Who Am I?

   I am just a normal teenager. I am arrogant, annoying, loud, persuasive, and an optimistic person. I am one of those people who enjoys being the center of attention and enjoys the authority and power I have towards people. There are many things that can come out with this question, such as what I might be when I grow up? There are just so many things to decide, I don't want to be a business men because of the stressed out environment and the competitions out there. Don't get me wrong, I have no worries what so ever about our competitions. I love to win and I always win. I will keep that going until the day I die. Being a business men will either make you super rich, or super poor depending on the quality of work, hardwork, and sometimes luck. My dad is a successful business men, therefore he wants me to try out what he is doing. I believe that I am more towards the literature and history side. My math is terrible, so I have been considering to be a lawyer or a psychologist. I love arguing, and I win argues. So why not make a living out of it? I once made a guard in my compound actually think he did something wrong when clearly it was my fault. I am good and logical at arguing. A psychologist is one of my interests. Analyzing other people's stressed out lives and giving nearly no comments and getting paid four five hundred dollars an hour. The money and the job is just appealing. I don't know who I will be, maybe I will end up  being  a business men after all, chances are high for that to happen because my dad wants me on wallstreet working for some financial bank. I don't know. All i know is that I won't let myself receive all this education and turn out to be poor and talentless. I will thrive and be the leader of the following generation. Watch me, I will be.

Vocabulary Test- Disguises

1: There is no way I am throwing away the amulet of the goddess Kuan Yin.
2: Mrs. Chen works in the factory in Chinatown.
3: She had Cantonese as her first language, resulting it to be extremely rural.
4: I live in Hong Kong.
5: I believe I have not done anything in my previous life to deserve these evil winds to come right back to me.
6: My mom laughed at the monks at Shaolin Temple.
7: Beware of the Monkey king, he is seeking enlightenment.
8: The cataracts that formed in Mr. Lener's eyes resulted him to not see very clearly, and at one point, he could not see anything at all.
9: She never called me in the past ten years.
10: The language of Mandarin is the most popular language in Taiwan.
11: The young respectful boy bowed in response.
12: The temple ran out of incense.

Duty or Friendship?

   This is a very common thing that happens with people in life. People have to make choices, choices they don't want to make, but choices that they have to. It is normally between two very hard to decide things, Friends or Family? Friends or Lovers? Family or Lovers? Job or Lovers? All these questions are very common in many people's lives. I think, betraying a duty is worse than betraying a friend. Call me a bad person, call me a bad friend, but I am a very selfish person. When there is a position for me to go higher up in my company, to the job that I have always dreamed of having, I would abandon my friend and go higher up into my career. I think one's success comes from the cruelty and the harshness in the person. No successful company was built on being nice and fair to each other, no successful company was built on respecting other competitions and not breaking any rules. When it comes to work, people would do all they can to screw other people over. This would be a hard and terrible decision for me. I know that I should not cheat and betray my friend, but i know that by not accomplishing a duty could ruin and trash my reputation. How i see it is that when someone assigns a duty to me, I would NEED to complete it. A duty is a promise, and breaking a promise would hurt people's trust in me. I would indeed go betray a friend before I betray a duty. Although this is a hard choice, a duty is a duty, Friends can be made later on in life, but I need to fulfill my promise and duty.

Sniper QuickWrite Under Stress

   When there is pressure or fear invovled, people tend to do their best and probably will be the only time they will ever perform this well. If I had kids, and my kid is going to University next fall, chances are I will try to perform my best and earn as much Christmas bonus as I can. Or even when someone is kidnapped, they are to defuse a bomb, the person will chances are do things beyond his standard abilities. There are many different scenarios in which a person would perform beyond their abilities to accomplish a goal. If a father saw his kid stuck under a car, adrenaline may pump though his body and enables him to lift up the car and safe the child. These things have happened before, this proves that people will do better under stress. When I received my first highschool report card, I was shocked at my grades. I thought I would perform better, and now i have stress to get a higher grade, not for my parents, but for myself. When I am under the stress of college and everything like that, I get scared about my future and tend to finish all my work with quality. When people are at stress, they take risky actions too. Entrepreneurs may want to go for a bigger business to associate with or try to get more stock buyers. When stressed, people will do better and this is just how the world works. People only work hard if there were some motivations involved.   

Song Themes

1: What Goes Around Comes Around, Justin Timberlake
This lyrics of this song shows that the author who wrote this song has lost his love and is writing about how he should not have gave her up. He is writing about how he lost his love and he is still not over the girl he has just left. The title of the song clearly shows the theme of the song, What goes around comes around. This theme is universal and is in many movies and stories and songs.
2:Love Hurts, Nazareth
The title of this says it all. Love hurts. This theme is all over the mass media. Songs, stories, movies, everything is about love and how love hurts. This song shows that how love hurts in many different ways. This song is also bascially about losing love. No one will say love hurts until they experience the heart break of a relationship. The theme of this song is that love hurts.

Question Number 7 on Pg259.

   I don't think its likely that anyone would go out to help any stranger. For all you know, they stranger could be a murderer or a rapist or some sort. I think the young man helping out with Mrs. Chen at last is nice of him. When I think about the big apple, I rarely hear that people help each other out. Instead of helping each other, all I have ever heard was that they are always being jerks to each other. I never would expect someone like him to be in New York City and help out with a stranger like that. I think everyone else in New York would not help a strange Chinese lady on the subway. One reason why I would not help out a stranger, especially in New York, is because I don't really know what the stranger's intensions are with me. He could want to kill me, or he could be trying to mug me and steal my wallet or some other nonesense. This student could be helping her just because he has a strong sympathy towards Mrs.Chen because she is from China. I think this young student has experienced the Exact same experience with Mrs. Chen. When he first came to the city, he could have experienced the exact same scenerio as Mrs.Chen. He would not know any English and no one helped him out. He then had a tough time finding his way back. I think he does not want anyone else to experience the challenge he faced when he first arrived in New York. I think that is the biggest incentives and reason why he helped her out.

Comparison Between Friends and Enemies

Friends:                                  Shared:                                         Enemies:
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1:On your side                       1:Both are related to you               1:Opposes you
2:Helps you out                      2:Both are effecting you in some    2: Wants to hurt you in some way
                                                way                                                                                                            3:Likes you                            3:Opinions of both effects your       3: Hates you or dislikes you
                                                 thoughts                                   
4:Trusts you with things           4:Can be both Human                   4: Never would trust you