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Su Yiming has become an Olympic gold medallist, an Olympic silver medallist, a Chinese national hero, and a snowboarding idol to tens of millions of young aspiring boarders - all before his 18th birthday, today 18 February.

Su rocked the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games and wowed the world with his next-gen jumps and a bag of tricks to prove his status as People's Republic of China's snowboard prodigy:

A frontside 1440, switch backside 1620 and backside 1800 gave him silver in slopestyle, then he stomped down a frontside 1800 and a backside triple cork 1800 in the men's big air final to win gold - his country's first medal in the event.

Speaking on a video call while still riding the Olympic high, Su tells Olympics.com what it was like to do it at his home Games.

"It feels like a dream, a big dream come true. I've been dreaming about this moment for the past four years every day. And now finally... a dream come true."

What was it like on the podium?

"I cannot see, cannot hear you know? Just enjoying it and trying to focus on what I'm doing. That was insane, one of the most crazy moments ever.

"This is my first Olympics and I don't know what's going on, right? I'm just having fun with the best riders in the world and my idols, they're all my idols!

Su's victory in snowboard big air came ahead of Norwegian Mons Roisland in silver and Canadian Max Parrot in bronze, athletes Su has always looked up to.

It was an emotional moment for him when he realised the gold medal was his even before his third run.

"Before I dropped for my last run, I knew I'm going to win. I have enough scores, right?

"So at the moment, I know I'm going to win. I'm just crying, you know, and my coach... we're sitting together, no words... and I just start crying. I haven't cried like that in many years...

"Last time I cried like that was when I was a little kid. I told my coach, wow, I did it. I mean, we did it. This just happened, you know, dream come true."

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Quenton's homework:Today I want to recommend to you the well-known talented athlete Su Yiming.More than ten years ago, the Su who wore an adult's snowboard to climb and roll in the snow grew up and stood on the highest podium of the Winter Olympics. Su Yiming explained the reason why his dream came true, "once you find what you love, you will try your best to achieve your goals, because efforts will never deceive."But compared with his talent, "hard work" and "persistence" are more like the background of his life."For a new difficult action, I practice it for 6 hours every day and keep repeating it. It may take a summer to complete it.".Snowboarding requires solid basic skills and long-term training. Su Yiming once said on social platforms that when he practiced hard, he broke four boards a week.More often, every new difficult action recorded by Su Yiming on the social platform is as cool as the wind, but this relaxed appearance of galloping in the air is his endless efforts and sweat.

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Quenton's homework:Today I want to recommend to you the well-known talented athlete Su Yiming.More than ten years ago, the Su who wore an adult's snowboard to climb and roll in the snow grew up and stood on the highest podium of the Winter Olympics. Su Yiming explained the reason why his dream came true, "once you find what you love, you will try your best to achieve your goals, because efforts will never deceive."But compared with his talent, "hard work" and "persistence" are more like the background of his life."For a new difficult action, I practice it for 6 hours every day and keep repeating it. It may take a summer to complete it.".Snowboarding requires solid basic skills and long-term training. Su Yiming once said on social platforms that when he practiced hard, he broke four boards a week.More often, every new difficult action recorded by Su Yiming on the social platform is as cool as the wind, but this relaxed appearance of galloping in the air is his endless efforts and sweat.

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The Chinese delegation, led by flag bearer Lei Sheng, marched into the Maracana Stadium in the Rio Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday.
在周五的里约奥运会开幕式上，中国代表团在旗手雷声的率领下，大步走进了马拉卡纳体育场。
Chinese athletes marched into the iconic stadium in their usual red and yellow outfits, the colors representing the national flag.
中国运动员身着代表国旗颜色的红色和黄色礼服，迈入了这座标志性的体育场。

The 2008 Summer Olympics and 2020 Winter Games host sent its largest delegation to an overseas Olympic Games with 711 members.
作为2008年夏季奥运会和2020年冬季奥运会的主办国，中国本次共派出了海外奥运会中人数最多的一支代表团，共计711名成员。
The delegation's 416 athletes, including 35 returning Olympic champions, will compete in 210 events over 26 sports at the Games that ends on Aug. 21.
该代表团的416名运动员中包括了35名奥运会冠军，他们将在8月21日结束的这次盛会中，参加26个大项，210个小项的比赛。
The 32-year-old Lei Sheng, who won the foil individual title at London 2012, China's first ever Olympic gold medal in this event, broke the country's tradition of naming basketball player as flag bearer at the Summer Olympics.
今年32岁的雷声，在2012年伦敦奥运会上赢得男子个人花剑项目的金牌，也是中国在该项目上的第一位奥运金牌得主。此外，他也打破了中国在夏季奥运会上由篮球运动员担任旗手的这一传统。The Chinese delegation, led by flag bearer Lei Sheng, marched into the Maracana Stadium in the Rio Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday.
在周五的里约奥运会开幕式上，中国代表团在旗手雷声的率领下，大步走进了马拉卡纳体育场。
Chinese athletes marched into the iconic stadium in their usual red and yellow outfits, the colors representing the national flag.
中国运动员身着代表国旗颜色的红色和黄色礼服，迈入了这座标志性的体育场。

The 2008 Summer Olympics and 2020 Winter Games host sent its largest delegation to an overseas Olympic Games with 711 members.
作为2008年夏季奥运会和2020年冬季奥运会的主办国，中国本次共派出了海外奥运会中人数最多的一支代表团，共计711名成员。
The delegation's 416 athletes, including 35 returning Olympic champions, will compete in 210 events over 26 sports at the Games that ends on Aug. 21.
该代表团的416名运动员中包括了35名奥运会冠军，他们将在8月21日结束的这次盛会中，参加26个大项，210个小项的比赛。
The 32-year-old Lei Sheng, who won the foil individual title at London 2012, China's first ever Olympic gold medal in this event, broke the country's tradition of naming basketball player as flag bearer at the Summer Olympics.
今年32岁的雷声，在2012年伦敦奥运会上赢得男子个人花剑项目的金牌，也是中国在该项目上的第一位奥运金牌得主。此外，他也打破了中国在夏季奥运会上由篮球运动员担任旗手的这一传统。The Chinese delegation, led by flag bearer Lei Sheng, marched into the Maracana Stadium in the Rio Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday.
在周五的里约奥运会开幕式上，中国代表团在旗手雷声的率领下，大步走进了马拉卡纳体育场。
Chinese athletes marched into the iconic stadium in their usual red and yellow outfits, the colors representing the national flag.
中国运动员身着代表国旗颜色的红色和黄色礼服，迈入了这座标志性的体育场。

The 2008 Summer Olympics and 2020 Winter Games host sent its largest delegation to an overseas Olympic Games with 711 members.
作为2008年夏季奥运会和2020年冬季奥运会的主办国，中国本次共派出了海外奥运会中人数最多的一支代表团，共计711名成员。
The delegation's 416 athletes, including 35 returning Olympic champions, will compete in 210 events over 26 sports at the Games that ends on Aug. 21.
该代表团的416名运动员中包括了35名奥运会冠军，他们将在8月21日结束的这次盛会中，参加26个大项，210个小项的比赛。
The 32-year-old Lei Sheng, who won the foil individual title at London 2012, China's first ever Olympic gold medal in this event, broke the country's tradition of naming basketball player as flag bearer at the Summer Olympics.
今年32岁的雷声，在2012年伦敦奥运会上赢得男子个人花剑项目的金牌，也是中国在该项目上的第一位奥运金牌得主。此外，他也打破了中国在夏季奥运会上由篮球运动员担任旗手的这一传统。The Chinese delegation, led by flag bearer Lei Sheng, marched into the Maracana Stadium in the Rio Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday.
在周五的里约奥运会开幕式上，中国代表团在旗手雷声的率领下，大步走进了马拉卡纳体育场。
Chinese athletes marched into the iconic stadium in their usual red and yellow outfits, the colors representing the national flag.
中国运动员身着代表国旗颜色的红色和黄色礼服，迈入了这座标志性的体育场。

The 2008 Summer Olympics and 2020 Winter Games host sent its largest delegation to an overseas Olympic Games with 711 members.
作为2008年夏季奥运会和2020年冬季奥运会的主办国，中国本次共派出了海外奥运会中人数最多的一支代表团，共计711名成员。
The delegation's 416 athletes, including 35 returning Olympic champions, will compete in 210 events over 26 sports at the Games that ends on Aug. 21.
该代表团的416名运动员中包括了35名奥运会冠军，他们将在8月21日结束的这次盛会中，参加26个大项，210个小项的比赛。
The 32-year-old Lei Sheng, who won the foil individual title at London 2012, China's first ever Olympic gold medal in this event, broke the country's tradition of naming basketball player as flag bearer at the Summer Olympics.
今年32岁的雷声，在2012年伦敦奥运会上赢得男子个人花剑项目的金牌，也是中国在该项目上的第一位奥运金牌得主。此外，他也打破了中国在夏季奥运会上由篮球运动员担任旗手的这一传统。

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‘ I know the appearance of Los Angeles at 4 am every day!’

- Kobe Byrne Bryant

The king of NBA

As the leader of Los Angelas Lakers, Kobe Bryant plays an important role in NBA.He was born on 23 August,1978 in Philadelphia.He started to play basketball ever since he was a child. His father who was once a basketball player influenced his life deeply.
Kobe’s study at Lower Merion School brought him a lucky beginning. Hebecame the 27th man who set foot in NBA as a senior school student
directly.Since then, his successful career began.In 1996, he was chosen as
the 13th draft pick overall by Charlotte Hornets. And then he was
transferred to Lakers because of good playing skills.
During the first season with Lakers, he didn’t get many opportunities. Instead,he played in limited minutes initially.When he entered the professional level ,he felt that the expectations took the fun out of playing.But he didn’t lose his confidence.This sort of situation changed as the season continued.He used high scores to show his talents to the world.
However, he didn’t want to live in the shadow of the past
achievements.So he played harder and harder to live up to his
reputation.He even scored 81 in the game against Toronto Raptors. Although he felt tired with all the pressure falling on him, he said he wouldn’t give up. It is obvious that he has the ability to bring his team back to the top. Kobe can and must achieve his goal.

Now the legend is gone, I wish I can see the lights of LA at 4am.

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Malone's father is a middle-level cadre in the unit, and Malone was born as the legendary child of someone else's family. Since childhood, he was very sensible, very self disciplined, and his academic performance was very good. He never let his parents worry.
However, in childhood, Malone's health was not very good. In order to strengthen his physique, his father sent him to the children's palace, and carefully selected the item that was not easy to be injured - table tennis.
Ma Long's parents were not from the sports industry, but at that time, everyone had a table tennis complex, and his parents were no exception. They always took Ma long to watch the game and cheer for the Chinese team. Malone cultivated his love for this project in such an environment. After he began to practice table tennis, Malone silently set a lofty goal in his heart. He hoped that one day he could represent China and win the world championship. Therefore, he practiced harder than anyone else.
Others practice more than 200 balls at a time, but he has to double it. Sometimes his arms are swollen and he doesn't make a sound. Qin Zhijian, Ma Long's coach, said that at that time, the teenage Ma Long once told him that my goal was a grand slam. For this reason, Ma long practiced very hard and wanted to be the first in every competition, so it would be particularly uncomfortable when he lost.
In fact, it's not Ma longcha. At that time, he was facing some of the best players in China's table tennis industry, such as Ma Lin, Wang Liqin and Wang Hao. They were all old players, and Ma Long still had a long way to go.
At the age of 18, Malone went to the team competition of the world table tennis championships and won his first world championship. In 2014, he had a muddled year. He once recalled that at that time, he was sensitive and fragile, and his heart was very painful. It was difficult to concentrate whether he was training or participating in competitions. He was always thinking why he chose table tennis?
He even asked himself whether it would be less painful if he didn't play table tennis? In 2015, Malone came to the World Table Tennis Championships for the fifth time, and finally won the championship he had dreamed of for a long time.
Because he was so happy, he jumped onto the table excitedly.
He said he had waited too long.
This year was a lucky year for Malone's table tennis career. He won three championships in a row.
The next year, Malone, 28, won the men's singles at the Rio Olympics and achieved a grand slam as he wished.
He became the fourth Grand Slam player in the history of Chinese men's table tennis. Today, Malone, 33, is still active on the field, and many athletes have chosen to retire at his age.
However, Malone has not revealed when to retire.
What can keep him going is his true love for table tennis and the support of his family.

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Most likely you already heard the name Eileen Gu, the athlete taking the Olympics by storm thanks to her impressive talents as a freestyle skier. At just 18 years old, Gu already won gold medals in both the 2021 Winter X Games and World Championships, before competing in the 2022 Winter Olympics. While Gu was born and raised in California, the teen chose to compete for her mother's native country of China instead of Team USA, a controversial decision that landed Gu in the headlines.
However, the San Francisco native isn't just an athlete, she's also a fashion model and a scholar, who has a ton of interests, hobbies, and even side gigs outside of skiing.Eileen Gu appears to be excelling in everything she does, all while being one of the stand-out stars of the 2022 Olympic Games.
Eileen Gu has apparently been skiing for as long as she can remember, since she first hit the slopes at age 3. Eileen was raised by her mother and grandmother in San Francisco. When it came to her skiing, the teen told The Red Bulletin, they felt "if I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well, because otherwise it's a waste of my time." And she definitely did it well, even from the beginning. From there, Eileen took home her first major title at age 15 while competing in the FIS Freeski World Cup.
When the teen went to her first Olympic Game, she won three medals and fulfilled one of her biggest dreams.

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Deng Yaping, former Chinese women's table tennis team player, Olympic champion, Grand Slam table tennis winner, is the founder of Henan Deng Yaping Sports Industry Investment Fund. At the age of five, Deng began to play table tennis. In 1988, she officially joined the national team. In 1989, at the age of 16, Deng Yaping won the gold medal of women's doubles at the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time. In her 14 years of career, Deng Yaping has won 18 world championships. She has been ranked the world No.1 for 8 consecutive years and is the female player who has been ranked the "world No.1" for the longest time in the history of table tennis.

Hard to practice football skills:
It is known to all that Deng Yaping has been fond of playing table tennis since she was a child, and she dreams of playing it in the world one day. He was rejected because of his short stature and stubby hands and legs
Outside the door of the national team. But she was not discouraged, and
Is to turn failure into motivation, hard training skills, perseverance
The effort finally urged open the flower bud of the dream -- she got what she wanted
Standing on the world champion's podium. In her athletic career
In total, she won 18 world championship MEDALS. Deng Yaping's outstanding achievement not only brought great glory for herself, but also changed the traditional idea that only tall players were selected in the world table tennis.

Cambridge University Reading Inspirational story:
Deng Yaping studied at Newham College, part of the University of Cambridge
To learn a small college, similar to the domestic language study
The courtyard. The students here are mainly foreign students, and Deng is the only one from mainland China. In study, she showed the same vigour as she did when she played. It was arranged by the teacher
The course has been saturated, there are classes every week, the weekend homework is not easy, do homework to prepare for the next week's class, round and round. But she still doesn't feel like she's taking in enough.

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At four o'clock in the morning of January 27, the sun just refracted the first faint light through a few withered leaves. Fans around the world received news that nine people including former NBA superstar Kobe Bryant and his second daughter Jaina were killed in a plane crash. When I saw this information, I was completely confused, and after reading the information I had to believe that Kobe was really gone.
"Have you seen Los Angeles at four o'clock?" Kobe's story I'm sure a lot of people have heard. In an interview, Bryant said that in high school he went to the gym every morning at 4am to start practicing, and after school he would practice basketball until 7pm. At the 2012 London Olympics, training was scheduled to start at 8: 00, but Bryant arrived earlier than many players. By the time the others arrived, Bryant had made more than 800 shots. He kept training at a high intensity for a decade. Even after he had achieved all his achievements, was billed as " "Greatest Player of the Year," he didn't stop to improve his skills. Instead, he put in more time and effort, day after day, year after year, to keep his dream alive.
As the saying goes: "The armed forces can also be commander-in-chief, no man can also take ambition." A person has a dream, ambition to achieve a good life. Kobe is because he has a dream, and he works hard for his dream every day, works harder than others, spends more time, and finally gets the reward, and makes himself.
A lot of people are curious about Kobe's number 24, why he chose 24 instead of the original number 8. Bryant said: " The meaning of the 24th is 24 hours, I want to put all my energy into basketball. " This is Bryant's "Mamba spirit." Success = 99% sweat + 1% talent, Kobe is not only a talented, but also harder than others. He told us: “Always keep learning and progress, get out of your comfort zone, in the process of pursuing your dreams, perseverance and persistence are irreplaceable, don't be the next who, just be the first yourself.
Kobe is not only a NBA superstar, or all of us learn to face life, face the future, face dreams, face their own example. Can you not admire such a person? Heaven is willing to have basketball, let Kobe go all the way!

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The late, great Kobe Bryant, was one the greatest basketball players of all time, as well the one of the biggest competitors. He won five National Basketball Association (NBA) championships, was an 18-time All-Star, a 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, a 12-time member of the All-Defensive Team, the 2008 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), and a two-time NBA Finals MVP. In short, he’s achieved just about every achievable accolade when it comes to basketball. Due to such achievements, he is considered a legend to many. As such, this Kobe Bryant Success Story is to honor and better understand the awe inspiring achievements of Kobe Bryant.

“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” – Kobe Bryant

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Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 17, 1963. He was the fourth of five children born to James and Deloris. James Jordan was a mechanic and Deloris Jordan was a bank teller. Soon after Michael's birth, James and Deloris felt that the streets of Brooklyn were unsafe to raise a family, so they moved the family to Wilmington, North Carolina.

As a youngster, Michael immediately became interested in sports. However, it was baseball not basketball that was his first love. He would play catch in the yard with his father, who loved baseball. He soon started to play basketball to try and follow in the footsteps of his older brother, Larry, whom he idolized growing up.

At Laney High School, as a sophomore, he decided to try out for the varsity team but was cut because he was raw and undersized. The following summer, he grew four inches and practiced tirelessly. The hard work paid off as he averaged 25 points per game in his last two years and was selected to the McDonald's All-American Team as a senior.

Following high school, he earned a basketball scholarship from North Carolina University where he would play under legendary coach Dean Smith. In his first year, he was named ACC Freshman of the Year. He would help lead the Tarheels to the 1982 NCAA Championship, making the game-winning shot.

After winning the Naismith College Player of the Year award in 1984, Jordan decided to leave North Carolina to enter the NBA draft. Although he decided to leave college early, he would later return to the university in 1986 to complete his degree in geography.

In the 1984 NBA draft, he was selected with the third overall pick by the Chicago Bulls. As a rookie for the Bulls, he made an immediate impact, averaging an amazing 28.2 points a game, including six games where he scored 40+ points. He was selected to the NBA All-Star Game and named Rookie of the Year. This would just be the beginning of a career filled with awards and accolades. In the upcoming years, he would go on to win five regular season MVP awards, six NBA championships, six NBA finals MVP awards, three All-Star game MVP awards, and a defensive player of the year award.

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Michael Jordan gets choked up when clarifying his win-at-all costs mentality and who he is as a person.

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1. The NSA wiretapped Ali's phone

Declassified ¹ documents revealed in 2013 that the National Security Agency tapped overseas communications of Vietnam War critics, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Ali, The Washington Post reported at the time.

A brief of those government documents suggests that Ali was surveilled during his efforts to avoid the draft. During 1966 and 1967, the heavyweight boxer ² appealed his draft status, saying, "I can fight in wars declared only by Allah himself." He was sentenced to five years in prison, though the Supreme ³ Court ruled in 1971 that he was entitled to conscientious ⁴ objector status.

2. He starred in a Broadway musical

In 1969, during his suspension from boxing over his refusal to go to Vietnam, Ali was reportedly drowning in debt and still appealing his conviction. He made pocket change by touring colleges to discuss the war, and, as Playbill points out, he starred in the Broadway musical, "Buck ⁵ White."

Ali sang nearly every song in the musical, playing a militant ⁶ black lecturer addressing a meeting organized by a black political group. But he would never return to the stage after his conviction was overturned.

3. He started training in boxing to beat up the kid who stole his bike

Cassius Clay (Ali) was just 12 years old in 1954 when he got ready to "whup" the boy who stole his bicycle in his hometown of Louisville, Ky.

But a local cop warned him that he'd need to learn to box first.

At just 89 pounds, Clay had his first fight -- and his first win -- just weeks later, according to Bleacher Report. By 1964, he was the heavyweight champion of the world, after upsetting Sonny Liston.

No word on whether he got his bike back.

4. Rumor ⁷ has it that his Olympic gold medal is sitting at the bottom of a river

In 1960, the 18-year-old fighter traveled to Rome and won the light heavyweight gold medal in the Summer Olympics.

The story goes that Clay(Ali) hurled ⁸ his gold medal into the Ohio River. But Clay gave different accounts of that act, and according to Thomas Hauser, author of the oral history "Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times," Clay had simply lost the medal.

Luckily, he got a replacement ⁹ medal -- and ongoing ¹⁰ support from his community -- in 1996.

5. He secured the release of 15 US prisoners in Iraq

In November 1990, Ali met with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on a "goodwill ¹¹ tour" in an attempt to negotiate the release of 15 Americans held hostage in Iraq and Kuwait.

Ali was instantly criticized, taking flak from the likes of then-President George H.W. Bush and The New York Times, both of whom expressed concerns that he was fueling a propaganda machine.

Despite running out of medication for his crippling disease and waiting more than a week to talk to Hussein, Ali was able to bring all 15 of a group of captive American soldiers home.

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China's Xu Mengtao scored 108.61 points in the 2022 women's aerials freestyle skiing final at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. After the race, American player Ashley Caldwell immediately hugged Xu Mengtao tightly, affectionately calling her "Tao Tao" and congratulating her on winning the title.

Caldwell, an American freestyle skier, still gave her blessing to Xu despite her defeat, showing an athlete's broad mind.

After the race, many netizens around the world expressed their best wishes to Xu on the Internet, feeling that "this is what the Olympics as they are".

Sports have brought people from all countries together and seen a friendship across borders and races. In addition to winning or losing the competition, besides the color of the MEDALS, the solidarity and friendship between the athletes, all make people witness the other side of the sports, the —— is open, inclusive, friendly and mutual assistance.

The charm of the Olympics is not only reflected in the competitive competition, but also in these warm and touching details.

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In our country, everybody is proud of Women’s Volleyball team. In the 1980s, they had won the world championships five times, which helped the team become the symbol of strong will. But no one can win all the time, since 20xx, the team had met the setback and 11 years later, the new team won the championship again. What an inspiring story.

The women’s volleyball team is favored by everyone. In the TV, their matches will be showed, people will watch and yell for them. My parents told me that their idols were the women’s volleyball players, because they were moved by their tough spirit. I have witnessed these girls at the top and then started to fall, now they have come to the top again. They never give up.

In last 11 years, the women’s volleyball team had experienced the bad time. They were in the turning period, the old players retired and the new players were not strong enough. Though these girls did not play well, they practiced hard and finally come to the top again. I am so moved, they deserve the biggest applause.

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Kobe Bryant turned out to be one of the best players in the league because of his hard work and dedication. Kobe was drafted as the 13th overall pick in the NBA. His work ethic makes him a very great player and pushed himself even harder as an NBA player.

Kobe Bryant played his entire career with the Los Angeles Lakers. He played 20 years, and he became the first guard in NBA history to play at least 20 seasons. All of these would not have happened as Kobe nearly quit basketball when he was 12 years old after a summer basketball camp left him feeling like a disgrace. In the summer camp, Kobe did not score a single point. So, he spent the whole summer with frustration and questioning himself if basketball is really for him.

He came to the point of questioning himself. “Why dream of becoming a basketball player when you clearly have no talent for it?”

But, Kobe read stories about one of his heroes, Michael Jordan. He learned that MJ got cut from the high school basketball team, but MJ didn’t quit.

That very story became his inspiration, and a fire ignited inside him and a realization came to light, to never give up on his dreams. So, he worked hard. Harder than anyone else for the rest of his basketball career. He challenged players that can help him improve his skills and practiced all by himself, even without a ball. He is dedicated to making 400 shots every practice and pushes himself with 4 hours of intense workouts.

He entered the NBA directly from high school, and Kobe Bryant won five NBA championships with the Lakers. He is an 18-time All-Star player, a 15-time member of the ALL-NBA Team, and a 12-time member of the All-defensive team. Kobe Bryant was an NBA leading scorer for two seasons, and ranks third on the league’s all-time regular-season scoring. He was fourth on the all-time postseason scoring list. Kobe won the most valuable player in the year 2008 and a two-time Finals MVP.

The story of Kobe Bryant inspired a lot of basketball players to strive more on achieving their goals. Kobe Bryant’s life story is clear evidence of his extraordinary success because of his work ethic and dedication.

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Michael Phelps is considered the greatest Olympian swimmer of all time. Everyone thought that no swimmer would be able to win 8 gold medals in just one Olympic Games. Michael did just that and he has 19 Olympic medals, 15 of which are gold! The remarkable thing about him is that as a child he suffered from ADHD and was on medication for some of that time. Most people assume that people with ADHD suffer from restlessness, impulsiveness and a very short attention span. But they also have an incredible capacity to remain hyperfocused on an activity they are passionate about. Michael has been able to use this with enormous success. By channelling his energy and focus, he has been able to exploit the positive side of ADHD.

Phelps has shown that he can beat the most disciplined and strongest swimmers in the world and is an inspiring example to anyone who suffers from a mental disorder or other disability. He has another secret in that he uses the power of visualizing success before he starts any swim. He started this process when he was only 7 years old. He realized there were no limits to success and once you are passionate about your objective, nothing can stop you.

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Inspirational story of Japanese athlete Takeichi Yamada

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Inspirational story of Japanese athlete Takeichi Yamada

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In 1984, in the Tokyo International Marathon Invitational race, the unknown Japanese player Yamada Ben unexpectedly won the world championship. When the reporter asked him why he made such amazing achievements, he said such a sentence: defeat his opponents with wisdom.
At that time, many people thought that the short player who accidentally ran ahead was playing tricks. Marathon is a physical and endurance sport. As long as you have good physical quality and patience, you are expected to win the championship. Your explosive power and speed are still second. It is indeed a little reluctant to win with wisdom.
Two years later, the Italian international marathon Invitational race was held in the northern Italian city of Milan, and Yamada Honda participated in the race on behalf of Japan. This time, he won the world championship again. The reporter asked him to talk about his experience.
Yamada is a dull person and is not good at talking. The answer is still the last sentence: defeat your opponent with wisdom. This time the reporter didn't dig at him in the newspaper, but he was puzzled by his so-called wisdom.
Ten years later, the mystery was finally solved. He said in his autobiography: before each race, I had to take a bus to carefully look at the route of the race and draw down the more eye-catching signs along the way. For example, the first sign was the bank; The second sign is a big tree; The third sign is a red house... It is painted until the end of the race. After the game started, I rushed to the first goal at the speed of 100 meters. After reaching the first goal, I rushed to the second goal at the same speed. I broke down the 40 kilometer race into several small goals and finished it easily. At first, I didn't understand this truth. I set my goal on the flag on the finish line more than 40 kilometers away. As a result, I was exhausted when I ran more than ten kilometers, and I was frightened by the long distance ahead.

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The Sound of Music Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer Review Summary In 1930's Austria a young nun is finding it hard to adjust to her new life in the abbey. The Abbess decides that the best thing to do is to send the nun (called Maria) into the world to discover life. She is sent to the von Trapp family to work as a nanny for Captain v Trapp's 7 children. V Trapp is a widowed ex-naval capt who lost his job when Austria lost its coast after the Treaty of Versailles. He is a proud nationalist and is worried about the rise of the far right in neighbouring Germany and talk of a union. V Trapp runs his household like a ship because he knows no other way and is in deep grieving for his wife. When Maria arrives on the scene she is met with opposition from the children and is put-off by the captain's attitudes. In time however, she builds bonds with the entire family, especially Liesl, the eldest child, whom she guides into

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Do Re Mi is a traditional and effective way to teach the concept of the sounds of each note of the scale (also in piano). It is so you can build an understanding of how to pitch notes and know how they should sound. Do Re Mi (The sound of music) was sung by Julie Andrews, I think she could have made that song so children could learn or be happy. The purpose of the song was for people to understand the note of each scale. The song became really popular and it is still to this day. I really like music/enjoy music, it makes me really happy. It also can make me concentrate on stuff like homework, assignment. Music makes my calm and happy. Do Re Mi lyric was like this: Do a deer a female deer, Re a drop of golden sun, Mi a name I call myself, Fa a long long way to run, So a needle pulling thread, La a not to follow so, Ti a drink with jam and bread.

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Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October 1, 1935, in England. Her mother, Barbara Ward (Morris), and stepfather, both vaudeville performers, discovered her freakish but undeniably lovely four-octave singing voice and immediately got her a singing career. She performed in music halls throughout her childhood and teens, and at age 20, she launched her stage career in a London Palladium production of "Cinderella".

Andrew came to Broadway in 1954 with "The Boy Friend", and became a bona fide star two years later in 1956, in the role of Eliza Doolittle in the unprecedented hit "My Fair Lady". Her star status continued in 1957, when she starred in the TV-production of Cinderella (1957) and through 1960, when she played "Guenevere" in "Camelot".

In 1963, Walt Disney asked Andrews if she would like to star in his upcoming production, a lavish musical fantasy that combined live-action and animation. She agreed on the condition if she didn't get the role of Doolittle in the pending film production of My Fair Lady (1964). After Audrey Hepburn was cast in My Fair Lady, Andrews made an auspicious film debut in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins (1964), which earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Andrews continued to work on Broadway, until the release of The Sound of Music (1965), the highest-grossing movie of its day and one of the highest-grossing of all time. She soon found that audiences identified her only with singing, sugary-sweet nannies and governesses, and were reluctant to accept her in dramatic roles in The Americanization of Emily (1964) and Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Torn Curtain (1966). In addition, the box-office showings of the musicals Julie subsequently made increasingly reflected the negative effects of the musical-film boom that she helped to create. Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) was for a time the most successful film Universal had released, but it still couldn't compete with Mary Poppins or The Sound of Music for worldwide acclaim and recognition. Star! (1968) and Darling Lili (1970) also bombed at the box office.

Fortunately, Andrews did not let this keep her down. She worked in nightclubs and hosted a TV variety series in the 1970s. In 1979, Andrews returned to the big screen, appearing in films directed by her husband Blake Edwards, with roles that were entirely different from anything she had been seen in before. Andrews starred in 10 (1979), S.O.B. (1981) and Victor/Victoria (1982), which earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

She continued acting throughout the 1980s and 1990s in movies and TV, hosting several specials and starring in a short-lived sitcom. In 2001, she starred in The Princess Diaries (2001), alongside then-newcomer Anne Hathaway. The family film was one of the most successful G-Rated films of that year, and Andrews reprised her role as Queen Clarisse Renaldi in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004). In recent years, Andrews appeared in Tooth Fairy (2010), as well as a number of voice roles in Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek the Third (2007), Enchanted (2007), Shrek Forever After (2010), and Despicable Me (2010).

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Do a deer a female deer
Re a drop of golden sun
Mi a name I call myself
Fa a long long way to run
So a needle pulling thread
La a note to follow so
Ti a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to do oh oh oh

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<<DoReMi>>
Doe,adeerfemaledeer1(do)，
是鹿，一只母鹿Ray,adropofgoldensun2(re)，
是金色的夕阳
Me,anamecallmyself3(mi)，
那是我的名字
Faralong,longwaytorun4(fa)，
长长的路要跑Sew,aneedlepullingthread5(sol)，
是针儿穿着线
La,anotetofollowSew6(la)，
就跟在so之后Tea,adrinkwithjamandbread7(ti)，
是饮料配面包目录ThatwillbringusbacktoDo(oh-oh-oh)
那就让我们再次回到do

This song has a simple melody,
lively content, and childlike lyrics.
Maria use sharmonics and image memory to make singing more popular and fun for children.
So I like it and want to sing it out with my classmates again.

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A very good place to start
一个好的开端
When you read you begin with “A-B-C”
当你阅读时你就开始于“A-B-C”
When you sing you begin with “Do-Re-Mi”
而当歌唱时你就开始于“Do-re-mi”
Do-re-mi Do-re-mi
The first three notes just happen to be
这正好是前三个音符
Do-re-mi Do-re-mi
Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti
Let's see if I can make it easier
让我们看看能不能简单点  Doe, a deer, a female deer 鹿，是鹿，一只母鹿
Ray, a drop of golden sun 光，是金色的夕阳
Me, a name I call myself 我，那是我的名字
Far, a long, long way to run 远，长长的路要跑
Sew, a needle pulling thread 绣，是针儿穿着线
La, a note to follow Sew 啦，就跟在so之后
Tea，a drink with jam and bread 茶，是饮料配面包
That will bring us back to Do (oh-oh-oh) 那就让我们再次回到do  Doe！a deer, a female deer 鹿，是鹿，一只母鹿
Ray！a drop of golden sun 光，是金色的夕阳
Me！a name I call myself 我，那是我的名字
Far！a long, long way to run 远，长长的路要跑
Sew！a needle pulling thread 绣，是针儿穿着线
La！a note to follow Sew 啦，就跟在so之后
Tea，a drink with jam and bread 茶，是饮料配面包
That will bring us back to Do 让我们再回到do  Doe, a deer, a female deer 鹿，是鹿，一只母鹿
Ray, a drop of golden sun 光，是金色的夕阳
Me, a name I call myself 我，那是我的名字
Far, a long, long way to run 远，长长的路要跑
Sew, a needle pulling thread 绣，是针儿穿着线
La, a note to follow Sew 啦，就跟在so之后
Tea，a drink with jam and bread 茶，是饮料配面包
That will bring us back to Do--- 让我们再回到do
Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do So Do Now children, do-re-mi-fa-so and so on 孩子们，
are only the tools we use to build a song. 仅仅是我们建立歌曲的工具
Once you have these notes in your heads, 当你把音符记在脑中后
you can sing a million different tunes by mixing them up
你就可以唱上百万不同的调子然后将它们混合
like this 像这样
So-do-la-fa-mi-do-re
Can you do that? 你们可以吗？
So-do-la-fa-mi-do-re
So-do-la-ti-do-re-do
So-do-la-ti-do-re-do
Now put it all together！好，把它们合在一起
So-do-la-fa-mi-do-re
So-do-la-ti-do-re-do
Good！真棒！
But it doesn't mean anything. 但它们有什么意思呢？
So we put in word, one word for every note, like this:
所以我们填歌词，一个音符一个字，像这样：
When you know the notes to sing 当你懂得这曲调
You can sing most anything 你就可以尽情唱
Together! 一起来！ When you know the notes to sing 当你懂得这曲调
You can sing most anything 你就可以尽情唱
Doe, a deer, a female deer 鹿，是鹿，一只母鹿
Ray, a drop of golden sun 光，是金色的夕阳
Me, a name I call myself 我，那是我的名字
Far, a long, long way to run 远，长长的路要跑
Sew, a needle pulling thread 绣，是针儿穿着线
La, a note to follow Sew 啦，就跟在so之后
Tea，a drink with jam and bread 茶，是饮料配面包
That will bring us back to Do- 让我们再回到do Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti
Do Do Ti La So Fa Mi Re
Do Mi Mi, Mi So So
Re Fa Fa, La Ti Ti
Do-mi-mi, Mi-so-so
Re-fa-fa, La-ti-ti When you know the notes to sing 当你懂得这曲调
(Do-mi-mi Mi-so-so Re-fa-fa La-ti-ti)
You can sing most anything 你就可以尽情唱
（Do-mi-mi Mi-so-so Re-fa-fa La-ti-ti）（
Doe, a deer, a female deer 鹿，是鹿，一只母鹿
Ray, a drop of golden sun 光，是金色的夕阳
Me, a name I call myself 我，那是我的名字
Far, a long, long way to run 远，长长的路要跑
Sew, a needle pulling thread 绣，是针儿穿着线
La, a note to follow Sew 啦，就跟在so之后
Tea，a drink with jam and bread 茶，是饮料配面包
That will bring us back to - 让我们再回到
Do Re Mi Fa
（So Do La Fa Mi Do Re）
So La
（So Do La Fa）
Ti
（La So Fa Me Re）
Ti Do

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In the Aabbey（The story starts in an abbey of Salzburg， Austria， in the last Golden Days of the Thirties. ） Halleluyah！Bernice： Reverend Mother……Reverend Mother： Sister Bernice.Bernice： I simply cannot find her.Reverend Mother： Maria？Bernice： She's missing from the abbey again.Sister A： Perhaps we should have put a cowbell around her neck.Sister B： Have you tried the barn？ You know how much she adores the animals.Bernice： I have looked everywhere， in all of the usual places.Revernd Mother： Sister Bernice， considering that is Maria， I suggest you look in some place unusual.（Later， Maria gets back and comes toReverend Mother： I'm here， my child. Now sit down.Maria （short for M）： Oh， Reverend Mother， I'm so sorry. I just couldn't help myself. The gates were open and the hills were beckoning and before……Reverend Mother： I know！ I have not summoned you here for apologies. see Reverend Mother.）M： Oh， please Mother， do let me ask for forgiveness.Reverend Mother： If it will make you feel better.

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In the Aabbey（The story starts in an abbey of Salzburg， Austria， in the last Golden Days of the Thirties. ） Halleluyah！Bernice： Reverend Mother……Reverend Mother： Sister Bernice.Bernice： I simply cannot find her.Reverend Mother： Maria？Bernice： She's missing from the abbey again.Sister A： Perhaps we should have put a cowbell around her neck.Sister B： Have you tried the barn？ You know how much she adores the animals.Bernice： I have looked everywhere， in all of the usual places.Revernd Mother： Sister Bernice， considering that is Maria， I suggest you look in some place unusual.（Later， Maria gets back and comes toReverend Mother： I'm here， my child. Now sit down.Maria （short for M）： Oh， Reverend Mother， I'm so sorry. I just couldn't help myself. The gates were open and the hills were beckoning and before……Reverend Mother： I know！ I have not summoned you here for apologies. see Reverend Mother.）M： Oh， please Mother， do let me ask for forgiveness.Reverend Mother： If it will make you feel better.

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“Do-Re-Mi” is Maria’s teaching song, sung to the reluctant children, who have just been introduced to yet another governess. Though the children tell Maria there is no music in the house, she forges ahead, unperturbed. One by one, the children warm to Maria and the notion of singing. By the end of the song, they have all been won over.

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This song is used by Julie Andrews' character, Maria, in the film and stage production of The Sound Of Music, to teach the notes of the major musical scale to the Von Trapp children. Nowadays this is frequently one of the first songs that children will learn to play on simple musical instruments.

Do Re Mi or ‘Tonic Sol-fa’ is a traditional and very effective way to teach the concept of intervals and the sound of each note of the scale. It helps build an understanding of how to pitch notes and know how they should sound.

·       “Do-Re-Mi” is Maria’s teaching song, sung to the reluctant children, who have just been introduced to yet another governess. Though the children tell Maria there is no music in the house, she forges ahead, unperturbed. One by one, the children warm to Maria and the notion of singing. By the end of the song, they have all been won over.

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Julie Andrews made it popular, but the real musical genius behind this singing aid was a medieval monk. When the irrepressible nun-turned-nanny Maria taught the Von Trapp children to sing, she began with "Doe, a deer, a female deer, Ray, a drop of golden sun." Or so Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein portrayed it in their 1959 musical, The Sound of Music.
Do, re, mi is just one of several ways of naming notes (generically called sol-feg or solfeggio) to help singers learn a song rapidly, or even sing it at first sight. This system had its origins in a medieval monastery, where an Italian monk (rather than an Austrian nun) was teaching boys to sing. The monk's name was Guido d'Arezzo (born between 990 and 999), and he is one of the musical geniuses of the Middle Ages.
Guido was educated at the Benedictine monastery at Pomposa near Ferrara, and like church choir directors everywhere, he had to turn musically illiterate people into singers who could lead worship. At Pomposa, he gained a reputation for teaching chants to the singers in record time. He and his friend, Brother Michael, compiled a book of musical responses (or antiphons) for monastic worship using a new system of notation.
Guido's innovations included a system of naming the notes, based on an easy to remember melody. Guido set an existing hymn addressed to John the Baptist to a new tune. That melody was arranged like Richard Rodgers's "Doe, a deer, a female deer." The first note was the lowest note of the scale, and each subsequent phrase began one note higher than the previous phrase. Then Guido used the first syllable of each phrase to name that note of the scale. The hymn's first phrase was Ut queant laxis. So Guido named the first note ut. The second phrase was resonare fibris. So he named the second note re. The hymn had six phrases, and so his charges learned.

Solmization, or the practice of assigning syllables to the different “steps” of the scale, originated in ancient. Fast forward a few thousand years, when Isidore, the Archbishop of Seville during the sixth century, lamented that "Unless sounds are remembered, they perish, for they cannot be written down." A Benedictine monk who was also a master of music named Guido d'Arezzo set to work to prevent so many sacred tunes from being lost.
Brother Guido was familiar with solmization, and noted that most of the Gregorian chants popular at that time could easily be learned by singers if they could see the tone progression up and down the scale, and associate it with the sound. He assigned the notes of the scale—C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C—a syllable: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do. (We know what you're thinking: Yes, it actually is SOL—it's traditionally written that way when the tonic notes are spelled out, and often referred to as the "sol-fa scale" colloquially—but that final L is hard to hear thanks to the LA that follows.)
Those weren’t just random sounds he chose; they came from “Ut Queant Laxis,” a well-known hymn of the Middle Ages that was chanted for vespers. Each succeeding line of the song started one note higher than the previous one, so Guido used the first letters of each word of each line: UT queant laxis, REsonare fibris: MIre gestorum , FAmuli tuorum: SOLve, etc. “Ut” was eventually deemed too difficult pronounce and was changed to “Do.”
Did the Guido method work? Well, as Rodgers and Hammerstein later put it, “When you know the notes to sing, you can sing most anything!”

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Due to the altered timeframe, none of the three children that the captain and Maria had together appeared in the movie version along with the seven children from the captain’s first wife. Daughter Rosmarie was born in 1929 and Eleonore arrived in 1931. The birth of son Johannes in Philadelphia in January 1939, months after the family left Europe, brought the number of von Trapp children to 10.
One of the disappointments the von Trapp children had about “The Sound of Music” was the portrayal of their father as a detached disciplinarian. While he did use a whistle with a distinctive sound for each child and dressed them in sailor suits, the captain did not make his children march or stand at attention. “In reality, Georg was a warm and loving if somewhat overwhelmed father. It was actually Maria herself,” Santopietro writes, “with her emotionally stunted upbringing, who needed thawing.” Johannes von Trapp told the BBC that his father was “a very charming man, generous, open, and not the martinet he was made out to be both in the stage play and in the film. My mother did try to alter that portrayal for the film, but she was not successful.”

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The article related to the song "Do-Re-Me"

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The article related to the song "Do-Re-Me"

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Julie is 86 years old. Andrews, who recently received an AFI Life Achievement Award, starred in the Sound of Music in which the Von Trapp children made a surprise appearance and performed the classic song Do-Re-MI.
The Sound of Music was released on March 2, 1965, by Robert E. Directed by Wise, Julie. Andrews and Christopher Plummer lead the cast. It won the award for Best Picture at the 38th Academy Awards. Wise won the best director award, Julie. Andrews was nominated for best actress.
Come to the scene for Julie. Andrews celebrated a von Trapp child with "Friedrich" Nicholas. Hammond, "Brigitta" Angela Cartwright, "Marta" Debbie. Turner, "Kurt" Duane. Chase and Gret! Kim. Callas arrived and joined in singing Do Re Mi. And Crystal as "the Colonel.
Eph. Plummer, who played Lies! Charmin Carr and Heather as Louisa. Menzy-urich is dead
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Julie. Andrews 1964 film debut "Mary Poppins" and 1965 "The Sound of Music", have achieved greater success, the former for her to win the Academy Award, Golden Globe, laurel award, Grammy Award, etc., the latter has achieved the Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe best actress. His popularity soared. Between 1964 and 1967, a series of films made her the most successful movie star, and for two years she was Hollywood's top-grossing female star. From 2000 to the present, the Queen of England has bestowed it on Jolie. Andrews knighthood, 2019, received the 76th Venice International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. Julie. Andrews is the voice of Minion 2: The Rise of Gru.

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Music by  | Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by  | Oscar Hammerstein II
Date  | 1959
Source  | The Sound of Music (musical)
Publisher  | Williamson Music Co.

"Do-Re-Mi" is a song about teaching the notes of the major musical scale, written for the musical The Sound of Music in 1959. The song has been performed by the Muppets on several occasions.

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On March 2, 1965, The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, held its world premiere at the Rivoli Theatre in New York. The 174-minute film went on to win five Oscars at the 38th Academy Awards, including best picture. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below.

Who says you can’t buy happiness? As long as Robert Wise’s The Sound of Music is playing, you can. And that’s going to be for a good long time. Don’t, however, wait. Don’t deprive yourself of the pleasure a moment longer than necessary. Run, do not walk, to the nearest box office.

The 20th-Fox release will be one of the movies’ all-time hits, one of the all-time great pictures. It restores your faith in movies. If you sit quietly and let it take, it may also restore your faith in humanity. It does this with infectious wit, with consistent gaiety, with simple and realistic spirituality, with romance of heartbreak and heartmend. This is set against the most beautiful scenery you have seen in your life. The Sound of Music is quite a picture.
There are many reasons why this musical, from the lilting intelligence of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, is such an enthralling success. Credit producer-director Robert Wise, first of all, for his consummate skill in organizing and guiding it. But the talent that gives it the final lift is unquestionably that of Julie Andrews.

This lady is not just a great star, she is a whole whirling, dazzling constellation. She is not just an ordinary movie personality, she is a phenomenon. Once there was Mary Pickford, then there was Garbo, now there is Julie. She is very likely going to be the object of one of the most intense and sustained love affairs between moviegoers and a star in the history of motion pictures.

It has been common to say that this score by Rodgers and Hammerstein is not one of their great ones. So it seemed when the show opened in New York. The show had a curious rising curve, though. Despite the patronizing tone of the critics, it enjoyed a substantial Broadway success. Its enduring values have been seen elsewhere. It has turned out to be one of the most popular shows in new musical theaters now dotting the land.

Its score, as one witness who has seen it five or six times can testify, is insidious. It grows on the hearer. Maybe the tunes aren’t whistled or hummed the first time they’re heard. But they grow on one. Commercially, therefore, the film has the advantage of a marvelous, beguiling score but one that has not been done to death. Richard Rodgers did two new songs for the film, adding to those done for the original by him and the late Oscar Hammerstein II.           The story is more or less true. And if it isn’t altogether as things were, it should be true. Maria, a postulant at a convent near Salzburg, Austria, is detached from her duties to be governess to the seven motherless children of Baron Von Trapp. The Baron, formerly a captain and hero in the Austrian navy, runs his home on military lines. His five girls and two boys exercise their rebellion by tormenting a string of governesses. Maria is the first to defeat them. She does it with spunkiness and charm, teaching them to live and love. She also makes a conquest of the captain and ends up herself Baroness Von Trapp.

Von Trapp left Austria after the Nazi Anschluss. He is ordered to report for military service with the Nazis. He elects instead to flee Austria, with his whole family. The picture ends as the Von Trapp family walks across the Austrian Alps to freedom in Switzerland. They later, of course, came to the United States and became famous as a singing group.

Wise shot all the exteriors of The Sound of Music, and some of the interiors, at the locale, the Austrian city of Salzburg. He justifies that location in the first few minutes. It is a daring opening, with no music, no sound, just clouds floating across the screen, clouds that thin to disclose the Alps, and then Miss Andrews singing the title song. It is some kind of irony that this incomparable scenery has been the paint-and-canvas background for a dozen operettas. This is the first time it has been used “live.”

The Sound of Music is what it says, almost continuously musical in sound. Wise and company have used music to cover two bad gaps in the stage version. There is a new song, “Confidence in Me,” sung by Miss Andrews with bounce and verve, on her journey from the Abbey to the Von Trapp villa. The final big scene, where the Von Trapps must confuse the Nazis in making a getaway, has been set in a Salzburg concert hall. There is a good, exciting scene following this where the Von Trapps elude their pursuers with the help of Maria’s nuns. This leads naturally into the final scene of the Von Trapps walking over the mountains to freedom.

Before these gripping moments, exceptionally realistic in a musical, there has been a festival of romance and gaiety. There is the humor of Miss Andrews, as Maria, teaching her high-spirited children how to exercise their spirits. The most spectacular, and one of the most purely film musical numbers ever done, is that where she teaches them how to sing, with the song, “Do-Re-Mi.” Starting on a high, flower-strewn Alpine plateau, Wise cuts without dissolve or explanatory transition to a series of scenes, each for a different verse of the song. This structure enables him to get into his camera a series of spectacular Salzburg backgrounds, lakes, gardens, public squares. The tempo is quickened by the subtlety of changing costumes for the group on different verses. A time sequence is established without obvious mechanisms. It produces a flow of melody that quickens the senses and works to a completely captivating conclusion. Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood did the choreography for the picture. It is a creation of movement rather than dance in the conventional sense, infinitely imaginative and endearing.

There is a sequence in a gazebo of the villa grounds, where Von Trapp’s eldest daughter and a young suitor sing and dance to “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” with the rain splashing on the trellised, glass-paned walls that is intimate and fragile as young love. Miss Andrews and Christopher Plummer, who plays Von Trapp, declare their love is an Austrian folk dance, the landler, that is more touching because neither knows until the dance claims them that they are in love. This is done in a gilt-and-painted, baroque salon.

Wise has his own version of the singing nuns, as some of Maria’s seniors in the convent join in a quartet to describe the young woman. (As one of the nuns, incidentally, there is Marni Nixon, now, finally, out from behind the screen with her own winsome voice and her own pert personality.) There is another song, “Edelweiss,” a lyric expression of the Austrians’ love of their land, which is repeated in stately rhythm as a wedding march for Miss Andrews and Plummer. (What a relief not to have Mendelssohn thundering from the pipes! How daring and how right!)

A yodeling number, “The Lonely Goatherd,” has been given new staging for the picture as a puppet number, with the children and Miss Andrews singing and manipulating the puppets, and yo-tee-hodeling away. There is the charming rondelay “Good Night,” where the children chant their farewells for the evening. There is Peggy Wood, as the Mother Abbess, giving spiritual and practical advice to Miss Andrews in the song “Climb Every Mountain.” Another song, “My Favorite Things,” is staged with breathless and tricky vivacity in a small bedroom scene — most of it on the bed — while Miss Andrews and the kids jointly conquer their fear of thunder and lightning. Bobby Tucker did the vocal work, and one and all sing loud, clear and musically. Irwin Kostal’s scoring gives the different numbers placement and color. There is some dubbing of singing voices, but it is done unobtrusively. There is no dubbing, it need hardly be added, for Miss Andrews.

If The Sound of Music has lags, there are really only respites between the excitements. In short, the picture slows down when Miss Andrews is not on. There is a subplot of a designing lady, played by Eleanor Parker, who wants to marry Plummer. Miss Parker is glamorous and lovely, and she gets redeeming humor in her scenes. But our heart is not in this aspect of the picture. The simple truth is that when Miss Andrews is not on, the audience is impatient for her to get back.

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The Sound of Music

The hills are alive with sound musical music,
With songs they have sung for a thousand years.
The hills fill my heart with the sound of music
My heart wants to sing every thing every song it hears.
My heart wants to beat
Like the wings of the birds that rise
From the lake to the trees.
My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies
From a church on a breeze
To laugh like a brook when it trips
And falls over stones on its way.
To sing through the night
Like a lake who is learning to pray.
I go to the hills when my heat is lonely.
I know I will hear what I've heard before.
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music,
And I'll sing once more.

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《Do-Re-Mi》 is the first 3 syllables of the 7th-order scale method, i.e. 1,2,3 of scales 1-7.There are many songs with this as the title, and if you ask about Chinese children's songs do re mi.This song is from the famous Oscar-winning musical 《The Sound of Music》.Maria, the governess in the film, made up the song so that the seven children of the Navy officer's family remember the most basic seven titles used to sing. She uses harmonic sounds and image memorization methods to make children learn to sing more popular and interesting.

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"Do-Re-Mi" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Each syllable of the musical solfège system appears in the song's lyrics, sung on the pitch it names. Rodgers was helped in its creation by long-time arranger Trude Rittmann who devised the extended vocal sequence in the song.

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Quenton’s homework《I Bought Me a Cat》：I bought me a cat and the cat pleased meI fed my cat under yonder treeCat goes fiddle-i-feeI bought me a hen and the hen pleased meI fed my hen under yonder treeHen goes chimmy-chuck chimmy-chuckCat goes fiddle-i-feeI bought me a duck and the duck pleased meI fed my duck under yonder treeDuck goes quack quackHen goes chimmy-chuck chimmy-chuckCat goes fiddle-i-feeI bought me a goose and the goose pleased meI fed my goose under yonder treeGoose goes hissy hissyDuck goes quack quackHen goes chimmy-chuck chimmy-chuckCat goes fiddle-i-feeI bought me a sheep and the sheep pleased meI fed my sheep under yonder treeSheep goes baa baaGoose goes hissy hissyDuck goes quack quackHen goes chimmy-chuck chimmy-chuckCat goes fiddle-i-feeI bought me a pig and the pig pleased meI fed my pig under yonder treePig goes oink oinkSheep goes baa baaGoose goes hissy hissyDuck goes quack quackHen goes chimmy-chuck chimmy-chuckCat goes fiddle-i-feeI bought me a cow and the cow pleased meI fed my cow under yonder treeCow goes moo mooPig goes oink oinkSheep goes baa baaGoose goes hissy hissyDuck goes quack quackHen goes chimmy-chuck chimmy-chuckCat goes fiddle-i-feeI bought me a horse and the horse pleased meI fed my horse under yonder treeHorse goes neigh neighCow goes moo mooPig goes oink oinkSheep goes baa baaGoose goes hissy hissyDuck goes quack quackHen goes chimmy-chuck chimmy-chuckCat goes fiddle-i-feeI bought me a dog and the dog pleased meI fed my dog under yonder treeDog goes bow-wow bow-wowHorse goes neigh neighCow goes moo mooPig goes oink oinkSheep goes baa baaGoose goes hissy hissyDuck goes quack quackHen goes chimmy-chuck chimmy-chuckCat goes fiddle-i-fee

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Quenton’s homework《I Bought Me a Cat》：I bought me a cat and the cat pleased meI fed my cat under yonder treeCat goes fiddle-i-feeI bought me a hen and the hen pleased meI fed my hen under yonder treeHen goes chimmy-chuck chimmy-chuckCat goes fiddle-i-feeI bought me a duck and the duck pleased meI fed my duck under yonder treeDuck goes quack quackHen goes chimmy-chuck chimmy-chuckCat goes fiddle-i-feeI bought me a goose and the goose pleased meI fed my goose under yonder treeGoose goes hissy hissyDuck goes quack quackHen goes chimmy-chuck chimmy-chuckCat goes fiddle-i-feeI bought me a sheep and the sheep pleased meI fed my sheep under yonder treeSheep goes baa baaGoose goes hissy hissyDuck goes quack quackHen goes chimmy-chuck chimmy-chuckCat goes fiddle-i-feeI bought me a pig and the pig pleased meI fed my pig under yonder treePig goes oink oinkSheep goes baa baaGoose goes hissy hissyDuck goes quack quackHen goes chimmy-chuck chimmy-chuckCat goes fiddle-i-feeI bought me a cow and the cow pleased meI fed my cow under yonder treeCow goes moo mooPig goes oink oinkSheep goes baa baaGoose goes hissy hissyDuck goes quack quackHen goes chimmy-chuck chimmy-chuckCat goes fiddle-i-feeI bought me a horse and the horse pleased meI fed my horse under yonder treeHorse goes neigh neighCow goes moo mooPig goes oink oinkSheep goes baa baaGoose goes hissy hissyDuck goes quack quackHen goes chimmy-chuck chimmy-chuckCat goes fiddle-i-feeI bought me a dog and the dog pleased meI fed my dog under yonder treeDog goes bow-wow bow-wowHorse goes neigh neighCow goes moo mooPig goes oink oinkSheep goes baa baaGoose goes hissy hissyDuck goes quack quackHen goes chimmy-chuck chimmy-chuckCat goes fiddle-i-fee

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But Fern couldn't eat until her pig had had a drink
of milk. Mrs. Arable found a baby's nursing bottle and
a rubber nipple. She poured warm milk into the bottle,
fitted the nipple over the top, and handed it to Fern.
"Give him his breakfast!" she said.
A minute later, Fern was seated on the floor in the
comer of the kitchen with her infant between her
knees, teaching it to suck from the bottle. The pig,
although tiny, had a good appetite and caught on
quickly.
The school bus honked from the road.
"Run!" commanded Mrs. Arable, taking the pig
from Fern and slipping a doughnut into her hand.
Avery grabbed his gun and another doughnut.
The children ran out to the road and climbed into
the bus. Fern took no notice of the others in the bus.
She just sat and stared out of the window, thinking
what a blissful world it was and how lucky she was to
have entire charge of a pig. By the time the bus reached
school, F em had named her pet, selecting the most
beautiful name she could think of.
"Its name is Wilbur," she whispered to herself.

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There are a lot of animals that are in danger, and they need help.Some are from getting abused by their owner like stabbing them and killing them for their meat. There are more than 70 billion animals that are killed each year, it's really sad how people kill animals for their meat, fun and their fur. Animals can become extinct soon! We have to help or try our best to save animals from them getting extinct, even meatless mondays can help. Humans should treat animals the same way they treat humans, animals are just like humans but their looks are different. How we can help animals: Meatless Mondays, eating less meat, adopting an animal, Volunteer at an animal shelter, speak up, and take some action. Those are some ways to help save animals!

-Sami

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路易斯·塞普尔维达 的《小蜗牛慢慢来》

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The Story of a Seagull and the Cat who Taught Her to Fly

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The Story of a Seagull and the Cat who Taught Her to Fly

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The mother of seagull died because of the human behavior of destroying the sea. Before her death, she committed the newly laid seagull eggs to the black cat salbass in the harbor. In the harbor, the thing of a cat is the thing of all port cats. Therefore, solbuss and his cat friends, "secretary", "captain", "know-all" and "against the wind", jointly took on the responsibility of caring and education the "lucky" of the little sea gulls, who fought with rogue cats, talked with mice, argued with monkeys, and fought with humans. In order to teach the little seagulls to fly, they tried everything they could, rummaged through the encyclopaedia, and even talked to humans. Finally, with the help of a poet, one night of rain and rain, the little gulls "lucky" finally opened their hearts and flew to the sky.  I like the little black cat solbus and his cat friends, who could have eaten the seagull's eggs. But they didn't, on the contrary, the cats were very serious about completing the three promises that weren't necessarily. In order to protect the little gulls, they fought back the cats and mice again and again at the risk, and finally succeeded with the help of a poet and let them fly into the blue sky. But let's think about the death of gull kena, and the series of hard experiences of the cats and the lucky gulls that followed, Isn't it all the damage to the ecological environment that we humans have caused? People are constantly releasing oil into the sea, causing serious pollution, and animals and animals are greatly affected. The ecological environment was destroyed, and ultimately human life was affected: the oil leaked from the sea made ships inconvenient to sail and polluted aquatic products; Deforestation of trees causes sandstorms to make the air fresh; toxic substances enter the soil to pollute crops and endanger human bodies. Acid rain has caused serious harm to the survival of trees, and the ground is also acidic and the soil is acidic, which will lead to agricultural production reduction. Acid rain can also damage buildings. Haze is inhaled into the lungs, pollutants can harm human health, make people suffer respiratory diseases. And a lot of losses can't be remedied and redeemed by money. "Teach seagulls to fly the cat" this book is not only to let people feel happy and happy after reading, know how to cherish the friendship, it is to wake up everyone's understanding of the environmental situation, let everyone together to protect the environment, protect the nature, protect the only earth!

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The story of a seagull and the cat who taught her to fly

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The story of a seagull and the cat who taught her to fly

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Kengah unfolded her wings to take off, but the approaching wave was too quick. Its force swept her beneath the surface, and when she came back up, the daylight had disappeared. She shook her head again and again, realizing that she had surfaced through the black wave of an oil slick that had nearly blinded her. Kengah, the gull with feathers once the colour of silver, kept dipping her head deep into the water until a few sparks of light penetrated the thick oil covering her eyes. Sticky blobs the gulls called the black plague glued her wings to her body. She began to kick her feet with the hope that she could swim fast enough to escape from the black tide. Every muscle cramped with the effort, but at last she came to the edge of the oil slick and paddled into clean water. She blinked and dipped her head until she was able to clear her eyes, but when she looked up all she saw were a few clouds floating between the sea and the enormous dome of the skies. Her friends from the flock of the Red Sand Lighthouse were already far away, very far away.

That was the rule. She herself had seen other seagulls surprised by the deadly black tides, and though everyone wanted to go back and offer help, they knew that help would be impossible. There was nothing they could do. And so her flock had flown on, respecting the rule that forbids witnessing the death of one’s fellow gulls. With their wings immobilized, stuck fast to their bodies, gulls are easy prey for large fish. Or they may die more slowly, suffocated by the oil that sinks through their feathers and clogs their pores. That was the fate that awaited Kengah. She hoped it would be the jaws of a giant fish that would quickly snap her up. The black stain. As she awaited the end, Kengah cursed all humans. “But not all of them. I should be fair,” she squawked weakly. 19 hamburg in view Often from high above she had watched as large oil tankers took advantage of foggy days along the coast to steam away from land to wash out their tanks. They spilled thousands of gallons of a thick, stinking substance into the sea, which then was carried along by the waves. But she also saw how sometimes smaller vessels kept close to the tankers and prevented them from emptying their tanks. Unfortunately, those boats, draped in the colours of the rainbow, didn’t always arrive in time to prevent the poisoning of the seas.
Rebecca

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A heartbreaking photo of a dolphin carrying her dead calf through waters in Perth, Western Australia, has gone viral.

Western Australia's Parks and Wildlife shared the image of the dolphin named Moon on Tuesday, saying it was a "sad outcome" for the area's new calves.

"The calf was found deceased in Claremont Bay after becoming entangled in a crab pot," the organisation wrote on Facebook.

"Mother Moon was swimming alongside the calf when the pair was located by the Parks and Wildlife Service on Monday after being reported by a member of the public.

"The dead calf has since been freed from the crab pot, but remains in the water with the mother dolphin as she grieves. Dolphins are highly intelligent creatures and are known to stay with their young for a period of time following a death."

The department says it will continue to monitor the pair and remove the dead calf from mum "when appropriate to do so"."We ask the public to stay well away from the dolphin and her dead calf during this time," the post said.

People on Facebook are mourning the loss of the baby dolphin."So sad and so preventable," a Facebook user wrote."Sadness caused by carelessness of people," another person said.

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Watching birds fly in the sky and fish swim in the water. Maybe you think there are many animals in the world! But do you know that there are not many animals now, and some animals have been very rare, and even some animals have become extinct. According to biologists' estimates, there are at least hundreds of animals that have been killed by humans for thousands of years and have become extinct. As a result, there are fewer and fewer animal species in the world. If we can't save them in time, then we will be the only animals in the world in the future! Don't think I'm "alarmist". If you don't believe me, I can tell you.
People's "threat" to animals is gradually increasing, which makes it necessary to talk about protecting animals.
It is very important to protect animals. Modern biology has always emphasized the coordinated development of nature and human beings. Animals are a part of nature, so people should live in harmony with animals and protect them, otherwise, they will be punished. Locust plague, two words of terror. When locusts swarm, there is no leaf everywhere they go, which has caused great losses to mankind. Why? I think everyone understands. Voles, another natural enemy of food, when owls enter people's stomachs, food is also entering voles' stomachs. Over time, a new term "rat disaster" may also appear. At that time, what will people eat? I think everyone knows the result. Isn't this revenge enough?
Therefore, I think it is particularly important to protect animals, especially those beneficial to human beings! At the same time, protecting animals is also a responsibility. Human responsibility!
In ancient times, China was a veritable natural zoo and a paradise for animals! Li Taibai once wrote in his poem that "the apes on both sides can't stop crying, and the boat has crossed the mountains". Liu Zongyuan also recorded that "there are hundreds of fish in the pond". Mr. ZUIWENG also said that "the woods are cloudy, and the sound is up and down". There are countless records of this kind. But now? It's not easy for the river to be clear. How dare you expect "hundreds of fish"? Another example is that urbanization has taken away the lovely homes of animals, zoos have taken away the precious freedom of animals, and the endless flow of cars has also taken their lives... I can't say anything, people have done too much harm to animals!
Friends, animals are priceless treasures left by nature to mankind. They are our human friends. Their birth, reproduction and death are closely related to our human life. The mass destruction of animals will have serious adverse consequences for human beings, resulting in serious ecological imbalance, thus destroying the living environment of human beings. Let's start from now on, from me, to protect animals and make the world a better place!

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In a dense forest, a clear, gurgling brook flowing stream full of colorful flowers. In the wild flowers everywhere on the Bank of the river has a small log cabin, cabin lived an old hunter.

One day, the old hunter wearing clothes, picked up the gun, went out hunting.

The monkey tree happily to the hunter said: "good morning, hunter! What are you going to do?" said the huntsman, "I go to dozen small rabbit." The hunter walked and walked, saw a little rabbit, the little rabbit also saw the hunter, he immediately ran away. The hunter ran after the.

The rabbit ran to the hole, the lion told this thing. The lion has a hole. Not found the lion, the lion put down the hunter. The lion said to the old man, "you men should protect our animal!" the hunter agreed. The lion let go of the hunter and went home happily.

From then on, the hunter and the animals live a happy life.

在一个茂密的大森林里，一条清澈的小溪淙淙流过，溪边开满了五颜六色的鲜花，在这野花遍地的河岸上有一个小木屋，木屋里住着一位老猎人。

一天，老猎人穿上衣服，拿起猎枪，出去打猎了。

树上的小猴高高兴兴地向猎人说：“猎人，早上好!你去干什么?”猎人说：“我去打小兔子。”猎人走啊走，看见一只小兔子，小兔子也看到了猎人，就马上跑得远远的。猎人急忙追了过去。

小兔跑到洞里，把这件事告诉了狮子。狮子就出洞了。没等猎人发现狮子，狮子就把猎人扑倒了。狮子向老猎人说：“你们人类应该要保护我们动物的!”猎人答应了，狮子放开了猎人，高高兴兴地回家去了。

从那以后，猎人和动物们过着快乐的生活。

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The story begins with Fern Arable rescuing the runt of a pig’s litter, Wilbur, from certain slaughter. Fern cares for the pig, who beats the odds and survives—which is something a theme for Wilbur. Mr. Arable, fearing his daughter is becoming too attached to an animal that is being bred to be butchered, sends Wilbur to the nearby farm of Fern’s uncle, Mr. Zuckerman.

Wilbur settles into his new home. At first, he’s lonely and misses Fern, but he settles in when he meets a spider named Charlotte and other animals, including Templeton, a scavenging rat. When Wilbur discovers his fate—pigs are raised to become bacon—Charlotte hatches a plan to help him.

She spins a web over Wilbur’s sty that reads: “Some Pig.” Mr. Zucker spots her work and thinks it is a miracle. Charlotte keeps spinning her words, deploying Templeton to bring back labels so she can copy words such as “Terrific” over Wilbur’s pigpen.

When Wilbur is taken to the country fair, Charlotte and Templeton go to continue their work, as Charlotte spins new messages. The results draw enormous crowds and Charlotte’s plan to save Wilbur’s life pays off.

At the close of the fair, however, Charlotte says goodbye to Wilbur. She is dying. But she entrusts her friend with a sack of eggs she has spun. Heartbroken, Wilbur takes the eggs back to the farm and sees that they hatch. Three of Charlotte’s “kids” stay with Wilbur, who lives happily with Charlotte’s descendants.

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After she save Wilbur  fitted the nipple over the top, and handed it to Fern. "Give him his breakfast!" she said.
A minute later, Fern was seated on the floor in the comer of the kitchen with her infant between her

knees, teaching it to suck from the bottle. The pig, although tiny, had a good appetite and caught on quickly.
The school bus honked from the road.
"Run!" commanded Mrs. Arable, taking the pig from Fern and slipping a doughnut into her hand. Avery grabbed his gun and another doughnut.
The children ran out to the road and climbed into the bus. Fern took no notice of the others in the bus. She just sat and stared out of the window, thinking what a blissful world it was and how lucky she was to have entire charge of a pig. By the time the bus reached school, Fem had named her pet, selecting the most beautiful name she could think of.
"Its name is Wilbur," she whispered to herself.
She was still thinking about the pig when the teacher said: "Fern, what is the capital of Pennsylvania?"
"Wilbur," replied Fern, dreamily. The pupils gig gled. Fem blushed.
FERN loved Wilbur more than anything. She loved to stroke him, to feed him, to put him to bed. Every morning, as soon as she got up, she warmed his milk, tied his bib on, and held the bottle for him. Every afternoon, when the school bus stopped in front of her house, she jumped out and ran to the kitchen to fix another bottle for him. She fed him again at suppertime, and again just before going to bed. Mrs. Arable gave him a feeding around noontime each day, when Fern was away in school. Wilbur loved his milk, and he was never happier than when Fern was wanning up a bottle for him. He would stand and gaze up at her with adoring eyes.
For the first few days of his life, Wilbur was allowed to live in a box near the stove in the kitchen. Then, when Mrs. Arable complained, he was moved to a big ger box in the woodshed. At two weeks of age, he was moved outdoors. It was apple-blossom time, and the days were getting warmer. Mr. Arable fixed a small yard specially for Wilbur under an apple tree, and gave him a large wooden box full of straw, with a doorway cut in it so he could walk in and out as he pleased.
"Won't he be cold at night?" asked Fem.
"No," said her father. "You watch and see what he does."
Carrying a bottle of milk, Fern sat down under the
apple tree inside the yard. Wilbur ran to her and she held the bottle for him while he sucked. \Vhen he had finished the last drop, he grunted and walked sleepily into the box. Fern peered through the door. Wilbur was poking the straw with his snout. In a short time he had dug a tunnel in the straw. He crawled into the tunnel and disappeared from sight, completely cov ered with straw. Fern was enchanted. It relieved her mind to know that her baby would sleep covered up, and would stay warm.Every morning after breakfast, Wilbur walked out to the road with Fern and waited with her till the bus came. She would wave good-bye to him, and he would stand and watch the bus until it vanished around a turn. While Fern was in school, Wilbur was shut up inside his yard. But as soon as she got home in the afternoon, she would take him out and he would follow her around the place. If she went into the house, Wilbur went, too. If she went upstairs, Wilbur would wait at the bottom step until she came down again. If she took her doll for a walk in the doll car riage, Wilbur followed along. Sometimes, on these journeys, Wilbur would get tired, and Fern would pick him up and put him in the carriage alongside the doll. He liked this. And if he was very tired, he would close his eyes and go to sleep under the doll's blanket. He looked cute when his eyes were closed, because his lashes were so long. The doll would close her eyes, too, and Fern would wheel the carriage very slowly and smoothly so as not to wake her infants.
One warm afternoon, Fern and Avery put on bath ing suits and went down to the brook for a swim. Wilbur tagged along at Fern's heels. When she waded into the brook, Wilbur waded in with her. He found the water quite cold-too cold for his liking. So while the children swam and played and splashed water at each other, Wilbur amused himself in the mud along the edge of the brook, where it was wann and moist and delightfully sticky and oozy.
Every day was a happy day, and every night was peaceful.
Wilbur was what farmers call a spring pig, which simply means that he was born in springtime. When he was five weeks old, Mr. Arable said he was now big enough to sell, and would have to be sold. Fern broke down and wept. But her father was finn about it. Wil bur's appetite increased; he was beginning to eat scraps of food in addition to milk. Mr. Arable was not willing to provide for him any longer. He had already sold Wilbur's ten brothers and sisters.
"He's got to go, Fern, " he said. "You have had your fun raising a baby pig, but Wilbur is not a baby any longer and he has got to be sold."
"Call up the Zuckermans," suggested Mrs. Arable to Fern. "Your Uncle Homer sometimes raises a pig. And if Wilbur goes there to live, you can walk down the road and visit him as often as you like."
"How much money should I ask for him?" Fern wanted to know.
"Well," said her father, "he's a runt. Tell your Uncle Homer you've got a pig you'll sell for six dollars, and see what he says."
It was soon arranged. Fern phoned and got her Aunt Edith, and her Aunt Edith hollered for Uncle Homer, and Uncle Homer came in from the bam and talked to Fern. When he heard that the price was only six dollars, he said he would buy the pig. Next day Wilbur was taken from his home under the apple tree and went to live in a manure pile in the cellar of Zuck erman's bam.

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Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant’s garden.

It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them. “How happy we are here!” they cried to each other.

One day the Giant came back. He had been to visit his friend the Cornish ogre, and had stayed with him for seven years. After the seven years were over he had said all that he had to say, for his conversation was limited, and he determined to return to his own castle. When he arrived he saw the children playing in the garden.

“What are you doing here?” he cried in a very gruff voice, and the children ran away.

“My own garden is my own garden,” said the Giant; “any one can understand that, and I will allow nobody to play in it but myself.” So he built a high wall all round it, and put up a notice-board.

TRESPASSERS
WILL BE
PROSECUTED

He was a very selfish Giant.

The poor children had now nowhere to play. They tried to play on the road, but the road was very dusty and full of hard stones, and they did not like it. They used to wander round the high wall when their lessons were over, and talk about the beautiful garden inside. “How happy we were there,” they said to each other.Then the Spring came, and all over the country there were little blossoms and little birds. Only in the garden of the Selfish Giant it was still winter. The birds did not care to sing in it as there were no children, and the trees forgot to blossom. Once a beautiful flower put its head out from the grass, but when it saw the notice-board it was so sorry for the children that it slipped back into the ground again, and went off to sleep. The only people who were pleased were the Snow and the Frost. “Spring has forgotten this garden,” they cried, “so we will live here all the year round.” The Snow covered up the grass with her great white cloak, and the Frost painted all the trees silver. Then they invited the North Wind to stay with them, and he came. He was wrapped in furs, and he roared all day about the garden, and blew the chimney-pots down. “This is a delightful spot,” he said, “we must ask the Hail on a visit.” So the Hail came. Every day for three hours he rattled on the roof of the castle till he broke most of the slates, and then he ran round and round the garden as fast as he could go. He was dressed in grey, and his breath was like ice.

“I cannot understand why the Spring is so late in coming,” said the Selfish Giant, as he sat at the window and looked out at his cold white garden; “I hope there will be a change in the weather.”

But the Spring never came, nor the Summer. The Autumn gave golden fruit to every garden, but to the Giant’s garden she gave none. “He is too selfish,” she said. So it was always Winter there, and the North Wind, and the Hail, and the Frost, and the Snow danced about through the trees.

One morning the Giant was lying awake in bed when he heard some lovely music. It sounded so sweet to his ears that he thought it must be the King’s musicians passing by.It was really only a little linnet singing outside his window, but it was so long since he had heard a bird sing in his garden that it seemed to him to be the most beautiful music in the world. Then the Hail stopped dancing over his head, and the North Wind ceased roaring, and a delicious perfume came to him through the open casement. “I believe the Spring has come at last,” said the Giant; and he jumped out of bed and looked out.

What did he see?

He saw a most wonderful sight. Through a little hole in the wall the children had crept in, and they were sitting in the branches of the trees. In every tree that he could see there was a little child. And the trees were so glad to have the children back again that they had covered themselves with blossoms, and were waving their arms gently above the children’s heads. The birds were flying about and twittering with delight, and the flowers were looking up through the green grass and laughing. It was a lovely scene, only in one corner it was still winter. It was the farthest corner of the garden, and in it was standing a little boy. He was so small that he could not reach up to the branches of the tree, and he was wandering all round it, crying bitterly. The poor tree was still quite covered with frost and snow, and the North Wind was blowing and roaring above it. “Climb up! little boy,” said the Tree, and it bent its branches down as low as it could; but the boy was too tiny.

And the Giant’s heart melted as he looked out. “How selfish I have been!” he said; “now I know why the Spring would not come here. I will put that poor little boy on the top of the tree, and then I will knock down the wall, and my garden shall be the children’s playground for ever and ever.” He was really very sorry for what he had done.

So he crept downstairs and opened the front door quite softly, and went out into the garden. But when the children saw him they were so frightened that they all ran away, and the garden became winter again. Only the little boy did not run, for his eyes were so full of tears that he did not see the Giant coming. And the Giant stole up behind him and took him gently in his hand, and put him up into the tree. And the tree broke at once into blossom, and the birds came and sang on it, and the little boy stretched out his two arms and flung them round the Giant’s neck, and kissed him. And the other children, when they saw that the Giant was not wicked any longer, came running back, and with them came the Spring. “It is your garden now, little children,” said the Giant, and he took a great axe and knocked down the wall. And when the people were going to market at twelve o’clock they found the Giant playing with the children in the most beautiful garden they had ever seen.

All day long they played, and in the evening they came to the Giant to bid him good-bye.

“But where is your little companion?” he said: “the boy I put into the tree.” The Giant loved him the best because he had kissed him.

“We don’t know,” answered the children; “he has gone away.”

“You must tell him to be sure and come here to-morrow,” said the Giant. But the children said that they did not know where he lived, and had never seen him before; and the Giant felt very sad.

Every afternoon, when school was over, the children came and played with the Giant. But the little boy whom the Giant loved was never seen again.

The Giant was very kind to all the children, yet he longed for his first little friend, and often spoke of him. “How I would like to see him!” he used to say.

Years went over, and the Giant grew very old and feeble. He could not play about any more, so he sat in a huge armchair, and watched the children at their games, and admired his garden. “I have many beautiful flowers,” he said; “but the children are the most beautiful flowers of all.”

One winter morning he looked out of his window as he was dressing. He did not hate the Winter now, for he knew that it was merely the Spring asleep, and that the flowers were resting.

Suddenly he rubbed his eyes in wonder, and looked and looked. It certainly was a marvellous sight. In the farthest corner of the garden was a tree quite covered with lovely white blossoms. Its branches were all golden, and silver fruit hung down from them, and underneath it stood the little boy he had loved.

Downstairs ran the Giant in great joy, and out into the garden. He hastened across the grass, and came near to the child. And when he came quite close his face grew red with anger, and he said, “Who hath dared to wound thee?” For on the palms of the child’s hands were the prints of two nails, and the prints of two nails were on the little feet.

“Who hath dared to wound thee?” cried the Giant; “tell me, that I may take my big sword and slay him.”

“Nay!” answered the child; “but these are the wounds of Love.”

“Who art thou?” said the Giant, and a strange awe fell on him, and he knelt before the little child.

And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, “You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.”

And when the children ran in that afternoon, they found the Giant lying dead under the tree, all covered with white blossoms.

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‘How Crab Got a Hard Back’ from Tales from the West Indies By Philip Sherlock 

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‘How Crab Got a Hard Back’ from Tales from the West Indies By Philip Sherlock 

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Now in the spring of time, when everything was new, there was an old witch-woman and nobody knew her name. She called herself Old Woman Crim, and though she was very rich she was very mean.

She had no children of her own, but she kept animals as her children: Duck, Goat, Crab, and Peacock. These children knew her true name. Crab and Duck knew, and Peacock and Goat, but Old Woman Crim made them promise never to tell.

Leaning on a long, crooked stick that she had cut from a tamarind-tree, and holding half a calabash full of magic water, she sprinkled the magic drops over them and said:

‘Water, water, make bad things come,

Who tells my name, I make him dumb,

Water, water, make bad things come,

I make him dumb I make him dumb.’

So Old Woman Crim’s children never told her name. The witch-woman had a voice that sounded like dry leaves when the wind blows them across the street. A thin, dry voice she had, and bright black eyes like beads, and a long, red purse in which she kept her gold. Old Woman Crim, as she counted her gold, morning and evening, said:

‘I never spent money today,

I made them work right through the day

But I never spent money today.’

This is what Old Woman Crim did. She sent out parrot, and Kisander the cat, to spread the news that she wanted a girl to work as a maid and cook. The girl had to work for a week. At the end of the week, if she guessed Old Woman Crim’s true name, she would get half the clothes in the closet, and half the food in the cupboard, and half the gold in the purse. One girl after another came and worked. Each went away without guessing the name.

At the end of the rainy season a girl from the town came and worked for a week, washing the clothes down by the stream, cooking the food, cleaning the floor, working from day to night with Old Woman Crim saying in her dry, thin voice:

‘Work harder, work harder through the day

Or I’ll send you away, send you away.’

At the end of the week the girl went away crying because she would not guess Old Woman Crim’s name. The old woman caught the tears in her magic calabash and kept them there.

During the dry season another girl came and worked all week, from sunrise till late at night, and at the end of the week Old Woman Crimsaid:

‘What’s my name? What’s my name? Tell me the same.’

The girl guesses Quasheeba, Selina, Jestina, and all the witch names, but she couldn’t guess right. Old Woman Crim sent the girl away hungry, and caught her tears in the magic calabash. And when it came near to Christmas no more girls came. There were no more girls to clean the house and cook the food and take Old Woman Crim’s clothes down to the stream. Try as hard as she could, the old woman could get no more girls. She sent out Parrot far and wide to tell the news.

She sent Krisander the cat to promise half the clothes in the closet, half the food in the cupboard, hald the gold in the long, red purse. But no girl came. Anansi heard Parrot calling the news from tree to tree. He heard Krisander the cat. Anansi wanted some money, for Christmas was coming. He said to himself, ‘I can find out Old Woman Crim’s name. I will dress up as a girl and work for her.’

As Anansi dressed himself up as a girl in a pretty white dress with pink spots, and a broad-rimmed hat, and a little bag, and shoes with pointed toes, but not too pointed, for Anansi’s feet were large– and high heels, but not too high, for Anansi couldn’t walk easily in shoes with high heels. Then he set off for Old Woman Crim’s home. The witch-woman was glad when Anansi, dressed as a girl, walked up to the front door and asked for work.She had a lot of clothes ready to be washed. She took on Anansi, and said: ‘The first thing to do, my daughter.

Go wash these clothes in river water!’

Anansi set off with the basket full of clothes and started to wash them in the stream. As he washed, he saw Crab walking along under the shelter of a rock. Anansi thought to himself, ‘Ah, Crab is Old Woman Crim’s child. He knows her name. I will find a way of making him talk.’

‘Oh, what a handsome gentleman,’ said Anansi, in a voice like a girl’s.

‘You like me, girl?’ asked Crab. No girl had ever called him a pretty gentleman before. He was very pleased.

‘You like me, girl?’ he repeated.

‘Yes, sir,’ said Anansi, and smiled at Crab more with her eyes than with her lips, like a girl.

‘Yes sir. What a real dandy man, sir! Do you travel far?’

Crab was very happy, hearing how the girl in the white dress with pink spots praised him. He began to boast a little: ‘Yes, girl,’ he said. I travel all over the world. But you are a nice girl and you have a lot of sense. I like you, girl.’

‘Oh, sir,’ said Anansi, smiling more than ever, ‘I like you too. If I ever get into trouble would you help me, sir?’

‘Of course,’ said Crab. ‘If ever you get into trouble, girl, you come to me and I will help you.’

‘Thank you, sir, from the bottom of my heart,’ replied Anansi. ‘But now I must go. I don’t think you will see me again, but I will remember your promise, sir.’

‘I never break my word,’ boasted Crab. ‘But I would like to see you again, girl.’

‘Perhaps, sir, perhaps,’ said Anansi as he walked away with the basket of clothes, walking very slowly because he was not quite used to the shoes with pointed toes and high heels.

At the end of the week Anansi was very tired. He had never worked so hard in all his life. Now it was Saturday and Old Mother Crim said to him, ‘Girl, you have to guess my name. If you guess wrong you get nothing.’

Anansi asked for a little time to consider. He went down to the river and sat by the rock where he had seen Crab. He took some of the river water and rubbed his eyes, so that it looked as if he had been crying. The drops trickled down his cheeks like tears. He sobbed and whispered, ‘Poor megirl, poor me girl! What am I to do?’ He kept on sobbing and whispered, ‘Poor me girl!’

Crab looked out from his home. He saw the girl in the white dress with pink spots, sobbing. He heard her whispering, ‘Poor me girl.’

He went up to her and said, ‘Cheer up, girl, what’s the matter with you?’

‘Sir, I worked for an old lady the whole week and now she won’t pay me if I can’t guess her name.’

‘Don’t cry, girl,’ said Crab. ‘That’s Old Woman Crim, my mother. I know her name.’

‘Oh, poor me girl! Tell me her name, sir. Oh, what am I to do? Christmas coming and no money! Help me, sir.’

‘Very well, girl,’ said Crab. ‘I promised to help you and I will.’ Crab whispered the name in Anansi’s ear.
Anansi never even waited to say thanks. He ran up the bank of the stream without stopping to pick up the high-heeled shoes when they fell off. He ran to Old Woman Crim’s home so fast that he was out of breath when he got there.

The witch-woman shrieked, ‘Girl, can you guess my name?’

‘I am not sure, ma’am,’ replied Anansi.

‘Guess,’ screamed Old Woman Crim. ‘Guess three times. Guess my name and you get the gold. Guess wrong and off you go.’

‘Your name is Mother Jane,’ cried Anansi.

‘Wrong, wrong, first time wrong.’

Anansi said slowly, ‘Your name is Mother Jonkanoo.’

‘Wrong, wrong, second time wrong. Guess again, then get along.’ cried the old witch-woman, and now her voice was like the crackling of fire in dry bush. She held her purse tight, for she was sure she would not have to pay out any money. She shrieked, ‘Guess again, then get along!’

‘Your name is Mother Cantinny,’ cried Anansi. ‘Mother Cantinny, Mother Cantinny.’ Anansi shouted the name aloud so that Parrot heard it and Kisander the cat also.
Old Woman Crim fell to the ground as if she were dead. Then she got up, and gave Anansi half the clothes in the closet, half the food in the cupboard, half the gold in the long, red purse.

As he went off through the gate Anansi said, ‘Anansi guessed your name, Old Woman Crim, old Mother Cantinny!’

Mother Cantinny was very angry. ‘Anansi must have worked a trick on one of my children,’ she said to herself. She called together Duck, Goat, Peacock, and Crab and stood them in a line. Then she said, ‘They say that I am Cantinny They call me Old Crim, I am Crim, you are Crim AndCantinny, Who said Cantinny? Who said Cantinny?’

She looked into the face of each one as she asked, ‘Who said Cantinny?’

She stared at Goat, and Goat stared back at her.

She stared at Duck, and Duck stared back at her.

She stared at Peacock, and Peacock stared back at her.

She stared at Crab, and Crab held his face down, looking at the ground.

‘It’s you, it’s you,’ she cried. She threw the magic calabash at him. Crab turned and ran, but the calabash fell on his back, and the tears of all the girls held it fast. There it is. That is how the Crab got his hard back. Anansi made it happen.

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Day after day the spider waited, head-down, for an idea to come to her. Hour by hour she sat motionless, deep in thought. Having promised Wilbur that she would save his life, she was determined to keep her promise.
Charlotte was naturally patient. She knew from experience that if she waited long enough, a fly would come to her web; and she felt sure that if she thought long enough about Wilbur’s problem, and idea would come to her mind.
Finally, one morning toward the middle of July, the idea came. “Why, how perfectly simple!” she said to herself. “The way to save Wilbur’s life is to play a trick on Zuckerman. If I can fool a bug,” thought Charlotte, “I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.”
Wilbur walked into his yard just at that moment.
“What are you thinking about, Charlotte?” he asked.
“I was just thinking,” said the spider, “that people are very gullible.”
“What does ‘gullible’ mean?”
“Easy to fool,” said Charlotte.
“That’s a mercy,” replied Wilbur, and he lay down in the shade of his fence and went fast asleep. The spider, however, stayed wide awake, gazing affectionately at him and making plans for his future. Summer was half gone. She knew she didn’t have much time.
That morning, just as Wilbur fell asleep, Avery Arable wandered into the Zuckerman’s front yard, followed by Fern. Avery carried a live frog in his hand. Fern had a crown of daisies in her hair. The children ran for the kitchen.
“Just in time for a piece of blueberry pie,” said Mrs. Zuckerman.
“Look at my frog!” said Avery, placing the frog on the drainboard and holding out his hand for pie.
“Take that thing out of here!” said Mrs. Zuckerman.
“He’s hot,” said Fern. “He’s almost dead, that frog.”
“He is not,” said Avery. “He lets me scratch him between the eyes.” The frog jumped and landed in Mrs. Zuckerman’s dishpan full of soapy water.
“You’re getting your pie on you,” said Fern. “Can I look for eggs in the henhouse, Aunt Edith?”
“Run outdoors, both of you! And don’t bother the hens!”
“It’s getting all over everything,” shouted Fern. “His pie is all over his front.”
“Come on, frog!” cried Avery. He scooped up his frog. The fog kicked, splashing soapy water onto the blueberry pie.
“Another crisis!” groaned Fern.
“Let’s swing in the swing!” said Avery.
The children ran to the barn.
Mr. Zuckerman had the best swing in the county. It was a single long piece of heavy rope tied to the beam over the north doorway. At the bottom end of the rope was a fat knot to sit on. It was arranged so that you could swing without being pushed. You climbed a ladder to the hayloft. Then, holding the rope, you stood at the edge and looked down, and were scared and dizzy. Then you straddled the knot, so that it acted as a seat. Then you got up all your nerve, took a deep breath, and jumped. For a second you seemed to be falling to the barn floor far below, but then suddenly the rope would begin to catch you, and you would sail through the barn door going a mile a minute, with the wind whistling in your eyes and ears and hair. Then you would zoom upward into the sky, and look up at the clouds, and the rope would twist and you would twist and turn with the rope. Then you would drop down, down, down out of the sky and come sailing back into the barn almost into the hayloft, then sail out again (not quite so far this time), then in again (not quite so high), then out again, then in again, then out, then in; and then you’d jump off and fall down and let somebody else try it.
Mothers for miles around worried about Zuckerman’s swing. They feared some child would fall off. But no child ever did. Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.
Avery put the frog in his pocket and climbed to the hayloft. “The last time I swang in this swing, I almost crashed into a barn swallow,” he yelled.
“Take that frog out!” ordered Fern.
Avery straddled the rope and jumped. He sailed out through the door, frog and all, and into the sky, frog and all. Then he sailed back into the barn.
“Your tongue is purple!” screamed Fern.
“So is yours!” cried Avery, sailing out again with the frog.
“I have hay inside my dress! It itches!” called Fern.
“Scratch it!” yelled Avery, as he sailed back.
“It’s my turn,” said Fern. “Jump off!”
“Fern’s got the itch1” sang Avery.
When he jumped off, he threw the swing up to his sister. She shut her eyes tight and jumped. She felt the dizzy drop, then the supporting lift of the swing. When she opened her eyes she was looking up into the blue sky and was about to fly back through the door.
They took turns for and hour.
When the children grew tired of swinging, they went down toward the pasture and picked wild raspberries and ate them. Their tongues turned from purple to red. Fern bit into a raspberry that had a bad-tasting bug inside it, and got discouraged. Avery found and empty candy box and put his frog in it. The frog seemed tired after his morning in the swing. The children walked slowly up toward the barn. They, too, were tired and hardly had energy enough to walk.
“Let’s build a tree house,” suggested Avery. “I want to live in a tree, with my frog.”
“I’m going to visit Wilbur,” Fern announced.
They climbed the fence into the lane and walked lazily toward the pigpen. Wilbur heard them coming and got up.
Avery noticed the spider web, and , coming closer, he saw Charlotte.
“Hey, look at that big spider!” he said. “It’s tremendous.”
“Leave it alone!” commanded Fern. “You’ve got a frog—isn’t that enough?”
“That’s a fine spider and I’m going to capture it,” said Avery. He took the cover off the candy box. Then he picked up a stick. “I’m going to knock that old spider into this box,” he said.
Wilbur’s heart almost stopped when he saw what was going on. This might be the end of Charlotte if the boy succeeded in catching her.
“You stop it, Avery!” cried Fern.
Avery put one leg over the fence of the pigpen. He was just about to raise his stick to hit Charlotte when he lost his balance. He swayed and toppled and landed on the edge of Wilbur’s trough. The trough tipped up and then came down with a slap. The goose egg was right underneath. There was a dull explosion as the egg broke, and then a horrible smell.
Fern screamed. Avery jumped to his feet. The air was filled with the terrible gases and smells from the rotten egg. Templeton, who had been resting in his home, scuttled away into the barn.
“Good night!” screamed Avery. “Good night! What a stink! Let’s get out of here!”
Fern was crying. She held her nose and ran toward the house. Avery ran after her, holding his nose. Charlotte felt greatly relieved to see him go. It had been a narrow escape.
Later on that morning, the animals came up from the pasture—the sheep, the lambs, the gander, the goose, and the seven goslings. There were many complaints about the awful smell, and Wilbur had to tell the story over and over again, of how the Arable boy had tried to capture Charlotte, and how the smell of the broken egg drove him away just in time. “It was that rotten goose egg that saved charlotte’s life,” said Wilbur.
The goose was proud of her share in the adventure. “I’m delighted that the egg never hatched,” she gabbled.
Templeton, of course, was miserable over the loss of his beloved egg. But he couldn’t resist boasting. “It pays to save things,” he said in his surly voice. “A rat never knows when something is going to come in handy. I never throw anything away.
“Well,” said one of the lambs, “this whole business is all well and good for Charlotte, but what about the rest of us? The smell is unbearable. Who wants to live in a barn that is perfumed with rotten egg?”
“Don’t worry, you’ll get used to it,” said Templeton. He sat up and pulled wisely at his long whiskers, then crept away to pay a visit to the dump.
When Lurvy showed up at lunchtime carrying a pail of food for Wilbur, he stopped short a few paces from the pigpen. He sniffed the air and made a face.
“What in thunder?” he said. Setting the pail down, he picked up the stick that Avery had dropped and pried the trough up. “Rats!” he said. “Fhew! I might a’known a rat would make a nest under this trough. How I hate a rat!”
And Lurvy dragged Wilbur’s trough across the yard and kicked some dirt into the rat’s nest, burying the broken egg and all Templeton’s other possessions. Then he picked up the pail. Wilbur stood in the trough, drooling with hunger. Lurvy poured. The slops ran creamily down around the pig’s eyes and ears. Wilbur grunted. He gulped and sucked, making swishing and swooshing noises, anxious to get everything at once. It was a delicious meal—skim milk, wheat middlings, leftover pancakes, half a doughnut, the rind of a summer squash, two pieces of stale toast, a third of a gingersnap, a fish tail, one orange peel, several noodles from a noodle soup, the scum off a cup of cocoa, an ancient jelly roll, a strip of paper from the lining of the garbage pail, and a spoonful of raspberry jello.
Wilbur ate heartily. He planned to leave half a noodle and a few drops of milk for Templeton. Then he remembered that the rat had been useful in saving Charlotte’s life, and that Charlotte　was trying to save his life. So he left a whole noodle, instead of a half.
Now that the broken egg was buried, the air cleared and the barn smelled good again. The afternoon passed, and evening came. Shadows lengthened. The cool and kindly breath of evening entered through doors and windows. Astride her web, Charlotte sat moodily eating a horsefly and thinking about the future. After a while she bestirred herself.
She descended to the center of the web and there she began to cut some of her lines. She worked slowly but steadily while the other creatures drowsed. None of the others, not even the goose, noticed that she was at work. Deep in his soft bed, Wilbur snoozed. Over in their favorite corner, the goslings whistled a night song.
Charlotte tore quite a section out of her web, leaving an open space in the middle. Then she started weaving something to take the place of the threads she had removed. When Templeton got back from the dump, around midnight, the spider was still at work.

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Rio Adventure", "Leo is a rare species of blue macaw, after being born in Brazil, it was smuggled to the United States, and has been living in human society so that Leo has forgotten how to fly, and when he returns to Brazil and sees his only kind on earth, Jewel, he is thrilled. But Jewel couldn't accept this stupid kind of person who couldn't even fly. Leo tried his best to win the hearts of the beauties, and he had to pluck up the courage to face the pursuit of a group of evil forces, and finally successfully learned to fly. ”

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Once there lived a man among the hills, who possessed a statue wrought by an ancient master,at lay at his door face downward and he was not mindful of it.One day there passed by his house a man from the city, a man of knowledge, and seeing thestatue he inquired of the owner if he would sell it.The owner laughed and said, "and pray who would want to buy that dull and dirty stone?"The man from the city said, "I will give you this piece of silver for it." And the other man wasastonished and delighted.The statue was removed to the city, upon the back of an elephant.And after many months the man from the hills visited the city, and as he walked the streets hesaw a crowd before a shop, and a man with a loud voice was crying, "Come in and behold the most beautiful, the most wonderful statue in all the world. Only twosilver pieces to look upon this most marvelous work of a master. "There upon the man from the hills paid two silver pieces and entered the shop to see thestatue that he himself had sold for one piece of silver.

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The Story of a Seagull and the cat who taught her to fly by Luis Sepulveda

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The Story of a Seagull and the cat who taught her to fly by Luis Sepulveda

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The big, fat, black cat was taking the sun on his balcony, purring and meditating on how good he felt lying there, belly up, luxuriating in the warm rays of the sun, his four paws folded and his tail straight out.

At the precise moment that he lazily rolled over so the sun could warm his back, he heard the hum of a flying object he couldn’t identify, something approaching at great speed. Alert, he leapt up, crouching on all four feet and ready to jump aside to avoid being hit by the seagull that dropped onto the balcony.

It was a very dirty bird. Its whole body was coated with some dark, stinking substance.

Zorba walked toward the gull as she tried to stand up, dragging her wings. “That was not a very elegant landing,” he said.

“I’m very sorry. I couldn’t help it,” the gull admitted.

“Eeyow! You look awful. What is that all over you! And you stink something awful” The cat hissed.

“I was caught in an oil slick. The curse of the seas. I’m going to die,” the gull croaked plaintively.

“Die? Don’t say that. You’re tired and dirty. That’s all. Why don’t you fly over to the zoo? It isn’t too far from here, and there are veterinarians there who can help you,” Zorba said.

“I can’t. That was my last flight,” the gull croaked in an almost inaudible voice, and closed her eyes.

“Don’t die on me. Rest a little and you’ll see, you’ll feel better. Are you hungry? I’ll bring you a little of my food, just don’t die,” Zorba begged, approaching the swooning gull.

Overcoming his disgust, the cat licked the gull’s head. The black stuff that covered her tasted as bad as it smelled. As he passed his tongue along her throat, the cat noticed that the bird’s breathing was growing weaker and weaker.

“Look, my little friend. I want to help you, but I don’t know how. Try to rest while I go find out what you do with a sick gull,” Zorba called back, ready to jump to the roof.

As he started off in the direction of the chestnut tree, he heard the gull calling him back.

“Do you want me to leave you a little of my food?” Zorba asked, slightly relieved.

“I am going to lay an egg. With the last strength in my body, I am going to lay an egg. My good cat, anyone can see that you are a fine animal, one with noble sentiments. And for that reason, I am going to ask you to make me three promises. Will you do that for me?” Kengah croaked, slowly paddling her feet in a futile attempt to stand.

Zorba thought the poor gull was delirious, and because she was in such a sorry state, he had no choice but to be generous. “I promise I will do what you ask. But for now, just rest,” he mewed with compassion.

“I don’t have time to rest. Promise me you won’t eat the egg,” Kengah croaked, opening her eyes.

“I promise I will not eat the egg,” Zorba repeated.

“Promise me that you will look after it until the chick is born,” she squawked, holding her neck a little higher.

“I promise I will look after the egg until the chick is born.”

“And promise me that you will teach it to fly,” Kengah gasped, staring directly into the cat’s eyes.

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So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.

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The big, black, fat cat, sobas, lay on the balcony sunbathing, snoring from time to time, thinking how comfortable it was for such a shy stomach, curly claws and stretched tail to lie in the sun. He rolled lazily so that the sun could shine behind him. Just then, he heard a buzzing sound, like the sound of an unidentified high-speed flying object. He jumped up vigilantly and stood on all fours. Before he could dodge to the other side, a seagull fell directly onto the balcony. The bird was dirty and covered with a black smelling oil stain. Solbas leaned towards her, and the seagull dragged its wings and tried to straighten up. "It's not ugly to land like this." He said. "Sorry, I have to." Seagull admitted that he was right. "Hey, you don't look very good." Are you okay? It stinks! Solbas gasped. "A black tide attacked me, black and smelly. The sea is in trouble, too. I'm dying. The seagull said sarcastically," dead? Don't say that. You're just tired and dirty, that's all. Why don't you fly to the zoo? Not far from here, there is a veterinarian who may help you. Solbas said. "I can't go. This is my last flight. The seagull said, her voice is very weak, almost inaudible, and then she closed her eyes." don't die! "You'll be fine after a while. Are you hungry? I'll give you some food, and you won't die." Solbas begged her to approach the seagull that fainted. The kitten endured nausea and licked her forehead. The layer around her tastes worse. When his tongue moved to the seagull's neck, he noticed that her breathing was getting weaker and weaker. "Hey, friend, I want to help you, but I don't know how to help." You have a good rest. I'll ask you by the way how I can help a critically ill seagull. Solbas said that and jumped on the roof. He climbed towards the chestnut tree when he heard the seagull calling him. "Do you want me to bring you something to eat?" He wanted to comfort her. "I'm going to lay eggs. I'll use my last strength to lay eggs. Kitten friend, I can see that you are a good cat with noble character, so I want to ask you to promise me three things. Can you promise me?" Seagull said, clumsily shaking his claws, trying to stand up, but still failed. Solbas thought that the poor gull must be talking nonsense. Seeing that she was in a desperate situation, he could only be generous. "I promise you. But now you need to rest." He said sympathetically. "I have no time to rest. Promise me not to swallow the eggs." She said, opening her eyes. "I promise you not to eat the eggs." Solbas repeated. "Promise me that you will teach it to fly." She said, staring at the kitten. At this time, solbas guessed that the unlucky Seagull was not only talking nonsense, but probably she was completely crazy. "I promise you will teach it to fly. But now you have to rest, and I'll find someone to help." With that, solbas jumped onto the roof. The seagull looked up at the sky and thanked God for letting her bathe in the gentle wind. When she sighed for the last time, a white egg with blue spots fell down and shook beside her greasy body. Solbas hurried down from the chestnut tree and ran quickly across the courtyard to an Italian restaurant in Hamburg Port. There, the waiter is busy setting the table for the guests who have lunch. Solbas shouted three times, then sat on the landing of the stairs and waited. A few minutes later, the "secretary" came to him. This is a Roman cat. "I want to talk to the colonel. The situation is urgent." Solbas said. No one knows the age of the "Colonel". It doesn't matter how old he is, but the "Colonel" has a strange ability to give advice to people in trouble. He was regarded as a true authority by the port cats. The "secretary" led solbas to meet the "Colonel", and the "Colonel" suggested that everyone ask "know it all". "Know it all" lives in the grocery store in the port. He is the pet of grocery store owner Harry. After hearing solbas' description, "know it all" shouted happily, "yes! Let's check the encyclopedia!" However, the contents of the encyclopedia about seagulls do not help them much. At best, let them understand that the seagull that worried them at the moment was a silver feather, and this name was due to their silver feathers. Similarly, the part about oil found in the book is of little use to how to save the seagull. But on the page with the entry "detergent", they not only found a way to remove jam, ink, blood, raspberry syrup and other stains, but also knew the trick of removing oil stains. "Know it all" decided to go with them, so the four cats ran to the exit of Harry's grocery store together. Four cats got off the roof and reached the balcony. They immediately realized that they were a step late. Facing the lifeless body of the seagull, the "Colonel", "know it all" and sol bass had a dignified face, while the "secretary" shook his tail desperately in the wind to dispel the smell of gasoline. "I think we have to close her wings. In this case, we usually do this." "Colonel" explained to everyone. They resisted the nausea caused by the oil stained body and closed her wings to her body. When flipping her, everyone found the white seagull egg with blue spots+ "Eggs! She gave birth to eggs!" Sol bass shouted. "You're in big trouble, dear friend, big trouble!" "Colonel" reminded him+ "What should I do with this egg?" Solbas asked himself, more helpless. "An egg can be used for many purposes. For example, making an omelet." "Secretary" suggested. "By the way! Look at the encyclopedia, which will tell us how to cook the best omelets. This has to look up Volume 21, which begins with the letter T." The tone of "know it all" is conclusive. "Don't talk about it! Solbas promised the poor seagull that he would look after her eggs and children. The promise made by a port cat has something to do with all the cats here, so you can't touch this egg." The "Colonel" announced in a solemn manner. "But I don't know how to look after an egg! I've never looked after an egg!" Solbas said desperately. So everyone looked at "know it all". Maybe you will find relevant contents in the famous book of hundred subjects and all. "I have to check Volume 8, which begins with the letter h. I'm sure I can find everything related to eggs there. But now I think I have to keep it warm, keep it warm with body heat, and take a fairly hot body temperature." His tone sounded like a mystical sermon. "That means you should lie down next to the egg, but you can't break it." "Secretary" said. "That's what I want to suggest to you. Solbas, you stay next to the seagull's egg, and we'll accompany 'know it all' back to see his Baike... Hundred lessons... In short, you know what I'm talking about. In the evening, we'll bring back the news and bury the poor seagull together." The "Colonel" made arrangements one by one, and then jumped onto the roof. "Know it all" and "secretary" followed him. Solbas stayed on the balcony, with the seagull egg and the body of the seagull lying beside him. He carefully lay down and put the egg against his belly. He couldn't help thinking that his appearance was extremely ridiculous+ But a promise is a promise after all. In this way, bathed in the warm sun, he was sleepy, and the white seagull egg with blue spots was tightly pressed against his dark belly.

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I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

I have a dream that one day out in the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; that one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be engulfed, every hill shall be exalted and every mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I will go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

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“I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr.

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“I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr.

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Albert thought that he would make a good science teacher. Time went on and in 1900 he graduated as a science teacher, although he did have a hard time finding a job at a university. Albert developed a lot of interesting theories, and in 1921 he won a prize for explaining the photoelectric effect. Albert was very smart and kept working on his theories, Albert had a theory of space time doing weird things that wasn’t usual. Albert had an iq between 160-255, Albert never took an iq test before but people guessed his iq. Albert was very smart, and he could talk at the age of 5 and finish a full sentence.

My thoughts
Albert Enistein is a very smart person and he kept testing out his theories and finding about it, I would say that Albert Enistein is a intresting person and has a lot of thoughts about the world and many more things.

Sami

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Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist and educator, known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s.

Yuan was born in 1930 in Beijing, but his hometown is De'an County, Jiangxi Province. He was an expert in hybrid rice and academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Yuan graduated from the Agriculture Department of Southwest Agriculture Institute in 1953 and then began his teaching career in Anjiang Agriculture School, Hunan Province. Since 1960, he has devoted himself to the research of hybrid rice. Through 12 years of hard work, he succeeded in cultivating "three-line hybrid rice". Between 1976 and 1997, the accumulative acreage of hybrid rice amounted to 3.2 billion mu, seeing an increased production of 300 billion kilograms of rice. In 1979, the technique for hybrid rice was introduced into the United States, the first case of intellectual property rights transfer in the history of new China. Later, Yuan developed a more advantageous two-line hybrid rice, which can produce 5-10 percent more of rice.
Yuan has won many awards and titles for his outstanding work, among which are the "State Preeminent Science and Technology Award", "National Model Worker" and "National Advanced Worker" as well as "Preeminent Inventor" conferred by the World Intellectual Property Organization. He is reputed as "Father of Hybrid Rice" by his colleagues working around the world.
Yuan's articles include "Key Techniques of Hybrid Rice's Seed Production" and "High Yielding and Practices and Theories on Cultivating Hybrid Rice". Yuan is also the editor-in-chief of the magazine Hybrid Rice.                                            He help us ,and let us has food to eat ，he make the hybrid rice, and in the year that don't have food to eat he help us or I can say our grand perent.Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist and educator, known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s.I want to contribute as much to society as he did.

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In 1997, Kobe Bryant was a rookie and his three-point shot skill hasn’t been developed. At that time, the L.A.Lakers members, Holly，Brain Shaw，Mitch Richmond and Kobe trained the three-point shot everyday. Holly mentioned that Kobe used to lose at the beginning, then he played harder on the next day. Although Kobe was defeated by someone among us later, but it was unbelievable that he never stopped practicing. After couple of months, Kobe won all of us in the end. The spirit of never giving up and persisting  in practicing are the reasons why he won the NBA Championship.

Kobe was not a genius and had no difference with other guys. But his hard working leads to a  big success in his career.I learn from him that making efforts is more important than talent.  Even if you are not good enough so far, always believe that hard work pays off.

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Yao began his basketball career in April 1998 when he was selected to the national team coached by Wang Fei. He won the CBA Regular Season MVP in 2001, the CBA championship and the CBA Finals MVP in 2002, and was voted the CBA Champion and block shot champion for three times and the CBA Dunk Champion for two times respectively. He was selected by the Houston Rockets with the first overall pick in the 2002 NBA Draft and was selected to the NBA All-Star Team for six consecutive seasons (eight career times) from 2003-09. He was selected to the All-NBA Second Team twice and the All-NBA Third Team three times.
Next,it is a story wrote by Tracy BCkenady:
I had just won the last two scoring titles with the Orlando Magic, but I was so excited to be playing with a great big man that I knew I was going to have to work with him and feed him the ball. But to do that, we needed communication.

How would I talk to him on the court? Would I have to look over at an interpreter on the bench every time we needed to say something to each other? I was thinking maybe we'd have earpieces or something.

When I finally met him, I realized two things: he does speak English and not only does he speak it, he has an amazing sense of humor.

I loved seeing his personality come out more and more over the years as he got more comfortable in Houston. That's how I really learned what an amazing person he is. He will sometimes just pretend he doesn't speak English -- he does that even to this day!

I remember when he came to my wedding reception in 2006. My family and friends were so excited and they all wanted to take pictures and get autographs, and he pretended he couldn't understand them. I just had to sit back and laugh.

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Born in America, Thomas Edison was a great scientist and inventor. He was once thought to be a boy who was not worth educating. In fact, he was a man full of imagination.

I admire Edison a lot because of his great contribution to the world. He had more than 1,000 inventions. In his lifetime, he was always eager to know how things worked, which helped him to earn the nickname"the Wizard of Melo Park".He was also so diligent that he worked day and night. And this explained why he had so many great inventions.

What impresses me most is his famous saying,"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."Probably I cannot be an Edison myself, but I can be a hard-working learner. From him, I realize the secret to success is not when or where you were born, but what you are doing and how you do it in your life.

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According to Forbes, Elon Musk, the CEO and founder of Tesla and SpaceX is the most innovative person in the world for the second consecutive time. And that is very clear of the unbelievable success he has achieved in business.

Ten years ago, people considered him a reckless man with extravagant ideas. In 2008, his company Tesla collapsed during the financial crisis. Now Tesla is one of the most successful niche car companies in producing electric cars, all due to the fact that Elon Musk persevered and was determined. He has done what was thought to be impossible 10 years ago. But he has no plans of stopping soon. He has many innovative and wild plans for the future of mankind which would improve the quality of our lives.

Elon Musk believes that day by day the technology is only getting better and better. Things are developing so fast that the future might be filled with exponential tech advances that would change the world. In the future, we will have video games so realistic that it would be difficult for us to tell the difference between games and reality. From self driving tunnel networks to brain controlled computers, we’re going to look at how Elon Musk and his technology will take us forward and create the city of the future. Elon says that we always want the future to be better than the past. A future that is exciting and one that the people would want to live in. A few decades ago a lot of technological advances seemed unimaginable but today they are our new normal, life without them is unimaginable.