Analysis
Logic and Specificity
Logic 1: Online Newspapers vs.
traditional ones
In terms of quickness, internet news
can be shallow or incomplete.
 Besides, looking around you will find
lots of people reading newspapers
everywhere, anytime. I think this
phenomenon has been a culture, which
can’t be taken off easily.
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Logic 2: Japanese soap opera
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However, for every Japanese soap
opera, there will only be ten to twelve
episodes. This meets the need of
quickness of modern people
Logic 3: Japanese soap opera
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(variety in casting or suitability?)
. . . unlike Taiwanese soap operas, where we
often see the same faces performing in
similar roles. Some of them even have to
play roles over their ages. Japanese soap
operas are belonging to idol operas, so most
of them are created for actors or actress who
play by the playwright.
Logic 4: MP 3
Also, it[mp3] can be regarded as a new
form of the media which can help
deliver good music. But the record
companies didn’t know how to handle
with it, so they just want to stop it
without knowing that MP3 could bring
great benefit for the music industry.
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the example of Napster
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Logic 5: MP 3
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But with the coming of MP3, the cost of
packaging, distribution and retails will be
reduced. Therefore, the price of getting good
music will only become cheaper.
Will this really work for everyone? Say, those
who see singers as idols? Can CD’s be
replaced?
So it’s really foolish to relate MP3 with
pirated album sold at night market or catch
some students to stop MP3. What people
should do is to quickly make a law on MP3.
Logic 6: Japanese soap opera
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Japanese soap operas are greatly
meaningful by displaying various
subject matters including people’s
feelings, problems on jobs, and different
lifestyles. No wonder Japanese soap
operas are so popular in Taiwan
because they enable (who?) to cross
the nations and go deep into the
audiences’ heart.
Speficity1: Japanese soap
opera
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Taiwanese soap opera tend to use the same
plot with only some mere changes, such as
time or characters. For instance, the recent
trend is to talk about family moral
relationships and at least two generations are
involved.
They are bold to give it a try and discover
new talents of different actors and actresses.
Speficity1: Japanese soap
opera (2)
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As 赤名莉香 wears her smiling
countenance, yelling out the name “完
治”, numerous people can’t help
having crush on the actress 鈴木保奈美.
As 木村拓哉 grievously stares at 常盤貴
子’s dead body, telling his great
affections, it also touches myriad people
to simultaneously burst into tears.
Speficity1: Japanese soap
opera (3)
Examples of creative stories
 魔女的條件 -- the female teacher falls in
love with her student who is only
seventeen years old,
 “兩千年之戀”, an ordinary girl is drawn
into fatal dangers owing to falling in love
with an mysterious assassin
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Speficity1: Japanese soap
opera (4)
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The dialogue in Japanese soap operas
is common and actual, unlike those odd
and immutable sayings or principles in
Taiwanese ones such as “I’m pregnant”
with the response of ”Are you sure the
baby is mine?” or “你走! 現在就走! 否則
我死給你看!”
Speficity1: Japanese soap
opera (5)
Endings: “美麗人生” and “神啊! 請給
我多點時間!”
 Educational: “Long Vacation”
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Speficity2: Japanese snacks
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The cookies and candies are packed in
bright colorful packs with artistic design,
which are like works of art and are able to
catch the customers’ eyes. Plastic art is
played into full play on the design of the
snacks. They are turned to different kinds of
animals, flowers, and shapes, which increase
the amusement for the customers. For
instance, the cocoa is put in a tube which
looks like toothpaste, and it is more
convenient and interesting to use.
Speficity2: Japanese snacks
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. . . This somehow shows that
nowadays customers pay more and
more attention to art design, and they
are even willing to pay more on enjoying
the decoration of the snacks.
Speficity2: Japanese snacks
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Sometimes they use materials, which
are nutritious and helpful for human
bodies, such as nuts, dried laver, milk,
brown sugar and green tea, while most
of the Taiwanese snacks are made with
heavy sugar, salt, monosodium
glutamate, and man-made fragrance.
Speficity3: ICQ
Its wide-ranging users
 You will not chat with people refined to
a certain group or place, instead, you
will get to know more about the world.
And the diverse functions of ICQ are so
fascinating that sometimes I just get
on-line and do all the things without
opening any other window! .
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Speficity4: ICQ
Its usage, an example
 “Can you give me your home address
so that I can send you some postcards
that I bought in N.Y.?” “Sure! But it’s a
little bit long and I don’t have a pen
now.” “Then why don’t you send a
message of your address through ICQ?”
“That will be great!”
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Speficity and logic 1:
Extramarital relationships or
divorce
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Causes:
Dissatisfaction
Self-fulfillment
Some writer regards extramarital affair as
cancer; no one knows if his marriage will be
invaded by cancer or not. However, after
analyze the reasons of extramarital affairs,
how can we blame people for their infidelity?
Logic & Speficity2: Japanese
soap opera
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Sometimes, what pressure those
procurators meet also reflect darkness
in the Bar. Japanese soap operas
supply many subjects for audiences,
and most of them let audiences get
something useful and positive.
Language
First is about information they
provide. . .
 Second is reading habit.
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