1. Sang Lan
Sang Lan was seriously injured while participating in the World Friendship Games in July 1998, resulting in high paraplegia. But after a brief period of sadness, Sang Lan did not remain permanently decadent, but chose to fight for a new life again.
Sang Lan treats life with a positive attitude, "All difficulties can be overcome, and there is nothing that cannot be solved." She lives an active life and works hard. In 1998, she was influenced by the United States People and Life magazines recognized him as a Hero of the Year.
The wife of U.S. Vice President Al Gore presented the "Women's Sports" magazine's "Courage" Award to her. The famous American ABC TV program "20/20" aired Sang Lan's feature film, making him the second Chinese news figure to appear in the program after Deng Xiaoping.
On New Year’s Eve in 1999, he became the first Chinese to preside over the lighting ceremony of the Empire State Building in Times Square. In April 1999, he won the fifth "Brave Athlete Award" issued by the Nassau County Sports Commission in Long Island, New York, USA.
2. Betteg
Meissen is a small town in Germany, located at the foot of the Erzgebirge Mountains and adjacent to the Czech Republic. The ceramics here are world-famous. There is another person who is as famous as ceramics, his name is Betege. More than 30 years ago, Beteger was a garbageman at the Meissen Ceramics Factory. ?
The technician of the Meissen Ceramics Factory is an Italian named Pousse. The Meissen Ceramics Factory was entirely supported by this technician and his several apprentices. One day, the factory had a dispute with the Pusai technician because of a disagreement.
The Pousse technician returned to Italy with several of his apprentices in anger. The Meissen Ceramics Factory was forced to cease production because there was no one to take Pousse's place. The senior leaders of Meissen Ceramics Factory suddenly became a mess. ?
At this moment, Betege stood up and said to the factory leader: "Can you let me try?" The factory leader kept shaking his head: "You, a garbageman also want to be a technician Work?" Betege immediately brought a vase made by himself from home.
Said: "Please take a look at this. Which quality is better compared with the products of our factory?" After the factory leaders saw it, they were all stunned and asked Betege: "This vase is really good." "Did you make it?" Betege replied affirmatively: "Yes." It turns out that this garbage worker, who has been working in the factory inconspicuously for nearly ten years, actually works every day. While secretly learning the craftsmanship of the Pousse technician, Betege learned all the things that even the staff who were officially sent by the factory to learn the skills from the Pousse technician could not learn.
The factory asked Betegue: "If you have any needs, just ask." Betegue said: "My current monthly salary is 20 euros. Can you increase my monthly salary to 30 euros?" Euros?"?
Betege was afraid that the factory leader would not agree and quickly explained: "I still work as a garbageman, I just work part-time as a technician because my mother suffers from severe asthma. , I need to take 10 euros of medication every month, and my salary is only enough for the monthly living expenses of my family.”
It turns out that Beteger is very envious of those apprentices, who can get 30 euros a month. And I can only get 20 euros. So, in order to be on par with the apprentices and so that his mother could take medicine every month, he secretly learned the craft of making pottery.
The factory leader replied: "As long as you can replace Pusai, not only can you no longer do the job of transporting garbage, but from now on, your monthly salary will be the same as Pusai, with a monthly salary of 10,000 euros." The Meissen ceramics factory is finally up and running again.
Bettger, who was a garbageman at the time, never dreamed of receiving such a high salary. Today, Meissen has become the center of German pottery, and Betege's reputation far exceeds that of any top technician in Italy.
3. Zhang Haidi
Zhang Haidi suffered from spinal hemangioma when he was five years old and became a high paraplegic. As a result, she never went to school. She began to learn knowledge by herself with tenacious perseverance since childhood. She successively taught herself professional courses in primary school, middle school and university.
When Zhang Haidi was fifteen years old, she was sent to a poor village in Shen County, Liaocheng with her parents. However, she did not fear the hard life, but dedicated her youth with an optimistic spirit. There she taught children in the village primary school.
He also overcame various difficulties to learn medical knowledge and enthusiastically treated the villagers with acupuncture. During her stay in Shenxian County, she treated more than 10,000 people free of charge and received enthusiastic praise from people.
4. Faraday
By chance, Dance, a member of the Royal Society, came to the printing factory to proofread his works and accidentally discovered Faraday's "manuscript". He was shocked when he learned that these were notes written by an apprentice bookbinder.
So Dance gave Faraday a ticket to attend the Royal Academy. Faraday came to the Royal Academy to observe in an extremely excited mood. The person who gave the report was David, a famous British chemist who was famous at that time. Faraday's eyes widened and he listened to David's lecture very carefully.
After returning home, he compiled his lecture notes into a volume and used it as a "Chemistry Textbook" for self-study. Later, Faraday sent his carefully bound "Chemistry Textbook" to Professor Davy, and attached a letter.
said: "I would very much like to escape from the business world and enter the scientific world, because according to my imagination, science can make people noble and approachable."
After receiving the letter, David was deeply moved. He admired Faraday's talents very much and decided to recruit him as his assistant.
Faraday was very diligent and quickly mastered experimental techniques and became David's right-hand man. Half a year later, David will go to the European continent for a scientific research trip, interviewing famous scientists from various European countries and visiting chemical laboratories in various countries.
David decided to take Faraday abroad. In this way, Faraday traveled with David in Europe for a year and a half, met with Ampere and other famous scientists, gained a lot of knowledge, and also learned French. After returning to China, Faraday began to conduct scientific research independently.
Soon, he discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction. In 1834, he discovered the law of electrolysis, which shocked the scientific world. This law is named "Faraday's law of electrolysis". Faraday relied on hard self-study and started as a bookbinding apprentice who had never even attended elementary school.
Entering the ranks of the world’s top scientists. Engels once praised Faraday as "the greatest electrologist to date". On August 25, 1867, Faraday passed away while sitting in his study reading. He was 76 years old.
5. Helen Keller
Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American blind, deaf-mute female writer and disabled person. Educators with disabilities. He lost his vision, hearing and speech abilities due to illness when he was 19 months old.
However, it was such a severely disabled person who was blind, deaf and mute who created a miracle in life. With the education and help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, she became self-reliant and not only learned to read, write and speak.
With amazing perseverance, he completed four years of study at Harvard University's Radcliffe College and became the first blind and deaf person in human history to receive a bachelor's degree in literature.