"The Standard Of Living In The Dominican Republic" 

In my Belief, the standard of living from my home country which is The Dominican Republic is very high. People from my country are not always complaining about their life situation compared to people from here. In my country people always look at the good side of everything no matter how hard the situation is they know that eventually it will pass. Another good point is that people from my country are always helping each other which we barely see here in the U.S. Even-thought  in some states from my country the employment rate is very low they always find a way to create jobs, especially for the poor people. A good example to explain my point of view is my personal experience: When I compare the life am living in this country to the one I had back home, I think that the one in my country was much better because even though here I have everything I want I feel like there's always something missing to make my life complete. But in contrast back in my country all I had was the essential things but my life was much better; for example, back in home country I didn't even have a computer nor a cellphone to communicate with my friends so we used to go to each others house in order to talk and gossip. Also people in here, all they do is work and try to make more money that sometimes they don't even have time for their family, but in my country people will always find a way to spend time with their loved ones because they don't care that much about the money. They know that family always goes over money.

Tell White lies (occasionally) Outline:

Thesis:  Its Better to say a white lie  that won't do any damage to anybody than to hurt people's feelings.

I. A white lie is a way of being courtes:

A. Prevent them from feeling hurt.

B.will help them with their self-confidence.

II. No all the truth are yours to say:

A. No every person has the right to know the truth.

B. No every that is appropriate to say the truth.

Conclusion: At the end a White lie Could save a long time Friendship and could also help you and the other person not to be mad at each other for being honest and saying the truth.

Courtesy: Key to a Happier World

Thesis: Life’s difficulties would be minimized if people were more courteous to each other.

I. Basic ingredients of good manners

A. Justice

B.Empathy

C.Treat all people alike

II. Three ways to improve one’s manners

A. Practice courtesy

1. Concentrate on your performance in a specific area for about a week.

2. Don’t let others’ bad manners make you rude

B. Think in a courteous way.

C. Be able to accept courtesy

Conclusion. Politeness is the golden rule in action.

Question:

 Do you think the message in Maugham's story is the same as or different from the message in the Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper? Explain.

I think that the message in Maugham's story is way different than the message from Aesop Fable's story. In the story written by Maugham the moral is that we should live for today without worrying about the future because we don't know what the future has for us, but in contrast the moral from Aesop's story is that we should save for the future, in other words, we should be more focus in what might happen in the future than in the Present. In my believe i agree with Maugham's story for certain reasons.The first reason is like i said before, we don't know if we have a bright future ahead of us or don't so we should let it be the future. Also i think that as humans we should live for today not for tomorrow because at the end of the day we always end up regretting not having done things that we could have done  in the past because we were to focus in thinking about the future.Hence, we have to live the for the present and let the future be the future because we don't know if we might die  tomorrow.

"As it was in the Beginning"

                        

  What Solution did Esther have for the jealousy and hatred she felt? can you understand why she acted as she did?

 The solution that Esther had to calm her jealousy after overhearing the conversation between father Paul and Laurence was to kill her lovely playmate and childhood friend as a way of payback for betraying her and making her be away from her family for so long, so that way she would be punishing father Paul and the other girl wasn't going to marry Laurence.
  As a women i can say that when once we feel betray and lied at for someone we love, we're capable of doing things that we might regret in the future. By saying this i'm not justifying that what she did was right because it was totally wrong because we should not take a human's life in our hands just because we feel betrayed by them. But what we should do is move on and leave everything behind no matter how much it will hurts to see the person we love being happy with someone else, because life keeps going and we will find someone else who will love us for who we are not for who they want us to be. Hence, all she had to do was go back to her village and be happy with her family instead of taking Laurence's life in her hands

  As a witness,  I have learned that no one has an easier or harder life than anyone else, people just learn how to deal with their problems. After reading the articles, ''How your birth order influences your life adjustment'' and "Born for each other? " it has lead me to believe that birth order of a child really does influence in our life in general. Hence, I believe that the people who have the "easier" life according to the document and from my own life experiences are the youngest members of a family. The youngest child of everyone's family are the ones who have "the easier life" because they always have their oldest brothers or sisters looking up for them and  watching their back so they do not have that much responsibility as the oldest ones has.   

  In contrast to the youngest the oldest has the more difficult and "harder" life than anyone else in our family, because they have all the responsibility for themselves and their parents are always expecting for them to do better than their youngest member of the family so they can be a role model for them as they grow up. In some cases, the oldest end up pleasing their parents doing what they ask them to do and not doing what they really want to. This can can be seem in some young people who attend to college who are doing a major just to please their parent not because that's the career that they see themselves pursuing in their future.
  In my believe, the happiest one are the middle children. Most of the time they are the free-care so they do not care about what anybody have to say about them or their actions nor what their parents expect from them. All they care about is being themselves and doing what makes them happy.
   Thus, I think that you are who you want to be, or in other word you are who you choose to be. Hence,  if you choose to please your parents you wont have a happy life but in contrast if you do what you like your life we be wonderful as most middle child's life.

Birth Order article

How accurate is Lucile K Forer's description of your birth order? 

      In the article called " How your Birth order influences your life adjustment" written by Lucille K. Forer the author explains how birth order play a big role in our life. In the article she pointed out that parents are more exited about their first child than the others and because of that they tend to expect more from their older child than from their middle or youngest child. I totally agree with what she wrote in this article because I'm on the oldest child group and as i was growing up i noticed how my parents were more harder on me and my oldest sister who is just 2 years older then me than  what they were with the youngest one.
    She also wrote that oldest child tend to have a feeling of being parental with their youngest brother or sister which is totally true because in my case as an oldest child I feel like i need to protect my youngest sister from everything and try to teach them what i know about life so they dont do the same mistakes that i have done. Forer also wrote that oldest child are way more responsible than the others which i also agree with because in my case like i said i also have and oldest sister which i look up to as a rode model and i think she is even more responsible than i am because as we were growing up she was the one who needed to have the power of the house and make important decions whenever my mom was not there with us.
   The only part that i did not agree with Forer is that in the article she wrote that oldest child tend to think that they are more capable than the youngest which i think is a false statement because in my case i do not think that my youngest sisters are less capable than me on doing whatever they want to do. I believe that each one of my sister is better at doing something than the other but we're all capable.
   In conclusion i think that forer was 90% accurate in her article about my birth order and i really enjoyed reading her article because i didn't just mirror myself while reading this but i also mirrored each one of my sisters which was really fun because they all fitted in their categories.