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

What kind life are you seeking for? Is "standard of living" or "quality of life"? In my opinion, "standard of living" is seeking for material, work for money and save money. "Quality of life" is seeking for a health lifestyle, spend time to work and enjoy life with family and friends. I spend most of my life in China. I think people how to choose what kind life is depend on their age.

Most of people who born before 1980, they are more wants standard of living. Because when they were children, they had hard time in their life. So, they attach great importance to material. They work hard, and money is important for them. In addition, more young people are seeking for quality of life. Because since they came from this world, most of them are in a standard life. They have a easy childhood. They want to enjoy life that spend time to relaxed. And spend money for what they want.  

What ever what kinds of life you choose, just live in a life what you like and be happy.

Key to 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. Empathy

   C. To treat all people alike, regardless of all status or importance

II. Three ways to improve one’s manners

A. Practice courtesy

1.  Concentrate in a specific area for a week

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

B. To think in a courteous way

C. Be able to accept courtesy

The Ant and the Grasshopper

In Aesop fable's message tell a story grasshopper was lazy, idleness. He didn't think about the future. He only care about playing in the time. The ant was hardworking. He save food for winter in summer. So, when winter come, ants are safety and grasshopper is difficult to live. In Maugham's message tell a story about Tom and George, George was hardworking when he was young, but Tom just enjoy his life. However, when they get fifty, Tom get a rich woman's heritage. George is poor. Nowadays, working smart is more useful than working hard.

The Friendship Bond

1.Why did social critics expect people to be dissatisifed with their friendship? In what way were the critics' expectations wrong?

Because friedship is to enhance feelings of warmth, trust, love and affection between two people.

2.What five qualities did people say were most important to them in a friends? Would you list the same five qualities? In the same order?

The five qualities are:Loyalty, the ability to keep confidences, warmth, affection, supportiveness.

3.What are the two reasons given for ending  a friendship? Which of the two reasons makes more sense to you?

The two reasons are:Betrayed by a friend, and discovering that a friend had very different views on issues.
I think find betrayed make more sense to me. 

4.What three activities are most characteristic among friends in this survey?What role does trust play in these activities?

The three activities are:Had an intimate talk, helping out a friend and turning to a friend for help.

5.What two rules of friendship do the respondents mention? Do you follow the same rules with your friends?

One rule of friendship is that friends confide in each other, sharing intimate aspects of their personal lives and feelings. Another is the right to ask for help(presumably the obligation to help a friend is also implicitly acknowledged).
Yes, I follow the same rules with my friends.

6.What limits do the respondents put on friendship? Can you feel are important to the reading.

A friend should help another commit suicide if the friend wanted to but was too feeble to do it alone.

As It Was in the Beginning

Question Number 5.

I think that Esther really love Laurence. Laurence was a dream for Esther in her long lonely life. Laurence wanted close to her,make she happy. Esther was fall in love in his arm. He made her blood sweep to very fingertips. When they are together, she would forget any unhappy things. She only can see Laurence in her world.

     
Even if Father Paul broke her dream. Father Paul convinced Laurence not marry to Esther. Because the discrimination that Esther's mother is hopelessly uncivilized; her father has half-breed. I don't think Esther was love Father Paul. She didn't want live with Father Paul. And she wanted to kill Laurence to break Father Paul' heart. Father Paul deter Laurence to marry Esther. He wanted Laurence marry to the Hudson's Bay factor's daughter. Esther heard the conversation. She must be hate Father Paul.

However, Esther didn't stop love Laurence. After Laurence changed his mind and will marry with a "white". Esther was upset, she went to Laurence's room to kill him. But, when she look at Laurence, she lost. She can't stop loving him. She wanted to give Laurence a better life. She still love him.

Who seem to have the easiest lives

        Do you think you birth order whould give you a easiest lives? think the younger have a more relaxed life. But I think that the middle children have the easiest lives. Obviously, the oldest children have the most difficult lives. They are the first child in the family. Parents are pay more attention to them. And new parents need time to adjust the lifestyle with have a new family memmber. And the younger is last hope for parents, so I think the middle children is the easiest children to live.

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

The article " How your Birth Order Influences your Life Adjustment" by Lucile K. Forer talks about people's birth order could influences people's life. In each family, following the family members changed, children and adults will change their mind to adjust the lifestyle. And children in different position would have different relationship with parents. Also, different position will influences children's personality that become capable or dependently.   The author's description accurate of my birth order. The following is my reason.

He said "The older or oldest child's emphasis upon being 'parental' offers him both advantages and problems." I think my oldest brother is like that. He showed his power of oldest child. Then he leader me and my little brother to listening to him. If my parents are not there, we need to follow him. Otherwise, he protected us when we need him.

He said "The middle child comes to think of himself as sometimes better able to do things than other people because he is usually capable than his younger sibling or siblings." I'm the middle child. Sometimes I think about that I have able to help my little brother. Because he is smaller than me. I need to take care him. When I think about this, I would feel I'm independently. 

He said "The later children enjoy many advantage as a result of having more relaxed parents." Because parents had first child, they had experience about take care child. And each first time people pay more attention to doing things. The later child will be more free. I think my oldest brother is under stress. My parents is more strict with him. My little brother and me is more relaxed.  But I do not deny that is because we had done every thing well.