Hey guys, as Chase told us that we are allowed to use more sources into our paper, I looked for new sources to finish my paper. I found a nice quote of Marie Curie which I could work into my paper. It fitted perfectly my paper. Additionally I searched for statistics which prove the things I am saying in my essay. In general, I tried to make my writing more fluently and easier to read. By putting topic sentence in front of nearly every paragraph I have reached that aim. I also had a try to understand the American reader and how he is different from the reader I was used to write to. He needs a general overview at the beginning of the essay instead of the German who wants a clear climax in his reading. A further point of interest of Chase was that my sources communicate better with each other. I tried to do that by putting comments at the beginning of each paragraph. That somehow shows the reader how the essay will go on instead of saying him: You have to build up an own opinion based on the information I am giving you. At the end I would say that my essay is now really round and that I have developed so much as a writer. I got new ideas of writing which just gave me a different view on my writing. Also analytical talking in class gave me interesting ideas how to write my essay.

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I chose my primary source from a Chinese blog which refers to Chinese current education. So I try to find more information about the education in China to prove the blogger's opinion. Also, I need to find the information about American education. I need to analyze my secondary source to support or oppose the opinions from primary source. And I should give my own ideas. But I did not understand well of the requirement for the essay. I did not integrate the primary source and secondary source. What's worse, I did not analyze the secondary source. I just put the sentence selected from secondary source in the SSI. I need to analyze these sentences. And I need to clarify what the secondary source imply. Then when I got the feedback of my SSI, I realized my mistakes. I revised my SSI according to the suggestion I got in my feedback. I also stated my own claims in the SSI. As English110 is a writing class for every student including the native speaker, it is more difficult than the English 108 or 107. And the writing rules are also different. Although my writing ability,compared to native speaker students, is so bad I still get an improvement in this class. Chase taught us a lot in the class and I also learned a lot from classmates' writing. I read everyone's blog in my group to learn the vocabulary and sentence structure. I hope I can write a high-quality essay one day.

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Roseanne is a very funny comedy. It talks about a working class family's life. Roseanne works in a factory and she has three children need to be taken care of. So when her daughter's teacher told her about the weird thing her daughter did in class, she just said she was so busy than she did not have enough time with her children. It makes me think of my family where my parents are busy with their work everyday.But I know most family in China is like my family because if one of the parents choose to stay home with children, it will become difficult for the other to raise the whole family. If the family have to worry about the daily cost, it will arouse the quarrel like the couple in the tv comedy. So it is hard for parents to spare enough with their children when they have to work all day. In China, many parents also have many things to do after work. I think it is not fear compared to the upper class. At least, they do not worry about the daily cost or one of the parents can stay at home with children. When I was in middle school, some of my friends was becoming "bad" students at that time because of lacking the concern from their parents.

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The TV-series "Roseanne" is able to be funny about something actually very sad! That was my first impression after I watched the pilot episode of Roseanne in class today. A mother who is unsatisfied with her whole life and who is unable to spend time with her children because she has to work, solves her problems with black humor. To prove that you just have to have a look at the wishes she wants: She says that she would wish to have children who do not answer. She is married to a husband who is a lazy bum and who says that he would have liked to marry someone different. Roseanne has to do everything on her own but the problem of that is that she is not able to do it well. An example for that would be the fact that she buys the a blue rucksack instead of a red one for her daughter and that she lets the cornflakes just fall on the table instead of in the pan. I think she would need the help of her husband. One of her daughters has problems in school and is not able to solve the problem with the teacher on the one side and with her daughter on the other. I think these series were so successful because they actually describe the average American household and many Americans could identify with her problems and how she deals with them. It also shines a light on strong women and on a feministic society. If you have a look at the dialogue in the middle of the episode between her four colleagues that becomes quite clear.

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Today in class we watched the first episode of the TV comedy "Roseanne". The show focuses on a working class family. Rosanne, who works in a factory, her husband Dan, a handyman, and their 3 children. This is different from most sitcoms because it focuses on a working class family, as opposed to a middle or upper class family. This means that the show most likely attracted a different audience than other sitcoms. Working class people could relate to the characters and find the humor in their situations. The husband and wife fought and argued a lot, which doesn't happen in most sitcoms, and suggests that this behavior is more common among the working class. They only stopped their fighting when their daughter hurt herself and they had to work together to help her, which shows that they have the same family values as everyone else. Being from an upper-middle class family, where my father works but my mother stays home, I found it sad when Rosanne told her daughters teacher that she has no free time to spend with her children. My mom was always around when I was growing up and I don't know how different my childhood would have been if she was working a full time job.

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At the end of my PSA, I proposed a research question. My primary source referred to a noble phenomenon in New York which to some degree critiques the Chinese government. But I did not notice one picture below my primary source: it is a poor child in China not in America. Although this blog reflects something indirectly, there are many people who dare to write some true things in blog. Unfortunately, some of them have been threatened by government secretly. Last month, one of my friends invited me to have dinner with his father who is a visiting scholar to America. He is a famous economics professor in China. He likes writing the truth on his blog about both the reality in China and other foreign country's culture. Surprisingly, he told us he was brought to a secret place by the people from government when he was in China. Some people talked with him and warn him to stop writing the articles, because they do not benefit China.Finally, my friend's father chose to live abroad because he could not continue to speak the truth in China.He must think about his family. We can not imagine how the pressure and threaten he has. I just feel very disappointed, because I can not tell what is the correct information and recognize we get from our daily media. Living in a life with lies，no wonder the low class people stay low all the time. High class people deprive the interests and rights from low class people. Maybe this happens in other countries as well. At least, I hope we can know the truth.

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For some reason, whenever I think of poor people or the lower class, I always think of "The Gathering of the Juggalos". The Gathering of the Juggalos is a music festival put on by the rap-rock duo, Insane Clown Posse. To many, including myself, the group is a subject of ridicule and jokes. Their lyrics are usually violent, disgusting, and nonsensical, and they always paint their faces like clowns. Pictures of the Gathering on the internet almost always show people many would describe as "white trash" However, the group has a huge following of die hard fans, that call themselves Juggalos, and it seems like most fans are lower class. There may be a correlation between the lower class and violent music. It reminds me of the song we listened to and analyzed in class "16 tons" where the working class man in the song referred to his fists and implied that he was good at fighting. The working class may feel like they need some sort of upper hand on those higher up on the social ladder. It's interesting to think about that different social classes are that different that they listen to different types of music.

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That post might have been provoking... I am looking forward to read your comments.

Blog 5 Globalization

I think the topic we had in class today was really interesting. Does the globalization cost jobs of first world countries? I would like to give my very personal opinion about that. I would say: "Yes, it does, but that's unfortunately part of the captalistic system that we have and want to keep." The only way out of that misery is creating a product that's better than a comparable product from outside. The only possible way to do that is actually investing money into a better school system. The American universities are known to be the best in the world but their high schools are in comparision to Germany an absolute scream and basically that's one of the problems (because not everyone can attend universities). If everyone had a better education they would all have better chances to get a good job and to speak for the product case the product would be better than a product from outside and so the consumers would buy that product. That's the essence of captitalism you have to better than your competitor and if you cannot be better be than them you have lost and you have to get out of the market, but that would not be a problem if the system of education would be better because then they would get other jobs. For example: An orange which is imported from Brasil is cheaper than one from Florida. If a farmer from Florida does not sell anything because the product from Brasil is as good as his but cheaper he has to get out of the market. That might sound really crucial but that's captalism and the only way to get out of that situation is a better EDUCATION.

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I choose a blog created by a Chinese blogger. This blog was forwarded from one people to another people by almost one million times during few weeks. The blogger told us a story: New York is very cold in winter, and the snow is so heavy. But public elementary school is always having classes as usual. So some of the children’s parents asked the school why their children have to attend school during such cold days. The school said because a lot of the poor classes children can not possess heating and free lunch, and if they stayed at home they would bear the starvation and coldness. Then those parents said you can only told those poor children to attend school. School said: “no, we can't help children while their dignity will be trampled.” It is obvious that the story presents us two classes, the rich class and the poor class. Also it tell us the poor class children can not get a good living condition like the rich class children in winter. SΩo I can try to find more details about the living conditions of both poor class and rich class. Maybe I can study the social structures of China and America both the similar and different parts. And I need to figure out why the blogger is noticed by such many people in China and if Chinese schools have the similar policy. Also, why the blogger choose a phenomenon happened in American is another question can be researched. Besides, I think the blogger tried to reflect some common phenomenon about the class warfare between rich class and poor class and showed us some difference about social policy between two countries. Or the blogger wanted to criticize some Chinese public organization such as schools. So Do authors face restrictions that discourage them from writing about certain topics?

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The book Outcasts United by Warren St. John deals with lower class refugees from other countries who settle in the town of Clarkston, Georgia with a specific focus on a soccer team made of refugee boys. The things the soccer players deal with mirrors what the other refugees have to deal with in their everyday life. The refugees and the other residents of Clarkston are very different in ethnicity, language, customs, financial status, and social class and often have difficulty interacting with one another. In order to accurately talk about how this book makes an argument about class, I will need to look into the class structure of Clarkston and other details about the town. The book indicates that most residents of Clarkston were better off than the refugees, but it doesn’t indicate whether they are mostly middle class or upper class, or what races and ages it is mostly made up of. I also need to know things about the size, population, and culture of the town. This may help to reveal why Clarkston was such a popular place for refugees. It would be interesting to know how much the refugees’ financial status played into their treatment and how much was differences in ethnicity and language. Regardless of which plays a bigger part, the interactions between the refugees and other residents is still an example of social class warfare.

MaximilianMogg Blog#4

Calvin Klein “One”. At the beginning this commercial is actually not very tough to understand but if you think about that topic more and more you want to know other parts of that commercial. So for example: I would like to know what the company "Calvin Klein" made thinking about creating a unisex perfume. It's definitely interesting to go away from men's and women's perfume to a unisex perfume. Another thing I would love to know about is why they tried to sell at that time. And why was it so successful at that time? It’s still one of the most best sold perfumes that have ever been produced. Something made the audience feel connected to that product. Something made them feel identify with that product. It must have been a huge market analysis that Calvin Klein did. Another question that would interest me is: How does that perfume smell? Does it fit with the message? The good thing about commercials is that they are just released for one purpose: Sell the product. They are just pretending to have a political or social message. Actually, by implying a message they just aim for an audience which is wanted by the company. What could be also interesting is the price that the product was sold for and other media which they used for selling this product. Why was it rereleased? In which countries has it been sold? The last question would be interesting because it goes with the question for the audience.