Summary-of-book2

1、Summary-of-book2-CAL-FENGHAI-(2020YEAR-YICAI)JINGBIANSummary of book2U1The post-everything generationFrank took a fresh look at college life when he started to study postmodernism. He found that college students do many things to be postmodern but are only defined by what came before them Since the

2、tech no logical revolution has come, we students should voice ourselves out by directi ng our power to the Internet Student powerBy the early 13th century power over Bologna University lay with the students, because of the economic grip over their teachers con trolled by stude nts. Stude nt controls

3、 were not only limited to what happened within the lecture hall that a lecturer need to meet the lecture standard, including attracting enough students, starting and ending the lecture punctually, covering the syllabus, but also extended to the private lives of lecturers An organized system was esta

4、blished to punish lecturers who contravened the statutes. With the trend that lecturers were appointed and paid by the local town council, student power faded out in university.U2How empathy unfoldsThis article use several examples to show that the development of the empathy starts very early in hum

5、an development .Infants feel sympathetic distress at the begi nning and gradually un derstand the difference when in dividual diversities appear Empathic resp onse, different from sympathetic one, is developed by imitating what infants seeThis is sandySandy, a girl who overcame the difficulties at t

6、he first few years after she became deaf because of a car accident, is now think her deafness makes her unique and leads her to her dramatic new life.Keep smilingThe author tells us two stories, one is about the author himself developed smiling into normal facial behavior and another is about a smil

7、ing man on a crowded train, to call on us to keep smiling.U3By the numberAs personal information spreads more and more widely, it's not surprised if your identification is known by a salesperson However, we should pay attention to and be frightened of identity theft as well as the peril that uni

8、versal identification leads to.US supreme court declares file-sharing illegalFile-sharing, although cheap and easy, is illegal. Companies regard it as a major threat because it reduces their in comes while some artists support this idea for the reason that it helps them promote their music Neverthel

9、ess, music companies got bad reputation to prosecute teenage file-sharers and fail to make legal downloading or buying CDs more attractive than file-sharing.U4Making the headlinesNews with newsworthy are international, odd, unexpected, human and immediate. The press, though defeated by TV in immedia

10、cy, is more objective and reliable However, the Inter net is becomi ng increasingly popular foe people to seek for interesting n ews The death of the newspaperDue to the wide spread of the Inter net, circulation of n ewspaper and amount of its readers have declined, causing that some newspapers down

11、size their companies, reducing the size to tabloid or establish websites. Though the press has a serious impact on environment, it is still a great traction for many people Therefore, the death of newspaper won't come 讦 they exert themselves to strugglingU5The story of Anne Frank's storyHe a

12、rticle shows us the back ground of Anne Frank's diary Anne, a 15-year-old Jewish girl, started her diary before she and her Jewish family began to get away from the Nazi during the second world war and kept up with it throughout her time in hiding in annexe Her diary includes not only her daily

13、life but also her aspiration and declaration of humanity. Anne died after they were found by the Nazi. Her father, the only survivor of the family, had the diary published after the war.Remembrance dayThe author describes the seene on remembranee doctor named John MacRae created a poem which became

14、popular nowadays when he saw his friend was killed in battle Moreover, people today wear poppies to show respect to the selfless soldiersU6Blowing the whistle on soccerThe author does n't enjoy soccer matches and regards them as games of cha nce In his opinion, it's weird that people call it

15、 tension or suspense when the final scores are luckily close and cheer for accidental scores He thinks soccer is a game in which strategies and regulations are obscure and the reason why typical soccer match seems out of control is that only one referee is on the field.U7ProtectionThe author promise

16、d her friend Soren to look after his dog named Hogahn which is you ng and strong Different from the conn ectio n betwee n Hogahn and Sore n, Hogahn became a protector of the author But the protecting relationship began with the author as the initial protector when she saved Hogahn from a newly froze

17、 pond, which also enhaneed the relati on ship between them U8Painting as a pastimeA rightly chosen interest can help our mind recuperate when it is in bad condition. Therefore, the cultivation of hobbies is a policy of first importanee to a public man and one should cultivate more than one suitable

18、and practice hobbies Though connection between work and pleasure varies from person to person, all of us essentially need an alternative outlook of it.U9Volunteer for peaceVolunteer is a special job which Lisa is now engaged in. Lisa shared her experienee as a volunteer in Bangladesh and indicated that volunteer, different from travelling, is a tough and fixed job. From Lisa's perspective, volunteering satisfied her expectation and she never took the participant fee as a burde