Fiona is my best friend. She turned twelve recently and her parents held a birthday party for her. I was one of those invited. The party began at about three in the afternoon. There were about twenty of us children gathered in Fiona’s house. We were all dressed in our best clothes. Everyone‚ especially Fiona‚ wore a happy smile. We gave our presents to Fiona and she happily opened them. It must really be exciting to receive all those presents. After that Fiona’s mother served us soft drinks
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My Birthday January 27‚ 1975 1975 list #1 pop song: Laughter in the Rain by Neil Sedaka #1 country song: City Lights by Mickey Gilley #1 Movie: The Towering Inferno Price of gold: $177 (oz) Median new home price: $37‚200 Price of a new car: $4‚732 Gallon of gas: $0.47 Loaf of bread: $0.32 Lunar Influence You were born under a full moon. Other than the fact they were born quite literally howling at the moon‚ people born under a full moon tend to be idealistic‚ and spiritual. It
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a point of view.In the one act play Triles written by Susan Glaspell and the short story “ A Jury of Her Peers” the Literature element ‚point of view comes into play with each piece.While both Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers” have different points of view their events and theme are fairly similar.However the point of view still effects each of the pieces. Although Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers” are different genres the events are the same . Because Trifles is a play the events are told
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navy and success at Salamis‚ but an underlying cause was that the Spartan King‚ Pausanias who "treated his own allies harshly and arrogantly and scattered insults far and wide with his officiousness and absurd pretensions" as written by Plutarch. Gaining leadership to the League could be considered a catalyst for Athens’ imperialistic ways in years to follow. Thucydides believes that it was the Ionian Greeks who instigated the transferal of leadership from Sparta to Athens‚ and Athens then said something
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death of Janie’s husband she has a massive time to herself and to think about her past. One of the things she comes across to while she is alone she begins to notice that she hated her grandmother for her beliefs and values that she made her had. Janie states on page 85‚ “She hated her grandmother and had hidden it from herself all these years under a cloak of pity.” Janie never really let her emotions out until now where she is alone and can concentrate on herself and her feelings. Also‚ Janie questions
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“Birthday Party” Love can fade away or be lost by even the strongest of couples in the view of society. The “Birthday Party‚” by Katharine Brush relates the relationship of two “unmistakably married” couple‚ out for a small celebration‚ which goes wrong as an example of love that can not always be sustained by age. As couples get older it is harder to sustain love in front of society‚ and Brush shows the idea by incorporating symbolism‚ tone‚ and point of view to the story. Brush uses the tone
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Retirement is every working persons dream. We all work hard during our working lives and have aspirations for retirement. When our pension’s plans are not properly funded we lose. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974 was signed into law by President Gerald Ford on September 2‚ 1974. The events leading up to ERISA involved the closing of the Studebaker Automobile Company out of South Bend‚ Indiana. The Studebaker Company had one of the finest pension plans for all 7‚000 employees
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Tuesday‚ I woke up early as it was my sixteenth birthday and I was very excited. Quickly I dressed for school and came downstairs. I went to the kitchen. I saw my mother was busy preparing breakfast as usual and my father was getting ready for work. My siblings also were busy as it was a school day. I was very disappointed. No one had remembered my birthday. I tried not to show my feelings and went to school. Even in school‚ my close friends seemed to have forgotten my birthday. That day was not like
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Examine the impact of UK retirement migration to the Mediterranean on source and host regions. (15m) Jan 2010 The ageing population from the UK are migrating in considerable numbers to the Mediterranean. An example of this is Spain; this has both positive and negative impacts on the source and host nations. The source nation is the place from which migrants came‚ and the host nation is the place where the migrants are accepted into. There are a number of positives for the source country. There
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Lola: Her Shameful Truth Lola slowly turned the lock on the door‚ blocking the sounds of commotion from downstairs. She was at last alone from the prying eyes‚ the endless questions and pitiful looks. Dropping her white robe‚ she paced across the room. The visitors had been coming and going all night‚ her track of time was lost and her mind blurry. The events of the night had all coalesced into a hazy mist that hovered on the anxiety she had felt for weeks. An image of a person caught her eye across
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