What Changes Time Can Bring

在上期的视角栏目中．我们提到了Brad与一位中国女孩通信的故事。时光荏苒。四年过去了。从书信往来到电话联系．彼时彷徨困惑．甚至有轻生念头的小女孩现状如何呢？Brad今年4,EJ来中国时。最终见到了这位女孩,她已经长成了一个有梦想、有能力的大姑娘,就要拿到自己的英语专业大学毕业证书。Brad亲身见证了这一切。他感慨不已……     

与Brad对话：I Am Envious that My Classmate Gets Good Grades

你是否会对自己的同学产生嫉妒心理呢？当对同学心怀嫉妒的时候,又该怎么办呢？对于这个问题,Brad有着自己的独到见解……     

On Being a Minolity Of One

When I first went to China to teach English I was at a rural school in the south. The closest city was Conghua, with about eighty-five thousand people. I liked to go there on my one day off each week to buy fruit and other things to have in my dorm at the school. Sometimes, I would go with one of the other foreign teachers but many times I would go alone and I would be the only westerner in the city, a minority of one.     

Young Love

I day at ember school one was a nice day. We were sitting outside and the students were practicing when along came a Chinese teacher I knew. I asked her what she was doing and she said, ＂I＇m looking for lovers.＂ I asked if she had found any and she said no, but she would find one. I said I didn＇t think so and she insisted, ＂Yes, I will find one.＂ I told her she would not find one but she might find two.     

A Friend I＇ve Never Met

四年前。Brad收到了来自一位高三女生的信。Brad感觉面临高考的她极度沮丧。并且似乎还有轻生的念头。Brad回信给予支持与鼓励。虽然不清楚她当时的遭遇。但是四年来他们保持联系,建立了深厚的友谊。现在的这位女孩过得怎样呢？     

When the home team is not featured: Comparison of two television network commentaries during broadcasts of the 2006 FIFA World Football Cup

Broadcast commentary of sport contests is often seen as biased or “one-eyed” for the “home team”. This study sought to determine if this labelling was correct. Two different broadcasts of the national Dutch team's games during the 2006 Federation Internationale de Football Association's (FIFA) World Cup in Germany were compared. Both the Dutch Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) and Australian Special Broadcast Services (SBS) networks each televised this team's matches, together providing eight matches for analysis. First, the framing strategies used by each broadcaster were identified through a fourteen category thematic scale derived from the data. Secondly, a Chi-square analysis of the results revealed significant associations for the types of themes employed by the home network (NOS) and those of a neutral broadcaster (SBS). Results also revealed associations for the use of nationalistic themes in the commentary. These results have salience for sport management and sport media studies as audience size and therefore revenue generation is of import.