Coolest Hotels in the World
Artau Aragon Towers
The Ariau Amazon Towers hotel lets you sleep in a tree house. Eight towers make up this hotel that offers over 300 rooms. If you really want to get into the spirit, book the Tarzan Suite which is large enough for a big family. You'll be thirty feet up in the air and can travel between the towers through their wooden walkways.
Prices: starting at $300 one night for each person for a regular room and going all the way up to $3000 for the Tarzan Suite.
For more information, visit the website: //Hwww.ariautowers.com
The Ice Hotel
Every winter in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden, a special kind of hotel called the lce Hotel is built. Each year, world-famous artists are invited to design and produce works of art from the ice, many of which can be found in the rooms. You'll have your choice between hot or cold rooms but you will be well advised to stay at least one night in a cold room for a true experience.
Prices: starting at $318 one night for each person for either a cold room or a warm one. For more information, visit the website: Hwww.icehotel.com.
Propeller Island
Propeller Island City Lodge is a very special hotel that was designed by a German artist. Each room provides you with the possibility of living in a work of art. Every single piece of furniture in the thirty rooms of the hotel has been hand-made and each room is completely different. You'll be able to choose a room based on your own personal tastes.
Prices: starting at just $91 a night, and an additional (另外) person for only 20 extra dollars.
For more information, visit the website: //www.propeller-island.com.
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A new study of 8,000 young people in the journal of Health and Social Behavior shows that although love can make grown-ups live healthily and happily, it is a bad thing for young people. Puppy love (早恋) may bring trouble for young people and can cause depression (沮丧). The study shows that girls become more depressed than boys, and young girls are the worst of all.
The possible reason for the connection between love and higher risk of depression for girls is "loss of self". According to the study, even though boys would say "lose themselves in a romantic (浪漫的) relationship", this "loss of self" is much more likely to cause depression when it happens to girls. Young girls who have romantic relationships usually like hiding their feelings and opinions. They won't tell that to their parents.
Dr. Marianm Kaufman, who works on young people problems, says 15% to 20% of young people will have depression during their growing. Trying romance often causes the depression. She advises kids not to jump into romance too early. During growing up, it is important for young people to build strong friendship and a strong sense of self. She also suggests the parents should encourage their kids to keep close to their friends, attend more interesting school activities and spend enough time with family.
Parents should watch for their children's eating or mood changes. If they see some，they need to give help. The good news is that the connection between romance and depression seems to become weak with age. Love will always make us feel young，but only maturity (成熟) gives us a chance to avoid its bad side effects.
Some people think if you are happy, you are blind to reality. But when we research it, happiness actually raises every single business and educational outcome for the brain. How did we miss this? Why do we have these social misunderstandings about happiness? Because we assumed you were average. When we study people, scientists are often interested in what the average is.
Many people think happiness is genetic. That's only half the story, because the average person does not fight their genes. When we stop studying the average and begin researching positive outliers —people who are above average for a positive aspect like optimism or intelligence —a wildly different picture appears. Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its limited resources as you process the world. If you scan for the negative first, your brain really has no resources left over to see the things you are grateful for or the meaning embedded(嵌入) in your work. But if you scan the world for the positive, you start to acquire an amazing advantage.
I wrote the cover story for the Harvard Business Review magazine on "Happiness Leads to Profits." Based on my article called "Positive Intelligence" and my research in The Happiness Advantage, I summarized our researched conclusion: the single greatest advantage in the modern economy is a happy and busy workforce.
A decade of research in the business world proves that happiness raises nearly every business and educational outcome: increasing sales by 37%, productivity by 31%, and accuracy on tasks by 19%, as well as a number of health and quality-of-life improvements.
Children are excited to find brightly wrapped(包装的) presents under the tree on Christmas morning. They can't wait to open the wrapping and get the toys that were on their wish lists, such as toy cars. But after the excitement wears off, those toys are usually left to the corner of the toy box and the kids are searching for something else to do. But it doesn't have to be that way.
A study from the University of Toronto found that giving your child experiences as a gift, instead of toys, improves your child's intelligence and makes stronger parent-child bonds. "Often the focus is only on whether someone likes a gift rather than focusing on a fundamental purpose of gift giving. Knowing that will foster(培养) relationships between the giver and the receiver," said lead researcher Cindy Chan.
Chan suggested that when you are buying a holiday gift or birthday gift, you should buy something that kids can experience with you. This can be movie or concert tickets, a CD from a performance you already saw to keep the memory alive. For example, for kids, a trip to a museum, going ice-skating or a book that the family can read together over and over again are valuable gifts.
It is found that giving your kids too many toys can be counterproductive(适得其反) and make kids at a loss. The best way to make kids happy is to spend time together.
So, if you want happy and intelligent kids, spending time with them and making memories are the best gifts you can give them. That's not to say that there shouldn't be any toys but change the focus from getting things to making lasting memories.
Money Matters
Parents should help children understand money. So you may start talking about money when your child shows an interest in buying things, candy or toys, for example.
⒈The basic function of money
Begin explaining the basic function of money by showing how people trade money for goods or services. It's important to show your child how money is traded for the thing he wants to have. If he wants to have a toy, give him the money and let him hand the money to the cashier (收银员). When your child grows a bit older and understands the basic function of money, you can start explaining more complex ways of using money.
⒉Money lessons
Approach (着手处理）money lessons with openness and honesty. If you must say no to a child's request to spend money, explain, "You have enough toy trucks for now." Or, if the request is for many different things, say, "You have to make a choice between this toy and that toy."
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Begin at the grocery store. Pick out two similar brands of a product — a name-brand butter and a generic (无商标产品), for example. You can show your child how to make choices between different brands of a product so that you can save money. If he chooses the cheaper brand, allow him to buy other things with the money saved. Later, you may explain how the more expensive choice leaves less money for other purchases.
A. Wise decisions
B. The value of money
C. Permit the child to choose between them.
D. Tell your child why he can—or cannot—have certain things.
E. Ask yourself what things that cost money are most important to you.
F. Talk about how the money bought the thing after you leave the toy store.
G. The best time to teach a child anything about money is when he shows an interest.
I passed a man on the way home from work one night a few years ago. He was walking staggeringly(蹒跚)along the road. I 1 wondering whether to stop and give him a 2 , at least down to a safer part of the road. Then the car behind me overtook me and I lost the courage to stop there as the road was so 3.
I couldn't be sure but he appeared to be quite 4. A truck turned 5 to avoid him at one point—he didn't appear to 6.
I pulled into a lay-by(停车带), a little way down the road, waiting for him to reach my car. He'd probably decline my 7 of a lift, or smell really bad or…a number of things 8my head while I waited.
Five minutes went by and I sat on. He approached my car. My windows were9down, and I asked him if he wanted a lift. He indicated that he was going to the next town, just out of my way, but not far enough to put me to10. So in he got.
"Sorry, I'm really drunk. I've been at a funeral(葬礼). I'm Ryan. "and he gave me his hand. I drove and we talked. He told me he'd just buried his uncle. He called me brother and offered me his cool sunglasses as 11. I refused and said the joy was in the12.
Three times along the way he told me," Whatever we put out there comes back to us. Something good will come to you for picking me up. "
I13him at the next crossroad. We shook 14 and said goodbye to each other. I felt as if I'd been 15 somehow. I think I have been.
Over 40 countries around the world celebrate Mother's Day. It is a time children show their love and respect to their mothers and thank their mothers for giving birth to them and providing them with the (good) care.
In New Zealand, Mother's Day (celebrate) on the second Sunday in May. And as idea of celebrating Mother's Day in New Zealand comes from the USA, the way of celebrating Mother's Day in New Zealand is much the same as in the USA.
On Mother's Day, people in New Zealand thank their mothers for their (devote) to their kids. The festival of Mother's Day has become a big day in New Zealand. People celebrate the day by going out for a picnic or eating together. Markets are (crowd) with people coming to buy presents for their mothers. Many people would buy flowers and cards for their mothers.
People also thank their mothers by serving them with breakfast and (make) special cakes for them. Some people also would like to make their mothers have a day's rest from the (end) housework, and treat (they) to a big dinner.
One day, the Mullah, an important man in the village, found his donkey was gone when he wanted to go visit a friend. He was very angry and ran around to look for his donkey.
The Mullah ran about looking until he was too tired. He sat down to rest at his gate. A few friends came to join him "That no-good lazy donkey!" said he. "If I ever see her again, I'll sell her for a dollar!" Selling a donkey for a dollar was just a joke.
Just then the Mullah heard the sound of his donkey's feet. He looked around. There was his donkey. On her back rode a boy," Where did you find her?" asked the Mullah. "We couldn't find her anywhere."
"I knew where I would go if I were a donkey," said the boy." I found her eating grass with the sheep and goats."
Suddenly, the Mullah looked to one side and saw one of his friends holding up a dollar. On the other side he saw another with a dollar.
"I'll buy your donkey," said the two.
"I was joking!" said the Mullah.
"You didn't sound as if you were joking," said the two.
The Mullah couldn't break his word. That would be wrong for an important person in the village. He certainly didn't want to sell his donkey for a dollar. So he said, "Meet me at the donkey fair on Saturday. I shall sell her at that time. I shall sell my donkey to the one who will treat her most kindly."
Everybody was kind to animals in the village.
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So the Mullah thought out a plan.
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My donkey and my cat are very good friends.
