Entry#3

Based on the video of the several presentation that I watched, I conclude that Ed Tate is the best presenter among all. For me, Ed Tate are very good in delivering a speech. He used a wide range of language and wide vocabulary. He also used a simple word in his speech and that make it easy to understand. His pronunciation are also clear and correct. His voice tone are various instead of using a flat tone. He also has a good body language. He was able to control the the stage and did not stick to one position only. He also got a good sense of humour and this capture his audience's interest and make his speech become more interesting. We can see that the audience responded to him and this show that his presentation are good.
On the other hand, I think that the Microsoft dude is the worst presenter among the rest of them. He used a flat tone in delivering his speech and this make the audience lost their interest to listen to him. He also does not has a body language. He did not move even a step. He just stand on the stage,stick to one position and wrapped his arm around his body. This guy also did not has a sense of humour and stay serious for the whole presentation. Its so obvious that the audience are not interested to his speech seeing that they did not responded to him.

Entry#2

For this second assignment,I was ask to give comments about the article of famous person that I search. This article was writed by Dr Robert A.Hatch from University of Florida.In my opinion, this article is very interesting. It contains a lot of information about Sir Isaac Newton. This article really help me to know my icon better. Beside that this article also help me a lot in my assignment. Furthermore,this article has complete details about Newton compare to other articles that i read. It not only covers about Newton's life at school but also tell us about his character,personality and all his works. It use of language also easy to understand. In conclusion, I really like this article.

Newton's Article

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727), English natural philosopher, generally regarded as the most original and influential theorist in the history of science. In addition to his invention of the infinitesimal calculus and a new theory of light and color, Newton transformed the structure of physical science with his three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation. As the keystone of the scientific revolution of the 17th century, Newton's work combined the contributions of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, and others into a new and powerful synthesis. Three centuries later the resulting structure - classical mechanics - continues to be a useful but no less elegant monument to his genius.

Life & Character - Isaac Newton was born prematurely on Christmas day 1642 (4 January 1643, New Style) in Woolsthorpe, a hamlet near Grantham in Lincolnshire. The posthumous son of an illiterate yeoman (also named Isaac), the fatherless infant was small enough at birth to fit 'into a quartpot.' When he was barely three years old Newton's mother, Hanna (Ayscough), placed her first born with his grandmother in order to remarry and raise a second family with Barnabas Smith, a wealthy rector from nearby North Witham. Much has been made of Newton's posthumous birth, his prolonged separation from his mother, and his unrivaled hatred of his stepfather. Until Hanna returned to Woolsthorpe in 1653 after the death of her second husband, Newton was denied his mother's attention, a possible clue to his complex character. Newton's childhood was anything but happy, and throughout his life he verged on emotional collapse, occasionally falling into violent and vindictive attacks against friend and foe alike.

With his mother's return to Woolsthorpe in 1653, Newton was taken from school to fulfill his birthright as a farmer. Happily, he failed in this calling, and returned to King's School at Grantham to prepare for entrance to Trinity College, Cambridge. Numerous anecdotes survive from this period about Newton's absent-mindedness as a fledging farmer and his lackluster performance as a student. But the turning point in Newton's life came in June 1661 when he left Woolsthorpe for Cambridge University. Here Newton entered a new world, one he could eventually call his own.

Although Cambridge was an outstanding center of learning, the spirit of the scientific revolution had yet to penetrate its ancient and somewhat ossified curriculum. Little is known of Newton's formal studies as an undergraduate, but he likely received large doses of Aristotle as well as other classical authors. And by all appearances his academic performance was undistinguished. In 1664 Isaac Barrow, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, examined Newton's understanding of Euclid and found it sorely lacking. We now know that during his undergraduate years Newton was deeply engrossed in private study, that he privately mastered the works of René Descartes, Pierre Gassendi, Thomas Hobbes, and other major figures of the scientific revolution. A series of extant notebooks shows that by 1664 Newton had begun to master Descartes' Géométrie and other forms of mathematics far in advance of Euclid's Elements. Barrow, himself a gifted mathematician, had yet to appreciate Newton's genius.

In 1665 Newton took his bachelor's degree at Cambridge without honors or distinction. Since the university was closed for the next two years because of plague, Newton returned to Woolsthorpe in midyear. There, in the following 18 months, he made a series of original contributions to science. As he later recalled, 'All this was in the two plague years of 1665 and 1666, for in those days I was in my prime of age for invention, and minded mathematics and philosophy more than at any time since.' In mathematics Newton conceived his 'method of fluxions' (infinitesimal calculus), laid the foundations for his theory of light and color, and achieved significant insight into the problem of planetary motion, insights that eventually led to the publication of his Principia (1687).

Entry#1

To give an excellent performance in various field i involves is what i dream of and that is why i choose Sir Isaac Newton as my icon. From my point of view, Newton did not born as a genius man but he worked really hard to achieve all his success. Newton was born fatherless and his mother left him to his grandmother. His childhood time is not as colourful as others. When he entered a university, he has to worked hard to overcome his financial problem before been offered a scholarship. Although he has to go through a lot of hardship,he never give up but instead of it, he worked hard and come out with a lot of success in various field ;-mathematics,optics,physic and chemistry. I really admired the way he turned all his problem into success. He make the best outcome from the worst. I really hope that one day i will success in my field and bring a lot of beneficial changes to people around me as newton did. I might not be as brilliant as he is,but for sure i will do my best to achieve my goal and brings benefits to others. I mill make all the hardship and challenges that i faced in my life as a platform for me to work harder and perform better.