13) Student Choice: 500 words or 5-minute video. You author content that includes a title, category, and a reflection about your experiences in this class. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow. I wanted to forget the past moments of my life when I had the inconvenient situations. But, start from the third week of semester, we were asked to think about the time when I made an important choice to challenge the status quo or refuse to obey an authority figure after reading My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou). It is about the black girl who is being oppressed by her racist boss. Hence, I had no choice to do so. I had to give so much time to find the time inside the brain system, recall the scattered memory and rearrange it into words. When I was in seventh grade, I got a new friend, smart little girl, transferred from another school. We used to hang out and study together. She was clever enough to get the first place in that seventh grade but mine was on average. One day, she bad-mouthed about me that I am a stupid mixed blood girl. At that time, I challenged her words and I thought I won. After breaking up the friendship with her, I became an unfriendly person and only made two or three friends because I couldn’t trust other people to talk about me and I was over worried that they would bad-mouthed me. But now, I realized I lost her and my friends.
Mark Twain said, “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” In the podcast, What You Don't Know (Lulu Wang), all the entire family lied to their grandma about her health, stage 4 lung cancer. They believed that her life was prolonged because she didn’t know the truth. After listening to that story, we were asked to write about the time I made an important choice to tell someone a difficult truth or lie. I found myself in the past, I told the truth to my parents about my relationship, but all I got was the blame. Thus, I decided not to tell the truth next time about my relationship. From the bitter to the sweet, there is something more that I can learn from that moment. When I become a parent in the future, I will never ever blame my children for telling the truth. In the Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway), the girl got the dilemma whether keep the baby or take the abortion. Hemingway didn’t provide the final choice of the girl. The story made us think about the time to leave or stay. For me, there was a time I failed my junior year at university and lost my dream. Thus, I was in the situation to retry the stupid education system or leave to the better place. Now, I have been in America and restart my dream. I found out that the things we take from the failure can lead to later success. The last assignment about life-choice is to break away or follow the cultural tradition that we share with our family or friends. I believe not all the cultural traditions are right to follow. After going back to the painful moments that I wanted to forget, I now realized that I should not forget but instead, learn from them. This life-choice assignment not only encouraged me to take a look to the past and discover what I was wrong but also made me mature enough to correct what I did wrong. Here are the links to the life-choice blog posts. Life Choice: Is That My Tradition? Life Choice: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Life Choice: To Tell The Truth? Life Choice: The Powers That Be?
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