CUlture

Hawkins, Kristen. "Hunan Cuisine." 1. 25 Feb 2009 .


Each culture has their own food 'specialty'. We might think that there is one kind of chinese food, but in reality there is many different kinds from the different places in china. The Hunan cuisine is very special. It comes from a sub-tropical, humid, and warm climate. This culutre's food is made up of alot of rice, garlic, shallots, and chillies. They like to have a mixture of flavors at the same time, including sweet and sour, and hot and sour. Cultures can be so different and you can tell by the different types of food. Chinese food can be known around the world and the US. You can go to resturants and try many different types of food.

Change

Rohn, Jim. "Change Begins With Choice." 1. 22 Feb 2009 .

The author says that 'everyday we wish', weather its wishing on a star, at 11:11, or just wishing in general. People can wish for whatever they want, even change. Everyone makes the choice to wish for change and they can be the ones who can do it. Change is something you shouldn't wait around for it to happen, you should be the one to go out and do it. WE are the people who can make the right choices, and even sometimes the wrong. Change is something to improve your life and make it worth while. We cant have our errors determine our life and lead us down the wrong path, we have the power to change it and live our life how we want to.

HOPE

GOSSIPGIRL

for this blog, i watched an episode of gossip girl. Chuck's dad has been in a huge car accident and died. Chuck lost all his hope and just wanted to give up on life. There is one person who never stopped believing in him...Blaire. She would do everything for him, she took care of him after the accident and even brought him to the funeral. Chuck was so down in the dumps that he would just keep pushing blaire away even though she kept trying to help. One day, after the funeral chuck stormed out of the room with blaire right on his tail, she followed him out to his limo, there she confessed her love to chuck and said that she wont loose hope in him and she will stick with him through it all because she loves him. His only response was "thats just too bad" and then drove away. Blaire then was so sad about this whole incident and tried to just move on and forget about him. A couple days later, Blair's housekeeper tells her that someone is waiting for her in her room, it was chuck. She runs to his side and holds him while he cries. Blaire never lost hope in chuck, and even though he might have for a little bit, she was there for him until he realized it. Even though sometimes in life you loose hope there is someone out there who will be there to listen, to be a shoulder to cry on, or to hold your hand through it all.

Religion/spirituality

Chopra, Deepak. "Obama And the Rise of Secular Spirituality." the Huffington post 15 Feb 2009 .

The article I found was called Obama And the Rise of Secular Spirituality by Deepak Chopra and Dave Stewart. This article was written about how Obama is a secular spiritual leader though he is unaware of it. The authors think that Obama is a lot like Martin Luther King, Jr. because they both believe in having unity, freedom, peace, and nonviolence. I think Obama will be good for our nation and will be able to help and lead us through this hard time. His race alone gave enough inspiration and the flood of hope and optimism. Although he may not know it Obama has what it takes to lead this nation. You have to have hope and you have to believe in yourself to survive, I believe and Obama has it all.

Gender and gender roles

Frosch, Dan. "Report Faults Treatment of Women Held at Immigration Centers." New York Times A23. 10 Feb 2009 .

In this world, women have never been treated as equally as men. As history progressed women have earned more rights and they have become more powerful, but still not at the same level as men. In an Arizona immigration detention center the women were not treated very well. When people investigated this, they saw that the authorities were being too aggressive towards the women. Now there is a big argument because the workers there are saying its apart of the law enforcement. The detention centers have been under pressure before to make their detention center better and improve its conditions. They said they would, but the law wont take effect until 2010. One woman who was held there experienced abdominal pain after undergoing female genitel mutilation from africa was told just to drink water, but later was brought to the hospital and they found a big cyst. These people at the detention centers need to treat these women with more respect. Just because they are women doesnt mean its okay to treat them this way.

A Different Culture

Von Ziegesar, Cecily. Infamous. 2008. New York: Poppy, 2008.

In the book, Infamous, the characters live a different life then me. In my life I usually just go to school, come home, hang out with friends, or do an after school activity. In the story, these kids live at their school and only go back home on occasional weekends and holidays. These kids are so spoiled and have their own penthouse apartments, chauffeurs, and private airplanes. These kids can do whatever they want because they are so spoiled and their parents are always gone vacationing or doing something related to their job. When the parents are gone, these kids sure now how to break out the party and get in some trouble. These kids live a totally different life than me and have a different culture.

overcoming a struggle/ facing a difficulty

Over the past few weeks Jessica Simpson has been strongly critisized for her weight gain. Being fat and getting noticed is worse, but for her EVERYONE is noticing it and criticizing it. Just because she is famous, and supposed to be ' stick thin' doesnt give people the right to say all this mean stuff about her. If i were in her position i dont even know what i would do. But good for her, she has the guts to go back onstage with skinny leggings on and show the world that she has thick skin and wont let a stupid little thing hurt her and nock her down. Her fans have been so loyal and helped her get through it, and at the end of the day thats all that matters.


Grossman, Wendy. "Jessica Simpson to Fans: 'Thank You for Your Support'." People 1. 3 Feb 2009 .

natural disasters

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/08/crica.quake/index.html#cnnSTCText
Strong Costa Rica quake kills two girls

Natural Disasters, like an earthquake, cause many problems. In this case two little girls, 7 and 9, died. Problems like these can effect people's lives instantly. Earthquakes cause so many problems. They can cause people to loose everything, houses, jobs, and in this case lives of their loved ones. Natural Disasters are unpredictable, and unstoppable. It would be really cool if we could prevent these disasters and be able to save the lives of the people. Even though the earthquake happens in liek a second, it takes so much longer to get over everything and put your life back together.

Natural disasters

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/08/crica.quake/index.html#cnnSTCText
Strong Costa Rica quake kills two girls

Natural Disasters, like an earthquake, cause many problems. In this case two little girls, 7 and 9, died. Problems like these can effect people's lives instantly. Earthquakes cause so many problems. They can cause people to loose everything, houses, jobs, and in this case lives of their loved ones. Natural Disasters are unpredictable, and unstoppable. It would be really cool if we could prevent these disasters and be able to save the lives of the people. Even though the earthquake happens in liek a second, it takes so much longer to get over everything and put your life back together.