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　　Adult ceremony maybe is not very familiar for our Chinese. Although in the old time, our country also has the tradition to have adult ceremony, now most areas have given it up. It is a ceremony to celebrate the children become adults. In German, adult ceremony is a traditional festival with a long history. Everyone reaching the age of fourteen is adult in their religious belief and custom. Every April or May, they will dress well to take part in the adult ceremony with the companion of their parents or friends. At first, there will be a speech spoken by some respectable people. They will remind the kids of their new rights and duties. And then people will congratulate them become adults. Later the adults will hold dancing party for them. This is the German adult ceremony. Except German, there are still some places having adult ceremony, which will be similar.

　　成人礼对于我们中国人来说也许不是很熟悉。虽然在以前，我国也有成人仪式的传统，但是现在大部分地区已经摈弃了。这是一个庆祝孩子长大成人的仪式。在德国，成人礼是一个历史悠久的传统节日。在宗教信仰和习俗里每个年满十四岁的就是成人。每年的四月或五月，他们会打扮好在他们的父母或者朋友的陪伴下去参加成人礼。首先，会有一个德高望重的人来发言。他们会提醒孩子们新的权利和义务。然后大家就会祝贺他们长大成人了。后面人们会为他们举办舞会。这是德国的成人礼。除了德国之外，还有一些地方也是存在着相似的成人礼。

　　On the surface, Chinatown is prosperous - a model slum, some have called it - with the lowest crime rate, highest employment and least juvenile delinquency of any city district. Walk through its crowded streets at any time of day, and every shop is doing a brisk and businesslike trade: restaurant after restaurant is booming; there are storefront displays of shiny squids, clawing crabs and clambering lobster; and street markets offer overflowing piles of exotic green vegetables, garlic and ginger root. Chinatown has the feel of a land of plenty, and the reason why lies with the Chinese themselves: even here, in the very core of downtown Manhattan, they have been careful to preserve their own way of dealing with things, preferring to keep affairs close to the bond of the family and allowing few intrusions into a still-insular culture. There have been several concessions to Westerners - storefront signs now offer English translations, and Haagen Dazs and Baskin Robbins ice-cream stores have opened on lower Mott Street - but they can't help but seem

　　incongruous. The one time of the year when Chinatown bursts open is during the Chinese New Year festival, held each year on the first full moon after

　　January 19, when a giant dragon runs down Mott Street to the accompaniment of firecrackers, and the gutters run with ceremonial dyes.

　　Beneath the neighborhood's blithely prosperous facade, however, there is a darker underbelly. Sharp practices continue to flourish, with traditional

　　extortion and protection rackets still in business. Non-union nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; sweatshops - their assembly lines grinding from early morning to late into the evening - are still visited by the US Department of Labor, who come to investigate workers' testimonies of being paid below minimum wage for seventy-plus-hour work weeks. Living conditions are abysmal for the poorer Chinese - mostly recent immigrants and the elderly - who reside in small rooms in overcrowded

　　tenements ill kept by landlords. Yet, because the community has been

　　cloistered for so long and has only just begun to seek help from city officials for its internal problems, you won't detect any hint of difficulties unless you reside in Chinatown for a considerable length of time.

　　The ray of the warm sunlight told us that it was spring. A lion was sleeping peacefully in the forest.

　　While the lion was fast asleep, a mouse went on top of the lion. The bold mouse played happily on top of the lion. Yuppie! This is really fun. The mouse ran around thumping and stomping here and there.

　　The lion was not able to sleep with all the racket. The lion knew that there was someone on top of him. So, the lion made a surprise attack and rolled on the ground.

　　And the mouse fell over. When the lion saw the mouse he was relieved and said, Whew! It was only a mouse.

　　However, far away a fox had seen the scene. The fox laughed mockingly to the lion and said, You're as big as a mountain and you're afraid of the mouse. You're a coward! The fox kept making fun of the Lion.

　　Finally the lion spoke, I wasn't afraid of the mouse. I was only shocked to find a bold enough animal not afraid to run around on top of a lion. When the fox heard this he quietly left.

　　Young people are excited, young people are strong, young people work hard, and young people hope. In another Youth Day approaching, bless you, my dear friend, a young, promising career, young people, happy every day.

　　The youth should stand forward, the youth should fire departments, youth on confidence disclosure date, the youth should innumerable twists and turns into a hero Youth Day!, I wish you a beautiful demonstration, repeatedlyspectacular!

　　The youth is Chaoyang, charming, youth is a horse, the pace of flying, the youth is more than the Pentium, the river, the youth is pine, will become the pillars! Youth Day, may you young, positive youth, promising future!

　　Green Cuicui tree Changchun, one year people often red, deeply bless you: good life such as evergreen trees, like saffron Chang Yan, always in youth, often smiling happy youth day!

　　Youth, a life only once, although the youth have rebellion, impetuous, and also have mistakes, but more youth is enthusiasm, beauty and hope. Youth will have happiness after all, because it has the future! Happy youth day!

　　People often wonder why historians go to so much trouble to preserve millions of books, documents and records.

　　Why do we have libraries? What good are these documents and history books? Why do we record and save the actions of men, the negotiations1 of government officials and the events during wars?

　　We do it because, sometimes, the voice of experience can cause us to stop, look and listen. Sometimes, past records, when understood in the right way, can help us decide what to do and what not to do. If we are ever to create lasting peace, we must seek its origins in human experience and in the records of human history.

　　From the stories of courage and devotion of men and women, we create the inspirations of youth. History records the suffering, the self-denial2, the devotion, and the heroic deeds of people in the past. These records can help us when we are confused and when we really need peace.

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