A world leader that I admire Who is a world leader that you admire? What are characteristics that make that person a great leader? World leader,like cook, doctor, plumber, is firstly a job. Whether one can be considered a great world leader should be largely dependent on how well he has done his job. In other words, the prosperity of his country , the better his performance. Also, despite of a world of different cultures and values, to what extent the people of his country value humanity, peace, love for truth and other universal virtues, should be put into consideration as well. If you view the world in the perspective in the economic development, it's objective to say U.S is the dominant one. For U.S's leading place now, one can never neglect the leadership of early presidents of America. Among them, Thomas Jefferson,the third president of America, is a great world leader I admire. Thomas Jefferson is known as the statesman of science. In fact, his love for science is at first a private one, but later by his actions he made this an American love for truth. Jefferson invented the best plough at the time. It may not seem important now, but by then agriculture was the biggest share in economy. Jefferson also helped invent a new way to excavate archaeological sites. Now some important archaeological findings are discovered by the way first devised by Jefferson. Later, when the highest scientific institution in America made Jefferson their president, Jefferson claimed it was the most flattering honor he's ever got. There was a period of time when he was both president of that institution and the U.S. Obviously he has merged his love for science and his love for the country. He did a more than good job in propaganda for science by bridging American scientists with other nations', also by spreading latest news on science through governmental routes. I appreciate Thomas Jefferson's genuine efforts to promote science in the early years and I think America has since then benefited from that , and will always be. There have always been war on the earth and sometimes inevitable. Say humanity, peace and love for truth, I value the last one most.That's why I consider Thomas Jefferson to be a great world leader. (About 370words)

My personal values I tend to think my life from its end. What I mean is from the ultimate end, what would I've been doing in this world? I want to remember myself absorbing worldwide knowledge, helping anybody in reach and writing great prose essays in memory to my favorite writers. I want to remember myself working hard in a career that is respectably chosen. However, I definitely don't want to remember myself meeting people with whose opinions I never sympathize with. I don't want to remember myself strutting my brands and looks, accomplishments,or relationships with adorable figures except when there's a social need. (how to link here?) I'm very goal-oriented because this is the only chance unlike I can play video games again.

My half-blooded brother In the afternoon, I picked up the phone to hear an unfamiliar voice. -"Aunt?" -"Who's that? eh...Brother Wen!" -"Oh,XX.It's you! ...Bring your mother." Later my mother told me Brother Wen's gonna drop by to visit us.By us I mean me, my mother, and our old father in bed. Brother Wen's house is half an hour's drive from mine.I hurried to change my sloppy pajamas to tight jeans, then brush my teeth, wash my face and even put on a facial mask. I felt a kind of excitement that has long be absent. As I was peeling off the facial mask in the bathroom, the door bell rang. When I walked into my father's bedroom, I saw the broad back of Brother Wen standing before father's sickbed.He was watching him when I patted on his arm from the back,"It's been a long time." He turned to me in a slightly startled face,"No, you can't say 'it's been a long time'. It's more than that. Let me count, how many years is that?" He looked at me for a while, without saying anything like" You are a big girl now".

Description on a favorite piece I have a favorite painting named "The Incredulity of Saint Thomas" by Caravaggio. In the painting, Thomas looks surprised when Jesus guides his finger to his belly, into a wound. It seems to me that Jesus has persuaded Thomas into believing by letting Thomas really touching his pain. I know little about religious stories,but I think this painting is so powerful that it invokes a deep feeling that is beyond word.