What is the difference between "standard of living" and "quality of life"?

Quality of life are factors that can be subjective and intangible such as equal protection of the law, freedom from discrimination, right to vote, free choice of employment ,etc. In addition, Quality of life can be things that we cannot buy with money such as rights, freedom and uniformity. On other hand, we have the standard of living which for some people is a priority because of the level of comfort, wealth, material goods and necessities that a certain socioeconomic class can have. However, comparing between standard of living and quality of life might depend on the life perspective that everyone could have or the way of thinking of each person.

                Quality of life is most important than standard of living because no matter what good material things one person can have, that person cannot buy a high quality of life. For example, when I used to live in my country Venezuela I had a good standard of living and also quality of live at the same time but I have been changing by the time. It means that in the past 5 years my country have had a low quality of life and also a low standard of living because of the government ideologies that it has been implemented in the country such as a higher inflation rate, high cost of goods and services and others. Moreover, Venezuela has a high deficit of freedom of movement, the right of privacy and the right to vote has been played by the government. In conclusion, Venezuela is a beautiful country where the standard of living is very low for people who don’t like the government and also the quality of life is extremely low because the rights and freedom have stolen by the government administration.

THESIS : Being complete honest and telling the thruth is not always the better option. 

I.       White lies are the best way to not hurt someone. 

             A. Not every time is suitable for the thruth.

             B. Sometimes, the way in which something is said overturn the reality. 

    II.     Differences between white lies, gray lies and black lies.

             A. A white lie may appear to protect another person from unnecessary pain and also our self integrity.

                               

            B. White lies can overturn to a black lie if this lie ended in more complication and more lying and more pain than we can ever expected.

CONCLUSION: we should know how and when use the truth or telling a white lie. 

Courtesy: Key to a Happier World

Thesis: Life’s difficulties would be minimized if people were more courteous to each other.

I. Basic ingredients of good manners

    A. Justice

    B. Courtesy

    C. Fair Play

II. Three ways to improve one’s manners

    A. Practice courtesy

        1. Concentrate on your performance in a specific area

        2. Don’t let others’ bad manners make you rude

    B.  To think in a courteous way

    C. Be able to accept courtesy

Conclusion. Politeness is the golden rule in action.

Do you think the message in Maugham's story is the same as or different from the message in the Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper? Explain.

I think that in Maugham's story is different from the message in the Aesop fable because in story of the Fable is trying to explain how important is to work and care about the future. Both characters are different point of view their own life so they are an example of what you can get or where you can be if you work hard for your future. Sometimes, we can enjoy our life doing anything that we like but we always need to think about the future. If somebody wants to have a good future, you need to work hard to obtain good results. However, in the story of the Maugham the Grasshopper ending in good conditions without work hard because of a stroke of luck and the ant never forgave the grasshopper because he was selfish at the end of the story. Even though the ant worked so hard, he didn't get the same results that the grasshopper ending with.

Questions 1-6 p62

     1. The social critics expect people to be dissatisfied with their friendships because of the high mobility so they do not have time to make friends.  

     2. The five qualities are loyalty, the ability to keep confidences,warmth,affection and supportiveness.
     3. The two most important reasons given for ending a friendship are feeling betrayed by a friend, and discovering that a friend had very different views on issues. Feeling betrayed by a friend makes more sense to me.
    4. The three most characteristic activities among friends in this survey are have an intimate talk, helping out a friend and turning to a friend for help. 
    5. Sharing your feeling with friends and the right to ask for help from friends.
Presenting Question #6

• Vicky and Jennifer

• What limits do the respondents put on friendship?Can you be good friends with someone and say no to him or her?

• The limits that the respondents put on friendship is no helping a friend to not commit a suicide. In our experience, viky and I think that if we have a good friend, we are going to say no if we think him or her is doing something wrong or bad.

2. What ended her new happiness?

What ended Esther happiness is her overhearing the conversation between Lawrence and Father Paul that Lawrence was going to up marrying Ida McIntosh, the Hudson’s Bay factor’s daughter. Father Paul convinced and explained to his nephew that he could not marry her because of her red skin and she is a pagan Indian, also due to the fact of the significant difference between both cultures.  Even though Father Paul knew that Esther was a good woman he couldn’t accept this union between the missionary’s nephew and a pagan Indian.

                After, Esther heard the whole conversation she became heart broken and started to think with repulsive anger and hatred towards Lawrence, Father Paul and the future engagement. She didn’t want the man she loved to be married to another woman, so as she tried to leave the house silently she found Lawrence sleeping on the couch as she looked upon him with such love. Thought’s of him marrying this other women angered her with such agony and then she began to think about killing him because if she couldn’t have him no one can. In her anger she pulled out a flint arrow that had snake venom on the arrows tip, she scratched Lawrence’s wrist twice and as he stirred she left the house silently. However, nobody could find who was responsible for Lawrence’s death even though she was suspected.

Esther’s happiness ended because she couldn’t handle the idea of being without her soul mate. As a result she ended killing the love of her life.

How accurate is the author's description of your birth order?:

   According to the article " How your Birth Order Influences your Life Adjustment" by Lucile K. Forer explains about how the birth order plays an important role in your life. Children take a determine place in the family group and this place is developed by older, middle, youngest and only child. In my family, there was 3 children and I used to be the youngest child for 15 years. After that time, I became the middle child which was a huge change and an impact in my life.

   In the beginning, being as the youngest child was a interesting part of my life because I always had the attention of my parents and my older siblings. I identify my self when Forer says about youngest child that "the youngest child tends to think, I am less able to do many things than other people" because I used to think like that due to the protection and help of my siblings gave to me, but after I became the middle child my concept of that totally changed. 

   In the part of "Relationship with parents", it explains about how the first child struggles to be parental and how parents change as a more relaxed with the others children. I definitely agree with this part of the article because my older sister always have to take care of us when my mom had to go to work. I always see her as my mother and my adviser. In other hand, my mother was so strict with my sister and she never permitted my sister to go out with her friends but as the time passed my mother changed and she became in certain point more relaxed and less tense with us. In addition, after my mom changed I enjoy many advantages than my older sister couldn't have. 

In conclusion, this article was really interesting for me and I agree with some of the points that it explains.I addition it accurate in my life. Being the older, middle of youngest child is not a easy role in the family and the birth order can affect our life.