An Only Child vs. A Child With Siblings_C&C essay

An Only Child vs. A Child With Siblings

     In our life, family is really important. Our society is full of competitive spirit to become a great parent. Also despite the amount of siblings we may have, we all should respect our parents. Either you have many brothers or not, all our admiration, gratitude and honor to our parents are to be equal. Nevertheless, I realized there are many differences between an only child and a child that has siblings.

     As an only child, he or she gets more special attention and love from parents than a child that has siblings. Although it’s not always the case, we know that some have a tendency to be very possessive about their personal belongings and positions. Because most of the time, they can receive what they want, unlike how brothers yield one’s right of possession to one’s little brother. When I was young, my sister even passed her underwear on to me.

     Therefore, I think when people grow up in a big family, they can learn to share and they are more likely to understand others’ feelings better. Younger sibling benefits from their older siblings too, such as in education, and relationships in social life. Though it may sound selfish, they can perceive which ones are better decisions to make through sibling’s mistakes. In contrast, for an only child social life might not be easy compared to those with siblings.

     Another difference between an only child and a child that has siblings could be the extent of loneliness and boredom. When you are bullied from other kids in school, your friends may turn back to you but neither your brother nor sister would do so. On the other hand, many times parents don’t understand their children due to the generation gap. Brothers and sisters would be very dependable in these cases. Though there may be a lot of quarrels, I think having siblings bring more comfort and joys to the family.

The Last Sin Eater_Character Analysis

The Last Sin Eater Character Analysis- Cadi Forbes

     Ten year old girl named Cadi Forbes is a both protagonist and major character of the Last Sin Eater. Cadi Forbes showed curiosity on everything. When someone couldn’t satisfy her curiosity, she would get easily frustrated and would even risk her life to put the pieces together which became sources of conflicts and challenges in her life. Later to the success.

     Cadi had gone through most difficult background in her childhood and I consider her as one of the pathetic souls in this story. “…I’m not sure when I realized I was doing the wailing, but I couldn’t stop. All I could do was stand there and look at the shredded wrath and Mama and wail” This passage on page 82 clearly illustrates how much pain she was in and heart broken she became by those she loved, especially from her family.

     Her life and her coward behavior gradually changed as she encountered the sin eater, Sim Gillivary, ‘the men of God,’ and Lilybet. One of her weakness was that she wasn’t able to face the challenges. She had trouble controlling her downfalls and couldn’t overcome the emotion ‘fears’ and inclined to run away from the evil and troubles she faced. In addition, she blamed the men of God and the Lord when Brogan Kai found them, and beat up his son, Fagan, and the men of God: “I wish I’d never come here! It’s gonna be worse than it was before. I wish I’d never listened to ye!”, “What strength has God when the Kai could kill his man like that? He just stood there! He just took the blows! And God dinna do nothing to stop the Kai! Why did he take our hope away?” However, Lilybet’s advices and the men of God’s preach provided hopes and changed her perspective that God will protect us.

     Cadi Forbes is a character that has impacted the story most. As a young, genuine and shy girl, she went through more sever pains and felt the unbearable guilt that she had killed her sister, Elen. Her characteristics were one of motivations for her to do the right things while others claimed as wrong and stupid: seeking for the sin eater, listening to the men of God, and believing in the name of Jesus Christ. Later she brought the peace upon the village by baptizing them and guiding them under the shield of God.

The Oppression of Women in Chinese Culture_Good Earth persuasive essay

The Oppression of Women in Chinese Culture

     Should there be women’s right in Chinese Culture? Respecting elders is one of the most crucial culture Chinese had been carrying throughout generation to generation. Men were treated like a great king while the women treated as a subject, and still some nations follow these moralities and cultures. The Good Earth written by Buck embraces these factors in her novel and generates how significant Chinese culture can have effects on females’ lives. According to her novel, there are two reasons why women should have rights to live a secure life.

     Though the wife of Wang Lung, O-lan sacrificed herself to achieve a better position for her husband, she never sees a reward. She receives neither loyalty nor passion from him in return. She even strangled her fourth daughter so the baby will not be burden in her family, especially to not let Wang Lung disappointed. It seems unbelievable that O-lan could bear to kill her own daughter. But both cultural values and circumstances lessened the fear to make this choice. If her fourth child was a son, there would be a different consequence.

     The second reason is that the women are treated as a proposition. Despite O-lan’s pains and hard works she put into Wang Lung’s life, he buys a beautiful prostitute, Lotus. In support of this, women are existed in this world to bring pleasures and joys to men. Consequently, women are treated as a subject not as a human creature.

     Now that we have examined how fatal culture vales can be, and how women had been treated, we should try to make a change in this world. God had made all human equal thus, women should have right to live a secure life.

The Farewell Party_Reflective essay

   

The farewell party

     We made a big circle around the camp fire as the flame tried to reach the unfathomable dark sky. Under the starry night was filled with laugh, chit-chat, joys, and the scent of sweet melted marshmallows and burnt woods. I was so absorbed in this happiness that I totally forgot it’ll be the last day of my first retreat and the last day for me to see my church friends and teachers. Maybe… I just didn’t want to think about it.

      Suddenly, preacher John grabbed the guitar. He looked back at me and smiled, and said, “One of our dear fellows is leaving tomorrow and we have a small gift for you, Chris.”

      The beautiful chords from the guitar soon made up the melody of the Korean hill song, “You were born to be loved.” The song’s lyrics went like this: “Do you know, you are born to be loved by our God, with-in your life, you’ve been receiving His love…Even now you are receiving His great love.”

      As I followed the lyrics, I scanned through every single person’s faces In order to retain it deep in my memory forever. Soon my eyes were filled with tears and they started rolling down on my cheeks so I buried my face under my hands till someone tapped me on my shoulder and I looked up.

      In front of me was small chocolate pies built up in a pyramid-shape with two candles on the very top of them. Though they couldn’t provide a good looking cake, I felt their sincerity and love and that was more than enough for me. They shared their messages to me and the ‘surprise farewell party’ was over.

      Though it may sound like a crappy farewell party to some, personally it was the best and the most memorable gift I have ever received. Also I realized something big: How grateful it is to live in God’s presence. I began to listen to the song they sang to me and wondered what kind of different consequences I would have faced if I’ve never made a decision to believe in God. I wouldn’t be able to meet FUMC families and realize His amazing love. Like what it says in Romans 12:2: “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will,” I thanked God for letting me to chose the right choice to follow him and sending me FUMC’s families in my life.

Lord of the Flies Project

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?                                                                                                         

Simon: Thank you, Christina, for inviting us to your house for a delicious dinner made by your mom except these KFC chickens.

Ralph: I see the big differences between piggy’s pigsty and your house. I wish I can tell you with specific details, but I don’t want to lose our appetite before we even start eating. Don’t you think Piggy?

Piggy: Stop insulting my auntie’s house! My house contains even three air cleaners. My auntie told me it’s good for a person who has asthmas. Oh, Christina just in case I can’t eat oily foods my auntie said. [He trailed his words as he gazed at the main menus; kFC chickens, potato chips, and spaghetti.]

Ralph: Ha-ha, sucks to your ass-mar.

Piggy: I guess spaghetti’s okay because it’s made of tomato. Do you mind if you get me some fruits for desert? My auntie said…

Ralph: There you go again. Stop grumbling about your auntie! Simon, can you get some potato chips? I can’t reach it.

Piggy: I have the conch so I have the right to talk…

Ralph: Sorry to interrupt you again Piggy but I think we should make an exception about the rule of conch in this case.

Simon: yum-yum, this spaghetti tastes really good. Yea, I was going to say that.

Me: Thank you and I agree with Ralph’s suggestions. Let’s have a free talk. I really have a lot of questions to ask you guys. Oh! Ralph, how did you feel when you find the conch?

Ralph: First of all, I was happy for a moment. All the worries seem to fade away and my mind was filled with excitement to have this whole island without any controls from adults. But to come to think about, it was just the beginning of the cruel war between logic and barbarism. Same brutal case with the Piggy’s specs too.

Simon: Well, spec was one of the important sources we mostly relied on, though there were big tensions between us and the painted Indians. Without his specs, none of us would survive.

Piggy: Thank you guys, I see now why my auntie likes to respect others and likely to over emphasize her favorable assessments.  Anyways, I’m glad you haven’t invited crowd of painted Indian kids, who forsaken us and chose hunting and breaking things up.

 Ralph: Hey fatty, please don’t mention them. Excuse me for a second; I need to go to the bathroom.

[He slammed the cup he was drinking on the table and he went out fiercely.]

Me: what a sensitive guy.

Simon: I wonder how he will manage to control all grieves, fears, and the sense of betrayal by Jack and hunter’s instincts of savagery…

Piggy: Later or sooner, he will regret to reveal the new knowledge about human capacity of evil.

[Ralph came into the dining room with a tissue box and wiped the table.]

Ralph: Sorry about that, I wasn’t able to control my emotions. Now let us hear your question, Christina.

Me: Ok, I think it’s a right timing for me to ask questions and have a bit interesting chit-chat, which may help us to digest. I think Simon has a good topic to start with.

Simon: Um. I really wanted to assert that there’s no beast in the island. It was just a dead corpse of a pilot who drove our plane. It would be nice if we could have realized it earlier and save him. Then the whole rescue plan might turn out fine. The beast was just an imaginary thing our fears created.

Piggy: I knew it! I argued so hard that there’s no such thing as beasts. But even you [pointing at Ralph] were scared of it.

Ralph: Okay, okay. I apologize. But let’s not talk about the past. I think it’s time for us to go back to our real position. See you guys.

Me: Nice chatting with you boys.

Descriptive essay

Keeping in good shape 

     I looked into the mirror. I saw a girl. An ordinary Asian-looking girl stared back at me. She was neither pretty nor ugly, but just plain. She had long, tidy, straight black hair with a side bang swept across the left side of her forehead.  Short lashes rimmed small hazel eyes hidden behind a wet glass film. Several pimples on her forehead indicated she was a teenager, the age of puberty. Two rows of pearl white teeth appeared whenever she smiled.

     I still can clearly remember the way I looked like in third grade. Lame pony tail without bangs and a circle glasses accentuated my round, chubby appearance. My neck was hidden beneath a thick double chin. For my entire elementary life, I was always the first student in order of height. There were many benefits though; I was able to get whole attention whenever we went for a trip. Still my mom would always laugh at my pictures; pointing and teasing that I looked like one of those plump seven dwarfs that appeared in the fairytale, “Snow White.”

     Mid spring in 2003, my mom and I went to the health center because my weight and height didn’t seem to change. I stood on a health check machine and apparently, the result was much more severe than my parent first thought. I was obese. When we came back home, I made a very significant decision. First, I registered for swimming lessons and got a new one-piece swimming suit. Bold stripes of blue and pink ran down both sides of it. I still can’t forget the smell of the marine blue, chemical water. For the first time in my life, I learned how to jump rope. Every single day after school, first activity on my to-do list was swimming. I learnt to limit my instinct craving for a Mc Donald, and any junk foods were banned from my meal menus.

     Reflecting on this memory became one of my daily habits whenever I look into the mirror hanging on the door of my wardrobe. I would be startled how such an extraordinary and amazing decision can reveal the greatest success. For anyone, keeping in good shape or losing weight is a long and hard journey that needs a lot of effort, perseverance, and self control.

Fahrenheit 451 Web Assignment

 

“F 451” Web Assignment

1.     In part one, Montag didn’t seems to believe that books are alive but when he saw an old woman sacrificed herself to be with books, he’s idea changes as he felt the guilty conscience inside him. And started to read books he had been collecting it and gained hopes that the knowledge from books can change his future in his generation. I believe books are alive because through reading books, I feel all kind of emotions: sadness, mildness, love, humor, shame, enmity, frustrates, interest, ambiguity and so on. On the other hand, I have always been amazed how books are composed of diverse experiences I could taste. I believe that each book contains our lives.

2.      The internal conflict about Montag is he has been fighting with himself. Before he encounters Clarisse and the hideous event, he lived his life without any thoughts to feel anxieties. His circumstances seemed very usual, nothing different than any other people’s life. However, after the hideous event happened on page 38~40, he’s minds get all entangled by this one statement. ‘Is burning books or right thing to do?’ Struggles and fights between Montage and Montage himself starts from here. The external conflicts about Montage are Mechanical Hound and his wife. Because of Hound he couldn’t reduce tension throughout his escape. However without Mechanical Hound, his escape to the upper town could have been much easier and fluent. The Captain Beatty was the one who strongly asserted to Montage and firemen that books are useless and garbage in our life. Montage obtained a lot of influences through Beatty’s severe gregarious personality and his contradictory speech about books.

3.         “The great escape” – by boys like girls, I pick this song for Montag. It represents the final decision he made in the ending. He let go of all his past, anxieties, and hatred left in him; and made a new way which I have likened to the great escape. The first chorus goes like this: “Throw it away/ forget yesterday/ we’ll make a great escape/ we won’t hear a word they say/ they don’t know us anyways.”

4.         If I would have to write a plea to save a book from the flames, I would save Barron’s SAT book. Because when I think about the pains I had back in this year’s summer vacation to study SAT, it would be wasting of my efforts and time if it just burns into black ashes. Also, it’s an essential book that high school students need to prepare for Next year’s real SAT exam. In this book, we can learn a lot of helpful skills and formulas we need in school works too.