J1 - Does Hollywood have a negative impact on the world?

I’m in the pro side of this topic, and my arguments are:

1) If we judge from the artistic achievement of Hollywood films, we can find that they are often poor in their content. It’s easy for us to predict what will happen next in the film. Even though we miss almost 90% of the film, we can still know the ending: the hero defeats the evil; the lovers finally get together, some cliché like that. There’s always a happy ending. Sometimes if we remove the special effects from a movie, there will remain nothing.

2) Culturally speaking, we can see Hollywood film as an invasion of indigenous cultures. For example, in Taiwan people seldom go to the movies to watch a domestic film. Everybody is addicted to the Hollywood films and accustomed to being imposed on the American values transmitted through the movies.

3) Similar to the cultural invasion, the economic domination of Hollywood is invincible. No film industries can compete with the major studios of Hollywood which spend huge budget in special effect, star actors or actress, and marketing distribution. Although some countries have the policy the support their film industry, it has never changed.

J3--The Pitching of Chien-Ming Wang

Keyword: Chien-Ming Wang
Search engine: Wikipedia
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien-Ming_Wang

Chien-Ming Wang is a sinkerball pitcher. His sinker and four-seam fastball combination typically sits between 92mph and 95mph, and can hit speeds up to 97 mph. In the major leagues, Wang throws his sinker almost exclusively to both right and lefthanders. Wang features an improving mid-eighties slider, which he throws primarily to righthanders. Wang also possesses a low eighties split-fingered fastball/forkball that he will occasionally throw to lefties. Wang's splitter is a distant third pitch, and it is considered to be a work-in-progress. Wang's pitching style is characterized by efficiency, command of the strike zone, few walks, few home runs allowed and very few strikeouts. Wang works quickly and uses his groundball inducing sinker to produce many double plays. This efficiency often allows Wang to maintain a low pitch count deep into games. Since his promotion to the major leagues, Wang is considered to have vastly improved his effectiveness out of the stretch and his ability to avoid getting distracted by runners on base, a problem that had affected him earlier in the year.

In Taiwan and the minor leagues, Wang threw a more conventional assortment of pitches, including a four-seam fastball, a changeup, and far more splitters. The sinker, which has become Wang's signature pitch, was developed during his minor league career with advice from former Yankee pitcher and pitching coach, Mel Stottlemyre.


Summary:

Chien-Ming Wang has stood out in the Major Leagues because of his unbeatable sinkerball which, as well as his four-seam fastball, often go between 92 mph and 95 mph and sometimes up to 97 mph. In addition to his primary weapons, he throws sliders, forkballs, and splitters. The features of his pitching are efficiency, accuracy, few homeruns allowed, and very few strikeouts. Though with few strikeouts, by his sinkers, Wang always induces the hitter to produce groundballs, and which sometimes leads to double play. As a result, he doesn’t have to throw many every inning; this is how his efficiency works. Wang has improved greatly, especially in his calmness to deal with the hitter while there are runners on bases. It’s not the problem for him anymore.

In Taiwan and minor league, Wang used to throw four-seam fastballs, changeups, and splitters. It was not until being instructed by the former Yankee pitcher and pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre, did Wang develop his invincible sinker.

NOT J3--damn I'm stuck

My brain is made of soap
Ideas slide away with bubbles
Afghanistan to Zimbabwe they float
I still don't know
what to write on my journal.

You Should Try This!

Which British Band Are You?

We're the fookin' greatest band in the fookin' world. Piss off!

Which British Band Are You?

J2--God bless America except Bush and Stephen Markley Young

Hello I’m Sam. I’m 21 years old now. (Actually, I’ve just celebrated my 21st birthday a week ago.) I study in the English department of National Taiwan Normal University, and I’m a suffering junior for our study load is quite heavy. Though suffering, studying in English department is interesting because I’m interested in language and literature. I remember when I was in high school, my goal of university was Computer Science and also I had taken C++ course during the summer vacation. However, it did need a lot of effort and patience and intelligence to study in computer science. Although I was quite fascinated with the logical language, I found that I had a hard time communicating with computers. Therefore, I turned to human languages which were also fascinating to me and this was why I chose to study here. And then Talking to my future, to be honest, I have merely a vague idea. One thing for sure is that, if there is a chance, I will study abroad. It may be a challenge, but I will apply myself to pursuit a better future.
I feel kind of sleepy now. I'm going to bed. See u !

J1--Sorry Youth

“Sorry Youth” is an independent rock band in Taipei as well as in NTNU. I was quite impressed with their performance on the watermelon festival, when the first time I met them. I’m not gonna talk about their music today, though it’s really worth listening. (Go and check it: http://www.myspace.com/sorryyouth) In additional to their music, I especially like their name, which may comes from the all-time indie-rock band from New York, “Sonic Youth”, one of my favorite bands as well. There’re many interpretations regarding the name “Sorry Youth”, according to my nonsense-translator, which can be:
1) Saying sorry to the man Youth.
2) Feeling sorry about sb’s youth.
3) Saying a lot of “sorry” while you’re young.

I’d like to focus on no. 3. While we are young, mistakes are always following us, and chances are that we have plenty of chances to say sorry about the mistakes we make; sorry about breaking the vase of Mr. Wang, sorry about breaking the heart of Ms. Fang, sorry about ruining all the surprises Mom made, sorry about this, sorry about that, sorry about our passing YOUTH. However, to our relief, we still have the chance and gut to say sorry. I’m afraid to imagine when we are old, becoming the people who may never say sorry, not even say the letters ”S” ”O” “R” “R” “Y” at all.

Maybe we should be glad that we’re still able to say sorry.

I was fresh and dumb when I was a freshman

As you can see, below were the journals of my freshman writing assignment. Have you noticed the date? Two years passed! I have to say, although it's a cliche, I still have to say,"TIME FLIES."