In Gogol's "The Overcoat", people driven by vanity. Gogol criticized superficiality of people. It s a satire towards the vanity in human society. Gogol conveys his idea by portraying the scene when Akaky got the new coat for stop other employees from bulling him. He over concentrate on how he looks/wear superficially, instead of being himself or who he really is. In fact, it also reflect the negative situation in the Russian society. Once he got the overcoat, he gradually accept by the society around him. From a moral stand point, overcoat represents the desire in people's mind that every individual in the world will dying for. Akaky's ghost haunts the people of St. Petersburg is primarily about stealing. His mind filled with hatred that he tends to revenge people around him who did not understand or care about he feeling of ignore or bulling by others.

ZeFrank's "The Teen Brain" and Travis Bradberry's "Emotional Intelligence 2.0" emphasize the idea of teenagers should develop their self-management and relationship-management. In "The Teen Brain", Franks conveys the idea of "teen brains are more activated than people in any other age so that teenagers are not stable or in some senses not mature enough to make the right decision. On the other hand, "Emotional Intelligence 2.0" provide several strategies for readers, or at this case for teenagers to practice and strengthen their self managing skills.

Me as a teenager, learn a lot about myself this year which I found myself having more appreciation towards people around me. However I wondering what else am I capable of that I haven't know? I do think I will be able to avoid the traps as I earning more knowledge.

I definitely enjoy the "40 Short Stories', since they all written by different author with different style, which allow to learn lots of things in different perspectives. Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" especially was out standing from other story. I like the content of it and also the detail description by Kafka.

5 paragraph essay was probably the most meaningful assignment. It helps me to improve my writing skill and develop my process of brain-storming.

I learned more about myself when I wrote the "Where I am From" poem. It reminded me of my childhood and something that I've even forgot. Similarly, "Poetry out loud" thought me how to express my emotion within poem.

As I said above, it strengthen my writing skills in general. Additionally, it is a good way to digging deep into the story to discover the truth as well as forming our own perspective on argument.

I became more a writer this year. I stop viewing writing as a extremely miserable process, instead I improved a lot, not only on writing skill but also feel more comfortable about adding my emotion and my own opinion. More importantly, I started to got rid of some of the commend mistake that I usually made, such as grammar, run-on sentences, etc.

Speaking has always been an obstacle to me. It is something that I m working on. I don't speak much in the class and I wish I can do better next year.

ZeFrank claims that teenagers' brain are more active than people in different age. Teenager has better creativity because their brain is so active, which they cannot always make wise decision. They will either be really successful by making right determination or corrupt themselves by making bad decision such as drugs, drinking, etc. On the other hand, "Emotional Intelligence 2.0" conveys series of strategies for readers to develop self-management, self-awerness, social-management and social-awerness. It is extremely important for both teenagers and adults to develop their EQ. For instance, teenagers should working on self-management and social-management so that they don't make reckless choices and bad friends. Furthermore, social-awerness and social-management is something that adults should concentrate on, because they need to know how to socialize not only with their friends but also teenagers. They will be capable of communicate appropriately with teenagers through improving social-management and social-awerness skills. Consequently, EQ is particularly important for both teenagers and adults.

Mrs Grant is my George. She is always a caring person to me whenever I 'm doing good or bad. She generously helping me with sorts of problems. Also as my disco leader, I frequently check in with her. She pushes me towards my bad and encourage me to constantly improve and develop myself at Hyde.

EA20, a planet that made of glass. I've been stay at this starving infernal for years. I'm here for billion dollars of business. However, things did not work well as I wished, I ended up wasted years in this tiny little coven on this god damn planet.

I am from the sound of trumpets in my grandfather's war stories Every night I go to bed, all the pieces of it dancing around my head
I am from my grandmother's jaggy sweater and splotchy apron
covered by the unsettling smell of fish

This quote generally emphasize Stephen Crane's worldview, which satirize the unfairness, inhumanity and ruthless around people in the world, as well as he depicts the gap between the boat and beach by the quote, which indirectly represents the situation that sometimes people see the destination, but they can never get there no matter how hard they tried. In addition, the death of the oiler at the end of the story informs audiences the main idea of the story, which the world is thus unfair and ruthless, because the oiler, who works hard and loyal to everyone else on the boat, but he could not make his way to alive.

The Montressor coat of arms is a symbol that sort of indirectly brought us the idea of the revenge, in some way it telling the ending of the story which it shows up as a response when Fortunato irritating Montressor. Also it emphasize the hatred of Montressor toward Fortunato as well as gradually leading the story to the ending part which about the death of Fortunato

It was reckless as he quit the job for capture the girls' attention. Although he made such a decision, he still keeps his head up with no regret. He is dedicating on looking for what is good to him or maybe at lease bring him a greater salary, hopefully. Also I think his action was pointless due to he did not even get a little bit of attention from the girls as dumb as he probably knew that is whats going to happened. Anyway, the last paragraph shows us a bit of his regret, but at the same time inform the audience the theme of the story, "do before you think, if you already knew you will be regret of that, then don't do it"

I think he is going to get a real heart break by Mangan's sister, due to he did everything he could but nothing gets better about getting close to Mangan's sister. However, I think he is about realizing that nothing is gonna happen between the girl and himself just because he is too naive which caused him had a hope of dating with her.