Reflection on my Timeline

When I went to Santa Barbara during the Thanksgiving weekend, it was a rather neat experience because I was not only able to have fun, but I was also able to find someone to interview for my project.  While visiting my friend's family for dinner on Thanksgiving day I was able to sit down with his grandfather and discuss with him his past lifetime experiences.  During my talk with him I was amazed on how much he would open up to me and he told me many things.  From how he came here to America from his birthplace in Mexico, all the way up until his success of now having a wonderful family and great life.  I felt like I was so comfortable talking with him at dinner time that, it was like I was one of his grandsons because he was able to tell me so much about his life and I thought that, that was just so amazing.  Me being from Hawaii we do not really have that many people of the Mexican decent, and for me to actually have a chat with a person who is actually from Mexico was a really cool experience.  After the talk that we had I knew that the story that I was going to write about him was just going to be so special, not only because of the neat detail, but also because of the emotion that you can feel from it.  This experience was just so humbling to me because it made me realize that you can always turn your life around with any situation, you just have to try hard and believe.

The Golden Age of China

China finally started to become a unified place, where everyone started to come together as one, and not be so spread out.  The Chinese's Empire was strong one, that was starting to look real promising, and maybe even great because they were not making the same mistakes that the Romans did.  The dynasty that was formed in China was formed under the Sui Dynasty who's emperors solidified the vast extension of the country's canal system.  China was becoming a very vast country because they had so much land to go over, they were now starting to migrate southward and claim those free lands for themselves.  In the "Golden Age" it was not all that bright for the women involved because the woman had to physically  hurt themselves, in order to keep up with the beauty standards, which were not even their choices.  For example they would have to smash their toes and break their bones in order to fit into a different size of shoe.  This was seen as beauty back in the day by the Chinese, so the women had to do it.  Many women died because of the feet crushing, they were prone to infection and disease which lead to many women casualties. So as you can see the "Golden Age" was not all that golden for the many women that lived during that time in China.