#36 Post AP post

On the very day of the AP English test, May 16^th, 2012, I was extremely nervous yet I couldn’t really do anything to prepare me for it. I find this test extremely similar to the SAT critical reading sections. Except this time, the passages are harder to understand, more metaphors and symbolic meaning behind the message in the text, and longer without any breaks in between the reading. As for the pacing, I find myself pretty balanced that I didn’t rush through any passage due to the time constrain. However, there are still questions that I simply have to guess. Yet those choices are usually between 2 or 3 answer choices, so I guess it wasn’t that bed. As for the essay section, I find the doubt vs certainty essay extremely difficult due to my bad pacing for the first 2 essays, the synthesis and analysis essay. For the synthesis essay, I didn’t really do a conversional way as to go into 3 examples to support my point. Instead, I wrote the 3 paragraphs by first giving reasons why UPS is in danger, then the advantages of UPS and finally the ways to restructure the post office to save it from extinction. I hope I didn’t use any weird sentence usage and structure. I tend to write too long of a sentence with lots of subordinate clause that may be far from its subject. As for the analysis essay, I think I did a good job that I was able to include lots of facts and detail in the analysis. However, this essay took me too much time that for the last essay, I couldn’t come out with good examples to support my claims. Overall, I think I should be able to do fine on this test (hope so).

#37 Response to "What's Wrong with Gay Marriage"

In response to Katha Pollitt’s passage on “What’s Wrong with Gay Marriage?”, I find that people are seriously obsessed with the whole concept of marriage and pass through some complicated legal term in order to acquire such title or label that they are officially married. Why do people hope to gain through marriage? Do they want marriage in order to have some legal document to show others that they are legally bonded together that if they were to cheat on others, they need to face some legal procedure such as divorced and split their property? I guess marriage is more than simply dating like couples that it provides security to couple. To legally split responsibility of their wealth and kids if they were to have one, married couple can go through legal term if they were to have conflicts. Marriage is more than simply a testimony of eternal love and bond between people. It all comes down to money. I guess this is some issue regarding to why homosexual people are trying to fight for their right to get married. Living together as couple can easily turn to strangers the very next day. If they have kids, either side of the couple can easily walk away without taking responsibility. Most of the time, the lady would have to take care of the kids and the man would simply go away to find new dates. By marrying, women are better protected.

#36 response to Wenke "Too Much Pressure"

I totally can’t agree with what most students think cheating is acceptable. I totally agree with their argument that cheaters always win that they are rarely caught. Even if they are caught, they can wave their lowest grade out of the scale that it wouldn’t have an effect on their grade. Overall, the cheater can spend less effort and get a higher grade than those who study yet only get the 80s. Many times, people would just say, “Why do I have to place myself at such a disadvantage? I should start cheating as well to keep up with others.” This issue is fundamentally the school responsibility that they should enforce stricter rules and place harder punishment to those who cheated without letting the cheater felt they can escape easily that consequences for cheating is relatively low. I wouldn’t know if cheating is common in our school, but I would say there are indeed several cases where people cheat. I totally agree that no one in their life have ever committed any cheating. However, I will like to clarify what’s the definition of cheating. Cheating would be completely copying and plagiarizing other people’s work. In many cases, people are merely paraphrasing other’s idea when they want to take a look at other’s homework assignment. It is fine people can share works that by studying other’s work, it inspire creativity and makes oneself better. For example, would it be cheating if I wrote an essay based on what I have read in Shakespeare’s play? Would I be copying and cheating by incorporating some plots that share similarity to his play? No. Cheating is definitely bad. There are no excuses for it. However, paraphrasing is ok that at least you are putting the ideas down with your own word and have thought about them instead of just copying the answers down.   

#35: Defining Integrity

What exactly is integrity? According to Merriam Webster dictionary, integrity is defined as firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values. This definition is pretty legitimate and commonly defined by this definition. However, in our school, integrity seems to mean more than just firmly adherence to a code. It is becoming a slogan or a symbol for school that it was meant to mean honesty, hard working and being punctual to school or classes. The first time I have heard this word being widely used was after the school forced us to look at the movie “School Ties”. With this movie, it talks about how students need to face peer pressures and racial discrimination in order to maintain their integrity and moral values. I find it extremely suitable for this movie that students are supposed to follow school codes and conducts, especially for things such as cheating or lying. However, for me, integrity really means to have self discipline. With all the firmly adherence to code or moral or artistic values, it all goes down to whether a person can follow it personally to have good morality. To have integrity, it means the person has to be self conscious of what are the moral values, not just simply following the rules without really knowing why it’s implemented or enforced upon society.

# 34 Response to Leong's "Being a Chink"

Have I ever felt I have to protect my parents sometime in my life to defend them? Usually, it would be my parents that will be watching my back and constantly carefully monitor me to protect me from unnecessary harm, although occasionally they would want me to deal with problems myself to gain independence. Anyway, I can only say there are indeed some occasion where my parents were insulted or at least discriminated for their skin color and English ability when we went traveling in the state. I can totally understand Leong’s feeling. Trained with a second language at an early age, my parents are usually dependent on me when we went to foreign countries. Most of the time, I simply wished to stand on the side and let my parents struggling to do all the talking due to my shyness. I would often be scolded at for my impassiveness toward helping them when they struggle to communicate and understand some words, ranging from buying a Big Mac in Macdonald to reading a menu in a restaurant. Although our family was never been insulted with the word chink before, just simply the word “Chinese” pisses our family off. Many times when I tried to explain some terms for my parents in Chinese, the casher would suddenly whisper “Ha, Chinese” followed by some laughter or staring as if we were inferior.  Although he did not say anything else, just the word referring us as Chinese offended me. For me, I hated to be labeled the same as the people whom we have serious conflict with due to complicated political reason. Perhaps the word Chinese is innocuous, however it’s the way people use it in context and say it with sarcasm that makes me feel uncomfortable.

Mandarin endearment
親愛的~~ (dear one)
小可愛 (little cute one)
哈尼~ ( honey)

#33 School Influence

What exactly is the right amount of school influence on student’s life? What is the responsibility of the school on students? This is the very question that school have to ask themselves when they set up school curriculum. In many religious schools, school basically dominates student’s daily life. Students have to follow strict religious rules of the school and attend church ceremonies and follow the teachings of the bible, quran or whatever religion one believes in. In this type of school, people are told to obey their teachers respectfully and no one can ever question the authority. Besides teaching the students on academics, the school is also responsible in teaching students proper manners. However, in a more liberal school, students are merely taught with academics. Behavior problem is usually not the school’s problem but the parents. Outside of classroom, students are able to have their own social life without school interference. People are allowed to have intimate relationship between one another and couples are allowed in school. The amount of school influence on student’s life varies greatly on the curriculum, its background, and the social-culture norm the school institutes in. For example, in most Asian school, the school focuses on pure academic subjects such as math, science, literatures or history. However, in most school with western education, extracurricular activities such as team sports or volunteer plays a big part that the school provide for their students. It seriously depends on what type of school we are talking about.

# 32 The Earth is full

Paul Gliding’s speech “The Earth is Full” on TEDX is certainly inspiring that seek to raise awareness of the effect of Global warming and over consumptions in the world today. For me, Paul Gliding speech mainly uses metaphors and deeply describes how the world would end up if we continue our destructive behaviors to the environment. Unlike many speeches about Global Warming, Gliding decides to not provide any scientific data or statistical analysis to illustrate his point. Instead, he simply want the audience to imagine the future when our earth begins to die and unable to sustain overwhelming human activities. Despite how he decide to just make the speech fill with flowery, descriptive and philosophical languages, I believe he is just trying to use some emotional appeal to awaken some of the public who, even with so much scientific evidences provided, decides to believe that global warming is not real. I certainly agree with Gliding that this is a serious issue that if we don’t do something about it, nature will come back and destroy us. However, I believe simply talk about the effects is not enough. Gliding fails to make any suggestion of how to solve this urgent issue or at least talk about some of the programs that aware people tried to do to save the environment which are beginning to bring some positive effects in solving the issue. For me, Paul Gliding is inflating his speech with some fancy language and metaphors without solid content that seek to solve the issue at hand.

#31 SUPER TUESDAY

So what exactly is Super Tuesday? Well, basically, it’s a primary election to select delegates/ nominees to get to a national convention to select the final party’s presidential cnadinate for the presidential election. The 2012 Super Tuesday, held on March 6 2012, will be extremely important for Republican to select their potential presidential delegate against the incumbent Democrat President Barak Obama. The States that hold the primaries on Super Tuesday varied from year to year. The States that hold the primaries in 2012 are Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia and Alaska, a total of 10 states participating. It will hold a total of 419 delegates (18.3% of the total number of delegates). To win the final Republican National Convention, the candidate must accumulate 1,144 delegate votes to win. The result of the Super Tuesday is as follow. Mitt Romney came out first in the election with 385 secured delegates, with a popular vote of 40.5 and wining 6 states. The second came with Rick Santorum, wining 130 secured delegates, a 24.9% popular vote and wining 3 states. Newt Gingrich came out third, with a 110 secured delegates, 23.2% of the popular votes and wining Georgia State, his home state. Ron Paul came out last with 23 secured delegates, 11.4% of popular votes and wining 0 states. The result doesn’t conclude that Mitt Romney will eventually come out to be the 2012 presidential election candidate for the Republican. However, he has a high chance to become one. This primary election is important in helping the Republican to assess who has the most potential to become the next US president.

#30 Poltically incorrect on word "chink"

After seeing the video and the article “ABC’s Poltically Incorrect Tackles Comedian’s Chink joke”, I strongly agree with Guy Aoki and deeply appreciate his effort in trying to raise awareness to racism against Asian Americans. In the video, Sarah Silverman tried to justify her action that in her joke to include “I love Chink” is just for satire and humorous purposes. She believed that she shouldn’t be asked to apologize for such joke. However, in most Asian and Asian American, such joke shouldn’t be said because it is offensive and rude. For me, it isn’t a joke, instead an insult to people. It’s the same as making fun of someone’s appearance and bully people to treat it as a mere joke without thinking of the consequences. In my opinion, such kind of joke played on race is just dangerous. Despite how Silverman argue that there should be freedom of speech for people to say whatever they want, I strongly agree with Aoki that these kind of freedom of speech are just exercising ignorant speech that they seek to ‘educate’ the public with bad influences. For me, saying the world ‘chink’ is worse than an African American being called a N world. The N word is mainly referring to people’s skin color. However, the world ‘chink’ is associating all Asian, despite being Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian or Pilipino, is being associated with Chinese (PRC’s people). For me, this is just insulting. Anyway, this kind of word shouldn’t be used to justify a joke. A bad insult is an insult, not something people should laugh at.

#29 Discussion Reflection (Gender issue)

After such crazy, heated argument/discussion in our English class yesterday on gender issue, I feel like there are too much stereotypes being put on what defines a men or women. According to the dictionary, we define men as male human beings that reproduce by producing gametes in the form of sperm and have XY chromosomes. On the other hand, women are defined as female human beings who reproduce by producing gametes in the form of egg and have XX chromosome. Such biological definition defines what female and male are. However, this does not define what exactly people mean when they say “real man or real woman”. In our discussion, we listed out several stereotypical definitions for man and woman. However for the girls, they define man and woman with 2 simple idea, biologically defined vs Self-defined. Based on their arguments, they believed that if a man who is physically male believes he should be a woman and dress or act like one, he can called himself “woman”. With this said, this meant that our self-identity should be define more based on our mental state than biological component. For me, I agree with this that the term man and woman should be defined based on our mental state that if we want to be accurate, we would instead call each other male or female to be accurate. Every different culture has different norms about what defines a real man or woman. The term man and woman are just man-made to categorize people. We should be free to call whatever we want, either man or woman, as long as one agrees with the term being called.

#28 Politically Correct Fairy Tale

Once upon a time, in a huge temperate forest up in the northern part of France, lives a happy wonderful family called the “white” due to their extremely pale face, probably inherited from their vampire ancestor. Anyway, there lives a happy naïve princess called snow white who survives perfectly every day under her parent’s rule of the kingdom with capitalistic idea yet an authoritarian regime. Despite how snow white’s parents basically rule everything in the kingdom, people were relatively happy that they are used to have a strong centralized government or people to rule over their life. People are able to own their shops, if they were able to become a boss of their magical potion or horse carriages industry, and exploit their workers with more than 20 hours of work every day and dangerous working condition experimenting with new potion that can potentially diminish the very existence one’s being. Under Snow White’s parents’ huge imperial magical potion factory that dominate the whole France lives an old lady who spent every day cleaning a magical mirror. 

        The old lady was excessive obsessed with her own appearance that she would continuous ask the magical mirror who is the best looking women in the world. Afraid the old lady would raged and smashed the mirror out of jealously, the mirror would said “You, Madame, are the best looking women in the world.” However, one day, the mirror got too drunk singling halleuya who the other magical items in a “Items only bar” that he accidentally said Snow White was the prettiest in the world. Out of jealously and long compressed anger from the exploitation of the White family, the old lady began to study books of Marxist and started a whole serious of riots in France in various magical potion factory with Marxism-Madamnism that held a communist idea to overthrow the “White” family with an establishment of “Madame” regime. With strong feminist movement backing up the revolution, the White family was soon eradicated and eliminated, leaving poor Snow White alone in the forest, who escaped through the escort of seven royal little miniature men who are commonly being laughed as the “elf” due to their royal uniform with a pointy hat and pointy shoes.

        Despite a successful revolution, the old lady was still anxious and wishing to eliminate the Snow White as she might threaten her place as the most beautiful women in the world. Using her pretentious communist idea, which is instead purely dictatorial, she ordered thousands of female to search the forest for Snow White. Despite how royal the “Elfs” are toward the White family, through continuous seduction of the female army sent by the old lady, the elfs eventually sell out the location of Snow White. Snow White was, of course, captured and tortured badly by the old lady. Despite how Snow White is punched and kicked in the face by the mentally unstable old lady, surprisingly, Snow White did not turn ugly from the beating. Instead, Snow White turns more sexy and beautiful. With her inner vampire instinct arise from the beating, Snow White breaks open the cuffs on her hands and legs with her superhuman abilities and are able to shoot out beam of justice from her eyes which incinerate the old lady’s communist idea

        In the end, like all fairy tales, it ends with a happy ending. Snow White introduces democracy in France and people live happily ever after.

#27: Triple blog entry: Not all men are Sly foxes

I agree with Brott that young children are strongly influenced by the books parents or teachers read to them or allow them to read. Since I’m small, I would read tons of illustrated books that primary focuses on how children, either in the form of human beings or animals, seek to exceed in life despite all the difficulties surrounding them. However, in my memory, there are not really any parents involve in any of the fairy tale stories. For example, in the three little pigs, the three pigs were left along to live in the miserable fill with wolves at an early stage. The brothers seem to never work together that they were always on a separate path and left along to suffer. Commonly portrayed in many stories, the youngest ones were always the smartest and toughest in the story. There are always a happy ending to every story. However during the course of the plot, family member of the protagonist were always faced with death or trouble that led the young reader like me to understand how certain choices in life are bad and foolish. The illustration is extremely interesting that there are never a single blood in the illustration despite it portrayed how pigs were swallowed by the evil wolf and died. The language it uses is also extremely optimistic that every thing would eventually turn out well if the characters were to make smart choices. Nothing is accidental that every time a person failed is due to that person’s own mistake. Now looking back at these stories, I find them to be extremely unrealistic.

       

        Speaker: The speaker is the author who is a men and a father who has kids at the age of reading illustrated books

        Occasion: The main occasion is the observation of a trend in children books that portray fathers as uncaring. Another occasion would be observation of the children’s bookshelves when he tries to find appropriate readings for his 2 years old daughter.

        Audience: The audience is certainly for parents who have children at the age of guided reading from parents. Also, the audience is for book publisher to realize how the trend of the children’s book has negative stereotypical view of father.

        Purpose: The purpose of the passage to illustrate how father are unfairly, negatively portray in children’s book as uncaring and seem to have less role in effecting children’s life than mother. He wants to show that these negative stereotypes are unrealistic that not all fathers are abandoning their family, despite some do. He wants parents to carefully select stories for their children in order to save the image of father and not to let their children to have this stereotypical mindset since an early age.

        Subject: Father are portrayed unfairly as uncaring in children’s literature

        Tone: The author’s tone is analytical that he carefully used details and examples to support his argument. He is quite anxious and worried about how father are portray as uncaring which he seeks to change by telling parents to not buy that kind of literature.

        Question of Meaning

1.          The thesis of the essay is “There is, however, one very large group whose portrayal continues to follow the same stereotypical lines as always: fathers” as stated in the beginning of paragraph 2.

2.          Brott assume his audience to be stereotypical or just ignorant the fact that many fairy tales hold negative portray of father’s role in the story. I also fit into his assumption that I am totally unaware how father is portrayed in many fairy tales until I come across this unique essay.

4.          Brott implies that after the essay has identify how certain fairy tales hold negative stereotypical view of fathers in the story, parents now have to then carefully select children’s reading in order to prevent their children from absorbing such unfair views of father. This way, we can eradicate discrimination at an early age.

Question on Writing Strategies

2.          Reference to books for parents indicates that these stereotypical portray not only has an influence on children, it also influences the parents. This kind of book will only further create this kind of bad, uncaring father because father are expected to take less role in taking care of children than mother.

Question on Language

1.          As stated in paragraph 3, caregivers are people who take care of kids by providing with materials goods and care for children by bouncing them around before putting them to sleep. However, nurturers are those who spend 24/7 around children and raise them with care. They constantly fulfill the needs of children and tell them stories and play games with them. Nurtures are those who participate in raising the children, not just giving them occasional care.

#26: Double Blog-Obligation of a Husband and Father

       I agree how Brady is complaining how wife and mom are mistreated with tons of responsibility piling on them. Although I’m a male, I’m starting to leaning on her side that I really feel her agony. However, for a women or wife, husband or father is also important and responsible. First of all, I want a husband who can support me financially. To support a princess inside me, he would have to make tons of money in order for me to spend on LVs, expensive bags, fancy big brand shoes, 10 new whole set of dresses everyday and treat me to dinner once every weekend although I may only want to take a bite of an expensive 5 star hotel steak. Next, I want a husband who can be respected by our neighbor and lots of reputation to let me look wealthy and classy. I want a husband who can also do choirs and pick up children when I’m gone to socialize with my friends to salon or shopping. I want a husband who can be athletic and play sports with my energetic boys. I want a husband who can protect me when I’m in trouble and willing to stand out bravely to speak for my mistakes. There are so many things a woman wants an ideal husband and men to have.

        In “I want a Wife”, Judy Brady argue how woman or wife has to take more responsibility than man does. Traditionally, all men need to do in a family to take jobs and support the family financially. However, women need to stay home and quit working to take care of children and house choir. Women tends to play a supporting role to support things back at home by preparing dinner, taking care of kids, keeping the house clean, satisfying husband’s sexual needs and keeping detail record of appointments and daily schedules. “Who wouldn’t want a wife?” said Judy. According to Judy, women are simply treated like a slave for men. Once a man finds another person who may be more suitable than the current wife, the man would simply divorce and expect the wife to take care of the children that he can start a new life. Also, women can never take a rest. Although the family is on vacation, the wife has to continue to take care of the children and husband. Judy makes the man seems like a devil that would tortures the woman and makes her life difficult although she doesn’t have to take jobs.  

       

        Speaker: The speaker would be the author, who is a wife /woman who is sick of taking all the responsibility that she also wishes she is a man who can have a wife.

        Occasion: The main occasion is from seeing how traditionally women are expected to have certain role and responsibility in the family. The second occasion would be her friend’s recent divorce and his search to a new wife. These spark her interest in examining what would it be like to have a wife.

        Audience: The audience would certainly be for male, in specifically to husband which she finds them to be abusive against women.

        Purpose: The main purpose is to let the reader understand the agony of women and realize how husband/ man can be abusive and treat women like a household machine. She wishes to change the expectation place on women that these expectations are unreasonable and women should have rights too.

        Subject: The unreasonable expectation of women that they are treated unfairly by their husbands.

        Tone: The tone is sarcastic that the author pretends she is the husband which she explains how she wants her wife to behave. With her description, we can infer that she is pretty furious with how wives are treated that husbands often make unreasonable request and place overwhelming expectations on them.

#25 Going for digital

Should we digitalize everything in school, including our text book, class work, home work and report card? Digitalization has become a new trend for school. For most of our homework, teachers have hope students to type out essay and submitting paper through email and electronic files. What exactly are some of the benefit for school to go all digitalize? In my point of view, there are 3 points that digitalization of academic materials benefit both school and student. It is efficient, green and easy to categorize. Back in the old days, teacher would expect students to write an essay on a piece of paper and seek for good hand writing and neatness on paper. However, it is extremely hard to not make a single mistake on the paper. If students were to write with pencil, it would be easy to erase mistakes with an eraser. However, even doing so there will still be pencil marks imprinted on the paper. Paper form is extremely hard to edit. With electronic files, it is extremely easy to edit and have a neat font on official paper. Second, using electronic files is green. In the world today that is extremely concerned about our environment. By using electronic files, we can kill fewer trees and create an environment friendly environment by creating less waste. Finally, electronic files are easy to categorizes. If the school were to organized files with paper, it is extremely easy to get paper to be lost into the wrong folder or cabinet. With computer and electronic files, it is extremely easy to categorize files and store lots of data that takes up little space in the room. Office can be rid of potential shelf of paper and document that can be easily messed up.

# 24 Fair use: online Piracy

What is considered a fair use of sharing files in terms of a piece of music? Am I breaking the law by sharing music that I brought on the CD online in a forum where people can download the music I share? Many people will argue that this will be piracy that I shouldn’t be allowed to share intellectual property online and let people download things that should have been brought legally through music stores. There’s a big issue of what is the fair use of sharing music. In the old days where music can only be played on a black disk or CDs, people share music by lending CDs to people as if it is like a book. It is fine to share books and share the information you have in your possession. However, when technology starts to improve that mass producing books by photocopying become common and cheap, it becomes a problem that book maybe shared illegally. It is the same as essays. People are not allowed to plagiarize because it is some other people’s work and intellectual property that needs to be charged if it were to be used. Music nowadays are made electronically, which make it extremely vulnerable to mass copying and downloading due to the easiness to assess to the technology to perform this heinous act (For the recording industries). For me, the only fair use of music is when music are played directly and only on CD album that can’t be mass produce and upload to any other electronic device. However, this proves something hard to do as these paradoxical issues are occurring even in company such as SONY.

#23 Usage of Argument in Campaign ads

In this video, Obama used several techniques in his camgain ads to attack his opponent, John McCain during the 2008 US presidential election. First, Obama uses a belittlement charge to control the mood of the audience by saying that McCain destroy people's dream by trying to privatize health care like the way he did with banking.  This created fear for people that John McCain's policy would be a disaster as the way the ad puted "A prescription for disaster".This strong world creates a negative image that his policy could led to people's poor life and depression in society. This is also a Domino Theory which suspect that if McCain gets elected and implement his policy, people will be doom for life. Also the ad makes it certain that a pure hypothesis or prediction which John McCain's way to deal with health insurance would be disasterous  was seemed as an inevitable fact and truth. This is called confusing speculation with fact. This is a strong attack ad from Obama to show that John McCain may screw up Health insurance as the way he did with deregulation of banking. Of course, the ad is all based up theory that the way McCain deregulate banking would be equally disastrious to health care. Who knows if the policy would do harm to the health care. After all, banking and health care are two very different things.

#22 Nonsense Vs Argument

Comparing Nonsense and Argument book, I think I favored the Nonsense book better. First of all, Nonsense book is easier to make notes. Unlike the argument book, nonsense book is organized with set agenda. First, it will cover the name of the specific rhetoric terms. Then it will give examples to support it. In the argument book, it first approaches rhetoric term with example. This may be entertaining that the argument book looks more like a book instead of a dictionary or an encyclopedia. However, it may be extremely difficult to follow if one wants to use the book to find terms. Also, Nonsense book provide more detail than argument book. In the nonsense book, it can provide specific details that support the term exactly as it is defined. However, in the argument book, the author may provide an example that may support multiple terms at the same time. This may be extremely confusing for first time learner. Also, I hated how the argument book has many side notes with details that I often find extremely irreverent. They may sidetracks and distract the reader. I like books that are straightforward to follow. For me, Argument book may contain may too many references to American culture that I may not be so familiar with. This may ruin the potential fun of the book that for the most part I couldn’t understand the jokes the author is trying to imply.

#20 Rich vs Poor

I guess lots of people would like to agree with me about the differences between Rich versus Poor. Like many stories portrayed, rich people are in fact arrogant, greedy and selfish. Most of the time, they exploit on the poor to make themselves rich and gain all the benefits for themselves. Most of the time, they spend all of their time and energy on how to make themselves more money. They never appreciate what they have and always wanted more. Nothing is enough for them. Even if they make a billion dollar a year, they will want to make 10 billion more the next year. On the other hand, poor people tend to be more humble and giving. They suffer and understand the toughness in life. Due to their economic situation, poor people seem to place their primary importance on their family. They are naturally more of a philanthropist. Poor people are more willing to help each other and donate to charity whenever they can because they know what it’s like to be poor. Unlike the rich, the poor appreciate what they have and seek to work hard to get themselves out of poverty. They are more efficient in their work and more able to take and overcome challenges in life. This is all just certain stereotype for both sides. There are of course some exceptions within each of the group. However, this is just some common thought people have when they consider about the morals of poor and rich people.