Final Exam

SelenaV

 Social Studies 8P6

Language Art 8P8

Economy expository essay

Do you think having freedom to do whatever you want with your own money is the best? You’re wrong! There are four types of economy in the world: Market, Command, Mixed and Traditional. However, a market economy negatively affects its citizen by creates greed and overused.

        The citizens of market economy society have more chances in gain their wealth, but it also creates greedy society. The citizens in a country that have well development in Market economy like the United State earn $46,326 billion in average per year. Being able to earn more isn’t that hard, as hard as you work, it all depends. Valuable-what is that supposed to mean? That’s what people call limited resources, things which many people want to have. Yes, valuable resources-it can be as simple as a nice painting from a famous artist that people take an auction on, or as large as a giant goldmine that countries fought for years to have it. In “How much land does a man need?” The peasant keep wanting more land, he want as much land as possible, want all the land that he could see and keep it all to himself. Since greed grew bigger in him, it naturally became part of himself and he has absolutely no control over. It haunted him, exhausted him to dead.

                Greed leads to the desire of properties. These desires are mostly granted in a market economy. In order to granted these greedy wishes from citizens, companies and factories have been working it out in a way that makes the environmental society goes worst.

        Based on the principles of supply and demand, companies can sell, factories can produce, can burn as much fossil fuel as the consumers wanted. In 2009, the scientists estimate that Apple was responsible for 9.6 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. That was the result of people deciding what they want to buy. Once anything is produce, people with a well develop of economy wouldn’t be bothered by the price of the products and when they decided to go for it, it creates a huge footprint on the ecosystem. Companies using animals’ fur to produce clothes which lead to big changes on animals’ foods web and also with the support from media advertising, companies can entice more consumers in order to make them buy more stuff.

        China is now became the twelve over twenty top polluted countries in the world. This environment problem started since the 1998, right after the death of Den Xiaoping - a leader who changed China’s economy from a command to a market economy. He allows individuals to make their own choices, to earn resources. Made China became one of the countries that having the highest GDP in the world.

        This is another serious problem about social classes in market economies. The poor would always stay being the poor. Most of the middle classes individual society has to work hard for almost their entire life for getting a higher standard of living. There are two types of rich: the first one is that they was born to be rich, the second one are the people from the middle class who worked hard. The poor cannot be able to afford important things to make them succeed like education, because they also have to eat. The rich gets to set prices of products that they produce in a market economy. As long as they set it high, the poor cannot save money while surviving. That is unfair and that is how market economy works. Human greed is endless; it makes many people do selfish things. Again – China, is having the second richest man on Earth and it’s going to become the world’s most powerful country. But still, sixty percent of the Chinese is still living on by agriculture - still being the lowest class with the lowest incomes in the Chinese society. Market economy is creating a huge far away gaps between the poor and the rich.

Without the government, economy of the country would increase so that people has too much freedom in decided what they want. They will not considering the environmental problem before buying anything. Greed blur people’s eyes, it stop people from making right decisions. The more they have, the more they want, as long as these consumers be able to afford it. In order to stop these problems from happening, human-being should have a balanced economy that stay somewhere between Market and Command with rules from the government that guided the poor to be succeed and stop the rich from being greedy. For example, governments can started a new taxes system based on individual incomes. Therefore, the poor still be able to survive and saving money, the rich only be able to afford their needs and not be able to have more than they would ever wanted.

                                                      

Vocabs

Mesmerized: He looks mesmerized at the car that going hit him.
Impeccably: She got an A+ on the presentation because it was impeccably.
stoically: He stood up stoically and walking forward.


Dissuade: I dissuade my brother from running around with a sciccor.
chaotic: She walked into his chaotic room and feeling dizzy with all the mess.
negotiated: The costumer negotiated over the price.


corps: He decided to join the army corps.



commemorate: We're celebrating to commemorate the soldiers.


resembles: She resembles her mother.

petrified: She looks petrified at him as he came back to live.

27th Oct

Q # 6:


I don't think that Don is being clever when he didn't tell the Americans at the first time he arrived at the lawyer's office. I think it was his culture to planing trees for chirldren to hang around. Its probably the normal thing in the village but not to the Americans. They didn't think of that when they bought the house, they thought once they bought it, everything in there would belong to them. Without knowing that the tree Doesnot belong to Don, it was for the chirldren.

Oct 27th

STOP THE SUN vocabs

Commotion : A big commotion downstair wake me up at the middle of the night.

Foundered: The buiding was foundered because they didnt use good materials.

Ruin: She ruins the whole group's project by not doing what she suposed to do.

Inert : She's inert because she's overweight.

Gentleman of Rio de Medio vocabs

Innumerable : Franch has a innumerable amount of grapes to produce so many wines.
boundaries : Tay Ninh is nerest city to the boundary between Vietnam and Cambodia.
descendants : My descendants are my chirdren's grandchirldrens.
negotiation: They are going to have a negotiation about how to solve the problem.

                                                               

Oct 15th

Stop the Sun

In my opinion, Terry asked his dad about his experience is the right thing to do. Firstly, he was a part of the family, family suppose to help each other, care about each other whenever the problem is, they have to solve it together. Therefore they are family, Terry shouldnot be embarrsed because of his father's action. That's why it would be better for him to understand it, to understand his father, helping him when his father's eyes went away. Then Terry would have enough knowledge to started solving this problem,  to save his father from the sickness.

Suzie

“Get back to your room” the mother yelled at Suzie as usual, it happens everyday she got home after school. Then she walked confidently into her room whispering: “ Story of my life”. She sat on her bed staring at her older brother-Kyle playing ball out side the window. All of sudden, he threw a ball right at the window hardly broken. As Suzie stood up and open the window, he cried: “Heyy, what are you looking at? You idiot!!! What are you doing here? Giving birth to you is mommy’s biggest mistake!!.......” Suzie got used to it so that she ignored everything; she closed the window and started to do her homework.Her father was a business man so couldn’t have a chance to interact with him except for Sunday. Her mom was a housewife who was addicted to gamble. She spent most of her money in gambling. 

It was atypical morning; Suzie woke up, came her brown hair, wore a blue T-shirt and jeans, and went to school holding a feeling of excited to leave her house. As soon as she putted her feet on the ground of Georgia Elementary School, she asked herself: “What happened? Where are all the funny creative poster that we made? Where is the clock with a shape of a frog goes?” And I am sure she was not the only one asking these. She passed the hall way on her way to Ms.Flower’s class-looking at the blank wall that was be filled with cute little posters. Suzie sat on the seat that she normally sit, on asking a friend sitting next to her what happened. He said calmly: “I heard there’s a new mean principal and she was the one who burned all the posters and things.” Suzie’s head was totally blank, she just heard something that never happen before in a elementary school at Georgia. The bell rang, Ms.Flower came in with a huge smile on her face as usual. Following her was a huge woman wearing green outfit which looks like what people wear in the army than in a school.  Ms.Flower introduced: “ hi class, I want to talk to you guys  about our new principal-Mrs. Hunada…….” “Hey those little monsters, from now on, there’s will be no more fun in school, I’m the ruler, I will tell you what to do and I said you should not have fun in school HAHA” Mrs.Hunada said before Ms.Flower could finish her sentence. She gave out her evil laugh out the last time before she leave the classroom. Everyone was freaking-out. “She is the meanest teacher in the meanest teachers history.” Someone from the class said. From that day on,  students in school have to do math, memorizing insteading of doing creative projects and all the fun things. At this point, little Suzie was doing something else, she made a song out of Math and teach her classmate how to sing it, Ms.Flower loves the song. Unfortunately, the song spread to the principal and she run hastily to Ms.Flower’s class to look for Suzie. “Where’s our little Suzie? Get out!!! Let’s me see, who is the little monster dare to broke the school rules?” “ Am I the monster you’re looking for?” Suzie got out of the seat step forward to the principal. Mrs.Hunada turned red as she said-almost screaming: “ Well well well!! You little stinky rat, how dare you break my rules? You all have to obey me, everything I said even when I’m right or wrong!!!Understand you animals ?” Suzie got so mad that her eyes looks so red looking at a cup of water, her lip stick together like after being glued. The cup vibrating through every single word that the principal said meanly. The cup exposed, water spilled everywhere all over Mrs.Hunada’s shirt. “ohh, you Suzie, you did it again, you’re the one who broke the cup, I don’t know where, how and I don’t know why But I know it was you.!! I have to change my shirt, I’ll get back to you later.” She went out and Suzie feeling weird, she felt like she was the one who broke it. To proved it, Suzie tried to stare at a eraser making it move. It did move a little bit-not very much. She walked to Ms.Flower’s desk said: Ms.Flower, I did break the cup by looking at it, It was my fault….I can prove it.” “Come on darling, you don’t have to believe what Mrs.Hunada said. Its alright. Can you come over to my house after school?” Said Ms.Flower. Suzie would loves to because she didn’t want to come home and being treated like a kid.

On the way to Ms.F ‘s house, they passed a scary huge castle. Ms.F began her story: Along time ago, there were a happy family lived there, the mother passed soon so that the father remarried another woman, she moved there with them. A few years later, the father died, the polices said he suicide for some unknown reason. The step-mom was a monster, she treated the daughter badly, until she graduated, she kicked her out of the castle and said it wasn’t hers so the woman kept it.” And do you know who is the little girl? It was Ms.Flower and the step-mom is…..Mrs.Hunada. Suzie was in shock when she heard the story. “the main point of the story is that things will change, I’m not talking about me, I’m talking about if you’re in bad situation, something good is just going to happen tomorrow. It’s raining today, it is sunny tomorrow. So don’t feel bad because what Mrs.Hunada said, okay?” “Okay” Suzie answered, an idea was blowing inside her head. “Why didn’t you get your house back then?” Suzie asked. “ No, I couldn’t, how can I?” Ms.F answered. “everyone has a weakness then what is her weakness?” Suzie wondering. “She affairs of black cat, she is a very religious person, she believe in ghosts and gods.” Ms.F said as she pointed to the charms that Mrs. Hunada putted on the door.

-Why did your dad suicide? Suzie shoot out another question.

-I don’t think he did. Answered Ms.F

-What did your dad usually call you at home?

-Pumpkin, he called me his pumpkin

-Then what did he called Mrs.Hunada?

-He called her Jenna

-Okay ……

-What do you have in mind Suzie?

-Nothing!!!

        Suzie already got a plan in her mind. At night, she couldn’t sleep, trying to practicing her power. Started with the smallest thing then she tried to move big things around her room. She practice, practice and practice. Untill one day when she could moves the heaviest thing just by looking through it. When Mrs.Hunado went by checking all the classed making sure there’s NO FUN in school. Suzie looked around the room, suddenly; the door and the windows closed by itself scaring everyone especially Mrs.Hunada. A marker on the table flied and writes a notes on the board. Students were there started to read: “Leave my Pumpkin alone, Jenna! Give her back her house or else I will get you like you got me” Mrs.Hunada putted her hands on the air running like a chicken with it head cut off. She ran away and no one else in Georgia ever seen her again. And Suzie, she became Ms.F’s best friend and often visit her house. Ohm, I mean her castle she got it back after Mrs.Hanada left.

        One day, Suzie’s parents said they have to migrate to Hawaii because her dad have more opportunities out there than he has in Georgia. Suzie refused to leave because she was having the life that she always wanted. She made her parents to sign the adoption paper that she found in the library. They signed it for Ms.F adopted her and that was the nicest thing that her parents ever done for her. They both have what they always wanted, a nice happy family that they couldn’t have when they should had like other people.

Sep 29th

My friend

Wendy is one of my bestfriends who I usually hang out with since last year. Everyday in the morning, she goes to school with her yellow bag which she carry it on her shoulder. She gives us a huge smile before saying "hi, good morning.."Wheter me or anyone need help, she is the first one who volunteer. She look at poeple's generally when she talk to them by her round black eyes. She has long black straight hair. And I haven't seen she tied her hair for a long time. It makes her look girlier and prettier but the only thing that I really like about her is she's nice girl and a very good friend.

Sep 28th

Rehabillitate: He has to rehabillitate himself after the car accident.
Clemecy: She gave her student to have a clemecy to fix what they did wrong.
Elusive: The bible is very elusive because every Christian has their own perspective of looking thing.
Anguish: She is having an anguish after boyfriend broke up with her.

Sep 27th 2010

INTERVIEW
This is my conversation with my cousin when I'm interviewing her.

-Me: Hi, Today, I would like to ask you some question. Would you spend some time to talk to me?
-Cousin: Sure!
-Me: The first question is Where were your parents born?
-Cousin: Well, My mom was born here-in Vietnam. And my dad was born in Malaysia.
-Me:What are your favorite foods?
-Cousin: I love eating Pizza, Spaggetti and Beclacco.
-Me: What is Beclacco?
-Cousin: It is a Malaysia dish! You should try it!
-Me: okay, in your free time, what do you most enjoy doing?
-Cousin: I like listening to music and sleeping.
-Me: Whatis the most important thing to you in life?
-Cousin: I think it is my friends and family, I love them the most.
-Me:Aww, that's so sweet! Anyway, thank you for spending time answering my questions.
-Cousin: No problem!

After this interview, I get to know her more. And the Malaysia traditional dishes. I discovered that we both love music-Pop music.

Tedious: This story is so tedious beacuse all it talks about is wars and fighting.
Archaic: That pair of shoes are so archair because it from the 1980s
Vaguely: Her throat was hurt so she spoke vaguely.
Inquiring: He was inquiring his family to shows them he love them.

Amiably:
We were amiably doing homework before my dad came in.
Presumptuos:
She was presumptuos to think that I have a limousine.
Credulity:
He was dissapointed because of his daughter's credulity as she trusted the stranger.
Hospitality:
For saying thanks to their hospitality, Josh gave them what they've always wanted.
Gnarled:
He was gnarled as he turned 60.

Vocabs

Impromptu:
We have an impromptu test.
Tentatively:
The daughter opens the door tentatively.
Intently:
The students listened to the teacher intently.
Probing:
The doctor is probing the broken bone of the boy.
Ominous:
There was an ominous sound downstair-in the kitchen.

NARATIVE ESSAY

BFF
“Hi, I’m Isabelle and I’m new.” I remembered this day- the first day I got to meet my bestfriend. Well, she was my bestfriend before it happened. It was my fault to made her mad and feel bad. But I didn’t mean to I swear I was too angry to control what I said. You talk faster than you think, right ? The answer is yes, you are and for me, talking without thinking lead me to a big fight. Anyway, this is what happened.
“ Hello people! My birthday party at my house today people! Everybody invited..” Belle – that’s what I usually call her. Belle yelled lound enough for the whole school to hear it as soon as she steped in. People started to surounded us asking “where’s your house? What time the party start?...” It was about tons of questions like that, I was wondering how could she answer all of it.With all of sudden, a guy from Mr.J class got into between me and Belle and another guy got in next to him. They were pushing and tried to ask Belle something. One minute was long enough for me to relized that Belle wasn’t around me anymore so the crowd. I looked over, they were over there and I was here- where I was standing all alone. What should I do now ? It was Belle‘s birthday so I wouldn’t complain anything. I walked through the hall to the classroom by myself. “ Hey, wait for me..” I turned around, Belle was just behind me. “ Wow, the meeting dismissed..?” I asked. “Yeh..” She answered. I was glad that she catched up. It showed me that that she still care about about me. “What was I thinking? Of course she does, she is my bestfriend, I need to stop thinking about things like that” I told me myself. “Hellloooo, did you hear what I said?” Belle yelled at me. “oh, sorry, you were saying..?” “I said this is going to be my best birthday party ever..” She stoped and hide behind me then. I asked her what is it? She didn’t answer. I couldn’t figure it out untill I saw her locker, there’s a picture of a boy in it, oh my god, a guy from the school or can I said the cutest guy in the school. Problem solved. She likes him, that’s it. That was the reason why Belle hide when she saw him.
Bel’s party started at 6 o’clock. I went home earlier than usual just to prepare. Belle’s house were near to mine so we went home together. On our way, I was teasing her about her crush, she didn’t say anything at all. I didn’t like it. She didn’t tell me about him, I told her everything about me. She was like my bestfriend and she didn’t tell me. I was quite angry about it. But then, I decided to not talk about it with her because it was her birthday. I brought my dress, shoes, stuffs and I went to Belle’s house to helped her with her dress and things. Before the party started, I broke my promise with myself. I teased Belle again about the guy. This time, she was not being qiuet anymore. She screamed: “STOP, can you just stop doing that, this is really anoying..seriously!!” Then I got even angrier than she was and saying stuffs that really hurt her feelings on her birthday. The only thing was on my head at that time was: “This is all her fault, I didn’t do anything wrong” and other things that isn’t right at all. She wanted me to get out of her room. I sat on her house’s sofa and discovered something- Belle’s dairy right under it. I opened it and read through it, read every single things in it. Excatly like what I expected, she likes him… then...I got an idea, it was a horrible idea, our friendship splited just because of it. I wait untill everybody were there, at the party. I got up, stand on the table and said: “ Everybody, may I got your attention, please ?” People turned around and stared at me. I read Belle’s dairy out lound and made everybody laugh so hard. I was very happy when things go that way. I hadn’t relize that Belle was crying at corner.
At night, when I got home from the party, I wasn’t that mad anymore. I think back what I had done to hurt my bestfriend just because I was angry and a little of jealousy. I should control my feelings better than that before it lead to an action. On Monday, I tried to talk to her again but It didn’t work. She will hate me forever. I was thinking why would I be so childish? People were pointing at her and started to laugh at her. I feft bad. It is too late for me to do anything, I tried to stop people from doing it but they ignore everything. Belle didn’t talk to me untill now. She can’t forgive me and I can’t forgive myself either. After that, we never talk to each other again. Belle turn out to be a close person. And I- I made myself to control my feelings and my words better later then. Because other people have feelings too. I shouldn’t just care about mine. I hurted her so badly. Though this mistake I also I have learned that: “ Beware your words- always think before saying, before anything bad turns to action or else, there’s no happy ending. Like me and my best friend.

Flowers for Algernon ( Question 8 )

  Charlie didn't know he was fool to his friends because he wasn't so smart. But he was happy to having friends who always laughing at him. After the test, he got smarter, he relized that to his friends he was a joke. He started to feel bad and fooled. Same thing to Eve. She didn't know she was naked before she ate from the tree of knowledge. After eating it, she got smater and she saw she was naked. She can no longer live happy with Adam in the Eden Garden.



The similarity between Charlie's experiences and Eve are: THey thought they could live happier when they got smart.But they both dissapointed after they got what they wanted.