Revenge essay

This is a story about the twins girls name Emma and Ella whose parents die when they were still very young, so they had to live with their neighbor. Emma was a very brave and smart girl, she always got good grades in every subjects. While Ella was different from her sister, she was kind of a sweet girl and was weaker than her sister. Although they didn’t have parents like other children but they still take care and help each other in everything.

When Emma finished eleventh grade in school, she got a scholarship to study aboard for 2 years. After Emma leaved, Ella feel like she was living alone in the world, she barely had any friends, Emma was the only person she always plays, talks, and shares everything with. When she goes to school, she use to get bully from her classmates. Before, when Emma was still with her, she always help her every time she got bullied from anyone. But now, there was no one to be with her anymore. She tried to fight back, but she couldn’t stop the them. The bullies continue to tease and bully her almost everyday, and even getting harder oneach day. She tried to ask help from teachers, but the bullies stoppedher every time she tried. So she never had a chance to ask anyone for help. She feels down and got worse as each day pass. Every night, she cried under her blanket missing her sister, and wishing that she could come back fast. One day, while she was walking home crossing the river, the bullies came and bully her again but this time was even harder. One of the bullies run up and pushed her to the water, Ella was so scare because she didn’tknow how to swim. She tried to shout as loud as she can and asking for help, but no one was walking pass. In a split second she was going to drown, a man saw her and he quickly jump into the water to save her and broughther to the hospital. The next day, Emma came back but she didn’t tellher sister. She brought so many things for Ella and was intended to surprise her. When she arrive home, the neighbor told her that Ella was in the hospital, and told her all the stories. She got really angry and was going to find out who did that. After she had found the gang that bullied her sister, she start to avenge. Whatever that they did to her sister, she did it back to them even harder. She push one of them fall the stairs and went to hospital, she try to find their weakness and avenge one by one. Most of them got scared and begged her to forgive them, but Emma didn’t listen to any of them. Then Ella told her sister that it was enough, because she believed that if the person did bad things, it will surely go back to that person. Therefore, Emma stop and do as what her sister said.

After that, everything was getting better. Emma bought a new house and they both moved out from the neighbor. Ella was very happy that her sister came back, so she didn’t has to be alone anymore. And Emma promised her sister that she will be with her and take care of her forever. And the twins girl live happily together, the end!

News Article : Death Penalty

Death Penalty should be stop! October 10 was known as the 10^th World Day against the Death Penalty.  According to Jose Ramos-Horta,  he said that since we all know that life is important and everyone love their own life, therefore, the first priorities after we gain the independence 10 years ago was to make sure that no one would be punish by the death penalty.

The Universal Declaration of Human Right declares that everyone has the right to live their own life, since after the devastating world wars which caused tens of millions of people to kill. Many countries nowadays abolished the death penalty such as Philippines. In 1948, after the declaration was proclaimed, there were only 8 countries that abolished the death penalty. And on 13 September 2012 which is this year, the country that abolished death penalty increase to 150 countries, while there are 32 that still continued.

Although Thailand still did not abolish the death penalty, but the Thai government are studying and thinking if it is possible to stop it. And since 2009, there were only 2 people who got execution. Also on 15 August this year, they change the punishment for 58 prisoners from execution to life imprisonment.

In December, there will be having a vote on stopping death penalty and it will be submitted to the UN General Assembly. Many people were hoping that Thailand would vote yes to stop the death penalty and execution. And it’s important that Thailand would vote for yes to be an evidence of the moral for the government and the people of the country.

For many centuries now, the lawmakers and the humanists have relies that punish people by execution does not really stop people from doing illegal things and serious crimes. There was an Italian criminologist point out on “Crime and Punishment” one of his famous work, saying that execution or death penalty was an ineffective stopping device, the certainty of being caught and punish is the only barrier of crime. So what they are doing now is trying to think on how they could do to motivate the countries that are still hesitate about voting for death penalty to get assure and vote for yes.

There are variety arguments on the topic death penalty. Council of Europe which has 47 member countries was creating abolish of death penalty as one of the condition membership, and also declaring “capital punishment is just like torture which is simply wrong. The death penalty does not stop or decrease crime; however we will gain advantage in emphasizing the inviolable of human life.  And also in every religion and every culture, there is always a teaching on mercy, kindness, and forgiveness as well. Hoping that every countries could take a stand against death!

 

There is quote from Jean-Jacques Rousseau saying that “In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.” 

Powerpoint Presentation (Compare and Contrast)

LA essay presentation

Watching movie at home to in the theater

What do you like to do when you have free time? Some people like to go shopping, some people hang out with their friends, some go to the beach, or some might spend their time with family. People have different things they like to do. For me, I like to watch movie, and I think most people did the same too. Watching movie is one of the easiest ways to relax and have fun. It also had become a major entertainment in our society nowadays. Some people prefer to watch movie at home while some go to the movie theater. Some people also having hard time in choosing between the two places. Whether you are watching at home or in the theater, they both have pros and cons. Let’s see the similarity and difference between home and theater.

If you choose to watch movie at home, the pros are that you get to control the movie. You can pause anytime you want, such as when you need to go bathroom, or when you go to get some food in the kitchen. You can also rewind or fast forward the movie. But on the other hand, if you watch movie in the theater, you can’t do these things. You have no control on the movie, so whenever you need to go bathroom, there is a chance that you might miss some important parts of the movie. It’s also more relaxed and free when you are at home. You can lie down and watch, stretch your legs, or sit in any position you like. You can also discuss the movie without bothering anyone.  Watching movie at home can also improve your family relationship as well. You can talk, share, and comment things about the movie with your family, this may makes you understand each other more. The cons are you are more likely to end up with a messy room, because your sister or brother might spill the Coke or water on the sofa, or the floor might full with food and snack after eating. Another disadvantage of watching movie at home is the small size of screen and volume. Compare to the theater, it has better quality of sound and screen.

If you prefer to go to the movie theater, the pros are you will be surrounded with a brilliant and amazing atmosphere which could make you feel more excited than watching at home. It’s more interesting and fun in watching movie in the theater; you can see the film on a huge screen with a suitable volume for everyone, which might make you feel as if you are part of the story. This could also become an intensely memorable moment for you. Other than that, movie theater always have the newest and hottest film for you to watch, while DVD of movie Is usually release after the theater did. There is also the downside for watching movie in the theater. First is that you don’t get much privacy in theater. You have to respect other theatergoer around you. You are not allowing to talking loudly, calling or texting on your cell phone. And also it’s not like home where you can lie down and feel free as your want. In the theater, you have to sit properly to not disturb the person next, behind, or in front of you. Watching movie in the theater also cost you more on buying ticket and foods as well. Furthermore, you might have a risk on buying the ticket and being disappointed at the movie.

Although there are so many differences between them, they’re also having similarities. The similarities between them are you can always enjoy and have fun in watching movie no matter where you are. Watching movie either at home with your family or in the theater with your friends can both make you excited and happy.

In conclusion, the differences between watching movie at home and in the theater is that at home, you can get to control the movie; you can pause, rewind, or fast forward anytime you want. And it’s more comfortable and relaxes at home. While in the theater, you have to be aware of other theatergoer around you, but you could be more interested and excited in watching on the huge screen with brilliant atmosphere surrounded you. The contrast between these two is that both can make you enjoy and have fun. Whether watch at home or in the theater, they can both make you feel closer with your family, your friends, or the person who you watch the movie together. It could help you to build a strong relationship between you and your family or friends.

Five things I am Grateful for

I believe that everyone has things that they are grateful for in their life. Some people may grateful for the talents they have, for being sport player, for having new ipad, for the challenge they met in life, for the rights and freedom, etc. Different people have different ways of thinking, different feeling, different things that come through their life; so things that they are grateful for might be different also. For me, five things I am grateful for in my life are my family, my friends, my Blackberry, being vegetarian, and be learning in an international school.

Family is the first thing I am grateful for. They are the most important thing in my life. I am thankful to be the daughter of my two adorable parents. If there are no them, there will not be me. They always are my advisers when I need help, they lead me to the right way, they give the best thing to me, and they always are there for me. My naughty sister and brother who can make me smile on the day that I am bored. And also my aunt, uncle and grandmother who always take care of me and love me so much. I love my family and I am really happy to be live in such a wonderful family like this.

Second thing that I am grateful for is my friends who always fill my life with brightness and make it meaningful. When I feel lonely, they make my day colorful and make me know that I am not alone. On the day that I am down, they light up the darkness and make me laugh. They play, they tell stories, they chat, and they make me smile every day. To having them in my life, it’s one of the very amazing things.

I am also grateful for my cell phone, Blackberry. It makes me easy to contact with my family, my friends, and other people. It’s just like part of my life. I can chat with my best friends whenever I miss them. I can call my parents when they are not at home, I can talk to my cousins who live in China, etc. Blackberry makes me feel that I am living close to the person who actually lives far away. It also makes my life a lot easier and comfortable. I couldn’t imagine how I would live without it. So I am grateful for having a Blackberry of my own.

Being a vegetarian is also one thing that I am grateful for. I feel sad for those animals that were killed for our food. although that there are still many people eating meat today, but I feel happy every time when I choose to eat vegetable instead of eating meat, because at least I am not the one that causing them to be killed. I think that everyone has the right to live their own life, including animals; because they are also living creature and they have feelings. Being vegetarian for 5 years is one of the things that I really grateful for.

And the last thing that I am grateful for is be learning in an international school. There are many children who are dreaming to learn in an international school, but couldn’t get that opportunity. There are also kids who didn’t even have chance to be in school.  I must be happy that I have the chance to be in the international school, and thanks to my parents that they choose the best school for me and my future. I feel that I am lucky that I can be in this school where I can learn many things, getting much knowledge, and also meet many foreign friends.

These five things are the things that I am grateful for in my life. They are important to me, they make my life wonderful and feel so meaningful. I would like to say thank you to my family and friends who brought those nice and lovely things to my life, and make my world bright.

 

My greatest Strength and Weakness

I believe that everyone has their own strength and weakness. Some might good at things that others can’t do, like being able to learn things fast, having self-confident, good at time management, etc. Some may have their weak sides that they would like to improve more.  And I think being able to recognize your own strength and weakness is a good thing, whether it is positive abilities that could help you achieve your goals or negative personal areas that need to be improved. Some people may feel upset to they know their own weakness, but if we think in a positive way, to know the negative things you have could help you to improve and overcome those weakness. I also have my own strength and weakness. My strengths are hard working, patient, optimistic, and respectful. While my weakness are public speaking, shy, and always getting to serious.

My greatest strength is being a hard working person; I usually have a strong ability to focus on the works assigned to me. I wouldn’t play or doing other things until I finish my works. I’m also being a well-organizer. I use to list down things I have to do and prioritize what is most important to least important. In doing this, it makes me become more organized. I am also an optimistic person as well. I use to see things in a positive way, because that could make me happier. For example when I did mistake or done anything wrong, of course I will get sad but I will always encourage myself by telling that I should learn from the mistake I had did, and understand it, so that next time I wouldn’t make the same mistake again. Or when I didn’t get things that I want, I will always try to think positive by telling myself that there are still many other people around world who doesn’t even have money to buy foods to eat or clothes to wear. So I should be happy that at least I got more things than those people. By being a positive thinker, you could be happier and understand things better. The last strength that I would talk about is respectful. Whether you are a student or working man, there is time when you have to work in a group with other people. And I think having respectful is an important thing. I can say that I am always respecting others for what they think, what they said, and what they believe. Although some time I may disagree or don’t believe in what they said, but I still respect them, because I think that different people have different way of thinking and different opinion.

I also have my weakness as well. One of my greatest weakness is public speaking. I always get nervous when I have to present in front of the class no matter how prepare I am. When I saw those people who could give a really good presentation, I feel so appreciate them and want to be like them. Now I am trying to improve my presentation skill, therefore in the future in can give a good presentation in front of many people. I second weakness is being shy. Sometime I am too shy to ask question in the class, and I know that it’s not a good thing. I know that when you don’t understand things you should ask, so that you can learn more. Now I trying to fight with this fear and I hope that I could overcome this weakness. And my last weakness is being too serious. I mostly get serious in doing works, especially when there are many assignments. I would always want to do things better and better, and make it the best; therefore sometime I am getting too much pressure and finish the work slower. I think I should be more relax and not getting to much stress.

To know what are your strength and weakness is good things. It helps you to understand and improve yourself more. After knowing your strong side, knowing what you are good at, you should be proud and keep it up, so that it will be with you forever. And the same as weakness don’t feel sad after recognize them, but try to fix them and overcome with those weaknesses. It’s good to know the weak side now, so that you could have time to improve it and make it better.

 

My most embarrassing experience

I think we all have experienced an embarrassing moments in our life such as falling down in front of many people, shuttering when teacher ask the questions and can’t answer, forgot lines in the middle of plays, call someone wrong name, etc. These moments might make your friends, your classmates, or many other people laugh at you, and make you ashamed with the things you have done, but sometime when you look back at these moments, I think it’s just the funny stories in your life which could make your life more colorful. For me, I also have embarrassing experiences in my life.

The first thing that make me so embarrassed is playing wrong notes during the piano show. I had learned piano since I was in grade 1 until grade 5 I had stop learning it. This embarrassing moment was happen when I was in grade 4. In my piano school, every year there will be a piano performance for the selected students to perform a song. And I got selected. After I knew that I have to perform on the next two weeks, I was practice so hard everyday. Then after practicing for only 5 days, I feel that I already could play the song so well, therefore I decided to relax and stop practicing. I was relaxing so much that I forgot I had to perform that day. when the show was almost started, my piano teacher told me that I was the first one to perform. And I was shocked, like why do I have to be the first?! I was so nervous that I couldn’t remember every notes that I had practiced. When it’s the time that I have to start perform. My hands were shaking and I couldn’t play the song. My face turned red and I could feel that it was hot. And finally, I couldn’t continued play the piano, so I just stop and walked down the stage. And I think this is one of the embarrassing experiences I have in my life.

My second embarrassing experience was when I was talking alone in the shopping mall. On that day, I went shopping, watched a movie, with 2 of my friends. After we finished watching the movie, we were walking around and chatting all the way. Then when we come to a clothing shops, my friends were very interested in those clothes, but I am so hungry at that time, so I told them to go buy something eat and then come back later. First I thought that they were walking behind me, so I just talked with them while we were walking to buy some ice-cream, but when I came to the ice-cream, that was time when I realized that they hadn’t follow me at all. And I talking alone all the way from the clothes shop to the ice-cream shop, and when I looked around, I could see that everyone was looking at me. That’s another thing that make me feel is embarrassed.

There are still some others embarrassing moments in my life, sometime it could make you smile when you look back at those things, but sometime you could still feel embarrassed when you think back, like my piano show, that’s was really embarrassing for me.

 

Short Story “Becky’s Beauty”

Once upon a time, there are 2 best friends name Jane and Becky living in the town. Jane is a daughter of a millionaire, her family is very wealthy. Her parents take care of her very well and always get her everything she wants. Jane’s life is full of happiness just like a princess. While Becky needs to work hard everyday, because her family is poor. She has many responsibility to take care, whether it’s house works or her school work. Although her life is very tough compare to her friend Jane, but she still satisfied with what she had, and never get jealous of her friend.

Jane’s parents always tell her to keep in mind that they are the richest family in the town. They teach her to be arrogant and look down on the poor. On the other hand, Becky always been taught to be respect and generous to other people, no matter how rich or poor they are. Her parents always tell her that even though a person is poor, but a person can still be beautiful at heart.

One day, in a bright morning, Jane and Becky go to jogging in the garden. After they had run for an hour, they decide to take a break under the tree. Then they bring out some food to eat while they are sitting. Just a few minute, a gray-haired man with a torn shirt comes and sit down beside them watching them eating. Jane got really angry with the action of the gray-haired man. She then shouts at him and tell him to move away. After finish the food, Jane feels so tired so she take a nap under the tree. When Becky saw her friend asleep, she takes some of her foods and gives them to the gray-haired man who is sitting far away in the other side of the tree. She sit down and talk with him like he is one of her relatives. The gray-haired man feels appreciate the kindness and the inner beauty Becky has. After talking for a while, Becky told the gray-haired man that she needs to go now. Before Becky is leaving, the man gives her a magic crystal ball and tells her that it will makes her dream come true.

When Becky back to home, she quickly take out the magic crystal ball. She wonder if what the gray-haired man had told is true. Therefore she close her eyes and starts to make a wish, “I wish that I could have a huge and beautiful house like a castle for my family to live”. In the blink of an eye, the old house that she had been live turn into a huge beautiful castle. She thanks to the magic crystal ball that the grey-haired man had gave her. And thereafter, Becky and her family live happily forever.