Education

I chose to read Hamlet by William Shakespeare for my British Literature class. At the beginning of reading this book, I was completely unsure of what I would be reading. I had only ever heard the title, but never the depth and meaning of the play. This particular play tells about a young man who struggles with grief and pain, eventually leading to a struggle with suicide. Honestly, I was a little surprised. Then I began to think. It made me consider the lives surrounding mine and how much the threat of suicide encases everyday life. Hamlet contemplates the significance of life for the duration of the play. At the beginning, young Hamlet grieves. He lost his father to death. So the fact that Hamlet is struggling with the thought of suicide in Act 1 (Scene 2) is understandable. That does...

The only reason I chose this book was because I heard about in the movie Easy A. I had no idea what the book was about at all. Basically, the book is about some chick named Hester who had a baby by a minister, and what she had to go through with her sin. In chapter 2, it talks about how Hester has the letter “A” placed on her chest to show how she is an adulterer. In chapter 8, Hester tells the men that came into the governor’s home that she will be able to teach Pearl an important lesson, the lesson that she has learned from her shame. At the end of the book in chapter 24, it talks about how Hester has embraced her sin as a privilege. These events show how Hester has learned to embrace her sins and not let society bring her down. I wish I was as strong-willed as Hester. I have a...

To all the children who are in poverty and neglect, I know how it could be because I read the book Oliver Twist, whose protagonist is like you. He was raised by a parish as an orphan and when he asked for more food, “please sir may I have some more,” he was shouted at and inprisoned. You may be orphans, you may be homeless and going everywhere, which is awful and should never exist but unfortunately this effects 19.5% of children in developing countries in extremely poor households, a third of the people were children but half here in the extremely poor. You probably couldn’t read this because children in families with incomes below the poverty line are less likely to be read to aloud everyday than are children in families with incomes at or above poverty. Although if you can I must say...

Back in November of 2016, we reported that the Public Security Bureau of China was cracking down on illegal migrant workers in China, and that turns out to be about 40% of all the foreign teachers now working in China. Fortunately, they only found 2,987 of them as you can read the details here. http://www.chinaforeignteachersunion.com/2017/02/almost-3000-foreign-employees-arrested.html. But we want to share a letter we received from typical teacher who thought that he was "randomly selected" for a visa check in China, and what happened to him. We will call him "Mike" but that is not his real name... "Dear CSP, I read your post online about China Job Frauds and want to thank you for warning everyone. Both me and my roomie were arrested right before the Christmas holiday. Here...