Of Mice and Men, which was a novel wrote by John Steinbeck, a story book about Lennie and George. In this book there were mostly talking about men, but the only female in this novel, Curley’s wife, was also a important character, she has got no name. From this book, we could receive the message the author want to send to us.
Curley’s wife, who got no name for her from start to the end, the only thing we know about her is that she is Curley’s wife, and she’s a trouble one, men in the farm always saying that don’t fooling around with her, or she will get you in a big trouble. From this point, we could tell that people thought women were bad if you always get around with them, and then they will make you get in a hot water.
From this story book, we could also tell how the life was for those poor women in the early time in America. Women got no power, because the author doesn’t even mention the name of this woman, instead he uses Curley’s wife. Also they were less equal than the men did, there always had something that women were not allowing to do, they can’t talk to other men if they get married, the only thing they can do is staying home, and waiting for their husband coming back from the farm.
Women in that time couldn’t even persuade their dream, what their parents think is that women should only be staying home, and married someone when they were at that aged, the dream for those women seems nonsense to others, there was no way for they to do that. They got no permission to go to anywhere, because people at that time thought that men could earn the money and feed them, while women should not be out of somewhere working around with men. I think this is just like the old time in China, those young women spend most of their life in house, and have babies for their husband, and when their kids were born, they would educated them, they could barely step their feet out of their big gate, that’s a pity for those women during the old era.
In the end of this story, Curley’s wife really made men in trouble, Lennie killed her, because she was yelling, and he became afraid, as a result, he was being kill by George, he got no choice, but to kill him by himself, or Lennie would be capture by Curley, and being lock in a cage, treat him like a dog. When we are reading a book, we could usually get the information that the author send to us, but which was not really mention in the story, to read a book more carefully the more things we could get.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Between the Line Questions
1. Why does Lennie tell George that he could just leave him alone if he want?”
Because George was saying something that hurt Lennie’s heart really hard, and he thought he was only fooling.
2. Do you think that George really car for Lennie? Why or why not?
Yes, he really care about him, even he always doing something wrong or worse, but he couldn’t just leave him alone, and go away, because he is the only friend Lennie got, and he has to look after him since Lennie’s aunt pass away.
3. What do you think about the feeling of Lennie when George saying that he want to go by himself if he could?
I think he was hurt really hard, because he always made troubles for George, and couldn’t live in a little peace when he was with him, he feel so sorry about that. When he tell George that he could go to that mountain by himself, and live there alone, he fell so helpless and lonely.
Because George was saying something that hurt Lennie’s heart really hard, and he thought he was only fooling.
2. Do you think that George really car for Lennie? Why or why not?
Yes, he really care about him, even he always doing something wrong or worse, but he couldn’t just leave him alone, and go away, because he is the only friend Lennie got, and he has to look after him since Lennie’s aunt pass away.
3. What do you think about the feeling of Lennie when George saying that he want to go by himself if he could?
I think he was hurt really hard, because he always made troubles for George, and couldn’t live in a little peace when he was with him, he feel so sorry about that. When he tell George that he could go to that mountain by himself, and live there alone, he fell so helpless and lonely.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Civil War Paper
American Civil War broke out in 1861 to 1865, which was the most famous and greatest war in American History, a war for people to pursuing their liberty, a war that was fought between South (Confederate States of America) and North (the Union) American. In this violent war, men were handing forward to the front lines to fight for their freedom of this whole country, the children and senior they left behind staying home, waiting for the good news from their sons in the battlefront. Women were carried out the man's duties at home. They were tired of staying home all day cleaning and working for their husband and kids. Both sides of women in the conflict volunteer themselves to the war, wanted to be part of this war with men, so they worked as a nurses, take care of the wounded soldiers in the battle. Some women also fight with their enemy in the front lines. They held many different jobs while their man were far from them in the battle, they worked in dangerous places, where result in a number of deaths. Other women decided that being a spy was the best way to serve, they worked as a spy for the Confederate and the Union armies, to help them to collect the information for them.
Women staying home do what they can do to support their family and men in the battlefield. Local Ladies Aid Societies knitted socks, rolled bandages, sewed clothing, sent bedding and towels and food. They wrote letters, kept the family farm or local store going, and held the family together as news from the front slowly trickled in.
Women served in combat during the American Civil War in far larger numbers and in more significant roles. In a gesture of liberation, they let down their hair and took off their hooped skirts. Many people did not like the idea of women doing a man's job, so the women made up their spy networks. In many cases the information that the women received was more accurate then the men, they can get through the detection, and would not be capture or suspect as a spy. While doing this challenged and dangerous work, many of these female spied were captured and imprison, they contribute their whole life to this works. In this terrible four years conflict, people everywhere involved in this war, it was not only inflicted on soldiers, but civilians, land and cities as well.
Women accomplished a lot in this war, but they also lost their important man. The Confederate Army began to draft soldiers in the spring of 1862, during planting time, and the sight of women behind plows became common. People always saying that women couldn't doing anything without man, but the effort they contribute during the war, evidence that they could also did a very good job as their man did, there were no any different between women and men, they worked hard to support their man in the army. "While our soldiers stand and fight," Clara Barton say, " I can feed and nurse them" that was the beginning of the war, even though women were not allowed to be in the armed forces, but they disguised enlisted themselves as men in the Union and Confederate to served as a soldier just like man did. They did what they can do, cause they were part of these big family, and they want to fight for what they really wanted,
Nursing was a popular occupation for many women during the Civil War. At least 3,000 women held a paid nurse positions in the North and South, and thousands of others worked as volunteers. Thousands of women at the War's outset left their homes to take care of wounded soldiers. "The war is certainly ours as well as men's," said Kate Cummings, of Mobile, Alabama, who became the matron of a large Confederate hospital. Clarrisa (Clara) Barton, attributed with the founding of the American Red Cross, began her nursing career when Union soldiers arrived in Washington D.C. after having been brutalized by secession sympathizers. She gathered baskets of food and supplies from her own household and from the homes of her friends and donated these to the bloodied regiment. This opened up a new area of service - the gathering of supplies for the wounded.
"In my feeble estimation, General McClellan, with all his laurels, sinks into insignificance beside the true heroine of the age, the angel of the battlefield."
Dr. James Dunn, surgeon at Antietam Battlefield.
"Clara Barton worked on parallel lines, but outside the official military system. A Massachusetts schoolteacher, Barton had come to Washington in 1854 to work at the e U.S. Patent Office. Determined to play a role in the events of 1861, she cared for wounded soldiers who had returned to Washington. Thanks to financial support garnered throughout New England, Barton had the means, along with the resolve, to overcome the military bureaucracy ad travel to the front lines. "I went in while the battle raged," she recalled with pride. After the war, she was instrumental in the creation of an American branch of the International Red Cross."
Source: Civil War Nurse, The Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes. Introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.
During the civil war, approximately 130,000 freed slaves became Union soldiers, and of the 364,000 on the Union side who lost their lives, a third were killed or died of wounds and two-thirds died of disease.
"We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence, and that, or extermination"
------ Jefferson Davis.
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
------- Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
The Declaration of Independence, which was proclaimed by the president of the United States in 1776, that the whole country was reunited and slavery were free. That was in the end of the war, our braved male and female soldiers return home from the battlefield, the whole country was celebrate for the country reunified.
When talking about the Civil War, it was used to be a man’s war, fighting with the enemy in the battlefield, left their family behind, to guard their country. People don’t really know that was also our women’s war too. It was the women who care for the wounded everyday. It was the women who took a secret mission that would always be in a dangerous condition. It was the women who gave our men strength, so they would be no more concern about their home behind them. The women's role in the Civil War is just as significant as the man's, and any discussion of the War in general should not leave this fact out.
Women staying home do what they can do to support their family and men in the battlefield. Local Ladies Aid Societies knitted socks, rolled bandages, sewed clothing, sent bedding and towels and food. They wrote letters, kept the family farm or local store going, and held the family together as news from the front slowly trickled in.
Women served in combat during the American Civil War in far larger numbers and in more significant roles. In a gesture of liberation, they let down their hair and took off their hooped skirts. Many people did not like the idea of women doing a man's job, so the women made up their spy networks. In many cases the information that the women received was more accurate then the men, they can get through the detection, and would not be capture or suspect as a spy. While doing this challenged and dangerous work, many of these female spied were captured and imprison, they contribute their whole life to this works. In this terrible four years conflict, people everywhere involved in this war, it was not only inflicted on soldiers, but civilians, land and cities as well.
Women accomplished a lot in this war, but they also lost their important man. The Confederate Army began to draft soldiers in the spring of 1862, during planting time, and the sight of women behind plows became common. People always saying that women couldn't doing anything without man, but the effort they contribute during the war, evidence that they could also did a very good job as their man did, there were no any different between women and men, they worked hard to support their man in the army. "While our soldiers stand and fight," Clara Barton say, " I can feed and nurse them" that was the beginning of the war, even though women were not allowed to be in the armed forces, but they disguised enlisted themselves as men in the Union and Confederate to served as a soldier just like man did. They did what they can do, cause they were part of these big family, and they want to fight for what they really wanted,
Nursing was a popular occupation for many women during the Civil War. At least 3,000 women held a paid nurse positions in the North and South, and thousands of others worked as volunteers. Thousands of women at the War's outset left their homes to take care of wounded soldiers. "The war is certainly ours as well as men's," said Kate Cummings, of Mobile, Alabama, who became the matron of a large Confederate hospital. Clarrisa (Clara) Barton, attributed with the founding of the American Red Cross, began her nursing career when Union soldiers arrived in Washington D.C. after having been brutalized by secession sympathizers. She gathered baskets of food and supplies from her own household and from the homes of her friends and donated these to the bloodied regiment. This opened up a new area of service - the gathering of supplies for the wounded.
"In my feeble estimation, General McClellan, with all his laurels, sinks into insignificance beside the true heroine of the age, the angel of the battlefield."
Dr. James Dunn, surgeon at Antietam Battlefield.
"Clara Barton worked on parallel lines, but outside the official military system. A Massachusetts schoolteacher, Barton had come to Washington in 1854 to work at the e U.S. Patent Office. Determined to play a role in the events of 1861, she cared for wounded soldiers who had returned to Washington. Thanks to financial support garnered throughout New England, Barton had the means, along with the resolve, to overcome the military bureaucracy ad travel to the front lines. "I went in while the battle raged," she recalled with pride. After the war, she was instrumental in the creation of an American branch of the International Red Cross."
Source: Civil War Nurse, The Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes. Introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.
During the civil war, approximately 130,000 freed slaves became Union soldiers, and of the 364,000 on the Union side who lost their lives, a third were killed or died of wounds and two-thirds died of disease.
"We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence, and that, or extermination"
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
------- Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
The Declaration of Independence, which was proclaimed by the president of the United States in 1776, that the whole country was reunited and slavery were free. That was in the end of the war, our braved male and female soldiers return home from the battlefield, the whole country was celebrate for the country reunified.
When talking about the Civil War, it was used to be a man’s war, fighting with the enemy in the battlefield, left their family behind, to guard their country. People don’t really know that was also our women’s war too. It was the women who care for the wounded everyday. It was the women who took a secret mission that would always be in a dangerous condition. It was the women who gave our men strength, so they would be no more concern about their home behind them. The women's role in the Civil War is just as significant as the man's, and any discussion of the War in general should not leave this fact out.
Monday, March 16, 2009
ESOL
A boy who was sitting in the classroom, the teacher was back to him writing something on the blackboard, the boy wants to go to bathroom, but he forget how to say it to the teacher, so he rushed to the bathroom without the teacher’s knowing, and when he come back, he sit on his seat quietly, continued his lesson.
" Oh yes, ESOL helps me to learn the grammar, and the teacher helps me to revise my essay." said Linfeng, one of the ESOL student in Constitution High School. ESOL does help the foreigner a lot, which of course is focus on the English. When having a ESOL class, student are sitting together around a table, reading a child book with the teacher, copy down the note that teacher write on the board, doing some grammar exercises, having a fun game with that kindest teacher, just like go back to the childhood.
However, even ESOL was a sort of help, but it was not really what we wanted it would be. They didn’t even have a certain schedule for the ESOL students in Constitution High School, "We only meet our teacher twice a month, and when we get there, we have a very short time to learn the things," said one of my audiences. There has a question I would like to ask you, how can people learn thing in a little time, and even doesn't know when she or he will have the class again. Mrs. Gold, a 9th grade social teacher, and also a ESOL teacher, she held three classes everyday, and there were not enough time for her to teach the ESOL students.
She needs to be prepared for her social class everyday, they have only three Chinese students in this school, so there isnt a ESOL class for them, these ESOL students could only learn from their daily English class.
To solve the problem of lack a ESOL class, some people suggest that we can use our free time to listen to the English music when we walk to school, or watch a film in English. Also you can join a service learning language group, get together with your friends, have a conversation with them, which would be the fastest and easiest way for you to improve your English. Search for help from the people around you, they will be willing to help you, don’t be shy anymore, always believe that you could make it. So why don’t we take our first step, and looking forward to the successful career.
" Oh yes, ESOL helps me to learn the grammar, and the teacher helps me to revise my essay." said Linfeng, one of the ESOL student in Constitution High School. ESOL does help the foreigner a lot, which of course is focus on the English. When having a ESOL class, student are sitting together around a table, reading a child book with the teacher, copy down the note that teacher write on the board, doing some grammar exercises, having a fun game with that kindest teacher, just like go back to the childhood.
However, even ESOL was a sort of help, but it was not really what we wanted it would be. They didn’t even have a certain schedule for the ESOL students in Constitution High School, "We only meet our teacher twice a month, and when we get there, we have a very short time to learn the things," said one of my audiences. There has a question I would like to ask you, how can people learn thing in a little time, and even doesn't know when she or he will have the class again. Mrs. Gold, a 9th grade social teacher, and also a ESOL teacher, she held three classes everyday, and there were not enough time for her to teach the ESOL students.
She needs to be prepared for her social class everyday, they have only three Chinese students in this school, so there isnt a ESOL class for them, these ESOL students could only learn from their daily English class.
To solve the problem of lack a ESOL class, some people suggest that we can use our free time to listen to the English music when we walk to school, or watch a film in English. Also you can join a service learning language group, get together with your friends, have a conversation with them, which would be the fastest and easiest way for you to improve your English. Search for help from the people around you, they will be willing to help you, don’t be shy anymore, always believe that you could make it. So why don’t we take our first step, and looking forward to the successful career.
Friday, February 20, 2009
I am Growing Up
The winds blow up the leaves on the ground to the cerulean sky, walking in the park of 7th Street, kids were everywhere, running on the grass, chasing each other, and having fun with their parents. A little kid just sitting on the swings, "Dad, higher, higher, a little more higher!!." Listen to these happy laughs, how wonderful it was to be a kid, and ask mom or dad to take us to a park and play all day long, never thought about the sadness. When the tears run down of your face, you can still get a sweet candy cotoon. We have all experience those days your still young, but all things change since the first time I argue with my mom, I knew I no longer can be a child anymore.
"Why are you arguing with your brother again, why don't you just compromise with him, you know that he's younger than you are, and you should act like an adult now" there comes parents' nagging again. Is it because that I'm older than him? Therefore everything I do absolutely wrong! What's fairness do I have on my side? Feeling really angry about them, because what they always thought was that all these unhappy things happened was all my fault, even if I had no part. I really don’t like them, don’t like this world, and everything, because no one know how I feel when they blame me, the hurt they bring about plant deep in my heart, so I cry and cry, because I didn't know what else things I can do rather than that.
I do what I want without thinking about the outcome, and all the things they were talking about, I couldn't even listen to it. But one day, all these things changed. I heard someone was crying so hard in the next room, when I walk to the door, I carefully look into the door, a woman sit on the bed, and whipped her tears with tissue on one hand, I knew that familiar haggard back, at that moment, I feel so helpless, I can't do anything for her but standing outdoor, thought about all the well things she brought to me. I remember that when I start my elementary school, she left me in China, because she had to come to here – America, and by herself, to find a better life for my brother and me. Alone in this strange country, and couldn't even talk to other, she worked hard in the daytime, and study at night. The thought she always had in her mind to keep her strength to stay here: it will be ok, when my kids come here, and we will be happily together again. It had been a really hard time for her to live here. Come back to this right time, crying for my indocile, I hurt her so much, and that's all my fault, because I ruin her hope of mine, and I am really a bad girl. Right after that time, I began to realize that I'm not a little kid anymore, I'm sixteen years old, and I’m ready to become an adult now, throw all the childish thoughts behind. I have already step my first foot in adulthood, nor more a crying little girl, and no more coaxed to sleep. I should do what I can do to help my parents, because I am a part of this family.
As at my age, we know that we should think about more deep things when we doing anything, and we have got to be responsibility for our own action. The main character in "Marigold", Lizabeth, a big girl leaded a group of kids who were more younger than she is, went to Miss Lottie's back yard, an old woman nearly one hundred years old, live by herself, they threw stones at her flowerbed of marigold. And singing "Old witch, fell in a ditch, picked up a penny, and thought she was rich" when they running away, with a jolly smile on their face, but later that evening, Lizabeth overhears her father's crying, because his disability to provide his family, at that time, Lizabeth thought she can’t be a child anymore, at that night, she felt so sorry for what had she done to Miss. Lottie, the stupidest thing she ever done, thought she has to straight up her back, and carry the burden to take care of her family, and help her parents.
Being a kid, playing around with the same aged friends, don't know when the trouble comes, get fret on our heart, that's all people ever want, but that's never what we really had, we should live on ourselves, because it's the rule for living in this world. Guys, it's time to be mature, we're no more a kids, and never thought that you were. If you're still in your childhood, then let's make a big step to your adulthood, there has no time to waste.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Have you ever been whipped by your parents when you were young? My parents beat me seldom, but when they did, it hurt me very much. I like the poem, "The Whipping" written by Robert Hayden. The words he uses in the poem challenge me a lot, and as I read it, I had the same feeling that the boy had. This poem provides me a message that the writer wants us to understand..
Vocabulary seems like the first thing that I want to mention. Some particular words in the poem look familiar to me, but some do not. I often need to use my dictionary to look up words, and write the meaning in my notebook so I can remember them, and review them some other time. The words I need help with are such as exhausted and purged in the last few lines of the poem.
The emotion of the people in the poem is sadness. The boy in the poem was being whipped by his mother. She always treated him very badly. People around the neighborhood heard the boy crying, and the intolerance for her son's wrongs. "My head gripped in bony vise of knees, the writhing struggle to wrench free, the blows the fear worse than blows that hateful words could bring, the face that I no longer knew or loved…" From these words, we could feel how the boy tried to escape from his mother's whipping, and the hateful thought he had of his mother.
While reading this poem, I could feel the hurt on the boy's body, because I had the same experience as a little GIRL. They used to use a ruler to beat me, but not after I was 12 years old. I live with a great peace with my parents since they no longer beat me. "His tears are rainy weather to woundlike memories" Hayden wrote. This child was really hurt by his mother's every whip.
"The old woman across the way is whipping the boy again……" These lines give me a message about how some people treat their children and the common problem in many families. Parents beat their children for their wrongs. They grab their child's hand tightly, beat them with a whip, and scold them. They will neVER stop until they are so tired from chasing and beating the children, and then they let them go free,
After reading this poem, I think these parents should try to talk to their children rather than scold them or beat them, Whipping children will make things worse, and their child will hate them every time they feel those red bloody marks on their smooth skin from their parents' whipping. And when they grow up, they will not listen to them. This will make a lasting impression from their childhood. There should be peaceful conversation between parents and children, to solve their problems together.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Reflection on my NHD Process
NHD was ended since last Friday, I think my partner and I had done a really good job compare to the first year.
During doing the NHD, I had learned a lot from my project, we researched on our topic on different sources, assemble information, and we rewrote them in our own words, I was so glad that I was able to understand what the articles or those information were wrote about, so I don't need to research on a Chinese website. By the time passed, I became to be more awared about my individual --Shiing Shen Chern, who was a Chinese -American mathematician, a large part of modern algebraic geometry would not exist without Chern classes.
The most challenged work I faced was that we couldn't understand the equation of Chern Classes, because of the language problem, the definition of those classes were in a higher English level for both of us to understand, and use them, so we had done a lot works on these things, but still couldn't find anything.
During doing the NHD, I had learned a lot from my project, we researched on our topic on different sources, assemble information, and we rewrote them in our own words, I was so glad that I was able to understand what the articles or those information were wrote about, so I don't need to research on a Chinese website. By the time passed, I became to be more awared about my individual --Shiing Shen Chern, who was a Chinese -American mathematician, a large part of modern algebraic geometry would not exist without Chern classes.
The most challenged work I faced was that we couldn't understand the equation of Chern Classes, because of the language problem, the definition of those classes were in a higher English level for both of us to understand, and use them, so we had done a lot works on these things, but still couldn't find anything.
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