Privacy

When I first saw the word “Privacy” in the title of the article, the first thing come in my mind is lost. This is a fast developing society, everything developed so quick. You cannot stop it, so the consequence is that we are leaking our personal information from time to time. When you go to a clothes shop to buy something, the shop assistant will give you a name card, or even ask you to give your personal information to become the member in that shop. Therefore, I can get a lot of emails from different shops. Every day, I need to delete the advertisements emails and try to find the useful emails from them. Maybe for the first time, I think it is fine to do such thing. However, for every day, this bothers me.

Nowadays, more and more websites require you to sign in with your email address. Furthermore, you are free to register and use the websites with your personal information. Privacy is leaking from everywhere. This feel is just like that you are sold by others to make other products. This is horrible.

When I write the essay 2, I think it is hard for me to write the thesis statement. It just like stuck in my head. I do not know how to organize my thesis statement well. In addition, the topic sentence is also difficult for me to recognize.

Summary of "My Favorite Teacher"

“My Favorite Teacher” is a nonfiction story which written by Thomas L. Friedman. This story talks about Friedman’s favorite teacher who named Hattie M. Steinberg. In the beginning of the article, Friedman was thought of his most important person by the annual review on New York Times Magazine. Steinberg was Friedman’s high school journalism teacher. He took her course—Intro to Journalism in 10^th grade. Friedman thought she was good because of her belief. Steinberg believed that “the secret for success in life was getting the fundamentals right.”Steinberg taught her student how to make a high quality work quickly. In addition, the author also took her class in the 11^th grade. In this time, Friedman became a business manager to selling ad to the local pizza parlors. Later, he became one of Steinberg’s friends. After she died, the author and his friends were all think of her. Furthermore, Judy Harrington sent Friedman a pile of his stories written by Steinberg. For instance, Friedman could think of Steinberg and her classes a lot this year. The reason is that Steinberg’s belief—fundamentals of reading, writing and arithmetic, church and so on was the real secret of success in the information age. Friedman said Steinberg’s belief cannot be downloaded from the Internet and only can upload in the normal classes. At last, the author regretted he did not write his teacher when she was alive.

Stories about my teacher

After I read the article, I think of lots of my teachers. As a student, I have met lots of teachers during my school life. I think of my teacher in my high school. Her name is Miss Tao who is my head teacher. She took charge of our class from the 11^th grade to the end of my high school. In the beginning, we were all not like her because of her strictness. We heard about the bad and good news from senior students. For the first day of our school, we were not familiar with her. The first thing for the school was cleaning our classroom. She arranged us to clean the classroom separately. We did not pay attention to clean the classroom clearly. She was so angry to see we are lazy. She did not say a lot just ask us to clean again. We had to clean again. This time, one of my classmates fell down on the floor because of the wet ground. She immediately piggybacked the sick student to school clinic. Later, she cleaned the rest work. Then, we got the rewards due to the clean. Later, we started to have the military training. She was with us all day. When we stood under the sun, she also did. When we have a rest, she asked us to have some water. All of us changed our attitude to her.

After we started the semester, I did not catch up with my classmates. I was worried and sad at that time. However, she had a talk with me. She trusted me I can catch up with my classmates. She cheered me up. I totally changed my mind to her. I felt that she is a good teacher instead of a strict teacher. I even helped her to deal with problems between classmates. We became good friends later. Now, I miss her so much.

I think everyone have such a teacher who influenced them a lot. ^-^

About me ^-^

Introduction:

My name is Ling Yang (Ann). I was born on June 12th, 1995. I have a brother who I is nine years older than me. This is my second year at University of San Francisco. I love to watch TV series, chat with my friends and travel. Every weekend, I will meet my friends that I have here to watch the TV series and play games with them. We have dinner together and share the funny things. This became the most interesting thing that I can do through the weekend. In addition, my favorite TV series is Korean TV series. I also love the Korean idols very much.

Experience about blogs:

This is my first English blog. I had blogs before this one. I think I was not afraid of having blogs. Sometimes, this is good way for me to express myself to others and I could find friends on the Internet. I had the Chinese blog called “Ren Ren”, which looks like the Facebook. I wrote my feelings on my Chinese blogs to share that with my friends so that they can know what my life look like in San Francisco. They also gave comments under my blogs to encourage me. I think this is another way to have communication with them so that I feel they still live around with me. Furthermore, I also can share pictures that I took at here with them. I think I like to write online to share my life with others because it is convenient and fast. I don’t need to think about the grammar or vocabulary that I used. I can write anything what I want. Later, I also have the “Weibo”, which likes the Twitter. I can read more and share more things.