祝孩子们天天健康快乐！
标题: When The Dawn Comes——当黎明来临时 [打印本页]
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-7-9 01:08
标题: When The Dawn Comes——当黎明来临时
告诉自己：
我写故我在
一些个贴子的链接。
（还是不太明白自己开这贴干嘛？？？犹豫困惑当中！可能是嫌个人空间速度太慢了。）
http://bbs.etjy.com/viewthread.php?tid=69954&extra=&page=1
虫子美国小学的事情
http://bbs.etjy.com/viewthread.php?tid=69628&extra=page%3D1
虫子在芝加哥芭蕾的事情
这贴子好阵子没有续了。顺其自然吧。
还有什么？想不起来了。
喜新厌旧的人，太老的贴子，自己是看都不想看了。
从此楼后，这里只贴些不太相干的东西。
[ 本帖最后由 dawnch 于 2007-9-10 18:19 编辑 ]
作者: 江湖 时间: 2007-7-9 01:09
沙发。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。
作者: 江湖 时间: 2007-7-9 01:10
呵呵，好多年不占沙发了，连板凳也一起占了。。
作者: 江湖 时间: 2007-7-9 01:13
先把签名换掉吧。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-7-9 01:26
没有签名啊？
作者: etjy2007 时间: 2007-7-9 14:17
江湖这个也太那个了, 虫妈的光辉全被你挡住了, 该减肥了
作者: 668 时间: 2007-7-9 14:21
偶占个前排地板坐下
作者: 青春已过 时间: 2007-7-9 15:20
也来看虫妈!
作者: 葡萄树枝子 时间: 2007-7-10 09:26
期待老虫的新作品，还有小虫的芭蕾......
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-7-11 00:55
短兵相接勇者胜
人有这么个心理。当面交锋都容易露怯，不容易坚持自己的立场。
招生办的情况就是这样。何小姐在电话里强调一定是先考试后交费。结果当面谈就又变成了一句软话。
这就是逼出来的结果。
书面交流的安全距离最大，不容易争取到自己所要的效果，因为对方可以逃避的出路和时间都很多。
电话交流的安全距离比书面要小，有些人也会招架不住，会在电话里让步。但惯于电话交流的人，特别是那种不怕讲长电话的人，对这个有心理防御能力，不会怕。
而面对面的交流是短兵相接，是逼宫。不是每个人都有这种临场的控制能力，因此很多人会在这个场合让步。
所以，要争取自己的利益，最有效的办法是面对面、上门。。。。。。
可这恰恰是我的弱项。
我可以洋洋洒洒写万言，我可以在上讲台脸不改色心不跳，但我就是不愿意在电话里谈，一拿起电话我所有的能量就集中在怎样放下电话怎样结束这场谈话；我更不愿意面对面谈——那里有太多超出我控制的东西。
网络为俺这种人提供了一个安全的方式。
人懒，在办公室磨半天也不愿意踏出门一步，就在QQ 上聊。谈合同、谈价钱，把对方气疯了自己还纹丝不动。
不愿打电话，咱还可以发个短信，或者，发个EMAIL，然后告知对方去查收。。。。等等。
多了很多规避自己弱点的方式。
但不管怎样，这些方式仍是低效率的。
有个朋友声称很少有办不成的事情。
她的强项就在于当面的沟通能力。
她说她在交谈的时候总是能够知道别人下一句想说什么。
她的反应之快让对方无招架之力。
她的肯定与坚定控制了整个环境。
让对方的思路不得不跟着她走。
很多事情就在这短兵相接电光火石当中敲定了。
实在佩服得紧！
短兵相接勇者胜
[ 本帖最后由 dawnch 于 2007-7-11 00:59 编辑 ]
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-7-11 01:53
原帖由 etjy2007 于 2007-7-9 14:17 发表 
江湖这个也太那个了, 虫妈的光辉全被你挡住了, 该减肥了
自家的兄弟，不计较滴~~~
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-7-11 16:19
芝加哥时间，二OO 七年七月十一日，凌晨三点零四分。
终于做完了美国历史的研究项目。
一点感觉都没有，完全是在码字凑paper。明天有东西交就行了。
不是零分就行了。
这个summer的两门课我真是一点激情都没有。
太累了。
晚上九点半把项目做了一半，从图书馆回来，竟然发现寂寞得不得了。邮箱里连个垃圾邮件也没有。寂寞得连个念想都没有。
这种的时候连垃圾邮件都令人想念！
强迫自己闭眼半小时，根本没睡着。十一点半，起来洗澡，换个精神好写作业。
十二点，正式登场。
主要是做BIBLIOGRAPHY，先把格式弄清楚，那些个作者，书名，版权时间，出版社名字和地址。。。。。。这是国外标准的引经据典的格式，我还是不习惯。
一边查找一边修改自己的文章。
真是狗屁文章，一点感觉都没有。
赶紧做完，一眼都不要再看。
三点，完事了。
明晚还有一个演讲，稿子还没写。
等过了历史这一关，明天下午再说吧。
想起中午在图书馆碰到打了个招呼的那位教授，心里越想越不是滋味。。。。。。
估计很长时间都不能和韩国脱敏了。
唉。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。！
当一个三个孩子的父亲到底是什么滋味？
明天，明天！明天的早餐在哪里？
不管了，明天一早先冲到学校图书馆打印文稿再说。
想起今晨星巴克的冰咖啡配cake loaf，舒服。。。。。。。。。。！
[ 本帖最后由 dawnch 于 2007-7-11 16:45 编辑 ]
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-7-13 11:17
星期四晚上九点是个值得庆祝的时刻。
一周的课程就在这个时候结束。
这一周，花了两个晚上赶写history 的research project，四十八小时内只睡了六、七个小时。
项目赶完了，马上准备公共演讲课的课堂演讲。
中午历史课一下课，跑到学校basement里的饭堂，要了一份beef stew，一份hot dog，一杯soda，一包chips，给自己打好经济基础。
后面一桌是几个中国学生，大声地谈着广东人什么都吃的事情。
不认识，也没有兴趣加入他们。
吃完后，发现饭堂是个不错的读书地方，可以边吃东西边看书，在图书馆就不可以。
于是，在饭桌上把演讲稿起草了一遍，然后跑到五楼图书馆，一边打字，一边修改讲稿，和要交给老师的提纲。
真好，三点钟，把什么都做完了，打印出来，连忙冲去红线地铁站去summer camp接虫子。
今晚就是我的演讲。
给自己鼓劲：快了，快了，过了今晚，就什么都过去了。
迟到了几分钟进教室。
教授正在说怎么只有这几个人登记今晚的演讲（凡准备当晚演讲的同学都要把自己的名字按顺序写到白板上）。
话音未落，我直接背着背包走到白板前，在第五位，大写地写下自己的名字。
我喜欢五这个数字，五方佛。
把演讲由昨晚拖到今晚，就是要寻找火花。
果然，在今天的历史课上走神，终于为我的演讲稿找到一个闪光点：
上帝没有给予阿甘高智商，同样也没有给他足够的智商去见异思迁。我们没有必要去学习阿甘的低智商，但我们却可以学习阿甘的专注。
只要是演讲的内容是我喜欢的，我一定会把激情带进演讲里。
带着高涨的心情，无比自信地上了演讲台。状态极好。
演讲的时候，我看清楚了在座每个人的表情，还有教授闪烁的目光。
精彩之处，还有听众的回应——尽管我讲的不是什么新鲜的话题——《阿甘正传》。
明天是高兴的一天，没有课，可以安心的享用星巴克的咖啡，配着好吃的点心。
然后为G教授和C教授准备一堂中文课。
我很享受近来他们的表现，以及这种随意交谈讨论的上课状态。
上周G教授提到了中国法律书面与实际执行的距离的问题。
我讲了一大通，他们听得云里雾里。
重新整理一下，换个角度明天再谈。
[ 本帖最后由 dawnch 于 2007-7-13 11:26 编辑 ]
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-7-14 07:44
今天下课后，与Prof. G谈了一下。向他了解他们作中国研究，是如何取得资料的，是否有什么正式的获取研究资料的渠道。
他说：他们是通过个人关系获得对中国的信息的，学院之间正式的渠道是没有的。即使是获得的一些官方的文件、法规，不见得有什么价值。再一个渠道，就是和那些中国学生的交谈。
他认为主要是语言障碍。因此，他们的研究都是处于面上的研究，非常general，由于信息资料的缺少，无法作深入细致的研究。
另外，CHO提到比较法课，美国、欧洲的学生比较不care这个课，中国学生就比较care，特别是philip，给他的印象非常深。
其实，上次讲到的问题，为什么中国法律书面与实际不一样。这个问题其实有一个非常简单的答案。
其实这个问题的产生就是因为 Heuristic Distances。他们所以为的法律，就是立法机关所制定的那些authority的文件或者什么。他们的理解，相当于是狭义的法律。
但在中国，执法当中，还要包括国务院制定的行政法规、其它地方机关制定的地方性法规和规章。这是广义的法律。也正因此，我们在使用“法律”这个词的同时，还创造了一个涵义更模糊的词“法律依据”。
甚至，在具体办案过程中，还需要知道某个执行机关对某个具体问题的操作的态度、主审法官的个人的观点和取向。这两点，虽然不算是法律体系里的东西，但这些因素确实会在实践当中有影响。
但是，这些层次的信息，他们是无法获得的。他们获得的，是那些面上的文件。由于缺失了细节上的信息，他们当然会有中国的实际法律与书面法律不一样，如此强烈的感觉了。
其实，要获取对中国法律全面的认识，就算是中国人也是有困难的。没有一本法规集是足够全面细致；也没有哪个教授能对实践当中的问题个案了如指掌；而且还有大量的有用的信息是存在于那些个环节当中的关键点上。这种情况就象是中国没有一个有效的“使用说明书”，没有一个法律能够让人们DIY地明明白白去操作。
因此，国外的人，他们再reach out，也很难达到对中国法律实际准确的了解。
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-7-16 10:58
Last week, Prof. Gerber asked me a legal question, “Why it seems difficult to get the national legislation actually enforced in China?”
Because I have NO language in this area, so I had better cope with this assignment in the simplest way.
Besides the laws enacted by The National People's Congress and its Standing Committee, broad-sense law includes constitution, administrative regulations and rules, and regional provincial (local) regulations and rules, which could be used as laws in practice, even though they are not real laws.
It is a universal knowledge in China.
Theoretically, according to the constitution, regional provincial regulations and rules must not contravene the constitution and the laws and upper level administrative rules and regulations.
But who could ensure this?
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress exercises the functions and powers to annul those administrative rules and regulations, decisions or orders that contravene the Constitution or the law.
As far as I know, the National People's Congress or its standing committee is not always a strong role, and sometimes, it is so easy to give an illusion that they work under somebody.
As to the Supreme Court, local courts, or the Procuratorates in various local levels, Prof. Cho must know how they work. I need not to say.
It is not easy to keep tidy in a numerous and jumbled laws world, especially in a condition that lack of a really powerful and efficacious implement and supervision.
To handle cases, it is not enough for a lawyer is only expert in laws, regulations, and rules, because there are a bunch of elements actually influential in the realistic world. If a lawyer does not know a certain government department’s attitude or orientation towards a certain factor in a certain issue, this lawyer almost could not move a single step.
China is like a giant Jigsaw, and there are too many people occupy a part of piece in their hands. To an outsider, it is very difficult to build up a landscape.
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-7-18 10:47
非常精彩的演讲！
Mario Matthew Cuomo
1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address
"A Tale of Two Cities"
delivered 16 July 1984 in San Francisco
[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio. (2)] Thank you very much.
On behalf of the great Empire State and the whole family of New York, let me thank you for the great privilege of being able to address this convention. Please allow me to skip the stories and the poetry and the temptation to deal in nice but vague rhetoric. Let me instead use this valuable opportunity to deal immediately with the questions that should determine this election and that we all know are vital to the American people. Ten days ago, President Reagan admitted that although some people in this country seemed to be doing well nowadays, others were unhappy, even worried, about themselves, their families, and their futures. The President said that he didn't understand that fear. He said, "Why, this country is a shining city on a hill." And the President is right. In many ways we are a shining city on a hill. But the hard truth is that not everyone is sharing in this city's splendor and glory. A shining city is perhaps all the President sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another city; there's another part to the shining the city; the part where some people can't pay their mortgages, and most young people can't afford one; where students can't afford the education they need, and middle-class parents watch the dreams they hold for their children evaporate.
In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it. Even worse: There are elderly people who tremble in the basements of the houses there. And there are people who sleep in the city streets, in the gutter, where the glitter doesn't show. There are ghettos where thousands of young people, without a job or an education, give their lives away to drug dealers every day. There is despair, Mr. President, in the faces that you don't see, in the places that you don't visit in your shining city.
In fact, Mr. President, this is a nation -- Mr. President you ought to know that this nation is more a "Tale of Two Cities" than it is just a "Shining City on a Hill."
Maybe, maybe, Mr. President, if you visited some more places; maybe if you went to Appalachia where some people still live in sheds; maybe if you went to Lackawanna where thousands of unemployed steel workers wonder why we subsidized foreign steel. Maybe -- Maybe, Mr. President, if you stopped in at a shelter in Chicago and spoke to the homeless there; maybe, Mr. President, if you asked a woman who had been denied the help she needed to feed her children because you said you needed the money for a tax break for a millionaire or for a missile we couldn't afford to use. Maybe -- Maybe, Mr. President. But I'm afraid not. Because the truth is, ladies and gentlemen, that this is how we were warned it would be. President Reagan told us from the very beginning that he believed in a kind of social Darwinism. Survival of the fittest. "Government can't do everything," we were told, so it should settle for taking care of the strong and hope that economic ambition and charity will do the rest. Make the rich richer, and what falls from the table will be enough for the middle class and those who are trying desperately to work their way into the middle class.
You know, the Republicans called it "trickle-down" when Hoover tried it. Now they call it "supply side." But it's the same shining city for those relative few who are lucky enough to live in its good neighborhoods. But for the people who are excluded, for the people who are locked out, all they can do is stare from a distance at that city's glimmering towers.
It's an old story. It's as old as our history. The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. The Republicans -- The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind by the side of the trail. "The strong" -- "The strong," they tell us, "will inherit the land." We Democrats believe in something else. We democrats believe that we can make it all the way with the whole family intact, and we have more than once. Ever since Franklin Roosevelt lifted himself from his wheelchair to lift this nation from its knees -- wagon train after wagon train -- to new frontiers of education, housing, peace; the whole family aboard, constantly reaching out to extend and enlarge that family; lifting them up into the wagon on the way; blacks and Hispanics, and people of every ethnic group, and native Americans -- all those struggling to build their families and claim some small share of America. For nearly 50 years we carried them all to new levels of comfort, and security, and dignity, even affluence. And remember this, some of us in this room today are here only because this nation had that kind of confidence. And it would be wrong to forget that.
So, here we are at this convention to remind ourselves where we come from and to claim the future for ourselves and for our children. Today our great Democratic Party, which has saved this nation from depression, from fascism, from racism, from corruption, is called upon to do it again -- this time to save the nation from confusion and division, from the threat of eventual fiscal disaster, and most of all from the fear of a nuclear holocaust. That's not going to be easy. Mo Udall is exactly right -- it won't be easy. And in order to succeed, we must answer our opponent's polished and appealing rhetoric with a more telling reasonableness and rationality.
We must win this case on the merits. We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that sound good as with speeches that are good and sound; not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that will bring people to their senses. We must make -- We must make the American people hear our "Tale of Two Cities." We must convince them that we don't have to settle for two cities, that we can have one city, indivisible, shining for all of its people.
Now, we will have no chance to do that if what comes out of this convention is a babel of arguing voices. If that's what's heard throughout the campaign, dissident sounds from all sides, we will have no chance to tell our message. To succeed we will have to surrender some small parts of our individual interests, to build a platform that we can all stand on, at once, and comfortably -- proudly singing out. We need -- We need a platform we can all agree to so that we can sing out the truth for the nation to hear, in chorus, its logic so clear and commanding that no slick Madison Avenue commercial, no amount of geniality, no martial music will be able to muffle the sound of the truth.
And we Democrats must unite. We Democrats must unite so that the entire nation can unite, because surely the Republicans won't bring this country together. Their policies divide the nation into the lucky and the left-out, into the royalty and the rabble. The Republicans are willing to treat that division as victory. They would cut this nation in half, into those temporarily better off and those worse off than before, and they would call that division recovery.
Now, we should not -- we should not be embarrassed or dismayed or chagrined if the process of unifying is difficult, even wrenching at times. Remember that, unlike any other Party, we embrace men and women of every color, every creed, every orientation, every economic class. In our family are gathered everyone from the abject poor of Essex County in New York, to the enlightened affluent of the gold coasts at both ends of the nation. And in between is the heart of our constituency -- the middle class, the people not rich enough to be worry-free, but not poor enough to be on welfare; the middle class -- those people who work for a living because they have to, not because some psychiatrist told them it was a convenient way to fill the interval between birth and eternity. White collar and blue collar. Young professionals. Men and women in small business desperate for the capital and contracts that they need to prove their worth.
We speak for the minorities who have not yet entered the mainstream. We speak for ethnics who want to add their culture to the magnificent mosaic that is America. We speak -- We speak for women who are indignant that this nation refuses to etch into its governmental commandments the simple rule "thou shalt not sin against equality," a rule so simple --
I was going to say, and I perhaps dare not but I will. It's a commandment so simple it can be spelled in three letters: E.R.A.
We speak -- We speak for young people demanding an education and a future. We speak for senior citizens. We speak for senior citizens who are terrorized by the idea that their only security, their Social Security, is being threatened. We speak for millions of reasoning people fighting to preserve our environment from greed and from stupidity. And we speak for reasonable people who are fighting to preserve our very existence from a macho intransigence that refuses to make intelligent attempts to discuss the possibility of nuclear holocaust with our enemy. They refuse. They refuse, because they believe we can pile missiles so high that they will pierce the clouds and the sight of them will frighten our enemies into submission.
Now we're proud of this diversity as Democrats. We're grateful for it. We don't have to manufacture it the way the Republicans will next month in Dallas, by propping up mannequin delegates on the convention floor. But we, while we're proud of this diversity, we pay a price for it. The different people that we represent have different points of view. And sometimes they compete and even debate, and even argue. That's what our primaries were all about. But now the primaries are over and it is time, when we pick our candidates and our platform here, to lock arms and move into this campaign together.
If you need any more inspiration to put some small part of your own difference aside to create this consensus, then all you need to do is to reflect on what the Republican policy of divide and cajole has done to this land since 1980. Now the President has asked the American people to judge him on whether or not he's fulfilled the promises he made four years ago. I believe, as Democrats, we ought to accept that challenge. And just for a moment let us consider what he has said and what he's done.
Inflation -- Inflation is down since 1980, but not because of the supply-side miracle promised to us by the President. Inflation was reduced the old-fashioned way: with a recession, the worst since 1932. Now how did we -- We could have brought inflation down that way. How did he do it? 55,000 bankruptcies; two years of massive unemployment; 200,000 farmers and ranchers forced off the land; more homeless -- more homeless than at any time since the Great Depression in 1932; more hungry, in this world of enormous affluence, the United States of America, more hungry; more poor, most of them women. And -- And he paid one other thing, a nearly 200 billion dollar deficit threatening our future.
Now, we must make the American people understand this deficit because they don't. The President's deficit is a direct and dramatic repudiation of his promise in 1980 to balance the budget by 1983. How large is it? The deficit is the largest in the history of the universe. It -- President Carter's last budget had a deficit less than one-third of this deficit. It is a deficit that, according to the President's own fiscal adviser, may grow to as much 300 billion dollars a year for "as far as the eye can see." And, ladies and gentlemen, it is a debt so large -- that is almost one-half of the money we collect from the personal income tax each year goes just to pay the interest. It is a mortgage on our children's future that can be paid only in pain and that could bring this nation to its knees.
Now don't take my word for it -- I'm a Democrat. Ask the Republican investment bankers on Wall Street what they think the chances of this recovery being permanent are. You see, if they're not too embarrassed to tell you the truth, they'll say that they're appalled and frightened by the President's deficit. Ask them what they think of our economy, now that it's been driven by the distorted value of the dollar back to its colonial condition. Now we're exporting agricultural products and importing manufactured ones. Ask those Republican investment bankers what they expect the rate of interest to be a year from now. And ask them -- if they dare tell you the truth -- you'll learn from them, what they predict for the inflation rate a year from now, because of the deficit.
Now, how important is this question of the deficit. Think about it practically: What chance would the Republican candidate have had in 1980 if he had told the American people that he intended to pay for his so-called economic recovery with bankruptcies, unemployment, more homeless, more hungry, and the largest government debt known to humankind? If he had told the voters in 1980 that truth, would American voters have signed the loan certificate for him on Election Day? Of course not! That was an election won under false pretenses. It was won with smoke and mirrors and illusions. And that's the kind of recovery we have now as well.
But what about foreign policy? They said that they would make us and the whole world safer. They say they have. By creating the largest defense budget in history, one that even they now admit is excessive -- by escalating to a frenzy the nuclear arms race; by incendiary rhetoric; by refusing to discuss peace with our enemies; by the loss of 279 young Americans in Lebanon in pursuit of a plan and a policy that no one can find or describe.
We give money to Latin American governments that murder nuns, and then we lie about it. We have been less than zealous in support of our only real friend -- it seems to me, in the Middle East -- the one democracy there, our flesh and blood ally, the state of Israel. Our -- Our policy -- Our foreign policy drifts with no real direction, other than an hysterical commitment to an arms race that leads nowhere -- if we're lucky. And if we're not, it could lead us into bankruptcy or war.
Of course we must have a strong defense! Of course Democrats are for a strong defense. Of course Democrats believe that there are times that we must stand and fight. And we have. Thousands of us have paid for freedom with our lives. But always -- when this country has been at its best -- our purposes were clear. Now they're not. Now our allies are as confused as our enemies. Now we have no real commitment to our friends or to our ideals -- not to human rights, not to the refuseniks, not to Sakharov, not to Bishop Tutu and the others struggling for freedom in South Africa. We -- We have in the last few years spent more than we can afford. We have pounded our chests and made bold speeches. But we lost 279 young Americans in Lebanon and we live behind sand bags in Washington. How can anyone say that we are safer, stronger, or better?
That -- That is the Republican record. That its disastrous quality is not more fully understood by the American people I can only attribute to the President's amiability and the failure by some to separate the salesman from the product.
And, now -- now -- now it's up to us. Now it's up to you and to me to make the case to America. And to remind Americans that if they are not happy with all that the President has done so far, they should consider how much worse it will be if he is left to his radical proclivities for another four years unrestrained. Unrestrained.
Now, if -- if July -- if July brings back Ann Gorsuch Burford -- what can we expect of December? Where would -- Where would another four years take us? Where would four years more take us? How much larger will the deficit be? How much deeper the cuts in programs for the struggling middle class and the poor to limit that deficit? How high will the interest rates be? How much more acid rain killing our forests and fouling our lakes? And, ladies and gentlemen, please think of this -- the nation must think of this: What kind of Supreme Court will we have?
Please. [beckons audience to settle down]
We -- We must ask ourselves what kind of court and country will be fashioned by the man who believes in having government mandate people's religion and morality; the man who believes that trees pollute the environment; the man that believes that -- that the laws against discrimination against people go too far; a man who threatens Social Security and Medicaid and help for the disabled. How high will we pile the missiles? How much deeper will the gulf be between us and our enemies? And, ladies and gentlemen, will four years more make meaner the spirit of the American people? This election will measure the record of the past four years. But more than that, it will answer the question of what kind of people we want to be.
We Democrats still have a dream. We still believe in this nation's future. And this is our answer to the question. This is our credo:
We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.
We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do.
We believe in a government strong enough to use words like "love" and "compassion" and smart enough to convert our noblest aspirations into practical realities.
We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.
We -- Our -- Our government -- Our government should be able to rise to the level where it can fill the gaps that are left by chance or by a wisdom we don't fully understand. We would rather have laws written by the patron of this great city, the man called the "world's most sincere Democrat," St. Francis of Assisi, than laws written by Darwin.
We believe -- We believe as Democrats, that a society as blessed as ours, the most affluent democracy in the world's history, one that can spend trillions on instruments of destruction, ought to be able to help the middle class in its struggle, ought to be able to find work for all who can do it, room at the table, shelter for the homeless, care for the elderly and infirm, and hope for the destitute. And we proclaim as loudly as we can the utter insanity of nuclear proliferation and the need for a nuclear freeze, if only to affirm the simple truth that peace is better than war because life is better than death.
We believe in firm -- We believe in firm but fair law and order.
We believe proudly in the union movement.
We believe in a -- We believe -- We believe in privacy for people, openness by government.
We believe in civil rights, and we believe in human rights.
We believe in a single -- We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a proper government should be: the idea of family, mutuality, the sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all, feeling one another's pain, sharing one another's blessings -- reasonably, honestly, fairly, without respect to race, or sex, or geography, or political affiliation.
We believe we must be the family of America, recognizing that at the heart of the matter we are bound one to another, that the problems of a retired school teacher in Duluth are our problems; that the future of the child -- that the future of the child in Buffalo is our future; that the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive and live decently is our struggle; that the hunger of a woman in Little Rock is our hunger; that the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might, to avoid pain, is our failure.
Democrats did it -- Democrats did it and Democrats can do it again. We can build a future that deals with our deficit. Remember this, that 50 years of progress under our principles never cost us what the last four years of stagnation have. And we can deal with the deficit intelligently, by shared sacrifice, with all parts of the nation's family contributing, building partnerships with the private sector, providing a sound defense without depriving ourselves of what we need to feed our children and care for our people. We can have a future that provides for all the young of the present, by marrying common sense and compassion.
We know we can, because we did it for nearly 50 years before 1980. And we can do it again, if we do not forget -- if we do not forget that this entire nation has profited by these progressive principles; that they helped lift up generations to the middle class and higher; that they gave us a chance to work, to go to college, to raise a family, to own a house, to be secure in our old age and, before that, to reach heights that our own parents would not have dared dream of.
That struggle to live with dignity is the real story of the shining city. And it's a story, ladies and gentlemen, that I didn't read in a book, or learn in a classroom. I saw it and lived it, like many of you. I watched a small man with thick calluses on both his hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. I learned about our kind of democracy from my father. And I learned about our obligation to each other from him and from my mother. They asked only for a chance to work and to make the world better for their children, and they -- they asked to be protected in those moments when they would not be able to protect themselves. This nation and this nation's government did that for them.
And that they were able to build a family and live in dignity and see one of their children go from behind their little grocery store in South Jamaica on the other side of the tracks where he was born, to occupy the highest seat, in the greatest State, in the greatest nation, in the only world we would know, is an ineffably beautiful tribute to the democratic process.
And -- And ladies and gentlemen, on January 20, 1985, it will happen again -- only on a much, much grander scale. We will have a new President of the United States, a Democrat born not to the blood of kings but to the blood of pioneers and immigrants. And we will have America's first woman Vice President, the child of immigrants, and she -- she -- she will open with one magnificent stroke, a whole new frontier for the United States. Now, it will happen. It will happen if we make it happen; if you and I make it happen. And I ask you now, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, for the good of all of us, for the love of this great nation, for the family of America, for the love of God: Please, make this nation remember how futures are built.
Thank you and God bless you.
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-7-19 07:03
两部宪法的前言，比较一下，有什么感觉？
就说最简单的一点：
美国宪法直言不讳地说明，制定宪法的目的是“我们自己及我们後代能安享自由带来的幸福”。而且，在这一句话的前言，“我们”这个词出现了三次。
再看我国的宪法，制定宪法的目的和作用的陈述并不清楚。
象最后一段中的一句“本宪法以法律的形式确认了中国各族人民奋斗的成果”，而这是怎么样的“成果”？这是谁的利益，制定宪法是为了谁的利益？洋洋上千字的前言隐讳其辞。
美国宪法（中文）
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我们美利坚合众国的人民，为了组织一个更完善的联邦，树立正义，保障国内的安宁，建立共同的国防，增进全民福利和确保我们自己及我们後代能安享自由带来的幸福，乃为美利坚合众国制定和确立这一部宪法。
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中华人民共和国宪法
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中国是世界上历史最悠久的国家之一。中国各族人民共同创造了光辉灿烂的文化，具有光荣的革命传统。
一八四０年以后，封建的中国逐渐变成半殖民地、半封建的国家。中国人民为国家独立、民族解放和民主自由进行了前仆后继的英勇奋斗。
二十世纪，中国发生了翻天覆地的伟大历史变革。
一九一一年孙中山先生领导的辛亥革命，废除了封建帝制，创立了中华民国。但是，中国人民反对帝国主义和封建主义的历史任务还没有完成。
一九四九年，以毛泽东主席为领袖的中国共产党领导中国各族人民，在经历了长期的艰难曲折的武装斗争和其他形式的斗争以后，终于推翻了帝国主义、封建主义和官僚资本主义的统治，取得了新民主主义革命的伟大胜利，建立了中华人民共和国。从此，中国人民掌握了国家的权力，成为国家的主人。
中华人民共和国成立以后，我国社会逐步实现了由新民主主义到社会主义的过渡。生产资料私有制的社会主义改造已经完成，人剥削人的制度已经消灭，社会主义制度已经确立。工人阶级领导的、以工农联盟为基础的人民民主专政，实质上即无产阶级专政，得到巩固和发展。中国人民和中国人民解放军战胜了帝国主义、霸权主义的侵略、破坏和武装挑衅，维护了国家的独立和安全，增强了国防。经济建设取得了重大的成就，独立的、比较完整的社会主义工业体系已经基本形成，农业生产显著提高。教育、科学、文化等事业有了很大的发展，社会主义思想教育取得了明显的成效。广大人民的生活有了较大的改善。
中国新民主主义革命的胜利和社会主义事业的成就，都是中国共产党领导中国各族人民，在马克思列宁主义、毛泽东思想的指引下，坚持真理，修正错误，战胜许多艰难险阻而取得的。今后国家的根本任务是集中力量进行社会主义现代化建设。中国各族人民将继续在中国共产党领导下，在马克思列宁主义、毛泽东思想指引下，坚持人民民主专政，坚持社会主义道路，不断完善社会主义的各项制度，发展社会主义民主，健全社会主义法制，自力更生，艰苦奋斗，逐步实现工业、农业、国防和科学技术的现代化，把我国建设成为高度文明、高度民主的社会主义国家。
在我国，剥削阶级作为阶级已经消灭，但是阶级斗争还将在一定范围内长期存在。中国人民对敌视和破坏我国社会主义制度的国内外的敌对势力和敌对分子，必须进行斗争。
台湾是中华人民共和国的神圣领土的一部分。完成统一祖国的大业是包括台湾同胞在内的全中国人民的神圣职责。
社会主义的建设事业必须依靠工人、农民和知识分子，团结一切可以团结的力量。在长期的革命和建设过程中，已经结成由中国共产党领导的，有各民主党派和各人民团体参加的，包括全体社会主义劳动者、拥护社会主义的爱国者和拥护祖国统一的爱国者的广泛的爱国统一战线，这个统一战线将继续巩固和发展。中国人民政治协商会议是有广泛代表性的统一战线组织，过去发挥了重要的历史作用，今后在国家政治生活、社会生活和对外友好活动中，在进行社会主义现代化建设、维护国家的统一和团结的斗争中，将进一步发挥它的重要作用。
中华人民共和国是全国各族人民共同缔造的统一的多民族国家。平等、团结、互助的社会主义民族关系已经确立，并将继续加强。在维护民族团结的斗争中，要反对大民族主义，主要是大汉族主义，也要反对地方民族主义。国家尽一切努力，促进全国各民族的共同繁荣。
中国革命和建设的成就是同世界人民的支持分不开的。中国的前途是同世界的前途紧密地联系在一起的。中国坚持独立自主的对外政策，坚持互相尊重主权和领土完整、互不侵犯、互不干涉内政、平等互利、和平共处的五项原则，发展同各国的外交关系和经济、文化的交流；坚持反对帝国主义、霸权主义、殖民主义，加强同世界各国人民的团结，支持被压迫民族和发展中国家争取和维护民族独立、发展民族经济的正义斗争，为维护世界和平和促进人类进步事业而努力。
本宪法以法律的形式确认了中国各族人民奋斗的成果，规定了国家的根本制度和根本任务，是国家的根本法，具有最高的法律效力。全国各族人民、一切国家机关和武装力量、各政党和各社会团体、各企业事业组织，都必须以宪法为根本的活动准则，并且负有维护宪法尊严、保证宪法实施的职责。
[ 本帖最后由 dawnch 于 2007-7-19 07:48 编辑 ]
作者: 我是一根葱 时间: 2007-7-19 11:55
中国的随着革命需要经常修改, 50年的比人家二百年的改得多了去, 根本上需要改看形势吃饭的, 汗! 宪法.
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-7-19 22:36
这两天心里在一直盘旋着这段话。
这是林肯离开伊利诺斯州，启程去华盛顿就职时对家乡的父老乡亲所说的。
My Friends: No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
林肯在伊州的春田住了25年。春田离芝加哥只有三小时火车的路程。六月份我和虫子特意去拜谒了一次，很感人。
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作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-7-23 13:06
给Gerber和Cho准备最后一次中文课，自己先做了个范本，无意中竟表达了自己的心境：
我来自春天的大叶榕和白色的百合花
我来自后院里的挖蚯蚓和操场上的捉迷藏
我来自莫扎特的《朱比特》和贝多芬的《合唱》
我来自一杯星巴克咖啡和一片柠檬蛋搭
我来自暗夜的独坐与十字街头的彷徨
我来自肯特的744，善知识把我生命点亮
我来自青藏高原的月亮和芝加哥的风花雪和湖上风光
我来自站台上的离别和不得不的忧伤
原谅我带走了美丽之夏，
直到来年，她自会归来。
[ 本帖最后由 dawnch 于 2007-7-24 11:26 编辑 ]
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-7-28 12:39
我很好奇，今天这最后一课会发生些什么？
我会哭吗？
这几日在街头无意想起就要结束，我都会流泪；有时读着他们的电邮我也会流泪。
那今天呢？到底是怎样个结尾？
象往常一样到七楼，C出乎意料地早就到了，正在G的办公室里和G说话。这个暑假，每次他都要晚到十分钟左右。
到７４４,我打开我的电脑，他俩来了。C拎着一个塑料袋，里面装着一个大纸盒子，递给我。我害怕他们再给我什么很重的东西。打开来看，一张感谢卡，里面的字体非常难看，不知道是谁写的，不象C的字。打开纸盒，首先是一只小兔，穿着KENT的红TS，C说是给SUNNY的；再一个就是一件红色的运动衣，胸前印着chicago-kent college of law——荣幸啊！居然我这样也能混到一个貌似KENT fellow 的样子。
这个轻松愉快的开头给整节课订了基调。
G说我这个课表现了很有魅力的personality，说我这个人很有趣，很特别，和一般的中国人不一样，以后即使再找到老师，也不可能找到象我这样特别的人。课后他问我为什么会这样，我说：我在中国是个怪人。
这节课有一个活动，是让他们做诗，“我是。。。。。。”
G和C的表现很不一样。G在GENTLE的风度下，其实隐藏着很奇怪和独特的东西。他说他是一个好奇的，不耐烦的人。
而C则很boring，老实巴交地凑诗，一点想象力都没有，几乎成了confession。他讲起他在二十三岁那年，正在准备考韩国的BAR的时候，得了肺结核，那时他哭了。医生要他停止一切的工作和学习，但他仍是坚持。后来，bar考取了，身体也康复了。C总结自己是一个天真和顽强的人。
这种人我在世上只知道一个——阿甘（Forest Gump）!
不过C的确是很聪明！
下课了，C对我三鞠躬。
C又去赶他的火车去了。我告诉G：“这个课我很愉快，从开头到现在。”“你们永远不会知道我从这里得到了什么。”“ 我们还会再见面的！”G连忙紧接着问，我说：“只要你有这个希望，就坚持这么想就是了。”
把你留下来的中伦所的介绍和虫子的书送给了他们。
我和C讲到我鼓励你写“律师日记”的事情，C很感兴趣。
C反复说要保持EMAIL的联系，以后还有一些问题要探讨。
我说：“有问题你直接写给Philip就行了。”
他说：“不，你的意见也很重要，因为你总是有很特别的观点。”
我说：“为什么要写电邮呢，我没有乐趣，因为你很少理睬我的电邮，我感觉很受伤。”
C：“那我以后要加倍注意你的电邮。”
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-8-4 13:01
我和蔡先生都以路途远为借口，取消了原定于今晚的活动。想必蔡先生听了我介绍的一些细节，他也明白了二三。
当然，如果有机会见面，我会以自己的风度和气质去挽回一点影响——对这一点，我非常有把握，这是通过与Gr和C在一起的时候磨炼出来的！
来到这里，电脑忽然又可以使用了。可能是硬件安装的不结实，接触不良。TCL连硬件安装都不过关。简直不是个东西！
今天飞机从盐湖城起飞的时候，想起往常这个时间我正在给G和C上课，泪水凄然而下。。。。。。
一个又一个的机场，一个又一个的城市，我一直想着C最后回复我的关于南北朝鲜的问题，这条line的讨论是要好好维护下去的，我在构思下一个问题、下一个电邮。
这个三方对话，不正是我梦寐以求的吗？如何把话题拓宽，如何维持三方对话的兴趣，如何spicy up以增强可读性，我小心翼翼！
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-8-4 13:04
趁着电脑可以用的时候，赶紧把自己的英文博客的文章复制下来，不然，回到国内就没法打开这个博客了。
http://dawnzhang.blogspot.com/
http://whenthedawncomes.blogspot.com/
父亲系列打算写一个系列，目前只写了两篇
Saturday, June 30, 2007Father: Before I was born
[size=130%]Yellowed Picture
I knew my Dad, a young husband, from a yellowed photograph, which was taken when my parents wedded.
In the picture, Dad was against by Mom, a fair lady in a fashion dress and hair style in those days.
In his new millitary uniform, with a cluster of medal pinched on his left chest, Dad was smiling in his typical one, raising a corner of the mouth slightly. Clearly shining the eyes, and gleaming with confidence honed by countless battles during the wars in Anti-Japanese and Liberation.
It was Dad, in this yellowed-old picture.
No one would know how I am proud of this handsome and heroic man, even though in today, when I face his muddy eyes under the grey-white eyebrow.
Monday, March 19, 2007Father: Table-Battle
Some say that a father is like a bulb in a refrigerator. You could see the bulb illuminate the room, but you never know how they would be after you shut the door. That is to say, a father is the one whom we did not know much. In this world, there is a man lives in your family, seat himself in the honor place at your dinner table, and use FATHER or DAD as his name. He never fixes your bicycle, never teaches you playing football, and seldom talks with you except making a lesson. Even if when your mother turns into a dragon, you would rather pray E.T. to save you than this man. You know this man no more than your classmates. That is my Dad. However, I reluctantly consider he is a bad father or not good enough, even if up to now, I don’t think there was ever a successful communication between me and Dad. His lessons at the dinner table always plunged us into battles.
Dad was a loyal military officer in our country’s army, Peoples Liberation Army of the Peoples Republic of China. Before he retired, he was a General in a military region in the southern part of China. He joined the army in 1942 when he was 20 years old, during the war against Japanese intruder. He said if he had not joined the army, he would have died from starvation.
Yes, I believe what Dad say. When I was a kid, I was told that Dad was born and raised in a peasant family in a small village located in the northern part of China. In schools, I was educated that, at that time, in the old society of China, peasants always went hungry because they did not have their own land to produce enough food. Furthermore, I was taught to know the reason why the peasants like Dad would join the Communist Party’s army. They believed in the Communist Party who could guide them to overthrow the old system and build a new one.
“It was the Communist Party saved my life!” Dad always told me and my two elder sisters, “You all should never say anything bad about the Communist Party and our national leader.”
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[size=130%]It was impossible for us.
Twenty years ago, when I was a teen-ager, we often talked about some fashionable topic. At this occasion, it was a nature in my age to express radical points of view to this kind of matter. Usually, this kind of discussion took place at our table, during dinner, among me and my two elder sisters and my Mom’s two sons-in-law.
In the beginning of our discussion, Dad usually staged silent, eating and drinking his favorite wine, hard to tell whether he was listening though we all wished he was not.
In the pause of the talk, Dad was found to sip the white wine in his little white china wine cup, tightly closing the lips and shutting the eyes with the wine was sucked into his mouth, as if he was concentrating on every tiny flavor of the wine. Tasted! Then, he opened his eyes, put down the cup, and slowly reached out his right arm. Folding the five finger tips, picking up a pinch of peanut, putting into his mouth, Dad looked out of the window behind me, chewing. The smell of peanuts mix with the wine was floating in the dinning room. I was sick at this smell. That is the reason why I don't like Chinese whit wine. After the peanut was smashed and swallowed, Dad took back his sight down at the dishes in front of him. With a little smile curving one of his lip corners, he shook his head slightly, as if he was saying how stupid we were.
This was a signal of Dad’s lesson; also, it was a beginning of a battle.
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[size=130%]“This matter should not be considered like that,” He began to speak in his north rural accent. “There was a little mistake in the circumstance, but it was not the government’s fault.”
No one would listen to Dad’s Clichéd Propositions. The smart guys always could find their excuses to escape from the table. It was me, the stupid one to stay in this battle field.
“Why are you always saying that? Is it impossible for a government would make mistakes?” I pronounced like a lawyer in courts, “I think people are entitled to comment on their government.” [size=130%]
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Dad shook his head and stared at me with his eyes under eyebrows, with one or two pure white one sticking out of the grey cluster. The eyes were dim and muddy, like a pond filled by too much stuff, you could not tell the original color.
I could remember when I was a kid I saw Dad’s eyes in a photograph taken on the day when my parents got married. In the picture, Dad was in his straight military uniform, a bunch of medals which were prizing for his braveness and success in many battles, pined on the left chest of the uniform. Dad was smiling, slightly smile with a lip’s corner raised, and the eyes were sharp, clear, and confident. At one time, I was so proud that I had a handsome and heroic father.
At the table battle field, Dad was going on his lecture which my ears automatically shielded as well as all the news reported by newspapers, periodicals, radio, or television. I turned my eyes down at my chopsticks, stirring the rice in the bowl, trying to hide my weakness in the encounter with Dad's eyes.
Finally, Dad was going to reach his conclusion, “It is not good for you to say something like that,” Dad sighed. “Do not talk it anymore and let anybody else hear, and you are too young to understand.”
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Like stepping on a hedgehog, I almost bounced up to the ceiling; Dad always used these sentences to end everything he did not want to talk further. Teen was not old enough but I was absolutely not born yesterday. I must fight back!
“Young? Have you ever thought you are too old to understand something? Have you ever admitted something true?” My face flushed, the chopsticks in my hand seemed to turn into a sword.
“Enough!” My mother interrupted, “How can you speak to your father so rudely?”
I stopped. I swallowed the wax-liked rice roughly mixing with anger and tears, pushing them into my stomach. Dad drank up his wine, added a little pile of rice in his bowl, eating, silently.
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Nevertheless, Dad never could use these table-lessons to succeed in a single communication with me. I am Dad’s daughter, in return, I was honed to taking the same strategy with him. Now, I keep silent and distant from Dad, to avoid arguments, to avoid talking about truths or lies.
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作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-8-4 13:18
春季的ESL课程结束了，我送给Gitte一只提线的狮子，关答应写电邮介绍一点关于中国的狮子文化。结果拖了个把月才写成。Monday, June 11, 2007Chinese Lion
Chinese people are fond of lions very much. To Chinese people, lions stand for power, fortune and wisdom.
As the king of mammals, lions became symbols of power and strength. In ancient China, only emperor, government, or rich people use lion’s sculptures guarding their house, because they believe lion's power would fortify their solemnness. Nowadays China, we can find these sculptures stand in front of the gate of every important building, government, bank, company, and college or university.
Lion’s figures are popular in folk society for they may bring joy and fortune. Lion Dances, which exist in China over thousand years, is another important and traditional way to celebrate happy events. Lion Dance is easier to carry out for it can be operated by a single dancer, while Long Dances need over tens people to perform.
Roughly, Lion Dance divided into north style and south style.
Look at the pictures below:
The first picture is the costume for south style lion dance, while second is north style.
There is a question about Chinese lion. Chinese people are very familiar with lions’ image, from kids to old ladies, wherever in far away villages or cities. But there are no wild lions ever lived in Chinese land, and no lion fossils have been found in China. How did ancient Chinese people know so many things about lion?
There are two guesses to this issue. One said that there were wild Asian lion lived in China, but they were hunted and eaten up by Chinese people, because Chinese people are good eaters. Another said that there had been wild Asian lions lived in ancient Persian and India, and they were imported through Silk Road.
Which guess is more reasonable?
Lions are one of Buddhism's most potent symbols. Lions can be found in Sutra and Buddhism artwork two thousand years ago. In Sutra, Buddha's teachings are referred to as the ‘Lion's Roar’, representing power, wisdom, and definiteness. Manjushri, a bodhisattvas symbolizing wisdom, rides on a lion.
Buddhism originated in India 2500 years ago, and arrived in China in the 2nd century BC, along with the opening of Silk Road. It is not surprised that the lion came into China with Buddhism.
Lions’ concepts and figures penetrate daily life of Chinese people, but everybody forget where they come from. This is a typical example relating “culture melting”.
Jun 11, 2007 in HWC library
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作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-8-4 13:23
这一篇Journal是老师要求在网上写作的第一篇。Gitte 看了一直没有点评，我一直以为是因为她没时间看。结果，在某一期ESL系的newsletter，我的这篇文章被选登了上去。自己把自己的文章看了又看，越看越喜欢。
我写东西与别人最大的不同在于，我是用心用血在写作。
Saturday, May 12, 2007Flower or not
Abdel wrote this proverb in his blog this week, “Who wants the peace, prepare the war”. This saying means there is no peace without war. It sounds ridiculous. However, after you look backward, it seems everything in this world you could not get without a payment, struggling is what you need to pay. So, for a time being, I have to admit this truth, war for peace. But, is it really could get a real heart peace after so many struggling?
For many years, I have a
dream about my peace life which I can not completely resist its attempt today. I always dream about my backyard with an old phoenix tree covered by dark green leaves, swaying near my window. Inside the window, there is a neat desk without any tiny dust or disorder paper, shinning its sheer brown in the light through the window. An opened book which I was reading a couple minutes before is left on the desk. The warm coffee flavor is floating in the air, which I am making in the white, bright and big kitchen. I have plenty of time so I can gaze at the phoenix tree hour and hour. I can read my favorite book at any time and stop at any time. I do not care about the dinner menu; I won’t be bother by the cooking odor on my hair. And, I do not need to rush to pick up my kid. Everything is under my control, including my heart.
But, how about the phoenix tree is not planted in my backyard? How about the thick leaves cover the ground I have to clean up just because I should pay for his beauty during the summer and autumn? How about a piece of leaflet tucked in a pile of newspaper left on my desk? The dinner and picking up are hard to omit otherwise it certainly cost me not only the money. Peace is so fragile; it would disappear before you really get hold of it.
It is flowers or not.It comes at midnight, leaves at DAWN.
It comes like a fancy dream, pretty and short;
It leaves like morning dew without spot.
Peace is not a fortune which you could not assume just right in the street corner. If you always believe that the peace is right somewhere waiting for you, you never can get it. For many years, I have been traveling around the earth, from plain to tableland, from ocean to mountain, from orient to occident. I am tracing a dreaming peace, like the persistent crazy man Kua Fu tracing the sun. Finally, I found that I never get rid of something no matter how far I went. The more I long for, the more pain I get, and the farther the peace is. No matter how many roads I had walked down, I just could not escape from my heart. Everything surround me looks like helpless with my dream. How can a busy heart find its peace?
Peace is just at the top of one’s nose, in every moment, if you have peaceful heart. Like someone wears a pair of green or brown sunglasses, when you look through the screens, everything is in the color of green or brown. The same, what a peaceful heart can feel? Peace, that’s all. You can not escape from your heart, so, just stay with it, with the peace, if it was.
There is an old story in China. An old lady had two
sons, elder one sold umbrellas, and younger one sold salt. When it was rainy, the old lady worried about the younger one’s salt would be affected with damp and had no business. When it was sunny, she would worried about the elder one could not sold the umbrellas. She suffered this worriment for a long time until she accepted a wisdom suggestion. In sunny days, she thought that the younger son would have a good sale; in rainy days, she thought there must be a plenty of people need to buy her elder son’s umbrella. The old lady was happy at last. She obtained her peace by change her mind.
This story demonstrats what the Buddha had told us that surrounding depends on mind, surrounding would be changed as mind’s changing; everything in the world is nothing but mind.
Also, there is similar lesson told by Jesus, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful." A Christian must know to find peace of heart, only what they should do is by knowing how to follow God's will. Where is God guiding to? To my understanding, it is no more than one’s heart, the trinity heart.
Peace on Earth Begins with Inner Peace. This is my faith.
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There are so many flowers in spring as well as the moon in autumn.
There is cool breeze in summer as well as the snows in winter.
If there is not tangle lingering in one’s heart,
All of them would be a good season in the world.
Finding Inner Peace in a World Full of Turmoil
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作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-8-4 13:30
这也是Gitte很喜欢的一篇Journal:
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Precious moment
The topic for this week is about something precious in our own. Looking around, scanning again and again, the most valuable in my life is religion. But it is not good to talk about here. Buddhism is not Amway, I do not need to develop my membership.
Then the computer, I can utilize this machine to do anything I want except cooking. It is the most helpful tools in my daily life. But the software is changeable like the weather in Chicago, and so does the hardware. It is important, but it can be replaced anytime.
Money may be important and precious. My daughter in her three years old once said, “Money is the most precious.” I really understand how valuable a million dollars are, but I do not know how precious a penny is.
Every time when I clean up the room, the most pleasure is to shake off a large bundle of rubbish. The room can not be more tidy than occupied by heaps stuff which you do not really know whether you need it or not. Throwing away is much easier than keeping. I do not like to own so many burdens.
As regard to my family, my husband and my daughter, of course, needless to say. But I won’t keep my husband beside me. Last week, Philip went back China alone. I decided to stay in Chicago a few months longer, for I do not want to end a precious dream so soon. The several months in Chicago were a big vacation for our family. In this vacation, my family got reunited.
Philip is a lawyer in China. In today’s China, a lawyer is occupied by clients and the courts. In day time, lawyers may be busy among their office, courts, and companies in order to handle their cases. In night, lawyer should maintain business relationships. In China, the most efficient method is to turn the business relationships into private one. All of these are carried out in wine and feast. Chinese lawyers are busied himself from day to night. I do not need to prepare dinner for my husband, and my daughter would never expect her father would be with us.
My daughter was always complaining that the house was dark and lacked of warm, even though I turned on all the lights. At weekend, the three of us in this family might have lunch or dinner in restaurant, but we could not talk more than his cell phone.
In Chicago Philip got rid of business tangle, and we found out our own family time at last. Some afternoon, we three sat in the small kitchen in our apartment. Usually, the Entenmann’s donut or the Pepperidgefarm chocolate cookies, hot chocolate were served in our tea time. Occasionally, the oven was baking one or two sweet potatoes. The sweet roasting smell full filled the room. It was warm. We talked and laughed, and my daughter loved the father’s joke.
From the kitchen, we could look out of the window and saw the different color of the sky, grey, blue, or bright white, clipped by the building’s roof in distance. From the January, we could see the snow floating in the air, listening to the sound made by the snow drop bounced on the window’s glass. We were warm, safe. We were a whole family.
This is a precious moment, and is fleeting. No one could hold it in hands. I understand if we went back to China, the crowded noisy hometown, after we went back to our busy routine, our precious family time could not spare the pressure, busyness, and tiredness.
All I want is to taste the warmth left in my hands, again and again, in these several months left, when my heart still have a capacity to enjoy the beauty in this world.
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作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-8-4 13:35
CHO非常喜欢《光阴的故事》，应他的要求，为他翻译了歌词。看起来不赖，比网上那个版本好多了。
Wednesday, April 18, 2007The Story of Time
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Spring flowers, autumn wind, and winter sunset;
Blue youth, naively I once thought when I was young.
Day by day in season circle's song the windmill was turning ;
Year by year in emotional poems I was growing up.
Flows carried the time's story away and changed one
Just in the sentimental but first-wating youth
Yellowed photos, old letters, and faded Xmas cards.
You might forget the songs written for you when I was young.
Past vows were like the colorful bookmarks in text books,
with so many beautiful peoms but disappeared like smoke afterall.
Flows carried the time's story away and changed two
Just in the sentimental but first-weeping youth
Far away journey, yesterday's dream, and the fading out laughing sound
How many roads we had walked down before we would see once more ?
No more the one with wild dreams I acquainted before;
Nor the one with changeless smiles you acquainted in old days.
Flows carried the time's story away and changed us
Just in the sentimental but first-recalling youth
Flows carried the time's story away and changed us
Just in the sentimental but first-recalling youth
Listen to the song
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作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-8-4 13:50
标题: Reaction to AUTHORITY HEURISTICS
这是一个有点挑战的文章。对敬爱的Gerber 教授的文章发起了个挑战。其实这个文章是我应付Gitte的阅读课的作业，故意挑一个枯燥的阅读资料，写了一个枯燥的读后感，希望Gitter看不懂，或者希望她没兴趣看，好让我这个作业快快地溜过去过关。Wednesday, May 9, 2007Reaction to AUTHORITY HEURISTICS
Professor G raises a big question in his article Authority Heuristics, which he discuss the heuristics distance may cause distortion when we seek to know a kind of foreign law, because our prior knowledge would effect the result what we want to explore. In Prof. G’s words, “This knowledge-shaping (or “cognitive”) role is of fundamental important, because it conditions all knowledge of foreign law.”
This is a big problem, for I understand the cognizing method of human being is no more than comparing and contrasting, except new born babies. All of the knowledge acquiring, all understanding must be based on prior knowledge. People compare or contrast their prior knowledge and experiences with the new one, and then shape and form the new experiences and the new knowledge. It is something like that every body has a piece of color paper, when they apply new color on it, it will show different result, due to their foundation color is different. The basic color is the prior knowledge; the resulting color is the knowledge what the people get. It is obvious that the result is neither the prior one nor the new knowledge, everyone has a unique idea, for everyone has a different mind structure with different knowledge back ground. So, Prof. G’s observation is really sharp, unveiling a truth.
But, how could we solve this impossible settling problem? How to narrow the distortion cause by the heuristics distance in Authority Documents? This is what the article interested me. Prof. G is like a God flying in the sky, but most important for him is to land steadily and safely on the ground, providing a solution for the fact he has unveiled. As a jurisconsult, Prof. G should be realistic.
I reach Prof.G’s solution of the problem after following his statements and discussions and describing about the problem in the main part of the essay, in a smaller part at the end of the article, Prof. G suggests a solution is to pay more attention to the user of a kind of foreign law in its legal systems. This answer could not really satisfy me. I could see Pro.G lands down on the ground with its tip toe from the God’s sky. And, I am worrying about! The user of the foreign law, how to identify or evaluate the user, this is another cognitive process, and it is unavoidable to be effected by prior experience and knowledge and results another heuristics distance. What can we do with it?
After reading this article, I finally find it is lucky that there are still a lot of items in this world, such as music, painting, art works, and anybody could communicate and reach to a same destination through the same work piece without language. I believed that there are some thing in human being’s world could forward their information directly without language. But law would never be this story!
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作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-8-10 10:28
Airport after airport, city after city, and now I am home.
Leaving the castle in the cloud, I am still floating in the air.
To land on the solid ground,
to unfold a new life,
I will sleep for a while,
with the entire dream
I collected in the windy city,
once again.
With all your blessing,
I will wake up and stand firm.
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作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-8-22 09:21
回到国内，思路模糊了许多。不象在美国的时候清晰与确信。
就象这两地的空气。
美国的蓝天白云，灿烂的紫外线，画面清晰得如同锐利的刀锋。
回国一周，人快消磨了，快消沉了。
挺住！
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-8-24 19:24
August 24
A Dream in a Morning
A porcelain jar, blue pattern,
with Ginseng chicken soup,
hot and scented.
Whose warmth is it?
A broken bowl,
sand was mending its bottom,
melted like crystal,
smooth and glisten.
Soup had gone,
I forgot returning the jar and bowl.
Where are they?
Awaking, reflecting the image in PT
when I was packing and throwing the stuff.
I did not see the jar and the bowl,
ever,
except in my dream.
In the dream,
I was on a street
where men in ancient clothes
were driving oxcarts,
I was gazing at the bowl embraced by my hands,
petal edge,
blue patents in white porcelain.
It was in ......
I know
the place,
the time,
the man.
I never return
Tears drop on my pillow.
作者: yescilia 时间: 2007-8-30 17:32
提起精神來!!!!
我為你加油!!!!
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-9-1 03:30
标题: 关于《反垄断法》的有趣的讨论
有幸混迹于一群国际法专家的讨论当中，想给自己作个留念。
但想到这些人都是法律专家，我这么做颇有点风险。
我可不想让他们去告我侵犯他们的copyright。
曾经就有学生把教授的讲课录了下来，结果被这个教授告了！
这个贴子就不在这里登了。
转移！
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作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-9-1 03:48
整整折腾了一天！
几个稿子在心中酝酿了很久，很精彩的题目在手中放了很久，总是处在挣扎当中。
每天坚持写二十分钟，总算在本子上砌出了几大页，就等着上电脑修改。
好不容易，今天下了决心要启动。
把自己关在佛堂的空调中，还特意断了网。
可混身的痒痒，满脑子的闲事，屁股仿佛就是尖的。
转眼到了中午，给孩子做午餐。
吃完饭，坐在沙发上看旧杂志——王小波十岁。
慢慢地，心安静了下来。
然后又翻出几本旧书：《论法的精神》、《中国法理念》。仅仅浏览着目录，就觉得思路再次被梳理。
近黄昏时，又捧着Bird in a Cage，感觉滋味起来了。
才进书本，又忙晚餐。
晚餐后，想起一天都没出门，就去蛇口花园城走走。
十点半回家，看新买的Mr. Bean主演的DVD 电影，不如预期中的好看。
十二点，上网，EDU还在那边伸着手指点着人家鼻子骂，忍不住回了个帖子；
世界经济法那边赵教授发了个关于中国反垄断法今天通过的贴子，回个贴捧捧场。
。。。。。。
一天折腾毕，正事没干成！
倒叫我总结了一个经验：
白天看书静心，而且还不能看小说，一定要看思想、学术类的书。
写作的事，还是留着晚上干吧。
熬夜的事，一直是我所害怕的，看来是在所难免的了！
只是，晚上熬夜，白天就得睡觉，哪里够时间看书呢？
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作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-9-3 23:51
标题: 回复 #33 dawnch 的帖子
在我看来，《反垄断法》里的那些高调子，无非是为中央政府提供了一个打屁股的工具、借口而已。
“欲加之罪，何患无辞”是一个没有法制的社会里的事情。
而以疑似法制社会里，同样也会欲加之罪，何患无辞。
我要整你吗，我可以先立个法呀！
当然，有些事情真是需要反一反。
只不过，这样把法律作为政治的工具的立法精神，与《反垄断法》应有的鼓励自由平等的市场竞争的初衷背道而驰了。
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-9-4 15:57
这个翻译好吗？
Call it flower--'tis not a flower;
Call it foggy mist--'tis none such either.
It comes in the dead of the night
And takes flight the moment dawn alight:
It stays no longer than a dream in spring,
Departs like the fleeting early morning clouds --
And is seen no more
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-9-5 01:04
[原创]牢骚怪论：反垄断大旗能举多高？
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经过13年无数周折的《反垄断法》，终于在全国人大常委会第二十九次会议三审（8月30日）表决通过后面世。由于还缺乏相关的执法机构问题以及可操作的具体配套法规等 “没有得到最后解决”的问题，因此，《反垄断法》被推迟到2008年的8月1日正式实施，以便于所有“没有得到最后解决”的问题能够最后都得到“利益妥协”的解决。有专家认为《反垄断法》的颁布“是中国经济体制改革的里程碑，是中国市场经济进程中的一个标志性事件”。不过愚下认为，如果站在中国国情的角度并结合有关“没有得到最后解决”的问题来审视《反垄断法》的话，除了争取获得“完全市场经济国家地位”的国际认可亮点外，恐怕还得猜疑：“反垄断大旗能举多高？”
“反垄断大旗能举多高？”并非是无端的猜疑，而是把眼光从垄断行为的终端表现形式前移到前端表现形式的一种视角反思。《反垄断法》规定了三种可以判断的垄断行为，既：“经营者达成垄断协议；经营者滥用市场支配地位；具有或者可能具有排除、限制竞争效果的经营者集中。”该法的第十七条确定了7种行为属于滥用市场支配地位（此文略），同时也对社会最关注的滥用权力实施行政垄断的行为，作出了相应的规定。也就是说，从《反垄断法》的条文来看，判断垄断行为的“标准”，几乎完全取决于终端表现形式。假如我们把眼光从垄断行为前端表现形式审视一番的话，一种《反垄断法》中没有的“制度性垄断”与“体制性垄断”的两个概念，就会让人不得不猜疑“反垄断大旗能举多高？”尽管“制度性垄断”与“体制性垄断”的现象也许仍就是中国国情所需要的，但“反垄断大旗能举多高”的猜疑，也许并不会防碍我们思考更多的社会发展问题。
何谓“制度性垄断”？这个问题得从《宪法》说起。《宪法》总纲第六条规定：“中华人民共和国的社会主义经济制度的基础是生产资料的社会主义公有制，即全民所有制和劳动群众集体所有制……。国家在社会主义初级阶段，坚持公有制为主体、多种所有制经济共同发展的基本经济制度。”总纲第七条规定：“国有经济，即社会主义全民所有制经济，是国民经济中的主导力量。国家保障国有经济的巩固和发展。”这两条规定明确了“国有经济……，是国民经济中的主导力量”，同时也是中国的“基本经济制度”。简言之，正是这种“基本经济制度”，事实上已经确立了“国有经济……，是国民经济中的主导力量”的市场经济垄断地位。这就是愚下认为的“制度性垄断”。
何谓“体制性垄断”？首先得看看国有经济在中国的现状和地位。2006年12月18日，国务院国资委出台了《关于推进国有资本调整和国有企业重组的指导意见》，并明确表明了七大行业将由国有经济控制的决心，其理由是“国有经济应对关系国家安全和国民经济命脉的重要行业和关键领域保持绝对控制力。”这七大行业指军工、电网电力、石油石化、电信、煤炭、民航、航运等（其中也涉及对装备制造、汽车、电子信息、建筑、钢铁、有色金属、化工、勘察设计、科技 等行业的绝对控股权）。国务院国资委主任李荣融最近在《求是》上撰文指出：“截止2006年底，全国国有企业户数共计11.9万户。……目前，……国有资本的控制力不断增强，……目前，中央企业80%以上的国有资产集中在军工、能源、交通、重大装备制造、重要矿产资源开发领域，承担着我国几乎全部的原油、天然气和乙烯生产，提供了全部的基础电信服务和大部分增值服务，发电量约占全国的55%，民航运输总周转量占全国的82%，水运货物周转量占全国的89%，汽车产量占全国的48%，生产的高附加值钢材约占全国的60%，生产的水电设备占全国的70%，火电设备占全国的75%。”由此可见，国有经济实施对“经济命脉的绝对控制”，完全是建立在强大的体制性保障基础之上的，也就是说，实施“经济命脉”具体工作的是依法设立的各个“部”或者“局”，这也是经济体制需要而设立的。换言之，国家“保持绝对控制力”的这些被称为“国民经济命脉”的产业，事实上“宣告”了“行政垄断”的决心，这就是愚下认为的“体制性垄断”。
综上所述不难看出，只要把眼光从垄断行为前端表现审视一番，“制度性垄断”与“体制性垄断”的表现是真实存在的，而且这两种垄断行为，都是以“国民经济命脉”的名义而需要的，也是《反垄断法》无能为力的垄断行为，更是决不容许反对的垄断行为。由此可见，愚下在认同《反垄断法》的颁布“是中国经济体制改革的里程碑，是中国市场经济进程中的一个标志性事件”的前提下，从“制度性垄断”与“体制性垄断”的存在来看，仍然怀疑《反垄断法》真的有勇气自己反对自己吗？同时也就自然而然地产生了这样的猜疑——反垄断大旗能举多高？
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作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-9-5 13:08
标题: 好为人师
Hao( 4) wei(2) ren(2) shi(1) On the earth, there is a kind of creature always like to be teachers to others. From tying shoes to blowing noses, from president election to nuclear reaction, in any occasion, they were given impetuses by the nature to take the master post and enjoy the teachers’ privilege. They are warm-hearted. They love to give you a lesson at anytime even if you phone them at mid-nights when they are sleeping soundly. They are brave. They dare to set foot in any unknown field including crocodile swamps or honeycombs. They are devoted. They will invest all of the energy and passion just like a new mother lion to her new born cub. They are blind enough to neglect the weariness on audients face. They are deaf enough to shield any annoyance in listener’s tone.
They feel good; always live in a spotlight center created by a pink elephant. There is a Chinese idiom portraying this kind of human being and their nature: Hao( 4) wei(2) ren(2) shi(1) means like to be a teacher to others Hao( 4):
like doing sth, hobby and habit. Wei (2):
become, to be, as Ren (2):
people, person, human, other people Shi (1) :
teacher, master I bet you will remember this saying without any difficulties, because Dawn is in possession of the most commonalities with those adorable creatures who are Hao( 4) wei(2) ren(2) shi(1).
[ 本帖最后由 dawnch 于 2007-9-6 17:52 编辑 ]
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-9-6 17:54
标题: 打屁股
Da(3) Pi(4) Gu(0)
To make a horse run faster, riders may kick horses’ ass. Chinese people have been using several exquisite metaphors to sugar up this barbarism, but the nitty-gritty is that someone is driven to behave well by his bottom getting pain fabricated by kicking, whipping, or hitting. Da(3) Pi(4) Gu(0) is a really frank and plain Chinese statement on this action.
Da(3): hit, beat
Pi(4) Gu(0): arse, ass, buns, buttock, prat, rear
Da(3) Pi(4) Gu(0) is a plot devised prudently by Chinese parents to discipline their offspring. Giving enough pain to engrave lessons and avoiding personal Injuries is what these thoughtful parents concern. Consequently, there is no shirking the responsibility for Pi(4) Gu(0) to become a perfect role to undertake this glory burden, because its nerves suffice to ache, and fat mass to alleviate the potential damage.
Analogously, Da(3) Pi(4) Gu(0) is criticizing and scolding from superior, powerful body or forces. A tardy staff would be blamed by his superior; an inefficient department would be condemned by the company.
Sometimes, Da(3) Pi(4) Gu(0) may be bloody. Chen Liangyu was Da(3) Pi(4) Gu(0) by central government and lost his office in the collision between the Central and local government. Zheng Xiaoyu, the retired former head food and drug official, lost his life because he triumphantly transformed a government agent into a market for power and money. Zhang Shuhong, the GM of a toy manufacturer, was Da(3) Pi(4) Gu(0) by U.S. importer and Chinese government, hanged himself in his new warehouse.
Chinese government, like the thoughtful parents, ceaselessly develop techniques of Da(3) Pi(4) Gu(0), which try to be civilized in the name of law, justice, and people’s will, remarkably resulting in a cluster of law and policy were created in this year, known as a year of Da(3) Pi(4) Gu(0).
But there is still a mystery on how the laws penetrate government’s action, and how the people’s will approach a judgment of an Intermediate People’s Court. Is it because of justice, or just an action of another kind of Da(3) Pi(4) Gu(0) from the international pressure on certain issues?
There is nothing new under the red red sun. As to the “Anti-Monopoly Law”, which was passed on August 30, 2007, is a new invention for Da(3) Pi(4) Gu(0), and was pushed to be enacted by Da(3) Pi(4) Gu(0).
[ 本帖最后由 dawnch 于 2007-9-6 19:13 编辑 ]
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-9-9 11:47
芝加哥回来的变化：
1. 按电梯，上楼按１０, 下楼按３, 这都是我住在美国天天要按若干次训练的结果；
2. 排队，和前面的保持安全距离，为别人提供堂而皇之兼队的机会；
3. 每周只买一次菜。I feed my refrige. weekly, and it feeds me daily.
4. 出去办事，穷追别人回答：
“医生，雾化是做咽喉治疗还是鼻腔的？”
“鼻腔的也可以。”
“那对于小孩子是否可以做雾化治疗？”
“可以，但是仅做一两次没用，要连续一两周才有用。”
“那你们每天什么时候下班。”
“五点半。”
“晚上可以做吗？”
“不行，得正常上班时间。”
“那可以租机器回家做吗？”
“不行。”
“那在做雾化期间，这药可以同时使用吗？”
“可以，是两种不同的目的。”
。。。。。。
５. 办完事后，除了“谢谢”，总觉有话没说完，那是一句“have a nice day.”
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-9-10 16:14
Home
The airplane slowed down and stopped gliding at the crack of dawn in Bai Yun airport, Guangzhou. The cabin was in chaos when the sound of the beautiful lady, who had not shown a tiny smile during the past 16 hours' flight from LAX, was reporting the local weather.
I concentrated on her voice: 27o C, "Thanks!" I and my daughter, Sunny, had been tamed by Chicago's cool weather for 11 months, and the hot weather during the summer in the southern part of China was what I really concern now.
After saying goodbye to those unhappy faces with heavy make-up, and striding out of the plane, I found I was plunged into a humid and sticky world, which was still out of my prefiguring.
On the express way to Shenzhen, the city where my family resided in, Sunny sat herself in the taxi silently. I was not sure what she was thinking, but at least I knew that she had stop repeating, "I don't want to leave Chicago." "I miss Aisha", which she had kept chattering all the way long.
The driver, a guy with northern accent, was reporting me about a bridge collapse in Foshan, while the sky was getting dark and heavy. A thunder storm came. The brushes were striking the screen violently. The driver stopped his reporting, steering the car split through the rain like Moses separated the Red Sea. Later I was told it was one of the series of typhoon which had hit the southern coast of China several times during this summer.
I looked out of the window. The view was blurring. The same motion I did yesterday when I was in a car heading to LAX and gazing at the rose-colored sunset of Los Angeles.
From Chicago to Salt Lake City, and the several small towns in Mojave Desert, and then from Los Angeles to Guangzhou, my travel was going to an end.
But I wished it never ended. If it was a car, I wish it never stop; if it was a song, I wish it never end. But sometimes, I have to face the changes which I could do nothing but accepting. I have no choice.
Philip was sitting in the lobby, writing on a PDA in his hand, wearing a strange colorful badminton suit just like a colorful parrot in a jungle.
He raised his eyes and encountered mine in the taxi which was driving into the lot. Not surprised at seeing us, he grinned in his typical style, with a pair of small tiger teeth showing up.
I sprang out of the car; the driver unloaded the suitcases; Philip paid the fare; Sunny began to gad about the lobby. It seemed like we were back from a weekend trip.
"Not bad!" It flashed back to me how many times on departing platforms when I was a law school student while Philip was working in the Guangzhou Maritime Court, I swore that one day I would not suffer the pain of parting anymore. One day I would be strong enough to withstand everything.
From lobby to elevator and then our condominium, Sunny was squeaking, "The same as before!"
"See the mail box!"
"The elevator is so slow!"
"Pa, the couplet is old, why don't you change it!"
"……"
I was not surprised that my home had become a warehouse. The living room already stuffed by boxes which I mailed from Chicago a couple months ago. Apparently, Philip did not touch it after they were delivered from post office. Plus the luggage I carried from the travel, the room could not afford a needle to stand. The dinner table was crowded by empty and half empty mineral water bottles and bags of instant noodle; the refrigerator was full of a variety jars of Kimchi, and pickle chili; Several window strings had rotten away for the salted wind coming from the sea a few miles away.
I could figure out how this man survived through the six months after he left us in Chicago and came back to China in this February.
Immediately, Sunny busied herself to embarrass the dolls huddling in her room, and I waded through all the mess to find my study to unload my laptop.
As I used to do, I reached out hands to push a window in my study, Philip's voice reached, "Don't open the window, it is broken!"
I withdrew my hand in a shock,but I was easy to be satisfied because I still could find the internet access to email all over the world and announced that I had landed safe and sound.
After a nightmarish shower, it's the time to get me a place to sleep.
"You can not sleep in the bedroom, the air conditioner doesn't work." Philip exclaimed.
"But where should I sleep?" I asked.
"Worship room!" he showed his tiger teeth to me again.
"And you?" I was extremely curious at his plot.
"I'm not sure." He gave me an innocent face.
It dawned on me that he never forgot the sore that I invaded and occupied the guest rooms as my worship room and study a few years ago!
I gave up my sleeping attempt by the moldy odor in worship room. There were four itchy red spots on my each ankle, and Sunny was found was scratching her back, arms, and legs.
I checked the kitchen. Philip followed me in, saying,
"You can not cook now; we need a new stove because the gas was transformed into LNG."
I was losing my temper, "Sir, would you please give me a complete orientation and let me know what I can or can't do in this place?"
Where should I start? I made a long list of the items I need to fix and rebuild. Weariness, starving, and itchy everywhere, this place seemed like the Chesapeake in early 17 century! We were almost in the same situation and had to struggle for living!
Sunny was sleeping in her Chicago time zone, so we could stroll to a B&Q nearby to purchase a LNG stove. And then we strode across the street to the Korean restaurant named Mountain River Grass and Woods (산천초목), where we used to have our dinner before I went to Chicago.
I still could remember sometime when we were there, the lady, who was in a grey Hanbok, could not speak a single Chinese, just smiled quietly at Sunny, and squatted down to help Sunny to wear her shoes. The warmth and kindliness in her crow's-feet of her smile was what I never forget.
Sitting, ordering, and waiting, both of us were silent. I knew what we were thinking about.
After a sip of 참이슬, Philip raised his eyes and sighed, "Don't know Cho's number, I want to phone him now."
"He's a professor." I mumbled with mouthful 돌솥영양밥, without looking at him.
"But I graduated; we are brother-friends now."
"I think only Chinese love to be bothered and to bother someone else anytime." I sniffed.
Philip retreated, lowering his head but raising his chopsticks to poke the roast fish.
A storm was arising in my mind. It was the snow, and it was the wind from Michigan Lake, twirling everything in my brain which I had been trying to ignore.
It was in Chicago, from Jefferson St. down to Adams St. Getting into the shinning revolving door, smiling at the big fat black security, pressing the rigid elevator button, I went up to the seventh floor.
At the entrance of the aisle, I often hesitated to choose which door I would go through, but always stretched out for the door handle which was warm as if someone had grasped it a second before. Inside, a puff up ghost, which was standing there for a whole year, was peeking through the screen of the host computer room.
Way down the aisle and turned left, to my right, there were a line of cells, where professors were, liked peas in a pod. Opposite the cells, to my right, it was the library separated by a row of giant glass, other side of which was my favorite seat to handle my homework. Once Prof. Cho greeted me by knocking on the glass, but I replied him a motionless face for I was immersing deeply in an annoying history research project.
At the corner where I could find a copier and a staff working place, every time I could not help myself to wonder if I was going a wrong way, until I turned left and headed forward and got a clue on a door from a yellow poster lettering a young poet's poem, from which I could read a father's pride. That was Prof. Cho's office, and Prof. Gerber's was next to it. Each time when I went out of the elevator of the library which was opposite their room, I always gave them a glance through the screen. No one would know what I had got from this glance, including me. But I seldom went into their office, except once I shake hands with Prof. Gerber with my wet right hand after clutching a cup of iced coffee. At that time I discovered that his room was in a terrible mess as if it was robbed short time ago.
In the room 744, where we used to have the Chinese class, Gerber's flickering eyes, raucous voice, I could remember so clearly. Cho's solemnity and his prayer beads under his collar, I could see so realistically.
How many late nights I read their emails when the wind was striking my window; how much cheer I had got when I was in my melancholy and depression. My visual field was broadened; an "Angry Youth" began to calm down, and a distinct key to a vital question in my life was found. I once thought I could see the dawn is coming!
In this Korean country style restaurant, I was sitting and sinking in a pit, in which there was something so final and hopeless, while million tons of memory pieces were pouring into me.
I know, the most difficult part of my journey was just started.
I had to go, to wake up and stand firm, as I had promised to all over the world.
[ 本帖最后由 dawnch 于 2007-9-16 00:10 编辑 ]
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-9-30 00:14
一断记录：
http://bbs.etjy.com/viewthread.php?tid=72854&highlight=%2Bdawnch
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-9-30 01:25
静下来，我要写东西了。
上周翻译了《中国法理念》中的几段给G和C，这很超我的水平发挥了。
象是透支了不少能量，连着一周提不起劲安静不下来写东西。无论是中文还是英文。
而且近日看的中文书把英语阅读挤得没了时间。
随着中文输入的多，坛子上的句也长了起来。
我太容易受环境的影响。
心随境迁，可怜的人啊！
素材在心里压得沉沉的。
眼见就要黄金周，不卸下一点不行了。
静下来，我要写东西了！
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-10-1 02:04
标题: Salt Lake City
Espressos
Espressos’ flavour was floating in the early August morning sunshine, which was penetrating through the French windows and being softened by the milky-white embroidered curtain, scattering on Tony’s kitchen table, reflecting off the white fine porcelain Espressos cup, sketching a shape of a diamond finger ring on the edge.
Tony, a two teenage girls’ father, moved from New York to this city two years ago, and started his own business, Mayking Chinese Restaurant. With Tony couple’s warm and open personality, and their developing friends circle in this semi-desert, his family business is going to be stable.
Tony has talent for cooking and art appreciation. He can magically turn a bowl of instant noodles into delicacy with simplest way. Also, his house is full of variety collections such as fine porcelains, painting albums, micro-groove records, and red wines.
To me, Tony is as close as an elder brother, even though this is my first time to visit his family within 25 years after he immigrant to U.S. Each time his phone talking was long enough to let my arm ache. Before I left Chicago, he called me several times to instruct me how to pack up baggage.
After the chaos of cleaning up and moving out of the apartment where I had been living for nearly a year in Chicago, and preparing the travel going back to my home in China, this is a perfect time and place for me to pause, enjoying the relax and the security I have not enjoy for a long time, just in these two days, between a past and an uncertain future, in Salt Lake City, Tony’s family.
“It’s such a short time you live here; otherwise I may show you around, Yellow Stone Park, and the mountains nearby.” Tony was busy in the kitchen, talking while he was fixing another cup of coffee for me.
“I don’t want to bother you too much, I just come to shot a glance at your family, your house, your business, take some photos, so that I have something to show my mother.” The espresso, no sugar but half and half milk, was so tasted that I can not understand how I could stand the Starbucks during this year.
“I even have not enough time to show off my cooking. You don’t know how delicious the beef I can make.” Tony is a Buddhist, and guided me a spiritual way in a period of time. He had been a vegetarian for a long time, but gave it up for the restaurant business.
“Never be enough.” I sign. “I have tasted so many food here, Sunny is fond of your cooking, and it is so relieved that I need not worry about her eating.” When Tony was preparing dishes for his customers in his restaurant, he always made extra portion for Sunny, who had never been a good eater since a baby, but yesterday was crazy about Uncle Tony’s sesame chicken and swallowed up the whole dish.
In Tony’s restaurant, all I did was reading, eating, and thinking and roaming along a creek running from a mountain down to a hill behind the restaurant. Reeds grew in clumps all along the creek bank, and mallards swam in the water. As we were approaching, the dark glossy green heads paddled warily away and the streaked and spotted brown ones followed to the water area shimmer in the daylight through the tall and thick trees, and then disappear from our view.
Confucianism
In Tony’s restaurant, I was reading Constitutional Moments and Transitions, Professor Sarah Harding’s handout. I picked it up from the stuff Philip left behind. But it is sort of disappointment, from it I could not get what I want.
But what I was looking for? I am not sure. To me, it is so brilliant that some people are because they always ensure what they want, and they are lucky that they could focus on what they like.
“A certain deep-rooted Confucian tradition may still run in the veins of North Korean” This was what Prof. Cho had said in his last email to my question about North and South Korean issue. To raise such question was a little risky, for I was not sure this Korea Professor’s attitude towards North Korean. But I was too curious, just as the same situation in the Chinese classes, although I had warned myself million times not to mention anything between China and Korea, I just could not resist my curious. I had struggled to answer his email but in vain, I had no time, and I was in a bad mood during those days. Furthermore, I could not clarify the perplexity in my thought. The outcome was it became my fifth luggage I had to carry with me all the way long.
(to be continued......)
[ 本帖最后由 dawnch 于 2007-10-1 20:07 编辑 ]
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-10-1 20:09
我的两个国外博客可以打开浏览了。
今天是国庆，难道与此有关？
难道那些大防火墙放假了吗？
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-10-19 00:27
[music]http://www.cix.co.uk/~lumpkin/vowtothee.mp3[/music]
I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above
Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love
Church Charlotte
The love that asks no questions, the love that stands the test
That lays upon the altar, the dearest and the best
The love that never falters, the love that pays the price
The love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice
And there's another country I've heard of long ago
Most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know
We may not count her armies, we may not see her king
Her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering
And soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase
And her ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths are peace
[ 本帖最后由 dawnch 于 2007-10-19 00:39 编辑 ]
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-10-19 00:43
标题: 回复 #31 dawnch 的帖子
终于想明白了。
站在街边，捧着个破碗，那还能是什么呢？
再怎么浪漫的心情也不过如此。
街上的那个赶牛车的男人的服装是汉朝的。
前世的记忆。
也许吧。
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-11-6 12:00
2007年11月6日，立此存照：
[ 本帖最后由 dawnch 于 2007-11-6 12:46 编辑 ]
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-11-11 02:32
一段无法述说的记忆。
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[ 本帖最后由 dawnch 于 2007-11-11 03:31 编辑 ]
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-11-16 18:40
Easy Life It’s too late, when I found that Sunny was smiling dreamingly and standing side by side with her father in a large beam of autumn morning sunshine pouring down the aisle, reading a scarlet booklet! It was Saturday morning, after the morning jobs in bathroom, Philip got a good mood from the pleasant weather, and finally decided to make a compromise which was a wise husband always could do at the last minute before conditions going worse, after my persisting on influencing, persuading, negotiating, bargaining, and threatening him to tidy up his mountains of documents, papers, and magazines, which was sleeping in every pieces of flat surface, tucked into every corners with a little depth as soon as they were delivered into the room, except the pile in his bathroom which has been kept updating everyday. Without having breakfast, Philip zealously pulled his piles down to the floor and fossicked the mess like a gold fever by sorting and reading the papers piece by piece, while Sunny was busy with the missions of the Penguin’s Club. I didn’t know how it happened. Perhaps it was Philip who dug the scarlet booklet out of the trash mass and sprang out from the dusk leaping rays like a god grant his lamb with his great glory holy. “Sunny, you’re rich!” With exaggerated smiling on his sweating face, Philip spoke to Sunny fawningly. The scarlet booklet, a bank deposit book, recorded Sunny’s lucky money amounted to RMB 11,710 received from her grandparents, aunts, and uncles in the Chinese New Year from 2003 to 2005. It is a Chinese tradition that senior people give juniors lucky money which usually wrapped in fancy red envelopes. Theoretically, lucky money is a blessing ceremony more than its value. When I once was young enough to have lucky money, a rural old lady fumbled about in her pocket with her quivering hand, and foisted into my hands a red pack which was as crumply as her face, containing only one piece of ten cents’ bill, which was even crimpier than the wrap. But the warmth and the sweetness of this memory was definitely beyond the bill’s value and the space and time. In recent decades, more and more people come to attach importance to the amount, and for somebody, for certain purpose, it would be a more convenient tool than the payment around Majhong table. Sunny was reading the booklet in a dreaming sheen. I knew she was calculating how many American Girl Doll she could buy with the money under her name in the booklet. From the day in a magazine she read about that there was such adorable thingy in this world, she began to set a value on all items in this universe with American Girl Doll. After a couple of uncomfortable months when she saved every coins or bills she got from her monthly allowance, a few income or bonus by washing her underwear and getting up early, winning extra bonus from Mrs. Clark the principal for the first reading score in the 3rd grade, or ramping her father, one day she finally triumphantly strode into the American Girl Place located at 111 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago. With her eyes open wide and her hands itch, she purchased her first American Girl Doll whom named Mary soon after. But her bud of greed was not nipped; she soon worried about her Mary’s winter clothes, summer dresses, furniture, purses, or another doll which she understood I would never approve. Even though RMB 11,710 is not enough to do anything really useful, but to let a kid to employ or to know she was owning such giant possession, which would surely be a giant treasure for a kid, must be sinful and uncomfortable as if a guy is lecturing on platforms while a tiny stone hiding in his shoe constantly remind him of it’s existence. In this consideration, like most Chinese parents would do, I saved the money in a bank, a safe place which is the only choice for Chinese people for a long time. “You!” I stared at Philip with all my electricity enough to drive an electric chair. “What?” Philip responded as innocent as Forest Gump, and then this trouble maker disappeared among his piles. I asked Sunny, “Is it much?” I meant the money in the booklet. “Yes.” Sunny echoed me from her dream remotely. “Our family monthly consumption is RMB 10K, almost is the same with your money, do you still think your money is much?” I asked further. “No, not much,” she was awakening, “but it is still good to me.” Bringing her dream and the booklet, she went into her room. I pried into her room from the sunny aisle. Sunny was sitting at her desk, lowering her head, thinking. Well, this is a giant wealth for her, who always want to embrace all the dolls in American Girl Place, and always self-control the desires bitterly. But how long we could protect this dream for her? The CPI in August was 6.5% higher than the past 12 months, it is the fourth rising month of the year, and it will surly continue on and on while the bank interest can not catch up with its pace even if after five rises. As soon as I grounded China from a shining mountain, I was shocked to see something has been changing profoundly, enormously, and gravely. Signboards in restaurants said: rising! one of my favorite newspaper doubled it’s price; shopping in Sam’s club weekly, I never can remember where had my car parked in the giant parking lot, and I never can remember the unit price of the groceries, but what I know now is that the purchase amount for my small family has been rising from RMB400 to RMB1000, which was almost the same amount with I did in Costco, Chicago. My real estates zoomed as three times as I purchased it 6 years ago, but rentals stay in a flat level. All off these happened within one year when I absented from China. I couldn’t recollect any comparative experience in the memory of my past 30 years. Ten years later, Sunny might think her mother was so mean and sick that had been so gingerly and secretly saving the small money just enough to buy several pieces of candy. “What shall we do with the money?” in the aisle I blocked Philip who was sweating blood to load his dusty magazines out of rooms. “Invest!” Philip gasped, detouring towards the gate. “Stock?” I asked the shifting object. “Whatever.” Philip answered me with his back. Differentiating from the price raising a few years ago, when I heard about some Chinese people stored foodstuff, televisions, refrigerators to protect their money, this time they choose to invest stock markets. From early of this year, the stock index has been keeping growing up from 1000 in February to 6,000 presently. Fast lessons on stock investment would hit your sight on every street. My friends, Tian Qian, began to educate his 9-year old son to read graphs, buying and selling stocks with his lucky money; Jiangying, who was a manager in a join-venture company, sold and bought his stocks in working time, and he told me a few days ago that stock business was the first and the job was in the second place. Papers said this was Panic Investment. “I think you should have a talk with your daughter.” I seized Philip on his way back. “What talk?” “About the money. Tell her something morn important than American Girl Doll, and let her know she is growing taller and taller while money might become shorter and shorter.” “Why me? I am busy enough.” Philip flung his grey dusty hands in the air crossly. “Who opened the Pandora's Box? Who studied Money Management in Kent law school? And who is going to fix the lunch for all creature in this house?” I pronounced as an odour of sweet soy-sauce stews pork flowing in the air from our neighborhood, and I believed that Philip’s empty stomach would surly stand on my side. "sweet soy-sauce stews pork?" Philip asked hopefully. "No!" I answered evilly. "Under my ruling, you guys have no choice." “Sunny, we will have a talk.” Philip raised his head and exclaimed as he swaggered into Sunny’s room. In practice, Philip was not a perfect person to act the role of a financial teacher. In an April of four years ago, he purchased his Audi A6 2.5TDI in RMB500,000, but by the end of the month, the price was bitterly dropped to RMB410,000, and currently stand firm on RMB350,000. Philip could do nothing but slaying the salesman savagely in the phone, and then became a remarkable VIP memeber in a car owner club. A May of six years ago, I stuck to my colors to buy this apartment, he had been keeping his complaining until our property was boosted dramatically with the market fluctuating, and now he begun to moan, “Why didn’t we buy more at that time?” The door bell rang while I was exploring the refrigerator to form a scheme about the lunch. As I prefigured, standing at the door in a brown uniform the small, slim, and brown lady, who took charge of the sanitary of this building was inquiring me humbly in her Hunan accent, “The books, you don’t want anymore?” She was referring the piles Philip placed at the doorway. I knew her job could barely earn a bottom-line wage, so waste recollection would be an important extra income. All she could earn would be a primary supporting for her family, the kids and parents, and maybe, brothers and sisters, in a faraway countryside. Therefore, when we deal with some neat trash, such as books, papers, clothes, we just put them at the doorway instead of dumping in the trash bin. I though it might be better for the lady. At the mean time, I knew there was another lady at the root of the building, sitting beside the sidewalk waiting for this trash everyday, and that would be her only earning. But how much I could do for them? “Oh, I’m sorry. It’s too heavy to put in the bin. Please do help me to get rid of. Thank you!” I was pretending having no idea about her intention. It might be better for her, I thought. As I returned to my Kitchen, a lunch menu was set up. Noodle! Sunny like it, Philip always oppose it, but it’s fast and easy, which is the most important for a lunch. Sweet soy-sauce stews pork? I couldn’t understand how my neighbor could manage such complicated dish at noon! I grabbed all the material I need out of the refrigerator, ground pork, mushrooms, carrots, a pack of lettuce, a box of tofu, and a jar of Miso. To make up a simple lunch never need a recipe. A cool breeze flooded into the kitchen from the window, rustling the Sam’s club’s shopping bags left on the floor. Autumn is a pleasant season in Guangdong, it is not hot as summer and not humid as spring, but it is not cold enough to put on a coat, and would be blaming hot sometimes. People have to be strong to resist the cool and blaming hot with the bare skin at the same time. “A changeable weather. An unstable life.” I reflected as I thawed the ground pork in the microwave oven, and throw the vege-stuff into the sink. Life is so unstable. Looking forward, the vision of the future is unclear; looking back, neither experiences nor predecessors could we rely on. So many opportunities we have to identify; so many crossroads we have to ponder. The only thing the Chinese people had learnt for so many years is to disbelieve everything, and money is the last alternative they could lean upon. Furthermore, the more bothersome is that no matter how much money they would have, they could not buy them enough security, while a majority of Chinese people are still struggling to survive. Having the carrots, mushrooms, and tofu chopped into small cubes, and the lettuce token apart, I thought about our family security system. We have a crazy commercial insurance plan for my family, amounting to RMB60K which is as much as a yearly income of a mid-class white-collar. In addition, we have social insurance. To buy social insurance for employees is an obligation according to labor law, and should be paid by employer and employee, covering medicine, unemployment compensations, endowment insurance. The premium will be calculated base on employee’s salary. As far as I knew, few companies will buy full insurance according to employees’ real salary just in order to reduce company’s cost. But no one, including employees themselves, care about their future benefits were reducing, for the less you pay, the less benefit you will get especially in the endowment part. No one complaint, because they do not believe government’s system could give them a good future, they would have more income in hand rather than paying to the government for their unpredictable, uninsured future. And the people’s concern seemed to be proved by the events happened in Shanghai and Guangzhou that the social insurance fund, the money the common people pay in the name of social insurance was peculated by some government official. A friend told me before long her mother-in-law past away, “you would never know how useless the social insurance is untill you are really ill.” Common people don’t believe the government would provide them a dignified future. Dry noodles were done in boiled water, and the ground pork was made into a thick and glossing sauce with the cubes of carrot, mushroom, and tofu. Lettuce was scalded in water slightly and seasoned with sesame oil and oyster sauce. And the soup, laver egg soup was always a beneficial choice. Only half an hour! I was content for such a lunch, simple, nice and nourishing, but boring, a little bit. "Family, this is what you could get under the governing of a mean, evil housewife. " "So what! " I was laying bowls and chopsticks on table. Life in China is easy, if you do not think about the future. Or maybe life is born to be easy, don’t think too much! “Lunch is ready!” I broadcasted. Philip came out of Sunny’s room. I asked, “How’s the money talk?” "Well done!" Philip answered cunningly. “Sunny found out something more important and economic than the American Girl Doll." "What's it?” It boded me no good. “She understood that it would be more economic for her if we gave her a baby sister instead of purchasing a new doll by herself with the lucky money. Also, a baby sister is more important.” Oh, another button! “Yes!” Sunny jumped out of the bathroom and yelled excitedly, “Then I can go to the Yale and Harvard but baby sister can only go to Kent!” Philip smiled, bitterly.
[ 本帖最后由 dawnch 于 2007-11-17 14:49 编辑 ]
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-11-26 21:14
[转帖]美国杂志网站~
杂志名称 网址 类别 1 People（人物） http://people.aol.com/people/index.html 娱乐 2 TV Guide（电视指南） http://www.tvguide.com 娱乐 3 Time（时代） http://www.time.com 新闻 4 Sports Illustrated（体育画报） http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com 体育 5 Better Homes & Gardens（美好家园） http://www.bhg.com 家居 6 Reader’s Digest（读者文摘） http://www.rd.com/splash.jhtml 综合 7 Parade（旅行） http://www.parade.com/auth/entry.lasso 旅游 8 Newsweek（新闻周刊） http://www.msnbc.com/news/NW-front_Front.asp 新闻 9 Business Week（商业周刊） http://www.businessweek.com 商业 10 Good Housekeeping（好主妇） http://www.goodhousekeeping.com 家庭 11 Fortune（财富） http://www.fortune.com/ 商业 12 Cosmopolitan（全球主义者） http://www.cosmopolitan.com/ 娱乐 13 Woman’s Day（妇女日） http://www.womansday.com/xp6/WomansDay/home.xml 妇女 14 Forbes（福布斯） http://www.forbes.com/ 商业 15 Family Circle（家庭圈） http://www.familycircle.com/home/homepage.jsp 家庭 16 USA Weekend（美国周末） http://www.usaweekend.com 休闲 17 Instyle（时髦） http://www.instyle.com/instyle 时尚 18 Entertainment Weekly（娱乐周刊） http://www.ew.com/ew/ 娱乐 19 Martha Stewart Living（玛萨斯图尔特生活） http://www.marthastewart.com 生活 20 U.S. News & World Report（美国新闻与世界报道） http://www.usnews.com 新闻 21 Ladies’ Home Journal（妇女家庭杂志） http://www.lhj.com 家庭 22 National Geographic（国家地理杂志） http://www.nationalgeographic.com 地理 23 Southern Living（南方生活） http://www.southernliving.com/ 生活 24 Vogue（时尚） http://www.style.com/vogue/index.html 时尚 25 PC Magazine（个人电脑） http://www.pcmag.com/ ＩＴ 26 Money（金钱） http://money.cnn.com/ 理财 27 Maxim（马克西姆） http://www.maximonline.com/index.html 娱乐 28 O, The Oprah Magazine http://www.oprah.com/omagazine 妇女 29 Glamour（魅力） http://www.glamour.com/ 时尚 30 National Enquirer, The（国家寻问者） http://www.nationalenquirer.com/ 新闻 31 New York Times Magazine（纽约时报杂志） http://www.nytimes.com/ 新闻 32 Golf Digest（高尔夫文摘） http://www.golfdigest.com/ 体育 33 Rolling Stone（滚石） http://www.rollingstone.com/ 音乐 34 Playboy（*） http://www.*.com/ 男性 35 Vanity Fair（名利场） http://www.vanityfair.com 娱乐 36 Seventeen（十七岁） http://www.seventeen.com/ 青年 37 Parents（父母） http://www.parents.com/ 教育 38 Star Magazine（明星杂志） http://www.starmagazine.com/ 娱乐 39 ESPN The Magazine（ESPN杂志） http://espn.go.com/magazine/ 体育 40 Prevention（预防） http://www.prevention.com/ 健康 41 Redbook（红书） http://magazines.ivillage.com/redbook/ 妇女 42 Rosie http://www.rosieo.com/ 生活 43 Golf Magazine（高尔夫杂志） http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/golfonline/ 体育 44 Travel & Leisure（旅游和休闲） http://www.travelandleisure.com/ 休闲 45 Elle http://www.elle.com/ 时尚 46 New Yorker, The（纽约客） http://www.newyorker.com/ 文艺 47 W http://www.style.com/w/ 时尚 48 Woman’s World（妇女世界） http://www.robertcraig.com/womansworld.html 妇女 49 Parenting（养育） http://www.parenting.com/parenting/ 家庭 50 Car & Driver（人车志） http://www.caranddriver.com/xp/Caranddriver/home.xml 机车 51 Endless Vacation（无尽假日） http://www.endlessvacation.com/ 休闲 52 Bride’s Magazine（新娘杂志） http://www.brides.com 婚礼 53 InformationWeek（信息周刊） http://www.informationweek.com/ ＩＴ 54 Country Living（乡村生活） http://magazines.ivillage.com/countryliving/ 生活 55 Us Weekly（美国周刊） http://usweekly.abc.com/ 新闻 56 Marie Claire（玛丽克莱尔） http://www.marieclaire.com/ 时尚 57 Sunset（日落） http://www.sunset.com/ 科学 58 Soap Opera Digest（肥皂剧文摘） http://www.soapoperadigest.com 娱乐 59 AARP Modern Maturity（现代文明） http://www.modernmaturity.org/ 公益 60 GQ http://www.gq.com/ 时尚 61 Architectural Digest（建筑学文摘） http://www.condenet.com/mags/archdigest/ 建筑 62 Harper’s Bazaar（哈泼氏） http://www.harpersbazaar.com/ 时尚 63 Travel Agent（旅游代理） http://www.travelagents.com/ 旅游 64 Smithsonian（史密森尼） http://www.si.edu/ 博物 65 PC World（PC世界） http://www.pcworld.com/ ＩＴ 66 Modern Bride（现代新娘） http://www.modernbride.com/ 婚礼 67 Men’s Health（男性健康） http://www.menshealth.com/ 健康 68 Bon Appetit（好 ） http://www.epicurious.com/b_ba/b00_home/ba.html 烹饪 69 Motor Trend（机车潮流） http://www.motortrend.com/ 机车 70 Economist, The（经济学人） http://www.economist.com/ 政经 71 Self（自我） http://www.self.com/ 妇女 72 Shape（体形） http://www.shapeonline.com/ 健康 73 Teen People http://www.teenpeople.com/teenpeople/ 青年 74 YM http://www.ym.com 时尚 75 Consumer Reports（消费者报告） http://www.consumerreports.org/main/home.jsp 生活 76 Cooking Light（烹饪之光） http://www.cookinglight.com/ 烹饪 77 Travel Weekly（旅行周刊） http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/tw_home/home.asp 旅游 78 House Beautiful（美丽住宅） http://magazines.ivillage.com/housebeautiful/ 家居 79 Ebony（乌木） http://www.ebony.com/ 成人 80 Popular Photography（大众摄影） http://www.popularphotography.com/index.asp 摄影 81 Country Home（乡村家庭） http://www.countryhome.com/ch/index.html 家庭 82 Barron’s http://www.barrons.com/ 商业 83 eWeek http://www.eweek.com 消费 84 Conde Nast Traveler http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/ 旅游 85 Town & Country（城镇和乡村） http://magazines.ivillage.com/townandcountry/ 生活 86 InfoWorld（信息世界） http://www.infoworld.com/ ＩＴ 87 EE Times http://www.eetimes.com/ 电子 88 Food & Wine（食物和酒） http://www.foodandwine.com/ 食品 89 New York（纽约） http://www.newyorkmetro.com/ 城市 90 Essence（本质） http://www.essence.com/ 黑人 91 Road & Track（公路与轨迹） http://www.roadandtrack.com/ 机车 92 Health（健康） http://www.health.com/ 健康 93 Inc（公司） http://www.inc.com/home/ 商业 94 Allure（吸引） http://www.allure.com/ 时尚 95 Vibe http://www.vibe.com/new/home/pointer.html 娱乐 96 Gourmet（美食家） http://www.gourmet.com/ 烹饪 97 Taste of Home（家的滋味） http://www.tasteofhome.com/ 烹饪 98 Muscle & Fitness（肌肉和健身） http://www.muscleandfitness.com/ 健康 99 Popular Mechanics（大众机械） http://popularmechanics.com/ 机械 100 Home（家） http://www.homemag.com/ 家居
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-11-26 21:15
http://www.vip18.com/net/gwwz.html
作者: dawnch 时间: 2007-12-23 22:59
标题: Bethlehem’s Star
It is said that the star was bright
that night.
It is said that the ground was white
that night.
Who is looking up at the sky
tonight ?
Who is lowering and thoughts arising
tonight
under the starlight as thousands years ago
that night ?
作者: dawnch 时间: 2008-2-3 02:03
How to Write an Essay
Establish Your Topic
1. Your teacher may assign you a topic or ask you to choose from among a few topics. The assignment may contain certain key words that will suggest the content and structure of your essay. For example, you may be asked to
o Analyze
o Argue
o Compare and contrast
o Describe
o Discuss
o Summarize
If you do not understand what you are being asked to do, check with your teacher.
2. You may be asked to find a topic on your own. Most people find this difficult. Give yourself plenty of time to think about what you'd like to do. Trying to answer questions you have about a particular subject may lead you to a good paper idea.
o What subject(s) are you interested in?
o What interests you most about a particular subject?
o Is there anything you wonder about or are puzzled about with regard to that subject?
3. Be sure your topic is narrow enough so that you can write about it in detail in the number of pages that you are allowed. For example, say you are asked to write a 1-page essay about someone in your family. Since you only have a limited number of pages, you may want to focus on one particular characteristic of that person, or one particular incident from that person's life, rather than trying to write about that person's entire life. Having a narrow focus will help you write a more interesting paper.
o Too general: My sister.
o Revised: My sister is my best friend.
Similarly, you may be asked to write a 5-page paper about volcanoes. Again, since you only have a limited number of pages, you may choose to focus on one particular volcano or one particular eruption, rather than trying to talk about volcanoes in general.
o Too general: Volcanoes of the world.
o Revised: The eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in June 1991.
4. One method for narrowing down your topic is called brainstorming. Brainstorming is a useful way to let ideas you didn't know you had come to the surface.
5. Sit down with a pencil and paper, or at your computer, and write whatever comes into your head about your topic, no matter how confused or disorganized.
6. Keep writing for a short but specific amount of time, say 3–5 minutes. Don't stop to change what you've written or to correct spelling or grammar errors.
7. After a few minutes, read through what you have written. You will probably throw out most of it, but some of what you've written may give you an idea you can develop.
8. Do some more brainstorming and see what else you can come up with.
Organize Your Ideas
Develop an outline to organize your ideas. An outline shows your main ideas and the order in which you are going to write about them.
Click here to see some sample outlines.
1. Write down all the main ideas.
2. List the subordinate ideas below the main ideas.
3. Avoid any repetition of ideas.
Write a First Draft
1. Every essay or paper is made up of three parts:
o Introduction
o Body
o Conclusion
2. The introduction is the first paragraph of the paper. It often begins with a general statement about the topic and ends with a more specific statement of the main idea of your paper. The purpose of the introduction is to
o let the reader know what the topic is
o inform the reader about your point of view
o arouse the reader's curiosity so that he or she will want to read about your topic
3. The body of the paper follows the introduction. It consists of a number of paragraphs in which you develop your ideas in detail.
o Limit each paragraph to one main idea. (Don't try to talk about more than one idea per paragraph.)
o Prove your points continually by using specific examples and quotations.
o Use transition words to ensure a smooth flow of ideas from paragraph to paragraph.
4. The conclusion is the last paragraph of the paper. Its purpose is to
o summarize your main points, leaving out specific examples
o restate the main idea of the paper
Revise the First Draft
1. Try to set aside your draft for a day or two before revising. This makes it easier to view your work objectively and see any gaps or problems.
2. Revising involves rethinking your ideas, refining your arguments, reorganizing paragraphs, and rewording sentences. You may need to develop your ideas in more detail, give more evidence to support your claims, or delete material that is unnecessary. For more advice on revising and a sample revision, click here.
3. Read your paper out loud. This sometimes makes it easier to identify writing that is awkward or unclear.
4. Have somebody else read the paper and tell you if there's anything that's unclear or confusing.
Proofread the Final Draft
1. Look for careless errors such as misspelled words and incorrect punctuation and capitalization.
2. Errors are harder to spot on a computer screen than on paper. If you type your paper on a computer, print out a copy to proofread. Remember, spell checkers and grammar checkers don't always catch errors, so it is best not to rely on them too much.
Write a First Draft- Every essay or paper is made up of three parts:
- Introduction
- Body
- Conclusion
- The introduction is the first paragraph of the paper. It often begins with a general statement about the topic and ends with a more specific statement of the main idea of your paper. The purpose of the introduction is to
- let the reader know what the topic is
- inform the reader about your point of view
- arouse the reader's curiosity so that he or she will want to read about your topic
- The body of the paper follows the introduction. It consists of a number of paragraphs in which you develop your ideas in detail.
- Limit each paragraph to one main idea. (Don't try to talk about more than one idea per paragraph.)
- Prove your points continually by using specific examples and quotations.
- Use transition words to ensure a smooth flow of ideas from paragraph to paragraph.
- The conclusion is the last paragraph of the paper. Its purpose is to
- summarize your main points, leaving out specific examples
- restate the main idea of the paper
Revise the First Draft - Try to set aside your draft for a day or two before revising. This makes it easier to view your work objectively and see any gaps or problems.
- Revising involves rethinking your ideas, refining your arguments, reorganizing paragraphs, and rewording sentences. You may need to develop your ideas in more detail, give more evidence to support your claims, or delete material that is unnecessary. For more advice on revising and a sample revision, click here.
- Read your paper out loud. This sometimes makes it easier to identify writing that is awkward or unclear.
- Have somebody else read the paper and tell you if there's anything that's unclear or confusing.
Proofread the Final Draft - Look for careless errors such as misspelled words and incorrect punctuation and capitalization.
- Errors are harder to spot on a computer screen than on paper. If you type your paper on a computer, print out a copy to proofread. Remember, spell checkers and grammar checkers don't always catch errors, so it is best not to rely on them too much.
[ 本帖最后由 dawnch 于 2008-2-3 02:07 编辑 ]
作者: dawnch 时间: 2008-2-7 01:47
Quidditch QuizThe game of Quidditch was invented in which century?  |
 | 8th century |
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| 11th century |
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| 14th century |
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The sport is named Quidditch because |
| The person who invented it was Zacharias Quidditch. |
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| The Quidditch Broom Company supplied the early Quidditch teams with broomsticks. |
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| The inventor of the sport lived near Queerditch Marsh. |
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What did Elliot Smethwyck invent in 1820 that made playing Quidditch a lot more comfortable? |
| the Cushioning Charm |
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| the Heated Broomstick Charm |
The Golden Snitch that the Seeker tries to capture is meant to resemble what? |
| a nut that ancient wizards loved to eat |
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| a tiny bird that ancient wizards used to hunt |
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| a ball that was used in the ancient wizard sport of Creaothceann |
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The Wizards' Council found it necessary to enforce rules to hide the existence of Quidditch from Muggles. Which of the following was not a precaution suggested by the Council? |
| The game should be played at night. |
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| Muggle-repelling charms should be used. |
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| The game should not be played within 100 miles of a town. |
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| A tall brick wall should be built around Quidditch pitches. |
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The Quaffle (the ball used for scoring points) has evolved since Quidditch was first invented. All of these characteristics were true of the ancient Quaffle, but which one is still true today? |
| It has a leather strap on it used for catching it easily. |
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| It is made of leather. |
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| It has three finger holes in it. |
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How many fouls are acknowledged in the Department of Magical Games and Sports Records? The referee was originally known as what? |
| the Quijudge |
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In the original game of Quidditch, Keepers had to do this in addition to guarding the goalposts. |
| try to capture the Golden Snitch |
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| throw bludgers at players |
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| try to score goals with the Quaffle |
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When is the only time a player's feet may touch the ground during a Quidditch match? |
| after a goal is scored |
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Quidditch Quiz Answer SheetThe game of Quidditch was invented in which century? The sport is named Quidditch because The game we know today as Quidditch was first mentioned in a diary kept by Gertie Keddle, who lived near Queerditch Marsh.
What did Elliot Smethwyck invent in 1820 that made playing Quidditch a lot more comfortable? The Golden Snitch that the Seeker tries to capture is meant to resemble what? Capturing a tiny bird called a Golden Snidget was originally part of the sport of Quidditch. However, this bird soon became an endangered species. A brilliant wizard by the name of Bowman Wright created a metal substitute, which he bewitched so it would fly around the Quidditch field, resembling the bird.
The Wizards' Council found it necessary to enforce rules to hide the existence of Quidditch from Muggles. Which of the following was not a precaution suggested by the Council? The Department of Magical Games and Sports was later created to ensure that proper anti-Muggle security was taken into account.
The Quaffle (the ball used for scoring points) has evolved since Quidditch was first invented. All of these characteristics were true of the ancient Quaffle, but which one is still true today? With the invention of Gripping Charms, holes and straps are no longer needed for the Chaser to keep a firm, one-handed grasp on the Quaffle.
How many fouls are acknowledged in the Department of Magical Games and Sports Records? 700 fouls are recognized by the Deptarment, but this list is not available for the wizarding public to see. The department feared that if players saw the list, they might try to perform some of the moves.
The referee was originally known as what? In the original game of Quidditch, Keepers had to do this in addition to guarding the goalposts. In 1620 the Keeper's job became strictly the guarding of the goalposts.
When is the only time a player's feet may touch the ground during a Quidditch match?
作者: dawnch 时间: 2008-2-7 01:51
Olympic LeadersGrade Levels: 4 - 6
Objectives<ULEach student will research the accomplishments of one Olympic athlete. Students will write a one page description of the athlete. Students will give an oral presentation about the athlete. Materials- Reference Materials (see web resources and literature tie-ins)
- "Report Starters" list (below)
- Paper and pencils
- Dress Up clothes
Procedure- Ask students to write down the name of any Olympic athlete they know.
- Share the results as a group and write these names on the board.
- Read the "Report Starters" handout aloud. Write the names of the athletes mentioned in the handout on the board.
- Ask students to select an athlete whose accomplishments sound interesting to them.
- Explain that students will be required to write a one page report from the point of view of the athlete about his/her accomplishments. This report must contain descriptions of the following:
- The athlete's home country
- How and where he/she grew up
- How he/she started as an athlete
- Year(s) and location(s) of Olympic games in which the athlete participated
- Description of Olympic accomplishments achieved by the athlete
- Description of where he/she is now.
- Allow students time to browse through references and collect information.
- Assign report writing as homework.
- Once report has been written and edited by the teacher, ask students to dress up as if they are the athlete and present the report in front of the class.
Report Starters - 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci earned the first perfect score, a ten, at the 1976 Olympics and went on to score six more tens and win three gold medals.
- In 1988 Greg Louganis of the United States won the gold medal in springboard diving at the Summer Olympics in South Korea, the day after he struck and injured his head on the board in the preliminary round.
- Only three athletes have ever won medals at both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games: Eddie Eagan (United States), Jacob Tullin Thams (Norway), and Christa Luding-Rothenburger (East Germany).
- Speed skater Bonnie Blair has won six medals at the Olympic Winter Games. That's more than any other American athlete.
- Nobody has won more medals at the Winter Games than cross-country skier Bjorn Dahlie of Norway, who has 12.
- Larrisa Latynina, a gymnast from the former Soviet Union, finished her Summer Olympic Games career with 18 total medals; the most in history.
- Tara Lipinski, a figure skater from the U.S., won the 1998 women's figure skating gold medal at the Olympics in Nagano, becoming the youngest in history (15 yrs.,7 mos.) to do so.
- Michael Johnson, a track and field runner, shattered the world record in the 200m (19.32) and set an Olympic record in the 400m (43.49) to become the first man to win the gold in both races in the same Olympic Games at Atlanta in 1996.
- Michelle Kwan, a U.S. figure skater, won the silver medal at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
作者: dawnch 时间: 2008-2-7 01:52
Oral Presentations
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Oral presentations have long been used as an instructional strategy in American schools. At their worst they are frightening to give, boring to watch, and time-wasting. Used effectively oral presentations can be stimulating and motivating learning aids. To be of maximum benefit the teacher must appropriately structure the oral presentation assignment. Most students do not know how to give a brief, focused presentation. When making the assignment it is important to provide adequate coaching on the "why," "what," and "how" of the project. The following suggestions might be adapted to improve your students' presentations. - To reduce the anxiety of talking in front of the group, begin with safe topics the students know well. Themes such as "my dream vacation" or "my favorite game" tap a student's experiences. Permitting students to teach a skill they know or talk about a favorite possession are topics students can present with little extra study.
- Letting two students do a presentation together is less anxiety-provoking.
- Assign students to read magazine articles related to an assigned subject area. The students should take notes summarizing the key points of the article and prepare a 4-5 minute talk. Specify the main parts of their presentation. The talk could be split between two students, dividing the content between them.
- In most instances individual oral presentations should be limited to 10 minutes. Few students possess the skills and enthusiasm to hold their listeners' attention longer. Little is gained and much precious time is lost if your class must endure a succession of long, boring reports. It probably wouldn't be too exciting for you, either.
- It is helpful to demonstrate the oral presentation you are assigning. Model the parts of the demonstration and process the presentation afterwards, providing a written outline of its parts. Another option is to videotape your 5-minute presentation and to replay it, pointing out the different parts of the talk. Encourage the class to critique the presentation. It is best if it is not perfect. If you can point out your own errors or deficiencies, they will realize they don't have to be perfect.
- If students have some experience in giving oral presentations, allow 2-3 minutes at the end of the talk for the rest of the class to ask questions of the presenter. This develops the ability to think on their feet and to speak extemporaneously.
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- Sometimes teachers provide an opportunity for the class to offer feedback to the presenter. This may be done in writing, responding to such criteria as, "List one thing the speaker did well" or "One part of the presentation that needs improvement."
- Another tactic for developing oral presentation skills is to develop a persuasive speech. This assignment requires students to take a stand on an issue, to research it, and to develop a brief persuasive presentation.
- It is best to set a time limit for student presentations. The time should be appropriate to the age and developmental level of your students. Seldom should a solo presentation exceed 10 minutes, even for high school students. For elementary students, 3-4 minutes are generally sufficient, especially if everyone in the class is assigned to do one.
- The debate format is also a most useful alternative for developing the skills of oral persuasion.
- Require students to speak from note cards. Don't let them write out a verbatim script and discourage them from trying to memorize the whole speech. Encourage them to use a visual aid or prop. This serves as a cue, creates added interest, and gives them something to do with their hands.
- Oral presentations can also be incorporated into cooperative learning activities, with each team member presenting a different part of the program. It is easier to stand in front of the class as a member of a supportive group than alone.
- Having students interview a student can be a valuable learning experience. The focus of the interview must be established ahead of time. Again, it is easier if the topic is one the student already knows. Another option is to assign students to various historical or fictional roles. The students then study the lives and times of the characters they are playing. The class then interviews them as reporters with the role player answering in character.
- It is sometimes helpful to videotape the presentations and allow students to review them later either alone, in teams, or with the teacher. Students might be allowed to check them out overnight to show their parents. Some of the better ones might be saved for use at the parent open house.
Excerpted from Classroom Teacher's Survival Guide.
作者: dawnch 时间: 2008-2-7 01:56
Job FairGrade Levels: 1 - 5
Objectives- Students will learn about different types of jobs.
- Students will practice oral presentation skills.
- Students will learn to use a checklist as a tool for staying organized in the midst of a project.
Materials
Procedures- Ask the class to name as many jobs as they can.
- List the jobs on the chart paper.
- Tell students you'll be having a discussion about some unusual jobs.
- Distribute the Job Descriptions handout and go over it with the students.
- Tell students they will be having a job fair. At the job fair, they will:
- Read aloud a paragraph about the job they picked.
- Dress up in the costume appropriate for their job.
- Act out their job in front of the class.
- Direct the students to select a job for the fair by thinking about the ones they've just discussed, by looking through picture books, or by talking to their classmates.
- Ask students to choose a job that sounds interesting to them.
- Help students find out as much as they can about the job they chose.
- Distribute the My Job handout and ask students to fill in the information, either in class or at home.
- Encourage students to practice acting out their jobs. Try using these suggestions to give them an idea of what you expect:
- a banker teller would sit behind a counter, interact with customers, and organize money in a drawer.
- a construction worker might drive a backhoe.To act this out, a student could sit in a chair and pantomime the motions of driving the machine.
- a teacher might stand in front of the board and direct a class discussion.
- Distribute the Job Fair Checklist handout and emphasize that students are responsible for doing everything on the checklist. Remind students to use this list to ensure they will be fully prepared on the day of the fair.
- Make sure students plan time to write their paragraphs, select a costume, practice reading the paragraph aloud, and rehearse acting out their jobs.
- On the day of the job fair, allow all of the students to present their acts (either in front of the whole class or in small groups).
- If possible, take photographs of the students performing during the job fair.
- At the end of the day have a class discussion and ask students what new information they learned about different jobs.
- A bulletin board displaying the job descriptions and the photos taken during the Job Fair is a nice closing activity.
作者: dawnch 时间: 2008-2-7 01:57
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Brainstorming: A Strategy for Creative Productivity Brainstorming is a process one goes through in an effort to generate ideas, let the creative juices flow, and problem solve. It can be applied to a variety of activities including conflict resolution, writing, developing a search on the Internet, and figuring out math problems. Brainstorming is an effective way to think of new ideas individually or within a group. First, the steps are outlined with a group in mind. Second, ideas for brainstorming are presented with an individual in mind. Follow the steps in the group strategy, but use the individual strategies to widen your scope for ideas, creativity, and solutions.
Brainstorming in a group
- Allot 20 to 30 minutes for the session.
- Record all ideas on butcher paper so everyone can see them and they can be retrieved at a later date.
- Encourage all ideas. Perhaps offer a sticker to the person with the most ideas or with the most creative suggestion.
- Do not accept judgmental tones, remarks, body language, or facial expressions that indicate the ideas are good, bad, or funny.
- Use others' comments to think of new ideas.
- Keep discussion of the recorded ideas to a minimum during brainstorming. After the session, take a break, then come back for a more critical evaluation of the ideas. During the analytical phase, make sure comments are constructive, or students might avoid speaking up at the next brainstorming session.
Brainstorming by yourself
- Draw or doodle while you're thinking.
- Ask questions.
- Read something.
- Take a walk with a little notepad and pen.
- Work a crossword puzzle or a word search.
- Do something with the intention of figuring out what you want to focus on.
- Look around: Write down the interesting things you see, hear, touch, feel, smell, or taste.
作者: dawnch 时间: 2008-2-9 23:46
Reflective Journals
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What Is It?Reflective journals are notebooks or pieces of paper that students use when writing about and reflecting on their own thoughts. The act of reflecting on thoughts, ideas, feelings, and their own learning encourages the development of metacognitive skills by helping students self-evaluate and sort what they know from what they don't know. The process of examining one's own thoughts and feelings is particularly helpful for students who are learning new concepts or beginning to grapple with complex issues that go beyond right and wrong answers.
Examples of Reflective Journals:History Alive Reflection (Fifth Grade)
"The character I chose for history alive was Sequoya. He was a Native American who invented the first Cherokee alphabet so his people could read and write a language.
"Sequoya had a lot of perserveracne because he never game up when he was making his Cherokee alphabet. No matter how hard it was to come up with all eighty-sox symbols and even when other Cherokee members burnt down this house for writing the alphabet, he never gave up. That is one of the best skills you can ever have.
"Sequoya also had a lot of confidence and organization. Confidence explains how Sequoya knew he could make an alphabet and how he knew he could prove to the Tribal Council that the alphabet was no fake. Organization explains how well organized he arranged his alphabet.
From learning about Sequoya, I learned that I need to be more confident in myself and by that I can achieve my goal and be successful in anything that I may want to do."
~Natalie R.
Reflection on Teamwork (Middle School)
Group Members: Brian, Kristin, and CJ
Responsiblities: Brian -- Leader (Paper), Kristen -- PowerPoint, CJ -- Outline
General Feeling: If we can get to the computer to work on Power Point and get some more info, we should be fine.
Progress: Today we got any information that was left out of the books. Our paper is started, and our bibiliograpy is all caught up.
Concerns: I am concerned about getting everything done, I think we can do it but CJ is going to have to help.
Why Is It Important?John Dewey (1938) believed that education should serve not only as a means of acquiring information but also as a way to bring learning to our everyday actions and behaviors. Most successful learners know how to identify questions and problems as they reflect on what they already know, what they want and need to know, and how they will proceed to increase their understanding. Less successful learners need to develop the habits of mind that are the underlying strategies of the learning process.
Reflective practice can be supported in classrooms by creating opportunities that allow students to think about their learning, their own lives, and the world around them. The process often illuminates problems, misunderstandings, and confusions and helps determine new growth, independence, and responsibility for learning (Strong, Silver, and Perini 2001).
Reflective journals allow students to practice their writing skills in an open-ended format that encourages the same thought process that is used in analytical writing. Zemelman, Daniels, and Hyde (1993) believe that the most powerful learning happens when students self-monitor, or reflect. As learners continue to distinguish what they know from what they need to reevaluate or relearn, they begin to translate discoveries they have made about their own learning into plans for improvement. Just as reflective journals open the windows of a student's mind, they also allow teachers to look in. In this way, the journals become a useful assessment tool that gives teachers additional insight into how students value their own learning and progress.
How Can You Make It Happen?Model the journaling process, especially with younger students, by thinking aloud, debating what and what not to write. The main idea is to show students how to transfer their thinking into writing, not necessarily how to produce a finely polished piece of writing. Students can take from 3-15 minutes to write reflective entries in their personal journals before, during, or after a learning activity. The entries may build on areas covered in the classroom or promote students' thoughts about their own lives or the world beyond the classroom.
The most important aspect of reflective journal writing is to encourage students to begin to think about their own thinking. The reflective process transfers the responsibilities of self-appraisal and understanding the elements of quality work from the teacher to the student. Reflective journals should encourage students to develop their own personal values, going beyond summary conclusions such as "I hate this class" or "I didn't learn anything." Students should consider what they personally think and feel, drawing their own conclusions instead of just parroting what the teacher thinks. Journal prompts and questions should not be superficial but should encourage students to explore their thoughts in depth. For example, consider the difference between the following questions.
| What did you think of the class? | What did you learn today? |
| What did you do in school today? | What happened in school today that made you feel proud?
Do you think everyone else felt that way? |
| What would you like to be when you grow up? | How could you use some of your strengths and accomplishments to help you in a career when you grow up? |
| What do you want to learn? | How do you plan to learn this content?
How and when will you do the work?
How do you want to be evaluated? |
The questions in the first column are vague and may lead children to respond with egocentric or superficial facts and feelings, while the questions in the second column ask them to explore assumptions and values. Good journaling questions will help students develop critical-thinking skills and expand, analyze, or defend ideas.
It is important that journaling become a regularly scheduled activity. As with any other writing form, reflective journaling takes time and practice. Creating a routine for journaling will give students an opportunity to anticipate and prepare for other writing activities.
Encourage students to reread and revise previous entries as well as any they have just written. Help them observe the progression of their thoughts and understanding by letting them rewrite or comment on earlier entries. This exercise will help students appreciate their own learning and the process they have gone through to arrive at an understanding of concepts and knowledge. When journals are not formally assessed, students are free to experiment without fear of outside evaluation. Open assignments, or having students choose topics to write about, can allow students to express ideas in new forms and contexts. Encourage students to extend, defend, debate, and question their own ideas.
If you do assess the journals, give students feedback on what they have written. It may not always be possible to comment on each entry, so try using stickers to recognize what students have written. A smiley face sticker can give positive feedback while a star can be used to signify good ideas or thinking.
ManagementStudents should keep their reflective journals in a folder or spiral or bound notebook. This allows students to review what they have written and monitor their own reflective process and thoughts throughout the school year. Establish a system for identifying each entry in the journal, and create a shared understanding concerning the time frame allowed for journal writing. Some students will want to have time to reflect before they begin to write. Others will need to know when journal time is about to end. A timer may be used to warn and then signal the end of the reflection time.
Depending on the grade level of your students, you may want to keep the journals in a place that is easily accessible. Students should know where to find their journals and understand that they need to be returned to this area. You may want to establish a clear procedure for the distribution and collection of journals. Older students may want to keep their reflections between themselves and the teacher, and it may be more appropriate to have students keep track of the journals individually.
How Can You Stretch Students' Thinking?If teachers respond to students' reflections with high-level comments and ask good, clarifying questions, students can be challenged to explore and develop a more sophisticated ability to think critically and reflectively. This allows each student's ability to discover personal meaning to grow. This should also lead to eventual improvement in each student's ability to articulate thoughts and questions across all classroom writing and dialogue. Finally, the practice of self-reflection will encourage students to accept responsibility for their own growth in learning.
When Can You Use It?Reflective journals can be used in all subjects for students to reflect on their learning. They are especially useful when students are working in cooperative groups to assess and reflect on their contributions, understanding, roles, and responsibilities.
Reading/English
Students can use reflective journals to monitor their comprehension of reading texts, science or social studies concepts, or math processes. Also, they can describe attempts to use new skills that have been introduced. Teachers can use the journals to assess students' reading progress.
Writing
Students can reflect on the quality of their writing, their ability to transfer their thoughts into written words, or the creativity of their writing. For example, students may be asked to describe how their writing has improved or how they will choose their next personal writing goal.
Math
Students can reflect on their problem-solving skills and their comprehension of new math material. For example, students can reflect on how they solved a problem and compare their answer to other classmates' answers, analyzing their own problem-solving skills.
Social Studies
When learning new concepts or ideas in social studies, students can reflect on how well they understand the content. For example, students can make connections between their prior knowledge and what they have learned about a new topic.
Science
Students can reflect on a new science topic or concept and develop questions whose answers make the concepts clearer and more understandable. For example, while students are learning about the laws of motion, have them reflect on their learning and write questions such as "How can I find the force of an object?" and "What is an example of each law of motion?"
作者: dawnch 时间: 2008-2-9 23:49
Daily Journals
The purpose of this type of journal is to encourage habitual expression of thoughts in writing, to provide for therapeutic release of feelings, and to collect individual writings over a period of time in one notebook.
A journal is a notebook or other semi-permanent container housing the writings of one student. Writing in journals over a period of time provides students with a collection of writings, and can serve as a productive emotional outlet. One compelling way to learn to write is by writing often and regularly. Requiring students to write in journals every day is a powerful technique. You can assign varied types of writing for different writing sessions:
explanation
description
story
poetry
observation
personal experience
fable
paragraph
report
letters
Or, you can assign specific topics revolving around personal experiences and feelings:
My Most Embarrassing Moment
What I'd Like to Change About School
My Most Exciting Experience
My Best Friend
A Plan for an Ideal Day
How Kids Con Parents
My Most Upsetting Experience
The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
An Honor or Award I Received
What Makes Me Mad
What Makes Me Nervous
Another possibility is to assign a timed writing period every day, but allow complete freedom for the student to express himself in any way and on any topic he chooses.
You may prefer to combine parts of each of these alternatives, sometimes assigning, sometimes allowing free expression. You may decide on weekly or semi-weekly journal entries, rather than daily writing.
作者: dawnch 时间: 2008-2-9 23:59
Reading the Newspaper
Grade Levels: 3 - 6
Objectives
Students will become familiar with the format and writing styles of newspapers.
Students will get into the habit of reading the newspaper.
Students will model journalistic writing.
Materials
Newspapers
Pens
Paper
Procedure
1. Ask students to read the newspaper.
2. You can direct students' reading in the following ways:
a. For Science teachers, find the day that your local paper prints science features. Students can read about recent discoveries, medical advances, etc. The New York Times publishes a science section on Tuesdays. You can visit their science page (http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html) to get current and archived articles.
b. Social Studies teachers can ask students to search the paper for stories that relate to historical events, how government works, etc. The New York Times publishes archived articles (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html) on the web (for free) that may relate to the material you're covering.
c. Language Arts teachers can have students search the Op-Ed pages. What local events and controversies are people writing about? How is emotion expressed in the writing? Have your students read the book reviews. How are professional book reviews written? Students can write a book review about their independent reading.
d. Math teachers can have students search for the use of math in the paper (percentages, statistics, box scores, advertising).
e. Foreign Language teachers can focus on stories about countries or communities where their subject is spoken. Students can translate cartoons into the language they are studying.
3. After students read through the newspaper, or the sections they have been directed to read, you can proceed in the following ways.
a. Discuss current events that relate to your academic area.
b. Students can write reviews of news events, including paragraphs that briefly paraphrase what they have read.
c. Students can write a mock newspaper, or a real newspaper, modeling the paper they read in your class.
作者: dawnch 时间: 2008-2-10 00:11
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Chinese people are fond of lions very much. To Chinese people, lions stand for power, fortune and wisdom.
The first picture is the costume for south style lion dance, while second is north style. 
dream about my peace life which I can not completely resist its attempt today. I always dream about my backyard with an old phoenix tree covered by dark green leaves, swaying near my window. Inside the window, there is a neat desk without any tiny dust or disorder paper, shinning its sheer brown in the light through the window. An opened book which I was reading a couple minutes before is left on the desk. The warm coffee flavor is floating in the air, which I am making in the white, bright and big kitchen. I have plenty of time so I can gaze at the phoenix tree hour and hour. I can read my favorite book at any time and stop at any time. I do not care about the dinner menu; I won’t be bother by the cooking odor on my hair. And, I do not need to rush to pick up my kid. Everything is under my control, including my heart.
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