The Blog of Elaine Wang

24 March 2015 Man, so my mom is yelling about stupid shit again. Like why do I even bother posting things about her anymore; she's almost always crazy anyway. A girl came over to my house the other day for a cooking project, and she said my mom was nice. I couldn't help but feel weird inside. I mean, I guess she isn't...

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18 March 2015 Please gtfo MV. Just stop. I know it's probably not completely their fault, but I'm just angry. I tried so damn hard to get a Chinese AP exam seat at some other school because my stupid ass school apparently can't do shit. And today I was declined from the Palo Alto waitlist and will be stuck doing the test next...

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16 March 2015 So my mom was yelling at me about random bullshit again. I'm literally just done with her shit. I don't even care anymore 'cause she's crazy (but obviously I actually still do because I'm human and she's my mom). A few days ago I was reading El Estoque (my school's monthly magazine), and one of the articles mentioned someone called...

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8 December 2014 The Industrialized City of Lagos Many of those who live in the industrialized city of Lagos face a common problem: money. It seems strange that, as areas become more industrialized, the more impoverish they become. Although that appears counterintuitive, it makes more sense when one reasons the tendency people have to drift towards industrialized areas. They go looking for opportunity,...

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In Paths of Glory, Kubrick illustrates the absurdity in the idea that higher up individuals are allowed to dictate unavoidable orders because they know their rank will protect them; this negligent attitude prompts them to make unjust decisions that do not affect them. The more prominent figures Kubrick uses in his film to exemplify this idea are General Mireau and the court. Mireau...

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1 March 2015 My mom is going crazy again. Well not really again, she's always crazy these days. She was looking at old letters she wrote to my dad back in the day. Suddenly, she yelled, "They know cho bo zhang's name because they read my letters!" She is saying how this lady relative person look her letters and read them all because...

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