https://padlet.com/kylewoo221/o8kjmviirq58 YERM en-us 2019-03-19 17:26:30 UTC 2019-04-29 02:32:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rafaelo.png kylewoo221 https://padlet.com/kylewoo221/o8kjmviirq58/wish/343001495 2) My parents are lenient on this topic, however I know in their mind they want me following their footsteps. I believe in some ways parents putting pressure on their children to be like them is good and bad. I think it’s good because it motivates them to achieve something and life and have a future goal for what they might do when they are older. However, I think it’s also bad because putting too much pressure to be like them could put a lot of stress on them to strive to become just like their parents. All in all, I think it’s good for parents to put some pressure for their kids to strive for greatness and achieve their goal while being happy at the same, but also lay back just a little bit so they have fun with it and keep loving what they do. 
3) My role model is my dad. My dad grew up in a not so fortunate household in South Korea with very little money. Also, being the youngest of 5 siblings he went through struggles, but on his own he moved to America with very few things looking for a new adventure to start a life in America. He is now a top manager at a very successful company in Silicon Valley, something he could have never imagined being. My dad is my role model because he gives me advice and care through everything I do, from homework to sports. He influences me because the amount of knowledge that he gives me is incredible. He has taught me many things that I can use to be a better person, friend, and future dad. As I’m growing older, he is still teaching me the ways of life and things that I would have never known without him. ]]> 2019-03-19 17:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kylewoo221/o8kjmviirq58/wish/343001495 kylewoo221 https://padlet.com/kylewoo221/o8kjmviirq58/wish/344873815 “All one can really leav e one’s children is what’s inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.” Parents can only give their children so much knowledge and education. I believe that giving your children materialistic items won’t give our children any knowledge on how to be successful in life. Education is the only thing that can’t be taken out of someone’s head. What Braun is trying to explain in this quote is that giving children education can’t be taken away and will help children throughout their lives, where materialistic possessions won’t help your child. 
"All I’ve done is give you a book. You have to have the courage to learn what’s inside it.” Miss Freida is trying to say that when learning you must have the courage to take advantage of what is given to you like education opportunities. Education can be found from anything, even reading a book yourself instead of someone else reading to you will help you abstain the “courage” to go deeper in to what the book means. I also think it hints at in life in general, if an opportunity is given to you, use it to an advantage and not hold back. ]]> 2019-03-25 15:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kylewoo221/o8kjmviirq58/wish/344873815 kylewoo221 https://padlet.com/kylewoo221/o8kjmviirq58/wish/354864485 In the memoir, Sonny has mixed relationships depending on the family member. First of all, Elsie, his mother, is the closest and most encouraging to Sonny because she is the only one who believes in his ability to build a successful rocket. This is because Elsie hates Coalwood and stresses that he must get out of the dusty and old town due to its lack of successful jobs and careers. Throughout the memoir she states,”You’ve got to get out of Coalwood, Sonny”(Hickam 43). This quote shows the feeling that Coalwood was just not a good place to live in because there was only miners and nothing else. Unfortunately, Sonny’s dad, Homer Hickam Sr., had to face the unbearable reality of becoming a miner. The relationship between Homer and Sonny, however, is nothing close to his mother’s. They have a stereotypical children to parent “love-hate” relationship. As everyone is aware that Homer cares about Sonny, he doesn’t show it as well as he should. Homer constantly yelling at Sonny to quit building rockets because of all the failures that he had in Coalwood. This impacts the relationship of Homer and Elsie too because Homer wants Sonny to become a miner and Elsie despises that and says that he should become anything but a miner. One time when he got really mad “he called me out into the yard...and then watched as he poured everything into the creek” (Hickam 95). After a failed rocket had gone into the town, Homer became so furious that he had poured all the materials used by the BCMA into the creek. Sonny makes a difference in both Homer and Elsie’s life in positive and negative ways.]]> 2019-04-29 02:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kylewoo221/o8kjmviirq58/wish/354864485