What is filial piety?

Filial piety is one of the fundamental values of Confucianism that insures the sincerity of ritual performance. Filial piety is the responsibility to respect one's parents, obey them, and take care of them as they age, and of course, to love them. Filial piety also exists in the form of worshipping ancestries. The Chinese would build shrines to their ancestors and in one case, the failure of proper worshipping often sent people for corporal punishment. The ancestors needed respect because they have helped and supported China and also influenced in how the world worked for the present generation. The Chinese have lived through the filial piety culture for centuries and to me, it is the "bonding chain" between families and generations. In conclusion, filial piety is a value that everyone should endorse to feel respected, loved, and cared by everyone around you.

Sources:
http://www.taoism.net/articles/xiao.htm
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-filial-piety.htm
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/273807/hsiao

The Good Earth: Chapter Two

Thoughts:
1) Wang Lung begins to enjoy not having to bring the Old Man his tea in the mornings.
2) O Lan was a good wife. She did her house work well.
3) O Lan must have been a good servant at the Hwang's house.
4) Wang Lung is proud of O Lan when he saw all the work she did at home.
5) The Old Man was happy to learn that O Lan was pregnant.

Questions:
1) Why doesn't O Lan speak?
2) What made Wang Lung think that O Lan likes him on the second day?

The Good Earth: Chapter One

Thoughts:
1) There is a huge difference between the poor and the wealthy.
2) Wang Lung's marriage day was so simple. There was not even a wedding ceremony.
3) I think Wang Lung only wanted somebody to help do the work at home.
4) Wang Lung was proud of O Lan when she prepared dinner.
5) I think that the Wang Lung's father was a grumpy old man.

Questions:
1) Why didn't Wang Lung want a pretty wife?
2) How did Wang Lung prepare for his marriage day?

Common conflict(s) children have with their parents

The conflicts that I think children have with their parents is grades. Once children start to study for a quiz/test/exam for the next school day, parents just start to give them pressure about that "You have to get an 'A' for this test!" or "If you fail, I'm going to ground you!" etc., and children will start to worry, or maybe even give up! I believe that we should do our own best and not by our parent's force. This topic is oftenly brought up between parents and teenagers and it should stop occuring.

My Name

Erica. It's just a perfect name for me. It means "eternal ruler" or "honorable ruler" which matches me because I like being a leader or the head of a group. I have a lot of nicknames such as beagle, eri, or noise-maker. There's one reason why I'm called by the nickname beagle, because my favorite pet is a dog and beagles are one of my favorite species.

Sources

Some of my definitions and other forms of the vocab words are from
http://www.dictionary.com/

Writing Assignment - Inventing Words

Word: cranberring

Definition: The smashing of cranberries.

Sentence: Cranberring is one of kids' favorite activities.

Method used: portmanteau word

spoonerism (noun)

Other forms of the word: (none)

Definition: an unintentional interchange of the initial sounds of words.

Sentence Example: Spoonerisms of phrases can be really hilarious.

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simile (noun)

Other forms of the word: similes

Definition: a figure of speech likening one thing to another by the use of like, as, etc.

Sentence Example: Ashley likes to use similes in her writing to make her paper more interesting.

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portmanteau word (compound noun)

Other forms of the word: (none)

Definition: a word that is a combination of two other words.

Sentence Example: The word smog, is a portmanteau word for smoke and fog.

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palindrome (noun)

Other forms of the word: palindromist, palindromic, palindromical, palindromically

Definition: a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward.

Sentence Example: The word level is a palindrome.

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onomatopoeia (noun)

Other forms of the word: onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic, onomatopoeically, onomatopoetically

Definition: the formation of words by imitating sounds

Sentence Example: Using onomatopoeia in my writing is very interesting.

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malapropism (noun)

Other forms of the word: malapropistic, malapropian

Definition: an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.

Sentence Example: My friends have a big habit of malapropism.

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colloquial (adjective)

Other forms of the word: colloquially, colloquialness, colloquiality

Definition: informal speech

Sentence Example: "YO MAN!" is a colloquial.

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coinage (noun)

Other forms of the word: coining

Definition of the word: 1) the act or process of making coins
2) the act or process of inventing words

Sentence Example: The government coinages money every year.

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affix (noun/verb)

Other forms of the word: affixes, affixed, affixable, affixial, affixer, affixment, affixal

Definition of the Word: 1) a word or syllable added to a word to change its meaning.
2) to fasten, join, or attach

Sentence Example: I affixed the pictures to the scrapbook before I decorated it.

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acronym (noun)

Other forms of the word: acronyms, acronymic, acronymous, acronymically

Definition of the word: a word formed from the initial letters of other words.

Sentence Example: The acronym, NASA, stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Picture Example:

Pon de Lion

I picked this photo because one of my favorite mascots is Pon de Lion from Mister Donut.