I write this letter to reflect on the last article about China protects its language from English. For me as a Chinese person, I would really appreciate to what you are currently standing for and the extents of how to save this national literature that English dialect has been into.

Although the English has been always the number one wide spoken language in the world and Chinese has now climbed up the second, two of those kinds are distinctively different in several.  I am ensuring that a Chinese word world ruin a whole typical English essay. Then why can we keep the issue but in reverse?

English is the widest-spoken language in the world, so it is obviously chosen for the world language. Besides that, English is one of the easy learning languages since the alphabet is based on Latin.

2. How much has English got into your language? Do you like this?

The Vietnamese language is influenced by English and mostly by French. In my opinion, it is not either a sad thing because every language usually has some other language’s word in it.

3. Do you have any negative feelings towards English?

Not at all.

4. The world language has always been that of the strongest economic power. Will we all be learning Chinese one day?

Language difficulty has always been an obstacle to communicating and trading, so that is why this is beneficial for the English spoken countries. At the moment, Chinese has climbed up to be the second most spoken language and might be the most in future, so why wouldn’t we learn just more than ours?

5. Do you think all languages will disappear one day and we’ll all speak a world language?

It is an evolution that most of the human in the world know how to quite speak English. However, others languages are also important that cannot be eliminated.

6. Do you think China’s actions could harm its economic progress?

I don’t think economic progress is all about language difficulty.

7. Where would you put Chinese on a list of languages we must learn?

As the second most spoken language, I would choose Chinese is the second language to learn or maybe can be substituted with English.

8. What would English be like if it banned foreign words?

English is the wide used kind of language that can have various nicely foreign words in all nations as German, Latino. Therefore, it would be less interesting if English is just as “English”

I’m five years old
It’s getting cold
I’ve got my big coat on

I hear your laugh
And look up smiling at you
I run and run

Past the pumpkin patch
And the tractor rides
Look now — the sky is gold
I hug your legs and fall asleep
On the way home

I don’t know why all the trees change in the fall
I know you’re not scared of anything at all
Don’t know if Snow White’s house is near or far away
But I know I had the best day
With you today

I’m thirteen now
And don’t know how my friends
Could be so mean
I come home crying and you hold me tight and grab the keys

And we drive and drive
Until we’ve found a town
Far enough away

And we talk and window-shop
Until I’ve forgotten all their names

I don’t know who I’m gonna talk to
Now at school
I know I’m laughing on the car ride home with you
Don’t know how long it’s gonna take to feel okay
But I know I had the best day
With you today

I have an excellent father
His strength is making me stronger
God smiles on my little brother
Inside and out
He’s better than I am

I grew up in a pretty house
And I had space to run
And I had the best days with you

There is a video
I found from back when I was three
You set up a paint set in the kitchen
And you’re talking to me

It’s the age of princesses and pirate ships
And the seven dwarfs
Daddy’s smart
And you’re the prettiest lady in the whole wide world

Now I know why all the trees change in the fall
I know you were on my side
Even when I was wrong
And I love you for giving me your eyes
Staying back and watching me shine

And I didn’t know if you knew

So I’m taking this chance to say
That I had the best day
With you today

1.     What is this song about?

This song is written and performed by Taylor Swift. The song is about her mom, the one who gave birth and encourage her all the way. This song can be dedicated to all the mothers by their children’s hearts.

2.     Do you consider this poetry? Why or why not?

This song is more like a talk from a daughter to her mom. There isn’t much catching rhyme.

3.     What do you think the theme of this song is bout?

The line: “Don’t know how long, it’s gonna take to feel okay, but I know I had the best day with you today.”

Although Problems are always across life, with the support from a mother, everything would go right.

4.     What do you think the theme of this song is bout?

The theme of song is loving, family, regular life. Everyone has a mother to love. Sometimes, this kind of emotion is not easily expressed by exposing. Therefore, Taylor sends what she thought into a song to her mom.

5.     Are there any rhyming patterns that you have in your song?

A good song has rhyming patterns. The Best Day is not a poetry song kind but it only presses the rhyme in the appropriated sentences.

6.     How does your song make you feel? Explain?

The song reminds us about family especially is mother. It is really soft but able to touch deeply our heart.

Angelina Jolie Voight

Angelina Jolie was born in the 4^th of June, 1975. At the moment, Angelina is working on Actress and also Humanitarian, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Like many other actresses, Angelina used to be a fashion model but it turned out fairly well as she stepped in the screen. Over five years of working as professional acting, she achieved so many awards and so was reputation. In 2005, Angelina blew up people’s mind with her biggest commercial successes with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith with the actor Brad Pitt which turned out to be her partner afterward. Right now, with her partner Brad Pitt, they are building a multicultural family by adopting children. Several times being cited as the most beautiful & attractive woman on planet, Angelina Jolie is always a hot topic for social community.

Minh Nhi (Truong Hung Minh)

Minh Nhi is a famous Vietnamese drama actor and humorist. Minh Nhi was not meant to be an actor because he was going to be studying Medication as his family’s expectation. Unfortunately, he was into drama performing act school instead of medication path. While studying in school, Minh Nhi had to work many part time jobs in order to pay tuition, that was including drama performing out of the street. For a little while, his talent and fortune were collided in many drama stages and soon being noticed. Minh Nhi had overcome many challenges to be on top of successful drama actor in the eyes of Vietnamese audiences.

Taylor Swift (Taylor Alison Swift)

Taylor Alison Swift who was born December 13, 1989 is a pure American country pop singer-songwriter and actress. At the age of ten, she began writing songs and singing them at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs around her hometown. Taylor debut at the late 2008 with an first album “Taylor Swift”, the result of its was a Grammy nomination in Best New Artist. Fearless became the most successful of Tay so far when it turned into a phenomenon of all age-listeners and high critique. Fearless was the best-selling album of 2009 in the US with more than 3.2 million copies sold in that year. She also topped the all format 2009 Top 10 Artist Airplay chart with over 1.29 million song detections, and the Top 10 Artist Internet Streams chart with more than 46 million song plays. Different than others, Taylor’s songs bring the listeners through her life experience where people find it really peaceful and innocent. At the present, Taylor Swift is only 20 years old, but she knew how to use her music to speak up, and that all it is about.

“I don’t want to live longer – I want to live bigger” -  By Thorn said to Jake.

The novel Dare Devil was written by Bill Condon. The Story is about precious friendship between Jake and his friend – Tony Thorns.. After knowing that Thorns would not live so long because of what all the doctors have said about the state of heart record, Jake has been willing to be his friend’s company. And then, many things happen on the way fullfill Thorns’ wish list. In meanwhile, the two guys have been through many challenges and many good people (like Cassandra – the one Jake had a crush on, police man,..).

Jake found out after all these years of living, he had missed out a lots. By stop thinking and take risks, they get out of the world to be different. Then and Then, Jake understands deeply his family, mother and the scar tagged in his memory of Jodie (his death sister).

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Had been built in the 1989, in the children’s village S.O.S, where are keeping and raising over 90 children. They all have less lucky than us. Some are sick, some are homeless, and for some are left by their parents… But apparently, they are all in good education and great manner. They are being raised by all the women who want to consecrate their love for children. There were about nine very small houses in the children’s village. Each house, there has one mother and about 10 or more, live together inside, become a family. The first impression of stepping to a house is the great greeting of the children and their mother. With all that friendly faces, there was nothing to be shy, to be fear. We are all been asked to sit on chairs, the children invited us for drink. Despite of the crowed in the house, I can feel the warm of love. All the children there have old one, young one are taken care by a woman. A woman wanted to look after them by all her heart.

Seeing that scene by my own eyes, looking up to many less lucky children, somehow I could feel the pain inside. These people, they are passion, so passion to get a family, their eyes told me what they wanted and what they thought, and their smile already told me they had it…

The story of the novel “Looking for Elibrandi” is basically about the impaction of parents’ lifestyle into their children’s life and opposite. Especially, the age of 13 to 16 or even onto 18, which means teenagers would have a lot of impactions and thought for their parents. However, that impaction could become a very big factor for what or how children develop for their life. In the story, Josephine Alibrandi (Josie) has two strong women impacted her life since Josephine was born. Also there are a lot of issues from her father that does not even know his daughter’s existence and Jacob Coote, the one Josie was falling in love with. In the journey to complete her last high school year, she has influenced from her wealthy friends in school and that makes even more troubles for her. From the beginning of the story, we are able to see the distance between Josephine Alibrandi and her mother, Christina Alibrandi was longer, further over the time. Josie has so many things open in front of her eyes in that time, boyfriend girlfriend, society and sex. Luckily Josie is a smart, who knows right or wrong, though she was not really mature at all. We can say the age of teenage is the age for growing up and developing, parents got a role in that part of time. The children, “us”, choose to stay away or run away of facing the relationships with our parents because there is the difference between adults and teenagers. Josephine was being dropped in a complicated situation when Nona, her grandma stopped her from healing the relationship with her father and not allow some of teenage action of an Aussie girl. It is likely that Josephine does not like the fact that she is an Italian girl because of the weird family traditions. The more hanging out with her friends, the bigger problem she has with Nona. It is not completely Josephine’s fault because the time of the back generation like Nona’s is hugely different to this generation’s live. And all Nona can say all the time is about “the Alibrandi Curse” and it makes Josie cannot breathe. Parents contribute to affect the formation of teenagers. The personalities like naughty, nasty, delight, depressed, inappropriately… in teenager may cause by how their parents treat them. In the story, it was because Nona and Jose’s Mom are too tight and Josie was feeling like she is stuck. Joey was forbidden to go out with Jacob by judging on his look, they did not know Jacob is the kind “Good Lenses but Bad Frames”. Josephine knows the limit in the relationship with Jacob maybe because she has already seen how the relationship between her mother and father turned out. She has also seen her mom’s result in the relationship with Nona. In the end of Josie’s mother, she was hurt and lives by Nona and it is not wonderful at all. The story mostly is about four relationships of Josephine towards her grandma, her mother, her father and Jacob. In real world every teenagers always have to duel with the relationship with parents and friends at least. Nowadays, time has changed, society has changed, and people have changed, therefore for the good relationship between parents and their children. Parents should consider about the changing of this time being teenage, in order to have the sympathy for their teens who are trying their best to build the relationships with them. All because parents are the first one who needs to admit the growing of their teens onto adults during their adolescent…

• What clues did the author give you to help you predict what was going to happen?

 

The author give us the book review at the last page of the novel to briftly recommend us about the book.

• Would you like to acquire a personality trait of a particular character in this book?

• What is the trait and why would you like it?

The trait is the personal feature of a character. The use of trait in each characters is to express the diffirences of many characters. The more various traits are the more interesting the story is.

• Is the setting important to your book? Why or why not?

The first time I heard this book and get curious about the story is because the setting is in China where has many interesting story. Therefore the setting is very important for the story especially is in Hictoric Novel. The setting is a big factor to make the novel succeed in the story and also in the commerce.

• What do you know now that you didn’t know before you read this book?

I have known that Chinese Cinderella is a good novel and I have learn a lot from the writing of the author Adeline Yen Mah.

• How has your thinking changed after reading this book?

Before, I thought that reading is the waste of time and energy. Now, Im not anymore because I know when we interested in a book, Youll read it and there is no matter about time and energy.

• What questions about this book would you like answered?

Has Adeline ever met Aunt Baba and her Big Sister again? And what had they become?

• Would you like to read more books by this author? Why or why not?

I think I would really look up to her other booksbut I still want to see more other writing way to make my writing be more various. Even though Chinese Cinderella is a good writing story, there are still lots of better author out there.

• What character do you like best in this book? Why?

The one I always like is Aunt Baba because her feature trait was so beautifully kind. She is a nice person and put the wings for Adeline to fly with her dream and hope.

• What character do you like least in this book? Why?

The third brother is the character I like least because I don’t really like his characteristic.

• How does the author create suspense? Why do you want to keep reading?

By create the interesting atmosphere, the story gets us keep reading to see what is going to happen next and next.

• If you could change the ending of this book, what would you change? Why?

When Adeline was ready for her England trip, Niang would plan to harm Yen but She got busted by Father. Therefore, Niang will be paying for what she had done to Adeline.

• Did the book end the way you thought it would? Why or why not?

I thought in every Cinderella stories, the end will always have the revenge of Cinderella to her step mother.

• Which character changed the most in this book? Explain.

Adeline is the character changed the most because she had changed from a child from a teenage girl, changed from an unwanted to a wanted girl to her father, her life changed from the dark to the bright….

• Did any characters make poor decisions? Who and what were they?

The Big sister’s decision to marry her husband by Niang’s arrangement was the most wrong.

• Who is the main character in this book? What is he/she like?

Adeline is the main character. Adeline is an innocent girl who caused her mother’s death.

• What character would you like to be in this book? Why?

I think the story is already got enough characters, there is no need any more.

• What confused you in this book? Explain.

This book was an easy reading book, the first chapter can make people a little confused.

• If you could introduce a character from your book to your family, who would it be and why?

I would introduce Aunt Baba to my Aunt because their characteristic is the same. She has been close to me since I was born, even more than my parents.

• Describe the cover of your book. Why do you think the author or publisher chose this particular cover?

The cover of Cinderella book is her and the tittle. I don’t know why the author chose her in as childhood to be the cover of the book.

• What questions would you like to ask the author of your book? Why?

I want to ask: “What happened to the father and aunt baba” because seems like the ending hasn’t solved the details yet.

• Did you disagree with anyone’s actions/choices? Who and why?

No, I think the story this is it. So I don’t want to change anything of it.

• Can you think of any advice that you would like to give to one of the characters?

My advice for the third brother: you should choose your own part to follow.

• What is that advice and why do they need it?

The adviceis to get him to go on; he doesn’t need to do everything for his brothers and sister.

• What is something that you hate about this novel? Why?

Sometimes, I feel like some chapters are too long and it just likely to make the story longer.

• What is something you really love about this novel? Why?

I love the personality of Adeline in the story. She is a hard worker; she didn’t stop to achieve her goal.

• What in this novel amused you or made you laugh? Why?

I amused by the cuteness of Adeline. That cuteness turns her from a small person from a very tough in every situation. Even if she was alone in a republic, she still could stand up.

• What in this novel made you cry? Why?

When the news that YeYe has passed away had made me cry out, because he was the last person of Adeline.

• What in this novel touched you deeply? Why?

The going of one to another person who love Adeline and the thing that Adeline has to suffer touch me deeply because everyone can see that every good things all turn back with Adeline. She was lonely and being Niang treated badly.

• Would you recommend this novel to a friend? Why? Why not? 

I would recommend this to my brother because this a easy understanding novel.

• What did you learn about the study of English during this novel study?

Reading is one of the most important ways to improve English.