Accordion to 12AP

Nobody likes to start over, but sometimes life just accidentally presses your restart button whether you wanted it or not. Everyone has started over before, whether it's washing your clothes and dropping food on it immediately, reading an article for a class and finding out that you read the wrong one, or, like me, not saving the entire essay after 1-2 hours of hard work and continuous typing. Starting over is probably one of the worst feelings that every person has experienced multiple times in their lives. After restarting the process, you get so depressed over how good you did and how you just wasted a couple hours of your time to achieve nothing at all. You feel demotivated to do it again because you think it will be so boring and too much work. This is exactly what I felt after I opened my Microsoft Word and found out the entire essay was gone. Starting over is soo much harder than starting up. When I do something for the first time, there is some sort of excitement that I g

Another week, another topic. This week our class discussions focused mainly on the injustice because of discrimination in many aspects of society like Kingston's discrimination against women, Alexie's discrimination against minorities, and Thoreau's discrimination against reformers. The world today is filled with these types of discrimination. In many countries, there is still a sense of men superiority. Many important positions in those countries are said to be open to everyone but only the men have the power to run for those positions. Also, reformer are also heavily suppressed by the government. Most notably in China, the Hong Kong Protest has been going on for almost 6 months now and many images and videos have been leaked that show the police conflict with civilians in Hong Kong. Finally, and in my opinion the worse type of discrimination in the world, racial discrimination is present in almost every single country in the world. Racial discrimination has been used

Another labor-intensive week of 11AP English has finally passed. This week's main topic was definitely the different types of freedom such as Frederick Douglass's freedom from slavery, Vowell's freedom of interpretations, and Wallace's freedom of being present-minded and having a compassionate life. All of these types of freedom represent a deeper understanding of different aspects of being truly free mentally and physically. The authors used various methods such as sarcasm and mockery of the system to convey their feeling or understanding of freedom to the reader. However, I wasn't able to find a connection between me and the 3 types of freedom discussed during the week because they were pretty much irrelevant (at least right now) in my life. What I truly value right now is simply having a happy life.  As an immigrant from mainland China, I was restricted in many areas of my daily life such as my freedom of speech or press. I could not publicly criticize the gov

During the discussion about truth, someone said that truth can differ depending on the person's perspective. I think this statement definitely holds true in many aspects of life, especially in music interpretation or performance. When I first started playing my instrument and learning about music, I would often go online and search up the piece of music that I will be playing to get familiar with it. However, I find dozens of different professional players who play the piece completely different from one another. For example, the original Libertango sounds very mysterious and tense, but another version makes it sound very happy and proud. At the time, I always chose the happier sounding ones because I thought those were easier. When I played the piece for my family, they all said that it sounded amazing (probably because they wanted me to feel good, I was horrible at that time) and I believed it. Eventually, I had to play the piece for my teacher; I thought I would definitely imp