exciting 11/29/11

I would choose adventurous, because I end up traveling a lot so I get to try a lot of new things, like foods and have different experiences. New York is the biggest place to try new things that I've been to because there are so many people there from different cultures bringing the food and experiences from where they used to live and it's all crammed into that one city. I also go to michigan yearly so I have an idea of what living in the midwest is like. I also go to Florida yearly to see my other grandmother, and I have an idea of what living in the south is like as well, with all the different places I've been I feel I have a pretty good idea of what each part of the US is like. This is why adventurous would be a good word to describe my life.

11/18/11 culture shock

I think that the article contains very good advice, and that those are good steps or things to follow to help you fit in to or adjust to American culture. I think keeping active is one of the more important things that they could've touche on a little more thoroughly. The second most important part is English if you can speak like Americans, things won't feel as awkward for them and it will be easier to become friends with them.

11/14/11 Penn State

I do think that whatever the law is in Pennsylvania about child sex abuse needs to be changed because it has just been proven ineffective. If the law was effective, this wouldn't have continued for fifteen years. The law needs to be changed so that these things are reported, and reported faster. I think that it should be changed by the end of the year at least, as said in the article because this seems to be a fairly important issue that needs to be adressed. I think that the changes that need to be made are that the eyewitnesses themselves should be responsible for reporting abuse like this.

11/7/11 adapting to america

The biggest aspect in Children of the River that tehy couldn't adapt to was people's beliefs on relationships are different. In Cambodia, the parents decide who the children will marry for them. Also, in America people date each other, but Sundara and her family aren't used to that. Especially Soka doesn't like the idea of dating, she is very traditional and wants to stick to the cambodian ways. So I think that this is the most evident aspect of American culture that Sundara and her family cannot adapt to.

genocide

The word genocide means to exterminate a group of people for their beliefs, cultural group, or race, any way that a group of people can be singled out. This has happened numerous times in history. The most famous example of this would be the holocaust. Another good example would be the KKK and when people in the deep south of the U.S. killed black people because of their race.

11/1/11 The selfish giant

The story The Selfish Giant Is about a giant who goes away for seven years to his friends house, and when he returns, he finds that children have taken to playing in his garden. The giant, as selfish as he is bans the children form playing in the garden and builds a large wall around it to prevent them from getting in. The flowers and trees and grass all stop growing, because they are sad that there are no children playing there. Winter sets in permanently, and it is cold, windy, and snowy all year and the giant is confused as to why it is this way. He is unaware that the reason it is winter all year round and spring never comes is because there are no children playing in his garden. One day, the children sneak into his garden through a little hole in the wall, and sit in the trees and the spring comes back, except for in one corner of the garden where a little boy is too small to get into the tree. The giant realizes that his selfishness was the problem all along and happily runs over and puts the child in the tree and knocks down the wall. After this, the children came and played freely with him in his garden after school daily until he grew old. But the one child in the corner he helped into the tree never showed up again, even when he asked the other kids nobody knew where he lived or anything about him. Finally, on one day under the tree in the corner he found the child. When he came over he found there were wounds on his hands and feet. He asked the child who had hurt him but the child replied "…these are wounds of love" and he said "You let me play one in your garden today you shall come with me to my garden, which is paradise." This child represented Jesus, the wounds on his hands and feet were from being nailed to the cross to save us. Thats why he said they were wounds of love. When the children came back the next day they found the giant dead. The child (Jesus) was talking about heaven so when the giant came to "his garden", heaven he died and the children found him dead next to the tree.