If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
An Eskimo boy becomes a man when he kills his first polar bear. The polar bear, which may be nine feet long and weigh 1,000 pounds, is a very dangerous animal. To kill one takes a great deal of courage and skill. The boy who can kill a polar bear has developed the skills and courage needed to be a hunter—and a man. Polar bears give the Eskimos meat to eat, skins for clothing, and oil for heating and lighting. A boy who can provide all these things has certainly become a man.
The population of chimpanzee in the wild is shrinking because it is hunted to be sold. For every chimp that is taken alive, five to ten chimps die. In the past fifty years, Africans have sold three to four thousand chimps for use in business and experiments. If this practice continues, the chimp may become extinct. The United States has put the chimpanzee on the endangered animals list, which will make it against the law to sell them to the United States. Once on the list, they will have a better chance to survive.
Ice cream is a favorite all over the world. In Japan, it is made with a hard cookie on the outside like a cone. In Italy and France, ice cream usually contains nuts and fruit. Eskimos like it very much, so they use airplanes to fly it to them. Maybe Americans eat the most ice-cream all over the world. Every year Americans eat over seven hundred million gallons of ice cream. There are more than two hundred flavors for them to choose from. Two very popular flavors are strawberry and chocolate.
Does using pictures for writing sound interesting to you? The people in Egypt did it a long time ago. This ancient writing system is called hieroglyphics, or picture writing. In this old Egyptian system, each picture stood for an idea. People carved these picture words on temple walls and in other places where people often got together. The pictures told stories about the Egyptian gods and kings. They also told stories about animals. People used the picture words to keep records of other business information.
This year’s Dragon Boat Festival is more than just a boat race. The Kaohsiung City Government is organizing activities for the whole family. This year they will have a boat race on wheels for the whole family. Local restaurants will have booths set up all day. And if you still have an appetite left, try your luck at the rice dumpling-eating contest. Local bands will be playing tunes all day. Don’t miss it. It’s guaranteed fun for the whole family.
Smoking electronic cigarettes is fortunately is not a growing problem among teenagers in Taiwan. Although e-cigarettes are significantly less harmful than smoking regular cigarettes, they still contain nicotine, which is addictive and detrimental to your health. Do you know other toxic chemicals have also been found in cigarettes? While it is lesser of two evils, with the long-term effects of vaping still unknown, let’s try to avoid this bad habit.