share common understanding of values and traditions; even in the times of hardship people try harder to make these times special. All the traditional festivals are influenced by the concepts of religions and royal cultures. Among those plenty of holidays I will choose only the three most important celebrations to describe. Firstly‚ Water festival takes place in October or the beginning of November. Up to a million people from all over the country gather at the banks of Tunle Sap and Mekong rivers
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AMERICA’S FOOD CRISIS How would you feel if you couldn’t afford to feed your kids? Wouldn’t you feel like a failure? I know I would. In Anna Quindlen’s essay “Schools out for summer” she writes about the struggle that is putting a meal on the table for your kids and how many kids’ parents depended on school to put a meal in their child’s stomach. She also says we need to step up and take action on the matter rather than basically look past it. But how effective was Anna in her essay? “Some kids
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Summer’s getting drowsy now Soon she will be fast asleep Missing summer‚ the trees begin to weep It’s autumn time so leave and take a bow I heard the autumns singing. The wind it sprints through the trees. The air is getting crispier and a chilly nip is in the breeze. On autumns night a luminous pearl hangs in the radiant night sky. Journeying to warmer land‚ the birds ‘gossip loudly as they fly. When orange and red are burnished on leaves‚ They glide down like a silent pack of thieves. The
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At the last day of 8th grade your teachers‚ friends‚ and family all congratulate you for finishing this school year. You have finished the year with good grades and maybe made new friends‚ just like every other kid in the school. Is this how you want to be remembered‚ by being like everyone else? A legacy is how you will be remembered by for what you did in your life. The legacy you leave will leave a huge impact to your life and to others. At the end of 8th grade‚ I want to remembered for thinking
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kids and working nonstop for forty years. Throughout all those years of being in the US‚ not once did they decide to continue school to at least get their GED. Having a mother who only went to the sixth grade and a father who dropped out of high school freshman year to work on the fields‚ definitely put some pressure in regards to continuing my education after high school. As a little girl‚ my parents have always made it extremely clear that furthering my education is the most important accomplishment
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Finding my Way Back to School Cricket L. Beem English 121 Cicely Denean-Cobb May 31‚ 2010 Finding my Way Back to School Finding my way back to school has been a long time coming. I have wanted to attend college before I even finished grade school. At seventeen I married a Military man. I always said‚ “When I move to another base I will start college”. We moved to Fort Hood‚ Texas. Nine years have gone by and at last I have enrolled in a degree plan at Ashford University. What made me wait
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The Red Summer refers to the summer and early autumn of 1919‚ which was marked by hundreds of deaths and higher casualties across the United States‚ as a result of race riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities and one rural county. In most instances‚ whites attacked African Americans. Red summer is in summer and early autumn On July 27‚ 1919‚ an African-American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after violating the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches and being stoned by a group
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School closes down next week for the summer holidays. I am eagerly awaiting the day I go home from school knowing that I will not be expected to enter my classroom for two long months. There are many things that I would like to do in my holidays. First of all I will visit all my friends turn by turn. They keep pestering me to visit them at home but school keeps me too busy‚ my friends and I will play the whole day long. Cricket is my favourite sport and my friends have organized cricket matches
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I decided to return to school because of my financial situation‚ my children‚ and myself. All of these reasons above are why I decided to go back to school‚ and so I would like you to sit back as I paint you the picture of my life before I decided to go to school. I have been struggling financially for some years since I had my children. With the economy being so bad‚ and prices constantly going up how can I continue to survive on mininum wage? Before I had children it seemed a lot easier to survive
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Storm pulled the oversize sports bag off the back seat‚ unzipped it and took out the two backpacks stuffed inside. He swung the straps of the three bags over his shoulder and set off up the path to the surgery entrance. At the top of the steps‚ he tapped the five digits into the security control keypad. The was a metallic click from the lock mechanism‚ the lights flashed to verify the sequence was correct‚ and he turned the key. The oxygen tanks were easy to find inside the storage room‚ right where
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