Art History

Day : Monday
Date : May 30, 2016
Title : Art history
Time : 11.00 - 11.20 pm
Pages : No page

Thesis statement :

Art history is the historical discipline that deals largely, but not exclusively, with material objects. Traditionally, this has meant paintings, sculptures and buildings. Its work is centred on charting the history of the making of those objects across time and space, and, put loosely, doing history with them. The phrases 'history of art' and 'art history' are sometimes used to signal these two distinguishable but overlapping endeavours, but they are often used interchangeably. Sensibly, art history can be used as the umbrella term encompassing both activities.

Outline : 

• Art history can be used as the umbrella term encompassing both activities.
• The exploration of these qualities in particular cases, and in general, is still an important aspect of art historical enquiry.
• A great deal of art history is also done in museums and galleries.
• Some of these approaches, adopted since the 1970s, have been identified as forms of 'New Art History'.

Pros : None

Cons : None

Resolutions :

Thus, art history seems tangled in doubts about procedures and ethics. However, away from the cut and thrust of these debates, art history is still being written confidently and with purpose, using the tools that are available. Art history's role in enabling us to engage imaginatively with the past remains an important one, and its scholarly investigation and celebration of the visual materials that societies use and value has perhaps, as we come to terms with globalisation, never been more vital.

Vocabulary-expression learned :

•  sculptures
• diversity
• reducible
• sustainable

Comment :

I think this article can make me know more knowledge about art.

http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/art_history.html

Body Language - Understanding non verbal communication

Day : Monday
Date : May 30, 2016
Title : Understanding non-verbal communication
Time : 10.00 - 10.29 pm
Pages : No page
Outline :

• First Impressions and Confidence.
• The other person is defensive and doesn't really listen.
• You can actively engage the audience when you need to if you're alert to some of the typical signs and signals of people not being engaged.
• Of all the non-verbal body language that we may observe, being able to tell whether a person is lying or not will stand you in good stead.

Pros :

The difference between the words people speak and our understanding of what they are saying comes from non-verbal communication, otherwise known as "body language." By developing your awareness of the signs and signals of body language, you can more easily understand other people, and more effectively communicate with them.

Resolution :

By becoming more aware of this body language and understanding what it might mean, you can learn to read people more easily. This puts you in a better position to communicate effectively with them. What's more, by increasing your understanding of others, you can also become more aware of the messages that you convey to them.

Author's Opinion :

Body language impacts a great deal of how we communicate, and can reflect quite accurately what's going on inside us. It includes body movements and gestures (legs, arms, hands, head and torso), posture, muscle tension, eye contact, skin coloring (flushed red), even people's breathing rate and perspiration. Additionally, the tone of voice, the rate of speech and the pitch of the voice all add to the words that are being used.

Vocabulary-expression learned :

• constricted
• perspiration
• stammering

Comment :

I agree with the writer that body language impact a great deal of how we communicate.

https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/Body_Language.htm

Childhood Nutrition

Day : Wednesday
Date : May 25,  2016
Title : Childhood Nutrition
Time :
Pages : None
Thesis statement :

Nearly 1 in 3 children in America is overweight or obese. Despite all the focus on kids being overweight and obese, many parents are still confused, especially when it comes to what kids eat.

Outline :

• How much does your child need?
• Is he/she getting enough calcium?
• Enough iron?
• Too much fat?

Pros :

During this stage of life, it's almost all about the milk — whether it's breast milk, formula, or a combination of the two. Breast milk or formula will provide practically every nutrient a baby needs for the first year of life.

Toddlers and preschoolers grow in spurts and their appetites come and go in spurts, so they may eat a whole lot one day and then hardly anything the next. It's normal, and as long as you offer them a healthy selection, they will get what they need.

Cons : None

Resolution :

Once you do start adding foods, don't go low-fat crazy. Although the AAP guidelines state fat restriction in some babies is appropriate, in general, you don't want to restrict fats under age two because a healthy amount of fat is important for babies' brain and nerve development.

Author's opinion :

Although getting your child to eat healthy — regardless of his or her age — can be a constant battle, its one well worth fighting. A healthy child becomes a healthy adult, and only with your support and guidance will your child be both.

Comment :

I agree with the writer, the parents of the children have to know how much nutrition children need.

https://healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/nutrition/Pages/Childhood-Nutrition.aspx

Review the story

Review Story : Twilight

• Date : 28 May 2016
• Title : Twilight
• Time :
• Pages : 434 page
• Characters : Bella Cullen, Edward Cullen, Jacob Black, Carlisle Cullen, Esme Evenson/Cullen, Rosalie Hale/Cullen, Alice Cullen, Jasper Cullen

• Introduction :

When seventeen year-old Bella Swan leaves sunny Arizona to live with her father in the small and gloomy Pacific North-West town of Forks she doesn’t expect to like it. After all she has made excuses not to go there enough times over the past few years. If living in Forks, with its constant mist and rain, wasn’t bad enough she will have to make a whole new set of friends and settle into a new school.

• Conflict :

At first Edward is aloof, sometimes it almost seems like he can’t stand to be in the same room as her, but eventually they strike up an unlikely friendship. Even as Bella falls hopelessly and irrevocably in love with Edward, she still can’t work out exactly what makes him so different to everyone else.

On a trip to the beach, Bella is told of the local legend about the “cold ones”, a group of blood drinkers who have sworn off hunting humans but are still not welcome on Indian land because vampires are not to be trusted. Realising Edward is vampire changes nothing for Bella, she knows that she still loves him even if he’s not human.

Edward and his whole family are vampires. Edward himself was made a vampire when he was seventeen years-old, although that was at the end of World War I. For Edward his love for Bella is both a delight and a torment. A delight because she is the first person he has loved since he was made a vampire. A torment because although he has sworn off human blood and only hunts animals the craving for human blood never truly leaves him and the very scent of her also stirs his hunger for blood….

• Solution :

When escape to Phoenix, Bella framed by James. Fortunately Edward and his family soon realized the loss of Bella and immediately rushed to go to save Bella. Edward arrived just in time and managed to save Bella, after which they immediately returned to Forks and attend prom by their school.

• Opinion :

This novel can imagine the readers to experience with the story of Vampire in Twilight novel. And the writer bring me to the situation of the story.