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Epic love stories and relationships as depicted in pop culture, though it rarely turns out like that in real life.

What There Is To Love About Sex Education
I am one of the few people I know of in America who has had sex education, or "health class", twice during my K-12th grade years.
By X4 years ago in Humans
The future of life can only rely on their own to fight for
A lot of people might think it's a good topic and it doesn't take much work to write it down. However, I think it is a problem worth thinking about and discussing.
By zhouhongyu14 years ago in Humans
The Royal Family is Obsolete
The royal family is obsolete. There. I said it. And this is coming from a die-hard Anglophile. In my humble opinion, the British monarchy is a romanticized relic that no longer holds relevance in our modern world. Its lingering presence is an offence to those who suffered cultural monopolization at the hands of British colonizers. Simply put, the British monarchy is an outdated institution that should have been dismantled ages ago.
By Luna Quill4 years ago in Humans
Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture in Classical Literature
Xin Qiji in the Southern Song Dynasty was a great unconstrained poet and patriot in our country's history. His existing more than 600 poems are about politics, philosophy, feelings of friends and lovers, rural scenery, folk customs, daily life, reading experience, and the scope of subject matter, almost reaching the point where no matter, no intention, no words are allowed. Among them, the most interesting one is Man Tingfang, a poem written by him under the name of medicine. Meditation at night ",written to his long-lost wife, expresses his feelings of lovesickness:" The mica screen opens, the pearl curtain closes, and the wind blows away the agarwood. Leave the feeling depressed, the golden coat weaves the sulfur, the cypress shadows and the cassia twigs cross each other, calmly rise, and make a mercury pond. Even glancing over Pinellia ternata, it's cool through mint petticoats. A Uncaria last month, on an ordinary mountain night, dreamed of staying in the battlefield. She's already in pink, and she lives alone. If you want to continue to break the string, Aconitum white is the most Sophora flavescens merchant. Angelica, cornus ripe, old chrysanthemum yellow. " Twenty-five Chinese medicines, such as mica, pearl, radix Saposhnikoviae, aloes, radix curcumae, sulfur, cortex phellodendri, cassia twig, cistanche, mercury, forsythia suspensa, Pinellia ternata, mint, Uncaria, Changshan, Amomum villosum, Calomelas, Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, Radix Dipsaci, Aconitum, Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, cornus, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata and Flos Chrysanthemi, are used skillfully.
By sheridan roman4 years ago in Humans
Inspirational life?
People who like to dream, remember not to be dominated by dreams; Good at planning, remember that dream can not reach the goal; For people with a can-do spirit, remember that choosing the right direction is more important than working hard. Do not think that by building a city you will settle down; Do not think that if you sow a seed you will reap a harvest; Do not think that by reaching the summit you can conquer; Don't think that by gagging people, all you hear is praise! Take yourself as a tree, then there is always the wind blow down the sorrow; Treat yourself as a seedling, then you will always enjoy the sun and rain. Green, then grow; When ripe, it rots! Life should pursue four dimensions: width, depth, heat, speed; Work to form five dynamic personality: active, action, vivid, driven, moved; Life must be clear about a concept: only by shortening the days and months of success can we extend the time of enjoyment! Everyone has two doors: one is home, the place of growth; One is the heart gate, the place of success. If you drive out the little man in the door, you wake up the giant in your heart! The eyebrows that grow first are not as long as the beards that grow later; The first born ear is not as long as the last born horn. Age is not the age of wisdom, excellence is not senior, the latecomer often comes first. It's not that the streets are expensive, but that you have no money in your pocket. It's not that you don't have money in your pocket, it's that you don't find opportunities to make money. It's not that you don't have the opportunity to make money, it's that you don't have the idea of getting rich in your head! It also means that you have no intention of making money yourself. When you hold on to something, it may be the only thing you will always have, and if you let go, other options open up. Old ideas do not give up, new ideas are difficult to produce! Looking in the mirror eight times a day does not equal beauty; Empty talk nine times a day does not make a man of action. He who is good at boasting is wearing an open gauze garment! There are dilemmas in this world: one is to change others, the other is to change yourself. Demanding others is painful, it should be very happy to change yourself. If you want to change others, change yourself first! There are many difficulties in the world, but there are two hardest things: one is to take money from other people's pockets and put it in your own pocket. The other is to put your ideas in other people's heads! Doubt is the beginning of pain, doubt is the beginning of happiness. Doubt is ok, more important, and its long time of doubt, as a short time to prove! With the soul to hit fate, with ideas beyond the dream. It's not what you do now that matters, it's what you do in the future. In order to change the future fate, first change the present concept! People without foresight, there will be near worry, worry is not far away, the worry will come. For many misfortunes are hidden, and begin in ignorance. The wise avoid in invisible, Ming foresight in not sprout! The most difficult to open is the heart door, the most difficult to walk is the heart road, the most sad bridge is the heart bridge, the most difficult to adjust is the state of mind. The hardest task in the world is to transform one's inner world! True love is acceptance, not tolerance. Support, not dominance; Sympathy, not inquiry; True love is thanks and apologies. Be considerate and understanding. To admit mistakes, or correction; True love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. Love is not finding a perfect person. Instead, learn to appreciate an imperfect person with perfect eyes. In life, some people come and go, some people come and go, some people come and go, some people come and go, some people come and go, some people come and go, some people come and go. Maybe we meet at the end of two roads, walk for a while, and say goodbye at the next fork in the road. In any case, will inevitably come to an end of sadness. Far in the tianya friend: perhaps is far too far to greet, but still thank you for having a companion. No matter what your income is, divide your investment into five parts: invest in your body to keep it working; Invest in networking to expand your network. Increase your investment in learning to strengthen your self-confidence; Increase your investment in travel and expand your knowledge. Increase your investments in the future and increase your returns. With good planning and implementation, you will gradually find that your life will have a large surplus. In life's journey, there are always people who are coming, and people who are leaving. When the new name becomes the old name, when the old name is gradually blurred, it is the end of one story and the beginning of another. In the constant encounter and stagger, finally understand: people around you can only accompany yourself through or near or far a journey, but not with his life; Accompany for life is their own name and those clear or vague names brought by the touch.
By aibdbe14 years ago in Humans
What are the food culture and eating habits of China
China's diet culture origin early, the earliest can be traced back to the period of three sovereigns, suiren simulated flight after the cooked food, after lodge savary-gilliard evaporate salt technology invention, make people not only understand the boil also learned to move, which laid a foundation for the formation of the diet culture in our country, our country's food culture zhou and qin dynasties gradually take shape, with the development of The Times, The food culture of Our country "gathers the strength of hundreds of schools" in the trend of The Times constantly fusion, collision, development, song Yuan Ming and Qing dynasties is another big climax of the development of the Food culture of the Chinese nation, influenced by the manchu and Mongolian food culture, food structure has undergone a great change, food culture has been further developed.
By 迈克尔4 years ago in Humans
Dear Kylie Jenner, I simply do not care.
I. The Infatuation/ The Following I have never been the best at understanding and participating in social media. I can remember exactly what it was like when Instagram first started getting popular. I was in middle school, and everyone was just obsessed. Posting pictures daily, throwback Thursdays, women crush Wednesdays, man crush Mondays, the list of obnoxious hashtags goes on and on. Anyone who was popular had an Instagram and AT LEAST 50-100 followers. It was nauseating. Seeing my fellow middle schoolers running around all day posing for pictures with the incessant begging, "Don't forget to tag me!" The constant gossip of who posted this, and oh my god did you see what he commented? And don't even get me started on all the couples that had each other's names in their bios. Most of the girls in my grade would list off their top best friends at the moment in their bios as well. I truly hated it all. Because I didn't quite fit in. I never felt as though I did. I wasn't pretty enough to take pictures of myself to post, I didn't have enough friends to take pictures with and tag them to start a bigger following, no boys liked me so I could put their name in my bio, and I definitely didn't have enough followers to matter. It hurt. I remember it genuinely hurt to know I wasn't succeeding at social media like everyone else was. I was embarrassed and ashamed. It was like I was being magnified as the outcast. I tried to beat everyone else to the punch. I deleted my Instagram on several different occasions, accepting defeat, and when people in my grade would look at me in confusion asking why, I would say something nonchalant like, "Oh, I just don't really like it, it's pretty dumb if you think about it." Sometimes, for a few seconds, after I laid that claim, they would look at me and say, "Yeah you're right it is pretty pointless." It was a sweet few seconds of validation each time, but then they would go back to scrolling, liking, and commenting on those pointless posts. As I got older, and as I felt prettier and more liked, I gave into Instagram again, so as to try and fit in again. I had more friends that would post about me, I had better pictures of myself that people liked, and it felt like I was somewhat successful at fitting in with my friends on the platform. At one point, I even made my account public instead of private, so that I could maybe one day beat my goal of 1,000 followers. I was following so many strangers that I had never met in real life, but I had heard of them, or I thought they were cool. I started following so many celebrities because that's what everyone does. Everyone follows their favorite celebrities, well because they are famous, duh. And obviously, I want to know how gorgeous they look today, and what clothes they're wearing, and what I should make myself look like, so I can be like them, obviously. Suddenly, I no longer recognized the people on my feed. I slowly stopped posting at all, but I was checking my feed more frequently than ever. When I did post pictures, It was an event. First, I had to get the perfect face of makeup, the perfect hair, the perfect outfit, the perfect pose, and the perfect picture. That alone took up the entire day. Secondly, I had to find the right layout. Should I do just one picture? Should I do multiple? Should I orient them sideways so it's more trendy? Should I use a filter? What the hell is my caption going to be? Finally, I would stare at my phone, the photos themselves, for hours. Slowly gathering the courage to post the pictures, and then chickening out again. If I did end up posting something, I would immediately throw my phone across the room and occupy myself with something for at least ten minutes, so as to not obsess over how many likes, or lack thereof, I was getting. There was always a 50/50 chance of me looking at the pictures again, feeling incredibly ugly, and deleting the post entirely. It was an exhausting process, one that I couldn't keep up with. Hence my stopping of posting.
By C. Hyde4 years ago in Humans
Sneakershead
Just a small look into a world that can really suck you in if you aren’t too carful! Always expect the unexpected when it comes to shoes and what people do to get em!
By Gabriel Estrada4 years ago in Humans
Nostalgia Isn't What it Used to Be
Remember when remembering created a warm fuzzy feeling? Well, forget about it. In the future, people will view the past, AKA now, as an encrypted memory card not worth decoding.
By Vivian R McInerny4 years ago in Humans
I, Reject. Top Story - April 2022.
Let us take a trip back in time to 1998, the year of Fat Boy Slim’s The Rockafella Skank, Adam Sandler’s The Waterboy and arguably the greatest FIFA game of all time. It was also the year that saw the debut of one of my most cherished childhood TV shows, it is hard to believe how much time has passed since then.
By Luke Marshall4 years ago in Humans
The Healing Way of Contemporary Young People: Pastoral Aesthetics
Just a piece of gingham, a piece of green grass, some scattered sunlight, a long floral dress, and a bunch of red wine, fruits and baguettes placed at random, it is like going to Paris, France.
By Paula Denise Pearson4 years ago in Humans
You Are Not a Conquest
The symptoms of toxic masculinity are pervasive in our culture. In typical modern-day fashion, the content we consume reflects the same anachronistic thinking we condone in our daily lives. But this discussion is not just a frill; it has real-life consequences.
By Nita Jain4 years ago in Humans