When Mary Van Beke was growing up in the 1920s, she lived in Newark, N.J., and was the oldest of four children. Her parents were immigrants from Europe. And as Mary tells her son, ...

Some years ago, a good family moved into the third floor apartment of the tenement where we lived in the Bronx. David was the son and he was going to medical school. He was also an...

  Pirates Treasure 'Ten steps from the porch（门廊） and twenty steps from the rose bushes,' growled Bluebeard in Jimmy‘s dream one night. 'There be treasure there! .' So th...

  A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her, She did not know she was going to make it and want to give up. She was tired of figh...

Along the coast of the vast Atlantic Ocean there lived an old man. Each day when the tide went out he would make his way along the beach for miles. Another man who lived not far aw...

寓意: 有些人轻易相信别人的话，抛弃自己的长处，结果轻而易举地被原来害怕自己的人击败了。 A lion once fell in love with a beautiful girl, so he went to her parents and asked them to m...

Theauther: 'We met in my hometown in Georgia. I had this car, a ‘56 Ford. And I was kinda wild at that time too. I used to come to her house and it was like a sandy row and I used...

THE Chinese, President Grover Cleveland proclaimed in 1888, are 'an element ignorant of our constitution and laws, impossible of assimilation with our people, and dangerous to our ...

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Alow yourself to be happy and proud of your progress Too often we are hard on ourselves and feel bad about our lack of progress. We feel guilty that we’ve missed a couple of worko...