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My Favorite Film---Just like Life Journey

In a way, it’s films that give me a whole life journey, even though
I’m only eighteen years old. They show me different life experiences
of different people and taught me the true meaning of life. So they
are all my favorite films.
Work Hard for My Life
Hard working is almost everything in my life since I got into primary
school. My parents, friends and teachers put so many pressures on me
that I was really driven mud. But the fact that I was not the best in
my class let everyone down! During that time, I wanted to give up
working hard and just do something that I really want to do. But I
could not. That made me hurt and I could do nothing except bursting
into tears.
I saw the film---Homeless to Harvard when I was in third grade in
middle school. The year was very important to me; my future was set on
it.
Liz said,” My mother was dying, my father was gone…What’s a home
anyway; a roof, a bed, a place where when you go there, they have to
take you? If so then I was fifteen when I became homeless.” I can
still remember these words. I was wondering how a sixteen-year-old
girl said words like “You’re 16 years old with an 8th grade education
and you’re on a downward spiral that would end in a worse place than
you ever dreamed.”
Then I compared the living environment of Liz with my own. I had a
happy family and lived a comfortable life. Just owning to some
difficulties, I wanted to give up my life. How could that odd idea
come into my mind? It took me completely by surprise. Just like Liz
said, “I really… I feel that I was lucky because any sense of security
was put out from under me. So I was forced to look forward. I had to.”
Maybe I just felt that I needn’t care about those questions. But that
was my life, my further, no one could help me except myself. Ok “All
right, I’m goanna work as hard as I possibly can and see what
happens.” And then I was admitted by the key high school after
overcoming my disorientation.
It was Liz who told me I should work hard for my life!
Be True to My Life
There are so many amazing things in this world and everyone wants to
be successful. But they always ask themselves, “Why do I want to get
them?”, when they can lay their hands upon everything they want.
They just get most other people want because of vanity and greed, at
the same time they go against their hearts.
After watching the film Howl’s Moving Castle, I found that Howl was
the representation of those people. He lost his heart for powers. At
last, when he found what he really wanted, he was full of courage to
try to be free. Of course, Sophie was a very important reason.
Howl reminded me that if you keep chasing your dream so hard, you will
be driven to death. If I just know I must work hard, but don’t know
how to fallow my heart, most probably I’ll step on a wrong track.
It was Howl and Sophie who told me I should be true to my heart!
Learn to Let Go
In the film Over Her Dead Body, I think Kate is a very lovely girl.
Yes, of course, it’s hard for everyone to accept the truth that your
lover will some day love other people. But she did! That’s the real
meaning of loving someone---Let him go if he can’t get happiness with
you.
This is true for not only lovers, but also for family members and
friends, including everyone you love. Let them go if you can not bring
happiness to them. Be a leader to everyone you love, lead them to get
on the road to a happier life. That’s all I could do for them. If they
get it, I’ll get it as well.
It was Kate who told me how to let go!
There are angels in every film who show the right way for me. Maybe my
life is not as amazing life as in films, but I read the meaning of the
angels; maybe my experiences are not as rich as films, but I treasure
them. They have always been my life, I really feel lucky that I could
see so many good films. They are all my favorite films that teach me
how to live my life, how to be an upright person.
Working hard, being true to my heart and letting go are different
parts of my life that I should learn through the whole life journey.
Maybe one day I could read the truth of my whole life. William Blake
once said “To the world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild
flower” is the truth of life. That is what my favorite films told me
as well.

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A Letter for All Women
I think it’s a time for me to say something.
All things are going great or not. Maybe it’s temporary, but it goanna
happened! So what we should do, to face them or be worried? Sometimes
we are just ambivalent.
In your whole life, there’re lots of things that will happen even
though you don’t like. Perhaps its goanna make you uncomfortable,
humiliating, sad or painful. Situations are not conducive to what you
want for yourself. So we are wasting our time for that in most of the
time. It’s a total afflicter! It’s time for us to liberate ourselves!
But it’ll be a long way to go. But never give up! You‘ll be a strong
and happy woman.
Firstly, you must believe yourself! In this world, you are the
loyalest person except your parents. And confidence could give you
lots of strength and passion. If you’re right, just do it. Never care
about what other ones says. If you fall down, just climb up. Don’t
care about other things. Believe that, you have courage to face all
fails.
Secondly, try to be big of yourself. It’s impossible to be absolutely
magnanimous, and you’ll be jealous sometimes. That’s ok! If you try to
change your mind afterwards, that means you are a kind woman. Don’t
doubt yourself! You have a beautiful inner side
Thirdly, find a great man to get married and be happy ever after.
You can do it! We are always around you!

On 10月15日, 下午9时35分, englishwritingon <hjail...@gmail.com> wrote:

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The Backpackers Phenomenon
The members of backpackers are becoming more and more.
Nowadays teenagers suspend their schooling to travel as backpackers;
white collars choose trip as a way of relaxing; young people regard
travel as a kind of life style. How can we explain the phenomenon?
They’ll say “cool” when I ask young people the feeling about the
backpacker. Lots of people appreciate this kind of life. Those people
always want to realize themselves, according the vice of inner side
and avoid being disturbed by conventional troubles.
Cindy is such kind of girl. She said, “That’s cool! I like travelling
and I have travelled lots of places by myself. I dreamed one day I
could take my backpack and go the last of my life since that. I don’t
need cosmetics、computer and house any more, just taking a camera and a
mobile phone only used for contacting.”
In her minds, everything comes back to the origin in that kind of
life. Different people and places give her various fresh feeling. She
will work for trip fee wherever she gets to. It all depends on
herself! She gets to. It all depends on herself! It’ll give her a
complete life.
Her words represents lots people’s outlook on life. Live for them and
just have a happy life.
Another kind of people think travel can just be kind of relaxing or
chances to exercise themselves.
Social pressure makes us be tried of our daily life. So that’s the
reason why they tried another way to live. Those people are annoyed by
conventional troubles want to free themselves from worries. As an
outsider, a person can review the past and consider the circle he or
she minds in order. After that they can come back to their lives and
be happier.
We need exercises! Schooling is not our whole life any more. Exercises
and knowledge are both important.
Some young people choose to make a team and travel some places they
all want to go. Those backpackers help each other on the trip to
overcome the troubles which come all of a sudden. It’s also a chance
to test their physical strength and stamina. It’s such a chance to
test their ability of planning
They think travelling is a necessary part of life, but the whole part
of the life. It’s a good way for them to live better.
But, there still are some people think it against the social morals.
They think every person in this world has social responsibilities.
Firstly, we must take the burden to take care of our family. You can’t
give up your parents---the people who once grow you up. And it’s not
fair to your lover. Maybe your children are the people who get hurted
the most deeply. Secondly, we must contribute to our people and future
generations if we only think about ourselves. Thirdly, your behaviors
are affecting the people around you.
It’s worthy to be thought about!
It reflects lots of social problems actually, such as the social
pressure, the education policy, the problems of children and the
rearing of the old.
We need to find a balanced point! Those phenomena are reminding us to
solve the problems which appear today. If we take good measures, we’ll
benefit from them. Or not, we’ll enjoy the bad results and
disappointment our selves.

On 10月15日, 下午9时35分, englishwritingon <hjail...@gmail.com> wrote:

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The Treasure around You
It’s wonderful tonight!
I wanted to write something about backpack. So I began to google
something about it and read some blogs. But I found that what they had
written was not the content what I really want to know. I was a little
disappointed! The Internet can’t always make the mare go.
“Why don’t I ask my classmates, the people around me? I can talk with
them face to face and I can get the information what I really want to
know directly!” that was the beginning of the wonderful night.
Then I called at one apartment to another, communicating with one
classmate to another. Everyone had lots of words wanted to say. They
expressed themselves efficiently, they were honest, and they showed
their inner side and amazing opinions! I was shocked totally by
them.
When I came back to my room, I tried to calm down myself, recalling
what happened tonight. It was quite a communication heart-by-heart.
And when I lay down, I realized something I neglected long time ago.
We are so short-sighted that we can’t see the treasure around us! When
I want to find some information, what I first think are not the people
around me. I always want to find something that’s different and hard
for me to search. But most of the time, we can’t get there. Even that,
we regard them as treasure. We used to neglect things which are
easily.
For example, when I tell some information about a person, you’ll
google it by yourself and talk about him one day with me. We believe
we are smart, but are self-contradict actually.
Another example, lots of people begin to the ones who are once around
them have lots of good aspects when those people become famous. Maybe
they never noticed them before, but they’ll tell others they think
those people are excellent when they once get together on their own
initiative.
If you recall the history, you’ll find that most of famous painters
and calligraphers became famous after they died. Maybe it isn’t easy
for us to get their works any more. Maybe that’s part of the reason.
I’m also a member of them. But I don’t want to be a member of them any
more. I’ll be a good listener and a smart explorer!
Try to find the treasure around you, they’ll give you a big surprise.
They aren’t wonderful just because you are careless. Don’t miss
them!

On 10月15日, 下午9时35分, englishwritingon <hjail...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Culture Smart or Science Intelligent
As we all know, culture includes philosophy, science, religion,
morality, art, a variety of ideas, language, symbolic and so on. It’s
so important for us that on one can avoid its effects that influence
us unconsciously. During the long history of the mankind, our
ancestors left a whole big valuable culture for us. People are engaged
in culture from infancy on. It’s a lifelong process, a process that
starts long before the start of the school and one that should be an
integral part of one’s entire life.
Science is the first productive force. In twenty-first century----a
century led by science, every country is trying its best to develop
its scientific and technological strength. This situation came into
being with the developing of the society and there is a powerful force
to push us and keep us developing.
I believe that on one can judge which is more important between
culture and science for us humans, because they just influence and
promote each other mutually and can’t be separated with each other.
It is culture that makes us have personalities and ideas and without
culture we just remained in the primitive times. And science just came
into being with the developing of culture. It means that this society
and our humans need it; it means the time needs it. Science is the
thing that promotes the culture but the thing that will instead of the
culture. From radio to television, from mobile phone to computer, our
humans can communicate with each other and learn from each other more
and more efficiently. Because of it, culture is developing by the
trend of globalization. At the same time, culture is the base of the
science. Any science or technology is invented for the needs of
humans, in other words, it’s our humans’ minds that controls science
and technology and benefits from it. You can image, without right
minds, what nuclear technology brings to us is cruel wars but nuclear
power stations.
But there is a serious problem in current society. Nowadays education
pays too much attention on science that many people thought culture is
not that important as usual, notably in China. Sometimes we just pay
attention on what kind of job we will have in the future. Maybe
science degree will give you a better job or be a CEO like Li Kai Fu,
but without right minds, you are just a sophisticated technical tool.
So how to face the relationship between culture and science will
determine our humans’ future.

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To be a Careful Person
I suddenly realized that I must say something when I was young. There
are lots of stories that should be told out in a special way and a
special time.
Sometimes in life, there really are bonds formed that can never be
broken, sometimes you really can find it in a special situation, but
there’s also a chance that the one person you can count on for a life
time. One person who knows you, sometimes better than you know
yourself, is the same person who standing beside you all the time.
The stories one happened between you and that person are always
neglected by yourself. Maybe they are normal and just like daily life
without any excitement, but they are the things which will make you
the most regrettable if you lose them.
Don’t be used to neglecting the people and things around you, that’s a
bad habitat!
Sometimes we need to have some classes for children, because they did
better than us. Don’t be looking forward all the time! Every now and
then, reminding yourself of something that is still around you, but is
always neglected by you, so you can write it down and change your
life!
When I opened my diary up, I was surprised by myself, those bits and
pieces are full of philosophy and life wisdom. That’s what life
confers to you!
You know, carelessness and laziness will let you lose much inspiration
and lots of beautiful memory. So be a careful person since today!

On 10月15日, 下午9时35分, englishwritingon <hjail...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Why Don’t I Make My Bed?
I think everyone has own excuses for himself or herself. For me, I
want to say I have some opinions.
Firstly, I want to say we must find some strong excuses for ourselves
before making decision. So I want to ask myself why I must make my
bed. Maybe most people think that it’s a good habit; it will make my
room looks clean and tidy; we’ll have ease of mind and so on. But all
that reasons are not strong enough to persuade me to make my bed.
Because that’s just other people’s views, not mine. I think we have no
reasons to do things that are useless. Of course, it’ll cost you just
one minute. But actually I don’t want to spend my time to do that! Why
must we do those things that I really don’t want to do? If I do like
that, I’ll have a bad mood, even though it’ll influence my mood whole
day. That’s the results? So I don’t want to spend my time and get the
results like that.
That’s the reasons why don’t I make my bed.

On 10月15日, 下午9时35分, englishwritingon <hjail...@gmail.com> wrote:

[clare]

newspaper
Nowadays newspaper has become an very important part in our daily
life, though it is not more popular than TV or computer, it still can
give us some messages to help us know the outside world.
From the newspaper, we know what happened in the world. When the
earthquake happened in Sichuan, other people how to know the things
happened there? And how other people know what our government do for
there? Sometimes it all depends on the newspaper, so we should thank
newspaper, it really helps us a lot.
Newspaper helps us kill boring time.When we have a chance to
travel.If it is a long way for you to get there, and you have nothing
to relax yourself.Then you may think about the newspaper.If there is a
piece of newspaper, you can read it and find some interesting
things.It will give you much joy.
Newspaper teaches us how to love our country.A person who loves his
country will love to read the things about his country`s politic.We
can derive many things from the newspaper about our country`s economy,
enironment, education and so on.It really is a tool for us to look
around the world, without it, our life will be empty and meaningless.
Reading newspaper is a good habbit.There are many differences
between today`s newspaper and the newspaper in many years ago.Nowadays
newspaper develops, it shows us many usefull things which makes our
life more convirnent, it helps us to find many things to do.When we
are in trouble, the newspaper offers us some important telephone
numbers to dail, for consulting.When we have no idea, we can publish
our problems on the newspaper, then the other people who see our
message will give us a hand.Even a people who lost his money or
important things, he can send a piece of message to the newspaper
agency for helping, it will give him the first reaction.
Newspaper reports many true things at the first time.When the
accident happened, the reporter get there as quickly as he can, and
then he sends the information to other media, so we can know about
what happened in other places.
Maybe some people think newspaper is an old thing, but I think it
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On 10月15日, 下午9时35分, englishwritingon <hjail...@gmail.com> wrote:

[雯轩]

In our daily life, all kinds of misunderstanding from time to time
will happen. Some of them are just unimportant things; they may be
forgotten after a long time. However, some misunderstanding, if you do
not clear up, they will always in your memory and let you feel
uncomfortable.

I still remember a thing happened in high school. There are eight
students in our dormitory. One of us came from a poor family, we
called her Xiao .Because there were four children in her family, so
she led a difficult life. She never wasted money. She always ordered
the cheapest dishes to eat in canteen and never went to the
restaurants. All she had done was to save money and spend it more
wisely. She often wrote something in the notebook secretly. We were
curious about her writing. We all guessed what did she write, but we
never had the chance to know.

One day a roommate forgot to lock her cupboard .She found her money
was missing when she returned. She could not help crying because for a
student it was not a small loss at that time. We don’t know what to do
but comfort. We began to recall the thing from beginning to end.
Suddenly a roommate jumped up and said after her leaving, Xiao still
stayed in the dormitory. At this time everyone with exception thought
of the poor girl, her poverty, her saving, her strange action in the
eyes of us all confirmed our suspicions. We were all angry about her
stealing in front of our eyes. We decided that we should take measures
to avoid this thing happen next time .We wanted her to feel ashamed of
her behavior. Therefore, when she came back, we talked with each other
on purpose that someone stole the money and we had known who the thief
was. In fact, we wanted to capture some information on her face, but
we found nothing. She kept silent as usual as if it had nothing to do
with her. We were shocked to see that one who did a thing like that
could keep quiet as usual, her attitude made us angry. We wanted her
to leave. To her face, we never said anything, but behind her back, we
called her thief. Gradually some of my classmates knew the thing and
they treated her with the same way. Actually one’s heart was
sensitive, she can feel the change of our attitude，everyone avoided
her like the plague. But she never try to explain herself, because she
knew no one could trust her .At last she left our dormitory.

After her leaving, I began to analyse the thing, I discovered that
we never give her a chance to explain. We jumped to the conclusion
because our prejudice against her. In fact, the rumor in the world
cannot stand the test of time, the truth will out. However, sometimes
we indulge those rumors just because we follow others blindly.

Finally, I found the real thief; it was who said Xiao was in the
dormitory after she left.

[雯轩]

What Home means to You

What is home? For all the people ,home is our country.As for a single
person,home is the place where you can stop and have a rest .We can
live with our family members and do what we want to do.

What is home?Home is our country,we have a large home. For nearly
thousands of years ,in times of calm and in times of challenge,our
country always takes a stand and tries its best to keep everyone
safe.Till now,our country has made great progress on every side.Last
year is full of challenge.Thousands of families in our nation are
still grieving over the terrible losses that came to them last year on
May 12th.We deeply miss family members no longer with us.We pray for
their comfort,we pray for the comfort for everyone who has lost a life
last year.However our country succeed in holding the 29th Olympic
Games and Paralympic Games.The Chinese sage confucius says “isn’t it a
delight after all to have friends come from afar. Indeed,it is our
delight to welcome all guests with open arms in Beijing.

What is home? Home is not only a place where you can eat or sleep,but
also a place you can keep peace.Goethe said“He is the happiest,being
king or peasant,who find peace in his home.”It is true,Home is the
warmest place in the world.No matter when you return home ,you can
feel comfortable in every corner of home.Sometimes after a day’s hard
work,you can relax yourself absolutely at home.At this time you are no
need to think the work or study, the only thing you can do is to sit
down and fall a sound sleep.For me ,I have a large family .There are
six person in our home,my grandparents,my parents ,my brother and
I.Our home is always full of happy and laugher.My parents set a good
example to my brother and I during our childhood.We were told to do
what we should do.My parents are very strict with our study.If we want
to go out ,we must finish our homework first. They also pay more
attention to create a kind of warm and intimate atmosphere. They think
that the heathy atmosphere is very important for children. My parents
permit us to develop our interest in our spare time. At weekends ,we
can go to the park or go for a picnic in the open air. After
supper ,we often talk about what happened in our school in the daytime
and communicate with eath other. In our home children have the right
to share their opinion. Now my brother has graduated from college and
I have been a freshman.

What is home ?What home means to you? The way I see it, home is the
harbor.No matter where you are ,you would like to be back home in the
end .Home is confidence ,whenever you meet difficulties,you can get
support from family. Home is medicine ,you can get comfort when you
badly hurt. Home is the place which we often need to build. As a
member of family, We have the responsibility to create a healthy
atmosphere for everyone.Parents should trust their children and give
them a private space to do want they want.Children should understand
their parents’love and respect them.In addition,parents and children
should often communicate with each other.This type of great importance
because it helps to deepen the feelings between the parents and
children. My friend’s parents always complain that her study is so
poor, so they often blame her. Under the pressure,my friend is often
afraid of communicating with her parents. What’s more ,we should
cultivate patience, forgive .If we do so ,I believe our home will
always be sweet.

Home is the warmest place in the world.It is usually to meet a need
you have expressed. It will come to assist youthrough a difficulty,to
provide you with guidence and support,to aid you
physically,emotionally,orspiritually.It bring you an experience of
peace,or make you laugh.It may teach you something you have never
done.It usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.

Love may not last, loved ones may walk away,but home can side with you
forever.

[clare]

Country life
I was born in the country, so I like the country life very much. All
my childhood mermory were come from there.When I was a child, I liked
to fly kate on the top of the muontain, I liked reading in the
backyard, I liked to play with my friends there.It was really a period
of happy time in my whole life, nothing can instead of it.
I was a shy girl in my country, but everyone liked playing with me.A
good friend of me called Gu Peilian,she was my best friend,we played
together for six years.Now she worked in a factory far from my
hometown,I miss her very much, she was a nice girl and kind-hearted.We
made many kates, but they did not fly highly in the sky.But we still
felt happy.
I liked my hometown,not only because my friends, but also my parents
and my sister.At that time, we had no pressure,just did thngs we
liked, we were free like birds.I only wanted play with them, and made
life joyful.However, now I have already far away from that time, I
have no power to come back that time, but I still could not forget
thoese things happened to me.
The beautiful scenery there in my mind will never disappear.It was
the most beautiful scenery in the world.I wanted to come back there
after graduate, Iwanted to do many things for there,it was my dream.I
will try my best to realize it.

[suruiping]

The Lion King
Disney’s The Lion King is a wonderful film for the whole family.
The hero in this movie, Simba, is the son of the bravest king Mufasa.
As a young prince in Africa, he is expected to succeed to the throne.
Thus ,his uncle will not be the king.
However, at the beginning of the film, Simba is so young and
simple that he trust his uncle Scar very much, a hypocritical lion who
is plotting with the hyenas to kill Mufasa and Simba so as to become
the king. Sadly but logically, Mufasa is killed by his ambitious and
evil brother. To my anger, Scar lied to his nephew, telling Simba that
his father’s death should be blamed on his fault. With great guilt,
shame and sorrow, Simba runs away. Fortunately, he is saved by Timon
and Pumbaa, and they live together happily with a “no-warries”
lifestyle in the following years. Simba does not know that his home is
in ruins under Scar’s control untill Nala comes and tells him the
current conditions. After struggling bitterly in his heart, Simba
resolves to return to challenge Scar and save his home. Bravely
enough, Simba fights against Scar and forces him to admit that he has
killed Mufasa on a gloomy and rainy day. As the great “circle of life
” completes, Simba becomes the king and his home recovers from gloom
and dirt.
The film is full of bravery, music, moving love, spectacular
landscape as well as a happy ending. You will be cheering for Simba
and be touched by the deep love between lovers, family members ,
friends ,etc.

[caicai]

The Meaning of a Home
What a home mean to me? Maybe, if one, in their special time, has
faced fail, hard-time, success, happiness and so on ，he or she can
taste it deeply.
I can never forget that grey night. In my opinion, the night had
decided my future at that time. I was asking my score of the college
entrance examination on the phone. Tears dampened my cheeks. I walked
toward the bed without any words, and lay on the back, staring at the
ceiling. Everything around me was so quiet and gloomy. “Where’s my
future? Why am I so weakness? I have disappointed everyone who loves
me. They will never trust me. No, I don’t want to give up. Mother and
father, don’t hate me, don’t be too much sorrow. ” That night, I can’t
fall asleep and opened my eyes all the time. Early in the next
morning, mum went to me and wrapped herself around with tears in her
eyes. “Dear, I know you have the ability to win. Everyone believes in
you. Even though they can’t, your father and I will. we understand you
no matter you are fail or successful. Reviewing or going to a worse
college is up to you. We support you forever.” Hearing this, I cried
out and felt in her embrace. Family is like this. When one falls down,
others will encourage him or her to stand up again. It’s powerful.
Few months later, I went to the high school again with my parents’
hope. Things went so well that I can study happily and I felt relaxed.
The only thing that annoyed me was the dark night. I studied in school
until 11 o’clock every night. In that case, my father picked me up. No
matter it was summer or winter, no matter it was rainy or snowy,
father would pick me up. I thanked my father several times, but he
shocked his head. He said, “Dear, you are in your tough time. As your
parent, helping you pass it is my duty.” Home is like this. When one
is in his or her tough time, it is a tough time of the family. Every
member will try their best to fight against it.
One year later, I went into the college entrance examination in
confidence. Things went smoothly. Finally, received the notice from
the Normal University in expected. My parents were the happiest people
in that day. They were really happier than me. They looked the notice
again and again. Smile covered their face. It was really sincerely.
Home is like this. When one in his or her success, it is the success
of the whole home. They are so happy, happy enough to make you feel
warm.
Now, I am in the college which is far from my home. The meaning of the
home is clearer in my mind. It is not only a shelter of rain, wind and
snow but also the ingredient of happy, moving and sorrow. Every dust,
when I sit by the window, I think of my home. It is a house not big
enough with a kitchen, two bedrooms and one yard. Parents and I live
in it. There are also quarrel and sweep in this room. Remembering
father taught me how to play chess. Recalling mother cooked a piece of
delicious cake for me on my birthday. Thinking every night when I was
young, I was dancing and singing happily in the small room. Everything
was wonderful. Each time when I was getting on the bus, my mother
swept in secret. But I could find it. Home is like this. When members
are departed, they will miss each other very much, and they can think
of many situations.
Home is like this. It is understand when one has made some mistakes.
It is support when one has made a decision. It is help when one is in
difficulties. It is happiness when one is successful. It is missing
when they are separate. What’s more, love is the most important
feeling in a home.

[Helen]

This is a diet program made by me. It is about how to make beef
noodles.
H names Helen and N names Nancy. the two person are the linkman of
this program.
H，N：Hello everyone, welcome to our program “You Are The Chef”.
N：I’m Nancy.
H：I’m Helen.
N：Which delicious food we will introduce today, Helen?
H：let us have a riddle first.
N：OK. Come on.
H：Who knows about the special local product in Lanzhou?
N：OK! It is. How clever you are! (Let me see, is it beef noodles?)
H：(Yeah you are right)Today we are going to show you how to make beef
noodles.
N：A bowl containing 4,000-year old millet noodles was found in a
Chinese archeological site. The Chinese have a long history of making
noodles using several techniques.
H：And the beef noodles has a history about 160 years old. At the
begaining of Qing dynasty, the first beef noodle restaurant was cald
”Yue yang lou”. Now, it has already all of the word.
N：Wow, I can’t help kowning how to make it. Start, Helen!
H：OK, If you want to make delicious beef noodles, what you need are
the best beef soup and the noodles. So we have 3 main steps to do.
First, we need a sharp knife, a large bowl, garlic, scallions, soy
sauce, sesame oil, a refrigerator, a pan, water, leek, baby corn cobs
and so on. Oh, please remember, the most important is some fresh beef.
Don’t forget it.
N：First, using a sharp knife, cut the beef into thin strips and place
in a large bowl with the garlic, scallions, soy sauce, and sesame oil.
Second, combine the ingredients in the bowl, turning the beef to
coat. Cover and set aside to marinate in the refrigerator for 30
minutes. Third, put the beef bouillon in a large pan and bring to a
boil. Add the beef, with the marinade, the baby corn cobs and shredded
leek. Cover and simmer over low heat for 7-10 minutes, or until the
beef and radishes are tender and cooked through.
H：The soup is finished. Transfer the soup to warmed bowls and serve
immediately. If you do like this, it must be very delicious.
N：Now, lets going to the next step. Let us tell you how to make hand-
pulled noodles .
H：First of all using a flexible dough that can be stretched easily.
This is done by increasing the amount of water in the dough
(approximately 1 cup of water for every 2 cups of flour). Next cover
the dough with plastic and allow it to rest at room temperature for at
least 60 minutes to relax the gluten. Then place the dough on a
countertop covered with plenty of flour and stretched until it looks
like a long, thick rope. The rope of dough is folded in half, twisted,
and stretched back to its original length approximately ten times.
Finally the twisting is done by holding one end of the rope in each
hand while the center hangs down under the force of gravity and
flinging one side against the other in a circular motion.
N：Now twisted the rope first to the right, stretched, floured by
rolling on the countertop, and then twisted to the left, stretched,
and floured again. This process creates a structure of soft dough
fibers surrounded by dry flour that is necessary for being able to
pull the noodles. Next, the noodles are made by pulling the dough,
resting it briefly on the floured countertop, grabbing the two ends
with the left hand, while holding the middle with the right hand. This
process is repeated until the noodles are of the appropriate
thickness. Each time, the number of noodles doubles.
H：Do it again and again until it is as thin as this in this picture.
N：OK, the noodles and the soup are ready. The last step is to drop the
noodles into boiling water and boil for approximately 10 minutes. Pay
attention add the noodles only when the water is boiling vigorously,
and stir immediately.
H：Different shapes and kinds of noodles take different times to cook,
generally in the range of 2 to 13 minutes. Toward the end of the
cooking time, test the noodles to make sure that it is firm and chewy,
but not hard or doughy (undercooked) or mushy (overcooked).
N：The last but not least, if you want to eat it, you should put the
noodles in a blow, water the soup and put some pieces of beef in it.
H：OK. We finally finish it, It must be tasted greatly, because it is
all by yourself.
N：Let’s summary all the steps. First, cook the soup, and then make the
hand-pulled noodles. Last, put the both together.
H：The program is going to finish. Let’s meet each other next time.
N：Bye.

[caicai]

God , I Wrongly Accused You

From one day on , I kept the words in my heart that
sometimes, people can’t get what they should get , even though he or
she offered a lot much more than others . It may related to one’s
Destiny .
I can still remember that gloomy afternoon . Going out of the
examination place , I feel down in my mind just like the wheather like
that day , and can’t help recalling my short but tough time . Staring
at the screen and kicking the keyboard quickly , I was highly
contrated on it till very late every night . Trying to keep sober in
the class to have fully basic knowledge , although my eyelids want to
fight with each other . Running to the classroom with some convienent
food , for fearing of bad seats . Just as for my sliping in hands , I
changed the dates on the machine , which would probably lead to my
failure . I felt so grievance at that time , and showed tranquil
sedulously . But it is really dificult to do that . To be honest , I
blamed you that day , my god . I blamed you of your unfair treatment
for me ,and I even amused my bad destite.
Unexpectedly , I got a perfect score in the end . God gave me a
beautiful circle , which completely changed my thoughts . God love all
of us , and what you get is really depend on what you gave .
Sometimes , he maybe let we in sorry shape . But we shouldn’t always
complain , he will find some other proper time to compensation us.

On Oct 15, 9:35 pm, englishwritingon <hjail...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Lizzie]

My favorite movie
The lion king is a wonderful movie for us. The main character,
simba, is the son of the lion king Mufasa and queen Sarabi. He was
expected to be a future lion king. However, his uncle, scar, wanted to
be a lion king and played tricks on him to kill him. Scar and wild
wolfs entered their land. His uncle killed his father in a special way
and told lies to simba. Simba knew that he killed his father by
mistake. Scar managed to drive away simba and became a lion king.
Simba was saved by Timon and Pumbaa. Their motto was Hakuna matata
when he lived there with them. He seemed to forget who he was and his
responsibilities. In fact, he was afraid to face the reality.
Fortunately, he came across Nala who his friend was in the childhood.
She told him that they suffered a hard time and their homeland was
destroyed. Nala and Rafiki persuaded him to fight with scar. At least,
he forced scar to tell the truth and got his punishment. Simba, as a
king, unburned himself and married Nala. Their homeland came back to
life and he turned out to be a great lion king. This film was full of
friendship, music and father’s love and ambitions; you must want to
see it no more than one time.
We must remember who we are. There is my best experience from
this film.

On Oct 15, 9:35 pm, englishwritingon <hjail...@gmail.com> wrote:

[caicai]

The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride is a great love story between Buttercup and
Westly . Humperdinck , a cure King ,wanted Buttercup to be his
bride , so he tried his best to break up this couple . He even used
brutal way to make Westley into a desperate way . But the movie had a
happy ending . Westly saved Buttercup from the prince at the night of
their wedding .
One of the main characters is Westly . At the beginning ,he was a
farm boy , and felt in love with Buttercup a beautiful girl . As for
he was too poor to afford the expense of the marriage ,he decided to
go to the other bank of the sea to try his fortune . There , he met a
freebooter . the freebooter set him free after he told him his love
story . while he came back after 5 years , he found his true love was
forced to marry Princess Humperdinck , so he tried his best to save
her . At that time , Buttercup was robbed by Vizzini to case a war of
two countries . Westly overcome a lot of difficulties and went through
the dead forest with Buttercup . Unfortunately , the Princess found
them at the end of the forest , taking away Buttercup , putting Westly
into a hole . Westly was cruelly killed by the Princess using a big
machine . At last ,Vezzini and Fezzik helped him recover from
death ,and he save Buttercup with his friends at the night of the
wedding . He got his true love .

On Oct 15, 9:35 pm, englishwritingon <hjail...@gmail.com> wrote:

[caicai]

God , I Wrongly Accused You
From one day on , I kept the words in my heart that sometimes, people
can’t get what they should get , even though he or she offered a lot
much more than others . It may related to one’s Destiny .
I can still remember that gloomy afternoon . Going out of the
examination place , I feel down in my mind just like the wheather like
that day , and can’t help recalling my short but tough time . Staring
at the screen and kicking the keyboard quickly , I was highly
contrated on it till very late every night . Trying to keep sober in
the class to have fully basic knowledge , although my eyelids want to
fight with each other . Running to the classroom with some convienent
food , for fearing of bad seats . Just as for my sliping in hands , I
changed the dates on the machine , which would probably lead to my
failure . I felt so grievance at that time , and showed tranquil
sedulously . But it is really dificult to do that . To be honest , I
blamed you that day , my god . I blamed you of your unfair treatment

for me ,and I even amused my bad destiny .

[Joy]

The Lion King
I am sure everyone who has watched the film will remember a
phrase, that is "Hakuna Motata". This one can be a relief sometimes,
but you should not take it as a motto in your life.There is a famous
saying,a friend in need is a friend indeed,I agree with that. Simba is
in a loss after his father' s death. He runs away from the pride lands
and faints from exhaustion on an open plain. Fortunately, Pumbaa and
Timon save him just in time. They carry Simba to a shady place and
wait until the lion cub comes to, and then they keep Simba in their
place and share their problem- free philosophy with him, just as Timon
tells Simba" You should put your past behind you”. So the phrase"
Hakuna Matata" helps Simba to release from depression and self-
condemning, and their friendship makes Simba live happily there. But I
think we should not forget our past, whether it is a success or
failure.

[caicai]

Misunderstanding Is Cleared up
Human beings often judge a person by his appearance and definite a
thing by its phenomenon. This is a true way that a misunderstanding
appears. Sometimes, it may case serious result that somebody will
regret for his life. Here is a story that I heard from my friend.
Once there was a house that located in a big forest where many kinds
of animals lived. The people living in the forest were very dangerous
especially at night. A kindhearted couple lived in the house. They
were living on hunting for animals whose fur was worth a lot when they
were sold in the town. The body of the animals can also be bargained
for delicious food and beautiful decorations.
One day, when they were looking for animals, they found a little
lovely dog being run after by a wolf. They quickly raised their guy
and hunted the wolf. The wolf felt down with a poignant howl. The
little dog was so astonished that it followed the couple shocking its
tail and never wanted to leave them. Seeing this, the young couple
brought the little dog home. You won’t believe it that the little dog
was extremely clever. It can do whatever the owner told it. Such as
keeping the door, cleaning the floor, watering the flowers in the
garden. A year later, another happy thing befell them. The woman gave
birth to a baby. There was full of enjoyable in this room. The couple
hugged with each other tightly. The dog was running in circles in the
house. Then the dog took over the task of taking care of the baby.
This time, the dog was so careful, careful enough to be a baby-sister.
The couple was so glad for they had such a good dog to rely on.
Another day, the couple went out to do something hunting leaving the
dog at home to look after their baby. When they came back and opened
the door, the circumstance in front them surprised them. There was
disorder here and there in the room. They went into the baby’s room in
a hurry. They really couldn’t believe their eyes for there was a lot
of blood in the dog’s mouth. And some blood dropped on the bed. “I
damn you to the hell. It has eaten our baby.” The young woman
screamed, “fire it, and I never want to see it again.” At this time
the man raised his gun and fired towards to the dog. Then the dog fell
down and died. And the couple ran to their baby quickly. To their
surprise, their baby was still alive, who smiled to them. Suddenly,
they found a dead wolf under the bed. They turned back to the fired
dog seeing the meat on its legs had gone. Everything cleared up, which
they wronged the dog. What a loyal dog that fought with the wolf
leaving itself injured everywhere and saved the baby. But the couple
should kill the saver of their baby. What a headlong action! The
couple regretted the action for their life.
A misunderstanding comes like this. People should judge things
rational. Don’t be confused by appearance, or you will regret very
much when the truth finally comes out. Don’t make a decision before
you are very certain. Don’t be terrified when you face something
unexpected

On Oct 15, 9:35 pm, englishwritingon <hjail...@gmail.com> wrote:

[linda]

Home will be home
It occurred to me that one of my teachers once told us the difference
among home, family and house. What’s a pity, I didn’t catch it. So how
should I appreciate the meaning of home? The way I see it, home
consists of two parts, family and house.
Referring family, it especially emphasizes family members, you can
think an equation like this, family equals father and mother, I love
you. This is the true family and one important part of home. It is
said a loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
It’s true that we can understand each other though some arguments will
happen. Love will be love.
My parents gave me life when I still didn’t know who I was, why I
wanted to come to this world. With mother’s horrible pain, here I was.
However, I thanked her by crying all night long.
When I was at the age of six, my father sent me to school. I howled, I
wanted to go back home, I wanted my mother, I …but my father did not
care my terrible behavior and gave me to the teacher, may be called
teacher.
When I was eighteen, I was permitted to go to Northwest Normal
University. What surprised me when my parents took the certificate on
their hands, seeing and sweeping. I realized this also could be called
happiness.
With my parents being older and older, I grow up now. As the daughter,
I perceive my parents and their endless love.
The second part is our house. The house is the paradise for me and my
partners. Sometime, we broke small stuffs in our house, such as vase,
cup and some other things made of glasses. At first, as we all were
afraid to be blamed, so we didn’t admit. But after being stared at by
mother’s sharp eyes, the situation changed. We admitted we had made
mistakes. Finally, my mother would tell us some educational stories
but never punished us.
In a word, home gives me the beautiful memories during childhood, the
shelter of soul when I am upset. There is a world of love in my home;
I will use it for my all life.
I always keep the disaster caused by heavy snow in 2008 in mind. At
the Spring Festival Eve, so many people wanted to go back home to get
together with their families. It is the unexpected snow that stopped
the hurry steps from coming home. If I were them, the situation would
be same.
Something precious might not be noticed until you have lost it. Home
is a home, we’d better pay more attention to it and our relatives.
Here I know, home is irreplaceable as a shelter, home is one of kind
in the world.
At every stage of life we sustain losses—and grow in the process. We
begin our independent lives only when we emerge from the womb and lose
its protective shelter. We enter a progression of schools, then leave
our mothers and fathers and our childhood homes. We get married and
have children and then have to let them go. We confront the death of
our parents and our spouses. We face the gradual or not gradual waning
of our strength. And ultimately, as the parable of the open and closed
hand suggests, we must confront the inevitability of our own demise,
losing ourselves as it mere, all that we were or dreamed to be.
However, all of these stuffs have changed, home is still the home.

On Oct 15, 9:35 pm, englishwritingon <hjail...@gmail.com> wrote:

[mary]

Ture Love
Few weeks ago, our foreign teacher showed us a film named The Princess
Bride. It is a love story,maybe it is moving. But I was't moved at
all. Please let me give my reason.
The hero Westley is a farm boy. He leaves his lover Buttercup to earn
money. I remember he once said he would appear Buttercup's side
anytime and do whatever she wants to. It is obvious that Buttercup
doesn't want him go. I think if two people really love each other,
having not enough money doesn't matter.How could Westly imagine
Buttercup's sorrow when she knew his death. As to Buttercup, she says
she would not love again and her heart is dead. But later she married
to a prince, how ridiculous! Five years later, Westley returned. In
fact, he did't died. What a heavy blow to him!
In our daily life, we are confused about what is ture love. Because so
many people get hurt in so called Ture Love. Therefor, we are not
willing to believe in it. People can share happiness together, but
can't face difficulties in life together. It is so common. I really
hope that there is much more ture love exist in our modern life.

[winle]

My dear desk mate, you tell me you are very worried about your
standard examintion, i totally understand you. We all fight with the
examintions all the time. There , i just want to tell you : if you
can't lose your faith, you will see light at the end of the tunnel.
Good luck!

[kaixin]

My First Day of
College
This day my father took me to the school, the Northwest Normal
University. The school I ever dreamed and also I would study for the
next four years. I stepped out of bus and got out of my luggage from
it, when we arrived at the gate. Then we could see the campus, full of
boys and girls. I took a few steps, the faces of boys and girls came
into view. At first, my father and I didn’t know how to register.
Finally with sophomore’s help, I found my name and class on the list
and was given an introduction on a piece of paper to show how to
register. My father and I walked from a place to another, carrying my
heavy luggage. After that I got a card that can be used in the canteen
and on the internet, at the same time, I was offered to the quilt and
sheet by the university. Thus I went to my dormitory and made my bed.
My roommates were all friendly and kind-hearted. I guessed that I
would adapt myself to the new but strange situation. In the afternoon,
I had a thorough check-up. Until then everything was well prepared. It
was the time to say goodbye to my father. But to tell the truth, I
hated to see him off. He told me to study hard and became a useful
member of society. That night I thought a lot and realized finally
college was a turning point for me in my life, so I must take a
chance. And I said to myself tomorrow would be better.In a word, my
first day of college was a busy day.

[Joy]

My
Favourite Band
Mayday is m favourite musical band. The Taiwan rock band is regarded
as one of the best rock bands in the country only second to Beyond, a
well-known Hong Kong rock groug. Mayday's songs have become popular by
capuring the zeitgeist(时代精神) of the Taiwan youth of the 1990s. Their
expressions and lyrics in each and every song are sung with themes of
innocence,love,childhood,dreams,loneliness and determination. I think
every fan of Mayday favors their unique vocals and the insightful
lyrics about life.
My favourite song of them is Contentment. It's very beautiful. Maybe
that's why people call them the next Beatles.

[mary]

Mary,you are good
Since this semester begin, I always feel sad or upset. And I don't
know what to do. In other's eyes, I'm a outgoing, confident girl. But
in the deep of my heart, It's not like that.
When in high school, English is really my biggest passion, but now I
have to doubt this. I have told myself many times one should't regret
for her choice. Gradually, I find that I lost interest in English.
Yes, it is really terrible for an English major. Once a teacher told
me that one shold have a interest, even if it is eating, sleeping. "
Where is my interest ?" I ask myself.
I failed totally in last semester's final exam. There's no doubt it is
a heavy blow to me. So I comforted myself with "no cross, no crown",
but it did't work after few days. Sometimes when I said this to
classmates, they did't believe in my words. Because they think I am
good at English. Loneliness, disappointment stuffed my heart. But...
I should't give up. If such a incident can defeat me, how can I face
greater challenge in the future? "Mary, you are good. Please gain
confidence again. Let smil appear on your face again."

[豆怡]

Thinking
The world moves, you are just a peck. It can all happen without you.
Sometimes people just feel that you are so small to the world. But we
always tell ourselves we must do something to the society and ask what
I should do!
Who am I? Where do I come from? Those questions always disturb us. But
no one could say the answers to them exactly. So we must keep thinking
these questions. And work hard everyday. Maybe you’ll think that if we
don’t know the reasons why we work hard, why we should do that. I
often ask myself like that. Finally, I think I must do something for
myself firstly. Then I’ll think about others even the society.
Thinking can encourage you to push yourself. At the same time, you
should look forward, during the things you must do. Because it’s not
true that every question has the answer.
Alright, I just work as hard as I possible can and see what happens.

[ml]

What is happiness and how to check it
As someone said a thing of beauty is a joy forever,But want to say
notice is a joy forever.
Firstly, in my opinion, happiness is a feeling. If you think you are
happy, may be you are happy. On the contrary, if you think you are
sad, perhaps you will never know the happiness in you hand, just you
didn’t notice it. its you smash you happiness, because you didn’t
grasp it. for me , happiness is I stay with my family and have a good
time, is I play with you good friends and enjoy life, is a care for
what other people give me, or happiness is just I get a message from
you unfamiliar friends.
secondly, how to check our happiness. We don’t know just because we
have not notice it. if you have a common eyes you will see you
happiness. If you have a active heart you will see you happiness. It
is so easy you feel you happiness, just waste a little of you time to
think about happiness. Perhaps you will find much more happiness than
before. Just do it!

[豆怡]

The Feeling about Education and Schooling
Education and schooling are both important to everyone. Image that,
everyone you know, they just angry and tired and they are trying to
survive. Because of your parents you have never even really been to
school, what worse is that now your mother died, your father was gone.
What should you do? Which kind of person you will be?
Many people in that case will give up themselves and become trash to
society. But there still have some people push themselves out of the
place that they were born as Liz Murray. The words I know is limited
to describe her terrible childhood as well as her accomplishments.
Everything has two sides, just as her side:” I was lucky. Because any
sense of security was put out from under of me. So I was forced to
look forward. I had to. There was no going back! It was the bad
situations that encouraged her to success.
So it all depends on yourself.

[fano]

Time flies . The first semester of the second year in
collge will goes by quickly . I don't know what I have
done or got . I am very insensible about my study and
live .I don't know how to use the left time in the next
tow years . Cetertainly I am thinking what I can do after
two years .

[clover]

If I were Jordon and now I am going to say goodbye to basketball
field where I had played for several years,at this important monment
I would like to say something like this to my fans and friends .
First I was so glad to have spend these years with you,it would
an unforgetful memory for me for ever, I could deeply feel your care
on me ,I am so grateful for you all about this! you have witted my
growing-up,from a freshman to an allstar player,and our hearts have
always tied together by the team .I am enjoying this .Then I should
thanks for your support ,especially when I was in trouble no matter in
field or in my life ,whenever and wherever,I will be in favor of our
team !this is my heartfelt wishes!goodbye basketball and goodbye my
dear friends!I will always love you!thank you everyone!
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[LYDIA]

My
Permanent Home
If life is a floating journey, home would be the boat for loading. If
life is a boat, home must be the deep water. If life is the water, of
course, home will be the harbour for a break, even the protector. For
my part, home is my spiritual perch, my consistent reliance, also my
inspiration source.
Now, I have my so-called independent life, only because I am faraway
from my home. I can do many things which I am fond of, reading books,
listening music, watching TV programmes, going out for a walk, etc. No
matter what I do, my life is filled up with so much touching. And most
of them comes from my home. Without my home, reading is just reading,
what a wonderful story is only other’s story, there is little relation
to me. Without my home, music would be a gathering of some tone and
sound, I can’t have so many images and resonance. Without my home,
programme may lose its life colour. Yes, I am only a common student, I
don’t want too much inspiration to create more works. But my life
still need touching, happiness, sorrow, luck and annoyance, all of
them are what I need, because they are my life inspiration. I only
feel them, my life would be colourful and meaningful. I like this
feeling which comes from my home. Home is my life inspiration source.
In the bottom of my heart, It always exists a holy place which I look
forward to. No matter what I experience, this place is the consistent
warm reliance, that is my home. I still remember the first year, when
I had my university entrance examination, I failed, all the plans and
dreams fell through. Everyday, I didn’t say a ward to my family,
didn’t go out for a walk, even felt the world was gray and gloomy.
There is nothing could be done except weeping. I hated myself, felt
everything was boring. What’s worse, I didn’t know what should be done
the next, choosing a low-grade college or continuing my high school
life. If I chose the former, that meant I would lose my dream.
However, the latter was another challenge to me, my time, my energy
and the unsure ending, I confused. At that time, my father told me,
“you’d better think about the problem seriously. No matter which
choice you make, we all support you.” Before leaving, he said: “In my
opinion, dream is more important, no paying and no getting. You are
not alone.” Yes, I understood my father, my home. Maybe it was a
correct answer to my confusion. What I needed was other’s support,
especially my home’s. Then, I chose paying more for my dream, though I
completely didn’t know the ending, I wanted to have a try. Till today,
I still thank my family members, thank my home. It will be my
spiritual perch, my life reliance forever.
To different one, home has different meaning. But, there is one point
may never be changed, no matter when it is, where I am, what I do,
home is my permanent home!

[clare]

How exercise helps
When I was a childhood, my parents always let me out play with other
children, so as to be able to strength my body.However, when I was
accepting education,my parents always let me study, even sometimes the
exercise was replaced with the study.Absolutely, we must admit that
study is more important than exercise in many sitiuations, but you can
imagine that if our life without exercise, what will happen? The
children`s body will be weaker and weaker, and their spirit will be
duller and duller, the young people will lake energies to work and
take good care of their children and parents. The old will have a
short life and can not enjoy the pleasure of life.It is so terrible,I
can not imagine!
As is well know, health is the most important thing in our life,
only a strong man can do great tasks, a weak person can not do
anything well.So we must take more exercise when we have free time,
and keep a healthy body to fight against all kinds of illness.
Inaddition, exercise teaches us cooperation, for most exercises are
played by team.I hope everyone can do more exercise.

[janel]

The Power of Idea
I recently read some stories about the relationship between success
and creative ideas. These stories explained two aspects of good ideas.
It is a good idea can conquer a lot of people while a good idea can
bring you huge profits. They made me know the power of ideas.
How do you think about dust? Dirty or something like that?
Differently, Fleming invented penicillin by a drop of dust. Before
him, there were many people studied for it but in vain. At the time he
did his experiment, a drop of dust fell in the container and a series
of reactions happened, then it changed the liquid in the container.
Thus, he invented the penicillin after studying this phenomenon.
At the same time, a good idea can bring huge profits.
The births of Yuan yang hotpot in Chongqing and McDonald’s are such
good ideas.
Once, people from Chongqing received guests from Beijing, they ate
hotpot. The spicy soup made the guests unbearable though the food was
delicious. So the host used water to wash the dishes cooked but guests
can’t help trying to taste the spicy food. However this thing touched
the owner’s inspiration. He thought why not make two kinds of soup in
the same hotpot. Finally he put an arched partition in the pot and
named nicely, Yuan yang hotpot. Little ideas made his restaurants
famous and earned 100 million a year. Now, his food company’s total
assets arrived 1.6 billion.
The original manager of McDonald was the McDonald’s brother. There
are no tables and dustbins in their restaurant. Staffs worked in
pipeline just like working in assembling line. So it was a low cost
and a high efficiency. But there are no more creative in them. However
a salesman who sale milk knew the future of this way He first
persuaded the brother open restaurant in chains. Then he bought their
property by $270 million and had a great development. So far, the
majority of Americans go to McDonald. It covered all over the world.
The reasons for the success of McDonald include two main factors.
One is technology factors; another is creative culture and humane
care. From studying, their counters’ height is 92 cm, so consumers pay
money conveniently. Coco-Cola is 4 degrees centigrade in average, the
thick of bread is 17 mm. Thus, they will give you the best tasting. It
also has a high efficiency. Their toilets are tidy and clean, set in
the entrance of back door. So people can go there without through the
counter with embarrassing. In Hong Kong, these mentally disabled
people serve as cleaners. They are wiping stairs and floor again and
again. Definitely, they are not only beautifying the environment but
also enhance their confidence.
In my opinion, ideas are exist in any place as well as our life.
As long as people do, ideas will always favor you.

[clover]

据摩托罗拉一位官员称，当前世界第二号手机生产商摩托罗拉将通过推出新系列产品，欲明年再次从芬兰诺基亚手中夺回手机市场第一的位置。

　　公司负责欧洲、中东和非洲的市场营销和销售负责人Allen Burnes称，公司现已有市场细分的所有类型产品。今年公司已极大地巩固了市场第二
的位置。在未来数年内，公司超过诺基亚返回世界第一位置，并领导市场已是非常实际的看法。公司针对诺基亚在周一介绍了今年下半年要推出的七种新型手机产
品，而后者今年产品在市场缺乏新鲜感。

　　诺基亚是1998年超过摩托罗拉成为世界头号手机生产商，截止今年仍远超对手，一度曾达占全球手机市场近40%的份额。但研究机构
Strategy Analytics周五公布的数据显示，公司二季度在全球市场份额已从上年同期的36%滑落到28.9%。

　　Global No. 2 handset maker Motorola will regain the top spot
globally from Finland's Nokia in the coming years, helped by a raft of
new phone launches, an official was quoted as saying on Friday.
"We now have new phone models for every segment in all markets," Allen
Burnes, Motorola's marketing and sales head for Europe, the Middle
East and Africa, was quoted as saying in Finnish business daily
Kauppalehti.

　　"Already this year we are significantly strengthening our number two
position in the market. It is fully realistic that we will pass Nokia
and return to the market leader spot in just a few years," he said.

　　Motorola on Monday unveiled seven new handsets due out in the second
half of the year, taking aim at Nokia , which has struggled in 2004
with a patchy phone portfolio lacking in camera and fold-away models.

　　Nokia passed Motorola in 1998 to become the world's largest mobile
phone maker, and until this year maintained a huge lead over its
rivals, at one point coming close to taking a 40 percent global market
share.

　　Data released by research group Strategy Analytics on Friday showed
Nokia's global share slid to 28.9 percent in the second quarter from
36 percent a year ago, although on a quarterly basis its market share
loss stabilised.

　　Motorola raised its share to 15.4 percent from 13.9 percent a year
ago, although Korea's Samsung Electronics remains hot on the U.S.
company's heels.

　　In a bid to halt its market share loss, Nokia has sacrificed
profitability by slashing prices on selected phone models, and Burnes
said Motorola was feeling the effects.

　　"One has to admit that Nokia's aggressive discount tactics do not
help us," he said.

　　"It's a question of Nokia fighting for its life. Nokia had to take
the discount path with its product portfolio. We saw this coming in
good time," Burnes said.

[Athena]

My personal manager
This is a story about how a girl gets rid of the
consciousness about her height. Karen Forbes is a tall girl while
Carlos is a short boy. The first day when they met, Karen ran into
Carlos, what he said made the class laugh, which also made Karen
embarrassed .after the class, Carlos apologized to Karen and said that
they had a lot in common, but Karen still seemed to be unfriendly to
him. It was Carlos election --- being voice president that made Karen
change her mind. few days later ,Karen asked Carlos whether his being
short bored him ,he told “yes”but said it is no help to complain and
one should face the fact since he realized what was troubling
Karen ,he offer to be Kerens personal manager and she agreed
Soon after that ,Carlos required Karen to improve her appearance and
greet everybody even take active part in school activities so as to
help Karen find confidence ,love with a jockey ,she was afraid of
being laughed at ,she was in lower spirits until the play was put
on .Carlos companied her to the end . finally ,the play turned out to
be a success ,they both acted well ,the audience gave them a big
hand .at this time Karen understood that no matter when and where one
should be confident in herself.

[mary]

Some days before, I also felt puzzled and didn't know what to do. I
think it is common and normal to have such feeling. If you are an
English major, as far as I'm concerned, there is a lot of things we
need to do. For example, do some preparations for TEM 4.You know, the
time is so precious for us. I hope that you can feel better soon and
find your goal again. Come on!

[豆怡]

Watching TV or Reading Books
Some people prefer to watch movies while others like reading books.
Movies and books are two different vehicles that give us different
opinions from different people and through them and how we can use
them is the point.
But nowadays, more people like watching movies and some people say
it’s so bad to give up reading books because of the existence of
movies. But it’s not exact to say reading book is better than watching
movies totally. They are both the ways we can study through them and
how we can use them is the point.
If we want to know how to use them, we must make it clear that their
relationship and characters firstly. Then we could combine this result
with our own need and make them help us more effectively.
So it is to early to draw a conclusion before you make a study of it.

[neifan]

I stand alone in the darkness
The winter of my life came so fast
Memories go back to childhood
to days I still recall
Oh how happy I was then
There was no sorrow there was no pain
Walking through the green fields
Sunshine in my eyes
I'm stil there everywhere
I'm the dust in the wind I'm the star in the northern sky
I never stayed anywhere
I'm the wind in the trees
Would you wait for me forever

[张小丽]

half a day
The first day when my father took me to school, I was not happy,
because I thought that school was a place that punished a person who
did something wrong. but my father told me it was a place that made
useful person. I was still not convinced about what he said.
When we arrived at the school gate, my father pushed me to enter
and told me I must do it being a man. And it was a day my new life
began. When I entered the school yard, boys and girls glanced at me in
curiosity. When the gate was closed, some of them began to cry, then a
woman came and told us that school was an enjoyable and beneficial
place, we should enjoy ourselves.
I had never thought that school was so wonderful, I made many
friends there and learnt a lot of things. And I realized that we had
to suffer a lot from now on, in order to present ourselves.
Comments: The sentences are fluent and the connection between the
sentences are natural. The author wrote out the main ideas briefly,
but some of them are not outstanding enough.
魏世环

[zhao tingting]

You Are Unique
Do YOU reaise YOU are unique? Maybe or maybe not, but I want to
emphasize everyone is unique in the world. Since that second when YOU
were born, there is a "you" in the world. YOU have YOU own appearance,
no matter it is perfect or not .

Maybe YOU are not beautiful . Maybe youare not intelligent. Maybe
YOUare not successful. But YOU are kind ,YOU are hardworking and YOU
are brave.Maybe YOU are always admiring someone who is pretty.clever
and excellent and complaining to youself.You ask youself why YOU are
so ordinary.Yes?If YOU think like this, I believe it is completely
unnecessary. As far as I am concerd, just because YOU have your own
character,even it is a kind of weakness,it is OK.Because YOU are ,YOU
are not others,YOU are different from others .Just keep YOU ,do
youself.

Yes, YOU are unique,so just believe in youself,do your own
business,use your own way.Just say you want to say,do what YOU what to
do,do not care others,do not care what other said.

Finally,if there are two roads in a wood,one is traveled by many
people,but the other less traveled by.What will YOU do ,which road
doYOU want to travel?

[豆怡]

Find Ourselves
Even though we work hard most of the time, we will find ourselves on
to the emptiness as well. Why we must do the things most people are
doing? Why? Because in that way, we can get a job, we can play a nice
house and so on. So we exchange our minds or dreams to those things.
But why must we have those things? Because the attitude towards us
from the people around us. I can’t say it’s not important to me,
because I can’t neglect it.
But if one day I can do something I really want, I’ll do it without
disturbing. Maybe I am just crazy in that day. If being crazy means
living life as it maters then I don’t care if I am completely insane.
But you now I must have classes, do homework, take exams and so on.

[flora]

The Meaning of Home
Home means a lot to me. It is a place where I can enjoy love, warmth,
care and peace. Home is better than any other place for me.
It was the first time that I was aware of the position of home in my
heart. When I started my high school life, I could just come back home
once a week. In that period of time, especially at nights, I felt very
depressed and lonely, because I missed my families very much. They
always appeared in my dream. But after waking up , I had to
acknowledge the reality. In order to realise my dream, I knew I must
keep calm . So I tried to make myself busy to take my mind off it.
That had a little effect on my problem.
Home is the first place from which our life begin.Parent is our first
teacher. Parents take good care of us. It is at our parents’knees that
we acquire our noblest and truest and highest, but there is seldom any
money in them. With the protection of home, we grow older and older.
Home is the factory that can product happiness. Happy are the families
where government of parent is the reign of affection, and of the
chilren the submission to love. There are a lot of things we can do at
home. We can play chess with our fathers,talk to our mothers and solve
problems with our siblings together. We all like delicious food. I
think that is a part of our home. We reture home at weekends, then
the whole family sit at table, laughing. What a happy thing!
Home is embedded our hearts. Where we love is home, home that our
feet may leave, but not our hearts.

[ml]

This fragrant flower in my heart
As someone said that the draw will follow the dark, the tide will come
in, the grass will be renewed, every dog will have its day. So, I
think we should face trouble calmly. In our lives, we may be come
across many difficult things, which made you upset or disappointment.
But it is not important. The important thing is to over came them and
make a progress. Just be myself, I think it’s enough.
In our ages, I think we should set up a good sense. For example, we
should keep modest. Modest helps people to make progress, conceit
makes one laid behind. If we have something we don’t know, asking
people who know it is a good way to solve it.
All in all, I want to say that this fragrant flower in my heart. We
should value our youth. In our youth time to do some meaning things.

[豆怡]

A Big Family
Try to imagine the life with 12 kids; it’ll be full of trouble as well
as happiness. I saw a film telling the story about a big family which
has 12 kids.
They faced a very big problem and had to make a big decision. Their
father would have a new job with higher wage, but they had to move
away from their hometown to a new place, go to new schools and make
new friends. That’s the problem.
Finally they went there and at that same time their mother got a
chance to publish her book. That’s wonderful, but it means their
father must deal with all the family work and take care of them. The
result is every one falling in troubles.
After that, every family member knew about each other and went on well
with each other ever after. That means happiness.

[shelly]

A Small Taste of Freedom
The former president of South African Mandela even said: “To
survive in prison, one must develop ways to take satisfaction in one’s
daily life.” He really did what he said. During the time in prison,
instead of upset everyday, he pursued his own satisfaction.
He applied a small garden and spent a lot of time taking care of it.
He even studied different gardening techniques and types of
fertilizers. It was his pleasure to see how a seed grew into a fruit.
His life was full of sunshine when he enjoyed creating everyday.
He also found leaders like gardeners. A great leader who was brave and
wise should take responsibility for what he cultivates as a good
gardener who was hardworking and plain should look after his garden.
One should be placid ,he thought we must realized sometimes we can not
prevent some bad things happening just like a gardener can not bring a
dying plant bank to health. We must know it is life.
The small garden brought strong encouragement and pure happiness to
him. In the prison he enjoyed his special satisfaction and freedom!

[cindyzhao]

Differences between middle school life and college life
There are many differences between my middle school life and college
life, which are completely and enormously distinct.
The distinctions are as follows.Firstly,I keep company with my
parents , have my mother’ cook everyday, be took good care of by
families and educated nearly every moment in my middle school, but I
must be adapt to be alone or lonely sometimes, eat food that I don’t
like and may be ignored.Secondly,I have to do my homework late in the
night, take exam frequently and I have few time to watch TV or go
shopping or something else with my friends in my middle life .However,
my college life is quite different. I have much free time to deal with
things of my own, like going shopping, charting on line and watching
movies. In addition, the whole of my subjects need to be learnt by
myself. Nobody can control my life and decide whether I had done right
or not. Thirdly, he college camp is bigger than my middle school, more
students, more teachers and I need to live with my roommates which are
so different for me. I should be friendly to them and if I feel sad or
I want to cry , it’s not easy to express and I need to control my
feelings all the time .Finally, college life give us many spaces and
freedom, we have real right to fall in love with someone, which is
thought of a terrible fact and be forbidden by teachers and parents.
We can choose our future according to our willingness, be independent
in 4 years, we must be responsible to ourselves or our future life and
study hard even though there is no person to manage us. All the things
are not same with that in middle life. What the biggest difference is
that we can get enough experience and turn from a kid to an adult,
like a lady or a gentleman.

[LYDIA]

My Dear Parent
Till now, I start to recognise that my parent is the person who love
me most. No matter what they do, they just want their child live
better. However, at that time, I just thought them as a boring, even
selfish couple, because they always interfered my business.
I still remember the first fight between my partent and me.when I was
in the primary school, besides the school course, I had to learn the
electric keyboard. At the beginning, I really thought it was very
interesting, but after a period of playing, I was tired of this busy
life. Everyday, I was alone, I had no time to play with my companions.
And I was afraid of losing them, my part time was filled with many
kinds of no limited homework. So I complained to my parent,”I am only
a little girl, I don’t need so much thing, what I really need is
playing, I need my companions. Otherwise, it would be bad for my
growth. I’m your child, not a machine for working.” In fact, these
words were not my words. I spent too much time in finding it on the
composition book. I thought it completely standed my mind. So I
remember it for a special purpose. Then ,my father said:”yes, you are
only a little girl, you can know what. Everything we do is good for
you. As your parent, we do too much for you, and you have no right to
complain. Just do what we tell you to do.”I felt so sad. I thought
they didn’t understand me, they just treated me as a tool or something
else, but not their child. So I made many struggles. At last,I gave up
the electric keyboard, though they didn't agree it completely. I
believed that I was freedom from that time.
Soon, the truth came, the reality was I had no speciality. At this
time, I would think of parent. If I would follow them when they asked
me. Now,maybe many things could be changed. When I talked this to my
parent. They just smiled ,”Frankly speaking,we are often in
contradiction, we want you to learn more,but we also don’t want to
force you to do something you don’t like. In most of the time,we know
you think we are boring. But all the things we do is aimed at your
bright future.we believe that you can understand us when you grow up.
Yes,now I have been an adult, I understand all the things my parent do
for me.they are the best person for me with no selfishness, no
boredom. They care me and love me without any return. And all of these
have not been unterstood until now. But it is never too late, because
they are still my dear parent, and I will become their obedient child
forever.

[clare]

Text messages
Nowadays, text messages are widely used in various TV programs as
well as our daily life.It helps us keep touch with each other and
greet each other,In other words, it is an important tool for us to
communicate with others.
For the text messages, different people have different opinions.
Some people hold the view that text messanges offer more chances
for audience to participate in the programs. On the other hand, it can
content the young people`s pursuit of new things, and it also
certainly brings convinient for us.
However, some people complain that the expense may be unbearable,
and even some people may be addicated to them. In addition, it is a
waste of time.For the TV programs, if the text messages are out of
control, they can not guarantee the quality of the programs.
As far as I am concerned, everything has two sides. On one side,
it really is good for our life, and stands for new information
technology.On the other side, it may take over the wrong information
and cheat us, sometimes, we may be taken in by illegal person.So we
must use it carefully.
In conclusion, if we use text messages in a right way, we will
derive benefits from it and have a good life.

[雯轩]

Give someone a chance to explain
In our daily life, all kinds of misunderstanding from time to time
will happen. Some of them are just unimportant things; they may be
forgotten after a long time. However, some misunderstanding, if you do
not clear up, they will always in your memory and let you feel
uncomfortable.
I still remember a thing happened in high school. There are eight
students in our dormitory. One of us came from a poor family, we
called her Xiao .Because there were four children in her family, so
she led a difficult life. She never wasted money. She always ordered
the cheapest dishes to eat in canteen and never went to the
restaurants. All she had done was to save money and spend it more
wisely. She often wrote something in the notebook secretly. We were
curious about her writing. We all guessed what did she write, but we
never had the chance to know.
One day a roommate forgot to lock her cupboard .She found her money
was missing when she returned. She could not help crying because for a
student it was not a small loss at that time. We don’t know what to do
but comfort. We began to recall the thing from beginning to end.
Suddenly a roommate jumped up and said after her leaving, Xiao still
stayed in the dormitory. At this time everyone with exception thought
of the poor girl, her poverty, her saving, her strange action in the
eyes of us all confirmed our suspicions. We were all angry about her
stealing in front of our eyes. We decided that we should take measures
to avoid this thing happen next time .We wanted her to feel ashamed of
her behavior. Therefore, when she came back, we talked with each other
on purpose that someone stole the money and we had known who the thief
was. In fact, we wanted to capture some information on her face, but
we found nothing. She kept silent as usual as if it had nothing to do
with her. We were shocked to see that one who did a thing like that
could keep quiet as usual, her attitude made us angry. We wanted her
to leave. To her face, we never said anything, but behind her back, we
called her thief. Gradually some of my classmates knew the thing and
they treated her with the same way. Actually one’s heart was
sensitive, she can feel the change of our attitude，everyone avoided
her like the plague. But she never try to explain herself, because she
knew no one could trust her .At last she left our dormitory.
After her leaving, I began to analyse the thing, I discovered that
we never give her a chance to explain. We jumped to the conclusion
because our prejudice against her. In fact, the rumor in the world
cannot stand the test of time, the truth will out. However, sometimes
we indulge those rumors just because we follow others blindly.
Finally, I found the real thief; it was who said Xiao was in the
dormitory

[姜漫 姜]

What Attitude Should We Take on H1N1 Vaccine
The whole world unceasingly has been striving against the H1N1
virus during this pandemic. Receiving the H1N1 vaccine is one of
available ways of reducing a person's chance of getting H1N1.
Some people who are given priority to receive the vaccine free of
charge do not want to enjoy it actually because of the severe
confusion about the safety of the vaccine against the H1N1
virus ,while other people who have no privilege to be vaccinated
against the virus start to complain the so-called unfairness
because of the concern of not receiving the vaccine .
The way I see it, it is remarkably important to take right and
prudent attitude at this juncture.
On one hand it is effective and unavoidable for those people in
high risk areas to receive the vaccine .Those people in high risk
areas such as students, health care workers, individuals with
underlying chronic medical conditions are more likely to get HIN1
than the others .so it is necessary to be vaccinated against H1NI
virus .In addition ,H1NI vaccine is effective and safe in spite of
side-effects ,some serious .the H1NI vaccine has been shown, and
confirmed by clinical applications in various institutions around the
world ,to be available and safe .At least we ensure that the great
benefit and protection conferred by the H1NI virus far outweigh the
degree of risk from the potential side-effects .As a consequence there
is no need to worry about the safety of the vaccine too much .If they
can, they'd better take full advantage of the vaccine to prevent the
outbreak and protect the welfare of our loved ones ,ourselves .
On the other hand it is practical and economical for those people
out high risk areas to take more exercise and live healthier lifestyle
to prevent the H1N1 virus. Ideally, everyone who doesn't have
contraindication for the H1N1 vaccine would be
vaccinated .however ,there is clear and pressing demand for the
vaccines ,so those people out high risk areas have to be excluded from
receiving vaccines .therefore taking exercise to prevent the virus
instead of receiving the vaccine agrees with the reality. What's more,
in terms of people themselves, it makes people strengthen our immune
system in this ways against the pandemic. Concerning the government
organizations, it can help them save money. In a word, those people
ought to get the success of preventing the H1N1 virus in these
ways ,more importantly ,achieve happier and more productive life .
When the H1N1 vaccine comes to us, let's make well-informed
decision to make use of it if we can. When the vaccine is still on the
way, let's make intelligent determination to chose the more simple and
practical ways against the outbreak.

[Lizzie]

I Love My Home
“What does home mean to me?” I asked myself. I didn’t know the answer
and I couldn’t help remembering the old tree in my hometown. The old
tree witnessed my happiness and sorrow before I attended the
university. The way I saw it, my home and the old tree were alike.
In the spring, the old tree taught us seeding hope and ambition. I
spent my most of childhood time playing with my companions under the
tree. I pretended myself to be the adults and picked her leaves to
build a sweet home which was filled with joy and happiness. My parents
were famer. However mean our life was, they met it and lived it,
didn’t shun it and call it hard names. I learned that when times were
difficult, we should face reality and keep smile.
The weather was hot, without a breath of wind in the summer. The old
tree looked wilting in the hot sun. My home gave me rewarded love. My
mother was sick seriously. We hadn’t enough money to pay for the
operation. I never forgot my father’s worried face and my little
brother’s face with tears. In fact, I felt more upset than others. I
told a lie about my exam. I had passed the exam which ensured me
attending the high school. But mother had known the truth. I wept when
I accepted my tuition from my mom with a start. It looked richest when
you were poorest.
Autumn had come and leaves were starting to fall. Home was a great
source of courage because I was pitching in for the whole family. My
family beamed when I attended the university. I owned my a little
success to my home’s support. Things didn’t change, we changed. My
home looked me as a considerate girl. So it was up to me to decide
some things. Sometimes I was too free to make right choice. My home
never complained me instead of encouraging me. I felt like a small
fish in the big pond when I went to the university. I was under great
pressure and felt lonely. There was the comfort thing that heard
families’ voice. I would have belief to rise to the occasion. I knew
home got my back.
The trees were swaying in the biting north wind in the winter. But it
looked stronger than it had been. In my opinion, house was house.
House wasn’t equal to home. Home was the place where gave me the
belongingness and love needs.
I love my home. Home’s my energy source forever.

[linda]

How to Spend You Thanksgiving Day
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving day, as Amanda said it is the holiday that
she like most. Maybe, it’s not very important for we Chinese. However
we can take this opportunity to spent another form of festival to
celebrate our own stuffs.
Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival. Traditionally, it is a time to
give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. It is a
holiday celebrated primarily in Canada and the United States. While
perhaps religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now primarily identified
as a secular holiday.
The most meaningful and interesting thing is the another purpose of
the celebration. In order to express the gratitude to the Indians,
Americans created Thanksgiving. In this day, friends and families
always get together, talking and having big dinner, and share the
happiest time whole year.
Then how to spend our Thanksgiving？I really think it is a good way to
express the thanks feeling to the deserved people in this day. For
example, you can make a call to your parents and give your true
greetings if you couldn’t go back home. At the same time, you can
write a note that tell the gratitude to the teachers. What about our
friends,of course,they cannot be ignored. We can go out together and
have a big hotpot. Don’t you think it’s wondreful?
So, please act out!

[juanna]

What I usually do on weekends
I always have so much class that there are little spare time for me to
do what I want to do. So I feel much happier when weekends come, and I
often use them to do something that I like but cannot do during the
week.
The first thing I do when I am after class weekends come is to watch
TV in my dormitary, as I think it is time for me to relax myself .
Communicating with my roommates and watching TV together with them is
really a happy thing which I always look forward. By this way, I can
forget all pressure I face in study and do whatever I like.
In addition, having a good sleep is a neccessary thing I do on
weekends, because we often have class all day that so I seldom have
enough time to rest, even at noon, I can just have a small nap, so I
have a sleep debt to pay back and weekends can be regarded as an
aviliable time.
Besides, I also stay together with my friends and go shopping with
them. Since being admitted by university, my friends and I always do
our own things and seldom have time to talk with each other. So we
often go to see them using weekends if we are in the same place.

[kate]

college life

The college life is more free than high school life. First, high
school students have the pressure of college entrance examination,so
they are forced to study all the time and don't have time to do the
things they are interested in.For example,a high school student gets
up at seven in the morning,then he goes to school.When he comes back
home,it is almost seven o'clock in the evening,even later.But he still
need study at home.In the weekend,they are busy at attending many
coaching courses. In college,students have less courses so they have
enough time to do something they are interested in. Second, the
college have various majors and different kinds of activities,college
students can choose whatever they like to take part in.But in high
school,there's nearly no interesting activities,the only thing the
student should do is study.Third, most high school students live with
their parents. In order to let their children concentrate on their
study,the parents will do all the things to serve their children and
supervise them,as a results,the children will feel that they are
controlled and don't have freedom.On the contrary,college students
lived by themselves so they are more free than the high school
students. Therefore,life is more free in college than in high school.

[lucky]

Why I don't make my bed
Before coming into university,I always make my bed in the
morning.But after coming into university I don't make my bed.There are
several reasons.
First,previousely,I slept in lower berth.But in the university,I
slept in upper berth.Ifelt a little unrealiable at first,because when
I got up, I could thoch my head n the wallboard,so in\t is
unconwenient for me to make my bed.
Second, sometimes I will get up very late.In order to save time,I
don’t make my bed.
Finally,I believe that it is unnecessary for me to make bed,because I
will go to bed at noon after class,and got to bed in the
evening.The ,if I make my bed ,I must do it twice a day,and when I go
to bed,I must spread it out again.

[豆怡]

Making A Choice
I’ve already listened to the MP3 materials of Randy Paush’s last
lecture many times. But I can’t understand it totally! But that’s the
moment I need to make a choice. Stick to it, or not! I remember every
time I made excuse for myself when I decided to give up. I knew I just
checked myself at that moment and had a bad feeling. For a long time,
you just make decisions but not stick to it. That means nothing. So
sometimes you drove need to many decisions, maybe just one is enough.
The most important point is sticking to it.
Forget those unhappy experiences, just remember what you have learned
from them. Then look forward and work harder since that. It’s easy to
say, but it’s difficult to do. But this time I get it and stick to it
everyday. I believe I can understand it one day!
That’s my experience to make a choice!

[Athena]

Why I don’t
make my bed

There are several reasons why I don’t make my bed. first ,before
attending the university I always live my parents ,they often prepare
for what I need, not only in daily life ,but also in study ,such as
making bed ,washing clothes ,arranging study room .it’s unnecessary
for me to care about anything around me, only one thing I should do
well is concentrating on study ,thus I have been used to getting up
without making bed .second reason is that there is nobody to check the
dormitory sanitary ,so I’m not afraid to be criticized ,to put it
differently ,it’s no need to make my bed .third, to some extent ,I am
influenced by my roommates, because they often don’t make their beds.
finally ,the most important reason is that I am under great
pressure ,I have a lot of homework to do ,so I have to stay up to
prepare for the next day’s lessons and review what I have learnt that
day ,so resulting in going to bed late .in the next morning ,although
my arm clock ringing I’m too tired to got ,and I continue to sleep a
little more .it seems to be late ,I get up extremely quickly and of
course there is no enough time for me to make bed .
To be frank, I know it’s not a good habit not to make bed, but
habit comes from second, I will try my best to get rid of it.

[valaria]

Big Party or Pig’s Party?
When I was in my middle school, I was extremly naughty. Because of
that, I was often criticized by the teachers. But also because of
that, I had a special and unforgettable period of time.
One thing express me most. One day when we were going to have
geography class, our geography teacher came in while smiling. He said:
“Today I learned a new phrase which is very interesting. Do you know
what a party that have no male called in English?”. Only have learned
for a year, we yelled one after another “woman’s party” “no, women’s
party” “…”. Our teacher laughed. After a while he said: “It’s called
hen’s party”. All the boys howled with laughter. The girls including
me were very angry. A girl standed up and said “then what a party that
have no female called in English?”. Before our teacher could answer, I
shouted “It’s called pig’s party”. My teacher went extremly angry. He
said I have no polite at all. For I think I had do some things for our
female, I said prouded: “My honorific teacher, I said ‘big party’
instead of ‘pig’s party’. Because I think male’s party must be more
big, so am I wrong to call the male’s party big party? If I my poor
pronunciation cause any mistake, I hope you can forgive me ”. My
teacher just stare at me speechless. Girls in our class all screamed
and applaud for my little vicyory.At that time, I feel happy.
After that happened, our geography teacher didn’t ask me any question
for a year. But when I was in my last year at middle school, he
teacher my chemistry. For my cute and great interest in chemistry, he
because my good friend. He said to me:“You were my most special
student!”. At that time, I feel much more than happy!

[Phoebe]

An Unforgettable Class Meeting
Wu is a classmate of mine in high school. Even though he was tall,
we could hardly notice him, because he always kept silent and sat in
the corner of the classroom. Everyone in our class nearly forgot him
if that thing would not happen.
It was May 13,2008, the day after the earthquake taking place in
Wen chuan, Si chuan province. We held a class meeting for donating. As
a member of class, everyone took part in the meeting; and as Chinese,
everyone donated all his or her money on him or her, except him. We
were confused and began to whisper. Then Mr. Ma, who in charge of our
class, stood up and said:” what do you think about those people who
lost their family and home in the earthquake? I think you are so
mean!” We stopped talking and had mercy on him. We all knew that Mr.
Ma was too strict to mean and he was also famous for his bad temper.
Answering back always leads to punishment, so most of time we would
rather choose to keeping silent, but that day Wu did not. He stared at
Mr. Ma and said:” I will not donate any money. I will go to Si chuan
province and be a volunteer after the college entrance examination.”
We were shocked. We never expect his words like that. Then he said
again,” I wrote a poem for those people who died since the disaster.”
He read it while we sat silently, listened carefully, then clapped
with tears full of our eyes. Instead of punishment, Mr. Ma smiled and
said in his high-pitched,” what a wonderful poem! I like Wu’s unique
personality! I hope you sitting in the class can have your own styles,
and do not be mediocre...” Wu’s behave changed after that class
meeting.
Nowadays, I still remember what Mr. Ma said and I know I will never
forget that special class meeting forever!

[shelly]

Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Once I had listened Professor Randy Push’s last lecture given at
Carnegie Mellon University in our class. Randy was diagnosed with
cancer in 2007 and it was only about two to five months left when he
gave the lecture. How can we imagine a person who was going to die but
was still so optimistic toward life, as he said “I am dying and I am
still having fun. I am going to keep having fun every day I have left.
”
His speech was “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, in his
lecture he listed his childhood dreams first, such as being in zero
gravity, playing in the National Football league, being Captain Kirk.
Of course, few of them were achieved. The most important thing is that
you have dreams when you were young. He said pursuing one’s dreams is
pretty cool, you would improve yourself time to time and maybe during
this progress you can find what you were badly needed. Sometimes we
would meet many “Brick Walls”, in other word difficulties. If you are
really interested in something, do please stick to it. Nothing can be
so easy that you can achieve it for the first time. Just as Randy said
“Brick Walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly
enough. They are there to stop the other people.” Are you the other
people? No, I don’t think so! Then he talked about how to enable
other’s dreams. We should encourage others and believe others, the
most important thing is we should try our best to give hem a hand when
they need help. He also said success calls for opportunities,
diligent, knowledge, etc Never give up when you in a big trouble and
just keep going, it is surly you can get what you want through your
hard work. Remember you can only depend on yourself.
I admire Randy very much. Although his life was short, his thoughts
and his kindness would last longer and longer. God bless you Randy!

[shenyueqin]

My Glove
I have a specially good present, which is glove. It is taken me a
few years. I like it very much. Becaue it is sent by my best friend.
It looks beautiful. It has a lot of functions. It makes me happy.
My glove is meanngful for me. On that day, which I spend my
birthday, my best friend sends to me. I never allow others touching
it. I remembered one day that my young brother put on it, just then I
saw it, I took it and blame my brother. So he cried. My mother came to
me, and said,"what happpened, why your brother cried?" I said, 'he
touched my glove.' Suddenly my mother blamed me too. A glove, was not
what. If it was broken by your brother, you could buy another one.Why
you made your brother crying. He was young. You should humility him.
I was angry about my mother. In my heart, it is my meaningful present.
I treat it as my family.
My glove is very beautiful. It looks a lovely toy. The colour of
the glove is blue. Because my favourite colour is blue. So everything
of mine, which colour is blue. It stands for the sky. I want to fly in
the sky, like a bird, it is very free.If you see my glove, you must
love it like me.
My glove has many functions. For example, in winter, it can gives
me a lot of warm. Because the winter is very cold. When I go out, I
always put it on my hands,. If so, I never feel so cold. My hands look
like very tender.And I can put it on my face by my hands. If so, my
face looks like tender too. On the other side, it makes me happy. If I
am not happy, I always talk with it. Because only it is willing to
listen me, it can not say that I am a trouble people. I have treated
it my family, just likes my young sister. Every night, it stays in my
closing. We sleep together.I can not leave it, and it can not leave
me. It i my shadow.
I like my glove very much. We are good friends. I it will
accompany me forever. This is our secret.In a word, thanks my friend
to send me a pair of glove. In fact,my friend is my family, my glove
is my family too.

[lily]

Praise People
When you praise others, it doesn't mean you lower yourself, instead
it means that you respect ohters.
Please remember, you respect others, while others will respect you!
You can praise others in this way:
" You are looking damned good today, CJ."
" Great idea you had for the frozen fish client, Susan."
" I am so glad you are part of this meeting, Brian. You always make
meetings come alive."
That's the sort of thing. Now, practice sounding like you mean it.
Because unfortunately in this country, praising someone else tends to
sound like you are really a born-again Canadian who's won the Lottery
and spent all the money going on motivational courses.
But it's worth persevering, because it makes everybody work better
and it makes the workplace a whole lot happier.
For instance, I told the people who came up with this action how
much I liked it. They said how much they appreciated my views.

[clare]

How to use Sundays
We must make good use of Sundays.Many of us always spend Sundays
aimlessly, so we can seldom derive benefits from them. Though Sundays
set aside as a day for rest, we still should use them do something
meahingful.For instance, we can go to the library to read some
inference books, we can be engaged in sports or outing so as to be
able to strengthen our bodies, we also can have a trip or travel, so
we will increase our knoeledge, broading our minds, and even
strengthen our character. There are all meaningful things we should do
on Sundays.
Accordingly, just like the plants are die if they absence of
sunlight, a college student without sufficient knoeledge will not
succeed.There are many excuses obstruct us out of exceptation,.Our
teachers ever told us to make a plan, some of us absolution did that,
but only a few of them followed it.It is the reason why people always
say" Actions speak louder than words.
"Then, how to solve these problems? I think the biggist factor is
overcome our laziness.We must force ourselves to keep following the
time schedule no matter how tired you feel.
Idlness is the sourde of evil.AS a college student, we can not bear
the idlness, once we have time, we should seize it and take advantage
of it.
If you are not finish the things you want to finish on Sunday, you
may do it when you free, but not give up.
Try our best to be an industry person.You will be successful in
the future.

[winle]

In my opinion, a kind of happy life should be full of food, especially
beautiful and delicious food. There are four buys, WuZun, JiroWang,
AaronYan and CalvinChen, they are all gourmets. So I think they are
the kind of people who know how to enjoy life. WuZun said his favorite
dish was braised pork in soy sauce. They think food is a major
concern, so they always search out the best local dishes. The four
boys had hard time to succeed. Now, they enjoy their jobs as enjoy
beautiful food.

[冷雨]

The first day in university
The day when first came to northwest normal university was two yeas
ago ,but all the scenes were just flash in my mind .I was a little
nervous and excited.
In the morning my parents accompanied me to sign up .And with the help
of volunteers I found my dormitory .there I saw my roommates who are
the best friend now .Everything here was new to me .Splendid library,
tidy and big campus ,beautiful teaching buildings .especially the new
classmates and new teachers gave me a deep impression .they not only
have plenty of knowledge but also kind and warm hearted .
Afternoon we visited the school museum which displays the development
process and history of our university .I was so pride of it .At
last ,we had a welcome ceremony made me feel the university was my new
home .

[Lizzie]

[fiona]

Honesty Is Gold

Honesty means speakingthe truth and being fair and upright in act.
He who lies and cheats is dishonest.: Those who gain fortunes not by
hard labour but by other means is dishonest.
Honesty is a good virtue. If you are honest all the time,you’ll be
trusted and respected by others. A liar is always looked down upon and
regarded as a black sheep by the people around. Once you lie, people
will never believe you even if you speak the truth.
However, in the tide of commodity economy today, it seems that
more and more people believe in money at the sacrifice of honesty. To
them, among such things as health, beauty, m6ney, intelligence,
honesty, reputation and talent, honesty is the only thing that can be
east away. They don’t understand or pretend not to understand that
honesty is the biggest fortune humans own, and that it is the
prerequisite for doing everything well. I think these people areto be
pitied.
In short, honesty is gold. Honest, your reputation will become
great;dishonest, your name will be spoiled and your personality
degraded. Therefore, we should never make such an excuse as "A
little dishonesty is only a trifle thing. We should eradicate
immediately the seed of dishonesty once it is sowed in our minds.

[何亚琴]

public speech
Maybe everyone fears to speak in public. And when they speak to
others, we will flush crimson with embarrassment. So giving speeches
is one of the most important and special parts of our group learning.
In our daily classes, we can’t get so many chances to speak in public,
but Ivy gives us chances to practice speaking. Creative ideas and
critical thoughts are always welcome. No boundaries. No limitations.
What we should do is just take stab at it. We can recite a good poem,
talk something happened recently and even spin a yarn. We just want to
encourage ourselves to do what we dare not during the classes. So
every time we are driven to rack our brain to find something to talk
to attract other fellow members’ attention. It turns out to be a good
way to improve oral English.

[Bernice]

Christmas Morning

　　A light drizzle was falling as my sister Jill and I ran out of the
Methodist Church, eager to get home and play with the presents that
Santa had left for us and our baby sister, Sharon. Across the street
from the church was a Pan American gas station where the Greyhound bus
stopped. It was closed for Christmas, but I noticed a family standing
outside the locked door, huddled under the narrow overhang in an
attempt to keep dry. I wondered briefly why they were there but then
forgot about them as I raced to keep up with Jill.

　　Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We
had to go off to our grandparents’ house for our annual Christmas
dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the
family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.

　　My father was driving very slowly down the highway. The closer we
got to the turnoff for my grandparents’ house, the slower the car
went. Suddenly, my father U-turned in the middle of the road and said,
“I can’t stand it!”

　　“What?” asked my mother.

　　“It's those people back there at the Pan Am, standing in the rain.
They've got children. It's Christmas. I can’t stand it.”

　　When my father pulled into the service station, I saw that there
were five of them: the parents and three children — two girls and a
small boy.

　　My father rolled down his window. “Merry Christmas,” he said.

“Howdy,” the man replied. He was very tall and had to stoop slightly
to peer into the car.

　　Jill, Sharon, and I stared at the children, and they stared back at
us.

　　“You waiting on the bus?” my father asked.

　　The man said that they were. They were going to Birmingham, where he
had a brother and prospects of a job.

　　“Well, that bus isn’t going to come along for several hours, and
you’re getting wet standing here. Winborn’s just a couple miles up the
road. They’ve got a shed with a cover there, and some benches,” my
father said. “Why don't y’all get in the car and I’ll run you up
there.”

　　The man thought about it for a moment, and then he beckoned to his
family. They climbed into the car. They had no luggage, only the
clothes they were wearing.

　　Once they settled in, my father looked back over his shoulder and
asked the children if Santa had found them yet. Three glum faces
mutely gave him his answer.

　　“Well, I didn’t think so,” my father said, winking at my mother,
“because when I saw Santa this morning, he told me that he was having
trouble finding all, and he asked me if he could leave your toys at
my house. We'll just go get them before I take you to the bus stop.”

　　All at once, the three children's faces lit up, and they began to
bounce around in the back seat, laughing and chattering.

　　When we got out of the car at our house, the three children ran
through the front door and straight to the toys that were spread out
under our Christmas tree. One of the girls spied Jill’s doll and
immediately hugged it to her breast. I remember that the little boy
grabbed Sharon’s ball. And the other girl picked up something of mine.
All this happened a long time ago, but the memory of it remains clear.
That was the Christmas when my sisters and I learned the joy of making
others happy.

　　My mother noticed that the middle child was wearing a short-sleeved
dress, so she gave the girl Jill’s only sweater to wear.

　　My father invited them to join us at our grandparents’ for Christmas
dinner, but the parents refused. Even when we all tried to talk them
into coming, they were firm in their decision.

　　Back in the car, on the way to Winborn, my father asked the man if
he had money for bus fare.

　　His brother had sent tickets, the man said.

My father reached into his pocket and pulled out two dollars, which
was all he had left until his next payday. He pressed the money into
the man’s hand. The man tried to give it back, but my father insisted.
“It’ll be late when you get to Birmingham, and these children will be
hungry before then. Take it. I’ve been broke before, and I know what
it’s like when you can’t feed your family.”

　　We left them there at the bus stop in Winborn. As we drove away, I
watched out the window as long as I could, looking back at the little
gihugging her new doll.

[janel]

FRIED POTATOES

3-4 potatoes
1/4 cup oil, approximately
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2 pound fresh mushrooms, unsliced (sliced, canned mushrooms can be
substituted, if need be)
1/4 cup hulled sunflower seeds
salt and pepper

Heat oil, add potatoes that have been washed and thinly sliced. Cook
for 10-15 minutes, then add mushrooms, onions, garlic, and sunflower
seeds. Salt and pepper to taste. Cover and cook until done, uncover
and brown.

[冷雨]

A meaningful thing

On 23rd April, Pakistan Youth Association which consisted more than
100 young people visited our NWNU .I was lucky to be a member of the
volunteers.
That morning , we got together at building NO .1 at 8 o’clock to
welcome Pakistan Youth Association .They arrived at our university at
about 9.Volunteers and Association members were sorted into group .My
job was to translated and guided for two boys.
First, we went to visit museum .there are many historical and mystery
things like china ,bronze which from Qin to Qing dynasty and dinosaur
fossils .I explained every thing carefully for them .Second, we
visited University History Museum which displays the development
process of our university .All of the Association members were filled
with wonder at the sight. Next, we enjoyed a wonderful performance,
including a lot of programme referring to our own culture.
About 11 o‘clock, Pakistan Youth Association finished it’s
visiting .Before departing we exchanged our email address hoping to
keep in touch and be friends forever.

[lala]

Keep Beginning
I think one of the best things we can do in our lives is keeping
beginning.
Begin to look into ourselves as we were when we were the happiest
and strongest man that we have ever been; begin to remember what
worked for me and what worked against me and try to capture the magic
once more; Begin to remember how natural it was when we were a child
as it can make us feel more purity.
As we are college students now, we have already grown up to be an
adult. so, we should begin t forget the baggage we have carried with
us for years. For example, the problems that don't matter anymore, the
tears that cried themselves away, and the worries that are going to
wash away on the shore of tomorrow's new beginning bank.
Keep beginning, tommorrow tells us it will be here every new day of
our lives. If we will be wise, we will turn away from the problems of
the past and give us a brighter future to make us the best friend of
our lives, our encouragement of keeping beginning.
I believe that keeping beginning will certainly let us have a
beautiful wish in our heart to encourage us to make a rapid progress!

[fano]

Special Love
There many kinds of loves in the world , but the greatest
is mother’s love .
A misunderstanding from a best good friend of mine . A
girl named Li Yu is my intimate friend and she is my
neighbor . Remembering the last month we were preparing to
the examination of entering high school , her mother was
ill . During the time , we were so busy that we couldn’t
go home . One day my parents came to school to see me .
They took many delicious foods to us , and given Li Yu a
letter from her mother . It only said :
Dear Li ,
I’m now very good . You shouldn’t distract for me . I
hope you can get a good scores while coming home to see
me .
Your mother ,
Mrs Cheng
From that time , she studied very hard , and so did I .
After the examination , we went home together . To our
surprise , her mother had died . She was very sad . Several
days later , I told her that we were all accepted by the
high school . And I thought she also felt happy although
she was sad inside herself . But oppositely , she
complained me .
“ You have known my mother’s die before me. Why not tell
me ? ” she said angrily .
“ I didn’t know . My parents didn’t told me that just
because they thought I would tell you .” I explained
No matter what I said , she didn’t believe me until she
found a letter from her mother’s pocket .
Now she is studying in University Of Ji’nan . We are
keeping in touch all the time .
From the story of us , we can see the love from her mother
to her . In our daily life , our parents try their best
to care us unselfishly . Mother’s love is the most important
in the world .

[lucky]

Students should not be required to learn a second language
with the developing of china and globalization, Chinese has gotten a
position of global language. As far as students who are not English
majors, English is their second language. For them ,Chinese is their
most useful language, they can express their idea in Chinese clearly.
If they want to communicate with foreigners, they can find a
translator. In doing so , they can spend much time on their major, but
not a second. The first Confucius institute has been found in Iran, at
the end of 2008, about 249 Confucius institutes and 56 Confucius
classrooms had been established in 78 countries in the world,
according to the the council of the Beijing-based Confucius institute
headquarters.

[Lizzie]

The Beautiful Life
We saw a moving film just now. It described a great and
intelligent father who did his best to protect his son and wife. This
film called The Beautiful Life.
In 1914, the world war1 began. The Germans took cruel measures
to harm Jews. The fatherly father just pretended happy in order not to
hurt his son. The little son constantly they played an interesting
game instead of a trouble. The father cheated his son that they would
finish this game and have a happy life at last. He lost his life when
he was saving to his wife in the concentration camp. He still kept
calm and positive altitude with life. His optimistic attitude had
influenced his son and wife. Finally his son found his mother and
reunited.
There were tears and laugh during seeing the film. It was hard
for us to control our feelings. We used to compliment mother but
ignoring father’s love because father was a symbol of serious. He was
a special father and told us much truth.
We should face the life with smile and believe that tomorrow is
another day.

[why me]

选择积极地生活 Life is full of choices
Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good
mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask
him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I'd be
twins!" He was a natural motivator.


If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the
employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing
this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael and
asked him, "I don' t get it. You can' t be positive all the time. How
do you do it?"

Michael replied, each morning I wake up and say to myself 'Mike, you
have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can
choose to be in a bad mood.' I choose to be in a good mood. Each time
something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or choose to learn
from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me
complaining I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point
out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life."

"Yeah, right. It isn't that easy." I protested.

"Yes it is, " Michael said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut
away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you
react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You
choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line is: It's your
choice how you live life. " I reflected on what Michael said.

Soon thereafter, I left the big enterprise that I had worked in for
years to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often though
about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
Several years later, I heard Michael was involved in a serious
accident, falling off 60 feet from a communications tower.

After l8 hours of surgery, and weeks of intensive care, Michael was
released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw Michael
about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he
replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?" I
declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his
mind as the accident took place.

"The first thing that went through my mind was the well being of my
soon-to-born daughter," Michael replied. "Then, as I lay on the
ground, remembered I had two choices: I could choose to live or I
could choose to die. I chose to live." "Weren't you scared? Did you
lose consciousness?" I asked. Michael continued, "... the paramedics
were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they
wheeled me into the operation room and I saw the expressions on the
faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, l
read 'He's a dead man.' I knew I needed to take action." "What did you
do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at
me" said Michael. "She asked me if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes,'
I said. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my
reply. I took a deep breath and yelled", 'Gravity'" Over their
laughter, I told them, 'I'm choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am
alive, not dead'."

Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of
his amazing attitude.

I 1eamed from him that every day we have a choice to live fully.
Attitude is everything.

迈克尔总是乐呵呵的，你总能听到他说些积极上进的话。他似乎生来就积极进取。他这样告诉他的员工：“每天早晨醒来，我对自己说，迈克尔，今天你有两种选
择，选择心情愉快，选择心情恶劣，我选择心情愉快；有不愉快的事情发生，选择成为一个牺牲品，或是选择从中吸取教训，我选择吸取教训。”

迈克尔从60英尺的大楼上摔下，却活了下来，当有人问及他当时的想法，他是这样回答的：“我告诉我的手术医生，‘我选择活着，我愿意做任何手
术。’”

选择接受生活的积极面也许是人生中最为明智的选择，其实，每个人都有机会充实、健康的活着，关键取决于你的人生态度。

[Bernice]

Relish the moment

Tucked away in our subconscious is an idyllic vision. We see
ourselves on a long trip that spans the continent. We are traveling by
train. Out the windows, we drink in the passing scene of cars on
nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing, of cattle grazing
on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, of row
upon row of corn and wheat, of flatlands and valleys, of mountains and
rolling hillsides, of city skylines and village halls.
拥抱今天

我们的潜意识里藏着一派田园诗般的风光! 我们仿佛身处一次横贯大陆的漫漫旅程之中! 乘着火车, 我们领略着窗外流动的景色：附近高速公路
上奔驰的汽车、十字路口处招手的孩童、远山上吃草的牛群、源源不断地从电厂排放出的烟尘、一片片的玉米和小麦、平原与山谷、群山与绵延的丘陵、天空映衬
下城市的轮廓, 以及乡间的庄园宅第!

　 But uppermost in our minds is the final destination. On a certain
day at a certain hour, we will pull into the station. Bands will be
playing and flags waving. Once we get there, so many wonderful dreams
will come true and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a
completed jigsaw puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning
the minutes for loitering --waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.

"When we reach the station, that will be it! "we cry. "When I'm 18.
""When I buy a new 450SL Mercedes Benz! ""When I put the last kid
through college. ""When I have paid off the mortgage!""When I get a
promotion.""When I reach the age of retirement, I shall live happily
ever after! "
然而我们心里想得最多的却是最终的目的地! 在某一天的某一时刻, 我们将会抵达进站! 迎接我们的将是乐队和飘舞的彩旗! 一旦到了那
儿, 多少美梦将成为现实, 我们的生活也将变得完整, 如同一块理好了的拼图! 可是我们现在在过道里不耐烦地踱来踱去, 咒骂火车的拖拖拉拉! 我
们期待着, 期待着, 期待着火车进站的那一刻!

"当我们到站的时候, 一切就都好了! "我们呼喊着! "当我18岁的时候! ""当我有了一辆新450SL奔驰的时候! ""当我供最小的孩
子念完大学的时候! ""当我偿清贷款的时候! ""当我官升高任的时候! ""当我到了退休的时候, 就可以从此过上幸福的生活啦! "

　 Sooner or later, we must realize there is no station, no one place
to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The
station is only a dream. It constantly outdistances us.

"Relish the moment "is a good motto, especially when coupled with
Psalm 118：24："This is the day which the Lord hath made；we will rejoice
and be glad in it. "It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad.
It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and
fear are twin thieves who rob us of today.
可是我们终究会认识到人生的旅途中并没有车站, 也没有能够"一到永逸"的地方!生活的真正乐趣在于旅行的过程, 而车站不过是个梦, 它始终
遥遥领先于我们!

"享受现在"是句很好的箴言, 尤其是当它与《圣经·诗篇》中第１１８页２４行的一段话相映衬的时候, 更是如此："今日乃主所创造；生活在今日
我们将欢欣、高兴! "真正令人发疯的不是今日的负担, 而是对昨日的悔恨及对明日的恐惧! 悔恨与恐惧是一对孪生窃贼, 将今天从你我身边偷走!

So stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. In stead, climb
more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot more often, swim more
rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more, cry less. Life must be lived
as we go along. The station will come soon enough.

[何亚琴]

A recent study shows that people living on the continent of North
America suffer 9 times more chronic fatigue and 31 times more chronic
depression than do people living on the continent of Asia.
Interestingly, Asians, on average, eat 20 grams of soy per day,
whereas North Americans eat virtually none. It turns out that soy
contains phytochemicals called isoflavones, which have been found to
possess disease-preventing properties. Thus, North Americans should
consider eating soy on a regular basis as a way of preventing fatigue
and depression.


In this argument, the arguer cites a study showing that North
Americans suffer from an amazingly higher rate of chronic fatigue and
chronic depression than people living in Asia. From an unknown source,
the arguer states that Asians eat much more soy than North Americans,
who eat almost none, and that soy contains disease-preventing
properties. The arguer then concludes his or her argument by stating
that North Americans should consider regularly eating soy as a means
of battling fatigue and depression. This argument suffers from at
least four critical fallacies.

For the sake of this argument, we will assume that the studies and the
statistics about North Americans' and Asians' soy eating habits are
correct, and that isoflavones have been found to have disease-fighting
properties. Given that, there is still a problem with the arguer
directly correlating the eating of soy with the prevention of disease
and depression. First of all, simply because soy may have disease-
preventing properties, that does not mean that it can therefore fight
chronic fatigue and chronic depression. Fatigue and depression may not
actually even be considered as "diseases", therefore even given the
fact that soy has disease-fighting properties, it would have no effect
on the "nondiseases" of fatigue and depression. Secondly, even
assuming that fatigue and depression are diseases, they are not
specifically mentioned as diseases that soy or isoflavones are able to
prevent. Perhaps soy can help prevent osteoporosis (bone loss), mumps
or even chicken pox, but that does not mean that it can specifically
address the problems of chronic fatigue and chronic depression. These
two critical weaknesses alone make the argument unconvincing.

Furthermore, the arguer's conclusion is based on the idea that diet
alone can prevent fatigue and depression by comparing the diets of
North Americans and Asians. It is highly unlikely that diet alone is
responsible for the tremendous difference in the rates of fatigue and
depression between the two populations. Other factors such as
lifestyles, occupations, residence in city or rural areas and levels
of stress may play a much bigger factor than diet. Additionally, the
arguer states that soy contains phytochemicals called isoflavones,
which supposedly have disease-preventing properties. What is not
stated, however, is whether these isoflavones are contained in a form
in soy that is usable by the human body. It is possible that the
particular configuration of the phytochemicals found in soy products
is not usable by the human body, thereby producing no beneficial
effects by people eating more soy products. In and of themselves,
isoflavones may prevent certain diseases, but perhaps those found in
soy are of no benefit to humans. By failing to address these
possibilities, the arguer has presented an unconvincing argument.

In summary, the argument fails due to four major flaws in logic.
First, "disease-preventing" properties does not mean "fatigue and
depression" preventing properties. Secondly, fatigue and depression
may not even be considered as diseases. Thirdly, the arguer ignores
the probability that diet alone is not the sole reason behind the
increased rates of fatigue and depression for North Americans as
opposed to Asians. Finally, isoflavones as found in soy may not
produce the same beneficial effects as when it is found in other
forms. To strengthen the argument and conclusion, the arguer should
present evidence that directly links diet to fatigue and depression as
well as evidence that shows that soy can specifically prevent chronic
fatigue and chronic depression in North Americans.

[cindyzhao]

NEET Group phenomenon
The word “NEET” is the abbreviation of not currently engaged in
education, employment or training,which is a serious phenomenon today.
This group are the adults who have the ability to work ,but they
always depend on their parents. They do not want to earn money by
themselves ,who are called boomerang children in America.The neet
group phenomenon has become a social problem on a nationwide scale。An
investigation indicates that about 70% of the unemployed young people
in our country now live off their parents, thus becoming Neets。　In
Japan, more and more young people have joined in the Neet group who
neither go to college nor go to work.
So,how does this phenomenon come into being? According to the survey
in China ,there are six kinds of neets. One of them are the graduates
who is critical and can not find a good job to make them satisfied.
The second one is the kind of people feel comfortable at home when
they fire themselves because they think their work is so boring and
they do not like it. Third one is the "entrepreneurial fantasy-type"
of youth, they have a strong entrepreneurial aspirations,but they do
not have the abilities to make their dreams come ture,so they stay at
home ,relaying on their parents. The fourth one is the frequent job-
hopping group,but they can not find a job at last. Then ,the fifth,
the laid-off youth, who would like to compare the difference in the
past from nowadays, which leads to a blank of satisfaction,so they are
willing to stay at home at last. The last one is the youth who have
poor skills and are lacking of education,meanwhile ,they can find a
job in low-end labor markets,so they depend on parents.
In reality,this phenomenon is widely around the world. How to deal
with it is not so difficult. In my pinion,as parents,they should give
their children enough education and make them independent from their
babyhood. Parents should not agree to their children who want to stay
at home and relay on parents.In addition,educated children to earn
money and feed themselves by effors of their own.

[Ella 亚星]

The Beauty of Humanity
-------What I Saw Through Misunderstandings in La Traviata

Alexandre Dumas, fils (27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) was a French
author and dramatist. He was the son (fils) of Alexandre Dumas, père,
also a writer and playwright. Dumas was born in Paris, France, the
illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794-1868), a
dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. In 1831 his father legally
recognized him and ensured that the young Dumas received the best
education possible at the Institution Goubaux and the Collège Bourbon.
At that time, the law allowed the elder Dumas to take the child away
from his mother. Her agony inspired Dumas fils to write about tragic
female characters. In almost all of his writings, he emphasized the
moral purpose of literature and in his play The Illegitimate Son
(1858) he espoused the belief that if a man fathers an illegitimate
child then he has an obligation to legitimize the child and marry the
woman.Dumas' paternal great-grandparents were a white French nobleman
and a Haitian woman. In the boarding schools, Dumas fils was
constantly taunted by his classmates. These issues all profoundly
influenced his thoughts, behaviour, and writing.In 1844 Dumas moved to
Saint-Germain-en-Laye to live with his father. There, he met Marie
Duplessis, a young courtesan who would be the inspiration for his
romantic novel The Lady of the Camellias. Adapted into a play, it was
titled in English (especially in the United States) as Camille and is
the basis for Verdi's 1853 opera, La Traviata. Although he admitted
that he had done the adaptation because he needed the money, he had a
huge success with the play. Thus began the career of Dumas fils as a
dramatist, which not only eclipsed that of his father during his
lifetime but also dominated the serious French stage for most of the
second half of the 19th century. After this, he virtually abandoned
the novel (though his semi-autobiographical L'Affaire Clemenceau
(1867) achieved some success).
Misunderstanding is always the origin of unpleasantness or even
hatred. But someone should make others misunderstand her, only for the
good of others, while bear all of the sufferings herself. The famous
novel La Traviata written by Alexandre Dumas is appropriately an
illustration.
Marguerite Gautier is a glamorous, elegant prostitute, suffered from
both her lung disease and snobbish, filthy life. She’s chased after by
a set of wealthy men and lives luxuriously. She knew it clearly that
they don’t love her at all. They thought they had paid enough money
thus won’t pay any true affection. She abandoned herself in having
parties with friends all days and nights.
She thought life was hopeless until she met Almand Duval, who won her
heart by sincere care and sympathy instead of money. For Marguerite,
this innocent young man is the only one who really loves her with
whole heart. And for Armand, Marguerite is elevated and pure beneath
her beauty and her position as a prostitute.
However, Armand’s father strongly opposed their relationship, for that
it may damage the fame and reputation of his family. In addition,
Armand younger sister is getting married with her Mr. Right. If her
future-husband’s parents had heard of her brother’s dating with a
prostitute, Armand’s sister would not be allowed to marry their son.
Armand’s father visited Marguerite, scolded her for spoiling his son,
and then forced to leave Armand. Marguerite, however, represented her
sincere words and willingness to sacrifice her only love for another
innocent girl’s, and also for Armand’s future and fame.
She left a letter to Armand telling him she’s marring another rich
man. Armand was deadly indignant for her betrayal. He insulted her by
all means. Marguerite was in heavy debts. Her lung disease became
severe and made her ashen and out of shape. However, Armand’s still
torturing her. But Marguerite felt pleasant about this because she saw
how much he cares her in his intense behavior. Those rich men who had
dated with her would be indifferent of her new boyfriend. Marguerite
died in serious pain cause by disease, scolding of people who wanted
her to pay their money back, and the missing of her only love, Armand,
who was still sending her insulting letters and showed no sympathy. It
is beyond our imagination that how much he regretted when he knew the
truth at length, after her death.
We see it quite common in daily life when people get into
misunderstandings over the smallest incidents, just because of
narrowness of their mind. But we can see the great, genuine love, the
selfish sacrifice for others in the misunderstanding between Armand
and Marguerite. It’s the greatness and beauty of humanity that one can
bear all of the blame but still feel happy, just because she’s
sacrificing for her love.

[clare]

My Hometown
I love my hometown so much. I love it have less to do with its
beautiful scenery than the feelings it gives me.
I lived in Qinghai for twenty years. I am very familiar with the
people there. They give me a special feeling when I miss them in LAN
Zhou. They are so kind and creative, and they are the most lovely
people in my heart. They are more beautiful than the scenery.
When I am alone, I miss my hometown so much. She likes a mother who
seems always calling me back. I want to go back every day and night.
Only can there give me a happy life. All of things I have are left
there, so I must go back.
My parents are waiting for me, whenever I think of them; my eyes
are full of tears. They are the whole world in my heart. If without
them, I can not live happily. “East or West, home is the best” though
I stay in LAN Zhou now, I still miss my hometown and my family
members. I wish they can happy every days.

[Ella 亚星]

Sometimes Life is of No Prediction
Life is predictable or not? Can someone give me a definite answer. As
for me, sometimes life is of changes, that is, we don‘t know what will
happen in the future. As a human being, most of the time, we‘re living
in the shadow of usual practice. We take life as routine. We almost
have the same activities and events each day. And for the majority,
when you‘re safe, you won‘t think of the danger. Actually it‘s no
more regular.

However, one day, something happens and life has been changed.(This
kind of change exactly indicates the bad aspect) At this particular
time, you‘re wondering why you have suffered from these. Maybe you
can‘t find the right answer, for sometimes when bad things happen, you
can do nothing but just to accept them. I don‘t know whether this kind
of attitude is defined as pessimism or not. But the very thing that I
want to point out is that though the result is awful, from now on you
should learn to care more about yourself. No matter it‘s physical or
mental, this kind of care will prepare you for the bad.

[Cherry]

Do you perfer staying in a place all your life?

There is a widespread concern over whether it's a bad thing that
people ive in a placeall their live. But it's well known that one
man'meat is another man'spoison.
A majority of people think that staying in a place for a long time
is a better choice.In their views there are two reasons contributing
to this attitude as follows: in the first place,people who stay in one
spot can develop a lifetime friendship,and such a friend will give a
hand without hesitation if trouble comes .In the second place ,when
people move to different places,they usually are under pressue from
strangeness.A person may feel lost and tense in a place where
streets,stores and schools are all different. As a saying goes :Fear
always springs from ignorance.
People, however ,differ in their opnions on this matter.Some
people hold the idea that people shouldn't live in one place through
their lives.In their opint of view,on the one hand,people who spend a
lifetime in one location can be locked into a limited way of life. A
real problem is that life lacks passion.On the other hand,those who
move frequently have a variety of outlooks.There is a chance to
appreciate different ways of life.
As far as I am concerned, I finally agree the view that people
shouldn't stay in a place all their lives.It's not only because people
can broden their vision indiferent places, but also because fear will
disappear with time. There is no doubt that nothing brave nothing
have.

[Clover~]

The Princess Bride——A Movie that I Appricate

The Princess Bride is a fancy movie with a happy ending that everyone
in the family will enjoy. The evil Prince Humperdinck kidnaps
beautiful Buttercup and forces her to marry him. Westly, Buttercup’s
childhood playmate trys his best to rescue her.

But the character that impresses me most named Inigo Montoya, who is
entrusted by Prince Humperdinck to kidnap Buttercup. Inigo’s aim of
life is to take revenge for his father, who was killed by a man with 6
fingers on his right hand twenty years ago. When Westly is on the way
to rescue Buttercup, they dule inevitably. However, in order to get
what they want, they help each other and become good friends. Inigo
helps Westly raise from dead and rescue Buttercup. For himself, he
revenges his dead father.

Inigo is a kind man. When Westly can hardly climb over the ravine,
Inigo makes a promise, in the name of his father, not to hurt Westly
until he gets to the top. And he keeps his promise. Not everyone can
treat his enemy in a gentle way like that. Moreover, there is a time
when Inigo can’t take revenge for his father, he has a strong decadent
sentiments. But with the help of his friend--Feezik, he gets the
courage to fight again. After he kills Count Rugen--the man who killed
his father, he has a mood with a mixture of happy and a little bit
lost, for he doesn’t know what to do with the rest of his life. But he
adjusts himself soon and chooses to be a pirate together with Westly.

The movie is full of love, friendship, music and exciting plots. You
will absolutely be moved by the true love and sincere friendship in
it.

*****(5 stars)(I give it a full star)

[juanna]

My life
I earnestly hope to lead a healthy and prosperous life in the future.
Judging from my aptitude inclination and personality streaks, my ideal
life will be that of a scientist, researching, lecturing, and writing
books. As I am from a farming family, I particularly enjoy being close
to earth. If I can afford to live a pastoral life in the countryside,
I will feel most blessed. As far as social life is concerned,
simplicity is what I intend to pursue, so I really don't need too many
friends. All these will be mere talk if I am idle now. To attain my
goal, I must make a point of training my body and mind. This is a
highly competitive society in which everyone is eager to come out on
top. That is not only a competition of physical strength and mental
power, but a marathon of patience, faith, and perseverance. Life is
not all roses, but with what I am being equipped with by the top
teachers in this elite school, I surely deserve a promising prospect.

[Cherry]

Should we keep pets?

Different people have different opinions about whether keeping
pets at home or not. My personal thinking is that, it depends on.
There are a few benefits of having pets. First of all, pets are
our friend. Some kids that have no brothers or sisters, and the
parents are both working all day long, may need pets as friends to
play with them. Secondly, keeping pets makes people learn to take care
of others and be more responsible. It’s good for you to build a good
relationship with people around you and make you a trusted person.
Some other people may think that it is not a good idea to keep a
pet. I agree with them in few points. Firstly, pets’ fur will bring
problems such as skin allergies, smell, and their dropping is never a
good thing for cleaning. Not only is it bad to you and your family,
but also bad to the person who lives around you. Keeping a pet is not
your own business, besides you should take other’s health into
consideration. For example, your pets might scare a baby if you go
into an elevator. Secondly, you will never have free time if you keep
a pet. You have to find someone take care of it when you go
travelling. Thirdly, you will be very sad if it dies. Maybe it will
take months or even years for you to forget about it.
I like animals, if I have the condition to keep one, I will. But I
suggest those pets’ keepers and those who want to keep pets in the
future, to concern more about other people’s feeling.

[Ella 亚星]

Friendship
Friendship is one of the best things a person can enjoy.It‘s very
difficult to find a better word to describe friendship.A true friend
shares pleasure in our joy and sorrow in our sadness.In times of
danger,he or she is always at our side to give us his or her help.
Friendship is very important to everyone.We should be very careful
in our choice of friends.A friend should be confident,like to do good
things,and like to help others.If a person won‘t try to help when you
are in trouble,he is not a good friend.
A true friend can always be trusted,loved and respected.If you
tell a friend your secrets,he or she won‘t tell anyone else.Friends
share each other‘s joys and
sorrows.They help each other when they are in trouble,and encourage
each other when they are sad.The most important thing is that a friend
tries to understand you.When you have made a good friend,don;t forget
him or her no matter what happens.

[janel]

What does Home Mean to Me?
To me, home is a shelter.
In the childhood, home had no accurate definition in my mind. At that
time, my parents got me to school and back home is the most happiest
thing for me. Especially on the rainy day, I looked at the rain drops
through the window, thinking who would pick me up with an umbrella in
hands. Untill the last class’ bell rang, I rushed out of the classroom
with expected eyes. When I saw my parents , joy shined on my face. At
that moment, I thought I myself was the lucky one. My father was very
strict about things like my study and behaviour. Sometimes he would
criticize me even hit me. You won’t know my feeling . I could never
understand why he treat me like this in my young heart. I was very
angry ,thinking fight against my father when I become strong enough.
Now every time I recall it ,I think it is very funny. What’s more, I
recall my father went to school to clean the window when the new term
begins. Certainly the teacher would prize me. I was so pround of him.
But now, I think my father has done hard work, I remember the smell of
the soap as he scrubbed his hands. I can still see the darkness of the
water in the basin. In all, I am thankful for my father. I remember
that my father always helps other. I draw these things on my
composition though people think it is just a small thing. I will
follow my father’s footsteps on this aspect. He set a model for me and
I will learn from him. It influences me all my life. My mother is very
gentle. She never hit me. She is good at cooking. She thinks about me
more than herself. My grandma lived with me until I went to high
school. Because she never went to school, she was strick about my
study. She always said, “You should go to college.” I think these
words influences me in an undirect way. As time passed by, I am taller
than my grandma. The thing changed from my grandma took care of me to
I took much care of her. I pay special attention on things about her.
No one can understand the special relationship between us.
When I listen to the falling rain, home turns up in my mind.
To me, home is a port.
There is a place I can go whenever I face difficulties or get into
sorrows. Home gives me a sense of security.
I, just like a ship flows in sea for a long time no matter the
weather is sunny or rainy and home, just like a port for ships to
shelter from storms, I load in home finally.
So far, there are two crossings in my life. One is the entrance
examination to high school. Ifelt so sorry for I didn’t got a high
scores. I cried but my parents never criticize me about that. On the
contary, they encouraged me all the time. They helped me overcome the
difficulty and be brave. Another one is the entrance examination to
college. It is one of the most importanrt changes in my life. In some
meaning, it could decide my future. So pressure and anxiety come to
me. Thus I often quarreled with my mother sometimes there was no
reason. I found that only at home can I express my whole feeling. They
just gave encouragement to me and trusted me for sure. These days
passed by, I passed the examination. I never forget the smile on their
face. I achieved my goal meanwhile I brought happiness in my family.
My grandmother told neighbors I went to college proundly. I think they
keep me company is one of reasons for my passing the examination.
To me, home is the most valuable thing in my life.
Especially when the earthquake happened last summer, I understand it
deeply. At that time, the phone was disturbed by the earthquake. So I
couldn’t get in touch with my family immediately. I was so worried
about them. When I heared the voice at the other end of the phone, I
felt my dangling heart fell. I found we can’t apart even a moment. We
are the unity. I appreciate my family. They are the love of my life.
Time passed by, they get older. I can see the lines on their face, I
can see the colour of their hair changed little by little, I can see
their steady love for me. From beginning to end, they just give a
definite meaning of the quote from Mikhail S.Gorbachove, “The whole
family agreed that it was up to me to decide and that they were ready
to share with me to the end whatever was ahead. I am sure it’s the
time for me to do my duty for my family, as well as do something for
my family.
Though home is made up of four alphabet, it is no more than a simple
word.
Home means the world to me.

[fiona]

On competition and cooperation

When it comes to competition and cooperation, some people always
emphasize competition but neglect cooperation. Their reasons run as
following: to begin with, they believe only competition can help them
defeat their counterparts; in addition, they think competition is the
only way to lead to success.
But some others hold different opinion. They think cooperation is
as important as competition. They base their opinion on the following
reasons: on one hand, cooperation can build trust between each other
and help to bring long-term relationship; on another hand, cooperation
can turn a small and weak business into a big and strong one.
From what has been discussed above, we may safely draw a
conclusion that both competition and cooperation are essential to
success and thus should be emphasized at the same time.

[zhao tingting]

My home

There are five members ,my parents 、my two brothers and I in my
home .Even though ,it is neither splendid nor spacious ,it is
comfortable 、tidy and warm .Home is very important to me in my heart,
I love my home deeply.
In my childhood ,I have never thought what home means to me .I just
knew when I felt hungry all I need to do was back home .Mum has
already prepared delicious meal waiting for me ,I just knew when I
felt tired ,all I need to do was also back home then lay in my
comfortable bed .At that time ,maybe home just was a place where I
could get something I wanted .As far as I was concerned ,all of my
buddies has a home ,so it is so common that I felt not very unique .
As time went, I gradually grown up .My understanding to home also have
changed. Especially when I was in the middle school and high
school .Because my home is far from school, I have to stay in school
every day except weekend’s .I missed my home and my family members
very much in school .I eagered to go home every Friday.
I also remembered several unforgettable things in my heart. When I was
in my Grade 3 in high school .One side I was keeping study day and
night, the other side I was under heavy pressure all the day .Finally
I broke down .When I lay in bed in a clinic,I could not help
weeping .How I wish I could stay in my home with my mum company at
this moment .In the scene ,I realized the importance of home .I
understood deeply why so many sick people preferred stay in home
rather than in the hospital
And now I am in university in Lanzhou which is farther from my home. I
could not back home until every semester is over. Like
every person being away home, I missed my home. I missed familiar
furniture in every room. I missed tidy rooms in my family yard. I
missed lovely yard in my heart.
Of course after suffering and experienced so many things .If you ask
what home means to me now, I have so many words to say because I have
so many feelings about home. Sometime I feel home is a place which is
full of happiness and harmonistic. It makes me warm and
comfortable .Particularly in winter. Let us imagine a cold、windy、snowy
winter evening, all of the family members sit together or have a
dinner or chat something with bright light、warm stove. And when we
meet some dad thing, our parents will try their best to help us
overcome the difficulty.But sometime I feel home is full of quarrel or
bad atmosphere. For instance parents have different opinions on
something or one of your family members get sick and so on.
In general, in my heart home likes a bay, when you feel tired in the
sea you can park there; Home likes a shelter ,when it is rainy, you
can stand under it; Home likes a moon ,when it is dark you can
continue your journey; Home likes a powerful person ,when you feel
frightened you can get courage; Home likes …In a word ,keep in mind no
matter wherever you go and whatever you do home is your finally place
for ever. Please let’s make a prayer for our home. May every home
happy、united.

[valaria]

Well done
The time I became a sophomore, I knew all the student organizations
were dirty tricks to extort money from the pockets of silly and
innocent freshman. But resently, one of student organizations named
Sunshine Service Societies gave me a deep impresstion. I really
appreciated their good behavior.
That day in the early morning, I saw many members of Sunshine Service
Societies were holding a big banner reads “Value food and creat a good
atmosphere for eating ” to ask students wrote their names on it.
“Formalism” I thought, “the only function of that is to waste money
and extra energy of empty students”. When I came into XiYuan
restaurant after class, I saw another group of members were standing
here and there telling students who finished their eating to place the
plate in the proper place. What’s more when some students leave with
their plates still on the table, they would went there and took and
placed the plates by themselves. “Not only formalism” I thought, “but
they may only do it once and few days later nothing will change ”.
However, I’m wrong again. They did the same thing that benefited us a
lot for a week. When they had other things to do, they wrote kind
words on papers and sticked them on every table to remind students to
continue what they did the past week. To my surprise, almost every
students including me developed the habit to value food and to place
the plate into proper place. Our XiYuan’s atmosphere was improved a
lot. Everyone enjoying eating there now! Thanks to all the members of
Sunshine Service Societies!
What they did is really changed my opinion on student organization.
Maybe some of them are not so good, but somewhat, they can make a big
difference.

[fiona]

Health and Disease
When it comes to health and disease, most of people can’t escape
it. To begin with, some people often run fever and catch heavy cold;
in addition, serious diseases like cancer and tumor cause a lot of
deaths; last but not the least, diseases like aids and Sars spreading
quickly among people can’t be ignored.
The causes of the disease may be concluded as follows: on one
hand, it certainly has something to do with people’s life style and
living habits such as spitting in public, littering everywhere, eating
with dirty hands etc. On another hand, people are too lazy to go in
for all kinds of sports, gradually they have a poor health with years
passing by.

From what has been discussed above, we may safely draw a

conclusion that to stay away from disease, first of all we should get
rid of bad habits; at the same time, doing exercise is an effective
way to prevent disease.

[why me]

Is University Teaching Useful
When young people who want to be journalists ask me what subject they
should study after leaving school asks me what subject they should
study after leaving school, I tell them: most veterans of my trade
would say the same.

It is practical advice. For obviously reasons, newspaper editors like
to employ people who can bring something other than knowledge of the
media to the party that we call our work.

On the daily telegraph, for example, the editor of London spy is a
philosopher. The editor of our student magazine, juice, studied
physics. As for myself, I read history, ancient and modern, at the
taxpayer’s expense.

I am not sure what Charles Clarke, the education secretary, would make
of all this. If I understand him correctly, he would think that the
public money spent on teaching this huge range of disciplines to the
staff of the daily telegraph was pretty much wasted. the only academic
course of which he would wholeheartedly approve in the list above
would be physics_—but then again, he would probably think it a
terrible waste that Simon Hogg chose to edit juice instead of
designing aeroplanes or building nuclear reactors. by that, he seems
to mean that everything taught at the public expense should have a
direct, practical application that will benefit society and the
economy.

It is extremely alarming that the man in charge of Britain’s education
system should think in this narrow-minded, half-witted way. The truth,
of course, is that all academic disciplines benefit society and the
economy, whether in a direct and obviously way or not. They teach
student to think –to process in formation and to distinguish between
what is important and unimportant, true and untrue. Above all, a
country in which academic research and intelligent ideas are allowed
to flourish is clearly a much more interesting, stimulating and
enjoyable place than one without “ornament”, in which money and
useless are that count.

Mr. Clarke certainly has a point when he says that much of what is
taught in Britain’s universities is useless. But it is useless for a
far more serious reason than that it lacks any obvious economic
utility. As the extraordinary high drop-out rate testifies, it is
useless because it fails the first test of university teaching-that is
should stimulate the interest of those being taught. When student
themselves think that course are a waste of time and money, then a
waste they are.

The answer is not to cut off state funding for the humanities. It is
to offer short, no-nonsense vocational course to those who want to
learn a trade, and reserve university places for those who want pursue
an academic discipline. By a great deal of wasted money could be saved
and all students-the academic and the not-so-academic-would benefit.
What Mr. Clarke seems to be proposing instead is an act of culture
vandalism that would rob Britain of all claim of is called a civilized
country?

[caicai]

Should We Use Plastic Bags in Stores Any More ?
I searched a survey on the Internet saying that China produced 52
million ton plastic bags every year . Most of them are thrown into the
environment after being used . I am wondering really we will continue
to use these things to damage our lovely planet ? Of course not , we
shouldn’t use the plastic bags in stores any more .
Firstly , the plastic bags are really bad for we human being’s
health . According to the words of biologists from Sichuan
university , plastic will release some poisonous pieces and metal when
they meet some oil ,vinegar and wine . These things directly damage
our body , especially for the teenagers . Actually , we often use
plastic bags to take food . By the way , if the abandoned plastic bags
bring some dirty things , they will attract bacterium and flies ,
which looks so bad and smells so terrible . This Phenomena can be
frequently seen in our building dustbins .
Secondly , the plastic bags thrown into the environment are really a
big pollution . this pollution can be divided into two kinds . The
current effects and the future effects . Last year , when I went to
see the yellow river with my roommates , we were so disappointed by
what we saw . There were so many plastic bags flowed on the river ,
which no doubt reduced the beauty of the yellow river . Tian Honghai
an environmental scientist said that plastic is difficult to
degradate . It needs 200 years to rot . There is also an experiment
done by students in Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University . It
shows if a piece of land contain 3.9 kilogram plastic , the production
of corn will reduce 11 to 23 percent and the wheat drop 9 to 16
percent . Furthmore , if animals such as chicken eat the plastic in
the soil in accident , it will lead to their death .
Above all , we shouldn’t use plastic bags in stores . It damages our
heath , pollute the environment and result in terrible effects .

[Clover~]

Home,My Most Precious Treasure.
Once I’ve heard about a moving story.Mary was a woman who lived with
her three children。 Her husband died of a serious diaease several
years ago. To support the family without a man,Mary had to work hard
everyday,but the family was still in strait. One day ,the owner of
the
house which they were living in went to them and asked them to move
out of the house because of their getting behind with rent.So they
moved out with sadness .However, the problem was,where could they
move
in ?Had no choice ,they moved into a collecting post.One day,one of
Mary’s colleague laughed at Mary’s without a home .Mary smiled and
said softly,”No,acturally not that bad.We do have a home already,what
we need now is just a house to move in. ”
I was shocked by the story.And that is just the right meaning of
home:it is not an object with an exact shape or color ，but it surely
exists in my mind and always gives me the strength to go ahead.
When I was young ,Dad and mum altogether are the whole meaning of the
home in my mind .The first time when I realized the importance of
this
was the year when I was about 12. It was a cold and windy night in
winter.Because of some reasons,dad and mum quarreled badly and I was
awfully frightened with nothing in mind and just stood
steadily.Suddenly mum turned to me with tears on her face and gave
some money ,then she told me ,”Dad and I are getting divorced.Now you
go to your grandpas’ with the money to take a taxi.” I didn’t stop
crying and just did as mum said.When I got to grandpas’ ,I sobbed out
what happened and told my grandparents that my parents were getting
divorced.
Finally my parents didn’t get divorced,of course.And that was just a
common quarrel between the young couple!However , I was so sad at
that
moment.Maybe it was because I had been living with my parents since
the moment I was born,and I took it for granted that that’s natural!
We
were born to live together!The uncertain change of the family was
something that I’d never thought before.And I thought dad and mum
were
both important to me and I cannot live without neither of them.
My family has shaped my personality,I firmly believe. I realised more
and more about the benefits that my family brings to me.And to be
outspoken,dad and mum are more friends than seniors.
When I was a child ,I was apt to try everything I’ve never done or to
get access to things around me .Dad never blamed me for that while
others’ parents didn’t allow their child to do it .Even now,whenever
I
come up with some ideas ,whether it’s realistic or not in others
eyes,dad would never say “no” and just support me and then chat with
me to exchange the feelings I get from that idea .Dad often says,“If
you never try ,you’ll lost the fun of an new experience and also lost
the possibility to success.“And I remember it,always. So once I set
up
a goal,I would try my best to persue it.
At the same time ,I was also confused about my parents’ education
method when I was a little child.They always asked me to recite some
articles ,some are in English ,while some are in Chinese.It was
really
a hard job and it seemed to be endless!So when other kids were
playing
happily in the playground ,I couldn’t went out to play but to stay at
home lonely and recited those dull stuff!But now I understand.The
articles they asked me to recite ,some were rich in principles to
behave well in the society,some were full of beautiful sentences to
enjoy myself in the imagination world. I’ve acquired a lot from
them.Dad and mum have thought ahead for me and also my future.
Time has passed about 8 years since the first time I realised the
importance of my home.I’m a college student now,but my home will be
the treasure which I wouldn’t trade for anything.Just like the old
saying:east or west ,home is the best.That’s true.