Advanced English
Unit One: Section A
Tasks for This Class
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Get the background information
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Have a analysis of the organization
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of
legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical
concepts...A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of
every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light
ranged in the non-space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data.
Like city lights, receding…”
--William Gibson, Neuromancer
Hacker
Old School Hackers
Script Kiddies, or Cyber-Punks
Professional Criminals, or Crackers
Coders and Virus Writers
IP Spoofing
occurs when an attacker disguises his/her originating
host server or router as that of another host or router.
Understanding the Organization
an account or a recital of an event or a
Story
series of events, either true or fictitious.
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consciously made
definite formal development
a firmness in construction
unity in plot, theme, character, tone, mood,
even, occasionally, in style
get closer to story
point of view
 character
 plot
 structure
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Point of view
the voice and vision through which the
events of a story reach the reader
 Two main kinds
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 narrator as a participant (writing in the
first person)
 narrator as a nonparticipant (writing in the
third person)
Characters
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Protagonist
the chief character who strives in a story
Antagonist
the character who is directly opposed to
the protagonist
Characters
Tsutomu Shimomura
Kevin Mitnick
vs.
Plot
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an order of events in a story, the
emphasis falling on causality
Time
 Place
 Character
 Background
 Conflict
 Crisis
 Resolution
Conflict
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The struggle which grows out of the
interplay of the two opposing forces in
a plot.
 Essential patterns of conflict
 character against character
 character against society
 character vs. some material force
 character vs. some supernatural entity
Crisis and Denouement
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Crisis is the point at which the opposing
forces that create the conflict interlock
in the decisive action on which the plot
will turn.
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Denouement is the final unraveling of
the plot.
Structure
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While plot tends to move the reader
along, structure tends to delay the
movement so as to make him pause to
reflect.
Understanding the story
How do you deal
with the text?
The first section
conflict
man versus man
main characters
the narrator and the hacker
background information
a. someone broke into the narrator’s computers.
b. The log file summaries were stolen
c someone was challenging the narrator.
d. the narrator was going to take action.
The second section
Measures I took
--- put digitized phone messages on the Internet as
a bait
--- keep in touch with FBI
--- set up monitoring system
Compare and Contrast
---- in common
a fascination with computers
---- in discrepancy write technical programs
for company
sentenced to prison
The third section
How did the man get caught
---- monitor from NETCOM
---- found he was logging on
---- reported to FBI
The fourth section
The result of the duel.
---- My first face-to-face meeting with my opponent
Review the Internet Security Issue
Online Reading
Read the articles “the Online World”
and “the Hacking”.