The Foreign’s extended definition for 095

    The “Foreign” is a very common word to everybody who are live in or study in their own country, people think that is just a word. Instead, for the international students this word have very specially meaning, no mater witch country you come from, no mater witch country you study in or live in. Even to me, this word have very special meaning that is different with the dictionary, because I am a Chinese international student of American, “Foreign” means strange, new and tough to me.
    Every word has the formal definition, According to “The AMERICAN HERITAGE thesaurus”, The word “Foreign” has two meanings, one of them is “From or characteristic of another place or part of the world”, other one is “Not part of the essential nature of a thing”. These two meanings show to us the “Foreign” can tell the object is not belong to a place is where it staying; other meaning is the object or person does not born or produce with the original characters. These definitions are very formally, in the real life this word can emerges some other importance.
    In a famous story witch is “A place so foreign” witch is wrote by Cory Doctorow shows us a little boy James’s life, use other way to tell us what is the “foreign” to people, there mentioned James was remove three times, and each time makes him felt strange, so that is tell us the strange place is foreign to the people who are new of there. These just is a example to explain the “Foreign”. To me the foreign has the really different meaning.
    I am a Chinese International student of America. When I first time came to U.S. every thing was strange to me, and I felt that time really hard. First of all is strange. I was very frustrate with the language, I can not communicate with any American people, because I do not speak English before I came U.S. Secondly, the new, I was missed my family and my hometown anytime, because every thing I just can do by myself, no conversation and no friends that is very different with before. The tough, Sometimes I felt really sad because every thing of American is totally different with Chinese, that makes me felt lonely and lose. I think All of these feelings are exactly meaning of foreign to me, this is my life of U.S. so far, also this is a real instance of “Foreign”.
    Now, we can think about the “Foreign” whether can means strange,new and tough, not just is the meaning from dictionary. Every people have felt the feeling, maybe they already felt, maybe that will happen in future, because we live in the world, we do not know when we will face some new things, until the new things coming, we can understand the real meaning of the “Foreign”.

Reference:

Bantam D.(2005). The American Heritage Thesaurus, First Edition. New York: A

    Division of Random House, Inc.

Cory Doctorow.(2000). A Place So Foreign and Eight More. Retrieved September,

    2003, from Four Walls Eight Windows Press(ISBN 1568582862). Web site:

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0

Research Writing Paper’s Introduction

In American history, there were lots of people had contribution to American development, George Washington is one of them, he did lots of things to change American to better, and he was the first president of America. What is the most important thing to changed American history that he did? This question is good for people to think about who is really made America became the strongest country in the world over the time. Although George Washington made many contribution of the country, the most important one was that he formed a Continental Army of normal American people, and led them to win the War of Independence.

Summary of A Place So Foreign by Cory Doctorow

A Place So Foreign written by Cory Doctorow. This story talk about James’s life. James’s father was an ambassador of 1975. After they removed to 1975, his father disappeared, Then his mom removed back to the old place with him, but he felt very strage about anything in his old home, he was unhappy with this. His profesor Mr. Adelson help him to be more mature, and cure his mood getting better. When the Chrismas Day, Mr. Johnstone wanted marry his mom,and become his stepfather. Some hearsays around him about his mom going to marry with Mr. Johnstone, James felt very sad, then he just went to 1975 to cherished the memory of his father. The badthing happened to him that was he can not get out of 1975. During he was trying to get out of 1975, he met Pondicherry and Nussbaum, and he find out they were planning some bad business. Then Nussbaum let him bring some message to the Reddekop, finally Jame get back and tell the Reddekop message. In the end of the story he get the money with Mr. Adelson’s help but by the trust, then he decided leave the home to became a cabin boy to travel the world.