Zhang Haidi at the age of 5 years old due to spinal cord hemangioma, paraplegic, she has not been into the school, childhood began to self-study of knowledge with tenacity, she has self-study of elementary school, secondary school, university professional courses. At the age of 15, Zhang Haidi was decentralized with her parents to a poor mountain village in Xin County, Liaocheng City, but she was not afraid of the hard life, but rather, she dedicated herself to her youth with optimism. There to teach the village elementary school children, and overcome all the difficulties to learn medical knowledge, enthusiastic for the villagers acupuncture treatment, in Xinxian County during the period of her free treatment for people more than 10,000 times, by the people's warm praise. Zhang Haidi is physically disabled, holding the firm belief that "if you are a shooting star, you must leave the light on earth", enduring the pain that is unimaginable to ordinary people, she has learned English, German and Japanese. He also translated 130,000 words of English novels, wrote a large number of literary works, and made the world's remarkable achievements.
2. Hold the throat of fate - Beethoven
December 16, 1770, Beethoven was born in Germany on the banks of the Rhine in a very poor poor family. From the age of four, under his father's beatings and kicks began to learn the piano, at the age of thirteen became an organist, and began to create musical works. 1792 to 1802, Beethoven moved to Vienna, a temple of art full of music everywhere. During this period, Beethoven pursued the purity of his musical skills and the ideas of "freedom, equality and fraternity". He also suffered from the pain of losing his love, and lost his hearing. In this most painful days, Beethoven's pursuit of music but did not stop, his strong personality did not give in to the arrangements of fate, he overcame the difficulties that others can not imagine, created one after another shocking musical works. 1827 March 16, poor, alone Beethoven died in Vienna, his dying moment, rainstorms, thunder and lightning, Beethoven lifted up the dry arm to the sky to do the last fight. Beethoven raised his dry arm to the sky to make a final fight. The spirit of this life, more than fighting, all infused in his immortal writings.
3. Einstein
Einstein was not lively as a child, more than three years old, he could not speak, his parents were very worried that he was mute, and had taken him to the doctor to check. Luckily, Einstein was not mute, but until he was nine years old, his speech was still not very fluent, and every word he spoke had to be carefully thought through. Einstein's schoolwork was normal in elementary and middle school. His teachers and classmates disliked him because of his slow demeanor and lack of social interaction. The teacher who taught him Greek and Latin was even more disgusted with him, and once publicly scolded him, "Einstein, you will never grow up to be anything." And because he was afraid that he would influence other students in the classroom, he even wanted to kick him out of school. But Einstein with the love of science, and their own hard work achieved great achievements.
4. indifferent to fame and fortune
Mrs. Curie is famous all over the world, but she is neither seeking fame nor fortune. She won a variety of prizes 10 times in her life, a variety of medals 16, a variety of honorary titles 107, but all do not care. One day, one of her friends to her home as a guest, suddenly saw her little daughter is playing the Royal Society just issued to her gold medals, so surprised to say, "Mrs. Curie, get a medal of the Royal Society, is a very high honor, how can you give children to play it?" Madame Curie smiled and said: "I want to let the child know from childhood, honor is like a toy, can only play with it, never look too seriously, otherwise it will not achieve anything."
5. If you give me three days of light
Helen Keller is a famous American writer and educator. In 1882, when she was more than one year old, she suffered brain damage because of a high fever, and from then on, her eyes could not see, her ears could not hear, and later, she could not even speak. She grew up groping in the dark. When she was seven years old, her family hired a tutor for her, Mr. Sullivan, who influenced Helen's life. Sullivan had almost lost her eyesight as a child and understood the pain of losing it. Under her painstaking guidance, Helen learned sign language by touching her hands, learned to read by touching Braille cards, and then finally learned to speak by touching other people's lips. In order to let Helen get close to nature, Ms. Sullivan let her roll in the grass, run and jump in the field, bury seeds in the ground, climb up the tree to eat; she also took her to touch the newborn piglets, but also to the river to play in the water. Helen in the teacher's love and care, but also overcome the obstacles of blindness and deafness, completed the university. In 1936, Helen was very sad when her teacher, with whom she had spent fifty years, left the earth. Helen knew that without her teacher's love, she would not be who she is today, and she was determined to carry forward the love she received from her teacher. Therefore, Helen traveled all over the United States, big and small cities, around the world, for the handicapped people everywhere, to serve those unfortunate people with all her heart and soul. Helen died in 1968 at the age of eighty-seven, and her lifelong dedication to serving the handicapped has spread throughout the world. She wrote many books and her story was made into a movie. Ms. Sullivan gave her the most precious love, which she in turn spread to all the less fortunate, bringing them light and hope.
6. Gorky would rather be beaten than read
Gorky was a great Soviet writer, Lenin called him "the most outstanding representative of proletarian art". He was born into a carpenter's family in the tsarist era, lost his father at the age of four, and lived in his grandmother's house. Because of his family's extreme poverty, he only went to elementary school for two years, and at the age of 10, he entered the cold "world". He worked as an apprentice, a porter, a watchman and a baker. He also wandered twice in the south of Russia and suffered a life of misery. But he loved to read, in any case, he had to take advantage of all the opportunities, pouncing on the book to read hungrily. As he himself said, "I pounced on books as a hungry man pounces on bread." In order to read, he suffered a lot of humiliation. 10 years old in the shoe store as an apprentice, there is no money to buy books, so he borrowed books to read everywhere. At that time, the preschool apprentice, in fact, is a slave: to go to the street to buy things, make a stove, scrub the floor, wash dishes with children ...... every day from the morning to half cognizance of the dry. After a tiring day, with a small homemade lamp, insisted on reading. The boss's wife forbade Gorky to read, but also to the attic to search for books, searched for books will be torn to shreds. Because of reading, he was also beaten by the boss's wife. Gorky was willing to put up with anything, even torture, in order to read. He said: "If someone had proposed to me: 'Go to the square and beat you with a stick!' I think it would be such an offer that I could accept." As a result of Gorky's lifelong hunger to read and his diligent and tireless efforts, he wrote a large number of influential works: The Petrels, Song of the Eagle, Mother, Krim? The Life of Samkin", "Childhood", "Earth", "My University".