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Female's Condition

It`s March and Women`s History Month is rolling along. Today, we are getting a sense of how women around the world are doing in fields like politics and business. What progress has been made, what areas still may need improvement.
Here are the good news:
We earn more, we do more. We run countries and households alike. Our kids are healthier and so are we. But here is the bad news. An estimated 60 percent of the world`s hungry are female. More than 500 million do not know how to read or write. Seven out of ten have experienced physical or sexual violence. More than 600 million live in countries where getting beaten by your husband is not considered a crime. 117 countries have equal pay laws, but women are still paid 10 to 30 percent less than men. There are only 21 women CEOs in the Fortune 500, and less than 20 percent of the world`s political power is in the hands of women leaders.

But here`s how things could be: if a mother can read, her child is 50 percent more likely to survive past the age of five. If women were paid the same as men, gross domestic product would be up between nine and 16 percent. And those Fortune 500 companies, the ones with the highest number of women board members were 53 percent more profitable than those with the fewest women.

And after all that, consider this: women outlive men on an average of five to ten years. Ladies, the good news is in the end, we still get the last laugh.

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  In 2008, a company in Guangzhou province engaged in manufacturing copycat cell-phone productions, which led to the popularity of “Copycat Culture” . Some people wonder whether or not should we admit the “Copycat Culture” or to what extent should we make efforts to protect the original authority. However, I hold the view that it exists, there must be reasons for its existence.
  Copycat productions benefit the masses a lot. After the appearing of copycat productions, gone was the old days that the masses had not enough money to buy the hi-tech digital productions. So exited are the masses when they can afford a cell-phone or a camera, even though it is a copycat one. It can also help to make full use of technology and make contributions to the spreading of digital productions.
  Copycat productions offers more opportunities to the un-employers. All these copycat productions are manufactured by labor-intensive industries, where the un-employers can hunt a job here and fight for their means of existence. “Copycat Culture” can bring advantages to the country like ours.
  Besides copycat productions, “Copycat Culture” includes many other aspects, like copycat movie, copycat star, copycat show, or copycat of A Dream in Red Mansions etc. In 2010, some people sent out a letter of challenge to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, claiming that they are preparing for a simulated gala, inviting the folk top man to perform, which is to be broad casted through the internet along with the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. What surprised most is that the Shanzhai Spring Festival Gala won almost the same popularity with the CCTV gala. From this case, we can learn that the “Copycat Culture” is the folk culture, which is appealed to the large grassroots. People can gain more sense of happiness through a stimulated gala than the main-streamed gala.
  Culture can not be divided into “Copycat Culture” or main-streamed culture. “Copycat Culture” is active, healthy, optimistic and welcomed by the masses, which is bringing us back to the grassroots relationship and back to our nature. Time has already proved all of you that there should be necessities for the existence of “Copycat Culture”.

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The Causes of Obesity

 

 

Nowadays, there are more and more people who desire to lose weight and keep slim figure. What’s more, some people catch the disease of obesity. However, if you want to be far away from obesity, you must first learn the causes of obesity, which might owe to the following three main reasons.

The first cause might account for crapulence and dirty diet. That’s to say, drinking or eating too much without regular intervals. For example, traditional Chinese dumpling in Dragon Boat Festival, tasty moon cake in Middle Autumn Festival or abundant fish and meat in New Year’s Eve stimulate us from time to time. Our stomachs can’t resist the temptation of delicious food. Furthermore, some of us even are crapulent when we are in bad mood, especial our girls. With autumn and winter coming, we have a tendency to be hungry, which lead to our longing for chafing dish or night supper. A number of factors push us to eat and drink from now and then. Meanwhile, obesity is on the way!

Disease or medicine is also responsible for the problem. Some people have a brilliant stomach, which can deal with a large number of foods, which can also lead to morbid obesity. Some patients have to take a lot of medicine to cure their disease, like steroid or some kind of antithyroid drugs. These drugs can make friend with obesity.

Perhaps the fundamental cause is the genetic reason. Obesity can be inherited. According to a research, if the parents both are of obesity, the rate of the child’s obesity might up to 20%. There is no way to eliminate your obesity unless you change your gene.

One can analyze the primary reason of obesity before your losing weight, so that we can suit the remedy to the case.

 

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What is Love

 

What is love? When it comes to this topic, different people hold the different views. Love is sufferings to those lovers who are unsuited. However, Love is a paradise on earth to those lovers who are really into each other. As far as I am concerned, love just likes vampires, which is filled with mysteries.

  Mystery 1. Love is secretive in her movement and trace. Some people can find his love soon, such as, falling in love with each other at first sight; some people can’t encounter love in his entire life. As to me, what I want to say is a metaphor------the school bus of our university, which means if you want to take a school bus, the school bus is full and has no seat for you. If you needn’t take it, the school bus is totally empty, coming continuously. So, we will never know when, where, how love comes. 

Mystery 2. Love can offer us endless romance, joy and admiration. If a person is different from usual, such as being festooned with joyful spirit, wearing smile all the time, being energetic to the day. Obviously, we will firstly guess that he or she is in love. Love is so magic that can make people change from head to toe. We can get through all the troubles with the help of soul mate. Love just like the fire in winter, which is the origin of warmness.

Mystery 3. Love makes us grew bitter, saddened and wasteful. If a pair of lovers who are unsuited be together, they can not stand each other and will quarrel frequently. There will be many meaningless bills, appointments, worry, fear, stress etc. Actually, they are wasting their money and their time, or rather, they are suffered in this relationship. What they want is freedom. Love is so evil that make us be overwhelmed with sorrow.

  Taking the above three aspects into consideration, love indeed is mysterious, which likes a chameleon. We can never figure out what the color it will be. What we can do is waiting, and if there is a seat for, then, we can take it. If there is no seat, we have no choice but to wait. How mysterious it is!

 

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Tomorrow will be November 11th, which is the  Single's  Day;

Single's Day is for all the bachelordoms around to celebrate ;

Bachelordoms always get together and celebrate it together;

Do shopping, do eating, do talking, and do autistic thinking;

In fact, none of us is willing to celebrate the  Single's  Day;

 

Once, a flock of bachelordoms was celebrating the Single's Day;

Suddenly, one of the guys said he won't be one of them now;

The guy looked happy, joyful, satisfied, relaxed and wonderful;

All the other bachelordoms admired this guy, who had a girl;

This year, that flock of "bachelordoms" get together again;

One of the guys, who had a girl friend firstly, says again;

"I am the only one who have to celebrate the Single's Day!

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Daddy's Hands

I love the lyrics of Daddy's Hands

I remember Daddy´s hands, folded silently in prayer.
And reaching out to hold me, when I had a nightmare.
You could read quite a story, in the callouses and lines.
Years of work and worry had left their mark behind.
I remember Daddy´s hands, how they held my Mama tight,
And patted my back, for something done right.
There are things that I´ve forgotten, that I loved about the man,
But I´ll always remember the love in Daddy´s hands.

Daddy's hands were soft and kind when I was cryin´.
Daddy´s hands, were hard as steel when I´d done wrong.
Daddy´s hands, weren´t always gentle
But I´ve come to understand.
There was always love in Daddy´s hands.

I remember Daddy´s hands, working 'til they bled.
Sacrificed unselfishly, just to keep us all fed.
If I could do things over, I´d live my life again.
And never take for granted the love in Daddy´s hands.

Daddy's hands were soft and kind when I was cryin´.
Daddy´s hands, were hard as steel when I´d done wrong.
Daddy´s hands, weren´t always gentle
But I´ve come to understand.
There was always love in Daddy´s hands.

Daddy's hands were soft and kind when I was cryin´.
Daddy´s hands, were hard as steel when I´d done wrong.
Daddy´s hands, weren´t always gentle
But I´ve come to understand.
There was always love .....
In Daddy´s hands.

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Hello, Friends,

  My name is Musketeer, and I come from China. I am new here and I also applied for an account on Skype with the help of Sahan.   "musketeer520" is my Skype ID.

 If you are interested in Chinese culture, or if you want to make a Chinese friend, then you can communicate with me.      

 I am interested in English learning and teaching, sports, culture, Geogeraphy, etc.

  If you have the same purposes and hobby with me. I cannot wait to become friend with you, and to talk with you!

  Best wish to all of you!

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