YANGKOI - A TRADITIONAL AND ORIGINAL CELEBRATION OF MA PEOPLES.

 Viet Nam-the diversified culture country which is combined of fifty four nationalities.Every nationalities has own a different tradition culture with a lot of colorful celebration.Especially,with ethnic minorities, their celebrations not only very original but aslo really enjoyable. One of them  is the Rice God worship of Ma peoples which is called YANGKOI by their language. Ma is an ethnic minority living in Dinh Quan and Tan Phu district,Dong Nai province.In a year,Ma peoples have a lot of celebrations; however YANKOI is always considerd the most important and Rice God is the most miraculous God in their spirit. This original celebration  is organized to show their deep gratitude to Rice god who give them a great crop. It usually takes place on February or March in the Lunar year depending on the day Ma peoples finish their harvest. In this celebration,Ma peoples worship Rice God and together eat and play through night.YANGKOI is prepared about four day before begining.

To make YANGKOI ready,Ma peoples always prepare some necessary presents. First, Ma men go to forest to cut down some bamboos which must be high, straight  and bring them at the houseyard. Then they choose two young, straight, 3 to 4 met  bamboos and split the summit of trees into braches. Next, they decorate them by putting a bunch of 'gai may' which symbolize for rice flower at the middle of each tree.Finally, they wind colorful cords around the body of trees and a lively symbol of a goat making by bamboo strings is added. After that they hide bamboos on the ground in front of houseyard.Beside that, Ma women prepare a small rice bowl and a cup of Can alcohol. Depending on economy condition Ma peoples prepare chicken, duck, goat's meat or port, beef. They do not forget to clean the altar and decorate them with a new cjoss-stick bowl and a bowl of sailt. Coming these village in this time, we all live in an bustling and joyful atmosphere of each one, each house.

In the morning taking place YANGKOI, Ma peoples perform traditional rituals. First, they put a bowl of rice in the bunch of 'gai may' flower and put a cup of Can alcohol at the foot of each bamboo which are prepared in the previous day.Then they put meat, alcohol on the altar. At last, they start to worship. In a village, on behalf of all members the theeldest man will worship at the tradition house. In private house, the owners can worship by themselves or invite officants.They  prostrate Rice God and pray with a rhythm contain: '' Oh, Rice God, rice under water, rice under muddy. Let's come my home to eat chicken, eat duck with me. I pray Rice God  give me a victory crop,etc''.While Ma people worship, they open all doors to invite Rice God.

When night coming, the celebration is really interesting. All villagers together enjoy eating, drinking Can alcohol, singing, dancing in the bright moonlight. A lot of heathy men play the pan-pine whose melody is very smooth, peaceful. Mixing in this melody is the sweet voice of pretty women .For tradition, it lasts during 3 days, even all week. This is the chance for Ma peoples express their grateful to Rice God and enjoy themselve after a hard crop.

Although scale, rituals of YANGKOI are more simple than in the past, this celebration is always the most important which express their original spirit as well as their gratefuf to RiceGod.

QUALITIES OF A GOOD GLOBAL CITIZEN.

Who are called global citizen? How meaningful of becoming global citizen? Global citizen is people who have warm heart to encourage, share and help other.That is very significant with unlucky destiny who are disabled, poor, sick, homeless. Because they need other people 'sharing and helping to help them break the wall of complex. Living and bringing happiness for other people is also for ourselves.So, it is very important to become a global citizen.Becoming a global citizen is based on the attitude of ourselves and our attitude with other. Everyone can become a global citizen if we are dynamic to open and connect,empathic with unlucky destiny and have a right awareness.

To become a  global citizen, the first important quality is we are dynamic to make goal in life.That means we are open, confident as well as having hoping,patience to make ourselves better.Vietnamese as well as Asian people are usually shy and lack of confidence in crowded. we are ourselves can not find power, so how we can give power for others who are unlucky and need a help.Therefore,we have to prove to the world that we are little Asian in appearance but not little in spirit.For example, professor Ngo Bao Chau- the  first Vietnamese was awarded Nobel price about mathematic. He is a shining example for us to follow. Try doing anything we think to know exactly our real ability is better than afraid to pull it out of our mind and never reach a goal in life. When we firmly stand,we can connect others to give others what we have such as hoping,patience or only a warm smile.Especially,the youth should dynamic more and more to become open, active and make connection with people around us and even in the world.We all want introduce our country, our culture,our people with the foreigner to make them know Vietnam- that is our country! All of that require us dynamic to improve ourselves.

Another important qualities to become a  global citizen is empathy. Having empathy  when we have warm heart to understand and share with other 's unfortunate things. Not everyone are lucky in life; beside healthy people,rich people, happy people,there are a lot of people who are handicap, poor, sick, homeless. We feel deep grief  to witness children  in Africa who suffer hungry,poor, illiterate, or even HIV/AIDS.We are astonished to know a lot of Japanese died of earthquake, tsunami disaster. In our country, every day we meet a lot of handicap people who try to sell lottery under the heat of sunlight. Every rainy season, there have a thousand people in our middle country lose their house, their family because of storm, flood. Moreover, when we are peaceful in our house at a cold night, there still have a lot of the homeless. How can they survive without  a shelter? How painful that unlucky people have to suffer.Therefore, we-lucky people should open our heart to share, help, empathize with unlucky destiny. That is humanitarian which everyone should have in life.Maybe some people think that they can not empathize with other 'pain because they do not have enough condition to help others.However,instead of doing great thing for other as we ever thought, we sometimes only have small action like helping the elderly pass the crowded street, giving up our seat to handicap people or giving a hard lottery seller an encourage warm smile. All of that we think rather simple,nevertheless have to origin from our heart with a real sympathy.

The last important quality is we have a right awareness.That means we ourselves  have to aware everything in  life that we should or should not do. Last week, i saw a man whose appearance showed that he was a rich, polite, awareness  person; in contract, he was not. He sat in state in his expensive new car and threw the Pepsi can, which he just drank on the street.Our environment is destroyed seriously because of some action like that. The earth is getting warmer, hypothermia is happening in a lot of area and cause disaster like storm,earthquake, flood,etc.Moreover, there are a lot of people die of poorness, hungry, sickness and war. May be they do not have to die if everyone help and share with their problem. They need our help to survive and overcome unlucky destiny. Having right awareness to realize that we can give hand to save other 's destiny. Maybe by we can send other money if  we are rich, if not we can send them food, clothes, books or even send them our warm smile. Our environment, our living as well as other 's living will be better if we ourselves have right awareness.

In short, to become a  global citizen we should be dynamic to open and connect, sympathy with other by all our warm  heart,beside have a right awareness to aware what we should do. I believe that with love start from our warm heart we can become a  global citizen to share and help other people.

HOW INFLATION AFFECTS TO STUDENTS'S LIFE.

Two years ago, when inflation was still low, student's meal was pretty full with meat or fish. But now many students have only vegetable or  others eat instant noodle instead of  food daily. Student's meal is just one of many influences of inflation to their life.Infact, inflation affected to student'life about their living,their study and their spirit.

Student's living become more difficult because of rapidly rising price.With small amount of support money from their parents,students hard to live well.The cost of living is rising and students's quality of life is lower.Meal is a change which we can see clearest.How student can buy meat or fish with high price,nearly 100.000 VND /kg.Because of that,they use vegetable or even instant noodle instead of daily food.Besides,rent-house electricity,water fee are all increase.To have a good flat in this time is rather difficult for students.Therefore,they have to live in small,old,bad condition flats,sometimes they have a lot of uninvited guests like insects, mouse.Moreover,monthly student must pay for electricity, water with high prices, depending on the price stipulated by the landlord.Eating not enough nutrients,living in bad condition flats also caused students's health. Learning requires pretty much work of the mind so if lack of nutrients,students hardly to focus on.The higher infltion is,the lower standard living students have.

Inflation also greatly affect to students's studying.Because of rising of the cost of living,many family can not support for their children well.The school fee,books,study tools are all increase.How students can absolutely focus on study if they eat not enough nutrition,lack of money to buy books,study tools.Doing part time job is the best solution for a lot of students.They can both learn and do part time job as a tutor,a waiter or a baby sister,etc.However,spending a lot of time to earn money that affects a lots to their health as well as their study.After hard study period,they continue to do part time job and come back their rent house in tired.And they may be fail in the final exam.

Not only affect to students's living and study,inflation also affect to their spirit.With a lot of students,to support for their study is not easy.Parents have to worry and work rather hard.Especially,in the context of high inflation with the rapidly rising of everything,they have more difficult.A lot of students are broken heart to receive value money from hard hands of their parents.How can they do not love as well as worry about their parents.Some students even think that they are a burden for their parents.They do their best to study,others do part time job;however,the others can not focus on study and they drop school.May be there are hardly to happen some cases like that if the inflation not happen which the cost of living is not too high.And students not to worry too much and can focus on their study.

STUDENT' LIFE IN THE CONTEXT OF HIGH INFLATION.

Broad statement:
The higher inflation is,the more affection our society have. According to Viet Bao,in the first two month of 2011, index of consumer prices increased rapidly (3,3%)  contain   the increasing of food, transportation and communication,education.Living of poor laborers, farmers, retired, and salaried people greatly affected, the quality of life deteriorated.One of the classes effected most is students who receive support from family therefore they have to deal with a lot of cost of living.So,what students should do to face up with the fast and high increasing of inflation.
Contract:
2  years ago, when inflation was still low, student's meal was pretty full with meat or fish. But now many students have only vegetable or  others eat instant noodle instead of  food daily. Student's meal is just one of many influences of inflation to their life.Infact, inflation affected to student'life about their study,their health and their pressure.
Relevance:
Every year many students drop out of school. There are many reasons  for this: they do not have passion,not have enough patient or others were suspended.However, one of the most common causes of  this problem is about finance.A lot of family can not support for their children because living and studying in a big city is not easy.This problem  is more popular because of rapidly increasing of inflation.Everything is rising,the cost of living is higher.Therefore to avoid not be dropping school,students should try to dealt with inflation by controlling money reasonable,decreasing unnescessary buying and doing part time job.

Anedequote

Mai calls her mother:’’Mom ,please send me 300.000 VND”.

Her mother said:”I just sent you 500.000VND  two weeks ago how did you spend?”

_”You know,because of high inflation,everything is rising,i even can not buy meat.”

      

_”I am sorry,I have not received my salary yet but take it easy, I will borrow your uncle"

Students's life become more difficullty in the context of high inflation .The cost of living is rising,the price is increase day by day.How can students deal with  this problem?This is really hard but if students know how to manage their money,cut unnescessary buying and doing part time job,they can face up with high inflation.

OUTLINE

Topic sentence:Inflation is increase rapidly and everything is rising.That affect a lot to students's life about their living,their study and their spirit.
Body:

• affect to students's living:

_price of consumer increase : food,goods,rent house,electricity,water,transportation fee,etc in a high price.That make students as well as their families have a lot of trouble about finance.The quality of life decrease.
_do part time work to support their families.that make them tired and not concentrate to study.

• affect to  students'studying:

_school fee increase.So students and their family under the pressuse of finance.There have a lot of  students drop out of chool.
_studying-tools as well as books are really expensive.Lack of condition to study.

• affect to students's spirit

 students worry and can not concentrate in study because they think that they are a burden for their parents.
Conclusion:
high inflation make a lot of difficult to student's living as well as their studying.

POWER OF WRITING.

Do you often write down something or speak only ?May be writing is not as fast and convenient as speaking,but why we need write? In fact,writing have some follow power that speaking can not replaced.

 The first wonderful power of writing is we can show our feeling in free and deedly.We can write everything we want and keep them in secret.I have a habit that whenever i feel unsastified with someone or something,i always write down all and throw them off.That is the good way for me to keep calm in life.Besides, writing help us know exactly what we are thinking. If we think in our mind or speak,we only know what we think in  particular . Instead of that,with writing we need spend more time as well as consider carefully to write down something.Therefore,when we are wavering something that make us embarassed,we should think and write down all of them in paper to know exactly what we are thinking.

The second power of writing is we can write to record memorable and significant events in our life.Saying can be forgotten by the time if it does not kept by writing.For me, i can always relive in my wonderful childhood thanks to writing in my pretty diary.So writing help us write down our feeling in completely and lively of all the memorable events.That is really interesting when we can write all events in our life and sometime can read them again in free time.

The last power of writing is writing can connect all our mind.An excellent writing also asisst  us have the different point of view after reading it. All of us know some famous writing of famous writer such as THE WAR AND PEACE of Vichto Huygo which make we changed our mind about life.It is shown that writing have strong affect to us.We can write down all things that affect in our eyes and find oursefl in the different others's writing.So,let's write to show our feeling and find out the same things in our mind.

Writing is the powerful way for us to show feeling,to record significant events and to connect our mind.We all write by our real feeling to know the power or writing and feel wonderful things through writing!!!

narrative essay: MY MEMORY EVENT

The time has passed but i hardly to forgot a bad ,also a significant event that change my charateristis. Before this i  was a hot tempered so i always made every thing in noise.However, when i was a second grade student i had a event that made me become a calm person.
That day my class had a physical period in school yard so we lay our bag in the large table inside class. Then we had lern and played together. At the class had finished,we came back class to took our bag while our parents were stood outside the schoolgate.Suddenlly i saw a boy was taking my new pink bag so i imediately ran before him.I though he stole my bag. With my hot tempered, i aked him: ''turn my bag for me!''.He opened his eyes roundly and rather suprised.I never mind about that, i thought serectly:'' his pretending as to play a hoax on me''.And i spoke louder:'' turn this or i would tell the teacher and you would be punished''.However,he did not admired and said that it was his bag.I could not keep calm anymore so i snatch the bag from his hand.I smiled in sleeve while he was crying loudly.I decide that was very easy for him. He not only remorse but thanks me for not tell the teacher. Suddenly, i heared the voice of Mai-a closefriend of my,she said that why i did not take my bag. I looked the bag in my hand which absolutely like that bag. I opened the bag and realized that did not my bag, that one was my. My body with burning hot as going in the fire flared up,my face got red. I wish there had a hole for me to evade.Finally, i apologized him which was not serious because he was really generous. Afterthat i came back my home with shyness.
 That is the precious lesson for me to change my charateristis.Since then i am never hot tempered and always keep calm to solve the problem.

CAUSE AND EFFECT ESSAY: I LOVE KARATE.

When i was a child never i have my own choice,i always do every thing in the opinion of my parents.Now i have grown up and the day i said my parents that i would lern karate which made a big surprise as well as a terrible angry of them. My parents are really stirck and traditional people.They prevent me from lerning karate because i am a girl and a girl must avoid coming to blows as a boy.Another reason is there have a lot of boys in karate class so my parents nervous that i have problem with them. However i determined keep my choice because i found a lot  of useful and interesting  in lerning karate.
The first reason i lern karate is that it makes me stronger and healthier.At 5.30pm everyday,instead lie down at home to watch tv, i go to karate class to do excercises. At first days i really feel tired but later i gradually get accustomed with them and my building is fitter with firm muscles.I realize that the more i have a strong body ,the more i have a clairvoyant mind.
Beside that karate is really interesting because it has spectacular excercises which not only have setle out of hand,strong but also lisson as well as require good skills.
The next reason is karate class helps me make more friend.Not only boys, in my class has a lot of girls, all of them are friendly and active which is a main charateristic of karate classes.
The other reason is the strong karate excercises helps me take away stress and sorrow. I really feel relax, and forget all the bad things of life.
Inshort, i think that i have a right choice. Lerning karate not only help me have a strong health, a clairvoyant but also more active.