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Lord of the Flies An airplane evacuating schoolboys from Britain during World War II is shot down over a remote tropical area. Two boys, Ralph and Piggy find the other surviving boys and begin to organize the group. As time passes, rivalries are formed, rules are broken and civilized behavior has turned savage. Lord of the Flies is a classic study on human nature, adolescence, and competition by William Golding. |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer's best friend, stakes out his own adventure in this classic coming-of-age tale. Tired of trying to be good and fearful of his drunken father, Huck Finn runs away and takes Jim, a man who has escaped enslavement, with him. Together they sail down the Mississippi River on a raft and experience dangerous as well as comical adventures along the way. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an enduring classic. |
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A Separate Peace A friendship forms between two boys attending a New England boarding school during World War IL. Gene, smart and socially awkward, draws the attention of Phineas, a handsome, athletic and outgoing boy. The two become friends, but war and rivalry lead to a tragic accident. John Knowles is the author of A Separate Peace, a classic story about friendship and adolescence. |
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Of Mice and Men Best friends Lennie and George travel from farm to farm in California looking for work while trying to avoid trouble. Although both men are good workers and have dreams of owning their own farm, they never stay at one job long because of Lennie. Lennie is a simple-minded gentle giant who doesn't know his own strength and often gets into trouble. When tragedy strike, George must make am awful decision that will alter the plans he and Lennie have made for their future. Of Mice and Men is a classic John Steinbeck story about migrant workers and the downtrodden surviving the Great Depression. |
It was a Sunday night. I circled the belghbbhood a few times, looking for a place to park my car. Finally, I found one to the south of my house. It was behind a late-model Jeep. I tried to back into the space, but I failed to see the angles clearly. I heard it before I felt it, the sound of plastic on plastic, like a sheet of sandpaper along the surface of a painted piece of wood. I got out of my car to check the damage. My car was unharmed. However, there were two distinct lines on the Jeep.
Then I noticed a woman, walking her dog, who was now photographing me with her phone. "Hope you're no planning to drive away," she said quietly. Until then, I was annoyed with myself for having been careless, but now I was mad with her for taking my picture. How dare she, I thought. She had no respect for my privacy. And how dare she assume I would do the wrong thing? But soon I calmed down because I knew she wasn't entirely incorrect. I'd made no decision to drive away without leaving ante but I'd be lying if I said the idea hadn't flashed across my mind. It was dark, and aside from her no one was watching. It happens all the time-the hit-and-run in the parking lot.
We all have those desires to behave selfishly, to go against the social contract; it is not the thought but what we do with it that counts. It is the commitment to take responsibility, to care for one another, and to think about the greater good that makes this world a better place to stay. The choice to own up was left to me. I left a note with my name and phone number under the wiper blade of the Jeep.
Last weekend, I said goodbye to another dear old friend. We had 12 fine years together, but our relationship was becoming dysfunctional(不正常的). Unwanted emissions and serious health problems were the final straw, leaving me with no choice but to make a trip to the knacker's(收废汽车者的)yard.
I am now car-free for the first time in 20 years, and it feels strange. When I gave up meat, I did so mainly for environmental reasons, and I didn't miss it at all. I would like to say the same about my car, but I can't. It was first and foremost a financial decision: keeping the old car on the road was getting too expensive.
But doing the right thing for the wrong reasons is still doing the right thing — I now have a chance to rethink how I move myself and my family around, and can try to find a more environmentally friendly means of transport.
Going car-free is, I think, a lifestyle change that many of us are going to make over the next few years, as car ownership becomes increasingly unnecessary, expensive and socially unacceptable. However, it is easier said than done. Now my car is gone. I still need to get around. But how? I already cycle to work and use public transport when appropriate. But there are some occasions when a car seems to be the only way.
I won't buy one: I have joined a car-share program and will use taxis more often. I will hire a car if I need to drive a long distance. But then I am still travelling in fossil-fuelled cars(燃油汽车), like when I quit meat and ended up eating more cheese. I fear I may have swapped one environmental problem for another.
I am also afraid to think about the ultimate fate of my car. I have just offloaded more than a ton of metal, plastic, rubber, fabric, electronics, oil and petrol that will end up in a landfill. There are millions of similar vehicles in the UK alone that will have to go somewhere.
Maybe I am overthinking it. According to Charlie Wilson, a climate scientist at the UK's Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, getting rid of a private car is no doubt a positive step to reduce CO2 emissions.
He points to research by the OECD's International Transport Forum. "They showed that moving from a private vehicle fleet(车队)to a shared vehicle fleet can greatly cut the number of vehicles you need to deliver the mobility that we need and want. If that vehicle fleet is electrified, you can also bring CO2 emissions close to zero."
So in other words, just get rid of your car.
Livestreaming is a kind of e-commerce and marketing and sales method. It combines live product demonstrations, time-limited pricing promotions, live negotiations, and instant ordering through online streaming services hosted either by an influencer studio, or online store.
Livestreaming removes barriers between brands and consumers. While it is focused on driving short term sales, livestreaming can enable firms to improve marketing efficiency by combining brand marketing and performance marketing. There are certain factors that will increase the chance of success.
Brands should not use livestreaming as a short-term sales booster but as a long-term way to remove barriers between brands and consumers. Specifically, brands could better demonstrate their products in this way, tell fuller brand stories, introduce emotional and cultural elements to their products, obtain instant feedback, conduct product trials, improve marketing efficiency by combining brand marketing and performance marketing, use different livestream hosts to build a bridge for the consumers and cultivate brand loyalty.
Of course, Livestreaming is not without drawbacks, however. For ads on TV, government has clear rules to forbid brands parading the before-and-after effects of health products. The restrictions are not clear yet for internet-based livestreaming, and health products are frequently promoted by livestreamers. We need to continue to monitor regulatory updates carefully.
As promoting products through live-streaming has been compared to "tuning clicks into cash," some people have made illegal profits by creating false prosperity. Through the purchase of fake followers to increase shares and comments, some live streamers can falsify their rate of engagement to cheat brands and companies in an effort to win more trust and make more money. Meanwhile, live-streams have also faced issues like the return, refund and exchange of products.
Have you ever got a lot done only to find that you were not any closer to your main objective (目标)? What I'm talking about is spending too much of your time doing things you think are important but really aren't.
I remember doing a lot of little useless things in my days as a sales person. The main key to becoming good at sales is to spend the majority of your time selling. But what did I spend my time doing? I organized my desk, filed papers, made contact sheets, set appointments with non-decision makers, learn more sales skills, etc.
The problem is that many people get into the habit of taking busy action, things that just keep you busy instead of bringing you closer to your goals.
First, you need to figure out the two or three things that are the most important to your achievement. Then, schedule out your time so that you are spending at least 70% of your time dealing with those things. Anything that isn't part of those important things should be pushed to the end of the day or not be worked on at all if possible.
Being able to focus your actions on doing the few things that make the biggest impact on obtaining your end result is a skill. Your goals will be achieved faster and your life will improve greatly. Continue wasting your time on doing a lot of things that don't matter and you'll probably be where you are now a year from today and that's a regret you can do without.
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A. So what should you do about this? B. That's something a second grader could figure out. C. Yet keeping focused is often easier said than done. D. It's as important to work smart as it is to work hard. E. Needless to say, I failed at being a sales person. F. Once mastered, it will put you ahead of the majority of people. G. One of the keys to success that you probably already know is to take action. |
When 29-year-old artist Sophia recalls her mother, Marilyn, she remembers her singing. "She loved karaoke and funny 80s'1," Sophia says. "She sang all the time." In late 2017, before cancer2Sophia's mom of her voice, she3a message in English4it inside a teddy bear: "You make Mommy so proud. No matter where you are, a part of me will always be with you. I love you forever."
After her mother's death in 2019 at age 53, that teddy bear became Sophia's most priceless 5. Therefore, when the backpack containing it was6in the mess of moving, Sophia was7. She spent that night crazily8through dustbins in downtown Vancouver. When her9proved fruitless, she took her hunt to the Internet,10photos of her lost Mamabear and the security video on Twitter. A local CBC reporter11the story, and the news made it all the way to an actor, who encouraged his 17 million Twitter followers to help Sophia,12a $5,000 reward for the bear's safe return.
13, Mamabear made it back to Sophia's arms four days later, thanks to some good-hearted people, who14the thief from the security video Sophia had shared on social media. Sophia was excited: I feel like losing that bear and15it was just my mom telling me, "The world is okay, kid. You're going to be fine. I will always be with you."
Our bodies can be younger or older than our actual age (depend) upon diet, lifestyle choices and physical activity. This is called biological (生理的) age, could be different from the age on your driver's license, which (call) chronological (时间的) age. recent study of over 900 adults who were tracked for 12 years, from ages 26-38, (show) that people who were aging faster, meaning that their biological age was higher than their chronological age, were not as healthy or (physical) fit. This group was also more likely (have) cognitive decline (认知衰退) and was at a (great) risk for age-related health conditions.
A growing body of research proves that the keys to aging successfully are a (combine) of exercising regularly, keeping busy with life, and maintaining a healthy diet with nutritious foods. These three key elements could contribute aging gracefully, and successfully, too.
"Mom!" 11-year-old Mark cried to his mom, Cindy. "I don't want to wear the sweater!"
"Please, honey, put it on! We're already running late!" Cindy said as she packed their suitcases. "But Mom! It's not even my size. Can I please get something else to Wear?"
"Don't trouble your mom, Mark," his dad, Luke, said. "We have to leave now."
Cindy and Luke took out their suitcases and put them into the car. The family were taking a skiing trip to the mountains. Mark sat in the back seat, angry, because he hated the sweater!
It was a red sweater, a bit too big for him, and its sleeves were not even the same size. It was Mark's birthday gift. Grandma Sandy promised him a video game, but gave him a sweater instead! Mark didn't like it. He told Grandma by phone that he would never wear it. He didn't know how hard it had been for her to make the sweater by hand.
Because it was snowing heavily, Luke drove slowly. By the time they arrived at the holiday center, it was late in the evening.
Mark was quite excited about going skiing for the first time. He asked his parents to let him go look around, and they agreed. Mark raced off to a nearby spot and Cindy kept an eye on him. When Luke removed their suitcases, Cindy helped him. Then she noticed Mark was nowhere to be seen.
Worried, Luke and Cindy tried to find him, but failed. They told the manager about the situation. He sent out a few staff members to help look for Mark.
Almost half an hour later, two of the staff observed a hand sticking out behind a tree. They discovered Mark, who was unconscious. He was brought to the hospital soon, but he didn't wake up until a few hours later.
"It's a good thing the boy was wearing a large sweater that kept most of his body covered and warm due to its large size. It was a typical case of hypothermia (体温过低)," the doctor said. "Do you remember what happened, Mark?" the doctor asked him.
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The little boy nodded and then told them the whole story.
Mark now realized it was all due to his grandma that he was saved.
