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3.       I want to talk about the writings. I have had the confusions about the essay in the last few weeks. After the writing conference and our Thursday class, I think I start to understand what I am supposed to do. First, there is really not a standard answer or the answer of right or wrong of our writings. Each essay has its value in some perspective. The essays really revealed your thoughts about the typical topic which might come from any aspect of your lives. You can decide the ways you want your reader approach your ideas. However, there are distinction between thoughts and formal essay. I know we are talking the most sophisticated questions that a person can ever ponder about. Making sense of ourselves are important in the processes we understand more about ourselves not the ultimate explanations why we are existing in this magic universe. I find it hard to write essays about the prompt because they are not typical essay topic I used to see. On the other hand, the topics of the discussions are random I some ways. Actually, I would describe them as board and spontaneous because we are trying to figure something that is really about everything out. Right now, I am always trying to find a main line to connect the thoughts. I do think an essay with a main idea, or thesis will be worthy reading. I think it’s OK to be incomplete and I can always leave an open ending to fit my doubts and leave the space for reader’s imagination. There are always more perspectives to be explored about a story. I think my essay should at least get to some kind of destinations in my long ways of wondering the meaning of lives. I think I have learned a lot in the wondering around process. I should help my reader my thought my putting the essay more organized and inform them of the mina point I want to state the most rather than let them flow freely with the random thoughts come to my mind.

4.       I was really thinking seriously about the last point we were trying to get at the end Thursday’s class. I just fell silent about this ambivalent topic. I pretty much accept his argument and explanations about the dominations of European. I think his explanations are reasonable with all the analysis about the facts he showed in his books. I always believe that things happen for reasons. For the mysterious cases, people are just unable to solve the problem or find the hidden reasons yet. The truth will turned out someday and it also depends on whether you can understand that symptoms are the truths or reasons. The most importantly, it takes time for everything happened. The Europeans took over the world because accumulations of the minor geographic advantages. Then it came to the question about the China. Why not China? However, in fact, China has been the most powerful country, like USA today, for all the time before the Industrial Revolution. The different culture value between Chinese and the Westerners can explain the various behaviors. The different decisions were made during the similar situations. The accumulations of the derivatives had lead two different pathways of development of these two. Europeans are more favorable in that environment. I really don’t know what I was talking about. I am just going to stop reasoning though because too much personal feelings are evolved and I can’t see the situations objectively.