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The Effects of Compliments

The American writer Mark Twain once said “I can live for two months on a good compliment.” As he said, I believe all of us like the good compliment. Good compliment has many positive effects, we should make full use of it.

First, a good compliment can make others become more confident. When I was a child, I had no interests in mathematics. I even couldn’t pass the exam while most of them can get a “B”. How shameful! One day, my friend Lily asked me an easy question in class, and I happened to know the answer, so I did it very well. Lily opened her eyes and said, “Wow, you have just solved a very difficult problem! You have a brilliant talent for mathematics.” From that moment, I didn’t hate the mathematics, on the contrary, I had great confidence to solve any problem about maths.

Second, a good compliment can start a conversation with strangers very appropriately. For example, my friend Lily bring her friend LiJing to the party, I didn’t know how to start a talk with LiJing, because I knew nothing about her. Suddenly I found her short skirt is the latest fashion, so I complimented her, “Your skirt is pretty, and you make it look more beautiful.” She smiled and began to talk something about fashion with me very happy. You see a good compliment take an important part in icebreaking.

“Flattery will get you everywhere”, but sometimes we also hear of “Flattery will get you nowhere.” A compliment can also make others feel embarrassed when it is misunderstood because of different cultures. For example, an American woman compliment a Chinese girl very sincerely, “You’re very beautiful. ” The Chinese girl must reply, “Oh, no, I’m not beautiful at all.” Though this compliment is out of the Chinese modesty, this will make the American woman very embarrassed and unhappy. Because if an American girl hear this compliment, she will just say “Thank you ” instead of some modest words.

In short, a good compliment can make others become happy and help them overcome shortcomings, but we must pay attention to different cultures when we compliment others.



My Understanding of the Pursuit of Happiness

All of us want to be happy and we pursue happiness in different ways. What’s the real meaning of pursuing happiness? I want share my opinion with you.

First, all of us have the right to pursue happiness. We all want to live a happy life, that’s our nature. It seems to us that happiness is subjective, because it is related to our mood. But it is also a objective existence, as long as you want to pursue it and try your best, you will get it nine times out of ten, no matter you are rich or poor. Even a fool has the right to pursue.

L.N.Andreev, a Russian writer, argues that “Happiness does not lie in enjoying it, but in striving for and pursuing it.” To pursue happiness and eventually get it, this process makes our life meaningful and makes us happy. You know, happy people make the world better and unhappy people make it worse. So the pursuit of happiness is not only our nature, but also our responsibility to make the world better.

Second, we have a right to seek happiness, but this right to happiness should not be pursued at the expense of loyalty, humanity, and honesty. Pursuit of happiness doesn’t mean that man was entitled to pursue happiness by any and every means—including murder, rape, robbery, treason and fraud. No society could be built on such a basis. People don’t have the unlimited “right to happiness”, we should not go against any natural or moral law. Let’s take a simple example, when we listen to music, we are happy, but we should turn down the volume if someone is sleeping.



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In short, the pursuit of happiness is our nature and right, but don’t do something harmful to others.

An Ideal World in My Mind Nowadays, the world is full of contamination, competition and manufacture. Water contamination, soil contamination and atmospheric contamination make us worry about the food we eat everyday and think of whether we will get ill if we breathe the toxic air. The severe competition between countries often causes economical or political friction, wars and unemployment. Manufacture destroys the handiwork, so much of artistic heritage dies out. Now our country’s economy is growing fast but the government is still confronted with many challenges, especially some social problems, including loss of farmland, a widening financial gap between rural and urban areas, a employment problem of university graduates, fake and shoddy products, and so on. High attention needs to be paid to. We must try our best to change the imperfect world into a perfect world.

An ideal world in my mind is a peaceful world where people are compassionate for others. We are all happy and we are not in the fear of unemployment, disease, violence, poverty, hunger, wars, murderers, terrorists, robbers or pollution again. There is no anxiety and barrier between countries, we can travel round the world with freedom and talk to different people without wariness. There is no financial gap between rural and urban areas, rural students won’t experience discrimination again. In this world, we all like study and study for the sake of application, then we can find good jobs we like and make contribution to our world after we graduate. In this world, everyone has lots of good food and drink (and it doesn't make you fat or sick), and nice warm luxurious homes without loan .

This ideal world in my mind is not just a dream, it can come true as long as the countries unite as one, governments tighten up the management with effective methods, and everyone is strict with himself and tolerant toward others.

The True Spirit of the Olympics

Many people regard “higher, faster, and stronger” as the spirit of Olympic Games. And some people believe one of the major objectives of sporting events is to encourage people to participate and do their best. But I think, nothing is more important than fighting for our dreams persistently even if God troubles you many times.

For example, Kim Rhode, a 5-Time Olympic medalist of shooting, broke the record of the Olympic Games in London, 2012. Though she is an excellent and experienced athlete who captured the gold medal without doubt, in fact, she overcame all difficulties given by God. This 33 year-old woman was very unlucky before she reached London Olympic stadium. At first, she couldn’t arrive at Danish training base because the plane has been declared off. Then she flied to London without training in Denmark because her dog ate her air ticket, so she didn’t have enough time for training. That was not the most miserable thing, you can’t imagine, her gun which she used in many matches was stolen at the night before the London Olympic qualification match. At last, she had to use the gun which borrowed temporarily from the native community to compete in the Olympic Games. Although God troubled her many times, she could still keep calm and won. She not only broke the record of the Olympic Games, but also became the first medalist who won the medals five times in succession.

Never give up and keep calm when troubles trouble you, I think this is the true spirit of the Olympics.



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