Request: everybody should answer all questions. Please list your answers with your initial below each question or below others' answers if there is any. Thank you.
Aslo, if you have better questions, or if you have any question you are seeking for answers, or whatever you want to share, please!
1. 列出你最想与大家分享的信息：
a. 关于书 -
b. 关于作者 -
c. 关于主人公 -
2. 列出你最喜欢和最想与大家分享的句子，短语，或/和段落:
3. 你最喜欢那一/几课？喜欢什么？
4. 你最不喜欢那一/几课？为什么？
5. 读完了这本书，你是否多了一些智慧或/和认知去面对现实和未来？假如是，能和大家分享吗？
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学了个新词 ALS = Lou Gehri’s disease
http://kidshealth.org/kid/grownup/conditions/als.html
美国历史上的传奇棒球运动员Lou Gehri’s disease(ALS)死于身体的快速瘫痪，这种疾病因此被称为Lou Gehrig病症。这种疾病起因于大脑和脊髓的神经细胞的神秘死亡
Lou Gehrig's disease are adults between 40 and 70. Only 2 out of every 100,000 people will get the disease each year. Because it is not contagious, you can't catch ALS from someone who has the disease.
Among ALS cases in the United States, 5% to 10% are hereditary, which means the disease runs in certain families.
In general, muscle weakness, especially in the arms and legs, is an early symptom for more than half of people with ALS. Other early signs are tripping or falling a lot, dropping things, having difficulty speaking, and cramping or twitching of the muscles. As the disease gets worse over time, eating, swallowing, and even breathing may become difficult.
Living With Lou Gehrig's Disease
According to the ALS Association, about half of all people with ALS live at least 3 years after they find out they have the disease, and 20% (or 1 in 5) live 5 years or more. As many as 10% will survive more than 10 years.
Stephen Hawking has been living with Lou Gehrig's disease for about 40 years — ever since his diagnosis at age 21. He is the most famous long-term survivor of the disease. Born in England, Hawking is a famous physicist who furthered our understanding of the universe. He has written a lot of books, including the bestseller A Brief History of Time. He has done these things despite being confined to a wheelchair for more than 20 years, being able to move only a few fingers, and needing a voice synthesizer and special computer to speak and write.
Hawking, who has a wife and three children, once said, "The prospect of a short life made me want to do more. I realized life was good, and there was a great deal I wanted to do."
Living with Lou Gehrig's disease is physically difficult, but it is reassuring to know that the mind is not affected. People with the disease can think as clearly as ever, are able to maintain relationships with friends and family, and should be treated respectfully and normally. Communication can be difficult because the disease affects the person's breathing and the muscles needed for speech and arm movement. With patience, the families of patients with ALS can learn to communicate effectively with their loved one.
Researchers continue to study ALS as they try to understand why it happens, and how the disease damages the motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. As they learn more about the disease, researchers can continue to develop new and better treatments.
Stephen Hawking said, "[ALS] has not prevented me from having a very attractive family, and being successful in my work . . . I have been lucky that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case. But it shows that one need not lose hope."
What an encyclopedia you are, xihu! hope we are all aware of it but away from it.
Stephen Hawking has lived with this disease for nearly 50 years. He is a living embodiment of a fighter, in the face of a terrible disease.
Homework:
c. 关于主人公 – Morrie Schwartz is very courageous to share his experience of dying with the world.
Having seeing what disease and death could do to the sick and his/her family first hand, I know it a very hard thing for the world to witness one’s humanity to be reduced to nothing. I know what hell both the inflicted and the family have to go through. I admire him for his exceptionally courage. (Yinghuochong)
a. 关于书 - a sentimental book, loaded with aphorisms from fortune cookies trite and Hallmark cards :-)
我周一要去开会， 3月7日之后我会来这里回答问题。
我周一要去开会， 3月7日之后我会来这里回答问题。
尊敬的老师;
我在这本书中有好多句子，短语都非常喜欢，其中有一句话使我感楚很深，对我来讲也是个新理论。这句话在书的第8页“与生活讲和”书中是这样写的：死亡是一种自然，人平常觉得自子高于自然，其实自子只是自然的一部分罢了，所以就在自然的怀抱里讲和吧。与生活讲和不是平庸倒退，而是一种至高的境界。
还有些句子和短语等到开会时再讲吧。
Like the part when Mitch met Morrie again after many years later, the way how he deleyed to get out of from his car.....
我今天还给我侄女念这句话呢。“与生活讲和”我也喜欢。
还有一段：
Not long after Morrie’s death, I reached my brother in Spain. We had a long talk. I told him I respected his distance, and that all I wanted was to be in touch—in the present, not just the past—to hold him in my life as much as he could let me. “You’re my only brother,” I said. “I don’t want to lose you. I love you.”
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