World Food Day Poster Contest
If you're aged between 5 and 19 and wherever you live, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations wants to hear from you! Use your imagination and create a poster showing a world where no one is left behind and everyone has access to healthy and affordable food.
Rules:
●The registration period will end at 12:00 on Friday, November 3.
●The contest is divided into the following categories: from 5 to 8 years old, from 9 to 12 years old, from 13 to 15 years old and from 16 to 19 years old.
●Participants who submit more than one poster will be disqualified.
●All artworks must be original. And posters have to be drawn or painted with pens or colored pencils or be designed digitally.
●Posters may or may not include the text. If the text is used, no more than 25 words will be accepted. Don't include names, school names, age, contact information or photographic pictures of the competitors, etc.
●Posters can only be sent using the registration form provided for this purpose. All fields of the entry form must be completed and once the poster design has been uploaded, the SUBMIT button must be clicked.
●Only digital files in JPEG format will be accepted.
Prize:
●The selection committee will choose 15 posters in each category for the shortlist (决选名单) and inform them in December Shortlisted candidates will receive a certificate for this achievement.
●A jury (评委会) will choose three winning posters from each category, and these winning posters will be announced on the World Food Day website.
●Winners will be promoted on FAO social media and will also receive a certificate of recognition and a surprise gift bag.
At my first lesson in Chinese calligraphy, my teacher told me plainly: "Now I will teach you how to write your name. And to make it beautiful." I felt my breath catch. I was curious.
Growing up in Singapore, I had an unusual relationship with my Chinese name. My parents are ethnically Chinese, so they asked fortune tellers to decide my name, aiming for maximum luck. As a result, I ended up with a nonsense and embarrassing name: Chen Yiwen, meaning, roughly, "old", "barley (薏米)" and "warm".
When I arrived in America for college at 18, I put on an American accent and abandoned my Chinese name. When I moved to Hong Kong in 2021, after 14 years in the States, I decided to learn calligraphy. Why not get back in touch with my heritage? I thought.
In calligraphy, the idea is to copy the old masters' techniques, thereby refining your own. Every week, though, my teacher would give uncomfortably on-the-nose assessments of my person. "You need to be braver," he once observed. "Have confidence. Try to produce a bold stroke(笔画)." For years, I had prided myself on presenting an image of confidence, but my writing betrayed me.
I was trying to make sense of this practice. You must visualize the word as it is to be written and leave a trace of yourself in it. As a bodily practice, calligraphy could go beyond its own cultural restrictions. Could it help me go beyond mine? My teacher once said to me, "When you look at the word, you see the body. Though a word on the page is two-dimensional, it contains multitudes, conveying the force you've applied, the energy of your grip, the arch of your spine." I had been learning calligraphy to get in touch with my cultural roots, but what I was really seeking was a return to myself. Now I have sensed that the pleasure out of calligraphy allows me to know myself more fully.
During a recent lesson, my teacher pointed at the word I had just finished, telling me: "This word is much better. I can see the choices you made, your calculations, your flow. Trust yourself. This word is yours." He might as well have said, "This word is you."
In 1835, William Talbot finally succeeded in producing a photograph of his country house. He declared that his was the first house ever known to have drawn its own picture. The drawing was formed "by the action of light upon sensitive paper." Photography offered nature a "pencil" to paint herself through optical (光学的) and chemical means alone.
By the mid-nineteenth century, people no longer needed to hire a draftsman to draw detailed images because the process could be completed instantly with a camera. Advocates for the technology stated that not only was it more precise than the human hand — it was faster and cheaper.
The removal of human fallibility in the creating process was one of photography's biggest selling points, but this also started debates about the new medium's implications for visual culture. Could images made largely by a machine be considered art? If so, where did human creativity fit in this process?
As the twenty-first century becomes increasingly automated, more and more people attempt to identify where human agency exists in the technologically driven world. Images generated with artificial intelligence by companies like OpenAI are stimulating questions like those that emerged with the coming of the photograph. By typing a sentence, users can generate "new" images composed from images collected across the Internet. The result has been a flood of Al-generated images in places that are previously unique to human authors. Painting competitions, commercial graphic design and the fashion of portraiture (肖像) have all since collided (碰撞) with the technology in troubling ways.
The fine arts were thought to be a final hold-out of human creativity but the surprisingly high quality of AI-generated images is producing deeper questions about the nature of originality. If the history of photography tells us anything, it's that the debate won't be settled quickly, straightforwardly, or by the institutions we typically associate with cultural gate keeping.
There are close to 7, 000 languages spoken on Earth. However, it's estimated that by the end of this century, up to 50% of them may be lost.
It's commonly thought that majority languages tend to be valued for being useful and for promoting progress, while minority languages are seen as barriers to progress, and the value placed on them is seen mainly as sentimental (感情用事的). But is sentimentality really the only motivation for preserving language diversity?
Speakers of endangered languages often live in remote areas with unique landform. It is quite common for these languages to distinguish between hundreds more types of plants and animals than those known to modern science. For example, in Southeast Asia, some tribes have discovered the medicinal properties of over sixty-five hundred plant species. This has led to many of landmark achievements in medicine.
It was once believed that the limits of one's language defined the limits of one's thought. This theory, called the Sapir-Wharf hypothesis (假说), has been largely rejected in favor of the improved version, which assumes that the language we speak does not set the limits of our thoughts, but it does direct our focus in certain ways. For example, English is a tense-based language. It's nearly impossible to talk about doing something without specifying the time — i. e. I went to the party(past), I'm going to the party(present), or I'll go to the party (future). This differs from Chinese, where it's perfectly reasonable to say, "I go to the party" without defining the "when". Thus, part of the richness of language is that it allows us to organize the world in so many unique ways.
Some languages categorize the world in ways so different from our own that they are difficult to conceptualize (概念化). The United States employed native Navajo speakers to create a system of message coding during the Second World War. The Japanese were never able to break it, and the "code talkers" are often cited today as having helped decide the outcome of the war.
As we've already seen, minority languages are valuable for many practical reasons. In conclusion, I'd say the short answer is yes — dying languages are certainly worth saving!
In order to survive in the world with challenges, we need to be wise. Let me tell you this, wisdom provides us with perspective when we need it and it calms us down in terrible situations. Here are some strategies that we can use to get wiser.
This will open up new pathways for us. Never base your perspective on the most popular opinion or which is the most comfortable for you. Train your mind to be a judgment-free space for ideas. If you are humble, then you will always get to experience something new.
You must be the kind of person who learns something new every day. Take new classes, read books and the list goes on and on. All of these activities will help you to tackle problems from different angles, making everything easier.
You obviously want to grow and do better in life, right? The best way is to have wise people as your mentors (导师), like teachers, colleagues and even special friends. Prior to making them a mentor, find out what makes them wiser, then engage in useful dialogue with them.
If you have accumulated a lot of knowledge, then why not share it with others too? In today's world, it is very easy to become wise but it isn't easy to help others. So keep things balanced and never let go of your passions and values. This will pave the path to success.
A. Why do we communicate with wise people?
B. Why is wisdom crucial in this modern world?
C. Change your routine and see where life takes you.
D. Surf the Internet and clear out your problems that confuse you.
E. Sometimes we ourselves need to be open to diverse perspectives.
F. The more time is spent with them, the more transfer of knowledge there will be.
G. Communicating with others and helping them out will also increase your wisdom.
Most of us need to heal (痊愈) once in a while. For some of us, the 1 part of healing is simply to believe that it's possible.
Years ago, I was watching my son 2 free throws. He made a dozen 3 through the net without a miss. "How do you do that?" I said. "Before I 4 the ball," he said, "I see it in my mind to make it happen."
I loved these words. It struck me that they might also 5 healing. We need to believe healing can happen and 6 it in our minds to see it in reality. 7 doesn't assure us of the outcome we hope for. But it sets us in motion to move toward desired 8 .
Last year I had surgery for a broken 9 and spent eight weeks in a wheelchair. I had 10 to be able to start walking again after the 11 days. However, that didn't happen. I then started physical therapy which I believed could help. I 12 it day after day, seeing in my mind that I was walking quickly as before, which is 13 I do today.
When hope grows dim (暗淡的), belief 14 the way and makes all things possible. We need to believe 15 is possible. If we can see it in our minds, we can let go of the past, accept the present and move toward a better future.
"Pure love, only for China." When the host of the Harbin Ice and Snow World in Heilongjiang Province read out the words on the wallpaper of a lost phone to find its owner, (applaud) broke out among the audience, CCTV News reported.
The sentence was from the diary of Chen Xiangrong, soldier, who lost his life in a border conflict with Indian troops in June 2020. The owner of the cellphone, surnamed Xie is a student of the Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine. She learned about Chen's story when she was in high school. Since then, Xie (regard) Chen as an example and hoped one day she could also contribute to the country. So she took the patriotic (爱国的) expression (write) by Chen as a motto, and placed together with the national flag the background of her cellphone.
she didn't expect was the sudden popularity of the wallpaper on the Internet, with many netizens (ask) her to share it. "I am very happy that this resonates (共鸣) with so many people. We post-2000s generations are not a lost generation, a generation that can contribute to the future of our country," Xie said. "I firmly believe that through our efforts and hard work, our country will become more prosperous! We will (definite) live up to the expectations of the times, and make an effort (create) a better future for our country!" she added.
One sunny afternoon, I was playing in the backyard when I noticed a beautiful shiny piece of paper lying on the table. It was leftover aluminum foil (锡纸) from a package my mum had opened. I picked it up and was immediately attracted by its sparkling appearance. Curiosity got the best of me, and I couldn't help but ask my dad about it.
"Dad, what is this paper called? It's so shiny and beautiful!" I inquired, holding the aluminum foil up for him to see.
My dad chuckled and replied, "That's. called aluminum foil, and it has many uses."
Naturally, my curiosity was piqued (激发), and I eagerly asked, "What can it be used for?"
My dad smiled and said, "Why don't you research it yourself? It'll be a great opportunity for you to learn something new. "
With a sense of excitement, I grabbed my phone and started researching on the Internet. I found out that it is a type of metal paper called aluminum foil, which is moisture-proof(防潮
). As I looked through the information, an idea popped into my head. What if I put some water in a small aluminum foil container and heated it in the microwave? Would the water boil?
Unable to resist the urge to experiment, I cut a piece of aluminum foil and folded it into a small square container. I added some water into the container and placed it in the microwave. With my eyes wide open, I anxiously watched the aluminum foil container, filled with anticipation. But before I could see any changes in the water, suddenly a burst of fire erupted from the microwave, surprising me. I quickly rushed to unplug the appliance and collapsed onto the floor, feeling a great fear.
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My dad, hearing the sound, hurried over and asked, "What happened? "
My dad's comforting words sank in, and I made a promise to myself to become more careful in my life.
