critique on "Human Emotion lecture" Psh156: lect2

The lecture was about the Human emotion, and the professor taught about the introduction of emotion. According to the lecture, professor gave a lot of examples like stories, situation and explain them all. After explaining, professor connected examples to the definition. When the professor gave the example, he showed the video with the faces of students showing what is emotion on their face. The professor always ask question and wait for response. The interaction between professor and students were very often. As the question, he explained depth and details. In fact, he guided what would next and what would be very important. Moreover, the professor acted physically on his face to show each physically movement for each definition. I've never been in Vietnamese university before. Therefore, I just can image that the professor and students are not very interacted to each other because vietnamese students are very shy in the lecture hall. The vietnamese professor required the respect of listening and not often asking. I think that the methods use with power point, video are the same . I found the easiest to understand is the emotional expression because he told the story and acted many action to describe the way emotion express like huge, smile... The most difficult to understand is about the comparision psychologial theory within the other experts. That made me confused, and I got lost a bit at that point. However, I could catch the next step when he gave the example about Edwin's definition. I think this lecture is very helpful for me to have the basic idea about the social behavoir which I need to research for my project.

week 2 reflection

My reflection about the second week was not easy to say about. I felt that it was easy at the beginning of the week, yet it was hard and stressful at the end. The most interesting part was vocabulary and the test. Actucally, I had to prepar for all vocabularies which I need for the Test. Therefore, weekend on the second week was very busy. In fact, the most tough assignment is the final project. I spent almost weekend for narrowing my subject and trying to find the other articles. Unfortunately, finding articles relating to the final project was so hard and complicated, so I got lost among too broad information. On the contrast, I had to plan my topic and supports for the final project, so I was so tired for the third week. I hated the changing and bothering weather on weekend. My mood did not feel good, nor do I feel enjoyed class. Even though I did feel so great on the beginning of week 3, I was really enjoy the documents about the Wal marts. So far, I have learned how to critique as I listening the document. Therefore, on the second week my feeling was not really frustrated. I hope more interesting assigments coming up.

critique on "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price"

In "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price", the director Robert Greenwald indicated about an overview of the Wal-Mart's controveries in the United states which are including competeting and ruining local business, employee's benefits, a working condition and employee's uninon. By a persuasion with so many employee's interviews of Wal_Mart, the documentary included much emotional , and the director gave his or her bias on this documentary.

According to the documentary, many interviews showed the real emotions such as depressed, frustrated, disappointed, ruined, unfair. The director used so many emotions that his persuasion might be successful. For example, one of those was the sadness and ruin of the local hardware business seemed to close because of the explosion of Wal-Mart in U.S. More over, the bias of this documentary illustrated the right for employee needing improvement in Wal-Mart. Even though the documentary introduced both interviews of employees and CEO of the Wal-Mart, the bias has showed literally. For the reason, the short scene of CEO speech was took from a part of the meeting or documetary. This bias might be weak because there was no evidence or direct interview from CEO or the other managers of Wal-Mart. On the one hand, most of interviews showed the annoyance about the wal-mart from local bussiness and employees. Comparing with Wal-mart in the other countries, my friend told that the Wal-Mart in Korea was bankruptcy, so the Korea bought all branches and turned into the Korean national brand. Futher more, Wal-mart were very successful in China from my Chinese friend's opinion. From this documentary, China and the United States had the same problem about the wal-mart's controversies. It seems to appear that employee still work for Wal-Mart without benefit because the incomes for family. The Wal-mart has been successful not only because the price is cheaper but also the branches are opened in the high unemployment rates. The documentary stressed about the union of the Wal-mart employee, yet a half of them went for unionizing. The failure of the Wal-mart working condition is very unexpectedly. My reflection about Wal-Mart was not so bad. After watching the documentary, I have found that all successful brands have their own selfishness and greed.

In conlusion, the documentary appears biased, its arguments based on too little evidence to persuade, and the language and the interview is very emotional. This documentary has successful illustration on the employee and local people about the Wal-Mart's controversies about the working condition and local business. However, it failed on the contrast of CEO and rare authentic statistic sources.

^^My reflection^^

When I first came to Yueli, I was too despressed. After I had quitted my college, I wrote Yueli test for entering English course. I respected my level coul be in 5b or 5a... Unfortunately, I was so sick that I didn't do well, I was placed in Lv4. I was too frustrated. I felt that I was not really participated in Yueli anymore. Well, I did not do my best at study... I skipped 2 months and returned in january. I studied 5b and I found many interesting stradegies which i have never leanred before. Well, I feel really want to learn more and more. In 5a class, I feel really fantastic because I really want to talk instead of doing so much stress work. ^^" Eventhough my English is not really statisfied well, I do my best because I found my class have so many interesting assignments to do. I repect my ENglish goal should be band 1 . Well, I am kind of greedy. However, that's it my goal, I will try hard to get honor. ^^" In my class now, I think many homeworks will come up next week. I repect this class will improve my presentation skill and strengthen my reading academic, listening and writing skills. I love this class, and I will DO my best ^^".

Just About Me

My name is Jessica; of course, this is my english name, and my Vietnamese name is Lien Dai. Eventhough I did not like my Vietnamese name before, I love my English name so much. I chose Jessica for myself because my Dad used to call me and my sister as senoir chessy and junoir chessy. Well, I made a bit change, and finally everyone call me Jessica. My home town is Ben Luc, Long An which is around 20 minutes from Ho Chi Minh City. I cameToronto, studied and graudated Canadian highschool, studied chemical in Humber college for a year, and finally continued studying at Yueli. I intend to study Biomedical at York university and probably go aboard to study in France next 5 years. Well, I chose Yueli for entering York university; however, I love everyone in Yueli now and really enjoy courses. Nice to meet You and we will have nice time together.