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BOARDING AT Stanford College

May 29th, 2010   by Isabella

A Many students opt to live at Stanford's boarding residences, as they are usually more convenient. In fact, twenty-five percent of the college students are residents. Students need to devote less time to issues related to living independently. The fee may seem expensive at first, but not when you add up the expenses involved in living outside. Most students come out ahead financially compared with those who rent accommodation outside the college. B Those who live at Stanford are not all from one segment of society. In fact, about 40% are overseas students. Even the British students are from various parts of the country. Thus, much emphasis is placed on helping students to adapt to a new environment. C Students live in four similar houses on campus, each designed to hold between 75 and 85 students. Each house has three storeys. The ground floor consists of public rooms, whole the first and second floors are made up of large airy dormitories accommodating either four or eight students.

D Senior students (Year 6 and 7) and Juniors (Year 1 and 2) live in mixed accommodation, boys and girls occupying different floors, while the Middle School students (Year 3, 4 and 5) occupy separate houses. Each house is supervised by a team of six members of staff, a resident housemaster: an assistant, three non-resident assistants and a matron. E There are two types of boarding —Full Boarding and Self Cooking. Boarding fees pay for all amenities; a daily choice of three menus (European, Chinese and Muslim), adequate laundry provision, the services of a group of doctors, sanatorium facilities and all furniture and bed linen. Self-cooking means that you do your own cooking in a communal kitchen. F During weekdays, the house programmes provide compulsory study periods as well as free activity times. Recreation facilities available to the residents include a swimming pool, tennis courts, a gymnasium and games fields. Individual houses provide their own indoor games. G Within the boarding house, nurses are there for general medical advice and the treatment of illnesses or injuries. There are also advisors on hand for students who suffer from stress or emotional problems while away from home.

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The Fish and Fans

May 28th, 2010   by Isabella

Pack was very keen on fishing. He had a big collection of different kinds of rods and hooks and flies, and whenever he had some spare time, he went down to the river to fish.

"Don't you sometimes think it's stupid," his mother used to say, "standing beside that dirty old river in all weathers, and often not catching anything?"

"Oh, no, Mom'" he always answered earnestly. "Whenever I'm there beside the water, with the trees round me and the birds singing, I'm thoroughly content. Everything's so peaceful. "

"Then why do you take your fishing rod with you?" his father asked. "I imagine it must interrupt your peace when you catch something -which isn't often, I admit. "

They all laughed, but Jack continued to fish every weekend and every summer evening.

Then he married Kate. Having been his neighbour since they were children, she knew all about Jack's love of fishing. He even had to go out and catch a fish on the day of their wedding!

Kate did not know how to fish, but having married Jack, she soon found herself alone for some time every weekend, so she decided to try. "If you can't beat them, join them,"1 she said to her parents.

Jack gave her some lessons in how to throw the fly, how to hold the rod and so on, but having been taught to do these things, whenever she tried to make use of her knowledge, she never caught anything, and she found it damp and cold standing still for hours beside the river. Discouraged by this, she did not often go with Jack on his fishing trips.

Then there was going to be a big fishing competition in a fortnight's time, organized by the fishing club that Jack belonged to. There would be fishermen from other parts of the country as well as local ones, and Jack was one- of the people organizing the event. "It'll be wonderful," he said to Kate happily. "There's a prize of £100 for the biggest fish caught that weekend, and other smaller prizes too for those who catch the largest total weight of fish. "

"Can I join in?" said Kate.

Jack was doubtful, but having looked at the rules, he discovered that she would be allowed to take part in the competition provided that" she joined the fishing club at once.

The great day came- and the fishermen drew lots' for positions on the river banks in preparation. Some positions were better than others, and Jack was very familiar with all the good ones. Having drawn one of the very best, he was very pleased, and pitied Kate when hers was by far the worst.

"Never mind," he said, "it'll be good experience for you anyhow, and meanwhile you'll be able to see how the best fishermen in the country do it. " Jack having lent her one of his older rods.

But things turned out very differently from what Jack had expected. A few minutes before the end of the competition, and flanked4 by the best fishermen in the country, Kale caught the biggest fish that had been seen in that river, she took it along to Jack at once, and as she approached him she saw that he had only succeeded in catching four or five very small fish. She was expecting him to admire greatly the fish that she had caught, but all he said after a long pause was, "You only caught one, did you?"

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To Introduce a Son of a Close Friend

May 27th, 2010   by Isabella

This is to introduce to you Mr. David Lee, the son of a very close friend of mine. Mr. Lee has just passed MBA from the Institute of Management. Two years ago he passed his B. E. (Mechanical) from I. I. T. with distinction. Besides having a brilliant academic record , he is of cheerful disposition and can get along easily with people. He is now looking for a suitable job and I thought I should send him to you just in case you have an opening for a young man of his qualification.

I trust that you will be able to spare a few minutes to talk to him about his interests and areas of specialization. If there is no immediate vacancy in your company, I should be grateful if you could refer him to some other organizations.

And what about the holidays we planned for October, which is just two months away? If you convey your firm "yes" by return mail, I shall go ahead with the arrangements. With kind regards and best wishes.

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A Visit with the Folks

May 26th, 2010   by Isabella

Periodically I go back to a churchyard cemetery on the side of an Appata-J chian hill in northern Virginia to call on family elders. It slows the juice) || down something marvelous.

They are all situated right behind an imposing brick church with a tall squatt brick bell-tower best described as honest but not flossy. Some of the family' elders did construction repair work on that church and some of them, the real old timers, may even have helped build it, but I couldn't swear to that, because it's been there a long, long time.

The view, especially in early summer, is so pleasing that it's a pity they can't' enjoy it. Wild roses blooming on fieldstone fences, fields white with daisies, ,| that soft languorous air turning the mountains pastel blue out toward the West.

The tombstones are not much to look at. Tombstones never are in my book, ] but they do help in keeping track of the family and, unlike a family, they have the virtue of never chafing at you.

This is not to say they don't talk after a fashion. Every time I pass Uncle < Lewis's I can hear it say, "Come around to the barber shop, boy, and I'll cut that hair." Uncle Lewis was a barber. He left up here for a while and went to 'I the city, Baltimore. But he came back after the end. Almost all of them came back finally, those that left, but most stayed right here all along.

Well, not right here in the churchyard, but out there over the fields, two, three, four miles away. Grandmother was born just over that rolling field out there near the woods the year the Civil War ended, lived most of her life about three miles out the other way there near the mountain, and has been right here near this old shade tree for the past 50 years.

We weren't people who went very far. Uncle Harry, her second child, is right beside her. A carpenter. He lived 87 years in these parts without ever complaining about not seeing Paris. To get Uncle Harry to say anything,

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Civilization

May 25th, 2010   by Isabella

There are few words which are used more loosely than the word "Civilization." What does it mean? It means a society based upon the opinion of civilians. It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained. That is Civilization— and in its soil grow continually freedom, comfort and culture. When Civilization reigns in any country, a wider and less harassed life is afforded to the masses of the people. The traditions of the past are cherished, and the inheritance bequeathed to us by former wise or valiant men becomes a rich estate to be enjoyed and used by all.

The central principle of Civilization is the subordination of the ruling authority to the settled customs of the people and to their will as expressed through the Constitution. In this Island we have today achieved in a high degree the blessings of Civilization. There is freedom; there is law! there is love of country! there is a great measure of good will between classes! there is a widening prosperity. There are unmeasured opportunities of correcting abuses and making further progress.

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The other opinion of luxuries life

May 24th, 2010   by Isabella

Like the "many people," I find "luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life" are entirely harmless. And I call it absurd to believe that they prevent people from developing into truly strong and independent individuals.

We are dependent because we have no alternative. We are truly strong and independent because we have a large enough number of alternatives. Consisting in just such alternatives, luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life enable those who can afford them to be truly strong and independent.

Things were different in the old days, however. For food an average farmer and his family, for example, had to depend on the only crop grown out of the only piece of land. They had no alternative because, when that crop failed, they had nothing else to feed their stomachs with. Then they proved to be as dependent and weak as the fish that, entirely depending on the water, has to die when the pool is dried up. This dependence would grow worse when they fell ill. Diseases took place every year in the village. Hundreds or thousands of farmers were dependent on the same healer, who in turn was dependent on the few herbs he had learned to use from his father and grandfather. Often, this lack of alternative gave them no choice between life and death. And these individuals and their lives had to be extremely weak.

By "luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life" we mean the many alternatives that are available to the average individuals. Nowadays even a disabled man can go to work and earn a handsome salary because, besides lis feet, he has a large number of alternatives as means of travel. He can go to work driving his car. When his arm breaks down, he can use the taxi. When taxi drivers are on strike, he can use the subway. When workers of fie subway and bus drivers also join the strike, he obtains help from his relatives, who kindly offer to drive him a his office. He is thus largely independent and truly strong.

In the same way, we have abundant alternatives as for whom to go to when we fall ill, and have a large enough variety of medicines to choose from to cure our disease. And we can choose either to stay at home or in hospital while we are being cured, and either to have an old, reverent expert or a young, considerate nurse to take care of us. Further, these things and people will be at our service a few minutes after we have spoken into the phone. Conveniences of this type make us so much more independent and stronger than individuals without them.

For the young, the most marvelous luxuries and conveniences are those they enjoy when they acquire knowledge. In the old days, the student had the mere textbook to rack his brains with, the mere teacher to go to when he had a question to ask, and the mere library on the campus when he wanted to learn something else. Nowadays the luxury is such that, for clarifying a problem, he has access to the scientific papers by scientists all over the world. And the convenience is such that to enjoy this luxury he does not have to move out of his room. Rather, by comfortably sitting at his desk and moving his fingers on his PC's keyboard, he at any moment opens the door to a world of knowledge. This luxury and convenience ensures that he not only has access to the largest amount of knowledge, but also enjoys the largest freedom to choose what to know. If knowledge is still power, then this manner of learning helps make us the most powerful, truly strong and independent individuals in history.

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Letter of Applying for Visa

May 22nd, 2010   by Isabella

The Visa Officer,

I enclose the completed application form for an entry visa to enable me to visit Singapore.

The purpose of my visit there is to join the World Linguistics Conference. I also want to gain some information about recent developments in education and visit some universities and colleges. I will guarantee my financial security during my stay in Singapore and payment of all expenses I may incur.

I have enclosed the following supporting documents;

(1) My passport.

(2) A check for the visa fee of .

(3) A registered, stamped, addressed envelope for return of the passport.

Should you require any further information, I shall be happy to supply it.

Yours faithfully Jiang Ming

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Making Decisions Based on Means

May 21st, 2010   by Isabella

In Asia, Africa, southern Europe, and Latin America decisions often are based on means, not ends. There is considerable variation among these diverse cultures, but they differ from the United States, Canada. Great Britain. Australia, and New Zealand and to an extent from the northern European countries, where ends are more important than means.

Means cultures are people cultures in which relationships matter more than results. Children are not expected to make decisions about their own lives, for example: issues such as what university to attend or what discipline to study are made by the senior family members, not the student, in Japan. Korea, China and Vietnam. Japanese schoolchildren draw a house with the teacher's hand guiding theirs: the drawing shows what the teacher decides to include.]'

Where decisions are based on means, trust is a key issue. Haiti information, statistics, and measurements are not as important as trusting a relationship.

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Winter

May 20th, 2010   by Isabella

This season begins with November which is notorious for its gloom and frequent fogs. The weather becomes colder and colder as the season advances, until the end of the year. The days are very short, and the nights long and dark.

North winds with their cutting cold prevail. The temperature is often below freezing. Bright and white snowflakes fall to the ground incessantly. They cover all sorts of outlines and spread a cold white cloak over all, turning the lakes and ponds into great sheets of ice. The trees are now completely stripped of their leaves, which have all fallen in late autumn, and they stand waving their great naked branches in the wind. The frozen air bites and stings insects and birds. Small birds fall from the trees to the ground, frozen by frost, become as stiff as earth.

The streets in the town soon become muddy and dirty because of so much traffic, but in the countryside, the pure and white snowfalls over the earth look like a great mantle. Though winter gives such a cold and cheerless appearance to everything, it is a season of great enjoyment for all young people who look eagerly forward to the New Year.

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