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冰箱排行榜-后勤工作个人总结
Unit1
My brother ,Jimmy , did not get
enough oxygen during a difficult delivery ,
leaving him with brain
damage ,and two years
later I was born . Since then , my life revolved
around my brother`s .
Accompanying my growing
up was always “go out and play and take your
brother with you”.I
couldn`t go anywhere
without him , so I urged the neighborhood kids to
come to my house for
some out-of-control kid-
centered fun.
My mother taught Jimmy practical
things like how to brush his teeth or put on a
belt .My father , a
saint , simply held the
house together with his patience and understanding
. I was in charge outside
where I administered
justice by tracking down the parents of the kids
who picked on my brother ,
and telling on
them.
My father and Jimmy were inseparable
.They ate breakfast together and on weekdays drove
off to
the navy shipping center every morning
where they both worked—Jimmy unloaded color-coded
boxes . At night after dinner , they would
talk and play games late into the evening . They
even
whistled the same tunes.
So when my
father died of a heart in 1991, Jimmy was a wreck
, beneath his careful disguise. He
was simply
in disbelief .Usually very agreeable , he now quit
speaking altogether and no amount
of words
could penetrate the vacant expression he wore on
his face . I hired someone to live with
him
and drive him to work , but no matter how much I
tried to make things stay the same, even
Jimmy
grasped that the world he`d known was gone. One
day I asked, “You miss Dad, don`t
you?”His
lips quivered and then he asked ,“What do you
think ,Margaret?He was my best friend.
Our
tears began to flow.
My mother died of lung
cancer six months later and I alone was left to
look after Jimmy.
He didn’t adjust to going to
work without my father right away, so he came and
seemed to adjust
pretty well. Still , Jimmy
longed to live in my parents` house and work at
his old job and I pledged
to help him return.
Eventually, I was able to work it out. He has
lived there for 11 years now with
many
different and blossomed on his own. He has become
essential to the neighborhood . When
you have
any mail to be picked up or your dog needs walking
, he is your man.
My mother was right , of
course :It was possible to have a home with room
for both his limitations
and my ambitions . In
fact, caring for someone who loves as deeply and
appreciates my efforts as
much as Jimmy does
has enriched my life more than anything else ever
could have.
This hit home a few days after the
September 11 disaster on Jimmy `s 57 birthday . I
had a party
for him in my home in New York ,
but none of our family could join us because
travel was
difficult and they were still
reckoning with the sheer terror the disaster had
brought. I called on my
faithful friends to
help make it a merry and festive occasion,
ignoring the fact that most of them
were
emotionally drained and exhausted .Instead of the
customary “No gifts, please ”,I
shouted,
“Gifts!Please!”
My friends-people
Jimmy had come to know over the years-brought the
ideal presents:country
music CDs ,a sweatshirt
,one leather belt with
costume .The evening
led up to the gifts and then the chocolate cake
from his favorite bakery,and
of course the
ceremony was not complete without the singing.
A thousand times Jimmy asked,
no longer be
anxiously waited for the candles to be lit and
then blew them out with
one long breath as we
all sang Brithdaywas not satisfied with our
effort,though .He jumped up on the chair and
stood erect pointing both index fingers into the
air to
thth
conduct us and
yelled,„more„time!sang with all of the energy left
in our souls and
when we were finished he put
both his thumbs up and shouted
We had wanted
to let him know that no matter how difficult
things got in the world,there would
always be
people who cared about ended up reminding
ourselves Jimmy,the
love with which we sang
was a welcome bonus,but mostly he had just wanted
to see everyone else
happy again.
Just as
my father`s death had changed Jimmy`s world
overnight , September 11 changed our
lives;
the world we`d known was gone . But, as sang for
Jimmy and held each other tight
afterward
praying for peace around the world , we were
reminded that the constant love and
support of
our friends and family would get us through
whatever life might present . The
simplicity
with which Jimmy had reconciled everything for us
should not have been surprising .
There had
never been any limitations to what Jimmy`s love
could accomplish.
Unit3
where principles come first
The Hyde School
operates on the principle that if you teach
students the merit of such values as
truth,courage,integrity,leadership, curiosity
and concern,then academic achievement naturally
founder Joseph Gauld claims success with the
program at the $$18000-a-year high
school in
Bath,Maine,which has received considerable
publicity for its work with troubled
youngsters
graduated from H and is
now headmaster。“We see ourselves as preparing kids
for a way of life—
by cultivating a
comprehensive set of principles that can affect
all kids。”
Now ，Joe Gauld is trying to
spread his controversial Character First idea to
public,inner-city
schools willing to use the
tax dollars spent on the traditional program for
the new approach,the
first H public school
program opened in months the program was
suspended Teachers protested the program's
demands and the strain associated with more
intense
work.
This fall,the H Foundation
is scheduled to begin a preliminary public school
program in
rs will be trained to later work
throughout the entire Baltimore system .Other US
school managers are eyeing the program,
fall,the Hf opened a magnet program within a
public high school in the suburbs of
NH,Connecticut,over parent's community feared
the school would attract inner-city minority
and troubled students.
As in Maine,the quest
for truth is also widespread at the school in one
English
class ,the 11 students spend the last
five minutes in an energetic exchange evaluating
their class
performance for the day on a 1-10
scale.
ou didn't do either your grammar or
your spelling homework.
ou ought to get a
six
th
Explaining his
approach to education ,JG says the conventional
education system cannot be
notes
is based
on character,not intelligence or ence and hard
work are s is
measured by growth,not academic
ts are required to take responsibility for
each avoid the controversy of other character
programs used in US schools,Gauld says
the
concept of doing your best has nothing to do with
forcing the students to accept a particular set
of morals or religious values.
The H
curriculum is similar to conventional schools that
provide preparation for college,complete
with
English,history,math and all students are
required to take performing arts and
sports,and provide a community each course
,students get a grade for academic
achievement
and for
Commitment among parents is a key
ingredient in the H mixture .For the student to
gain
admission,parents also must agree to
accept and demonstrate the school's philosophies
and
parents agree in writing to meet monthly
in one of 20 regional groups,go to a yearly
three-day regional retreat,and spend at least
three times a year in workshops,discussion groups
and
seminars at s of Maine students have and
attendance rate of 95% in the many
sessions
.Joe and Malcolm Gauld both say children tend to
do their utmost when see their parent
making
similar biggest obstacle for many parents,they
say,is to realize their own
weaknesses.
the process for public school parents is still
being worked out,with a lot more difficulty
because it
is difficult to convince parents
that it is worthwhile for them to the 100students
enrolled in NH ,about 30%of the parents attend
special low attendance is in spite of
commitments they made at the outset of the
program when H officials interviewed 300 families.
Once the problems are worked out,H should work
well in public schools,says a teacher at Bath
who taught for 14years in public is
optimistic that once parents make a commitment to
the program,they will be daily tole models for
their children,unlike parents whose children are
in
boarding schools.
One former inner-city
high school teacher who now works in the NH
program,says teachers also
benefit
we
together deal with the... the traditional high
school setting ,it's teacher to the
material
and then to the r-student relationship is taken
even further at
H .Faculty evaluations are
conducted by the students.
Jimmy
DiBattista,19,is amazed he will graduate this May
from the Bath campus and plans to
attend a
ago,he had seen his future as collegeremembers his
first
days at H.
I came here,I insulted
and cursed other school was,out ,we don't
want to deal with you, like it with
the
negative want to turn that spirit positive.
Unit4
The Statue of Liberty
In the
mid-1870s,French artist Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
was working on an enormous project
called
Liberty Enlightening the World , a monument
celebrating US independence and the
France-
America the same tine, he was in love with a
woman whom he had met in
mother could not
approve of her son`s affection for a woman she had
never met, but
Bartholdi went ahead and
married his love in 1876.
That same year
Bartholdi had assembled the statue`s right arm and
torch ,and displayed them in
Philadelphia .In
is said that he had used his wife`s arm as the
model, but felt her face was too
beautiful for
the statue. He needed someone whose face
represented suffering yet strength ,
someone
more severe than chose his mother.
The Statue
of Liberty was dedicated on an island in Upper New
York Bay in had his
mother `s face and his
wife`s body, but Bartholdi called it “my
daughter,Liberty”.
Barbie
Before
all the different types of Barbie dolls for sale
now, there was just a single Barbie.
Actually,
her name was Barbara.
Barbara Handler was
the daughter of Elliot and Ruth Handler, co-
founders of the Mattel Toy
Company. Ruth came
up with the idea for Barbie after watching her
daughter play with paper
dolls. The three-
dimensional model for Barbie was a German doll - a
joke gift for adults described
as having the
appearance of “a woman who sold sex”. Mattel
refashioned the doll into a decent,
all-
American －although with an exaggerated breast size
- version and named it after Barbara,
who was
then a teenager.
Since her introduction in
1959,Barbie has become the universally recognized
Queen of the
says the average American girl
owns ten Barbie dolls ,and two are sold somewhere
in
the world every second.
Now more
than sixty years old, Barbara - who declines
interviews but is said to have loved the
doll
- may be the most famous unknown figure on the
planet.
Barbie`s boyfriend ,ken, was
introduced in 1961 and named after Barbara's
brother. The real
Ken, who died in 1994,was
disgusted by the doll that made his family famous.
children to play with it,
American
Gothic
Grant Wood instantly rose to fame
in 1930 with his painting American Gothic , an
often copied
interpretation of the solemn
pride of American farmers. The painting shows a
serious-looking man
and a woman standing in
front of a farmhouse . He was strongly influenced
by medieval artists
and inspired by the Gothic
window of an old farmhouse, but the faces in his
composition were
what captured the world’s
attention.
Wood liked to paint faces he
knew well. For the grave farmer he used his
dentist, a
sour-looking man. For the woman
standing alongside him ,the artist chose his
sister, Nan. He
stretched the models’ necks a
bit, but there was no doubt who posed for the
portrait.
Nan later remarked that the fame
she gained from American Gothic saved her from a
very
boring life .
The Buffalo
Nickel
Today ,American coins honor prominent
figures of the US government—mostly famous former
presidents. But the Buffalo nickel ,produced
from 1913 to 1938 ,honored a pair of connected
tragedies from the settlement of the American
frontier—the destruction of the buffalo hers and
American Indians.
While white people had
previously been used as models for most American
coins , famed artist
James Earle Fraser went
against tradition by using three actual American
Indians as models for his
creation.
For
the buffalo on the other side ,since buffalo no
longer wandered about the great grasslands,
Fraser was forced to sketch an aging buffalo
form New York City`s Central Park years
later
,in 1915,this animal was sold for $$100 and killed
for meat ,a hied ,and a wall decoration
made
form its horns.
Uncle Sam
Fourteen-
year-old Sam Wilson ran away form home to join his
father and older brothers in the
fight to
liberate the American colonies form the British
during the American Revolution. At age
23,he
started a meat-packing business and earned a
reputation for being honest and hard-working.
During a later war in 1812,Wilson gained a
position inspecting meat for US Army forces ,
working with a man who had signed a contract
with the government to provide meat to the
army .Barrels of meat supplied to the army
were stamped “EA-US”,identifying the company(EA)
and the country of origin (US).According to
one story, when a government official visited the
plant and asked about the letters ,a creative
employee told him”US” was short for “Uncle
Sam”Wilson. Soon soldiers were saying all Army
supplies were form “Uncle Sam”.
After the war
,a character called Uncle Sam began appearing in
political cartoons , his form
evolving form an
earlier character called Brother Jonathan that was
popular during the American
Revolution. Uncle
Sam soon replaced Brother Jonathan as American`s
most popular symbol. The
most enduring
portrait of Uncle Sam was created by artist James
Montgomery Flagg in his famous
army recruiting
posters of World War I and version—a tall man
with white hair and a small
white beard on his
chin ,a dark blue coat and a tall hat with stars
on it—was a self-portrait of
Flagg.