Superwoman vs. Supermom With the worldwide women liberation movement in last century, many women want to be a super woman with a career, marriage and babies, yet there is also a common belief that “a woman’s place is in the home.”

The superwomen are totally liberated from the traditional housework and are playing a more and more important role in today's social society. They can do anything they want just like men and we had seen great women with remarkable achievements in different fields, for example Marie Curie who made such a notable and special contribution in chemistry. They were smart and contributed themselves to the society and let the world to realize their own values.

While many other women just thought a woman’s place is in the home. They believe in the traditional way of women’s lives and prefer to focus on their families. They withdraw into suburban houses, have children, plant flower beds and fill their homes with the usual trash. It’s also another kind of achievement to themselves and valuable.

In my opinion, both ideas are prefect, but if we want both of all, career, marriage and babies, it may bring a lot of pressure to ourselves. We should support an appropriate balance between career and families. While whatever the choice is, the most important thing to keep in mind is we should think over the meaning of life and to keep the feeling of happiness.

The Effects of Compliments

The American writer Mark Twain

once said，“I can live for two months on

a good compliment.”A compliment will

get you everywhere and people around

the world do like compliment, even it’s a

little bit difficult for some to give or

reply in an appropriate way.

A good many people are fond of

compliments, either being praised or

flattering others. Recently I heard a

young man tell a girl that she possessed

the same ethereal beauty as Greta Garbo.

That one, I thought, was more than

passable. Actually, we had seen it was a

common phenomenon in our society and

compliments would make you well with

others. We should acquire a bit more

poise if we keep one thing in mind:

whenever a person pays you a

compliment, the only sensible response

is “Thank you”.

Sometimes compliments may be

extremely useful to you. When you are

communicating with a stranger,

compliments may help you solve the

awkward atmosphere and get an easy life.

So whether you like it or not, you have

to learn how to compliment the others

and it also make you be loved by others.

Compliments would make your life

wonderful, but please remember that

your compliments

must be on the ground and your purposes

are not for getting benefits from the

others, it will be just making a

conversation.

The Art of Exchanging Gifts

Most gift-giving stems from the

spirit of love and friendship, for example,

birthday and the Valentine’s

Day. But it

is possible to form associations between

the kinds of the things bought and the

people who buy them.

Since time immemorial gifts have

been a part and parcel of human life,

exchanging gifts at a right time and right

occasion has become an art. Choosing

the right gift will not only make people

be happy who had received gifts, but

also can save a lot of money. For

example, if you give gifts to your parents

on their birthday, even the gift may not

be very expensive, they still will fell

very happy. If you give a gift to your

best friend for souvenirs, you can choose

some exquisite gifts, which can be

placed for a long time. While, if you ask

someone else for help, the gift maybe

very luxurious. Therefore, the possible

associations between different situations

are different.

Combine the act of giving with some

knowledge of and sensitivity to the

culture of the recipient and you have an

invaluable chance to lay the foundations

of a durable and mutually beneficial. In

different countries, the exchanging gifts

are different: in Iran short-sleeved shirts

and any visual representation of naked or

partially dressed people, male or female,

are highly inappropriate. While in Japan,

the gifts should be on high quality and

wrapped.

So, when it comes time to give a

gift, you should keep in mind that

choosing the appropriate gift according

to different countries and different

occasions.

My Understanding of the Pursuit of

Happiness

All civilized men believe that one of the rights of man is to pursue happiness. Lewis, however, argues that we have “no right to pursue happiness at the expense of honesty, loyalty or common humanity.”

We usually hear that many people who really live a happy life while complain about their lives are unhappy. Surprisingly, the reason for their unhappiness is either they don't have too much money or they can't get what they want. We know different people have various definitions to happiness, but in my opinion, pursuit of happiness is doing what you like then you get a reward or learn something from it, or helping the one who is indeed in a hard situation and assist him to get out of it. Meanwhile, the most happiness moment is to share my happiness with parents and friends. When I was unhappy, I will sing some songs, I will be happy as singing is my hobby. Happiness does not base on how much money we have, pursuit of happiness is to enjoy the life and to discover the happiness around us.

Therefore, if we want to be happy, we must cherish the thing we already had. What's more, we must know, happiness based on the present time. For "past: done; present: now; future: none of your business." After understanding these principles, we should spare more time to care about our families and friends. Furthermore, we should make full use of our time. Only in this way, can we feel happy and will become a useful man in the future.

My View of Euthanasia

Euthanasia is becoming familiar with us, more and more people are considering euthanasia, especially those who is dying of incurable cancer. It is said that euthanasia can relieve the pain of the patient and can help them have less sorrow when facing their fetal destiny.

Though a lot of people have a different view on it, and take strongly opposed to it. Some people think it rebel the nature of life span of human, and there is an important moral difference between euthanasia and let someone die. They think it is inhumane to end the life

of a person.

Different people have different ideas. For my part, we should use euthanasia moderately depend on the specific situation a patient is in and make decisions accordingly. Euthanasia should be used on the patients own will or at least the patients ' families' ideas. If the patient is suffering from an incurable disease, but he is still conscious and rational enough to make a decision, we should show respect for his opinion. While he is not willing to have euthanasia, doctors and nurses should try everything they can to extend his life. The country also should pay more attention to making proper laws to standardize euthanasia in the purpose of avoiding those problems happen.

I believe it is a indignity to be kept alive with needles, tubes, bottled blood, and mechanical equipment. To remove the artificial devices is not ending a life, but a refusal to hold off death by the using machinery. A person who is kept alive by machinery is not living, and we should take a right view on euthanasia.