Is Holiday Nostalgia Good for You?

     I think sometimes, nostalgia is good for me and sometimes, it isn't. When I have a festival in the United States, I will feel very delighted because I can experience different feeling. However, when I am in the celebration, I will miss my family,too. I really would like to share this special festival with them. I wanna be glad with them, but it is impossible. I just can talk to them by the Internet. 

     The other side, homesick can help me grow up because nobody can help me when I got in trouble. I need to solve them by myself. I can learn how to be independent and don't dependent on my parents. I hope when I come back to Taiwan, I can be a really adult.

Why We Feel Nostalgic During the Holidays

     I think everyone has nostalgic feeling in the life. Certainly, I am no exception. I feel homesick now because this is my first time to leave my country for a long time. I miss my family: my parents and my younger sister. I miss all Taiwanese food. I miss my good friends. I miss a lot and a lot. Sometimes, I feel lonely at night and I will go seeing my family's picture or use skype to keep in touch with them. I consider that those are great ways to help me feel comfortable.

P.S: My Japanese friends will go back in 20 days. I think I will miss them so much because this experience is pretty special and valuable. Keep in touch, please:)

"Christmas Story" still a hit with cable viewers

     When the movie "Christmas Story" broadcast on TV, the festival "Christmas" became more and more popular rapidly. This film attracted a lot of people to know what Christmas was. The media influenced the society a lot. Because of it, many people could realize and saw the movie easily as well as conveniently. Lots of people would like to play BB gun after seeing the film. Although BB gun was very dangerous, there were still many people wanting to buy it. We could see that the media control the society easily and soon.

A Christmas Story (1983)

     This article talked about the film "A Christmas Story." A child would like BB Gun as his Christmas present.The movie was not only about Christmas and BB guns, but also about childhood, and one detail after another rings true. I thought it was very interesting. I wished I could watch this movie right now.

     Christmas is very popular in the world. Every year, children look forward to get gifts from Santa Claus.   Each children think Santa Claus will climb the roof and put the gifts next to their bed. Although the Christmas story is fake, parents always be Santa Claus. They will buy presents for their children. I like Christmas very much. I think the festival is very special and touching. I like the Christmas feeling because the Christmas tree is so beautiful and pretty.

     

Real-life Groundhog Days studied       I thought deja vu was a kind of special feeling. Many people had the experience in their lives before. Sometimes, their heads would show a few parts of memory. They could not remember the impression clearly, but it seemed they knew something before. It was not disease or sickness.             However, sometimes, deja vu would make some trouble for people because wrong memory maybe led to wrong things happened. It was very dangerous. So, if you had deja vu, you must think clearly when you would like to use this idea to do something.

Groundhog Almighty

     T he movie "Groundhog" was so excited and weird. There were some new thoughts in this film. In the story, the major role, Phil, thought he always lived in the same day. He could know everything in that day, such as what things would happen later or what the people would do in certain time. It was very amazing and unbelievable. He felt very bored because of the regular day. Later, he tried to do something crazy like killing himself or robbing the money and so on, but the day always started again when the time was at 6:00 A.M.

     I could not imagine that I always lived in the same day like Phil. I considered that I would feel crazy and depressed because I could not get fresh things in my life. I lost my excitement for anything. Maybe, I would be like Phil that try to do some bad things. 

Mind Blowing Movies: Groundhog Day (1993), by Ruben Bolling

     

     This article talked about the movie's plots "Groundhog Day." I think the major role was very strange and weird, but I would like to watch this movie right away. I was very interested in this story, such as what the man would do or what the man would like to change and learn, etc because there were a lot of different kinds of ideas and thoughts I didn't think before in this movie. I hope I could think about that when I finished the movie. 

      The festival "Groundhog Day" was also exciting because my country didn't own this kind of celebration. It's unique in America. I wanted realize this special festival. Although I didn't know what the man did sometimes, I considered that there were some meanings inside. I hoped I could see this movie quickly and understood more when I watched it.

Groundhog Day

     This article talked about a film which was named "Groundhog Day. " The major role was named Phil and he was a weatherman. Phil was played by Bill Murray and he was indispensable. The story was that Phil found himself living the same day over and over and over again. He was the only person in his world and after going through periods of dismay and bitterness, revolt and despair, suicidal self-destruction and cynical recklessness, he began to do something that was weird and strange to his nature. He began to learn and change.He astonishingly wanted to become a good man. After he met Rita, he fell in love with her. He thought when she stood in the snow, she looked like an angel. The point was not that he had come to love Rita. It was that he had learned to see the angel. He really changed a lot.

     If my life are the same everyday, I will be depressed, sad and feel bored because I like to learn new things and make lots of new friends. I love to go challenging and get excited from other things. So, I always like to change and learn. I think learning new knowledge can let me grow up. I am glad that I didn't have the same days everyday. Everyday is my new challenge. I just keep going and do my best. : )

Anatomy of a Panic

     I think this article is harder than before, but I try my best to understand it. This article talked about media's power and responsibilities. It talked that media could control many people and influenced the society very much. Media is like everybody's friend. We could not live without it. It 's very important for people to realize the new information about the world or their own country. 

     Yet, people could not believe whole things because they were not all true.If we trusted too much, we would get some trouble. We would feel panic and scared. Media could influence people deeply, so they should choose the messages which they needed to report or not. It was not good to create fake things to people. People would get wrong ideas from the fake messages.

The War of the Worlds Broadcast

     This article talked about media problems again. Reporters or speakers could broadcast easily. They even could decided what they would like to talk. However, I think they should take many responsibilities about their talks or reports because this information would influence a lot of people. They should consider what they need to say and not. If they created fake or wrong messages, those would let people feel panic. It was not good at all.

    Although reporting wrong information was very bad, I thought it was not whole reporter's fault. Listeners were also fool. They didn't think too much and just believed easily. It was not great for everyone. We needed to get more evidence when we heard new news. Thinking more was better.

"War of the Worlds": Behind the 1938 Radio Show Panic

     There is some confusion again. Media have strong power to control the society including the radio. Many people trust it without thinking. It is not good at all. It will cause much trouble and danger. I consider if we just believe the whole news or information when we hear form the radio, it is very stupid and fool. Because proof is very important. If there is not enough evidence, we cannot trust it easily. We need to search more information from other points of view. Fake messages will make people panic.

     For example,"The War of the Worlds" is a good instance.Thousands of people, believing they were under attack by Martian, felt panic when they heard this message from the radio. They believed it all and would like to escape from it right away. However, it was very fool, because there was not enough evidence to show that the natural disaster would really happen. It seemed a big joke. When the time passed, it didn't happen anything. So, I think we cannot trust the media "radio" all. We still need to think more it is real or fake.

Radio Listeners in Panic,Taking War Drama as Fact

     There are a lot of different kinds of medias in the world. Radio is one kind of medias,too. Lots of people can get information from it right away. Sometimes, when we need to realize what is happening now and can't surf on the Internet, radio is very useful and rapid. However, radio is the same as other medias. It also can convey wrong messages to people and make confusion to them. When some people get the information from the radio, they just trust it without thinking it is right or not. It is very dangerous for people because wrong messages will make people panic.

     Like natural disasters, when some people predict that the earthquake will happen in sometimes, that will make people feel scared. I think there is no reason believing it because they don't have enough evidence. We don't need to worry more about this unsure thing. So, although radio is a great media, we still need to be careful to use it.