11-29-11 Word that describes my life

One word that would describe my life probably be organized because my life is very structured because I go to school go through my red or white routine and then I go home and do homework. This happens every week day and then on the weekend I will do homework and hang with my family. If I were to change my word I would change it to exciting and I would do it by doing something different every day so that I have more of an unorganized day.

11-22-11 Monkey Paw

This short story takes about a family who gets a talisman from a friend who just gat back from India. Within the story there are three parts, the first one talks about the family getting this talisman called the monkeys paw. Part two talks about how the first wish that was made which is for two hundred pounds cames true. The final and third part talks about how the last two wishes effect the two remaining characters. I think the main message of the story is that for every action which would be the wishes the is and equal and opposite reaction. In the story that would be when herbert the son of the older couple wishes for the money and that money comes when he is maimed by a machine and the company that he works for pays the money. 

11-18-11 student advice

I think that this article provides a sufficient amount of information about how to adapt to a new environment after coming from a new country or school. Other information that I would add to this article is to make friends at this new place so you can learn the new traditions and another thing I would do is to hold on to your traditions and incorporate the new traditions into the old.

11-14-11 Penn State case

I think the law should be changed so that an issue of this kind could dealt with immediately so that it doesn't go on for so long as this one did. One reason I think that the law should be changed so that these kind of problems will not get lost in the translation through the line of command which happened at Penn State with the football coaching staff. The new law which states that if something like is witnessed, then the witness goes to the government and tells them.

11-7-11 Culture that was hard to adapt to

One thing that Sundra couldn't adapt to in America was how people would openly flirt with each other and any two people would be together no matter what ethnicity. Why should couldn't adapt is that Cambodian culture says that a Cambodian girl must marry a Cambodian boy and that boy must be chosen by the girls parents. Because of this divorce is not common since the girl and boy are forced by their culture to stay together.

11-3-11 Genocide

Genocide: the systematic killing of a group of individuals by a government or a group of people. One example is the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia where the elite military group of Serbia soliders called the Scorpions killed over eight thousand three hundred Bosnia Muslims who were mostly men and boys. The UN peace keeping force supposedly did nothing to stop the execution. 

11-1-11 Selfish Giant

This story begins with children playing the garden of a giant who has been away for seven years visiting a an ogre. Once he return she find the children in his garden and being a selfish giant he scares the children away and builds a wall so that no one can enter his garden. Soon winter comes and makes it permanently winter because he has lost the love of the children which made the garden bloom. Winter continues in the garden until the children sneak in through a hole in the wall and make it summer again. The giant sees who child who can't get up into a tree, so he goes outside , but ends up scaring the children except for the one child who couldn't get into the tree. The giant helps the child get into the tree and seeing this the children return and play in the garden. The giant destroys the wall so that all of the children could play in his garden. The children continued playing with the giant until the giant became old and frail, so he could no longer play. At the end of the story the giant see the little boy he helped into the tree and find the boy has wounds on his hand. Seeing this the giant gets angry because someone hurt his friend, but is love that made the wounds not bodily harm. The next day the children find the giant dead under the tree where he helped the little boy so long ago.

11-1-11 Selfish Giant

This story begins with children playing the garden of a giant who has been away for seven years visiting a an ogre. Once he return she find the children in his garden and being a selfish giant he scares the children away and builds a wall so that no one can enter his garden. Soon winter comes and makes it permanently winter because he has lost the love of the children which made the garden bloom. Winter continues in the garden until the children sneak in through a hole in the wall and make it summer again. The giant sees who child who can't get up into a tree, so he goes outside , but ends up scaring the children except for the one child who couldn't get into the tree. The giant helps the child get into the tree and seeing this the children return and play in the garden. The giant destroys the wall so that all of the children could play in his garden. The children continued playing with the giant until the giant became old and frail, so he could no longer play. At the end of the story the giant see the little boy he helped into the tree and find the boy has wounds on his hand. Seeing this the giant gets angry because someone hurt his friend, but is love that made the wounds not bodily harm. The next day the children find the giant dead under the tree where he helped the little boy so long ago.