Do I have a negative or positive perspective?

I'm a bit of an optimist and a pessimist.
I'm very realistic.

Q: You wake up in the middle of the night with a stomachache. Your first thought is...
A: "I'm sure it's nothing."

Q: You apply for your "perfect" job, but you don't get it. You think...
A: "Never mind. I'll find something else."

Q: When you are introduced to someone new, you...
A: "warm up" to that person gradually.

Q: News about crime or disasters makes you...
A: realize that sometimes bad things happen.

Q: When a friend feels down, you...
A: understand and try to offer support.

Q: Your boss asks you out to lunch. You think...
A: "That's really nice."

Q: If someone unexpectedly knocks on your door, you think...
A: "I wonder who it could be."

About my roommate

I think my husband is one of the beautiful
   optimists who I have ever met. As you know
   an optimist is a person who is going through
   a hard time feels confident that life will
   get better.

    He thinks always positively and choose right
    way.
    He sees the opportunity in every difficulty
    and follows through his decision. He tends to
    expect the best when he confronts with
    problem.
    He looks on the bright side and,instead of
    seeing a problem, sees a solution.

    He is also very sincere and honest. He never
    compromise with his morals. 
      

      
     How wonderfulhusband he is! These reasons
    are why he can stand terrible and tyrant wife.

About Stefania

 Stefania is the strongest person I know. Actually I don't know her childhood but she must have been smart student and obedient to her parents. It is not easy to become a doctor. She also has four kids. We know how difficult her life. She is never lazy. Everyday she ride a bike to Pimmit. I tried to ride the bikecouple of dys but the road was not easy to ride a bike. I can say she is one of the strongest and most wonderful waman I have ever known.

Saint Patrick's Day

In South Korea

Seoul (Capital city of South Korea) has celebrated Saint Patrick's Day since 2001 with Irish Association of Korea. The place of parade and festival has been moved from Itaewon and Daehangno to Cheonggyecheon.^[48]


Little is known of Patrick's early life, though it is known that he was born in Roman Britain in the 4th century, into a wealthy Romano-British family. His father and grandfather were deacons in the Church. At the age of sixteen, he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and taken captive to Ireland as a slave.^[17] It is believed he was held somewhere on the west coast of Ireland, possibly Mayo, but the exact location is unknown. According to his Confession, he was told by God in a dream to flee from captivity to the coast, where he would board a ship and return to Britain. Upon returning, he quickly joined the Church in Auxerre in Gaul and studied to be a priest.^{[citation needed]}
In 432, he again said that he was called back to Ireland, though as a bishop, to Christianise the Irish from their native polytheism. Irish folklore tells that one of his teaching methods included using the shamrock to explain the Christian doctrine of the Trinity to the Irish people. After nearly thirty years of evangelism, he died on 17 March 461, and according to tradition, was buried at Downpatrick. Although there were other more successful missions to Ireland from Rome, Patrick endured as the principal champion of Irish Christianity and is held in esteem in the Irish Church.

Red like the Sky(2006)

The film is inspired by the true story of Mirco Mencacci, one of the most gifted Italian sound editors working today, who happens to be blind. A small village in Tuscany, 1971. Mirco is a bright, lively 10-year-old, crazy about the movies - especially Westerns and adventure films. His father, an incurable idealist, is a truck driver. One day, while Mirco is playing with an old rifle, the gun accidentally goes off; the boy is shot in the head. He survives, but loses his sight. At that time, Italian law considered blind people hopelessly handicapped, and did not permit them to attend public school. Hence, young Mirco's parents are forced to shut their son up in a "special school for the blind": the David Chiossone Institute in Genoa. In the beginning Mirco does not accept his new condition. But he is feisty and determined. When he finds an old tape recorder and a few used reels and discovers that by cutting and splicing tape he can create little fairy tales made only of sounds, a brand-new world opens up to him. His new adventure is opposed by the religious authorities that run the boarding school, who are convinced that a blind boy is a disabled person who must not be allowed to harbor illusions. But Mirco will not give up. He continues to fight in every way possible, and he slowly involves his classmates, leading them to rediscover their dreams and capacities. Then one night, with the help of the only sighted child - the daughter of the doorkeeper, with whom Mirco shares a tender friendship - he convinces the small group of boys to sneak out of school and go to the cinema down the street. For all of them, the experience is exhilarating. But the consequences are grim. Mirco is expelled. In the meantime, a broader struggle to change society is taking place outside. 1970's political protests are erupting. Students are taking to the streets. During one of his earlier escapades, Mirco had made friends with Ettore, a blind university student with strong political awareness. Hearing that Mirco has been expelled, Ettore pushes the whole city to mobilize. Students and workers protest in front of the Cassone Institute, threatening to shut down the city's blast furnace if Mirco is not re-admitted. As a consequence, the head of the institute is put under investigation. Mirco is finally re-admitted and granted special permission: to change the year-end show. Instead of reciting the usual religious poems, the children put on a performance of their "fairy tale in sound", before an audience of blind-folded, spellbound parents. Written by Anonymous

The Salad Bowl: Cultural Diversity in the U.S - III

The U.S.A.- Customs and Institutions 
                                          by Ethel Tiersky & Martin Tiersky


What do you think is the meaning of the painting above?
Do you think Americans are religious? What evidence supports your answer?
Do you think a total separation of goverment and religion is good or bad for a country?

Religion in American Life

Major American Religions
In terms of numbers of members, what are the hree main religions in the U.S.?
Religion andGovernment
What does seperation of church and stte mean? Give some examples.
Are Americans Religious?

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe


Harriet Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 14, 1811. She was the daughter of outspoken religious leader Lyman Beecher and Roxana Foote, a deeply religious woman who died when Stowe was four years old. She was the sister of the educator and author, Catharine Beecher, clergymen Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, and Edward Beecher.
Harriet enrolled in the seminary run by her eldest sister Catharine, where she received a traditionally “male” education. At the age of 21, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to join her father, who had become the president of Lane Theological Seminary, and in 1836 she married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a professor at the seminary and an ardent critic of slavery. The Stowes supported the Underground Railroad and housed several fugitive slaves in their home. They eventually moved to Brunswick, Maine, where Calvin taught at Bowdoin College.
In 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law, prohibiting assistance to fugitives. Stowe was moved to present her objections on paper, and in June 1851, the first installment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin appeared in the antislavery journal National Era. The 40-year-old mother of seven children sparked a national debate and, as Abraham Lincoln is said to have noted, a war. Stowe died on July 1, 1896, at age eighty-five, in Hartford, Connecticut.