2009 is going to be a bad year for stores and retailers. Linens and things and Circuit city have both gone down. Many lay offs occurring. Housing companies like Beazer Homes has tremendous lay offs. They have shut down the site in Maryland and closing departments. In New Jersey, the accounting and fiance department is already down to its last few people. Beazer Homes is a housing company that is doing the worst. They laid off 500 employees nationwide in January 16, 2009.
More and more employees are claiming their unemployment benefits and State unemployment benefits. New Jersey is considering giving those benefits as a loan. States like Michigan and Rhode Island have the highest unemployment rates. They've reached double digits. Our national unemployment rate is 7.5%.
Wall Street wasted the bailout money. President Obama calls it Shameful. They are going to bring out the artillery. That's a metaphor for the government's stepping in because unemployment funds are about to go bankrupt.
I predict that 2009 might be a downfall for Beazer Homes. By 2011, Beazer Homes might close many sites. New Jersey office is definitely one of those sites. The office is basically empty.
Construction is slowing in the housing industry. Not many buying new homes because of the bad economy. This is close to being the highest unemployment rate since the 1920s. We need another big government funded project like Hoover Dam back in the 1920 to get the economy back on track.
I've been watching the stocks and its not doing good. The majority of the stocks are going down.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Shoe throwing incident again Shameful act
Seven weeks after President Bush’s visit to Iraq, Premier Wen JiaBao was hit with a shoe. President Bush was hit with a shoe by an Iraqi Reporter and now Premier Wen Jiabao of China was hit by a shoe in Cambridge University.
Shoe throwing has causing a lot of political conflicts in high government positions. The protestors threw an Athletic shoe that missed Premier Wen jiabao by 30 feet. Premier Wen was giving a speech at the Concert Hall of Cambridge University. The man was in his 20s and 30s of European descent. He threw an athletic shoe. The New York Times recorded, "Some in the audience said he called the protest “despicable.” Others said that when he resumed the speech, to an audience of Chinese government ministers, university officials and students, he assured them that “the relations between Britain and China” would not be affected by the protest. A police spokeswoman gave no other details about the protester, Reuters reported."
The man said, “How can you listen to his lies."
I think that this man and the Iraqi reporter was proving a point, but done the wrong thing. They can use their freedom of Speech, but throwing a shoe is over using your freedom of Speech. The Iraqi reporters made not have damaged Former President George W. Bush, but he damages the former president emotionally and mentally. What If I threw a shoe at the Iraqi reporter or the European man? How would they feel? Political government helps build an public image, but President Bush was misguided by his administration. He has a nice personality and we should all respect that. Premier Wen was probably hurt emotionally, but does not show it to the media. The public needs to be more careful of these incidents. I am extremely disappointed at those two.
Two protestors proved a point, but could have used a smarter way to show it. Those two are idiots, ignorant, and inconsiderate jerks. That is how I feel.
Shoe throwing has causing a lot of political conflicts in high government positions. The protestors threw an Athletic shoe that missed Premier Wen jiabao by 30 feet. Premier Wen was giving a speech at the Concert Hall of Cambridge University. The man was in his 20s and 30s of European descent. He threw an athletic shoe. The New York Times recorded, "Some in the audience said he called the protest “despicable.” Others said that when he resumed the speech, to an audience of Chinese government ministers, university officials and students, he assured them that “the relations between Britain and China” would not be affected by the protest. A police spokeswoman gave no other details about the protester, Reuters reported."
The man said, “How can you listen to his lies."
I think that this man and the Iraqi reporter was proving a point, but done the wrong thing. They can use their freedom of Speech, but throwing a shoe is over using your freedom of Speech. The Iraqi reporters made not have damaged Former President George W. Bush, but he damages the former president emotionally and mentally. What If I threw a shoe at the Iraqi reporter or the European man? How would they feel? Political government helps build an public image, but President Bush was misguided by his administration. He has a nice personality and we should all respect that. Premier Wen was probably hurt emotionally, but does not show it to the media. The public needs to be more careful of these incidents. I am extremely disappointed at those two.
Two protestors proved a point, but could have used a smarter way to show it. Those two are idiots, ignorant, and inconsiderate jerks. That is how I feel.
Huaxia zhiye Performance 华夏之夜
This post is dedicated to the performers who travelled from Beijing to New Brunswick, New Jersey. They put up a great show in the State Theatre.
Today, 1/31/2009, I am travelling to New Brunswick to State Theatre to watch a Chinese New Year performance by 华夏中文学校 or Huaxia Chinese School. They have put up a performance by bring dancers, singers and popular Chinese figures to New Jersey. The performers have travelled 3,000 miles from Beijing to perform at the State Theatre.One of the performers called Jing Tan performed At the Eastern Mountain. She has also performed at this year's China Central Television Spring Festival performance two weeks ago.
The Huaxia Chinese school choir began the show with three encores to warm up the crowd. The intro was memorable, but my favorite was the Beijing Opera and the Talk show for a New Year's blessing. Of course this the talk show was in Chinese.There were two comedians and they would act out famous people's voices and entertain the crowd. Their entertainment was the best part of the 华夏之夜 performance.
The Beijing Opera was also entertaining because I got to enjoy an excerpt of Madam Mu Guiyang. It was a famous story of a female general in China. I loved their costuming because I always wanted to see those shows.
The singing was also entertaining because the singers had the most beautiful voices. One of the singers was Jing Tan. She conducted a successful solo concert in 2006 in the Viennese Gold Hall. She is considered one of the best soloists today in China.
This show was shown every year in New Jersey. Last year it was in the Trenton Memorial theatre and this year in New Brunswick State Theatre. I really enjoy the show and I know that any who understands the Chinese language will understand it as well.
Today, 1/31/2009, I am travelling to New Brunswick to State Theatre to watch a Chinese New Year performance by 华夏中文学校 or Huaxia Chinese School. They have put up a performance by bring dancers, singers and popular Chinese figures to New Jersey. The performers have travelled 3,000 miles from Beijing to perform at the State Theatre.One of the performers called Jing Tan performed At the Eastern Mountain. She has also performed at this year's China Central Television Spring Festival performance two weeks ago.
The Huaxia Chinese school choir began the show with three encores to warm up the crowd. The intro was memorable, but my favorite was the Beijing Opera and the Talk show for a New Year's blessing. Of course this the talk show was in Chinese.There were two comedians and they would act out famous people's voices and entertain the crowd. Their entertainment was the best part of the 华夏之夜 performance.
The Beijing Opera was also entertaining because I got to enjoy an excerpt of Madam Mu Guiyang. It was a famous story of a female general in China. I loved their costuming because I always wanted to see those shows.
The singing was also entertaining because the singers had the most beautiful voices. One of the singers was Jing Tan. She conducted a successful solo concert in 2006 in the Viennese Gold Hall. She is considered one of the best soloists today in China.
This show was shown every year in New Jersey. Last year it was in the Trenton Memorial theatre and this year in New Brunswick State Theatre. I really enjoy the show and I know that any who understands the Chinese language will understand it as well.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
(塞珍珠)
(1892-1973)
Taking a Stand in History
It was the year 1892, one of America’s best selling authors was born. Pearl Buck was more than just an author, even a great one. In her lifetime, she was recognized as a noted humanitarian, particularly concerned with the rights of women and children. During her time she was one of the first to write about China. Her childhood in China and birth in America might confuse her nationality, but she said, “I feel more Chinese than American.”
From a baby born in Hillsbough, West Virginia and raised in China, Pearl Buck grew to become a Nobel Prize for Literature winner, the most successful writer to promote cross-culture understanding between Asia and the United States during her lifetime, and a noted advocate for human rights.
Pearl Bark’s parents were Christian missionaries, stationed in Zhenjiang, China. They brought Pearl to China when she was only three month old. Since then, Pearl lived most of the first forty years of her life in China. During her 40 years of living in China, Pearl Buck was unlike other Americans of her generation because China was her world and America was like a dream. She loved China and stated in her speech, “China is more than a part of me. She is in my heart and soul and mind. I was fed by her foods and drank of her waters. Born in my own country, the United States of America, of Pre-Revolutionary ancestry, it was China who nurtured me.” She spent her childhood and adolescent years learning about China. At age 15, Pearl Buck believed that China is an ancient civilization with a rich history, culture, and tradition that deserved to be closely examined and respected. The American Girls she met at Mrs. Jewell’s Boarding School bred on the notion that whites were more superior and the Chinese just seemed less human. When she told those girls the similarity between Buddhism and Christianity, they reported her to Mrs. Jewell as a heretic. She was punished with a strong dose of religion. It was because of her experiences in the boarding school that strengthened her belief about Chinese culture.
Pearl Buck was a pioneer who appreciated Chinese life and culture as few Westerners had done before, and she shared her provocative insights with the world. Her most famous novel, The Good Earth, had been awarded with the Pulitzer Prize, American Best seller list, and the William Dean Howells’ Medal for the most distinguished fictional novel in 1935. The Good Earth turned into a Hollywood Blockbuster film in 1933. To study the impact of Pearl S. Buck, a sociologist named Isaacson did a survey asking Americans where their Chinese impression came from between the years 1931 to the mid-1950s. Two-thirds of people surveyed said their knowledge about China was from the books of Pearl S. Buck, or more specifically, from "The Good Earth". This was a unique achievement in United States history because Americans had never been so inspired by a single book. The Good Earth was translated into more than 30 foreign languages. She had also written dozens of other fictional and nonfiction books because they explained China as a country with rich history, culture, and traditions as compared to the stereotypes most Americans knew at the time. Pearl Buck’s countless novels included the perspectives of women who lived and experienced everyday hardships. As a result of her writing, Pearl Buck had changed the perspective of how Americans saw China. Pearl Buck’s writing led her to become the first American women to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel Prize for literature council stated, “For her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and her biographical masterpieces.”
Pearl Buck loved China, but she was deeply concerned about traditional Chinese attitudes toward women. Foot-binding was then a common practice on girls, because it was believed the women with small feet were beautiful. Women were treated as ‘beasts of burden’ by their farmer husbands and as servants by their sons. Pearl Buck’s once worked at a charity called the Door of Hope in Shanghai and heard lots of horrible stories from the girls supported by the charity. For example, Pearl heard of how the slave girls’ mistresses would torture them with cigarettes and burning coals. Pearl Buck’s commitment to women’s rights was obviously originated from her experience and observations in China.
Beyond her career as a famous author, Pearl Buck became a devoted human rights activist and founder of an international adoption agency. She believed that "the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members."
Buck was a vocal supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment during a time when most organized women’s groups opposed it. As a novelist she gave voice to the experiences of women in different cultures, and as child welfare activist she showed particular concern for female children, who were among the especially vulnerable.
She had taken an early leadership in the Urban League and the NAACP. Pearl Buck was also dedicated to the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
Pearl Buck’s firm belief in the equal dignity and value of all human beings and her commitment to empower and aid the most vulnerable and helpless members of every society inspired her to campaign for minority’s rights. She wrote a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to demand equal treatment for African Americans and Indians.
Pearl Buck ran a national and political campaign against the notorious Chinese exclusion laws, which prohibited Chinese to enter the United States. She was also the founder of the East and West Association which was responsible for improving mutual understanding Asia and America.
Pearl also defended Indian freedom against England. She published an article in the Asia magazine. She used the example that India pressed into the service of an allegedly democratic government, but no democracy was given to them. The British imprisoned the foremost leader for Indian democracy, Jawaharlal Nehru.
Years after working at the Door of Hope, Pearl returned to the United States and created her own Charity. This charity was the first international adoption agency called Pearl S. Buck International. A branch of Pearl S. Buck International is called The Welcome House, which was dedicated to help illegitimate children left behind by U.S. Servicemen serving in Asia during World War II. So far the Welcome House has placed more than 5,000 Asian children in American homes in forty five years. Pearl Buck once stated that the purpose of her foundation was to help children suffered by injustices and prejudice because of their birth, are not permitted to enjoy the educational, social, and civil privileges.
Pearl S. Buck International has another branch called the Opportunity House. The Opportunity House has helped Asian children in five countries. Not only has it placed more than 5000 Asian children in American homes for 45 years, but it had impacted 20,561 children. These impacted children received medical care, school support, scholarships given, and HIV/AIDS vaccines given. The 2006 to 2007 Pearl S. Buck International report stated that 85 children were placed with American families in one year. The report also stated that 1,908 children and families received services in a year. Pearl Buck once said, “Whatever way you choose to help, let it be now, I beg you. The years between birth and adulthood are swift and few, the earlier a child can be helped, the better his chance for a normal life.”
From a child born in a missionary family, Pearl Buck grew up to be the founder of the first international adoption agency, a Nobel Prize for literature winner, and an author that introduced Asian characters to Western readers to reduce stereotypes on Asia. Her international adoption agency continues to help China, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines. She has been recognized in society today as the first person to write about China and is also known as a translated writer (in more than 60 languages). Her novels are read by students in schools around the country and recognized with Oprah’s Book club. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck died March 6, 1973 in Danby, Vermont. Her ashes remain on her estate at Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her Green Hill farm was bequeathed the Pearl S. Buck International in 1964. Today her International Adoption agency continues her legacy.
(塞珍珠)
(1892-1973)
Taking a Stand in History
It was the year 1892, one of America’s best selling authors was born. Pearl Buck was more than just an author, even a great one. In her lifetime, she was recognized as a noted humanitarian, particularly concerned with the rights of women and children. During her time she was one of the first to write about China. Her childhood in China and birth in America might confuse her nationality, but she said, “I feel more Chinese than American.”
From a baby born in Hillsbough, West Virginia and raised in China, Pearl Buck grew to become a Nobel Prize for Literature winner, the most successful writer to promote cross-culture understanding between Asia and the United States during her lifetime, and a noted advocate for human rights.
Pearl Bark’s parents were Christian missionaries, stationed in Zhenjiang, China. They brought Pearl to China when she was only three month old. Since then, Pearl lived most of the first forty years of her life in China. During her 40 years of living in China, Pearl Buck was unlike other Americans of her generation because China was her world and America was like a dream. She loved China and stated in her speech, “China is more than a part of me. She is in my heart and soul and mind. I was fed by her foods and drank of her waters. Born in my own country, the United States of America, of Pre-Revolutionary ancestry, it was China who nurtured me.” She spent her childhood and adolescent years learning about China. At age 15, Pearl Buck believed that China is an ancient civilization with a rich history, culture, and tradition that deserved to be closely examined and respected. The American Girls she met at Mrs. Jewell’s Boarding School bred on the notion that whites were more superior and the Chinese just seemed less human. When she told those girls the similarity between Buddhism and Christianity, they reported her to Mrs. Jewell as a heretic. She was punished with a strong dose of religion. It was because of her experiences in the boarding school that strengthened her belief about Chinese culture.
Pearl Buck was a pioneer who appreciated Chinese life and culture as few Westerners had done before, and she shared her provocative insights with the world. Her most famous novel, The Good Earth, had been awarded with the Pulitzer Prize, American Best seller list, and the William Dean Howells’ Medal for the most distinguished fictional novel in 1935. The Good Earth turned into a Hollywood Blockbuster film in 1933. To study the impact of Pearl S. Buck, a sociologist named Isaacson did a survey asking Americans where their Chinese impression came from between the years 1931 to the mid-1950s. Two-thirds of people surveyed said their knowledge about China was from the books of Pearl S. Buck, or more specifically, from "The Good Earth". This was a unique achievement in United States history because Americans had never been so inspired by a single book. The Good Earth was translated into more than 30 foreign languages. She had also written dozens of other fictional and nonfiction books because they explained China as a country with rich history, culture, and traditions as compared to the stereotypes most Americans knew at the time. Pearl Buck’s countless novels included the perspectives of women who lived and experienced everyday hardships. As a result of her writing, Pearl Buck had changed the perspective of how Americans saw China. Pearl Buck’s writing led her to become the first American women to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel Prize for literature council stated, “For her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and her biographical masterpieces.”
Pearl Buck loved China, but she was deeply concerned about traditional Chinese attitudes toward women. Foot-binding was then a common practice on girls, because it was believed the women with small feet were beautiful. Women were treated as ‘beasts of burden’ by their farmer husbands and as servants by their sons. Pearl Buck’s once worked at a charity called the Door of Hope in Shanghai and heard lots of horrible stories from the girls supported by the charity. For example, Pearl heard of how the slave girls’ mistresses would torture them with cigarettes and burning coals. Pearl Buck’s commitment to women’s rights was obviously originated from her experience and observations in China.
Beyond her career as a famous author, Pearl Buck became a devoted human rights activist and founder of an international adoption agency. She believed that "the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members."
Buck was a vocal supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment during a time when most organized women’s groups opposed it. As a novelist she gave voice to the experiences of women in different cultures, and as child welfare activist she showed particular concern for female children, who were among the especially vulnerable.
She had taken an early leadership in the Urban League and the NAACP. Pearl Buck was also dedicated to the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
Pearl Buck’s firm belief in the equal dignity and value of all human beings and her commitment to empower and aid the most vulnerable and helpless members of every society inspired her to campaign for minority’s rights. She wrote a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to demand equal treatment for African Americans and Indians.
Pearl Buck ran a national and political campaign against the notorious Chinese exclusion laws, which prohibited Chinese to enter the United States. She was also the founder of the East and West Association which was responsible for improving mutual understanding Asia and America.
Pearl also defended Indian freedom against England. She published an article in the Asia magazine. She used the example that India pressed into the service of an allegedly democratic government, but no democracy was given to them. The British imprisoned the foremost leader for Indian democracy, Jawaharlal Nehru.
Years after working at the Door of Hope, Pearl returned to the United States and created her own Charity. This charity was the first international adoption agency called Pearl S. Buck International. A branch of Pearl S. Buck International is called The Welcome House, which was dedicated to help illegitimate children left behind by U.S. Servicemen serving in Asia during World War II. So far the Welcome House has placed more than 5,000 Asian children in American homes in forty five years. Pearl Buck once stated that the purpose of her foundation was to help children suffered by injustices and prejudice because of their birth, are not permitted to enjoy the educational, social, and civil privileges.
Pearl S. Buck International has another branch called the Opportunity House. The Opportunity House has helped Asian children in five countries. Not only has it placed more than 5000 Asian children in American homes for 45 years, but it had impacted 20,561 children. These impacted children received medical care, school support, scholarships given, and HIV/AIDS vaccines given. The 2006 to 2007 Pearl S. Buck International report stated that 85 children were placed with American families in one year. The report also stated that 1,908 children and families received services in a year. Pearl Buck once said, “Whatever way you choose to help, let it be now, I beg you. The years between birth and adulthood are swift and few, the earlier a child can be helped, the better his chance for a normal life.”
From a child born in a missionary family, Pearl Buck grew up to be the founder of the first international adoption agency, a Nobel Prize for literature winner, and an author that introduced Asian characters to Western readers to reduce stereotypes on Asia. Her international adoption agency continues to help China, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines. She has been recognized in society today as the first person to write about China and is also known as a translated writer (in more than 60 languages). Her novels are read by students in schools around the country and recognized with Oprah’s Book club. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck died March 6, 1973 in Danby, Vermont. Her ashes remain on her estate at Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her Green Hill farm was bequeathed the Pearl S. Buck International in 1964. Today her International Adoption agency continues her legacy.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
President Obama's weekly address to the Union
Since Presdient Obama's first day in office on the noon of January 20th as stated in Article II of the constitution, Obama has met with his economic advisory board, commanders of the operation in Iraq, and signed several executive orders. One of them include the Guatamo Bay Federal prison closing. They plan to close the military run prison and send the terroist or detainess home. They will allow some who fear what their home country will do to them to come to the United States. Those coming in will be given a fair trial. All the other detainees where be sent back to have their home countries deal with them. America can no longer spent money on this prison because of the current economic crisis. Obama is trying to get as many funds as he can to lower unemployment and make sure the current generation can go to college without fear of not enough money.
President Obama is also trying to get his economic recovery package approved by congress , so they can start creating more jobs here in the United States.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Reflecting Obama's Inaugeration
It was the year 1963, a famous civil rights and equality leader spoke. He spoke in front of millions of African Americans, Caucasian, Asians, and lots of other people. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr gave his speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. His most famous line, "I had a dream," was spoken. He spoke of how he wants to see his 4 children grow up to be judge by their character and not their skin. This speech made millions of Americans reflect on what hppened to them. From the southern plantations to the Mongumary Bus boycott, African Americans were harassed. They were beaten , segregated and treated like dirt, but it wasn't long after his speech that congress passed the Civil Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Without that speech and the Civil rights amendment, a half African American President would not be in the white house. President Barack Obama has become president. He fought for the white house against John McCain. He has fought a long fight with his supporters.
Barack Obama has made history when he said the 4 lined quote from Article II section one, last paragraph of the constitution. He has given Americans hope. His Inauguration made have made history, but it was America who made history. Americans have shown the world that they are no longer the country that segregate , but a country with change and acceptance.
Obama has also shown the world that he wants to help America through this hard economic struggle. Thousands of Americans laid off, thousands without a home, and hundreds of companies going into to bankruptcy.
He has started his job in the oval office working late at night. He has made dozens of phone calls and meetings with generals and cabinet members and economic team. He has already started addressing that Usuma Bin Ladin will be killed and Al-Queda crushed. He has addressed that he will withdraw troops within 16 months and leave Iraq to its people.
He will try to send a portion of soldiers to Afganstan and Pakistan. He will crackdown on terror and bring them to justice. He has halted the Guatamono Bay closing and plan on trials.
Barack Obama has a destiny to become a successful President. He might leave a legacy for future historians to study.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Kids Inaugral
Disney Channel has brought Kids Inaugral on TV. They have Hollywood's most famous Teen actors and actresses to Washington D.C. They had put togeather a creative way to introduce the first African American President to Kids. They have introduce famous actors and actresses to Kids to help them to understand Barack Obama. They brought in George Lopez. George Lopez had a funny way to indroduce the T-Shirt give away. I believe that if they indroduce it like this as a concert, then more kids will get interested.
I believe that disney has done good. They brought in T-shirts for kids. They had Keke Palmer, Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, George Lopez, Bow Wow, and other amazing stars. This has mainly brought joy to Sasha and Meaha Obama. They enjoy Disney, so this was a great experience.
I believe that disney has done good. They brought in T-shirts for kids. They had Keke Palmer, Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, George Lopez, Bow Wow, and other amazing stars. This has mainly brought joy to Sasha and Meaha Obama. They enjoy Disney, so this was a great experience.
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