English Kiss Life

Katrina'outline

Who is Hero, the Youth or the Tall Soldier?

Thesis statement: From different angles, hero can be judged differently. According to Stephen Crane’s point of view, the youth in The Red Badge of Courage is also a hero.

Outline:

Ⅰ.The traditional definition of Heroism

Ⅱ.The personality of the youth and the tall soldier

   A. The personality of the youth

B. The personality of the tall soldier

Ⅲ. The special methods used in the description of the youth in this book

Ⅳ. Heroism in Crane’s eye

A. Person’s instincts

B. Crane’s criteria of Heroism

Ⅴ.Conclusion

Abstract

This paper introduces two characters, the youth and the soldier, in The Red Badge of Courage. The writer analyses the personalities of these two and judges them by traditional and Crane’s standards of heroism. After some explorations on the two and the definition of Heroism, the writer draws the conclusion that both are heroes, but of different levels. The youth is a hero in the level of instinct, while the tall soldier moral and traditional.

 

Key words: Traditional Heroism   Crane’s new Heroism   Person’s instinct

MY READING REPORT

GONE WITH THE WINDE

THE SCARLET LETTER

For this term I will finish this two books.

Now I have finished most parts of this two books.

Tips for Tomorrow's Debate

Do use examples, statistics, logical reasonings, and rhetorics and tactics to elaberate on your idea. Do NOT just repeat your point of view again and again. If you have to, try to find another way, to either deepen it or extend it.

Do not say " my friends, please answer our question!". Try to say, " now that the other side fails to address the problem we just mentioned, they are escaping/evading our question which shows their incapibility of reasoning. 

Do not try to convice the other side because they can NEVER be persuaded by you. The one who needs your convince are the judges, the audience, and most inportantly, yourself. Do not look at the other side during the whole debate. You may just listen to them and keep eye contact with the judges and the audience.

Do not idle on just one point of yours. In any debate, not every issue is expected to be covered. All you have to do is arrange your argument in a systematic way in which you may highlight just one or two strongest points and make it powerful and unfalliable. Try to steer the whole debate in the way your side wants and prevent giving too much territory to the other side by admitting part of their points and say that's something we would also agree. You can NEVER disagree on everything they say.

Do deplore your team well because teamwork is essential in any debate. The first speaker may focus on constructure the system of argument and brief on the reaons that may follow. The second and third speakers are not supposed to read or recite things before hand. What you may say is congient to what the opposition side may annouce before you. The last speaker's tasks are usually not so easy as it seems because whether you can win or lose largely depends on how well you wrap up the entire discussion and how skillful you are to seize the last chance to call and win the hearts of the audience and judges.

Debate Terms you may want to adopt:

1. We firmly believe that.....and the reasons are as follows. First, second, last but not least.

2. The other side committed several mistakes and they are wrong, firstly, in saying that...

3. I would like to devide my speech into %% parts. First I would like to make some comments on what the side has just claimed. And the I would like to tell you why they are dangerous to say that. Let's first take a look at what they said.

4. Wonderful speeches! but I wouldn't help but find some flaws in the conerstone of their argument becasue they asserted that.... which is not true....

5.I would like to sum up their speeches into two general mistakes and rebut them one by one.

6.It sounds plausible but you just can not try to use a single matter to prove a universal truth. This is mistake call " Hasty Generalization" in logic.

7. We agree with the other side in saying that.... but we dare not agree with them with the case of...

8. Thanks for your question. This is a point to which I shall return later. Back to the topic.....

9. You said that.... so are you telling us that.......

10. Yes, it is (positive adj.) that ...but don't you think it is ( negative adj.) that....

That's all I can retospect on within such a short notice. Good luck with debate!

get over it

    It's a hard time though,we have to get over it ~

    I see for so long a time ,we didn't write a word here.

    life does hurts

    all we have to do is to stop thinking on the past,and stat a new life.

    i believe that pleasure will surround us forever~~

Will be fighting for you guys.

Hey, there, it seems to be a long time since I wrote something here. How's everybody doing? Recently, due to some widely-known reason, I am cutting lots of classes, ....well...it looks like...I have to....I hope teachers are not too mad about my absence and you guys not missing me too much.....hehe... kidding... I wanna thank you for being so supportive and everything....I thank moitor and Urthula who are about to write some looooooonnnngg article about me which looks like a hard job. I want thank Kathy who is going to give up her own classes at weekend and take my GRE courses for me which is more appealing to her. I want thank Kevin and Abby for giving me such a most needed LAPTOP and the bag at such a crucial time. And of course, the rest of you, being such wonderful classmates of mine. I am proud I am going to be fighting for the glory of our class. For those who are looking for gifts from Beijing, sorry,temporary finicial urgency occurs, so...how about a hug if you want, hahahahaha.... I think I can be back around 13th or earlier, so I won't miss the exciting debate to be held in Ms. Zhu's class. Teamates, don't worry, I will back you up. The opposition side, better be careful! hahaha....kidding... BTW, what has happened to our blog? it has a "bang" now! Looks not so agreeable.....wondering if anybody can shift it back to what is used to be and thank you! God bless you! Best regards, Nick

Congratulations!

Dear class 0403,

It's been a great pleasure sharing our learning experience together. Thank you for your support! I'm very happy to learn Nick did so well in the latest competition and I believe this is an honor for all of us. Congratulations!

Marrie Curie

To tell you which person I admire most is difficult for me. I admire many people. They work in different fields and have their own special experience. So I changed the title a little into "the scientist I admire most" in order to correspond with the Text 1 in Unit 3. The scientist I admire most is a shy but ambitious woman. In her life time, she had one obsession: to learn. And it is because of this obsession that she turned out to be a person who won Nobel Prize twice. I think you have already known who she is--a Nobel Prize Pioneer at the Pantheon, Marrie Curie.

Proverbs

A cat may look at a king.
人人平等                                                                                                                                                   
A fair death honors the whole life.
死得其所，流芳百世。

A fox may grow gray, but never good.
江山易改，本性难移。 
 

A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
吃一堑，长一智。

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难见真情。
 

Amazing Girl ----- Zhang Ziyi

Name:Zhang Ziyi

Occupation:Actress

Birthday:Feb9,1979

Birthplace:Beijing

      Young,pretty,famous,lucky,rich,brave,arrogant,controversial......all of these words are coined for her.Numerous people admire her.Meanwhile,she is the target that many people dislike.Her speedy accomplishment amazes folks in and abroad.In the present year,she turned up at Oscar.In nature,what person is she?

Han Geng

Chinese Name: 　韩庚

Han Geng  is the first Chinese singer and  dancer  in South Korea.

1984:  Han Geng was born in Heilongjiang Province .

1996: He began to practise Chinese tranditional dances, ballet and Kongfu .

1997: He went to BeiJing alone for better training in dancing.

2001: He won the first prize in a dance competition named H.O.T  China and was selected by SM Entertainment, which is the most successful  entertainment company in South Korea.

2003: He gratuated from 中央民族大学 and went to South Korea . In the following two years, he received strict training in dancing and singing in SM company.

2005.11: He and11 Korean boys made up a team named Super Junior and began to give performances in TV programmes. They became popular in a short time.

坚强，隐忍，善良，孝顺的小孩

改变了很多韩国人对中国的偏见，引起了韩国人学习中文的热潮

Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)

  

He was one of the most extraordinary human beings the world has ever known.

He helped found a new nation and defined the American character. Writer, inventor, diplomat, businessman, musician, scientist, humorist, civic leader, international celebrity ……genius

Hillary Rodham Clinton------a great woman

I'd like to introduce sth about this famous person wo is of controversy.

She,the eldest child in her family, was born on Spt.26.1947  and grew up in Park Ridge,Illinois, a Chicago suburb.

First she adhered to Republic Party, then joined Democratic Party.

She get married with Clinton on Oct.11,1975

She was named Arkansas  Woman of the Year in1983 and Arkansas Young  Mother of the Year in1984.

There are a lot more I'd like to tell you...You'll see then.

Malcolm Forbes

"The Rich List"

When you cease to dream, you cease to live.

Malcolm Forbes, while alive, he lived.

Hellen Keller

Name: Hellen Keller

Date of Birth: June 27th, 1880

Date of Place: The Unite State

Hellen Keller is a word-famous author and public speaker. She could not see or hear becase of a feaver when she was 19 months old. But she was not someone who gave up easily and explored the world by using the other senses. The famous article Three Days to See is in her first work The story of My Life made her a famous person in the world and it encourage many people when they are in frustration.

A Man Can Not Be Defeated

E Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)

One of the most famous American novelist, short-story writer and essayist, whose deceptively simple prose style have influenced wide range of writers. Hemingway was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was unable to attend the award ceremony in Stockholm, because he was recuperating from injuries sustained in an airplane crash while hunting in Uganda.

forever living kurt cobain

He was the leader of the band Nirvana,he valued iconoclastic attitude,he made people crazy about punk music,he was the star who hate to be star,he was the man who escape the reality by killing himself.after his death,we learnt another kind of phylosophy,burn out yourself before you fade away.

I love him very much

Name:XuWei

Date of Birth: July21th ,1968

Place of Birth:Xi'an

Occupation:Singer

He is a singer and as a singer,he has walked a long way to be the top.His songs today are different with the prophase ones,so to speak,the style has merely changed.But the melody are still attractive and full of his telent for music.I will give more details about him to you guys after two days.Wait for me.

Make Our Voice Heard

Below is a speech delivered by Diane, a friend of mine, who also went to CCTV Cup English Speaking Competition with me, 2004. The speech is used for her national finals. She has an amazing voice, 100% pure American English accent and is able to make wonderful speeches out of simple words. I enjoy this speech very much and I hope you will when I present it to you tomorrow in Ms. Ma's British Literature Class. I have also uploaded her voice into our shared email box: class403@gmail.com (in case you forget it). You can download the mp3 matierial whenever you feel like to.   

Belated Happy National Holiday and Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

:)

“Diane, can you speak a little louder, please?” That’s what my teacher said to me on the first day of school. I almost burst into tears as so many students turned to watch me sit down in the corner that belonged to me. After school, my teacher found me, smiling, she said: “You don’t have to be afraid of anyone. People just want to know about you so the next time just let them hear what you have to say. After so many years, I am still a shy person as I was fifteen years ago but the difference is I am not any more afraid of letting people know about me, hear about my ideas.

People, as we are, are never isolated individuals. We all live on the planet where lives all the other people as well. So keeping oneself excluded would never work, or else we would always be trapped in that little corner of ours. We have to step into the world as we are in fact part of it.

I’ve always remembered what Simba said to her daughter: we are one. So what’s to be afraid of? Since human beings are virtually linked souls. Just tell others what we really think, how we really feel. Even if we do have the wrong idea, we will have the chance to correct our mistakes. And if we don’t, it’s all right.  

But if we never spoke our mind, we will never know what we are missing out in this world. We will never know what we can actually make of ourselves. And we will never know what is needed to live a life with other people. When there is giving, there is receiving. That’s how the communication circle works. We are all very blessed to have so many people hear our voice. So don’t refuse the blessing for life is based on it. Just remember when the world knows more about us, we know more about the world.  

So today, can you hear my voice?"

Audry Hepburn

 　　　　　Audry Hepburn(1929--1993)

1929	May 4, birth of Audrey Kathleen Hepburn　Ruston in Brussels, Belgium. Daughter of Joseph Hepburn-Ruston and Ella van Heemstra

1953

Roman Holiday Paramount Pictures Directed By: William Wyler Starring: Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert Role: Princess Ann (Anya Smith) Academy Award® - Best Actress

1954	Sabrina Paramount Pictures Directed By: Billy Wilder Starring: Humphrey Bogart, William Holden Role: Sabrina Academy Award® Nomination, Best Actress

１９９３Audrey dies on January 20 at her home in Tolochenaz, Switzerland.

　　　　Audrey receives her second Oscar® (posthumously)

Walter Disney

Name: Walter Disney

Date of Birth: Deϲember 5,1901

Place of Birth: America

Occupacion: Everyone knows

Try to imagine a world without Walt Disney. A world without his magic, whimsy, and optimism. Walt Disney transformed the entertainment industry, into what we know today. He pioneered the fields of animation, and found new ways to teach, and educate. Walt’s optimism came from his unique ability to see the entire picture. His views and visions came from the fond memory of yesteryear, and persistence for the future.

Addition

The Person I Admire Most----Deng Xiaoping

The Person I Admire Most----Deng Xiaoping

Name: Deng Xiaoping

Birth and Death: （1904 ～ 1997）

Place of Birth:  Paifang village Xiexing town Guang'an City Sichuan province

When it comes to our modern reform in China, almost everyone knows Deng Xiaoping. With Xiaoping's presence and his era coming, people are soon to find themselves living in an altered world which is experiencing new changes, new ideas, new habits of thinking, and a new set of values. Under the leadership of comrade Deng Xiaoping, the psychological climate was changing, the ever-shifting currents of our life were turning into new channels.

The Mask Forever —Jim Carrey--Nicole

    Name: Jim Carrey

        Place of Birth:  Canada 

    Occupacion:Actor

 Date of Birth: January 17,1962

Jim Carrey  has become one of  the most recognized faces in the world---and it is precisely because of  his face that  he has achieved such fame. Nobody can forget him after seeing his movies. Neither can I ! I consider him the mask foever ,  for his rubbery look as well as his wild and extreme behavior is so perfectly fun ~~~

My Big Man

  I'd like to introduce Stephen William Hawking －－the greatest physical scientist after Einstein in this centrury.

A charming man ------Tom Hanks

   

  

    Name:Tom Hanks

    Date of Birth: July 9,1956

    Place of Birth:   California

    Occupacion:Everyone knows.

  With Big ,Hanks estabulished his reputation as a box-office drew as well as a talented actor.  Most of us know him for the famous film Forrest Gump,what about the story of  the charming man?Well, next week ,I will give you more details about him.

A Legend of a Boy to a Man

How many roads must a man walk down, before they call him a man .

Almost everybody knows him, but few of us really understand him.

Chinese Name: 谢霆锋

English Name: Nicholas  Tse

Date of Birth:  August 29. 1980

Place of Birth: HongKong

Maybe what I say can't change your attitude to him ,but , I'm devoting my heart to recall my past 8 years, and I'll try my best  to help you know more about him.

Born to Win: There is no one like Lance Armstrong

 "It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride."

-Lance Armstrong

"I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles. But this is a hell of a race... You should believe in these athletes, and you should believe in these people. I'll be a fan of the Tour de France for as long as I live. And there are no secrets -- this is a hard sporting event and hard work wins it."

-Lance Armstrong, to his detractors, after winning his seventh Tour de France.

Profile of  Lance Armstrong:

Name: Lance Armstrong
Date of Birth: September 18, 1971
Place of Birth: Plano, Texas, U.S.A
Occupacion: the lead rider of the U.S. Postal Service team( Now retired)
Accomplishment: A seven consecutive victory in the Tour de France from 1999 to 2005, after testicular cancer
Memoirs It's Not About the Bike (2000) ; Every Second Counts (2003)
Organization: Lance Armstrong Foundation

I'd like to change my reading plan

 Hi,my dear pals,glad to meet you here again. This moning I was joyous to see the news about our BlogBus in Chu Tian Du Shi Newspaper (I am sorry to say I forget how to translate it though our teacher had told me).

I had tried to find the original novel of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer in our school library. To my dissatisfaction ,I did't find it .Therefore I need to change my reading plan. I want to choose Great Expections written by Charles Dickens. Is it ok ?

My appreciaton

Hi, everybody,

I kept reading each of your writing at a time and it impressed me a lot in many aspects---your plan, your determination, your English, especially your insatible desire for learning all make me feel happy.You are really our pride.

Now I would like to point out one mistake in two students' writing: That is , in Englsh we do not use the quotationmarks before and after the title of the book.

Ok, it;s the early morning. I have to stop here. Talk to you later.

Malissa

Absolute Sincere

     Hi,my dear pals,glad to meet you here.Sorry for my late joining.However,my eternal passion and sincerity for our class will never be changed.Believe me!

       My reading plant is listed tersely below.

      Wuthering Heights,Scarlet letter and  Emma  (in the coming month)   Surprise?Tell you the truth: I  only got the latter tow books in Chiense version.Ha ha ~~  But better than never browsing,isn't it ?

      Tess,which  I bought  today,will be tasted meticulously in the latter past of this semester. Concerning fifty nine chapters in all, five to six chapters have to be finished every week.

      Come on,everyone!

My reading plan

 I wish I am not late .This semester I will read two books.In the first period I will read robinson crusoe which written by Daniel defoe.And the second period I will read The lionking. Wish you  superviseme!

My reading plan for this semester

     The two books:  Pride and Prejudice writtern by Jane Austen and  Jane eyre writtern by Charlotte Bronte , both native English novels ,are in my reading plan as I want to acquaint with some maners and customs from the books.Another two books :The Odyssey writtern by Homer from Greece and The Divine Comedy writtern by Dante from Italy ,are also amid my plan as I want to learn the relationship between these Gods and also their names and duties.Because these knowledge often appears in many other books and each time I met them,I was stopped.So I think they would be very helpful.They are not origin of English, so I give the reason and I hope Mrs Zhu can understand.

The Moon Festival----Sue

  Bright moon,when was your birth?

Winecup in hand ,Iask the deep blue sky;

 Not knowing what year it is tonight

In those celestal palaces on hight.

I long to fly back on wind ,

Yet dread those crystal towers , those courts of jade,

Freezing to death among  those icy heights!

Instead I rise to dance with my pale shadow;

Better off, after all, in the world lf men.

 Rounding the red pavilion,

Stooping to look through gauze windows,

She shines on the sleepless,

The moon should know no sadness;

Why , then ,is she always full when dear ones are parted ?

Fore men the grief of paring, joy of  reunion ,

Just as the moon wanes and waxes, is bright or dim;

Always some flaw---and so it has been since of old.

My one wish for you ,then ,is long life

And a share in this loveliness far, you away!

This poem is written by Su Shi ,can you understand it ?

The Moon Festival

  These days I am watching the TVplay LOST as lots of classmates doing .

I'd like to change my reading plan

I have borrowed two books from our library--The Making of A Man, Tess.

I have already begun reading the former .It's very easy tio understand for it is translated from Russian. I can't resist its beauty in this novel that my reading of English original must be postponed a little. Till now ,I've decided to read Tess and Pride and Prejudice this semester. Although It may be a hard work,I'd like to challenge.

May a fruitful semester for everyone!

What can I do?

I find it is extremely difficult for me to read those famous nolves. Becouse everytime I read them, sleepyness must attack me. Maybe I'm not born to be a good student.

Blowin' in the Wind

How many roads must a man walk down
Before they call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
How many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
How many times can a man turn his head,
And pretending that he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
How many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

My reading plan --Jo

This term I would like to read two original English novels : and .These classic works are  big challenge to me ,but I will make every efforts to finish them ,so as to push my reading comprehension to a new level .

Ursula's Reading Plan

I think reading long-length novel is very necessary to us this term. Though we already have many reading articles in some subjects, I plan to read The Scarlet Letter and Bible. And I believe it will help me to know much more about the culture of western countries. If time permits, I want to buy some English materials such as 21^st Century、Crazy English and so on.

Baxia !!

value each moment

    to realize the value of one year

    ask a student who failed his exams

    to realize the value of one month

    ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby

    to realize the value of one week

    ask an editor of a weekly magazine

    to realize the value of one day

    ask a daily wage laboror who has six kids to feed

    to realize the value of one hour

    ask the lovers who are waiting to meet

    to realize the value of one minute

    ask the person who missed the train

    to realize the value of one second

   ask the person who survived an accident

   to realize the value of  one milisecond

   ask the person who won the silver medal in the Olympics

   

book plan

When I first looked at such a long list that Mrs.Zhu made for us, I was actually scared.How can I finish them in comparatively short semester? To read or not to read, that's a question. Well, after concerning both time limitation and my quality, I got a decision that I'm gonna start from ,and . This is a short-time plan. Of course, I must read some other novles after that. At this moment, I just hope I can finish my short plan in time. By the way, I have a problem.  Some of the novles I've mentioned were written in old English . So it must be difficult to read. How can I cope with it? I'm looking forward to the answer. Thanks. 

My reading plan

Hoping I am not late for writing this.

I choose The Scarlet Letter as the reading meterial  this term. Because I have seen the movie yet,I think it may easier for me to  understand.This novel totally has 23 chapters,and one chapter for one week is not enough.I will speed up my reading process and finish it at the end of this term.I will write journal every week to express my feelings about this book.

My Reading Plan

Since we already have many reading materials in the course of 英语小说选读, including three long-length novels, I think reading another long-length novel is enough for this semester. I am going to read Nicholas Nickleby, the third novel of Charles Dickens. The novel consists of 65 chapters, and I plan to read 4 chapters a week, so that to finish it within this semester.

If time permits, I want to read some parts of the Bible to help myself know better about the culture of western countries.

Jackey's reading plan

This term I would like to read one of my mother’s and my favorite novel Jane Eyer, written by Charlotte Bronte. Though I have read the Chinese version before, I think reading the original work is a great challenge. In spite of this, I shall have a try. If I have enough time, I would like to read some parts of The Holmes, written by Arthur Conan Doyle, because I like detective stories very much.

I am sorry to say that our new plan has to be given up

Tonight, it is the first time we have studied together. but the outcome is not so satisfictory. And I am so sorry that Nick's plan has to be given up. By the way,we should thank Nick for his proposal he raised for our class. Thank you . 

It may be difficult to study staying together for we have our own study plans. we may dislike others' study methods,or even disgust. To not interrupt others,and to avoid unpleasant events occured,we'd better put an end to it. Sorry to see that.

May everyone an terrific study and dream realised!

My Reading Plan of this Semester——Abby

We have slightly and silently passed two years. How to say, I feel a bit terrible. Now, we are junior. We will graduate before long and I can touch the serious compete.

I have made my reading plan of this semester as follows:

First, reading two long famous novels, one is , second is  In the wheat field keeps watch. Meantime, I have decided to read the O. Henry’s short stories. Although it will be a little difficult to me, I will try my best to finish them. As well, I will write out my feeling after my reading and share the feelings with you.

Amy's Reading Plan

The following four months will be divided into two parts:

First Period : Emma   by  Jane Austin 【B】

            The Great Gatsby  by  Fitzgerald,F.S. 【A】

Second one: The Lord Of The Rings  by  J.R.R. Tolkien 【B】

            The Wonderful Wizard of Oz  by  L. Frank Baum 【A】

As concise as possible.

My reading plan

In this term, I plan to read two books. One of them is Wuthering Heights, which is written by Emily Bronte and the other is Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

In the following days, I will try my best to make full use of my spare time to finish the two books chapter by chapter. I believe I will achieve a lot after reading.

 

The reading plan in this semester

     I have decided to read the Great Expectation written by Charles Disckens all thought this semester. According to this book, I have made a plan of reading it day by day. Each day about ten pages, it takes around forty-five days to get though the whole book. Personally I think it may be difficulty to accomplish it on time, for sometime the plan may be interrupted by some thing. So I will try my best to achieve the plan and manage to appreciate this great novel.

Tookey's reading plan

Hello guys,

I am cheerful to stay here to list my reading plan .

In this term ,I don't want to loaf away my time any more ,so I need to make full use of my spare time to  read some books .These are the books I will read: (1)Pride and Prejudice and Emma by Jane Austen;(2)Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte;(3)The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer .

It seems that many things in the world are out of our reach, however,I will tell you just do it and you will succeed in time .