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=Thu Tran Portfolio=

Letter
Hi Ms. Justice, “My English is not good.” That is first thing I want to tell you. But when I begin to learn in your class, my English is being better. It means better, it’s not mean good, so I need to learn some more. Anyway, I’m still happy about that. I’m so glad when I see you, and you are my nice teacher. Today on the occasion everybody in our class writes a letter to you, I have some my ideas on how to become a good writer. English is a vast world that probably no one can be explored, and it becomes more difficult with me because it is my second language. When you change something new, you need a time. I like to learn, and I will be very excited to find something new, and English is one of them. My English is getting better every period you teach. The best I think it is how to write the essay. “Drunk driving” is the one I think it is good. In that essay, you show us how to make the graphic organize about information, how to write the graph body, how to make the introduction or include, and how to put them together. That was really helping me. I can use that to be example for my next essays. I still have some problem when I have to write in English, that is vocabulary. When we have to write, sometime I can’t find the words to improve my ideas. Example in “Nights Video”, I had to see Elie’s sorrow, but I can’t express my idea in the essay. The reason is I don’t know what word can tell it. Words are the important thing in every essay because it helps me show my ideas. I think we need to take a little bit time to learn some more vocabulary. Our language will be copious, and it is easier to express our essays. I remember one person said, “Study, study more, study forever.” It is exactly. Learn is never stop. I will try to learn everything I should and I think it is good. I will use the good things I have to learn and repair the things I didn’t do well. I hope you will help me to do it. Thank you for reading my letter and thanks for everything. Thu Tran,

1. Video Night ( 10/18/2011)
Holocaust is the terrible place for the world. That is a grave for a lot people. More millions people were killed and they didn't know why. Millions people had separation their family with no reason. "Why these things happen? Who can hear them? Who know it?" That are some of questions Elie keep asking his mind. They had their home, their family, their name, their life and now what they have, nothing. They love music, they love family. Therefore what happened, what was going to them? There is no answer. I surprised about people who made these concentration camps, who made the laws in there and the people did these things. I scared them. Are they human? Yes, they are. Are Jews people are human? The answer still is : YES. So how they can do that with Jews people, with the same kind of species? Elie is the courageous man. This was difficult to exceed everything he had to see, he had to do. And it is more difficult to remember and look at it again. When I look at his eyes, I know all his memmories is coming back. How he can foget it? Everything is impossible. He saw the suitcases, the shoes, the cans, the hairs... Maybe, one of them is his family's. He is good at keeping his feelings in. He is a living witness to tell humanity about these crimes. Story about him and Jews will always be painful memmories of mankind. All people will never foget them.

2. Believe essay (9/9/2011)
In the life, there are so many times when we must confront the difficult challenges and tough spirit. Although each person has a different response, but surely there is a big difference between a believer and one who entrusted their lives to fate. With me, I think belief in yourself and life will be a great strength to help you overcome the difficulties. Now I will tell you a story about my friend, Jame. She has a very belief and she thinks she can do it if she believes in it. One day, she went to exercise at the part near her house. She didn't know when and where she lost her earring until she came back home. At that time, it was dark and too late, she can not return to the part to find it. Also, how much of a chance is it to find something that looks like so tiny in the big park and along the way? But this earring is very special for her. That was the gilf from her sister, who was a goldsmith, made by herself and gave to her many years ago. In that time, she always thinks about that earring, so at night she dreamed: she found it. In the morning, she called her friend to go with her to the park. She told her friend about the dream and she believed it will be true. Last night, it was raining, so the ground was soaked, muddy and swampy. But they were still trying to find it. Finally, after a long time search, they came back the car, buty when her friend looked her shoe, on the botton of it, in the mud there was friends earing. So you will be ready to go how far? would you be, willing to try many time? Will you be ready to proceed to the net? Will you get up many time after the fall and fall again? Why you don't you believe and make your dream come true. Faith is one of the most valuable of people. Each day, it can be a joy, but also it can give to you sadness and unexpected. That is the life. Good things are always associated with positive actions and those who dreams but do not give up.

3. To be human (10/12/2011)
The human brain is to be the center of the action of higher consciousness and "intelligent" than the other species. Humans have the ability to create a lots of ideas, languages, words... human is the only one cooks their foods, used the fire, used the power( electric). Human invents a lot of things, uses technology to serve our life. Human has imagination. Human has religion, has something to believe. Human makes rules, laws and currencies( money), the units of measurement. Everybody has personality. We have foresight about future. We wear the clothes and know how to make us look better. Human knows what is the good things or the bad things, what we have to do or what we don't. Human can take care ourselves, we know to use good things for health. We try to make the good medicines for patients. We can control our body. Human can do everything we want, talks what we need.

4. Drunk driving ( 11/4/2011)
Traffic accidents and damages caused by accidents are the concerns and pressing issues of society. It is loss of life, loss of human, intellectual, emotional damage and social, material, money and even physical pain, persistent spirit. Each day, the mass media have on the number of traffic accidents occur in the world. Alarming nature of the accident is getting worse, represented by the number of deaths increased. In particular, over 50% of accidents caused by alcohol and can't control when drive. People shouldn't drink and drive because it causes death, prison and trauma. One of the most serious consequences of drunk driving is loss your life. Petter is my dad cousin. One day, he was on his way home from his friend party, he died. He had drunk a lot of in that party, so he can't control his car. He was killed by himself. He was just twenty, he was too young to finish his life like that. I know he is not the only one is killed by drunken driving. In 1999, 16578 drunken driving deaths, and the number in 2001 is 17448 people. That represents an increase of about 5 percent. This is not one or two people, the number is thousands, thousand people die with illegal action. We have the rules for drunk driving, but not all people care about it. We still have a lot accidents everyday and the reason is drunk driving. John killed one person when he was drinking and drove too fast. Did John want like that? Did that person know that thing will happen to her? The answers are no. John was okay, but that person died. John must redeem what he did by go to the jail. Your license can be suspended for at least a year, or revoked permanently. If someone die as result of your drunk driving, you can go to jail for much longer. Traffic accidents is the thing that nobody wants, but it happens often to unintended consequences for both victims and who caused the accidents. Jacqui and her friends got accidents when they came home from their friend birthday. The car caught fire. She was burned over 60% of her body. Jacqui lived, but her hands were so badly burned and she no longer can use them. Traumatic car accidents can potentially result in a head injury, neck injury, back injury, brain trauma, or the sudden death of a loved one. Drunk driving is always a big problem for the world and the concern of everyone. The number of people die increases everyday. Death, prison and traume are just some of effects about drunk driving. Let's go together to stop it, to have the world with no drunk driving.

5. Fire (10/5/2011)
In "Night", Elie used a lot images about the fire. The first fire appeared in Mrs. Schachter's scream:" Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!" Everyone thinked she had lost her mind, they didn't know that was the foreshadow for them. The next time, they saw the fire when the train stopped: " Jew, look! Look at the fire! Look at the flames!" They saw flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky and the smell of burning flesh. they began to felel worry. And the third time, fire appeared when Elie came to the concentration camp for men:" Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. Babies!" That was the terrible thing they had seen. They don't know what happen will be going to with them. Will they burn like that?

6. Night ( 10/20/1011)
I felt sad when I read Night, the book of the Elie and Jews life. Elie is a boy aged fifteenth survived been through the horror of the Holocaust camps genocide. Through his eyes we are witnessing a profound way both the cruelty and grace of human. Night work also reflects an honest, painful, bitter feelings, and the terrible crime that the author has seen.The story show us how many scary when you see somebody were killed by mass burning, how many worry when you don't know what will be happen with your life, and how many sad when you lose somebody you love, you see they die. The story and especialy the number of Jews people were killed that make us shocked. It is impossible to understand.