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The short film Piper, released by Pixar in 2016, won the 89th Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Piper was written and directed by Alan Barillaro, previously working in the animation(动画片) department. It's a wonder that he had the fortune to win Oscar for his first film.

The short film follows a baby bird named Piper, as she learns and overcomes her fears of finding food at the seafront. Piper is encouraged to peck(啄) at the sand beach but gets wet through with water from a wave. Discouraged by the terrible wave, she hopes to get food from her mother but fails. After gathering up the courage again, she meets a hermit crab(寄居蟹) who shows her not to be scared of the ocean but to embrace it. Finally, she discovers the secret of the ocean and feeds herself even her family. It's a story about facing challenges and not being discouraged by failure. Like Piper, we can always find solutions and come out stronger than ever before.

Somehow Pixar manages to fit all of these into a five-minute-long short film, without using any spoken language and entirely by animation. Movements and personified facial expressions are what drive this story in this film. Much like the nature documentary, the continuous pulling of the shallow focus adds the sense of realism. The clean and clear animation allows for even the slightest micro-expressions to be picked up by the audience. And the music is consistent with Piper's emotions, making the audience feel the same way.

This film and lots of others by Pixar make us laugh and cry all the time. By fitting a simple story with simple characters, we are led through challenges to a satisfying conclusion for our characters. It's one of the best short films in a long time.

An 89-year-old man, Manfred Steiner, has reached a goal he spent 20 years working toward and nearly a lifetime thinking about：earning his PhD. And now he is a physicist. 

Steiner values this degree because it is what he always wanted and because he overcame health problems that could have affected his studies. "But I made it, and this was the most satisfactory point in my life to finish it, "he said.

When he was young, Steiner wanted to become a physicist after reading about Albert Einstein. But his mother and uncle persuaded him that studying medicine would be a better choice. He earned his medical degree in 1955 and moved to the US soon after. 

Steiner studied hematology(血液学) at Tufts University and biochemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became a full professor and led the hematology department at Browns' medical school from 1985 to 1994. Steiner helped establish a research program in hematology at the University of North Carolina. He directed that program until he retired from medicine in 2000.

Steiner found medical research pleasing, but it was not quite the same as his interest in physics. "It was something like a wish that was never fulfilled, that always stuck in the back of my head, "he said. At age 70, he started taking undergraduate classes.

Physics professor Brad Marston was surprised when Steiner entered his quantum mechanics class. But he became Steiner's adviser for his dissertation(学位论文) after realizing how serious Steiner was about the subject and how hard he worked. "He has written many papers in medical science, more papers than I've written in physics, "Marston said. "One thing that's really true about Manfred is that he perseveres. "

After the university published a story about Steiner on its website, people across the US contacted him to ask for advice on how to go after their dreams later in life. His advice is：Do what you love to do. 

She asked with anxiety，"？"

When you attend an interview, what you need to do is .

， I must go home to do my homework.

We  the examples of our excellent schoolmates and make ourselves useful to the whole society.

We should keep ourselves away from the negative information on the Internet and reduce the time we spend online .