Let’s think about American values

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/barackobama2004dnc.htm

Why don’t you click that address abovc and listen? It is not goin to take long time. This is a speech spoken by Barack Obama in 2004.  

I want you to think about 3 American valuse in his speech. I have done this in ‘Inter-cultural communication class’ and it’s quite interesting. I want to share with you.

What I can figure out is ‘Equality’, ‘Self-help’, and ‘Individualism’. What do you see and think? I am looking forward to seeing your thoughts through comments.

i-pod effect

My father gave me the ‘i-pod classic’ to me as a birthday present. It’s just different from what I’ve been having.  I used to listen only limited numbers of musics. Now I can watch movies, news and dramas. It’s cool to spend my time in subway wich was boaring before but not anymore. Plus I think it helps my English as well somehow.

I’m so into ’Heroes’ nowadays and I can’t stop watching it. However, here is a problem that I want to talk about. While I’m watching ’Heroes’ in bus or subway, I keep missing station where I should get off. Sometimes I find myself not controlling about what I’m supossed to focus on. Because of this reason, a friend of mine gave her i-pod to her brother. She did want to quit watching movies so that she can’t spend lots of time for it.

New technlolgies make people please. But there some other phases which affect our lives not in good ways. Do you have any experiences like me?