One day,Walter Elias was walking through an apple orchard (果园）when he discovered an owl (猫头鹰）in a tree. Remembering that he had been told that owls hunted at night but slept during the1 Walter quickly got close to the 2 bird.

    “ What a wonderful pet this funny creature would make,” he thought to himself. So he reached up and 3 it by the leg4the owl went crazy and tried to 5Equally terrified, Walter threw it to the6 and stomped (踩踏）it to death. When the struggle ended, he 7the broken bird and cried. Feeling terrible, he ran away from the orchard, but later8to bury the owl. For months he dreamed of this bird he had wanted for a9but in terror had killed.10years later did he share this secret.

    Perhaps it was this11 that helped make Walter the person he became. Never could he bring that owl back to life but he made all the 12of the forest come alive through his drawings and the wonderful entertainment center13 after himself.

    His full name? Walter Elias Disney, a name 14 to the whole world.

    Have you ever failed or done something that you later felt15about or experienced a ( n)16that gave your self-concept a beating? When we fail or feel as though we have failed, we17 to think we are losers. It isn't so. Walter Disney turned his18childhood dream into a beautiful one, which 19became a reality. We can do the same, too.20 we don't fear to fail, we will succeed someday!

    I hated math and was really bad at it when I was young, so I found others to allow me to copy their work. Even though they knew they were 1 me, there were lots of people who were glad to “help”. In this way, I2 a few tests.

 But one day something3happened. Our teacher changed our 4 for the exam and I was sitting beside a boy that I seldom5 with before. As I could only answer a question or two, I had to turn to him 6 I didn't want to have a sea of red crosses(叉号) in my paper.

I signaled(示意) to him and managed to7his attention. When he asked me what I wanted, I 8 asked him for the answers. To my surprise, he 9without any hesitation(犹豫). Of course, I was really 10 at his behavior and thought badly of him.

    After the test he 11 me, telling me that I could get good grades in math and that all I needed was to put more 12 into studying the subject. I was still 13 with him, but I couldn't get his words out of my mind.

From that day on, I began to 14 more time to my math. Slowly, the subject I 15 hated so much turned into such an interesting thing. I started to pass my math tests with my own 16.Time passed and I was getting many A's in my math.

    Till today, I am still 17 to my friend who didn't allow me to copy his work. He 18 if he provided me with the “help” during the test, there would be no 19 for me to shine. So let others shine and don't ever rob(掠夺)others of their opportunity to show their 20.

    I walked into a bank in town a couple of days ago and waited in the queue. I was the second1and I couldn't help overhearing the2in front of me. The bank clerk must have been having a(an)3 day and after asking how the4was and so on, he began to complain about our government, 5them for not doing enough to6the coast from storms and floods as this had been much on the news at the time.

    He was in7spirits and you could tell that he was really8about a lot of things going on in the world.

    My heart went out to him. I was 9 next and all I could do was10. 1didn't have any words. Afterwards, it 11to me something that had been running under my own thoughts.

    So I left the bank, found a12and on it I wrote: Sometimes the bad parts of the world seem so13. There are so many sad things going on in the news. They make it hard to see 14going on around us. But that doesn't15life right now can't be beautiful. All you have to do is open your eyes. It's in the gaps(缝隙) that beauty is16.

    I17the postcard back into the bank, wandered around and18 it on a table, 19that the bank clerk would find it. Whether he did or not, I never found out, but it20would do someone some good, which I'm certain of.

    I grew up with a fat dad ­ 450 pounds at his heaviest. Every week he would try a new diet, and my family 1 eating whatever strange food he was trying at that moment. By the time I was nine, I was a(n) 2 on losing weight. I spent four weeks 3 only small bowls of white rice at home. What I remember most about those years is that I 4 felt hungry ­ hungry for food, hungry for someone to care for me and I 5 to be cared for.

    But on Friday nights, I was 6 hungry. My grandfather would take me to his home for the 7. There was always a pot of something cooking on the 8. It was at my grandmother's house that I learned what true 9 was.

    After my third-grade year, my family had to move away from hometown, and leave my grandmother and her delicious food 10. There would be no more special weekends at my grandmother's house. It was total 11 for survival. In this new city, I felt extremely lonely and lost, and I missed my grandmother 12.

    My grandmother knew just how I felt and she knew the 13. Every week, she would send me a card with a $20 bill, a recipe and a list of what to buy at the market. It kept us 14, and her recipes filled my body and soul.

    Over the years, I have 15 to better understand my father's 16 with weight and 17 growing up in such an unhealthy eating environment, I found a 18 for a career as a nutrition (营养) consultant.

    Today, food is no longer a 19 that keeps my father and me apart, but a bridge that keeps us connected. And now I am the one 20 sending recipe cards to my father's house, just as my grandmother did for me.

    Four weeks after you were born, I still served in the navy(海军). Had I1in the navy, I would always be leaving you. So I left the navy and applied to Bowdoin College and was2- though, at 27, I was considered a very3student. Your mother was having a 4time. She reached a5point, so I took you to school with me.

    It was very6at the beginning. I feared Bowdoin knew it, so I didn't7you to anyone. For the first8, I lived off campus and worked at night. I had to take you in sometimes and9you in the closet(壁橱). Working, studying and taking care of you filled all my life. I1027 pounds just from stress.

    I11that I could do it myself, but it was getting very difficult. A woman helped me move to12housing during the second semester. I was the first single13raising a child on campus.

    14, you were a healthy child. You were quiet and didn't15anyone. And you16school right away. I would take you to17and give you things to do, and you would just sit at a desk and do them.

    My graduation day was18. I carried you in my arms to get my diploma. All my classmates stood up and19. They gave me the only standing ovation(欢迎) of the day. It20what I had endured(忍耐) for the past four years.

    A sound woke Damian Languell at 8:15 in the morning. It was so 1that he assumed it came from inside his house. As he 2to investigate, he heard another sound, this one coming most 3from outside. Looking out of his bedroom window, he 4a tree covered by smoke about 500 yards away. A car was wrapped around the tree's 5, its engine on fire.

    Languell 6buckets of water and ran to the crash site. The car, a 1998 Buick Regal, was split nearly in two, and the 7was where the driver's seat ought to have been, as if 8there. No one should have 9this crash. Yet there was 16-year-old Quintin Thompson, whose 10face pressed against the driver's side window, in 11pain. Languell, 35, tried to put out the fire with his buckets of water with no 12. "When the flames got into the front seats, I 13I had to get him out of there, he told WAGM-TV."

    In an act that a police report described as showing "complete 14of his own safety", Languell climbed into the Buick's After Thompson was 15of the seat belt with his help, Languell pulled him out and then dragged the teen to 16before the entire car was totally in flames

    Although Thompson 17multiple injuries to his legs, arms and face, a social media post described him as "looking great, smiling and 18." Languell thinks about that day often. "My heart 19Thompson. When you are that close to that level of hurt, you feel the 20to help so directly."