2010年10月15日 星期五

Hero Biography

    Through the centuries, there are tons of heroes and heroines. Some of them are public, some of them are backstage. Part of them are actual, part of them are unreal. (such as the character in The Return of the Condor Heroes )
    However, I still need to share a biography of a heroine, who was intelligent, brave, and sober at the critical moment --- Joan of Arc. She was a peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed the guidance of God. She led the France army as a director and regained lots of territories to several important victories. Once, she withstood a blow from a stone cannonball to her helmet as she climbed a scaling ladder, but she didn't shrink . Her courage had been impressed with performance. Unfortunately, once, when she ordered a retreat, she assumed the place of honor as the last to leave the field, but the city was afraid of the enemies, they didn't wait for everyone then close the city gate.  So Joan has been captured by the Burgundians . Opening a trial anyway, the court also violated ecclesiastical laws in denying her right to a legal adviser. She signed an abjuration document with illiterate. Later, she was trapped at the stake and prepared for burn.While the fire was burning, she prayed constantly with holding a crucifix in front of her. Then, the suffer went over. Twenty-five years after the execution, other people examined the trial pronounced her innocent and declared her a martyr.     

2010年10月14日 星期四

What is a hero?

    A hero is a person who has great courage and bravery, or willing to help and sacrifice for others without any interest. Being a hero, I think that the most important quality is contribution. No matter how brave or coward a person is, we just have to learn the ability of contribution, it then won't be in vain to our lives.
    Through the history, we could discover hundreds of thousands of people who glittered their lives. Florence Nightingale, the kindhearted heroine in my heart, made most of people admired. Although she was a nobility, she persisted in working as a nurse (a job which was a low level at her era ) after she heard the decree of God. she laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment and cared for the soldiers by overworking during the Crimean War. Nightingale also promoted and improved general woman by having more respect and jobs.
    One of the beautiful compensations of this life is that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping itself. To be a hero, we exactly require this quality and great courage and bravery for shining our lives.

2010年10月12日 星期二

Leaving Everything Behind

    Once, tons of people compelled to work for the emperors ; once, they left everything behind just for commands --- Shi Huang - ti, the most famous tyrant in china's history , concentrated all of the power on himself.
    He created lost of criminal law, concluded some boring laws, such as entrance guard for eleven o'clock, if someone violated, they must severed their noses. ( because he was scared of someone was planning to usurp the throne )  Shi Huang - ti also burned thousands of books, in order to make his citizens lack of knowledge, so they won't criticize his mistakes. ( How  creative he is ! ) 
    Otherwise, the most significant and cruel command was that he made thousands of hundreds of citizens to build the Great Wall. The main reason was to defend the Huns in the north, but he never thinked of how ruthless he did done to his citizens. Chinese peasants were forced to leave their farms to the actual work of building the Great Wall with no payment to provide for their families. Chinese soldiers were also forced to leave their barracks to move the brickbats for the Great Wall. All of them have never seen seen their family again after they began to work. Some of them died by too weary, and some of them died strangely with no skeletons. 
   Under the oppressions, the workers have no choices. They would like to have democracy, but it seemed too far to them. Nowadays, I'm pretty glad to enjoy democracy of Taiwan.

2010年10月8日 星期五

The Promised Land

   Freedom is worth to treasure. Except violate the laws, nowadays, we could could enjoy things what are legal with no restraint --- this is kind of freedom. Thousand years of histories, people had social classes in order to discriminate respect. Higher classes such as kings, pharaohs, and priests, they could direct others as worse than pigs or dogs ; on the other hand, lower classes such as slaves have no freedom, even self - respect. Decreed by fate, it depends on your backgrounds. 
    Harriet Tubman and Moses were both indeed saviours to the slaves. They are kindhearted and having thoughtful thinking to others. Although, they could enjoy the freedom which they made a great effort to gain, they still make plans for saving Hebrews and slaves. Moses accepted the task of helping the Hebrews to enter " the promised land " which the god guided, he vantured through crossing the Red Sea, got risk of the armies which pharaoh dispatched to battle, But, unfortunately, he failed while he was almost reached the land. On the contrany, Harriet Tubman spent almost all of her intelligence, risked her lives and the future of slaves again and again. Fortunately, she entered her promised land, Canada.    
     Anyhow, although some of the libertors failed, they indeed attempt a great job for a model. We could discover definitely --- pursue the desire till your life ends.   

2010年10月7日 星期四

Why Risk Your Life?

    More than one person has lost his mind searching for the meaning of life. It's not easy to find. Most people lose their wide- eyed amazement for the world. Life is import because there's only once. I believe the only meaning of life is what you choose to give it --- Harriet Tubman, chose to risk her life for saving the slaves.  
    Harriet Tubman is brave and bright . She could plan escape at only a faint of hope for the purpose of rescuing other slaves. Because she knew how suffer was being a slave, she treasured her life by risking it to devote for others. Her spirit of contribution wasn't everyone could reach it. She didn't enjoy her freedom, rather thought for her families, and other slaves ( even she didn't know them well ) how they could escape. She had already known if the police arrested her - torture cruelly or so far as to die. Even though, she still make a great effort to help others. Facing to the death, she advanced bravely as before. 

    Why risked her life ? Because she understood that the worth of her life was contribution. She's kind of a model for everyone. Even if her life was at the end, she had discovered the meaning of life, such as a candle, flames up herself, shines bright and warm to others.  
  

2010年10月5日 星期二

For the Sake of Freedom

     Over the centuries, people all over the world had endured all kinds of suffering for the sake of freedom. Whether the Jewish, Africans, or Asian people, they had been discriminated against the color of skins and social classes, so they have to be slaves in order to satisfy societies.
    It was pretty unfair for the slaves to obedient to the system of slavery. They have to work hours and hours with no payment and poor, despiteful treatment. Some of them have already forgotten human rights, cowardly scared to their master, even everyone in the community, because they have already having no idea to believe people. They have given up their self-respect, so they chose to have faith of only themselves. Being slaves, some of them are desperate to their lives, but some of them have a faint of desire--they are planning escape. Thanks to Lincoln, through his great effort, the Civil War has an ending of slavery --- Slaves didn't have to plan escaping to Canada or other hidden places.
     However, no matter which color of people or social class you are, the worth of a person is equitable and just.

2010年10月1日 星期五

What happens ?

  After a moment of their tea party, Billy started feeling thirsty, became parching, and then extremely scorching, such as he couldn't live if there's no a droplet of water. He could not but drank all of the tea though it was little bitter. He then felt so comfortable that he falling asleep ... ...
  In a daze, he saw that the landlady wearing a suit of white dress, light as a feather, she jumped up to the edge of the roof, such as she knew Free Running ! Her gauze coattail was swinging while breezing, but Billy changed his mind that she was beautiful when he looked up her face  --- fulled of wrinkles with dim and dark. She sighed with regret :  " How come the time was transient ? How come my beauty had disappeared ? " She then floated down the roof and muttered something to herself : " Once, here was a valley which trees and flowers were lush, but now, everyone was died, I have just came back from the gate of hell, I was so lonely. " She then muttered after another sigh : " I loved my husband so much, but he betrayed me, he had another sweetheart, and wanted to kill me in order to marry her.''  She then turned to a shrill voice : " From now on, I was going to wrest all of the cute and handsome gentlemen who passed my house ! " Afterwards, she laughed loudly and wickedly. In the instant, Billy was wet with cold sweat, he found that he wasn't in a scary dream, he was in the truth ! Now, he felt aching and limp with fright, and he had no power to escape the evil house ! In the meanwhile, the landlady floated in front of him with a sweet smile : " My dear, just a moment, and and then all of the suffering was gonna to vanish, concluded your skill of being a human, you were going to have a forever peace and ......silence ! "
  Billy could feel that he was bleeding with painful, but after a moment, he was confused that he was almost numb --- he wasn't hurt ! Actually, he even paralyzed at his heartbeat, there wasn't a heart ! He changed lots of mind, but finally stuck at a point, he was stuffed. He was screaming but there wasn't a sound, Billy was disappeared, there's only a pet replaced him, and an unknown, paltry pet ! " Being a silent pet, and enjoyed your forever life with peace is wonderful, right, Mr. ah ... Weaver ?