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Introduction: Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor.Gates originally established his reputation as the co-founder of Microsoft, the world’s largest PC software company, with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was also the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He has also authored and co-authored several books.

Quote: Bill Gates, one of the founders of Microsoft, remind us “Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”

Explanation: Gates not only suggests that technology is a tool, but he also suggests that technology motivates kids to learn and improves education

Project 3.1

Weng Yuchao (Wesley)

Dr. Marquardt

ENG1430W10

April 18, 2015

                                                 Marriage Plot Arguments

 As far as I am concerned, I agree with kheyfet’s idea that marriage as an ending is bad. Stories with a marriage ending reinforce traditional gender roles, which is ultimately limiting to all the characters.

 In the Cinderella story, because it has a marriage ending, characters should act in a certain way to make that marriage ending happens. With a marriage ending, which means the story would have a happy ending and the main character will live happily ever after. This makes Cinderella, prince and other character can just move with limit of tradition. And the story like Cinderella can never update as society advances, which can really bored the audience.

 Take Cinderella for an example, Cinderella in the story never think of struggle for herself, she just stay there and wait prince to save her. In a word, Cinderella is so passive and innocent, which traditional women should be. And for the prince, he doesn’t even appear in the story, but all the readers know that prince is powerful and he can do everything he wants, which shows the traditional masculine. Young audience read stories like Cinderella would form ideas of traditional gender roles. And adults read this kind of story would reinforce the concept of traditional gender roles. It’s not good for people to accept new concept and pretend society from moving forward.

 In a word, marriage as an ending is bad, story would lose readers if it has a marriage ending. And Stories with a marriage ending reinforce traditional gender roles, which is ultimately limiting to all the characters.

Response to “Insights from a Cinderella story”

Weng Yuchao (Wesley)

Dr. Marquardt

ENG1430W10

2015.4.15

           Response to “Insights from a Cinderella story”

This essay actually analyzes the Cinderella story deeply. Author raises different versions of Cinderella story as examples. Author doesn’t only introduce the plots of different Cinderella stories, but she also analyzes the deeper meaning of each story and how that reflects the society.

In Edward Jones’s version, the stepmother play a victim role, she and Cinderella are abandoned by a man. So the step mother must be strict to Cinderella to live. It’s a reflection of stepmother in the society, stepmothers are always strict with kids. Maybe that where strict stepmothers come from.

In the Cinderella by Edmund Dulac, Cinderella doesn’t remember he mother, and there are no magic powers. But she has a symbol of mother in her mind, which is a perfect symbol. And this symbol always encourages Cinderella continue her life. These plots tell the readers that there is always an inner power that pushes us forward.

And there are also many other versions, they have something in common. Cinderella always has one or more helpers, that also can be connected with the fact that we always feel alone and need others’ help. What’s more, the beautiful clothes always play an important role in the story, clothes change Cinderella. That also reflects that people want to be beautiful and Royal in their mind.

Cinderella is a story that would never be out of date, it contains so many wisdoms.

Response to “why the marriage plot need never get old”

Weng Yuchao (Wesley)

Dr. Marquardt

Eng1430w10

2015.4.12

Response to “why the marriage plot need never get old”

 This essay is about whether the marriage plot needs to update or not as time pass by. Author uses many words to talk about the “Madame Bovary”, which a classical novel about marriage. Author analyzes the plots of the “Madame Bovary” and discusses whether these still attract readers or not.

 Author’s opinion is that marriage plot need never get old, and so do I. According to the essay, what actually attract readers are the characters, the way they act and their emotions, but not the ways plots presented. And there are other novels that different from “Madame Bovary”, they have a happy ending. But how the story ends is not important. We should think more and dig out the meanings behind the story. This kind of marriage novels is not only telling readers a sad story or a happy story, but they also convey readers the people’s attitudes toward the marriage. The connections between marriage and love never change, and that’s why the marriage plot need never change.

Response to RuPaul, Big Freedia, and the Mainstreaming of Gender Performance

Weng Yuchao (Wesley)
Dr.Marquardt
ENG1430
2015.4.9

 

           Response to RuPaul, Big Freedia, and the Mainstreaming of Gender Performance 

This is actually a short article that introduces RuPaul’s show and people’s attitude to the gender-variant performers. When I am reading the article, I find it’s interesting at first that pronouns for RuPaul are “she”s. As I read further, author introduces that people who perform in his show all use interchangeable pronouns. It has became a symbol of male-to-female performer. Rupaul’s show is extremely hot currently, which makes Rupaul not only a man who performs as a woman, but she is also a successful business man, supermodel, a Billboard-charting singer, and a media mogul. She plays multiple-roles in her life.

This article also introduces some interesting parts in some seasons of the Rupaul’s show. Some excellent performers like Carmen Carrera and Freedia, who come from RuPaul’s show, are popular these days. I think the aim of talking this much about how successful RuPaul’s show is and many excellent performers in the show is to show reader that people nowadays can accept these drag queens like RuPaul. Just like Freedia sings “ Don’t give your love, I want your money, money, money…..”, the entertainment world is big enough to contain all kinds of shows. People nowadays look shows not because the actually car about the concept the show carried, audience just watch shows like RuPaul’s just for fun. And RuPaul are happy to see this, her finally aim is to earn money.

response to "cinderella and feminism

Weng Yuchao (Wesley)

Dr. Marquardt

ENG1430W10

2015.4.5

                           Response to “Cinderella and feminism”

  In general, this article is about the connection between fairy tales and the feminism. Fairy tale is actually a tool to help young children establish concepts about what they should do as a boy or a girl. These fairy tales like Cinderella is suitable for children before going to school. Because they would face different boys and girls in school, it’s necessary for them to know what they should do. Then, the author takes Cinderella as an example. Author says Cinderella force young girls build a concept that female should be innocent and wait male to help them. I can’t agree more with that. As author says, Cinderella is ill-treated bay her step mother, but she doesn’t struggle. This plot makes young girls think that they should be innocent and obey their “boss” as females. What’s more, though Cinderella does nothing, some magic powers help her get married with a powerful handsome prince. This plot makes young girls think that they should do nothing before their “prince” coming to save them. The Cinderella story builds an ideal female standard for young girls. Many fairy tales like Cinderella help to build the traditional feminism that women should be passive, innocent and wait their male partner comes up.

Response to "why woman smile"

Weng Yuchao (Wesley)

Dr.Marquardt

ENG1430

2015.4.3

                       Response to “Why woman smile”

“Why women smile” is an article which explains why people smile in some situations, the effects of the smile and the history of women’s smile. Author takes herself as an example at first, people who know her well can get the right information behind her smiles and even know her moods change as her smiles change. This example teaches reader that the information you get from one’s facial expression like smile is not always right. People even can hide their true emotions by changing the way they smile.

Author also talks about the reason why we smile. People started to smile from baby. People always smile for some reasons, like babies smile in reaction to tickling feeding. And the fight attendances, who are always female, smile to contain customers. Other than this, the history of women’s smile lead to the way we smile today.

  Women are not allowed to smile in 15^th century, women always had a serious face in the paintings that time. After that, the limits began to loosen. There are more facial expressions in women’s faces. In the 1800s, women’s smiling faces began to appear in some ads. And since that time, smile became a “fake” expression gradually. Author hates fake smiles, and so do I. I think smile is a perfect way to show one’s happiness and kindness to others. If everyone try to hide their true emotions under smiles, it would be harder for people to communicate.