ITs What I Do

Samson Hsieh SIS junior’s life, not necessarily revolves so much around academics but actually a little bit of everything. He’s a very intelligent person and does quite well if he focuses on his minor goals, his interest is to basically have fun and go to school consistently to brighten his future in order to have more fun, friendly to all and a wonderful student as many teachers would say. He’s a person who shows great leadership skills and understanding, helping others and making many friends. As said he’s a brilliant guy who understands two languages fluently and continuously still improving, practicing most of times after school for one hour on Chinese, plus he’s also constantly improving translation skills into a more precise meaning. Being asked to help translate things by friends and sometimes unknown people he always accepts to show how great and nice of person he is. A person whom is born with such abilities and raised well will eventually become someone great and hopefully even written down in the history books. Many believes that they understand such a guy but deep down no one really knows what he’s truly capable of until something important comes up that actually acquire it, living on a island far away from advance civilizations still being able to follow up the knowledge and things that are going on in the society because he surfs the web plus watching tons of movies also helps massively to understand different culture and decisions people should make once having to make them.

Book Review - Hurt Locker (Samson Hsieh)

The Hurt Locker, modern day war film taking place in Iraq as Jeremy Renner portraying as Sergeant William James, a soldier whose profession is to disable bombs that are set up by enemy rebels throughout the country. Throughout the movie Jeremy acts if he does not care whether if he’s about to die and plays a very heroic and yet idiotic part, having a wife and son back home he continues do such things simply because it’s what he loves to do. He meets a boy selling DVDs and becomes quite close to him as the boy constantly scams him, knowingly he finds a bond with this boy. Eventually the boy ends up killed and stomach cut open with drugs placed inside of him, once finding out he loses control and decides to find his murder, ending up threatening the boy’s employer and forcing him to take him to the boy’s home. He was led to an unknown stranger’s home and was deeply upset knowing that he may not find the killer so he walks back to his camp and that was the end of that. Reaching the time in which they are suppose to be headed home, he returns to the states tries to enjoy the best he can and also sometimes having conversations about disabling bombs to his wife in which she completely ignores, feeling completely bored and not saving lives once again he returns to Iraq and risking his life all over again try to disable bombs. That is his what he loves to do and has no fear if that is his last remaining days on the planet, that is his life, his hobby.

After School Programs - Samson

Each year reaching graduation, many students has yet to fulfill their requirement for the CAS hour in order to graduate. It includes creative, action, and services, the school itself includes some after school programs but not very many. There is a limit in what a student can choose from, some students has joined other leagues or teams on island to fill in their time because they find no excitement in their after school activities, SIS two main after school activities are basketball and volleyball. Some students does not find these sports interesting and hopes to join something different for a change, soccer, baseball, or football is some sport that are mention by students. The school already has a small number people and is completely understandable that there may not be many afterschool activities because of that main reason but it should be considered that students should have a say in the matter. Students should be able to vote whether they would prefer a certain sport over the other but not being able to do so because like mention the number of people joining the sports is the problem. For a school that requires students to get and do certain things the school should have programs or clubs of some kind to help students fill out their CAS hours and save them the trouble of searching everywhere and driving to certain areas in a difficult time. Achieving the CAS hours is definitely going to appear well on a student transcript, but the problems are some of the requirements or things a student should do is difficult for them. An example would be creative; unlike sports students can just join a sport and get it over with. Students must do something different for a change which is difficult for some mainly because they’ve got other things to worry about at this time.

Movie Review – The Wolf man

Latest movie in theatres attracting many movie goers, the wolf man. Taking place in London, a monstrous creature with big claws thought to be a bear attacking civilians was actually the interesting mystery that is going to unravel soon enough. Unmasking the truth behind the creature was actually the main characters father, whom had knowingly killed his wife, son and faithful servant/caretaker during the full moon. His other son after discovering the truth to the creature who had bitten him was actually his father and was furious about the past on how his true birth caring father was behind every horrible lie and stuff that happened to him from the very beginning of his childhood, being captured and sent to the asylum to where people assumed he was actually a mad man who committed the murders and not a mythical creature who appears to be monster in the full man, tied to the chair and waited till the full moon risen. The monster was unleashed after the warning he gave that the audience was in grave danger, “ill will kill all of you!” he stated and changed to his monstrous form. Soon killing the doctor that treated him like garbage attacked the audience and escaped. Chasing after him a detective was shocked by the truth and was dedicated to bring him down, knowing he had loved his dead brothers wife, while visiting her warned her about the beast within and how it may take control. Ending with such sorrow, he finally took his father down and was killed by the woman he had loved. what people don’t know is that the deductive was bitten and will now become the next heir to the monstrous curse.

Song Review - Tik Tok

The latest popular song on the island of Saipan and throughout the States, “Tik Tok” sang by Keesha is now playing on radio, pool bars everywhere and is ranked as the ten top most downloaded songs on the internet. Sang with a very beautiful voice, not too loud or too soft with fantastic background music. The song gives off a certain form of energy giving people the ability to party or wake people off from a state of boredom, unleashing an unbelievable feeling to the audience. The song’s about partying anyways, basically for party goers; billboard is Americas top most listened to songs site with Tik Tok ranked as 3rd behind one of Michael Jackson’s songs. Popular music video as well, pumping out the youngsters nowadays. Although the author/singer is not quite famous but she is working her popularity up with this song, still to this very moment it is being listened around the world including Saipan which apparently is still considered the most popular song still. Not many realize but the lyrics does indeed have its meaning, a girl who wants to party and time is short not wasting our youth is the most important thing as of right now to young people, sharing what she has to say through her song is an incredible way of communication if people listens to them carefully. A wonderful song guaranteed that the majority who at least give it a shot would like it or at least appreciate what this teen has to say.

Book Review Wuthering Heights

A classic romantic novel in which an adopted boy falls in love with his step sister, the never ending love in which they share was then interrupted by the choice she made later on in her life. Catherine and Heathcliff the main characters, were never afraid to express and show their love until she decided to abandon Heathcliff comes the inevitable future of disaster, resulting both Heathcliff and Catherine’s death. The novel is considered one of the best novel’s from the 1800s written by Emily Bronte, one of the famous Bronte sisters. Guiding readers through the feeling and hatred of those who mistreated Heathcliff, bearing the pain and hate for so long was finally then unleashed upon Catherine to seek revenge for what she had done to him.
Not completely understanding the situation, both characters remain a love spot for each other but no longer expressing it. As readers may come to realize that Heathcliff is not such a bad person after all instead a person who is unable to go on bearing the pain that he had kept in all those years, the day he had entered Wuthering Heights he was considered family until the death of the adoptive father. Mistreated from then on, he became the house servant.
As time passes he now has possession of Wuthering Heights and the love of his life had passed giving birth, the loneliness he now carries haunts him and for what he had done, expressing his anger towards Catherine’s daughter whom reminds him of the past because of her spinning image of her mother. Praying one day Catherine’s ghost will seek revenge; Heathcliff waited eighteen years until she finally came. Now they are able to spend an eternity together happily.

Junior Statesmen Program Article by Samson Hsieh

Summer break approaching, some students should and may consider the junior statesmen program. Junior statesmen program offers a chance for students to encounter or experience the college life before they actually enters one, usually takes place around top colleges for example Yale, Stanford, or Harvard. Although it could be school related it offers many opportunities for students to interact with one another and get to know the region better. Such programs are useful for students in order to get them to apply there or just to make them understand the place a little better of course benefiting the school. Price is nonnegotiable and is way high, not including the air fare covering the shelter and food for a certain period of time the longer the stay the longer the price. The program includes junior statesmen summer school and institute, main point of the junior statesmen is to acquire leadership skills and knowledge to be good citizens and making the right decisions as voters. The program itself is both local and national organized by the states, since the discovery of JSA by Professor E.A Rogers in 1934 there has been 500,000 members including Mike McCurry and Charles Schwab. “I don’t know if im going, im going to visit my parents in Guam and I don’t know but maybe, if it’s not that expensive I might. I think Mr. Tessen made it too interesting.” State James Kim from the junior class. Not many junior from school are absolutely positive in joining the junior statesmen program but it could be a once in a lifetime opportunity and gives great benefit for students deciding a place that they might want to go to college. the main problem is that the distance between the CNMI and the States is way too far otherwise some people and mainly parents might decide whether he/she and their children should join the program.

Choice of Location of Choosing Colleges or Universities

Majority of students love places that are suitable for their lifestyle and comfortable to live in, weathers and temperature plays a very important role in this matter. People tend to choose the state of California to live in because of its nice warm temperature and beautiful beaches with a good of amount of sunshine. Places like the north tend to be less populated but for a person who does like the freezing temperature it is probably more suitable for them to go to a school that is located somewhere cool. As statistics have shown California’s population is having a significant increase of population, “I like it where it’s cool you know, like places with no tornadoes or lightning storms and stuff like that. I don’t like it too hot either.” Said Michael Stuart from the senior class. A place that has all seasons is probably the best for most people because the weather seems to be balanced plus it makes people experience winter and summer not just one season all the time like Saipan. People like to experience cold weathers temporary, basically a time when specific season starts. More than half of the senior class like places that has all seasons and not a place that is continuously hot, a good amount of the junior class also plans on going somewhere that contains good weather and most importantly safety. “I don’t want to live in a place that constantly has drive by shooting and street thugs that are ready to mug you any time.” Says James Kim from the junior class. Most important things to look for in a good school are its surrounding and environment that best suits the person that are planning on going there especially if they are going to live and work there for the next four years.