What I learned during this class

       As an International student taking ESL program in USA, I have many classes during this semester; for examples: reading, writing, grammar and communication skills. Those classes are helping me to learn English as a second language. For my grammar and writing class I learned many rules to make me a better speaker and a better writer.

To be a better speaker you should use a correct grammar in your speak or people will be confusing and becoming unable to understand you. My favorite part on the grammar class is when my teacher mix the grammar with the writing, and ask as to write an article about specific topic then post it in our blog; it makes me proud of myself and try hard to write a good article. However, I did not feel like this in the last month. Because either my teacher or my class meet did not read my blog any more. Why I should write anything on the blog when no one will read it! How can I know my weakness and my strengths if I do not have any feedback! I was wish if Ms. Tamarra -my grammar and writing teacher- sent me her feedback of every article I wrote it, she is my teacher and she is the person who I am looking for her direction. On the other hand, Ms. Tamarra gives us a chance to read each other articles from time to time. We read them on the class and every student at the class has enough time to say his opinion of the article. Then we should rewrite this article and send it again.

This way of teaching is successful, I hope the new student who will take this class have a chance to learning using this idea.  And I hope they try hard to study the grammar, because the grammar is the golden key to speak and write any language successfully. 

My Favorite Movies

It is the guest who always come when you invite him, brings another people from different cultures and languages with him, our guest is a video movie. Movies have different types; drama, comedy, romance, horror, fantasy and action are examples of movie types. Comedy, drama and horror, those are waht I especially enjoy watching.

Inception with comedy, my first favorite movie type. It is an event with funny or happy ending, and it could be mix with drama or romance. The actor can wear funny clothing or looks like unlucky person who try hard to be lucky. A famous comedy movie who started in 1925 was The Three Stooges, they were American comedy actors of the early to mid–20th century. For now, my favorite comedy movie is any move has Jim Carrey or Will Smith on the list.

When we write about Drama movies, we could not ignore The Godfather, which displayed in 1972.  American epic crime film based on a novel by Mario Puzo, chronicles the experiences of the Italian American Corleone family. Al Pacino was sat on the throne of the tournament, and the movie won several Academy Awards.  Also Rain Man (1988), it tells a story about Autistic man. The performances of the title role are Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise‏. We don't want to forget mention famous drama's actors, such as Denzel Washington‏ and Julia Roberts.
We note the drama movies discussion is a realistic emotional themes, such as: drug addiction, religious intolerance and violence against women.

Finally, I will write about the movie which makes you scared; Horror movies. They try to get your negative emotional reaction by focusing in your fears. Using fantasy, science fiction and realty to scar you. Some themes often show in horror movies include: ancient curses, serial killers, disease outbreak, evil forces, ghost, and vampires.

My favorite horror movie is Resident Evil, which created as a survival horror PlayStation game, the game had a widely demand. Later, they created a movie had the same story and the same title. When I was played this game I could not play it without my sister beside me. When I get out at night, I turned every minutes looking for any Zombie following me. What make me laugh now when I remember this, I was 21 and I could not stop my fear of those zombies!

It is a huge jump in cinema world what we see now.  We have a lot of choices to see our favorite movie types. Makes you laugh as comedy movies, makes you cry as drama movies or makes you scared as horror movies; those are my favorite movies.

Thanksgiving

 In September 1620, a small ship called the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, carrying 102 passengers searching for a new home where they could freely practice their religion. After 66 days of uncomfortable trip in the sea, they arrived to the mouth of the Hudson River. It is a winter season, a lot of passengers were sick and get contagious disease. No long,  half of them died, but The other half were lucky. One month later,  they lived to see the first Spring of the new land and begin to build there own village.
Abenaki was an Indian man who came to welcoming the Mayfloer by English language. Several days later, Abenaki came with Squanto -another Indian man- who was kidnapped and obliged to work as a bondman, then he escaped and came back. Squanto learned cultivating, catch fish and avoid poisonous plants. The new residents were weakened by malnutrition and illness, but they became better when Squanto learned him how to fishing and cultivating to creat the first harmony between European colonists and Native Americans and creat the first Thanksgiving diner when they around on one table together to eat and thanks God to what he gave. They eat goose, duck, seal, eel and turkey.
The main dish on Thanksgiving table is a Turkey. There are alot of stories about the reasons of this. One story  told: It's returning to the 16th century, while Queen Elizabeth chose roast goose during a harvest festival, the news was delivered to her about sinking Spanish Armada on it way to attack England, the queen was so pleased that she order a second goose to celebrate the great news. Thus, the goose became the favorite bird at harvest time in England. When the passengers on Mayflower arrived to the new land-America- they replaced the roasted goose by the roasted turkey because wild turkeys were more abundant and easier to find than geese.

** funny video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gCYEweUZi8&feature=related**