When Greed Gives Way to Giving " by Ana Veciana-Suarez,

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When Greed Gives Way to Giving" by Ana Veciana-Suarez,

         

The article “When Greed Gives Way to Giving?”  By Ana Veciana-Suarez was about a 67 year-old man named Bob Thompson who sold his road-building company for $422 million.  Instead of spending it on himself, he decided to share his wealth with his 550 workers.

  This article caught my attention because I am surprised someone would share that kind of money.  Not too many people in this world would do that.  In today’s society you rarely if ever hear about someone doing that for their employees.  I envy Thompson because of his generosity.  I am a very generous person myself but I don’t know if I have the heart to share my wealth.  I am upset with myself for saying that because I love helping people in their time of need.

But when it comes to working and saving money, in today’s economy being so bad, you -need to keep and save every penny you have to make a living.  When it comes down to it I will  go out of my way to help people and to make people happy. 

One on of Veciana-Suarez paragraph, she mentions that she would have reacted different as Thompson did.  I agree with her because sometimes we think that money is the solution for our problems, without really looking at the problem itself.

In conclusion I am totally agreed with the author about generosity.  In today society we don’t have too many people like Mr. Thompson, because everyone think about themselves more than those who need assistance, there are some people who are very generous, like the people at my church who are always assisting poor people with food who are homeless in the community.

Driving While Stupid

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Driving While Stupid by Dave Barry,

In the article Driving While Stupid?  “Driving While Stupid,” Dave Barry shares his experience of bad driver. He first starts by stating that downtown Miami is home to the worst drivers.  He claims that although some may try to say otherwise, that there is no way to compete with Miami on the worst driver scale.  Barry back sup his clam by giving examples of how he has driven in every major U.S. city as well as in Italy,

After reading this my first complaint is about cell phones. Cell phones are one of my biggest issuers that I have when I am on the road.  It seems like every one out there has one, and they absolutely must use it while driving.  Recently I saw a boy weaving all over the road while apparently trying to reach in a pocket to pull out a ringing phone.  No caring about what kind of havoc  he was causing by moving into other lanes, no time to glance around to make sure he wasn't about to run over a someone. 

I have seen so many curzy drivers, one time I was in the car with my mom a man from behind us.  came speeding in front of us not know there was another car.  front of us and that why we were going slow, because he was too busy taking of his shirt, people don’t think of the danger they are putting themselves and, in other when they are doing those things.  The worst part about it is that they are putting everyone on that road in danger.  Weather it because they’re not pay attention or interested in others things whatever it maybe.

 Two weeks ago I seen a lady trying to put her baby in a car set while she was driving.  Not thinking of the danger she was putting herself and that baby in.  I have seen teenghters speed on the road just because or maybe they had a reason, but still putting everyone on that road in danger.  Watching TV is this last thing I thought I would have seeing someone does.  I even seeing people serving on the road.

Incaution reading this show me how important it is to pay attention.  When I am on the road for my own safety and other on the road as well.

         

My two lives

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10/7/13

My two lives by Jhumpa Lahiri

“My two lives,”  in this story  Jhumpa Lahiri the author  tells us about her struggle with being Indian-American in the American society focusing on how being part of two cultures was confusing, stressful, and full of pressure from living two lives.  She depicts herself as an Indian-American because she moved with her family from India to the United States when she was very young Being part of the two different cultures for Lahiri was confusing and that she feels that she doesn’t belong any of the cultures.  Whenever she was at home, she   followed the customs of her parents by speaking Bengali and eating rice, she deals with her parents in an Indian way, which was strange compared to the American way that she encountered outside.  She says that she has a special identity in spite of her Indian appearance and American behaviors.

Lahiri was young, and she was having trouble balancing her American life with the Indian life at home.  She explains how her parents had grown up in Calcutta, and they tried to continue practicing the same culture in America.  They lived their daily lives like they were still in India, listening to Indian songs, speaking Bengali, wearing traditional clothes, and eating Indian food with their fingers.  All these factors made her feel like an alien and she was ashamed of that way of life.

As an immigrant she felt that she wasn’t living up to the imposition of being Indian or American and her even tried to hide her home life from her American friends, her name, look, and the fact that she didn’t participate in social events like her friends made her seem less American.  Her parents didn’t engage in any activities outside of their culture, which made it difficult for Lahiri to be able to participate in American activities.

 In my opion I think most of people would easy to lose their way when they are between two different cultures, as any immigrants, my friend older brother also used to face this similarly issue.  When, he was a high school student, he had avoided speaking Spanish changing his hair’s color to blond.  Tried to do what whatever he could to it to make himself seem more American.

We can’t never who we are or change where we are coming from doesn’t matter how hard we try at the end we just have to expect the fact that we are who are and there nothing we can do about it Lahiri claims that it was American society that taught her how to behave like an American while her parents gave her a strong sense of being Indian.  In the end, she concludes that her parents were the most important factor to keep her Indian roots and she has felt less conflicted between her identities rather than before.