Michaelyou

@Michaelyou (182)

China • Age 38

Joined myLot 14 years ago

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Discussions (48)

Michaelyou's Discussions

The difference between men and wemen-shopping style

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 11 Mar 11

The spring festival is apporoaching. As a tradition, people are supposed to have somthing new to use or wear, especially children, no matter they are rich or poor. Therefore, you can see many families going shopping on the...

shopping

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Nothing happens by chance of good luck

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 11 Mar 11

Sometimes, peole come into your life and you realize that they are there for some purpose-to teach you a lesson, or to help you to know who you are or who you want to become. You'd never know who these people may be, your fiend,...

life

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Funny Eating

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 6 Dec 10

American eating is funny: they eat almost everything with a fork, and it appears that holding a knife in one's right hand longer than a few seconds is considered to be against good table manners. The system is that if it is...

Enjoy Eating at "Melting Pot"

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 6 Dec 10

"You are what you eat." Nutrition experts often use this saying to promote better eating habits. What we put in our mouth does become a part of us. But we can look at this statement another way. What we eat reflects who we are-...

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Extreme Weather

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 6 Dec 10

Extreme weather will become more common, experts forecast. It has been a summer of extremes. Rains have deluged Europe and Asia, swamping cities and villages and killing about 2000 people, wihile droght and heat have seared the...

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Our Changing Atmosphere

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 3 Dec 10

According to the National Academy of Sciemces, the Earth's surface temperature has risen by about 1 degree Fahrenhieit in the past century, with accelerated warming during the past two decades. There is new and stronger evidence...

changing atmosphere

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To know the countryside, you must live in the city

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 3 Dec 10

You can be a countryman, it seems, and know little of the country. But traditionally, country folks are regards as being in tune with the land. They live there, don't they? What can townies know of the "way of nature"? This...

to know the countryside

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working women

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 3 Dec 10

today more and more married women are working outside the home. For most of them, the reason is obvious: they must work if their families are to survive. But what about those who don't really have to work? Do the rewards justify...

working outside

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Housework or Your Life

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 17 Aug 10

Hi, everyone There's a little dirty secret in many American homes-couples fight about hte housework. There is always too much to take care of and, with kids, neither one of a couple has the energy to keep on top of it all....

housework or your life

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Different Strokes of Our Duties

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 17 Aug 10

Hi, Life teaches us to live. To live, you have to exist. To exist, you should have a passport to this living world. Thanks to your parents, who brought you into this world. Isn't it unfair on our part that we aren't...

strokes of our duties

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Born to Win

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 12 Aug 10

Hi, Each human being is born as something new, something that never existed before. He is with what he needs to win at life. Each person in his own way cansee, hear, touch, taste, and think for himself. Each can be a...

born to win

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Why Respect Is Important

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 12 Aug 10

Going back in time, respect played an important role in survival. If we think of a small tribe wandering in the desert, we can imagine that a person not respected by anyone could be left behind and die. Such a person was...

respect

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reading for pleasure

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 25 Jun 10

The first thing I want to insist on is that reading should be enjoyable. Everyone is his own best critics. Whatever the learned say about a book, however unamimous they are in their praise of it, unless it interests you, it is no...

reading for pleasure

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the purpose of school

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 25 Jun 10

Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? We send our children to school to prepare them for the time when they will be big and will have to work for themselves. However, there is more in education than just...

purpose of school

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Shanghai Expo offers Giant Opportunity for Big Business

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 4 Jun 10

Hi there, The world expo is a global trade fair. This year, shanghai hosts the world's expo. China is very important to the international business. It is the fast-growing market in the world. The expo can help business. Hundreds...

shanghai expo

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studying overseas

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 31 May 10

Study overseas can be the adventure of a lifetime, and the majority of these experiences are healthy and safe. But, unless some simple precautions are taken, a young person living without a parent in a foreign country can...

studying overseas

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higher education in America

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 31 May 10

There is evidence that even incomplete university study gives a person better career prospects than none at all. So, it is accepted that the benefits of a university career are useful.

higher education in america

speaking of the Devil

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 31 May 10

Why do smart, articulate, and self-confident people often becaome terrified in front of a group? How could death rank just seventh in a national survey of the top ten experiences Americans dread most, and public speaking first?...

speaking of the devil

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great books sharpen our minds

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 31 May 10

Great books are those that contain the best materials on which the human mind can work in order to gain insight, understanding, and wisdom. Each of them, in its own way, raises the recurrent basic questions which men must face....

great books sharpen our minds

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Miss or Ms.?

Michaelyou @Michaelyou (182) • China 21 May 10

Hi Mylottors, Still about the cross-cultural problem i face these days. Whatever, I have much to learn. Ms, has come to be widely used in both professional and social contexts. Many wemen prefer it to Miss or Mrs. because...

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