zeinab

2007-08-20T16:07:00.000-04:00

It is appropriate to say that Video games are addictive because the majority of people who start playing, they stop radically doing anything else! some of them don't even go to their job or school just because they want to finish their games.

2007-08-20T16:06:00.001-04:00

I also agree with the fact that Video games are socially isolating bacause even if players are playing with others on line, some still at home without meeting people in the real world.

Video Game

2007-08-20T15:59:00.000-04:00

i agree with the fact that games teach players to cooporate. In a sense, in some game, without a agreement of players in a same team, the result couldn't be positive. Also, i think that it permit to players to have a better relationship.

2007-08-20T15:57:00.000-04:00

i am sure that our class did the best presentations of all the previous A2!! it was really nice to hear all of them.. each one did a presentation as an expert! and the most interesting is that each one did a complete different thing.

2007-08-20T15:56:00.000-04:00

i don' t really know if i did a good job or not.. but now that its done.. its ok..

Presentation

2007-08-20T15:52:00.000-04:00

While i was preparing my presentation i was so nervous that i almost cry! As some of you know (those of you who were with me in the previous classes) i can't do any presentation normally because of my stress! but now that its past, i feel relaaaaax!

Happiness

2007-07-21T11:32:00.000-04:00

For me Happiness is an emmotional or affective state that is characterized by feelings of enjoyment, pleasure, and satisfaction. States associated with happiness include well-being, delight, health, safety, contentment, and love. Contrasting states include suffering, depression, anxiety, and pain. Happiness is often associated with the presence of favorable circumstances such as a supportive family life, a loving marriage, and economic stability.

Population

2007-07-21T10:33:00.000-04:00

Around the world, there are some governement that have conscience of the massive arrival of new people. Also, they are proposing solutions and they are trying to apply those solutions to limited the problem. I have a good hope for the future because when i see China and the solution they found to reduce the number of people, i only can be optimist.

In the other side, i feel a little bit pessimist because you can't have other feeling when you see the situation in Africa. Something must be done! There is no knowledge and people are suffering because of that!

Male - Female Communication Patterns

2007-07-07T20:42:00.000-04:00

During a general discussion, 2points come up : Linguistics and Pragmatics, and the Discourse Analysis.

The Linguistic is the study of the language. It could be define in 3 ways.
The first one is 'grammar', it's the synthaxe which is the study of the words.
The second one is the meaning.
Then, the third one is where the word come from.

The Pragmatic is the study of 'why people choose this word, instead of another, in order to express themselvels.

Then, it's the Discourse Analysis is the representation of the native language.

The difference between male and female exist in all cultures..
In fact, in the 1975s, the language was supporting the idea that men were dominating women.
Shortly after that, around 1980 and 1990, it was the study of the differences in stlyles.
Findings were that 96% of men, were interumpting then, another study, found 75%.
Concerning women, they use tag questions more than men. Like for example : isn't it? (at the end of a sentence).

There is an important aspect on the Conversational Coherence between men and women.

Physically, men don't face each other. Instead of women, who even if their seats don't permit them to site face to face, try to find a way to do so.

On the Topical Cohesion, 2nd grades Boys and 2nd grades Girls, react completly differently.
Boys, only say few words and they are discomfort because they are all the time moving.
Girls, are comfortable and are telling their stories normally.

Concerning the 6th grades, boys are discussing 55 topics with only 20second for each topic.
Girls are speaking about few topics and more longer.

The 10th grades are discussing like adult conversations.
Boys just want to talk about their own problems and without listening to others.
Girls are only focusing on one girl's problem, like for example her relationship with her father and with her boyfriend.

For the 25years old, men have difficulties for finding a subject. So they talk about mariage.
Women, talk about their personal relation ships. Also, saying 'i am better than you', is an expression that women are discomforted to say.

TV Debates.

They are usually show late at night for about 3hours. Some themes are about cultures, politics...
There, people involved are concerned or experts.
In act, on these shows, women are not taking as much as they should. For example, if they come as experts, people would ask them questions as they were concerned.

Men, during these shows, are talking for the majority..
They are talking about one subject for a long time, like a lecture.

When men say that they are experts, people take them as experts, hwever, when women define themselves as experts, people take them as concerned.
Even if a man, comes a the show as a person sick, at the end of the show, he will be taked as an expert.

In the workplace.

The statues vs connection define the kind of environment the workplace has.
Numerous study in cultures shows that some people are direct and others are not.

During meetings, there are 2 differents methods : the free for all and the one more formal ( one at the time approach).

Every single female manager who make suggestion may not be accepted! However, when men suggest, it's accepted.

Men speak longer than women, they argue more and make also jokes.

To conclude, it's not appropriate to say that all men speak this or that way or women do that way because both have different styles.

Alias Grace

2007-07-02T15:02:00.000-04:00

The end of my book is quit interesting and it surprised me because i didn't though it would ending like that! However, there is a question wich isn't been answered. There isn't any news concerning Dr Jordan.. It, for sure, let us (as a reader) imgine what could happen to him..

The major themes of "Alias Grace" are love.. murder.. also cheating and lies..

There are several characters in this book.. by reading it, you could really feel the emotions they could feel.. they make the story exciting..

By following this story, i was really "in" the book.. it's important to do so in order to better understand this story because a lot of scene and new characters may be confusing..