Author: Haipu Sun

  • Jaguar Ad around the World

    In whatever culture, the advertisements about cars will always show us the image of the powerful car running on the road with its engine roaring furiously leaving audience an impression of speed and freedom, sometimes elegant and luxury. So considering about the advertisement of Jaguar, I first thought of some superstar driving a Jaguar and…

  • Combination of Data and Art

    Before I attend this meeting, I never thought that art and data can be combined. I used to consider data visualization as a kind of logical and sensible technology which is totally impersonal. So when Dubois said that his data visualization is a kind of art, I was totally stunned and confused. Looking at the…

  • How Politicians Do Apology with Words

    Hillary’s Apology http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/09/opinions/louis-hillary-clinton-apology/index.html explanation and vindication Recently, Hillary was accused that she was exchanging classified information in her private email with others. Hillary’s first reaction was to deny the accusation. Actually, she admitted that she was using her private email account, but she claimed that it was allowed by the law and the State Department.…

  • Prelude of Four Years

    Before I came to America, I tried to be well prepared; however, no matter how comprehensive I was, unexpected things always happen. Miserable “What’s up man?” In China, I began learning English with how to greet with each other, and the stereotype of greeting should be like this: How are you? I’m fine, and you?…

  • See What I Have

    After I made this word cloud, I was not surprised that words like “Bucknell”, “student”, “liberal” and “art” are bigger which also means appear more often than the other words. So I think if I really want to find what makes Bucknell special and different from other universities, I have to make word clouds for…

  • A Metaphor with Long History: Chinese Metaphor

    Almost all Chinese metaphor use can reveal the long history of China. For example, This man is an iron rooster means that this man is extremely mean, because other people even can’t get a feather from him. In Chinese culture, we usually consider feather or hair as the cheapest thing, because we have countless of…

  • Glad to Learn in the class of How We Do Things with Words

    I wish my experience in residential college will be fantastic. Maybe after taking this class in this semester; I will try to learn another foreign language.