free writing: Comparing God in the Bible and the Greek gods

     After studying the Bible and Greek Mythology, I found some significance of how the creation in the Bible shows a contrast to the Greek mythology.
     In the Bible, God created light to separate day and night on the first day. On the second day, God created heavens.On the third day God created earth and seas. One the fourth day God created seasons. On the fifth day God created sea monsters and fowls in the sky. On the sixth day God created crawling creatures, cattle on earth, and human. God created the world with his word. However, in the Greek mythology, the world started with chaos, and from chaos, Night and Erebus was born. From dark and death, Love was born, and the Day and the earth was born. We don't know how it happened. There was a supernatural force that created the world. And from the story tellers, we can see that  they personified the nature. They made Earth(the mother) and Heaven (the father) acted in some ways like human. And also the Olympian gods, some people say that human created the gods in their own images, and the existence of the gods in Greek mythology was like generation after generation.  In contrast, God created everything and he created human human in his own image.
     The characteristics of God in the Bible and the Olympians in the Greek mythology are very different. God in the Bible and the Olympians in the Greek mythology are very different. God in the Bible is almighty. He is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. He takes control of everything. The gods in the Greek mythology are powerful too, but they are not omniscient and omnipotent. It is because each of the gods are in charge of different things, their power are divided. And even the most powerful god--Zeus, has to bow down to Gate, for Zeus himself is not able to fight what was doomed to be. That's why he was so desperate to force Prometheus to tell him the oracle of him.
     God in the Hebrew Bible is a being of just, power, righteous, good. He has a positive attitude toward human. Even if men did something wrong, he did not punish men to death.  Instead, he gave redemption.n For instance, when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge, God didn't kill them, he gave them skin coat in order to cover their sins. It is because after eating the fruit,  human can see good and evil, and they became ashamed of themselves. And because of that, there was a gap between God and human. However, the gods in the Greek mythology are more like human beings. They tend to have human qualities. They show their emotions such as love, jealousy, hatred. For example, the reason why the Trojan War took such a long time is because of the gods meddled in the war. Athena and Hera stands on the Greeks side because Paris chose Aphrodite as the fairest goddess, and that made them angry. The Greek gods tend to show negative attitude toward human because we can see that those gods tend to show negative attitude toward human because we can see that those gods use their superior power to meddle in human's issue, and they don't really care if the humans are dead or not.  They do things in order to satisfy themselves. For example, Hera will not be satisfied until she sees the city of Troy is ruined. That rage of Hera caused so many people's death, but she did not care about it. We can say that the gods in the Greek mythology are good and just also, but they are only good and just when they wanted to be. For instance, Zeus the most powerful god is also a lustful god. When he fell in love with human girls, he uses he superior power to offense them. This case also shows the disrespect of Greek gods toward human, while God in the Bible acted like a loving father and forgives human.

Desciption : If i can video down every moment

Meiti Riverside Park is probably the most beautiful place I went near Soochow University. It's near the Miramar mall. We went there at almost evening. We were sitting on the soft green grass, staring at the tranquil river. My friend and I were having a casual chat. Neither of us was looking at each other. As we talk, I can smell the refreshing fragrance of the grass carried by the gentle breeze. Not a strong wind. The warm breeze was like the soft fondle of the mother earth, the feeling went through my hair, i enjoy the touch, I enjoyed the smell.

  "Ring ring!" the sound of the bicycle passing by. Little kids with their helmet, moving their legs in a very fast speed (as they thought they are) I can hear the crackle of the wheels rotating on the road. They want to catch up with the adults in front of them. “Too eager for growing up" I thought in my mind." "Hey!  Wait! Ride slowly!" The worry parents behind the kids were shouting at them. Maybe that's exactly how parents are, they are always watching the rear of the children, not expecting them to turn back because they have their dream to pursue. You just have to let them go. "Ring ring!" This time is the special bike that was designed for two people to ride together. There was an old couple riding the bike. They don't have much expression on their faces, but I admired their peaceful atmosphere. Seeing lots of young couple breaking up, i wonder how they maintain their sweet taste of life for such a long time.

  Staring at the beautiful river, it was amazingly attractive. The golden orange sunshine reflected on the surface of the river, it shimmered beneath the sunset. It's not yet the time that the night falls, but who has threw the stars into the water? I supposed that some magical power is going to hang those stars on the sky after the sun goes down. The sunset! The sun! Oh the most remarkable on in the Meiti riverside park. At first it was like a fresh egg yolk, so orange, so plump. After a while, as if the mischief night angel has put a needle on it. The orange blasted out with a mixture of rose-pink, and dyed the whole sky. The round circle we saw earlier ago was vanishing. Suddenly, a splash of the water distracted me from the beautiful sunset. It was a fish jump out of the water I guess. So energetic it was, acting in a way to inform the night to come and call for the magic power to hang up the twinkling stars in the water to the sky.

  The beautiful place Meiti, I wonder what it is like in the other time of the day. I'm willing to spend my day, staring at the wonderful scene. It would be a worthwhile waste.

The most dilemmatic moment I have faced

  I have always been an absent-minded person. Whenever people warn me about something that i need to be careful of, I always ignore it. The tragedy came one time, and i could never forget it, the most dilemmatic  moment i have faced.
 That day, i carried my cellphone to the toilet as usual, it's a new one, and I bring it everywhere I go.
My mom always warns me of not putting the cellphone in the pocket, it might fall out; however i never listen to her. I went into the toilet, do the "initial steps" in the bathroom. Just about the moment i was going to squat down. And i was thinking in my mind: "oh! My cellphone is in my pocket!" , the tragedy happened. I heard the sound of splash beneath me. I wasn't that panic at the moment because i dropped the money in the toilet for a couple times, it was no big deal to me. But when i looked down, and felt the pocket lightened, I knew I'm in trouble. I started screaming. Oh my god! It's my cellphone sinking! It's new! It's not waterproof! I need to save it! Here comes the dilemma, the water was kind of dirty, although i haven't done the "toilet action". What if the person went into this toilet was doing the "big deal", what if she had a diarrhea? God, I can't stop imagining how dirty is the toilet. But that is my cellphone inside. The more time i spend to think about picking it up or not, the less chance will it  be still usable.
  I've made up my mind, i closed my eyes, and put my hand into the cold water. My hands were shaking, trying to reach my cellphone. I can feel the cool and wet touching of the water, that feeling went through my finger tip to my wrist. How can the toilet be so deep? As i reached my cellphone, i tried to stress my fingers to grab it, but it slipped. Almost all of the swear words came into my mind, I condemned myself of doing this stupid thing. I tried again, holding it tight in my hand.
  The screen was black, i think it has shut down because of the water. I walked to the faucet, wondering if i should wash my hand, and also wash my cellphone. It's will be wet again! But it's dirty! "Nah!Screw it! It's wet already and it will work if it's not broken, I'm going to wash it anyway!" That is what i was thinking. So i washed it and i washed my hands. Totally forgot the main purpose that caused this tragedy. I guess my urine has evaporated when the cellphone dropped.  
 I went out of the bathroom, and saw my friends playing with their cellphone, and told me "Hey! I heard someone screaming in the toilet, did you heard that?" "Um, yes...?" I showed them my cellphone after taking a nice shower, and they all started laughing at me, ask if I'm going to call my mom with it. What a beautiful day with my awesome friends!
  My cellphone, of course, is destined to be a sleeping beauty for the rest of it's life. And I will never ever bring a cellphone with me into the bathroom again, since this experience is so remarkable.

Free writing: Gone Girl( movie review)

  Before the terrible mid-term week, i went to watch a movie called "The Gone Girl".

It's so popular and great a movie that everyone who has seen it recommended me to go watch it.

  The movie started with Nick, the husband, sitting in the bar and got a call from his neighbor, and he went home, found out that his wife Amy was gone. All of these happened on their fifth anniversary day.

Nick then called the police, and Amy's parents found a volunteering group to search for their beloved, talented daughter.

  At first the was told in the third person perspective, but then it turned to the first person narrative, which is Amy telling the truth that she detested her husband so much that she set up a  scheme to make everyone thinks that she was murdered by her husband. Amy's plan was so perfect that it sent a  shudder through me. I almost believed that Nick really killed her. I don't want to tell more details of the movie! Haha! But the crazy mind of Amy really astonished me and gave me goosebumps. She was acting in front of everyone! And almost everyone was tricked by her.

  I think what's really fascinating about the movie was that, among most victims or  minorities in the stories were females. But in the Gone girl, the victim was male. This story holds a concept that "Truth are tend to be more deeper than what we saw outside." Just like Amy's ex-boyfriend was being accused of raping her, but those were all her schemes.

In my opinion, it's a very feminist mainstream movie, because it showed that nowadays society controls women and rforce them into certain roles, and have to obey what their husbands say. Amy in this movie,destroyed her husband's life, she's symbolically taking back power for women.

  Amy wants to take control of man. She asks Nick to wear the tie she bought for him. In the reality, women tend be on the weak side, so Amy in the story, she took advantage of this, and made people to believe that her husband was the murderer. 

 I think it is a very good movie, because I am a very absent-minded person, so I think I can watch this movie for a lot of times! 

    

What's the most important skill that a person should learn in the 21st century (1)

  In this technology-booming century, people have access to almost everything they want, almost every resources were dogged out. The rich people get whatever they want, but as for the poverty-stricken areas, there are still people lack of what they need to survive. Therefore, the most important skill i think people should learn in the 21st century is knowing how to give.
  I'm glad that i'm living a decent life, but whenever i see the reports about people starving in the war areas and Africa, i feel really sad for them. What is so ironic is that, more and more restaurant companies are rising, and offering people the so-called "Buffet". People spend a great deal of money, making reservations to taste it and eat as much as they could just to make themselves feel better about the money they've paid the restaurant. But here comes my question, why are they wasting so much money and so much food that they can't actually digest? Lots of people in the other hemisphere of this earth needs them, we can help them in a very easy way if we actually care about them. That makes the world better.
  Everyone can make the world a little bit different because of themselves, if we are willing to give. Blood-donating is also a good way to help. Patients may be in desperate need for blood if they were seriously injured. Just a minute that we tolerate the needle get into our skin, we may change a person's life. We receive appreciations, smiles, respects, and even happiness. Knowing how to give is not a shameful thing to do, we should feel glad about having the extra resources to help others. Iphones, laptops, fancy shoes we purchase are no better than a person's life becoming better because of you. The great accomplishment will make you feel so unforgettable just to hear "Thank you" from people in need

Free writing 1

  I've been dreaming of studying in Taipei since junior high school. Taipei, the booming city, full of fancy restaurants, fabulous shopping malls and convenient transportation.
  Now,studying in Soochow University finally fulfilled my dream. I was actually born in Taipei, but i feel so much like an outsider when walking along DongQu. I see pretty girls in fashion outfits, beautiful makeup, i admire them. I admire their stunning faces, gorgeous hair, nice body shape. But somehow, the swift and indifferent arrogance of their look scared me. Is it because of their Eye-liner? No! i don't think so! Is it because of the bad mood they're in?Maybe! But how come everyone feels unhappy in this fancy city? I wonder why, or maybe i'll become one of them when i get used to dwell in Taipei? 
  Lots of foreigners have good comments on Taiwan, they say we are passionate people, willing to help, friendly to others. But i just feel like i saw the snobbish side of people.
  When u go shopping, u will feel the different attitude that the clerk is acting toward you. If you are in a Gucci Bag, the oily shop assistant will smile at you as if you were her besties, and recommend you the clothes with her sweetest voice. But! If u only wear a T-shirt and a backpack, no one will look at u, even if you got a no limit credit card in your jeans. Why? it's because they can't see it. People nowadays are used to judge people from their appearance. That's why young people are dressing in Brands they can't actually afford easily, they put on a disguise to make people change the feeling of them, even throw away their smiles.
  I'm also a teenager, i feel it, i'm kind of being changed by this city, i sometimes feel my passion fade away, the smile went away with it. I don't want to be a fashion zombie in this bustling city......