If you are a modern art lover, you should be sure to drop by the Saatchi Gallery during your visit to London. The original gallery was by Charles Saatchi, a British art collector for founding the Saatchi and Saatchi advertising agency with his brother. It moved from its old in St. John’s Wood to its new home in County Hall near the Thames in the spring of 2003.
Anyone who has heard in the past of the often shocking but always inspiring works on at the Saatchi Gallery will not be when visiting the gallery’s new location. Along with the of new British artists, the gallery still the works of Damien Hirst, the Chapman brothers, and Tracy Emin in its permanent .
Of the artworks, one can see in the Saatchi Gallery, Hirst’s works are probably the most . Hirst’s work first made headlines in the early 1990s when he art from dead animals.
Along with Hirst, the Chapman brothers, Dinos and Jake, also a certain amount of their fame to the Saatchi Gallery. It was through Saatchi these two brothers came to public attention. At the gallery, visitors can see the brothers’vision of Hell, made from 30, 000 plastic toy soldiers.
Another artist featured at the gallery who has grabbed with her art is Tracy Emin. In 1998, Emin gave to argument when she sold her messy, unmade bed to Saatchi as a work of art My Bed at ￡150, 000.
Are any of these works really art? That is a question you will have to answer for when you visit the Saatchi Gallery. Charles Saatchi himself says, “I don’t have any ground rules for art. Sometimes you look and don’t feel very with it—but that doesn’t tell you very much. It doesn’t reveal much about the quality of the work.”
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The passengers on the bus watched with sympathy as Susan made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and then, using her hands to the seats, settled in one of them.
It had been a year since Susan became blind. As the result of an accident she was suddenly thrown into a world of . Susan’s husband Mark watched her into hopelessness and he was to use every possible means to help his wife.
Finally, Susan felt ready to to her job, but how would she get there? She used to take the bus, but she was now too to get around the city by herself. Mark to ride the bus with Susan each morning and evening she could manage it by herself.
For two weeks, Mark Susan to and from work each day. He taught her how to rely on her other , especifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt to her new .
At last, Susan decided that she was ready to try the trip . Monday morning arrived. Before she left, she hugged her husband , her eyes filled with tears of gratitude（感激）.She said and, for the first time, they went their separate ways. Each day went perfectly, and a wild excitement Susan. She was doing it!
On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work . As she was getting off the bus, the driver said, “Miss, I sure you.” Curious, Susan asked the driver .
“You know, every morning for the ____week,a fine-looking gentleman in a military uniform has been standing across the corner watching you until you enter your office building safely,” the bus driver said.
Tears of happiness poured down Susan’s cheeks. She was so lucky for he had given her a gift more powerful than___, That is the gift of love that can bring light where there is darkness.
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Dear son,
The day that you see me old and I am already not in good health, have patience and try to understand me.
If I get dirty when eating, if I can not dress, have patience and remember the hours I teaching it to you. If, when I speak to you, I the same things thousand and one times, do not me, listen to me. When you were small, I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story you got to sleep. When I do not want to have a , neither shame me nor scold me. Remember when I had to chase you with thousand excuses I , in order that you wanted to bathe. When you see my little about new technologies, give me the necessary time and do not look at me with your mocking (嘲弄) smile. I taught you to do so many things: to eat good, to dress well, to confront life….When at some moment I lose the memory or the of conversation, let me have the necessary time to remember, and if I can not do it, do not become nervous, as the most important thing is not our conversation but surely to be with you and to have you to me.
If ever I do not want to eat, do not force me. I know well I need to and when not. When my legs do not allow me to walk, give me your , the same way I did when you gave your first . And when someday I say to you that I do not want to any more — that I want to rest forever, do not get angry. Someday you will understand.
Try to understand that my age is not lived but survived. Some day you will discover that, my mistakes, I always wanted the thing for you and that I tried to prepare the way for you. You must not feel sad, angry or impotent (无奈) for seeing me you. You must be next to me, try to understand me and to help me as I did it when you living. Help me to walk, help me to end my way with love and . I will pay you by a smile and by the immense love I have had always for you.
I love you, Son.
Your father
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My little angel, you are teaching me how selfless real love is!
My wife called, “How long will you be with that __? Will you come here and make your darling daughter eat her food?” I threw the paper away and to the place. My daughter, Sindu, sat there, tears welling up in her eyes. In front of her was a big bowl of rice.
I the bowl and persuaded: “Sindu, why not take a few mouthfuls of this rice?”
“Ok, Dad. I will eat — not just a few mouthfuls, the whole lot of this. But…” Sindu hesitated. “Dad, if I eat this entire rice, will you give me I ask for?”
“Promise.” I .
After eating the rice painfully, Sindu came to me, her eyes wide with . Now I became a bit . “Dear, you shouldn't insist on a computer or any such things. Dad does not have that kind of money right now.” , “I want to have my head shaved off(剃掉), this Sunday!” was her demand(要求), which was far my belief.
On Monday morning, I Sindu at her school and watched her walking towards her classroom. She turned around and . I waved back with a smile. Just then, a boy, who just got out of a car, shouted, “Sindu, please wait for me!” What me was the hairless head of that boy.
“Sir, your daughter is indeed!” Without introducing herself, a lady standing beside me continued, “That boy is my son, who lost all his because of a disease. He to come back to school fearing the unintentional(无意的)but teasing（取笑）of the schoolmates. Sindu visited him last week, and promised him that she would take care of the teasing issue. But, I
imagined she would sacrifice her lovely hair for my son!”
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In my profession as an educator and health care provider, I have worked with numerous children infected with the virus that 1 AIDS. The relationships that I have had with these special kids have been in my life. They have taught me so many things, but I have learned that great courage can be found in the smallest of packages. Let me tell you about Tyler.
Tyler was born with HIV. From the beginning of his life, he was on medications to enable him to survive. When he was five, he had a surgically inserted in a vein in his chest. This tube was connected to a pump, which he in a small backpack on his back. Medications were hooked up to this pump and were supplied through this tube to his bloodstream. At times, he also needed supplemented oxygen to support his .
Tyler wasn't willing to give up one single moment of his childhood to this disease. It was not to find him playing and racing around his backyard. Tyler's mom often teased him by telling him that he moved so fast she needed to dress him in . That way, when she looked out of the window to check on him playing in the yard, she could quickly him.
This dreaded disease wore down Tyler. He grew quite ill and, unfortunately, did his HIV-infected mother. When it became apparent that he wasn't going to survive, Tyler's mom talked to him about death. She him by telling Tyler that she was dying too, and that she would be with him soon .
A few days before his death, Tyler asked me to his hospital bed and , "I might die soon. I'm not scared. When I die, please me in red. Mom promised she's coming to heaven, too. I'll be playing when she gets there, and I want to make sure she can find me."
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When I walked into McCarley’s Bookstore in Ashland, Ore, I began to scan titles on the shelves. The man behind the counter, Mac McCarley, asked if I’d like . I said yes because I needed to for college.
I worked after school and during summers, and the job helped pay for my freshman year of college. I would work many other jobs: I made coffee in the Students’ Union college and even made maps for the US Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most
One day a woman asked me for on cancer. She seemed fearful. I showed her everything we had in and found other books we could . She left the store , and I’ve always remembered the I felt in having helped her.
Years later, as a in Los Angeles, I heard about an immigrant （移民）child who was born with his thumb attached, weblike, to the rest of his hands. His family couldn’t a corrective operation, and the boy lived in , hiding his hand in his pocket. I
my boss to let me do the . After my story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, to perform the operation for free.
I visited the boy in the recovery room after the operation. The first thing he did was hold up his hand and said , “Thank you.” I felt a sense of reward.
At McCarley’s Bookstore I always sensed I was working for the , not the store. Today it’s . NBC News pays my salary, but I feel as if I work for the , through my “Today” show, helping them make of the world.
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