"Animal House" Summary of opening scene

In the beginning of this movie, Kent and his friend was walking in campus and finding fraternities to join. They went to the first fraternity house, Omega, the people there were just having some conversations with drinks and showed no interest in them. However, when Kent and his friend came to the second fraternity house, Delta, the people there were so friendly and showed their enthusiasm to Kent. In Delta fraternity house, all the people were crazy drinking, smoking, playing poker, and even riding a motorcycle inside the house. Kent and his friend were having a great time there.

I will join Delta because the members were kind to new freshmen. Although they did some crazy things, but their enthusiasm and friendliness make me feel comfortable. Nevertheless, Omega fraternity didn’t show any respect to freshmen, they looked like they always judge a book by its cover. If I join into Omega fraternity, I will feel painful and unhappy. Thus, I will choose Delta fraternity.

Chp.3- Roommate Relations- Roommate Survey

1. What do you usually do at night?
2. What time do you wake up every morning?
3. How much time will you spend when you take a shower?
4. Do you like having a party in dormitory?
5. Do you smoke or drink alcohol?
6. What are the three most important dorm rules you think?
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(2)
(3)
7. What do you like to do during your class break time?
8. Can you endure the room is messy?
9. Will you cook in dorm?
10. What kind of music do you like?
11. Do you like sports and exercise?
12. What kind of food do you like? List three the most favorite food you like.
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(2)
(3)
13. Do you like to participate in activities?
14. Would you mind if there’s any boys come in our rooms?

Chp.9- Plagiarism- Case Study Report

1. Statement of The Problem
A: Definition
Igor was anxious about his twenty-five-page paper that he wanted to get an excellent grade on the paper but it’s near the due date. Worst of all, writing has been extremely difficult for him. Therefore, he turned to ask his friend, George, for help. George gave Igor a paper with the same topic as Igor’s paper. Finally, Igor turned it in to his professor. The next day professor gave Igor a piece of paper about the University Academic Integrity Policy and warned him of the behavior of plagiarism.

B: Analysis
Although Igor realized that if professor found out that he did not write the paper by himself, he would be expelled from his school. Under the stress of deadline, Igor plagiarized on his paper, and did not tell the truth to his professor at first. Finally he regretted about his plagiarism behavior.

2. Suggestion of Possible Solutions
(1). Ask professor for another chance.
(2). Tell professor the truth in the beginning.
(3). Igor can reference George’s paper and turn it into his words.

3. Evaluation of possible Solutions
(1). Advantage: He can get another chance from professor to make up his fault.
Disadvantage: He may not have time to do the new research paper.
(2). Advantage: He can get another chance to make up the plagiarism.
Disadvantage: He will not get a new chance because he makes professor much angry.
(3). Advantage: He can make his paper done before the deadline, and he accomplishes his paper with his words.
Disadvantage: He may not have time to think about how to do with his paper.

4. Selection of a Solution
A. Choice
Solution (3): Igor can reference George’s paper and turn it into his words.

B. Justification
Reference other’s paper can make him having much more ideas about the topic of his paper. In this way, he can submit his research paper in time without plagiarizing, and will not make the problem of plagiarism. Thus, the best solution is to reference other’s paper and turn it into his own words.

Chp.4- Time Management- debate

I agree with the best solution for Rajesh to ride a bike to school every morning. His main problem is that he cannot catch the buses to school so that he is always late for class. The professor, therefore, is mad at his behavior of being late. If Rajesh could catch up the buses every morning then he won't be called to professor's office, and he won’t be late again for the meeting with his professor as well.

First, if Rajesh rides a bike to school every morning, he has to get up very early because riding a bike to school will spend a lot of time. Therefore, he could have much time to get ready to school and then he could be in class in time. Second, riding a bike can make him healthier since he often goes to clubs or parties at night and gets home late. Finally, riding a bike can have many advantages such as saving money, protecting environment, and saving industrial energy.

A bike doesn’t need gasoline and car insurance, so it could save money. Also, a bike does not use any industrial energy, so riding a bike can save global energy and then protect environment. Thus, riding a bike will gain some benefits.

In conclusion, Rajesh should ride a bike to school so that he will not be late for class. Also, he could gain benefits from it such as getting healthy and saving his money. Thus, riding a bike to school is the best way for Rajesh to solve his problem.

"stand and deliver" Film Analysis Report

Summary and Analysis

Mr.Escalante gave up his engineer job for being a teacher at Garfield High School in Los Angeles County. There is not any computer at this school, and the school had no money to improve its equipment. Therefore, Mr. Escalante could not teach computer science at school, he finally turned into a math teacher.

The students there were undervalued and were not praised by other teachers at this school; however, Mr. Escalante trusted that he could make those students progress in their studies. As couple months passed by, he was able to win over the attention of the students by implementing innovative teaching strategies. Finally, Mr. Escalante decided to teach them calculus.

All the students took Mr. Escalante’s calculus class on summer and then they took test for the first time. As a result, they all passed the test. However, the inspectors of the test doubted about their scores because they found that those students made similar errors on the test. Mr. Escalante went to argue with inspectors and requested to retest the students. Ultimately, those students proved their competence by passing the test again.

Relation to Case Study

In the case study from Unit 1 and in this movie, we can see that both teachers were trying to make students improve in their studies, and there are both misunderstandings which related to students. Mei's teacher, Ms. Kramer, suggested Mei's to rewrite her paper and participate more in class to make up her grade on midterm exam. However, Mei made a misunderstanding that she thought Ms. Kramer will fail her, so she finally gave up this class. The similar situation between Ms. Kramer and Mr. Escalante is that Mr. Escalante tried to advance his students to pass the national calculus test, and used exotic ways to teach them. The misunderstanding in this move is happened between inspectors and students that inspectors adoubted that the students cheated on the test.


Reaction to the movie

There are always tough students at every school, so teachers must have different teaching skills to teach different students. Thus, when students meet problems, teachers can use appropriate ways to help them.

Chp.1- Motivation- Case Study Report

1. Statement of The Problem
A: Definition
Mei Chang had partisipating problem in the class discussions, and also had trouble with writing assignment. After midterm exam, Mei got average C minus. Her teacher, Mr. Kramer, told her to raise her average by rewriting her papers and speaking up in class, but Mei started to skip from the class and did not complete the writing assignments in the second half of the semester. Ultimately, Mei argued with Ms. Kramer and she made a misunderstanding about what Ms. Kramer said. She thought Ms. Kramer will fail her so she gave up the course.

B: Analysis
After Mei got C minus after midterm exam, she started to skip classes. She totally gave up her reading and writing class that she even did not strive to make up her bad grade.

2. Suggestion of Possible Solutions
A: Solution 1. To ask more questions in class
B: Solution 2. Improving writing skills by reading more extra curricular books or news papers.
C: Solution 3. Show much respect to Ms. Kramer and ask questions about how to write an essay during Ms. Kramer's office hour.

3. Evaluation of possible Solutions
A. Solution 1.
*Advantage: Eventhough she sometimes does not understand what other people are saying, she can ask questions in class. It will increase her participation in class and she will feel more confident on speaking in the class.
*Disadvantage: By this way, she will not improve her listening and writing skills, so she will still cannot understand what others say or still do not know how to write an essay.

B. Solution 2.
*Advantage: Reading more books or papers will know what the structure of essay is and how to write an essay. By this way, Mei can improve her writing skills.
*Disadvantage: She maybe had not enough time to read extra curricular books not to mention doing her writing assignment.

C. Solution 3.
*Advantage: She can improve her writing skills by asking teachers privately during office hour. *Disadvantage: Mei may feels stressful because she seems like that she can not sustain any pressure.

4. Selection of a Solution
A. Choise
Solution 2

B. Justification
Compared with all of Mei's problem, most problems can be solved easily, however, writing is Mei's hardest problem to solve. Thus, she should improve her writing skills by way of reading more articles and papers.