Week 6 - Jo for Little Women

     If I were Jo, I think she would write about the relationships with Laurie and her sisters. 

     Laurie is her neighbor, he is a boy that same age with Jo.  Laurie's house is next to Jo's house, he is living with his grandfather because both of Laurie's parents dead, and they are really rich.  Jo and Laurie met in a dance at the first time, both of them hid behind the curtain because they didn't want to dance. They talked a lot behind the curtain.  Laurie is very gentlemanly boy, and he is a little bit like Jo.

     After this , their relationship becomes closer than before. Laurie was sick, and Jo felt he was very lonely that needed someone to stay with him, so she went to his house, brought the happiness to him. They talked together and Jo helped him clean his room.  Laurie hoped she could come to his house again, because he was happy when she was there. 

     They have a really good relationship now, she brings lot of happiness to him, and she feels he is a good boy and needs her happiness.  Therefore, I think Jo would write about him in the dairy, because he becomes more important to her.

Week #5: The Bullying of Seth Walsh: Requiem for a Small-Town Boy

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2023083,00.html

By Bryan Alexander / Tehachapi

Summary:

     There was a 13-year-old boy named Seth Walsh who is form a small town. He is a really nice boy that his siblings say he is the best old brother in this galaxy.  But he killed himself, because he is a gay, and all of people besides his family bullied him, they never be nice to Seth Walsh just because he is a gay boy. Seth's organs were donated after his death.

Opinion:

     I think people shouldn't bully gay people. Everyone is different, nobody have rights that can interfere the different ways that different people live with.  The only difference between normal people and gay people is that the difference of sexual preference. Different sexual preference is not a crime, people should be respectful to everyone.

Vocabulary:

     tease: to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.

               Ex: Elders can not tease sisters.

  

Time Magazine

Published on October 2, 2010

Little Women---- Character Trait

My Novel: Little Women.
Author: Louisa May Alcott.

     I already read two chapters in this book, my favourite character for now is a girl called Jo.

     There are four girls and their kind mother in this family,  their father is a solider, he is in the war now.  Jo is the second daughter in their family, she is 15 years old.  She is very tall, thin and brown. She is a townboy, she always let people think of a little colt.  I choose her because she is the most interesting and different girl in this family, and she said  that she is the only man in this family when their father is not here. 

     Because her father is not at home, she realized that she should to do more things for this famliy, to help her mother and take care of her little sisters.  I admire her because she is only 15 years old, she is so young but she understands a lot, she does things like a big sister and leader in this family.  I feel I can understand her feeling because sometimes  I feel I am old enough and I think I am stronger than my mother.  Sometimes my trait will like a boy, I am a brave and strong person in many people's eyes, just like Jo.  Up to now, I think Jo is a good girl, there is no much things should be change, and I agree with what she has done with right now.

   

Week #3: Look Officer, No Hands: Google Car Drives Itself

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html
By John Markoff
The New York Times
Published on 9 October, 2010

A. Summary  There is a car that can drive itself, that is a program in Google Company.  The car is using artificial- intelligence softward that can sense anything near the car and mimic the decisions made by human driver.  There are seven test cars have driven 1,000 miles without human intervention and more than 140,000 miles with only a little bit human control.  The engineer said the only accident was when one Google car was rear-ended while stopped at a traffic light.


     The engineer said that the car is safety because robot's reaction is faster than human, and it won't be sleepy or drunk. It can avoid the accidents, because there were lots of accident in America, in 2008, there were 37,000 people died because of car accidents.


     The robot has the GPS in it, so it knows the road, and it has the light and voice to remind people to pay attention, such as it will say "turn ahead" before this happen.
    
     Besides the 15 engineers who is working on the current project, Google hired more people who is with a spotless driving record, to sit in the driver’s seat, paying $15 an hour or more. Google is using six Priuses and an Audi TT in this project.




B. Opinion  When I was a little child, I was thinking about if there is a car could drive itself without human control, how cool if that happen.  That just was a dream in that time period, but time, the dream becomes a truth. There is a kind of car, doesn't need human control.  But I'm not really want to try it right now, because this kind of car just came out, there might be some little problem.  Maybe several years later, this kind of car would be pretty common in human's life.

C. Vocabulary
     curious: eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
          Ex:  I am curious about new things, and often wish I could learn more .
     glimpse: to look briefly; glance.
         Ex:  He glimpsed her as the beautiful girl went by.
     vehicle: any means in or by which someone travels or something is carried or conveyed; a means of    conveyance or transport.
          Ex: Customers should not assume these bulletins apply to their vehicle or that their vehicle will develop the described concern.

My Novel---- Little Women

     I chose the novel named Little Women, written by  Louisa May Alcott. It's such a long book, but seems interesting.

     At the beginning of this book, there are four girls are talking. We can tell it is winter in this book, because they are talking about Christmas gifts, they seem not really happy at the beginning, because one if the girls says " Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents". They don't have a lot of money, they are not a rich family.

     The environment is quite, should be their home, and they are sitting together and talking. Although it is winter, it's sunny out side. They are pretty good and lovely girls, because they say that they don't have money but they have parents that love them, and they have each other, which is way better than some rich family. And they decide buy some Christmas gifts for their mother but not themselves, they want to give their mother a surprise.

     Their father is a solider, and he is in the war right now, these girls are really pround of their father. When their mother came back with the letter from their father, they are really happy, and promise to be a good girl, because they are kids from their hero father, they want their father be proud of them.

     The beginning of the book make people feel so comfortable, and make people be touched by those girls.  I really want to know what going to happen in the future, anyway, it's such a good book!
    
   

Week #2: For a Folk Legend, a Time to Read Mail and to Split Logs

Sunday Routine on The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/nyregion/03routine.html
By Michael Willson
Published on October 1,2010

Summary: Pete Seeger is 91 years old righe now, he just written a new song called "Tomorrow's Children".  He and his wife of 67 years, spend Sundays around the the Dutchess Country house he built by hands, he helped build the Beacon Sloop Club too.  He described his life in this paper.  He would wake up aroud 7:30 anyday, 8 is latest. He doesn't like lounging, he would think of anything instead of lounging.  He said his family is not churchgoers, but they use the word "God" quite often, when he uses it, he feels like in the church.  He usully has a pickup breakfast, sometimes he would eat up the leftover brekfest in the ice box.  He remembered that he mat his wife in Canada. He likes to answer mails, and chopping wood. Mails are important to him, he always work hard to his mails.  He has to use a rolling pin on his legs because theywere swell up, but he said it's never painful, because he didn't eat so much fat of salt or sugar.  He still learning, such as fresh corn only needs to be boiled for two minutes. In the end, he told people a secret, "It's a important thing to learn to talk to people you diagree with".


My Opinion: I think that Mr. Seeger is a really great old sir. One thing he sadi that I really like is his secret, I agree with him, because someone who disagree with you must saw shomething that you are not right, talk with them, you will get more information that can help you to improve yourself.  I think he is a happy person, and he loves his life, That's why he has a longer life.  I want to be a person just like him, write songs when I was old, make people happy, and I will happy too!

Vocabulary:  autographs: a person's own siagnature.
                     Ex: The famous composer autographed copies of his music.
                    theoretically: existing only in theory; hypothetical.
                     Ex: If you conceive it, both theoretically and practically.
                    lounge: to pass time idly and indolently.
                     Ex: The children lounged the whole morning away in the park.

It's Me!!

     Hello! Everyone! Welcome to my blog.

     My name is Ge Zhao, I'm 16 years old, and I am from China.  You also can call me Katherine , that is my English name.

  

    
      My hometown called Lanzhou, that is a small city, but the Yellow River goes through my city, we always called the Yellow River "Mother River", because we are really pround of it.  In my hometown, one of the most famous things is beef noodles, which is very delicious.

     This is not my first year in America, because last year I was an exchange student in Kirkland, Lake Washington High School.  That was really fun to be an American high school student, there are lots of activities that I could join to, such as all kinds of clubs and sports.  I made lots of friends there, and I ate lunch with them.  And we went to dance together,such as Homecoming, we had lots of fun there.

     I joined to the International Club and Envouirmental Club at school.  Every Tueday and Thursday, we would have some activities, or we would have parties that we could have fun.  Sometimes, we would go to hiking on the weekends.  I also took some interesting classes, for example the piano class and the druming class.  In the druming class, I learned how to play a kind of drum called Congo, which is fun that we could use it make any beats that sounds really great!

      I also joined the Girl Scouts last year, that is one of best things in last year.  We did lots of fun things, we went to beach to spent weekends and we went to the tent city to helped homeless people. And we also had lots of parties,such as Halloween Party, we dressed and played a game called "Mummies".  That was pretty cool.

    Last summer, I went to back China, met my family and my friends, I was really miss them.  Before I leave, I took some art photoes with my parents, the photoes were very pretty! By the way, my mother is really beautiful woman!!!!

    

     However, I'm glad to study in Seattle Central Community College and be with you guys!  By the way, my email address for facebook is zhaoge09@gmail.com. Please add me if you want! You also can send an email to me.