9.JK Rowling

JK Rowling

－The magic storyteller and her magic life

Today, I want to talk something about writers. When it comes to the most celebrated author in the modern world, I think we will all come up with JK Rowling. Needless to say, JK Rowling is the novelist of the best-selling novel series “Harry Potter.” Believe that most of you have watched the novels or movies. I’ve also read the series when I was a child and became a fan of Harry Potter.

JK Rowling succeeded because of her books. By her publication, Rowling gained a huge amount of property. But before she published the first Harry Potter book, she had lived a very tough life. In the beginning of writing Harry Potter and Philosopher’s Stone, Rowling’s mother passed away. After that, Rowing encountered a failure of her marriage. She divorced with her husband since she suffered serious domestic abuse from his husband. After the divorce, she brought her little daughter with her and came back to her hometown Edinburgh, Scotland. It was the worst period of her life. She even suffered depression during the time. The inspiration of the character“dementor” actually came from the depressed emotion she experienced.

It’s really a magic story when you look back to the history of JK Rowling. A single mother who was very poor and relied on the benefits from government someday became the richest writer in the world. Rowling said that because of her failure, she could focus on what she really belonged to, thus created the most successful novels.

Rowling’s courage says that if we can conquer the frustration, our life will be so different. But most people failed to cross the gap, only few can succeed, like JK Rowling. So next time when we are dealing with something tough, think about Rowling’s story, then there is nothing to be afraid.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.

8.Jeremy Lin

Jeremy Lin

－The first Taiwanese American basketball player in NBA

Jeremy is now in Hornets!!

Last week, we watched an exciting series of baseball games. Therefore, I want to introduce to you an athlete whom we are all familiar with. He is an NBA basketball player, Jeremy Lin.

Jeremy Lin hadn’t be noticed until February, 2012. Before he became famous on the court, Lin had been a bench player for a long time. In December, 2011, few days after Christmas, he joined New York Knicks. At first time, Lin still didn’t have a chance to show his ability. He even slept on friend’s sofa because he didn’t have a place to live in New York.

In 4th, February, 2012, Lin got a chance to play on the court. It’s a great success, Lin scored 25 points which was the highest in that game. Since then, Lin and his team continuously won seven games, it’s incredibly amazing. In just few days, people all over the world noticed this guy who came from Harvard and were paying attention to him. The whole NBA fans became crazy because of Lin’s dramatic success. The media in US even called this phenomenon “Linsanity.”

Becoming so popular after winning the games, Lin was very humble and always said he was thankful to God and his teammates. With the increasing fame, however, some racially discriminated words also emerged because of his identity. Lin is an Asian American whose parents came from Taiwan. I think Lin is inevitably to be discriminated on the court because there’re only few yellow athletes.

Though Lin faced racial discrimination sometimes, he is still optimistic about his career. Next time when you watch Jeremy playing basketball games, don’t forget to cheer for him.

Believe in yourself when no one else dose.

7.Donald Trump

Donald Trump

－He may be the most Atypical and controversial presidential candidate of USA

This week in class, we saw the presidential candidate of Democratic Party－ Hilary Clinton. So, this week I want to do some research for another presidential candidate. I have to clarify that this man is not the“great person”at all. Actually, he has been a controversial character since he was famous. Therefore, today I’m not gonna introduce to you a great person, I’m gonna introduce to you a celebrity. BTW, I don’t have any political favor to American politics.

Donald Trump, an American tycoon of real estate, has been known for his wealth which he always shows off. His crazy words like “You are fired!”is also a symbol to him. This summer, Trump added another title for himself－the presidential candidate of Republican Party. At first, no one took it seriously. But after the astonishing speech which is considered related to racism against Latino he gave, he successfully caught everyone’s eyes, no matter people like him or not. Since then, his momentum has climbed up crazily. According to a polls from CNN in this August, Trump was behind Hilary only by 6 percent, and this number is enough to let some people drop their jaws.

So why is Donald Trump so “hot”? I think one reason is that his words accord with those relatively conservative voter who support Republican Party. He opposes to illegal immigrant because he thinks they will deprive American whites of jobs. Another reason is probably because of Trump’s straightforward talk, in contrast with those hypocritical politicians, that makes him different to others.

To sum up, the Trump phenomenon reflects the problems of modern American society. Weaker economics, immigration issues, threat from the rising China, etc. No one knows how long will this strange phenomenon continue. But one thing is clear that there’re a lot of issues the next president of America should face.

"We are going to make this country great again!"－Donald Trump

6.Steve Jobs Ⅱ

Steve Jobs

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－Stay hungry, stay foolish

Last week, I introduced to you Steve Jobs with his autobiographical movie. This week, I still wanna write something about him. But this time, I am going to tell you storys about Jobs’ true life.

Dropping out of school

After Jobs graduated from high school, he went to Reed College. The tuition there was very expensive. Jobs thought that he wasted his working-class parents’ saving but didn’t learn anything he had been interested with. Therefore, he dropped out of school to find the stuff he really liked. After dropping out of school, Jobs hence had a chance to take the calligraphy class.  Jobs himself said the course made him come up with the idea of putting different types of typography into the computer when they were creating the Macintosh computer.

Getting fired by the company he started

When I knew this experience Jobs had been through, I couldn’t imagine that a boss would get fired by his own company!! That’s such a dramatic story. Well, Although experiencing the big frustration, Jobs still faced it optimistic.  “It turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.” Jobs said in the lecture. Ultimately, Jobs came back to what he loved, Apple, and took the whole company to a remarkable status.

Death and cancer

In the lecture, Jobs said a quote that impressed him a lot. “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It’s quite humored, but it also reminds us don’t let go the chances happen around us every day. In 2004, Jobs was diagnosed with the pancreas cancer, and we all know that Jobs was killed by this disease in 2011. Though Jobs has passed away, he didn’t waste any second in his life, thus created his legendary life.

In the end, I want to share with you the words from Jobs, “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” Keep this in mind, maybe someday you will become another Steve Jobs!