520 reading- journal#2

photograph by Jim Richarson:ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/11/light-pollution/richardson-photography
Yiqing

October 19,2008

520Reading

Reading Journal

Verlyn Klinkenborg, in his Our Vanishing Night, talked about the causes of light pollution and bad effect on mammals, insects’ species as well as human beings in condition of light everywhere. He wrote light pollution begun in the fast developing society. Because of willing of better lives in the evening, in the darkness, people use more and more lighting in our world. But the bad design and improper usage of lighting bring about light pollution, it is not only wasting energy and missing beauty of natural darkness, but it causes problems.

Light pollution has brought many serious troubles in animals and insects. It affects their wrong judgment of direction which some species treat light as their magnet, safety, behaviors like migration, breeding, nesting and so on. I agree with these points, because I have seen those things happened. As far as I know, some kinds of birds and insects have an instinct called phototoxy, which force individuals to move or fly towards light. I saw a group of birds flied towards powerful lights and made themselves burned. Lots of birds died, but they didn’t stop like some invisible hand was pushing them. What’s more, during some summer night, I had been waken up by noisy that cicada did. I never experienced this strange thing until more and more lightings were turned on in the city. I strongly believe it is not a good phenomenon, since I’m afraid some bad affects might happen in those insects or animals and some days later, I could not see them any more. They may disappear out of the world.

As the author said, I also admit that light pollution makes human beings sicker. The interval of darkness relates to your internal biological clock, which decides our sleeping and waking and even our health. Let’s step back for a moment. Jet lag makes us feel exhausted because of the different daytime and nighttime. The same as light pollution, it confuses your sense of daytime and nighttime. The worse thing is the time lasts longer, and causes worse damage.

Light pollution can bring about many negative effects. However, compared with other pollutions, light pollution can be reduced more easily. Producing good designed lights and using them in a proper way are both good improvements. It can also help us save energy, which will benefit a lot of ways.

In sum, light pollution do happen around us and have already made bad influences. Fortunately, according to the easy solution, I believe light pollution will be overcome as long as we face it and do our best.

reading passage is from http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/featurehub

Our Vanishing Night

By Verlyn Klinkenborg

Introduce myself

Hi, I'm from Shengzhou, China. I'm sure that will be a new place for most of you, but someone may know Shaoxin, which my hometown belongs to. My main major is Food Science. I need to metion you I'm not a cook, but I like cooking and good at cooking Chinese food. I'm glad to answer your questions about food or anything else, if I can deal with that.

I like some sports: basketball, pingpong ball and Tae Kwon Do. Last Friday, I played basketball and felt well. I look for some places I can play pingpong ball and some clubs that practise Tae Kwon Do, but I didn't find them yet. I eagerly look forward to them. It will be a better choice to take excises in "Raincouver" than to stay at home all day long.

My purpose coming to vancouver is simple, improving English ability and getting an offer of master school. Although it won't be an easy time here, I will do my best to move on step by step.

Don't be full, my bus

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This morning, I was in bad mood. I left my house at 7:00am, but when I arrived at school, it was more tha 9:oo. My bus played a great joke on me. Actually, I "missed" 3 buses. All of them showed: Sorry, bus is full........I asked myself to calm down after 2 passed buses, and push myself to believe that I still have time. However, staring at the third flying bus, I really lost my patience. It would be the fact that I would be late for my first class.

Yes, I was late. Fortunately, I was allowed to take the class instead of staying outside.

Oh, my dear buses, for the coming days, please don't be too full to leave me alone in the darkness and cold. I just need two feet spaces to support my body.

Who can help me

Does anyone can tell me how to put my picture as my portrait?
I studied it for long time but didn't have any result. So I had to put my photo as one picture in blog.Once I know it, I will correct it.

Start a Reading Journal

Yiqing
October 5,2008
520Reading
Reading Journal

It is approaching the end of this weekend and I'm still considering my Reading assignment. This Friday afternoon, I sat in the Lab reading some materials for pleasure to wait for sport activity. I was attracted by one article in National Geography, named as Pandas(named "panadas"). Not only did the cute illustration catch my eyes, but the article itself made me think a lot. After reading, I copied it and brought back planning to use it as my first reading journal, because when I read it, I pushed all my mind to the text and to understand what the author wants to show us, instead of treating it for preparation of journal as my purpose. However, when I took out my binder and checked the requirement, I found that article is not suitable. I have asked myself how to deal with it for a moment, finding a new proper reading about creativity or writing something else.

Actually, I don’t like to search a new right reading now, which lets me feel reading is for assignment. Thanks to kindly Eilidh, I have some choices not depending on the specific reading. What I need to cheer about is my previous reading is not totally meaningless. Let me explain it.

What is the purpose of academic reading? In my opinion, academic reading is one quick and efficient way to understand knowledge or study area that you want to know. For instance, in my college, I need to check a lot of academic materials of Hemp seed protein from researchers and professors; because before that I almost know nothing about Hemp seed protein and my experiment and essay are far away from the purpose. Academic reading is the most immediate way to make up my blank. Relying to(on) available academic reading, I made my plan of experiment in time and I did a good work on my essay at the end of my college. This experience is based on my own language, but I’m sure it is the same thing on all languages including English. Academic reading skill will be particularly important for graduate school, for more researches being(is) required. On the other hand, English academic reading differs from Chinese academic reading on the language level. It will be a great challenge for me to achieve the right level of academic reading, such as complicated structure of sentence, difficult grammar and quantities of professional words. For this moment, I read them very slowly, because it a little hard to understand the meaning in a fast speed, and I always need to read more than one time. I should learn to think and read in English academic way. It won’t be a easy beginning, a really tough thing, but I should and must get over it.

How is about reading for pleasure? It just likes my reading in Friday, without purpose, without compulsion. Reading is for pleasure, for relaxing, for spending time. It doesn’t request too much. If you like it, you can read your favorite part again and again or never look at silly stories. You can not find the word worry in this kind of reading. Pleasure is it reading for.

Of course, I prefer reading for pleasure, for no pressure. However, in the most time(most of the time), I need to do things that I don’t like to do very much, like academic reading. Go to read them and challenge myself.