Discrimination

Actually, before studying "Discrimination" unit, although I have a nice African neighbor, I don't really like African people a lot because some of them are usually too noisy and impolite, especially in the time when everyone try to take a nap in metro or bus after tiring working day. Meanwhile, they talk to each other too loud. It is annoying.
After studying this unit, I realize that I had discrimination about them. Thanks to the interesting video, I can imagine how terrible it will be if I 'm discriminated. Also, one thing Adrianne told us that one of the reason African people express like that because they were discriminated in the past, so they are their reactions to prove themselves and get attention of others in public places. I think if I were in this case, maybe I would be like that. Try to remind myself that I have to put my feet into shoes of other people before evaluating them!:D

Reveiw of our units

In all of the units which we study in level 8, the unit which I like the most is " Male/female communication" because it talks about ourselves specifically and helps us to understand more ourselves and each other. It also improve our communication skill. It is very interesting and funny
Also, "Looking for a job" and " Happiness" are very useful. " Looking for a job" provide me what I should do to get attention and acceptance of employer to find a good job. This knowledge is very important, especially for me who haven't worked for other people. Meanwhile, " Happiness" reminds me to evaluate how happy my life is. It helps me to realize that sometimes much money, high status and achievement is not really resources of happiness. Sometimes, happiness is depended on your thinking, personality and the time which you spend with your family and friends.
In addition, " Who is responsible?" is very interesting. It reminds me that every job requires responsibility and carefulness, especially the job which provides benefits for other people. For business, " Customer is god". Task of businessmen make customers not only satisfied but also safe with their products.
In short, for me, each topic provides me each specific knowledge. However, I like the units which more focus on my life such as my studying, my hobbies...

Book project

The topic of book project makes me very interested because my major in university is also related to business. The part which made me the most surprised is Self- preference criterion and Ethnocentrism because I didn't realize that they can affect to international marketing such huge. It proved that the role of culture in psychology is very important and effective.
The strategies I want to study more are the specific effects of domestic and foreign factors to international marketing and how to avoid their impacts as much as possible. Actually, it is very challenging to get attention of domestic customers, so it means attracting foreign customers requires much more challenges. Therefore, understanding how marketers can do it makes me very excited.
In addition, example of Fedders ( a manufacturer of room air conditioners) makes me realize that marketers are very flexible. If they can't be successful in a market, they can be successful in another one if they start to try it after many studies about this market. Marketing is always interesting and unexpected.

My experiences of research paper and presentation

Topic of my research paper is : " The role of culture in psychology." Actually, at the beginning, I thought that it was not really hard to find enough useful information thanks to huge book collection of Concordia university. After that, I realized that it was easy to find a lot information which related to my topic, but choosing it was very hard. Each information could lead me to many other various directions. In this case, I learn how to find similar information and fix them together.
In addition, when writing the first page which based on my information, Adrianne helped me to realize that language of my writing still sounded like language of a book. Therefore, after that, I tried to read and understand one paragraph of my information completely and wrote my own paragraph according to my memory and understanding about it without seeing my information. In this way, I felt comfortable and free when writing, and realized that my writing sounded like my language.
About my presentation, Sherry helped me to realize that I should use more visible examples to explain to listener and try to get them involved in my presentation. In this way, people can easily to understand and follow my presentation because my topic was theoretical topic.
Finally , one thing which I think all of us always agree is that being relaxed and being confident is the best way to make a good and interesting presentation. And only practice, practice and practice can help us be relaxed and confident.
Any way, all we finished, made a good research paper and presentation, and learned a lot worthy experiences. Congratulate us!:)

Public lecture

My lecture relates to construction of Bejing Olympic stadium. At the beginning, with much sense of humor, author introduced about himself about his jobs, experiences, hobbies and family, which made all auditions laughed and felt well-know, and close to him. His name is Stephen Burrows. He has become an architect in more than 20 years. History of his job made people understand how huge his experiences are.
After that, he gave us many examples of previous stadiums constructions on the world to prove his improvement in designing the Bejing Olympic stadium. Finally, he explained many complex details of Olympic stadium construction such as yin-yang rule in Chinese culture, bird’s nest, bowl and columns structures… Thanks to his explanation, we can imagine how amazing this construction is. In fact, we were very excited when knowing it was designed based on structures of nature and Chinese traditional cultures.
His explanations were so clear and well-organized that people who aren’t specialists in designing could understand many specific details. Moreover, he used many realistic and funny pictures and examples to describe his ideas interestingly.
In short, this lecture helps us not only to understand some details construction of the Bejing Olympic stadium but also to learn some experiences in presenting a lecture in front of many audiences.

Book review

Kathy Reichs, who is the author of Monday Mourning which is a story not only in Quebec but also related to the South America. In this story, she was trying to investigate three skeletons that were found in a basement in an old building. By many efforts and determinations, she discovered they are three young girls who were killed twenties years ago. After that, one old woman tried to call her to announce that she knew who killed three girls. It was hoped as a door to open the mystery if she could contact with the old woman.
Finally, she found this woman, but she was a clean death on her own bed. Only witness became quiet forever, which not only didn’t make Temper give up but also motivated her to find the murderer as quickly as possible. She tried her best to combine the information of owners of the building and story of old dead woman which was told by her sister logically. The story was that the dead old woman saw one of owners of the building- Menard who took one unconscious young girl in his building at midnight. At another midnight, she saw this girl again when she was caught and pulled in the building by this man. This story made Temper thought that one of three skeletons might be this girl and Menard is the murderer. She decided to investigate him. Finally, she found him dead and other two girls in his house. Is this girl one of victims? Is Menard the murder? Did he suicide to pay for his crimes or escape punishment? Who are other two girls? You will be interested and surprised when knowing the ending.

Population growth.

Population growth causes many serious problems, especially in poor countries. My countries,too. Although my country is very small, there are a lot people, especially in big city where more and more people move to find better education and jobs. Population growth makes our city become more and more polluted and crowded. Some rivers become black and smelly because of too much pollutant. It is very hard for people to drive cars in a big city because of too many scooters.
In addition, more people can't find a job to earn living. Also, more students hard find a job which is suitable for their ability after graduating. More people have bad living conditions such as living near a polluted river...
They are the reasons which we decided each family is allowed to have just two children in spite of boy or girl.