Kalpana

SE 3121 Oral Communication for International Students

//**You are required to write a page summery and develop 10 to 15 questions to ask the class. You have to use someking of technology (Wiki, Power Point, Prezi etc) for your presentation. I will deduct 2 points if no technology is used. (2/8/11)**// media type="youtube" key="uIHcvkmn4Cw" height="390" width="480" //**2/21/11**// //**Please write a brief note on the following questions and make an oral presentation in class on Thursday (24th).**// //**1. What is one pressing problem you have? How do you plan on solving it? Give examples. You may make a logic model like the one I drew on the black board in class today.**// //**2. What was one negative experience that help you back? How did you overcome this difficult situation?**//
 * Please bring some information about your career goals to class on Thursday so Diane can help you with the newsletter. Post your particulars before coming to class so Diane and I can prepare accordingly. Also, you will present your story in class on Tuesday, Jan 25th. (1/18/11)**
 * Student Oral Presentations** (Be on time to set up and if you are absent the day you were required to present, I will deduct 2 points and you have to wait until eveyone else is doone to present)
 * 1. Wu - Feb 15th (Learning to Read and Write)**
 * 2. Ali - Feb 22nd (Obama and the World)**
 * 3. Anas - March 1st (Little Red Riding Hood Revisited)**
 * 4. Mariya - March 8th (Interpreter of Maladies)**
 * 5. Santiago - March 22nd (The Champion of the World)**
 * 6. Ana - March 29th (A New Politics of Sexuality)**
 * 7. Dante - April 5th (Demystifying Multiculturalism)**
 * 8. Meshal - April 12th (Death of a Homeless Man)**
 * 9. Suchaya - April 19th (Talking Up Close)**
 * 10. Carlos - April 26th (I Have a Dream)**
 * 11. Mariana - May 3rd (Everything isn't Racial Profiling)**
 * Remember to submit a page long summary on the essay you presented.**
 * //3/1/11 (March)//**
 * //Please read "Natural Disasters" in "Creating Meaning" text for Thursday. Please read pages 53 through 74. Remember that I will quiz you on any reading to make sute that you are reading attentively.//**
 * //Analysis of "Little Red Riding Hood Revisited"//**
 * //Russel Baker has used the contemporary jorgon to make readers understand satire and ironic usage of language. Baker uses euphemisms used by professionals. The essay also addresses sensitive issues by trivializing the issues. The use of slanting, which is "the process of selecting (1) knowledge - facutal and attitudinal; (2) words; and (3) emphasis to achieve the intention of the communicator" renders the essay entertaining and educatioinal. For example, the speaker might select facts that will make the listener to believe what the reader is conveying because of the use of particular words or language or the speaker might use pathos to manipulate the desired response from the listeners or the speaker can organize the thoughts by using chosen diction to taint the listener's perceptions.//**
 * //Baker uses the jorgon used by professional such as psychologists, people in the medical fields, lawyers, computer scientist, law enforcement officials and advertisers to revise the fairy tale "Little Red Ridind Hood." A few examples are as follows.//**
 * //1. Psychologists - Wolf's thinking ("a mass of repressed hostility interwined with acute alienation" and "a victim of oppressive society."//**
 * //2. Medical Professionals - "digestive tract," "dueodenum," and "an axe-assisted aperture."//**
 * //3. Lawyers - "subsequent intervention on the part of a third party, hereto unoted in the record"//**
 * //4. Police - "perpetrator," and place of residence" ( a euphemism for prison)//**
 * //5. Computer science - "attained interface."//**
 * //6. Advertising people - "miracle masticating products."//**
 * //Hence, it is crucial for the listener or the receiver to think and analyze the facts presented before forming an opinion.//**
 * //Watch Medieval help desk in English to understand a process!//**


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 * //Just to clarify, I believe in climate change ( you can't debate on smth that is so obvious), but not so much in this apocalyptic view of global warming.Climate has been changing for decades, but only now in our business-concentrated society it became such a big deal.//**
 * //Well, share your thoughts.//**
 * //[|Speaker Calls Global Warming a Hoax]//**
 * //[|The global warming hoax]//**
 * //Mariya~//**
 * //Nice work (3/7/11).//**
 * //I think the change in the weather is a sign that people should pay attention to it. The evidences show that the global warming has caused the change in biological system. Also, it is good to make a global warming a big deal, so the people over the world can be ready if somthing disaster happen in the future.//**
 * //Here is a link to show reasons why we should pay attention to the global warming.//**
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 * //Ali Alsubaya//**

I think we have experienced so many changes in the climate which makes us aware of climate change. Not only do earthquakes devastate an entire city or the country's economic development but it stretches the plates in which the continents and the seas are located. This century has been known as the century in which many developments- nuclear, energy wise, etc- have occurred. Yes, many have been of great success and has helped improve the world as a whole. However, such developments can harm the earth and thus create a change in the world's climate. The tsunami that occurred in Japan did more than just affect the stock market, the nuclear plant, which provides energy for most of the Japanese population, is now leaking! Check out these articles which talk about the economic loss (1) and the nuclear plant leaking (2).

1) http://www.worldnewsco.com/4400/japans-economic-losses-due-tsunami-reach-u-s-171-billion/ 2) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=radiation-leaking-from-nuclear-plant


 * MARIANA DELGADO (Interesting and convincing arguments/3/29/11) **


 * //Your mid-term examination is postponed to Tuesday of next week (March 29th). However, you may bring a copy of your newsletter if you need feedback. Also, the next section in "Meaning Making" text is about Social Justice Curriculum and I woukld like for each one of you to present on one of the following topics assigned to you using one good you tube clip (5 minutes maximum). The topics assigned in class are as follows://**
 * //1. Wu - Border Violence//**
 * //2. Suchaya - Child Labour//**
 * //3. Chorong - Oppression//**
 * //4. Meshal - Bullying//**
 * //5. Dante - Sweat Shop/Maquiladora//**
 * //6. Anas - Bottled Water//**
 * //7. Mariana - Abuse (sexual and verbal/emotional)//**
 * //8. Ali - Racism//**
 * //9. Soto - Discrimination//**
 * //10. Carlos - Family Violence/fast Food//**
 * //11. Mariya - Family Violence//**
 * //3.22.11//**
 * //Sample you tube video//**
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Please come prepared tp present your social justice topics on Thursday, April 7th. (4/5/11)