I am a customer

Maybe it's a natural characteristic that girls like shopping.when I am a little girl,mother was always compelled to pay for the things like toys and beautiful dresses that I want .And now I enjoy the time of shopping with my roommates at weekends.
It isn't true that each experience of shopping is comfortable .Once I went to shiquan street with my friend and we found a small shop with attractive clothes .However the shop owner is very unfriendly ,she seemed to pay no attention to us .when we got close to one of the dresses she said"Don't touch the clothes!".She maybe mean that we sutdents were't able to afford the clothes.I was very angry that time .Whatever whether I can afford the things I am a customer.The way that owner treated me let me make the decision that I will never go to her shop again.
What I want to say is I am a customer .We should learn to be kind to others even some strangers.We will get the same way that we treat to others.

面试不要问这八大问题

When they finish quizzing you，interviewers always ask, "So, do you have any questions？" That's your cue to show off your research with queries about the company's competitors, plans for growth, specific products, etc. But some questions can make you seem ill－prepared, overeager or disagreeable. Here are eight commonly asked bloopers.
1. What, exactly, does your company do？
Never pose questions that a library search could have answered.
2. What does the job pay？
Avoid money discussions until the interviewer makes you an offer.
3. How many vacation and personal days do you allow？
Makes you sound lazy--again, wait for the offer.
4. How long will it take me to get promoted？
Try a less pushy version: "Can you describe what my career advancement track might be like？"
5. Is that your husband in the picture on your desk？
Don't initiate a personal discussion.Stick to questions about her career path.
6. What are you going to do about the poor performance of Product X？
Reframe the question positively. "What plans do you have to build sales for Product X？"
7. What's your company's track record on promoting women and minorities？
A legitimate question, but interviewers may worry that you'll sue if you don't advance quickly. Instead, check out the company' s reputation through the industry grapevine.
8. So, when do I start？
A slightly obnoxious quip. Don't invite yourself into the job.
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Do We Know What Makes Us Happy?

Happiness is all about everyday, normal activities, psychologists have argued, but do we intuitively understand what strategies increase happiness or not? To find out if students knew,

Keep in mind that this is a correlational study. That means it can only tell us that two things - like having a social life and Happiness - are related, not that one definitely causes the other.

1. A social lifeSocial affiliation - hanging around with friends, helping others - was the most frequently reported method of increasing happiness. It also had the strongest relationship with student's actual happiness. No surprises here. Experiments manipulating people's social activity have found that when increased it leads to more Happiness. It's gratifying to see that the number 1, most frequently used strategy probably does work!

2. Acting happyDirect strategies like 'acting happy' and 'smiling' were the second most popular. While there is some experimental evidence to back this one up, Tkach and Lyubomirsky are cautious. I'd be cautious as well. 'Acting happy' might be useful as a short-term strategy but I'm not so sure about its useful in the long-term.

3. Achieving long-term goalsThe students were pretty keen on setting themselves long-term goals for personal achievement, and then sticking to them. This was a relatively popular strategy for increasing Happiness and there are also a good few studies to back up this finding. Well done to the students!

4. Passive leisure pursuitsHere's the first bad boy. Passive leisure, like watching TV or playing video games, while relatively popular, showed no connection with happiness. Experimental studies back this up finding few benefits for Happiness from passive leisure activities. So, once again, it's time to chuck out the the idiot box and the Xbox.

5. Active leisure pursuitsNo question about this one. It's very well established that active leisure pursuits like running or cycling increase Happiness. What's worrying is that these pursuits come lower down the list than passive leisure pursuits.

6. ReligionThis was a relatively unpopular strategy for increasing Happiness, although it is reasonably well-established that religion and being happy go together. Tkach and Lyubomirsky suggest the reason for this connection could be to do with social connectedness, having a sense of purpose in life or even reduced alcohol consumption.

7. Partying and clubbingPerhaps surprisingly amongst university students this was relatively unpopular as a Happiness-enhancing activity. It's just as well since those who partied more weren't any happier, once their extraversion was taken into account.

8. Mental controlThis is the second bad boy. It centres around thinking bad thoughts: both contemplating them and trying to suppress them. This category was significantly associated with being unhappy. Indeed, previous research has found that both ruminating on negative thoughts and trying to suppress negative thoughts leads to unHappiness.

princess' shoes

Be The Best of whatever You Are

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill
Be a scrub in the vally-but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill
Be a bush if you can't be a tree

If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass
And some highway some happier make
If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass-
But the liveliest bass in the lake !

We can't all be captions, we've got to be crew
There is something for all of us here
There is big work to do and there is lesser to do
And the task we must do is the near

If you can't be a highway then just be a trial
If you can't be the sun be a star
It isn't by size that you win or you fair-
Be the best of whatever you are!