—They were invented by Julie Thompson.

    "Never give up!" It is my law of my life. It has brought me1. I learned the law from my father's story.

    My father was born in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu, China. When he was a young boy, he went to school in the morning, then2 in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework during midnight. Life was hard, because they had no money!

    At the age of 14, my father heard of3. It was the land of gold, the land where4people can become rich.

    "5don't I go to America?" he thought to himself, full of hope.

    So, my father came to America. "I had thought it was easy to6money in America," he told me."7 when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They did not like hiring me because I spoke little English. Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables, washing dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was8for the first few years. I worked from 10 am to 11 pm. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was impossible. I couldn't9the schooling."

    My father kept working hard, and reached his goal!

    "Alan," he often says to me, "if you want something, you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come10in life." That is what I learned from my father.