Cristine's+Reading+Journal

The website I read everyday is weibo.com, which is a website as Chinese Twitter. I began to read Weibo everyday from one year ago. I can share my life and emotion on it. I can follow anyone I'm interested, such as my friends, schoolmates, organizations, stars, even a stranger. I can know what happened and what is happening by using Weibo. I can know their life, their funny, or sad, or happy stories by refreshing and scanning it everyday. Weibo is also likes a mini world that spreads events people care. When the earthquake and tsunami occurred in Japan, some famous people or organizations used Weibo to announce information and request for supporting to public. Though where we live is a small place, we can feel the relationship to the world by Weibo. That's why I like this website.
 * July 6,2011 Wednesday Journal #1 **

I like the website which Kate likes. The website address is www.baidu.com. It is a Chinese website for searching information as Google. It is very useful for everyone, whoever you are a student, a teacher, a worker, a seller... anyone! Whenever you want any information, just use Baidu. For example, if I get a project, and I need to prepare for a presentation and a poster, I can use Baidu to look for some narrative paragraphs or presenting skills articles, and I can also search beautiful pictures for my poster. When I want to get some quotes or articles, I can also find them on it. It is very helpful for us.
 * July 7,2011 Thursday Journal #2 **

**July 12,2011 Tuesday Journal #3** Second way is the fashion. In 1920s, women are keen on makeup. And they worn long skirt at the beginning and changed to short skirts in the middle of 1920s. It was a bit different from today's because in today's women worn many kinds of skirts, like long skirts of Bohemia style, denim skirts... Another way is the salary. In 1920s, the average annual earnings is about $1200 and the teacher's salary is about $1000. It was not enough. But today in NYC, a starting teacher salary starts from $45,530, and it maybe rise to the maximum $100,049. It was a very high salary. LINKS: [] []
 * i)**One of the different ways is music. Jazz is the hottest music in 1920s in New York. Most of them are sad ballads, old-fashioned waltzes or even some songs without sense. In those years, people who are poor feel helpless and wrote some Jazz music to show their emotions. But today, people's style have changed. Pop music are more popular than Jazz because people's lives become better and richer and they don't need to show their poor life or their anger of the wars, government or something like these. They pay more attention on themselves and they would like to show their self emotions, which like love, in the music.

I guess that one day Evelyn was riding a bicycle and she was a learner at that time. She is at a very young age and she tried to ride a bike without anyone's help.Then...she dropped on the ground heavily and hurt her knees. I thought it maybe not too serious because everyone trying to learn how to ride on a bicycle will fall down like that.
 * ii)** I think my sheet is Evelyn's because she wrote that she is the Chinese girl who wears a white watch. Absolutely, there is a white watch on her wrist.


 * iii)**When I was only 3 years old, as the age I was in child care center, I hurt my head. It was a day that everybody is so happy to play, and I got two basketballs and I did not want to give it to anyone else, but there are a group of children ran behind me. I was thinking, and looking for somewhere I could hide myself and two balls. Then I find a big wardrobe near the wall and there is a very small place that I can hide two balls there. But when I hid the balls, I found that I could not hide myself, and I saw others children running toward me. Then I jumped on the balls and stood on a ball of each foot. It was crazy because I fell down on the ground the moment I stood on the balls. And my head was hurt seriously and I saw many blood on the floor. At the end of the story, of course, teachers took me to the hospital.

**July 13,2011 Wednesday Journal #4** [|clink here to see the video] The video is about a girl who escaped the marriage. It is similar to Nick so I put it on the page. [|clink here to see famous psychologists] I think a psychologist is like a psychologist, but not the same. Nich is such a quiet listener in the story and many people would like to tell him some gossip and secrets. He is similar to a psychologist because they both listen others' secrets or annoyance and not going to tell anyone else.
 * 2)**Nick
 * i)**Nick is like me because he always be a listener when people talking something and keep their secrets. He is also different from me because he escape marriage and it seems like he always escape problems but I would not, and I'm not gay as well.
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**July 14, 2011 Thursday Journal #5**
 * 2)**I log in Nick's facebook account and do something on it. I updated the status, "Jordan Baker, I know u have fell in love with me..hhaaa". And I also put a photo of Jordan Baker and commented "o my baby". The reason I did these things is in the end of Chapter 4, we can all know that Baker and Nick hug each other and they became lovers. But... it seems that "Jordan" was misunderstand me and thought that I have another girl 10years younger than me. I wrote "poor Tom Buchanan, poor Daisy Buchanan"on facebook because Daisy is so crazy about money and she married Tom when Gatsby was poor, then in the coming up story, Daisy fell in love with Gatsby again because of his money.By the way, I commented the photo I put after Gatsby's upset comment, I wrote that"come on sweetheart, meet at the garden !" It just because I think there are something wired between Gatsby and Nick!


 * 3)**Gatsby. Why Gatsby thought money can restore their love a? I ask because I cannot understand why Gatsby think she can get married with Daisy today after he becomes rich. In that years, people get married for money.

**July 18, 2011 Monday Journal #6** I used to have a big operation because of my sick heart. My vital capacity is very small and I always feel terrible when I having severe sports, like running or swimming.

**July 22, 2011 Friday Macbeth Journal #1** "...the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures..."(II,ii,67-68)
 * Part I**

This is a simile.

This is a very important line because it shows how vicious Lady Macbeth is. Although she helps to kill the king dead, she does not afraid. She is calm and thinks it is good for Macbeth. And she says this also because she wants Macbeth not be afraid of dead people and to put the dagger back to servants. Also, this quotation indicates how bad Macbeth and his wife are. They even kill their friend Banquo in the coming up story. For the power, they become animals without humanity.

I am one of the actors. My character is Lady Macbeth. I think the normal day of her is like this: Lady Macbeth wakes up in the morning, servants combs her hair and makes up her face. Then she helps to prepare for this day, after the breakfast has done, she wakes up her husband. Having finished the breakfast, Macbeth goes to King Duncan's castle to work. She asks servants to clean up their castle, then she goes to Banquo's house to find Lady Banquo to chat, and they have lunch together. In the afternoon, she goes out with friends to shop, or have afternoon tea. Then she goes back home to have dinner with Macbeth. In the evening, they hold on a party and many norblemen come. They have fun till midnight, then she goes to sleep with Macbeth.
 * Part II**

**July 25, 2011 Monday Macbeth Journal #2** [|video clink] 1. The actress' emotions are very good. We can know her nervous and angry. 2. The actress' actions are good. They express her feeling. When her husband enter, she goes up to him and cares how is the murder going on. 3. The actress' dress is good. Her dress shows her dark thought, and it is also a irony that even though she is a woman, she does not fare to kill the king.
 * Part I**

The quotation shows that Lady Macbeth has really dark humanity that she does not fear about killing the king and dead people. It also shows that in those years, their desires of power make them lost themselves. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth kill the king to get the power, but actually, they had been killed by power.
 * Part II**

**July 26, 2011 Tuesday Macbeth Journal #3** Theme: fear Video: [|video"Fear"] In this video, the woman was fear of everything, she is so scare that he keep talking and talking, and always scream.
 * Actor**

At the beginning of Act II Scene II, Lady Macbeth is very nervous when Macbeth killing Duncan. She is scare of the murder has not been done, and she talk a lot to herself. And it shows that she still has humanity at the beginning of the murder. At the beginning of the play, the theme is opposite. Lady Macbeth is very brave, ambitious and vicious at the beginning. It is a big different from the later story. When Macbeth is killing Duncan, she is nervous and a little fear. But she still clam. She becomes crazy, sleepwalk normally, she fears her image of blood on her hands. "I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. /Did not you speak?"(II.ii.19-20)When I act her, I try to act her nervous feeling, I walk around and around to express her fear. The theme shows that even though Lady Macbeth is brave and clam before, she still a woman and fear of murder. And it also shows that she is still human and has humanity, she is not an animal that just has greed and cares about power.

**July 27, 2011 Wednesday Macbeth Journal #4** 1."And chastise with the valour of my tongue /All that impedes thee from the golden round, /Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem /To have thee crown'd withal."(I.v.28-31) 2."Come, you spirits /That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, /And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full /Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;"(I.v.45-48) 3."look like the innocent flower, /But be the serpent under't."(I.v.74-75) 4."Alack, I am afraid they have awaked, /And 'tis not done."(II.ii.13-14) 5."I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. /Did not you speak?"(II.ii.19-20) 6."Nought's had, all's spent, /Where our desire is got without content: /'Tis safer to be that which we destroy /Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy."(III.ii.8-11) 7."I have seen /her rise from her bed, throw her night-gown upon /her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it, /write upon't, read it, afterwards seal it," (V.i.4-7) 8."she has light by her /continually; 'tis her command.:(V.i.21-22) 9."What, will these hands ne'er be clean?--No more o' /that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with /this starting."(V.i.40-42) 10."Here's the smell of the blood still: all the /perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little /hand."(V.i.46-48)
 * Ten Examples:**

Sometimes a strong fear can make people crazy. If they cannot figure it out, the fear may kill themselves.
 * Attention Grabber:**

**Shampoo:** "I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. /Did not you speak?"(II.ii.19-20) It is hyperbole.

Because Lady Macbeth is fear when her husband is killing the king. She thinks the owl's sounds like screaming and the crickets' are crying. It is a hyperbole. Owl and Crickets are normal things in the natural world. She fears that they failed the murder, then they both will die. Also, it shows that she is still human and has humanity. She is not an animal and just has ambition, greed and cares about power. It also hints that in the coming up story, Lady Macbeth will live in huge fear.
 * Exploratory paragraph:**

Murder is born with fear. No one can still be reassuring if they kill someone. Even though they have the most power in the world, they cannot forgive themselves in their deeply heart. Somebody may say there are, but they are not human, they are just animal.
 * Thesis:**