Folk Songs about Revolution

The song I chose was "The Liberty Song." 
This song is about American revolution. The lyrics are about telling people to fight for their freedom. It is saying that all men should born free and live free. The song is basically to urge people to stand for their freedom. 
Here are the lyrics from the song:
In Freedom we're born and in Freedom we'll live.
Our purses are ready. Steady, friends, steady;
Not as slaves, but as Freemen our money we'll give.
From those lyrics up here, we can know that the song is about freedom and wanting people to fight for freedom

Duty or Friendship?

Which one is worse: betraying one's duty or betraying one's friendship? 
I think betraying one's friendship is worse than betraying one's duty. One's duty is more like a personally thing or issue. If one betray it, it is only him that need to face the consequences. If  one betray his friendship, not only him, but his friend will be depress and sad. He does not only create problems for himself but also his friends and people around him. It is easier to make up what you need to do, like try harder next time or make it up by doing something else. But once you betray your friend, it is very hard to be friends again. There is a quote "Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks" which basically means that it is impossible to be the kind of friends before once one had betray the other.

Under Pressure

Some people need pressure and stress in order to improve or perform well. The best why to improve is to compete, so that people can see where is the weakness park, and work harder on it. Before I came to International school, I had been learning English since grade one, but my English still sucks. I had tutor every week, but I my English level stayed the same for four years, because I don't know why I need to learn English and I have know pressure. Until I came to  HIS, I realized how bad my English was, and I started to work hard. Because of pressure and stress, my English started to improve. One other reason was that I don't want to be left out. I want to be the same as others, so that was why I worked hard. This is basically why people perform well when facing heart-pounding fear. 

Vengeance

Many movies and books are about revenge. "Murder on the Orient Express," is a famous mystery book by Agatha Christie, which is also about revenge. The story was about a man got stabbed twelve times and bleed to death. The ending was very surprising. The man was actually got stabbed by twelve people, because they wanted to revenge. The man was a cold blood murderer. He once kidnapped a girl to exchange for money. But after he got the money, he still kills the little girl. Which also embroil many other people, like the nanny, who killed herself because of guiltiness; the mate who also died because she got suspected by the police. Because of this tragedy, all the victims friends and family gathered up and planned this murder. The main reason of why people want to revenge is because they want the other people to feel the same pain too. 

The Grass Is Always greener On The Other Side

"The grass is always greener on the other side," this is an expression which basically means that people tend to look at others' lives and think that others' are better, until they actually feel the negative things. I think this is true, at least for me. When I was young I used to be jealous at my sister all the time, and thinking that it is unfair why this is this, that is that. My parents tried to treat us equally, but there were somethings that just can't be equal. For example, I remembered that when I was about five years old, my grandmother gave me a penguin doll and my sister a teddy bear. When I looked at my sister's teddy bear, I was jealous, because I wanted the teddy bear too. I started to complain that It was not fair why i got a penguin, but she go a teddy bear. 
Even though I know that I would still complain if I got the teddy bear instead of the penguin, because I always think the my sister's things are better than mine. This is how people look at others lives, other people's lives are always better than ours.