The Standard And Quality Of Life In My Country

The standards of living in the Dominican Republic are really low. If you go to college and you graduate with a good degree you might live comfortably, but you won’t live as comfortably as you would here in the United States. The qualities of life in the Dominican Republic are pretty high, because they really don’t like to depend on money, clothing, or anything materialistic. they think about their love ones and love ones only. Dominicans are always proud of them self, because we are gifted with a great beautiful country and great land. In the United States the qualities of people’s life can change, because this country is such a melting pot and there are a lot of different cultures here and they all are respected equally. Either way the standard of living between the Dominican Republic and the USA are really different because of the richness between the two countries. In the other hand the quality of life could be really similar, because even though the USA might be richer it doesn’t me that everyone in this country is rich, and they might live a similar life as someone in the Dominican Republic.

Do you think the message in Maugham's story is the same as or different from the message in the Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper? Explain

             Its obvious that the message on the story by Maugham is different from Aesop fable. The Aesop fable leads to what more commonly would happen if you act like a grasshopper(lazy, ignorant and idle) homeless and unhappy. Maugham story gives you a different and rarely common situation that you might possibly see this situation in resent days, with is acting like a grasshopper might bring you the opportunity to find some one wealthy that wouldn't mind sharing their belongings with you. At the end it seems that it doesn't matter what you do in life, because you might get lucky and end up with a good life. 

“As It Was in the Beginning” p.35, Question #2

What ended her new happiness? As most of us know Esther old happiness was reuniting her self with her red skin family but once she met Laurence everything change. Laurence who was Father Paul nephew grew up with Esther as best mate. Esther started falling in love at the same time Laurence also was falling in love with her. They both grew up old enough to get marry but that was when Esther happiness started to collapse. Laurence decide to tell his uncle that he wants to marry Esther and Father Paul responded “ Laurence, my boy, your future is the dearest thing to me for all earthly interest. Why, you can’t marry this girl-no, no sit, sit until I have finished.” Also he wanted Laurence to marry the Hudson’s Bay factor’s Daughter, who was white. Father kept explaining to Laurence how he couldn’t marry a Redskin girl, who mother is hopelessly uncivilized and father who has a “dash of French” and mainly Esther was half-breed. Esther was already feeling like all her happiness would collapse on her, because Father Paul got to the point and brain washes his nephews brain by convincing him that he should marry the Hudson’s Bay factor’s Daughter. So to finally over kill her happiness Esther decide to kill Laurence with small flint arrow-head that had some snake venom on it, she scratched his wrist like a snake bike with the arrow head. That’s how Esther family happiness ended by Father Paul Discrimination.

How accurate is Lucille K Forer's description of your birth order?

      In the article “How your birth order influences your life adjustment” by Lucille K. Forer talks about and explain with precise details how birth order actually affects your life. Birth orders consist of Oldest, Middle, Youngest or Only child, each and one of these places have there own duty’s at home. My family is pretty small, but I still am the oldest child at age 19, making my brother the youngest at 16. In my eyes and a few people of my family I might seen as one of the most responsible and my brother not as much.
      Being the first born in my family made me the oldest child. On the Article Forer says that the first born child tries to stop looking at him self as a child and struggle to be parental. I agree to what she meant by saying struggles, because there’s time where you’re trying to protect your brother or sister from anything dangerous and you tell then not to do it and in most cases they listen or they just do it. Being an oldest child and trying to parent more then one brother or sister could be really frustrated and a lot of responsibility. In one of Forer paragraph’s she says, “The first child serves as a barrier between later children and the parents.” With I don’t completely agree because in some cases like in my family, my brother has a better relationship and connection with my parents.
      The article has a section were it explain how children see themselves in the family. She says that the oldest have self-concept that makes then believe, that they could do everything better then their others sibling and that they are more adequate than others. In my family I have a lot of responsibility and with a lot of responsibility comes skills, skills that not even my parents have neither my brother. So I do believe I am more capable than my brother, because I have had more experience then him so far. With means that I do agree with what Forer believes. The youngest children in my point of view are freer to do stuff and worry free. Forer quoted that the youngest child believes “I am less able to do many things than other people. But I need not be concerned because there are always others around to take care of me.” In this case I strongly agree because my brothers thinks that because he does good in school every one should treat him like a king, with obviously I stop from happening.
      The article I believe is pretty accurate in some points. But there’s situations in life were everything could be the opposite. Culture might be one of the effects in with this research my come in to a wrong turn, so like now one is the same I believe the article was at least 70 percent accurate with my life.

My Family

My Family is an interesting and funny family. My father is also named Jorge who is a hard worker man and sometimes he could act a little bit independent. Lourdes who's my mother is full of joy and happiness, she could act too confident sometimes but she a hard worker women to so we all let it slide. I my self always love to give 100% on anything relate to work just like Steve jobs said "Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected." Your expected to do one thing so why not just give 100% on it. Estiven my brother a Genius when it comes to school works and studies, he is always been protected by my parents with i think is the reason why he is the laziest of the house. We were all borne in the Dominican Republic and we all speak Spanish, but recently my brother and I have been conversing in English.