Monday, October 22, 2012

In-class Zeitoun blog

In DAVE EGGERS book, Zeitoun, he maintains that Kathy cares more about their family rather than their property during the storm. "Kathy wanted Zeitoun to forget their house and property and was determined to get him to leave the city" (EGGERS106). Because she knows Zeitoun doesn't want to leave their properity, Kathy askes Zeitoun to leave the city without considering their property. But he wants to protect their properity. He thinks their properity is everything.  Rather, Kathy thinks her husband's safety is more important than anything else. She wanted to make Zeitoun safe. So she asks Zeitoun leave the city. Apparently, Kathy cares more about their family's safety than anything else. What's more, when Zeitoun called Kathy, "she almost screamed and said now get out" (EGGER107). Obviously, Kathy is so worried about Zeitoun that she screams. She is afraid that something will happen to Zeitoun. So Kathy asked Zeitoun to leave the city again. From this, we can see how Kathy worried and cared about Zeitoun. However, Zeitoun determines to stay and protect their properity. Moreover, he wants to help people who were in trouble because of lacking money during the storm. Therefore, Kathy is concerned more about their safety than anything else during the storm.

Monday, October 15, 2012

personality of Zeitoun and Kathy

  Hi, I am jielei mei in ENG101. In this blog, I want to show what I have learned from Zeitoun and Kathy and  how their personality affect their decision as the storm approached.
      When Kathy knew the storm would come to their city, she told Zeitoun that they should leave but Zeitoun decided to stay and watch their house and let Kathy leave with their children (Zeitoun, p50-54). At first, Kathy didn't leave because she thought they couldn't leave their properties. But she decided to go after she heard the contraflow would affect the city. Rather, Zeitoun was busy in securing all his job sites.
      From the above, we know that Zeitoun and Kathy are hardworking, responsible and considerate. Firstly, their properities were the result of their effort. They worked hard every day. It was not easy to own these propotities.They respected and cared more about their properties. Therefore, though they knew the storm would come to their city, they considered the security of their properity at first. Secondly, their responsibility affected their decision as the storm approached. They are responsible for their clients. They though their equipments would do harm to clients' property if they didn't secure their job sites (Zeitoun, p50). Also, they are responsible for their family and their properity. Thirdly, their consideration has a great influence on their decision. On one hand, they considered the security of their clients property. On the other hand, they consider the security of their own properity and their children. As a result, Zeitoun went to secure all their job sites and let Kathy leave the city with their children as the storm approached.

Zeitoun

Hi, I am jielei mei. In this blog, I do the summary  for  the reading of my group discussed last week. I am in group four. Our group is responsible for the reading from page 55 to page 62.
Zeitoun was busying in securing all his job sites when Kathy get away from the city with their children during the storm. Even, he enjoy the cool night.
kathy converted to Islam, but her family was not agree with her. She made a good friend with Yuko in middle school. Yuko felt strong interested  in Islam and made decision  to learn it though her family disagreed. She knew more about Islam. Kathy was affected by Yuko and she started to learn it hard. At last, she knew more about it and found that lots of Muslims knew nothing about their religion and their rules.

Monday, October 1, 2012

the feedback of my peer review

In this blog, I want to discuss the feedback of my peer review. They think I have explained the consequence of climate change. But they remind me that I haven't found some evidence to state that New York City is not ready for climate change.

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Humans has added 150,000 million tons of co2 to the air by 1938.