Entry #11: Experience about blogging

Writing is always a hard subject for me. Actually, when I was in secondary school, I used to be a good student at writing, I even got the second prize at literature competition. But when I went to high school, writing is not my strange anymore and believe me, I don’t know why neither. I know this could be a weakness because in the future, I must write a lot, I have to write for applying scholarship, I have to write for applying a job. So, I know that I should improve this situation. If I’m not good at writing, I can be fallen behind. At first time when I tried to blogging, I was so annoyed and really want to give up, two blog a week plus one essay every two weeks consumed almost my time. But, I still have to write, unless I’ll be failed the course, and that is not good at all. Moreover, I want to bring back my “glory”. So, I just keep writing. People said that sometimes the unexpectable lines make a work of art. The importance is you have to make a move, give an effort, don’t just stand at the same place. Gradually, I realized that writing is not that bad, otherwise, it is interesting. Blogging is learning. Albert Einstein used to say: “If you cannot explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”. So, when you write about any random topic, you make yourself learn, research to have a certain knowledge about that topic, thus you have information to talk and share that information to the other people. By this, you will learn more things while you are blogging. Besides, writing helps me improve my writing skill and grammar. This also expand my relationship, encourage me meeting and talking to people who has the similar idea about something.

As an assignment, I think blog is a good way to help students practice their writing. Because this is considered another platform of social media, it uses for sharing users’ thinking and pictures of daily life or any other topic that users want to talk about or share. So, in this environment where is similar to what they are using for entertainment, students will feel more comfortable to write about a topic that is given. And somehow, this will make their writing better. 

Entry #9: Farming crisis

          Even though in America, there’re plenty of food which are cheap and good spread throughout the country for people’s consumption, but the truth is the country which has the economy leads the world is facing farming crisis and suffering the unsecure food. How can it be possible? Well the reasons lead to this consequence is numerous. Firstly, as the circumstance, the increasing number of crisis of US now is because of the overly reliance to foreign sources of food. The trade deal like North American Trade Deal Agreement has removed almost the tax on goods coming to US from Canada And Mexico. Therefore, American obviously choose the source of food which is not only good but also cheaper than domestic foods. This is understandable that American farmers will gradually give up farming because they have no benefits anymore, maybe only older generation who has sticking with farming for long time could stay, but this is very rear. According to “Is America Facing farming crisis?”, there are only 6% of farmers are under the age of 35.

          Secondly, the condition for young people who wants to develop in agriculture is still limited. According to Ackoff, the national field director, young people who wants to develop a farm facing to a lot of obstacle, such as lacking farmland, money to succeed. Moreover, the agriculture graduated student yearly is more than the labor that the industries needed. And if the government is not doing anything to attract them, these student will not stay with this major. Comparable to China, the number of their farmer is almost equal to the the population of US. 

          Finally, if there's no one who replaces the retire-generation, the US could probably fall into the farming crisis in the recent years. 

Entry #7: Animals’ life inside industries

I’m always so censorious with what I eat daily because I’ve seen many videos and read a lot of information about how the foods are made such as the farmer put a plenty of pesticides to make their vegetables look good with a beautiful color to fool the customers’ visual, make them believe those veggies are good, but actually it’s not, at all. Or to make livestock fatten and to be more benefited, they could cruelly inject chemical into animal and don’t care either about animals’ or consumers’ health. I don’t mean that all farmers or industries is doing that, but the truth is the number of people who risks their customers’ health to make money is not small. After watching video “Fresh”, I certainly sure about those. The tone of the video is kind of going to the negative side of the issue but we must admit that is the true and it is happening. The way farmers treat animals which are customer’s foods is not carefully, this is sympathetic, because they have numerous animals to take care of, it would not be like taking care of our pets, that is of course. But too negligent like what’s shown in the video is unacceptable. They could even feed living cows by unclean food like dead cows just to save money and putting aside the safety of the consumer. This video also tells the audiences the consequences of doing and eating those. I think the purpose of this video is warning people who doesn’t care about what they eat or just eat whatever convenient that what they’ve eaten could be a pathogen of some serious diseases and affects directly to their health to think carefully before they eat something. Or how significant of knowing the origin of food they are going to consume. Personally, it impacts me a lot, it makes me thinking more about what I’ve eaten, moreover, it encourages me to grow everything by myself J that is the safest way.

Entry #10: Cheating

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/cheating-in-high-school

            Nowadays, studying is the significant issue for individual and country because that is the foundation of a develop country. A good score always is the advantaged in many circumstances such as making a good impress for the first interview or be under pressure of parents, teacher. Therefore, student chose cheating to satisfy those, but besides, forget the real knowledge that they need to learn. There are many reason cause cheating, but majority is the conscious of student. Anyway, no matter what reason cause cheating, it should be criticized and eliminated.

              The very first reason is students are under pressure of getting high points, which is caused by their parents’ expectation and their teachers’ evaluation. Almost parents are putting a huge expectation on their children as schooling is an only way to help them have a better life. It is responsible burden that causes students depend on cheating. In my country, almost student go study with teacher outside school. It means they have to do homework from school, homework of extra study class, this could easily drive students go crazy and don’t have enough time for materials from school. This indirectly lead to cheating.

Secondly, the competition between them and their classmates frequently happening that make them behave morally wrong in their tests. They compete seriously point by point to each other and cheating such as plagiarism and using documents is a common way that helps them escape from being dumb in others’ eyes. People always have a thinking is make self be better than others, that is a good motivation if students understand clearly this purpose. But some students just want to get high score by any cost.

Finally, both of top students and low score students put a huge effort on their studies to get a high score which put them under pressure. When high academic performance students try to maintain their scores, other students having low scores put all their effort on improving their results. This is a common pressure that many students suffer; Therefore, they use cheating as an ideal equipment. Moreover, self-confidence deficits play an important role in causing students try their best to cheat. High score is not only important with their parents’ perspective, but also their teachers and society. When they did not prepare for their test themselves, they feel it safe to have supports from other trustworthy resources like documents and classmates.

Dishonest in testing is very dangerous. This could lead to serious consequences. Once caught cheating, students could probably fail the test, the course, even expelled of school. Then that will be a dirty in transcript. Moreover, as cheating happens frequently, it becomes a bad habit that they could not complete the test without cheating.

https://medicalhumour.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/cheating-in-school-college-days/

  

Cheating is completely not good. Students sometime just try to focus on how to cheating and not being caught then forget about another easier way to get high score, that is study! We should concern if we too depend on the achievement and ignore the knowledge we could absorb then decide cheating, the result will be meaningless. To eliminated this issue is not easy. The only way to do that is the attempt awareness of each student. Trying not to cheat to have a better education, a better life. 

 Entry #8: Long distance relationship

          A relationship is said to be a connection, as in thought, concerning or regarding something or someone. Long distance relationship is similar to normal relationship but differs in terms of geographic. If anyone ever tries to tell you that long-distance relationships are easy, they are lying. It obviously hard. I know and understand because I’m experiencing long-distance relationship right now.

          Communication is an important element of all relationships. Especially so, in the case of long distance relationships, where you can’t see the expression on your partner’s face or establish some form of physical contact as a communicative gesture, say, a comforting hug or holding hands as a token of reassurance. However, communication in a long-distance relationship has its own unique set of problems that are difficult to tackle. Nowadays with the development of technology, we can see each other, we can talk, we can hear partner’s voice, but think about it, is that enough? Absolutely not. Imagine like this, once something bad happen to you and all we can do is look to the screen and say something to make partner feel better while the important thing you need right there is a hug, hand holding and something like that. This is thing that no matter how develop of the technology is, it cannot help.

          Second isn’t less important is the impact of environment. What is the environment here? They are new jobs, new relationships, new friends and new interesting things in the new environment. When we are together, we hang out, talk, eat, work and do favorite things together. But how about when now you got a 1000 miles apart? There is nothing else than the screen, it will be so boring. Then we find out in the new environment, we still can hang out, study, and spread our relationship, we will temporary forget about our little baby. Maybe at the first time, the original thinking is you can make your relationship works, but time by time, under the impact of friends, family, and new environment, you cannot keep your mind still. “The environment can facilitate or discourage interaction among people”. This quote is the most suitable for this case.

          The problems appear over times, because we cannot see each other frequently, we lose trust to each other. Sometime, you also see some pictures that there is a girl show off, you will wonder some question like who she is, why do they take picture together, are they cheating on you, you know, girl’s imagination is endless. Then the connection will be faded, obviously, the relationship cannot get better, otherwise, get worst. Misunderstanding, fighting, ignoring each other. 1 day, 2 days, misunderstanding gradually increasing, the gap make you feel tired and don’t even want to talk because you know that the problem cannot be solved thoroughly. Over time, the relationship will go to a dead end.

          There is a sentence, “out of sight, out of mind”. That sentence is absolutely right, there is must have reason why they said so. Not all people feel like me about long distance relationship, maybe they can make it, overcome the difficulty. I tend to be a pessimist, I always perceive everything in bad way. So, I don’t know how long can I keep my relationship. They’re said that if the love is big enough, it will defeat any impediment.

The distance is nothing if we really have each other!

          Entry #5: The real value of "like"

These clips “Prologue” and “Act one: Finding the self in selfie” just reflect what is happening with teenagers, especially second or high school students. Because at that age, having the attention of other people is really important. They want to be cared about, want to be the central of the world and others compliments. I know that because I used to be like that. I used to check Instagram or Facebook every single minute to see if anyone liked or comment on my post. I used to be so happy when my post got more than 150 likes including my crush. So, I completely understand if the same thing happens to high school girls. Maybe at this moment they don’t know or even don’t think about why people like their photo. It doesn’t mean people really like it or engaging with the post, some of people who likes and who is their close friend will but not the majority, they just see the post and probably “like” it even though they don’t really know or be close with person who post it.

There’s a detail that I feel so funny in the “This American Life’s episode” is before posting something on social media, a girl said that they usually send it to their friends to judge and comment, if it is good, then it can be posted. This totally go the opposite way of the purpose of social media, that is sharing and saving moment. How that moment could be meaningful if it is prepared? For me, a meaningful moment should be taken with friends, not a selfie or be taken when I don’t even know when was that is taken. Moreover, the number of “like” will not really affects me in anyway. Otherwise, my close’s friend’s concern about the post is more important. Because the purpose is sharing and saving the moment so that is for years later, when I look back, I could see those memorable memories.

When I listened to those clips, I felt like they are talking about me a year ago, but then, thank to Michelle Obama’s speech in 2015, I realized that there are more things more significant should be don’t than sitting on furniture and checking Instagram or Facebook. She said, “If I had worried about who liked me and who thought I was cute when I was your age, I wouldn’t be married to the president of the United State.” She advised girls should better focus on study than care about what people think about us. If teenagers just waste time in concerning how many likes or who comment on their post, they wouldn’t be success in the future

Entry #6: Negative Affects of Travelling

As a lot of people perspective, traveling is kind of enjoying. Whenever people have time and money, they plan for a trip to relax after a working hard time. There is no greater feeling than having bags packaged and knowing that you are going to travel. People will get experience and knowledge about things that they have not had change to interact. However, traveling is not all fun. Otherwise, make people in trouble, even serious one. Those troubles could be terrorism, murderers, plane crash or even getting potential of infecting diseases while traveling. Moreover, it is also cost time and money which are two of the most value things nowadays. In short, people should not frequently travel because of negatively effects to travelers’ health, safety of self, and saving time as well as money.

Traveling demanding a large amount of money and time that should be invested in others more useful things. No one can deny that traveling help people in raising life skill and have some good rest after busy time but it is not necessary for people to spend time and money in traveling. Time is perceived one of the most significant material that is always lack for people who has far-sight vision or considered succeed people. At the same amount of time which are we use for travel; those people can make a lot of money and learn a lot of things. In addition, traveling also “stale” money in easy way. Obviously, people cannot travel without money. There are so many things people must pay for the trip such as flight tickets, hotels, foods, and vehicle. There are also unexpected things come at unexpected times, for instance, fines, exceeding expectation in shopping and even hospital fee. Therefore, instead of taking a trip and wasting money, people should concern about something else more useful.

People should not travel is traveling in others country, it means people accept to put themselves in risk of traffic accidents, crash plane, terrorism, murdered or even diseases. Danger is everywhere. People can get hurt even though they are not supposed to be, because they are in dangerous area. There are numerous cases that people died while they are on trip because of plane crash. For example, the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that disappeared nearly 3 years ago with 239 people on board crashed into the Indian Ocean at high speed rather than gliding down gently, an analysis of debris found. Until 2 years later, whereabouts of this plane and passengers still are mysterious.  How about if you were on that plane, how pitiful your family will be. This shows that traveling can kill travelers anytime. In short, people should not risk their life for traveling.

Traveling is not all good because it affects travelers’ health negatively. Health is very important to people. It said that even though you are rich, you cannot buy health. Traveling to a place far away from where you live, different climate and soil plus unfamiliar dishes, tourist potentially to get sick or more important, and for who travel abroad, jet lag and time zone different are common if tourist did not travel frequently. Moreover, travelers get high risk of becoming ill while traveling because of the outside affects such as weather, food, drink, even water allergy. This is not only makes the trip worse, it also affects to traveler’s health negatively. So, to protect health and life, be careful when you want to have a trip to another country. 

            

          Traveling is not always fun and happy as what people usually think because of several consequences. It might take away from tourist many valuable things. Dangers lurk anywhere that people cannot know and expect. Basing on negative affects about health, time and money budget and self’s safety, people must think carefully before making the decision to have a trip to somewhere. Traveling is not necessary for people to risk many things on it. It could become worst trip ever because the negative effects can affect directly to people.

Entry #3: Digital identity

          With the constantly development of technology, social media is indispensable. Teenagers cannot hang out with friends if they don’t have smart phone by their side to take (as what it’s called) the “memorable moment” to “share” with their friends while completely forget to live in that moment. Then, a perfect picture “was born” even though it just reflects the true so lightly. This is the normal issue that is easily found in our society. Everyone wants a beautiful image to show friends. It said that people tends to show good things and hide what is not. So, they totally have right to do that. That is freedom of speech of people, there is no reason to ban those things happen. In my opinion, I prefer people who live and to be honest with their life more than people live one real life and show the world another more beautiful life.

https://www.facebook.com/tnqsaksu

https://www.facebook.com/tnqsaksu

          This is Yang Su Bin, a funny and fatty (what she calls herself) Korean girl. As almost people want to be perfect on social media, she is the opposite. On her personal social media, such as Facebook or Instagram, if it’s not an ugly moment, it will be a picture which is trying-to-be-ugly face on it. She became famous due to a video recorded she was trying to cut her hair, but she failed. That video got about 176.000 likes. I’m not talking about how many likes she got or she pretended to be ugly to get more likes, I just wonder why a person who is fat and doesn’t hide that she is fatty got that many fans? Perhaps people love her honesty and her funny, and realize appearence is not everything. That is reason why they love her. She can edit her photo perfectly before post it for people can see. But she didn’t, instead, she shows her real life. 

This is the link to her video she cut hair herself 

https://www.facebook.com/tnqsaksu/videos/1135484553233462/

         
         I knew two platforms of her social media, one is Facebook and another is Instagram. Every post in those two platforms as I see is just one world, and it’s her. There is no big difference between those two platforms. She is a makeup-er and a guess for some cuisine show. So, on her social network are clip or images teaching make up or clip records while she’s eating, most of them she tries to be ugly. But they both reflects her real life, still funny and ugly, as she wants her social network to be looked like. She is not frequently post pictures or clips, the newest one is from Feb 4. Besides, because she let people see her real life, when people see her outside the social media, they love her more. Not like some hot girl online, being beautiful and sexy online while they are not. But this girl, Su Bin, is not the same. So, another reason people like her even though she is not skinny and beautiful because she is real and she also contribute hope in girls who don’t have a good looking in the bright future. Just be yourself, be confident and you will be wonderful.
      

Entry #4: Testing on animal is inhuman 

          Nowadays, with the development of science, there are so many new things are invented. But before people can use it, the scientists must make sure that those are safe for people. And how they can know or sure about that? it must be tested, but what do they use to test those new products? It cannot be tested on people, so scientist find another solution of this issue that is testing on animal which are have the similar systems as people. Even though there are a lot of benefit in biomedical of testing on animals, but it should be stopped because of the basic right that animals which mean non-human should be received.  This is the truth that none of companies are testing on animals for many purposes such as finding the new curse or want to admit, but they still do this.

          

          The first reason shows that testing on animals is inhuman is animals still are a life. They are born by their parents. People are considered animals, we are just in a higher level. “The consortium found that the chimp and human genomes are very similar and encode very similar proteins. The DNA sequence that can be directly compared between the two genomes is almost 99 percent identical.” What people and scientists are doing is unmoral because we are killing the same kind of our specie. In additional, just imagining like this way and you will understand more about this. Switching the position of people and animals. How about if you are the things is on laboratory and being tested by animals.

          

          The second reason cause testing on animal is inhuman is it is bad science. Scientist use millions of animals including rats, mice and chimpanzee to experiment but then when they got the result, it cannot be used because most of them is not safety for people. That is wasted life. “Currently, nine out of ten experimental drugs fail in clinical studies because we cannot accurately predict how they will behave in people based on laboratory and animal studies,” not all the testing pass on animal can pass on human because they are two different individuals. “The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades, and it simply didn’t work in humans” scientist can cure cancer in mice, but you can see cancer still is a disease that people afraid of, so not all the experimental works on people.

          People grant for themselves a right to use animal in any purpose just because they can speak and think, but who know animals don’t have feeling? Animals cannot scream so you assume that they don’t feel any pain. “Animals have both physiological and behavioral responses to nociception that correlate roughly with the experience of pain in humans”. They cannot talk it doesn’t mean they don’t have emotion.

      Have you ever heard about the movie name “Hachi’s tale”? This is a movie about a dog waits for his owner for 10 years in train station after his owner die. This is a true story was filmed, and Japanese built a statue in Japan loyal to remember the loyalty of this dog. Through this example, we can see that animals still have emotion, it doesn’t show in the normal way like people usually present, but in their way. So that is so cruel when people treat to non-human in that way.

As what I mention and proofs above that the test pass on animal it doesn’t mean it will pass on human because the system of animals and people are not the same. Moreover, there are so many alternative ways that was approved to use to replace using animals in experimental. But widely the method testing on animals still be used. Animals are not our to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way, it is for us to love, to take care.

Entry #1. Opinion of blogs

I have read so many blogs about fashion which I really love. This is one of them, "Song of style". The author of this blog is Aimee, a beautiful, funny and style fashionable Asian girl. She is famous and very well known for young generation. This is a blog about fashion and style so majority in this blog is pictures but not words. And the tone I think the author tends to create is funny, and personal blog because throughout the blog, she tell the audiences about her life, her style and her trip. The pictures get the rest responsibility for the audiences to feel about her story. Pictures take the significant role in her blog as a fashionable blog, it shows the audiences her outfit. It influence me a lot. For example, sometimes she inspire me in how I wear. And that is why I like her blog, I think many people like reading her blog.
This is the link: http://www.songofstyle.com/

http://www.songofstyle.com

The second blogs I kinda love neither is "Peta.org" This is a blogs all about the animal right. The author, actually a group of author trying to tell the audiences about how animals deserves to be treated the same as people. Those are still conversational but in my opinion, I think they are right, anyway, people are concerned animals, just in a higher level, so there is no reason another kind of animal can be treated unequally. This blog's tone is serious, professional, and try to make people understand the important of animal. They also give the example of the experiment and the evidences show why animals should be treated equally. This affects me a lot, when I saw some pictures about experiment on animals, I could not keep myself calm. I love animals, at least some kind of animals, so I love this blog, it enrich my knowledge about animals. Beside, the style of this blog is clear and easy to reach what we want to find. (http://www.peta.org/)

"US National Library of Medicine" is the last blog I want to discuss. This is not really my favorite kind of blog. The reason is the design of this blog too harsh. Even though, this blog contain good and useful information. The tone is serious and professional. This blog is all about research and experiment result, no picture. This can be considered a scholarly source, If I have to, I just go to this blog for my research or something need to be professional.Overall, this blog can give the audience the reliable knowledge, but to read it everyday, I cannot do that.

Link: (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2787021/)

 

Entry #2. The most beautiful time in life

My high school period was so beautiful, memorable, and crazy time that I ever had in my life. I was not only had the good things about my friends, my teachers, and my school, but also some memories hard to forget. In high school, I was not the bad students or a good or excellent students either, but friends and teachers always remember my name or my appearance because of my crazy things I did. One of expressive memories I did is getting a truant day to get some fun before we go. That was a day in the last week of my student life. I and some of my friends decided to skip that day and biked to a place far away from my school to pick delonix flowers, a kind of flowers present for students and summer in my country, Vietnam. I picked a lot of flowers then I came back class with small hope there was no one knows our disappearance. But the truth disappointed me, my teacher does not only know we didn’t in class, he was also waiting for us. Guess what happened to us. We had to stand outside class, hands above with delonix flowers in 30 minutes. 

This is delonix flower.

After that memorable class, me and my friends took apart petals and papers, mixed it well. Then, from third floor of my class building, we threw it away, we called it “snow in summer”. That’s tradition that the seniors must did before they left. Minors were so excited for the first time see that kind of things. Students were all excited and happy except one component of school, those were teachers. This event happened every year at exactly same time but it still does not disappoint us that made teachers get mad and get some fun for students. Then we had to stay after class to clean our messed up. It was crazy but it was funny also. Anyway, we should do something to make our school life more memorable, and that was what I chose. That is why people said that the high school time is the most valuable time of life. I wish I could turn back to that time and enjoy it once again. But earth keeps moving so I have to keeps walking forward. Those memories will become my best time in my life.

They said that high school is the most beautiful time in life

Hello everyone, I’m Na, the only day that my mom was smiling seeing I was crying is 20 years ago. This funny, friendly (and cute, just kidding) girl come from Vietnam. I enjoy cooking and baking when I have free time. I don’t know why but cooking and accomplished at cooking make me feel so comfortable because I can make for my beloved, my friends good and healthy meals. I also enjoy the process while making food. I’m not kidding but some time it makes me more creative. There is one time I try to mix some ingredients that I never do before to make a cake and surprisingly, it works, it perfectly come together. You can see that cooking make me happy and temporary forget about stress of everyday sometimes. This is reason why I love cooking. Besides, I love foods, every kind of food of every country. I’m not a picky person so I can eat anything’s called food-for-human. I want to enrich my knowledge about cuisine of the world by traveling all around the world and try their food. Some of countries I will go in recent future is Thailand, Japan, and some others in Asia area. One more thing, I’m kind of open person, I love talking to new friends, hanging out with people, and do funny or silly things. I just be here in AZ for about a month, the previous school I attended id Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and I moved here because I want to be nearby my relative. I also planned to transferring to ASU but I think the tuition fee for the basic classes in ASU is too expensive so why I don’t go to GCC for core classes then transfer to ASU, it will be much cheaper. My major is psychology, this’s a hard major and I have to give big effort and try my best if I want to be a psychologist. But I will try and reach my dream becoming a person who heal people.