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"Breakfast! " I call and within seconds, the floor above me shakes as feet gallop down the steps. And as I turn, I see the photograph. It's of the boys sitting with their mother. Her arms are around them. Roxanne, I think, your arms are still around them.

Although my brother Ross was the oldest, Roxanne, the middle one, was always my rock. "Be strong, " she'd tell me after our parents divorced. Somehow, there was something spiritual about Roxanne. Her words of comfort always made me feel better. Justin was her first child; two years later, Shaun was born. And when I'd watch Roxanne cuddle with them, I'd think, Some-day / want to have two boys, too.

But Roxanne's life wasn't perfect. She got divorced and I moved in to help so she could go to work and school.

"Aunt Rhonda, watch me! "Justin would cry from his bicycle.

And Shaun would crawl onto my lap with his teddy bear. Later, I moved out and into a life of my own. And Roxanne met a man I didn't care for before finding Tony, who loved her and the 3oys. To my joy, they married. But something was happening to Roxanne.

"I fell asleep in class today, "she'd say. "And my fever won't ]o away. "Finally she went to the doctor.

"It's advanced AIDS, " the doctor said. A shocked hush fell over the room. Ross and Mom went to embrace her while I stood here shaking in disbelief.

But though Roxanne cried, she didn't look surprised. That man she'd dated, the one I didn't like, he had been an IV drug miser.

"Don't cry for me, 'she said, "look at all I've enjoyed. "Then he turned to me, as if she'd already thought about it. "Rhonda, I want you to take my boys. "

Oh Roxanne. I thought. You won't die. They'll find a cure! I went home and cried through the night.

All we told the boys was that their mother was sick. We wanted to spare them the grief for as long as possible. But maybe was the not knowing that made them angry. It wasn't long be-Dre they started playing hooky. From Roxanne's window I'd catch them with their new friends, kids you could tell were trouble. "These are difficult years, " I told Justin. "But don't give in. Remember who you are. "My heart constricted. They're the sons f a mother who's dying, I thought.

Then one day while I was away on business, I got a call from oxanne: "Justin stole a car, and someone gave Shaun marijuaa!"

When I raced to her house, Roxanne's cheeks were wet with ;ars. "I'm too sick to care for them, and Tony is caring for me. hey need you now!

West Thames College (initially known as Hounslow Borough College) came into existence in 1976 following the merger of Isleworth Polytechnic with part of Chiswick Polytechnic. Both parent colleges , in various guises, enjoyed a long tradition of service to the community dating back to 1890s.

The college is located at London Road, Isleworth, on a site occupied by the Victorian house of the Pears family, Spring Grove House. An earlier house of the same name on this site had been the home of Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist who named Botany Bay with Captain Cook in 1770. Later he founded Kew Gardens.

Situated at the heart of West London, west Thames College is ideally placed to serve the train¬ing and education needs of local industry and local people. But its influence reaches much further than the immediate locality.

Under its former name, Hounslow Borough College, it had already established a regional, national and internalional reputation for excellence. In fact, whilst 8 percent of the students are from the continent, further 52 percent are from outside the immediate area. Since 1 April 1993, when it became independent of the local authority and adopted its new title, West Thames College has continued to build on that first class reputation.

These days there is no such thing as a typical student. More than half of West Thames College's 6, 000 students are over 19 years old. Some of these will be attending college part-time under their employers' training schemes. Others will want to learn new skills purely out of interest, or out of a desire to improve their promotion chances, or they may want a change in career.

The college is also very popular with 16-18 year olds, who see it as a practical alternative to a further two years at school. They want to study in the more adult atmosphere the college provides. They can choose from a far wider range of subjects than it would be practical for a sixth form to offer. If they want to go straight into employment they can still study at college to gain qualifications relevant to the job, either on a day-release basis or through Network or the Modern Apprenticeship Scheme.

Taxation is the system by which a government takes money from the people and spends it on education, health, and national defence. Taxes are the main sources of a country's revenue.

The governments in many countries intend to develop a tax system, which reflects the principles of encouraging employment opportunities and work incentives for everyone, and promoting savings and long-term investment.

The main sources of national revenue are taxes on income and taxes on capital. Taxes on income include personal income tax and corporation tax. Income tax is a personal tax, which is levied on the amount of money a person earns or on the amount of money a person receives from investments. The income of every citizen is taxable, but there are some forms of income which are exempt. The wages, * salaries or investment income of a person are subject to taxation. So people should declare their personal income for tax payment. Corporation tax is a tax on the profits of a company. So companies should pay corporation tax on their income and capital gains. But in some countries, the rates of corporation tax are lowered in order to promote greater long-term investment and reduce the tax burden on smaller companies.

Taxes on capital include capital gains tax and inheritance tax. Capital gains tax is a tax on the profits made by selling possessions. Inheritance tax is essentially charged on estates at the time of death and on gifts made within some years of death. Most other lifetime transfers are

not taxed. There are several important exemptions. In Britain and the United States, transfers between spouses are exempt, and gifts and bequests to charities, major political parties and heritage bodies are also normally exempt. In general, business assets and farmland are exempt from inheritance tax, so that most family businesses can be passed on without a tax charge.

Paying taxes is an obligation and duty of every citizen. But a few people are found to use a cunning and often a deceitful trick to avoid paying taxes. This kind of illegal act is called "tax dodging". And the person who avoids an obligation or duty to pay taxes by using trickery or deceit is a tax dodger.

I am not an amb's profession as superior or inferior. I merely hope to have enough to eat and enough to wear so that I can dedicate myself to writing.

Talking about writing, I have a dream to realize. I hope I can write a good pky some day. This dream, however, is not a small one To realize my dream, firstly I need to read a lot or, better still, spend a couple of years studying abroad. Secondly, I must go to the theater and see as many plays as possible to cultivate my eyes. Thirdly, I should get a job at the theater for a year or two to be in everyday contact with directors, actors and all kinds of technicians. Fourthly, perhaps, I should also learn some acting, getting a minor role to play from time to time. Even with all these prerequisites fulfilled, I am still not sure that I have the aptitude of a playwright. If not, my dream cannot come true even if I have worked the hardest. So you see, in this sense, my dream is really not a small one.

You might think I am not telling the truth—making such a fuss over the mere writing of a play. Very well. Let us look at the matter in a broader perspective. Even in a nation without written fiction, there must be ballads and folk-tales passed down orally. Man, in a sense, lives in memory. As he remembers the past, he cares for the future. Otherwise he loses his sense of continuity—not knowing where he comes from and where he is going. Therefore, literature and arts, either in written form or oral, will never die. If they did, culture would die too.

You see how important literature and arts are!

And then, it was not until culture was further developed that man, stimulated by religious and social activities, invented drama. Drama is a genre much younger than poetry and fiction, but more beautiful and lively and ignore refined in constume, acting and monologue or dialogue. Drama presents to the audience the culture of the day in a vivid manner. It develops dong with culture. When a nation is developed in drama, it can never be barbarized again because drama requires good stories with good ideas, reined language and good music, graceful dancing and a good stage; it also requires well-trained actors and actresses and well-mannered audiences. It a integrated with arts and culture as well. To a certain degree drama is the spokesman of culture. If by now you still held drama in contempt, I'd like foa to think about one question: Is there anything else that can substitute for Irama? I can assure you there is none. Here is another question for you to hink about: Is there any barbarous tribe that is developed in real drama or my civilized country that is without drama?

Unlike all previous societies, this contemporary society of ours is where self-support has become a joke — a society where no individual, without depending on many other individuals' abilities and talents, is able to exist even for a month. For instance, the farmer can no longer grow his crops independently because, raising no animals nowadays to produce natural manure, he would have his fields produce nothing if he could not have the artificial (chemical) fertilizers produced in plants situated mostly far away in cities and towns. In the same way, even the most talented people, such as architects, will find it difficult to produce a vivid design on paper without a computer, which is a typical consequence of other people's abilities and talents. In order to benefit from other people's abilities and talents, every individual must try pretty hard to sell his own abilities and talents. To be specific , this contemporary society has become a super-extensive market, where you buy whatever you need and is available, and sell what you have managed to possess in the course of ten years, or tens of years.

Let's agree that what you have come to possess is the "reality or truth. " But what is it, frankly? Since it is the consequence of your working hard for ten or over ten years in those costly places we call schools and universities, you and your parents value it over anything else. However, this "reality or truth" is nothing — it is worth nothing — before you can get it sold. Are you a major in engineering? Well, you are worthless if you do not get yourself hired by someone who can give you a chance to help build a machine. Haven't you become an expert a-bout the law and crimes? Well, you won't be earning a single dollar a day if you can not succeed in convincing someone that you can help him win a case in the court of law.

How can you get your abilities and talents sold? How can you convince other people that you can do this and that? In contemporary society, this can be done by a very simple means: You go to, and exhibit yourself in, what we call the personnel market, like a commodity, before crowds of likely clients and customers. There, you try hard not to do something, but to look like something. That is, you wait to be hired or dismissed simply by virtue of an appealing " image. "

Then, what is such an image? Well, it is "reality or truth" so attractively packaged and exhibited that those clients and customers in the market will say, "Well, I'll take this. " To be specific, it is the combination of man-y qualities that are useful and highly valued in modern times: confidence, open-mindedness and, above all, readiness to communicate and cooperate. As such, this image doesn't have to be tested; it can be so expressive that it gets its bearer sold in an instant. And this image will not be sold once and for all. It will be carried to the workplace. It will be put up there every day. Most importantly, it will be tempered and improved, until it is so appealing that many other individuals will vote in its favor. And that is what happens in the many corporate, re-gional , or national elections for chairmen, governors, presidents, etc.

Thus, it is for this very simple reason that such image has become more important; without it, the "reality or truth" behind it can be rendered zero in value, and you may start cursing that you would rather not have it.

People from cultures that prefer explicit communication that is direct and to the point tend to persuade with facts (see Chapter 5). This is true of businesses in the United States, for example, where arguments that are based on fact have greater credibility than arguments that are based on opinion or inference. Facts just are; they do not need to be proven. So strong is the attitude that facts count that using a number of facts often seems to make an argument irrefutable. Statistics can make a business decision seem sound. But statistics can be used to say anything. Of course, people can also be mistaken and get facts wrong.

Some prefer arguments based on inference, which is a conclusion based on fact but not proven. Inferences are assumptions. Some believe inferences generated from facts are more powerful than the facts themselves. When a negotiator suggests that the plan her opposite party has to create new jobs will actually threaten the environment, the negotiator is inferring consequences.

Inferred consequences are the stuff of advertisements. Ads infer that a consumer will benefit in some way by purchasing the advertised goods. For example, drinking a certain beer will connect you to a more glamorous social circle; driving a certain car will put you in the company of professional racing drivers; using a certain credit card will enable you to join in fun international travel. Your response to these appeals is emotion-al: desire or perhaps disgust (the advertisers hope it's desire).

Asian negotiators often use inference when they refer to history. Asians, Europeans, Latin Americans, Middle Easterners, and Africans tend to take a long view of current activity, placing it in the context of a history reaching back far, but still having a very real meaning for the present. This enables them to take a long view of the future as well. Americans, Canadians, New Zealanders, Australians, most Argentines, and others have a short history, and even that seems remote and unconnected to the present. They often could use their historical contacts as a persuasive tool but instead overlook them.

Others prefer arguments based on opinion. Opinions cannot be proven to be true or false. They are usually also emotional. For some, emotion means genuine involvement on the part of the persuader. Without emotion an argument lacks heart and conviction and is simply cold and impersonal.

Obviously, when someone who shuns emotion in favor of facts encounters another person who prefers emotion and finds facts alone unconvincing, the result can be mis-communication that results in a failure to reach an agreement. Some observers have noted this problem in Arab-Israeli negotiations: Arabs prefer argument based on a mixture of opinion and emotion with some fact and inference; Israelis prefer an argument based on fact and inference with little opinion and emotion.

The sequence in which items are discussed is often a critical communication factor in negotiations. Research has shown that skilled Western negotiators are more flexible in the sequence in which they communicate about factors than average Western negotiators who stick to a planned sequence.24 The average negotiator treats items independently, while the skilled negotiator is able to link items. This is called "enlarging the pie"; the negotiator adds issues so the pie is larger and therefore everyone can have a larger piece.

Happy Birthday! Your letters gradually sound like a native's writing. I'm glad to see the progress you have made. Next weekends, try to buy some shrimp or fish food to eat. You must eat various kinds of things to get the necessary nutrition. Otherwise, you will gain weight but be in poor health. Keep my words in mind. Run everyday for at least fifteen minutes. You can think of something else while you are running. It doesn't waste you any time. Don't you admire the person who is strong like Shi Tailong, your favorite movie star? Only when you are in high spirits, can you study efficiently.

If you have big goal in your mind, you must have a good health and do thing in good order. Form the good habit to make a plan for everything and finish your work according to the timetable. You always postpone work until the last minute. I really hope you get your PHD degree in six or seven years. You can make it. Now, all young kids get high education, especially in China, so you must get that degree. Otherwise, you can't find a good job you like to do. Whether you will live a meaningful life later is decided by what you do now. No pains, no gains. All you should do is study! study! study! You are 18 now. You should set your goal clearly and definitely, and achieve it step by step through hard working. Have a good time.

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One of the wonderful things about nature is the variety of the seasons. Each season has its own beauty. What is more, each contributes to an annual cycle of birth, death, and re-birth.

Spring begins the cycle. It is a time when the frozen world of winter is born again. The sun shines more brightly, and the frozen ground begins to melt. Bulbs buried beneath the ground send up shoots through the softening earth. Soon flowers bloom. Leaves grow on the trees again. Birds return from their winter homes in the south. People enjoy the spring fragrance and color.

The weather gets hotter as the days pass from spring into summer. The green plants grow fast in the golden sun. Bees hum and buzz among the flowers , and the fruits and crops mature. Children play on the grass and a lot of people swim in the sea and rivers. In addition, the youth have picnics and parties outside. The whole world is full of activity.

Gradually the days grow shorter. Shadows lengthen. The air becomes colder. Crops ripen, and the harvest marks the coming of fall. The squirrel gathers nuts. Autumn leaves float to the ground. Birds fly toward the south again, and many insects die.

Winter is the time when the earth is most quiet. The grass sleeps beneath the snow. Some animals are hibernating or hiding. Human beings warm their

faces and feet by the fire. They doze and dream of spring.

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