英语作文：Change_大学英语作文

Change has been the one constant in my life. While staring out at the bleak Wisconsin winter, I think back to my beginnings on a warm tropical island. The biggest change was probably the first 鈥?moving from that buzzing Spanish-speaking isle to the sleepy sea-side town that was Tampa in 1978. It took me some time to realize that the other pre-schoolers could not understand my native tongue. Before long, I too was speaking their language.

Five years later I, an excited eight-year-old girl, boarded a school bus in New Jersey. The excitement quickly turned to fear as I heard rampant swearing in the back of the bus. I was truly shocked when the bus driver did nothing to stop the vulgarity. In my schools in Florida such behavior would have met with a bar of soap and a visit to the principal鈥檚 office. A year later, I had a “Jersey” accent, and had started swearing too.

After nine years my family then moved to a place called “a whole 鈥檔other country”: Texas. I discovered that everything is bigger in Texas, from the size of a glass of ice tea to the distances on the road. My mother added barbecued brisket to the regular menu of turkey and Idaho potatoes on Monday and arroz con pollo on Tuesday.

The incredibly friendly Texans, wearing cowboy boots and going to high school football games on Friday nights, seemed a totally different breed from my friends in New Jersey. A slight drawl entered my speech.

In two years time, I found myself in the mountains of rural Bolivian. As part of a team of doctors and students researching hypertension on a group of African- Bolivian villagers, I quickly learned a new vocabulary that included medical and anthropological terms. The greatest test of my linguistic abilities came when a villager accused me of drinking blood samples in some kind of vampire-like witchcraft ritual. I had to bridge a vast cultural gulf to explain a DNA isolation and analysis protocol in Spanish to someone who had never heard of a gene m

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Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a beautiful baby daughter. She asked all the fairies in the kingdom to the christening, but unfortunately forgot to invite one of them, who was a bit of a witch as well. She came anyway, but as she passed the baby’s cradle, she said:

銆€銆€”When you are sixteen, you will injure yourself with a spindle and die!”

銆€銆€”Oh, no!” screamed the Queen in horror. A good fairy quickly chanted a magic spell to change the curse. When she hurt herself, the girl would fall into a very deep sleep instead of dying.

銆€銆€The years went by, the little Princess grew and became the most beautiful girl in the whole kingdom. Her mother was always very careful to keep her away from spindles, but the Princess, on her sixteenth birthday, as she

wandered through the castle, came into a room where an old servant was spinning.

銆€銆€”What are you doing?” she asked the servant.

銆€銆€”I’m spinning. Haven’t you seen a spindle before?”

銆€銆€”No. Let me see it!” The servant handed the girl the spindle ... and she pricked herself with it and. with a sigh, dropped to the

floor.

銆€銆€The terrified old woman hurried to tell the Queen. Beside herself with anguish, the Queen did her best to awaken her daughter but in vain. The court doctors and wizards were called, but there was nothing they could do. The girl could not be wakened from her deep sleep. The good fairy who managed to avoid the worst of the curse came too, and the Queen said to her,

銆€銆€”When will my daughter waken?”

銆€銆€”I don’t know,” the fairy admitted sadly.

銆€銆€”In a year’s time, ten years or twenty?” the Queen went on.

銆€銆€”Maybe in a hundred years’ time. Who knows?” said the fairy.

銆€銆€”Oh! What would make her waken?” asked the Queen weeplng.

銆€銆€”Love,” replied the fairy. “If a man of pure heart were to fall in love with her, that would bring her back to life!”

銆€銆€”How can a man fall in

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Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations, there is sometimes mixture of vanity, and of superstition. You shall read, in some of the friars鈥?books of mortification, that a man should think with himself, what the pain is, if he have but his finger鈥檚 end pressed, or tortured, and thereby imagine, what the pains of death are, when the whole body is corrupted, and dissolved; when many times death passeth, with less pain than the torture of a limb; for the most vital parts, are not the quickest of sense. And by him that spake only as a philosopher, and natural man, it was well said, Pompa mortis magis terret, quam mors ipsa. Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man, so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death; and therefore, death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge

triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupateth it; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity (which is the tenderest of affections) provoked many to die, out of mere compassion to their sovereign, and as the truest sort of followers. Nay, Seneca adds niceness and satiety: Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; mori velle, non tantum fortis aut miser, sed etiam fastidiosus potest. A man would die, though he were neither valiant, nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft, over and over. It is no less worthy, to observe, how little alteration in good spirits, the approaches of death make; for they

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I always thought that

our kind of relationship

only existed in dreams -

In the past

I did not want to let anyone really know me

Now

I find that I am telling you things about me

that I long ago forgot

because I want you to understand

everything about me

In the past

I only wanted people to see the best of me

Now

I find that I do not mind your seeing my faults

because I want you to accept me the way I am

In the past

I thought that only I could make the

right decisions for myself

Now

I can discuss all my ideas with you

and you can help me make decisions

because I have such a complete trust in you

In the past

I did not care how I treated people

Now

I find that I have a new sensitivity

towards everyone

because my softest emotions have been

awakened by you

In the past

love was a word that I was not sure of

Now

I find that inside of me

every fiber, every nerve, every emotion, every feeling

is exploding

in an overwhelming emotion of love

I always thought that

our kind of relationship

only existed in dreams -

Now

I have found out that

our kind of relationship

is even better

than my dreams

and the love that

I have discovered

is all for you