Innocence 純真 Wakin' up i see that everything is ok一覺醒來發現一切都安好 The first time in my life and now it's so great生命中第一次覺得如此地美好 Slowin' down i look around n i am so amazed放慢腳步看看周遭卻令我感到驚奇 I think 'bout the little things that make life great而生命中的小事物卻可以豐富人生 I wouldn't change a thing 'bout it我不會改變這一點 This is the best feeling這是最棒的感覺 This innocence is brilliant純真是光芒耀眼的 I hope that it will stay但願能繼續保持下去 This moment is perfect在這完美時刻 Please don't go away請不要走 I need u now我需要你 & i'll hold on to it我會這麼堅持下去 Don't u let it pass u by你不要錯過此時此刻 I found a place so safe, not a single tear我找到一個安全而一滴淚水也沒有的地方 The 1st. time in my life n now it's so clear生命中第一次感到如此清晰 Feel calm I belong, i'm so happy here我找到冷靜的感受 很高興能待在這 It's so strong n now i let myself be sincere感覺如此強烈而我讓自己變得坦誠 I wouldn't change a thing about it我不會改變這一點 This is the best feeling這是最棒的感覺 It's the state of bliss u think u're dreamin'在這狂喜的狀態下你以為你在作夢 It's the happiness inside that you're feelin'在內心深處你感到幸福 It's so beautiful it makes u wanna cry如此美麗讓你有想哭的衝動 This innocence is brilliant純真是光芒耀眼的 It makes u want to cry讓你有種想哭的衝動 This innocence is brilliance純真是光芒耀眼的 Please don't go away請不要走 Cause i need u now只因我需要你 & i'll hold on to it我會這麼堅持下去 Don't u let it pass u by你不要錯過此時此刻
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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (AP) -- Antioch College, known for its offbeat approach to education, will close in 2008 because of a money shortage and will try to find enough funds to reopen four years later, the school said Tuesday. Enrollment at the private liberal arts college has dwindled from more than 2,000 students in the 1960s to 400 this year, and a small endowment and heavy dependence on tuition revenue combined to hurt operations, the school said. Efforts to balance the budget over the years through faculty and staff reductions and programming changes have eroded confidence in the academic program, said officials at the college, founded in 1852. "At this point in time, Antioch does not have the financial wherewithal to continue as it is," spokeswoman Linda Sirk said. "It will be a much healthier thing to do if we close it now, stop the financial difficulties that we have, go through this process, and then open as a strong institution. You're going to see us again." Students will be offered a chance to complete their degrees at Antioch University McGregor, an adult education school in Yellow Springs. The school hopes that alumni will provide financial help, that it will attract investors and that it can develop more partnerships with the Yellow Springs community, said Mary Lou LaPierre, vice chancellor for university advancement. Antioch doesn't grade classes, encourages students to develop their own study plans, and combines academic learning with experience through a co-op program in which students leave campus to work in various fields. The school in southwest Ohio counts the late Coretta Scott King, "Twilight Zone" creator Rod Serling and evolutionary scientist Stephen Jay Gould among its graduates. In 2000, death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted in the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, gave a taped commencement address. Hundreds protested nearby, including Faulkner's widow. The college drew national attention in 1993 with its "Sexual Offense Prevention Policy" that required students to ask permission from one another if they wanted to have sexual contact, including holding hands. The top reason students who are accepted decide not to attend is the poor facility conditions, said Antioch president Steven Lawry, who concluded the school's $30 million endowment was insufficient. "That kind of investment in endowment-building just had not been done. The modern liberal arts college has to do that to survive," Lawry said. The school will create commissions on facilities improvement and curriculum design, he said. Officials hope to recruit a class of at least 300 students for 2012. "There's not another school like Antioch," said Rory Adams-Cheatham of Washington, D.C., a 21-year-old who graduated in April with a literature degree and is working for the school as an events manager. "This was where I had to be. It's really devastating." The school has been a fertile ground for social activism, with protests from the Vietnam War era up to the Iraq war. In 1994, students took over a building for 32 days to protest plans to turn it into an admissions office instead of a student-activity center. The school will have one more academic year, then suspend operations July 1, 2008. The school said it will work with students who want to complete their degrees at Antioch University McGregor; at other Antioch schools with degree programs in Seattle, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California; or at other colleges.
KUFR NAMEH, West Bank (AP)-- Palestinian children spend more of their school day studying Islam. Critical jobs in public education are filled by Islamic stalwarts. A once-banned social studies reader, crammed with hard-line rhetoric, is now in classrooms. During a year in power, the Islamic Hamas movement has begun taking control of Palestinian schools and is making changes. Hamas leaders insist they are not trying to indoctrinate children. But moderate Palestinians say Hamas' goal is nothing less than shaping the political views of future generations. It's a battle for the Palestinian soul, part of a wider Hamas campaign to expand its influence in all spheres of public life, also including newspapers to unions, said Hanan Ashrawi, a secular former minister of higher education. "You are seeing the gradual transformation of a largely secular national ... education system and curriculum into a more ideological, closed system," said Ashrawi. Hamas shares power with the moderate Fatah movement it defeated in last year's election, and the terms of that coalition will keep it in control of the Education Ministry for three more years. Hamas doesn't have completely free rein in the schools. It's being scrutinized by Fatah and by the largely secular Palestinian intelligentsia. Ashrawi, now an independent legislator, says she has asked Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a moderate who heads Fatah, to hand control of the curriculum to an independent commission of experts, but has gotten no commitment. "We are not making education more Islamic," Education Minister Nasser Shaer said before he was arrested by Israel in an anti-Hamas sweep last month. But he is also under pressure within his movement to apply a clearly Islamic, non-Western curriculum. For example: Hamas firebrands want to eliminate U.S. history from a textbook. So far, Shaer has made only a few changes. He has increased religion classes from three to four a week and allowed a social studies reader with a strong Islamic bent to be used in the classroom. He has focused mostly on moving Hamas loyalists into key positions in the education system, presumably preparing the ground for tighter control in the future. When a high-level education job opens up, it goes to a Hamas supporter, with appointees often leapfrogging over other candidates with stronger credentials. Eight of 14 West Bank school districts are now controlled by Hamas, from none a year ago, and the new religion requirement meant hiring some 300 graduates of Islamic teachers' colleges that are Hamas strongholds, Fatah educators say. Hamas created another power base in education by forming its own teachers' union to compete with the one controlled by Fatah. It claims to have signed up some 18,000 teachers, including those in private schools, but also many of the 40,000 teaching in public schools in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Hamas teachers, many sporting the movement's trademark beards, recently marched through Ramallah, chanting, "Let's restore glory to religion and dignity to the teacher." In some cases, girls are pushed by pro-Hamas teachers to pray and wear head scarves, although no law requires it. Hala Barghouti, 11, from the village of Deir Yassin, said she is transferring from a public school to a private Christian one next year to escape the nagging. Political tension inside the schools is rising, others say. Tenth-grader Sumara Awaiseh, a Fatah supporter in a Ramallah school, said he gets into fights with pro-Hamas classmates. "They'll chant something against Fatah and that's how fights get started," he said. While Fatah supports a Palestinian state alongside Israel, Hamas refuses to recognize the Jewish state and renounce violence. One of Hamas' first acts after taking control was to lift a ban on private teaching materials, including one that adopts a tough Islamic approach to the conflict with Israel. That booklet was written by al-Buraq, a Hamas-allied education center shut down by Israel several months ago. The preface says it seeks to "emphasize the Arab and Islamic identity" of the Palestinians, highlight the "brutality of the occupier" and "to create the energy to get rid of all types of occupation." During the second Palestinian uprising, it says, American cease-fire initiatives "ignored the political rights of the Palestinian people and did not recognize the Palestinian people's right to resistance to regain its rights." In contrast, the draft of a textbook for grades 8-10 on modern Palestinian history, written when Fatah controlled the schools, is a largely matter-of-fact description of events. Fatah educators claim Hamas held up its printing because it's too neutral. Hamas denies it. Shaer, while removing the ban, hasn't explicitly recommended the al-Buraq booklet to the students -- to the disappointment of the Islamic center which had presumed it now had a sympathetic ear in the ministry. And some Hamas ideologues are getting impatient with the slow pace of change. "We want to implement the Palestinian dimension, and the Islamic and Arabic dimension," said Hamas legislator Sheik Hamed Bitawi. "Anything that comes in conflict with our Islamic ideology should be taken out." Last summer, Bitawi and other Hamas members of parliament's Education Committee demanded that a chapter on American history be removed from a 12th grade textbook, arguing that the U.S. is an enemy of the Palestinians and that students should instead learn about Japan and other nations they deemed more supportive. The proposal never got far -- sidetracked in part because most Hamas legislators were rounded up by Israel after last summer's capture of an Israeli soldier by Hamas-allied militants in Gaza. Bitawi was also arrested in last month's Israeli sweep, along with more than 30 senior Hamas officials. Palestinian textbooks, written in stages over the past seven years to replace Egyptian and Jordanian imports, are under intense Israeli and international scrutiny for possible anti-Israel incitement. For example, an Israeli watchdog group complained recently that the Holocaust is not taught in a high school history book. Outside approval is important because Palestinian public schools depend on foreign aid. Before international sanctions were imposed last year in an effort to force Hamas to recognize Israel's existence, public schools received more than $350 million over a decade, most of it for building new classrooms. Any attempt to radically change the textbooks would likely create an uproar and undermine the government's efforts to portray itself as politically moderate and restore foreign aid. Where Hamas has been most aggressive is in replacing senior Fatah-allied educators with Hamas loyalists. Fatah supporters old enough to retire were sent home. Others kept their jobs, but were stripped of their authority. Fatah's Jihad Zakarneh, who had been in charge of hiring teachers in the West Bank, had his signing powers revoked. In Gaza City, a senior Fatah loyalist, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions, said he now spends his day in the ministry reading newspapers. In the West Bank city of Hebron, the Fatah-affiliated deputy chief of the local school district, Nisrine Amr, sued Education Minister Shaer after he named a private Islamic school principal as her boss. When the new boss in turn was arrested by Israeli troops two months ago, another Hamas-allied educator was brought in as a temporary replacement, rather than allowing Amr to step in, as protocol would have suggested. "They didn't even give us a chance to run it (the district) for one day because we are not of their political persuasion," said Amr. The Education Ministry denied it is hiring teachers and administrators based on their politics, but said that Shaer, like any politician, had the right to surround himself with trusted staffers. "In the recruitment policy, the changes were very slight," said ministry spokesman Basri Saleh. "There is nothing about marginalizing that team of people or giving an advantage to this team of people." However, Hamas' rivals fear the Islamic movement has plenty of time to overhaul the system, slowly. Azzam Al-Ahmed, the deputy prime minister from Fatah, said Hamas "tries and keeps trying" to change education. "If they continue in power for a long time, they will succeed," he said. Computer teacher Riham Diek says she already feels the shift. "As a mother, I am very afraid for my children," said Diek, whose 14-year-old daughter Naheel is being hounded by pro-Hamas teachers in her West Bank village of Kufr Nameh to trade her jeans and denim jacket for a head scarf and robe. "We want a generation that is able to deal with the rules of freedom and democracy," she said.
1 He refused to comment to the problem. 2What is the reason that Hong Kong's air pollution? 3Can we meet to discuss with the policy changes? 4Graduates should be consider on their career goals. 5They were asked to participate to the interviews. 6Obviously that you need to adapt changing circumstances. 7Applicants who filled with the questionnaire were then chosen randomly. 8This figure could reflect to their dissatisfaction of the lack of training. 9What are the main differences of the US English and the English spoken in the UK? 10Some authorities are now claiming that chocolate may be good to you in moderate quantities. 11The USA made a formal complaint on that country's environmental policy. 12Pay attention to that company's press releases. They may be looking for new employees soon. 13The cleaners demanded for a pay rise because of the recent rise in prices. 14People can use credit cards to pay for goods on the web. 15If on line learning can be developed, it seems to me that education will be more effective than past. 16Education on the internet can save a lot of resources. 17From my point of view, I do not think the government should censor the Internet. 18All Hong Kong people were concerned in the recent economic crisis. 19In some universities more than 2000 students are enrolled in the same course. 19They want to get a job at the earliest possible opportunity. 20This implies that the present situation in Hong Kong does not allow graduates to get their first preference jobs easily. 21Because the economic downturn, students tended to apply for more jobs than last year. 22Concerning the job seeking skills, the findings presented in Table 5 show that one-third of the subjects felt they needed more help in their interview techniques. 2324% of the subjects claimed that they needed help on English speaking skills. 24This figure could reflect their dissatisfaction of the lack of training.
