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The definition of profit is advantage; benefit; gain. Is it alright to kill for profit? I think it is. The Revolutionary War happened because the US wanted to gain independence from Britain, right? That’s a gain, so it’s profit. What’s the difference between that and Hessians, german soldiers hired to kill, and the US fighting for freedom? I think it’s right to kill for a gain. What do you think?

Once, I decided to let my dad get a turtle from a kiddie pool using a tennis racket. The turtle commited suicide. (You can read about this if you scroll down to a different post) I was going to get him using a pot for more stability, but I was too lazy to go back inside, so I let my dad use the tennis racket. Big mistake. The turtle jumped off the tennis racket and committed suicide.

I really enjoyed this blog. It didn’t have much content, but that was because it was a new blog. It’s first post was 9/28, so it’s a new blog. What intrigued me the most was the setup of it. As soon as I got onto the blog, I saw the words “Mods ain’t got nothin’ on my proxies.” I found this super funny because I went to China recently and I had to use proxies to get onto websites like Facebook and Youtube. Good job and keep up the good work, TheRandomStuff.com Blog!

http://randomstuffblog.edublogs.org/ is the link of this blog. If you are reading this maker of this blog, I congratulate you!

George Washington is known as one of the greatest men in America. He fought against the British and helped write the constitution and all. However, when he wanted to march to Trenton, I was stunned. It was snowing, it would take more than 6 hours to get across the river, and troops morale was down. The soldiers were also basically farmers. Every single person was against him, yet he still planned to attack. He was a huge rebel. With farmers and peasants, he marched on Trenton. In other words, he basically had no chance. Somehow, he made this attack work.

George Washington had never won a battle before the Battle of Trenton. Somehow, he faced 1,200 Hessians and won. After that, the war had a turning point. If you were in Washington’s footsteps, would you have marched on Trenton?

In class yesterday, we learned about rebels. When  you think of rebels, you probably think of a teenage boy who doesn’t listen to his parents, or a group of violent protestors who are trying to fight taxes or something. You probably think of it in a bad way. Am I right? Well, rebels are a LOT more than that. They’re actually usually good people that fight for what’s right.

Rebels are people that change history. Think of all the people in the world that are famous. Can you name one that didn’t rebel against something or do something that people didn’t like and disagreed on? Think about it. Abraham Lincoln wanted to ban slavery. 88% of the country was against him, but in the end, he got what he wanted and the country was liberated. Albert Einstein was a genius. He is considered the smartest man that ever lived. People thought he was crazy because his ideas and what he was studying and trying to show people were bogus. Less than 1% of the population in the world know the full meaning of Einstein’s theory, but he was right. It was just that his thoughts were too complex for any other human being to understand. One man at one of his speeches screamed and left the room in frustration because he was so mind-boggled.

I don’t mean inventors and other people like that. They don’t actually change the way people act and think. All the people that do are rebels. What are people taught in school? They’re taught to NOT rebel and NOT be disobedient. Basically, society is raising kids to become average Joe’s that sit down and do nothing all day. Good job society!

Get a load of this funny sign in a protest:

I’m a pretty interesting person. My friends say I get pretty explosive about random things, so I think I’ll have a lot of rant posts, like the one below about Chinese food. Little things that bother me, etc. will be posted about. For all the Facebook users out there, it’s going to be similar to fan pages like “Teacher: Your homework is to study. Kids: (Yes! No homework!) If you’re a teacher reading this, you have to admit it. It’s true. All kids out there, you think of that in your mind.

I might also be talking about my heritage a lot. I’m Chinese and that affects my life MAJORLY. That is actually related to my post about Chinese food too… Wow.

So, be sure to come back and visit this blog! Peace!

This is Challenge 1 on Edublogs.

I’m Chinese. Chinese food is by far, the greatest food in the world. Well, it is in my opinion. Out of 25 voters on a survey, 10 liked Chinese food. If you’re not Chinese and reading this, chances are you’re thinking “Oh, I love Chinese food! My favorite is chicken and broccoli with rice!” or “Ooh, I get General Tao’s Chicken every time my family eats Chinese food! I love it”

Just to let you non-Chinese people out there, NO ONE in China eats chicken and broccoli, General Tao’s Chicken, or egg-rolls. Egg rolls are usually a very minor appetizer, or not in a meal at all. Chicken and broccoli? The Chinese have never heard of it. Here’s a few ways to see if your Chinese cuisine is authentic.

1. In China, people eat real Chinese food, not the kind you get at restaurants called “Grand Dragon” or something. A good way to see if you’re eating authentic Chinese food is the plating . If a Chinese restaurant gives you forks and spoons, that’s probably not authentic. If they give you chopsticks, that’s probably authentic.

2.If a Chinese restaurant’s menu has English only with no Chinese, it’s probably non-authentic. If it has Chinese with English subtitles, it’s most likely authentic. If it has Chinese only, I can tell you that 99.9% of the time, it’s 100% real Chinese food.

Some stereotypical foods of the Chinese are actually authentic. Dumplings, rice, noodles, and wonton are all eaten by the Chinese. However, if you’re eating a dumpling with a beef filling, you’re probably American.

My favorite Chinese food is the “xiao long bao” which translates to “small dragon bun.” It’s a miniature dumpling-like bun with pork in it and my favorite, crab eggs. When you break the skin of the bun, it immediately bursts. The whole bun is filled with amazing juice. Here is a picture of some. http://www.flickr.com/photos/missybrowneyes/484551004/sizes/m/

Tell me, what’s your favorite type of food? If it’s Chinese, what’s your favorite Chinese food?

“If you had the opportunity to ‘teach’ a class of teachers for one day, what would you teach them that would help them ‘teach’ middle school better?”

If you asked the average student (at-hem! at-hem! me at-hem!), they would say they didn’t like school. School is boring, hard, and causes a lot of stress. Why? It’s because of classes. In classes, you have endless homework and teachers drone on and on about topics that most students don’t like. Teachers are boring. That’s why they should lighten up and here the student’s point of view.

If I could teach a class of teachers, I would definitely teach them how to make class interesting. You can’t expect a student to learn from dry junk straight from the most dreaded book of all; the text book. If teachers want students to learn better, they should teach creatively. I’ve learned the most from teachers that make their teaching humorous. I don’t care about how much they teach us, how much homework they give us, or how long classes are. As long as classes are interesting, I’m willing to stay in them for as long as needed.

Another thing teachers need to do is lighten up. Rules are made to be broken. If you make too many rules that make students feel handicapped, there’s no point in it. Of course, there’s the standard rules like “no cellphones in class”, but is there really a point in making a rule saying “no gum chewing in class”? I think gum is a very positive thing. Gum helps students relax during class. It occupies them so they’re not bored. That’s why they’re allowed during the CMT’s. As long as no one is sticking it under desks and selling it, I think it’s an overall good thing.

Teachers, if you would listen to your students and see school through their eyes, I think you would learn a lot. Readers (if there are any out there), tell me what you think!

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Hey, world! This is Jeff here. As you probably see, the title is “My Turtle Commit Suicide.” Yup, this is a true story. So it all started when I got a turtle…

It was summer ’04 when I got a turtle from my mom’s bosses’ lake. He caught it when he was rafting in his lake (which is super super tiny but still a lake). He gave it to us and we unexpectedly got it one day. We had absolutely nothing to feed it and it was the middle of summer. The best we could do was give it a relatively big metal pot with some sink water in it. Yeah, this turtle was living the luxury life.

The next day, we bought some carrots and celery for the turtle. It nibbled on them for a while, then continued swimming. (We didn’t consider how turtles can’t swim forever, they sort of have to rest on land for a while occasionally). Then, we got an AWESOME idea. We had one of those mini blow-up pools that you play in when you’re 5 years old in our basement, so we got it out, inflated it, and filled it with water. We moved the turtle to the pool on the deck and marveled at our handiwork.

An hour later, it started to rain, so we wanted to take the turtle back into it’s nice metal pot filled with sink water back in our house. My dad didn’t want to hold the turtle so he used a tennis racket to scoop it up. He tried to walk back into our house with a turtle on a tennis racket, but halfway there, the turtle jumped.

The turtle jumped onto my metal basement door. He literally leaped. I had the turtle for so little time that I didn’t even feel sorry for it. I actually laughed. Yes, that was probably cruel of me but my dad laughed too. He immediately fell under my porch and was never seen again. Whoops, Dad.