Winston Churchill :His Other Life My father, Winston Churchill, began his love affair with painting in his 40s, amid disastrous circumstances. As First Lord of the Admiralty in 1915, he was deeply involved in a campaign in the Dardanelles that could have ...
Michael Dell's Two-Billion-Dollar Dream One afternoon in 1977, as his parents and two brothers fished in the Gulf of Mexico, 12-year-old Michael Dell sat on the beach, painstakingly putting together a trotline, a maze of ropes to which several fish hooks ...
9-Year-Old Politician 白宫的神奇小子诺亚受到布什重用 The battle over Social Security has been joined by an unusual lobbyist, a 9-year-old boy from Texas (George Bushs hometown), who has agreed to travel around supporting President Bushs proposal. The boy, Noah McCulloug...
Franklin and Franklin impersonator Every nation has its heroes, of course, If a nation is lucky, it has one who was so able in everything he or she did that the person's legacy stretches in many directions. Michelangelo comes to mind. Well, America has be...
John Pepper John Pepper: We need to be sure were reaching out, that we dont become 1)insular, that we get outside points of view coming in, that we bring in 2)academics, from time to time, a 3)consultant, that we visit other companies. I spend a lot of ti...
Nowadays, auto-flush motion sensor toilets are in schools, airports, hotels, and tourist spots around the world. But do you know who invented this modern convenience? The answer may surprise you. It was Teng Hung-Chi of Nantou, Taiwan, who was only 19 whe...
Dr. Martin Luther King Day Third Monday in January We will not resort to violence. We will not degrade ourselves with hatred. Love will not be returned with hate. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Click here to listen to the famous speech I Have a Dream, delive...
Ronald Reagan Interviewer: What is your best memory of your father? Ron: I dont know that theres a 1)specific best memory of my father. I think what has always 2)impressed me the most about my father, as well as in a way being troubling about him, is that...
The Centurys Greatest Minds Albert Einstein 本世纪最伟大的智者 阿尔伯特爱因斯坦 The scientific touchstones of the modern agethe Bomb, space travel, electronics, Quantum physicsall bear his imprint. 原子弹、太空旅行、电子学、量子物理这些现代科学的代表都有赖于他的影响。 Einstein h...
魔法妈妈 J.K.Rowling 英汉对照 Like that of her own character, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling's life has the luster of a fairy tale. Divorced, living on public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant daughter, Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's ...
作文地带导读:每年的十月一日是一年一度的国庆节,是我们伟大祖国母亲的生日。伴随着风风雨雨,我们的母亲祖国...
I love my hometown——Xinjiang.I Love Xinjiang(征文)我爱新疆英语作文两篇. I am very proud of living in Xi...
作文地带导读:冯萍小说集之:What is there in the front?Chapter two 作者介绍:冯萍 山西农业大学信息学院 英...
冯萍小说集之:What is there in the front?第一章:作者 冯萍山西农业大学信息学院英语104班...
作文地带摘要:A recent investigation shows that about 80 percent of pupils have private tutors.Such a pop...
英语应用文写作之留学申请信范文九篇(Application for Admittance) 留学和奖学金申请信中须写明下列几点: ...