The topic is controversial. The most of people would answer No because of the human ethics. The interesting thing of the article is that it tries to prove people might follow the order from Hitler. The articles’ points are strong and logical relations. It makes me rethink about the human being. Humans may make a different decision from a particular situation. I guess the meaning behind the article is that people were forced to do something or they are willing to do. These are totally two different important factors that to judge someone

the article is more like a biography about Philip K. Dick. I did not really know much about him before. But after i had read this article, i feel that he might be the one of greatest writers in the world. Using his owm life experiences to describe a story, even though sometimes the stories were used a darkly style. i will try to know more about him.

Love how the author use his personal experiences in this article. blowing me ideas that  how to use my personal experiences in my essay. Also, i like his style that using the third person to narrate the storylines.

This article is really useful to me to analysis the Fiction. And it also give me a lot of ideas that how to write my history background eassy.

Actually, there is an element which was called “tricked” (I can’t exactly translate the word), to make the readers have more reactions from the fictions. the fiction’s storylines should not be able to guess. So, when the readers have read the end, they will feel surprised. i may also use this element in my eassy.

The story reminds me my childhood. The experience of childhood affects our personalities, and helps us to discriminate what are wrong or right behaviors. As the author mentions in his article, “Take a good look at myself”.

The essay was shared by a middle-age woman, who was seeking passions for the life. The most funny thing is that she was sharing her personal experiences about how to having sex in a car. Actually, when the couples are getting old, they need to find a way to keep their passions for their love, even though it is embarrassed to talk about. I love the story.

Study: Aspirin Cuts Deaths From Wide Variety Of Cancers

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/12/07/131873139/study-aspirin-cuts-deaths-from-wide-variety-of-cancers

Q:

Do you believe it is true?

If it is true do you think yout want A daily aspirin to prevent cancer?

Vocabulary:

Damping: a slight wetness

remarkable: unusual or striking

placebo: an innocuous or inert medication

colorectal: relating to or affecting the colon and the rectum

institute: an association organized to promote art or science or education

evidence: your basis for belief or disbelief

gastrointestinal: of or relating to the stomach and intestines

neurologist: a medical specialist in the nervous system and the disorders affecting it

emerge: come out into view

sensible: showing reason or sound judgment

prophylactic: remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease

controversy: a contentious speech act

White House Aims To Limit WikiLeaks Damage

http://www.npr.org/2010/11/29/131668950/white-house-aims-to-limit-wikileaks-damage

Qestions:

Do you think government can solve it be well?

How do you think about limiting Wikileaks Damage?

Vocabularies:

Damage: break, destory.

Deeply: to a great depth psychologically

Fabric: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

crackdown: severely repressive actions

secretary: a person who is head of an administrative department of government

document: writing that provides information

reveal: make visible

intelligence: the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

potentially: with a possibility of becoming actual

indicate: be a signal for or a symptom of

cable: a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power

Biotech Crops Are Good For Earth, Report Finds

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125906838

Q:

Do you want to eat Biotech food?

Do you think Biotech Crops have any other benefits?

Vocabulary:

soybeans: a kind of beans

perceptions: the representation of what is perceived

crucial: of extreme importance

genetically: by genetic mechanisms

pesticides: a chemical agent that destroys insect

glyphosate: Unknow

resistance: the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

herbicides: a chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth

fertilizer: any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile

enthusiastic: having or showing great excitement and interest

agriculture: a large-scale farming enterprise

 breeding: a lineage or race of people

In china, looking for Mr.Right (Enough)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130833495

Q:

       1 Do you agree or disagree with that woman get marry with Mr. Right is necessary?

       2 If you are “leftover woman”, what do you want to do?

Vocabulary:

Matchmaking – it can help people find another one who is they want to get marry with.

Dazzling - shining intensely

Mr. Right – the guy who is the woman want to get marry for.

Crowd – a group of people

Gather - assemble or get together; “gather some stones”; “pull your thoughts together”

Matchmaker - someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others

Option - the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited

Unmarried – single

Obsess - haunt like a ghost; pursue

Standard - a basis for comparison