Art Appreciation

The book that was in the picture above was one of the heavy books that I have to carry to school every Wednesday. This is the book for my Art Appreciation, art 103 class. The tittle of the book is called " Living With Art" by Mark Getlein. In that class,we can use two different editions of the book; both seventh and eighth edition,and the one that is shown on the picture is the eighth edition because our professor didn't know that the art department had ordered a new edition while the professor was still thinking to lecture with the seventh edition in her mind. Anyway, the book cover you see above was a really nice painting called Las Meninas, by a 17th century Spanish artist Velazquez. The book "Living With Art" has total of 603 pages and there are twenty-two chapters, which are well categorized into five mains parts; Intruction, The Vocabular of Art, Two-Dimensional Media, Three-Dimensional Media, and Arts in Time. I won't call it a heavy book for nothing. Inside the book, there are so many images of different types of art work that are by both famous and non-famous artists. The images are well organized and the way the images organized is depends on the materials of the chapters. There are also pages that are just for the artists in the book, in thoses pages, they gave us infomation of lives, works and background of differenet artists. The one main big assignment is to read the chapters and there are reading guides that we have to work on. The reading guide is actually the worksheet that the professor has prepared for students to look at important materials and mark down some of the important notes from the chapers. It is usually one to three pages long per chapter and it is a really good thing, it leads student directly to the main point of the chapter, however, we still call the reading guide a short answer worksheet. The one last thing, this book is really useful when there is exams like midterm or final, because the exams are take-home exam, students can look at the books as long and as much as they want!!


This the nineth week of the semester, the art class has finished with the first four chapters; Living with Arth, What is Art?, Theres of Art, and The Visual Elements are the ones that the class has finished with so far, and Principles of Design is the one we are currently working on. I don't quite remember if the book is regular college book or one of those books that especially printed for ESL students. The reading level of the book is a little bit about my level, there are still so many words that I am not familiar with and words that I have never heard of. However, I still like reading this book because there are whole bunch of images that I can look at, so where there is information like the differences between two different types of artwork, I can just simply look at the artwork and determine the differences. The book also contains a lot of infomations that students from other art related class may like to read about such as, Principles of Design, Fraphic Design and Illustration, and Architecture. The book itself is a really cool book to read, but I just don't like it the fact that it is really heavy and made me very tired every Wednseday after classes.

This picture shows the outlook of my biology textbook. Topic of my biology book is Human Genetics. It is the seventh edition by Ricki Lewis. The cover of the book is a picture of three generations from a family. Human Genetics contains 6 main parts. They are introduction, transmission genetics, DNA and chromosomes, population genetics, immunity and cancer, and genetic technologies. Each part is developed into several chapters. Each chapter is composed of text, figures, tables, charts, examples, summaries, review questions, apply questions, and web activities. There are totally 470 pages in this book. The homework are to answer the review questions and applied questions. Those exercises could help me to understand the contents and concepts. The appendix lists all the answers for homework so that I could correct my own answers. Actually, my biology professor never assign any reading assignments, but if I want to do the review and applied questions, I have to read all of the text and figures.

So far, I have read five chapters of Human Genetics. It was really hard to me to understand the terms if I don’t use a biology dictionary. However, thing is always not too bad, the text is very clearly logistic so that I could get understanding finally. I am interested more and more by the textbook. When I flip it, I feel like I open a magic door towards a mysterious world. By reading this book, I know how my body works for me everyday, how I grew up from a cell to a person, and why I have a similar feature with my parents and my grand parents. I can so much as predict some feature of my offspring. The Human Genetics is such a interesting book that I like to read every chapters.

Microsoft Office 2003

As you can see, this book Microsoft Office 2003 is from my last semester. It's a heavy book. It includes many useful softwares, like Word, Access, Excel,FrontPage, and Powerpoint, which are very necessary for people who are working in office. I am interested in computers, so I chose this class. The vocabularies in this book are difficult for me, but there are a lot of pictures that show me how to do step by step. Sam is a program comes with this book. We can set up an acount and password, so we can do some practises.

I love this book. I have learned how to give a presentation by using Powerpoint and how to use Word to type assignments in a easy way. I really enjoyed learning from this Microsoft Office 2003, the book which will always be useful in the rest of my life.

"Cultural Anthropology"

"Cultural Anthropology" by Barbara Miller Fourth Edition and it has 512 pages in the book. This book is about What is Anthropology? Anthropology is the study of humanity includes prehistoric origins. The book also teach us about culture shock, religion, birth and death (like how other cultures perceive that or deal), communication, research about fieldwork's (is basically look for the background of certain communities like food, religion, traditions, ethnicity, etc). I think that from this class so far i had learn how we can manage and respect other cultures that are around us and is very interesting how people react to other cultures, one of the main issues in our society is discrimination and that we never respect others. In class we discuss a chapter and for home we have to read like 2 chapters and make sure we know the content because in class we have to participate with some questions that the teacher will ask about them. I think that this class is really going to help me in my reading and writing because is other vocabulary that we have to use and i am really learning and applying the words (try) in speech and writing so it can stick better and it really works. I learn in my reading book of English about how we can scan, read, identify, knowledge, main idea of a book and i did it and is very helpful just looking for important things in the book to see if it's useful or not. I think that my Anthropology book has lot of good information that i can use it for my basic life and needs.

Accounting Book

This is my accounting book. The picture of hard cover is earth, star, money and number. The author team is "Warren", "Reeve"and "Fess". This book combines Financial & Managerial Accounting. This book has 1105 pages and the appendices have 90pages, so this book is very very heavy. This book has twenty-six chapters and six appendices. Chapter 1 to 15 are financial accounting. Chapter 16 to 26 are managerial accounting. Every chapter has teven main points. First is objectives after studying every chapter. The contents of chapter have many color graphs, tables and pictures that are helpful to illustrate and understand. The key points and illustrative problem is to help understanding and to give a example solution for the exercise. The last is exercise that include questions, exercises and problems series A/B. This three parts have lots of homeworks, but teacher just selects part important homeworks to hand in exercises before test.
This book is required subjects for majoring business student. l learned financial accounting at last term so I continue to study managerial accounting at this term. I am interested accounting, but this book is hard to me. First, I have lots of glossary to remember every chapter. And then, I must understand some numbers where and how they calculate. After, how I solve the solution is important for all the exercises that I understand contents of this chapter. This book let me know how to count the revenue, cost and profit for company and how to manage the operations and develop overall business. This book is very helpful to me for my work.

"Living with Art"

The book from the picture is a textbook from class Art Appreciation. The title is “Living with Art” by Mark Getlein. This is a 7th edition of the book with CD included. The book is huge! It has around 600 pages and is heavy like a hundred stones. Now I started to understand why students have wheeled backpacks. The cover has a painting Marie-Denise Villers “Young Woman Drawing” (1801) on the front and on the back cover painting Anon , “The storm” (1760-70).
This book is very well-organized. At first it has Brief Contest and then, the Contents with specification about every chapter with subsections. “Living is Art” includes: 5 parts, which is: Introduction, The Vocabulary of Art, Two-Dimensional Media, Three- Dimensional Media and Arts in Time. Each one of them got around 3-9 separate chapters, for instance: Living with Art, The visual elements, Drawing, Painting, Prints, Sculpture and Installation, Ancient Mediterranean Worlds, Arts of Islam and of Africa. Every few pages are one, gray page about artist’s life. It was one of our homework to do a presentation about these artists. Each student got one artist and had to find his art-works and tell the people what he studied about him. The book contains a lot of pictures- hundred of them.
I have already read four chapters: Living with Art, What is art, Themes of Art and the Visual Elements (120 pages). Every reading was as an assignment. We had to read the part and answer the questions on “reading guide”. I’m interested in topics like Graphic design, Illustration, Photography, Film and Video since I’m interested in it to become my carrier.
I like this book even though when I saw it the first time it scared me. What I like is like I said before very good organization. You can easily find everything what you need, or from the tables of contests or from the index on the back. It even has a glossary. The pictures which they included in every chapter are very helpful to understand what they are talking about.
The language is just right. There are some worlds that I don’t understand but it doesn’t disturb too much. In my opinion the book “Living with Art” is very useful for people whose interested is in any parts of art.

Math book!

This is book is for my math class. Its cover color is red. This book is as like as a rectangle. I think everyone can see the topic on the picture is College Algebra. The front cover that is very simple only have a topic , edition and author'a name. the back cover that is simple too. That only a few word at the bottom of the back but this book have a special place is have a parobola cover all over the book. It looks like a fuction that is match what we learn from this book. This book have two main point for every chapter. First is show the example and how can we soluction the answer and the second point is the exercise. we will do this exercise for our homework everyday. Teacher will give us what is the exercise number and we finish everyday when we have class. In the back of the book have answer key. when we do our homewok, we have someting unuderstand, we can check the answer in the back. I think the book has most image is the chart of function. That is the main chapter in this book.

I am very interested in this book. I like this book because this book's content is easy for me. This book total have seven chapter. The frist one to three chapter is talking about the equation. and the four to six is talking about the function, and the last chapter is system for the enquation and the inquation. when I did the homewoke, I think I only use half hour I can finish. that is different from the English class. I need to use a long time to do my essay. This is what I like the book but I don't like the book because it is very heavy. When I take this book is like take a stone. It almost twenty pounds. when I have math class , my shoulder also felt hard. I can learn someting I did not know from this book. Bofore I didn't know what is funcion but I got it know. This bool is very useful for me.