The Different types of Sugar

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As usual, I was eating supper with my family today. "I wonder what are the differences between brown sugar, white sugar and crystal sugar?" My cousin asked suddenly. She is eleven and is in grade six this year. "Their colors are different obviously." Her dad said at once, "and they have variety of usages." "Well, do they have the same structures and how do people make them?" She asked again. It's not a hard question, but no one can answer her correctly and properly. After supper, I decided to search for the answer use the knowledge and techniques I've learned from ALES204 class.

At the beginning, I sent text messages to my friends, but they replied me almost the same answer: sorry I don't really know it. Okay, maybe people do not want to write a lot through text messages. Then I tried to post the question "what are the differences between brown sugar, white sugar and crystal sugar?" to my Facebook to see if someone know the answer will write a comment on it. However, nobody said anything. I looked up on my friend's blog to see if there is any useful information because she is quite interested in this field. Disappointedly, I only saw 'black rice' on her blog. Then I gave up on asking people directly, instead, I searched on the Internet and finally found a perfect website named 'Sugar'. I didn't have time to read the entire page yet, but I will definitely.

It is a daily life question, isn't it? We thought we knew the answer, but in fact we don't. Just because the question isn't as important as the ones on the exams, so people are too lazy to look for the right answer. At least I realized this problem now and I'm trying to solve it. That's what I've learned until this moment.

I used these methods throughout this 'experiment': talk to people directly, text message, phone call, Facebook, Internet, and even tried to post the question onto Yahoo Answers. These are all ways of communication. What's more, in the ALES204 class I learned how to cite, how to edit Wikipedia, what is open peer review, etc. I love this class! Here are the five links I commented on my fellow classmates:
1. Yiting Jin
2. Ziyu Shi
3. Manjiang Yu
4. Stephanie
5. Yiwenlulu

Tomorrow is the last day of class and Christmas is coming soon! Enjoy reading it~

It's All About Facebook!

Minghua Yu's Facebook page

The first day I went to Harry Ainlay Hish School, a person asked me if I had a Facebook account. I will never forget how surprise she was when I said "NO" to her. So I created mine after school, but honestly, except chatting with friends, what else did I do with it? Who knows that I can even find jobs by creating a professional  business page!


It took me a while to figure out what it really means by "business profile". You provide all your information like what jobs you are looking for and post your professional resume and cover letter as looking for a job in real life, but in a more convenient way. It can save paper and time.


People do not have too much time to sit together, chat and know more about each other because everyone has their own business. So in my opinion, the best way to solve this problem is to view their blogs and Facebook to know what they are thinking and interested in. I looked at my friend Stephanie's blog and find out she is a really hard-working person. She almost wrote everything she could and even added some dietitian's websites because she is learning food and nutrition. With the social communication media blog, I can learn what she did better than me.


When creating the business profile, I do not have a professional picture so that I used a photo related to Food -- and that is what I am learning and interested in right now. As time goes by, I will add more contents in to improve it. And if other people are confused with how to create a Facebook page, here is a link to see: http://www.squidoo.com/facebookpage