My Reading Journal 7 Group F 鄭人豪

Last weekend I had started to read a book named MoneyBall ,writen by the general manager of the major league baseball team , Oakland Athletics , Billy Beane , and retold by Michael Lewis , published by W W Norton & Co Inc . It's a narrative deal with some strategies of manegement derive from the principle "Pay less and get more". The writer said that this book is the art about win an unfair game. In the major league , there are many high payroll team like New York Yankees like to use a lot of money to attract some superstars like Alex Rodriguez , However , this book is teach those poor team to use some tricks to win this unfair game . In order to win the game , they have to be the contrarian - sign some player is not very popular or unfit for the major league , and inspire their potential energy . On the other word , it conduct those team to construct a low payroll team with the ability to win . The book is not only a book for baseball , but for the business . It's a experience of how to suvive in the adversity .

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My Reading Journal 7 Group F 朱慶元

This is the final work , Oliver has enjoyed his best time ever than before , he stays with family member he once tried to thieving in the country , he becomes stronger and more wise , he has being taught reading and writing , everything seems fine , but things always go wrong , Oliver is being found accidentally , those thieves will never leave him , they can do anything to "convince" him back to their side , and perhaps if he were being caught again , he may try to escape again , being caught and then escape , like circle walking , you don't know where the start and end are , it's endless , so this time I rather focus an incident , between Harry and Rose . Harry proposes to Rose , but Rose doesn't think she deserves his love because her background , if she accepted his proposal , she may ruin his future . Why I noticed this because why the marriage must establish based to each other's profits rather than just love ? Why one should left their own desire just because some nature born problems , I think if you really love someone , this won't be a hard barrier to break , face your own fear and wide it out , at least give a try , without regretting , that's the really way to life .

My Reading Journal 5 Group F 朱慶元

This time , Oliver's life is completely change again as before , from Hell to Heaven , before being "salivated" , he was being commanded to help thieving , but Oliver didn't want to follow their order which made him being shot , bleed , left by those thieves , and finally saved by those who once a target of thieving . Through this , we find that Oliver is a brave child , he doesn't bend to those thieves even under a death threat , and it leads a path to make himself free once again . But we still can't neglect one determinant – destiny . Who can guarantee that Oliver will be treat well instead of being torture or what else ? I think no , even Sociology always tries to tell us that your life is full of choices , and you have the freedom to chose what you like , it sounds good , but history already witness that no one can behave base on free will without outward limitation , like culture , ecnomic etc . Oliver was the best proof , sometimes we really can't deny that something could only answer by God , you know what I mean .

My Reading Journal 6 Grou F 鄭人豪

This week I select a article about the violence erupted in South Africa.It's published on TIME MAGAZINE writen by Megan Lindow.The violence against immigrants in the townships around Sourth Africa's financial capital,Johannesburg ,continue ten days long.This incident is caused by some issues including immigrant and economic problem ( unemployments).We know that South Africa's neighbor,Zimbabwe,has a serious inflation
problem,many zimbabwean can not find a job and afford to pay the price,so they and some malawian migrant into those poor townships around Johannesburg.the mob accuse those immigrants of taking their job away,and
attack those immigrants.Know South Africa's goverment is facing a dilemma of accept those immigrants or not,because the president Thabo Mbeki had said that South Africa was not "an island separate from the rest of the continent."
And human right groups urged president Mbeki to consider using the military to restore order.In the end, I quote a zimbawean immigrant's comment about the violence for everybody to think,she said "South Africans have time to fight, but Zimbabweans only have time to work, because we are working to feed our children."

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My Reading Journal 5 Group F 朱慶元

After Oliver was caught to the stronghold of thieves for several weeks , not knowing where Oliver is , making Mr. Brownlow feels so sad that lead him to put a notice which inform someone will get reward if the information about Oliver was given , this could be a chance to free Oliver from the hell . Unfortunately , "The Savior" doesn't appear , instead , "The Demon" comes , whose name is Mr. Bumble , his "honest description" about who Oliver is , what background he has , and , most important , what he has done before , shatter Mr. Brownlow's confidence toward Oliver . More worse , a man named Monks who was recently known by the old thief Fagin , says that he will pay a lot if someone who can train a child to be a thief or criminal and lead he to be banished from the country , what a horrible thinking. Not to mention again , the best choice is the major role of this book , Oliver , once again , he was sent to help thieving , and was taken to where the Bill Sikes is by Nancy , Nancy seems to be the only one who is friendly to Oliver , but this time , she won't do anything because life threat by others , the situation of Oliver is more and more harder , could he escapes from this disaster , we'll see .

The News We Want To present - Group F

Topic: Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts

By ANDREW C. REVKIN

Published: October 2, 2007

We hope you can skim it before class. If you have any question about this report, we hope you can ask what you want to know. J

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My Reading Journal 4 GroupF 鄭人豪

This week I select a article from National Geographic to write my reading journal.I think last book I select to read is too diffcult for me to read,
I can't really understand the mean of the book and read efficiently.So,I revise my plan to find the article from same magazines or newspapers to write
my reading journals.The topic of the article I select this week is "Alexander The Great's "Crown" Shield Discovered?"writen by Sara Goudarzi.
An ancient tomb thought to held the body of Alexander The Great's father philip II is actually that of Alexander's half brotheer.In 1977, the
archaeologists found out the three ancient royal Macedonian burials,the Tomb I is a sigle stone box containg human identified as mature male,a younger
female,and a newborn.The Tomb II is a large vaulted tomb with two chambers, contained a young woman and a mature male and remain some treasures including
some vessels,potterys,an iron helmet,and a ceremonial shieldand an object initially identified as a scepter.
Later,the archaeologists announced that the burial in the main chamber of the large rich tomb was that of Philip II,father of Alexander the Great,who
was assassinated in 336 B.C.But,their theory had been breaken today.some scientist found the new evidences to proof these treasures remain in the Tomb
II don't produce in Philip II's era,and the mature male laying in the chamber is Alexander's half brother,who had been Alexander The Great's successor.

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RJ4 GroupF 朱慶元

Continue to the last section , we might think that Oliver could be well treated for a long while , but things always go wrong , a good friend of Mr. Brownlow , whom being called Mr. Grimwig , comes to his house , with the habit that always says to eat his own head , doubts Oliver's honsety , leads Mr. Brownlow to have Oliver to send the books and money back the bookstore , taken it as a test , wants to prove his view toward Oliver is correct that he is a good child . Unfortunately , Oliver fails. The reason is not concern about his nature but his miserable destiny , he is being found by these thieves , taken back to their beachhead , and "well treated" . Just at the moment , Nancy , a lover of Bill sike , defends Oliver , tries to protect him from the "heaven" where he is , and finally from his friend . I am wondering that why author make Nancy become Oliver's protector though she couldn't help much , through chapters before , author has a clear distinction between these who are good and bad , but now Nancy's behavior blurs that boundary . Could we say , in fact , author still believes that the humanity is good , even "now" they're bad . I see the hope from Nancy , I wish she 's not the only one in the time that we think the world is brutal and dark , I really hope so .

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My Reading Journal 4 Group F 陳聖勳

In this two month, I finished the book " Charlotte's Web ". The literary in the book is plain, so I can image the frame clearly by its vivid description. Now I will continue to represent the summary of the story.

Wilbur is vigorous and always exploring new things. He lives with Fern, the girl who has saved him, for a few weeks and then is sold to her uncle, Homer Zuckerman. Though Fern visits him at the Zuckermans' farm as often as she can, Wilbur feels lonelier day after day. Finally, a warm and soothing voice tells him that she is going to be his friend. The next day, he wakes up and meets his new friend: Charlotte, the gray spider. Wilbur soon becomes a member of the community of animals who live in the cellar of Zuckerman's barn.

When the old sheep in the barn cellar tells Wilbur that he is going to be killed and eaten at Christmas, he asks Charlotte for help. Charlotte has the idea of writing words in her web praising Wilbur's excellence (such as 'SOME PIG'), reasoning that if she can make Wilbur sufficiently famous, he will not be killed. Thanks to Charlotte's efforts, Wilbur not only lives, but goes to the county fair--with Charlotte--and wins a prize.

Because of the short lifespan of spiders, Charlotte dies at the fair. Wilbur repays Charlotte by bringing home with him the sacred of eggs she had laid at the fair before dying. When Charlotte's eggs hatch at Zuckerman's farm and most of Charlotte's daughters leave to make their own lives elsewhere, three (Nellie, Aranea and Joy) remain there as friends to Wilbur.

The story reminds me of the movie "Babe", which acts by animals. Both of them feature by little pig. And I am delighted with those two pigs have a happy ending!

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My Reading Journal 3 GroupF 鄭人豪

I had started to read the novel "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time".I find there are some interesting factors in this story.It's writed by first-person narrative of Christopher ,just like he tells you his story in person.In the story,

Christopher explains why gives the chapters prime numbers,he say that prime numbers are like life.They are very logical but you chould never work out the rules,even if you spent all your time thinking about that.Actually,he likes thinking,but he cann't really understand others thinkings, he cann't understand abstract things.So,he likes science and maths,because they just need to think by oneself.I think he is a genius,a dreamer,a murder mystery novel writer.

"I don't ever use others writing"

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My Reading Journal 3 Team F 陳聖勳

This time I choose a children's book that is named Charlotte's Web. Charlotte's Web is a children's book by acclaimed American author E. B. White. First published in 1952, it tells the story of a barn spider named Charlotte and her friendship with a pig named Wilbur. The book was illustrated by Garth Williams. To get to know what kind of books foreign children will read in their daily lives, I choose this book, which is recommended by my classmate.

Charlotte's Web is an animal fable that deals with several important aspects of a happy life: friendship, heroism, constancy, and death. Wilbur is hyperactive and always exploring new things. This book begins when John Arable's sow gives birth to a litter of piglets, and Mr. Arable discovers one of them is a runt and decides to kill it. However, his 8 year old daughter Fern begs him to let it live. Therefore her father gives it to Fern as a pet, and she names the runt Wilbur. It's a pity that I didn't finish it yet due to the continuous holidays, but I will finish the last part because it's interesting!

My Reading Journal 3 F組 朱慶元

To continue the previous chapter , this time , Oliver is being taught to , without knowing anything , steal stuffs from other children by the way he thinks is just the game . After few days , he is being sent to "work" with his partners and then they steal a silk handkerchief from a elder which make Oliver astonished , scared him run away and mislead that elder think he is a thief (I have a question: Since Oliver knows what thieving is , why couldn't him identify the purpose about that "funny game" is , is so weird , isn't it? ) . Then he is being arrested and sent to police station , meets the one who is bad temper , doesn't want to get trouble and willing to make Oliver guilty without clear evidence . Fortunately the book store owner make the correct witness , lead Oliver being freed , taken to the elder's house and treated well . Till here , through these chapters , the world which author describe is really brutal to those who don't have significant background like Oliver , those who surround them , in fact , don't care them whether the are suffering or what else , even more dead . They are just tools , being used until broken , and that's their only value in the world . Can this being changed ?Only the author knows .

My Reading Journal 2 Team F 陳聖勳

In these two weeks I continued to read "Pride and Prejudice", and I finally finished it!

There are many characters in the story, and I often confuse someone with another. To tell apart their relationship, I surfed the Internet to Wikipedia, finding a picture of comprehensive web which is showing the relationships between the main characters in Pride and Prejudice. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pride_and_Prejudice_Character_Map.png)

In the end of the story, Lady Catherine discovers Mr. Darcy's feelings for Elizabeth, which threaten her long cherished desire for him to marry her daughter, Anne de Bourgh. She pays Elizabeth an unannounced visit and brusquely tries to intimidate her into refusing such an engagement. Unfortunately for Lady Catherine, her visit only serves to confirm Elizabeth's intentions. Furthermore, Lady Catherine later visits Mr. Darcy, and relates the entire conversation to him — giving him the hope that if he proposes to Elizabeth again, she may accept him. After ensuring the rekindling of Mr. Bingley and Jane Bennet's relationship, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth become engaged.

After she was married, Mr. Bennet missed Elizabeth very much and visited whenever he could. Eventually, even Lady Catherine de Bourgh visited Pemberley, while the Gardiners, of course, were always welcome guests. Both Darcy and Elizabeth love them, for they had brought them together.

The most impressive sentence to me is "…she looked forward with delight to the time when they should be removed from society so little pleasing to either, to all the comfort and elegance of their family party at Perberley." ---extract from the last chapter. It vividly portrayed the happiness and a sense of satisfaction of Elizabeth, and I was deeply touched.

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My Reading Journal 1 Team F 陳聖勳

The book I want to read is "Pride and Prejudice," first published on 28 January 1813, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels and one of the first "romantic comedies " in the history of the novel. The book is Jane Austen's second published novel. The reason I choose this book is that I want to read more classic of the world. And I choose the modern version which retold by Hilary Burningham, so I can read it and listen to CD.

Pride and Prejudice is a novel about the family Bennet with five daughters. Though they are not poor, they are certainly not rich, and the girls' choice of husband will decide how they live for the rest of their lives.

The second daughter, Elizabeth, the central character, refused the marry the first man proposed to her. She insisted that she will love and respect the man she marries. Mr. Darcy, who is tall, handsome and rich, was quite attracted to her. He found her both beautiful and intelligent.

There are two problems baffle them in the story: one is Elizabeth's pride: she thought him arrogant; another is Mr. Darcy's prejudice: her family was socially beneath his. --- I think that's why the book called "Pride and Prejudice."

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My Reading Journal GroupF 鄭人豪

The book I is "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
It's a very special fiction with some logical and mathematical thinkings writen by Mark Haddon , a novelist and poet .
The story is about a genius－Christopher who has no understanding of human emotions and cannot stand to be touched
witnesses his neighbor's dog is impaled on a garden fork , then he decide to track to the real killer , But the investigation
leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents' marriage.
As he tries to deal with the crisis within his own family , we are drawn into the workings of Christopher's mind.
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" is a fiction with the element in comedy , mystery , and love story

My Reading Journal 1F組 朱慶元

Book title: Oliver Twist

Author: Charles Dickens

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After viewed chapter 1 to chapter 3 , I make the conclusion that the situation of the main character , Oliver Twist , is an epitome before written law of human rights of children was established . In that time , the basic rights of children were not being emphasized as today , the work time was long , unlimited and always out of their capability ; the payment was little , some of them even not knew they could being paid or not . I guess their physical status , without saying , were poor , they couldn't even being full hunger satisfied like Oliver and those orphan as same as him in the workhouse , and most important is , they were being treated violently all the time when disobedience was presented . In chapter 3 , Oliver was being elected as a reprehensive to express their need for food and the consequence was he became a scapegoat for a trespass which the authorities thank it's a trespass and being beaten to confirm their power . They didn't have freedom and free will , living like a slave that we can't image today . That's the reason why I think is an epitome before written law of human rights of children was established .