tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-234927649453777422024-03-13T06:46:25.751-07:00Alex's Language Arts Grade 8Alex Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04867284577169719719noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23492764945377742.post-28582874264048385352011-05-14T03:33:00.001-07:002011-05-14T03:33:58.338-07:00Academic Vocabulary p.819<embed allowfullscreen="true" height="400" src="http://embedit.in/8ay3e3vpaF.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="466"></embed>Alex Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04867284577169719719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23492764945377742.post-74336292987891347242011-03-21T17:46:00.001-07:002011-03-21T17:46:59.635-07:00Ethnography prezi<div class="prezi-player"><style type="text/css" media="screen">.prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; }</style><object id="prezi_lrc_lyyycrkx" name="prezi_lrc_lyyycrkx" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="550" height="400"><param 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</span></div></div>Alex Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04867284577169719719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23492764945377742.post-43113066384802113122010-10-27T22:21:00.000-07:002010-10-27T22:24:40.829-07:00Gentleman of Río en Medio Literary Focus Question 9<div style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; padding-right: 4pt; padding-top: 1pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> Because Don Anselmo is the primary character of the story, if the story were to be told in his point of view, we would know much more about his decisions and his arguments. He would have given us detailed explanations of why he did not take the extra money, and also why he did not reveal who “owns” the trees on his first visit to the lawyer’s office. We will also know more about the traditions of the Río en Medio town. Therefore, we will have a lot more insights about the story had we been reading Don Anselmo’s perspective if the story.</span></span></div></div>Alex Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04867284577169719719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23492764945377742.post-64166041532276118722010-10-26T22:19:00.000-07:002010-10-26T22:19:16.880-07:00Stop the Sun Literary Focus Question 5 Even though both Terry and his mother love and care for Terry's father, they support him in different ways. His mother is a protective person. She wants to protect Terry's father. "Leave the wound alone and it will not hurt," she thinks. "His mother seemed to try to protect him, as if his father could break." (pg. 272) However, Terry wants to understand his dad, "I will sew his wound. It might hurt terribly at first, but then you are free of it forever." This shows that Terry is a practical risk-taker.Alex Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04867284577169719719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23492764945377742.post-58141478476318858152010-10-08T08:52:00.001-07:002010-10-08T08:52:58.952-07:00Miraculous Rescue<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><b><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Between our quests we sequin vests,</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>***Later in the day, he saw a little boy carrying a huge load of wheat on his head. Immediately feeling sympathy to the little boy, he said, “Stop, my boy! Let the generous Sir Sigma of Epsilon carry the load on your head. Let he carry you on his magnificent stallion. Hurry, and get on!” </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">The boy shook his head, “No thanks, I can do my work alone.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Sigma shook his head, “No, I insist. Sit on my horse!”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">And the boy merrily obeyed. ***The steed was moving, its movements harder and harder after each instant. Sir Sigma was not so paying attention, and the great parcel fell down the muddy road, immediately crushed over by a huge unmanned tractor that ran by.*** The boy screamed, “Darn! I need to sell it for money!”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Sigma quite heartily drew his wooden sword, pointed it at the great ugly black tractor and yelled, “You insolent beast! You have destroyed the boy’s dinner! You must pay for your rudeness and your cruelty!!” Enraged at the tractor’s ignorance of him as it continued to flatten the muddy road, he brought the sword down and it was neatly crushed into wood dust. He let out a cry of surprise at the tractor’s strength and lunged at it. The tractor nearly crushed him into human sandwich.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">He ran and ran, ran at his greatest speed possible. He could almost see the trees flying over his head. He tripped, and fell down a lake.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Pi struggled, thrashed and thrashed, as he tried to pull himself upwards. On his way up, his hand slid a round, steely object. He heard something. A door was opening. He was flushed into the newfound opening. Water pulled him like a fish unable to control the currents. He tried to scream, but all he could do was some bubbling sounds.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">The door was an entrance to a room. Water was rushing in like a torrent. The inside was filled with test tubes with many different colors. There was also some weird looking light. He was pulled towards the light like a huge force was asserted. He struggled, but there was no point. He gasped.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">As he opened his eyes he was in a prison cell. He was locked in with no way out. He heard a scream and a terrifying laugh. He saw two faces. One angelic, and one devilish. The princess was lying in a corner, shrank and shriveled as Lady Omega mouthed, “Happy Coming to the Mu Castle.” She howled with laughter and stomped outside the cell.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Sir Pi sat there dumb-founded. “Uh oh! Why am I here? How are we going to get out?” Princess Phi smiled,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“All these weeks I wanted a cell mate. I thought of a plan. Listen.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Princess Phi talked so fast and smoothly Sir Pi found it impossible to understand her. He would stare at her wondrous face and beautiful, weary smile instead. Princess Phi said, “Do you even have ears? Now listen. You need to do this.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">She scraped her cuffs against the wall with Sir Pi’s help. “The work was too tiring to do on my own,” she explained indignantly to a confused Sir Pi. After she was done, she would haughtily help him with his own cuffs. The princess, an expert at lock-picking, was easily able to pick the locks in the room, and together, they ran.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Sir Pi, being pulled by a quick and powerful Princess Phi, ran towards Lady Omega, who was sitting assiduously in her golden throne, enjoying a bit of watermelon. She screamed when she saw the couple running towards her for her robots. However, she was held first by Princess Phi and Sir Pi.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Now, you ugly witch, you will have to tell us where you put your umm,” the knight stammered. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Teleporter,” said the princess.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh yes, teleporter, or you will see your face being distorted and your head bald and…” the knight continued excitingly.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“All right,” sighed Lady Omega. She turned her teleporter on, and they quickly were transported to the room, filled with water everywhere.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” they tried to scream, but all the was coming out of them were bubbles.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As the knight recovered, he was lying on bed. The king was smiling coolly towards the knight. “You were lucky my daughter knew how to swim!” he chuckled. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sir Pi smiled, but he was still hurt and gulped for air as he located the princess’s face smiling.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It will be cool to have such a dumb husband,” Princess Phi remarked.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>They laughed.</div></div><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///G:/Homework%20Gr.%208/Language%20Arts/Quarter%201/Short%20Story%20%232%206-10-010/Miraculous%20Rescue.doc#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="FootnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="FootnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> <a href="http://www.lyricscrawler.com/song/72420.html">http://www.lyricscrawler.com/song/72420.html</a>– Song ased on Knights of the Round Table. (song) </div></div></div>Alex Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04867284577169719719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23492764945377742.post-32191415498011869372010-09-30T07:32:00.000-07:002010-09-30T07:32:14.410-07:00A Retrieved Reformation Vocab<div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"> <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-left: .25in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Anguish – The old man had a stroke when he found out that his son was a heroin addict, probably out of intense anguish.</li>
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</ul></div>Alex Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04867284577169719719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23492764945377742.post-84564476836478534362010-09-28T08:46:00.000-07:002010-09-28T08:46:29.415-07:00Ben Price<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><b><br />
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</tbody></table>He was on the scene punctually. A bank was robbed. A humongous man hyperventilating sighed in relief, and hastily led him into the bank’s safe locks. The space was asphyxiating-ly claustrophobic, and Ben Price could not help but marvel at the thief’s flexibility, tenacity and patience as he scanned the surroundings. He took detailed notes about the situation. Many other bank robberies and safecracking incidents crept up during the week. The authorities could not even guess whether the bank robberies were related. They were done in such different ways and methods, as no safe are similar. Yet their owners, gloating on the amazing security that the safes boast, were now on the verge of madness. No one, but cold logical old Ben, could see that the safe was wheeled out artistically. It would take amazing speed, intelligence, improvisation, superb mathematics, and superior equipment to reproduce such an amazing feat, breaking through ten different safes in just a little bit over two weeks. He could refer to an old case that he worked on, chasing an particularly elusive criminal called James “Jimmy” Valentine. Jimmy Valentine is an artist, a mathematician, an architect, an engineer, a sprinter, a marathon-runner, and a male supermodel all rolled to one. Ben Price happened to check prison papers, and discovered that Jimmy Valentine was released three weeks ago for good rehabilitation. At the beginning of Jimmy’s sentence, he had always frowned at the judge’s decision to have James imprisoned for only four years. Was that clemency or bribery? He smiled to himself, “You are not going to have a good time after I get you Jimmy. I will make sure of that myself.” </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br />
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</div></div>Alex Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04867284577169719719noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23492764945377742.post-54251933749334584392010-09-26T22:36:00.000-07:002010-09-27T09:00:18.937-07:00Interview with Thuy<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; padding-right: 4pt; padding-top: 1pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: </b>Hi Tweety. I want to ask some questions for Mr. Patrick’s homework. You agree?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A: </b>OK. I’m ready. <span style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: </b>Where were your parents born?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A: </b>Well, my parents were born in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Hanoi</place></city>.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: </b>Where in Czech did you live?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A: </b>I lived in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Ostrava</place></city>.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: </b>What school did you attend?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A: </b>It was called ZS Horymirová 100.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: </b>What did you study in school?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A: </b>I studied Czech language arts, math, music, P.E., biology, nature, arts. There were not a lot of homework.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: </b>How was school?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A: </b>School was really short. It started at 8 o’clock and ended at around 1 p.m. So we had a lot of free time.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: </b>OK. How many students were their in your class?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A: </b>Around 20.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: </b>What did you do after school?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A: </b>I hung out with my friends. There was a playground in front of our apartment.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>We played police and thief, dodgeball, across the ocean, hide and seek…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: </b>It sounds really cool. Let’s change the subject. What food did you like to eat in Czech?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"> <br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A: </b>I love <span lang="EN">guláš. Guláš is a special kind of stew made with beef, onions, and vegetables. I also like řízek. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: </b>Wow. It sounds really fun. Umm…I like to learn languages. Can you teach me some simple words?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A: </b>What do you want to know?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: </b>Good morning?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A: </b>We say: <span lang="EN">dobrý den.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: </b>How do ask for someone’s name? How do you answer?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A: </b>OK. To ask for someone’s name, we say, “Jak se jmenuje<span class="shorttext"><span style="color: black;">š?” and then we answer, “Ja jse jmenuji Thuy.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="shorttext"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Thanks for you help Thuy. It is very interesting. </span></b></span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></b><br />
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<b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">After reviewing my notes for the interview, I could see that the culture that Thuy experiences is very different than what I experience, because Czech Republic is so far from Vietnam. For example, our languages are very different. Vietnamese uses only one syllable per word, less difficult grammar but more flexibility in expressing but in Czech, you can have many syllables per word. The conjugation is absolutely horrifying, making English conjugations a clown's joke. Also, our climates are different, and thus our behavior and activities during these seasons are different. I am indifferent to the wet and humid climates because all my life, I have not experienced bitter-cold winters or played with snow or watched leaves turn red. However, Thuy has and she has created the snowman in the winter, etc... Our foods are different. The flowers are different. The city is different.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> Though these huge differences in culture, I cannot help but notice some similarities. For example, her school offered the same basic courses that Vietnamese schools offer: Language Arts, math, music, P.E. She connected with her friends. They liked to play many "children" games like: Cross the Ocean, Wolves and Sheep, all the games that we used to play as a kid. Thuy liked to hang out with her friends in the playground, just as we did. I vaguely remembered begging my mom to allow me to play a mini-bumper cars game with my friends.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> Therefore, I think that although Czech and Vietnamese cultures are so different in many ways, when we boil down to the simplest ideas, our Czech and Vietnamese cultures are fundamentally quite similar.</span></b><span class="shorttext"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Wingdings;"><b> </b></span></div></div>Alex Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04867284577169719719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23492764945377742.post-62941346866614821632010-09-21T08:17:00.000-07:002010-09-21T08:21:08.737-07:00Hamadi Vocabulary<div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-left: .25in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tedious -</b> The fire alarm snapped everything into perspective as we were dozing languorously over a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">tedious</b> lecture on characterization, adding a bit of spice into the lesson</li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-left: .25in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Vaguely - </b>I could only <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">vaguely</b> remember a pungent smell of ether before I fell unconscious.</li>
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</ul></div>Alex Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04867284577169719719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23492764945377742.post-17121013497481915372010-09-14T08:39:00.000-07:002010-09-14T08:41:30.901-07:00The Monkey’s Paw + Aunty Misery Vocabs<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><b><br />
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</div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-left: .25in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Credulity – I cursed at my own credulity as I remembered myself handing the two-faced gambler all my money.</li>
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</div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-left: .25in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Hospitality – Jennifer’s parents’ hospitality impressed me, as they laid on the table all manners of foods for her birthday’s party.</li>
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</b></div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-left: .25in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ominous – </b>An <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ominous</b> sound resonated in the deserted cathedral.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-left: .25in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Probe – </b>His stern, piercing gaze <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">probed</b> into my consciousness.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-left: .25in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tentatively –</b> She <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">tentatively</b> touched his forehead and sighed in relief, “He is fine.”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></li>
</ul></div>Alex Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04867284577169719719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23492764945377742.post-17807980867478579002010-08-31T09:35:00.000-07:002010-08-31T09:35:37.231-07:00Learning Experience<div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">“I’ve got a D on Mr. Patrick’s test, third time in a row,” Sim sighed,<a href="file:///G:/Homework%20Gr.%208/Language%20Arts/Quarter%201/Personal%20Narrative%20%231%2029-8-2010/Learning%20Experience%20Second%20Draft.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a> “I must be really dumb.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No, you’re not,” I frowned. Why was he so pessimistic? “You are a hard-worker. You study hard. What’s stupid about you?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We studied together. You’ve gotten an A. See my point? It follows that, well, I’m not as smart. I can’t remember stuff. I can’t write in good grammar. I can’t…”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I chuckled, “Hey, if you are going to cite what you can’t, it’s going to take all night.” I continued, “The point is, if you are going to say you can’t, you can’t.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“But I really can’t…” Sim blurted out angrily, blushing intensely.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I interrupted, “There was a time when I thought I can’t. I was like you. I thought I was a complete loser. I was desperate. I thought I was stupid. I just couldn’t remember anything for a test. It was a long time ago, however, it was still, a very clear memory.” I smiled gently at Sim, who looked like the world had fallen down and crushed him deep down.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sim groaned gloomily, “Who would believe you? You just ace everything that you sit onto.<a href="file:///G:/Homework%20Gr.%208/Language%20Arts/Quarter%201/Personal%20Narrative%20%231%2029-8-2010/Learning%20Experience%20Second%20Draft.doc#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>” We both walked down the hallway. It was quiet, yet suddenly, a “friend”, his face indistinct, barked sadistically, “Hey, loser, how’s everything going?”burst out laughing, and without a glance, slammed the doorshut. As athletic and strong as he was, Sim winced, like he had been punched in the face, without the chance of defending. His movement was lost in the crowded, blistering, and thunderous school yard. No chance of being seen. Or noticed.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I understand your unhappiness,” I began…I was cut in the middle by Sim, who furiously spoke in an end-of-discussion way, “Enough. Maybe I should just give up.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I smiled, “There was once a guy who wanted to give up…”</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">¯</span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">¯</span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">¯</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">I was a first grader. Someone who would go to school the next day should be excited. And I was.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Every kid in my class was previously tutored at home for about one year already. Their parents’ reasoning was that if they did not cram into their children’s head a ton of knowledge before they started school, it would be certain, 100%, that the poor child would not catch up. In fact, it had become such a trend that sometimes teachers (It aches to say this, but actually, only incompetent ones) expected that students must have had a basic knowledge of the learning materials. I guess that made my parents different, because they did not send me anywhere. I did not know anything about reading, or writing, or homework! Probably that’s why I was excited. I stayed excited for a week. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">If I had written a journal, my first grade could have been like this:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">“First day of school,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Fun, I met my teacher. She was nice. She gave me food. Good stuff. She introduced her name, (which had fallen into ruins in my memory), taught us how to do a simple dance. She rocked. I loved her! ”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">“Second day of school,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Again, quite fun and also educative day. We started to introduce ourselves to each other. I learned that other people had different names from mine. Funny fact.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">“Fifth day of school,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">We started to do some writing. Obviously the teacher expected us to be able to write these crazy, scribbly lines already. Or most of us. Because I couldn’t. She was puzzled.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">“First day of second week,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Things were getting worse. I was starting to hate school. She squigglef some ugly, crazy loops and an unintelligible mess on the board, and expected us to understand that it said, “I like to draw.” Why? I don’t get it. The teacher was annoyed.” </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Third day of second week,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">I went nuts. What the heck is 1 + 1 = 2? Why doesn’t<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1 + 1 = 3? What are 2 or 3, are they just stuff humans invented to torture first graders? How am I supposed to know that? My teacher was exasperated.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Fifth day of second week,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Ms. shouted at me. It went somewhat like this, “Why are you so dumb? The class is moving on to multiplication. You don’t even know how to write your own name. You don’t know how to do 1 + 1. How ridiculous!” And guess what, I felt ashamed. Who wouldn’t? Would you like to be called stupid in fron of your classmates? I would wonder what was up with your health if you did not. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span> I burst into tears, literally. I exploded into a water fountain and no one was able to stop me. I felt humiliated. SCHOOL WAS A COMPLETE DISASTER. WHY DID I HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Third week,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">I could tell you. It was not fun, at all. I thought that I was hopeless, that it was impossible for me to understand multiplication. What did the teacher say? Ahh…She wrote a big 3 x 2 on the board. She said, “There are two pots. Each has 3 flowers. How many of them are altogether?” The whole class rang, “Six flowers, Ms.” I was at a loss. What? I was dumb, dumb, dumb, hopeless… I couldn’t do it… </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">I could not understand why my classmates could, and why I could not. I believed the reason WAS because I was slower than everyone. I was the worst student in class. I could not learn anything. And the results from the quizzes and tests in the next two weeks DID prove that I was a slow learner.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Fifth month,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Four months passed already, same thing happened again, and again, and again. Boy was my teacher fast. She was halfway through the books in the middle of second quarter. Probably because she felt that all of the children in my class learned so fast. Except me, always except Alex.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Guess where I was? I gave up on myself. I just could not bear the disgrace of having tests with Fs anymore, nor could I put up with my teacher’s killer gaze, nor could I stand the annoyed eyes of my classmate, “I haven’t someone like him my whole life.” I resigned to fate. I did not study anymore, with a mind frame, “Even if I study, what good will it do? I am already stupid. I can’t change my intelligence,” Easy enough, my grades generally stayed where they were. Tests or quizzes just became blurry before my eyes, and my brain basically shut down. I struggled to pass even the easiest tests, something I considered a phenomenon.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">I told my parents, “I give up. I can’t understand. I can’t do math…I can’t multiply…I can’t read quickly enough…” The list went on and on. My parents snapped, “That’s not true, you and your friends have the same brain. Therefore, if they can, why can’t you?” </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">“But…” I argued. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">“No buts,” my mom said, “Just go study. I don’t care what people say about you. You just do it.” I was annoyed. What did she mean? How could I have a same brain like my friends? Hadn’t I determined that I was the dumbest kid ever to be born? </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">A slight hope was lit in my mind. What if…What if I was not stupid? What if I was smart? My parents’ firm belief fueled me. A little bit. I tried again. The frail hope, this time, magically helped me to locate the letters on the paper. They did not jump, nor did they squirm, or squeeze their way out of my understanding anymore. This, to me, was one of the greatest moments of my life. Somehow the letters got into my brain, and they stayed there.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">I became more confident. I read some more, this time thinking I could do it better, and in a way that I didn’t know, finished the four or five chapters on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division that night and caught up with my friends. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Next day, when the teacher announced a pop quiz, the whole class was shaking, including me. I frowned. Could my intelligence last for two days? Or would it wane and I would be like the normal labels: slow, unintelligent, can’t process information, the list of learning disabilities goes on and on? She handed the papers out. I began to shake vioently. It seemed like the whole school was in an earthquake hypocenter. “Oh my god,” I think. I could not do it! Last night, it was a dream! A bad dream!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">However, another thought, warm and sunny, diligently battled its way in my brain. It ousted the dark, cold smoky figure that was muddling my brain. A slight voice coming somewhere. I listened, intently. The voice chided, first small, then louder. It became so near I jolted in shock, “You and your friends have the same brain. If they can, what can’t you?” Sense started to creep into my fingers. I could now see a blue rod that I thought was my pen. I took a deep breathe, grasped my pen, and grabbed the paper. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">The cold, dark feeling suddenly wrenched my throat, messing with my vision, kicking, wriggling its last hopes. Faces, including my teachers, and my friends, flashed, “You are dumb! You are stupid!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, warmth, strong and firm, radiated around my body, as my parents’ faces smiled caringly, “The key is to BELIEVE!”, my face, screaming gloriously when I finished my material last night was so real I could have sworn it was painted on my eyelid. I tackled the paper.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Two days later, my teacher came in with a smug smile. She announced, “Alex has gotten the highest grade in class.” The whole class gaped in horror, and they blabbered, “Had you made a mistake, Ms.?” She spoke, her voice towering above all the whispers and gossips, “I know this is very peculiar. That’s precisely why I’m sure I had not made a mistake.” I felt so cool. The cold, dark faces of my teacher and my friends vanished in my body. Their dominance over me faltering, falling apart as the victorious feeling engulfed them completely, repaired the heavy marks that fear had crafted on me.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcqYHoLgIFN-3XSPSebbPhm-C63vlXqTYg9qnPFn253pknuAWlqTYe317dhJcEnsziYwy49pw1GcLBhEcw7iOvBfOxksUoxN1kbLugJIayLa3cSm9mcoDuyJRk_Y2It929xxinfcbl_gI/s1600/517386_scanning_test2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcqYHoLgIFN-3XSPSebbPhm-C63vlXqTYg9qnPFn253pknuAWlqTYe317dhJcEnsziYwy49pw1GcLBhEcw7iOvBfOxksUoxN1kbLugJIayLa3cSm9mcoDuyJRk_Y2It929xxinfcbl_gI/s320/517386_scanning_test2.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #003399; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">“<a class="sqq" href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/believe_and_act_as_if_it_were_impossible_to_fail/13012.html" style="color: #003399; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.</a>”<br />
---Charles F. Kettering</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">I quickly caught up with my friends. They stopped calling me dumb. I felt even better. This hauled my confidence to a new level. I finished the books two months before the standard curriculum did. I was on top of the world. The feeling was incredible. No tests were ever able to scare me anymore. I just sat down, picked my pen up, and wrote, confident that I had studied everything, every fiber of muscle of me believing that I was going to be able to crack an A+. And I did. Virtually every time.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">¯</span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">¯</span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">¯</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Two months after I told Sim the story, guess what? He caught up with us extremely quickly. He realized that he had a brain similar to any of us, a brain that by research could hold more information that any computer or super library in the world. As we walked down the hallway, again, with triumphant grins up high on Sim’s face, no “friend” was able to shout, “Hey, loser!” again. Ever.</div></div><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///G:/Homework%20Gr.%208/Language%20Arts/Quarter%201/Personal%20Narrative%20%231%2029-8-2010/Learning%20Experience%20Second%20Draft.doc#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a> Fictional name</div></div><div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///G:/Homework%20Gr.%208/Language%20Arts/Quarter%201/Personal%20Narrative%20%231%2029-8-2010/Learning%20Experience%20Second%20Draft.doc#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a> Forgive my self-flattery. I am exaggerating to make this story look good.</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">P.S. Sim and him getting a D a third time in a row in Mr. Patrick's class is fictional. I hope that his tests won't make anyone have a D. :) I'm just making it to make this story look good. However, the middle part with me struggling is true, and how I overcame it is true. Just clarifying so that everyone won't think Mr. Patrick is evil. :) Just kidding...</div></div></div>Alex Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04867284577169719719noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23492764945377742.post-25927504430629766102010-08-22T09:00:00.000-07:002010-08-22T09:04:12.441-07:00Flowers for Algernon Literary Response<div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garden of Eden</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Question 8:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b>BIBLE PASSAGE </b>(Genesis 3:1-3:7.)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><sup><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span></sup></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><sup><span style="color: black;">1</span></sup><span style="color: black;">Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden'?"</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><sup><span style="color: black;">2</span></sup></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><sup><span style="color: black;">3</span></sup></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><sup><span style="color: black;">4</span></sup></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><sup><span style="color: black;">5</span></sup></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><sup><span style="color: black;">6</span></sup></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate.</span> <sup>7</sup></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"> Above is the passage from the Bible. The story <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Flowers for Algernon</i> and this excerpt from the Bible have a lot of similarities. The plots, talking about man’s unappeasable desire for knowledge, can be basically summarized into one old saying, “Curiosity killed the cat.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"> At first, Adam and Eve didn’t know that they were naked. They were carefree, unaware that they actually didn’t wear any clothes. I assume that most human beings on Earth today would be quite outrageous if someone asked him or her to be naked. That’s because all of us have the knowledge that being naked is a shameful thing, as Ms. Fanny summarized, “It was evil when Eve listened to the snake and ate from the tree of knowledge. It was evil when she saw that she was naked. If not for that none of us would ever have to grow old and sick, and die.” (pg. 71) In the Bible, Eve saw that the Fruit of Knowledge was good for food, delightful to the eye, and most importantly, could make one wise. After they ate the fruit, what actually happened to them? Their eyes were open, and they saw that they were naked. They started to feel shameful, and had to make several aprons sewn from fig leaves. The snake hit right at the spot, knowledge, a craving to become wiser had misled Eve. Quite similarly, at the beginning Charlie was a very positive man, uninformed of people laughing at him because of his slowness, and what had become of him after he underwent the operation? Well, he became smarter, and like Adam and Eve, started to feel shame when people were laughing at him. He had not felt this way before. In fact, he had not felt shame at all, had no idea that people were enjoying his company just because that they liked teasing him. The similarity of the plots are quite big. I can infer that in a way, this short story, “Flowers for Algernon” can be a version of the myth from Genesis, with several differences. For example, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Flowers for Algernon </i>is set in a contemporary environment and that things come about more slowly. In the Bible, God had “kicked” Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden right away. However, the tragedy of knowing too much had happened to Charlie in a slower way. The cons of knowing too much are illustrated in both of the stories.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"> Because we have not read the other half of the story, therefore I cannot know what actually happened in the last half of the story, and consequently, I have no knowledge of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Flowers for Algernon</i>’s theme. However, I can assert one point about the Biblical account’s moral. That is, “Sometimes knowing too much can hurt you,” and I’m quite sure that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Flowers for Algernon</i>’s theme is something quite similar, for both plots are pretty similar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div>Alex Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04867284577169719719noreply@blogger.com7