Yeah, I do admit that all good things come to an end. What you really get in your lifetime is not money, not job, not house … all these good things will come to an end. You will get a 2*2 square meters’ space(or even smaller) when you passed away. As for your family, your love…they are all gone.

I’m not a pessimist, what I emphasize here is that everyone of us is writing a epitaph now with your lifetime. So, try to make more brilliant.

人生，起于绚烂，止于平淡。

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R.I.P.

在西方国家，人们去祭奠死者的时候，会发现所有人的墓碑上都刻着R.I.P.，那R.I.P.究竟是什么意思呢？

昨天跟一个朋友聊天的时候，他刚好说到这个R.I.P.。原来在西方国家一个人去世之后，他们的墓碑上面通常会刻上R.I.P.，也就是“Rest in Peace”，中文意思就是愿(死者)安息吧！

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Digg outage

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Coming into Sept. David’s life gets into a mess. I was not previously tidy, LIFE, I mean. Just following the routine, working, eating, surfing on the internet and sleeping. I cannot help to ask, where is the passion & freshness? Are they fighting a battle and forgetting to come back?

Retarded, maybe I am now. Trying to be naive, I was hanging with lots of young boys and girls. Nobody could tell my real age, coz’ I have a babyface which could confuse most of the youth. I was wondering that I should be pretty cool when I was older than 35. Coz’ I am the “big brother”, rather than the “uncle David”.

Well, English seems far away from me for a long time. I am trying to get closer; therefore, I put myself into lots English web sea. Wow, I nearly drown. What I need is to improve the writing and speaking, I haven’t done that for a couple of years. (One or two, maybe)

I was thinking about to set up a new blog for English writing, moments later, I deny meself. It is not necessary. So I will write some stupid English paragraphs here occasionally. It will be tagged with “English“.

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英文wiki里查Black Friday，你会发现非常多的解释，这里我们仅仅来看看这个：

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, marks the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season, although retailers often decorate for the Christmas season weeks before-hand. Many retailers open very early (typically 5 A.M.) and offer doorbuster deals and loss leaders to draw people to their stores. Although the day after Thanksgiving has served as the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season for decades, the term “Black Friday” has been traced back only to the 1970s and did not achieve widespread popularity until about 2002.

Black Friday is frequently but erroneously referred to in the media as the busiest retail shopping day of the year. While it has been one of the busiest day in terms of customer traffic, in terms of actual sales volume Black Friday is usually the fifth to tenth busiest day. The busiest retail shopping day of the year in the United States (in terms of both sales and customer traffic) is usually the Saturday before Christmas.

所谓Black Friday( 黑色星期五)，指的是感恩节(美国移民文化特有的节日，11月的第四个星期四)后的第一个星期五，其对于美国的消费旺季具有特殊的意义，因为Black Friday代表了销售旺季的开始，电视机在旺季能否有好的表现，要看Black Friday的销售能否开个好头。

Black Friday称呼的由来是：因为各家电卖场涌入大量想捡便宜货的人群，让各卖场的销售人员陷入极度忙碌之中，一整天没有时间休息，对于家电卖场的工作人员而言，自然是一个极度忙碌的黑色星期五了。

看了上面的解释，应该对美国的Black Friday清楚了不少吧，Black Friday对于美国的消费旺季具有特殊的意义，代表了销售旺季的开始。

2.Reno
知道Go to Reno什么意思吗？意思就是离婚。为什么go to Reno就是离婚呢？
Reno是内华达州西部的一个小城镇，上个世纪20至50年代，它有着“世界上最大的小城”之称，更有着“世界离婚之都”之名。直到现在，人们也不能忘怀那段历史，想方设法要留住那曾经有过的“辛酸的浪漫”。

在RENO有一项免责任的法案，只要在RENO呆上三个月或四个星期，即立可单方申请离婚，所以全美各地的人带着帐棚来到这里，用上几个星期的时间来换取一生的幸福，这样就办理离婚手续一项就成了RENO的支柱产业。同一时期，赌博业在这里合法化，这里也成了继拉斯维加斯后的第二个赌博名城。

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Socialist ideals have influenced throughout the history of literature; from Plato to Marx, the goal of a perfect state has taken up some of the best minds in political thought manifesting itself in literature. Among these, the most famous one is the Utopia of More, a work which links the utopias of the ancient with the utopias of the modern. The fantasy island draws on the Greek Republic and yet it influenced the revolutionary world of Marx.

Utopia lacks classes because everyone shares the same work, everyone is equal, and everyone has the same rights. In Utopia there is an obligation for all to work a minimum of six hours everyday at whatever he is best at. All people spend time in the country working the land, as this is an agriculturally based society they must assure themselves of continued crop growth. In addition to creating the same conditions for everyone, this assures that they will have enough supplies to suppress the animal fear of want. All clothing is plain and simple, designed only for utility and practicality. More points out that if someone was dressed in ‘finer’ material, he would not be better protected against the cold, nor would he appear better dressed to the Utopians. Hereditary distinctions do not exist because children are easily moved around from household to household, depending on which occupation he would like to learn. Since there is very little distinction in occupation, dress, lodging, riches, or use of free time, pride is almost non-existent in Utopia.

In Utopia there is no exploitation. This is of course something that More realized and was one of his reasons for suggesting a Utopia. More was most likely revolted by the luxury of sixteenth century Europe’s ruling class. He saw that this luxury was a result of the poverty of the surrounding peasants and if poverty was to be excluded from Utopia then so must the ruling class’ luxury. More saw that there was no benefit to the common good if all of the peasants work day and night, and the work only benefits a very small minority. This cannot be called the evolution of society. This idea of More’s that each and every worker must be able to see and enjoy the fruits of his labor and cannot be simply drudges.

The most efficient manner with which to rid the world of corruption and crime, advises More, is to put a great emphasis on education. Utopian education is entrusted to priests to prevent such vices. Since the Utopians have such a strong educational system, they need very few laws and the laws that do exist are subject only to the most obvious and easiest interpretation. Most sociologists would agree with More that education breeds morality and virtue, and so would Marx. Marx says that one of the key things of a true communist society, and one of the only ways it would come about, is if equal education would be given to all. Remember that in the sixteenth century, free and equal education for all would be a unique concept.

It seems every political scientist would agree that a proper government is always necessary for a state, in order to maintain internal peace and security. Utopia has a government in the form of magistrates and a prince who handle affairs of the country. This does not, as mentioned above, contradict the idea of communism, as the Utopian political body’s sole purpose is to maintain the existing arrangements of society and to prevent idleness. The government is designed in the most responsible way. All matters must be considered for a day and can never be passed without three days of contemplation. It is a capital offense to consult together on public affairs outside the senate or the people’s assembly. Raphael says of this, “They take care to deliberate wisely rather than speedily…considering the public good.” [More 33] As would be expected, Marx also requires a form of government to hold his society together. For him, however, the government is only needed until the society has evolved to the point that it is no longer needed.

Thus Utopia is a world in which socialism is more than a monetary common good. The Utopians are also joined together in love for each other and humanity. Nevertheless, More’s Utopia anticipates the characteristics of a modern classless society, although not proposing any means by which to obtain this blissful paradise. It is also a book of criticism of the ruling class at the expense of the lower peoples. His work is often used as a sort of inspiration for revolutionaries, but More sees more than just this change of state He sees a moral revolution, whereby institutional values are replaced by true Christian morality and more humane values. As much as Utopia does not represent communism, it does not promote revolution. It is only a satire of More’s England, In effect saying, “If the Utopians can create such a good and just state with only natural reason to guide them, why can’t England, belonging to a religion which promotes goodness and brotherly love, come up with something at least as good?” This then is More’s wish, a Christian socialism.

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What is the best teaching method? Different people have different answers. The famous ancient Greek philosopher, Socrates’ teaching method is well-known for its efficiency and its unique style. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this kind of teaching method? Is it the best teaching method?

About Socrates
The most interesting and influential thinker in the fifth century was Socrates, whose dedication to careful reasoning transformed the entire enterprise. Since he sought genuine knowledge rather than mere victory over an opponent, Socrates employed the same logical tricks developed by the Sophists to a new purpose, the pursuit of truth. Thus, his willingness to call everything into question and his determination to accept nothing less than an adequate account of the nature of things make him the first clear exponent of critical philosophy.

Although he was well known during his own time for his conversational skills and public teaching, Socrates wrote nothing, so we are dependent upon his students for any detailed knowledge of his methods and results. The trouble is that Plato was himself a philosopher who often injected his own theories into the dialogues he presented to the world as discussions between Socrates and other famous figures of the day. Nevertheless, it is usually assumed that at least the early dialogues of Plato provide a (fairly) accurate representation of Socrates himself.

About Socrates’ Teaching
Now that we have looked at the life of Socrates, we can turn to an examination of his particular approach in educating. What techniques did he use to facilitate learning?

Socrates’ attitude toward the divine carried over into his discussions as he often would pray for assistance in the argument or rely on his spiritual inspiration for guidance.

The main method of his teaching is conversional teaching, that is, though asking and answering, students can learn the knowledge. For the rest of his life, Socrates devoted himself to free-wheeling discussion with the aristocratic young citizens of Athens, insistently questioning their unwarranted confidence in the truth of popular opinions, even though he often offered them no clear alternative teaching. Unlike the professional Sophists of the time, Socrates pointedly declined to accept payment for his work with students, but in spite of this lofty disdain for material success, many of them were fanatically loyal to him. Their parents, however, were often displeased with his influence on their offspring, and his earlier association with opponents of the democratic regime had already made him a controversial political figure.

Our best sources of information about Socrates’ philosophical views are the early dialogues of his student Plato, who attempted there to provide a faithful picture of the methods and teachings of the master. In the Socratic dialogues, his extended conversations with students, statesmen, and friends invariably aim at understanding and achieving virtue through the careful application of a dialectical method that employs critical inquiry to undermine the plausibility of widely-held doctrines. Destroying the illusion that we already comprehend the world perfectly and honestly accepting the fact of our own ignorance, Socrates believed, are vital steps toward our acquisition of genuine knowledge, by discovering universal definitions of the key concepts governing human life.

My Opinions
Socrates’ teaching method, in a sense, is a good method. It could provoke the thinking of the students rather than just listening and reciting. In China, the cramming teaching method is generally accepted by most the schools. Students are just accepting but not inventing and creating. In this sense, Socrates teaching method is better.

On the other hand, it is also limited. In modern society, practice is more important than theory. Socrates just put the student in an environment of thinking but not practicing. If this kind of students lived in modern society, it is possibly that they could not adapt to this kind of situation. What they need is much more practice.

Nowadays, quality-oriented education is promoted; however, it is still a long way to go. Quality-oriented education is involved with practice and self-thinking. Both of these two elements are very important. We should attach equal importance to them.

Reference:
1. “Confucius And Socrates——The Teaching of Wisdom”, Sanderson Beck,May1,2005< http://www.san.beck.org/>
“Socrates: Philosophical Life”, October27, 2001. The first part, May 1, 2005.
2. “Socrates”, Richard Hooker, June6, 1999; May1, 2005
3. Literature and Culture (Book Six), Selected & Edited by Prof. Huang Xiaohong. 2005

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There are some of the details left for me to do some changes. However, I was busy these days so I put it aside. I’ll make it up ASAP.

On last Saturday, we had a gethering. Friends from 6571.net, mostly my schoolmates, met each other. We enjoyed ourselves very well in the latter activities. It’s 12 o’clock when I climbed to my room. For more details you may visit 6571.net.

I’ve have to stop here for my supper .

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Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her early letters and descriptions of herself in her youth reveal an attractive girl with a lively wit. Her later retirement from the world, though perhaps affected by an unhappy love affair, seems mainly to have resulted from her own personality, from a desire to separate her from the world. The range of her poetry suggests not her limited experiences but the power of her creativity and imagination.

Emily Dickinson was not predictable; yet the comic sense, widely abroad, upsetting much stability, was bound at last to break that tie holding the poet within the bondage of social preoccupation. Emily Dickinson was not only a lyric poet; she was in a profound sense a comic poet in the American tradition. She possessed the sense of scale and caught this within her small compass. A little tippler, she leaned against the sun. The grave for her was a living place whose elements grew large in stone. Purple mountains moved for her; a train, clouds, a pathway through a valley became huge and animate. Much of her poetry is in the ascending movement, full of morning imagery, of supernal mornings: seraphim tossing their snowy hats on high might be taken as her symbol. Her poetry is also comic in the Yankee strain, with its resilience and sudden unprepared ironical lines. Her use of an unstressed irony in a soft blank climax is the old formula grown almost fixed, yet fresh because it was used with a new depth—

Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency!
She could cap tragedy with tragi-comedy.
Drowning is not so pitiful
As the attempt to rise.
Three times, ’tis said, a sinking man
Comes up to face the skies,
And then declines forever
To that abhorred abode
Where hope and he part company
For he is grasped of God.
The Maker’s cordial visage,
However good to see,
Is shunned, we must admit it,
Like an adversity.

She was concerned with eternal verities; yet her elastic and irreverent rebellion broke forth again and again—

“Heavenly Father,” take to thee
The supreme iniquity,
Fashioned by thy candid hand
In a moment contraband.
Though to trust us seem to us
More respectful–”We are dust.”
We apologize to Thee
For thine own Duplicity.

Occasionally her wit turned mordantly upon earthly matters: “Menagerie to me my neighbor be.” She saw the small and futile motions in a house to which death had come. And she could double ironically upon herself as well as upon the Deity. In the end–or at least in the composite, for the end is hardly known–she contrived to see a changing universe within that acceptant view which is comic in its profoundest sense, which is part reconciliation, part knowledge of eternal disparity. If she did not achieve the foundation of a divine comedy she was at least aware of its elements; its outlines are scattered through the numberless brief notations of her poems.

Like Poe and Hawthorne and Henry James, though with a simpler intensity than theirs, Emily Dickinson trenched upon those shaded subtleties toward which the American imagination long had turned. “I measure every grief I meet with analytic eyes.” Anger, hope, remorse, the weight of the past, the subtle incursions of memory, the quality of despair, and fear, cleavages in the mind, all came under her minute scrutiny—

One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.

Even her glances toward an exterior world at their finest are subjective. Her poetry was indwelling in a final sense; she used that deeply interior speech which is soliloquy, even though it was in brief song.

She never lost a slight air of struggle; this appeared persistently in her sudden flights to new verbal and tonal keys, in her careless assonances which still seemed half intentional, in the sudden muting of her rhymes. She verged toward the dramatic, as others in the tradition had done before her; almost invariably her poems concentrate upon a swift turn of inner drama: yet like the others she sheered away from pure drama. Her language is bold, humorously and defiantly experimental, as if she had absorbed the inconsequence in regard to formal language abroad during her youth in the ’50′s when Whitman was writing; yet often she achieved only a hasty anarchy in meaning and expression, and created hardly more than a roughly carven shell.

Emily Dickinson was, perhaps the last, of those primary writers who had slowly charted an elementary American literature; and she possessed both the virtues and the failings of her position. Her poetry has an abounding fresh intensity, a touch of conquering zeal, a true entrance into new provinces of verbal music; but incompletion touches her lyricism. Often–indeed most often–her poems are only poetic flashes, notes, fragments of poetry rather than a final poetry. Yet like the others who had gone before her–Whitman, Hawthorne, Emerson, James–she set a new outpost, even though like them she had no immediate effect upon American literature. It was not until ten years after her death that the early poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson appeared; and the space widens if the ’40′s are remembered as formative years for Emily Dickinson, the ’80′s for Robinson. Nor does he show any perceptible trace of her influence. But if not by her power, then by some profound stress in the American character, the gates were being slowly opened for an ample poetry.

Hopefully through reading Emily’s poem I could learn more about her and her poetic sense of life.

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Still remember what Michael said to Sara in Prison Break? “Be the change you want to see in the world. ” Just make some changes of yourself, improve a little bit. As a shy man, I perfectly understand how we are admiring those talktive guys. When I was in university, some friends deliberately created chances for me to talk. That talkshow time gave me big courages. I even made decision to be “a changed man”.

Time flies, I leart a lot about how to communicating with others; however, the impression of a shy man could be removed from their mind. It really reminds me that initiation is crucial sometimes. No matter what happened, I will make my way to the destination. Being improved is just what want in the my prime time.

Talktive shy man, I am willing to be.
Just have a little faith, man!

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