520R--Journal#5

Network and the spreading of Cell phones

In the first statement, Mr. Moudjibouthe Daouda declares that it is more important to improve the quality of living emvironment and education status in some Afican countries where people are living in poor situation than spreading the use of cell phones. While in the second statement, the writer said that building a cellular network is necessary for some poor places because they need more connection with the world to solve their undevelopment status.

In my opinion, I agree with the first writer's statement because a good quality of living is the

basic premise for any other elements in our lives. For instance, comparing with the students in the poor countries, the complaints of ours are always related to that we don't have enough spare time on our shopping or we need a new I-pod, however, the peers from some undeveloped areas just want to have more food to eat for their living and more chances to study. Consequently, coping with these kinds of issues are the first steps before focusing on the promotion of new techonoly, such as cellphones for most of the third countries' governments.

On the other hand,an appropriate construction on the devices which are made and used for interacting and communicating with some developed countries, like the US or the European countries, also can help the people who are from poor countries improving their standard of living or education environment. However, the governments for these countries shouldn't only pay attention to the development of the cellular network and the spreading for the using of telephones instead of caring more about the citizens' lives first.

To sum up, I prefer the first statement between these two writers' opinions since the needs about a high-quality of education, healthcare and safe sources for food and water should be considered as the more essential parts for the poor people, other than communication with other countries , even though those can help their development in some degree.

520R--Journal#4

Using English for Academic Purposes

This is a quite useful website for me because of the systematic information and various exercises.Just like the the title said, it is built for anyone who wants to improve his or her academic English on reading.

Several suggestions and reading skills for academic study are given by it based on two main goals: efficiently, and reading critically.

First, learning to read efficiently means we don't need to read every word of every book rather than read purposefully and interactively. Since we are going to enhance our academic reading in English so that our purpose has already decided the way we read. Usually we know why we are reading because we have a question to find the answer from the text in daily life.The methods will be different from reading a fashion magazine to reading a literature novel and in academic reading, it could be more flexible because of the types of the article and also what we want to know from the text. In order to carry out our purpose efficiently, we should follow some advices. We need to scan the whole book or whole article to know the type of it first and also we can use the content or the indexes to find which part is what we need.Then skimming it to check whether it is really useful to us or whether it is relevant to our purpose. After skimming, we can start to read the specific information and the detailes.Sometimes we have to go back to check the structure of the article in the end. During this course which is considered as a two-way process, we would experience the interaction because as readers,we are active to get something we want, but not just be passive to receive information given by authors. It means we have to construct our own ideas about the subject by using former knowledge of the language and the understanding on the world. Therefore it is useful to try to remember actively what we know and what we do not know before we start reading and also find questions for helping our interaction with the author.

Secondly, it is also important to read critically. Since we are active readers that we shpuld evaluate the arguments in the text and then build our own arguments. To distinguish fact from opinion and look at arguments given by the author helps us to be aware of our opinions and assumptions nomatter it is positive or negative. Reading criItically also makes us know the writer's background and purposes of the article easily because every writer has a purpose for writing. At the same time, readers usually have purposes to read so that if we do critical reading for academic study which includes asking questions such as what controversies exist in this area mentioned in the article,is it appropriate to the argument or what is the writter's attitude towards the topic, it will be easy to build our own thoughts about the article.

However,I still need to do more exercises by following the methods to see whether it really helps me on academic reading because improving English takes time.

520R--Journal#3

I'm additcted to my cell phone!

Actually I am a person who cannot "live" without cell phone and it started from nearly eight years ago when I was studying in high school for the first year.I still remember my first cell phone that is quite pretty but only can be uesd for calling and it is still kept in my room as a memorial until now.

With the development of modern technology, the use of cell phones are spread so fast that it became a kind of fashion to hold one among the teengers in China. Though most parents think it's not very appropriate to buy cell phones for their children because they never care the bill of the phones and just chat and send messages on the phone all the time, a number of younsters became to the uses of cell phones.And I was one of them~

Now nearly everyone has at least one monile phone and it indeed gave contribution to our lives. We can use that to contact others whom we want to contact anytime anywhere and some big companies,like NOKIA and MOTOROLA, they have somany advanced products which can be a camera, a music palyer and also used for sending emails to others.These conveniences are so obvious that we may ignore the bad effects from the use of cell phones. For myself, the biggeset problem is that I have to rely on my cell phone and it is the most neccesary object in my bag when I go out everytime. But if I happen to leave it at home or I cannot find it for a little while one day, I will feel so anxious and don't know how I can do because I lost my support which has all the persons' contact number and lots of useful information in it!

I really don't like that kind of feeling so I tried to overcome this kind of addiction, but it's not easy.Then I found some of my friends also have the same peoblem with me, which is caused by the popularization of the cell phones.

However, I still think my cell phone plays a so important role in my life because it makes me can contact with the others freely and I will feel more safe with it.