Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Research topic

I am going to extend paper 2 and research about cultural diversity in America: statistics, facts and articles.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

A sceleton for "Learn from the dead to stay alive"

Introductory Paragraph
Begin with an interesting quotation related to your opinion about facing a tragedy with honor
(You will need a transition here)

- End the Intro paragraph with your thesis statement:

Even though historical tragedies are very hard to talk and think about for the survivals, a people can learn more from its past tragedies than glories because any historical tragedy related to war teaches peoples always to look for pieceful resolutions and analyzis of a historical tragedy is a necessary lesson for the new generations to be more prepared for the future.



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Body Paragraph #1
Topic of the body thesis:
historical tragedies are very hard to talk and think about for the survivals
- Germans wanted to completely destroy the Berliin wall in order to forget about the fact of its existense (Laid)

- Explain how your evidence supports the topic sentense

- According to Bruno Bettelheim, many people did not want to believe in existense of Nazi concentration and death camps because they feared to face a horror reality occured in the past.

Body Paragraph #2
Even though historical tragedies are very hard to talk and think about for the survivals, a people can learn more from its past tragedies than glories because any historical tragedy related to war teaches peoples always to look for pieceful resolutions.
- Find evidence - like facts, examples, quotations, or statistics that back it upor support the topic sentence of this paragraph.

- Explain how your evidence supports the topic sentence

Another example that shows that any historical tragedy related to war teaches peoples always to look for pieceful resolutions is...

- Find more evidence - facts, examples, quotations, or statistics that back it up or support the topic sentence of this paragraph.

- Explain how this second piece of evidence supports the topic sentence.


Body Paragraph #3
The most important reason a people can learn more from its past tragedies than glories is because analyzis of a historical tragedy is a necessary lesson for the new generations to be more prepared for the future.
- According to Laid, the Berlin Wall that physically separated one nation for years, united it and made strong as never before.
- Explain how your evidence supports the topic sentence

"The ignored Lesson of Anne Frank" tells that those Jews who survived Nazi Germany realized that an active fight till the end is the only way to face and stop evil.
- Find more evidence - facts, examples, quotations, or statistics that back it up or support the topic sentence of this paragraph.

- Explain how this second piece of evidence supports the topic sentence.


Conclusion
So you can see that although historical tragedies are very hard to talk and think about for the survivals, a people can learn more from its past tragedies than glories for two main reasons. First, any historical tragedy related to war teaches peoples always to look for pieceful resolutions. But most importantly, analyzis of a historical tragedy is a necessary lesson for the new generations to be more prepared for the future.
- Now you will return to your attention-getter from the introduction

After all said, the last and probably most necessary way to think about the past tragedies in the history and the way to live in the future is to believe that there is more good than bad in the world as little Anne believed that "people are good at heart".

Thesis for paper 3

Even though historical tragedies are very hard to talk and think about for the survivals, a people can learn more from its past tragedies than glories because any historical tragedy related to war teaches peoples always to look for pieceful resolutions and analyzis of a historical tragedy is a necessary lesson for the new generations to be more prepared for the future.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

"Berlin Walls" by Brian Ladd

It is impressive how the Berlin Wall was built in one night, was physically present for about 30 years and still remains in the mentality of the German people nowadays. The Wall divided and united people at the same time. The past always has an echo in the present and future. Whether a positive or negative one, depends on how well people are able to make right conclusions from it. It is shocking for me that the German nation tried for along time and is still trying to ignore some facts of its history. Not wanting to leave a piece of the Wall as a monument is a clear example of that. Nobody can blame them after everything survived but theirs is not the most tragic history in the world. Each people has its own tragedies and black pages of history, the strength is to keep them in the book in order to teach children what is wrong and right in the world of human society. In this sense, little Anne Frank who was killed together with her whole family is stronger than anyone by declaring in her last words: "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Thesis for paper #2

Even though communication is easier between similar people,an effective intercultural communication is possible in America because historically American children get used to grow in connection with children from other cultures and as adults they realize that a different cultural background of another person can bring a valuable contribution for them personally and to the society as a whole.

The Outline for paper #2

Colors make a movie more intersting


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Introductory Paragraph
"And here is United States, an immense country, sparsely settled, richly endowed, tied through waves of immigrants to the heritage of Europe, yet forced to subdue nature and find fresh solutions to the problems of survival" (57).
Even though communication is easier between similar people, an effective intercultural communication is possible in America because historically American children get used to grow in connection with children from other cultures and as adults they realize that a different cultural background of another person can bring a valuable contribution for them personally and to the society as a whole.

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Body Paragraph #1
Topic of the body thesis:
Communication is easier between similar people- Find evidence - like facts, examples, quotations, or statistics that back it upor support the topic sentence of this paragraph.

- Explain how your evidence supports the topic sentence

Another example that shows that because of illegal and uncontrolled part of immigration, Americans have to protect their borders is...

- Find more evidence - facts, examples, quotations, or statistics that back it up or support the topic sentence of this paragraph.

- Explain how this second piece of evidence supports the topic sentence.


Body Paragraph #2
Even though communication is easier between similar people, an effective intercultural communication is possible in America because historically American children get used to grow in connection with children from other cultures.

- Explain how your evidence supports the topic sentence

Another example that shows that new blood keeps the country healthy and strong is...

- Find more evidence - facts, examples, quotations, or statistics that back it up or support the topic sentence of this paragraph.

- Explain how this second piece of evidence supports the topic sentence.


Body Paragraph #3
The most important reason why an effective intercultural communication is possible in America is because as adults they realize that a different cultural background of another person can bring a valuable contribution for them personally and to the society as a whole.
- Find evidence - like facts, examples, quotations, or statistics that back it upor support the topic sentence of this paragraph.

- Explain how your evidence supports the topic sentence

Another example that shows that a different cultural background of another person can bring a valuable contribution for any conscious society.

...

- Find more evidence - facts, examples, quotations, or statistics that back it up or support the topic sentence of this paragraph.

- Explain how this second piece of evidence supports the topic sentence.

Paragraph 4.

Yes, we are different but we all love, hate, are born and die in the same way.

Conclusion
So you can see that communication is easier between similar people, an effective intercultural communication is possible in America because historically American children get used to grow in connection with children from other cultures and as adults they realize that a different cultural background of another person can bring a valuable contribution for them personally and to the society as a whole.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Coke commerical

I would say this is a true community unified by their love for Coke. Barnlund would definitely describe these people as neighbors not only because of their physical closeness but also the emotional symbolic one. However, this commercial seems to me a little bit scary. In my prospective, it looks more like a “cultural myopia” than a “universal discourse”. This gathering of people standing in the same position, singing the same song with the same expressions on their faces and holding the same bottle of Coke reminds me the German people in the time of Nazis or the Soviet people in the communist period who blindly followed one ideology and had to behave and think in the same way. The person, who does not want to follow it, becomes a social outcast and even a danger for the society. Such brainwashing and indoctrination are often followed by manipulation of people in someone’s purpose. Of course, promotion of Coke is not such dangerous as that of Nazism but when the principle is the same, the outcome might be equally negative.