About Plato

I am going to talk about a famous and eloquent scholar. We are always reminded of his students, but we neglect him:Plato, who was a lofty ideologist, actually should be proud of himself. He exhibited completely his ideology in the human history. In fact, the things I am going to talk about of Plato are the real history in ancient Greece.

Sparta was one of the most powerful countries in ancient Greece. Most of the arrogant Spartans were warriors. They were keen on fight, and boycotted scholars. They stopped immigrants settling down in Sparta. The Spartans chose the stronger babies, and the thinner and weaker babies were abandoned. The scholars were segregated in this country, and they could not communicate with each other. The Spartans used force to solve problems and used force to custody their benefit; the strongest man had the power to give verdicts. These are the pedestals of this country, and these things degraded the Spartans, but we have to admit that the most developed social system --Utopia was produced by this wild country.
The first advocate of Utopia was Plato; he called the Utopia “the dream country”. As the name suggests, we can know Utopia just exists in a dream. It is just the affection of some ideologist, but on the other side, the Utopia ferried some people who lived in poverty from the real pain to the dummy blessedness. Lots of people said Plato was the typical day-dreamer, also the archon(the leader of the ancient Greece), they thought that Plato violated the regime of Greece. So Plato got the persecution from the archon, he was detained for a long time then vacated Greece, or we can say he was banished from Greece. Undoubtedly, this small campaign of Plato’s life would make his heart stronger. Plato integrated into other countries soon, he still keep his Utopia and extended this dream. Although there was impugnation of Plato, he still was the pioneer of ideology. Plato was a comprehensive scholar. We still like to talk about Plato’s theories of love and education today. His theories are so popular now. Plato was a real hero, he clasped his whole life, and his wisdom to fight against emptiness.
After many years Plato was back. People gave him a warm welcome, and a big ceremony, because he triumphed right over might. In addition the goal of his return was to finish his dream, and he appealed to build a campus named: The Plato campus; he spent half of his life finishing this supreme campus. This conspicuous campus helped Plato to extend his declaration of Utopia and other knowledge.
Plato, a great ideologist, unveiled a new page of human history. His theories are still valuable. We thank him for his contributions to us.


By Outlaw

If I Rest, I Rust

"The significant inscription found on an old key--"If I rest, I rust"--would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest taint of idlenesss. Even the industrious might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust, and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.
Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gates that fuard to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture--every department of human endeavor.
Labor vanquished all--notinconstant, spasmodic, or ill--directed labor; But faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success."
(From Soup For The Soul)
I love this stroy so much, it tell us a truth that "Labor vanquished all", so I try to work hard, and try my best to do something.
This was my first time worked with Mike and Candy. I was really enjoy my new group, and we got along with each other. The pity of the presentation is I was not able to work with both of my partners simultaneously.
The topic of our presentation is "Hyperbole and understatement". I worked on poster with one of my team-mate:Candy. She is the only girl in our group. Candy is good at painting, most of the part of our poster was drown by her. Although she did not come to school on Friday, I should say:"Thanks for your contribution to our group." The theme of our poster is :Terse language, Vivid images, and make the audience can see our poster easily, clearly. Actually, we achieved our purpose.
Candy did not come to school on Friday, so the burden of the presentation was held in my and mike's hands. We have to do the presentation by ourselves. We did the presentation well, even though we lost a member. Mike tried his best to speak English, and he did what little he can.
I was enjoy my first presentation in English 11 Class, and I try to work with some new partners, such is the fact, I can work with new partners very well. Last, but most importantly,
"Labor vanquished all".

This is Outlaw

My name is Linfeng Xu, my English name was T-mac before, but now is outlaw, sounds like a bad guy, isn’t it? This name is from a NBA player who is named “OUTLAW”.

I am 16 years old, born in Fujian province, south of China. I went to Hebei to get a good education when I was 7 years old. Now, I am in Beijing. Beijing is the best educational centre in China. To have the best diploma in the world is my final goal, so I work very hard every day.

I am an athletic boy, I love sports. Such as basketball, soccer, pool and so on.

I often go to play basketball with my classmates at weekend, and participate in some competition. I have few chances to play soccer, because there are few places to play soccer in Beijing, but soccer always is my favorite sport. So I think if I can go to Canada to continued my high school career I will get more chances to play soccer.

I think sports just are my hobbies; it can’t be my job in the future. I’m interested in cars, I hope cars can be my major, and I like to get a job about cars, like car designer; car engineer. I think learn some knowledge about cars in North American is better in China, because there are many big car companies in North American. Such as GM; Ford; Chrysler.

I often read some car’s magazine and watch some car’s TV shows to prepare my future job. My life is colorful; I love my life, even though it is so hard sometimes. I want to make my life better by myself.