Happy birthday!

I am only too fortunate to be one of your students. I have always been wondering what I would be today, without knowing you during my senior middle school.

I believe, many other fellow students, brothers, and sisters, who sat in the same classroom as me once did, have also benefited a great deal from the the days with you. It is from you that we sensed, in a genuine way, there could be so many possibilities -- instead of simply other-directedness -- in one's mental life, for a young person in a backward region.

You are utterly insightful, nice, generous, and helpful. To a large extent, your thoughts has been my main basis for decision-making whenever I face major paradoxes influencing what is next in my life.

Mr. Zhang, I thank you sincerely for all you support and encouragement during the past years.

Let's celebrate your birthday together.

I have just found out the media file of the prestigious Gettysburg Address by chance. I am so glad to share it with my readers. To download the file, please right click the following link, then choose "save as..." in the shortcut menu:

Download Gettysburg Address(.rm file)



For a detailed introduction of Gettysburg Address, please have a look at wikipedia.org. And I paste its main background here:

The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln's most famous speech, was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863, four and one-half months after the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Although Lincoln's carefully crafted address was secondary to other presentations that day, it ultimately was regarded as one of the great speeches in American history. By invoking the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln redefined the Civil War as not merely a struggle for Union, but instead as "a new birth of freedom" for the United States and its people.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

What follows is the Bliss Copy (the last written copy) of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Directed by Stephen Daldry

Starring: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewis

Genre: Drama

IMDB User Rating: 7.7/10 (16,835 votes)

Runtime: 110 min, Country: UK / France, Language: English/Chinese subtitled

Billy Eliot is the heartwarming story of a young boy from a working-class family who discovers a passion that will change his life forever.

Eleven-year-old miner’s son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lesions when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand. Under the guidance of his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson (Academy Award-nominee Julie Walters) Billy’s raw talent takes flight. But when his father discovers his son’s ambition, Billy must fight for his dreams and his destiny.

11岁的比利跟所有伦敦北部的孩子一样，被矿工出身及为了薪酬终日跟警方搞对抗的父亲送往学拳击。可是，比利却将拳套换上了芭蕾舞鞋，将心中的愤怒从拳头转到脚尖。比利的启蒙老师是烟不离手，重量级身材的韦坚逊太太。她以每周两英镑的学费教比利学芭蕾。笨拙的舞姿，父亲的反对和经济的压力显然挡不住比利的决心。内心涌动的热流舞动着他的身体，表达了他的情感。

发信人: Bono12 (实变函数学十遍【NT】), 信区: Joke
标  题: 网友回忆郭同学的文章
发信站: 南京大学小百合站 (Thu Jun  2 15:21:56 2005)

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