What does the "assign to" here mean? Dear friends, I have a question about a sentence which is in the " Galileo letter to Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany. " The sentence is "Thus it would be necessary to assign to God feet, hands and eyes, as well as corporeal and human affections, such as anger, repentance, hatred, and sometimes even the forgetting of` things past and ignorance of those to come." What does the sentence mean? Best wishes Thank you very much! Cathy

Renewed ties between Washington and Havana President Obama decided to restore relationship with Cuba. His decision invited critics in the USA. A Republican senator predicted that Cuba would follow the model of Vietnam and China where the government only grow economy but repress the political freedom. The senator is right. However, I still support the decision of Mr. Obama. I think his decision would have positive impacts on Cuba. Firstly, people in Cuba will benefit from the boost of economy. Second, more and more Cuban youth can go to the universities in the USA. Third, the seeds of freedom will be planted in Cuba people's mind. The renewed ties won't change Cuba overnight, but it can start that change. Although Cuba government will repress the political freedom, but Cuban people will pursue it.

A North Korean Girl Today, I saw several pictures that tell the story about a girl who escaped from North Korea. The girl, Yeonmi Park, said when she was nine years old she saw her friend's mother publicly executed just because of watching Hollywood movie. And Yeonmi's own mother was raped by a Chinese broker the day she escaped North Korea. How horrible these things are! I can't imagine how could these things happen in 21st century. However, they happened in our neighbouring country, and our hands are not clean. I felt pain for the darkness the girl experienced. I hope that the sun shine our neighbouring country as soon as possible.

Can children be equal to their parents? Last Saturday, after dinner, my young sister's husband asked his daughter to light his cigarette. His daughter, who is 8 years old, didn't know how to press the lighter button, and feared the fire. She tried several times, she was still unable to press the lighter button, although her father urged her to do it. Finally, I stopped them by saying:"my daughter will refuse to do such thing, this is not right!". My sister's husband had to give up. One month ago, another Saturday night, also after dinner, my young sister's husband abruptly ordered his daughter to knell down on the ground just for her bad behavior that morning, which we knew nothing about. The poor little girl really knelt down on the ground swiftly, but with tears in eyes. I was shocked at that time, it was the first time that I saw someone kneeling down on the ground, I didn't know how to do, and I did nothing at that time. I hate myself! In recent years, filial piety has become popular in China, although it is a traditional Chinese culture. One noncommercial ads showed a pupil boy washing her mother's feet, this means the government encourages people to show respect and love to their parents. Of course, the other side of this old tradition, in which that children must obey their parents also came to power. I'm not against the filial piety, but I wish every people including children to be respected, because every people is created equal. And some people of my sister's husband alike, couldn't force their children to obey them by the name of filial piety.

Sex Education (1) My parents never discussed with me about sex, and I never asked them any questions, such as "where did I came from?". All my sex knowledge came from classes of Physiology Hygiene. When my daughter was a little child, she asked me where she came from. I felt embarrassed and told her she would knew it when she grew up. She also get the knowledge from her classes of Physiology Hygiene. However, I have to rethink my attitude to sex education recently. One reason is that I found many sexual assaults on children were reported. In those reported cases, majority of victims were little girls in primary schools, they even didn't tell their parents about sexual abuses for a long period, and most of girls didn't know their male teachers must not touch their sensitive parts, because no one told them about that. I think if the little girls received good sex education, there weren't so many child-sexual-abuse cases. Another reason is that my daughter is 19 years old and she is a student of an university of United States where people's attitudes to sex are more open than that in China, and her generation is more open in sex than my generation. I don't hope that she is hurt by lack of sex knowledge.

Coming Home (6) In this movie, I like best the heroine, who was loyal to her love, knew her husband was not a criminal, even risked to meet him. In her heart, her husband lived forever. So, I think the hero should feel happy, even when he knew that he might not come home forever, because he saw his wife loved him so much! The beautiful love looking like a shining star in the dark sky, gave me hope for human nature. This was the first movie that made me thinking so much and so long. Even now, I can remember the last scene of old couples waiting in the snow. The happiness in the tragedy is especially beautiful.