Entry 77, Why Take Risks?

People always take different types of risks. I believe the reason why people actually attempt to take risks is because they believe that the outcome could be better than what they currently have. By what I mean is that they are willing to sacrifice the things they could lose, in order to have the chance of possibility of gaining or wining something much greater later. There are risks such as stock market, or when you rob a bank, these could all result in physical risks, and the stock market could result in the loss of a great amount of money, but it could gain a great amount of wealth. I believe that Krakauer's rock climbing risk taking paragraph could also be used among common risk takers. When I took my risks of losing a great friend when I stole the girl he liked unfairly, I believe that I thought the gain would be alot greater than the loss. I believe the future relationship I could possibly have, would be so much greater than whatever I lost. It was great, it was the greatest risk I have ever taken and I believe that risk taking is a part of everyone's lives. What is fun about life, when you never take any risks right? The things I said does indeed match up with what Krakauer said, and I believe that everyone must take risks to make life more interesting.

Entry 76, Participation

 I believe that journalists should be completely objective when it comes to reporting to the social media. Being objective can make the report completely reliable, but so far no one can ever do it without any bias within them. To be objective and neutral with an event, it has to be an event overlooked by the journalist, the journalist can not be involved whatsoever with the topic. Once the journalist is involved with the topic, they would have opinions and produce biased reports of the event which makes the source completely unreliable.  I believe that  journalists should be completely willing to sacrifice anything for their love and passion of reporting the news. They are going to have to be willing to go into radio active grounds to report their breaking new story on the recent nuclear power plant explosion, or be willing to be in the middle of the rebels in Egypt reporting about the incident. Journalists cannot be scared of reporting the news, they can not be afraid of being in danger. Once the journalists becomes scared of the incident, I believe that they will eventually run out of good stories and eventually lose their jobs.

Entry 75, Humor's Role

 Humor can be used as irony throughout a sad novel. A sad novel or story is typically involved with a certain type of atmosphere that is not that lively, and with humor involved, the story can often times be brought up and have a better atmosphere to the story. Catharsis means the relief after a great amount of stress accumulates within the person. I believe that humor can act as the catharsis of sad stories, as things cannot get any worse, the author uses a bit of humor to help release the tension of the story. This would make the reader alot more happy when they read the story, so people wouldn't always be reading a whole story and being bored by its somber mood. Irony can sometimes be used as humor as well, when certain things happen and they are not suppose to, it is called irony. I believe that the story had bits of humor in the story, such as the part when Patricia is joking and mocking the sister Kerry with her voice, copying everything shes saying. Although this is not a type of irony, it is still considered humor used in this story. Humor has helped made the story more appealing to read and adds a bit more  interest in the story.

Entry 74, Sick

 I hope I would not have to spend alot of time in the hospital in my life. I have been to the hospital a few times, when I got stitches for running into a cabinet in the supermarket, or getting stitches for jumping off a set of three stairs and knocking my head on the floor. I have been in the hospital for my relatives as well, when my cousin was being born in this world, we stayed in the hospital for quite a while. I hate hospitals, the smell of the place simply can give me chills down my spine. It is just weird for me to think that in that building, there are people with missing limbs and the building is basically the bridge between life and death. Babies are being greeted the first time through this place, but at the same time, the less fortunate, are leaving this world, through that very building. Just the thought of having people dying a couple of stories away from me, simply frightens me to my very soul. I know that it is a place people go for to get better, but that place does not have the happiest atmosphere, families are being greeted by news of their relatives passing away, or anxious families waiting outside of the operation room for their relatives. Frankly speaking, I hate hospitals, the less time I spend there, the better.

Entry 73, Happy or Sad

 I think it is mainly equal. I have great memories of my childhood, with my family and going out and having fun. These great memories made me who I am today, I have learned how to be a better person, and learn that family is always the most important thing. People say that bad memories tend to stick to people longer, that is true in a way that when people hurt themselves, or when they get hurt, it is when they learn and gain experience and not to make the same mistake again. I believe it depends on different people, some people had a bad childhood, so all they could have were bad memories. Personally, I think that both impacted me greatly when I was a little kid. My childhood was great, filled with laughter, having fun with my family, going on trips and hurting my self. These memories are all equally important in my life, and both equally contribute to make me who I am today. The memories can develop experience, and I believe that my experiences so far, are very valuable and I thank my parents for such a great childhood.

Entry 72, Immigrant's Journey

        I believe that her experience of immigrating over, or having parents that did from India, I would not have any connection with the author mainly because we have never immigrated anywhere. I have not lived in the states, nor did my family ever did, so it would be hard to establish any connections between us. I believe that even if we didn’t move to different countries, we still have certain similarities as we both learn different languages other than our mother tongue. I believe that this quotation is very profound and I believe that it is true, that immigrating is hard as you leave behind your culture and your family, but I am more on the side of the fact that the rewards are much greater than what you have abandoned in the previous country you lived in. I believe that I don’t have as much connection with this as well because I have never immigrated anywhere nor have my family ditched a country for another. That is the main reason why I cannot connect with the author as well as other people because I have yet experienced this maneuver of away from our mother countries. 

Entry 71, Two Lives

         I have been living in the bicultural background for almost all my life. Being in an American school has been very fun, experiencing both sides of the world and seeing the differences between each. I believe that I have been effected most by my Chinese side of the family because everything I do today, revolves around it. I use the language of Chinese at home, I eat Chinese cuisines, and I celebrate Chinese festivals and holidays. The American side of me is just the side I study in, I go to school and I learn the language. This is what I thought of when I was growing up, but now as I get older and older, I realized that the American side is dominating my Chinese side, making a more equal division among the two cultures. I realized I speak English as my primary language, use forks rather than chopsticks and much more that I have changed just because I have been influenced by my school. I think if I were to be a writer, the American side of me would come out more, as I express my self better through the language of English and I think more in English than I do in Chinese.

Entry 70, My Style

Sometimes I think of myself as someone who has style. I don’t generally like to be cocky and arrogant about things like this but I think I have my own personal style that not everybody can develop. The style that I have developed today, I believe that it has been a strong influence from my friends of before. I believe that my friends are the main people of why I dress and talk like this. I would like to believe that I am a funny person, that people laugh at what I say and what I say interests many people. On the surface, I seem very immature, but I believe that I am a mature person when it comes to more serious things. I would like to believe that I am not a typical good kid but not a very bad one either. I would like to believe I am in the middle and I still know the rights and the wrongs. I believe that at the start, everything is developed as trying to be someone, but eventually this just grows with me and I eventually develop my own style that no one else has.

Entry 69: Magic Pictures

        The first picture has several kids crowding around a warehouse, with an ostrich that is sticking out of its gate. All the kids seems to be very curious and interested in the ostrich and would like to find out more about why it got there, who put it there and how it got there. The ostrich seemed like it was left there rather than it is being pushed out in action. The ostrich Is looking outwards and does not see the boys on the other side of the wall. I think the factory is somewhere that the boys are not familiar of, or that they did not think a fake ostrich would get there. The curiosity expressed on their faces can show that they are interested, but doesn’t want to get close incase it is harmful for them. I can relate to the story because as the angel falls, no one really knows if the angel will be harmful or not. Therefore there had been a crowd that had developed to see the weird creature, but is kind of afraid which then stays from away from it. I believe that this portrays the public’s attitude on the angel very well and is very related to the story. 

Entry 68, Magic Realism

        I believe that many teenagers has this tendency of trying to be cool and growing up. When teenagers are in school, they would not want to be known as the kid that loves magic, or things that are not real, therefore they would tend to not enjoy the genre of make beliefs, or potentially fake content. Some people with a lack of imagination could also have some problems with this genre. People are not going to be able to relate to the things the stories are talking about, they would not understand the concept of angels or supernatural things in the story. In order for the readers to enjoy and understand the stories completely, they have to be able to relate to the experience the author is trying to convey. Well for me, it is not that hard to understand magic realism because as I am a very superstitious person, so I believe that things such as ghosts and these supernatural things does exist. All the phenomenon that can not be explained by science that is expressed through Magic Realism, I still can have no problem reading this type of literature and being able to connect and understand the texts.