A president of US should be wise, honest, responsible, thoughtful, experienced, knows what is really good for US people, and the people in other countries. Take Mrs. Cliton and Mr. Obama as examples, they seem like both have got all the quantities I am looking for in a president, at least by the lectures they gave. People don't just pick up a random person from their neighbordhood as the next President of the United States. Hundred millions of people live in US, only a couple of us stand up as the candidates of next presidents, those couple of us gotta be outstanding enough for the rest of us recgonize them within such a big country. So I am concluding these two candidates are both qualified for the next President of America. But if i have to pick one of them as president for the next term. I will choose Mr. Obama. (I have changed mind from yesterday, thanks god, the election was not on yesterday) Not because he is any better than Mrs. Cliton in any qualities as a president, it is his African-American born.
It is true that there is only one president up there leading America, Mr. Obama may not be as experienced as Mrs. Cliton, whose husband was the ex-president of the United States, but the president gets his whole administration behind him, who knows there is no somebody else steps in the running of presidency, the president of America is not running our country alone. In this case, the tiny difference between the capability of these two candidates does not affect my decition much. I am choosing Mr. Obama, because he is a African-American. I know the United States is not ready for an African-American president, mainly due to the racism widely exists in this society, even though a lot of people claim they are not racists. Being one of the minor race group in America, I really dont think it is fair to reject a talented person as the president of the United States only because his African-American born. I will vote for Mr. Obama for the sake of his excellent leadership and minor-race born.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Little Red Cap!
Do not talk to strangers! This is what I got from both the old Grimm version and the new Carter version of "Little Red Cap". In spite of different writing styles, different story plots, different endings, the old and new versions of "Little Red Cap" teach us the same lesson--be careful of wolves! Obviously, wolves here represent those unkind people who are harmful for us. I think the reason for both versions are widely accepted by us is because each of the version has its certain amount of readers. The old Grimm is more suitable for kids. It is more acceptable to teach kids a lesson with a positive happy ending. The Carter version is more realistic for those adults or more grown-up people. Moreover, the change of time is also a main reason for why Carter version is more reasonable and more real for us. However, these two versions differ from each other in scenes and ending, the aim of the writers are the same.
"American Idol"
Honestly, I have not watched "American Idol" show on TV before, not even once. I knew it, because the commercial explode out on TV, through radio, always the hottest issue during my friends' conversation, there is no way to ignore its exsitence afterall. I am not a big fan of "American Idol", but I do know how this show goes, since I have watched some similar shows. I concluded two reasons for no need to change from "vote for the best" to "vote for the worst".
First of all, not many people will feel like spending time and money to vote for the one they dont like, at least I won't text time after time to vote for the losers, the only posibility is someone really gets on my nerve, his /her appearance really threats my daily life, I would destroy my cell phone only for letting him/her out of the show. Fortunately, this kind ofsituation does not happen oftenly, plus i might just choose not to continue watching the show, which seems like the best way to save from this unnecessary cost.
The second reason sort of relies on the first one, if we all significantly reduce texting times, or less and less people watch the show, the holder of this show will not be happy, their benefit would relatively decrease, which is against what their purpose of holding this show. Thus, they will try every effort to make the audience spend money on those fancy performers as much as they can, rather than let audiences vote for either losers or winners freely.
"American Idol"
Honestly, I have not watched "American Idol" show on TV before, not even once. I knew it, because the commercial explode out on TV, through radio, always the hottest issue during my friends' conversation, there is no way to ignore its exsitence afterall. I am not a big fan of "American Idol", but I do know how this show goes, since I have watched some similar shows. I concluded two reasons for no need to change from "vote for the best" to "vote for the worst".
First of all, not many people will feel like spending time and money to vote for the one they dont like, at least I won't text time after time to vote for the losers, the only posibility is someone really gets on my nerve, his /her appearance really threats my daily life, I would destroy my cell phone only for letting him/her out of the show. Fortunately, this kind ofsituation does not happen oftenly, plus i might just choose not to continue watching the show, which seems like the best way to save from this unnecessary cost.
The second reason sort of relies on the first one, if we all significantly reduce texting times, or less and less people watch the show, the holder of this show will not be happy, their benefit would relatively decrease, which is against what their purpose of holding this show. Thus, they will try every effort to make the audience spend money on those fancy performers as much as they can, rather than let audiences vote for either losers or winners freely.
Monday, March 19, 2007
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Just by seeing the name of this book, I surpposed it would be a "detective book".
There was one question kept coming up to me, "Is this novel really written by a mental-ill teenage?" If it is not, the author must be a genious.
I had never read any novel or fiction written in this way. It is narritive, which is common; it uses many pictures, numbers, graphs, which are not common; it tells so many things, most of which seem have nothing to do with the "death of the dog", which is really uncommon; the extreme characterist of "Christopher" indeed challenge my ajudgment, "he is either Einstein kind of genious or a high-mental-ill kid.All of these elements provoke my curiosty, attract me keep reading it till figuring out what the earth in Christopher's mind.
The reason I reject this book is not written by a real mental-ill person is I don't think any publisher will risk to publish a book written by a mental-ill child as Chrisopher. If it really was, the teacher would not recommand it as a school text book. Then whoever wrote this book must be a genious. Only a genious can make the readers forget everything around when they are reading his book.
There was one question kept coming up to me, "Is this novel really written by a mental-ill teenage?" If it is not, the author must be a genious.
I had never read any novel or fiction written in this way. It is narritive, which is common; it uses many pictures, numbers, graphs, which are not common; it tells so many things, most of which seem have nothing to do with the "death of the dog", which is really uncommon; the extreme characterist of "Christopher" indeed challenge my ajudgment, "he is either Einstein kind of genious or a high-mental-ill kid.All of these elements provoke my curiosty, attract me keep reading it till figuring out what the earth in Christopher's mind.
The reason I reject this book is not written by a real mental-ill person is I don't think any publisher will risk to publish a book written by a mental-ill child as Chrisopher. If it really was, the teacher would not recommand it as a school text book. Then whoever wrote this book must be a genious. Only a genious can make the readers forget everything around when they are reading his book.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
It's a snowing day!
Snow has covered the earth in white, the sunshine lies on the snow, the brightness causes me dizzy when I am trying to stare at the beautiful snow. I pick up some snow, deliver it to my mouth, hmmm, no taste, unlike "cotton candy". I laughed out! I love snowing days!
I got the job! I will be starting working from this June, 3 months on summer, and then keep working there as I go to school at the same time. They need me to work there fulltime, 40 hours a week, otherwise, they only offered $12 per hour without any insurance if i can make fully 40 hours a week. There is no reason not to spend couple more hours to get the full paid and all teh benefit. Moreover, because of the financial aid I applied, I have to take at least 12 credits to be a fulltime student. In this case, next semester, I will be working from 8:30 am -5pm, then go back to school take the 6:00-8:30 pm late classes, Monday through Thursday, four classes a week. Ah,, itll be a busy semester! God bless me!! ^_^
I got the job! I will be starting working from this June, 3 months on summer, and then keep working there as I go to school at the same time. They need me to work there fulltime, 40 hours a week, otherwise, they only offered $12 per hour without any insurance if i can make fully 40 hours a week. There is no reason not to spend couple more hours to get the full paid and all teh benefit. Moreover, because of the financial aid I applied, I have to take at least 12 credits to be a fulltime student. In this case, next semester, I will be working from 8:30 am -5pm, then go back to school take the 6:00-8:30 pm late classes, Monday through Thursday, four classes a week. Ah,, itll be a busy semester! God bless me!! ^_^
Monday, March 12, 2007
gotta start working today!!
Spring Break....
I am having 10 days totally for this Spring Break ( no class on Fridays). It is Monday today, after going through 3 not remarkable days, I feel like I should start doing something significant or at least something valuable. hehe,,,
I have been switching from sick to fine back and forth for last couple of days, not only that, many other things went wrong: broke up with a friend; house remodeling drove everything unavailable; spring break plans had been canceled one by one; never got the book (Random Family) bought on line which was supposed to get here last couple of days; school works submerged me as waves. Jesus Christ! So many things came up together, drove my weak and sick body shivering, led my brain out of functioning. I tried to calm myself by reading a book, reading could always bring me to another world, a world i don't belong. Unfortuantely, reading did not work out well this time. My eyes were staring at the page, none of the words went into my mind, instead, my mind was being dominated by all of those unsolved problems.
Headache!
After ton of pills and water, I woke up without any dizzy this morning, 10:30. Feel much better today. Great weather out today! It is supposed to be a "out-going day in New York" today. Anyway, I felt like having a walk to start my day, and i did.
Ah, I was back to myself again, as if the fresh air had just cleaned out all the gray blurry cloud, which had been floating for days in my mind.
Let's start to work!! May not solve all the problems, but at least I ACT! Yeahhh!!!
I am having 10 days totally for this Spring Break ( no class on Fridays). It is Monday today, after going through 3 not remarkable days, I feel like I should start doing something significant or at least something valuable. hehe,,,
I have been switching from sick to fine back and forth for last couple of days, not only that, many other things went wrong: broke up with a friend; house remodeling drove everything unavailable; spring break plans had been canceled one by one; never got the book (Random Family) bought on line which was supposed to get here last couple of days; school works submerged me as waves. Jesus Christ! So many things came up together, drove my weak and sick body shivering, led my brain out of functioning. I tried to calm myself by reading a book, reading could always bring me to another world, a world i don't belong. Unfortuantely, reading did not work out well this time. My eyes were staring at the page, none of the words went into my mind, instead, my mind was being dominated by all of those unsolved problems.
Headache!
After ton of pills and water, I woke up without any dizzy this morning, 10:30. Feel much better today. Great weather out today! It is supposed to be a "out-going day in New York" today. Anyway, I felt like having a walk to start my day, and i did.
Ah, I was back to myself again, as if the fresh air had just cleaned out all the gray blurry cloud, which had been floating for days in my mind.
Let's start to work!! May not solve all the problems, but at least I ACT! Yeahhh!!!
Thursday, March 8, 2007
plans for final project
Since it is a open format for our final project, I am thinking to have all different formats for each section. For the fisr section: personal profile, I am thinking to have a written paper, sort of autobiography for it. It will briefly tell my background, my prsent life, and my plans for future.
For the second section: career profile and ideas , I may do a powpoint for it. I will go to my counselor and ask for one of those "international business major" required classes, it lists all the classes i have to take to finish my bachelor degree. Also, i will interview a friend of mine in MSU. She has almost the situation as I do, and she is majoring in International Business too. For the salary portion, I have couple of websites, which offered by my counselor, can search in. Then, i will analyze the data and materials i collect, and make nice powerpoint out of it.
For the last section: conclusion, im not sure what kind of format i will do for it yet. I may do either a poster or another written paper for it.
Hopefully everything will go smoothly.
For the second section: career profile and ideas , I may do a powpoint for it. I will go to my counselor and ask for one of those "international business major" required classes, it lists all the classes i have to take to finish my bachelor degree. Also, i will interview a friend of mine in MSU. She has almost the situation as I do, and she is majoring in International Business too. For the salary portion, I have couple of websites, which offered by my counselor, can search in. Then, i will analyze the data and materials i collect, and make nice powerpoint out of it.
For the last section: conclusion, im not sure what kind of format i will do for it yet. I may do either a poster or another written paper for it.
Hopefully everything will go smoothly.
Monday, March 5, 2007
what to do?
Working into an international trading company has been my goal since the day i came to america. I have planed everything to accomplish this goal, everything went on track till couple days ago when he told me I could work in his company as a fulltime employee.
His name is Ely ***, a (to be continue)
His name is Ely ***, a (to be continue)
Sunday, March 4, 2007
rights for women and children in other countries
Women's and Children's rights have become a grobal issue.
I feel so lucky to live in a more equal-human-right country, rather than in Sierra Leone, Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, and Rwanda, etc. What confuses me is why they would think women matters less men. Is it really listed on the Islamic bible?
however, to help those women still throughout the world live in conditions of abject deprivation of, and attacks against, their fundamental human rights, first of all, we have to be aware about "where, when, who, why and how" those women suffer unequal treatments. Next step will be
to expose and denounce as human rights violations those practices and policies that silence and subordinate women. It won't go far if we work individually, we have to bond together as a group, getting more and more human right activists, and human right organizations, such as National Organization for Women, gaining more and more social power to go against those anti-women laws, to rescue those women.
here is a website for women from different countries or religions could look for help if they suffer from any unequal treatments from others or even governments.
http://www.law.emory.edu/IHR/wmnhr.html
I feel so lucky to live in a more equal-human-right country, rather than in Sierra Leone, Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, and Rwanda, etc. What confuses me is why they would think women matters less men. Is it really listed on the Islamic bible?
however, to help those women still throughout the world live in conditions of abject deprivation of, and attacks against, their fundamental human rights, first of all, we have to be aware about "where, when, who, why and how" those women suffer unequal treatments. Next step will be
to expose and denounce as human rights violations those practices and policies that silence and subordinate women. It won't go far if we work individually, we have to bond together as a group, getting more and more human right activists, and human right organizations, such as National Organization for Women, gaining more and more social power to go against those anti-women laws, to rescue those women.
here is a website for women from different countries or religions could look for help if they suffer from any unequal treatments from others or even governments.
http://www.law.emory.edu/IHR/wmnhr.html
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