CA Blogging Assignment 8

My academic skills like researching, reading, writing or discussion have improved through the ELP class in this fall term. The most improvement of my academic skills is work citation. I have few experiences of work citation before university but MLA was really difficult and annoying for me. However, through this term, I learned the method to do it then it became not hard as before. Also, I learned some useful databases in this term. Especially, LexisNexis really helped me to research information which relevant to my essays. With information from the database, my essays become more convincing. It will help me further studying in the future. However, Annotation is still a little bit pain for me but my skill of annotation is getting better so I would like to practice it because I know annotation really helps me to understand the text. Therefore, I think my academic skills improved.

CA Blogging Assignment 7

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."- Albert Einstein, letter to a friend, 1917

I think that his meaning is that technology progresses always have risks of danger and the risks could be real or not; it depends on how people use new technologies.In my opinion, people are not intelligent as they think. My history teacher says "History is the pile of the worst choices." People surely made wrong decisions on technologies, such as atomic bomb. I hope that people will be more intelligent and have better moral and knowledge of ethics about technologies.