Thursday, September 22, 2011

Romantic and Electronic Stalking

The details:
   Benefit 
 For man and women: convenient to discussion forums devoted to meeting a mate by online
 Online romance can be accomplanied by or lead to online stalking.
 Technlogy : make electronic stalking is more sophisticated.
   Cause harm:
For woman: be a hostile place for women, because female abuse can be found everywhere in Internet
 Implied main idea:
Romantic and Electronic Stalking help people easy to be friends, but it should be control by company, because of the benefit of women.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

W4 Vocab blog

Primitive:
(1)    Primitive art:  a genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists
(2)    Primitive life: belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and crudeness
(3)    Primitive people: belongs to an early stage of civilization
(4)    Primitive sculpture: of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
(5)    Primitive man:  being or occurring at an early stage of development; "in an early stage"; "
(6)    What does “primitive” mean in the five phrases mentioned above.
relating to human society at a very early stage of development, with people living in a simple way without machines or a writing system


(7) +: Yes
      -: No
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Primitive + N.
Positive
Neutral
Negative
Primitive art
           +
    -
      -
Primitive life
           -
    +
      -
Primitive people
           -
    -
     +
Primitive sculpture
           +
    -
     -
Primitive man
           -
   +
     -

Primarily: 
(1)    What does “primarily” mean in the article. You may want to refer to the article to decide what it means.
      
         It can means that mainly or  something in the first place... But in the article, it means " something in the first place, or in the beginning of something


(2)    Find a synonym of “primarily”.
         in the first place chiefly principally mainly in the main

(3)    “Primary” is the adjective of “primarily”. One of its meanings is “happening first”. Compare “primary” and “primitive”. Do you think the two adjectives have the same meaning in this sense? Why?
 
Primary:most important element, or happening first.
      Primitive: of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style, belonging to an early stage of technical development
    In the article, 2 adjectives have different meaning.
    1802,Humphry Davy was primitively invented the light bulb.
    1955, Vietnamese primarily used the light bulb instead of candle.
  

Saturday, September 10, 2011

W3 Vocabulary in Ch2


Feature (n)

  1. 1.     What does “feature” mean in the article?
  2.                   A typical quality or an important part of something
  3. 2.     “Feature” can be a verb. What does it mean?
  4.                   To include someone or something as an important part
  5.                   To make a prominent
  6.                   


3.     Make a sentence of “feature” as a verb.
The Birds's film features Tippi Hedren as a young wealthy socialite.
The new school features the most famous teachers.
4.     Find a synonym and an antonym of “feature” as a verb.
Synonym: accentuate, advertise
Antonym: disregard, ignore, lack.
Perspective

1.     What is the part of speech of “perspective”?
It's noun.

2.     What does “perspective” mean in the article?
View

3.     Find a synonym of “perspective”.
Overview,angle,aspect.

4.     Make a sentence of “perspective”.
The Bird's film introduce California perspectives.


5.     Read the following text from Journal of Environmental Health and think what “put…in perspective” means.

People tend to view factors that are beyond their control, such as pesticides on their food, as more menacing than known risks that they can control, such as smoking. In addition, most people find it difficult to place environmental risks in perspective, especially when the risk is relatively low. Clear communication and education are vital to help the public recognize the hazards, put them in perspective, and learn what can be done to reduce the risk to health.

I think it means to help people know more about danger of their health, so they can control their habit to reduce the risk of health.

Unique

1, What does “unique” mean in the article?

2. Make a sentence of “unique”.
My hand book is unique, because it was made by my best friend.

3. Find a synonym and an antonym of “unique”.
Synonym: uncommon, only, singular
Antonym: common, normal, usual.

4. What is the noun form of “unique”?
Uniqueness