I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great b [ ...閱讀全文 ] [ 呼嘯而來的博文列表 ]
http://theswitchsisters.wordpress.com/ Chapter 6 – A Hatching Plan At the Switch residence, lights blazed. From the outside the house looked dark and quiet, but inside Fa and the remaining Switch sisters were all awake, with not a drop of sleepiness in their bodies. They we [ ...閱讀全文 ] [ Wuwuyu的博文列表 ]
... Camels can pass through a needle's eyeFor millennia there has been a debate about whether there is a conflict between making a profit and faith. Is it, for instance, moral to charge interest rates or is lending exploitation of the poor? To put it more simply, can you be wealthy and s [ ...閱讀全文 ] [ YHOO的博文列表 ]
... I bet you think you』d be able to do a lot more if you had more time. If so, you』re probably wrong. Having more time is only a piece of the puzzle.It』s not so much just the quantity of time that we should consider, but the quality of time, too.This is largely the foundation of the [ ...閱讀全文 ] [ YHOO的博文列表 ]
http://theswitchsisters.wordpress.com/Chapter 5 – ShadowsLurking 「Mara!」 Marie saw her first. There was a stone well next to the rose patch, and what looked like a pile of white linens was crumpled at its base. It was Mara, her head down and her arms clutching a black ja [ ...閱讀全文 ] [ Wuwuyu的博文列表 ]
Chapter 4: Lights OutMorgan tossed her short red hair on the dance floor. She had cut and dyed it at the start of high school, sick of the constant confusion between her and Marie. 「You』d think they』d notice that I have blue eyes and you have brown,」 Marie had said as she dunked her sister [ ...閱讀全文 ] [ Wuwuyu的博文列表 ]
Chapter 3: Mara』sTale The ceremony was to start in two hours, and Mara was not yet dressed. She ran her mother』s words through her head and paced about the room. She imagined the entire town of Ambrose, watching her with their piercing, judging eyes. Then she remembered Graham, h [ ...閱讀全文 ] [ Wuwuyu的博文列表 ]
Chapter 2: The BigDay The sun seemed to rise especially early. Mara slipped into her dressing robe and opened the curtains. She blinked at the light that flooded into the room and lifted the window. Lush, green leaves blew inside, tangling in her hair. The door flew o [ ...閱讀全文 ] [ Wuwuyu的博文列表 ]
Chapter 1: No Funny Business Fa Switch gathered her daughters in her bedroom the night before the wedding. 「No funny business,」 she said. She made each of them look her in the eye and cross their hearts. Her daughters knew this was serious: the consequence for brea [ ...閱讀全文 ] [ Wuwuyu的博文列表 ]
Prologue It』s hard to remember a time when the Switch sisters didn』t live in the house on Tamany Lane. It seemed like all of us grew up hearing about them in our bedtime stories, even though they must have been not so much older than ourselves. Eventually, we would meet them–in the superma [ ...閱讀全文 ] [ Wuwuyu的博文列表 ]
A Chinese man walks into a bank in New York City and asks for the loan officer. He tells the loan officer that he is going to China on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000.The bank officer tells him that the bank will need some form of security for the loan, so the Chinese man hands ove [ ...閱讀全文 ] [ 8288的博文列表 ]
Nikola Tesla is one of the top ten most fascinating people in history.Nikola Tesla was an electrical engineer who changed the world with the invention of the AC (alternating current) induction motor, making the universal transmission and distribution of electricity possible. So why is he vir [ ...閱讀全文 ] [ 穿鞋的蜻蜓的博文列表 ]