Questions for Interviews

1- Which country are you come from?
2- Can you tell me a little bit about your country?
3-What are the most famous things in your country?
4-How are elderly people treated? Or what are the treatments for elderly people?
5- Do you have any special events in your culture?
6- What is the main religion in your country? And do you believe in any religion?
7-What are the most common sports that people play and like in your country?
8- How do you involved in new cultures in America?
9- What is the thing that you find here in the US make you feel homesick?
10-What is the hardest part about being away from country?
11-What is your academic background? And what is your major?
12- Could you tell me the differences between American education and your home education?
13-What kinds of difficulties have you experienced in US? How do you overcome them?
14-Can you tell me when people usually get married in your country?
15- What is the common age for dating?
16- What is your plane when you graduate from SCSU?
17- Do you want to say anything’s (comment, questions) before we finish our interview?

Top Three

Hailey http://191s18haileye.blogspot.com/
Longfei  http://191s18longfeir.blogspot.com/?zx=d97c5e6252c287c0
 Xin http://191s18xinj.blogspot.com/

The Interview Steps

1) ­­Figure out where to find International students or what the most popular place is for them such as Atwood and go to it.
2) Ask them to participate in my assignment.
3) Explain the purpose and enough details about my assignment.
4) Ask if they are interested in this interview.
5) Get a recorder and the new batteries and tape or using my cell phone as a recorder.
6) Make sure that the recorder is good enough to record all the sound of the interview clearly.
7) Go over my interview objectives and questions and confirm them.
8) Try to Find  at least 3-4 international students and they must be from the same country.
9) Prepare my interview objectives and make sure at least 10 good questions on it.
10) Make sure that if my questions are good enough to ask them.
11) Invite them in a quite public place for example Caribue Caffee .
12) Search for information on the country the International student came from to have good feedback to prepare good question.
13) Tell them the topic and what we are going to do in the interview.
14) Show them my list of the questions.
15) Make sure the interviewees are ready to start.
16) During the conversation, speak as clearly as I can. Make sure they understand every question
17)Take notes as quickly as possible, to make sure what are they talking about.
18) Say thanks for them and Write what I get from the interview
19) Finalize the country report and interview transcript
20) Post the interview transcript and country report on my blog
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Interview Objective

I would like to know and learn...
a) Where are they come from, and what is the capital city of the country?
b) What is their currency name and how much it equal with the USA dollar?.
c) Where is the country located?
d) What are the most famous things in their country?
e) What is their treatment for elderly people?
f) Learning about special events like weddings and funerals?
g) What kind of important festivals do they have in their countries?
h) Why do they go aboard and study in the USA?
i) Learning about what their usually teach during the school days?
j) What are their majors?
k) Do they have some religions?
l) About their families and when they get married?
m) What are the most common sports the people play and like in their country?

n) Name some of these sports?

o) Do they want to go back to their countries when they graduate from SCSU?
p) Are they interested to my questions and interview?

Global Communication

Introduction

Global communication is the process through which transmission and receipt of information is conducted on a world-wide scale. Over the centuries, people have been communicating on a world scale. However, distance and isolation have been the two main obstacles of global communication until the recent times. Nonetheless, the evolution of technology has transformed global communication into a more effective, easy, faster and clearer venture. Global communication has influenced globalization in the past 10 years. Global communication has revolutionized the globalization process because it has compressed time and space between individuals and societies thereby encouraging globalization with limited movement and less time wastage.

 Globalization is a process by which regional economies, cultures, and societies have become incorporated through a global system of transportation, communication, and trade. So my thesis Statement are global communication has been made more effective and faster through technological advancements in mobile phone, computers and internet and communication satellite.

First of all, the mobile phone which is also referred to as cellular phone has been influential on global communication. Approximately 35% of the current world population is using the mobile phone technology to either transmit simple voice telecommunication as well as short text messages (SMS) from one mobile phone to the other. This technology has drastically gained popularity because it has enabled people to communicate anywhere and anytime they wish to.

             Secondly, internet communication has been the most common mode of global communication frequently used in the recent past; this has been achieved through various ways with e-mail communication leading. Other communication types entail chat groups, email discussion groups, and Usenet news. Indeed such communications are exceptional in environments that are computer networked and have gained recognition due to the internet. This has been made possible because the percentage of individuals owning a computer has largely increased in the past few years. One of the publicly released statistics is that of Australia whereby in 1998 44% of Australians owned a computer in comparison to 71% in 2007. This trend has been experienced worldwide. Since internet is a network of PCs that offer information to individuals, the rise in use of the computers has resulted in a concomitant rise in the use of the internet as a new media.

             Finaly, satellite communication utilizes a system that orbits around the Earth that receives a signal and transmits it to the ground. This type of communication has been an essential part of both global and domestic communication. The innovation and improvement of the communication satellite technology has been very important in the development of digital and online journalism the Satellite News Gathering Technology especially in live television broadcast.

           Moreover, satellite technology has enabled communication, weather forecasting, navigation, and observation of land, sea and air and also enabled scientists to produce and transmit live images across the media even in remote areas as the war zones, as it was with the case of the Iraq war.

In conclusion, global communication has been simplified in the resent past thereby propelling globalization. The advancement in global communication has been linked to technological advancement especially in the mobile phone, communication satellite, and computer and internet technologies.

Global communication

What is global communication and how has it promoted the globalization witnessed in the past ten years?




1. Brainstorm idea, list them, make the outline.

2. Components: Introduction, thematic statement

3. The blueprint for the paper: What will the body text relate?

4. Conclusion, connecting to the thematic statement



Definition: Globalization is describes a process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of communication, transportation, and trade. Also, global communication has become increasingly easy, faster, clearer and more effective.



My three thesis statement will be: mobile phone, Computers and The Internet and The Communication Satellite.

Body

1- Mobile phone: The development of mobile phone technology has been influential on global communication.

2- Computers and The Internet: The Internet is a network of computers that offers information to people

3- The Communication Satellite: Satellites are now used in communications and television broadcast, weather forecasting, navigation, observing land, sea and air and other scientific communications





• In conclusion, I will summarize my easy and paraphrase my thesis statement .

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Ranking of Story-in-a-Box

1- Schleif , Emily
This story have an amaizing adventurous,and the author make me read the story carefully by putting me into each sentence. It seems such a movie story and its every intersting. I suggest the writer should write her own book and im looking forward to read it. However, i dislike how the story ended , because i thought the end will be not dream . otherwise the author must change the title just kinda of hook .


2- Brune Laci L
This story is very easy to fallow and understand . Its also conect every inventory words with each other and being presented well in this article . The main reason why i like this story is the type of it which i think is drama.
 
3- Wang, Nan
This story has many interesting things, such as the dream of girl who wants to resign for her job and travel overseas. This might the main reason why i like it , because im an international student and i resigned from my job , just to complete my study abroad . The second reason that i surprised about the writer imagination which is wants to visit each continent, that such a cool thing.

Inventory

   It is a nice spring day and I have just returned from overseas where I went to visit my uncle, who lives in the States. I recall vividly what it transpired during my visit. One of the areas which I found fascinating most was when I visited an inventory warehouse. It was amazing to look at the rows of boxes of goods all over the warehouse and the way things were being done in the warehouse. It was in fact thrilling to look at the way in which communication was done inside and outside the warehouse. Pete, who is one of the assistants in the warehouse, explained to us the entire process of flow of goods into the warehouse. I asked him why they had set aside some old boxes of matches upon which he replied that it was part of the quality program that the company had come up with not to ship goods which do not look good. He asserted that the warehouse was one of its own kinds, which was giving the warehouse a competitive advantage. We inspected the rows of boxes of different goods and noticed an African statute at one corner of a row of ruler boxes. Pete explained that the statute represented the man who is behind the establishment of the warehouse. He said that the man laid the stone foundation and was involved actively in seeing that the warehouse succeeded.

    Another visit that was significant to me while at the states was my visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum. The magnificence and the variety of arts forms that I encountered while in the museum were great. A small boat met us on the entrance of the museum and I asked the assistant, Mr. Doe in the museum what that meant. He asserted that the boat signified the traditional boats which were used by white settlers when they were moving from one territory to another. One striking feature which made the boat to look magnanimous was the decorations which had been made on the inner parts of the boat. The decorations appeared old yet they were full of creativity. The decorations further represented the theme of warship and bravery.

     At one part of the museum, I realized that there were several forms of traditional wares. I saw an old piece of cloth, a head carved from wood and a jar of earthenware. The piece of cloth was a symbol for the traditional cloth that was worn by the white settlers when they first settled in America. The head carved from wood was a sign of art that was present several years ago. It was meant to encourage and educate the present generation that creativity was also applied in the past. We were later informed by Doe that these traditional wares were a source of fame as well as business to the museum. Many tourists and foreigners who visit this state go to see these wares and as a result bring in foreign exchange to the government. Doe noted that it was important for the warehouse to keep these wares since the government was supposed to rely on them for the safety of some of the renowned traditional wares. Later on Doe took us to another part of the compound where the museum was located and we found a stone stamp, a small house from Spain and Singapore currency. Pete explained that these were some of the remains of traditional forms of attractions which appealed to many tourists.

      Although my visit to the states was a short one, I enjoyed the many visits to several places. I encountered several incidents one among losing my wallet when I had gone to a night club. I recall the incident vividly. I had obtained a ticket to be among the launching of an album by one of the famous musicians. When we were entering the hall where the event took place, several people were also streaming in. No sooner had I entered in than I realized that I had lost my wallet. I recall reporting the incident to one of the security officers to which he advised me to be careful next time since it was hard to retrieve the wallet again.