Friday, October 29, 2010

Analyzing an argument.

Jameson Swan. ( October 28, 2010). Baseball is no longer America's pastime. Daily Titan.





The article is about the value of baseball in American life today. the author of the article tries to show that people are more uniterested in going to the stadium to wacth baseball game. He claims for reason: the spectators cannot afoord the rising price of tickects (form $27 in 2007 to $44.68 recently in the LA Dolgers stadium), parking and others assets. In addition the desappointment caused by athletes who take drugs is the second reason that keep away some fans. the author uses statistics to show the comparison between the former years and the recent season. The premise is people wach their game at home. The argument is that the price is encreasing, and athletes are desappointing. conclusion baseball is losing its popularity. This argument is true.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Hall, J(2010). "HOW TO SPEAK AMERICAN.". Newsweek 156, Retrieved from Academic search Premier database.

The article is about the diversity of english in the U.S. The author's experience as chief editor of dictionary of American Regional English has taught him that regional english still persists. Human creativity, immigrants, and local dialects impact on english. This article may give me the motivation to reseach english dialects in the USA. Also establish the differeence between the standard american english and dialects.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

research paper

I have always been interested in studying languages.I am a bilingual student in english and french. i also studied spanish for a while. I always questioned myself about the fact that people speak one language around the world but differently, so i would like to know more about it. I will reseach the reason of regionalism; the geographical effect on language. My first qestion is: why the difference? how the diference is conceived, and how people assess the value of the variation of one language?
i have learn that all languages have the same value, but i sill notice that languages change, give birth to others, according to how people speak them, so i woul like to find out if one original language has the same value as those which result to his variation.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Advice

I have noticed that people who give advice a little more , are those who rarely follow others advice. I know tat it is not conventional wisdom, but almost all people i know behave like the same. Personally i am not against, contrarily , i listen evrytime from anyone. When i was younger i have a strong cofidence in my patents. i let them know everything i do, i ask them their opinin before i do an action. most of them were very helpful. What happened at the end is that they expected me to do what they want without considering my ambitions ,and it start to burden me. i am not a teenager anymore, i have to independantly take my decisions. i always listen to people opinion forn my best friend specially, but the bottom line is that it is about what i think.

The last time i recieved an advice about something very important to me was about my studies. After my graduation, all people wanted me study, or international affairs , but i didn't. I would like to study languages and become a translator or an interpretor, i also like communications. Honestly they tried to convince me and evrytime i felt persuaded; however my best friend was here to support me, and it helps me stand on my feet. she assures me that i have always been succful in class because of languages, she was my classmate all this time; my family and strangers have no idea what my potentials are, so it depend on me. i am studying languages and i am glad today.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

American food




It may be easy for some countries to determine what is their traditional food. In America it doesn't seems to be the case. if i have to answer to this question i would give a list. First hamburgers, then hot dogs, taco bell, barbecue, among many others. Those are the names i think about a friend ask out to eat american. As you can see all of them are fast foods; the traditional sign is depicted in those foods. Americans do not like waisting time not even in cooking, time has a great value , since many people are involve in many activities that fast foods are the right thing to get, despite the fact that they are aware of the danger that result.America is the first country with the most people obese, without mentioning the consequences such as diabetes, heart deseases, and often death.
In my country the similarity with USA is that there are dizains of traditioonal foods , we cannot say what is the typical food in cameroon. answer wil differ from places to places, due to the diversity of cultures. However the difference is that we cook our food we don't eat too much fast food . our BMI is 23, so we spend a lot of time to make our foods. i still enjoy cooking my own food, heavy foods; i was glad to discover it is possible in the US.






Sunday, September 19, 2010

Optimistic quote

This quotation describe a very common behavior people show in life. If we always see the worse in something , somebody, or a projrct we will never see the good in it, but if we behave contrarily positive things will happen because we make them happen, we work to that. In a relationship, if one patner see the other with pessimistic remarks, he will see his or her weakness , failures he or she makes on a daily basis and think that the relationship will never go on. However a person with good beliefs who is kind, who is looking for the goodness, the profit, will end up with it. A patner who behaves like this will find out the most interesting part of the other ,since everyone has one no matter what the evil they did.
I think optimism is the best state of mind we should have ;although, it is the more difficult. It direct our actions, life and happiness. Only knows that everything is possible in this world if we believe; even if we don't get the appropriate result, it is worth trying.

my friend

I have many freinds includung you guys, but i do have one only best friend. Her name is Therese. We have been classmates since 2005 in high school and went to the university at the same time. We share a lot of characteristics; for instance, we both have the same prefence of food. we are very picky and most of the time we keep eating the same kind of food for days without boring(rice, chicken and beens). We used to hang out together every weekend for shopping, beauty salon, or theater. We were always everywhere together and making fun. Honestly ,she is the one who most of time dragged me out of the house; because, i prefer staying home and have some fun more than hanging out. Although we seem to be two inseparable twins, we still have different habits too.
My friend likes love movies while i prefer horror movies, but she make me like love movies too. The only thing i don't like with her and that i cope with is that she talk too much, even when i need to concentrate on a homework, she cannot keep from talking. The thing i guess she hates from me is that i am not very patient, when i am not intersted in something i give up.