John Eliot (baptized 5 August 1604 - 21 May 1690) is one of the many colonial immigrants who would find a religious purpose for their life in the New World. Eliot was born in a small village near London,England. Widford, Hertfordshire, England.

James Hudson Taylor (May 21, 1832 – June 3, 1905), was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM) (now OMF International) who served there for 51 years, bring over missionaries to the country and personally baptizing an estimated 50,000 converts. He was known for his commitment to cultural sensitivity, wearing native Chinese clothing even though this was rare among missionaries of that time.

Age of Chinese Communist Party

Fifty years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) relied on the support and trust of Chinese people to defeat the Kuomintang-Nationalists and establish the People's Republic of China. It promised protection of human rights for generations to come. The CCP promised that in a short time the land would be distributed equally, which attracted peasants in large number. Their numerous promises appealed to large numbers of salaried workers.

The CCP used its support among workers and peasants to overpower ruthlessly those few who opposed its rule. According to still-incomplete CCP statistics, suppression of opponents and land reform claimed the lives of millions of people. The CCP rapidly consolidated its single-party autocracy. It won support and blind faith among the majority of the Chinese people and rendered the leadership immune to calls for more rational and just policies. However, the CCP could not possibly make good on all of its promises. To practice the ideals of communism, it implemented state ownership of land by force.

For the first thirty years, this group relied on the ideals of communism to attack the policies of China's Communist rulers. Twenty years ago, people began to oppose the one-party dictatorship openly. The ideals of the Democracy Wall became a new banner with which to protest oppression and pursue liberty. Even if we say that creating extreme dissatisfaction among the people was the most important result of Mao's communism, we still can't say that it completely lacked legality. But Deng and his successors' have hung up a sheep's head to sell dog meat. They have used Communist slogans to disguise the bureaucratic capitalism they have created. This is completely unjust.

William Shakespeare, the Mysterious Writer

William Shakespeare is one of the famous writer. He was interesting, but the
question “Who is he?” still haunts anyone who has heard of his name. No one really
knows who he is; anyone who does is probably dead by now, but there are records of his
relatives and at least ten facts about him. The actual dates of his birthday and his
death are unknown, but April 23 is generally used. There are many mysteries that
surround the life of William Shakespeare. Some are based on facts and some are based on
fiction. Many are interesting facts, some are strange facts, and some are just not right.

He was the third child of John and Mary Shakespeare. According to the register of the
Holy Trinity Parish Church in Stratford, he was baptized on April 26, 1564. Most of his
siblings died because of the Bubonic Plague. Some of his relatives are controversial.
William Arden, a relative of Shakespeare’s mother Mary Arden, was arrested for plotting
against Queen Elizabeth I. He was imprisoned and executed in the Tower of London.

We do know that he married Anne Hathaway, a woman eight years older than
Shakespeare. She was three months pregnant when they got married. His children are
Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith Shakespeare. The first we hear of Susanna is on May 5,
1606 when Susanna was named as a recusant for not attending an Easter Day Church
service. Hamnet is Judith’s twin. He died because of the outbreaks of the Bubonic
Plague. Judith married a man named Thomas Quiney. William Shakespeare approved
their marriage, but he disapproved it when he found out he was having an affair.
Quiney was prosecuted. There are rumors about Shakespeare having an illegitimate son, William Devanant. His grandchildren all died.

We do not accurately know what Shakespeare looked like. Not one portrait was
painted of Shakespeare while he was still alive. The majority of his plays were only
published seven years after his death. He wrote great plays such as: Romeo and Juliet,
Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, and Hamlet. Plays diring the Elizabethan era were big
business. Plays were written and then performed as soon as possible. They were not
printed until after the were performed. There were no copyright laws to protect
Shakespeare’s work. Rivals from other theatre companies would copy the plays.

North America

North America is a continent in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost fully in the western hemisphere. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west by the North Pacific Ocean; South America lies to the southeast, connected to North America by the isthmus of Panama. It covers an area of about 24,490,000 km² (9,450,000 sq mi), or about 4.8% of the planet's surface. As of October 2006, its population was estimated at over 514,600,000. It is the third-largest continent in area, after Asia and Africa, and is fourth in population after Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Antartica

Antarctica is the southernmost continent and includes the South Pole. Geographic sources disagree as to whether it is surrounded by the Southern Ocean or the South Pacific Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean, and Indian Ocean. It is divided by the Transantarctic Mountains. On average, it is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent and has the highest average elevation of all the continents.[1] At 14.425 million km², Antarctica is the third-smallest continent after Europe and Australia; 98% of it is covered in ice. Because there is little precipitation, except at the coasts, the interior of the continent is technically the largest desert in the world. There are no permanent human residents and Antarctica has never had an indigenous population. Only cold-adapted plants and animals survive there, including penguins, fur seals, mosses, lichens, and many types of algae. The name "Antarctica" comes from the Greek ανταρκτικός (antarktikos), meaning "opposite the Arctic."

Beuxbaton

I live in the town of Beuxbaton. This town is located in France. We got our charter fifty years ago. The Lord's name was Grant Vogue. I was so happy that we finally got the charter. We had a ceremony when we got it.

There were many people in the ceremony. My favorite artist, Leonardo Da Vinci, was there. He was a good friend of Lord Grant Vogue. There was a comosion during the ceremony. There was a man who kept saying that a dragon is coming to destroy the town. The lord ordered the knights to throw him in the dungeon.

After the ceremony, we celebrated. There were kings and queens from all over Europe. Queen Elizabeth was there. The man from the dungeon escaped and warned the town that a dark wizard will take over the town. The lord saw what happened and decided that the man shall be hanged.

More and more people moved into our town. There were more traders than usual. The best thing is that no one will disturb the town with crazy warnings about dragons and dark wizards.

Europe

Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. The term continent here refers to a cultural and political distinction rather than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europe's precise borders. Physically and geologically, Europe is a subcontinent or large peninsula, the westernmost part of Eurasia.
Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and – according to the traditional geographic definition – to the south-east by the waterways adjoining the Mediterranean to and including the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains (in Caucasia). Europe's eastern frontier is vague, but has traditionally been given as the divide of the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea to the south-east. The Urals are considered by most to be a geographical and tectonic landmark separating Asia from Europe.

Asia

Asia is the largest and most populous continent or region, depending on the definition. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area, or 29.4% of its land area, and it contains more than 60% of the world's human population.

Asia is traditionally defined as part of the landmass of Africa-Eurasia – with the western portion of the latter occupied by Europe – lying east of the Suez Canal, east of the Ural Mountains, and south of the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian and Black Seas.

Akiane

This is my favorite picture
This pictures is from http://www.artakiane.com/akiane_art.htm

THE CHALLENGE
…The maze and the challenge of the choices. The light is ahead for the journey to continue safely.But because of hunger, exhaustion, the hunger, the cold and the shadows the horse is losing its focus. The blue is the color of the mind, therefore I painted the shadows blue to create a mental challenge,the confusion. The challenge for the tired horse is which direction to choose. This is an allegory about our choices…
***…When I brought this painting to my printer, we both thought that because I’d used just a few colors, it would be the easiest to make the reproductions from. But it turned out to be the hardest. It turned out to be the true challenge.I doubt it was a coincidence…
-Akiane