Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Essay:Wang Chien-Ming

This paragraph is part of the final exam of rhetoric course. I got 48 points of 50 on 31, August.

I use eight different figures of speech:Ploce、Antonomasia、Onomatopoela、Simile、Oxymoron、Litotes、Apostrophe、Diacope.

Wang Chien-Ming was really Wang Chien-Ming when he won his sixteen victories again this season in the Major League. “Do you Wang Chien-Ming?” become one of Taiwanese’s favorite events. Some Taiwanese are absent from school or work to watch Wang’s games on TV. or the internet. “Bang, bang, bang!” even if you hear the pitcher hit the ball, that doesn’t mean the pitcher can get a home run or a base. For Wang’s ball seems have a magic to take the Yankees team to win. “Playing in the American Major League” seems an impossible dream for Asians. Wang Chien-Ming has become a hero in Taiwan and he looks like as a hope as bright star at this time when Taiwan is filled with dharma and complaints. It’s an “open secret” that Wang’s biological father was the man he knew as his uncle. He said, “I didn’t feel anything in particular, and I felt it was all right, like I had two fathers.” But Taiwanese media kept harassing his family members about this private issue. Wang loves his family not a little so that he was disappointed about how the Taiwanese media has handled the personal issue about his background. So he made a decision of not accepting anymore interviews by members of the Taiwanese media until further notice. Wang’s fans got very angry at the media and met together in front of the media companies and demonstrated a breast-beating ”TVBS, SET, CTITV, don’t bother Wang’s family and don’t make gossip about him any more.” After the fans supported Wang and inveighed against to Taiwan media, Wang called back his statement and hoped everyone could go forward, respect personal privacy and focus on his performance on the field. The media can report a lot of news that people should know, but people also should fight back against the gossip media.

posted by Rita @ 6:49 PM 2 comments

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Oral III-Self-introduction

Present Date:2006/10/3

Good evening, everyone. Tonight, I want to share my story to you and wish all of you will know me clearer than before. As you know, I am a devout Christian so you may think I am a moral woman that I won’t make any mistake or unmerciful to people. But actually, I did many mistakes like cheated in exams, go after fame and wealth and judge people without mercy and so on. The following message, I will illustrate how I weak by some story.

Since I was a child, I always being fascinated with high-heel shoes and suit dresses like an office lady, and my idea job was to be a professional manager. After I grew up, I worked very hard to succeed. Finally, I did. I really was a public relation manager of a business company. But I wasn't happy at that time. A growing sense of dissatisfaction with my work and made me keep asking, “Why I am here?” and “What I really love to do for a job?” I started to search for my gifts and God's plan. Last year, I visited a developed country with my church's short-term mission team. The kids, standing in front of me, had an innocent face but without education. I really enjoyed being with them but sorrowed for them and kept asking, “What could I do for them?” Now, I find my gift is ease in working with children and liking to be a story teller. So, my ideal new job is to be social worker or a teacher for children and now I am studying English in NTUST to increase my language skill and I will take some psychology courses on children counseling. to add my professionalism. I think I will meet the country children again and tell Bible stories to them some day.

One of my mistake is about cheating. Do you remember Angela took a idiom test at the first semester? It’s a hard test for everyone, right? I have to confess my sins in that test. I took a quick look at Lillian's paper and I actually to wrote the answer "the six sense" which I shouldn't know on my paper. It was very shame on me to do that thing and God remind me have to confess my sins after I finished Bible study and pray on the next Thursday. I feel that I was a liar just like the Bible.

The feeling make me very uncomfortable without peace. So I decided to confess my wrongdoing to Angela. Thanks God, Angela forgave me and encouraged don't be too hard on myself. After that, I got harder on her class even though I know I would get a lower grade at the semseter. And the second semester I got 10 more points than the first one.

I think most of you don’t like teacher 強, neither do I. Last Monday, I went to MRT station through NTU campus with Amber, Indy, and Sylvia. There were one or two dogs also walking in the campus. We were walking and talking with joy and peace. Suddenly, “Won, won, won...” the dog barked loudly at one bicycle rider. And Indy said “That’s 小強” At that moment, I turned my eye to the direction from Indy’s finger point to. I began to shot and said “Oh, yes! Great! He must be a bad guy, so the bog barked at him but not the others. He should deserve the barking.” Everybody laughed just like you. But Indy laughed and asked ”Rita, I was said you are a devout Christian, why are you so merciless to 小強?” Oh, oh. I answered “I am just a human not God, so I need the Lord to teach me and guide me everyday by his words.
So, please don’t think I will be a noble people, I just a weak and have been failed in the first phase of my life. Like cheating, running after money and famous and judging people without mercy, there are so many flaws that I need God’s rules and direction in the rest of my life.

posted by Rita @ 7:33 PM 1 comments

Writing III-Assignment 1:The behavior of someone in love

Date:2006/10/3
Grade:88

Most people describe the behavior of someone that has fallen in love as “he is lovesick”. But there is not any medicine that can cure the disease. These behaviors show how sweet they are; for example, they call each other every hour or someone may communicate by phone every minute, to share their work experience at that time, who they met, what they did, what kind of food thay had at their lunch or dinner, and so on. And the most important thing they say to each other is “I miss you.” No wander the phone expense is always excessive during the duration of the love. Changing the appearance also is another obvious behavior. A girl changes her hairstyle and dress to be a lovely lady. A boy takes many baths to make himself cleaner than before and wears a smart suit to be a gentleman. Perhaps a common example that it is easy for lover s to make promises like “I will be with you forever until I die.” or”You are my only and last lover.” But the promises are easy broken if one of them finds another Mr. (Miss) Right. Other behavior of this disease includes bad words to each other and suffering for a long time when they break up the relationship. So we must be very careful before we date with someone and had better get some advice from a marriage counselor.

posted by Rita @ 7:17 PM 3 comments