Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.
This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my collegeAfter six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me and here I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I by following my turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example.
My opinion on the monarch in England
It’s known to us all, that there are still kings or queens in England, different from many other countries. What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. So, let’s figure out the reasons for that.
Reason 1. By searching in Baidu, I know that the king or queen of the Great Britain is also the leader of Canada, Australia and so on to some extent at the same time, for they are in the Commonwealth of Nations. They need a common leader who has a respectable identity to region and show their continuity in politics.
Reason 2. Once given a chance to England , I would not miss to see the soldiers beside the palace. So do many people. It’s exactly the charm of royalty. I wonder what a big loss the tourism of England will suffer once there were no longer king or queen.
Reason 3. the monarch also has it cultural meaning. We know there are many special parades in England which has some thing to do with monarch. And they need a person to be regarded as their god or goddess for solidarity.
All in all, monarch do benefit the England in politics, economic, and culture. That’s exactly why the monarch exists in the great Britain .
1) the view of historians
Many Soviet historical writings gave a certain degree of affirmation to the New Deal, but focused on exposing its deceptive and class nature, believing that the New Deal "gave the American working people a dangerous illusion that the capitalist countries had their progressive role."Negative opinions of some scholars believe that the New Deal is "completely for the monopoly of the bourgeoisie things"， "has a great fascist nature" of the New Deal improvement measures, the concessions to the working class "is very deceptive, not conducive to revolution" , Therefore, the New Deal is a reactionary, plays a negative role in hindering the advance of history, should be denied. This view is not consistent with historical reality.
Chinese scholars in the eighties before the Roosevelt "New Deal" has been criticized that Roosevelt did not give up its class attributes, "New Deal" is still to strengthen the status of large business owners, in line with the interests of big capitalists, Roosevelt did everything But to consolidate the capitalist system. After 1980s, this evaluation system changed gradually. Under the premise of Roosevelt's class limitation and historical limitation, Chinese scholars made positive affirmation to Roosevelt's "New Deal"。 Although Roosevelt still believed in the free enterprise system, But the belief in social justice and humanitarianism, the implementation of the "New Deal" to a certain extent, reflects the interests of ordinary people in the United States, which is progress.
Soviet and Chinese historians have long been deeply influenced by ideology, and used the method of class analysis to analyze and evaluate the New Deal, which is basically a negative position. With the liberation of thought after the reform and opening up, China's historians began to evaluate the trend of objective and comprehensive.
(2) the political point of view
The new evaluation of Roosevelt in the political world is relatively objective.Stalin's cautious appreciation of Roosevelt's New Deal, when it comes to the New Deal, states that it "limits the individual bad aspects of the old social system and limits the individual extreme performance of the old social system." "Slightly suppresses the least Repression of the capitalist profits, a slight strengthening of the principle of national economic regulation, all of which are good.
The party and the people I had had had a high opinion of him when Roosevelt died. Comrade Mao Zedong and Comrade Zhu De in the telegram, said: "The world will be deeply hurt this loss." The Xinhua Daily published an editorial entitled "The Demise of the Democrats - Mourning Roosevelt's Mourning," saying that "President Roosevelt faithfully inherited the best democratic traditions of Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson since his inauguration "In his early years in 1932, he was elected president, in 1929, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, After an unprecedented economic panic, he carried out the New Deal in a dauntless spirit. He replaced the imperialist foreign economic plunder with the policy of improving the people's living standard and expanding the purchasing power of the people. He survived the crisis and stabilized the national life. Policy to replace the coming anti-fascist war, the creation of the United States to become the preparatory work of the arsenal of the democratic country. "" His glorious fighting career, his people for the human spirit, he and his co-decision Of the four freedoms, the Atlantic Charter, the Tehran Charter and the Crimea Declaration, will be the common ideals of all mankind and will become the cornerstones of the consolidation of the future world peace institutions and will always be remembered in the memories of mankind. "Today, Reviewing Roosevelt's realistic assessment of the year is a great help.
Roosevelt died in World War II, in order to win the United States against their country's anti-fascist war support, in order to maintain the unity of the anti-fascist camp, China and the Soviet Union spoke highly of Roosevelt and Roosevelt New Deal.