Chinese New Year

Some countries in the world such as Thailand have two times of New Year. First time is New Year festival in the last day of last month of every year. These festivals most of people in the world was known it and has a different style celebrate in this festival. Second tome is Chinese New Year festival. This festival will be known only in China and in country that has Chinese people in there. Chinese tradition was known in much country because present human was received from their ancestor.
In Chinese New Year festival Chinese people or foreigner that their ancestor was Chinese people will respect their ancestor and a goddess. They will respect by 3 kinds of food such as pork, duck, chicken, fish, and octopus etc. And 5 kinds of fruit such as banana, orange, grape, mango, and apple etc. They respect their ancestor and a goddess because they believe that their ancestor and a goddess will protect them from bad things. And they will have a better live. In this festival a cousin has a meeting to enjoy together and have some delicious food same a small party. An adult will give money to children because it is Chinese tradition. And somebody gave money or presents to a police because they know that a police was very tired to do their duty. And they should to receive something for a reward of their duty.
In Thailand every year we have a Chinese New Year celebrate at “China Town Thailand” or we know it in name “Yao Wa Ratch”. Because “Yao Wa Ratch” is a biggest place that has Chinese people in there. “ Yao Wa Ratch” is a place that has everything about Chinese in there. And my family business was in “Yao Wa Racht” too. Usually every year “Yao Wa Racht” has a big ceremony about Chinese New Year festival. But this year “Yao Wa Racht” does not has a ceremony about Chinese New Year because the princess of Thailand was died on 2 January 2008. She was died because she has a cancer. She is an older sister of King of Thailand. So Thailand government has an order to cancel a party for100 days to respect her. Thai people love her very much because she does a lot of things for every class of Thai people.
A day before Chinese New Year day is a pay day. In today people will buy everything for next day for respect their ancestor and a goddess. A day after Chinese New Year day an adult will give money for their children, nephew, and niece. We know it in name “Ang Pao” They will put money in a red case or pink case. Because they believe that red color or pink color is a lucky color.
Chinese New Year was very popular in Thailand. Because in Thailand has a lot of Chinese people. Chinese people were stayed in the most of states in Thailand.

The story of Matrix

To be told what you know will build up a boundary what you think you know. In both the Allegory of the Cave and The Matrix people were told by “enlightened” ones what the truth is about life. Although the subjects found it hard to believe them one day would find out that the truth isn’t just what they know, but it is what they will learn. In this essay I will compare the story The Allegory of the Cave, and the movie The Matrix.The movie

The Matrix shows how people think they are in a reality but when tough that they are not they are a big freaked out. In the movie Neo is told to meet with Morphius “the educated one” to discuss something important. Later on Neo has to make a choice to pick one of two pills. One pill will erase all memory of them meeting and he will go back to his “normal” life. The other pill with introduce him to what life is really like. In other words it was almost like he was in a dream and he would be awaken. Neo Picks the pill which will show him the truth and he is awaken but in much pain. This resembles the “Light” which will be discussed later. After being awoken Neo is told about how robots are controlling people for energy and how he is the one who must learn to bring down the machines and set people free. Neo doesn’t believe anything because he had been in such a false living for so long it is hard what to believe. After enough time and learning Neo ends up learning that he is the one and helps the human race defeat the machines.

In the story Allegory of the Cave the people are held in a cave and are shown shadows on a cave wall. The people are supposed to be able to think out what these “character” are and put names to these shapes. After a while the tough people who are holding the others to teach them take one person outside and shown the objects that were posted on the wall. On his way up to the surface too see these objects the person will see the sun for the first time so the journey is hard and steep. This shows that Education is not easy. After the “educated” person learns about these objects he is suppose to go teach the people who are still in the cave. Unfortunately when this “educated” person tries to explain about the shapes no one will believe him/her. This is because all they have ever known is right before them being projected on the cave wall. This shows that when people are in there comfort zone they don’t want to leave it. This is the same way in the Matrix. When Morphius tries to tell Neo and he docent believe him it is the same thing as the educated person trying to tell the non-educated people about the shapes.

The truth for what we learn can be very hard. In both The Matrix and the Allegory of the Cave, the characters are held in a false reality. All characters had a certain belief or comfort zone that they did not want to leave. This shows that even thought you think about something really in debt the way you may be living just not might be “real”. This is something that both Characters had to think about in Allegory of the Cave and the Matrix.