Accordion to 12AP

One life lesson has been taught to me by my parents, teachers and past experiences, and that is to also put yourself in the other person's shoes. As I read through Roselily in class today, I started wondering what was the husband thinking at the time. Did he actually love Roselily? What does he feel about this marriage? Does it bring him more burden or more freedom? How does he feel about his future wife having a different religion than him? At the end of the story, he "does not look back" when Roselily decided to end her conflicting thoughts and settle with her new life. That is because he also has to think about all of those questions and more. The women he is about to marry are doing it not for love, but because her children and herself are running out of money. He cannot ensure that this marriage is long-lasting or filled with love like an actual marriage, especially when during the marriage the couple is not even staring at each other.  This two-sided view can really

Growing up in two completely different cultures have exposed to many different ideals that people have in both cultures. The Chinese culture emphasize qualities like honor and loyalty, while the American culture emphasize the importance of change and equality. However, one quality is emphasized both here and back in China: the importance of being early. Both cultures have a saying that basically translates to "the early bird catches the worm". After 17 years of experience, I have came to the conclusion that most of the time that saying holds true, but during some instances, I have wondered, was I too early? In the past, both cultures have pounded the importance of being early into my mind, from examples in TV shows, speeches, daily lives, etc. I developed a habit of doing everything as early as I can (mostly influenced by my parents). My parents signed me up for Kumon Math at a really young age (around 1st grade) so I can have a head start on the rigorous math curriculum in C

Throughout history, many historical figures have pursued ideals that are almost unrealistic. People, like Stalin or Lenin, had an extremely perfect vision of a world, but when they tried to implement it, the results were violence and dictatorship. In George Orwell's Animal Farm, idealism also fails in the end when the pigs basically became humans and broke all the promises that were once promised by Old Major. Obviously, idealism is bad for these leaders who tried to use it in their own "world", but after reading these stories, I realize that I use idealism on a day to day basis and it also causes me a lot of trouble.  Every week, I make a full schedule for what I will do this week. I have been doing this for a long time and I now have a habit of tightly following every schedule I make. Now this might sound like a good trait to have and I agree. But the thing is the schedules I have made are usually pretty unrealistic. My schedules are based on an ideal world where distra