What life lessons have Michelle's parents taught her and how she used them?

    Reading Michelle Obama’s biography, one can see how her parents and their parenting style influenced her life. She learned from her parents to work hard, laugh things off, think for herself and use her voice; she used these lessons to learn to play the piano, graduate from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and stand up for herself when she was as a student and an employee.

    Michelle learned from her parents to work hard. When she was about four years old, she decided she wanted to learn piano. She didn’t have the piano and she practiced downstairs on Robbie’s upright piano waiting until nobody else was having a lesson. Practicing a lot she realized correlation between how long she she practiced and how much she achieved (page 11). When Michelle was a freshman at Princeton University she signed up for a 300-level theology class and to have a good grade she pulled out all the stops on her final paper (page 78).

    Her father taught her to laugh often and she mentioned an instance when she was the First Lady and the US Congressman made fun of her ass and she tried to laugh it off. She smiled when she heard that someone questioned about her on the Internet, right down to whether she is a woman or a man.(preface page 10).

    Michelle mentioned several life episodes where she needed to stand up for herself. One of them was when she faced a problem with a girl named DeeDee and decided to earn her respect using power. She said: "I summoned everything my dad has taught me about how to throw a punch" (page 24).

    Her parents emphasized the importance of using proper diction and helped her and her brother by buying a dictionary and a full Encyclopedia Britannica set (page 40). They talked to her like she was an adult, offering guidelines rather than rules. They listened to her issues but never made a decision for her. They trusted her and she learned to stick to her word (page25). All of that helped her to think for herself. She was not afraid to use her voice in the high school and proved a college counselor wrong that she got accepted into Princeton. While there, trusting herself helped her stay on track and earn the best grades (page 79).

    Her parents gave her a really good foundation for her future. They treated her with consistent unconditional love and acceptance. This helped her develop a confident personality. She then was able to work hard and achieve her goals.

My first experience learning English

My first experience learning English

My first experience learning English was when I was in fifth grade. I remember myself sitting in a small group of my classmates when our new teacher introduced herself. She was an old woman with serious expression on her face but after she began a lesson all her seriousness disappeared.  She showed us the pictures of animals and different things pronuouncing them in English. I was curious to hear new sounds and words and repeated all the time after her. We learned the English alphabet and how to pronounce all English sounds. We played different games in the class using English words

and started making short sentences in English. I liked spending time in that class, because we had a lot of fun and friendly atmosphere. None of us thought why we learn English, we just enjoyed the process of it, and I think this is the most important part of learning, especially in childhood. Our first English teacher was able to implement this.

Telegram was blocked in Russia

     On April 16th, the Russian telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor began blocking Telegram, an encrypted messaging app. This app was created by Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov and has more than 200 million users worldwide. After Telegram developers refused to turn over encryption keys for their users data to the Russian Federal Security service, the court banned the app. 
    Telegram is as simply WhatsApp without any of data sharing with Facebook. But Telegram is not only one-on-one communications it has also a lot of different channels and chats which are more popular for app’s users.  And it’s not about the app which can be used for terrorist propaganda and to organize terrorist acts, it’s more about the channels  that deliver current news and analysis anonymously which the government can't control.     
Russia is among the other countries such as China that use "digital firewall" by blocking certain online content. This ban affected  Google, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and  many Russian businesses which confirms some of their services are blocked in Russia over the Telegram ban.  Russian people refused the ban and turned to VPNs to access Telegram channels. People use this app not only because they like privacy, but Telegram is very simple, fast, and has a nice UI.  Banning Telegram is also threatening other similar platforms that protect communications such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and limits human rights.

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