It seems as if she want to try all the way she could to get rid of her mother’s tongue and the influent that her family imposed on her. When I read to here my feeling is pretty complicated. On the one hand she has the right to pursue what she want and Since she grew up in American, China is only a remote place that is not related to her daily life, so her mother’s tongue can’t bring her anything in her future. On the other hand, she is Chinese’s offspring and she should respect her own traditional cultural. Although she does not like her mother’s tongue but she should accept and be proud of it.

In the article, the author uses a plenty of examples to create the impression on readers that her mother’s limitation in English really caused trouble when her mother tries to communicate with others, for example, in New York, she failed to communicate successfully with the stockbroker and in the hospital she failed to talk to the doctor appropriately.

This article displays the transition of author’s attitude to her mother’s tongue. At beginning, she was shamed of her mother’s English, because it limited both her mother’s and author’s perceptions of the world.

I think what the author want to tell us is that we should always remember those things that are accompany with us when we are growing up, since no matter what kind of different things we will experience in future, the memories related to childhood and family are supposed to be the things that we cherish all the time and that can always make us feel warm, since they have been a part of our personalities. The author choses her family as the focus of her life and admits that her mother’s tongue is what she should cherish. However, no everyone will make this sane choice. Everyone’s life will change with the time going. The existence of limitation imposed by tradition or by family may affect us to pursue more exciting life and to explore the novelties in the world. When what we cherish in the past conflicts with what we are going to pursue in future, how do we find a balance between them?

The sound of hymn in the wind of early summer; the big silver cross stand firmly, shinning under the clear blue sky; I looked down the path I had gone through in the season of graduation and I surprisingly found how much I was changed during the three year in this high school.

However, I  found that they were willing to help me in all aspects of my life, no matter how big or trivial my troubles were. Sometimes I lost the way in the building, they would definitely tell me patiently what was the location of certain classroom. For a few times, I was almost late to the classes when I ask them the way and was very nervous about it. However, the bother told me not to be afraid of being late occationally because of losing the ways and he could write a late pass for me if I need. Their assured me felt much better. I was still a new student then but I could feel the warmth and safety that only my home could give before.

Instead, those brothers were always on the side of justice. Once American students bought a Confederation flag to school and openly showed it around the student center. This behavior was not allowed and was very disrespectful and even insulting to African American students. Brothers showed up on time and then stop the ridiculous actions.

For example, when someone asks me for help, I will definitely try the best I can to help her or him without thinking if she or he will reward me; when someone makes me very upset, the first thing I will do is to calm down and to do the self-reflection; if someone want to make friend with me, I will chose to trust him or her rather than doubt others’ sincerity. I really appreciate the change that Catholicism has made in me. Tolerance, honest, devotion, and inner serenity are all the natures that Catholicism taught me and will be with me for the rest of my life as the fortune that I will cherish all the time

Every time before the class began, we would have to stand up and then pray togather in the classroom. At beginning I thought it was very boring and was totally the waste of time, since no matter how much we pray, God could not hear us and we could not change anything around us at all. The time we spent on praying would be much more efficient if we use it to study. Also, I considered all of the prayers we read as pure clichés. Although those words are correct, but I could hardly understand why we have to read them once again every day after everyone could recite it accurately and easily. Sometimes, being rebellious and ignorant, I stay silent during the praying in the risk of getting a detention. However, when I gradually grew up with the increase of pressures from all aspects of my life, I started to realize that reading the prayer before the classes was actually very beneficial and that I could not see it before only because I had been too young. A short prayer could create the inner serenity in our minds during which everyone could relax and calm down from the noise of five minutes passing period, helping us to concentrate. The meaning of prayer was not how accurate we could recite it, but if we could really understand it and took it as a part of our belief. When we were in adversity, prayer would show up in our minds and remind us that God is always behind us. My favorite prayer was that I wish God to grant me the serenity to accept the things that we cannot change, the courage to change the things that I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. It always let me think of my years in Saint Anthony’s High School and the conviction that God will always be with us.

The sound of hymn in the wind of early summer; the big silver cross stand firmly,

come up to be very vague. I thought that I had told  everything very clearly but my

processes.

I realized how lucky I was to meet all my friends;

“My little angles are coming!” I say to myself while imaging that I was Alice sitting in the wonderland, looking forward to playing with my dear friends. It seems that I have fallen in a miniature world: I was surrounded by the most tiny and cutest things I have ever seen: the miniature chairs, tables, and cups…Everything here was ready for the arrival of little elves that would only appear in the fairy tale. 3,2,1… I counted down and opened the entrance of the wonderland to welcome all my little angles, expecting for their smiley faces. However, nobody was there! The feeling of embarrassment soon filled up the space. The cold air blew in from the open door and chilled my heart. Suddenly, I was dragged from my sweetest dream to the cruel reality: no child is coming!

Honey, missing someone can be a good thing for relationships, it makes a person appreciate it more. Every time you feel like times are hard and you miss us at home. Sit down with a piece of paper and write everything you love with us. Remember that we will always be here at home waiting for you.

On my way back to Upper, I could not stop smiling at what just happened. I grew up in a family that has been overprotecting me, and fortunately I was seldom exposed to any negative or the “dark” side of the society as a child; therefore, deep in my heart I had never given up on believing the internal goodness of humanity. My belief, or my “art” as I would rather say, was gradually crushed as I grew up and stepped in the society.

Again, now with this in mind, does this still prove that student athletes don’t work just as hard for their grades, even if they get “more” time and tutoring? The time other students spend studying, student athletes are practicing, having meetings with their coach, or watching video sessions from the next opponent. Regular students may have a job, but it is not logical to compare a job with a sport. You cannot compare the physical, emotional, and mental toll sports takes on a player to the effects of a job on a student employee. Student-athletes must balance the wishes of his coach, who forces him to continue improving and stay focused on his sport with the pressures of his professors, who threaten to take away his scholarship if he doesn’t perform well enough.

When I first went to BC dining hall, I was excited at various kinds of food provided so I picked up a lot of food like pizza, salad, soup etc and I soon found both my hands were fully occupied when I wanted to get one more bottle of juice. So I decided to get myself a tray to hold all my food at once. However, I had great difficulty finding the tray in the dining hall and eventually noticed a few in a corner. Later, I gradually find an interesting phenomenon: almost no one uses tray at dining hall, and in rare cases when somebody is holding food with a tray, others would cast a glance at him or her as if he is doing something strange. This phenomenon makes me confused.Why would students bother to run several turns instead of getting themselves trays? And why dining hall doesn’t seem to encourage students to take trays with them?Isn’t tray facilitating student’s dining experience a lot?

Recent days, the number of Korean international students studying abroad decreased and is being predicted that the number will consistently decline according to the Fulbright U.S. Education Center. There are many reasons why this phenomenon occurred. It is because of the cost and new policies that have been created, which encouraged Korean students to attend domestic schools. However, the most important reason is because Korean student these days tend to have hard time making friends and bonding together since they are away from home for a long period. Parents are also concerned that their child might have difficult time bonding with their native friends. This problem can be seen easily among Korean international students and can be said that they are losing their identity. The remaining Korean international students that attend schools overseas are searching ways in which they can form a community within their school so that they can make relationships with their native friends. I also have seen friends of mine who went back to Korea because he could not adjust in the states. He was away from his closest friends and was left alone in oversea. He could not find any ways of bonding with other Korean international students even though he pursued opportunities.

One suggests that social media are extremely beneficial for the introvert students to participate in the academic discussions since they can simply type instead of articulate their thoughts out loud. “Shy students’ proved to have benefited more online than they had done through face-to-face interaction with the lecturer” (Dzvapatsva). Discussions online evokes the coming together of the separated parts of knowledge, fragments becoming a whole. According to the author, one should harness social media to improve their grades, and renew life-affirming social bonds. It not only provides a platform for any student to talk freely without an authority’s supervision, but also allows discussions and elaborations which could boost the learning process exponentially. Social media is also more convenient and accessible for academic purposes as well, “It should be noted that whilst the traditional medium of face-to-face interaction offers numerous advantages for teaching and learning, it is controlled by time and space (though)” (Dzvapatsva). Both professors and students have their own schedule and can find setting up appointments frequently quite unrealistic, therefore, social media can be an effective way to enter an academic conversation among students or even teachers if don’t digress from the topic.

I am not here to condemn industrialization for expanding the city at the price of destroying precious natural resources; I am just curious why is it that people are swamping to pay for the 60CNY admission ticket for a theme park instead of just enjoying the view of the lake in any casual Saturday evening.

As writing this essay, I was interrupted by my phones notifications again and again. After knowing most of the alerts are sent by my Instagram and Facebook, I actually feel quite disappointed. From when, we start to be exposed to the public? Is being inside of this trend means anything? As I waste more and more time browsing my apps without even knowing I have followed so many celebrities, I recalled a question I asked my friend Jian before “why aren’t you interested in the celebrity culture” his answer becomes clear now “I don’t really care because I’m busy with my life. Reading the news about celebrity doesn’t bring any benefit for Like this:

The ways of how individuals speak are different from person to person. That’s who we are, blended with our culture and our experience. It is different for a child than an 80-year-old man talking about death, for a white man than a black women talking about racism, for a 18th century man than a 21th century man talking about slavery.

As for the rhetorical techniques, I notice that the author used lots of analogies to illustrate his ideas. Lewis Thomas writes “As chicks are endowed with an innate capacity to read information in the shapes of overhanging shadows, telling hawk from other birds, we can identify the meaning of grammar in a string of words, and we are born this way”(90). He compared the pattern of grammar with the innate behavior of chicks. I can feel the kind of feeling he tries to describe using language and identifying grammar is a kind of instinct to our human being, just as clear as the figure of predators to prey. For many times the author uses analogy to make an argument about the social behavior and about the importance of language to our human beings.

The author Lamott, by using character and emotional appeal, persuades me to follow her suggestion.