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Reflection: 1) What were your expectations for the border-crossing activity? Are your expectations met? Why or why not? Before this event began, I was looking forward to seeing how Chinese and American students would have different views on the same film, different perspectives and different ways of...

Final draft: Be brave to be a fishbone 180215；李诗蕾 Last week, I saw two films, Mona Lisa Smile and And the Spring Comes. Although they have different narrative features, there are also plenty of common points between them. And for me, what I want to say is to be brave to be a “fishbone”. In And the S...

Summary： During this experience of cross-ocean interaction, not only did I have a different understanding of the two films, but I also had a better understanding of the differences in the thinking perspective of Chinese and American students. First of all, in terms of writing, it’s surprised for me ...

Hi all! Thank you for your responses. I do think I should build on what I meant by "free will" in this article, and discuss more in-depth how the concept is portrayed in both movies. Thank you Shilei L. for this suggestion. Going off what Yingying L. said: looking at the movie again, I ag...

Hello Michael! I am sorry to be late for response. You really did a good job, which brings us a new aspect to see the films. I actually never think about that before. After reading your article, I have a new understanding to the non-verbal strategies both films employ. Your article mainly mentions t...

Hello, Aaron! Thank you for your response! Your comments have really inspired me. I do believe that the we don’t need the movie summaries. That's actually what's deficient in my composition, because I just rigidly follow the writing steps mentioned by the teacher. But It's actually very cumbersome. ...

Hello! I like the topic of your article very much. It is quite a deep topic. The comparison of the Western idea of free will and the Daoist idea of “free will” is my favourite part. I am surprised to see your analysis of the Daoist idea of “free will”. It is really amazing. So maybe we can communica...

Be Brave to be a Fishbone 180215；李诗蕾 Shilei Li Last week, I saw two films, Mona Lisa Smile and And the Spring Comes . Set in 1953, the movie Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of Katherine Watson, a new young art history professor at Wellesley College. Unfortunately for free-minded Berkeley grad Watson...