Chocolate Museums and Attractions
Chocolate is one of the most popular desserts in the world, served in countless forms. Serious chocolate-lovers always want to know more about it. These four destinations around the world allow chocoholics to indulge their sweet teeth.
Lindt Home of Chocolate, Zurich
Swiss chocolate has a reputation all its own, and the newly opened Lindt Home of Chocolate made an immediate splash with its nearly 30-foot chocolate fountain and over 5, 000-square-foot chocolate shop, the largest in the world. The museum has exhibits on how chocolate arrived in Europe and well-known chocolate makers. Lindt also offers special chocolate-making classes as a feature. Admission starts at $16. 50 for adults, with an additional fee for tours and courses.
Cadbury World, Birmingham, England
In the United Kingdom, chocolate means one thing: Cadbury. Cadbury World opened in 1990 in the Bournville village, where Cadbury factory starting in 1893 once located. It was considered a model village for workers at the time. One of the exhibits on this self-guided tour focuses on this area and how it impacted the company. Admission is $23 for adults.
Chocoversum, Hamburg, Germany
The Hachez company, which was founded in 1890, created the Chocoversum as a way to showcase their production without bringing guests into the actual factories. Here, the guides, called "ChoColleagues", bring visitors on a 90-minute exploration of all things chocolate, from a real cocoa pod to the liquid chocolate used in bars. Admission is $22 for adults.
MUCHO Museo del Chocolate, Mexico City
The MUCHO Museo del Chocolate opened in 2012 in a renovated 1909 house in the Colonia Juarez neighborhood of Mexico City. The museum collection has fascinating chocolate-related artifacts dating back to the 17th century and exhibits well displaying the development of chocolate. During the tour, visitors learn how chocolate gained popularity. The museum has a store and cafe serving chocolate treats. Admission is $3. 50.
When I first met professor Dalecki, I respected him greatly. He walked in the class in formal business suits as if he was prepared for a conference. He greeted everyone with a loud and clear "Good morning" like Jon Stewart from Daily Show. Then he started introducing himself and told everyone his name is Jacek, atypical Polish name that no one knows how to pronounce. He shared his frustration with the class and said, "People have already invented more than ten odd ways of calling my name in the past decade, and most Americans prefer to call me Jay-cek, but it is really ya-cek. " From that moment, I knew there was something about him that made him stand out among all the professors I'd known before.
Professor Dalecki never believed in exams. He understood the huge workload that students have and never intended to make the exam questions hard for us to memorize. I once told him that I almost felt like the hell gate opened for me if I got a C. But he laughed and said, "If it were not for my loving girl friend giving me the exam questions, I can tell you I'd still be in high school somewhere in Warsaw. "
What impressed me most was the extent he would go to avoid bias (偏见) in the classroom. He could turn an entire class into a battleground where everybody gets excited for a heated debate while staying objective as a mediator (调解人) who refused to force his own opinions on any side.
I visited him during his office hours once after class, eager to find out what his stances are on some of the issues we've covered in the class, so I asked, "In China, people really aren't that serious with when it is okay for teenagers to drink. What do you think of the minimum drinking age in America being set at 21?"
"I'm not supposed to answer that question, " he said.
"But why? You don't seem to take any side during the class and I'm just curious to hear how you really feel!"
"I choose not to share it because I don't want it to cloud your own judgments about how you think about certain things. "
At that moment, I finally understood how much effort it really took for Dalecki to let us do our thinking on our own. His incredible mindset (观念模式) still has a huge influence on me till this day. So I will end this article with his quote: "It is at this stage in the class that I must ask myself, ‘Did I lie to you?'"
History is important to study because it is essential for all of us in understanding ourselves and the world around us. And in my opinion, studying history benefits beyond history itself, because it helps develop and refine our skills through studying history.
You can refine our reading skills by reading texts from a wide array of time periods. Language has changed and evolved over time and so has the way people write and express themselves. We can also refine our writing skills through learning to not just repeat what someone else said, but to analyze information from multiple sources and come up with our own conclusions. It's two birds with one stone — better writing and critical thinking!
There are so many sources of information out in the world. Finding a decisive truth for many topics just doesn't exist. What was a victory for one group was a great loss for another — we get to create our own opinions of these events.
History gives us the opportunity to learn from others' past mistakes. It helps us understand the many reasons why people may behave the way they do. As a result, it helps us become smarter as decision-makers.
In the study of history we will need to conduct research. This gives us the opportunity to look at two kinds of sources — primary (written at the time) and secondary sources (written about a time period, after the fact). This practice can teach us how to decipher between reliable and unreliable sources.
There are numbers and data to be learned from history. In terms of patterns: patterns in population, disappearances during times of war, and even in environmental factors. These patterns that are found help clarify why things happened as they did.
It's incredibly important to learn to question the quality of the information and "history" we are learning. Keep these two questions in mind as we read through information: How do I know what I'm reading are facts and accurate information? Could they be the writer's opinions?
It's a question that's bothered cultural critics for decades: while we know more than ever, are we getting sillier and dumber as a result of the increasing amount of technology at our disposal?
The current debate about intelligence, sparked by Nicholas Carr's recent The Shallows, asks what the Internet is doing to our brains? Like Susan Jacoby's The Age of American Unreason, Mr. Carr addresses the sense of despair among American intellectuals about the country's poor educational performance when compared with other countries. In reading, mathematics and science, American 15-year-olds suffer in the lower half of the rankings for the 30 wealthiest countries.
But things are rarely as they seem. E-books barely existed a decade ago, but have exploded in popularity since Amazon introduced its Kindle a few years back. E-books are now outselling hardcovers. Perhaps we are witnessing not a decline in book reading but a renaissance. The irony is that had computers been invented before books we would now. be anxious about the loss of multi-media, multi-tasking, computer-gaming skills as our children wasted their time burying themselves in single topic paper books.
"There is simply no experimental evidence to show that living with new technologies fundamentally changes brain organization in a way that affects one's ability to focus, " says Daniel Simons, a psychologist at Union College, New York.
The danger, if there is one, is that the easy, on-demand access to lots of information from the Internet may delude us into mistaking the data we download for genuine wisdom worth acting upon. Only fools would venture into such a forest of information with anything less than their eyes wide open and their brains fully engaged . Fortunately, there are fewer fools around than some of the scaremongers(散布谣言者)like to think.
Sichuan cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines of China. The cuisine features a wide range of materials, different cooking techniques and numerous tastes. With a rich variety of strong flavors, Sichuan food is famous for its countless dishes with peppery, chili flavors, and best known for being spicy-hot. , then you are probably not eating the real Sichuan cuisine. Chili peppers and prickly ash (花椒) are used in many dishes, giving it a typically spicy taste. . Thanks to the development of global trade, chili peppers were spread to Sichuan by Americans in the 18th century, which greatly influenced the flavor of Sichuan dishes.
, Hunan cuisine is famous for its spicy. People may be confused that what the difference is between Hunan cuisine and Sichuan cuisine, for the characteristics of them are hot and spicy. Hunan cuisine mainly originates from Dongting Lake area and western Hunan mountain area. Water food and poultry are main cooking materials of Dongting Lake area cuisine, which taste salty and spicy. However, many kinds of meat are the main cooking materials of western Hunan mountain area cuisine. .
The cooking skills employed in the Hunan cuisine reached a high standard as early as the Western Han Dynasty, giving it a history of more than 2, 100 years. Hunan is located in southeastern China along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. It contains rivers, lakes, mountains, rolling hills, plains, and pools. .
A. If you find Sichuan dishes too mild
B. If you are not fond of Sichuan dishes
C. The tastes are salted fresh spicy and sour
D. As one of the eight major cuisines of China
E. It often leaves a slight numb (麻木的) feeling in the mouth
F. Many people want to know the differences between Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine
G. Making full use of these rich resources, local people created a wide variety of dishes
Göran Kropp was a Swedish adventurer and mountaineer. In 1972, at the age of six, with his father's help, he 1 Galdhopiggen, the highest mountain in Northern Europe. Twentyfour years later, he stood on the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest. His journey to the 2 shows just how independent, persistent(坚持的), and determined this 3 man is.
Kropp bicycled 8, 000 miles and arrived at the foothills of Mount Everest. Traveling by bike was not 4 . He stopped many times to 5 his bike because rough roads caused mechanical problems for him.
Kropp 6 to climb Mount Everest the same way he traveled to the mountain:without the 7 of a guide and without modern conveniences. He did not 8 bottled oxygen to help him 9 at high altitudes, and he carried all of his 10 himself in a pack that weighed about 140 pounds.
It took Kropp 11 tries to reach the top of Mount Everest. The first time, he had to 12 only 350 feet from the top because of the dangerous weather. Just a few days earlier, at the same level eight climbers had died because of a sudden snowstorm in the mountain. He felt deep sorrow for them, but became more 13 . The mountaineer waited out the storm, 14 , and tried again a few days later. This time, he was 15 . After he walked down the mountain, he got back on his bike and rode the 8, 000 miles back to Sweden.
Song of Spring, a (wide) praised movie which won famous Wu Yanshu the best actress award at the 12th Beijing International Film Festival last month, opened across Chinese mainland on Sept. 10.
As the latest directorial movie of female filmmaker Yang Lina, who shot to fame from the documentary Old Men, the new movie tells a touching story about an 85-year-old mother taking care of her 65-yerold daughter, who lives with Alzheimer's disease. Wu, 84 (star) the mother, while Xi Meijuan, also among admired (actress), plays the daughter.
The movie was first shown in Beijing's China Film Archive on Sept. 5, with all the major creators (attend) an online video talk to share the behind-the-scenes stories.
Actress Xi recalled that she (invite) to join the project when she was at the announcing ceremony of the Plum Performance Award, the country's (high) honor for stage performers, in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province.
Regarding the age of 60 a turning point year for female actors, Xi, who turned 67 earlier this year, said she had become more careful and particular about selecting plays, but it was the complex charm of the character, a retired professor of physics, attracted her to join the project.
A total of 12new movies, (produce) by Chinese companies, competed during the Mid-Autumn Festival, has shaped a great box office now.
Aunt Evie had a dollhouse. It had many toys there. Every Friday afternoon, I went to Aunt Evie's home with my parents. The adults would sit around a table in the dining room, eating pie and talking, while I played in the dollhouse for hours.
Sometimes I would pick up these lovely toys and place them in different positions. It was really fun. One time I asked Aunt Evie where she got the toys so that I could buy some, too. To my disappointment, Aunt Evie said that most of them were specially handmade gifts from her friends and couldn't be bought anywhere. One such toy was a little bear, which was my favorite. It was so beautiful that I wanted to own it badly. "If I take it, Aunt Evie may not notice it. " I said to myself.
Therefore, on a Friday afternoon, I attempted to take the little bear away from Aunt Evie's dollhouse. I had to wait until nobody was watching me, ‘and it took me hours to get the courage to put the little bear in my pocket. Once I got the little bear, I couldn't wait to go home. I had to hide it somewhere at home, so that no one would know I took it. That night after I went home with my parents, I couldn't go to sleep. "What a bad person I am! I stole something from my loved Aunt Evie. " I thought. When I woke up the next morning, I felt awful, but I couldn't tell my parents, let alone return the little bear to Aunt Evie. I was embarrassed about my behavior. At some point, I started to hate the little bear and myself. And I knew if I didn't do something, I wouldn't get away from those bad feelings.
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①So I decided to tell my mom what I had done.
②My hand was shaking when I rang the doorbell of Aunt Evie's house.
