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In the story “Everyday Use”, there lives a family; Dee, Maggie and their mother. During a flashback in the story, it mentioned how their family saved up all their money just to get Dee education. Dee got the education and soon went to college, but with Maggie and their mother in poverty. When Dee came back from college, she starts to act differently. She treated the possessions of her family like mere tools and items, when in reality when she says its her culture and tradition, but really, she’s not appreciating it as her culture and tradition. In this story later on she shows that she’s really spoiled and takes everything for granted. All that money Maggie and her mother saved up was for her, yet she thought it was done by her hard work and effort. She even thought that Maggie and her mother was living in a bad way and she was even ashamed that her family was in such a bad situation. Not because of her sympathy, but because of her pride, she thinks she is superior. She isn’t even grateful for all the sacrifices her family made to get her into school.

In this story I learned that we shouldn’t take education, having good technology and clean food or water for granted. Many people on this planet are suffering because they don’t have the things we have. We might look around us and say “everybody has these things” but in reality, millions of people don’t. We’re just fortunate enough to have good housing, food, water, technology and countless other things. Most people will take these things for granted and would think they will always have these things, some people were born poor, some people were born rich. But that is not the case, it is only by our awareness of our surroundings will we ever get to a high social status or at least have a good life. In this story, Maggie thinks that getting into school and college was only because she was smart and she worked hard, not because her family raised enough money to get her into a school. She not only ignores that, but she is also ashamed that her family is so poor. If her family didn’t get her into school, they will have the money, they will be in a better situation but because her family loved her and cared for her, they sacrificed a lot to get her a good education. Dee pays back with disrespect and ungratefulness. We need to realize that not everything is because of our work, we need to realize that many people sacrifice time and money for us to get good education, good food, clean water and many more. Our ignorance is what makes us ungrateful and unaware of other people’s help and sacrifices in our lives.

Being selfish is a big problem we have everyday. We don’t realize other people’s help or we just choose to ignore it. We need to change that and be grateful for our well-being, grateful for everyday that we have what we have. Even something really small could be the cause of somebody’s love and caring attitude towards you. We need To learn and be grateful for what we have with us today.

In The Landlady by Roald Dahl, Billy Weaver, a young naive businessman gets lured into a bed and breakfast by a strange old lady, and presumably, gets murdered and stuffed. One of the themes of the story is that first impressions can be wrong.

The story starts out with Billy arriving at Bath and looking for a place to stay. He is directed towards a pub, but on the way, he finds a bed and breakfast and decides to go there instead due to how inviting it seemed. Inside, he finds the landlady, who welcomes him, and Billy was completely convinced to stay there at the mention of the low price and hospitality of the lady. The landlady then has him sign a book, which each previous customer signed, saying that there were only two other guests ever, who the landlady insists are still staying with her. It is then revealed that her pets are both stuffed and almost perfectly preserved, and Billy was given tea, which he notes tasted like almonds.

The story ends pretty quickly, and with the evidence, the old lady poisoned Billy’s tea with cyanide, which is said to smell like almonds. after killing Billy, she probably stuffed him and put him away with the previous guests, who were probably also stuffed.

The moral in the story is don’t judge a book by its cover. Billy came to the landlady because she had pets and her bed and breakfast looked nice. He continued to stay because she was friendly and had good service for cheap. Because of how nice the landlady was at first, Billy didn’t pay too much attention to suspicious details, leading to him getting killed and stuffed.

“Everyday use” is a story narrated by the mother who talks about her daughter Dicie (Dee/Wangero).

Basically what happens is the mother first talks about how she dreams to be on a program where they unite parents with their kids. Afterward, Dee arrives with her boyfriend and tells her mother that she is no longer named Dee and that she has changed her name to Wangero.

Then she takes out a camera and takes a photo of her own house as if she was on vacation and then they sat down to eat. after the meal, she asked her mom for several other things.

First, she asked for a churn. The mother gave it to her and then she asked for two old quilts and the mother resisted. She pleaded again and again and finally, the mom pulled Maggie into the room, snatched the quilts from Wangero/Dee’s hands and put them in Maggie’s lap.

Wangero didn’t get the quilts, but she didn’t get mad. Just a bit dissapointed. Then she left with her boyfriend.

Researchers at the Allen Institute of Brain Science just created the most detailed image of a mice brain. The now complete map contains more than 100 million brain cells, they reported.
The project aim in 1990 was to create a standard, common mouse brain that all the researchers working on mice can reference. Back then, they would define all the different regions by eye. As they get more and more data, that manual curation doesn’t scale anymore. Now, they trace the cells using thin slices of tissue that can be imaged and explored. The result comprises an average of the 1,675 lab mice to be as standard as possible.
Mice are very common to humans. There brains are similar and a uneducated baby mouse would act similarly to a untrained baby. Mice are also easy to be taken care of. They can be trained and breed, just like humans. Now, scientists have a pretty good view on how their brains work. With the mouse brain, they have a new tool to conduct new experiments and programs. Compared to the first achievement in the 1990 era, they change the way we work

“The Landlady” by Roald Dahl was a pretty interesting story. It starts with Billy Weaver, a 17-year old, looking for a place to stay. He was planning to go check out The Bell and Dragon Pub, but ends up being drawn to the Bed and Breakfast. Immediately after Billy rang the doorbell, the landlady answered the door and invited Billy in. After a discussion about the surprising lack of customers and the landlady’s particularity concerning who stays at her establishment, the landlady showed Billy to his room. The landlady then asked Billy to sign his name in the guestbook. When Billy opened the guestbook, he noticed that only two other names were written down. He recognized the names, but he struggled to recall where he had heard them. The landlady distracted Billy by giving him some tea. However, Billy considered the tea’s smell to be peculiar. As Billy and the landlady sat and sipped their tea, Billy noticed that some animals that he had previously seen in the building were actually taxidermy. Billy admired the landlady’s taxidermy skills. During the conversation, Billy asked if there had been any other tenants since the two in the guestbook, and after telling Billy that the two tenants still lived in the building, the landlady told Billy that he was the only new tenant. The story implies that the landlady may have killed and preserved the bodies of the previous two tenants, and that she plans to do the same to Billy.

The moral of the story is don’t judge a book by its cover. The landlady was acting really friendly, and Billy didn’t really think about. He thought she was just a really nice person, but it turned out she was evil. It was pretty interesting, and I wonder why the landlady would want to do this.

In “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl, a story is told of a young man, Billy, who finds himself in a peculiar hotel managed by a landlady. Things become more and more strange as he finds himself there longer. In the end, the three points that foreshadow the ending of the story are the animals, the smell, and the landlady herself. This foreshadowing also builds up the plot and builds suspense in the reader. 

In the beginning of the story, as Billy finds himself drawn to the “Bed and Breakfast” pub, he notices two animals: a parrot and a dachshund. He feels that these animals make for a more comforting environment, as he thinks, “Animals were usually a good sign in a place like this.” However, after he gets settled into the pub, the landlady reveals to him that the parrot and the dachshund were stuffed. This foreshadows the end of the story since it shows the landlady is fond of stuffing her “pets” and wants to keep them with her forever, him being included in the category of a “pet.” 

The landlady also sits down with Billy and offers him tea. Billy notices a strange smell emanating from her that he couldn’t quite recall, one that he describes as “Picked walnuts? New leather? Or was it the corridors of a hospital?” Billy also seems to taste a similar thing in his tea, which “tasted faintly of bitter almonds.” This is most likely referring to a type of poison, where the landlady poisons Billy to stuff him and keep him. 

Lastly, the landlady herself seems to constantly contradict herself. When the landlady asks Billy to sign a book of his stay, he notices that the date of the last person was over three years ago. However, the lady talks about them as if they recently left, saying phrases such as “Mr.Mulholland was a great one for his tea.” Then, she continues to contradict herself by saying that the previous two people were still in her hotel. This strange behavior can be explained by the landlady not wishing to expose her true intentions and not have Billy suspecting anything. 

In the end, the lady poisoned Billy through his tea and most likely stuffed him. Through the stuffed pets, we can see how he would end up being stuffed. Through the tea, we can see what ultimately would cause his death. In the landlady’s statements, it builds suspense and confusion in the plot to give a larger element of surprise in the ending. 

Today we learned the 10 rules of success from Elson Musk, who is very successful now. So today’s essay I want to talk about one of these rules.

The one of them is critical think. Sometimes our friends or parents do not want to hurt our feelings so they might not tell you about your disadvantages. Or they even didn’t discover your defects. So we might think we are okay and not work harder than before. I’ve had that experience before I came to America. My English grade was not bad in middle school in China. So I think I could pass the visa interview easily when I decided to go to America for high school. With that thought, I didn’t prepare much for the interview. Not surprisingly, I didn’t pass that. It was thunderstruck. I started to criticize myself. Did I work hard actually? Of cause no. However, I didn’t give up. I spent a lot of time preparing the interview and make sure everything was right. Every night I said to myself, “You’re doing not bad, but you can do much better on that thing or that thing…” After a week, I passed the interview. It confirmed the rule is right. We can not be cocky, we should always have a rational mind. Proper confidence is good for us, but more than that is not good. We can not be indulged in the success that we made before. We need to look ahead and keep improving ourselves.

I think I will remember this rule and always learn from it in the rest of my life because I used my experience to confirm its effectivity. And I hope I can learn more from the other rules in future days.

In the short story The Landlady by Roald Dahl, Billy Weaver, a young naive buisnessman gets lured into a bed and breakfast by a strange old lady, and presumably, gets murdered and stuffed. One of the themes of the story is that first impressions can be wrong.

The story starts out with Billy arriving at Bath, and looking for a place to stay. He is directed towards a pub, but on the way, he finds a bed and breakfast and decides to go there instead due to how inviting it seemed. Inside, he finds the landlady, who welcomes him, and Billy was completely convinced to stay there at the mention of the low price and hospitality of the lady. The landlady then has him sign a book, which each previous customer signed, revealing that there were only two other guests ever, who the landlady insists are still staying with her. It is then revealed that her pets are both stuffed and almost perfectly preserved, and Billy was given tea, which he notes tasted like almonds.

The story ends rather abruptly, and with the given evidence, it seems that the old lady poisoned Billy’s tea with cyanide, which is said to smell like almonds. after killing Billy, she probably stuffed him and put him away with the previous guests, who were probably also stuffed.

A theme in the story is that looks can be deceiving. Billy came to the landlady because she had pets and her bed and breakfast looked nice. He continued to stay because she was friendly and had good service for cheap. Because of these first impressions, Billy didn’t pay too much attention to suspicious details, leading to him getting killed and stuffed.

In the story by the Daily Mail about SpaceX’s Starlink project, there is a debate about how we as humans should use out space. The specific debate about Starlink is that Starlink hampers the ability of people on earth to see natural constellations, but there are further debates on the use of outer space.

Currently, the only regulation on what cannot be done in outer space is the Outer Space Treaty(Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies) signed in 1967. It prohibits the placement of weapons of mass destruction in outer space and that no nation can claim sovereignty over outer space or any celestial body.

Personally, I think that the Outer Space Treaty should be expanded to include some provisions that apply to Antarctica by the Antarctic Treaty System, which include a ban on all military activity, and freedom of navigation. What we also need is a system to dispose of human material in outer space once it is decommissioned, because our current system is to just blast satellites to higher orbits.

Outer space has always been free to all mankind(and possibly other organisms as well), and should remain so.

The story, Landlady, starts with Billy Weaver, trying to find a cheap hotel. The porter suggested The Bell and Dragon. Billy Weaver was 17 years old, wearing a navy-blue overcoat, a brown trilby hat, and a brown suit. He sees a printed notice that advertised a hotel. He sees it and then goes to check it out. He pressed the bell, and at once, a woman was standing there. She lets Billy inside her house.  The woman was about forty-five to fifty years old. Billy asks for a room, and she lets him pay for a room. She charged five and sixpence a night, including breakfast. That was amazingly cheap. She acts all kindly and helps him with everything. She shows Billy to his room, shows him what he could do, and offers him supper. And she tells him to sign a book that was in the sitting room, and she tells him that it is the law to sign the book. Billy thinks that she is a bit off her rocker, but she didn’t worry Billy at all. Then, after a few minutes of him unpacking, he went downstairs into the living room. The landlady wasn’t there, but the book was, so he wrote down his address and name. He reads the other two people who have signed the book, which was unusual. He recognizes the names of the two people who have signed the book. The landlady came up behind him and started talking with him, and carrying a tea tray. Then, Billy notices that the last person who has ever come here to stay, was from two years ago. And then the landlady offers him some tea and a ginger biscuit. Then he started to drink his tea. He notices the landlady’s pets. They were dead, but the landlady took out the insides of them and stuffed them, to make it look like that they were still alive. They noticed that the tea tasted of bitter almonds. Then, Billy asks the landlady that were there any guests here in the last two or three years. She replies with, “No, my dear, only you.”