Interview preparation

1- I want to learn different culture ?

2- I want to know more about what their live style ?

3-I would like to know about what type of music people like ?

4- i would like to know about how people can spend their free times ?

Review of The Killing Fields

The setting of the movie “the killing fields” is in the background of the civil war of Cambodia between the national arm and the communist Khmer Rouge during 1970s. The war was caused by the spillover form the Vietnam War. A journalist, Sydney Schanberg, was assigned to Cambodia to cover the conflict, and a local interpreter, Dith Pran, was closely working with him. They both witnessed the cruelness of the war and the miserable life the people had been through resulted from the war.


Basically, the movie can be separated into three parts. The first one is about how the two main characters met each other and how they worked together. The second part is that when the war is getting fierce, they had to find a place as a shelter. The third part is that, because of the United States citizenship, Sydney could find the save place to stay. However, Dith had to struggled himself to survive and escape form the bloody hell.


The most brutal scene in this movie is that when Dith tried to escape, he was trapped in the killing fields. Under the pressure of the Khmer Rouge, he kids got brainwashed. There is no kindness in their eyes. The only thing they can do is to use the knife in their hands and killing tons of innocent people


For me, personally, I think the movie is focused on a contrast, a sharp contrast between the merciless of the war and the strength of friendship. Especially at the end of the movie, the two main characters reunited after what they had been through, Sydney asked Dith “Do you forgive me?” Pran answers, with a smile, “Nothing to forgive, Sydney, nothing to forgive.” Then, the two embraced. I was so touched when I saw that scene. I felt that friendship could support anyone to go through any kinds of difficulties and crisis.

Report about the article

According to the article “A Crash Course on American Culture’’ posted on University Chronicle on February 8, 2010, the author described his own experiences working in University Chronicle and how do these experiences influenced his life in the United States. The life in Chronicle is really considered crazy, because there are deadlines every week and people have to balance their lives, studies, homework with the work. However their work is not always appreciated as what they deserve. Some of the readers give them a lot of negative feedbacks and are always trying to find their mistakes. Nonetheless, the author thinks that his coworkers are marvelous and important to him. They are tolerant to those criticizes and keep working as hard as they can. Moreover, they give him tons of helps, not only on his language studying but also culture adjustment. He had some interesting “American” experiences with them, for example, “Guy’s night out at Perkins” actually means going to “Sugar Daddy’s”. He feels that working in the Chronicle is just like having a fun American culture class. He thinks that working in the Chronicle is just like Alice staying in the wonder land, and he is fascinated by what is happening around him.

Thequestions:

1. Where are you from? Can you tell me about your country?

2. What is your native language?

3. How long have you been in the united state of America?

4. What is your major? Why did you choose it?

5. What made you come to Saint Cloud?

6. What is different between your own culture and the U.S culture?

7. Is it hard adapting the American culture?

8. Is it hard to make friend?

9. What do you do in your free time?

10. What is your favor it place in Minnesota?

11. Do you still keeping in touch with your parents? how often do you call them

12. Have you ever felt homesick? What are the most thing do you miss from your country

Global communication

As I understood from Global communication that the effect and media . Scholars began in the 1960s and 1970s claimed and started in The United States had a vital role and have different expiring about how media affecting many Countries are expecting in structure, for instance, culture, the society and finance. (P72)


The United States of Europe

The global communication corporations It used to be in some cites on Europe that referring The communication corporations "United States of Europe" the fact was that about some really got popular by buying systems items, some started using new network, and other started buying forgone media due to the theory of culture imperialism. On The fifteen nation of Europe are starting to work with the international media. The European produced, for instance, music, and movies, TV, and cable.


Bertelsmann
Group of German has well-built presence. Meanwhile, the Media Company is known for being the fourth largest outlet of media worldwide as well (P75). Also, Carl Bertelsmann founded The Company in 1835.

Vivendi Universal

France’s Vivendi Corporation is one of the largest and most influential corporations in European audiovisual field. It is established in the nineteenth century and it becomes one of the major pay-TV operators. In 1995, the vice-chairperson of Vivendi bought MCA and renamed it as Universal Studios.

British Sky Broadcasting Group

BskyB is the leading pay-TV operator in UK. It also formed an alliance with American online. The product of BskyB is directly linked to the market in US.

Matra Hachette

Canal Plus

It is created in 1984 and it’s in the first place of European pay-TV. 49 percent of Canal plus is purchased by Vivendi Universal.

Presses and Democracies

The article “Presses and Democracies” was written by Daniel C. Hallin and Robert Giles ( Oxford/New York 2005) . Authors talked about some political figures on March 14, 1982 .Due to the process of globalization, the variety of News media is less dramatic than before. This chapter illustrates the differences of the media and the relations between the differences and other features in political and social systems by adopting and the concept of Four Theories of the Press. First of all, this chapter divides the western media systems in to three main models including, “The liberal model” which can be found mostly in the United States and other English speaking countries, “The polarized pluralist model” that exists in southern Europe and the rest of the world, and “The democratic corporatist model” that domains northern and central European counties. Then, the differences of the three models are also pointed according to the following four dimensions. “The emergence of a mass-circulation press ”,“ The degree and nature of state involvement in the media ”,“ The degree of political parallelism and “The degree of political parallelism”. In conclusion, the differences between the media systems diminished predominantly because of the growing influence of the liberal model that spread over Eastern Europe and Asia. Having said that; the disparity still exists. Political culture is one factor influencing this distinction. The countries of Europe have different political background and the process of democratization of the Media failed in Southern Europe.

1 I asked my grandfather what these boxes of objects were and why he was still keeping them well sealed.

2. My grandfather told me that these objects had a great meaning to him, because they reminded him of his adventure when he was young.

3. They found that 600 years ago, there was an empire called Lun Luo who ruled ancient China of the Ming Dynasty. He had a rock stamp with his name on.

4. At first, she could not see where her family had gone, but on the other side of the massive old-fashioned TV set; she saw a light piercing through the room.

5. Why do people have dreams when they sleep? I had this doubt when I was young, and when I asked my grandfather about this doubt he told me that, “people get dreams because their mind just can’t be blank.”

6. A mother and father decided they needed a break, so they wanted to head out for a night in town. But, they worried about their son, so they called their most trusted housekeeper to take care of their children. When the housekeeper arrived, the three children were already asleep in bed. So, the housekeeper just sat around with the children.