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关于生日的英语作文范文
Happy birthday and birthday
cakes
The song
just
before
the
birthday
boy
or
girl
blows
out
the
candles
on
the
cake. It is so simple in
melody and lyric that children as young as
three can sing it without hesitation.
The song
，
with
its original title
，
was
written in 1893 by the two
sisters
，
Mildred
and Patty Smith Hill.
They were the daughters of a
progressive Kentucky couple
，
who believed in female education at a
time
——
the mid-nineteenth
century
——
when it was still a novel idea and who
trained their two
daughters
to
be
school
teachers.
They
were
long
involved
in
elementary
education
，
and
Patty
，
in
particular.
She
achieved
considerable prominence4 as a pioneer
in kindergarten education
，
and
for
several
decades
a
major
spokesperson
for
preschool
education.
She taught
at
Columbia
University
‘
s
Teachers
College
from 1905 to
1935
，
and at her retirement
became one of the first
women to be
named a professor emeritus by Columbia.
A birthday cake
with burning candles is also indispensable at
one
‘
s
birthday
party.
It
may
derive
，
distantly
，
from
the
ancient
Greek practice of
offering to Artemis
，
goddess of the hunt and of
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