Task 4

There are so many different kinds of materials when students study nowadays. However, I am sort of traditional and conventional; thus, even though we could recommend students how to use networked instruments, still making these students tend to depend on the original one, namely paper materials. In my opinion and my experience, using traditional paper materials during studying seems much easier to concentrate, not to mention making students take a networked course. I believe it would be like a chaos if the networked courses get really popular, because I could not trust that students might be willing to be absorbed in the networked course. Moreover, it seems that networked students are simply to get tired and distracted, at least to me. Taking a course on internet makes me feel everything is unreal, and after that I must be dizzy and exhausted. In addition, I don’t think it is necessary to make the networked learning take place of traditional one if the distance is not a problem. Therefore, perhaps the networked course could be of some help to the students who have the distance problem; yet, the conventional classes should still keep going.

Task 3

The fact is I barely know about Britney Spears on TV or other media, so that I don’t know if her change is believable. She has already been a star since she was a little child in Disney Company. She was sweet, smart and charming. It seemed that her reputation was pretty positive and healthy. Yet, after the affair that she dated Justin Timberlake, she began to be a trouble maker on TV. I think she started being famous and well-known childhood, and she must be lost in her life growing up in such flashy sphere.

Task 2

Sometimes, we might get angry with what others did to us, losing our minds. There is no chance calming down during madness. Being outrageous or insane means the logical and reasonable behaviors do not get chance to show up. We always use our first-person point of view to see the world around us; therefore, we seldom rethink about things from some new angel. We might be blind when being unable and unwilling to perceive and understand. Yet, being irrational is extremely selfish and dangerous because it would damage the next circumstances and hurt people around us. Being mad not merely makes us not able to carry on but reveals our weakness to people as well. When being mad, we cannot control our rational sense and thus sometimes it is easy to have opponent get opportunities to assault us. As a result, keeping rational and calming down, especially when we are supposed to be mad, help us to avoid to the damage.
Moreover, using other’s angel to rethink about things is a way to respect people. It presents that we own macroscopically open minds to accept and appreciate different opinions even though they might be opposite to us. Even though rethinking about things with a different logic sometimes is pretty hard, we still have to try harder; otherwise, we would lack tolerance, breadth of view and sympathy. For instance, once my father told me his feelings of 海角七號. He thought that this film was full of strength such as strong script, reasonable plots, remarkable strategies, and appropriate characters. In his opinion, each plot in this movie connected each other, telling the audience the details between each plot and each character logically and rationally. It showed how delicate the script was designed and how diligent the director was. Nevertheless, I totally didn’t agree with my father. My dad often gets lots of wonderful and clever ideas after watching movies, teaching me how to appreciate and analyze a film as I was a child. Yet, this time I couldn’t stand his side. I thought he lacked the experience of watching movies, especially Taiwanese art film directed by 侯孝賢 or 蔡明亮. He liked to see films by 邵氏. Besides, he didn’t study film theories so that he didn’t know that even though the script takes a seriously significant role in a film, a movie is still needed to be designed and displayed by the director. Thus, the director is the main role as an author in a film, so that if there is only a strong and delicate script but the director doesn’t know how to deal with it, the film would be lousy. In my perspective, 魏德盛 designed this script very well; however, in 海角七號, there are too much detailed plots that it seems that they couldn’t improve or promote the quality of it. Such detailed script is sometimes very risky if the director doesn’t know how to present it in a film. He might make the film filled with nonessential parts in his movie and then the main theme would be a blur. I thought 魏德盛 wanted to display the characters and their background information too much. There is no need to explain every detailed reason why a character has to act in this way or do that thing, etc. As we can see in 蔡明亮’s works, he wouldn’t explain too many details about the hero. He just use the camera to display the characters’ behaviors and events, making us observe, discover, think, analyze and interpret them on our own. Such kinds of films can really cultivate and enlighten our ability of appreciating films, even the scenes we in reality. It is how brilliant films teach us. However, the audience, especially in Taiwan, are educated to take highly of the detailed plots and script; otherwise, the film they think it doesn’t explain clearly is lame. Some audiences have some stereotypes that if a director who cannot design a film certainly, he or she might be limited. Yet the truth is a good piece of art work should give its audience a wide imagination which might be ambiguous and multi-meaningful by the filmmaker’s clever shooting style and the art of montage. It is not good enough merely with a delicate script. After I claimed my viewpoint, my father thought that I didn’t have an open mind to accept his opinion and to listen to his meanings clearly. It might make people think that it is hard to communicate and to share thoughts with me. I felt my dad was ridiculous at that time, and I believed that he totally understood nothing about films. However, after I calmed down, rethinking perhaps I did really do something wrong, trying to value it, and agree with it from the different outlook. It was a good lesson I have learned from my father. Sometimes, the more expert we get in our sphere, the harder we are willing to take others’ opinions. And in this way, we would never learn anything various from the outside, being stuck in our situation, and couldn’t move on anymore. Thus, rethinking about things from a new angel is really important to us.

Task 1

Everyone gets his or her own value. Some people just don’t know that , because we are supposed to find out what the most important goal that deserve to make us achieve in our whole lives. Take me for example. I am hungry for getting any opportunity related to films to become my basic step in society. Therefore, I have to develop my own abilities of English and knowledge of philosophy for future; they may promote my chance if I enter the film sphere. In this way, the courses in English department and philosophy department are meaningful and significant to me right now. And if someone laughs at me for never skipping classes, I would say to him or her that these classes are helping me to make my future succeed. Perhaps the courses are meaningless to some because these are not related to what they get to do in the future. What they can do is just pass the course, get the credits and then graduate without a hitch. I won’t get angry with such rude question if someone asks, because everyone holds different values and have various dreams. People should not use heir own values to judge others’, not to mention that using our own principles to estimate others’. It’s acceptable to listen to what people tell you but believing it is in another situation. We have our own capacity to determine what people say is right or wrong. Even though what they say is right, is it appropriated to our purpose or our occasion. Working as a part-time waiter in a fancy restaurant and getting a lot of money are not wrong, and perhaps some could learn many lessons in this experience. Those are what they are eager for is not the purpose we are chasing. Thus, it is not about believing everything people tell you or not, it is about the various people hold. We are supposed to respect different kinds of opinions and perspectives; however, we could also see people from the viewpoints they have. An idea might develop one’s sense of value, and a value may affect one’s belief and viewpoint; finally, all of them would cultivate his or her mind and character and lead him or her to success or failure. What kind of success is so-called absolute success? And what is the real failure? Again different kinds of values and thoughts may have different kinds of outlooks and answers. Hence, we don’t have to judge other’s viewpoints, and yet we can predict their futures and observe their experiences from them.