Childhood

If I could go back....I definitely would. Childhood memories are one of the best, and memorable memories of my life. I remember childhood with my siblings and cousins. It was always us six. Everywhere we go, there was always six of us. I remember playing outside in the hot sun, playing tag around the apartment. I remember running into the house begging our mom for money just to buy ice cream from the ice cream truck. I remember all six of us kids swimming in the tiny swimming pool that my mom bought for us. I remember playing duck duck goose. I remember saying things like "psyche" or "talk to the hand". These were the best phrases in my childhood. :) Thinking about this makes me nostalgic. If there was a time machine I would travel back into time to when I was a child.
Whenever I see my little nieces and nephew playing with each other, it makes me yearn to become a child again. It was just so much fun and peaceful as a child. No stress, no worries...

If only I could, I would, I would become a child again, so that I could experience childhood once more.

History

History is a requirement in school. It is a class that we have to take from middle school to high school, and even in college. But have you ever wonder why we learn  history?

We learn about history, so that we won't repeat the same mistakes over and over again. We learn history, to see what our ancestors, our people, and everybody had gone through.

History is also fascinating. If you look at history, you could see that our world has changed a lot from time to time. For example, after learning about my culture's history (Vietnam), it made me appreciate my culture, as well as my family for what they've gone through. I found out that my parents struggled a whole lot just to come to America. Their history made me feel a sense of appreciation.

 Many people don't value history. To them, it's just another boring subject in school. To me, it is different, it is powerful. I appreciate all the things people have done and gone through in history, and learning about it is fun.

Education

Education. Why is it so important in our society?
For one thing, education is what helps up advance in society. Without an education, advancing in society would be hard since careers generally rather hire people with a high education rather than one without one.
Education is also important because it lets us think. It lets us think outside the box, think for different sides, it helps us be open minded. It lets us think in other perspective, other than our own. It opens us into a world of knowledge. Without an education, people would have not have a lot of knowledge.
Since education is so important in our society...why do people not value it? Some kids these days take their education for granted. They don't realize that it is important, and see it as a joke. Up until education isn't free anymore, people start to realize the importance of education.

Education is something that everyone should experience and have. I'm glad that I have and still am going to school to gain my education.

A classmate's blog that inspired me.

A classmate's blog that inspired me would have to be the post "Name three people whose lives have been improved by knowing you" by Yvonne Pacheco. This blog inspired me to leave an impact on other people's life, positive of course.
Yvonne said that the three people whose lives have been changed by knowing her were her mom, best friend, and herself. Reading what she wrote touched me in many ways. I liked how she and her mother have a close relationship. I don't have that with my mom. In a way, I envy that. It inspires me to try to bond with my mom, and create a good relationship with her. I want her to not only see me as a daughter, but also of someone who does good in society. I want her life to be changed my knowing me. I want to impact her life.
I was also touched by What Yvonne's post about her best friend. Her friend's life was changed by knowing her. He became a better person. I am inspired by this. I also want to have this impact on my friends. I would like to improve another's person life by knowing them. It would be really cool.

Overall, after reading this post, I am determined to improve other's lives, or at least leave a positive impact on their lives. It would be the best feeling ever.

Effects of rap and hip hop lyrics on teen's language and behavior

There is no questioning that rap and hip hop has a huge impact on today's youth. The question is, is the impact positive, or negative?

Although I listen to rap and hip hop, I believe that it leaves a negative impact on today's youth. The music is entertaining, but have you really listened to the lyrics of rap and hip hop? The lyrics in this genre of music is provocative, usually talking about money, sex or degrading women. Rarely does this genre of music talk about meaningful inspirational things.

It affects the youth by sending out the message that only money and sex is important. It sends out the message that women aren't worthy, and are only viewed as sex objects. If you watch music videos by rappers, you will notice that it mostly consist of women and sex. This is not the type of things that we want our youth to watch, as well as mimic.

I lived in South Sacramento my whole life. I've lived in an area that was influenced by rap and hip hop. I remember being little, and all the little kids in my apartment mimicking the lyrics to a rap song, which was inappropriate for children. This shows that kids are influenced by rap music and that they also mimic what they see and hear. We do not want them to mimic rappers and promote money, sex, and degrading women.

Even though there are some positives that evolve from rap and hip hop, such as self expression, the negatives outweigh the positives.  Rap just isn't the type of music that young people should listen to. Unless these artist change the lyrics and meanings of their songs, this genre of music should not be listened to by our youth. It would only influence them to  mimic the negativity portrayed in the music.

Rap and hip hop also cause crimes, if not, crime rates to increase. Why? Because rap and hip hop talks about gangs, and money as top priority. Our youth will be influenced by this music and copy what they hear and see.

We don't want this to happen to our future generation, therefore, this type of genre of music should not be listened to by our youth. It would only impact them negatively, because rap and hip hop today is full of inappropriate things.

Food

Food, its my favorite thing. It is essential to my survival, and it makes me happy.

What is so unique about food?
Food come in many types. There are food served as breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts, appetizers, and snacks. Food also are all different, and have different taste. There are different kinds of food for every culture. For example, Italian, American, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Indian food. Food can be a way for people to express their culture as well. That being said, whenever I have guest over, my mom always make pho ( Vietnamese noodles) to show people about our culture by eating the noodles.

Food is also unique because it is what keeps us alive. Without food, we would die, because we need to eat.

Food is also a stress reliever..well, for me it is. Whenever I am overly stressed, I grab some snacks and munch on them to forget my stress.

Although food is primarily positive since it is a necessity to our life, it can also be a killer to some people. Why? because some people overeat. They eat too much and become obese... In this case, just manage what and how much you eat.

Food. It's good. It's unique. Everyone eats it. I definitely love food, all types too! 

Religion.

Religion. It is controversial because there are many types of religion. Christianity, Catholicism, Buddhism, Shamanism, Confucian, ect. Some people believe that their religion is superior to others. Some people believe that there religion is right, and others are wrong. Some people become extremist, and believe so much that they start to do bad things.  Religion is a controversial topic regarding our society. Many people base their life on a certain religion, while some don't believe in religion at all.

Yes, it is good to believe. It's good to have faith. However, religion should not be an issue for people. It should not cause hatred, or anything else. People should be good and do good deeds even without religion. I, personally am not religious. I don't think religion should cause any conflict in society, but should bring people together, even if people have different beliefs.