2012年4月20日 星期五

Journal 14: Anticipating Your Parents' Objections

Getting married to an American

Dear mom and dad:
       I want to get married to an American who is very handsme, sweet and kind.  He really likes to me and understands me. In addition, he has nice perspectual and good plans in the future. Although we have different cultures and languages, you don't be concerned about that. He has a open-minded, and he has a good sense in our culture and language, so you can talk with him. Moreover, His family also support our marriage. His brother also married with a Taiwanese, they are familiar our culture. Although there is long distance between America and Taiwan, we will always go home 4 times a year. Sometimes you also can travel America which has famous scenery sopt and nice environment. Moreover, there are a lot of chinese food in the United States such as dim sum, pop chicken and boba milk tea. Even though everything is more expansive in America, I have a nice job to our life. The wage will be double price than in Taiwan.    

2012年4月16日 星期一

Journal 13 Summarize/ Paraphrase

Horsey, David. (2012, April 9). Is Facebook our Big Friend or Big Brother?. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 10, 2012, from http://www.latimes.com/


Zuckerberg is a nice software online which be liked more than Instagram, a sub-company under Facebook, by people. (par. 3) Our universe on Internet has been occupied by big companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon which can easily purchase or destroy other competitors. (par. 4) Although it is a important part of our life that Facebook record our daily experience, we will want to hide a place one day. (par. 13) Facebook is necessary for our daily life, but we need to be careful to post everything on Facebook.

2012年4月15日 星期日

Journal 12 Second Resource


Martin Hinner (2007) pointed out that the ARM family has several benefits like low power consumption which is suit by battery-powered device, unified memory bus which is good for SoC integration process, and ARM and Thumb instructions which will support speed and code density of application, so the ARM family is not only very popular but also significant role in embedded system.


Hinner, M. ( 10 January 2007). ARM Microcontroller HOWTO. Retrieved from http://martin.hinner.info/ARM-Microcontroller-HOWTO/ARM-Microcontroller-HOWTO-2.html


Journal 12 First Resource

Andrew, Dominic, Chris (2004) states that the ARM particular characteristics are 32-bit RISC architecture,16-bit Thumb instruction and three-stage pipeline.

Andrew N., Sloss, Dominic & Symes, Chris Wright. (2004). ARM System Developer’s Guide Designing and Optimizing System Software. Elsevier Inc..

Journal 11 Research Questions

Most people are heterosexuality and traditional rule can't accept homosexuality such as  Christianity. However, some people have harm on ex-relationship or parants, they may choose the person who is the same gender or they may be afraid of opposite gender. Why some people choose to marry or be together with the same gender? Is homosexuality innate or environment? How do they know they are homosexuality?