Why do we have universal education

The reason why we have universal education is because, in order for people to improve, they have to be educated in many ways, like communicating or in specific, unique talents and skills. The only way the people improve is to be communicating with others, sharing ideas and thoughts to make some differences in life. If people can't communicate, then even the smallest and easiest thing, like passing the spoon across the table might not be even possible to happen. And so for developing the unique skills, everything that exists in the world now has been invented by people. The only way that people can invent things is to have skills of some sort and have talent in making things like that. WIthout education being universal, the world might be so much more different than now. Even when some people are able to make things for themselves, other people from other places won't have the capability to learn it and spread it around to make more people learn about it and make life more advanced. The first education with universities started in the late 11th century in England which evolved from older Christians priesting in churches. 

Compare and Contrast two versions of A Christmas Carol

To be honest, after watching the two movies, I think that the newer one with Jim Carrey in it is a lot more appealing to me than the one that’s produced a while ago. It’s probably just because I’m still a child and still like cartoon over movies that are filmed with real people as the characters. The cartoon was more entertaining and because it could make a lot more thing more possible. For example, the effects of the ghosts. In the older film, the effects weren’t as good. The ghosts were just human that were more transparent, but in the cartoon one, the ghosts could fly around, and the visual images would make me more excited and the sound effects made me like the movie a lot more. When I was watching the older version of this movie, I nearly fell asleep. Also, a big difference was to figure out which character is who. Even though through the speech, it was obvious about who was who, but it was still quite hard to find out who was who by simply looking at them in the older version of the movie, but in the cartoon version, the way the characters were drawn was showing the characteristics of the characters, which made it of course, a lot easier to find out who is who. 

My most coveted possession

"What's your most coveted possession?" The same as most other teenagers, I would probably say that it's my computer or my phone. They're things that I can't live without. But, if I can't choose one of those electronic devices, I would say that my most coveted possession would be my oboe. Even though I've learned the piano far longer than I've learned the oboe, I have so much more feeling towards the oboe than towards the piano. To me, playing the piano is quite boring, while playing the oboe makes me feel different and I'm more willing to practice the oboe than to practice the piano. It would be my most coveted possession, because it is obviously very expensive, and other than that, it had been through a lot with me. I've met many of my best friends because of it. I've been to different orchestras in different places, and of course, met many new and different people. In every orchestra, the people that I meet are all unique and funny, which made me make a lot of new friends. Since we also have the same hobbies, we often can chat a lot for a long time. With my oboe, I've been through many different kinds of emotions and so it of course would be my most coveted possession. 

The Victorian Workhouses

Victorian Workhouses were where the poor poeple who had no job or no home to live in stayed. The poor had to work to support themselves with food and clothings etc. Orphans and abandoned children, the physically or mentally disabled people and elderlies were also people that live in workhouses. The poor and old feared the workhouses because the government purposely did so, scared that it would encourage people to become lazy and would try to keep out of it. Even though it was a place where those people could live in, it wasn’t absolutely a bad place because families were split, and they could even be punished if they tried to talk to each other. Also, the education that the children were getting didn’t include reading and writing. Also, the poor people had to wear uniforms so that people knew that they were poor and lives in the workhouse. And also, the food was tasteless are repeated everyday. 

Which ghost influenced Scrooge the most?

In the book "A Christmas Carol", I think that the third ghost, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, influenced Scrooge the most by what it showed him. I think this way because it was the one that Scrooge feared the most. I think that in order to change a person's way of thinking, making them like you won't do much. Making them afraid of you though, would make a bigger difference. In my opinion, I think that if it were me, I would pay more attention to a person if I'm afraid of them instead of listening to someone that I think is happy all the time or someone that I like. The first two Spirits were more friendly-looking and weren't as mysterious as the third one. When I'm with a person that's friendly-looking, I wouldn't believe that they would hurt me or do any harm to me, so I wouldn't be paying as much attention as I would with the person that scares me. Even though I think that the third ghost made the most influence, but I believe that actually all the ghosts, not including Marley though, influenced him bit by bit with every scene that they show to him. 

Theme for Liberty/ Exile

To me, I think that the theme for the story "Liberty" would be how in order to get something you want a lot, you will have to sacrifice something. In the story, the family of the narrator wanted liberty in the definition of freedom a lot and even though the narrator wanted the dog Liberty to go with them when they were on the way to America, she had to sacrifice it, in order to stay with her family and to let them go to America safely. And for the theme for the poem "Exile", I think that the theme is how leaving the place where you've been raised is hard. In the poem, it expressed a mood that even though they've successfully immigrated to the States, they weren't as happy as they've expected, because they've left the place that they've grown up in. In the poem, there was a part when the father, Papi, was staring at the horizon, trying to find a distant swimmer when they just landed and arrived at America. It showed how they were missing their homeland even though they've finally reached the place they wanted to be in, and get their dream, "liberty".