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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Strategy Session

I will choose NO.3. Make an appiontment to meet with your teacher to try to charify your concerns and straighten out any misunderstandings. Because i'm a international student, we have different culture and history. I think our study style are different, if i can tell my problems to the teacher. He can help me to straighten my learning style and understand the class. We can communicate to each other. I can improve my English. So i choose 3

Friday, March 13, 2009

Culture Shock

It's simply a common way to describe the confusing and nervous feelings a person may have after leaving a familiar culture to live in a new and different culture. When you move to a new place, you're bound to face a lot of changes. That can be exciting and stimulating, but it can also be overwhelming. You feel sad,anxious,frustrated, and want to go home.
These differences, the things they talk about, the ways they express themselves, and the importance of various ideas may be very different from what you are used to.To understand culture shock you can :Learn the Language,Study Up,Get Help,Maintaining Your Culture.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

What are American Culture

American Culture is one of Western culture. There areCultural diversity : First, a nation of immigrants; second, Culture Pluralism in the United States; finally, Making Generalizations about American Beliefs.

The Visitor


The Visitor is a simmering drama about a college professor and recent widower, Walter Vale (Jenkins), who discovers a pair of illegal aliens who were the victims of a real-estate scam living in his New York apartment. After the mix-up is resolved, Vale invites the couple--a young, Syrian musician named Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) and his Senegalese girlfriend (Danai Gurira)--to stay with him. An unlikely friendship develops between the retiring, quiet Vale and the vibrant Tarek, and the former begins to loosen up and respond to Tarek's drumming lessons as if something in him waiting to be liberated has finally been unleashed. All goes well until Tarek is hauled in by immigration authorities and threatened with deportation. His mother, Mouna (Hiam Abbass), turns up and stays with Vale, sparking a renewed if subdued interest in courtship. However, the wheels of injustice in immigration crush all manner of hopes in post-9/11 America. Vale soon realizes that he has unexpected anger over Tarek's plight, and the positive changes to his personal life that emerged from a deep involvement with his friend and Mouna might be the only legacy he takes from this experience.