Water fall

The water was clear as
It was deep like a glass ball
The forest was green

Oh how it looked fun
with the high drop
but now im glad
after I saw the one big sharp rock

Son kills parents for insurance money

A couple in their 50s was murdered by their son early Saturday morning in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province.

Lee, 23, confessed to killing his parents to get their life insurance money, according to Suwon Jungbu Police Station.

Police said that Lee broke into his home disguised as a burglar and stabbed his family, killing his parents and seriously wounding his two older sisters.

During police questioning, Lee said he committed the crime to get money from insurance policies under the name of his parents and sisters. Lee secretly signed contracts for life insurance that pays up to 60 million won in the case of death.

Lee had claimed to be at a friend’s house, some 200 meters away from his home, but police found a bloody mask, sneakers and gloves believed to belong to him near the crime scene. His fingerprints were also found on the murder weapon.

The news was particularly shocking as Lee calmly visited the hospital to see his surviving family members after committing the crime.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/09/117_8191.html

I think this reminded me of the book a lot, because this had a lot fo traits of the pearl. I asume that most families start out as a "family first" relationship. But as he starts to think of money as the main value of his life. He did a bloody, cruel act of murder to get insurance money. That is like trading your family for money. It was really similar to the book when Kino starts to changes his main prioirty family to wealth.

Reflection to Pearl

.In the book “The Pearl”, the story talks about many things about happiness, greed, wealth..I think that if the story was a parable, the lesson or moral that I get from the story would be too much greed will harm you and corrupt you. There were many different examples in the book, Kino, pearl dealer, and the doctor.

In the book, Kino was originally a man who was kind and was amiable to everyone. He was a pearl diver. Even though he was not rich, he was still happy because of his baby, wife, and canoe, anything that he could be thankful of. However, after he had found the Pearl of the World, he started to be greedy; his main purpose of finding a pearl was to pay the doctor for curing Coyotito. However, after finding a magnificent pearl, his dreams of becoming rich and successful became bigger as time went on. He was thinking of buying a rifle, giving Coyotito education, marrying Juana in the big church, and living in a new big house. So even though the pearl dealers gave a price that was way lower than he had expected it to be, he didn’t sell the pearl to the dealers and left the city. Kino could have sold the very valuable pearl with the cheap price, and still become rich, but his greed for rich became too big he couldn’t accept it.

Kino also started to start being worried of everyone, because he knows that everyone in the village wants his pearl and take it from him. He was going to the anything from protecting his wealth, and he ever killed people by doing that. But while he tried to kill the person with the rifle, he started to have a outrage and shot the rifle all around the place, and it killed his son. He was so greedy with his pearl that he lost something that was even more valuable to him. The greed for money had corrupted him to believe that money was the most important thing in all and money will allow him to do anything he could do anything he wanted to do.

Another figure that gives you a lesson about greed was the pearl dealers. If the pearls dealers didn’t go cutting the prices so much. They could of at least buy the pearl, even though the profit you make will be less. They tried so hard to maximize their profit in that moment, they just lost all the profit that they could actually make by even buying the pearl in higher price and sell it.

The last character that reflected to the moral was the doctor. He was so greedy at the start that he did not take care of Coyotito at the start. He was only thinking about the wealth that he had when he was in Europe and he tired of doing his job without any money. I’m if the doctor came and check on Coyotito, Kino would have thanked him more graciously and then there could have been an extra tip. In the end, the doctor received nothing because the pearl was thrown away and Kino couldn’t pay the price back. So his plan of getting some money off the pearl had failed.

I believe that a little bit of greed is okay. It can be like a goal that you expect to make. However if the greed overflows in you, it becomes bad and yourself becomes corrupted. Your thoughts change like how Kino becomes, you do not realize what is truly important. It may be different for other people, but this is how I interpret what the moral is.

Guess the tone

The new Ipod makes people think so much. It looks like it's a ipod, but it could work like a computer, and it could even look like a cellphone. The black case outside looks so metailc it makes people think that the plastic could be a metal. It's making people so confused because the price doesn't make sense to the expensive looking design.

Guess the Mood

Every thing was gone. The millions of dollars, the big three floor house, the luxerious Benteley, they were all gone with the bankruppcy. I felt hopeless, I thought of how I am going to live up the rest of my life without any money. However, I realized that I still have a family. I can still depend with my family, which was really the most important things to me. Because I still had my family, the sky still looks bright, and the sun shine even more brighter. The future is bright because I still had my family.

Alica Keys If I ain't got you

Some people live for the fortune

Some people live just for the fame

Some people live for the power, yeah

Some people live just to play the game

Some people think that the physical things

Define what's withinAnd I've been there before

But that life's a boreSo full of the superficial

[Chorus:]

Some people want it allBut I don't want nothing at all

If it ain't you baby

If I ain't got you baby

Some people want diamond rings

Some just want everything

But everything means nothing

If I ain't got you, YeahSome people search for a fountain

That promises forever young

Some people need three dozen roses

And that's the only way to prove you love them

Hand me the world on a silver platter

And what good would it be

With no one to share

With no one who truly cares for me

[Chorus:]

Some people want it all

But I don't want nothing at all

If it ain't you baby

If I ain't got you baby

Some people want diamond rings

Some just want everything

But everything means nothing

If I ain't got you, you, you

Some people want it all

But I don't want nothing at all

If it ain't you baby

If I ain't got you baby

Some people want diamond rings

Some just want everything

But everything means nothing

If I ain't got you, yeah

[Outro:]If I ain't got you with me baby

So nothing in this whole wide world don't mean a thing

If I ain't got you with me baby

This song says that even if you have all the wealthy you want, it doesn't if the person you love is not here.

What I would have done if had 259 million $

If I had 259 million I would buy things that I would dream of. I think my mind will go blank, and then suddenly have bunch of thoughts of winning the money. I would think of buying my dream items. I'm going to buy all my relatives a house, and I'm going to 50 millions $ to our school, so I could help the school become a better place. I'm going to save the money for the future. If I die, I'm going to give 25% of the left over and make a scholarship.