Final Essay Assignment:What did you learn about writing this semester?

 Wanyi Li   

 12/04/14

 ENG101  

 Professor Alexander

What did you learn about writing this semester?

          This is the first time that I study in College and have College courses. During the whole semester, I have many challenges, and I also learn a lot. Fortunately, I'm honored to meet my first writing professor: Chris Alexander. He was very patient with me, even if sometimes I can't understand what he said, he always explains on the other way which was easy to me to understand. I appreciate him very much.

I have many challenges in this class. First of all, Writing is a really important skill in College courses, but I am not good at writing. For example, the first article on real significance is “The Park”. The professor Chris required us to describe three persons and one animal. The focus is to express each character's details. The description of details needs subtle observation and accurate description. Unfortunately, this is my shortcomings. A lot of tiny places I have found them out but it were difficult to me to describe them. And I also don't know how to organize my language. So that finally, I have a really low score. If it was any disappointment but I know it was probably temporary. I need to improve myself and change my way of thinking. After writing, the Professor Alexander teaches us how to change grammar in other ways, and he also makes many cases to guide us in writing. I start to find other ways to describe one thing. Its help me a lot. In addition, our Professor likes to let us make a group to discuss the problems which he asked. And we also change the essay with each other to find out the shortcomings of others. Here I have to introduce my new friend who was sitting beside me——Catherine. She is a warm-hearted and sensible girl. When I ran into trouble, she always helps me to solve the problem in patience. I think if I study without her, I will lose much information in the class. And she is very important to me, some time I meet some difficulties and want to give up, she always encourages me: “you can do it!” It let me have the courage to face the difficulty. I am so proud of that I meet her and we are good friend.

Then the next challenge comes: “the yellow wall-paper”. This is a horrible novel; we were required to write a comment for one of paragraph in this story. I choose a paragraph which was one of the most obvious features of the yellow wall-paper, but it was not very long. Thus, I need to discover a lot of very fine details. I think it's a good chance to improve my observation ability. I try to explain one feature in many ways and with a lot of point of my own view. And I also try to analyze what the author thinks about. It’s really funny because I start to imagine that if I was the author or the major character. I was so surprise that I really found a lot of details and describe them easily. It let me find the direction of writing. Of course, I still have many problems, but if I solve a little every day, I guess there will be prefect one day.

In my opinion, the secret of writing is to discover the details of things. The most successful detail description will let people relate to this picture in their mind. Of course, the way of description is also important. More detail is not worth a precise expression. So I have to learn more vocabulary to make up my lack of ability of expression.

All in all, I have a great semester in LaGuardia Community College. I hope in next semester, I will have more obvious progress. And I am looking for the next semester and meet more new friends. In my opinion, English 102 will be more difficult, but I will try my best to do that!

Friendship bond

                                                               Friendship bond

As the saying goes: "friendship everlasting". However, why people regard as important as friendship? 
In this paragraph, the author think the friendship bond is not defined or controlled by law, and it is not depended on money, it builds feelings of warmth and love between two people. According to the history about human, human are social animals. This characteristic determined that human have to cooperate with each other. At that times, human need to work with their partners to catch other animals. So they need to have help each other. It is really easy to improve the connection of group. It just like the author said: " the two most important building blocks of friendship are trust and acceptance".
People always want to have a friend who was "trust" and "honest", the author think a close friendship depended on loyalty and keep secrets. A good friend not only keep honest to you, he/she also need to "supports you", and "understands you". Nobody likes a friend who betrayed them. It is very seriously.  Human is very sensitive. A number of human have a strong emotion. For example, some people easy to cry when they see a bad-ending movie even this story may be imaged. In this reason, many people can't accept that their friends lied them. It makes them disappointed and broken their heart. Then they will ended a friendship.
How can people have a trust friendship? The author think both you and your friend must be open with trust one another for relationship. It means that you and your friend must put your real heart in this relationship, not only you or your friend. In my opinion, the friendship is fair, you will return how much you have paid.
In general, friendship is one of the most important resource in people's live. Never try to break it and become deeper with your friend.

Research Assignment: The ant (essay)

The ant is a kind of common insect. People were easy to find it in everywhere, under the soil, on the leaves, or just on the road. They are too tiny just 0.5cm-2.5cm length. And they also have colors like red, black, white and yellow. The ant has three part of body: the head, the chest, and the abdomen. They have six legs and two antennas on their head. Some ants have wings, but most ants haven't. The ant is a omnivorous insects, they never particular about food. The body of animals or insects, the seed, human’s food, includes the wood. It’s difficult to find out which kind of food they don't eat. In general, there are queens, females, males, and workers. Every ant family only has one queen, she in charge of lay eggs. The female ants have a chance to become a new queen. And the male ants have to protect the queen and to reproduce. These three kinds of ant's quantity just a little, a large number of ant is the worker. The main responsibilities of workers are to build and expand the nest, gather food, feed larvae and the queen. Ant's life is very long, worker can survive for several weeks to 3-10 years, the queen can survive for over 10 years, or even 100 years. A nest can be 1 to 10 years of growth in 1 place.     

          According to the mechanics determination, an ant can lift 400 times more than its own weight of things, but also can haul the object more than its own weight of 1700 times, although they are tiny, they can move any big things if they want. Fortunately, Most ants home is in the below ground, so that they can't effect human's live.

 Ant is a typical social group. The ant groups just like a army, each of ant has their own work, they never confused about the work. For example, the chief engineer of ant just control the work of other ants, they don't need to do that just distribute the work. In addition, the ants always working together, they can move any food if they want, even elephant's bone. So they have a strong body although they look really tiny. The number of the ants determined that they can destroy any thing. I used to take a interesting experiment: I took a cookie to feed ants. First of all. I found an ant, then I put a cookie in front of the ants, The first discovered of ant bites the biscuit, but he can't move the biscuit, so that he ran to the ant hole quickly. After a while, a group of ants mightily to climb out, like an army, to the place of cookies. There, the ant, according to their respective duties, division, carrying the biscuit and climbed to the hole. In the middle of road, the ants had a more than 20 centimeters high hills, took a long time without food, or move in the past, but they are not discouraged, did not give up this cookie, but also find a lot of companies to help them, finally the ants across the hill and back to there hole with the biscuit, carefully to enjoy their food.

Through the observation of ants move things this phenomenon, make me understand a truth: as long as together without the difficulties, personal power, and the weak group power is infinite.

Assignment:park

Assignment

There was a man who has white hair and a big glasses sitting on a green chair with a big umbrella. He was wearing a green shirt, dark blue jacket a black jeans and a pair of grew shoes. He was chew gum slowly. There was a black plastic bag on the green table. A book was on his hands. His legs were separated and straightened.  He almost lied to the chair. About two minutes he has changed the page. Sometimes he will raise his head and look around. About fifteen minutes later, he has put down the book and gotten a banana form the black plastic bag. He was holding the banana with his right hand and peeling the banana with his left hand.  He ate the banana for one minute and then looking the book again.

There was a young parent with a baby sitting on the green chair. The mother who was wearing a black dress and a big sun helmet always hold the baby closely. And the baby was so small.  His face was as small as his little green hat.  And he was wearing a green tiny shirt and light blue tiny shorts.  He was too tiny that his mother can totally carry him. The father was taking out a yellow Bottle, a white spoon and a bottle of water form a black bag which in the baby carriage. He was putting some water in the bottle and fixing it, and then he was putting the bottle on the green table. He said something to the mother and the mother turns the chair to close to the father and put the baby on her legs. The father spoon up some pasty things with his right hand and used his left hand to press on the baby’s arm to hold the baby then feed him quickly. He feed the baby very careful so that they stay there for half an hour.

            One young guy who putting a white headset on his ears was looking forward a set and finally chose a chair which without umbrella.  He was wearing a blue long sleeve and blue jeans. There was a short mustache on his lower jaw. When he set down, he was putting out some food from his bag. There were a cup of soup, one sandwich and a cup chips.  His attention was never left his phone on his right hand although he was enjoying his lunch. He was eating slowly and he usually touching the phone to look forward some things.

            A big grew pigeon was walking on the ground. It has two red legs and a white mouth. It always low down his head to find something to eat. When some person passed by him, he was avoiding the people quickly but not to fly. Unfortunately, he was not find enough food in this place, so he flew to the other place.   

The ants

1.Leiningen Versus the Ants

 (Ed. Sara Constantakis)

The ants number in the millions or even billions. They form a highly disciplined army that collectively is able to determine the most efficient way

of reaching its goal. They are capable of killing any creature, including humans, that stands in their path. They first attack the eyes, making the victim blind. The District Commissioner tells Leiningen that the ants will “eat a full-grown buffalo to the bones.” The ants are also presented as if they possess qualities that make them more than insects. It is almost as if they possess human attributes. Leiningen and his men “began to stir with the unpleasant suspicion that inside every single one of those insects dwelt a thought. And that thought was: Ditch or no ditch, we'll get to your flesh!” The ants gaze thoughtfully at the gasoline; not satisfied with occupying the plantation, they exhibit greed and are eager to get at the men and the horses.

2.The Insect Play

(Ed. Elizabeth Thomason)

Chief Engineer

The chief engineer is an ant who appears primarily in Act III. He runs the Ant Realm for the mysterious “she,” receiving information from the inventor and the messenger and acting on it. It is the chief engineer who answers the tramp’s questions about the operation and tries to put him to work. The chief engineer directs the operation against the yellowants, the Ant Realm’s last enemy. He is power hungry, adapting his words to fit the situation and to his benefit. The chief engineer appoints himself dictator and emperor when war breaks out between his ants and the yellow ants. While he tries to win without mercy to his enemy or his men, he fails. The chief engineer only thinks in terms of work, control, and victory: nothing else matters.

The ants like army,each of ant has their own work,they never confused about the work. For example, the chief engineer of ant just control the work of other ants, they don't need to do that just distribute the work.In addition, the ants always  working together,they can move any food if they want,even elephant's bone. So they have a strong body although they looks really tiny. The number of the ants determined that they can destroy any thing. Fortunately, most ants lived underground,so that in generally they can't effect the human's live.

 

 

 

 

The Novel

10/28/14

wanyi Li

The Novel

‘There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down. I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness. Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd, unblinking eyes are everywhere. There is one place where two breaths didn't match, and the eyes go all up and down the line, one a little higher than the other.” (649-650)

In this passage from “The yellow wall-paper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, the author began to start showing what happened in the yellow wall-paper. At this moment, the woman started to find some different in this yellow wall-paper. She became nervous and afraid. This moment is an important turning point in the story: the point at what she fancied. She found a big secret in this yellow wall-paper, it guided her to find the truth, but it just makes her neurotic, and puts a huge pressure on her brain and body. Her illness became more serious than before. In addition, the topic called “The yellow wall-paper”, it means that it must get some different or mysterious things in this yellow wall-paper. Because of this is a horrible story, the author described the horrible things by the woman. It’s not only the important point, it’s also the horrible story begins.

In this passage: ‘There is a recurrent spot where the. Pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down.’ The woman fancies the spot which on the yellow wall-paper like a person’s eyes. It’s the base on the next passage that the woman fancies a woman who lived in the yellow wall-paper. And the author used some horrible and mysterious words like ‘broken neck’ and ‘stare at you ’, these details were show that the yellow wall-paper was really bad and the pattern was disturbingly, all the things what on the yellow wall-paper makes the woman gets angry and nervous. This woman needs peaceful place to treat but her strong imaginative power lets her become crazy. Later in this passage: ‘Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd, unblinking eyes are everywhere’. It means the yellow wall-paper put a serious mental stress on the woman just like what her said ‘. I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness’. She can’t avoid to stop fancy some horrible things. She becomes neurotic. And this paragraph has a lot of tiny details like ‘the eyes go all up and down the line, one a little higher than the other.’ It’s very lively and easy to let the readers know what the picture shows in theirs mind and let them know what the woman think. And it makes the story more authentic.  

The key word in this passage is ‘start at’. It’s very lively action. If something that not a person but like a people’s eyes and look at you day and night, it will really horrible and nervous. It means you can’t do anything because you are being watched.  

In my opinion, there are some arguments in this passage: Why just the woman thinks the spot what on the yellow wall-paper like a person’s eyes and the line like a broken neck? Did she have some horrible experience? All these questions attract me to read more. And I also interested in what the woman fancied. 

The yello wall-paper

10/21/14
wanyi Li

Is this a ghost story?

No, the story is all depending on this women’s mind, in fact there is no ghost.  Because of the women was sick, she saw the yellow wall-paper and connected a lot horrible things in her mind like the other women who live in the wall-paper, shadow, and the eyes. As time goes on, the women began to live in her imaginative world. She can’t believe her husband or other relatives. She was too scared to live with the yellow wall-paper so that she was in a bad way.   So it is not a ghost story, I think it is a imaginative and horrible story.