Chinese father

Chinese mothers are known as their tough teaching style and "Chinese mother" has become a word to describe a parent who are crazy about to let his or her children to be perfect and successful. This issue has been debated seriously for years, especially in western world. Western parents cannot believe why Chinese mothers control their children a lot, they give their children a growth schedule. Children should follow that schedule otherwise their parents will get angry. However, I am not surprised about that because I have a "Chinese father".

        I have never seen my father's smile since I had the memory about him. He set a time schedule for studying to us, even on the weekend from I studied in kindergarten. I could not see any TV programs at night, for us night is a studying time, we should have studied instead of doing other things. On the weekend, he cut a day into three parts, morning, afternoon and night. We had to spend two of them to study as well. That is horrible, isn't it. That is a wrong concept in Chinese culture. They think how long you stay in front of the desk means how hard you are. If you cannot get a good score in this exam, you have to spend more time to study. I was growing up in this situation, and I think I was studying for my father not for myself.

        The only difference between my father and "Chinese mother" is he have never asked me to learn other instruments or talents. He wanted me to learn skills for real life. I had to learn how to deal with my life by myself. For example, I could not use wash machine for my clothes for six years in my elementary school. I had to wash clothes by hands every day after school. Moreover, I had to learn how to fix house problems, such as fixing faucet, connecting wires and repairing stuff. He told me these things are small but essential, so it is important to learn before I need.

        To be honestly, I did not like my father before, he is too strict, stubborn and serous. However, when I was getting older enough, I think maybe he was right. I used many skills that are taught by him to solve problems by myself. Moreover, I could enter better school to get good education is because of his push. Maybe I will not give the same pressure to my child as he gave me, but I will do something like him to teach my child to be independent.

Yesser's Family

Yesser is my new classmate, he is from Saudi Arabian. He has five siblings and one of his sibling was my classmate as well. He really like his family and he likes to talk and hang out with them. That is a good thing because they can share their minds and thoughts with others, it is very good for people to live healthily. However, he does not want to have to have a twin brother, he said it is weird for him to have a man that is look like himself. He thinks to celebrate certain occasions together with the whole family members are very important. Because, In those occasions he can talk and meet his relatives that maybe he have not seen for a long time. They can use these time to know others more and let them have strong with them. Moreover, he thinks he does not look like everyone in his family. After this topic we told something about others, he is a nice guy.

Kobe VS LBJ

        There are so many sports stars in the world, they have an amazing body quality and excellent skills. Thousands of them are trying to get into the NBA every year, but only few of them can achieve it. Obviously, It is so hard to be a player in the NBA, let alone to be a super star inside. However, Lebron James and Kobe Bryant are few of people can get into the NBA when they are just 18-year-old. Team managers found their talent and decided to select them when they were very young. they attracted worldwide attention when they were studying in senior high school or even younger. So, what are the differences of them and to be a prodigy of basketball is good or bad to them?

        They had focused by people and had showed their talent before they were adults. Both of them were selected into the first team of high school in their generation. Kobe's average record was 31.1 points, 10.4 rebounds and 5.2 assists. In addition, he broke the score record that had been kept by Wilt Chamberlain for many years. The press were much more crazy about Lebron. ESPN indeed live broadcasted his high school final game that was the first time and the last time in the American history.

        Even they were so famous before they attended but they still had different experiences. Kobe was not so valued and did not have too much time to show his talent on the court at first. He had waited for almost five years to became the NBA super star. Lebron was totally opposite, he had got a seven-year contract and the total value was 90 million dollars from NIKE when he was just selected by Cleveland Cavaliers. He showed his amazing basketball talents and shocked everyone who was interested in the NBA. He has been a super star since his first year.

        Their personalities are also different. Kobe is more arrogant and does not trust teammates too much. In this way, he likes to dominate games by scores. No matter, how many defenders are trying to stop him when he is shooting. He always tries his best to shoot these tough balls by himself instead of passing to his teammate who has a better chance. Lebron dominates games by another way, he tries to help his team to win in every ways, such as shoot, pass and grab rebounds, moreover he always to defense the best player in the opposing team. He is an all-round basketball players and he likes to trust teammates on the court.

        Although they are in different generations, but they actually are typical players in the NBA recently. Both of them had helped their team to win the NBA champion and were selected as the most valuable player of the year. They represent two different ways to takeover games and attract more people to see the NBA.

Violent television programs make people more violent

This topic has been debating for a long time. Nowadays people enjoy entertainments a lot than ever before on TV, many kinds of programs are produced to relax people. Violent programs are the one that people normally think will let us have more violent thoughts and actions. But is this perspective right? Does violent television programs really affect us to do something bad? The answer is no, in fact people can learn a lot from them.

        First, we have to teach people what is the real world that they are living. in this part, children and teenagers are the main factors that people think violent television programs could affect them seriously. However, everything that producer put in violent television programs is what we will face every day. That means we can use them to let us realize there are so many dangers have happened around us. Then we can know how to prevent bad things happen and protect ourselves after they happened.

        Second, we know we are human beings. We will have the same feeling when we see something happened on TV, it is called the project effect. We clearly can understand victims' feeling and think that is too sad, that things should not happen to anyone. Moreover, we will share our feeling to friends about these, than the butterfly effect will happen. Everybody will know, how would people think if they did something wrong. It can effectively restrain people to do bad things.

        Third, there is no any evidence can clearly indicate violent television programs are the reason that cause people have more violent behavior. Using "I think" or "I feel" in the front of the sentence to describe this issue is normal when some people want to convince violent television programs are bad. This way is totally showed their ignorant, because they do not anything to support their argument. That is not a good way to say something is bad.

        finally, People all think violent television programs offer too much bad information. In addition, bad information will disorganize our peaceful life and lead to a violent world. That point is totally wrong. As I said, people should learn and feel what is the real world look like. They cannot hide in an Utopia, it will not happen. Everyone should know how to survive, because we can not to prevent bad things happen, but at least we have to know how to protect ourselves. That is the most effective way to reduce the damage.

        In conclusion, there are many benefits of violent television programs. The world has been changing every day, people should try to adapt the world instead of waiting for the Utopia comes up. They should try to get anything useful in everything around us. Do not just use one view to judge one thing, sometimes advantages will more that disadvantages if you try to use another point of view for that.

How to open a store

I think I am very happy to tell everyone about this topic. My brother who had this experience few years ago and as his brother I was supporting him a lot. He opened a store that sold Chinese traditional breakfast bow. I gave him my ideas and physical help but I also learned a lot in this experience. We were always talking and arguing about that store all day long in that time, we did not want to make any decision curtly. As a spectator I know what problem he faced and how could he solve those problem. I also could hear some opinions that people who will not say to owner because they try to be nice. So now let me give you some steps to let you know how to open a store.

        Step 1: You should make a good product. Before my brother decided to open the store he went to learn how to make a delicious bow. After he learned how to make, he used many kinds of ingredients and ways to make bows, and try to find one that is the best one. This step cost him a year and I think it was worthy, because he knows everything about his products and full of confidence for that. Actually after he opened the store most of the reviews that customers gave him were good about his products, that was really inspiring him.

        Step 2: Find an appropriate place. We should know it impossible to sell products in an error area. So we started to think about who will eat breakfast every day, and children are our answer. He finally decided to open the store near a school that parents can buy food for their children when they send them to school. That was a good decision, and he has a stable customers from the first day. Once you aimed your main customer group, you should know which kind of service they want. For example, my brother's main customers need a fast service because people are always busy in the morning. So, he gives customer what they want very quickly is one tip that customers like him.

        Step 3: Prepare everything you need and try to make some advertise. This step is very complicated you have to think about what do you need when your store is opened such as tables, chairs, cookers, you have to think everything again and again in order to make sure that you will not ignore anything. Because sometimes a small mistake could cause you a huge lost. You also have to advertise your store in this step and offer some benefits to customers that let people know when will you open. If you are not a big company, to advertise on the newspaper or TV is unnecessary. Distributing leaflets that include some discounts before you open will be better for a small store.

        Finally when you opened a store and fell successful, do not too proud of yourself. The most important and hardest thing is how to keep you store good as usually, keep your service and products have the same quality anytime. Furthermore try to do another things to let your store getting better and better.

Food in my American experience!!

      When I was in Taiwan I liked to eat American food very much. But I always had meals at home, so it means I like to choose American restaurants when I was going out for meals. After I came to Chicago, in the first two months I felt very happy. Because I could see and eat American style food anywhere anytime, such as Hamburgers, hot dogs and pizza. I thought that was great, everything in the street is my favorite food. I regretted soon, I felt I really miss Chinese food. I started to find Chinese restaurant here in Chicago. I think compare to American food, Chinese food are much more diversified.
       Chinese food has many ways to cook, such us frying, boiling, stir frying and steaming. Sometimes we will use two or three ways to cook the same dish, that makes dishes have more flavors. The variety of food is the reason why I like Chinese food a lot. For example when you get into a Chinese restaurant you will see plenty of choices on the menu that you can choose for your meal. So, I always spent a lot of time for choosing what kind of dish that I want to eat today. But in American restaurant I just sit down and think hamburgers, hot dogs or pasta which do I want today. That is the most different point between them.

The crime

        Nowadays through newspaper, news on a television and the internet, we can see plenty of crimes happen every day in the world. But maybe sometimes you will be confused about what are the reasons that cause these crimes happen. Even here are many different types of crime in the world, but they can be simply classified to three different main reasons that let criminals have the motivation to break the law. these three reasons are money, interpersonal relationship and political issue.

        The first important reason that causes crimes is about money. According to researches the crime rate is associated with the economics and they have strong negative relation. There are some crimes that are caused by bad economics, such as robbery, theft, kidnapping and burglary. These kind of crimes increase when economics goes down, because people cannot find another way to survive. But there are another crimes are associated with money but no relation with economics, such as forgery, smuggling, fraud, extortion, bribery and embezzlement. In these crimes people commit crimes are in order to get money quickly and illegally with their special skills and knowledge.

        Second reason is about criminals interpersonal relationship. This reason is associated with criminals life such as a period of bad childhood memory, someone broke their heart heavily or they received bad affections and twisted their mind. For example, child abuse, stalking and rape, criminals did these crimes are not for the survival, they did these are for their weird hobbits. So this kind of crimes are hard to be prevented in advance and found after crimes.

        Third is political issue, many people who are crazy about politics so they have to find ways to express their opinions or protect their political status and benefits. For example murder, hijacking, terrorism, espionage and assassination. People who did these crimes are on purpose and sometimes they will cause very serious results. Criminals usually are not afraid of anything when they decided to do these kind of crimes. 911 is the most famous event that can be included into here.

        There are many crimes that I did not mention in previous paragraphs, but I think most of them can also be included into these three main reasons. As a normal person, try to be careful and noticed every unusual thing around us are the best way to avoid dangers.