The power of faith

——impression of Life of Pi

Life of Pi, one of my favorite books, is what I’m going to introduce in my article today. I read it two years ago, just after watching its movie version which is directed by Ann Lee. Until now, my mind has still kept flashing back this fantastic story. The story itself is extremely attractive, the words of it are full of wisdom and the ending which is the best part of it is really thought provoking.

First of all, it tells a life story of the main character——Pi, an India boy grew up in a zoo and affected by three religions. At first, he decides to become an adherent of all three religions. And the most wonderful part is during a trip to Canada, when all his family died in a shipwreck, he drifted in the Pacific Ocean on a life boat with 4 animals included a tiger. In this incredible journey, he realized that what he had believed can’t save his life and the only thing he needed to trust was himself.

The story makes me know that the most important thing is not to despair. If every unfolding we experience takes us further along in life, then, we are truly experiencing what life is offering. I really the

sentences in this book, for example, I must say a word about fear, it is life's only true opponent, only fear can defeat life. It says that fear is a clever, treacherous adversary, it has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy, It goes for your weakest spot, which

It finds with unerring ease.

Like I said before, the ending is the best part of this novel. At the end of the story, Pi survived and was sent to a hospital. When asked what happened on the Pacific Ocean, Pi told them the version that has those animals. But people didn’t buy it, and made him tell the truth. So, Pi then offers them a second story in which he is adrift on a lifeboat not with zoo animals, but with the ship′s cook, a Taiwanese sailor with a broken leg, and his own mother. The cook amputates the sailor′s leg for use as fishing bait, then kills the sailor and Pi′s mother for food, and soon he is killed by Pi, who dines on him. Pi points out that neither story can be proven and neither explains the cause of the shipwreck, so he asks the officials which story they prefer: the one without animals or the one with animals. They choose the story with the animals. Pi thanks them and says: ″And so it goes with God.″

I must say the ending is really a punchline. Without it, the novel is just a normal fantasy fiction. It gives readers a lot of thinking about which one we should believe. Although I am not a adherent of any

religion, but this story makes me believe in god. I guess that’s why I love it so much.

Kevin

第二篇：Power of Company 5公司的力量第五集英文读后感

Power of Company 5

-How does the enterprise seek

for the opportunity in the

crisis?

When the economic crisis erupts, the opportunity still exists, but changed to other aspects. To face the economy not to be booming similarly, some enterprises will manage the achievement to slide difficultly, the other enterprises can actually continue to develop and the achievement rises.What is the mystery ? The reason lies in the transformation.Whether the enterprise can carry on the transformation according to the market shift to be in an impregnable position or not. The management of change concerns on business management's importance with the entire economical general trend to the innovation request. The innovation is not only the technical innovation,but also the idea and management’s innovation. The enterprise will revolve to innovate the content to carry on structure and personnel's adjustment strategically.These a series of adjustments will cause the enterprise to have the new change. The enterprise more takes seriously to innovate, will bring more changes.And the management of change will turn

more and more important.

Economic crisis's each eruption is to adjust the

economic structure, and enable the economy a better development. We must avoid economic crisis's eruption thoroughly, but before the crisis erupts, we should readjust the economic structure of new economic cycle development phase. As a enterprise, when crisis arrives, if we want to be good at the means which survives in the emergence. Many enterprises become blooming from the economic depression, regardless of they are in any position before the economic recession in its profession, they expanded its service in the depression。Moreover, although the market pioneer expands its property foundation through the capital input or the purchase speed to be the same with the slightly bad enterprises, its development's key point is different.

Many become the profession pioneer's enterprise blooming in the previous time in economic depression,and simultaneously also pay great attention in not affect the enterprise to manage the long-term health under the premise to reduce the cost. Although sales and administrative expense (SG&A)

usual be reduced with difficulty in the short-term,it succeed the enterprise before the economic depression occurs makes its management cost and the enterprise operation is more nimble.Thus it enables them to achieve the goal to reduce the costs in a short time. Therefore, they may redeploy the fund, the property and the manpower according to the change of situation. When the economic depression starts, these enterprises act according to the new environment to adjust the SG&A cost fast, and drops to it is lower. Comparatively, a slightly bad company reduces its research ,development and the advertisement disbursement, causes them to be unable the commercial opportunity which obtains these disbursements possibly to bring. Before economic depression, these companys’ employees’ average productive forces was lower than the profession pioneer. Therefore in economical landslide time, they can not but reduce more employees.And this will possibly weaken them to attract the talented person in the future, to detain talented person's ability. It usually can leap to the profession pioneer’s status in

the depression before, during and after the depression compared to these slightly bad companies, in the product offer has a bigger multiplicity, in service of the physiographic region also has a bigger scale. Still this pattern was already in the lead before these depressions. After the depression,it could maintain this status,and their product multiplicity can expand the company's position about two times. From the physiographic region, both differences want small somewhat, but can maintain the leading position that the company has the approximately high 20% multiplicity at this aspect. In addition, success company also manages its customers group and the product mix positively before bleakly occurs.That is how the enterprise seeks for the opportunity in the crisis.