11/29/11- my life

My life could best be described as exciting because I am in many clubs and am always out and exploring the town with my friends.  I am rarely stuck inside doing nothing and I am always active in trying new things, that's why I believe my life could be described as exciting. I would change the word to unique because I have a pretty strange array of friends and activities I do.

11/22/11-monkeys paw

In this story a family consisting of a old husband and wife and son are all living in a house when a old friend of the husband gives him a supposively magic mummified monkey paw. The man tells him to be careful for what he wishes. The husband wishes for 200 pounds for his first wish, as he does his son goes to work. Later a man tells them his son is dead and as a compensation. Later the husbands wife goes crazy and wants to wish back their son to life, the husband ends up doing so and the son comes back to life and knocks on the door. In a frantic try to stop his '"son" from getting into the house before his wife opens the door he uses his third wish the make his son dead again.

11/18/11- culture shock

I believe what the article is saying is good because it covers most of the basics of culture shock.  It lists the possible symptoms and solutions of cultural shock and I find this very useful. It also tries to comfort the reader or person in culture shock. That is why the advice in this article is helpful and useful.

11/14/11 Penn state scandal

Yes I do believe the law needs to be changed because if it is not change instances like these could occur again until it is stopped. We should change the law that the head of the college decides what happens to a criminal in their area or come up with a new solution or method.

11/7/11-adapting to american culture

One aspect of American culture that has been difficult for Firoozeh to adapt to is the fact that in American culture people have short easy to pronounce names. This was difficult for Firoozeh because her name was very different so people did not want to become friends with her, or even later in her life give her a job after she was out of college.

11/3/11

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction in whole or in part of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. A example of genocide from history is the Holocaust during WW2 in which the Germans tried to exterminate the Jewish population.

11/1/11 selfish giant

This short story is about a selfish giant who has a magnificent garden that kids like to play in. But because he is selfish he builds a giant wall to keep them out of his garden. Over time his garden seems to stay in winter weather because his flowers and trees feel bad for the children. But one day the children somehow get back into the garden and the plants blossom once again and the giant loses his selfishness. He encounters one particular child that brings him great joy but over time he never sees him again until he gets older. The boy comes back with holes on his hand and feet and tells the giant to come to his garden of paradise and the giant is found dead the next day under a tree. This implies that the boy is Jesus Christ and brought the giant to heaven because it was his time.