"When Greed Gives Way to Giving"

            The article “When Greed Gives Way to Giving” By Ana Veciana-Suarez was about a 67 year-old man named Bob Thompson who sold his road-building company for $422 million. Instead of spending it on himself, he decided to share his wealth with his 550 workers.

            This article caught my attention because I am surprised someone would share that kind of money. You have to have a big heart to do that for people. In today’s society you rarely id ever hear about someone doing that for their employees. I envy Thompson because of his generosity. I am a very generous person myself but I don’t think I would share my wealth. I am upset with myself for saying that because I love helping people in their time of need. But when it comes to working and saving money, in today’s economy being so bad, you need to keep and save every penny you have to make a living. When it comes down to it I will go out of my way to help people and to make people happy. I am a strong believer in karma and I think that’s where my generosity comes from. I feel that id you help people and are nice to people, in the long run it will help you. Also, while in the process of being generous you walk away feeling good about yourself.

            I agree with Veciana-Suarez when she says “He seems to have mastered what many of us have yet to understand.” Thompson is a very generous man and I think if more people practiced generosity a little more the world would be such a better place.   

"A Risk Free Life"

            In the article “A Risk Free Life” by Leonard Pitts is about a woman getting her unborn child tested for Alzheimer’s. She is worried because it runs in the family. Also, Pitts talks about how in the future you’ll be able to use a check list to pretty much build your child from skin color, hair color, eye color, to height, and weight.

            This article really caught my attention. I love psychology and people’s opinions about the subject are quite interesting. Personally I believe there will be a technique to choose eye and hair color. But as for using a check list to build your child in impossible. From studying psychology I have learned that you can not choose what your child looks like, the 23^rd chromosome of the father chooses the gender. And what ever the mother and father’s genotype and phenotype are chooses what dominant and recessive gene the child will have. The child is supposed to resemble the mother and father that’s why they call it an offspring. If people have the ability to assemble their child that defeats the purpose. Pitts has some pretty interesting ideas about the future, but I highly doubt we will get that technical.

            If Pitts is correct about future technology I would choose not to do it. I would want my child to represent my husband and I naturally rather than how we want them to look. Also, I am all for getting my unborn child tested for genetic diseases. A lot of heart issues are in my family and it seems that a type of mental illness skips a generation. And I would like to know before hand so if my child is positive for any disease my husband and I are mentally and physically prepared for what we have in store for us.

"Good Grammar Get the Girl"

In the article “Good Grammar Gets the Girl” by Elissa Englund tells about how using proper grammar gives you a better chance at life. Just like in the story Englund tells about a dating site she’s on and how she meets a guy that goes by the name Craig. He seems like a sweet guy but all his grammar errors turn her off. And Englund deletes him from her contact list.

I think this is a little too harsh. Even though everyone should use proper grammar, there are also simple mistakes people make. I don’t agree with Englund about deleting people from contact lists, or shutting them out of your life completely because of grammar errors. I make a lot of grammar errors myself, but that doesn’t make me a dumb person at all. You should be interested in someone not just by their writing skills, but how sweet and caring a person is.

If I was Englund I would have gave Craig a chance. He seems like a really nice guy. He graduated college and has a full-time job. Even though his grammar was way off, he doesn’t come off as a dumb person. He is probably a really smart guy, just his writing needs some help.

"Only Daughter"

            The article “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros is about Sandra being an only daughter in a family of nine. Her father believes girls go to college to find a husband. When Sandra graduates college, and is still husbandless her father is disappointed. Sandra proceeds in writing books and after getting them published, she lets her dad read one and he is very proud of her accomplishments.

            Even though different cultures look at situations differently, I think it was wrong for Sandra’s father to be disappointed with all her accomplishments because she did not have a husband. Sandra was very successful in school and she was passionate about writing.           

            If I had a daughter like Sandra I would be so proud of all her accomplishments even if she was not married yet. The most important thing to me would be how successful my daughter is and that she will be going far in life.