The passage "Breaking Through Uncertainty-Welcoming Adversity" by Jim McCormick is talking about the life experience of parachuting, and the passage "Neighbours" by Lien Chao is talking about the new life experience of the writer live in Canada, and the conflict between she and her neighbours. The greater benefits dereived from taking risks of this two passage is "Neighbours" by Lien Chao.
In the passage "Neighbours", the writer is talking about Sally's new life in Canada. With her Chinese habits, she and her neighbours had some conflitcts on each other. Sally want to become a Canadian one day, but the most important thing she need to do is learn the Canadian culture. In the passage, she try to act the way how Britain speak, "Sally puts on a mock British accent", when she anwser to Joe for some English tea, but they all laughed. Sally was a single mother, that make her life become very tough. Slowly, she told everything to the old couples, because they help her a lot, and she believe that people are kind. The benefit she derived from taking risk to live in Canada can be cmopare to her friends, "George ask people if they pass Hollywood, Dave still has his hotdog cart, but Sally smiles broadly at her neighbours". She got her …show more content…
Parachuting is the risk he take in his life, there are some accident happen when people are parachuting, the parachute had problem that led the parachute can not open as normal. The speaker had already experience skydive for fifteen years, and this was his 2123rd jump. This time he has a serious problem, he was above his parachute and it led him spinning in a high speed toward the land. He can not solve this problem by himself, but fortunately, ingrained traingning took over and he pulled them out in the correct order. The benefit he derive from this risk is realising the importance of professional knowledge, this save his life in the last
In the passage "Neighbours", the writer is talking about Sally's new life in Canada. With her Chinese habits, she and her neighbours had some conflitcts on each other. Sally want to become a Canadian one day, but the most important thing she need to do is learn the Canadian culture. In the passage, she try to act the way how Britain speak, "Sally puts on a mock British accent", when she anwser to Joe for some English tea, but they all laughed. Sally was a single mother, that make her life become very tough. Slowly, she told everything to the old couples, because they help her a lot, and she believe that people are kind. The benefit she derived from taking risk to live in Canada can be cmopare to her friends, "George ask people if they pass Hollywood, Dave still has his hotdog cart, but Sally smiles broadly at her neighbours". She got her …show more content…
Parachuting is the risk he take in his life, there are some accident happen when people are parachuting, the parachute had problem that led the parachute can not open as normal. The speaker had already experience skydive for fifteen years, and this was his 2123rd jump. This time he has a serious problem, he was above his parachute and it led him spinning in a high speed toward the land. He can not solve this problem by himself, but fortunately, ingrained traingning took over and he pulled them out in the correct order. The benefit he derive from this risk is realising the importance of professional knowledge, this save his life in the last