,000 per month.
The M-shaped society is a reference to a society where the income curve has two peaks,
one in the lower middle class, and one at the top, a trend noticeable in many industrial
societies. Note that the DGBAS (stats page) data show that Taiwan's poorest households
actually lost roughly 40% of their income since 2000.
In this M-shape society how can a university graduate make its way up to a higher class?
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