What does "in spite of" means and how to use it? Thank you for your answers.

Do you believe in horoscope or astrologers? For me, horoscope is a thing that I enjoy reading it with my friends when I was at a university or with my coworkers when we take a lunch break. It seems that we have a topic to talk with each other, and get laugh together when something that the horoscope tells us is like a joke or a fool story. Most Thai people believe in it, and tend to go to see an astrologer to get the predictions about the future. Even when they have the important situations or events; they will pay money for the astrologer, then the astrologer will give a good date or any suggestions to them. For instance, if you were Thai and you want to get marriage, your parents will bring yours and your girlfriend/boyfriend's birthdate to the astrologer to predict if you and your lover would be a good couple or not. If the answer is yes, you are lucky. After that, he/she will give you an appropriate date to set the wedding ceremony. My opinion, the astrologers are charlatans. It is nonsense to consult the astrologer about your future. You can believe but it should not more than 30%. Your future will be indicated by your actions!

Is it a passive form? "We will be finished paying off the business in two years." Is this above sentence passive form? If the answer is yes, why they use the passive in this sentence? Anybody, please help me to clear my doubt. Thank you. :)

Doing homework for getting more understanding Honestly, sometimes I was lazy to do homework, but it is one of particular ways that can help me to achieve my goals. So I had to get rid of my laziness and then come up with these new vocabulary. Distraught (adj.) -> extremely anxious or upset - She was distraught after she found that her child got lost. - It is never easy to do a break up with someone you are on dating for long run. You must be distraught for few weeks or several months. Keep it in your deep memory and move on. - When you are distraught; the way that may help you to get rid of is changing your attitude from negative to be positive. - Distraught people lead to depression symptoms such as feel sad, hopeless, insomnia, lose interest in things that you used to enjoy or love, lose appetite, and etc. - Distraught mother won't allow her daughter to go out after 6 P.M. Fraudulent (adj.) -> intended to deceive people - Fraudulent bank notes were widespread in Thailand last year. Some customers threw a fit at my pharmacy after they knew that they got a fraudulent bank note from somewhere. - Criminals always give fraudulent claims and avoid telling the truth to distract police to the fake stories that they made. - I was surprised that I saw lots of fraudulent Viagra and Cialis at street vendors in Thailand. After that, the company sent me a paper that told us how to prove to be fraudulent. - Do not give someone any fraudulent promises or crocodile tears or cry wolf! You won't get trust from anybody. - Some illegal immigrants make fraudulent passports and other documents. To haul (verb) -> to carry or pull something heavy - Elephants haul woods for ten miles. - After I went shopping for Christmas; I had to haul them back to my house. - When there are car accidents, I will see a truck haul the car to a garage. - He want to move from an apartment to a condominium, so he needs a truck to haul his furniture. - There was someone hauled a couch from side to another side in their room last night. It was noisy. So, I couldn't sleep until they stopped hauling.

Homework for building vocabulary I wrote this notebook entry for sending a homework to my teacher, Bre. She assigned me to find some words that I don't know the meaning in her word list, and try to use those words in my sentences. The words which I didn't know the meaning are in the following sentences : 1) auction (noun) -> an event at which things are sold to the person who offers the most money. - Celebrities like to bring their stuffs to bid in charity auction. - I haven't gone to any auctions in Thailand. But many businessmen always go to realestate auctions to bid condominiums or lands for getting them to re-sale and take more profits. - Amazon.com has book auction on the website, some of them are interesting. - Whoever goes to auctions has to have a lot of money for bidding the things that they want. I ensure they are rich men. - When you go to an auction, you have to make decision quickly and brave enough to pay large amount of your money. 2) cauldron (noun) -> a large metal pot for cooking or boiling over an open fire. - When I searched for cauldron's picture, I always found a witch is making up poison by using a cauldron. - Many people use a cauldron when they have a picnic or camping in the woods. - We usually don't use cauldron in the kitchen of house. - Cauldron is one of Halloween decorations. - Cauldron has a large mouth that is easy to cook some soup in there. 3) daunting (adj.) -> frightening or worrying, seeming difficult to deal - A daunting task is causing insomnia in many people. - Becoming a pregnant woman is a daunting experience to me. - Daunting questions spend much time to find out solutions. - Starting learning another language can be daunting. - When you face with daunting situations, sometimes it is easier just to go with the flow. Everybody can correct my errors. I will use this notebook entry to talk with Bre tomorrow morning. Thank you for your corrections. :)

The words that I learned in the article of "beauty pageants" A pageant is a competition between women who want to be the most beautiful woman in the contest. In Thailand, child beauty pageants doesn't put on excessive amount of make up, and there is nothing about botox, hair removing, flipper fake teeth, skin tanning, and so on. For Thailand's pageants, we focused on children's talents and their self-confident plus their natural postures that a child should be. The pageants skyrocket on TV shows. Lots of people like them, because they ease stress out when we watched cute children were dancing or singing a song or even playing an ukulele. However, I am not a stereotype that born to be a contestant, LOL. I have never done any contests before! Anyway, the child pageants in Thailand hasn't had any exploitations. No biggie! In the other hand, ongoing problems are in America. It is bizarre to exploit something illegal with their children. Botox, plastic surgery, excessive make up, hair spray, and other chemical stuffs are detrimental for toddlers. Child Protective Services (CPS) should hinder these behaviors and figure out parents' cognitive. Medias should bring it to light. Please let your kids be that they want to be. Thank you for reading and correcting my notebook entry. There are a lot of vocabulary in here, which I have to remember and try to use them in contexts over and over. Thank you again to my teacher, Edward who taught me these words and explained all of them very clearly.

To my sweetheart I wrote this notebook entry to say "thank you" to my husband. Every time when I met any obstacles in my life. He always besides me and holds me in his arms. It seemed he shared strength and power to me when I was weakness. I love you, sweetheart. Thank you whatever that send you to be part of my life. ^______^)

Here/right here/over here - there/right there/over there Please help me to figure out. The following sentences that I raise, I want to know what the difference is. Please leave it here. Please leave it right here. Please leave it over here. Please leave it there. Please leave it right there. Please leave it over there. I used them very often in my life, but I haven't know the totally meaning. Thank you for your help.

"Little Red Riding Hood" is shown up on google's logo. Hey, everybody! Look at google.com. "Little Red Riding Hood" is available right now. You can press buttons to see the story. It's so cute. :)