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The definitions for friends are applied to a wide range of relationships ---to someone has known for a few weeks in a new place , to a close business associate , to a childhood playmate , to a man or woman , to a trusted confidant , etc . Also , the “translations” for friends differ from country to country .For a French , the one whom he say “my friend” to is not really a close friend .And the affection goes the opposite proportion to the times word “friend” were said .
For the French , friendship is a one-to-one relationship that demand keen awareness of the other person’s intellect , temperament , and particular interests .On top of that , French friendships are also compartmentalized .
In Germany , friendship is much more articulately a matter of feeling .Appropriately , in Germany friends are brought to the family .Like ties of kinship , ties of friendship are meant to be irrevocably .
English friendships follow still a different pattern .
Their basis is shared activity . Activities at different stages of life may be of very different kinds .Americans who have made English friends comment that , even years later , “you can take up just where you left off .” Meeting a long interval , friends are like a couple who begin to dance again when the orchestra strikes up after a pause . English friends are formed outside the family circle , but they are not , as in Germany , contrapuntal to the family not are they , as in France , separated from the family .
A so-called “friendship” is to the contrast of “kinship” ., and invokes freedom and choice . A friend is someone who chooses and is chosen . And between friends there is inevitably a kind of equality of give-and-take . The American’s characteristic openness to different styles of relationship makes him possible to find new friends abroad with whom he feels at home .
My Reflection:
There’s no denying the fact that it’s rather important to strike up bonds between each other .And it’s is needless to said that the ways of bond formation differ from country to country .
As far as I’m concerned , the friendship that I appreciated most is the American style . According to the passages , for a Frenchman , there exists so many courtesies to follow . compartmentalization , for example . Also , you can’t emphasize the word “friend” too many times since that’s not the true affection .In addition , for the Germans , the bonds between friends are strong enough to say that it’s such a burden . Further more , once you break up with someone ,it’s such a tragedy since you’ve put too much mind in him(her) .And for the English , you can roughly say that
it’s definitely difficult to form a friendship if you have no particular talents . To make a long story short ,unlike the European style , which forms with some restricts , “Free and Easy” is the best adjective for U.S. friendship .
Another reason that I prefer the American style most is it resembles the Taiwanese style most .Just look around us , we can make friends easily without taking on so many burdens . And it’s certainly self-evident that in our society ,
too many appendages on the subject , friendship , is usually consider fakeness .So , once we can get along with each other in a relax way , there will be more opportunities for us to make several new bonds among others.
The reflection of Oliver Twist
SUMMARY:
Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in 1830s England. His mother, whose name no one knows, is found on the street and dies just after Oliver’s birth. Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in a badly run home for young orphans and then is transferred to a workhouse for adults. After the other boys bully Oliver into asking for more gruel at the end of a meal, Mr. Bumble, the parish beadle, offers five pounds to anyone who will take the boy away from the workhouse. Oliver narrowly escapes being apprenticed to a brutish chimney sweep and is eventually apprenticed to a local undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry. When the undertaker’s other apprentice, Noah Claypole, makes disparaging comments about Oliver’s mother, Oliver attacks him and incurs the Sowerberrys’ wrath. Desperate, Oliver runs away at dawn and travels toward London.
Outside London, Oliver, starved and exhausted, meets Jack Dawkins, a boy his own age. Jack offers him shelter in the London house of his benefactor, Fagin. It turns out that Fagin is a career criminal who trains orphan boys to pick pockets for him. After a few days of training, Oliver is sent on a pickpocketing mission with two other boys. When he sees them swipe a handkerchief from an elderly gentleman, Oliver is horrified and runs off. He is caught but narrowly escapes being convicted of the theft. Mr. Brownlow, the man whose handkerchief was stolen, takes the feverish Oliver to his home and nurses him back to health. Mr. Brownlow is struck by Oliver’s resemblance to a portrait of a young woman that hangs in his house. Oliver thrives in Mr. Brownlow’s home, but two young adults in Fagin’s gang, Bill Sikes and his lover Nancy, capture Oliver and return him to Fagin.
Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in 1830s England. His mother, whose name no one knows, is found on the street and dies just after Oliver’s birth. Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in a badly run home for young orphans and then is transferred to a workhouse for adults. After the other boys bully Oliver into asking for more gruel at the end of a meal, Mr. Bumble, the parish beadle, offers five pounds to anyone who will take the boy away from the workhouse. Oliver narrowly escapes being apprenticed to a brutish chimney sweep and is eventually apprenticed to a local undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry. When the undertaker’s other apprentice, Noah Claypole, makes disparaging comments about Oliver’s mother, Oliver attacks him and incurs the Sowerberrys’ wrath. Desperate, Oliver runs away at dawn and travels toward London.
Outside London, Oliver, starved and exhausted, meets Jack Dawkins, a boy his own age. Jack offers him shelter in the London house of his benefactor, Fagin. It turns out that Fagin is a career criminal who trains orphan boys to pick pockets for him. After a few days of training, Oliver is sent on a pickpocketing mission with two other boys. When he sees them swipe a handkerchief from an elderly gentleman, Oliver is horrified and runs off. He is caught but narrowly escapes being convicted of the theft. Mr. Brownlow, the man whose handkerchief was stolen, takes the feverish Oliver to his home and nurses him back to health. Mr. Brownlow is struck by Oliver’s resemblance to a portrait of a young woman that hangs in his house. Oliver thrives in Mr. Brownlow’s home, but two young adults in Fagin’s gang, Bill Sikes and his lover Nancy, capture Oliver and return him to Fagin.
Fagin sends Oliver to assist Sikes in a burglary. Oliver is shot by a servant of the house and, after Sikes escapes, is taken in by the women who live there, Mrs. Maylie and her beautiful adopted niece Rose. They grow fond of Oliver, and he spends an idyllic summer with them in the countryside. But Fagin and a mysterious man named Monks are set on recapturing Oliver. Meanwhile, it is revealed that Oliver’s mother left behind a gold locket when she died. Monks obtains and destroys that locket. When the Maylies come to London, Nancy meets secretly with Rose and informs her of Fagin’s designs, but a member of Fagin’s gang overhears the conversation. When word of Nancy’s disclosure reaches Sikes, he brutally murders Nancy and flees London. Pursued by his guilty conscience and an angry mob, he inadvertently hangs himself while trying to escape.
Mr. Brownlow, with whom the Maylies have reunited Oliver, confronts Monks and wrings the truth about Oliver’s parentage from him. It is revealed that Monks is Oliver’s half brother. Their father, Mr. Leeford, was unhappily married to a wealthy woman and had an affair with Oliver’s mother, Agnes Fleming. Monks has been pursuing Oliver all along in the hopes of ensuring that his half-brother is deprived of his share of the family inheritance. Mr. Brownlow forces Monks to sign over Oliver’s share to Oliver. Moreover, it is discovered that Rose is Agnes’s younger sister, hence Oliver’s aunt. Fagin is hung for his crimes. Finally, Mr. Brownlow adopts Oliver, and they and the Maylies retire to a blissful existence in the countryside.
REFLECTION:
Oliver Twist's unusual lifetime is a striking thing for teenagers now. No matter who the reader is, will be attracted by Oliver Twist's goodness, trueness, and staunch, and I am not the exception.
Finally Oliver Twist have enjoyed wonderful future, when I saw this ending, my tears were dropped down...
A comparison of Nokia's new cell phone with Sony's
Although Sony’s camera cell phone is very attractive, the ad for the Nokia cell phone is more striking because of its nice timbre by comparison. Depend on the new technology of the media ability, Nokia provide type-N95 to compete with Sony Ericson, the most popular cell phone company in Taiwan.
What is Nokia’s new cell phone featuring? We can take a view on the ability of music entertainment: Compare to Sony’s K-750i, first, it has high to eight gigabyte memory for user to save more songs. Second, Nokia N95 have higher timbre for playing the music, which is appealing to lots of people. Third, Nokia N95 is equipped with more convenient button to play music through their cell phone
But a customer may ask:” Does Nokia N
Live in twenty one century, internet has been part of every one’s life. No doubt, N95 have com in style. The new technology, HSDPA , and the stable browser provides more convenient function for users to explore the internet. If you want to share your pictures, music and etc with your friends, wifi is also a good choice.
All in all, if you have more budget, N95 is more excellent for been purchased! But as every one knows, the more fashion product, the much money it cost. Cheap and practicability, which one do you want?The discription of Sony's cell phone ad
http://www.sogi.com.tw/newsogi/sogiIndex.asp?pro_no=1455
This cell phone is the first mode which can take the picture in two million pixels of Sony Ericsson’s products. It’s strong ability to modify the picture you take appeals lots of expectation. Not only the automatic focusing but also the hi-tech memory functions make it a big advance! It also provides the image editor, by means of this function, you can make simple montage to the photo in your own style. It stimulates your imagination of the camera phone’s power. Look at its advertisement picture, you can see how beautiful image it take.
This cell phone not only put its emphasis on its camera, but on series of transmission mean to share your photo to your friends. This cell phone provides the most popular blue tooth, infrared ray transmission, and Memory Stick PRO Duo! You can print your picture without your computer, instead, you can do it just through the blue tooth to your printer!
Summing up its all description, cell phones which emphasis on high quality and high entertainment to mobility the life is the ultimate goal Sony Ericsson wants to make!
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