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2010年9月27日星期一

The soft sell (1)

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One of the problems with today's economy is that it's very hard to find young people who are good salesmen. Many students coming out of college are more interest in a customer’s motivation than they are in closing a sale. They also have a tendency to be too honest, which can play havoc in the retail business.
A friend of mine has a dress shop here in Georgetown, wholesale replica designer handbags and she told me of the problems she had with a young lady, a psychology major whom she had hired as a salesgirl, this, in essence, is what happened:
The first day a lady came in the store, and the salesgirl (let us call her miss Brampton) asked if she could be of help.
“I’d like a suit for the fall,” the lady said.
“What price range?” Miss Brampton asked.
“It doesn’t make any difference, wholesale designer handbags,” the lady replied.
“Well, let me ask you this question: do you want the suit because you need it? Or have you just had a fight with your husband and are trying to get even by making a very expensive purchase?”
“I bet your pardon?” the lady said.
“Perhaps you suspect he has a girlfriend, and you think this is the only way you can get back at him.”
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“Spending money in anger is a very expensive form of hostility. My advice to you is to think it over for a few days. Try to patch up you differences. Buying a new suit won’t save you marriage.

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Heart of champion (3)

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At the start of the next season, Michael ran the opening mile faster than anyone. And although he had tough time with some of the training. He kept out with the rest of the team pretty well.
The following Monday after practice, the team captain came up to me. Steve was talented, but lazy and undisciplined. He was an honor student even though he rarely studied, and he was popular with his peers even though he could be heartless in other words, everything came easy to Steve, wholesale replica designer handbags, too easy.
Steve pointed to the field where Michael was jogging all alone and asked me why he was still out there. I told Steve to ask him. The next night, wholesale coach handbags, I was surprised to see Steve exercising right next to Michael.
Several weeks later, we were preparing for one of our most important games. At the end of a very tough practice session. I dismissed the team. To my surprise, only two kids left the field. The rest were gathered around Michael. Who was leading them in yet another workout!
Finally our big game came, and by the first time out we were losing by twelve points. I could see that some of the kids had already lost heart. But mot Michael, wholesale designer handbags, He was playing as hard as could, begging the team to keep trying and no one had the heart to disappoint him. We won that game by one point in the final ten seconds and finished the season as one of the top teams in the stae.

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Heart of champion (4)

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At our end of the yare celebration dinner, we always give a big award to the most productive player, based on a strct point system. The team captain, wholesale replica designer handbags, Steve, had scored the most points that season, and everyone cheered as he came to the front to receive his award.
“As much as I honor his award, “Steve said, “There is someone who deserves it more than I do.” The crowd fell lilent. “everything I accomplished this season, and everything team accomplished, is thanks to one person,” he turned to Michael. “Michael, you always said I was your hero. If I were half the man you are, wholesale designer handbags, I would be proud; because there is no doubt that you are my hero.”
The entire team cheered as Steve turned the prize over to the player who had inspired them all.
Michael and his parents always tried to tell me how much I had helped him. I don’t think they realize I was just a by stander. I know I never found the words to tell Michael that he had done more for me than I had for him, wholesale coach handbags. There are a lot more Michaels out there, kids who will never be stars but who give and get more from sports than the gifted athletes. It’s those kids who make me proud to be a coach.

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Heart of champion (2)

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The same thing happened every day for weeks. I assigned an assistant coach to give Michael special attention, and Michael put his whole heart into the training. As the season progressed, Michael gained strength both socially and physically. He began to laugh and joke with team members, and most of them started to see him as a crazy kid brother. Instead of laughing at him, wholesale replica designer handbags, they became touchingly protective.
By the last week of practice Michael could run the mile without falling. We had won only one game that season, yet the team cheered louder for Mic hael’s run than they had during our lone victory. Afterward, Michael approaches me, and I told him how proud I was of him.
“Coach, “he said, wholesale designer handbags, “I didn’t get a chance to play this year but I really want to next season. What do I have to do?
I sighed and told him to stop by my house sometime and I would put together a schedule of training exercises he could work on his own.
Michael wasn’t in any of my classes, but I saw him every evening as I left school. He would be doing exercises or running, and It was obvious he was sticking to the program.. then one night I heard a knock at my door, wholesale coach handbags and there was Michael, about ten pounds heavier and with some healthy his training program since it was becoming too easy for him. I laughed and added a few more exercises.

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Heart of champion (1)

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In my third year as a high school athletics coach, I gave a speech telling students and parents about the benefits of football. I gave the same speech each year, wholesale replica designer handbags, aimed at recruiting new team members: I talked about how football isn’t just for star athletes, how everyone can benefit from the discipline, team spirit and so on and so forth. This year, a worried-looking couple approached me after the speech. Their son, who had had a sickly childhood, really wanted to play football, they’d tried to talk him out of it, but he had his heart set on joining the team.
When they told me his name, my heart sank. Michael was five feet, ten inches tall and weighed about 108 pounds. He was a lonely hid, the constant target of other kids ‘jokes, wholesale designer handbags and as far as I knew he had never participated in sports. I knew Michael would never make it through football practice, let alone as a player. But so close on the heels of my “football is for everyone” speech, what could I say? I told them we could give it a try.
On the opening day of practice, Michael was the first player on the field. We did 30 minutes of warm-up before starting a one-mile jog around the track. I kept my eye on “Michael. At 50 yards he fell, and I helped him to his feet “Michael, wholesale coach handbags,” I said, “why don’t you just walk the mile?” he looked like the others. So I let him go on. Repeatedly he fell, each time picking himself up. After one lap, I couldn’t watch anymore, so I pulled him aside.

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Foreign teachers (3)

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And although polish teachers don’t all approve of it, they are much more likely than americans to look the other way. Or even secretly admire it a bit.
Understanding the deep-rooted cultural reasons for cheating may not always help you overcome your gut reactions to it, wholesale replica designer handbags. But it can be useful in finding ways to cope with it. Trying to wipe out the cheating just turns the academic year into a series of bitter battles and poles have a lot more experience as resistance fighters than you do, believe me! Instead, I recommend trying some of the techniques that creative polish instructors use: instead of declaring war on the cheating, build it into your tests and assignments so that it contributes to the students’ education. Before a test , make the preparation of “cheat sheets” a home work assignment or even an in-class group activity, then collect them and grade them before the test. Give group tests and group home work, making it clear that you expect the learners to use each other as educational resources, and that they will be graded collectively. Give open-book tests, after all, it’s the information age, wholesale designer handbags and knowing how to access information is a more useful skill than memorizing it! Finally, never assume that it’s obvious to the students when you expect completely individual work from them. In a group-oriented culture, this isn’t obvious at all.
The issue of cheating is just one example of the kinds of conflicts that can arise in classrooms where two cultures meet, wholesale coach handbags. Recognizing these conflicts as cultural differences’ is the first step towards making they part of the educational experience for everyone in your classroom. But there’s a second crucial ingredient as well. It’s called tolerance.

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Find yourself

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I told Margy that I would have been more concerned if she had been an instant social success in he new school. That, to me , would have bee proof that she had betrayed her true self in order to become popular. wholesale designer handbags,Nobody can please everyone. If you rty to do so, you will find values as lasting as soap bubbles blown into the air. The people with whom you ought to be friends will find you in good time. And you will find them. Sometimes young people try to force friendships into bloom by opening their innermost thoughts to people they have just met. Such friendships are the least likely to last. What’s the hurry? If you have five really close friends in your lifetime, you will be doing very well.
I hear many parents complaining that the young are rebelling. I wish they were. But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers and those in their early rwenties are all taking the same way of showing that they disagree with their parents. Instead of striking out boldly on their own, most of them are cluthing at one another’s hands for reassurance.
They claim they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music. wholesale replica handbags,But somehow they all end up listening to the same record. Their reason for thinking or acting in a certain way is that the crowd is doing it . they have come out of their cocoon-into a larger cocoon.
I know that it has become harder and harder for a young person to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Our way of life makes a young nonconformist stan out like a Martian. Industry has firmly carved out a young market. These days every member of the younger generation can learn from the advertisements what he or she should have and be. And many of today’s parents have come to award high marks for the popularity of their children. All this adds up to a great barrier for the young person who wants to find his or her own path.
But the barrier is worth climbing over. The path is worth following. You may want to listen to classical music instead of going o a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records. Replica handbags wholesale,You may have some thoughts that you don’t care to share at once with your classmates. Well, go to it. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come-with the people who respect you for who you are. That’s the only kind of popularity that really counts.

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Popularity that counts (1)

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it seems that the great desire among the young is to be popular. And once they achieve popularity, they want to keep it. Improve on it, wholesale replica designer handbags and expand it.
Those are the years when you should be finding out who you are and what you stand for. But the desire to be popular can force you into looking and acting like everyone else. You can lose yourself in a sea of identical hairstyles and thought styles.
I was forced to think about popularity not too long ago in a talk I had with my daughter. Margy had to change schools when my busy work schedule made it necessary for me to move houses. I suppose that. For a girl in her teens, wholesale designer handbags, entering a new school is about as easy as spending a season alone in the tropical jungles. At least that’s how Margy found it at first. However, as the school year drew to a close, one student after another came to her. All told her how much they liked her now that they knew her. They said they would havd liked to be friends sooner. Why, they wanted to know, hadn’t Margy let them know earlier in the school year what she was really like?
Why, wholesale coach handbags, Margy asked me with some concern, hadn’t she made all those friends sooner? Why had it taken them so long to get to know her and like her?

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Foreign teachers (2)

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In a group-oriented society, it’s unthinkable to refuse help to a friend in need. It’s a survival thing: when a friend needs money. You lend it to him, next week he’ll drive you to the train station to pick up your visiting cousins, wholesale replica designer handbags. When a neighbor needs help carrying some new furniture upstairs, you help her, in a month she’ll let you use her phone when you’ve lost your keys and are locked out of your flat in the cold. And when a classmate whispers a desperate question during a test, you answer him, after all, he lent you the book you needed in order to finish your essay last month how can you refuse?
An American might respond by saying that of course you can refuse, easily! And that there are a hundred better solutions to the problem of the desperate classmate than helping him cheat. But 99 of those “better solutions” are only better in the context of a society where the focus is on individual responsibility: and they are only “obvious” to some one who’s grown up in an individualist culture and been imbued with its values, wholesale designer handbags. For poles, what’s obvious and better is concern for the well-being of the whole group and the cooperative bonds that are essential to everyone’s survival.
There’s another level to the cheating issue as well. The ability to use one’s wits to escape from a difficult situation has always been highly valued in polish culture, doubtless due to historical reasons. Polish history is a history of hardship, invasion and occupation, wholesale coach handbags and poles have had to reply on their inventiveness to survive, not on wealth or military strength. Cheating at school-especially if it's done ‘success fully or at least creatively, is simply one variation on the time honored skill of worming your way out of a hard spot.

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Her husband (2)

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As sue came into view again, I could see here begin to struggle. Her pace slowed and her legs looked as if they did not want to work any longer. Somehow, she kept moving almost staggering.
The small group was becoming more spread out. Only a woman in her twenties was near sue. It was obvious that they had become friends during the race. I was caught up in the scene and began running along with them. After a hundred yards or so I tried to speak, wholesale replica designer handbags, to offer some great words of wisdom and motivation, but my words and my breath failed.
The finish line came into sight. I felt that the real winners were just now coming in. I could see that sue was in agony, but she had dreamed about this day for two years and she would not be denied. She knew she would finish, wholesale designer handbags and this knowledge allowed her to confidently, even happily, pick up her pace the last hundred yards to the finish line.
Few people were left to congratulate my wife. She had run a smart race, stopping to stretch regularly, drinking plenty of water at the various water stops, and pacing herself well. She had been the leader of a small group of less-experienced runners. She had inspired and encouraged most of them with her words of confidence and assurance. They openly praised and embraced her as we rejoiced in the park.
“She made us believe we could do it, “her new friend said. “She described so vividly how it would be to finish that I knew I could do it,” another said.
The rain had quit, and we welded and talked in the park. I looked at sue. She was carrying herself differently. Her head was more erect. Her shoulders were squared. Her walk, even though she was limping, had a new confidence. Her voice held a new, quiet dignity. She truly liked her newly, wholesale coach handbags discovered self. So did I.

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Foreign teachers

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When foreign teachers first come to a new country, they usually expect, even look forward to a different approach to education than what they’re used to. So it’s interesting that they’re often completely unprepared for many of the specific cultural differences they run into in their classrooms. When new American teachers first come to Poland, for example, wholesale replica designer handbags, one of their most frequent (and furious!) cries is :”my students are cheating all the time!” hearing this, the polish students become confused and angry, wholesale designer handbags and the result is usually a series of ever-worsening mistuned standings that do a lot of damage to student/teacher relations. But this mutual ill could be easily avoided if only everyone remembered that cheating is a culturally relative matter.
The cultural values of polish society are reflected in the education system, just like anywhere else. Poland is a group oriented society which means that cooperation is strongly emphasized. And although this attitude is very appealing in theory to most Americans, wholesale coach handbags, adjusting to they way it’s practiced in everyday life can fe a major challenge for someone from a society that emphasizes individual responsibility. It’s enormously difficult for them to grasp that what they call cheating, poles call survival.

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A few years ago, my friend sue had some fairly serious health problems. Her husband, Dennis, had constantly hoped her health would improve, but he did not really believe it ever would.
One day they drew up a “wish list”. One of Sue’s wishes was to run in a marathon. Given her physical limitations, wholesale replica designer handbags, Dennis thought her goal was completely unrealistic, but sue became committed to it. She began by running very slowly in the neighborhood where they lived. Every day she ran just a little farther than she had the day before. Soon she was running a mile. Then three, then five. I’ll let Dennis tell the rest of the story in his own words:
I remember sue telling me something she had learned: we can change ourselves for the better. I knew sue believed it. She had registered to run in the St. George marathon in southern Utah.
I drove to St. George, Utah, parked our van near the finish line and waited for sue to come in. the rain was steady and the wind was cold,. The marathon had started over five hours ago. The fast and strong competitors had finished long ago, wholesale designer handbags and runners were becoming more and sparser. I drove up the race route. There were still no runners in view after I drove almost two miles. Then I went around a bend in the road and spotted a small group running up ahead. As I approached, I could see sue in the company of three others. They were smiling and talking as they ran. I pulled off and called, “are you okay?”
“Oh, yes!” sue said, panting only mildly. Her new friends smiled at me.
“How far to the finish line?” one of them asked.
“Only a couple of miles,” I said.
I noticed that two of the runners were limping. I wanted to say to them that they had run a good race and offer them a ride in, wholesale coach handbags, but I could see the resolve in their eyes. I turned the van around and follow from a distance, watching for one or all of them to fall. They had been running for over five and a half hours! I sped around them and up to within a mile of the finish and waited.

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DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES: 1961-1997 (3)

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Diana, princess of wales: 1961-1997 (2)

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The princess was often criticized as a shallow publicity seeker, but she used her celebrity to focus public attention on numerous humanitarian causes. Her duty visits to hospitals, clinics and shelters were characterized by the warm concern Diana showed as she spent hours playing with sick children, wholesale replica designer handbags, holding AIDS patients’ hands and listening to the sad stories of the needy. Accustomed to a formal and stuffy royal family, the British public was delighted.
In private, however, difficulties were growing. Diana’s marriage to Charles was a troubled one, and the princess struggled with many personal problems, including depression and eating disorders. Diana was unaccustomed to being constantly in the public eye: and there were growing conflicts with the royal family, wholesale coach handbags, who felt that her behavior was not entirely suitable for a princess. To their embarrassment, the breakdown of the Wales’s marriage became a major media event, in which both Charles and Diana hurled bitter and alarming accusations. The couple formally separated in 1992 and divorced in 1996.
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2010年9月19日星期日

We are what we think we are(2)

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Try this. Set aside 20-30 minutes each day to sit alone quietly and comfortably. Just close your eyes and imagine yourself sitting before a large movie screen. Then picture yourself dong something you want to improve on. This could be test-taking, hitting a backhand stroke in tennis, job interviewing, whatever. Practice seeing yourself dong it correctly and successfully. Make your pictures as real and as vivid as possible. See and hear details, wholesale replica designer handbags, if you can .if you are working on test-taking, for instance, picture the room you are in. see yourself relaxed at a desk. Picture the clothes you are wearing. Hear the sounds of others writing, moving in their seats. Read the questions on the test and imagine yourself writing answers to them. Details are the most important part of practicing an experience. Such an exercise helps wipe out poor images and gives you new images or pictures of yourself being successful.
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Sunshine in the shadow(3)

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Just after this success, however, tragedy struck.. In August of 1973, Stevie was involved in a serious car accident. For nearly a week he lay in a coma, unable to speak or walk. â€œWe donâ€™t know when heâ€™ll be out of danger.â€ The doctor said. Everyone waited and prayed. Suddenly, wholesale replica designer handbags, it didnâ€™t matter that Stevie was a musical genius or that he had conquered blindness and poverty. All he had left was his faith and strong will.
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Diana, princess of wales: 1961-1997 (1)

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Lady Diana spencer, the princess of wales, died in a car accident last week as she and her companion, Dodi al-fayed, attempted to escape photographers in a high-speed chase through Paris.
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We are what we think we are

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Psychologists tell us that we are what we think ourselves to be. Our self-image defines for us what we believe we can and cannot do. Each of us over the years has built up beliefs about ourselves. Unconsciously, our pictures of who we are have been formed by past experiences. Our successes and failures, what others have told us and what we think people believe about us all help form impressions of who we think we are. Because self-image is so important in our growth, it is important to examine our concepts of self in order to reach our full potential.
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Sunshine in the shadow(1)

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â€œI loved that beat,â€ stevie says. He not only loved the beat, he was very good at making it.
Ronnie white, of the miracles shinging group, heard stevie and promptly took him down to his recording company, Motown records.
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Then they heard stevie sing and play, and nobody said â€œpoor kidâ€ any more. They were too busy congratulating themselves on fiding a youngster who could be the musical talent of the decade. â€œHeâ€™s a wonder boy,â€ somebody said as they watched little Stevie dart from one instrument to the nest, playing each one with ease.
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â€œIâ€™m sure,â€ she thought, â€œthey are all waiting for me to make a mistake again about the twins.â€
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â€œOh, donâ€™t worry, Jillian. You had too much trouble with him last time,â€ Martin said. But as he stopped speaking something happened in the garden. A bell started ringing, the noisiest bell you have ever heard. All the â€œspacemenâ€ stopped their game and looked at one boy in the middle, trying to pull his helmet off. He turned round and everybody saw a big alarm clock fastened to the back of his helmet. Jillian went outside and turned it off.
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Pieces of wood lie by day heaped on the roadside in Hong Kong. In the evening four or five boys arrive. They set noisily to work and, in a few magical moments, the pieces of wood are converted into a Ping-Pong table. Then the boys begin to play. Those who cannot afford bats use strips of hard cardboard instead, wholesale replica designer handbags. Their only audience is a dog, which sits and watches, its head moving from side to side.
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In about the year 1800 an American manufacturer of sports goods produced a game which he called indoor tennis. The Americans were not very enthusiastic at first but he exported it to his London agents and it became very popular in Britain. The game was then played across dining â€“room tables, or on the floor with the net strung between chairs. The players used a ball make of cork or rubber, which was covered with soft string to prevent it from damaging the furniture. The bats were covered with sand-paper.
A few years later a hollow ball like the one we use today was invented. The game then quickly spread all over the world. A gentleman called Mr. Wood, wholesale coach handbags, of London, had the idea of covering the bats with rubber to give greater control over the ball.

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Guno looked very worried.
â€œyes,â€ he said. â€œThat is a problem. I think I have made a mistake. Letâ€™s go home now. I will think about it until I find the answer to the problem.â€
The next day the two men met again.
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All that day they dug. At the end of the day they finished the third hole. In was twice as big as the second hole, but they had another big heap of earth. They put the earth from the second hole in it and there was room for more earth. Then they started to put the earth from the big heap back into the hole but they could put only half the earth in. then the hole was full.
â€œWhat shall we do now?â€ said koyo. â€œWe still have this heap of earth.â€
â€œThere is only one answer to our problem,â€ said guno. â€œWe must put this earth into the hole we dug for our well.â€
â€œBut when we have done that, weâ€™ll have no well, wholesale coach handbags,â€œsaid koyo.
â€œYou are right, â€œ said guno. â€œWhat a pity!â€
The bread that covered the meat was very big. But inside there was only a tiny bit of meat. One of the women said she would not eat a hamburger with such a little piece of beef. â€œWhereâ€™s the beef?â€
she shouted in a funny voice, wholesale designer handbags. These advertisements for Wendyâ€™s hamburger restaurants were a success from the first day they appeared on television. As we said, it seemed everyone began using the expression â€œwhereâ€™s the beefâ€?

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Guno and koyo were good friends. They were happy all the time and worked hard. But they were not very clever.
One day guno said that he had no water for his rice plants.
â€œI must dig a well near my rice field, wholesale coach handbags,â€ he said.
Koyo offered to help him dig the well. â€œI will help you,â€ he said,â€ if I can use the water after we have dug it.â€
Guno thanked koyo and they began to dig. They dug all that day. By the end of the day they had dug a big hole.
â€œWe have done well, wholesale replica designer handbags,â€ said guno. â€œweâ€™ll have a fine well when we have finished.â€
â€œYes,â€ said koyo,â€but what shall we do with the earth? â€œHe pointed to the big heap of earth which they had dug up.
â€œYes,â€ said guno.â€that is a problem, isnâ€™t it? We cannot leave it there. I must think of something.â€
When the two men met the next day, guno looked very happy.
â€œI have found the answer to our problem,â€ he said proudly.â€ Itâ€™s very simple. We must dig another hole. When we have dug another hole. We will put the earth the day ends.â€
Instead of finisheing the well, the two men began digging another hole. At the end of the day, wholesale designer handbags, they put all the earth from the well into the second hole. Then they were very pleased.
â€œwe are clever men,â€ said guno. â€œWe soon found an answer to our little problem. Didnâ€™t we?
â€œyes, we did,â€ said koyo. Then he saw the heap of earth which had come from the second hole. â€œbut what shall we do with that?â€
Guno looked very worried.â€

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Beef, of course, is the meat from a cow, and probably no food is more popular in America than a hamburger made from beef. In the 1960s a businessman named ray Kroc began building small restaurants that sold hamburgers at a low price. Kroc called his restaurant “McDonald’s”. Kroc cooked hamburgers quickly so people in a hurry could buy and eat them without waiting, wholesale coach handbags. By the end of the 1960s the McDonald’s company was selling hamburgers in hundreds of restaurants from California to Maine. Not surprisingly, ray Kroc became one of the richest businessmen in America.
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