Memory

Within our consciousness, there exist of millions of memories. A psychologist once said once a newly born had his or her consciousness, memory will start to form within his or her mind. Memories do not disappears, they just got lost within the consciousness. We all had memories of all the events that happened, most of it will get lost within our consciousness due to that we only kept the more important memories above our sub consciousness. This is why scientists say that average human will only uses ten percent of our brain. Like language for example, it is just the memorization of words and way to put it to use. When we think, our past memories will affect the way we think. Thus, memories plays a bigger part of our life than we give it.

Time

One time, a friend of mine read an article about the existence of time. Does time really exist? How we know it exists? To me, the time it self is just a measurement of change. As long as thing continue to change. We will measure the time amount for it to change. As long as we acknowledge these changes, we are giving recognition to time. We use time to measure the change within us too. When we are born to our death, there will always be changes made or occur naturally to our body. The usage of time to measure those changes gives time its own very existence.

Cycle

The unchangeable law of existence, there is always a beginning and an end. For instance, No matter what the human does, one can not escape the claw of the reaper of death. His or her existence will slowly turn into memories and then slowly fade away into the clear sky. Everything in this universe will undoubtedly undergo such this very cycle of existence. A new planet is born when one planet end it existence. After billions year later, that very planet will undergo the very same procedure, becoming a supernova and end it existence and give a new life to a white dwarf. Thus, the cycle continues. Only way to stop this cycle is to stop time it self. As long as time continue to spin, the law of existence existed.

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11- Humans have a long history of pointing out differences in the way females and males use language. We often talk about female and male ways of carrying on a conversation or about differences in the books and movies that tend to attract significantly more of one gender or the other.

How we were brought up

Since the dawn of time, human had been divided into different categories, old and young, good and bad, and the most important of all, male and female. The reason why the sex category is more important than other is that one can not naturally change his or her sex; one can be categorized as old as the time pass, but one can not change their sex without medical procedure. Once a baby is born, he or she will be taught how a male or female behave based on their sex. Thus causes the male and female to have different conduct.

When one was born, he or she will be taught how to behave by the people in their surrounding, mostly the parent. If is a boy, he will probably be taught to be more physical, like playing sport, if one is a girl, the chance are that she will taught to be more emotional than the boy. This kind of trend will influence them trough their whole life. In a male conversation, males will usually talk about how their glories in their past. The conversation will probably structure around one person; it is similar to the king of the hill game. That one person has triumph over the group and thus makes him the king. Unlike the male, the female conversation usually base on the entire group sharing their experiences. There is less likely of critical remark of other, or centralization around one person.

Due to the way male and female were raised, they will most likely to be attractive to different entity. In the book and movie category, male will be more in the favor of sports and violence, and less favoring the movies and books that mainly involve emotions and romance, and the female will be opposite to the male. This is due to how male were raise to be more physical and the female to be more emotional by their peers. This trend has exist since the human realize that different sex, even though changes had been made, the trend are still obvious.

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10- In all the hours you have spent in classrooms, you have observed the ways in which students—including you—conduct themselves during class discussions. Reflect on whether you have noticed differences between the ways make and female students participate in discussions. If you have noticed differences, what are the primary ones? Why do you think these differences exist? If, in your experience, classroom behavior does not fall along gender lines, what do you think does cause the differences? Id you own class participation influenced by gender?

The Difference

If one is in my rhetorical class, then he or she will notice the difference between the male and female student in the class. The difference is not just they are different sexes, it is also is that they have different behavior and way of thought. The class setting or amount of female and male can also made a difference. Sexes might not be the might not be the main cause for the amount of participation in class made by female and male, but it definitely one of the major causes.

My rhetorical class is made of 11 girls and 4 boys. The amounts of participation in class affect by these numbers. Most of the time, it is the girls who are doing the talking. The way of thought also made an impact. I notice most the time when there is a conversation going on in class, the subject of the conversation usually will changed into sharing our past memories or some random information that has nothing to do with the class. So the female will usually be the one talking within this conversation, since to me, the female will most likely to share their past with people than the male. Because of the ratio of the girls to boys is nearly 3:1, the result is that the boys will probably do not feel very comfortable to share.

The difference in the participation is not just cause by the sex, but also by the environment, the difference in mindset, and the people in the surrounding. The different type of environments can cause different result. The mindset of the class can encourage one of the sexes to participate more. The ratio of the people can make a difference, since people usually like to be around with other that is similar to them. Thus, these elements cause the amount of participation to occur in class.

Hey

Right now I am reading a manga called Ravage of Fire. It is a really great manga, it has good drawing, great war story, and amazing cast of characters. The story is based on the Three Kindom Era. It started right after Dong Zhou took control of the emperor. The story is told trough the eyes of a fictional character. The manga is more about battle of the brain than pure strenght. I know that a lot people dislike manga just because they think it is too childish. If you are into manga and into war story, you should really read Ravage of Fire. Right now, I am reading the Chinese version of the manga, not sure if there is a English version. If you find the English version, tell me.

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13- Stereotypes abound when it comes to gender, and they often come into play most clearly when someone offers a verbal put-down. Discuss one of these specific words or phrases and reflect on the role of language in gender conflict.

W****

Languages had existed as long as human walked amount the Earth. When a new language appears and spread, people will always create specific words that relate to the gender in that new language. Some of these words are offensive to the gender. If one will look at all the languages around the world, he or she will always find some words that are offensive toward one of the sex. Thus, this is one of the causes for gender conflict.

In English, one will probably be familiar to the word, whore. This word points straight at one of the sex and offer a verbal put-down. The word, whore, means a woman who engages in promiscuous sexual intercourse, usually for money. So when a woman who has been called a whore, usually means that she is prostitute and have slept will a man for something valuable. The meaning of the word has changed a lot these days. The woman who is referring as a whore is usually who she just slept with lot men, not for money or any thing that is valuable. The word also refer to fashion, when a female dress in a way that expose too much skin, people might say that she dress like a whore. Either way, this word is offensive to women.

There is still lot words used in the gender conflict. Some are offensive to men, and some that is offensive to women. The word whore was created specially against women. People use this word improperly. They use the word as a metaphor, not by its definition. Thus they added this word in the gender conflict.

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Guan Yu

A man represent honor, bravery and loyalty during the three kingdoms era. He is the brother of Liu Bei and Zhang Fei. He is said to be seven feet tall and capable of welding a guandao, a sword with really long handle. Guan Yu is usually portrayed as a red faced man with long lush beard and wears a green robe under his armor. He was given the title “God of War” for his bravery in the battle. The Romance of Three Kingdom says that the officers of Wu and Wei were fear to face Guan Yu during battle and not even ten thousand solider can stop Guan Yu.

Guan Yu is said to be only loyal to his brothers and no one else. When he was surrender to Cao Cao in order to protect Liu Bei’s wife from harm. Cao Cao treat Guan Yu like his own family and give him gold, but still could not persuade Guan Yu to join his army. Story tells that after Guan Yu manage to leave Cao Cao, he traveled miles to find Liu Bei and slays down all six of Cao Cao’s officers who tried to stop Gaun Yu. His bravery is even recognized by the emperor of Sui dynasty that the emperor start a religion based on Gaun Yu. The emperor hopes that all his subordinates can be as loyal as Guan Yu was to his brother.

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12-What do you consider to be the typically male or the typically female version of one of the following: conversations, types or titles of books, types or titles of movies. Discuss the reasons for the differences as well as the attitudes that each gender might have about the thinks preferred by the opposite gender.

To me, male and female are totally different being. Things that set these two sexes can be differentiate with the naked eyes. For instance, the different like and dislike can be easily observed. The different of language used in conversations, the interest in different titles in books and movies. There is a reason behind all these differences. In is the way how we, male and female, were raised.

Conversation is how we shared information with each other. But what is shared in conversation is different between male and female. For most female, they tend to shared inner secret or emotional experiences. While the male isn’t that emotional, and the male do not shared their most inner secret that easily than the female. The interests in the title of books or movies also show the differences. Whenever there are romantic words in the title, the chance is the female will be more attractive to the book and movie. Male will most likely to be attractive to movie or book that have violent title, such as war and killing. Female tend to stay away from these title.

I think the reason why and how we view the different sexes is how we were raised. When we were child, we were tough how female and male show act. For example, when a little boy cries, how the dad will always say the boys should not cry, but the dad will never say that to a girl. How we view the different sex came directly on how we were raised.