Letter 6:Newsletter, vol. 8, no. 7 15 October 2017

1. Complete reading the following Newsletter:
Newsletter, vol. 8, no. 7 15 October 2017

Topics: 
Saving the Chinese Cultural Center
Rivalry games
Civilization comes to Tempe

2. In your letter 6, respond to the topics in the Newsletter and answer at least 3~5 study questions. (The more, the better)

3.In your own blog, finish your Letter 6 in response to the newsletter. (Title: Letter 6_____-->your own title, or Response to Newsletter vol.8 no 7)  DUE: 11PM Fri. 20 Oct.)

4.Visit "T" Time, and leave at least  one comment  in no. 6.  Please sign your comments with your first name and your school or your town, (i.e. Otto, ZZSH Taipei) DUE: 11PM Fri. 20 Oct)

Newsletter, vol. 8, no. 7, Study Questions

You must answer the questions in complete sentences. How do you know if it is a complete sentence? You must give enough information from the question so that the teacher can understand your answer without having to look up the question. If you using quotations from the story as part of your answer, those quotations should be in “quotation marks”

1. When and why did the first Chinese immigrants come to the Phoenix area?  What did they do when they got here?

2. What is now at the site where the original Phoenix Chinatown used to be? 

3. Who is the COFCO company, and what was surprising about their decision to build a Chinese Cultural Center in Phoenix? 

4. Should all or parts of the Chinese Culture Center be preserved?  Without costing the current owner any extra money, what would YOU want the new center to have after its renovation? 

5. What is a “rivalry game”.   Describe a rivalry game that you know about from your own experience.  What makes this game a “rivalry game”, and not just an ordinary game?  

6. Okay, this is where you can tell me.  What is the trophy in the Iowa – Minnesota football rivalry, and what is it’s name? 

7. Why would this particular trophy have such an appeal, not just to the teams and states involved, but to fans all over the country?

(“Those people are just crazy”, or something along those lines, is not a correct nor an acceptable  answer”)

8. Why would the citizens of Tempe think that they lived in a civilized society? 

9.  Why would they be wrong?

10. What’s still missing, that keeps them from being completely civilized?

11. Bonus question for Asian readers:  There is “pearl tea”, “boba tea”, and “bubble tea”.  Are those just different names for the same thing, or are they different.?  How are they different?