Group 3 6-7July

Eunice Cho, Sabrina Lee, Eunice Lee, Stephanie Liang

Group 3

6-7 July

Today is the second day at Stanford University and we had anthropology lessons and creative writing lessons today. The anthropology lessons is very interesting lesson as we had never learnt anything like that before, anthropology can truly help us in daily life by reflecting and questioning of one’s belief and the reason behind someone’s point of view.  Anthropology is basically the studies about human behavior towards different situations and it includes the reasons behind their actions and a lot of questioning is involved. It takes the studies of humanities to the fundamental basis which can show the intentions and history of human behavior which fascinates us. We had a fun time in class debating and questioning topics such as Brexit, the difference and similarity between Hong Kong and Mainland China, and the problem in modern day society by reviewing one of the paper “Body ritual in Nacirema” which describe the America in a third person point of view.

Creative writing is also a special lesson in which we review and understand the art of rhetoric, it show different side of the language in which we approach literature from a more logical and formal side than what we have in usual. We learnt about ethos, pathos and logos in rhetoric which can help us to aim to persuade with the best way in the situation in the form of advertisement or everyday life situation. Our group has the chance to make an advertisement on an imaginary invention “earcording” which is an ear piece for recording. We also learnt the different aims of advertisement and how to make a good advertisement. We truly learnt a lot about the use of languages and the aim of persuasion, which will be useful for our future careers if we are perusing career in Law, Business, Media and Journalism.

 Yesterday we had a campus tour, through this tour, we explored a small portion of the huge campus and it was mind blowing. The campus is exceptionally pretty and Stanford do have clear sky and air which we cannot experience in Hong Kong, the views are amazing and fascinating. It is very different from the university we can see in Hong Kong as Stanford is filled with trees, grassland, and water fountain, it gives us a refreshing view of what a university look like and it is a perfect place for studying.