Rena & Rena

                                           Rena & Rena

     
                  Rena and Rena were arch-rivals ever since their first day of kindergarten. Their first ever conflict was when they fought about their name, who was the better Rena, and ever since then, all their arguments are for the purpose of proving who's the greater Rena. One day, they were training for rugby and like every other day, one of them would start an argument. Rena was running on the treadmill when she saw Rena pass behind her, she challenged Rena by saying.

 "I bet you can't lift those weights over there" And Rena with the ever-lasting crave for Rena's defeat, she said "watch me" with courage in her voice as she walks over to the weights, preparing to prove her nemesis wrong. 

She grabs two weights, one for each hand, she gripped on them tightly then proceeded to lift them up alternating with her left and right arm. Rena did about 20 reps on each side, grinning at Rena the whole time for she knew she had proven her rival wrong. For as long as history can tell, the score between them is around 500-501. As for the next day, we don't know what kind of conflict is gonna happen between them. 

               

Love In My Life by Karen Warn


I married a man too early in life
and wasn't prepared to be a good wife.
I believed he loved me and things would be fine.
My love for him would grow over time.  

The years passing by were good for awhile.
Then came a time I could not see my smile.
He cheated on me and I deserved more.
With a heavy heart I went out the door.

We parted as "friends", which ended one day.
With a baby conceived he went on his way.
He now liked his freedom away from me.
I carried our son -- he didn't want to see.

Soon after another cared about me; 
I ignored the things I didn't want to see.
I married that man -- I thought it'd be best.
But soon after that, he was failing the test.

Driven by fear, I mistakenly thought
A son of "his own" was thing that he sought
I now had a toddler and one on the way;
there was no doubt, I now had to stay.

Things started to spiral out of control.
The alcohol had a firm grip on his soul.
Choosing to leave to protect us all;
I was forced this time to really stand tall.

Now on my own with two children to raise
I examine my life in so many ways. 
My relationships failed, for that I am sad;
but the result of those could never be bad.

Now long gone are those men from my past
replaced by a "true" love that forever will last.
My love for my sons, my two little boys, 
erase all my pains and reveal only my joys.


Answer #1) This poem depicted courage because even though she was heartbroken two times, left alone as a single parent, she didn't give up and stayed strong for her children. 

Answer #2) Throughout the story, I felt sad for the woman as her relationships failed but felt relieved that in the end she stood strong and forgot about her past and focused on the present with her kids.

Answer #3) The author symbolised relationships, its meaning was if something like a relationship doesn't work out, it's very courageous if you stand strong and move on from it and forget about what happened.

Answer #4) Yes, its a great example of courage, because if she wasn't courageous, she would've been a bad parent to her kids or her kids won't feel like they even have a parent.

I got 99 problems but my SWAG ain't one.

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Pardon my SWAG

Do you know what's really swag? COURAGE. According to Merriam Webster dictionary, courage means: mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficult. 

My definition of courage is wanting to be something and believing that you can be that something. Never giving up and working hard to be where you want to be, what you want to be. No matter how hard it gets.

This picture shows courage for me because the boy wants to be a superhero, and save civilians. Putting other people's safety before his self, shows that he is courageous because even though his life will be at risk, he's willing to risk it just to save those civilians.

This picture depicts courage for me because he dyed his hair green because he just simply wants to despite knowing that some people will judge him because green hair is uncommon. This is also courageous because he's standing strong with his desires and not caring about what other people say.

This last picture shows courage for me because the little girl wants to be a boxer even though she knows that people will judge her because she's a girl saying "Girl's don't fight. etc" But she's still going to work hard to be what she want to be and do what she want to do. And i think that's a great example of courage. 

SWAG - Something we asians GOT

I was born with SWAG