Author: Ruiyang Deng

Whether the new coronavirus is nearing its end should be a real-time concern for people worldwide. This BBC article “Endemic Covid: Is the pandemic entering its endgame?“ The news report has an inverted pyramid structure. From the headline, which summarises the theme of the whole article, the main body first distinguishes between what is endemic, the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic disease, and then uses three questions to describe how deadly the new coronavirus is now, what impact it is having on our lives and, by extension, the context of the situation around the world. The layers come together to show that the world is still a long way from describing Covid as an endemic disease.

From the beginning of the essay, the reader is drawn in with the catharsis of people about the new coronavirus, capturing the sentiment that people are desperate for it to go away by citing the analysis of some authoritative professors to show that the NNV may be endemic, and by using reliable data and images to show that today’s vaccine technology can significantly reduce the chances of getting seriously ill.

Overall, the story succeeds in conveying to the reader that the new coronavirus is still a long way from being wholly declared over. The use of impactful questions and logical and well-organized links between paragraphs facilitate the reader’s understanding of the future impact of the new strain.

Most foreign students I know have chosen to return and work in their home countries after graduation. But recently, I had a new roommate who decided to stay in the UK after his college study and work in Amazon as a software engineer. Being curious why he chose a path different from the others, I decided to interview him about why he stayed and his experience working in a foreign country.

Q: Where are you from? Why did you choose to stay in the UK after graduation instead of returning to your home country?
A: I’m from China. Though China’s tech industry is developing rapidly, it has been criticized that my companies had put high pressure on their employers. So I chose to stay in the UK as the companies here provide flexible work styles with work-life balance, giving competitive compensations.

Q: Why did you choose to work in Amazon?
A: Amazon is one of the biggest companies all over the world. I have used it a lot in my college years. I joined it because it is an excellent opportunity to meet and work with the most experienced engineers in Amazon.

Q: What is the work style in Amazon like? How is it different from other companies? Do you enjoy it?
A: In Amazon, we work in a small group of around 10 people. Each team discusses ideas for new projects or decides on the best approach to solving a problem with the help of our peculiar leadership principles(https://www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/principles). This work style gives me more freedom to explore different ideas and chances of growth.

Q: What do you do in your spare time?
A: I enjoy cooking very much. So I always cook my dinner at home when I am not busy, and I also love to share my cooking with my friends. Besides cooking, I also like playing video games and watching movies in my spare time. As mentioned previously, the work-life balance in Amazon gives me a lot of opportunities to enjoy my hobbies, which is a significant reason that I choose to work in it.

Q: Did you encounter difficulties when working in a different country?
A: So I had studied for four years in the UK before I joined Amazon, and language shouldn’t be a big problem for me. I have lots of things to learn when I am onboarding the team. My group members always help me with great patience when I have questions to ask. Thanks to them, I have not met any problems that I cannot solve yet.

“I usually wear two sets of clothes for half a year. This is one of them.” An old urchin stepped onto the stage, wearing a simple black single-breasted trench coat and a dark blue knitted wool that had pilled on the inside of the knee. Trousers, a pair of sturdy dark brown outdoor boots, and before anyone could laugh, he put his finger on his pursed lips mischievously and quickly added “Let me explain, underwear is my daily life. Change them all, and I’ll wear Calvin Klein.”

Many people present did not expect Yohji Yamamoto to appear like this. In this way, the character are known by world designers as “black poets” who appeared in front of Chinese audiences.

Yohji Yamamoto is a pioneer of the Japanese new wave in the fashion industry. He is also known as the troika of Japanese fashion along with Rei Kawakubo and Issey Miyake. He was also one of the avant-garde figures who broke into the Paris fashion scene in the 1980s. In 2014, he published his autobiography “MY DEAR BOMB,” which tells the story of his growth. Why is it inseparable from black? “Everything comes from life.” In the book, Yohji Yamamoto talks about his upbringing, which hints at answering this question.

Yohji Yamamoto’s obsession with black directly stems from his childhood experience of black. The psychological trauma of these experiences to Yohji Yamamoto is enormous. Having lost his father at an early age, he witnessed his mother’s hard work all year round and studied law to give her a secure life. Since childhood, he has seen the world through the eyes of women prostitutes in Kabuki halls. Society is unfair to women, and he has always been hostile to the men who created and manipulated it. This is also why Yohji Yamamoto’s later women’s fashion creations contain so many neutral elements, contrary to the mainstream trend in Europe and the United States at that time, with broad shoulders, narrow waist, and large skirts. He thinks that this is a restricted woman, not a liberated woman. Women should be comfortable and comfortable to wear, rather than pressed into the fabric. “Black is eternity” is the color of his life and makes him feel very safe.

He likes to draw inspiration from the beauty of traditional Japanese clothing in his design, conveying fashion concepts through rich combinations of colors and materials. In the West, mannequins are mostly cut from top to bottom. Yohji Yamamoto starts from a two-dimensional straight line to form an asymmetric appearance. This unique idea is the essence of Japanese traditional clothing culture because these irregular forms are not artificial at all but appear natural and smooth. In Yohji Yamamoto’s clothing, asymmetrical collar and hem are not uncommon. The dresses of his brand follow the posture and movements to show different looks.

“What’s more annoying than dressing well?” Yamamoto said. So, he hid a bomb in his clothes, playing naughty and playful like a child against this world he could not identify with.

When it comes to science fiction films, Interstellar is also an excellent film that cannot be detoured. In this film, Nolan has perfectly balanced the relationship between commerce and art. In this film, he has weakened his usual non-linear narrative, but in the movie, Nolan has given free rein to his imagination and talent.

In Interstellar, Nolan shows the two attitudes of humanity towards preserving the fires of civilization in the face of death. He allows society to finally return to the only measure of value – love – after a wild ride through high-dimensional space, time distortion, black holes, and technological development. What sets Interstellar apart from other science fiction films is the flesh and blood of its characters: Matthew McConaughey, for example, does a great job of portraying a father who is caught in a dilemma between saving humanity and returning home to his children and who also believes in family first. Anne Hathaway’s lines and words are compelling whether she is talking about severe scientific theories or in love with the idea that love can travel through the dimensions of time and space; even Michael Caine’s old Professor Brand, who appears in few but for every Nolan film, has struggled between his personal morality and the future of humanity.

“One thing you’ll understand when you become a parent is to make sure you make your children feel safe.”

Unlike in the usual apocalyptic sci-fi movies, there is always a hero who falls from the sky to save the day. Interstellar is firstly set up from the start to escape from Earth, with all the scientists and space practitioners preparing for this, as well as meticulously planning planA and planB. Secondly, Interstellar doesn’t feature an ecumenical savior, and it’s always his family that is uppermost in the mind of the hero Cooper. Nolan directs a lot of his camera to the stories behind these characters in the film, slowly filling in the flesh and soul in the framework of these otherwise empty and distant characters. By creating frequent dilemmas and contradictory characters, the film’s characters are given a human touch. Even in that seemingly alien apocalypse, it is never the heroes who save the world, and it is always the ordinary everyone who drives the cogs of history forward.

As with Nolan’s creation of 2010’s Inception, the film eventually returns to the topic of family, children, and because of its entwined plot development, intimate emotions and sense of purpose. The power of love, in Nolan’s answer, is the driving force behind a human being that transcends time and space and can exist forever.

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