Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts

Friday, April 30, 2010

Requirements for Your Blog

  • Create links on their pages, some of which must use words instead of raw URLs.  
  • Create at least one picture or iframe on their page. 
  • Create a link or an iframe to a Google Docs file. 
  • Remove any of the preset gadgets that their site doesn't need.
  • Show evidence of a design concept; a pattern that they use to order their site.
  • Use links IN THE BODY OF THEIR TEXT in their blog post.
  • Use at least one picture in their blog post.
  • Provide a link to at least one downloadable file (can be from Google Docs)
  • Use traditional grammar, spelling, and punctuation throughout
  • Comment on the website of each other student in class.  

You will be writing a short paper explaining the purpose of every element of your page. Your purposes don't have to be "important", they just have to BE. This paper has no specified length; it is done when you have finished explicating your site. You may post this paper to your blog instead of turning it in in paper if you wish.


The project is due May 20th.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Difference of Korean and English

English is most popular language in the world. and then Korean is one of the most unique languages in the world. Both of them, have many common and difference. In this post I will talk about difference of these two languages.
First of all, the biggest difference is word order. For example "I read the book" is English. and word order is subject, verb and object. However, "난 책을 읽는다","Nan chak eul ilk nun da" is Korean and word order is subject, object, and verb. It is the point that most Korean people feel hard to study English.
Second, Korean language has richer expression than English. For instance, "Hot" has many meaning of in English. One is people say "hot" when they stay in the room of high temperature. and another people say "hot" when they ate spicy food. I know there are more meaning than I know.However Korean language two different words in same situation.
When people stay in the room of high temperature, they say"덥다","Dub Da". and when people eat some spicy food, they say "맵다","Mab da".
Here is another example. when I lived with the American roommate last year, I made some korean food which is called "누룽지","Nu reoung gi". My roommate want to try this food, so I gave him some. and he said "It taste weird, but wonderful weird. So I really try to say "구수하다","Gu su ha da" in english. this words is one of the taste we have. however, English has not this kind of expression. English has only simple expression. English cannot express some korean expression. For instance, when they eat salty food, they just say "its salty". but We have many expression of salty.
In conclusion, I think English is very good language, especially when I listen to american music, that rhyme was perfect to hear. However Korean is the better than English. I love English too.

Monday, August 10, 2009

The Meaning of "American Literature"


Here's a question that bothers some people late at night when they're standing in front of the open refrigerator door, their midnight-snack run interrupted by an unwanted thought that has been nagging at the back of their mind all day:

- Just what does "American Literature" mean, anyway!? -

Now if that person happens to hold a degree in English, they may have some luck: they know they've got to understand each of those largish words separately (it's late, after all, and half their attention is focused on the cheese, inspecting it for mold). "Literature" is perhaps the easier of the two. To the English student, "literature" denotes a collection of art. It has connotations, too: "literature" is usually thought of as written art, and often considered to be somehow superior to other examples of the same art form(s). This means that "American Literature" must be a collection of American art, with an emphasis on well-written examples.

The only thing left standing in the way of the student's understanding is that first and more formidable word, "American." What does that mean? But it's late, and they've got the cheese in their mouth, and at this point most people shamble off to bed, their nocturnal hunger sated. Yet the refrigerator door is left hanging open, just like this question -

What does "American" mean?