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pipe wrench
circular saw
sold-out
in the mood to
moody
firefighter
take its toll
simultaneous
pet
parental leave
assassination
Civil War
compromised
segregation
humility
chatter
irresistible
repulsive
dignified
resentment
damsel in distress
exclaim
leap of faith
stitch
parole
truce

Ella Josephine Baker was an African American civil rights and human rights activist. Born in 1903 in Norfolk, Virginia, Ella Baker became one of the leading figures in the civil rights movement from the 1950s to the 1960s.
Growing up in North Carolina, she developed a sense for social justice early on, due in part to her grandmother's stories about life under slavery.
Her grandmother's pride and resilience in the face of racism and injustice continued to inspire Ms. Baker throughout her life.
As a student she challenged school policies that she thought were unfair. After graduating in 1927 as class valedictorian, she moved to New York City and began joining social activist organizations.
She worked alongside the movement’s greatest figures, such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Thur good Marshall, Marvel Cooke, Asa Philip Randolph or Martin Luther King. She also mentored many emerging activists like Rosa Parks, and Bob Moses.
Baker criticized professionalized, charismatic leadership; she promoted grassroots organizing, radical democracy, and the ability of the oppressed to understand their worlds and advocate for themselves
." She is known for her critiques not only of racism within American culture, but also of sexism within the civil rights movement.

She was the director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference before creating the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
One of goal of her life, is to assist the new student activists because she viewed young, emerging activists as a resource and an asset to the movement. So she created the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Adopting the Gandhian theory of nonviolent direct action, SNCC members joined with activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to organize the 1961 Freedom Rides.
In 1964 SNCC helped create Freedom Summer, an effort to focus national attention on Mississippi's racism and to register black voters.
Miss Baker, and many of her contemporaries, believed that voting was one key to freedom.

1- brush my teeth
2- wake up
3- go to school
4 – do my hair /comb my hair
5- check my phone
6- eat breakfast /have breakfast
7- have a shower
8- pack my lunchbox in my bag
9 - get up
10- wash my face
11- make my bed
12- put shoes on
13- get dressed/ get changed
14 - get my bag/ take my bag

Good morning/afternoon,professors.It's my great honor to be here for this interview.
My name is Li ,graduated from Hebei University,majoring in business English.
Firstly,I have some experiences relating to translation in my college life.In 2017,I have finished a translation of Chinese-English marketing plan in 3,000 words.Through this precious experience,I had equipped with translation skills and had a deep understanding of professional knowledge. In 2018,I served as a volunteer for the International Exhibition at Gao Beidian and Baigou.Thanks to these experiences,my college life was colorful.At the same time,I realized that I still need to learn more professional knowledge about this field.That's why I choose to further my study here.
Secondly,I love challenges and adventures.I like some exciting sports such as bungee and ski.Moreover,I also love travelling.During my college life,I have been to several cities like Nanjing,Wuhan and Beijing.
I really appreciate it if you could consider my application.If I have the honor to study here,I will work hard and try my best to learn.Thanks for your attention!

1 How many teaspoons of sugar do you take in your tea?
2 Set the table, John, please. Take those big blue dinner plates. Remember to put the knife on the right side and the fork on the left. Oh, and don’t forget the spoon on the right, too.
3 I’m going to make some smoothie. I think I’ll mix my favourite fruits in the blender.
4 What do you prefer you tea in? A cup or a glass?
5 I’ll get you some soup for lunch. I’ll heat it in the small saucepan. It will be faster than in a big pot.
6 Sam, can you chop the cucumber for dinner, please? Use the wooden chopping board.
7 To make pork chops just heat some oil on the frying pan and put the meat on it.
8 Put all the vegetables for the salad into the bowl and mix them with some vinegar, oil and seasoning.

Down in the valley, there are three farms. The owners of these farms are rich. They are also nasty men. Their names are Farmer Boggis, Farmer Bunce and Farmer Bean.

Boggis is a chicken farmer. He has got thousands of chickens. He is enormously fat, because he eats three chickens with dumplings every day for breakfast, lunch and supper.

Bunce is a duck and goose farmer. He has got thousands of ducks and geese. He is really really short. He eats some doughnuts and goose livers. This diet gives him a tummy-ache and he is angry.

Bean is a turkey and apple farmer. He has got thousands of turkeys in an orchard full of apple trees. He never eats any food. But he drinks a lot of cider. He is slim and really clever.

“Boggis and Bunce and Bean
One fat, one short, one lean.
These horrible crooks
So different in looks
Were equally mean.”

That is what the children sing when they see the three farmers.

HIS DREAM LIVES ON

Today is the day we all sing
In honor of Martin Luther King
Wherever people fight to be free
His name is remembered with dignity
When black people weren’t treated right
He stood strong to lead the fight
He fought with love, not guns or darts
He changed peoples’ minds and their hearts
But some people didn’t like his words
He was taken away, to be a better world
Yet his dream lives on, that all can be free
When we knock down the walls between you and me
Martin Luther King’s life did not last
But his dream and his spirit are free at last

Zen is a true vitality that exists in this very body. Everyone should explore that. The most practical way is to return to live with " presence" and only the presence. At all time we must live with reality it brings peace to us. Leaving out the reality is the starting of an unusual life. This point is considered as the very important one . It is the key to open the door of enlightenment. Some of us have been learning much, but that's only the means to explain or to awake us. In a word, to return to live right at the presence is thought as the core.

Free those three phony thinkers.

The night they drove old dixie down.

Both thespians knew of something.

That butter felt rough in my mouth.

Father thought all philosophy came from the south.

There is nothing that bothers me more.

This painting is by Norman Rockwell. The title is Babysitter with Screaming Infant. It was painted in 1947. The scene takes place in a living-room. There is a lamp in the upper left-hand corner and a teddy bear in the lower left-hand corner. At the bottom, there is a baby’s bottle and toys on the floor. In the foreground, we can see a girl, she is sitting on an armchair. She is wearing a yellow shirt, a blue skirt, brown shoes and white socks. She is holding a baby in her arms. The baby is sitting on her lap, on a pink blanket. The baby is crying and pulling her hair. The baby is not happy. The girl is also reading, she looks tired.
Maybe the girl is tired because she had a long day at school and also because she is taking care of the baby. I think she played with the baby and fed the baby. Now, she is trying to make the baby sleep but the baby is crying.