MOLLY+READING+JOURNAL

1 www.renren.com is the website that i read everyday. it is a social network in China, just like the Facebook. All of my Chinese friends are using it, they share their status and photos with each other, therefore, I am able to know the latest news of theirs, even though i am far away from my country. Additionally, it provides me with plenty of online games, which are full of fun, it helps me to kill the time whenever i get bored. What is more, you can make lots of new friends who have same interests or be in the same city.

2 I think I have fully understood the "TWINS". It is implicit but Lucy was the one who killed her husband.In the last paragraph, the author implied the answer. The only part that made me confused is that the author mentioned a detective named Gib Porter in the man's story, but there was not a character like him showing up later on. I enjoyed TWINS because i was dying to know who was the real killer while i was reading and the ending was out of my expectation. TWINS is a mysterious story for adults, I normally like this genre of story, for it pushes me to think carefully.

water-tight- carefully prepared claw- to scrach hunch- a feeling that sth is ture even though you do not have any evidence to prove it reel- to feel very shocked or upset about sth ammunition- a supply bullets, etc.

4 Schools are supposed to be places where younger generation gain knowledge and upright qualities, at the same time, teenagers at my age are easy to be affected by everything which they have been taught, therefore, from my point of view, it is not proper for the teacher to let students read murder stories in school.

Some murder stories are likely to cause bad influence on students, for instance, in TWINS, the man set a watertight plan which is able to kill others without being noticed, curious students possibly try to imitate and examine it because they might think they would not be caught or punished, even though it is just an imaginary plot of the author's.

The story like TWINS provides me with tricky ideas, but i would never use them because i know it is bad.

5. The stater of the story is that a man was found dead in a forest and the only thing besides him was a paperclip. It is a adult mistery, the sub-genre is murder mistery. We are going to present it as a piece of news.

There are plenty of obvious conventions in the murder mistery. First, clues and evidences, all of these can help the police find out the truth. Secondly, the weapon, which is a paperclip in our story. Thirdly, there will be an answer at the end, which explain everything to the audience.

I am the EXTRA of my group. I am in charge of filming, editing and all the complicated stuff.

6. media type="youtube" key="xsWQL9Za-Ec" height="345" width="560" I am the film maker of my group. This video is a fake news of Justin Bieber, produced by the Union News. It tells something funny in a quite serious way, which causes a awesome impact. so i could learn from it and make a news like that.

7. I am the EXTRA of my group, in another word, an almighty backup. I filmed the story at first, the battery went off very quickly, but fortunately I brought my IPHONE with me. On the weekend, I edited it by a software, which was a completely new thing to me, adding transition, music, subtitle to make it to a piece of news. I have done with all my work this morning, what a relief.

I really enjoy being an extra. Frankly speaking, I totally had no idea about how to make a film when I chose this job. I downloaded a software and learned step by step on my own. Even though I met lots of difficulties and it was complicated, the process was still full of fun. Additionally, watching the finished film was the happiest moment of the day!

I still tend to be the extra next time because I know how that works and is what my passion is. By doing this, I have been familiar with the edit of filming and gotten some useful skills, it help me to do a better job in the next project.

BTW, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR.K!

8. infinite, simal. very very small. ness. sadness, happiness, loneliness. abyss, mystery. not being fastened.

Void sky, and infinitesimal stars, my wings are unfastened, likeness, a bird.

9. Boo Radley and the man in Tom Waits' //What's He Building Down There?// have lots of features in common. Both of them are bizarre and mysterious. They have no friend and never greet others and do things which people are curious for. There are rumors all over them and nobody wants or dares to get closed to them. Dill's fascination with Boo Radley is quite similar to this song because they are both eager to figure out what these freaks really are.

I guess he is building a place for his secret stuffs. Boo Radley must be tall and strong and looks scary.

Once the teacher was not in the school so that we had a self-study time for that period. It was the last period before the lunch, when there were 10 or 20 minutes left for the class, I decided to go to lunch earlier since the teacher was not there. Unfortunately, i was caught by the principal. My teacher was very angry when he came back because it seemed a shame to his regulation and he punished me to clean up the classroom and write down a self-criticism letter.(that might sounds silly but it happens in chinese school all the time). My trouble was not worse than scout's because I myself broke the rule and deserved to it, besides, i was not punished physically.

10. Burris Ewell is a minor character in Happer Lee's To Kill A Mocking Bird. It did remind me of a trouble i caused in my junior school when i read about the conflict between Burris and Miss Caroline. I was in a mathematics class and my teacher was an old lady who had a bad temper. She was teaching stuffs which i have reviewed earlier by myself so i decided to deal with my English journal. Unfortunately, she found out what i was doing when she passed me and she got furious because she reckoned this as a disrespect for her, so she asked me to stand in front of the whole class and scouted:" You are never ever allowed to break my rule, ya hear?" then she threw my English notebook on the floor deliberately, and when i tried to pick it up, she pushed m away and everybody laughed. i felt extremely offended and shouted something like Burris did, "You try and make me, missus."(Lee, 36). i stood still and stared at her directly because i knew it is illicit for teachers to punish students physically. Suddenly the bell ran at the right time and i went out of the classroom directly. At the end, we apologized to each other after we were both calm down, however, on the contrary, Burris acted intensely imprudent and did not even attempt to turn it right.(Lee, 37).

11. 1a. I really do not like people who are physically perfect but still sit both sides of the streets, begging for money and food. The main reason towards my distaste to them is because they are not respectful to themselves and totally throw their prides away. They are able and are supposed to look for a job whatever what it might be instead of let others look down upon them.But from their points of view, they probably have tried many times but still failed to get one, or they have intellectual problems so that no one wants to hire them, or they have some personal reasons. It is their choice anyway.

2. In my opinion, evil comes from the inside of one's heart. Here is an example: [] A New York buthcher who abducted, killed and chopped a body of an 8 years old boy. According to the article, the evil partly lies in the brain and partly goes through the gene, additionally, childhood and pressure are related to it. As experiments showed, if the empathy circuit gets damaged, people have intention to act cruelly and be emotionless.

12. Their evil comes from the environment they live. Sometimes, my mind was affected by others easily.

13. Helen Keller, who is an American author, political activist and lecturer, is a courageous hero to me. Comparing her to Mrs. Dubose in chapter 11 of To Kill A Mocking Bird by Happer Lee, both of them had been through some physical problem, Helen Keller was born blind and deaf, and Mrs. Dubose, as Atticus said, was addicted to morphine(Lee, 147). Neither of them are privileged of anything, however, neither of them had ever considered giving up themselves. Helen Keller was studious and put every effort into learning, she eventually acquired 5 different languages and simultaneously, wrote a famous series of writing, which contributed to the literacy of the world. Anagolously, even though it is unnecessary and painful, Mrs. Dubose still tried to control her fists by letting Jem read for her(Lee, 148), at the end, her wish came true and she died peacefully. But inversely, Mrs. Dubose expressed herself in an aggressive way, for example, she criticized about Jem and Scout's behaviors and insulted Atticus in front of them.(Lee, 135), on the contrary, Helen Keller was more good tempered and more feminine.

14. When people have fear or distaste in something, it is resonable to get the empathy towards it. For example even though i am not a homophobia, I am slightly scared of and dislike to have a gay child. I have several reasons for this, firstly, gay people are not totally accepted and respected in the society, there are even existing kind of people who extreme hate gay people. Not a single parent wants his/her children to be bullied and disrespected, and the children might suffer great pressure and discrimination. On the second place, it is out of common sense, this kind of behavior is likely affect others, which could cause problems that get in the way of the development of world. Besides, for a family who has a gay child, they possiblely could not have any offspring for the worse.