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Moblog is a combination of two words. The first word is mobile, which a mobile camera phone. The second word is blog, a website for posting words and pictures. Typically, mobloggers are people who take photos or videos with their phones and post them on the Internet. Moblogging has caused a lot of excitement. It has also caused a lot of .
With a picture phone and a moblog, anyone can be a reporter. Moblogging first got the world's during a terrorist attack on four London buses. People were posting photos on the Internet many minutes before real reporters could get there. Similarly, information about car accidents has been right away.
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Moblogging is done just for fun, too. On some posted moblogs you can find photos of friends
making funny faces, photos from people , and photos of new babies. Other fun moblogs might be spotting famous people, pictures of food in restaurants, or new clothes.
However, moblogs can be dangerous, too. Not long ago in Korea, a woman's dog made a mess on the train, but she to clean it up, became angry, and left. Her picture was taken and posted on the Internet, the story of what she did. People all around the country were angry with her. Imagine how she felt!
Moblogging can be wonderful, but it's really impolite to post another person's picture on the Interact without asking permission. One idea from Japan may help: people can no longer take pictures with their cell phones. Japanese cell phones "click" like a real camera when you take a picture.
He's Iovin it
American Michael Fountaine owns the world's largest collection of McDonald's memorabilian(n. (复数) 纪念品). His 75,000 piece collection fulls up nine rooms. It includes more than 1,000 McDonald's cups, 11,700 pins and nearly every Happy Meal toy the fast food chain has produced. The 60-year-old also collects uniforms, buttons and old displays, as well as a big figure of McDonald's mascot(n. 吉祥物), Ronald McDonald.
Mr. Fountaine said, "This collection means everything to me, it is my life's work. Thousands and thousands of hours have been spent assembling this collection and taking pride to display it nicely."
Mr. Fountaine began a career with McDonald's in 1968 when he was 15. He started collecting items from the fast food chain one year later, after he was given a pin to celebrate his first year of service. He is very proud to be a part of the McDonald's family, andd now he runs two McDonald's restaurants of his own.
Mr. Fountaine hopes to turn his collection into a museum one day to help raise money for Ronald McDonald charities. He wants to raise money to help kids around the world who has cancer by charging admission(n. 入场费) to see his collection.
Besides his collection, Mr. Fountaine also takes pride in his resuaurants. He said,"People say they are the most beautiful McDonald's restaurants they have ever seen. I installed(v. 安装，安置) a musical playground for children and at lunch time they are always full. I want to make them the best restaurants in the world"
Music forms an important part of many cultural and social activities. People use music to 1 feeling and ideas. Music also serves to entertain(娱乐) and relax.
Music is a performing art. It differs from such art as painting and poetry, in which artists create works and then display or publish them. Music composers(作曲家) need musicians to explain the meaning of their works — perform them. Thus, musical performances are partnership between composers and performers.
Music is one of the 2 arts. Hunting tools struck together may have been the first musical instruments. Many ancient people, including the Egyptians, Chinese and Babylonians, and the people of India, used music in court and religious ceremonies(宗教仪式). The first written music dates from about 2500 BC.
Classical music, also 3 art music, is composed according to certain rules and performed by musicians from written music. Classical composers have written different styles of music during different periods of 4 .
Popular music includes many kinds of music, 5 country music, jazz, rock music and music from films. Popular music is generally much simpler than classical music.
Folk music is made up of the old songs. Most folk songs began in distant areas. One person makes up a song and other people 6 it and learn to sing it. Some folk songs have been passed on in this way for thousands of years. Many composers of classical music have used folk music in their works.
Last spring I was walking in a park. A short distance ahead of me was a mom and her three-year-old daughter. The little girl was holding a string that was attached to a helium balloon(氢气球).
All of a sudden, a strong w took the balloon from the little girl. I though she would scream and c .
But, no! As the little girl turned to watch her balloon rise into the sky, she shouted: "Wow!"
I didn't realize it at that moment, but that little girl had taught me something.
Later that day, I a phone call from a person with news of an unexpected problem. I felt like saying:"Oh no, what should we do?" But thinking of that little girl, I found myself saying: "Wow, that's interesting! How can I help you?" One thing is for sure—life is always going to put us off balance with things we don't expect. However, how we respond(反应) to them is our c . We can choose to be frustrated(沮丧的) or fascinated.
No matter what the situation, a fascinated "Wow!"will always b a frustrated "Oh, no."So the next time you experience one of life's unexpected guests, think of that little girl and make it a "Wow!" i of an "oh, no." The "Wow!" response always works.
Mr. Dawson was bad-tempered and everyone in town knew it. Kids knew not to go into his yard to pick an apple, because old Dawson, they said, would come after you with his gun.
One Friday, 12-year-old Janet was walking out with her friend Amy. They had to go by Dawson's house, but as they got close, Janet saw him sitting on his front porch and suggested they cross over the street. Like most, she was afraid of the man.
Amy said not to worry. When they got close enough, Dawson looked up with his usual frown(皱眉), but when he saw it was Amy, he gave a broad smile.
Amy smiled back and told him Janet was staying overnight with her they were going to listen to music and play games. Dawson told them that sounded fun, and gave them each an apple.
Later, Janet asked Amy, "Everyone says he isn't generous. Actually he's the meanest man in town. How come he was so nice to us?"
Amy explained that when she first started walking past his house, he wasn't very friendly, but she pretended he was wearing an invisible smile and so she always smiled. It took a while, but one day he half-smiled back.
After a while, he started smiling real smiles and then talked to her. She said he always offers her an apple now, and is always very kind.
"An invisible smile?" questioned Janet.
"Yes," answered Amy, "My grandma told me that if I pretended I wasn't afraid and pretended he was smiling an invisible smile at me and I smiled back at him, sooner or later he would really smile."
If we remember that everyone wears an invisible smile, we too will find that most people can't resist our smile after a while.
It's so easy to get caught up in every
day life that we forget how simply we can bring cheer to ourselves and others. Giving a smile takes so little effort; let's make sure that we're not the ones that others have to pretend are wearing invisible smiles.
He smiled and .
