Physical Training

Physical Training is so popular in the Unites States, but it is only for champion of activity in China. That is because of the big different on the lifestyle, eating and on the mind.

Different from the United States, vegetable and rice is the main food for Chinese in breakfast, lunch and dinner. So that Chinese people think they don’t need to do heavy training as a way to become healthy. In china, old people wake up earlier in the morning and do light physical training, and most teenagers play basketball, soccer as the main way of physical training. However, people who is between thirty and sixty years doesn’t have any physical training during normal days. Some of them may spend time to travel in the holiday but someone doesn’t have any physical training for months. That is one of the main problem Chinese people have today.

When I first went to the United States, I fell excited for so many people walking or running on the sides of the streets. I fell that Americans looks so strong than most of Chinese. I tried to find the reason on eating, minds and the environment.

Most American have a high percentages of meat in dinner and lunch. However, rice and vegatable is more important in China. That cause Chinese won't become fat without enough physical training. On the other hand, Americans need to do a lot of Physical Training for high precentage of meat they eat. In addition, most of the huge cities which has a high population always means huge air pollution. That makes outside phsical training doesn't make a heathy people.

Thus, there is more reasons just like no enough room for people to running outside in huge city in China and so on. However, the style of eatting, people's mind and the environment pollution are the main reasons for Chinese don't have enough physical training.

Chinese Knoting

Traditional Chinese decorative knots, also known as Chinese knots, are typical local arts of China, it has a long history which was appeared in Tang Dinasty and became popular in the end of Ming Dinasty.

They are a distinctive and traditional Chinese folk handicraft woven separately from one piece of thread and named according to its shape and meaning. In Chinese, Chinese knoting means reunion, friendliness, peace, warmth, marriage, love, and so on. Chinese knots are often used to express good wishes, including happiness, prosperity, love and the absence of evil. Mostly,It can be seen during the festival.

The Chinese knot is based on over a dozen basic knots named according to their distinctive shapes, usages, or origins.Except for the Two-Coins Knot, the Chinese knot is three dimensional in structure. It comprises two planes tied together leaving a hollow center. Such a structure lends rigidity to the work as a whole and keeps its shape when hung on the wall. The hollow center also allows for the addition of precious stones.The Chinese knot, with its classic elegance and ever-changing variations, is both practical and ornamental, fully reflecting the grace and depth of Chinese culture.

Chinese knoting is one of the best gift and souvenir to buy. If you wish to visit China in the future, you should not miss it.

Life Style- The Diet

As everyone knows, the navigation and the colonization of Europeans cause they have foods which easy to store. As a result, there is a huge different between Chinese and Americans on breakfast, lunch and dinner. Rich, as one of the main foods for Chinese people can be seen in breakfast, lunch and also dinner.

In my opinion, I felt most Americans does not eat a lot during lunch, most of them having sandwich. However, beefsteak always be found on the dinner. (That’s my experience in the Campus mess hall.) That’s different in China, when I was in primary school; teachers always told us “Good breakfast, full lunch, nice and simple for dinner”. That is the healthiest styles for eating Chinese believe.

Rice, as the most common primary food for Chinese people. It has history for thousands of years and it is also the first primary food Chinese people had. In my hometown, Nanjing; people have rice for breakfast, lunch and also dinner. As my father said “I always feel hungry if I don’t have rice.” When I was in China, even I have had lunch; I also think I didn’t have it if there were no rich.

Because people don’t have time to cook rice during early morning hundreds of years before, so they made so many kind of snack for breakfast. ShaoMai, as one of the famous snack people have during the breakfast. It can be made easily with glutinous rice and flour, looks like a volcano which can be seen on the visual above. After people made it, it can be eaten for several days. That's make it so convinence and popular.

Reflection about WOVE

In my opinion, the best part on WOVE I worked on is visual. Because I like to use visual relate to my essay a lot, or, visual which can show the background I want share to audience but I can't write in my essay. As an result, using visual become very important as ways of getting audience's attention, show background or as a supporting materials.

Just like the pie graph i used in the stereotype essay which can be seen on the left. This pie graph shows the world jewry population by regions, which i shared as source to get the result: Jews always live in regions with high GDP density. However, I could not share all information, all numbers on the table during my essay, sothat this pie graph help me a lot.

Another example of the visual I used is in the interview essay. I used a photo i found on line about an economic company which shows how people works. Because i do not have a photo about the company which the business man i interviewed workes in. On the other hand, i think the photo on the person does not helpful for the essay, because it doen't show any information about the job. So, I found several pictures of people working in the company and ask Larry to find the one which has a similar working environment as his company.

Thus, because i didn't have a good writting skills for the 2nd and 3rd essay we did, and i got some problems because of the too many adminstration i used in the presentation. However, i think i always choose the most useful and helpful visual for my essay.

The Blog Assignment - For Group Presentation

Our topic for the group presentation was the stereotype: All Jews are rich.
As a group, we decided which part each of us will work during the class we got this assignment. However, we got to know that we need to use the research sources to find the results and find out the main points from the results. We could not use our own opinion during our body paragraph. [We had decided that each of us talk about one way on the stereotype, Just like i will would do introduction and the history part (to support RICH), Jia Tu will do Jewish lifestyle and education background (to support RICH), Hao Liu and other guys will do the part to support Poor Jews with a conclusion].
So, we changed our parts of working. Firstly, I will make the introduction, the history, where this stereotype can be found and my sources that will support Jews are rich. Then, other guys will use their sources to support their points of view. After all, we will send the e-mail of our main points for the people who make conclusion. Then, others will send their final points of view and sources better with pictures to me and i will make our power point. Finally, I need to send the poerpoint to each of my group memebers and make sure they agree with it or fixed the mistakes.

Answers for the assignment questions:
Our decision on each one's parts went well, However, the connect went bad...i haven't got all e-mail until Sunday for the PPT.
For the power point, because someone send me a clearly outline with pictures, someone send the slides they have done, and someone just gave me short ideas; so, the presentation didn't have equal slides for all group members.
For My presentation, I tried to give the speech without paper, and wrote some main points on the cards. However, that doesn't work well. As I always forgot what I want to say and because of some vocabulary of local area which hard to say.
Next time, I will use less information or talk lesser about the background which is hard to say and focus on the examples or statistic result more. In addition, I will type more words on the slides so that I can look at the power point to find the part I forget. That will make me don't stop the speech for remeber next idea.