How to answer my questions

Why English is everywhere?

as we know ,englishi is a language which uses widely, for one thing english has a adventage of other langages ,that is its it absorb many words from other language ,so everyong learn english will find his mother language in it ,especilly in Europe .and tneh ,in the past ,england tried his best to go further and use other source in continets, so english float with the things .

Why did this happen?

British globalization colonial rule takes whose culture to have arrived at world everywhere. The rise of a superpower the United States to further the promotion of English. These two English counties promote English in the world. Today, the Global economy integration and English is the necessary tools. 

 

English is British language.

No one is certain how many people use English. how many people already speake english. In many countries the official language is English which mean english is not only use in Britain. 

 

Chinaese Shanzai Culture

shan zhai = literally “mountain stronghold” in reference to historical warlord holdouts that were outside of government control. A “shanzhai” edition product thus refers to products outside of government regulations that are widely reflected in the numerous fake and knockoff electronics/commodities made in China today. The term “shanzhai” can also refer to things that are improvised or home-made and are generally crude in both form and function

They are what you commonly find in supermarkets and stores yet you will discover they are fake brands designed to easily ‘trick’ you.

there’s a link you may interest have look http://www.culture-making.com/post/shanzai

something about qq

Brief summary

QQ is most popular in China. Although QQ software is the world’s most widely used internet chat clients, most people outside of china have no idea what is it. In China QQ could be a car, a tea, a milk, an IM software even a word which is mean cool. QQ is a culture in China. QQ software isn’t very good, but almost everybody use it in China. MSN seems better than QQ for business, so the some Chinese use it for business. But they also maintain QQ accounts as well. Because QQ seems everybody else in China have QQ account.

1. 1. What is the title and what does the title tell you about the paper?

First of all what is QQ?  The title didn’t tell me what is QQ. We should figure out what is QQ first? Then we can understand what the title mean. QQ is a Immediate message software ,just as msn ,with QQ ,you can chat online , see the person you chat through the video  telephone ,send the document point-to-point even break point to continue ,share file, it also have many other functions, such as the network hard disk, the kneading board, and the QQ mailbox. Connected with the cellular phones terminal. You may use QQ conveniently, practical, highly effective to contact with the friend.

1. 2. Who is the paper written by and do they seem credible to you?

This paper written by Benjamin Ross who’s I even knew. It seems credible to me.  I found out form Wikipedia: “The original name of QQ was OICQ”. That’s what the author written. And I found out Skype is not popular in China. The most popular is QQ and Msn. QQ is popular on campus while Msn is popular among people who are at office. It is totally same.

1. 3. Does it have a helpful abstract? Give reasons for your answer.

It seems don’t have any abstract. It looks like someone written a journal in blog but it is interesting.

1. 4. What did the author(s) do in their research and what did they find?

QQ only useful if you have friends in China, otherwise you won’t use it. It’s very commercial, much more so than other immediate message software but it does things that msn doesn’t do. It seems that MSN is more popular in business. QQ is popular in China as a chatting tool, but not in other foreign countries, so if you want to make friends with Chinese people, that must be a wise choice anyway, if not, MSN will be better than that.

1. 5. Was the paper was worth reading? Give reasons for your answer.

It is really good.  Think about the biggest IM Company in the world and you never knew. You probably heard about MSN Skype ICQ and Yahoo messenger. But you even knew about QQ which is very weird.

QQ is most popular in China. Most Chinese people will choose QQ as their first choice for chat, as most people have a QQ number.

1. 6. Do you believe the results/findings or the paper? Give reasons for your answer.

At least I believe that.  I have read many pages before read this article. And I had used QQ for years. Indeed, QQ is more widely used in China. I’d like to say MSN is more popular now in China, especially for people in work; Maybe students are more likely to use QQ

1. 7. What form of research approach did the researchers follow and do you think this was a useful approach?

It seems author comparing data and findings and it looks like author talks about him own experience and he just have a few sentence compare QQ and MSN but it is useful. He found out something it’s come from real life not only a theory and it is true. I lived in china for 20 years, and it looks like it really happen. The author tell us how popular QQ in china. In my 20 years life I haven’t see anyone who comes from china and younger than 30 years old didn’t have QQ account.

1. 8. What did you learn from reading the paper?

In China QQ is culture. It is not only an immediate message software .It could be a car, a tea even a word which mean cool. QQ have lots of program it seems not good. If you live in china or want to make friends with Chinese people you probably can’t give it up because almost everybody uses it. QQ has seen its number of users, including overseas Chinese and foreigners, grow in recent years.

Reference: http://benross.net/wordpress/do-you-qq/2008/01/16/

Proposal

Area

I found out the interesting area. How the human languages develop?  This question can back to human history. This is so huge area which means I can’t figure it out at a short time.

 

Topic

English is one kind of language of human.  In the 21st century English is most popular language in the world. In the near future English will be global language. In this situation English Globalization is inevitable. Do you think the disadvantages overweight the advantages of this? Some people consider English globalization as global Americanization.

My topic is The Reasons for and Effects of the Globalization of English.

 

 

Question

Why English is everywhere?

Why did this happen?

English is not British English.

The language globalized brings the secret worry of global culture.

English globalization is really a victory?

Academic Articles

http://www.psfk.com/2008/03/qq-chinas-largest-social-networking-site-raking-in-the-dough.html

 

This article writes by Sean Leow. After reading I start to wonder why is QQ  so influential. There are so many Chinese uses it. I suspect that non Chinese user use it just because they need to contract Chinese. Why is QQ  anywhere in China is not because the chat client great, it is because of the way QQ IM integrates into QQ GAMES, QQ blog, QQ homepage, and most important QQ PET. QQ is still the only IM client that takes advantage of Chinese women’s penchant for cuteness, and if Chinese women uses QQ, then the men uses QQ, then everyone else need to use QQ.

 

How to read an academic paper

1. Who is the paper written by and do they seem credible to you?

  This is paper is write by Sean Leow.  It seems credible to me because I had already use QQ for many years and I know about it.

2. How do you know it’s an academic article?

It seems like an academic article because it plus another website which is have trusted information.

 

3. What is the title and what does the title tell you?

 

The title is “QQ, China’s Largest Social Networking Site, Raking in the Dough”. It tells me which china’s largest social networking site is and how was it?

 

4.  Does the abstract tell you what it should?

 The article doesn’t have abstract. It just a short article but it is very clear.

5. How many references do they have? Are there any that look useful?

 The article only has one reference.  It’s really useful.

 

6. Where do you decide to stop and why?

 I didn’t stop because it is not a long article and I like it.

7. What did I learn from reading the paper?

 

I knew something after reading. Such as which is running QQ how many active users does it have and how influential it is.

  
8. Is there useful knowledge in the paper?

 After reading I know how QQ running like does. What different between QQ and the other chat software such as MSN/ICQ.

9. Would you read another paper by these authors?

Yes. They are very interesting for me.

   

10. A paragraph summarizing the article.

 

QQ is big and influential. It has 300 million active users and More than 50% user in china. QQ is in a favorable position to capture chinese market.

Novice in SecondLife

Novice in SecondLife

1. Does SL suit non-technical novice?

2. What kind of things does the novice can do in the SL?

3. How does the novice make money in SL?

What is postmodernism?

Postmodernism literally means ‘after the modernist movement’. While “modern” itself refers to something “related to the present”, the movement of modernism and the following reaction of postmodernism are defined by a set of perspectives. It is used in critical theory to refer to a point of departure for works of literature, drama, architecture, cinema and design, as well as in marketing and business and the interpretation of history, law and culture in the late 20th century………..

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism

It’s very hard to understand very well.  These are all I can understand form wiki. 

 Firstly, post-modernism is not a style concept.

Secondly, post-modernism is not a period concept or the concept of an Activist Art.

Thirdly, Postmodernism is not the reality of Western contemporary art, It is only a kind of idea, one Criticism concept or Aesthetic Concept.

Finally, post-modernism is not a medium concept or concept of the artistic design.

Post-modernism is occurs in the occident the 60s’s philosophy ideological trend.

What is research after class?

What is research?

Research is a way to figure out how to solve the program in specific topic. It includes collecting information, information analysis, put forward an argument, proving or disproving argument, make an academic report.

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What is an ontology?

Ontology is the branch of  philosophy to  research which nouns represent the real existence entity, which nouns only represent one concept.

What is epistemology?

epistemology like a kind of knowledge, it must be true and must be people believe it’s true. but that’s not enough,people must  to prove it. things like “1+1=2″. everybody know it believe it.  ”1+1=2″ is  epistemology until someone proves this is the truth.

Difference between Qualitative and Quantitative research?

first of  all i think

Qualitative just means the number of something, and quantitative means what the thing is like or what is it made of, it depends on the thing itself but not the number

then i found out the  really good answer in the internet.

The advantage of qualitative methods lies in the study of motivations between factors. The question sometimes can not be asked or answered directly, and may include a number of circumstantial and contextual factors that create connections or choices between matters which are not related. Qualitative research can be very useful in defining patterns of associations between factors on the ground, as confronted with abstract interrelations received from investigation of large scale surveys and combined data. Besides, one of the most significant practical conclusions which can be deduced from the qualitative research is that it can be carried out with rather small budgets of money and time, even with the use of specialist commercial agencies.

Quantitative research is used to denote approaches which are supported by a set of hypotheses; it resorts to applying the model of science of natural world to study the social world. The accent of the quantitative research is on patterns, causes and results. Quantitative research uses the tenets of positivism which consist in the fact that patterns of the social world have own existence.

However, in actual fact the difference between quantitative and qualitative research is simplistic. To greater extend research applies a number of methods the combination of which may include qualitative and quantitative elements. Quantitative and qualitative researches mainly differ in the treatment of information, in the way they apply this data.