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Friends
Ever since I was a child, my mother raised me to recognize and appreciate various
kinds of friends. There are three different kinds of friends in this life. I classify them
according to how well I know them and how well they know me. We encounter each of them
everyday, whether in school, home, or at the gym. However,buy wow gold we rarely spend much time actually
thinking about and classifying these people. First, there are the "pest friends"- general
acquaintances. Next, there are "guest friends"- social partners. Lastly, we have "best
friends"- our true friends.
The first type of friend is simply an acquaintance. This means that you basically
only know their name. You might not even remember what they look like if you go away for a
short vacation. Usually, you meet these type of friends in school, at work, on the bus, in
the gym, or anywhere else you might be. You normally would not mind having a cup of coffee
with them, but if anything else came up, you usually would have no problem parting company.
You normally don’t miss them when they are elsewhere. It is also this type of friends who
give you the most amount of aggravation. Since most of the time you are placed in a position
where you have to act friendly, such as school or work,wow gold you would not normally tell an
acquaintance when he or she is doing something aggravating, such as tapping the fingers an a
table or chewing gum loudly. This is why I call them "pest friends."
The second category of friends I call "social partners." This is because they
are closer than acquaintances, but no where near as close as a true friend. Social partners
are usually acquaintances who evolve into "guest friends" through increased extracurricular
activities. You know their name, a little of what they like or dislike, a little of their
family history,buy wow gold and usually have several things in common. As the saying goes, "Birds of a
feather flock together," so too the social partners have to have several things in common
with you. No one is going to want to spend any more time than necessary with somebody
completely opposite and aggravating to him. Keep in mind, though, that the biggest thing that
distinguishes a "best friend" from a "guest friend" is the fact that "guess friends" usually
don’t converse about anything substantial or deep, such as their innermost desires and fears.
Usually, "guest friends" toy to keep the topic of conversation happy and light. They would
not open up to you how they are really feeling. They are still preoccupied with "saving face."
You still do enjoy hanging out with them. But when the going gets tough,buy wow gold they are not there
for you.
The last type of friend is the "best friend." Normally, you know them the longest.
You probably grew up together as children. He or she knows everything about you. Likewise,
you know everything about him or her. They are basically like family. You would have no
problem if they spent the night at your house. You know each others quirks and habits and can
always tell when there is something wrong. You would not hesitate to share your deepest
feelings or thoughts with them. "A true friend will see you through when others see that you
are through." A true friend has no problem correcting you when you are wrong, or being stern
with you when you are out of line. Likewise, a true friend will love you like a member of his
own family. He will always be there for you. They are not perfect,wow gold but at least they will
always look out for you and never do anything intentionally to hurt you.
On a final note, I would like to take some time to say that we should always remember
keep in mind what kind of a friend we are to other people. We are all surrounded by pest,
guest, and best friends. We should always strive to be the best friends, that we can be.
Also, as the saying goes, " You can’t use your friends and have them too." We should appreciate
and value all friendships that come into our lives, no matter how deep or superficial. We
should always remember that all best friends started out as just acquaintances.
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Free from Humans
I did not witness the construction of the nest which had the size of a man’s fist. It would be a great experience since my university course in animal architecture was a source of marvel at how different birds collect different materials to weave, in different fashions,cheap wow gold out different forms of nests. I noticed it when one day, as I walked along the straight corridor towards my apartment, something softly fluttering sped across my view. He or she was a little bird rushing into the open air away from this corridor ten-storey above the ground. I turned to where he or she should have come from. Hanging from a thin branch of a tall potted plant scattered with some leaves was this egg-shaped nest with a hole. Tiny twigs and some feathers were used to weave this simple but adequate home. Probably, he or she had plucked some of his or her feathers. That could be painful, I thought. I wondered why this bird had chosen this unattractive thin plant which belonged to a withdrawn neighbor three doors away from my apartment. More importantly, staying on a plant that was incapable of concealing it and staying at a height easily reachable by humans was unwise at all. “Did the footsteps from my hard executive shoes frighten it?” From then on, everyday,buy wow gold I walked past the plant with the slightest sound. At night, as I came back home and passed the plant, I would,cheap wow gold taking care not to startle the faint animal, steal a glance at the hole where his or her beak rested.
My respect for animals is as natural as animals are beautiful. I can’t comprehend how any human with all its gift in reasoning could inflict pain upon or even kill other animals when it knows well that it doesn’t like pain. An ex-colleague, Diane, which was then a fresh Biology graduate, ate the same rice and meat everyday like a one-dimensionally programmed machine without being equipped with sophisticated taste buds to receive tastes and feel textures,cheap wow gold not to say being installed with the brain to unify them all as an experience. Its indifference towards good or bad food mirrors its attitude towards animal rights. “Why should I care? When a cat or dog passes by, I just kick it. They should be sent to laboratories for testing,” Diane’s one-dimensionally programmed brain sent the data to the lifeless tongue which then rattled to output the sound wave. This wave sawed through the air to my ears and the signal I received took the form of venom that gloomed my sight of Diane. “Here is a form of ultimate evil that should have never been conceived,wow gold” I thought. Unfortunately, there are many such things born each day. Why can’t “poaching” only mean cooking in simmering liquid? Why can’t “whaling” perhaps mean swimming with whales? These otherwise nice-sounding words conjure an endless violent montage sequences of a mass of feathered fowls tightly contained in a cage to harpoons sinking into whales wriggling desperately in a shallow red sea to live lobsters being thrown into boiling water to bears screaming as their paws are being cut off for food to monkeys’ eyes deranged with pain when their skulls were cut off to feed on their brains etc. The world is a living hell for these beautiful animals. If you call the things that execute these atrocities humans, then don’t call me one.
For a few days, the bird had not come back. My housemate said the plant owner disturbed the bird. “Yes, fly away from evil humans and for freedom,” I thought though to abandon the painstaking effort of building the home should be painful. “Good luck, my neighbor.”
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Family Education
Thinking is really a strange thing.
When I was a boy I was often long for having a kind of ability in air swimming here and there. It is like a free fish in water and this kind of feeling often appears in my dreams. Therefore I toughly believe I will have this capacity some day. When I grow up I get older. I also know the real person can’t fly like a bird in the air. But class is over one day I suddenly consider I explain other persons’ articles in discussing and talking in the evening. I seem to need writing .I express my minds with others. I say my words for my lovely and my favorite education. I consider for the lovely children and the children those need to be loved. So I have a kind of flying feeling little by little .It is like a fish and a bird in thinking world. It is joyful and free. I have a kind of feeling like committing a crime if I don’t write some day. So I work hard all the time. One person will meet many things in his whole life. Some of them are lucky or unlucky. Some of them are high or low. But there are different results to different persons.
Where a child don’t have a good mind. There will be much unnecessary trouble on the front walking way. Even it is a regret.
There is a child like this. She studies well. But she has self-willed tempers at home. She doesn’t like working and doesn’t care for the others. When some things aren’t confidence with her wills she gets angry very much. She thinks she is always right. She doesn’t hear all other persons’ words. Every spring we will have the whole school working here. Sometimes we plant trees. Sometimes we dig the garden’s earth to be ready for planting flowers. So every class will prepare the techniques in advance. As she is a good student, the teacher master says to her “Tomorrow we will work,cheap wow gold you bring a prong at first when the teacher arranges the techniques. The teacher can’t complete his words and the student stands up and says she doesn’t bring a prong .The teacher can’t consider the student will be like this. The teacher is very angry. This also concerned the teacher’s respect. When the teacher talked about this thing with me he was still quite angry and knocked at the desk. He says he have never met this kind of students before.
I ask him what about afterwards. To our surprise, she doesn’t bring a prong because she can’t carry.
Of course the teacher can’t accept this reason and he criticized her hard1. She cried. She brought a prong the next day. Her parents asked the neighbor’s child help her to bring it. As she can’t carry it.
I think it isn’t the problem of the heavy prong .It is associated with her mind.
We should come to have a look at how she forms this kind of mind.
Family affects are great to our children. The parents’ mind, realization,buy wow gold habits, horities,cheap wow gold qualities will often react the roles on the children. This mainly relies on the imitation. When I clean the floor my six- year-old little daughter also clean. I don’t know where she finds a rag. She also wants to help me clean the floor. When I wash my rag I find how I wash,cheap wow gold she also washes like as I wash. I turn into the insert she also turns into the insert. At last I open my rag to swing my hand. She also does like what I do. Then it is stranger. She absolutely doesn’t learn from me. All her actions are realizing. Who let me be this ugly life? Perhaps she saw my model that I stoop my body when she was younger and lying in swaddling clothes .She remembered these in her heart. I really wonder what she is thinking about when she stared at me with her black eyes. Perhaps she didn’t have a great idea when she was a baby .She will help her father clean the floor when she grows up. Perhaps she is thinking who is the man like a bear on the floor.
The mind can’t be seen. But this doesn’t mean we can’t master it. One person’s words and actions can reveal a part of his mind. The people around her can reveal4 his another part .The student’s father has ever come to our school once. He drank a lot and spoke babblingly. We only consider he drunk a lot to come to the school. We may know he doesn’t respect our teachers or he doesn’t think the teachers are a kind of great career. According to his talking contents he seemed to be unhappy with the working that the school organizes .He also said again and again that his daughter studied very well .She never let her parents worry about her studying. We are easy to find the reason she don’t bring a prong.
The obstacle that we educate the children to get great doesn’t only come from the children’s defects .The bigger obstacle is the places the children’s defects were formed. It isn’t enough that we only give the children some knowledge .We should still give the children a high-minded mind . The back seems to be harder. B.A.苏霍姆林斯基 also thinks some family life style,buy wow gold the parents’ relations and the parents’ attitude will destroy the children’s kindness, goodness and activities that they are formed at school. They are all dissolved.
The duty of the education makes the children get rid of this kind of negative effect.
Love of combining goodness and kindness dissolves and alters radically the children mind’s defects.
We use all kinds of means to make this kind of child be affected by school education.
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Fake Thug Life
There is a young man who inspired me to write this article. I thank him for doing a great service to the Muslim society. Turn where you will. Look to the East Coast or the West Coast and there are various Arab boys, Indian boys, and Pakistani guys who have adopted the look, lingo, and life of a "thug." I have seen it many times - this strange transformation from tapered jean-wearing, glasses-owning, nail biting ninny to chest-thumping, hard-acting,cheap wow gold Nautica-wearing "thug."
It begins at an early age with the use of slang, words like "werd!” ,"yo!", "jigga man!" It is followed by the gradual attraction towards mainstream rap. Ja Rule, Dr. Dre,wow gold Eminem, Jay Z. Bear in mind, this attraction to hip hop is not derived from any cultural relationship these boys feel towards "the ghetto!" Most of them have never even been to one. Regardless, they like to blare hip hop in their predominantly white high schools because it makes them stand out. Wearing ENYCE, or Sean John, on the other hand, in the predominantly white high school makes said Muslim boy stand out and makes him appear more hardcore than he would in his tapered jeans from Sears that his mother bought for him. Thus, we see that the use of slang,buy wow gold plus a certain social need, gives rise to a Muslim boy getting closer and closer to a certain imagined sense of "thug-life."
Add to this the fact that most Muslim boys only play basketball while growing up, or "hoops" as they call it, because they are too skinny for football and too excitable for baseball. The game comes with its own infusion of hip-hop culture. Since a thug is either a "baller" or a "Playa" and since most Muslim parents would beat up their sons if they saw them with a girl, all Muslim boys end up being (self-proclaimed) "ballerz." We all know the relationship basketball has with hip-hop culture. A Muslim's transformation into a "thug" quickens. He starts using appropriately placed rap verses. Ice Cube's "check yo'self fo' you wreck yo'self" makes its way into religious discussions. Nelly's "it's getting hot in here" begins to be dropped into sermons referring to Hell. Their emails begin to be sprinkled with "kno wat im sayin" and "check it." His favorite love song, instead of being something by Sinatra,cheap wow gold becomes Ginuwine's "My pony!" or Montel Jordan’s "Let's Ride!"
No thug is complete without a "phat-ride" and some "ill ice." Thus, when he goes off to college, Muslim boy from predominantly white high school, clad in Rocawear, "rockin" the latest Adidas demands a Lexus for graduation. His loving (and rich) parents gladly throw in a platinum necklace. Thus begins the real life of the Muslim Male Thug. He does not have girls. That's fine. But hey, he has the car, the platinum chains, the shoes, the clothes, the lingo, the "skillz" and the right music.
When he goes off to college he discovers others like himself. They make up new handshakes. They wear their hats in different ways (by watching Black Entertainment Television). They "roll" into the Muslim Student Association, hoping to inspire a feeling of fear by being "hard." Those that don't embarrass themselves in the process – that is, those that are able to use the most ebonics with a straight face – actually become legitimate "thugs" in the eyes of the MSA. It is to guys like these that an average Joe would go if he wanted to know the lyrics to an Outkast song. Note that no one else outside the MSA would consider these guys a thug. But that's not really important to them. Someone sees them as they want to be seen,wow gold that is sufficient. The rest of their collegiate career is spent, not in exploring other ways of life, but in "tightenin up the game." A dose of reality hits these boys when they graduate. They realize that those girls in college who thought they were so fly, so bad, so interesting because they were so mysterious, lose interest in them and move onto 26 year old investment bankers. These thugs forget the fact that they haven't spelled the word "is" without a "z" since they were 6 and go get real jobs. They sell the Lexus to fund a quick degree in accounting and become number crunchers so that finding a wife might be easier. Some of these thugs make it through to 30 in this way. But we all know what everyone calls them behind their back (yes, loser is one such word).
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Eternal Creativity
Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” is a remarkable masterpiece that exercises thought between the known and the unknown. Critics call Emily Dickinson’s poem a masterpiece with strange “haunting power.” In Dickinson’s poem, “Because I could not stop for Death,” there is much impression in the tone,cheap wow gold in symbols, and in the use of imagery that exudes creativity.
One might undoubtedly agree to an eerie, haunting, if not frightening, tone in Dickinson’s poem. Dickinson uses controlling adjectives—“slowly” and “passed”—to create a tone that seems rather placid. For example, “We slowly drove—He knew no haste / …We passed the School … / We passed the Setting Sun—,” sets a slow, quiet, calm, and dreamy atmosphere (5, 9, 11, 12). “One thing that impresses us,cheap wow gold” one author wrote, “is the remarkable placidity, or composure, of its tone” (Greenberg 128). The tone in Dickinson’s poem will put its readers’ ideas on a unifying track heading towards a boggling atmosphere.
Dickinson’s masterpiece lives on complex ideas that are evoked through symbols, which carry her readers through her poem. Besides the literal significance of —the “School,” “Gazing Grain,” “Setting Sun,” and the “Ring”—much is gathered to complete the poem’s central idea. Emily brought to light the mysteriousness of life’s cycle. Ungraspable to many, the cycle of one’s life,buy wow gold as symbolized by Dickinson, has three stages and then a final stage of eternity. These three stages are recognized by Mary N. Shaw as follows: “School, where children strove”(9) may represent childhood; “Fields of Gazing Grain”(11), maturity; and “Setting Sun” (12) old age” (21). In addition to these three stages, the final stage of eternity was symbolized in the last two lines of the poem, the “Horses Heads” (23), leading “towards Eternity” (24). Dickinson fathomed the incomprehensible progression of life by unraveling its complexity with figurative symbols.
Emily Dickinson dresses the scene such that mental pictures of sight, feeling, and sound come to life. The imagery begins the moment Dickinson invites Her reader into the “Carriage.” Death “slowly” takes the readers on a sight seeing trip where they see the stages of life. The first site “We” passed was the “School, where Children strove” (9). Because it deals with an important symbol, —the “Ring”—this first scene is perhaps the most important. One author noted that “the children, at recess, do not play (as one would expect them to) but strive” (Monteiro 20). In addition, at recess, the children performed a venerable ritual, perhaps known to all, in a ring. This ritual is called “Ring-a-ring-a-roses,” and is recited:
Ring-a-ring-a-roses,
A pocket full of posies;
Hush! hush! hush! hush!
We’re all tumbled down. (qtd. in Greenaway 365)
Monteiro made the discovery and concluded that “For indeed, imbedded in their ritualistic game is a reminder of the mortal stakes that the poet talks about elsewhere”(21). On this invited journey, one vividly sees the “Children” playing,cheap wow gold laughing, and singing. This scene conveys deep emotions and moods through verbal pictures.
The imagery in the final scene, “We passed the Setting Sun,” proved very emotional (12). One can clearly picture a warm setting sun, perhaps, over a grassy horizon. The idea of a setting sun, aftermath a fact of slumber in a cold dark night. When Dickinson passed the “Setting Sun,” night drew nigh and it was time to go home and sleep. Symbolically, Her tour of life was short; it was now time for “Eternity”—death. While sight seeing in the carriage, one can gather, by the setting of the sun, that this ride was lifelong. It is evident that death can creep up on His client. In example, often times, when one experience a joyous time, time seems to ‘fly’. In the same respect, Emily Dickinson states “Or rather—He [the Setting Sun] passed Us—” (13). In this line, one can see how Dickinson, dressed for the “Day,” indicates that a pleasant time was cut short (15,16). Before She knew it, the cold “Dews drew quivering and chill”(14). The imagery in this transcendent poem shines great light on some hidden similarities between life and death.
This poem exercises both the thoughts and emotions of its reader and can effectively change one’s viewpoint of an eternal future. Eternity and Death are two important characters in Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death.” In fact,buy wow gold eternity is a state of being. Dickinson believed in an eternity after death (24). Agreeably, one can say that Emily Dickinson’s sole purpose in this poem is to show no fear of death. Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Because I could not stop for Death,” will leave many readers talking for years to come. This poem then, puts on immortality through an act of mere creativity. Indeed, creativity was captured at all angles in this striking piece.
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