consider the lowly toilet. many of you may not think of the toilet as a form of technology if you think of toilets at all. but, it is and has contributed greatly to the improved health and overall quality of life for mankind.

on a recent trip to japan, i was impressed by, among other things, a gadget in most public women's restrooms, called otohime or sound princess. this device produces the sound of flushing water without the need for actual flushing. the technology saves the user both the embarrassment of being heard during urination and some 20 liters of water per use in cases where a woman might flush the toilet continuously while using it.

every time i used otohime, i felt like a princess, an environmentalist princess on the toilet.

it was a longed for feeling. over the past decade, i shuffled in and out of many kinds of public restrooms in china--filthy smelly water closets in outlying areas, spacious luxurious lavatories in five-star hotels, forever-occupied girls' stalls on campus during school, and smart modern mobile toilets in international fairs. but not one single "room" evoked my pride of being a princess.

and i knew why the sound princess had. it was not because of the high technology the small bathroom boasted which is becoming ubiquitous worldwide. it was the idealism embodied in the technology that keeps reminding me that in this ever-changing world, i am a responsible and dignified human being even when sitting on a toilet.

humanism, no matter how it is defined, aims to strike a balance between us being at the mercy of nature and being too human-centered. in my case, i haven't relieved myself under a tree for a while. i am a proud, dutiful chinese citizen. gone are the days when people just found a corner to do their business resulting in poor sanitation and threats to public health. the otohimetechnology renders me two warnings: first, i am a humble human being with an obligation to save not only my face but also natural resources. second, there is still a long way to go in my own country not just in developing technology and the economy, but also in upholding human dignity and promoting human welfare. take the toilet: dirty, crowdedtoilets shall, at least, give way to clean, human-friendly ones.

fortunately, i have seen improvements. at shanghai world expo 2010, 8,000 toilets, all modern and technologically sophisticated, were installed across the site. what really delighted the visitors, however, was the user-friendly design and services. toilets were situated every 100 meters. several hundred volunteers served as toilet guides and sanitation workers. the ratio of female to male toilet space was set at 2.5 to 1. soft music was played in the toilets. all this seems to celebrate the glory of comprehensive humanism.

ladies and gentlemen, science and technology are here to improve earthly life and maximize human happiness. when our world benefits from technology, coupled with human considerations, we are bound to enjoy our life. conversely, we suffer.

the toilet is a piece of sanitaryware and the quintessence of humanism that underlies technological innovation. like gnp, employment rates, and space exploration efforts, the lowly equipment is an equally important measure of a progressive society. when on a toilet if we feel like a princess, we shall be proud of living in a society that values humanity. if not, we must stand up and make some changes.

and if you are still baffled with what i have said, i suggest you take off right now and go experience the bathrooms in this auditorium, because they are what makes our life beautiful or ugly, humanism considered or ignored.

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be grateful for friends

it is a celebrating day. i got in touch with michael whom i have been losing contact for one year.

it is really magic. i was searching online aimlessly yesterday when an idea struck me suddenly: since ben can find out my secret by keying in my name in the search engines, why can’t i do so, either?

i intended to find out something about ben in revenge in the first place, but soon extend my name list to a wider category. it was then that i recalled michael suddenly.

we have lost contact since our last correspondence in my senior 3. he mentioned to me in his last letter that he was preparing for going to uk to further his education. i, shamefully, was too busy to reply his mail then. when i was recommended to zju and won the final freedom, i thought he had already been in uk so i had no idea where to write him.

i used to think that we would never meet again. however, when i browsed the entries about him, i found out excitedly that he is still in p.r.c.!

without a moment hesitation, i ran upstairs to my dorm and found out my old address book. thank goodness, his home no was still there.

after 3 times calling with no answer replies, i eventually got him on the phone. he was more surprised than i could imagine that when i asked for his hp no he was too nervous to remember it. :p hehe.

life is enjoyable in moments such like this. old friends meet again surprisingly, on a roa

we are supposed to express our gratitude to others on thanksgiving day. however, we should feel gratitude every day.

god has two dwellings, one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. be grateful to others is a way to show your love. in our daily life, we often receive help from our parents, friends, colleagues and strangers. perhaps it is a little thing, pick up the pen you drop, lift a heavy box for you or offer you a seat in the bus. we should be thankful to them for whatever they have done. the more love you give, the more love you receive.

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respect each appraisal committee teacher, schoolmate, everybody is good, i am7 class of xxx, today my topic is thanksgiving everywhere..

the birds are feeding situation, sheep milk are kneeling grace. we, human, as masters of the universe, also there is gratitude, gratitude. thanksgiving is the source of power, love of the root, the courage of the. let us learn to thanksgiving, harvested in different life.

first of all, we should be grateful for our parents. because the love of parents, we came to this world. we live to love, love is to carry out, let the world be full of love, let the world is full of gratitude. our parents, not only because they brought us to this world, but because they are selfless love, has raised us up, the education of our life, our responsibility, share the burden, happy with our happiness. parents, is our life will always be the one, even if we always with gratitude.

then, we want to live a life of gratitude. because of life, let us grow. in this process, we may experience more failure, but because of a failure again and again, so that we will become more splendid success, so we should appreciate, thank you for these teaches us how to have better life failed, thanks to these make our life more brilliant success. thanks to life, let us experience again the story fresh, let us experience more rich. thanks to life, let us know thanksgiving is valuable. because thanksgiving, we grow up happily.

then, we want to thank friends. what is a friend? friend is who grows with us, is the most loving thing and the people you share. friends are those in your fly high very fast when, not screaming for you, not about how you badly, but to worry you won't fall down, then you do to prepare the people. because of this friend, we can only be reckless to break through, to fight, as we know, our friends will be behind the strong fortress. therefore, we should be friends. to friends, and friends happy growth.

furthermore, to thank those who have let you grow, make you strong, you once they snub sb. because of them, only let you have after unwilling person idea. they will think of you for a scathing attack, is the so-called criticism will have progress. therefore, we often criticized in the growth, make progress, be happy. indifference of the people, thank you ever look down on me, so i do not bow, live more wonderful.

finally, we want to thank your. only you really know what they want, can do what, has been holding on to something. may be many people misunderstood, misunderstood. at that time, only their most wronged, and only know best. therefore, their thanksgiving, thank your patience, insist, your success.

in the growth of the road, let us have a thankful heart, happy thanksgiving, thanksgiving society, the world to live a life of gratitude, thank you my he! thank you.

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then, as a middle school student, how thanksgiving?

first thanksgiving their parents, because everyone’s life is a continuation of the parents of one blood, all of the parents gave us love, let us enjoy the human world of affection and happiness, therefore, we would like to thank the parents.

teachers are our growth, are our friends, teachers care for us , their words and deeds, let us benefit for life, we pay for teachers efforts and sweat, we should thanksgiving teachers.

students study the lives of our fellow students to encourage each other, help each other, to jointly overcome difficulties and setbacks, the common taste of succeand happinelearning, we should be grateful for every day and we accompanied the students.

thanksgiving-fighting, thanksgiving unlimited! students, and society thanksgiving! let us always to the life caring and full of love and love!

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the poet said: spring flowers to the door pushed open a.

i said: thanksgiving to the door pushed open a harmony, harmony open the door to the living.

if you carefully listen to the voices of flowers, are everywhere harmonious life movement.

love, the soul like fire ignited the hope of love, the soul like绿茵propped up the sky.

love is a force, is a wealth.

we should be in the hearts of young sow the seeds of love.

let us be thankful for, the institute of thanksgiving.

thanksgiving with a heart to face life, in the face of learning, in the face of setbacks, thereby experience parents, teachers, classmates and friends of selfless relatives and friends, know drips of tu, when yongquan of the real meaning.

thanksgiving is a traditional virtue of the chinese nation, build a socialist harmonious society needs.

guangdong lawyer tian, in order to return the mothers kindness in telling your mother dying when she donated his kidney to restore the mothers life; xu yu return to the community of his kindness, decided to leave after graduating from university in the bustling city , broke into the thatched shed to seeking knowledge, a thirst for knowledge sent the children ...

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students, we come from? to hear this question, i am sure you will say that parents are taken to put us up in the world. yes ah, one day more than a decade ago, our parents happy with tears and smiles to greet the arrival of the u.s.. but when we came to the world the moment that many parents have a hard job - we take care of. this is even though a heavy burden, but has no complaints to parents raising me up.

in order to give us a comfortable living environment, they are always so hard, then the effort. small, i always treat this issue as a matter of course, because i do not know, nor do i know the hard work of parents. now, i grew up, and i know with a heart of thanksgiving to appreciate their parents, should take on, take care of, the responsibility of your parents.

there is an old said: "the milk of the sheep have to kneel tu, a feed has meaning." bit by bit, our growth can not be separated from their parents to help when the water springs of the tu reported that, therefore, we should know how to feel gratitude for it, know how to thank their parents .

call us first time parents, first step towards independence, the first to write a word askew when ... ... are parents around to teach us patience. parents, are giving us god does not require any modification of the sustenance of the soul.

when we are confronted with difficulties, to devote all of us to help people, their parents are.

when we are wronged, to be patient to listen to our cry of the people, their parents are.

when we make mistakes, he will not hesitate to forgive us who are parents.

when we succeed, would like for us to celebrate, to share with us the pleasure, are the parents. and now far away in our field study, it is still concerned about our parents.

now i left the distant parents, came here, the mother will ask me homesick, i very firmly said: "no, certainly not!" but to the school, in the face of unfamiliar faces unfamiliar environment, i want to cry well. are upset when the home to the phone, the mother the right to ask me please. my tears quickly down, and tried to not let her find.

not familiar with the latter slowly, although it was no longer such as homesickness, but there are always unhappy when the advent of a lot of times at night, when feeling lonely, they will naturally think of distant family members, think of it in the remote mountain village in their own lives more than a dozen of the spring and autumn, and a phone call out greetings and listen to the voices of parents and that kind.

if the mother is always a few, but each time i was swept away the boredom, disappeared: "children in school right? anything better at home, not to miss too much."

always miss my mother, my diet iving, asked me in the distant land still used to the life, always asked of me to take care of the body, the mother-friendly sound, so i do not miss how the family it?

phone, some hoarse voice of his father, the father honestly going to say too much so, the phone, he always ask me "are not eating, there is no cost of living, the better to eat it." but i was well aware that his father with his hard-working to raise his children, with his simple character education of his children, his father is proud of the child. being rallied behind him, he put into the love to other people talk about when their children face in a brilliant smile.

in our rural areas, raising me and my brother is not easy, let alone reading we want to send. faced with huge fees, parents insist teeth, and put the burden of any of their livelihood on the shoulder bending, no complaints.

now, we are studying or working outside, guarding the empty house, then the phone will become the parents of the happy things. us a call back and tell other parents some situation. i think that they are perhaps the most happy moment.

while at home is far, far more than thousands of miles away from their parents, but parents also give care at the time around my side, my parents give me endless effort to encourage one another through the lonely times, they are the spirit of my pillar.

life is not perfect as imagined, our parents are not hard to understand, although we should not live with their parents to share the hardships of a difficult start, but we can be less in their daily lives for their parents to worry about. when parents fall ill, we should take responsibility, take care of their parents? want to know, even if an interest in words, even a bowl of instant noodles themselves to do a good job, parents who will comfort the hearts of our anxiety in every possible way. parent thanksgiving, is not difficult to do.

will remember to thank our long-distance may be on the road give us a bowl of water to drink the ladies, perhaps will remember our appreciation to the seat of the big brother, will recall that appreciation may be hard to train our own teachers . yes, they of course want to thank us, and can be at the same time, we should not forget that parents are always the most worthy of our appreciation of the people!

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在我的成长道路上，有许多人要感谢，但是我们要感谢的就是我们的父母。我们的父母从我们生下来的哪一刻就为我们操劳，所以我们要感恩父母。可是真正做到感恩父母的人却少甚少。

作为21世纪的我们，首先就要对父母“滴水之恩，当涌泉相报”。当然这是我们长大以后的事情，现在我们要做的就是给父母捶捶背、揉揉腰、端杯茶……等等。做我们力所能及的事情，让父母少操心，让他们轻鬆地度过每一天，这就是对父母最好的回报。

there are many people on my growth path to thank, but we are grateful to our parents. our parents worked for us from the moment we were born, so we have to be thankful for our parents. however, there are few people who truly appreciate their parents.

as we in the 21st century, we must first tell our parents "the grace of dripping". of course this is what we do when we grow up. now all we have to do is beat the back of our parents, knead the waist, and bring the cup of tea... and so on. do what we can to let your parents worry less and let them spend every day easily, which is the best reward for your parents.

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thanksgiving teacher

flowers gratitude, because rain drops moist it grow. an eagle gratitude acrothe vast sky let it fly; because alpine gratitude, because the earth; let it towering i'm thankful, many people... i'm grateful for my teacher.

from the beginning yiyaxueyu elementary children to open pupil, from the eager young to soar adults, from the layman to professionals from human knot rope chronicle until today the advent of the information age, the role of teachers gladne throughout the whole proceof human civilization. just as one that consensus: social development on education, education development depends on teachers. the teacher's silent hardship changed vitality of human civilization.

the teacher's love, called the teachers and students emotion. this kind of feeling is the greatest serious affection. when i make a mistake and punished when i taught is teacher; when i met a difficult solution of a problem and sweat, for my careful interpretation is teacher. a praise of look in the eyes, make me extremely happy, sentence warm greetings, make me feel the second kind of affection.

a teacher once remarked: we don't need too much honour and praise, we only like "teacher" this two word... these si-mp-le words is undoubtedly teachers common wishes, is their inner world the most true feelings outpourings. we thank teachers, thanksgiving education hard in their inculcation, however, no more words of praise, admire flourishes, can compare with us with love and action to thanksgiving teacher.

when i first with fear heart school, the teacher you stride in the sunshine smile to me. you will i comfort heart who fear brought to the school, brought to the rich and colorful campus, also taking into the palace of learning.

when i with doubts heart facing a problem for you patience careful to me about solving thinking. you will be those tiny confused, blocking the psychological brought to the questions, brought to the extrapolate trains of thoughts, also brought into 转载自，请保留此标记gout infinite universe mathematics. when i with shame heart facing mistakes, you meaningful taught me the truth that be an upright person. you will those tiny little, ignorant heart brought to the correct truth, and brought me into my future should correctly with the wrong belief that brought from errors in the right direction in life.

when i face the failure with lost heart when you angel came to my side give me courage and hope. you will be those tiny injured and discouraged heart brought to the "confidence" "sky", bring into the vastneof the "ocean", also brought into after the door to success.

when i harbor the joyful heart treat success, your well-meaning remind give me by modest. you will those tiny proud, blundering heart brought to the lofty mountain ", "bring into the aspirant" water ", also brought into the world of self-improvement.

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no matter what happens, i will you come with me face. teacher, in my eyes you are fantastic. my heartfelt thanks to you, "thankful you, my teacher, thanksgiving everything you have done for me!" then, what is thanksgiving? "thanksgiving" is a person innate nature, is a person indelible conscience, but also the modern social successful personage health personality of performance, 1 even gratitude all doesn't know people must be is has a sincere heart callous terribly cruel. will never become a contribution to society. "thanksgiving" is a kind of grace grateful says, are each does not forget others who will entreat haunted heart emotion. learn thanksgiving, is to polish dust mind without numb, learn thanksgiving, no thought to be submitted to the intravenous drip pay ever inscription in heart.

thanksgiving teacher, does not need us to do something big. it displays in daily life the dribs:

class, a firm's eyes, a gentle nod, proved your devote yourself, you in lectures attentively, this would be thankful;

after class, in the hallway see a teacher, a pale smile, a sound polite "teacher good", this also is gratitude

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