Macbeth Finished

It has been a lazy week for me and for all the 10th graders, I guess. It is mainly becuse of the cycling around Taiwan that is happening next week. Although we are going to have so much fun next week, but we still need to get some work done this week.
We had a pretty intense and hard quiz on Macbeth Act 1, 2, and 3. The test was so hard that my friends and I were shockd by it. The question sheet was only a single A4 paper with 10 short questions, but the answer that I handed in was  about 3 pages of A4 paper. I was surprised that there can be so many profound and challenging questions come out from a easy and abbreviated version of Macbeth.
Although the quiz was such a frustration to me, but I found out Macbeth is really a interesting book to read. Therefore, I finished the entire book in my spare time at dorm. It is really a great book. The plot of the book just keep luring me to read it furthermore. It may take a while for me to fully understand this book, but still I am glad that I finally finished it.

Article about Asperger syndrome

After reading the article “Child with Asperger syndrome often live in fear of teasing, bullying”, there are two thoughts come to my mind. The first one is about our project of Asperger syndrome. The second on is a connection of this article to my real-life experience with a friend who also has Asperger syndrome.

        Since our English project for this term is to research on Asperager syndrome, I found out that this article about the issues of children who are afflicted with Asperger syndrome interesting. Before I read the article, Asperger syndrome, to me, is merely one type of autism, but I have a deeper or a general of what Asperger syndrome is. Also, the article concerns about how the society should do to help the children. I believe that lots of money will be needed for those who suffers from Asperger syndrome. Therefore, I think government should help the children either by financial aids or free special educations. And according to the estimate in the article that 1 in 166 children will have such problem, the problem will need a immediate solution, so the suffering of both the child and the parents can be alleviated.

        The article also reminds me about one of my friends in junior high school. He has Asperger syndrome, therefore he always interrupt classes in inappropriate timing. He did not go to any special educational center or organization, but instead he came to our school. Classmates were first curious about why he acting so weird, and when they found out he was suffered with mental disability, people start to tease him and even bully him. The kid had no idea about what was going on, and his syndrome started to deteriorate. Eventually, he started to hurt himself by cutting his wrist. Although I was not the one who teases him, but I felt sorry for him that I did not try to help him at the time, even till today, I still feel guilty when I think about him. People who suffered from Asperger syndrome really need the help of ours, and we should not tease or even discriminate them because of their misfortune. People were all born equal. Even though they are different from, but instead of step aside, what we really need to do is to help them and alleviate their suffering.

Things to say about my HW this week

This is the 7th week of our second semester. Although this is not a busy week because all the exams and works that happened in the last week, but still we have some work this week. I read a article called "One Hundred Years of Multitude." You may think the title of the article is quiet familiar, because it is a allusion of the book One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. The article mainly talks about different groups of people, like Asian and Slavs. This makes me think about the world that we live in. It the world that have tons of different cultures, races, and countries. In the past, people often time united due to a common races and nationalism, and they fight with the other groups of people because they wanted to prove their superiority. But now, people cooperate internationally, disregard their country and nationality. I found it interesting because I was wondering what is the force that cause people to turn fighting into collaboration. Is it the world-wide economy? Or because they are tired about war and fighting?