Friday, December 18, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Love is more powerful than hatred
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Chapter 17
Strategies for Argumentation and Persuasion
In this chapter you learn about strategies of argument and persuasion. In simple language arguments is reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it. An argument consists of two or more statements that include one conclusion and at least one reason that support it. In a persuasive argument you are trying to get a person (your reader or listener) to think or feel a certain way or to act on something. In order to build a persuasive argument, there are some necessary steps to take. First you must prepare your argument. You need to gather evidence and ideas that support your argument and develop reasoning. You must make and qualify your claim by drawing conclusions based on the evidence that you gathered. You need to add qualifiers into your argument. Giving some examples listed in the chapter like, typically, sometimes, almost and often should be used. So, stay clear of words like, all, best, never or worst. And avoid obvious or unsupported claims as well. Next need to support your claim. To support your claim you will need evidence. A few examples of evidence that you can use would be observations, statistics, analogies, and predictions. Make sure all of your evidence is accurate, complete, relevant, current, authoritative and appealing. This way you make a good strategy fir argument.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Chapter 15
This chapter teaches you about the writing of processes. There are three basic forms of writing in process. You can write a description, explain the process, or write instructions. Describing and explaining the process are normally written in an essay format, while instructions are in a numbered list format. In describing process, you are telling the reader how something happens. In explaining a process, you are telling the reader how something is done. And in writing instructions, you are giving the reader a step-by-step of how to do something after should be done next. In any of these writings you do, you need to make sure you are writing for all readers. So make sure that a person who knows nothing about the topic can also easily understand your essay or instructions. You also need to make sure when you are writing about the process, you have smooth transitions between each step, describe the process as a whole, explain any follow up activity and highlight any safety precautions. To test your writing, the best way to is to have a person who is unfamiliar with the process, go through it. If that person understands what you exactly trying to say then definitely you can say “yes my writing is the best”
Chapter 14
In this chapter teaches us how to write a classification essay. As the name itself suggest classification- the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the ssame type. It is an essay when you pick a topic like for example education, you then subdivide that topic into subgroups like learning styles, learning medium, testing methods etc. In your first paragraph you state your topic, thesis and explain how you are going to subdivide the subject. The middle of your essay is where you want to develop your thesis and explain your subgroups in more detail. And then you want to have a conclusion that brings the subgroups back together. When writing a classification essay, you need to be sure that your essay is consistent when you subdivide your topic and you need to write it in such a way that your reader will understand the essay as a whole. This type of essay will probably require some amount of research, so you should make sure to list your sources to be on a safe side
Chapter 13
In this chapter you learn about comparing and contrasting essays. When writing this type of essay, there are few things to remember or should be taken into consideration. First, you need to show two subjects side by side. You need to show your reader how they are comparable and how they are different. At the end of your essay, you need to draw a conclusion or make a point on what you are trying to show. When choosing a topic, you should find subjects that are related. You need to do some research on your subjects and make sure to list where you got your information from. I studied and found out that there are two ways for organizing your essay. If your essay is to be a short comparison, then you can write subject by subject. If your essay is to be longer and more complex, then you will need to organize it in a trait by trait manner.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Analysis on Laptop
Just about as many homes today have computers as televisions and nearly all businesses are online. With the dawning and advancement of the computer age has come the inevitable shrinking and mobilization of computers. It's just the nature of technology, the same thing happened with telephones. Just like cell phones have become more popular than landlines, laptop computers are becoming more popular than desktop computers. There are several reasons for the laptop popularity.
Mobile people need mobile computers. If you, or your employees, have to spend much time traveling, it is impossible to work from a desktop computer that is stationary. By using a laptop, however, work can be done from virtually anywhere and work requiring the use of the internet can be done anywhere there is a wireless signal. Mobile technology is just as important in computing as it is in communications. Think of how lost you would be if you were still tied to a landline all of the time. The desktop computer is analogous to a landline telephone that is attached to a wall.
Talking about the history of laptop’s it is a little hard to determine what the first portable was or laptop computer, the first portable computers did not look like the book-sized and folding laptops that we are familiar with today, however, they were both portable and lapsable, and lead to the development of notebook style laptops. I have outlined several potential firsts below and how each qualifies, many of the off-site links provide good photos of the computers that will let you see the progression in design. The first laptop might have been designed in 1979 by a Briton, William Moggridge, for Grid Systems Corporation, the Grid Compass was one fifth the weight of any model equivalent in performance and was used by NASA on the space shuttle program in the early 1980's. A 340K byte bubble memory lap-top computer with die-cast magnesium case and folding electroluminescent graphics display screen.
Gavilan Computer as the First Laptop
Manny Fernandez had the idea for a well-designed laptop for executives who were starting to use computer. Fernandez, who started Gavilan Computer, promoted his machines as the first "laptop" computers in May 1983. Many historians consider the Gavilan as the first fully functional laptop computer.
The First Laptop Computer - Osborne 1
The computer considered by most historians to be the first true portable computer was the Osborne 1. Adam Osborne, an ex-book publisher founded Osborne Computer and produced the Osborne 1 in 1981, a portable computer that weighed 24 pounds and cost $1795. The Osborne 1 came with a five-inch screen, modem port, two 5 1/4 floppy drives, a large collection of bundled software programs, and a battery pack. The short-lived computer company was never successful.
Now with the help of these laptops you can connect to your desktop from your laptop. New technology enables laptop users to connect to their desktop computers from remote locations. This technological development has made the laptop an even greater tool than it already was. By connecting to the desktop, you can download information from the laptop, which saves memory space on the smaller RAM laptops. You can also access all the information and network connections that are contained on your desktop. The ability to access desktops from laptops gives you the best that both the desktop and the laptop have to offer. It is like having your desktop, right in your lap!
You can use a laptop in any where you like honestly even while in bus or Bart. I don’t know about others but it definitely works out for me. My battery gives about 4 to 5 hours of power and that makes me able to plenty of assignments done from any location. The ability to use a laptop computer far away from any power source is, in my opinion, one of the greatest advantages. You don't need any sort of a signal or anything, just a charged battery. You don't even need a light! That’s a best advantage of it for people like me from Nepal because back home we have about 5 to 6 hrs loadsheding a day. So this technology helps us complete our assignment in time in spite of hours of load shedding.
There are fewer connections on a lap top-even low-tech people who don't know how to run a DVD player can use a laptop computer. If you use the batteries, the laptop doesn't even require a cord. However, most of the time you will probably have your laptop plugged into a power source. This is a one-connection deal. The cord goes into the computer and the plug goes into a socket on the wall; no fuss, no muss. Look at the maze of cords used to run your desktop computer, your keyboard, monitor, tower, printer, speakers, DSL modem, etc. all have wires connecting to each other in one way or another. It can be complex. Minimize complexity in your life by minimizing cords and connections-check out laptop technology.
Spend less time transferring files-before getting a laptop I was always transferring files and emailing documents to myself so I would be sure to have them on whatever computer I ended up using. That worked fine as long as I could get a connection. Now, I just use my laptop computer and take all of my files with me all of the time. I used to juggle my home computer and my school computer and I would often hear myself say, "That's on another computer; I'll send it to you later". Well, those days are over. With the laptop, all documents are with me all the time.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Cause and effect
Description and Reflection
Chapter 9
Submitting writing and creating portfolios
Editing
Drafting
Planning
Thursday, October 8, 2009
eassy
A Short Description about Me
I come from a land of deeply rooted cultures and traditions. Coupled with this, I attended one of the best Schools in Nepal and completed my higher secondary level from a convent school, St. Mary’s Higher Secondary school. This diverse background sets me apart from other students of Lincoln University.
Nepal, a country of diverse culture and tradition is where I call home. It is also known as the garden of 36 ethnicity and races since different people of different culture and tradition live together with the feeling of brotherhood in their heart. So, the qualities of adaptability and compatability naturally come to me because of the lessons I have learnt while growing up among a multicultural group of people.
Moreover, from my experience of attending a convent school, I acquired a lot of knowledge about Catholic traditions. At St. Mary’s school, I learnt about the way everyone should work together in harmony to acquire necessary knowledge, skills and the way we as good humans in the society have to live by our values. My family and St. Mary’s school introduced me to the spiritual knowledge.
Overall, I believe I’m smart and capable of doing everything that comes across me to fulfill my dreams and desires in future.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
meaning of narrative and descriptve
Narrative is anything that's narrated.in other words retelling of any event, story of what happened. Its not story itself but its rather the telling of the story . The art, technique, or process of narrating any events is called narration. It is the way of retelling the event that can make things very interesting or very bad.
Meaning of Descriptive
Descriptive is a form os say the way of defining things more precisely.It describes things with more discription, information,reseach etc.It lets us understand the whole thing clearly and with full information.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Min's Bio Poem
tall,strong,kind and friendly
son of Dow Thersein and brother of Bobo Tganoo
who loved freedom,sports, travel and family
who loved to stay with family ,go out with friends
who feared misunderstanding between friends,some insects and exam
who helped friends,love fanmily and tryin hard for studies
who wanted to see peave,love and happyness
born in Myanmar living in Yangon
Min
Bio Poem
hilarious,loving and friendly
daughter of bijay baniya and sister of sway
who loved to hang around with friends as well as to maintain her grades
who loved to experience new things,thrills and the benifts of education
who had to separate from family,friends and her love for higher education
who feared of undetermined future,losing the oppurtunity to make a difference and show the world ho she is
who left her family and and accomplished her dreams and goals
who wanted to see love and success knocking at her door
born in kathmandu living in santa clara
Baniya