New President

Many American citizens become overwhelmed with joy, excitement, drawn into tear, and cheer with smiles on their faces as the first African American, Barack Obama became the forty fourth president of the United State, who made a historic event for all to remember. On January 20, 2009 Obama was sworn into office giving his first inaugural address in front of millions of people who were present in Washington D.C and millions who watched live broadcasting on television all over the nation. Many have heard in Obama’s presidential campaign of the promises that he will fulfill once he become the president of the Untied State. In the inaugural address that were presented, Barack Obama want to inspire the American people by telling us that we are confident hard working people who will face many changelings obstacle, but we will work through it by communicating with one another to solve the problems.

On this historical moment many of the audiences that president Obama present his speech in front of were many people from many race of people. Many of these people have come from all over across the United States and other country. There were African Americans, Caucasians, Hispanic, Asian, and many other people that were there in the audience who want to be in the present of the first African American president while the inauguration was given on a nice cloud cover day in Washington D.C. . When Obama gave his speech he did not only speak to the people in the United States, but other nations and its leader as well. Some of the nation that Obama direct his message to are the Muslim world telling them that, “we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect.” (Obama 5), “To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict or blame their society’s ills on the West, know that your people will judge you on what you build, not what you destroy.”(Obama 5), and to the people of the poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds.”(Obama 5) These were some of the nations that were the indirect audience for the speech. The other audience that he makes reference to was the brave American which is the solider that help protect America during time of crisis.

Like the other professional speaker the presidents all use different strategy to get their audience attention and persuade the audience. A lot of the professional speaker as well as the president what to use strategy that will stick with the audience for as long as they can remember the speech and whatever that is being presented. In Obama’s speech specifically he use a lot of parallelism in his speech to grab the audiences’ attention and make it a lot easier for the people listening to the speech to leave with the message that was being convey. Some of the example that president Obama use in his speech is have, “on this day…..we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.” (Obama 3) and the other example is “Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and again the work of remaking America,” (Obama 3). The reason that Obama use this strategy to persuade or grab attention of his audience because he what his audience to understand his message, also because it is written like a list of stuff so that many people will remember what was said and remember it. When using a list in speeches or writing it helps balance the writing out and it also gives flow or rhythm to the speech. Another type of strategy that president Obama use in his speech is agenda setting which is making plan to make a better future for America. Basically it is saying that they will take action now and help create new stuff that is needed to make American citizens happy. This speech also have a lot of past to future reference that was used to make a lot of reference from the past of our founding father who have when through a long time ago trying to make America a good conditioning place to all of us to live at today. The speaker attempt to use a lot of this type of strategy to help all of us to get back on track and go forward reminding American people of the past, and reminding us that there are a lot of good things to come in the future so that we need to work together as a whole to fulfill the American dream.

During the time when the speech was given the United State was going through an economy crisis. Many American was going through a though time because lots of jobs was cut back and many other stuff was cut back making it hard for many of the American families live.

Penguin

In my past English class, I had to do a report, getting information from A National Geographic magazine, I was like this is going to be really hard because it has boring article and it did not seem to be fun. As I was looking for a magazine to write about, I really like this one that I picked it had penguins and it reminder me of the movie “ Happy Feet,’’ so I thought that it was going to be interesting and fun to read about penguins.

There are a lot of interesting article in the magazine that I looked at, but the most interesting on was called “Emperors of the Ice.” it is about penguins. I thought that this quote, “Regal birds nurture their young through relentless blizzards, and months of killing cold.” -Glenn Oeland is a sad quote because these birds live Antarctica and it is very, very cold there even though that’s how they live, but seeing that they have young ones are even sadder because they have to try and keep their baby as warm as possible so nothing dangerous would happen to it.

This is an interesting article because I learned that these emperors birds live in a place that becomes like a looming hurricane in March. Where they all have to look for places to stay at to survive. An interesting thing I read was that this birds breed in winter, and that the females compete for males, and that they are very unfaithful to others. It just sounds like something that a human being would do.

Reading the article I came upon a part where it was talking about the process or months that a male father had to do to comfort the newborn baby. It sounded interesting because in the real world the mother and father work together to take care the child until they’re really to be on it’s own, but it is different how penguins take cares of their baby. I learned that the male penguins has the egg on his feet for 65 days until it is good and ready for the mother to take care of it. While they are doing that they loss a third of it’s body weight. These egg are usually laid in the early winter. These are some of the interesting facts.

All of the pictures in these magazine are really beautiful and nice. There is a picture that I really like. It was the picture of the ocean where there was a huge ice with a lot of penguins standing on top of it and being bunch together to enjoy their self in having some fun with the others. Some were jumping into the water which also reminded me of a scene from the movie I mention early in the report . It seem really creative, the way how most of the penguins stick together through the coldness and horrible weather there in Antarctica

Final days

Today was the last English class day. I can’t believed that I survived till the end of the semester. A lot of people were in this class at the beginning of the semester, but as the year go by a lot of people started disappearing, one by one. I think that a lot of them who is no longer in the class at the end of the semester dropped because they were either there to see how the instructor teaches, were getting sort of bad grade or just couldn’t handle all of the pressure from the instructor. All the instructor want was for the students that’s in his class to follow his instruction and do the assignment correctly. A lot or no all of the assignment that was given in this class was simple at times, but hard at the same time. All I had to do was follow the instruction thoroughly, so I would not get low score of points for the assignment. This instructor was very strict, but I learned a lot in this English class then my pervious English class that I had taken there at that campus. Everyday we did and learned different things, but if something required longer time to teach then it will take two or three day instead of learning something new one day and move on to a different subject. It didn’t feel like thing was rush, it was like everything went smooth.

For the final project or thing that we had to turn in for the instructor to grade was doing a portfolio and journal. For the portfolio, the folder was already provided by the instructor, so we had to do was revise two of the essay that was already graded along with a cover memo page with six short 4-6 line. The question was already given to us so we just had to answer it and made sure that our worked was done correctly with no errors. In class today we had a final essay that was had to do answering this prompt question that I don’t think I did a really good job on, but hopefully everything will go right so that I would get a descent good grade for this class.

Past Summers

Two to three years ago, I went traveling outside of the state during the summer time. I don’t really remember, but I think it was during summer 2007 that I went to Taiwan for about two weeks or so with my cousins, aunties, and uncle. It was my first time traveling outside of the U.S. it was very humid and different compare to here, the United State. It was very hot as well. While I was there, I had went sight seeing at many different places that I don’t remember the name of, but it was very nice and beautiful. I remember, the whole group traveling in a big bus riding along the coast, near the ocean with blue clear water, the scenery was awesome. In the bus ride we sang different song and did other things to have time fly by. We all knew everyone in the bus, so we were all sort of comfortable around each other. Oh, I also went to the highest and tallest building call Taipei 101. I went all the way up to the building and when looking down from the building it wasn’t scary, but everything down below looked like ants. Beside doing all of that, we also went shopping at the mall, but it was very expensive. A lot of the store within the mall seem like some of the stores that we have here. I did more then this, but this is all that I remember.

The following year or so I travel to Southeast Asian to Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia. For this trip it was me and three of my cousins. The four of us went like a week earlier then the other people who later met up with us in Thailand. They didn’t go to the other country mentioned above, but we did. I had a lot of fun, but all the airplane ride and bus was tiring. We also took the taxi and that was my first time. Oh man, I really miss the food that I at there, the food was very good and cheap compare to the food that they sell out here. We went sight seeing : temples, floating market, night markets, and many more. I also went to the city in Thailand call Phuket, where the tsunami hit a while back. We stayed in a hotel near the beach that they rebuild after it was destroyed. It was sad because I could still see the debris that was left behind and it was not clean up or anything. I really had lots of fun during these summer that I travel to a different country.

Weddings

Beginning this year, I found out that my cousin and niece were getting marry. First was my cousin wedding which took place last month in April. Then the second wedding hasn’t come yet, but it will be soon by the end of this month my niece would be getting marry. I was really happy and surprise about the news of them tying the knot. I was not sure how my cousin’s husband pop the question, but that’s not important I guess. What’s important is that they are now married and living happily in a home that they purchase together. I am hoping that they will soon have a child or so because they really love children and would be a very great parents toward their child. I will just have to wait to hear this news of them conceiving. At their wedding reception, I had a great time with my parents, family member, cousins, and other relatives. It had a nice view and delicious vegetarian food.

I can not wait to attend my niece wedding at the end of this month. Her wedding would probably be a little differently from the weddings that I have went to in the past. I think it will be different because its going to be just dinner at a restaurant at least that’s what I heard. I know that her color theme for her weeding is going to be shade of pink, but I don’t. I thought that it was wrong that she did not ask her sister or brother to be a part of her bridal shower or any of her close cousin. Whatever its her wedding and as long as she likes it and is happy about her decision then that’s fine. No complaints from any of us. We will just be there as her guest enjoying her big day, the food, and companies of families and relatives. Hopefully, everyone that do attend will have an awesome time.

Wild Jam 2010

Wow, I haven’t been to a concert in a very long time. I recently attended one down in San Jose and it was not so bad. I had lots of fun and it was crazy. Lol, anyways it was called wild jam 2010 host by the station wild 94.9. There was many different artist performing some including Trey Songz, Usher, Keisha, Lil Jon, Jay Shawn, New boy, and other that I don’t really remember. I did not even hear about this event until my cousin told me, “ Hey your coming with us to the Wild Jam concert,” oh I am, okay that’s fine. I was surprise basically that I got a ticket to the event. Usually they would call and ask if I want to go somewhere, but this time it was like I was obligated to go. I asked that it was crazy because many people was screaming the artists name, singing along, dancing crazily, and there was people fighting as well. They were escorted out the building by the security.

I was looking forward to seeing the artist Usher and Trey Songz. They were the last two performer who had at least thirty minute to perform. They perform the longest and their fans was screaming on top of their lung. People that I went was came home the next day and said their losing their voice and they did sound like they lost their voice. I could even hear anything afterward because it wad really loud. I enjoyed the songs that were sang by the artist. Usher was the last performer and he was the one that close the show. I was upset that I forgot my camera at home, so I did not get to take or record and clear picture/ video of the performance. I had my cell phone but the quality was not good at all. It was not clear and I couldn’t figure out how to zoom in when recording. Anyways, I enjoyed and had lots of fun at the concert. It was not what I expected but still it was a good lineup of performance.

shakespeare's book

The book,I read is title,Shakespeare’s Insults for Teachers. This book is written by Wayne F. Hill and Cynthia J.Ottchen, full of insults that Shakespeare had asked or used when he was alive. I found this book interesting to read because it talks about different ways or things to act upon when it comes to these situation involving the teachers, students, administrators, and even parents. The insults are about teachers that are boring, weird, tyrannical, and incompetent administrator. It is also insults for students that are lazy, get distracted easily, and even those that always have excuses to do things. I know that few of students who are always coming up with excuses when they don’t want to do certain thing. Lastly, it have insults about parents who are prejudiced or blaming and those that set a poor example for their children or other people.

I think that this book is well organize and really interesting because it give ideas about what happen and could had happen during certain situation. I thought that this book of Shakespeare is a very creative because the words that he choose to use is very weird and weird to pronounce. I sometime have a hard time saying the word that is written in the book of Shakespeare.

There are many quotation in this book that I like. Quote such as, “You had measur’d how long a fool you were upon the ground .” I am not really sure what this quote means, but I think have an idea or clue what it means. I thought that it was a nice quote. This is another quote from the play Romeo and Juliet which said, “ ( They are) the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, which is as thin of substance as the air And more Inconstant then the wind.” I thought that this was kind of a long quote even though I have a shallow understanding of the quote. I think it mean that we are children of the people who are stupid or lazy who show of what they can or want attention like the wind blowing in the sky.

I learned that scholars also means “school of attendees” or at least “on-the-rolls.” I always thought that is meant student who are in school. This book has a lot of quote that I like and dislike at the same time. The one that I dislike is stupid and hard to understand. I think that I would try and remember this quote that I am going to mention in a little bit because I think it is funny. I could imagine or see it really happening to people if they know or understand the quote. Well, the quote is “ if you be mad, be gone: if you have reason, be brief.” this is a short and easy quote to remember and understand.

From my reading and my understanding about Shakespeare is that he write what want he want to and does not care what people care or think of him or his writing. He write in way for him to express his feeling and say how he feel toward thing. He is creative and well known by a lot of people in and around the world. Overall I would say that I like reading his play or book because it contain interesting stuff.