Week 2:
My week two was little bet different from week one. This week there were six of them come to the tutoring center including the five ladies who I met on my last visit. Even better this week, I had another tutor came and helped me. I found out that the lady usually came and help them every other week and this was why I did not see her on first week. We divided the group into two, she got three students and I got three students. This week I taught mathematic only as it is always been my favorite subject of all time. Because we have two tutors this week I got to finish with tutoring a little early than last week. It was a fun for me as I get to teach what I love the most.
Week 3:
This was my least favorite week of all time compare to the last two weeks. I showed up at and expected to see someone sitting in room waiting for me to help his or her homework. But it was not the way I expected, I went into the classroom no one was their at all. I sat in the classroom and waited for them. After thirty minutes of wait I decided to go and asked one of my supervisors to see if I should wait a little bit longer. I was send back home as both of us agree that no one would show up at this late. I was a little disappointed and hoping that this would not happened again on my next visit.
Week 4:
This week the classroom was filled with students and tutors. Compare to the last three weeks, this week tutoring was much more to what I first expected. This week we got three tutors and every student had their own tutor to work one on one. I liked this way better because the students tend to get more work done and tend to do a lot better on their homework assignments. This week I worked on math with my tutee one on one. One on one teaching allowed the two of us get to know each other better. She learned about my background and I learned about her back. It was a fun week that I would never want to forget.
Week 5:
This week was very similar to my first week at the tower and again, I was the only tutor with three tutees. For two hours I tried to help them as much as I could. Normally it is hard to deal with three subjects at once but their hard work and willing to learn had made this hard work to simple work and fun. I had to say that I loved spending my time at the Seward Tower I had learned a lot of from my tutees. They had taught how to be patient and their hard work motivated me to look the world in a whole new way as every set of goal involves time and works and every little work is a step to success.

Week 6:

I found this week as one of the most celebrated week of all. This is not because of my last week at the Seward Tower but it is because I got to see the improvement of my tutees that I had helped for the last five weeks. One of my tutees came up to me today to show me the result of her work as she got an “A� on it. She was very happy about it and I was too but in the fact that I could help at least. I now have more confidence on my work, the work of which I could make a different through my knowledge. I worked with four tutees today and each one of them had different subjects to study. To me it was always fun to see them put such an effort on their homework.

I can not express enough on much time and effort they had put on their work and I think this is because of the language barrier. I had learned that if English is not our first language, extra time is always needed to complete the same work that many native speakers have. For instance, if a native speaker spends an hour on their reading we have to spend at least two or more to complete the same number of pages.

This experience at Seward Tower had taught me how important it is to use part of our available time to help someone who is in need. It doesn’t matter how much time or help one can provide, it can always make a different in some else’s life.

We all know that books are made for someone to read, in this matter many authors always work hard to find a way to attract their audiences’ interest. Author, like one another wants to make sure that once their books got published there will be people want to read their book. So how do they do it? Below are the top ten best book of year (2007).

It seems like the book’s cover and its title play the most important part in drawing the audience attention. The titles like TREE OF SMOKE, THEN WE CAME TO THE END,and THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES, these catchy titles seem to put many people in a spot of questioning themselves, why and how. Once the the audiences begin to wonder they will
start to find out and so the book got read.

The layout on the cover is also good use in or attracting the audience. As we can see on the book cover, the display of the shadow and the refection of the background image through the text seems to us give as a reader a sense of awareness that there is something must be know from this book.

My book cover choice of style

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Print magazine is another good example in using pictures to attract their audience. They seem to aim for multiple audiences and that picture allow them to achieve this very easily.

Is environment one of the biggest effects in our everyday lives? Some might say our lives style is shaped by the environment we live in. Is it always true that we living to fit it our environment. I keep asking this question to myself over and over again. Umm!…5 minutes………10 minutes…….umm!……..no answers…………then the darkness fall, the wind hollowing eager to hear my answer and my only way to get away this frightening sound is to come up with some sort of answer that one might pause and think, does this make any sense at all?

My response to this question, I think it depends on how you want to look at it. Yes the environment shape our way of lives but only at the start. The type of place we live in, the type of cloth we wear, the type of food we eat…..etc, and these are the requirement in order for each individual to fit in the environment. However if we look at the other end or result in another word, we actually are the one that shape the environment. Our demanding is much higher than what the environment has for us. For example we need a house to keep us warm, protect us from severe weather, do you think these require us to build skyscraper or the skyscraper is just say I can do it better than you?
Men are challenged by nature but men tend to enjoy the challenge and they take it as a pleasure to their victory. You can think of this in the relationship between the soil and tree. The soil provide mineral for the tree to grow and the tree’s height depends on soil how much mineral the soil can provide. Eventually the form of the soil will change through the development of the tree. I think this is the phenomena and within phenomena there are clockworks, frameworks, and thing.

Extra thought for you to considered from of our best known architect.
To Mr. Wright as one person asked;
"What is architecture anyway? Is it the vast collection of the various buildings which have been built to please the varying taste of the various lords of mankind? I think not.
"No, I know that architecture is life; or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived. So architecture I know to be a Great Spirit....
"Architecture is that great living creative spirit which from generation to generation, from age to age, proceeds, persists, creates, according to the nature of man, and his circumstances as they change. That is really architecture."
—Frank Lloyd Wright, from In the Realm of Ideas, edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Gerald Nordland

My main goal after I am released from the Architecture school is to use my knowledge not only to serve human but to their surrounding at the same time. We create marks on the ground as we make our steps and each one of our steps can have big effect to those who are around us. I think this is also is very important in architecture work. They need to aware at all time on choice of their design. As nature is the foundation of all livings on earth, my inspiration of who I will follow his step is:

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• Every year, 6 million children die from malnutrition before their 5th birthday.

• 1.2 billion people live on less than U.S.$1 dollar a day.

• Over 11 million children die each year from preventable causes like malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.

Do you have to be this way to help the world?

What dose superhero mean to you?

One thing that I did before I wrote this blog was to go over some of my class mates point of views. It turn out that many of them are concern with homeless people. I have hard time to believe as this becomes an issue in the United States. I mean this the United States, the most powerful country in the world as it got everything that the third world countries desire for. Why is this? What causes this? Is there a solution for this issue? Many questions ran through mind as I went from one blog to the next.

One thing that I see as I am one of those who come from a third world country is this everything that the United States has that causes many people to careless about their future, like have no home. To me it seems like most of them are expecting help from government more than they try to help themselves. I mean, there many jobs that there could do here than just presenting themselves in corner of the street and asking people money. I understand that some of them have mental disability that drives them away from having a job. However, I still don’t understand for those who don’t, why can’t they use this time to search for jobs instead, or maybe pick up some cans on street and sell them for money. The more I think about it the more I begin to realize that the social design issue is presenting in each individual as each of the individual is the cause of this issue.

As we all know that energy is source that is being use to create flow and transformation (movement and change). This also means that without energy the concept of flow and transformation won't be happening. In my definition energy is a surviving source to keep things alive. If we imply this concept of survival to the city, we can see that the movement and change is what really keep the city alive. The city needs people to create movement and make the change to keep the city alive.

I think the idea of energy, flow and transformation through the city is very similar to what I have seen in Andy film. To me, we are the source of energy that provide life to the city, which city at this point is new creation of form from nature that we are trying to create or transform to reach our satisfaction. By definition transformation is a complete change that is using time to complete the process. This transformation process creates the flow. The word “flow� from of many definitions means to move easily, smoothly, and continuously from one place to another.
As we can see from generation to generation many cities in many part of the world seem to grow bigger and bigger along with better improvement as satisfaction was unlimited, hence man is challenged by the nature.

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