Japan Style

First of all,I would like to say that this story is very graphic.When the author describe some scenes in the story,I could actually pictures what is happening.However,some of the parts in the story was pretty disturbing,especially the part of the lynching of the black man.In the story,Jesse appear to be a racist white man that hate black people.However,when he remember his childhood,his father is the one that make him to be that way.It is because he take Jesse to see the lynching of the black man.Before he take Jesse there,he told him that he going to take him to a picnic.Jesse's father act like everything is normal,even though it not.When they got there,he took Jesse to sit on his shoulder.Jeese feel the bond between him and his father.When he look at his mother,she look the most beautiful in his eyes.Jesse feel that his parents approve of the way black people get treated.Since then,Jesse feel that the black people deserve to be treated badly.When Jeese grow to be an adult,he treat black women badly by went around and go raping them.Even though, he have a job as a sheriff,he surely don't perform the job that he is suppose to do,which is to protect people,not hurting them.

This story is about a Chinese mother that want her daughter,Jing-Mei,to be a child prodigy at the age of nine.At first,Jing-Mei is excited as her mother about becoming a famous child prodigy.However,after many times that her mother show her magazine articles about many child prodigy and try to quizzes her to be like them,she realized that she can't do like them.She feel that her mother is trying to change her to be someone that she not.Later on in the story,Jing-mei's mother saw this Chinese girl prodigy playing the piano on the tv and she want Jing-mei to be like that girl.She then make Jing-mei go take a lesson with a downstair neighbor,Mr.Chong,who is a retired piano instructor and is deaf.Jing-mei took advantage of his deaf by play whatever notes and don't really pay attention to the lesson.Later on,Mr. Chong and her mother told her to play in this talent show.When the time come,at first,Jing-mei feel that she is a real prodigy and that she can do it,however,when she start playing the piano,she mostly played the wrong notes.At the end of the show, she feel dissapointed in herself and feel sorry for her parents that they have to sit there watching her make mistake on the stage.When they got home,Jing-mei expect her mother to yell at her about what happened,but instead she didn't say anything to her.Two days later,Jing-mei's mother still forced her to practice playing the piano.Jing-mei was very mad and she told her mother that she wants her to be something that she is not.She says that she will never be the type of daughter her mother wants.Jing-mei screams that she wishes she had never been born and then,wanting to hurt her mother,screams that she wishes she was dead like her mother's first children.After the fight,her mother never make her touch the piano again.Overall,I like this story.The message that I got from this story is that the mother should let their kids be whatever that they want to be.The mother should not forced their kids to be what they don't want to be because at the end,the result will most likely to be a failure.

I Stand Here Ironing

This story is about the struggle one mother have to go through to raised her first child,Emily.In the story,it seem like Emily is pretty much on her own.Her mother was very young when Emily was born, so she didn't really get things together yet.During the depression time,Emily's father walked out on them because he can't stand to lived in poverty.At the end of the story,it seem to me that the mother realized that she will not be able to understand everything about Emily or how she had become the person she is today.She acknowledges that,perhaps,Emily will not fulfill all of her potential,but she is likely to fulfill some of it,and that will be enough.

I think that the field trip to Museum of Tolerance was great.I enjoyed learning about the Holocaust.I learned a lot more information about what happened to the Jews.I felt very sorry for them while I watched some of the videos.Some videos show babies being killed, while others show piles of dead,naked women. The Nazis were inhuman to the Jews.I think that they did not have a right to kill the other race,just because they are different from them.I cannot believe how the Germans actually believed Hitler and listened to his message. For me,I think that it was kind of ridiculous. The Germans should have decided for themselves if it was the right thing to do.After I learned about the Holocaust,it made me think how lucky I am to live independently in a free country such as the United States.I can do or be whatever I want to be without having to be worried of being killed just like the Jewish people were.It makes me think that I should be grateful for all the things that I have right now.I like how in the museum I learned about a child in the Holocaust.I received this little boy,named Peter Zucker;he was on the card that I received at the museum about children who suffered in the Holocaust. At the end of the tour,I found out that he is still alive today. I was so happy to know that,because at first, I did not think that he would survive until this day.However,he changed his last name to Cukor instead.I am glad that my sister came with me on the trip.She said that she liked the field trip and that she might go with me again.We pretty much had fun at the museum.However,It would be nicer,if my bf come with us,but unfortunately,he can't come cuz he have skool.As for the food at Los Sanchez,my sister and I did not really enjoy it as much.We ordered two “Super tacos”.When we got the food,we pretty much ate just the grilled chicken in it.At the time of the order,I did not order any drink either, but they gave us one.I think that it was slightly weird but in a good way.It is because we pretty much got a free drink.As for the bus,I think that it was a very nice one.I liked how we could adjust the seats,the windows were tinted, there was an air conditioner inside the bus, and how there was always music playing.The seat was also very comfortable to sit on.On the way back from the museum,I was somewhat frustrated because we faced horrible traffic,and we were delayed in getting back to school on time. However,I tried to be pretty patient about it because there was nothing I could do.Overall, I enjoyed the field trip and I am looking forward to go to more field trips in the near future.

It take me a while to decide whether I should drop my math 60 class and go instead to work more hours or not. This teacher that I have is not teaching right. He teach way too fast. Comparing to my old math teacher last semester, he was a lot better. Finally, I come to a decision that I will be dropping my math class and go to work instead. Basically, I will have only 2 classes instead of 3.However, I wish that I could add more classes, but it was too late already. It might take me a longer time to get enough credits to transfer, but I rather do that than to receive an F on my transcript.If I look at this situation in a good way, I could earn more money by working more hours. :)

This story is about how the black people got treated not equally as the whites.The whites people always assumed that the the black people are always the criminals and that they are always committed crimes.However,not every black people will do that.The whites just assumed that because they racist.They don't want the black people to be equal to them.I believe that in the story,the white people think that they are superior than other races.In the story,it states that the black people that live in the ghettos will most likely to commit a crimes.However,the black people can choose their own paths in life and they can choose if they want to do it or not.They can choose how they want their lives to be and not what other people want their lives to be.Some black people might even be more successful and richer than the whites if they work hard enough.I think that we should all treated other the ways you want to be treated.You should not treats other differently because they have different colors of skins.No matter what colors of the skins they have,everybody is equal.

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

In the beginning of the story,Connie seem to didn't like her sister and her mom that much. She seem to care a lot about how she look and what the other people might think of her because in the story,it say that she often look at herself in the mirror.Later on in the story,her mom,dad,and her older sister, June,went to a bbq's party at an aunt's house.Connie refused to go,so she stay home by herself.A while after,a boy named Arnold Friend and his friend,Ellie,come to Connie's house and asked her to go for a ride with them.Arnold seem to be a stalker because he know everything about her and her family, which to me is kind of creepy.For some odd reason,Connie decide to go outside her house to see who it is. I agree with Aaron and Sonny that Connie should not be doing this. Instead, she should just stay inside in house and pretend that nobody is home.At the end of the story,it was kind of confusing to me because I don't understand why she decide to go out to Arnold Friend.The end of the story didn't really state what happen to her after that.It make me wondering what will happen to her, but it seem to me that it will not be good because she left with a stalker.