Globalization is a progress used to describe the developing of the economy and the culture. It has sparked the amazing change of the past decade. This is as a result of improvement in technology and communication and the influence of people’s experience of everyday life all over the world.
Supporters point to better products are more effective to produce and therefore cheaper for everyone. Many poor counties have benefited from investment under the globalization. It means a faster rate of development for the whole world. Indeed it also connects people by means of communication and offers them opportunities for travel work and education.
Critics of globalization have argued that the process benefits the rich nations, who control prices, who influence the economies. It has exploited people in developing countries, caused massive disruptions to their lives and produced few benefits in return. It simply means sweatshops in poor countries so that rich countries can have cheap goods. It will lead to widen the gap between rich and poor.
In my opinion, globalization makes the world as a smaller place than before. People are now much easier to communicate with others who live in different countries. So globalization has also greatly influenced local cultures and traditions. However, it is only good for those who are already economically strong. There is a lot of inequality involved in globalization and the desire for cheaper products. It also causes the destruction of natural resources and the environment.
Thursday, 3 September 2009
Sunday, 23 August 2009
Culture shock 2
Today I receive a letter from Lloyds TSB bank. It makes me funny and annoying. This is really ridiculous.
A month ago, I opened an account at Lloyds TSB bank. Their service was really good with sunshine smiling. Everything went smoothly. So I went to home and waited for receiving my bank card.Two days later, I got my one bank card of the saving account. The fact is contrary that the British people are inefficiency of which I used to heart. I wish I would get my Debit card quickly.
Things always go athwart. After one month, I had not obtained my card. In this month, I had received four letters from Royal Mail. It required me to arrange a delivery for the Debit card on the internet. The first time, I booked on the internet seriously, but I did not acquire the card. After a few days, I received the second letter from Royal Mail. I did this again with patience. But when I received the fourth letter, I was very anger. Why did you just send me a letter not a bank card? So I contrast to the bank. Of course, with the warm words, they said I could get my card at the bank directly, but I need booking!
Finally, I got my card after a week of arrangement. I have used it for over one week. Today I receive a letter from bank. It says: your card is at the bank now. When you have a chance, please drop in and pick it up! This is really ridiculous. I realize that the British people are really inefficiency.
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Culture shock
I have been in London over 8 weeks. Instead of the honeymoon stage, I am in the fatigue life stage. Compared with the first week, I am no more looking around and observed people when walking in the street or on the bus, just keeping walking as quickly as possible to save times or having a nap on the bus to grab some shut-eye.
I change my life style to adapt to new environment. Now I am accustomed to eat cheers and pizza, to listen British music and radio, to understand the way of pronunciation by British people. It is not difficult for me to be used to the life in London. But it is a challenge to study in adaptation of the education system in the UK.
Students who are studying in UK need to do presentation frequently. But it is almost impossible to do this in the education system of Chinese. In the UK, students spent most of time on discussion with classmates or on doing reference and research in library, as we are now doing presentation and report. In contrast, Chinese students are more dependent on teachers.
In my opinion, I tend to study by yourself independently rather than didactic teaching. Although it is easy to understand the meaning of the new knowledge by didactic teaching, the creative idea may be limited and even killed. It is the passive influence in a creative way, especially in the area of design.
I change my life style to adapt to new environment. Now I am accustomed to eat cheers and pizza, to listen British music and radio, to understand the way of pronunciation by British people. It is not difficult for me to be used to the life in London. But it is a challenge to study in adaptation of the education system in the UK.
Students who are studying in UK need to do presentation frequently. But it is almost impossible to do this in the education system of Chinese. In the UK, students spent most of time on discussion with classmates or on doing reference and research in library, as we are now doing presentation and report. In contrast, Chinese students are more dependent on teachers.
In my opinion, I tend to study by yourself independently rather than didactic teaching. Although it is easy to understand the meaning of the new knowledge by didactic teaching, the creative idea may be limited and even killed. It is the passive influence in a creative way, especially in the area of design.
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Activity one (Five steps to effective paraphrasing )
Paraphrase
At present, architects and engineers are impossible to give up exploring the tallest building of the world such as the Sears Tower which is the perfect consummation in skyscraper engineering demonstrably. It shows a problem of the limited height of a building. According to architect Robert Sobel saying that the building could achieve 500-story by existing technology, a building has be designed as high as the Sears Tower by structural engineer named William LeMessurier.
Original
While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper engineering so far, it’s unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned the quest for the world’s tallest building. The question is ‘just how high can a building go?’ structural engineer William LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper nearly one-half mile high, twice as tall as the Sears Tower. And architect Robert Sobel claims that existing technology could produce a 500-story building.
Bachman, R. (1990:15) Reaching for the sky Dial
At present, architects and engineers are impossible to give up exploring the tallest building of the world such as the Sears Tower which is the perfect consummation in skyscraper engineering demonstrably. It shows a problem of the limited height of a building. According to architect Robert Sobel saying that the building could achieve 500-story by existing technology, a building has be designed as high as the Sears Tower by structural engineer named William LeMessurier.
Original
While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper engineering so far, it’s unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned the quest for the world’s tallest building. The question is ‘just how high can a building go?’ structural engineer William LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper nearly one-half mile high, twice as tall as the Sears Tower. And architect Robert Sobel claims that existing technology could produce a 500-story building.
Bachman, R. (1990:15) Reaching for the sky Dial
Sunday, 26 July 2009
Ways of Seeing
In our urban world, we are surrounding by images of alternative way of life. No matter what we are rich or poor, we have to spend on money. Publicity gives us transformation by people who are power being transform and as a result enviable. This state of being envied constituted glamour. Publicity is a process of manufactory glamour. Without social envy, glamour can not exist. Glamour is new, because society is changes.
Oil painting and publicity image has much in common. They used many same references, celebrate same quality things, share same ideals. But the purpose and fact are much different. The oil painting began with facts of anther’s life. In contrast, publicity builds a life way that we aspire to or think way we aspire to, but it has not yet achieved. We can achieve such radiant if we have money. Publicity give us both promise and threatens. It suggests inadequate as you are and consoles you with promise of your dream. Behind the dream, there is an interminable and monotonous working line.
Here are three dreams: the dream of later tonight; the skin dream; far away place dream. Publicity works on the imagination, but it does something else too.
Publicity is neutral, just an objects, until have to been made glamour.
Between each page, there is such fissure disconnection and incoherence. Culture is mad. There is no communication between the two worlds. But they contrast beyond the understanding. Our own needs are the real connection between publicity of dreams and their life. Finally, production is judged by your experiences.
Oil painting and publicity image has much in common. They used many same references, celebrate same quality things, share same ideals. But the purpose and fact are much different. The oil painting began with facts of anther’s life. In contrast, publicity builds a life way that we aspire to or think way we aspire to, but it has not yet achieved. We can achieve such radiant if we have money. Publicity give us both promise and threatens. It suggests inadequate as you are and consoles you with promise of your dream. Behind the dream, there is an interminable and monotonous working line.
Here are three dreams: the dream of later tonight; the skin dream; far away place dream. Publicity works on the imagination, but it does something else too.
Publicity is neutral, just an objects, until have to been made glamour.
Between each page, there is such fissure disconnection and incoherence. Culture is mad. There is no communication between the two worlds. But they contrast beyond the understanding. Our own needs are the real connection between publicity of dreams and their life. Finally, production is judged by your experiences.
Thursday, 23 July 2009
Higher Education
Higher education can be defined as the process in which students receive practical training for specific area in the university. Each country in the world has developed a system of higher education based on its needs, economic resources and traditions. Traditional culture has significant influence for economic expanding in both developed and developing nations. In recent years, the course of liberal Arts, especially traditional disciplines such as geography and history, has become popular in Britain. Only the higher education in geography and history will be dealt with, as they are chosen by more students graduated in secondary school. An assessment will first be made of the academic position of geography and history in resent years and then an explanation of will be provided for the degree of impact to the economy.
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Academic Arguments
When comes to the academic argument, it is completely different with our everyday English as we known. According to the way of learning stuff about academic arguments, the main points are as follows. The definition of argument in academic writing is opinion add support. The argument was present by means of an opinion given by author and supported by any facts or reasons that help the reader to agree with it. An opinion must be a statement, opposed to “facts”, which may be conflict by some person. For example, the Berlin Wall was pulled down in 1990. Its removal has come to symbolize the break-up of the old Soviet Empire. The former sentence is a fact, and the latter is an opinion. Because the fact is supported within a message, then the whole message is an explanation. If the message continually indicates that people’s live, ideological and social changes in charge of the new government, show some evidences to support the opinion, it will be an argument. Finally, the position of the opinion before the support is recommended in academic writing.
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