I Will Lead My Class To Be A Better One
I’m gonna get a better school credit which can help me win the election of monitor, with which I can lead my class, instead of a weaker, to be united and derive enormous strength as a team.
2011-05-09
Lei and I spent last night together, talking randomly, about our comment on some classmates, our plan after graduation, a better study method, and how to have our class more united.
I don’t think she values our class, at least not enough as the monitor. she thinks we are here just to study, and after this four years we just go our separate ways. I think our class should be as a united team, and we will help each other in the future. A strong class can produce many outstanding people, because they not only be excellent themselves, but also get together as a enormous force, to face any difficulties confronting them. People can get more strength together, and given our four year relationship, we can cooperate with each other better. College classmates can be really helpful, and if there is deep friendship within, that can be even better. I really value our classmates, not matter how, most of us will go to the similar field after graduation.
I am gonna get a better school credit which can help me win the election of monitor, with which I can lead my class, instead of a weaker, to build a united and splendid group to get better achievements.
2011-05-07
If you want to build a high-traffic website, some porn things can really work. People are more interested in rubbish when they wander on the internet.
Today, I played a basketball match against another house in my college. We lost the game, but I’m enjoy it a lot. A girl in my class said she found one more advantage of me after this match. I’m good in the game, although I didn’t score a lot, because my team has no imposing manner without me, I have to be there to get some spiritual force for my team by cheering and giving command. I think after each match, there would be more people remember me.
I am going to meet a girl I fancied before tomorrow. This time we just exchange some idea about something we care, and she will help my study, just so, I won’t chase after her no more.
Here is very hot recently, making me feel really uncomfortable.
Good TV Serials Can Drop Crime Rate
Sometimes, TV serials can do something really good, for example, dropping the crime rate.
In 1990s in China, there was a television serial called Ke Wang (Eagerness). When this serial was on the air, nearly everyone came back home to watch it. Instead of wandering around the communities, the gangsters, punks, and prostitutes would find some place to watch the serial, too. So the crime rate dropped a lot in those days, especially between 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. everyday, when the serial was on the air.
What kind of power do the British royals have, and where do they get their wealth?
I’m baffled by the fact that there are modern societies that still have some sort or rulers based on blood line. I’m assuming political power belongs entirely to the Prime Minister and his crew (when and how did that invade the monarchy?) and that taxes are collected for that government. What’s the point of the royals today (other than tabloid news) and where do they get their wealth?
Actually, the British Royal family generally have few legal roles apart from the Queen herself, although they are immune from various laws like planning permission (local government has to authorise that any building work is safe, but the royal family can do what they like).
The Queen is in name the Head of State, the head of the armed forces and the head of the Church of England. In practice she is not allowed to actually exercise any authority or even display any preferences. The cost of keeping the whole royal family is estimated as £41.5m (about $70m?) per year, although this is not all as cash paid directly to them (only £7.9m) – a lot of it goes as money spent upkeeping the various estates. In addition there is the cost of security provided by the police and the army, which is not published.
However, this money is offset against money paid to the treasury in income tax, capital gains tax (in the UK, if you buy property cheap, and it goes up in value and you sell it expensively, this difference is subject to capital gains tax), and in earnings from various estates they own – these earnings are paid to the state in exchange for the £7.9m mentioned above. The Royal family own an enormous amount of land. One set of land alone, the Crown Estates, is worth £6.2 billion, and makes profits of around £200m per year which are paid to the state, which alone heavily outweighs the cost of the Royal family. In addition there are the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster which are probably worth another £1bn.
From our point of view, financially, it benefits us to have these holdings associated with the state rather than a private business, as a lot more money flows back into the state than it would do otherwise. Most of their wealth is based on stuff they inherited, or proceeds from the estates, or businesses based on the estates. Prince Charles owns a company that makes biscuits (Duchy Originals). They’re quite nice!
Politically, the point of keeping the Queen as Head of state is to provide some sort of counterbalance, albeit even only theoretical, to the Prime Minister. Most countries have two houses of government and a Head of State; the US has the House, the Senate and the President. The British Prime Minister controls the House of Commons (roughly equivalent to the House); the House of Lords (even more roughly equivalent to the Senate) is much weaker than the Commons; so he actually has much more direct authority than the President of the US, so it’s important that there is some counterbalance. The British PM cannot actually seize power as a dictator because technically the army belongs to the Queen and she has the authority to dissolve parliament. The Queen cannot seize power because it would cause a revolution.
This situation has basically evolved over the last 350 years or so because, as revolutions happened all across Europe and various Kings and Queens were beheaded, the British Monarchy looked at it and thought, we would rather give power back a bit at a time, than suffer a revolution and lose it all. The ball was started by our own Civil War, 1642-1651, followed mainly by a period of dictatorship, until we re-established a monarchy that had to listen to parliament in 1660. This gradual constraining of the monarchy has continued right up until 1992 when they started paying income tax.
So – what’s the benefit of keeping them? People have different opinions and it kind of comes down to taste. From my point of view the finances are pretty even or actually profitable for the country. For me it’s a matter of style. For me, there is no other person in the world whose title is as impressive as the King or Queen of England. For sheer grandeur and symbolism nothing can touch it. The President of the United Stated comes second – but to be honest, he’s only going to be there for eight years, and there is a reasonable prospect that one day Sarah Palin could have that title.
I think history and symbolism are important, especially in trying to create a nation; trying to make millions of people who don’t know each other unite under the same banner. That is why America has worked so hard to elevate the idea of the President to an almost religious status. If you have something that’s richly symbolic and you throw it away it’s hard to build it up again.
I’m not especially into these particular people. I’m sure they’re no better or worse than a lot of other people. But the idea of the monarchy is so central to the idea of what it means to be British, that, at a time when we’re struggling for an idea of national identity as it is, it would be too destructive to rip it out. And they don’t actually do any harm or cost any money.
Sources:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhVohypB_TqcRmpbI9mEGTDsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20110122024820AAyKrVf
Just Let It Go
This’s a very good chance for me to practice how to forget someone, how to forgive someone, and even how to free myself. There is nothing in her attractive to me no more. I should not torture myself by something I have already determined to give up. I won’t care whom she date no more. Hope both of us will be happy by our own way.
Cheer up! Just let it go.
Beautiful Black Girls
Recently, I have found some black girls in my college, several among them are quite attractive, the figure especially. That’s amazing!
Don’t Give My Heart to A Girl Easily
I’m 20 but I’m sweet, caring, and I don’t believe in one night stands, they are stupid, and I don’t want to break any kind ladies heart.
In high school, I once wrote poetry for my crushes but never give them out, but I notice the small things in girls, and i feel like a shoulder to cry on, but nothing else.
Now in college, I think I need to do something. I found a girl I fancy last semester. A couple of days later, she actually gave me some notes proactively. Then we went out for dinner, accompanied her back to dorm when it’s quite late. Everything went well, I can’t expect anything better, so after two or three weeks, I try to express to her my affection. I thought this would keep our relationship moving on the right direction, or maybe even faster. But her replies are more like some prevention. She found all kinds of reason why our relationship shouldn’t go further, such as the influence on our study, the unknown future after our graduation, and her shyness. She said she didn’t have enough courage to face love in college, although I had tried a lot to persuade her.
After that, I tried to treat her as some normal friend, but I can’t, because I have fancied her. I can’t just pretend as if there is nothing between us, because she is really special to me. I have to sweep her out of my mind if she can’t be my girlfriend. Unfortunately, she is my classmate, which means I have to see her everyday. So I ignored her.
Of course, she noticed my anger, then she tried to talk with me to somehow enlighten me, still conservative. She also bought me some small presents to show that we still can be friends. I thank her to do this for me, but just like she can’t open her heart for me, I can’t be her friend after all this.
I sent a message to her saying she’d better not come to talk with me, just ignore me. Her agreed.
This relationship hurt me and killed my time a lot. I’ve paid a enough to my reckless love. I won’t give my heart to a girl this easily.
