Letter 10: World Press Photo 2017 (世界新聞攝影展)😭😭😭😭

To tell you the truth, I think World Press Photo 2017 may be one of the best exhibitions I have ever seen. Although there is no valuable ancient antique, precious sculpture created by the prestigious artist or wonderful symphony, it still touched my heart again and again. The majority of the so-called ‘'art'' are usually associated with the words like elegance, abstraction, or even dullness. However, this time these photographs feature the world news, reversing the image of art showing to the public. It doesn't always look perfect or exquisite as we assume, and it doesn't definitely come from a well-known photographer. I believed that quite a few people will wonder why so many participants are willing to support this activity every year and want to know how it could go widespread. In fact, the spirit and belief of those photos play the vital role in World Press Photo. Ranging from daily life to the death of the president, it retains so many things happening around us while we forgot or even didn't know at all. We are born to live in happiness, ironically, there are still others staying in fear, hopelessness, starvation, and the lack of education. Have anyone ever care about the whole eco-environment? Sea turtles feed on plastic bags, and rhinos' horn is cut down to save ‘' humans" lives. More horribly, Donald Trump is trying to develop a new fossil oil tube system which highly endangers the inhabitant of the local aborigine. The host tells us that civilian consciousness is significant in this young generation during the drastic change of this international world: robots want to be mankind, while mankind is gradually turning into robots. Isn't it interesting, Tim?👼👼👼👼👼

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hello, it's me, otto. today i will answer the questions you ask.
1.“trick or treating” usually start before 6:30 pm. end at 8:30 pm. at that time, probably 150-200 kids came to door to do trick or treating.
2. the dogs continued barking as loud as they could. they felt excited because kids were parading outside.
3. dressesd as cacti, a kind of green and strange costume.

Letter 8:The Day of the Dead/Día de Los Muertos😇😇😇😇😇😇

It surprises me that the theme of this week is talking about Mexican culture. I can undoubtedly say I know this festival from TV tourism program. Mexico is a country which really loves and respect ghosts somehow, a marvelous section abundant in various spectacles, festival, food, and remains. In fact, Central and South America have been on my traveling destination list as a result of the differences between two continents. Not only in Mexico, ghost culture has also spread around the world. In China, we have Zhongyuan Festival; in Japan, there is a few anime featuring ghosts; in the USA, people celebrate Halloween……apparently, superstition is a significant part of humans' life. I'm not sure if you have noticed the information of movies recently, a film ‘' Coco'' made by Disney will be released in America on 11/22. It didn't pop up from my mind until I saw the advertisements on the MRT that this production is totally Mexican: skeletons, playing the guitar in the different way, brown skin, big and long hats. Hope you can celebrate the day of the dead with us even though we both aren't in Mexico.😃😃😃😃😃

Letter 7: The Irish Origins of Halloween💌💌💌💌💌

Listening to these interesting stories about Halloween is so satisfying. In East Asia, we did not emphasize that a lot. For me, the English textbooks and daily commodities shops are the only few accesses to knowing about this distinctive festival. Similar to westerners' acknowledgment of Chinese New Year and Moon Festival, we assume that Halloween is just an unimportant day in which the ghost would appear. In the modern time, treat or trick and giving cards to our friends are the best way or even cosplay. It seems that we do celebrate this holiday, but that is too informal and simple: we actually are celebrating a totally different day controlled by commerce. Businessmen always intend to make money, so if no one is in need, they will create the need. That is what they do likewise during other western holidays like Valentine's Day, Christmas…… very few Chinese would realize why we have to set up these holidays, though, they still enjoy it and do not think much. What I attempt to express is that more and more people are barely want to have some fun or keep up with the pace of trend, rather than commemorate something valuable. There is no denying that your article reminds this, and l hope those people can be awake someday.🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

Letter6: Civilization comes to Tempe🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹

It's so shocking that Taiwan's tea shop brand should set up a site in America, not to say in your hometown, Tempe in Arizona. To be honest, I would never hear ‘'DaYung's'' this name if you did not tell me since we have too many tea shop brands in Taiwan. This profitable industry had been popular dozens of years ago, however, it did not have a breakthrough actually. Selling tea and juice likewise, these shops come in various features, ranging from tradition to innovation. There are also a variety of flavors provided: Black Tea Latte, Mango Slush, Green Bean Slush, Fresh Apple Yakult…… These drinks are so appealing that I often stare at their menus when I go by. By the way, have you ever heard the brand ‘'CoCo'' recently? ‘'CoCo'' is one of the oldest and most famous tea shops in Taiwan, and it has several chain stores in the USA and Canada, like New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver….. it's a shame that there is no franchise in your city！Tea shop culture is extremely important to us, truly, I would like to share the pleasure with you. Hope other Taiwan tea shops will expand their territory as soon as possible thus you can know about our country more！🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺