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 Beginning of school year, I bought “For One More Day” by Mitch Album, but I did not find any time to read this book. However, I decided to read this book last Thursday because my computer has not been working for a week. I finally found a time to read books!! Well, I have always loved Mitch Album’s books. I have read, “Tuesday with Morrie,” and “The Five People You Meet in Heaven.” When I read his book, I always learn my life lessons and always make me look back on my life.

After I read “For One More Day,” I have learned my life lesson again. This story was about a young man name, Chick who tried to kill himself because his life was in shame. However, his dead mother makes him review his life with family. When Chick was young, he was always embarrassed about his mother because his mother had divorced his dad. Also, he did not like to be around with her and caring from her annoyed him a lot. However, as he went through his life again with his mother, he found out why his mother had divorced his father and why and how she cared about him.

While I was reading this book, I felt really guilty because I have done the same thing that Chick had done to his mother. I had felt embarrassed about my mother because she didn’t know how to speck English, I did not want to be around with her because I thought I was too good for her, and I always asked my mom to give me money even though she was having a hard time. I did not appreciate what she had done for me for my whole life. I thought it was “Mother’s Job” to hide her feelings when she was having a hard time, give daughter a lot of money for her to spend, work to raise family, and be fooled by daughter who lies. I realized that I was a bad daughter. I was fooling her around. My mom always took care of me and think I was part of her but I did not like that. When I was having a hard time she was the one who always helped me and been always around me. I really need to appreciate her and thank her to be my mother.

Family relationship is like a puzzle. Each person has their own feeling, problem, secret, and personality. To be a one picture, all parts of the puzzles need to be with all the time like each person in family need to share and be with each other to make a happy family.  

I have started to write my essay about changes on traditional gender roles, but I still do not know how I am going to write my essay well. It is very difficult to me that I have to research on the history of women’s role in 1920s, and how WWI and WWII effected on gender roles. I have some ideas to write my essay but it seems like I am on the wrong track. I am trying to write something but it seems to be giving readers different point and ideas than how I am trying to write. First, I have to research on women’s role before and after 1920s, WWI and WWII. Then I need to know the changes between 1920s through 2009. I know it has been changed a lot since 1920s.The major changes on gender roles is that women can vote and work. Also, women are treated equal with men. However, I have to find a way to write clearly, in order to make the readers have same ideas as me. I think my thesis and my body paragraph are not connected. I really need to work on that. I should go to the writing center for help. However, I kind of want to do it my own. It seems to me that if I go to the writing center, I feel like I am not learning anything because they corrected mistakes that I have made. I just want to learn it from myself like, doing research or reading a book. I feel more comfortable writing about traditional gender roles, but it is so complicated.   

             It has been almost three hundred days that my boyfriend and I were dating. This Saturday is our three hundred days anniversary. Most Korean couples celebrate their anniversary by hundred days until it reaches to one year. We have known each other for almost six years now. Well, five years ago, we dated for couple of month and I had to go to Korea for a month and he had another girl, so we broke up. However, five years later we met again, we started to date again and get marry five years later. When we met this year, I told him to go to same college with me so we can both study and get ready for our marriage. After I told him to go to same college with me, everything happened so quickly. My boyfriend took me to Georgia to see his parents, and then we told his parents that we are going to live together while he goes to Virginia Commonwealth University. After we got back from Georgia, I registered him to take the placement test for ENLP. After I registered him, I told him that he can not work anymore and he needs to move down to Richmond. Then he quite his job and he moved down to Richmond with me. I was so surprised that he let me do everything that I wanted. He did not say anything and he did not say “No” to everything that I was doing. Those made me think more about him as my feature husband. At that time, I thought it would be very easy to live with him. Also, I thought we would never get into an argument. However, it was wrong. Because we live together, we had a lot of argument between two of us. Just little things bothered each other so much. Since we grew up in different circumstances, understanding each other was very hard for us. However, as the time passes by, we both were changing. I have changed a little bit by how he wants me to act and talk. He also has change a little bit by how I want him to be. I think living together have changed a lot between two of us. Those three hundred days worth a lot to us. We are becoming a family. We are becoming a one person. Now I think when we get marry, since we know each other so well, we are not going to have many arguments as other couples do. I really trust and love my boyfriend. Also, I am so glade that we met again.  

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My boyfriend and I came to Georgia on October, 10. Since my boyfriend’s family lives in Georgia, we decided to visit them while we are on break. About 12:00 P.M, we left Virginia to go to Georgia. It took us about 9 hours to get here by car. We took route 95 south, then 85 south. On route 85, the side view on the highway was beautiful. The tinged autumnal leaves were on both sides through the whole road on route 85. Even though, it was a long drive, because of the view, wasn't feel like 9 hour drive for both of us. Finally, we got to Georgia at about 9:00 P.M. Only his mother was at home. His brother was at Life time, working out and his father was at work. As soon as we got there, we ate his mother's home-made boiled chicken and chicken soup. It was delicious. Then we went to pick up his brother at Life time. His mother, my boyfriend, his brother, and I sat around at living room and we talk about how we lived, how we are doing at school and other stuff while we were waiting for his dad to come. However, I was so tired from coming here I felt a sleep before his dad came home.

While I was in Georgia, I missed my family a lot because I could feel warmth from his family. Our family has lived separately for about 10 years now. My dad lives in Korea, my mom lives in Stafford, VA, I live in Richmond, VA, and my bother is at military school. I see my brother and my mom about once or twice a month or two and I see my dad once a year during summer break. However, once in two year, our whole family spends time together in Korea or the United States. I thought I will be ok to be around family because I spend half of my life alone. However, it wasn't. His family brought me a memory while our family lived in Korea together. His dad was so much like my dad; his personality, how he talks and how he sing was so much alike with my dad. His brother is about same age as my brother, I felt like his brother was my brother. Also, his mother was so nice to me, I felt like I was his mom's daughter. However something was missing. Even though they treat me like I was their family, it just seem like I should not be there in Georgia. Sometimes I feel like I do not have family. Sometimes I want to go back to 2000, and change everything; don't come to the United States and stay in Korea with my family together. I feel like it is too late for out family to live together now. I am now in college, after I graduate from college, I have to get marry, and my brother is now going to college then he is going to live by himself, doing what he is supposed to do. Also, my mom is going back to Korea because she has done everything here for my brother and me. I think that 10 year was waste of time for our family. We do not have any memory together as a family; spending Christmas, thanksgivings, mother's and father's day and birthday, didn't see how my mom and my dad grew older, and vice versa. Now days, I only talked to my dad once in a while because we both are busy. These 10 years made our family feel a part from each other. We all live their life and do not really care about each other like we used to. It seems like we are not family. I felt sorry for my parents; they had to live separately for 10 years because of my brother and me. Only thing I can make up for them is to study hard and be a doctor or get a job that earns a lot of money. However, one of my dreams is to live with my dad, my mother, and my brother together but I don't think this will happen. I need to do something for my parents. All these year that they spend is so much, I don’t know what I could need to make up for them. It would be so much. However, little thing that I could do for them is that I study really hard and give them a great report card that I got it from the school. I am going to do everything I could to make my parents happy.

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I chose to topic about ‘explore any major differences between the educational system of your country and that of another country with which you are familiar. Consider educational practices and the values reflected in them.’ Since I have attended school in Korea and the United States, I know much about both countries educational system. There are many similarities between two countries, however, there are two major differences that I am going to write about for my essay. My two supporting point will be the amount of time that the students spend at school, and the school rules. I lived in Korea until fifth grade and then I have moved to the United States. While I lived in the United States, I went back to Korea for about 3 month to attend to high school there for family reason. I always knew there was many difference between two countries, however I learned more about the differences while I was there. In Korea, all middle school and high school students spend more than seven hours with teachers and then have mandatory study hall for students for more than four hours. Also, schools have Saturday school too. However, in the United States, students spend less than less than 6 hours at school and do not have Saturday school.  Another difference is school rules. In Korea, rules are very strict. All middle and high school student must have a short hair cut. For example, guy’s hair must be short as when teacher lay tennis racket on the hair, the hair must not stick out. For girls, it must be less than 1 inch from their ears. Currently, many schools in Korea is changing the hair rules, however it must be short. Unlike the United States school, students may not dye their hairs, perms, wear colorful hair bands, jewels, wear make-up or wear color-contact lenses are prohibited to school. Also, all middle and high school student must wear uniforms that each school signs them to wear. Although it seems Korean students doesn’t have a lot of freedom, since they are very used to it, they think it is the right thing to do to be a student. From writing this essay, I think I will look back to my past and give me some time to think about my past. I will try my best to write this essay and put many of resource that I know.   

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Some people believe that someone with high score of IQ is brighter than others. IQ, which stands for intelligence quotient is method of scoring or rating intelligence. From “Multiple intelligences and Emotional intelligence,” Howard Gardner defined intelligence as “the capacity to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural settings.” Also, he believes that his theory of multiple intelligences more accurately captures the diverse nature of human capability. The eight intelligences of Howard Gardner are logical-mathematical, linguistic, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist. He still believes that people have not yet discover many more intelligences.

             I think that Howard Gardner’s theory of intelligence might influence some aspect of formal education. For example, from Gardner’s eight intelligence list, logical-mathematical is one of the examples of giving influence to formal education. Logical mathematical is the skills related to mathematical manipulations and discerning and solving logical problems. Currently, school teaches how to solve logical problems. This gives the students ability to think and calculate at the same time when they solve the problems. This will help students think more and find more intelligence that is not found yet.

             All people are intelligent. People with high score of IQs do not mean they are smarter or intelligent than others. People have different field of their intelligence One might be intelligent in math, one might be intelligent in music or one might be intelligent in science. It is very important to find what one is really good at and what one really like to be intelligent. Also it is important to find a job that is related to what you’re intelligent. For example, I am really good in math but I am looking for a job in musical field, this will not last long and might not be able to find a job. Being intelligent is not hard if one has enthusiasms on something that one want to do, it will work. It is not hard to be intelligent once one work for it.

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Now days, internet has been very common to everyone. People use internet to chat with friends and families, search for something and shop for groceries or cloths. Even in schools, most of teachers assignments on the internet for their students and put grades online to find out before the grade get sent to their home. From my experience using internet, internet was really helpful as I was completing a school assignment. When I attend in middle school for history class, my teacher wanted students to visit the “National Museum of American History;” in Washington D.C. However, I was too lazy, and I didn’t have a time to go to the museum, because of my violin lessons, I decided to not go to the museum. However, I had to complete the assignment, I decided to use internet. I grove the chair and sat front in a computer than typed a ‘www.google.com’, and it gave me a bunch of information about Invention, The American Presidency, and Communities in a changing nation. I wrote a note and brought pictures of some railroad, American map, and timeline to make a power point. I knew it was not good to get online and do the homework, so I told my teacher that I could not go because of some reason; she gave me a good grade on my power point. Another experienced that I had was that when I had to write a research paper for my English class, I found many sources from the internet. When I was writing the research paper, I went to the library and checked out a lots of books, but this did not help a lot because all the information that was there was same. Also, there was a lot of word that I did not understand because it was too long and used hard vocabulary words. Since I had few sources, I went online and searched more. I had much information to write in short time. It took me about 6 hours to read the books that I checked out from the library because I had to read over and over again to understand, find the vocabulary words that I do not know and try to find different information about the topic that I am writing about.  However, from the internet I found much information than I found in the book just in few hours. It had pictures, was written in short paragraph and used easy vocabulary words. Internet was very helpful for me. I saved a lot of time doing my research paper and it gave me a lot of information. However, internet is not always corrected. There is some information that someone from no where put things online from hearing from other people or what they think. Since internet is open to everyone in this world, the internet can give bad influence to the children by searching something they are not supposed to, or talk to someone they do not even know. There for, people need to be really careful about what they use from the internet.