World News B February 8th, 2008: Final class!

1. What did you learn in this class this semester?

I learned in this class, how to blog that summary of the key points, we should use some color to make read easier and put the URL of the quoted article or picture on blog, how to exploit blogs, and how to collect information with internet to write my opinions or answers.

2. Make sure all your blog entries are up to date. Your blogs show me what you learned this semester.

I liked World News class. I learned to consider about articles which I collected before I put it on my blog and how to put together my thoughts over lot of materials in this semester. I thought that we can get many kind of articles on each incident but it is difficult to find out correct information so have to consider about these which information do I need is.

1. did you answer all the questions?
Yes, I did.
2. did you spell-check your work before uploading?
Yes, I did.
3. did you add links, and your own opinion?
Yes, I did.
4. do you have a title (the date)?
Yes, I did.

6. Read your classmates’ blogs.

2. Blog about them on your blog.
Read my friend’s blog and I remembered that learned not only reading and writing but also Old English and Christmas in this semester.
3. Read some of the news items listed in my delicious links.
Japan opens 'tallest lift tower'. Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corporation structured the 173m-high (567ft) structure is called Solae and has opened what it says is the world's tallest elevator testing tower.
The company says it will use the tower to conduct research into high-speed elevators to serve the next generation of super-tall buildings.
The news; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7169772.stm

It is not a amusement park but I want to experience the 173m-high and Toshiba Elevator and Building Systems that have a top speed of 17m/s that is recognized as the fastest in the world. But I become scary if think about the Schindler Elevator affair.

February 1st, 2008

1. Watch the Powerpoint presentation. Write a summary of the key points on your blog.
Summary of the key points are correct sentence, we should use some color to make read easier but not too much and put the URL of the quoted article or picture on blog.

2. What is the purpose, objective, of a newspaper company?
Visual is important for Television company. But newspaper company subject and occurrence of news, it is based on journalism. We can read newspaper anytime, everywhere.

3. What is the purpose, objective, of a television company?
Television company purpose and objective is that inform news with animation, live broadcast and VTR. Television can inform news flash at once. And television provide entertainment.

4. What is the purpose, objective of Yahoo! or Google?
Yahoo provides a wide array of internet services that cater to most online activities. Yahoo offers diversified services it provides vertical search services such as Yahoo! Image, Yahoo! Video,Yahoo! News, and Yahoo! Shopping Search. Yahoo provides internet communication services such as Yahoo mail. Yahoo introduced its Internet search system.

5. The purpose of all the above is to make money. That is the purpose of all these businesses. How do they make money? By getting as many readers or viewers (”eyeballs”) as possible. If their purpose is to get as many readers or viewers or “eyeballs” as possible, then what kind of news will they publish? Give 2 or 3 examples.
These use actors, news that gossips, politics and restaurant information and so on, lot of kind of entertainment to get eyeballs, and let viewers use money. And they get money to put advertisement of company in home-pages.


6. Find a news article in English that interests you, and write about it on your blog. Write a summary of the article, then your thoughts about it, and any interesting English words or expressions or grammar you learned from reading this.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/05/britney.spears.ap/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

I think she was a biggest star but lost her personal zone by paparazzi or funs. And now, standing up some nasty things that her action. She seems like has a medical problem and has a complicated legal problem. I hope she get better soon.

The news; The order against Sam Lutfi was based on a lengthy declaration from Spears' mother, Lynne, who says Spears met the 33-year-old in October 2007 and "essentially moved into Britney's home and has purported to take control of her life, home and finances". Spears was barred from contact with her children after she refused last month to relinquish them to representatives of Federline after a court-sanctioned visit.

Interesting words which I learned are relinquishre, presentative and custody.

7. Read your classmates’ blogs and comment on them on your own blog.
http://mintonton.blogspot.com/2008/02/world-news-b-february-1st-2008.html

Living in “All- chocolate room” is like a dream story and I would like to live there, but it is waste a lot of chocolates.