Josh


 * 1) I believe I will graduate high school.
 * 2) I believe I will go to v.c.
 * 3) I believe I will study in marine biology.
 * 4) I believe I will become a great biologist.[[image:josh.jpg width="480" height="317" align="right" caption=""Well done, Josh!""]]
 * 5) I believe I will get better at guitar.
 * 6) I believe I will get a good high paying job.
 * 7) I believe I will inspire my friends to work hard.
 * 8) I believe I will get better at biking.
 * 9) I believe I will get to be as good as my uncle at biking.
 * 10) I believe i can do anything if I put ,y mind to it.
 * 11) I believe I can get better grades in school.
 * 12) I believe I can learn to speak Spanish.
 * 13) I believe I am an intelligent person.
 * 14) I believe I am a helpful person.
 * 15) I believe I am a good brother.
 * 16) I believe I am a good role model to my sister.
 * 17) I believe I can teach her to work hard in school.
 * 18) I believe I can help her through school.
 * 19) I believe in god.

I know what it’s like to lose a favorite uncle. On November 2010 we got a call from my grandma Sarah saying my uncle Burt got in a car crash and he was rushed to **St. John Hospital**. Soon we arrived in the hospital waiting room where most of my family living in the area was. The doctor said he is in a coma and is not going to be awake anytime soon. They ran test on him through day and night some tragic results came in the doctor said he is most likely going to die. They said he had about three days to live. Immediately my aunt burst into tears. Many of my family members burst into tears. I tried to stay strong and fought those dreadful tears away. I could though knowing my favorite uncle was dyeing slowly. It was very hard for my cousin Natalie because her birthday was a week from when he passed on, and my uncle Burst birthday was five days before he died. My uncle was announced brain dead at about three in the morning on November 13, 2010. At his funeral it was a very sorrow day for are family but then it was good in a way because it brought family from all over to his funeral. There was picture of him on a bill board. Lots of the pictures had my dad in them. My uncle was also my dad’s favorite uncle. Burt was a adventures and exciting man. I walked up to the coffin it had beautiful red roses all over it and had lots of his belonging on it. What I know is to feel the pain of losing a loved one.


 * In Amy Chua’s book __Battle__ __Hymn of the Tiger Mom.__ She talks about how Chinese parenting is done, also how she does her parenting. In these next paragraphs I will write about all the critics that wrote to her and my opinions.**


 * In the __Wall Street Journal,__ Amy Chua writes an article __“Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”.__ In this article she writes about how she does her parenting. She says that her kids were not allowed to get I school plays, have play dates, or have any boy friends. Amy made her kids practice piano and violin for at least three to four hours a day. She also says “western parenting” is why are kids fail school she says are way of parenting is too soft. Chinese parents like Amy WILL NOT! Except any grade below an A if her daughters Lulu and Sophia bet a A- or B it will not be tolerated and will have to go through hours and hours of hard. studying.**


 * In David Brooks article __Amy Chua is a Wimp__. He talks about how she is making her kid like robots. He says that she doesn’t allow her kids to fail at anything. He puts a quote from Amy Chua’s article saying “here are some things I will not allow my daughters to do go in school plays and attend sleep over’s”. he talks about what if Amys kids fail? How will they take it since they have never failed before.**


 * “__In Defense of Guilty, Ambivalent, preoccupied Western Mom”__ by Ayelet Wladman. Ayelet talks about how she is a western mom in this article. She says “my for children of a Jewish mother were always allowed to quit an instrument.” Unlike Amy Chua’s kids. In this article Ayelet say that her youngest daughter has dyslexia and could not read. Her daughter wanted to read so her daughter spent months trying of hard work and crying while Ayelet was trying to convince her daughter to stop, but one day her daughter did it she actually read a little book! I think Ayelet was trying to say you don’t always have to pushed your kids to do something because sometimes they can push themselves.**


 * In the “__mother inferior”__ by Hanna Rosin she talks about how she’s not even close to being like a __Tiger Mom__. In the article she says she is “a weak-willed pathetic western mom.” Hanna says she lets her kids play any instrument that they choose like guitar or drums unlike Amy Chua’s kids. Hanna says that her kids and every other kid needs to be free and have fun while it lasts. In my opinion Hanna is a good example of Amy Chua’s descriptions.**


 * __“An Asian fathers Gift: Permission to Fail” by Ilyon Woo.”__ Woo talks about how she never really did well in high school she got B’s and A-‘s in English. She was never good at math and brought home C’s and D’s on math tests. One day she was talking to her father about her grades are bad and she trying not to fail. Then her dad said that she can fail a class. When her father said she could fail Ilyon said that lots of stress was relieved and from the stress that was relieved her grades went up. The important thing of this story is that Ilyon learned that failing is always so bad.**


 * __Agree with:__ Some people say that Amy is a bad parent and that she is way too harsh on the daughters. In my opinion I think she makes them study and is stiff on her kids because she wants them to have a life that she didn’t have. She does love her kids. The love that she gives them is what you call “tough love.”**


 * __Disagreeing with:__ On the other hand, I think Amy is a little too tough on her kids. She is to hard on them because she never: let them watch TV, have sleep over’s, be in school plays or have any boyfriends. If Amy let her kids have a little more freedom I think the would be a little happier living in her mothers home.**


 * In conclusion Amy’s article she wrote was a big hit. Many critics said she should go to jail for what she did to her daughters, but should she? In my opinion I think she was doing what she thought was right for her kids.**