My Favorite Book: Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice depicts one of the most cherished love stories in English literature: the courtship between Darcy and Elizabeth. When they meet each other for the first time, Elizabeth’s prejudice against Darcy makes her misjudge him on the basis of a poor first impression, while Darcy’s pride blinds him to her many virtues. As they know more about each other, both of them learn the error of making hasty judgements and come to realize the difference between superficial and the essential. This story teaches me that when I get along with other, I should try to know their inner self, rather than judge others with prejudice or stereotype. Such prejudice makes me lose the opportunity to see their virtues and learn from them.

Nearly Caught Alf was a dustman. However, when he got married, he was too embarrassed to say anything to his wife about his job. He simply told her that he worked for a corporation called Ellesmere, which convinced his wife that he was a white-collar worker. One day, Alf and his fellow dustmen were collecting rubbish in a neighborhood where Mrs.Frost, a friend of his wife, lived. When they arrived at Mrs.Frost's house, Alf was focusing on his work and failed to notice that his wife was sitting in the house and talking to Mrs.Frost. When he was getting out of the dust cart to load the rubbish in front of the gate on the dust cart, he saw his wife walking out of the front door of the house. Being so afraid of his wife discovering that she married a dustman, Alf rushed back to the dust cart and hid in it. His fellow dustmen all knew his wife and understood his situation, so some of them stood between the dust cart and Alf's wife to block her sight and others loaded the rubbish as fast as possible. As Alf's wife said goodbye to Mrs.Frost and came towards the dust cart, they finished their work and drove away the dust cart in a hurry.

The Person I Admire The person whom I admire is Mamoudou Gassama, a French immigrant from Mali, who saved a child dangling off a fifth floor balcony. He was in the neighborhood when he saw a crowd gathering around the apartment building. Seeing that the child was in danger, he sprang into action. He scaled the outside of the building, grabbed the child and pulled him to safety. He was called spider-man because it took less than 30 seconds for him to scale the building and saved the boy. His heroic deed teaches me that I should do what I can do to help others, such as helping someone falling on the street and offering my seat to old men on bus. My will to help them may do good to them.

My Favorite Movie My favorite movie is Wonder Woman. It is a superhero movie about wonder woman, a character in DC comics. The story starts on an island where Diana used to live during her childhood, Themyscira. Diana was dying to be a great warrior. By the hardest training among all Amazons, she became the greatest warrior. However, her peaceful life on the island was interrupted by an intruder. The intruder, called Steve, who was a spy in German army, told her that the whole world was in war and thousands of people died. Virtuous Diana was sorrowful of the people who suffered pain by virtue of the war and indignant about those who started the war. Totally convinced of the myths told by her mother, Diana innocently believed that it was Ares, the god of war, who started the war. Thus she left the island with Steve to stop Ares. Steve was astonished about her innocent thought, but he didn't correct her fallacy because at the moment his sole aim was to leave the island and stop the German officer's plot. In London, Steve persuaded Diana to help her finish this task. After a long search, they finally found where the officer was and attended his feast by disguise. In the feast, Diana was totally convinced that Ares, the god of war, was the German officer. She followed him to a weapon factory and killed him. However, nothing was altered by the death of the "god of war". Diana fell into confusion and her beliefs fixed in her mind since her birth collapsed. Steve saw what was happening to her but he had no time to comfort her for he had to finished his task. When Diana was still perplexed, the real Ares appeared. His power rivaled Diana's and her every attack was defeated easily by him. When Diana almost lost the fight, pressed by a huge iron block, she saw Steve sacrificed himself to destroy chemical weapons. Steve's sacrifice touched her and gave her power. Her power erupted in her body and she finally defeated Ares. I admire Diana because of her virtuousness and courage. She is willing to devote herself to promote other people's well being, help the weak and maintain justice. These qualities are exactly what we need nowadays. I think it is for rareness of such person that wonder woman is created in comics, existing as a virtual character.

Should Schools Teach Students About General Subjects Instead of Specific Careers? In modern time, every person's role in the society is more and more like a component of a huge machine which requires every person in it have his specific profession to fit its function. As a result, colleges focus more on teaching students about specific careers rather than general subject. However, in my opinion, colleges should still provide general subject to students mainly. One of my reasons is stated as below. learning general subjects can broaden students' horizon. By learning general subjects such as literature, math and science, students can learn about the world from different point of view and form basic and essential knowledge of the world; If subjects of specific careers occupy all their college time, their thinking will be limited in certain areas. My sister, who went to college last year, majors in finance. She used to learn general subjects such as literature, math and popular science in her junior high. With the knowledge learned from these subjects, when we talk about social issues happened recently, she could view them from different angles. However, because her classes in college focus only on finance and occupy most of her time, she barely has time reading books other than her textbooks. I gradually found the way her comprehends things is singular and dull. By learning general subjects, one can have a more general view of the world than by focusing of specific subjects.

My First Badminton Class on July, 22nd I planned to go to a training class of badminton which is on every Saturday half mouth ago. The gym where the class takes place isn't very far away from where I live, but walking to there still takes some time. Thus, taking bus is the best choice. However, taking bus to the gym is not convenient to me, for there is no bus directed to there and I have to transfer from one bus to another. Worse, the bus I will transfer to arrives at the stop almost 40mins later than the bus I take the first. Being lazy of figuring out the fastest route, I chose the easiest way to reach my destiny----walking. On the day before the class, I was reading and playing computer until midnight. As a result, the bell which should have woken me up at 8 A.M the next morning didn't wake me up. When I got up, It was already 8:40. I would definitely be late, but I still cannot give up going to the class because I had given it up for the same reason last Saturday and being defeated by drowsiness and laziness for twice is shaming :(. Finally, after 20-minute walking and having breakfast beside the gym, I went into the gym at 9:20 and saw a coach and some students had already started practicing in the badminton court. The coach spotted me, and after a simple self-introduction I started my practice. I was extremely nervous because I had not even touched a badminton racket since I was 14 (I'm 20 now). When the badminton came to me, I could not hit it. The coach was patient, telling me not to be anxious. I gradually could hit the badminton and by my hitting it flied a high and far curve to the other side of the court. I practiced for three hours and had never felt so tired physically since senior high. I'm looking forward to the next time and I hope I will do a better job.

Please help me correct my essay~! This essay is reading notes of an rudimentary book of philosophy----"the republic"; the essay's content related to philosophy is very easy and understandable, and I really hope my essay can be corrected by native speakers to make it seem more natural. I started reading "the Republic" yesterday. Until today I have read the chapter of Socrates refuting a view of justice that "justice is to harm one's enemy and help his friend".This definition seems reasonable and fair at the first glance, but what Socrates wanted was not an ambiguous answer but a clear and universal one.Therefore, Socrates wanted to make this definition more clear and started to question it. He said that if a man made mistakes about judging who was his friend and who was his enemy, in such circumstance he could harm his friends and helps his enemy. I think his questioning is quite right, because one usually wants an honest and just man to be his friend but "seeming to be an honest man" is not identical with "being an honest man". As a result, one may become friends with someone evil and dishonest and be hostile to someone honest, and the honest one may be harmed by him. If so, it followed that "justice is to injure one's friend, who in his eyes are bad, and help his enemy, who in his eyes are good", which is contradictory to the definition mentioned above. After this definition is refuted, Polemarchus, Socrates's interlocutor, corrected it into a more precise one, which is "justice is to do good to one's friend if he is good, and to harm one's enemy if he is evil". Socrates refuted it too. His thesis was "a just man cannot do harm to anyone". According to Socrates, when a person was harmed, he became worse by the standard of "human excellence". However, the quality of justice is excellent, and a just man cannot use his just to make his enemy worse, just like a good man cannot use his goodness to make another one not good. Therefore, a just man cannot harm his enemy.