A small smoke, endanger ten thousand myriad. Smoking is equal to prodigal oneself health, shorten oneself life. Smoking is harmful and healthy
smoking is harmful and healthy
this is how clear caution, how well-meaning advice! Cigarette resembles invisible killer , it is in casual a health that damages you, gobble up your life. There also is such person beside us, know perfectly well smoking ill health, but he still smokes. Do you know ? In the aerosol of the generation when smoking, have a variety of 3000 harmful material. Endanger among them the biggest is nicotine. Tar and carbon monoxide. The nicotine in a smoke is OK kill with poison a small white rat. Absorb 40-60 milligram nicotine the person dies possibly. The person that smokes for a long time suffers from chronic tracheitis easily. Coronary heart disease, suffer from even on lung cancer. Tar is nicotian flaming child, among them a variety of cancer make thing. The harmful material in cigarette body can enter their body insensibly, the neurological, respiratory system that destroys them. If be mixed for a long time cigarette intimate contact the immune force that can reduce human body, make memory drops likely still. The nicotine in cigarette has direct destruction to vitamin C action, because of smoking may prevent human body to be absorbed to it. If human body is long-term devoid vitamin C, get likely scorbutic.
did not smoke again please! A small smoke, endanger ten thousand myriad. Smoking is equal to prodigal oneself health, shorten oneself life. Let us have a smokeless beautiful season!
Seeing my whole education history, I have many teachers. But my favorite teacher is only one. He is Mr Lu. He is my middle Chinese teacher and head teacher. He is about fifty years old. Maybe he works too hard, so his back is a little bent. He always wears a black glasses. He looks amiable but serious in study. He always thinks us before everything. His class is very interesting and full of different kinds of encouraging stories. He is very strict to us in study. But whoever has difficulties, he would help us without hesitation. Sometimes he plays the role of a strict teacher, sometimes he takes the place of a kind father.
my favourite animal is tortoise. tortoise walk not fast. but i like the tortoise. why? because, tortoise is a cute animal. it has a short tail and a four short foot. it has a little head and a hard shell. there are forty-five little and cute tortoises in my home. they like to play in the water. when they afraid of some thing. they will run fast. they like to eat fish. i often buy some small fish for them to eat. they can catch the fish fast. first, they fake(假) sleep. when the fish swim near their mouth. they catch the fish fast and bit the fish's head. so, the fish die. they can eat the fish. in winter. they like to sleep in the sand. when they sleep, they don’t eat any use they will hibernation. but, when they are thirsty. they come out of the sand. so, we must give water to them to drink.
i love the tortoise. i hate the eagle. because, the eagle often eat the tortoise with it sharp favourite animal is tortoise.
A person's life is like a ship traveling on the sea, sometimes in the opensea worthiness of vessels required to control the direction, if in the rightdirection, the ship was at most small wind Xiaolangdi sloshing about the the direction is wrong, may be to swallow the tsunami, in any case, the shipcan not be plain sailing.
I'll tell you a story now: the invention of light bulb before Edison hadspent thousands of filament materials have failed to do, abusinessman ironicallyhim: You are not manufacturing the lamp, you tested thousands of materials didnot any success. Edison replied: No, I at least have proved that 1000 kinds ofmaterials are not suitable to do filament. I read this story very touching, Ithink Edison put it best. Even if Edison failed thousands of times, so what? Himultimately successful. As the saying goes: Failure is the mother of e is no "failure of the mother," How has "successful son." With thousands ofEdison "failed mothers, will be no" success "to you? Eat one graben, a gain inyour wit. And eating are thousands of Edison Graben, one of thousands oflong-chi. If you do not eat graben, how long Moses? Edison With a few thousandtimes that have experienced failure before they tap the door to success, so thathe immortalized the great inventions.
I am studying childhood bike too, I have said many times from the bike felloff, but then my heart just want a word: failure is the mother of success. Irode well may have a bad hand grip, and so on Board unwieldy. I tried again andagain a variety of methods, finally succeeded
Indeed after a person before anything will fail, only in the failure of thecourse of lessons, the experience of piling up, you can succeed. Failure is alsoa growing part of。
一个人的生命就像一艘航行在海上的船，有时在公海上需要控制方向的船只，如果在正确的方向，船在最小风萧朗迪晃荡船体。如果方向不对，可能是吞海啸，无论如何，船不能一帆风顺。
我要告诉你一个故事：在爱迪生度过了灯丝的材料成千上万的灯泡的发明都没有做到，一是他：你不是制造的灯，你试验了上千种材料没有任何成功。爱迪生回答：“不，我至少已经证明了1000种材料都不适合做灯丝。我读这个故事非常感人，我认为爱迪生把它最好。即使爱迪生失败了几千次，那又怎样?他最终成功。俗话说：失败是成功之母。没有“失败的母亲”，如何拥有“成功的儿子”与成千上万的爱迪生“失败的母亲，将没有”成功“对你?吃一个地堑，获得你的智慧。和吃成千上万的爱迪生，成千上万的长期。如果你不吃地堑，多久摩西?爱迪生有几千次，经历了失败，才成功的大门，使他不朽的伟大发明。
我也在学习童年的自行车，我说过很多次从自行车上摔下来，但那时我心里只想说一句话：失败是成功之母。我骑得好可能有一个坏的手把手，所以板笨重。我试了一遍又一遍的各种方法，终于成功了
确实在一个人面前什么都会失败，只有在失败的过程中吸取教训，积累经验，才能成功。失败也是成长的一部分。
I believe in our future Honorable Judges, fellow students: Good afternoon! Recently, ther is a heated debate in our society. The college students are the beneficiaries of a rare privilege, who receive exceptional education at extraordinary places. But will we be able to face the challenge and support ourselves against all odds? Will we be able to better the lives of others? Will we be able to accept the responsibility of building the future of our country? The cynics say the college students are the pampered lost generation, which would cringe at the slightest discomfort. But the cynics are wrong. The college students I see are eagerly learning about how to live independently. We help each other clean the dormitory, go shopping and bargain together, and take part time jobs to supplement our pocket money. The cynics say we care for nothing other than grades;
and we neglect the need for character cultivation. But again, the cynics are wrong. We care deeply for each other, we cherish freedom, we treasure justice, and we seek truth. Last week, thousands of my fellow students had their blood type tested in order to make a contribution for the children who suffer from blood cancer. As college students, we are adolescents at the critical turning point in our lives. We all face a fundamental choice: cynicism or faith, each will profoundly impact our future, or even the future of our country. I believe in all my fellow classmates. Though we are still inexperienced and even a little bit childish. I believe that we have the courage and faith to meet any challenge and take on our responsibilities. We are preparing to assume new responsibilities and tasks, and to use the education we have received to make our world a better place. I believe in our future.
This is a glass of water, tasteless, right? However if you add sugar, it will taste sweet, but if you add vinegar, it will become bitter. The same is true with our life____ the flavor is created by our choices. If kindness is added to a strange you will have a friend;
but if hostility is added, you will have an enemy. If love is added to a pile of red bricks you will have a home, but if hatred is add to those bricks , you will have an concentration camp. So my dear friends, never complain that life is boring and the world is disappointing. If don’t like the taste of your life, change the ingredients. Three year ago, I weighed more than 100 hundred kilograms which caused significant embarrassment and frustration in my life. Like always failing my P.E examinations, like always being laughed at by girls, like being terrified to speak in public. It was my grandmother’s encouragement that revived from my passive attitude to become confident in myself. She said “ My dear, if you can’t change you figure, why not treat it as your own style. So I began to cautiously employ the new way of thinking. By choosing to change my outlook on life, I developed the confidence to make a difference and finally I found a totally new world. So my dear friend, if faith, hope, love, endurance are added to your life, you will find the confidence to conquer your limitation and embrace new challenges. And hopefully with my speech included, you will have a fantastic speech contest.
hello,everyone!
my name is steven . i'm 10 years old, today my topic is my family .
i have a happy family . there are three members:my father , my mother andme . my parents love mevery much .
my mother is chinese teacher . she is very tall and thin . her face lookssmall and her eres are very beautiful . my mother is very warm and friendly toothers , but she is very strict with me .
my father is a professional accountant . he works hard every day . he likesplaying football . i usually play with him . we enjoy ourselves every time .
my dream is to be a police officer when i grow up . everyboy , please cheerme on !
thanks ! thanks you very much !
Respect teacher, dear students:
Everybody is good, the eye of my speech today is -- my youth!
First of all, I want to ask you that question, could you tell me the classmate of everyone, what is youth?
There must be many different answers. My answer is, the gorgeous flower, burning passion, ambition of an eagle, this is our youth. Youth, what a dazzling word. And four seasons in a year, in the same way, life is there are four seasons. Youth is like spring all the year round, is the season of planting, just went to the spring will come again next year, and youth is gone forever. Youth is the season of struggle not to waste life joke. Because the youth is so short, sometimes could recall, has gone with the wind. We can't afford to waste of youth, our youth beautiful because of the struggle.
My youth, my boss
If I were to ask everyone here, and your youth who is leading? You will say: my youth, my boss. Yes, our youth is our family. But I want to say is, our youth how to make decision. Is in the world of the game Still using QQ chat all day, or sleep to twelve o 'clock every day. My youth, my family, not called you to squander the youth, if in the game every day, your youth is not in your family, but the game in charge of your youth. We through the cold window study hard twelve or thirteen years, came to the university, may not be admitted to our ideal university, may have no choice to our own like professional. This is not the reason why we fall, is not the reason why we waste youth. My youth, my boss. Not want us to squander our youth, wasted our time. But to make decision, we struggle of youth, youth encouraging words.
My youth, my dream!
Since talk about youth, you must be without dream. We brought the dream of university, but like a lot of people forget our initial dream. Not surf the Internet every day is just hanging around, on this day one day just hanging with the game, gradually lost our dream, willing to fall, willing to ordinary. If you forget their original dream, if not forgotten dreams, and whether in the struggle for your dream? This world is never lack of visionary, lack is practitioner, have a dream to strive, to achieve them. My dream is to become a senior engineer, although very far away, but I never give up, has always been striving for a chase. Distant dream on the fly, the wings up to chase. In order to their dreams, struggle! Don't be hesitated.
My youth, my family!
My youth, I struggle with!
My youth, I no regrets!
My speech. Thank you all!
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return. But what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.
A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and you just have to let go.
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
I have a dream
Every one has his own I was a little kid ,my dream was even to have a candy shop of my own now ,when I am 16 years old ,standing here ,my dreams have already changed a lot.
I have got quite different experience from other e they were playing toys at home,while they were dreaming to be the princesses in the story .I was running in the hard rain,jumping in the heavy snow,pitching in the strong ing could stop me ,because of a wonderful call from my heart -- to be an ,of course ,I'm an athlete,I'm so proud of that all the time .
When I was 10 years old ,I became a shot-put training was really hard ,I couldn't bear the heavy shot in my hands I always believe that "god only help those who help themselves"ng those hard days,I find I was growing more quickly than others of the same be an athlete is my most correct ,I quit my team after entering high school because of a silly excuse.I really didn't want to stop my sports career anyway.
Today I say to you my friends that even though I must face the difficulties of yesterday ,today and tomorrow .I still have a dream is a dream deeply rooted in my soul.
I have a dream that one day ,I can run,jump and pitch just like I used to be.
I have a dream that one day , I can go back to my dream sports and join the national team.
I have a dream that one day ,I can stand on the highest place at the olympic all the cameras pointing at me.I will tell everyone that I'm so proud to be a Chinese athlete!
This is my hope is the faith that I continue my steps with!!!
With this faith ,I will live though the strong wind and heavy rain ,never give up !
So let victory ring from my heart,from all of we allow victory to ring .I must be the one!
In my imagination,I'm a bird ,a magical bird.I carry my dreams all with me by my big wings. I fly though the mountains ,though the forests ,over the sea,to the sun ,the warmest place in the aerospace!
Every night ,I have a dream ,I see a girl ---smiling
iversity is not as satisfactory as what I had expected. I become lazy and don't want to study.I become silcent. I become puzzled. I don't know what I can do in the future. Then I become unhappy.
Four years in the university is only a short period when compared my whole lifetime. Now it has passed a half. In this year, many people ,such as my parents,my friends, ask me what I want to do and tell me to map out a plan for my life.
I don't want to follow their suggestion, and I want to go my style. So I think carefully. I have been a young volunteer for five 's very happy and significant. Then I have a dream.I want to join the Univerity Student Volunteers Go West Programe. I think I can be a teacher in the west.I want to try my best to help them and help me. I want to see the world cearly. Now I can't reach its demand and it's very diffcult,but I will work hard in the next two years. There is an old saying"where there is a will,there is a way."I think my dream can come in the university I mature,and in the university I prepare for the real world.
At last,I want to say to everybody"Hlod fast to your dreams,no matter how big or small they path to dreams may not be smooth and wide,even some sacrifices are hold on to the end,you can find there is no geater happiness than making your dream come ture."
Everyone knows that failure always accompanies us in our life. no matterwhat we do, none of us can say we will surely succeed, because there is no suchthing as plain sailing.
About failure, different people have different opinions. Generallyspeaking, on one hand, people think "failure is the mother of success". Theythink we won't understand the profound meaning of success until we go throughfailure. On the other hand, for some people, failure is frustration. They thinkif a person goes through too much failure, he will collapse and lose confidencein his my opinion, failure is the footstone and catalyst of the edificeof success. "you don't know what you have until it's gone." if you have neverlost it, and always get it easily, you will not cherish what you get andown.
大家都知道，我们的人生总是伴随失败的。无论我们做什么，没有人可以说我们一定会成功，因为没有什么事情可以一帆风顺。
关于失败的，不同的人有不同的看法。一般来说，一方面，人们认为“失败是成功之母”。他们认为我们不经历失败，就不会理解成功的深刻含义。另一方面，对一些人来说，失败是挫折。他们认为，如果一个人经历太多的失败，他将崩溃，失去了生活的信心。我认为，失败是成功的基石和催化剂。“你不知道自己拥有什么，直到失去”。如果你从来没有失去，总是很容易得到，你就不会珍惜你所拥有。
bidding the lovely scenes at distance hail!
and see no end to the landscape, new objects presenting themselves as we advance; so, in the commencement of life, we set no bounds to our inclinations. nor to the unrestricted opportunities of gratifying them. we have as yet found no obstacle, no disposition to flag; and it seems that we can go on so forever. we look round in a new world, full of life, and motion, and ceaseleprogress; and feel in ourselves all the vigor and spirit to keep pace with it, and do not foresee from any present symptoms how we shall be left behind in the natural course of things, decline into old age, and drop into the grave. it is the simplicity, and as it were abstractedneof our feelings in youth, that (so to speak) identifies us with nature, and (our experience being slight and our passions strong) deludes us into a belief of being immortal like it. our short-lives connection with existence we fondly flatter ourselves, is an indissoluble and lasting union-a honeymoon that knows neither coldness, jar, nor separation. as infants smile and sleep, we are rocked in the cradle of our wayward fancies, and lulled into security by the roar of the universe around us0we quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the more-objects prearound us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the strong of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
Animals are natural resources that people have wasted all through our history. Animals have been killed for their fur and feathers, for food, for sport, and simply because they were in the way. Thousands of kinds of animals have disappeared from the earth forever. Hundreds more are on the danger list today. About 170 kinds in the United States alone are considered in danger.
Why should people care? Because we need animals, and because once they are gone, there will never be any more. Animals are more than just beautiful or interesting. They are more than just a source of food. Every animal has its place in the balance of nature. Destroying one kind of animal can create many problems. For example, when farmers killed large numbers of hawks, the farmers' stores of corn and grain were destroyed by rats and mice. Why? Because hawks eat rats and mice, with no hawks to keep down their numbers, the rats and mice multiplied quickly.
Luckily, some people are working to help save the animals. Some groups raise money to let people know about the problem. And they try to get the governments to pass laws protecting animals in danger. Quite a few countries have passed laws. These laws forbid the killing of any animal or plant on the danger list. Slowly, the number of some animals in danger is growing.
People always say in one life, they can’t be sailing plainly, it meanspeople will meet all kinds of difficulties and they are easy to feel frustrated,the one who gets over frustration, the one who becomes successful. When we meetdifficulties, we must learn to face it in the optimistic way, so we can see thehope and have the faith to move on. The difficult moment is just the smallinterlude of our lives. As the saying that failure is the mother of success, sowe need to learn lessons from failure and then when the time comes, we will getsuccessful. Facing frustration is unavoidable, if we can handle it well, we willwin.
人们总是说人的一生不可能一帆风顺，这意味着人们会遇到各种各样的困难，他们很容易会感到受挫，谁能走出挫折，谁就能获得成功。当我们遇到困难，必须要学着去乐观面对，这样我们才能看到希望，有信念前进。困难时刻不过是我们生活的小插曲。俗话说失败乃成功之母，我们要从失败中学到教训，当时机到来，我们就会成功。面对挫折是不可避免的，如果我们能处理好，就能赢得胜利。
good evening, ladies and gentlemen:
i’d like to start with a group of pictures.
"modern and advanced"? this society forgets, and ignores the other twothirds of human beings. it's far from the ideal! we call ideal as a utopian, aplace where reality does not exist. a few people still look forward to theideals. we make fun of them, considering they are naive. will we still becontent to live in such a society, if misfortune drops to us? no! of causenot!
when we feel the warmth of the sun, these people, endure great sorrows andpains. can we imagine that? they are our brother and sisters!
facing them, will we still complain about our own misfortune?
facing them, will we still have the mood shouting for our own freedom?facing them, will we still want to have more and more unnecessary stuff?
they are unable to meet their needs, even the basic needs of survival!everyone, as a member of humanity, shouldn't feel ashamed? our luxury deprivedtheir lives, our indifference violated our soul, and our barbarity destroyedhuman civilization!
what's the ideal society? it's a society no one worries about their living,a society no one is refused from education, a society everyone can pursuehis/her own happiness! the ideal society is filled with love, joy and that society, we can touch the other's hearts, we can share our dreams andmost important, we can just be the true men!
let's break the ethnic divide, bridge the gap between rich and poor, handin hand, to build a great wall, protecting us from evil; to construct a steadybridge, connecting reality to the ideal society! let's pursue for that, that'sthe only way to the bright future! they are watching us! thank you!
smoking is a greater cause of death and disability than any single disease,says the world health organisation.
according to their figures, it is responsible for approximately fivemillion deaths worldwide every year.
tobacco smoking is a known or probable cause of approximately 25 diseases,and even the who says that its impact on world health is not fully assessed.
heart attack and stroke
uk studies show that smokers in their 30s and 40s are five times morelikely to have a heart attack than non-smokers.
acquires new meaning in today's era (时代) of change. The road to successstarts from the beginning, and our world is one full of competitions, If onlychildren have never had any setback, in the long run they won't bear any setbackor failure in life. Some setback early on may make them ready for verychallenging issues at a later date.
有些人认为只有孩子不需要挫折的经验，是trmes变了，只有儿童不应受到严格的要求。在他们看来，经历挫折使这些敏感的孩子感到被压迫者(战败者)。因此，只有对不起孩子精神上有害其心理wellWeing(心理健康)。但有些人却持相反的意见。他们声称，挫折经验，有利于独生子女。鼓励儿童实践弱点的技能和能力的工作，并完成其目标，让他们用实际和竞争激烈的社会。通过一些挫折走向可能会有助于他们对未来的个人性格形成。
在我看来，挫折的经验，应紧急主张(倡导)。挫折经验，取得今天的时代(时代)变革的新的意义。从一开始的成功之路开始，我们的世界是一个充满竞争，如果只有孩子从未有过任何挫折，从长远来说，他们将不承担任何挫折或失败的生活。早期的一些挫折就可能使其成为非常具有挑战性的在日后的问题做好准备。
He went home and from then on, he went to that store every day and bought a CD, and she wrapped it for him. He took the CD home and put it in his closet. He was still too shy to ask her out and he really wanted to but he couldn't. His mother found out about this and told him to just ask her. So the next day, he took all his courage and went to the store as usual. He bought a CD like he did every day and once again she went to the back of the store and came back with it wrapped. He took it and when she wasn't looking, he left his phone number on the desk and ran out…
One day the phone rang, and the mother picked it up and said, “Hello?”
It was the girl! The mother started to cry and said, “You don?'t know? He passed away yesterday…”
The line was quiet except for the cries of the boy's mother. Later in the day, the mother went into the boy?'s room because she wanted to remember him. She thought she would start by looking at his clothes. So she opened the closet.
She was face to face with piles and piles and piles of unopened CDs. She was surprised to find all these CDs and she picked one up and sat down on the bed and she started to open one. Inside, there was a CD and as she took it out of the wrapper, out fell a piece of paper. The mother picked it up and started to read it. It said: Hi… I think U R really cute. Do u wanna go out with me? Love, Jocelyn.
The mother was deeply moved and opened another CD…
Again there was a piece of paper. It said: Hi… I think U R really cute. Do u wanna go out with me? Love, Jocelyn.
Love is… when you?'ve had a huge fight but then decide to put aside your egos, hold hands and say, “I Love You.”
The East and the West, Let’s enjoy the combination of the two cultures? Kipling said:“East is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet!” But now, a century later, they have met. They have met in business. They have met in education. They have met in the arts. Some people will argue that these meetings will leave us with a choice between east and west, but I believe that the best future lies in the creative combination of both worlds. We can make western ideas, customs and technology our own, and adapt them to our own use. We can enjoy the best of both worlds, because our tradition is, above all, one of selecting the best and making it our own. I love Beijing and Hennan opera because it always reminds me of who I am. But I am also a fan of pop music, especially English songs. So I have combined eastern melody with western language. It is called western henna opera. When two cultures meet, there may be things in one culture, which do not fit into the tradition of the other. When this happens, we need to learn to understand and respect the customs of another culture. Then there are certain things some people may not like. To this, I will say, if you do not like it, please try to tolerate it. To learn to tolerate what you personally don’t like is a great virtue at a time when different cultures mix and merge. Before us, there are two rivers, eastern and western cultures. At present, they may run in different courses. But eventually, they will converge into the vast sea of human culture. Right now, I can see peoples of eastern and western cultures, standing side by side, singing the Olympic theme song: we are hand in hand, heart to heart, together we will shape a beautiful tomorrow! Thank you!
I love hometown
My hometown is not known, but in my eyes, the rivers and mountains of his home, plants are the most beautiful. Do not believe? Listen to me then to introduce the Four Seasons bar!
Spring dream home just as the baby woke up, it looked Zhang curious eyes of the world: the swaying willow of hair, grass from the land out of the small head, is also pressing wildflowers River from the ground up, the light emitting fragrance. Flying Swallow flew back from the South, and chirp in the branches and calls, and the spring air is filled with every corner.
Summer, the home was surrounded by lush trees, thick foliage in brilliant sunshine all the more lush. Cicadas in the trees kept the "cicada, cicada" singing, old people leisurely sitting under a tree, slowly shaking fans, and children eating ice cream, chasing each other in the streets, playing, and to add hot summer endless vitality.
Fall, like put home a golden dress, blowing in the wind, the leaf pieces flying in the air. The golden fields of corn, rice farmersuncle's face shine with the joy of the harvest, from the height look down, ah! Good a golden world.
Winter, the snowflakes floating in the air to put on a white streets of the thick snow, step up a "creak" sound, children with snowmen, snowball fights, and that the laughter turned into a cold winter's well-being of the park.
I love the rivers and mountains of his home, plants, love every one of its sky, every inch of land, each stream. It is willing to develop faster, and build the United States and more. I feel my hometown proud!
he values Americans live by may seem strange to you. As a result, you mightfind their actions confusing, even unbelievable. This is my opinion aboutAmerican Value. Whether you agree with me or not - or is willing to accept asvalid any generalizations about Americans - my observations arethought-provoking.
Americans do not believe in the power of fate, and they look at people whodo as being backward, primitive, or naive. In the American context, to be"fatalistic" is to be superstitious, lazy, or unwilling to take yone should have control over whatever in the environment might potentiallyaffect him or her. The problems of one's life are not seen as having resultedfrom bad luck as much as having come from one's laziness and unwillingness totake responsibility in pursuing a better life.
In the American mind, change is seen as indisputably good, leading todevelopment, improvement, progress. Many older, more traditional culturesconsider change disruptive and destructive; they value stability, continuity,tradition, and ancient heritage - none of which are considered very important inthe United States.
Time is of utmost importance to most Americans. It is something to be on,kept, filled, saved, used, spent, wasted, lost, gained, planned, given, evenkilled. Americans are more concerned with getting things accomplished on timethan they are with developing interpersonal relations. Their lives seemcontrolled by the little machines they wear on their wrists, cutting theirdiscussions off abruptly to make their next appointment on time. This philosophyhas enabled Americans to be extremely productive, and productivity Is highlyvalued In their country.
Equality is so cherished in the U.S. that it is seen as having a religiousbasis. Americans believe that all people are created equal and that all shouldhave an equal opportunity to succeed. This concept of equality is strange toseven-eighths of the world which views status and authority as desirable, evenif they happen to be near the bottom of the social order. Since Americans liketo treat foreigners "Just like anybody else", newcomers to the U.S. shouldrealize that no insult or personal indignity is intended if they are treated ina less than-deferential manner by waiters in restaurants, clerks in stores andhotels, taxi drivers, and other service personnel.
Americans view themselves as highly individualistic in their thoughts andactions. They resist being thought of as representatives of any homogeneousgroup. When they do join groups, they believe they are special. Just a littledifferent from other members of the same group. In the U.S. you will find peoplefreely expressing a variety of opinions anywhere and anytime. Yet, in spite ofthis independence, almost all Americans end up voting for one of their two majorpolitical parties. Individualism leads to privacy, which Americans see asdesirable. The word privacy does not exist in many non-Western languages. If Itdoes, it is likely to have a negative connotation, suggesting loneliness orforced isolation. It is not uncommon for Americans to say, and almost tobelieve: "If I don't have half an hour a day to myself, I go stark-ravingmad!"
Americans take credit only for what they accomplish as individuals. Theyget no credit for having been born into a rich family but pride themselves inhaving climbed the ladder of success, to whatever level, all by themselves. Inan English-language dictionary, there are more than 100 composite words thathave the word "self" as a prefix: self-aware. self-confident, self-conscious,self-contented, self-control, self-criticism, self-deception, self-defeating,self-denial. The equivalent of these words cannot be found in most otherlanguages. It is an indicator of how highly Americans regard the self-made manor woman.
Many other countries have developed subtle, sometimes highly ritualistic,ways of informing others of unpleasant information. Americans prefer the directapproach. They are likely to be completely honest in delivering their negativeevaluations, and to consider, anything other than the most direct and openapproach to be "dishonest" and "insincere". Anyone in the U.S. who uses anintermediary to deliver the message will also be considered "manipulative" and"untrustworthy". If you come from a country where saving face is important, beassured that Americans are not trying to make you lose face with theirdirectness.
As a matter of fact, the major American Value is distinct from Chinese. Weought to accept it when we communicate with Americans. Thus, we need makeourselves think globally and act locally.
It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth, even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.
A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life; a timely word may level stress; a loving word may heal and bless.
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with a tear. When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.
There was once a guy who suffered from cancer, a cancer that can?'t be cured. He was 18 years old and he could die anytime. All his life, he was stuck in his house being taken cared by his mother. He never went outside but he was sick of staying home and wanted to go out for once. So he asked his mother and she gave him permission.
He walked down his block and found a lot of stores. He passed a CD store and looked through the front door for a second as he walked. He stopped and went back to look into the store. He saw a beautiful girl about his age and he knew it was love at first sight. He opened the door and walked in, not looking at anything else but her. He walked closer and closer until he was finally at the front desk where she sat.
Along the years have gone, innocence has stopped in the past, our youthlike neon lights and fled but that the loneliness behind the prosperous, from toknow what is the moment a smile behind the sadness, we embarked on the unknownroad named "youth".
No looking forward to the surprise of no can make crystal shoe ofCinderella into a princess in the fairy tale, no that can accept the stage ofcountless flowers and applause. Our ordinary unchanged, we have, just the heartto warm as a flame. Not don't want to live free and easy at ease, not don't wantto rebel, indulgence, not don't want to desperate crazy chase, in between dreamsand reality is that only a moment, I saw the gap between them, I see, I haven'tget pass that leads to freedom, so I chose reality, after all, I tend to thewarmth of reality. But that gorgeous dream will never fade, cherish forever inour memory, that is a dream of youth is free and easy.
We sing the youth. In fact, the youth is a song, ups and downs, or sad, orhappy, hazy, but delicious. Each of us in a very careful interpretation of thesong, youth compose their own light.
Alone in this hot time of the sixteen, we enjoy a happy, sorrow, joy,loneliness. Little laughter, light sadness, that is youth. Here, leaving amoment we smile, took down our tears at the moment of these is enough, do notneed to what decorate painstakingly, this is the real us, youth to grasp intheir own hands, to create a regretless youth.
In this melody of youth, we are leading role, once rebellious and crazy,bitterness and tears, once had moved and dream, all has gone with the wind, beworth collect carefully is left by the memories of a lifetime. We are thecreators of the dream, we are holding the dream to step into the youth, withmoving through youth, youth, into the future with hope.
In the years of youth, we make public individual character, flyingthoughts; In the years of youth, we cry, smile, wantonly have belong to ourinnocence; In the years of youth, we left a good memories of the yone has his own sixteen, although content is not the same, but the meaningis the same: pure time of the epic. Youth, we sing, singing life, singing thatare not perfect but splendid life.
Do not need to hide, do not need to escape, my youth I make decision, inthis colorful world, we in the heart of the song was sung belongs to our youthfloat in the sky. My youth I decide!
