My Reading Log

Essay 1-3


The news skit series "The story of shoes" is including three skits which based on Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations when he visited Moscow.He said,"only the feet know if the shoes fit."
The first one is Grouping Around.A man his shoe in the river, a guy help him to find the shoe,but the man threw the shoe. Finally, the guy found the man only enjoy feeling around.
The second one is Fitting. A father bought a pair of shoes for his kid, but the shoes' size only fits himself, not his kid.
The last one is Fixing Shoes Or Fixing The Feet. A lady's shoes don't fit her feet. She thought she should fix her feet to fit the shoes.
These skits are very funny. Chinese Coummunity Party are very evil. They are very good at deceiving people. If you know them well how they think and talk, you can get the point behind the speaking. You are not easy to be cheated.otherwise, you bound to fail in their traps. Although these skits are very simple. I think westerner are not easy to get the funny point. Becasue they are including a lot of informations and mainland China's social background. I would like to try my best to discloure CCP's evil.
Here is the link. I hope you enjoy watching them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkrGR10FCII&list=SPbpfJPegjfAUlb278rQwquWGX3kZcTFS0



Essay 4

The video Richard St. John's 8 Secrets of Success spoken by Richard St. John's is about 8 ways to succeed. They are passion, work, good, focus, push, serve, idea and persist.
Yes. I agree with John. You will be successful if you follow these 8 ways. Very interesting thing is Passion. According to John's speaking, passion make you do it for love, not for money. John described, "If you do it for love, the money comes anyway." That's true! I am this kind of people. I have been America over six years. I have spent a lot of time and money to improve Chinese human rights as a volunteer. I find a truth. No matter how much money I have spent, it came back the same anyway. So I focus on what I should do and just do it. Just like Chinese people say "if you do a good deed, you have a good return." Some companies offered me good jobs and good benefits. I never worry about job, housing, something like that. I feel so lucky. I just did a little bit and I got so many rewards. I really believe God is fair. Do from heart to help others, God will take care of us!

Essay 5


The story "Hills Like White Elephants" written by Hemingway is about an American man and her girlfriend's arguement. The girl has pregnant and wants to keep this baby. But her boyfriend, an American man,doesn't want this baby. He is trying to convince the girl to abortion.
This story looks like very simple, but it's hard to understand. I need to think a lot to figure out what the story is talking about. A lot of meaning are behind the lines.

Essay 6

Responsible to The Friendship Bond
The article "The Friendship Bond" written by W. R. Smalzer is about friendship bond. Smalzer believes friendship is built between two people with warmth and love. Trust and acceptance are the friendship's foundation. Psychology Today's survey shows people think that five qualities, that are trust, honest, accepts, supports me and understands me, are important to their friendship. And then, betrayed by a friend and having different view on important issues are the two reasons to end up friendship. Social psychologists think that trust and friendship are going together.
This article is interesting. Smalzer says,"Both members in a friendship must be open with and trust one another for their relationship to become deeper. " I agree with Smalzer. Trust is very important factor in friendship. If I don't trust this person, I won't say anything to him, let alone being a friend. Trust plays fundamental role in friendship. Human's feeling is very complicated. It relates many aspects. I experienced that I had met a person on a party. She gave me first impression was amazing. I felt she would be my sister in the past life. I became a talkative in front of her. After that, we became good friends. We had a lot of interactions like family members. We shared our views on different issues, shopping together and traveling together if possible, etc. Staying with her, I felt comfortable and relax. I was very happy to have a friend sharing my happiness and unhappiness. 12 years passed, we still are good friends. Looking back, if I didn't trust her, I wouldn't be open and socialize with her, and vice versa. Certainly, we weren't good friends. Smalzer's view that the two most important building blocks of friendship are trust and acceptance is really sensible.