ARW blog assignment 6

The most useful approach to use in critically analyzing The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway among those three analysis which were posted by Paul Wadden in last NP lecture is the analysis that Santiago as the Archetypal Hero. That's because the entire story is a tragic which is most typical type of ancient story, and Santiago standed against hardships alone like Archetypal Heroes. However, this analysis is not enough because there too many letters which implies the Christianity. Then I think the most appropriate analysis of this story is the story of christian saint's story and the hero of this story is a saint who have given tremendous power by spirits like Archetypal Heroes.

ARW blogging assignment 5

The main characters in Old Man and the Sea are Santiago, a fisherman and Manolin, a boy who helps him. Three adjectives that describe Santiago are consistence, proud and ambitious. That is because I think, first, Santiago never gave up his job even if he had gotten no fish for long, second, though he had lost confidence for own strength, he pretended to be confident in front of Manolin, and finally, even though he didn't catch any fish, he never lose his ambition to catch a great fish. Three adjectives that describe Manolin are clever, kind and faithful. That's because I think, Manolin noticed Santiago's lonliness and urgency, but he never had stimulated his such feelings, and he still believe and respect for Santiago as a fisherman.

Essay assaignment 3

My theme is "difference between lying and joking". many people accept joking, but only few people do lying. what makes the difference? before I set about writing an outline of body paragraph, I should define the words, lying and joking. therefore i quote the definitions from "Oxford advanced learner's dictionary". Move on to body paragraph. Body paragraph 1 will refer to the difference in regard to the relationship between who have told a lie or made a joke and who have been received it, and I will quote the sentences that "pure joking should just be light-hearted, humorous and benign but lying is manipulating facts usually to cover your own sins or misconduct" written by solo202 from http://www.faithforum.org/community/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=315. Body paragraph will explain the difference from the view point of who have told a lie or made a joke, and I will quote that "Usually if someone is kidding though, they intend to tell you the truth, or they assume that you already know the truth and will understand that what they say is not true without them saying so. Lairs usually don’t want you to know that they’re not telling the truth" written by Rachel from http://www.onlykidding.net/kidding/whats-the-difference-between-lying-and-kiddin. Body paragraph3 will approach the topic from the stand point of who have been received the joke or the lie and I will quote "A lie has the potential for harming something or someone if not found out. A joke is funny and will not cause harm no matter the circumstances." written by Bill Taylor from http://www.faithforum.org/community/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=315.

About the opinion for ARW Essay 1

I chose the theme about memory which is the second of all that Chris gave us.

I guess there are three major effects of memory. First, memory enables students save the time to investigate the information which once they have gotten. Second, memories in one's mind can stimulate each other and generate new ideas. Third, if one have various memories, when he/she is talking with someone, can pose a lot of accurate question and pull many pieces of useful information out of the talk without adequate preparation.

It is true that memory is important in academic life but not that every type of memory is worth keeping in mind for students. How they learn it makes differences. If it is learned by heart, it diminishes soon but if learned by mind with good reasons and logical basis, it stays in mind much longer than in the former case it does.

I will take some quotation from Mailand or Morgan, of cause not only them but what they wrote are valuable for me because their insistences are very like mine.

How do good teacher presents

In P.4 Mailand sais that "good teacher present some information in the sence of "what is currently believed"" because "new type of interectual work are required at college level."

I agree with Mailand. The first point is about critical thinking. Teachers should help their students form their own minds which are nessesery for them to succeed in college. Even if a teacher give his/her students formulas of thinking, they could not be the best way of thinking foe each students. There is no way to acquire critical thinking but to learn it for one self. Moreover, Critical thinking will be useful after getting jobs, but at that time, students will have no time to cultivate ourselves in mind. That`s why students should form their critically logical mind, and teachers should help them. The second point is about the necessity of logical structure in documents. All kinds of sciences must be based on strict logic. If there are some hypothesises without logical structure, they will be denied soon.