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7.28 Fairy Tales
I <font style="background-color: yellow;">liked</font> to read fairy tales when I was young; it stirred my imagination to places far far <strike><font style="background-color: yellow;">far</font></strike> away. I guess this is <font style="background-color: yellow;">a</font> part of the reason why I have been stricken with poor eyesight even since an early age.
Of all the fairy tales, the ones written by Anderson and Wilde <font style="background-color: yellow;">won</font> my heart, <font style="background-color: yellow;">with</font> their stories <font style="background-color: yellow;">going</font> beyond the grasp of a child. I didn’t really understand what they were trying to say at that time, which made them even more appealing to me for <font style="background-color: yellow;">their</font> profoundness.
Unlike the tales written or collected by others, the storylines and characters presented by Anderson and Wilde are sophisticated and sometimes <font style="background-color: yellow;">they</font> even come with a <font style="background-color: yellow;">lesson</font> to teach. Also, their stories <font style="background-color: yellow;">did</font> not guarantee a happy ending like <font style="background-color: yellow;">what</font> <font style="background-color: yellow;">most</font> fairy tales did. <font style="background-color: yellow;">Where</font> in other stories, a prince and a princess (or a commoner) <font style="background-color: yellow;">had surely lived</font> happily ever after; the characters under the pen of these two writers somehow <font style="background-color: yellow;">defied</font> the norm by <font style="background-color: yellow;">ending</font> in sorrow, or even death (probably <font style="background-color: yellow;">it is </font>the first time <font style="background-color: yellow;">where</font> <font style="background-color: yellow;">a</font> young <font style="background-color: yellow;">child</font> would come to <font style="background-color: yellow;">the</font> terms <font style="background-color: yellow;">of</font> that horrible concept of death). Yet such endings impressed me far more than a <font style="background-color: yellow;">"</font>happily ever after<font style="background-color: yellow;">"</font>. I remember reading the last <font style="background-color: yellow;">chapter</font> of “The Little Mermaid” in tears, and the last song of a nightingale <font style="background-color: yellow;">which</font> thrusts its chest <font style="background-color: yellow;">into</font> a thorn for helping an ungrateful student struck me numb. Some of <font style="background-color: yellow;">those</font> tales certainly do not serve the purpose of <font style="background-color: yellow;">the</font> bedtime<font style="background-color: yellow;">'s</font> stories for children (young kids could feel baffled by them and find <font style="background-color: yellow;">it</font> even harder to fall asleep). On the contrary, they show the authors’ ideas of the world: a real world is never as innocent and beautiful as <font style="background-color: yellow;">what it is</font> always said to be, and many times justice <font style="background-color: yellow;">couldn't</font> be <font style="background-color: yellow;">reserved</font>.0 votedJuly 28, 20161THINGS I LOVE TO DO
I love to do a lot of things. Among these things you can find, for example, listening to music: I love listening to music with my headphones. My favourite singers and groups are Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Imagine Dragons. Other things I love to do are drawing, running and going abroad. I love airplanes and clouds, the sky in general. I have been to Portugal and I have been to France too. I would like to go to USA and to Russia. I also love the animals, every kind of them. I love them all,from the little dragonfly to the huge elephant. But the thing I love the most is reading. I LOVE reading, especially fantasy, horror and science fiction books, so my favourite authors are Patrick Rothfuss, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King and Joe Abercrombie. Just as you see, I feel like I'm in paradise when I go to a park or to the countryside, where I can lie on the grass to read a book while I am listening to music. When I do that, I stay there until the sun sets and I look at the sky to see the stars and the moon, and that gives me the best feeling ever.0 votedJuly 27, 20160Presentation.
It's never not easy for me to talk -or it was never easy to ...-, but if I don't start, I would never progress!!
So to begin, I'll talk about the subject that I know the best: myself!!
So, My name is Eléonore and I'm a french girl. I'm florist. I love flowers since I was a little girl, so you could say that my job is my passion! I love traveling, I have visited many countries in Europe and I have traveled on the roads of United states for 6 months.0 votedJuly 27, 20161An email
hello everybody,I wrote a composition,and I want you to help me finding some mistakes in the composition.Thank you very much.
here is the title:If you are a student from Xinhua middle school,you have a friend Tom from America,he sent you an email a week ago to ask about your summer vacation plan.and you didn't reply him,because you are preparing for the final exam.Please according to the points back to an E-mail to her:1:The reason why you didin't reply he in time 2:your summer vacation plan.
Dear Tom,
I'm so sorry that I didin't reply you in time, because I am preparing for the final exam. I want you to understand me.-unneeded part-
I want to have a travel in the summer vacation. I really want to go to Yunnan, it is a very beautiful place.Yunnan ham is very delicious, I really want to taste it. and I also want to sign for a part-time job. Because I want to make some money by myself. I don't want to ask my parents for money. On the other hand I want to volunteer, so I can help the people who need help. which makes me feel happy.What is your summer vacation plan?
Lihua0 votedJuly 27, 20161About My Former Language Exchange Partner
I haven’t talked to any language exchange partners in the past one month. I became sad because the exchange partner I used to talk to all of a sudden canceled the appointments. And I don’t have any regular skype partners to speak with at the moment. My old partner was a wonderful person who encouraged me to get on the right track. After talking to her three times a weak for about three months and having that language exchange experience in a week for about three months, I was fully motivated to practice English. I miss her so much. Hopefully, she feels much better now.My notes:
Don't rely on somebody to help you in this world, you don't know what could happen, so always have plan B, try the "Duolingo" app,, it's really entertaining and helpful, and it's free,, try reading easy poems, novels, and news because it helps a lot.
0 votedJuly 27, 201617.27 Heat and Typhoon
The late July and early August is usually the hottest time in China with temperatures rising up to above 35℃ in many cities. People tend to stay in the air-conditioned rooms for most the of time or go to swimming pools. If they have to go outside, you’ll see them wearing light clothes and holding umbrellas all the time. Yes, we use umbrellas, sometimes equipped with anti-ultraviolet layers, to block out the blazing sun, plus the suntan -you mean sunscreen?- lotion.
Still, this is a time when hospitals are flooded with people who are down with heatstroke, the elderly and children in particular. To me, I sympathize more with the ones who have to work outdoors such as construction workers and sanitation workers. This period of time would be really tough for them, and I think their hard labor deserves a higher income and better welfare which is often missed.
Luckily for the residents living in the coastal regions, typhoons would occasionally pay a visit to mitigate the heat wave. A Typhoon is said to be the equivalent of a hurricane in the US, yet less destructive in my opinion. Sometime they could cause substantial damage like uprooting the trees or blowing down houses and infrastructures, or causing severe floods, or even cause blackouts and water shortage for many days in a row, but generally speaking, it is not really that terrible to encounter a less turbulent Typhoon. People even wish for it to happen because it can immediate sweeps the heat over with the torrential rain pouring down.
After the weeks of the intense heat, a typhoon is on its way and really -using "warm" when complaining about heat is not the best idea-welcomed, and we are expecting it to do the miracle.0 votedJuly 27, 20161My learning journey in Italki 9 -- correcting entries
I call myself a native Chinese, but I am the worst in Chinese at school. Sometimes when I see a Chinese question in Italki, I just can sense that there is an error, but I might not know how to correct it accurately. Nonetheless, I usually offer my help doing so, as I thought that the opinion of a normal Chinese might also be useful for the questioner.
I have been thinking whether I should continue doing this. I feel it might be irresponsible to mislead other learners, though my answer might not be completely incorrect. But seeing that no one gives an answer to an entry pushes me to answer them. What do you think? =/What do I think:
try the best you can to give the best answer, a little is better than nothing.
0 votedJuly 27, 20160A nice morning
If you do not want to miss the opportunity of having a great day, please do not get up too late. If you do so, you will miss some beautiful things that refresh your mind and make you feel well at the beginning of the day.While you're still laying on bed, you can never smell the fresh air, take away the tranquility in the very early morning. The sound of birds, the rays of the sunshine, and many other things that you will feel when you get up a little bit early.If I was conscious concerned about an important thing, I will never want to wake up after 7 o'clock -you won't die if you don't wake up earlier than 7 am-. The amazingly interesting day is awaiting you. Let's get started off right now!
0 votedJuly 27, 20161People aged 65 and over in Japan, the USA and Sweden (150 words)
My essay:
The line graph illustrates the percentage of people aged 65 or more in three countries over a period of 100 years.
It is noticeable that the number of population aged 65 and over has increased in each country during the period shown. Overall, the percentage of Japanese elderly people increased to be on top of the graph followed by Americans and Swedes and experienced a remarkable growth in the last few years.
In 1940, the number of people aged 65 and more in Japan was about 5%. The figures for America and Sweden were higher, at about 7% and 9% respectively. In 1980, the longevity of the population in both the USA and Sweden rose to around 15%, while the rate of Japanese fell to its lowest 3%.
From 2020 to 2040, the figure of Japanese elderly continued to rise significantly and reached its peak at 27% ,which is the highest percentage recorded in the graph.in The percentages for the other two nations, America and Sweden, kept the increasing state with an increase from 15% to 23% and 19% to 25%.My Notes:
Excellent paragraph, very good grammar and vocabulary, some of the changes I made are not really necessary, but it gives a better taste to the whole essay, Excellent job you have done there to be fair :)
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