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As we can see, three pictures depict the competition between Pepsi and Coca-Cola, the advertisement of removing of panda eye, and suicide respectively, and they are all created with imagination and originality. My first impression towards these pictures was that they are funny and creative; however, when I look at them now, I can feel that the inspiration of the authors may come from the observation of life details. Life could become more interesting and varied as long as we pay a little attention on details.

**// Adults Are Generally More Childish Than Children  //** ** Paul Kang  ** Childishness, a term used by adults to describe children, is like a shadow cast on children’s behavior. Whenever kids come up with visionary or peculiar ideas, get involved into an irrational fight, or cry for their beloved toys, they will be most likely to be called childishness. However, from my point of view, adults are generally more childish than children, and they are more deserving of the title of childishness, however the term is defined. If childishness is considered as unreason and impulse, adults are generally more irrational and impulsive than children. Admittedly, when kids confront some thorny predicaments or issues, impetuosity may drive them to search for extreme approaches to tackle the problems, which demonstrates children’s immaturity. Nevertheless, when adults face hardships, they will generally become more unreasonable and rash, and this will be a dangerous trait in adults as they have access to weapons and more vindictive thoughts. On September 11th, 2001, nineteen al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four airliners and intentionally crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre and Pentagon. The hijackers’ actions outraged Americans and gave rise to the vengeful emotions in the public. Subsequently, on October 7th, 2001, George.W.Bush launched an attack on Afghanistan under the pretense of liberating Afghans and overwhelming Taliban’s coercion. Up till now, Military casualties in Afghanistan have reached a thousand soldiers, but the American government is still sending reinforcements to the front. Other than that, US expenditure budget for Afghanistan was $65 billion last year while the total output of Afghanistan was only worth $12.5 billion, and American government is still burning taxpayers’ money lavishly at $10 billion to $12 billion annually to support military actions.  Apparently, Americans have been caught in a dilemma of whether to retract from the frontline, and all these troubles and hardships are owing to the impetuous and irrational revenge actions of attacking Afghanistan. Therefore, if children’s spur-of-the-moment impulse is defined as childishness, adults are ten times more childish than children. Moreover, if childishness is seen as avarice and greed, adults are commonly more avaricious than children. For children, they will be always whining for more toys when taking a fancy to others’ knickknacks; however, adults’ desire for possession is much stronger. In AD 1400, European colonialism began, and the leaders of powerful European countries sent explorers to find new lands and forge new trade routes. Portugal and Spain were the first to seek new sea routes to India and the Far East, gaining control of Brazil and setting up trading posts in West Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. Soon, the huge economic benefits were recognized, and more and more countries were attracted to engage in the colonial expansion. Obviously, children are covetous somehow as they are less likely to be satisfied with the amount of their playthings, but adults are even more greedy in possessing wealth and power, which firmly demonstrate that adults are more childish than children, if childishness is defined as avarice and greed. Furthermore, if childishness could be regarded as naive love, the affections between adults are more immature. W hen we were teens, our parents used to warn us that young love is like a forbidden fruit which is detrimental to children, and they ,seniors, try to exhort us that we are not mature enough to be accountable for our loved one. However, is adults’ love mature enough to undergo trials and hardships? Based on the statistics in 2007, the percentages of marriages that end up in divorce from countries like USA, UK, Russia, and Canada are 54.8%, 42.6%, 43.3%, and 37.0%, respectively. You may suspect the accuracy of the data, but they are reasonably close to probable values. As shown in the numbers, nearly 50 out of 100 families may break up in the end, so I can hardly say that adults have turned marriages over in their minds before holding hands together. Hence, if unripe love is deemed as childishness, adults could be more childish than children. Actually, childishness is a reflection of human kind, and no matter how childishness could be defined, adults are generally more childish than children since human nature will be most likely to be better developed when people are not constrained.