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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

What is the difference between standard of living and quality of living?

The standard of living is about material goods which comfort us and the money where as the quality of living refers to the personal priority.every individual have their own standard of living and quality of living.It could be high or low standard of living or quality of living,but still they are happy with what they have.
               
                     In my country(Nepal) where i was born is called a poor country in the world.Still people were living their live with full enjoyment and happiness.During my stay in Nepal, there was no heater, no air conditioner ,no hot water, no washing machine and dry cleaner at home.We have to wash everything with our hands.Also,there was load shedding of 16 hours a day,and have to use candle instead generator. For some rich people might have some of those, but for the poor and middle family doesn't have these standard of living and they don't expect as well.There was less job opportunities in Nepal ,but still they managed to do something for their living.Mostly,Tibetan were more likely enjoying their quality of life in Nepal because they have factories and industries.Now,the standard of living in Nepal is getting better and people try to live their quality of life with their families.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Summary of The Trumpet of Conscience

In the article " The Trumpet of Conscience",Dr.Martin Luther King states the continuation of the earlier discussion against the war in Vietnam, repeating many of the same arguments, and adding to them after a time of facing detractors and refining his arguments. The concerns against the Vietnamese war were based on the moral issues of war working against poverty, as it drew effort and money away from the war on poverty. He based his argument that the war was an enemy to the poor on the fact that the greatest percentage of the men fighting and dying was poor black young men who fought in a foreign country for freedom, and he was not able to enjoy in his own home. The violence in the ghettos mimicked the war, with young black men facing soldiers and guardsmen. King believed that the Peace Prize had given him a commission to work for peace for all men.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Tell white lies (occasionally)

Thesis:Sometimes telling a "White lies "is acceptable in order to maintain a good relationship. I. Everyone tells a white lie on occasion.Some white lies save relationships,some ease a hectic situation and gives us happiness. II.Honestly,the world is probably a better place because of our white lies.As long as we aren't hurting others or breaking the law,these innocent lies can make life more pleasant.A.In the article,it said that her baby was ugly, and that one truth hurts to Verna so bad.So,the author realized that she should have lied to Verna about her baby.B. the day your friend's daughter dropped out of  school is not the day to tell her about your daughter making the honor roll.White lies somehow protects and comforts  others.Conclusion: Hence,It saves our relationship and stop being hurt by white lies.Somehow, white lies exist in a person's life to keep up with a relation that we had.
Courtesy: Key to a Happier World
Thesis: Life’s difficulties would be minimized if people were more courteous to each other.


I. Basic ingredients of good manners
A. Justice
B. Empathy
C. Capacity to treat all people alike,regardless of all status or importance


II. Three ways to improve one’s manners
A. Practice courtesy
1. To focus on your own performance in a specific area
2. Don’t let others’ bad manners make you rude
B. To think ina courteous way
C. Be able to accept courtesy


Conclusion. Politeness is the golden rule in action.


Courtesy: Key to a happier World

E.Reading for more detail
1.Which of the three basic ingredients of courtesy makes the most sense to you?
-- For me,the most sense is empathy from the three basic ingredients of courtesy.

2.Would people in your country agree with Dr.Peale's "main ingredients" of good manners?
-- Yes, people in my country will definitely agree with him on a main ingredients of good manners.

3. Which of Dr.Peale's way of improving manners would you find the most difficult to follow?why?
-- The most difficult to follow is to accept courtesy because people can't handle all with Courtesy.Sometimes we meet strange,weird and suspicious  people who treat bad.So we can't stand with the courtesy.

4.The writer uses anecdotes to illustrate his points.Which anecdote will you remember?
-- I will remember the man dining lane was trying to unscrew  the cap of a bottle of catsup,but his finger were badly crippled by arthritis that he couldn't do it.He asked a young busboy to help.The boy took the bottle,turned his back momentarily and loosened the cap without difficulty.Then he tightened it again.Turning back to the man,he feigned a great effort to open the bottle without success.Finally he took it into the kitchen and returned shortly saying that he had managed to loosen it-but only with a pair of pliers.

5.Keywords
1.Conviction: belief in something without need for proof or evidence.
2.Good manners :courtesy.
-It is important to have good manners to deal with strangers or other people in the world.
3.Worthy: having qualities or abilities that merit recognition in some way.
4.Retaliating: take revenge for a perceived wrong.
5.Intimacy: feeling of being intimate and belonging together.
6.Gracious: exhibiting courtesy and politeness.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Tell WHite Lies(Occasionally) by Donald W.McCullough

E.1. Would Peale approve or disapprove of McCullough's ideas on white Lies?
-- I think Peale would disapprove of McCullough's ideas on white lies because he is more concerned about courtesy,good manners.For him, telling the truth is mist important than the white lies.

2. Imagine that you were turned down for a job that you wanted very badly.Would you rather hear the unpleasant truth about why you were rejected or a tactful lie?Explain.
-- I would rather hear the unpleasant truth about why I was rejected because it is about the job and have to be serious about this matter.However,It is better to confess the truth before it is late.Though it  is hard to bear the truth but won't be disappoint later when we get to know the fact.

3. Mark Twain,writer and humorist,said this about lying:"One of the most striking difference between cat and lie is that a cat has only nine lives ." What do you think this quotation means?
-- It means Lies live on and on and has more lives than a cat.A cat only has nine lives,but a lies lives on forever.Sometime lies are so perpetuated they begin to look like truth.

4. Are there universal good manners?In other words,is there a core of good manners that polite people of all countries recognize?Or are good manners different for each individual culture?
-- Respect is a universal good manner.So is being polite and courteous. Good manners are different for each individual culture.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

My Reading Log



1# Reading Log
Entry: 03-24-13
Title: The story of an hour
Author: Kate Chopin

Summary: The story describes the series of emotions. Louis Mallard suffers after hearing of the death of her husband, who was believed to have died in a railroad disasters. Mrs.Mallard suffers from heart problems; therefore, her sister attempts to inform her of  horrific news in gentle way. Mrs.Mallard locks herself  in a room to immediately mourn the loss of her husband. However, she begins to feel unexpected sense of excitements or joy. “Free! body and soul free” is what she believes in a benefit of his death. At the end of the story she learns, when her husband returns home, that he was not involved in railroad disasters. The shock of his appearance kills Mrs.Mallard. The reason his appearance is such a shock is left deliberately ambiguous.


2# Reading Log
Entry:03-26-2013
Title: Brave man saves a baby
Newspaper: News in level


 Summary: A girl of 2 years old stopped breathing when her parent were shopping in a supermarket in Australia. it was a difficult moment where her mother doesn't know what to do and her father tried to help the girl but she was not moving. People tried to help but couldn't help out.Then a brave man came and give her mouth to mouth resuscitation. After 90 min,a girl opened her eyes and her father thanked a brave man.


3# Reading Log
Entry:03-28-2013
Title:A very short story
Author: Ernest Hemingway


 Summary: It is a story of Nick, who recovers in hospital and starts a romantic relationship with Luz, the nurse. They make plan to marry after the war when Nick returns to the U.S. and finds a stable job. However, apart from each other, Luz found Other Italian soldier and call off her engagement to Nick. Nick never speak to her again and later he losses himself in a life of womanizing and alcoholism.


4# Reading Log 
Entry: 03-29-2013
Title: Friendship
AuthorSally Berneathy


Summary: A story of a two best friend named Paula Brent and herself, Sally Berneathy. They were in same grade .They lived in a small town in southern Oklahoma where money was scarce. She lent ruler to Paula and she didn’t give it back so, Berneathy grab it and she held on, so ruler broke. After that they became so close and inseparable when they were six years old. Years passes, and they spent night at each other house and talked about their future. Berneathy want to be a writer and Brent want to be a artist. Later Paula moved with her father 
to Dallas and they depart but kept in touch. They got married and had baby. Still,their

relationship was strong and they sent letters. Paula became nurse and Sally became legal 
secretary. But time came when they divorce from their husband and lost touch. They  changed job, addresses, phone numbers. They remarried and Berneathy settled in Kansas city but didn’t know how to reach Paula. Seven years later she got a call from Paula and cried. Now Paula back in Oklahoma and  she is in Missouri. They meet every summer and  one of them gave birth to a girl who calls aunt to Berneathy.  
      

5# Reading Log
Entry:04-01-13
Title: Hamlet
Author:William Shakespeare


 Summary: Hamlet was a prince of Denmark who was devastated by his father’s death. Meanwhile, he has a relationship with a girl named Ophelia, but they can never marry because she is not of a royal blood. Hamlet sees the ghost of the father,who tells him that his uncle, Claudius poisoned him and that is how he died. Hamlet is enraged and seeks revenge on Claudius, who married Hamlets mother in order to get the crown, which   rightfully belonged to Hamlet. One night, Hamlet is talking with his mother when he realized  someone is spying on them and stabs the person through a hanging tapestry. He is  unsettled when he finds it to be Ophelia’s father, who worked for the king. Ophelia goes  mad when she finds her true love killed her father. She drowns in a river. Hamlet, mean  awhile plot revenge against Claudius. One day, he engages in a dual with Ophelia’s brother  Laertes. However, Hamlet does not know that Laertes and the king have secretly plotted  revenge against Hamlet for killing Laertes’ and Ophelias’s father. The king poisoned a glass  of wine and Laertes poisoned his swords, one of which would kill the prince. However,  things go amiss when Queen drinks the poisoned wine and falls dead. Laertes slices  Hamlet’s arm with his poisoned swords, leaving Hamlet with just enough time left of his life  to fulfill his goal.He slays. king Claudius, and also Laertes when he discovers the swords had poisoned him. They 
all die in the end. 



6# Reading Log
Entry:04-06-13
Title: Pollution by Akash
Article from Preserve.

Summary: Pollution is a undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated  with harmful substances as a result of human activities.Substance are the responsible for  the alternation of environments and total chain of action as environmental pollution.No body           
 else than the man himself is the real cause of environmental pollution.it can affect air,water 
and land.Environmental pollution can be well understood if we study its sources and effects



7# Reading Log
Entry:04-07-13
Title: Human Value
Author:Unknown

Summary: The well known speaker started off seminar by holding up a 20 dollar in the room of 200 people and asked who wants the 20 dollar bill then he crush it and dropped it on the ground and grind on the floor and make it dirty.He holds up and ask who still wants it?He said whatever he did it to money but still value the same and worth as a 20 dollar. Many times in a life, people fall apart,crumple, and dirt in to the ground by the decision we make and the circumstances that come our way.No matter what happened or going to happen, people 

should not lose their value.People who love, they will always love without 
discrimination.The worth of lives come not in what we do or who we know,but by who we are.




8# Reading Log
Entry:04-09-13
Title: The Scarlet letter
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Summary: A young woman moves to Boston,Massachusetts while her husband takes care of affairs.After 2 years, she has an affair with the reverend Dimmesdale. When she become pregnant and gives birth to her daughter,Pearl.The town punishes her for committing adultery.She is sentenced to stand on the town scaffold for the town to stare at her and wear a letter "A" on her bosom for the rest of her life.As she stands there, she sees her husband in the crowd who later threatens to find the father of the child and seek his revenge with a new identity as a physician named Roger Chilling worth.


9# Reading Log
Entry:04-10-13
Title: Life after death
Author: Connie Taylor

Summary: The story tells about a four years old little girl, who was the only child in the family. Diane was kept away from church and her parents didn't tell her anything about God or Christianity.One day,she felt sick and hospitalized.Doctor tried to save her but she died.Her parents were in terrible grief.Suddenly,she started to cough and she alive. She said,she talked with Jesus and he told her that she has a little brother who died at birth.They were surprised and believed that she met Jesus.After that, her parents started to believe in God and preached God's word in United States.She was not the same after she talked with Jesus.


10# Reading Log
Entry:04-12-13
Title: Hills Like White Elephant
Author: Ernest Hemingway

Summary: The story takes place in the train station bar of Ebro valley in Spain.A young American man and a girl have some beer outside the bar.During the conversation, she tells that the hills look like white elephant.That dragged into little argument about the operation which he wants her to do but she doesn't want to do it.That made tense environment and she told him to shut up.Later,the bar maid came to inform that the train comes in a few minute.He take their luggage to train station and came back..She smile on him and said there is nothing wrong with her.She is fine.

11# Reading Log
Entry:04-14-13
Title: Forget multi-tasking.Try mono-tasking
By Paolo Cardini (TED.COM)

Summary: Paolo tried to remind us about the importance of monopoly and disadvantage of multi- tasking.He showed a bad result of multi-tasking like cook,text,talk and watch television at same time.Sometime it can cause a dangerous situation due to our carelessness when we trying to control a multi-tasking environment.People drive a car,at the same time talking on the phone might cause an accident.Mono-tasking is the best way to focus on one thing and do it.



12# Reading Log
Entry:04-25-13
Title: Interpretation of Maladies
By Jhumpa Lahiri

Summary: Interpretation of Maladies is a story which takes place in India and the young American-Indian Das family and their guide tour,Kapasi who drives  them to the sun temple at Konarak. On the way,Mr.Kapasi noticed that the family were very American but very immature parents. Mr.Das is young,curious but not attentive while Mrs.Das is very self-concerned but shows interest on Mr.Kapasi after revealing his work as an interpreter.She began to questions him about his work and his life.Mr and Mrs.Das seems to have a bed relationship. Mrs.Das shows a little interest in their three kids while Mr.Das acts like an  older brother and look after them. Mrs.Das later shares her little secret with Mr.Kapasi  that she had an affair and birthed a middle child Bobby.She said she doesn't love her husband and her kids.Actually she needs some suggestion from Mr.Kapasi to help her out from illness.He felt so bad for Mr.Das and the children.He tells her to confess the truth to her husband. At last, Mr.Kapasi realized that he had gained nothing but conformation of his hopelessness from his encounter.


13# Reading Log
Entry:04-26-13
Title: A Temporary Matter
By Jhumpa Lahiri


Summary: In the story "A Temporary Matter" by Jhumpa Lahiri opens up with Shukumar and Shoba who lived in a house.They are notified that electricity  will be turn off after 8 pm to 9 pm in order to fix the power line. Six month earlier,she lost her baby when he was in a conference at Baltimore and it was too late when he returned o hospital.Every day,when light goes off,they lit a candle, eat food, and share secrets to each other that they have kept for so long.The light goes off and he look for her and they sit together and weep for their new knowledge.

14# Reading Log
Entry:04-27-13
Title: Wives Bring Home Bacon
From:Am New York News

Summary: In the article"Wives bring home bacon" by Emily Ngo states that Women are doing men's work outside the house.They are taking care of the finance and men are doing baby sitter at home.It shows that women are earning much more than men. Husbands may not keep up in the same ways as wives.Today's the adult aged from 30-44 includes more women than men with college degrees.Women are more capable and responsible for finance than a men.Year to year,wives are growing with more percentages than a husbands for every activities.

15# Reading Log
Entry:05-05-13
Title: A Gas Station Burns in the Forest:Illuminating Our Moral Legacy
Author: David A.Shapiro

Summary: In the article "A Gas Station Burns in the Forest:Illuminating Our Moral Legacy" by David A.Shapiro states the explosion took place in Glacier National Park in Montana where two of the gas station named national brand and Y-Pay-Mor were closed to eachother.One of them (national brand) explode after they moved filling their vehicle's huge 32-gallon tank from a gas station with his father and his best friend.They left the spot without helping out the other people who were in fire.His father said there was nothing they can do,so they go straight to rangers and asked for help.His father was afraid for their loved ones and their children,so he kept away from the dangers.Questions came up in mind like did they do the right thing?what is the moral legacy of the choice they made?etc and how society will be remembered?They think they couldn't do won't be enough and what the difference?



16#Reading log
Entry: 05-14-2013
Title: Modern Society and the quest for Human Happiness
Author: Dalai Lama

Summary: In the article"Modern Society and the quest for Human Happiness",Dalai Lama states his early life from Tibet to India as a refugee.Today,he travel all over the world meeting new people.Most of the people came to visit Dalai lama from far at Dharamsala where he live in exile.They came with their problems and their story of hardship and sufferings.Traveling all over world and seeing poor,rich,educated,no educated,they wish to happy and getting rid of sufferings reminds him of the same human beings.People who live in materailly developed countries are less happy and less satisfaction than one who living in least developed countries.Comparing those richand poor,it seems like poor people are much happier and less expectation and anxious.Rich people ,they think of getting more and more,so they dont have room for anything else except money.Also they will have the most sufferings than the poor ones.For example, Dalai Lama visited  the very wealthy family on  an occassion and everyone was beautiful,kind.They have several servers to serve food to them.He think that way that wealth is asource to get happiness ,but when he walked around ,he saw a bunch of tranquilizers and sleeping pills indide the cupboard.Then forcefully think about how people act like everything okey with outside world and suffering rom inside.Therefore,people must have to know that wealth is not everything.Happiness also exist and it is the main source of being happy in a life.

17#Reading log
Entry: 05-20-2013
Title:What is quality of life? 
Author: Francisco Orozco

Summary: In the article"What is Quality of Life?",Francisco Orozco states that people have their own experience of living in different countries.They are conscious about the different value of lives in their own country.There are different aspects of living standard and quality of life in each country.They are mostly based on money and materials goods they have and the infrastructural of the countries as well.People find their quality of life with their social relations,families,tradition,jobs,education etc.
People mistook a quality of life with a money and materials,but they forget to concern about the spiritual needs like,sparing time for families and friends,doing things which gives inner happiness and helping others.If country gives more importance to immaterial things,then the country gets poor and less progressing..