Final paper 2

Xiaoran Li
ENG 201-501
Essay 2# -Final
12 August 2010

word count: 1580

Two Sides of the Internet
The Internet has become more and more popular. Many people sayings: that the Internet is important for all of us, or that the Internet is bad for people’s lives. My opinion is that the Internet is just a tool. As the Nicole Zillien said “The Internet cannot be assumed to be ‘inherently good or inherently bad. Of course, to complicate matters, neither is the Internet neutral’” (Zillien 274). The problem is the people who use the Internet. It is connected with a word, which is “Convenient.” Most people use Internet because it is easy to shop, talk, and even read online, but some people use their special skills to steal others’ money and personal information via the Internet.

Nowadays, business has already relayed on the Internet more and more. The Internet has taken part in many areas, particularly in communication Because of it is faster and easier to transmit information. The Internet has become crucial for the economic activities (Blank).

As we know, the Internet is an important marketing and advertising tool for businesses. We always see a lot of advertising windows pop up when we browse certain websites. I think everyone knows eBay, a famous shopping website online. Millions of people shop on eBay every single day and there are innumerable goods on eBay. People even can buy virtual goods on eBay such as the currency in a popular Internet game. I call it “if there’s need, then there’s supply.” According to Chris Blank’s article Why the Internet Is Important in Business, although people can use the telephone to communicate, many businesses are using email to contact instead, such as sending chart or forms. Many companies communicate with each other by using email and message. They also may use interne telephone such as Skype, and even virtual meetings.

Also the Interne participated in health and government services. There are about eighty-eight percent of internet users searching for this kind of information. To spread health and medical information, electronic media plays a significant role. It is faster than textbooks for years (Mars 34). National Telecommunications and Information Administration reported in 1999 only about 30% of countryside Americans owned a computer and 20% of them installed the Internet which is far behind the national average. Eleven years later, the Internet usage changed swiftly. It increased in American households from 25% of the population to more than 50% from 1999 to2004 (Mars 34).

As we see before, the Internet plays a crucial role in communication. Some scholars have researched about online networking in 2005. The result showed that ninety percent of college students took part in a online social network community, such as Facebook, MySpace, and Friendster. Many students opened their personal information (Ellison, Steinfield and Lampe 3). Facebook is a very popular website that allows people contact each other easily and make friends quickly. Facebook was created in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, a student at Harvard University. “Facebook has more than 7.5 million registered members at over 2,000 U.S. colleges and is the seventh-most-popular site on the entire Web with respect to total page views” (Ellison, Steinfield and Lampe 2). Similarly, we also have Myspace, Twitter, and Youtube. Most people know about hose website especially for teenagers and college students. The Internet has therefore made our earth into a Global Village. People from thousands of miles away can talk to and see each other online through webcams. It really makes people from all over the world closer.

We can do business, talk, and make friends online. We also can study online.

Based on my personal experience, I am taking ENG 201 and we don’t have to write journals and turn them in. Our professor gave us a blog and just let us post our assignments on the blog every day, so he only needs to check everyone’s blog. He will leave the messages on the blog showing what are today’s assignments and what will we do tomorrow. I think this is much more convenient and simple. We don’t have to write tons of papers to hand in. Instead, we just need to move our fingers and type the words on blog. Last semester, I took a CIS (Computer information System) class. It was a totally online class. The instructor didn’t even need to teach. Everything was online; we just log on the website that he gave us, and follow the programs on that website. It automatically will show you how to use the Microsoft software. The assignments are simple, and we can do it home or at school anytime.

The Internet has positive affection. Also, it has negative influences and uses, for example, the Internet addiction, identity theft and hack into others’ computer.

Internet addiction is a very hot topic these years. Internet usage keeps increasing, and some people end up over-using the Internet. To understand online gaming addiction, it is important to understand how the addiction from the creation of virtual worlds. New studies have shown that immersion into online games allows users to become addicted. Kimberly Young mentions this in his article Understanding Online Gaming Addiction and Treatment Issues for Adolescents - The American Journal of Family Therapy: “In one of the most dramatic stories of online gaming addiction, in August 2005, a 28-year-old South Korean man died—not by committing suicide, but after playing the game StarCraft at an Internet café for 50 hours straight” (357-358). According to the article Internet Addiction: Signs, Symptoms, Treatment, and Self-Help, there are four signs and symptoms of internet addiction or computer addiction. Losing track of time online as you finding yourself on the Internet longer than you thought; having trouble finishing tasks at work or home, such as working late more and more but still can’t complete the work on time; isolation from family and your real-life friends; and feeling guilty or defensive about your Internet use and hiding your internet use or lie about how much time you spend online.

Pornography sites are full of Internet. People are easy to get on those websites without any limitation especially for the children. The pornography sites have much more visitors than the three famous search website: Google, MSN, and Yahoo (Paul and Jae 187). Because of the Internet is so convenient, so there must be a limitation to prevent people to overuse this “convenient.” People just need to type the keywords that they want to see on the Internet, or they just log on the particular websites because they know they will find the pictures or information that they want to know (Paul and Jae 188). If the children can easily find pornographic pictures online, they might get addict to it and have negative effect on the mind.

Identity theft is a very common crime in this informationalized world. It is not like normal theft by sneaking into building and took other’s staffs without catching attention. What is identity theft? It’s a crime obviously. People steal other people’s personal information from the Internet and use it to get people’s credit card or steal other property. “This is a common ploy for ID thieves, who test out your credit card with a small charge and then, if it goes through, start making big purchases. Crooks may even use programs with algorithms that run 16-digit numbers until they get a hit.” (Kimberly, Lankford 1). After they get your information, they may call you as a company and try to fraud you to purchase or to pay back bills that you don’t even know. When you doubt the bills, they will pull out your information and try to convince you they are a legal company. Right after they get your trust, and your money, they will vanish forever.

Hackers are known for everyone. They can use professional programs to hack into your computer through its security loopholes, and you don’t even realize that everything in your computer is exposed before their eyes. The common software that they use is called a Trojan injector. The principle behind it is similar to the Trojan horse in Greek history. That’s where its name comes from. The Trojan can disguise itself as a safe program and go through the firewall. After it goes into your computer, it well releases many viruses to break down your security system. Honestly, I have used those programs which can go into others’ system before. I use them just for fun to joke with my friends, and I know what they can do, trust me. After the hacker gets the permission to access your computer, he can control everything. To turn off the computer or format hard disk is no longer an “impossible.” To be a hacker requires much knowledge about the Internet and software. So people who are hackers are not idiots; they are smarter than you think.

The Internet is like a double-edge sword. It can give incredible wealth to people, and give many convenient such as put all people who use Internet on this earth closer. But it can also bring disasters to people. Some people lost millions dollars and some people got in troubles because their personal information was used for doing things that are illegal. Therefore, it depends on how people are going to use it. We can’t blame a knife because someone used it to hurt people. We should see it in an equal light. Hopefully, people will understand the Internet and use it to make positive contributions for the world.

Work Cited

Work Cited
Blank, Chris. "Why the Internet Is Important in Business? EHow.com." EHow How To Do Just About Everything! How To Videos & Articles. Web. 13 Aug. 2010.

Ellison, N. Steinfield, C., and Lampe, C. Spatially Bounded Online Social Networks and Social Capital: The Role of Facebook Web. 13 August 2010

“Internet Addiction: Signs, Symptoms, Treatment, and Self-Help.” Helpguide.org: Understand, Prevent and Resolve Life's Challenges. Web. 13 Aug. 2010.

Kimberly and Lankford “ID Theft Red Flag” Kiplinger's Personal Finance; Vol. 64 Issue 7, p55-57, 3p. Web. 13 August 2010

Mars, AnnMaria De “Internet Usage by Native Americans with Disabilities Living on American Indian Reservations in the Great Plains” Vol. 29 Issue 2, p34-40, 7p. 19 August 2010

Paul, Bryant and Jae woong shim “Gender, Sexual Affect, and Motivations for Internet Pornography Use” 2008, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p187-199, 13p, 3 Charts 19 August 2010

Young, K. "Understanding Online Gaming Addiction and Treatment Issues for Adolescents.” The American Journal of Family Therapy 37.5 (2009): 355. Psychology Module, ProQuest. Web. 13 Aug. 2010.

Zillien, Nicole1 and Hargittai, Eszter “Digital Distinction: Status-Specific Types of Internet Usage.” Vol. 90 Issue 2, p274-291, 18p, 4 Charts 19 August 2010

Executioner's Outline

I. Thesis statement: Most people use Internet because it is easy to shopping online, talking online, even reading online, but some people using special skills to steal others money and personal information by using Internet.
A. Intro Strategy: There’s no strategy in my introduction, so I need to work on that.
II. Topic sentence: the Internet is a crucial marketing and advertising tool for businesses.
A. People use email and online telephone more often. (Blank)
III. People spend many times on online social networking such as Facebook.
A. The creator and the statistic about facebook usage (Ellison, Steinfield and Lampe 2)
IV. We also can study online
A. My personal experience
V. Internet addiction
A. Examples
B. explanation
VI. Identity theft
A. Explanations
B. Examples
VII. Internet hackers
A. Explanations
B. Examples
VIII. Conclusion
A. Refer back to the introduction
B. State the thesis

Essay 2 draft

Xiaoran Li

ENG 201-501

Essay 2# -Draft

12 August 2010

Two sides of the Internet

Internet has become more and more popular. I heard many issues that said the Internet is important for all of us, but some people said the Internet is bad for people’s life. My opinion is the Internet is just a tool. There is no good or bad for the Internet as a tool. The problem is the people who use the Internet. I think it connects a word, which is “Convenient.” Most people use Internet because it is easy to shopping online, talking online, even reading online, but some people using special skills to steal others money and personal information by using Internet.

As the 21^st century continues, it becomes more and more difficult to imagine how business can be conducted without the Internet. The Internet has participated in many areas of the business arena, especially communication. It provides a fast and easy way to transmit information over long distance. The Internet has become indispensable for the economic activities (Blank)

As we know, the Internet is an essential marketing and advertising tool for businesses. We always seeing there are a lot of advertising windows popped up when we were browsing some websites. I think everyone knows a famous shopping website online called EBay. Millions of people shopping on EBay every single day and there are innumerable goods on EBay. People even can buy virtual goods on EBay such as the currency in a popular Internet game. I call it “there’s need, then there’s supply.” According to Chris Blank’s article Why the Internet Is Important in Business? Although people can use telephone to communicate, much business are using email to contact, such as sending chart or forms. Many companies communicate with the public and to transmit messages within the company by using email. They also use instant messaging, internet telephony (through services such as Skype) and even virtual meetings.

Facebook is a very popular website that allows people contact each other easily and make friends quickly. Facebook was created in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, a student at Harvard University. According to Zuckerberg, “The idea for the website was motivated by a social need at Harvard to be able to identify people in other residential houses. Facebook has more than 7.5 million registered members at over 2,000 U.S. colleges and is the seventh-most-popular site on the entire Web with respect to total page views (Ellison, Steinfield and Lampe 2). The similar thing with Facebook we also have Myspace, Twitter and Youtube. I don’t see any people that don’t know these kinds of websites. Therefore, Internet made our earth become a Global Village. People from thousands mails away can talk and see each other online through the web cam. It really makes people from all over the world closer.

We can do business online, talk and make friends online. We also can study online.

Based on my personal experience, I am taking ENG 201 and we don’t have to writer journal and turn it in. Our professor gave us a blog web site and just let us post our assignments on the blog everyday so he only needs to check everyone’s blog. He will leave the messages on the blog showing what are today’s assignments and what will we do tomorrow. I think this is much more convenient and simple. We don’t have to write tones of paper to hand in. Instead, we just need to move our finger and type the words on blog, then we finished. Last semester, I took CIS (Computer information System). It was totally online class. The instructor didn’t even need to teach. Everything was online; we just log on the website that he gave us, and follow the programs on that website. It automatically will show you how to do the Microsoft ware. The assignments are simply easy, we can do it home or at school on anytime. Don’t you think that was so relax? I do.

I have summed up some main positive usages on the Internet. Next, I will talk about the negative effect of the Internet.

Internet addiction is a very hot topic these years. Based on the Internet usage keep increasing, some people over used Internet. To understand online gaming addiction, it is important to understand howthe addiction stems from the creation of virtual worlds. New studies have shown that immersion into online games allows users to become addicted. Kimberly Young mentioned in his article Understanding Online Gaming Addiction and Treatment Issues for Adolescents - The American Journal of Family Therapy, “In one of the most dramatic stories of online gaming addiction, in August 2005, a 28-year-old South Korean man died—not by committing suicide, but after playing the game StarCraft at an Internet caf´e for 50 hours straight” (357-358). According to the article Internet Addiction: Signs, Symptoms, Treatment, and Self-Help there are four signs and symptoms of internet addiction or computer addiction. Losing track of time online, find yourself on the Internet longer than you thought. Having trouble completing tasks at work or home, such as working late more and more but still can’t complete the work on time. Isolation from family and friends, such as you feeling no one in real life. Felling guilty or defensive about your Internet use, hide your internet use or lie about how much time you spend online.

Identity theft is a very common crime in this informationized world. What is Identity theft? It’s a crime that someone steals people’s personal information from Internet and uses it to get people’s credit card or steal other property. “This is a common ploy for ID thieves, who test out your credit card with a small charge and then, if it goes through, start making big purchases. Crooks may even use programs with algorithms that run 16-digit numbers until they get a hit.” (Kimberly, Lankford 1). After they got your information, they may call you as a company and try to fraud you to purchase or to payback bills that you don’t even know. When you doubt the bills, they will pull out your information and try to convince you they are legal company. Right after they get your trust, and your purchase, they will vanish forever.

I think everyone all heard about hacker. They can use professional programs to hack into your computer through the security holes and you don’t even realize that everything in your computer is exposed to their eyes. The common software that they use is called Troy injection. The principle behind it is similar to the story called Troy. So that’s what its name came from. The Troy can prevent itself as a safe program and go through the firewall. After it goes into your computer, it well releases many viruses to break down your security system. Then the hacker can get permission to connect to your computer and control everything. To be a hacker requires much knowledge about Internet and software. So people who are hacker are not idiot, they are smarter than you think.
To warp those things up, my point is to inform that the Internet is like a double-edge sword. As we saw in my paper, it can give incredible wealth to people; also it can bring disasters to people. It depends on how people are going to use it, such as we can’t blame on a knife because someone used it to hurt people. We should see it equally and fairly. Hopefully, people will understand the Internet and use it to make contribution for the world.

.Actually my purpose stays the same. I’m going to talk about the two sides of the Internet usage. Those are the two main points of my paper. To specific, I came up with several points about each side, which are some people use internet to do business, to make money; or to make more friends online; students also can study online, they can find many books. I found out that many articles that about the Internet marketing, which means people are buying products online. But some other people, they use internet to get personal information illegally; they also can steal money online, and do many things to get advantages for themselves; some students play Internet game too much and they don’t want to study anymore. I read an article that said there are millions of people in the world lost their personal information in a single one day. I also read a paper that said a 19 years old kid obsessed Internet game and almost quit his collage. That’s why many parents hate Internet so much because their kids obsessed Internet too much.

I’ll focus on explain it is the problem about people who are using the internet, not the problem about internet itself. Different people can make huge difference by using internet. So internet is just a tool, it doesn’t have any problem. I’ll give some examples about what exactly different between two kind of people use the internet.

My thesis will be the Internet is like a double-edge sword, when you are using it, you may get hurt by someone else online.

Actually my purpose stays the same. I’m going to talk about the two sides of the Internet usage. Those are the two main points of my paper. To specific, I came up with several points about each side, which are some people use internet to do business, to make money; or to make more friends online; students also can study online, they can find many books. I found out that many articles that about the Internet marketing, which means people are buying products online. But some other people, they use internet to get personal information illegally; they also can steal money online, and do many things to get advantages for themselves; some students play Internet game too much and they don’t want to study anymore. I read an article that said there are millions of people in the world lost their personal information in a single one day. I also read a paper that said a 19 years old kid obsessed Internet game and almost quit his collage. That’s why many parents hate Internet so much because their kids obsessed Internet too much.

I’ll focus on explain it is the problem about people who are using the internet, not the problem about internet itself. Different people can make huge difference by using internet. So internet is just a tool, it doesn’t have any problem. I’ll give some examples about what exactly different between two kind of people use the internet.

My thesis will be the Internet is like a double-edge sword, when you are using it, you may get hurt by someone else online.

Annotated Bibliography (2)

6. Alex M. Andrew. "Internet freedom. " Kybernetes 39.7 (2010): 1097. Sciences Module, ProQuest. Web. 10 Aug. 2010. "Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to recount a disastrous result from a computer virus infection. A proposed quarantine scheme to combat malicious activity is discussed, as well as several issues bearing on internet freedom, including illegal music copying, politically motivated censorship and censorship of offensive material. Reference is made to an initiative to establish international Ackoff Centers for Design Thinking, following a suggestion by the late Russell Ackoff. Design/methodology/approach - The aim is to review developments on the internet, especially those of general cybernetic interest. Findings - Internet freedom is a complex issue, with practical, political and social implications. Practical implications - Maintaining virus protection is important for all computer users. The proposed quarantine scheme has much to commend it, but the thorny issue of internet freedom needs careful consideration. Originality/value - It is hoped this is a valuable periodic review." I can take some examples about the what bad things can people do by using the Internet.

7. Daniel Wolfe. "Security Watch. " American Banker 4 Aug. 2010,Business Module, ProQuest. Web. 10 Aug. 2010. " The examples about how a hacker can do by using Internet such as how they get people's credit cards and personal information.

8. Harvard Business Review; Jul/Aug2010, Vol. 88 Issue 7/8, p32-33, 2p, 3 Diagrams
"With data from the Trendstream Global Web Index survey, the article focuses on how social network users share information about themselves online. The five behaviors that are mapped, charted, or graphed are blogging, managing a social network profile, sharing photos, sharing videos, and micro-blogging. The difference between Asian and Western users' broadcast behavior such as blogging and managing social platform identities is mentioned. The behavior of Internet users in emerging markets and the so-called BRIC nations of Brazil, Russia, India, and China is mentioned."

Many examples about internet usage in peoples life.

9. Spence, D.. "New kids on the blog. " British Medical Journal 340.7752 (2010): 930. Health Module, ProQuest. Web. 10 Aug. 2010. "The Internet has spawned blogs, microblogs, podcasts, and YouTube and social networking sites, and people can even simply establish their own website. This is both egalitarian and immediate: everyone is a potential journalist and publisher. Some of the result of the explosion in new media is great, but much is tedious, obsessive, phoney, irrelevant, ill considered, and insulating. Here, Spence focuses on new media and medicine. He also stresses that the new media are a good thing, because in the past history was written by the privileged few. The new media in all their guises are at least the diary of the people. They offer writing therapy to doctors and the opportunity to upload a different version of the official sanitized version of the NHS." Examples about how people socialized on internet.

10. T H E Journal; Apr2010, Vol. 37 Issue 4, p14-19, 5p "The article discusses the active use by school districts of social media websites, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, to learn about and influence public opinion. It notes that the Minnetonka, Minnesota public schools have used technology funding to expand their communications range to websites, podcasts and video, and is developing a plan for strategic use of social media technology. It points out that officials learned from online conversations regarding the resignation of a school administrator that people assumed that student conduct was the reason for the resignation. They were able to post a response on the website where the comments were found to address inaccuracies. It notes that engaging in such activities requires a plan with a careful delineation of personnel involved." There's many ways to use social network on Internet.

Annotated Bibliography

1. Beato, G.. "Internet Addiction. " Reason 1 Aug. 2010: Research Library Core, ProQuest. Web. 10 Aug. 2010. "Last summer Ben Alexander, a 19-year-old college student obsessed with the online multiplayer game World of Warcraft, was profiled by CBS News, NPR, the Associated Press, and coundess other media outlets because of his status as client No. 1 at reSTART, the first residential treatment center in America for individuals trying to get themselves clean from Azeroth, iPhones, and all the other digital narcotics of our age. At reSTART's five-acre haven in the woods near Seattle, clients pay big bucks to detox from pathological computer use by building chicken coops, cooking hamburgers, and engaging in daily therapy sessions with the program's two founders, psychologist Hilarie Cash and clinical social worker and life coach Cosette Rae." I use this source because I am playing World of Warcraft. I know this is interesting game, but I'm not obsessed with it. So my point is too tell people Internet doesn't have any problem, it is just the people who use and how they look at Internet are different.

2. Anonymous. "Internet; Research from University of Hong Kong provides new data about internet. " Internet Weekly News 21 Jun 2010: Sciences Module, ProQuest. Web. 10 Aug. 2010. "According to recent research published in the The British Journal of Psychiatry, Despite increasing concern over the potential adverse effects of excessive internet use, especially in young people, there is some debate over its definition, magnitude and discriminant validity."
I may find some points that about why people think Internet has potential adverse effects of excessive internet use. Here it used "excessive" which means Internet is not wrong totally.

3. Anonymous. "Electronic Commerce; New electronic commerce study findings have been reported by scientists at University of Tsukuba. " Internet Weekly News 7 Jun 2010: Sciences Module, ProQuest. Web. 10 Aug. 2010. "According to a study from Tsukuba, Japan, The potential of the Internet has been expanded substantially by a new generation of mobile devices, opening the door for rapid growth of m-commerce. " This source will give me some examples about how the Internet will effects the commerce and economic.

4. Allan H Weis. "Commercialization of the Internet. " Internet Research 20.4 (2010): 420. Sciences Module, ProQuest. Web. 10 Aug. 2010.
"This purpose of this paper it to examine the historical forces shaping the new paradigm and the possible directions in which the new commercial Internet might evolve. The Internet is undergoing a major paradigm shift. The factors influencing this shift, the commercial models that are emerging, and the resulting constraints that accompany these models are deeply rooted in the history of the Internet. The Internet has been the incubator for new network technologies, far surpassing the expectations of worldwide network suppliers. Its growth has been the steepest shortly after new technology has been deployed and new applications executed. Two basic reasons underlie the Internet's success: the Internet satisfies the needs of its users and its technologies were developed by solving real problems. The Internet is unique, and concepts cannot be readily borrowed from other business situations and applied to the Internet without risking adverse consequences on its effectiveness and utility. The key issues of the commercial Internet's future, such as management of the boundaries between networks, the establishment of an environment that fosters continued rapid technological progress, and the carrots-and-sticks imposed by the funding sources will be critical factors in its success." This is very good source I think. It tells me the progression of the Internet business. I can use many sources in this article to support my point which is internet is so important for people's life.

5. Brumbaugh, R.. "Digital Danger. " Listen 1 Apr. 2010: Children's Module, ProQuest. Web. 10 Aug. 2010. According to Thomas Umstattd, Jr., a former gaming addict who frequently speaks to groups of teens about the dangers of digital gaming, there are several steps a person can take to help gain control. [...] make some friends, or develop those friendships you already have. It can give me some examples about addiction on Internet games.

Essay #2 Game Plan

1. My purpose is to inform people to know the both sides of the Internet. I have strong interest on Internet because I think it’s important in people’s life. I’ve seen that kids are addict in the Internet and also I’ve seen people make amount of money by using the internet. So it’s a kind of interesting. According to my research, I’ve learned that what exactly and how does Internet effect our life. After reading my paper, I hope readers can see the internet fairly. Overall, my goal is to tell readers that Internet is a double-edged sword. It depends how people use it and how people treat it.
2. My topic is the both sides of the internet, which is good or bad for people. The Internet is more and more popular since 1980s to nowadays. Especially in U.S., everyone no matter how old or what gender, people use Internet almost every day.
3. I think most parents will care about if their kids addict to the Internet, so they may have interest to read my paper. Also, some people who work with Internet, live with Internet may want to read my paper. Actually, my topic doesn’t have demographics limit. Everyone uses Internet so everyone is my audience. Because of the Internet is still a very popular and important tool in our life. There also have many debates about if Internet is good or not. So this topic may be interest to people to read.
4. My sources are articles and databases online. I will keep looking for some books in library that related to Internet usage in modern life to see if there have any good contents to support my topic. I prefer to quite the sentence from the book. If allow to use image in my paper, I will feel happy to put some pictures that show the Internet usage is increasing every year and some kids who addict to the Internet games.
5. I still need to find some hard sources in library. The big challenge for me to locate the sources is I have to read a lot article. English is my second language so it’s hard for me to read those amounts of books or articles. Therefore, my reading speed is lower than others in my class, which means it took me twice times than others. As I said before, I want to find some hard sources such as books in library.

Databases research blog

1. Fact or detail:
A. Some teenagers are addict to the internet.
B. "5 to 10 percent of the 52 million Internet users [were] addicted or 'potentially addicted.'"
Source information:
Internet Addiction. By: Beato, Greg, Reason, 00486906, Aug/Sep2010, Vol. 42, Issue 4
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=8&hid=108&sid=894c6471-56b7-472d-bdef-3455d32cef0e%40sessionmgr114&bdata=JmxvZ2luLmFzcCZzaXRlPWVob3N0LWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=51894386

2.fact or detail:
A. "Today Facebook has more than 7.5 million registered members at over 2,000 U.S. colleges and is the seventh-most-popular site on the entire Web with respect to total papge views."
B. "In short, Facebook users can benefit from their online practices."
source information:
http://balzac.cnsi.ucsb.edu/inscites/wiki/images/8/85/Ellison_et_al_The_Role_of_Facebook.pdf

3. fact or detail:
A. "Considering how the internet, which did not effectively exist for commercial use over 10 years ago, has changed the modern world--and that we are only at the beginning--it would be an understatement to say that the future is here."
B. "Ten guiding principles for success in tomorrow's online research world"
source information
http://at4rn6hm3f.search.serialssolutions.com.lib-proxy.usi.edu/directLink?&atitle=The%20Future%20of%20Online%20Market%20Research&author=William%20E%20Lipner&issn=00218499&title=Journal%20of%20Advertising%20Research&volume=47&issue=2&date=20070601&spage=142&id=doi:&sid=ProQ_ss&genre=article&lang=en

4. fact or details
A: "It's no secret cybercriminals exploit the world's most popular communications tool--email--to launch viruses, embed Trojans, deliver malware, and conduct phishing schemes, all aimed at stealing information or bandwidth for fun and profit."
B: "... 41 percent have abused administrative passwords to snoop on sensitive or confidential information. And those are just the employees who admit it!"
source information:
http://proquest.umi.com.lib-proxy.usi.edu/pqdweb?index=3&did=2093444761&SrchMode=2&sid=9&Fmt=3&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1281054173&clientId=4130

5. fact or details
A: "Computer scientists and policy experts say that seemingly innocuous bits of self-revelation found on such sites as Facebook or Twitter can increasingly be collected and reassembled by computers to help create a picture of a person's identity, sometimes down to the Social Security number."
B: "You may not disclose personal information, but your online friends and colleagues may do it for you, referring to your school or employer, gender, location and interests. Patterns of social communication, researchers say, are revealing."
source information
http://proquest.umi.com.lib-proxy.usi.edu/pqdweb?index=4&did=2048046451&SrchMode=1&sid=12&Fmt=3&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1281054444&clientId=4130

Assignment

Article 1- Internet :Good or Bad? You Decide
summary: It talked about whether the Internet is bad or good or whether it should be used or not should be determined by the individual in question. It is important that we bear in mind that the ongoing globalization will not be possible without the internet. The internet has essentially made the world a global village.
http://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=6336

Article 2- The Good, the Bad and the Internet
summary: First it gave us the definition of the Internet which is a collection of more than 48,000 interconnected computer networks- a network of networks, so to speak. Essentially, a computer network is a number of computers which are linked and able to pass information one to another to another. Then he talked about some benefits and dark sides of the Internet. Such as privacy invasions, lawlessness, intolerance and theft.
http://www.freedommag.org/english/vol2704/goodbad2.htm

Article 3-Marketing on the Internet is Elementary
summary: The article talked about how it applies to being successful working online. There were five sections which are Be Attentive, Be Respectful, Be Honest, Listen and Learn, and Things Happen. The writer explained how to do on each section or we can say steps to be successful online.
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/marketing-on-the-internet-is-elementary

Article 4-Why the Internet Is Important in Business?
summary: It talked about the Internet made contributions to many areas. And how it works in each areas.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5460932_internet-important-business.html

Article 5- Internet Marketing Strategy: Why is it Important?
summary: It gave us many advantages about doing business online. It's more easier than in real world, and also it saves money.
http://marketing.about.com/cs/internetstrategy/a/aanetmarketinga.htm

Five articles

Article 1- Regulating the Internet
summary: It talked about the people spent too much times on clicking "mouse" instead of go out to have the real conversation with other people. Especially teenagers are too addicted to the Internet. They don't have enough exercises and friends.

Article 2- Internet is Important
summary: Nowadays, people use Internet everyday, and they do their job on Internet. People spent money on Internet; make money on Internet; study on Internet. Almost everything can be done on Internet. The article talked about how people are going to live their life without Internet and compared with the life when they have Internet.

Article 3- Internet :Good or Bad? You Decide
summary: It talked about whether the Internet is bad or good or whether it should be used or not should be determined by the individual in question. It is important that we bear in mind that the ongoing globalization will not be possible without the internet. The internet has essentially made the world a global village.

Article 4- The Good, the Bad and the Internet
summary: First it gave us the definition of the Internet which is a collection of more than 48,000 interconnected computer networks- a network of networks, so to speak. Essentially, a computer network is a number of computers which are linked and able to pass information one to another to another. Then he talked about some benefits and dark sides of the Internet. Such as privacy invasions, lawlessness, intolerance and theft.

Article 5-Marketing on the Internet is Elementary
summary: The article talked about how it applies to being successful working online. There were five sections which are Be Attentive, Be Respectful, Be Honest, Listen and Learn, and Things Happen. The writer explained how to do on each section or we can say steps to be successful online.

Writing Exersice

1. Mode: Description.
As soon as I opened the door to the apartment, I knew that my roommate had played party host all weekend long.The table was full of smelling foods and junks such as pizza boxes. beer bottles were everywhere even in the bedroom. Dishes were piled in the sink like a small mount with terrible smell. The most important thing was all my foods were gone. I almost passed out when I saw these.

2. Mode: Illustration
There are many ways that the university bookstore takes advantage of students. They sell a brand new book as 100 dollars and recollect it by around 30 dollars. If you rent a book in book store, some books will cost you almost 70 or 80 dollars just for rent them. T-shirt may not be a big deal compared with the text book, but it still profitablt. A new T-shirt is round 20 dollars. It may looks not that expensive, but the quality of the T-shirts are not worth for 20 dollars.

3. Mode: Narration
I finished my reseach paper in this morning first. And then I had to do my presentation outline for tomorrow class. After that, I still had a report needs to get done for the chemistry class. Not finished yet, I went to work at later afternoon and came back at late night. I was so exhausted. When it was all said and done, I was just glad to call it a day.

4. Mode: explanation
When I first met Fern, I knew immediately that she was a smoker. I could smell it when she talks. Her teeth were a little brown. She also had some holes on her cloth that burned by the stub maybe. Her vioce was deep and she cough a lot. So i think she smokes a lot.

5. Mode: Illustration
My roommate has a very peculiar morning ritual. First he woke up very early, amost at 4 o'clock in the morning. After he woke up, he had to sing a weird song to woke me up. Then he mumbled some nonsence words when he was cleaning his face. I think he danced when he was taking bath becuase I heard his feet were steping the bathtub. He was such a weird guy.

6. Mode: Illustration
Attending USI has changed my life in many ways. I've met many kind of people from different country here. They have different cultures and we had a lot of funs. For instance, we cooked foods from our own country and share them to eat. We went to ski together and Holiday World.
We taught songs together. That was so interesting to spent time with them.

Essay #1 Food adventure (Final)

Chinese food and American food
Food is a big and important part of people's life. Different cultures have different ways and ideas to cook food. There are thousands of types of food in this world. Though I haven't tried them all, but I think I'll like all of them. I'm a casual person, which means I am not picky in many things, like food. My parents didn't allow me to be picky about any kind of food when I was a kid. I do have some foods that I don't like, but I don't have any foods that I can't eat. Actually, I like many western foods, such as pizza, hamburger, and steak. I pretty much like all western foods, except pasta. I can't point out the reason; I just don't like it. I go to western food restaurants with my family or friends sometimes. Here I summed up the differences between Chinese food and American food in many ways.
I think Chinese food is much more complicated than American food in terms of the cooking process. Chinese food has five main processes to cook the foods, which are steaming, deep-frying, poaching, boiling, and roasting. A professional cook will make the food into a sculpture, like an animal or a dragon. I don't know much about how they cook American food, but from the end product I can tell that it's not that complex by looking at them. While American civilization tends to use meat dishes as a main course, the Chinese consider high carbohydrate dishes to be primary. If you are using the same basic ingredient, such as chicken or meat, the main difference between the two will be the secondary ingredients used, such as the herbs, spices, and the way of cooking and preparing it. The Chinese prefer rice or noodles to eat with the dish, whereas Americans prefer bread and potatoes.
There are also differences on cooking ideas. Compared with Chinese food, which focuses on taste, American cooking ideas are more rational: no matter what the foods look like or taste like, it has to have enough nutrients (for example. how much calories, protein, and vitamin one person needs to gain from food in a day). Even if the food all tastes the same, you still have to eat them because they are nutritive. For instance, the tastes of steak are exactly the same from Los Angeles to New York City. Chinese food, on the other hand, requires the best tastes. Unfortunately, Chinese food lost their nutritional value while people focused on the taste too much.
Not only in taste or way it cooks, but also the restaurants have big differences. I remember when I was in grade school; each time I got an A on my report card, I requested McDonald’s or KFC. I just loved hamburgers at that time. The red background with a big yellow M logo was beautiful. When you walking into the restaurant, first got my attention was a play ground. I've never see any Chinese restaurant that has play ground in it. Then I awarded that we pay money first at cashier desk and then we wait for the food. At that time, I thought that in America fast food was only the food. But I can say it does give me a good memory because it was the first fast food restaurant that I have been. It was clean and cute, full of cartoons pictures on the wall and has a playground in the restaurant. KFC was the second fast food restaurant that I’ve been to. I loved the fried chicken so much; I believed there was magic in the fried chicken for it to attract me so much.
Pizza Hut was a little expensive for me, so until I went into middle school. If I did well in school and made my parents happy, I could get a pizza meal in Pizza Hut. That was my favorite. Pizza Hut has very nice restaurants in my city. Soft yellow lights were shining in the room which felt warm and romantic. It was pretty like a comfortable coffee room. The Pizza Hut in China has its own flavors and sides. It has mushroom soup or sour tomato soup for the sides, and it also has shrimp, chicken wings, onion rings, and so on. It's so different from a Chinese restaurant; there were no sofas. Instead, there were many square or round tables and a couple of chairs, and the structure is different too. The decorations were all traditional Chinese decorations, like peony, Chinese knot, something like that.
Now I'm studying in the U.S.A, and I miss traditional Chinese food so much. I can't wait to go back and eat all kinds of food, especially my dad's special noodles. It is special to me because I couldn't find any other noodles that are better than my dad's. Seriously, I think his noodles are the best. He has his own recipe to cook sauce that I don't even know. American noodles are more like spaghetti; it's completely different flour than Chinese flour. This type of flour can make noodles chewier, but Chinese flour doesn't. That's why I don't like spaghetti or pasta or whatever. I just don't like chewy noodles.
Another important difference is the way to have the meal. In China, no matter what banquet or feast, no matter for what purpose, there is only one form to eat, which is everyone sit together to share one big meal. Use round-table is better, which has led to a form of solidarity, courtesy of an atmosphere of fun. On the American banquet, even though the food and drink are important, but actually the communication is the main purpose. The core of banquet is to talk to the other people near you. Everyone has his own meal to eat and people are free to leave the seat. They don't have to sit to eat. Instead, they could stand there drinking and talking. It's freer to eat in American banquet.Overall, different countries have their own cultures. The Chinese food is different than American food on the ways it is cooked, and the logos behind cooking. Also, the ways that people eat are different too. I'm not saying which one is better. I like them both because they all have their own special foods or restaurants. We have to respect the differences of different cultures.(1079)

Game plan

1. Which prompt do you think you will select? why does this one appeal to you over the others? did any of the prewriting exercises account for your selection? how so?
A: I think I'm gonna chose the Option 4-food+adventure. Because of i don't really care about the food, so i don't have very specific memory about the food and I've never focused on my family's food. I just ate what my parents cooked. So finally, i chosed the food+adventure because though i don't have memory about food, but i still can talk about the differences between Chinese food and American food. Nah...i didn't do any prewriting.

2. Which mode(s) of writing will be most helpful to you in terms of creating content? will you primarily tell a story, compare and/or contrast or describe, for example? what other modes of writing/thinking will you utilize?
A: Based on my occasion, I'd better chose the compare/contrast because I'm gonna talk about the differences between Chinese food and American food. I may use example and description.

3.What specific details will you include for your reader? why are these details important? what will they accomplish?
A: I may use taste, smell or sight, pretty much all senses to describe the food. These descriptions make reader can really get into it, they can even feel the thing that writer described. I'll try to let them give all senses to the readers.

4.what "place(s)" or "scene(s)" will you try to recreate for your reader? Why are they crucial?
A: It's gonna be the restaurant. Yeah, I'll try to describe as much as I can to let reader feel they were in the same place that i was in.

5. Thinking in terms of a working thesis, what do you think will be your main reason for writing?
What are you hoping to accomplish in your essay?
A: Emm....my main reason for writing? Well, it's required by the professor i guess. Honestly, my goal is to get A on this paper. I'll try my best to write this paper.

6. What problems or struggles do you experience when it comes to writing? what plan do you have to overcome these difficulties?
A: English is my biggest obstacle for sure. I'm not worry about the content or the writing skill. I just need to handle the English problems, such as sentence structures, grammar, and vocabulary. I'll try to increase my reading which we are doing this everyday, and I'll remember some words everyday.

Food memory

My earliest food memory was my Dad’s special noodles. My dad had his own sauce recipe for the noodles and I just love it so much. My mom couldn’t do that; my grandma couldn’t do that, only my dad can cook that sauce in my whole family. Dumpling was my favorite since I was still a kid, and my favorite restaurant was KFC and Pizza Hot. You must wondering why not Chinese food, just because I’m Chinese so I eat Chinese food all day and I would love to try something new from foreign country.
When I was about grade school, I went back home for lunches. So I usually had rice with couple of beef, pork or some vegetables. I also had noodles too. In China we don’t usually packed lunch, some people may packed breakfast, but I’ve never seen people packed lunch. Most young kid went back home for lunch which is same as me. Some kids will be picked up by the babysitter.
When I went to middle school, I didn’t usually go home. So I ate lunch at school’s cafeteria. The foods were not bad in school; I could have rice, noodles, like some traditional Chinese food. They were all pretty much cheap.
Because my high school is exactly the same as my middle school, so my lunch was still the same.
Here in United States, I have cooked for myself once. It was terrible. I couldn’t even take a bite. I tried to cook some chicken wings, and I search online the steps for how to cook. But I still can’t measure how much sauces I need to put in. Well, I know it’s a bad start, but I will keep learning it until I can cook well.Looking back, my tastes didn’t change a lot. I still love to eat dumpling and noodles. I still like to eat pizza and fried chicken. I miss my dad’s special noodle and I can’t wait to go back to eat anymore. (334)

"Research" Blog

I The American way

chapter 1: Richard and "Mac"- know more about "Mac" the logo staffs.

chapter 2: write about Kroc and Disney, they have many things in common. like "dropped out of high school and later added the trappings of formal education to their companies" (p33)

chapter 3: They speak "McDonald's English" what is "Mcdonald's English"? (71)

Chapter 5: know more about " the Golden Age of Food Processing"

Chapter 6: the idea that about a chiken finger-food without bones said by Fred Turner, the chairmean of McDonald's.

Food

I’m a person who eats for living actually. I don’t have too many foods that I don’t like; on the other hand, I’m OK with any kind of food. I do have favorite food such as pizza, dumplings, steak, lobster, and chicken.
I prefer Chinese food, it has verities way to cook and countless tastes. But many Chinese foods contain too much oil, which is not good for health. So I change my food list very often. American food is fast and easy to cook, like they put ham and vegetables that without cooked together and put some sauces on them. Then we have our sandwich for our lunch. It’s convenient and fast, and I think it’s healthier than some Chinese food because there’s no fried food in it. Fried food will destroyed the nutritious in the food and create some chemical products that will cause cancer.
I found out there’s a biggest different between Chinese food and American food is traditional Chinese food use oil and all kinds of sauce to cook food. It always mixed many kinds of food to gain many kinds of taste. I think American food is more like cooking on single food one by one. They don’t mix food to cook, they cook food separately and American food doesn’t use oil very often. They like to eat cheese which is not on my food list. I don’t like cheese at all because I think it doesn’t have much nutritious in it but calories. That’s why some Americans are overweight.
Nowadays, most people don’t have time to eat breakfast which is very important meal in a day. I love to eat breakfast if I can get up early. I know I’m a little lazy, and I think that’s the reason that everyone else has. I tried many times to get up early to eat eggs and bread or a cup of milk.It will gives you many energy that you need during the morning before lunch.

The food between eastern cultural and western cultural is so different. But i love them both, as i said before, i'm not picky, i love to eat all kinds of food. (361)

Self Introduction

My name is Xiaoran Li, and you also can call me Danny. I'm from China. This is my second year in United States. I'm in Finance major. I love to play piano so I am learning it by myself right now. Well, it goes slow but I will keep working on it. I also like to play computer games, like Warcraft and World of Warcraft.
As a reader, I would love to read a paper that is logical and clearly stated its main points so that i can quickly understand what is this paper going to talk about. Well, I'm an international student, so i have reading problem on vocabulary. Sometimes the sentence structure will confuse me too. Those two problems is my biggest problem on reading.
Basically, I have two advantages on writing a paper, which are always stick on the topic and my paper has clearly main points. Also, my mother language is not English, so I have a lot of grammar mistakes. I hope I could get better when I finish this class.