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.

Suicide

    Suicide is a hard question for everyone, and this issue is discussing for a long time in my country. In recent years the suicide rate is continues increasing, the experts said it is because people now in the world is receiving to much pressure than before. But is it real?
    comparing to the past, most people don't have to worry about food. it is really easy to survive if you just want to live in a simple life. Not at all but most of those people who think life is full of suffering and disaster are too greedy and weak. They should try to think anything positively and try to get rid of many things that is not important. A lot of things that are not really nessasary for us, such as the expensive smart phone, car and house. If someone can keep their life in a simple way, life will be easy and they will realize so much pressure is disappeared quickly.
    The other ways to discuss suicide but more ethical thought is someone who is sick and wants to commit suicide but is physically unable to do that by himself such as, vegetables or who is in a very painful situation. As we know nobody can decide our life even our parents, so it is very tough to make a decision for them. We know they are very painful or don't have any feeling right now but we also know maybe one day in the future the will be fine. Before that day it will be a long and tough trip for both of you.
    Everyone has their own right to decide their life, life is a choice not an obligation. But in my opinoin, everything is like silver linings, good things will come after bad things and you will feel much better than ever before. So cherish your life and try as much as possible to help others to chrish their life.

Would you like to be a chef?

    To be a chef is my dream from I was a child, because I really like eating. I used to think how can I adjust the flavor that the dishes I was eating. Because of this reason I thought I could be a good chef if I cooked by myself. I tried to do something to proof I could be a good chef. I started to cook when I studied in university. At first I


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Basketball position

Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the world. Especially the U.S. is the root of Basketball history and has the highest level basketball association which is called "NBA". So, most of famous basketball players are from the U.S., such Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Lebron James, Scottie Pippen and Shaquille O'neal. They are known as excellent players in the world, but can you distinguish them in the court when they are playing and what skills they are good at? It is hard for most people, but don't worry let this article to tell you the basic knowledge of basketball players.
First of all you have to know there has five positions for players in a team, point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward and center. But mainly it can be distinguished from three positions, guard, forward and center. Each of them plays different role and needs different skills in the court. And we can use our body parts to simple explain the difference. Guard is like our brain, forward is like four limbs and center is like our trunk.
Guard is a launcher in the offense and a first line of defense. As a brain in a team, they have to be smart and calm in any situation. Comparing to other players, usually they are shorter and more agile. Because their stature is their weakness, in order to overcome this, they usually are good at dribbling and shooting. Their main attack measures are using their speed and good dribbling to confuse rival's defense formulation and find a good shooting opportunity to get an easy play for themselves or teammates. In a defensive way they have to disturb and steal rival guard's passing in order to ruin rival's offensive tempo. The representative personages in this position are Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson.
Forward is a terminator in the offense and a stopper in the defense. their physical ability is the best in a team, they are not the tallest but they jump the highest, they are not the most agile but they run the fastest. Because of their physical ability, usually they are an arrow of scores and most of them are the highest score player in a team. They can score everywhere no matter inside or outside, they like to challenge the defender and defeat them. On the other hand they also have to defense the rival like them and it is hard to be perfect in anything, so some of them are good at defense and some of them are good at offense. The representative personages in this position are Lebron James and Scottie Pippen.
Center is a giant in the court. They are always the biggest, tallest and strongest in a team, their main job is to cover their teammates, bombing of the basket, protect the rebound and to be the last line of defense. unlike other position using their physical ability or basketball skills, center is a real warrior, they actually use their body to against the rival in order to protect the paint area. They usually stand near the basket, so when they have an opportunity, they like to slam dunk and audience like that too. As a defender they have to defense and give a big block to the rival who passed his teammates and try to score in the paint area. Like forward, they usually have two types of player, defense and offense. The representative personages in this position are Shaquille O'neal and Dwight Howard.
From the beginning to 1980's center is the main role in a team, having a good center is a necessary requirement for a team who wants to chase a championship. But in 80's when Michael Jordan came out, he changed everything, he was the only one who could get many champions without a good center. And nowadays forward is getting important than before when Lebron James, Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant these kind of players came out. Nobody knows which position is going to takeover next generation, but we just have to know it will be a good game and enjoy this exciting game is enough.

A trick!!

    Four years ago, I went to Taipei by my motorcycle as usual. I had saw a movie at that night, after the movie I wanted to ride my motor to my friend's house. I could not find my helmet at that time, and it is illegal to ride a motor without a helmet in Taiwan. I was very angry and unfortunately a cob just stood at the corner, so I would be fined if I rode my motor. Finally, I decided to walk to my friend's house and bought a new helmet to take my motor.
    I had woke up in the next day and bought a fashion new helmet for this unhappy experience. But I was very angry when I stood at the place that my motor should be parked there. It was disappeared, I thought maybe I memorized the wrong place. I started to walk around the area that near there, however I still could not find my motor. Then I realized maybe it was a trick, they had stolen my helmet in order to let me to left my motor away. Then they would have a whole night to steal it without pressure, how smart they are and how stupid I am.
    I had gone to the police station and told police my event. That was my first time to go to there, I was a little nervous. After I had told Cobs my event the they started asking me questions, such as where did I park my motor? When did I find it was disappeared? Did I notice someone followed me yesterday? I mentioned them everything I had remembered, and few minutes later they told me they would connect with me if they find my car. From their tone, I felt it seemed a common thing for them, so I thought they would not do their best for this.
   After that I had gone back to my school, because I had a presentation in that day. I was so tired and disappointed in that day. It looked everything against me, and I did not know how to tell my parents about this experience.
   

Terrible visa problem!!

    Two months ago, I planned to go to Canada for Niagara Falls. The most  magnificent and beautiful waterfall in the world. I was very excited about that, and everything is prepared well for this gripping trip.
In order to ensure that I can back to America after the trip, I went to ask Harzem about my I-20. But suddenly everything was changed, Harzem looked at me with eyes that full of doubt. And then he asked me "When did you come to America?" "December, 1, 2012" I said. At that moment from his eyes contact and tone, I felt something bad would happen around me.
    As expected, Harzem told me that in the I-20 system that showed my inbound date is in September. It meant I got a serious trouble with my visa. "You did not go to school within two months after you had arrived America and absolutely your I-20 had been canceled. So you could not leave America before this problem has been solved, otherwise you would be sent back to your country by the immigration when you come back to America from another country. He told me slowly and seriously.
    I thought it was impossible, then I showed my passport to him. He said he would do his best to help me to solve this problem. I was so disappointed and angry at that time, and all negative emotions came out. That was not my fault, I did not do anything wrong but I still got a trouble and that is a serious trouble. But after that I thought I was lucky, because if I did not ask Harzem and just went to Canada, I would be sent back to my country without any excuse. Anyway this is the worst thing that I have ever had in America.

Culture

   Nowadays travel around the world is very easy, just take a plane you can go to everywhere you want. Therefore to face many people form many different countries with different cultures is inevitable. Culture is the way behavior and belief that is rooted in someone's life when they were born. It can be related with religions, weather, food, politics, history and anything you will face in the life. To judge a culture is not good and impolite, maybe sometimes you encounter a culture and you think it is unreasonable in another country. But you have to learn to respect, because this is the way that they have lived for hundred years and they are used to live with it.

   The most important culture in my country is Chinese New Year. It is the biggest festival for us, and we celebrate this depend on lunar calender instead of official calender. That is the reason why we celebrate it in different days in different years. The main goal of this festival is to gather your relatives together not just your family member. We usually have a sumptuous meal at the night before the festival, and all relatives come back and eat together, that is the best thing for me every year. In addition people will wear new clothes, all stores will be closed, and people spend all these days with relative that maybe you could not see them in a year. You share your story and play games with each other. By the way children can get money in red envelopes from older people. That is the best thing for children and can be a nightmare for older people.

Change in Diet

Change in Diet

        Do your parents or grandparents used to eat the same food as you? Do their eating habits as same as you? The world has been changed a lot recently. When many advanced machine and theory has been discovered, we know much more knowledge than old people. And In the past, people used to cook by themselves and eat the local food, but now everything is different. Young generation like to taste different kinds of food, Such as Western, Middle East and Asian food or fast food.

In addition modern family is not like to cook by themselves and prefer to eat outside. All these kinds of changes has been happened around us and of course our Diet is not the same anymore.

        The knowledge of food has been changed, now people has a different thinking of food. That is because people discovered many things that they did not know in the past. For example, in my country people used to eat white rice, they thought white rice is delicious, soft. Now, more and more people choose to eat brown rice as their main food. That is because some researchers proved that brown rice has more nutrition than white rice. I remember my mother told me that in the past white rice is for the rich and brown rice is for the poor, but now it is opposite. Further more people use less oil and sugar for eating. This kind of change helps people to eat healthier.

        When you are travelling you can find Macdonald is everywhere in every country. That is a trend now in the world, businessman like to extend famous store to other countries, then they can earn much money. Our diet has been changed by this trend a lot, these kind of food have almost the same flavor in every country. So that when you get used to eat these food, you are hard to get rid of it. But most of these are not healthy, therefore many experts think that the reason why there is so many obesity today. And they want government build some rules to restrict these food in order to protect people.

        People are busy nowadays, most families are double income. Both of parents have to work, that means they do not have time to prepare food for the family. I remember when I was young, my family cooked every day. We ate the food that is cooked by parents or grandparents, they know what you need. Everything is  fresh and is prepared for your health.. But today when you eat outside, restaurants are just want to make the food is tasted delicious and looks beautiful, they do not care about the quality of ingredients that they use. The most important thing for them is to attract you to get into their restaurant.

        In conclusion, our diet has been changed rapidly, and we cannot control it. Good things and bad things are happened together. People have to consider about this issue seriously, it can help us to get into a bright future or led us to the end of the world. People have to be taught the right sense and knowledge of eating and government have to support people to stop eating fast food too much. And the most important is you have to stick your mind to choose the right food in your diet.

Similar or very different?

    Adam is my partner who is from Brazil, I knew him two weeks ago and we had dinner together with our host family that because they are good friends. Kind and polite is the first version that he gave me and fortunately we are classmates now. He is younger than me and still study in college also he want to go to graduated school after he finish after college. But I already finished my studying one year ago, now I am just learning English in the America. That's the first thing that we are different.

    Both of us are easygoing and optimistic people and can sometimes be shy. We both think a friend is someone who loves you. we like seeing a movie in our leisure time, but we have totally different preferences. His favorite novel and movie is Lord of the Rings, but honestly for me that is the most boring movie that I have ever seen. I couldn't keep awake more than ten minutes when I was seeing that. Haha, sorry Adam. By the way we still have the same preference in movie which is Iron Man 3. Neither of us has ever seen that, but we would both like to do this one day. In the other way we have similar tastes in music, we like listening the music that can let us feel relax.