I have been told by most people who hear me speak Spanish (my mother tongue is English) that I am fluent in it. That alone should be enough for me to call myself bilingual. However‚ I have encountered numerous situations over the years where I felt completely lost in Spanish. So‚ if I am so fluent‚ why would this happen to me? The answer is a simple but often overlooked one. Bilinguals usually acquire and use their second ( or third or fourth) language for specific purposes and when they get outside
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I’m going to tell something about vegetarians. I’ve chosen this subject because I’m a vegetarian myself‚ for four years now. Vegetarians are people who never eat meat. Fish and fowl are officially not counted as meat. There are different kinds of vegetarians‚ none of them eat meat from cows‚ pigs and other animals. But some do eat fish or fowl‚ those are also called vegetarians. There are also people who don’t only refuse to eat meat‚ but who don’t use any animal products at all. For example they
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In Scotland and Ireland‚ guising – children disguised in costume going from door to door for food or coins – is a traditional Halloween custom‚ and is recorded in Scotland at Halloween in 1895 where masqueraders in disguise carrying lanterns made out of scooped out turnips‚ visit homes to be rewarded with cakes‚ fruit and money.[83] The practice of Guising at Halloween in North America is first recorded in 1911‚ where a newspaper in Kingston‚ Ontario reported children going "guising" around the
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By doing some research I have been able to find out what it was like for the people of New Orleans when it was hit by a strong hurricane‚ called Katrina. The hurricane lasted 7 days‚ in between the dates of the 23rd of august and the 30th of august‚ 2005. There were an estimated value of 1833 causalities between those dates and wind pressures managed to hit up to 280 km/h‚ making it a category five hurricane‚ the highest you can go. The official city‚ state and the federal plan was basically
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ESL 101 Tammy Cai Instructor: Mrs. Tucker Being a Man is Easier Than Being a Woman Since 1920‚ women finally got the right to vote throughout the nation. Gender discrimination was resolved from the surface. Nevertheless‚ the discrimination against women still exist like an invisible statue. I still can feel it right now. “JoEllen Dillon‚ a non-equity corporate partner at Reed Smith‚ reached a settlement in a gender discrimination suit she filed in December. In the suit‚ she alleged that
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be in a relationship or being single. Nowadays‚ being in a relationship is too difficult for young people. They are too busy to bother with building relationships – they have to study and often work at the same time. But is a relationship such a big burden as they seem? There are some advantages and also disadvantages of being in relationship‚ but being alone is not a good solution either. Now‚ I would like to compare and contrast those two statements. Firstly‚ being in a relationship with
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The Unbearable Lightness Of Being By Milan Kundera Courtesy: Shahid Riaz Islamabad – Pakistan shahid.riaz@gmail.com http://esnips.com/UserProfileAction.ns?id=ebdaae62-b650-4f30-99a4-376c0a084226 "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being" By Milan Kundera 2 PART ONE Lightness and Weight The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one‚ and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it‚ and that the recurrence itself recurs
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PREFORMULATION STUDIES ON PHENYTOIN AGGLOMERATES PREPARED BY HOT MELT Dr. Maged Fawzy DEEF Pharmaceutical Industries Company‚ SA This work was a part of Master thesis presented in Faculty of Pharmacy‚ AlAzhar University‚ Egypt 2007 INTRODUCTION Hot Melt Hot melt agglomeration is one type of wet granulation techniques that may be utilized to enhance the dissolution profile of water insoluble drugs. Hot melt agglomeration is also called thermoplastic granulation and it may be defined as the
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than to suffer such unrelieved distress. This heart-breaking story should have awakened people to consider whether it is right to do whatever we want on animals. In reality‚ animals should have their own right since they are sentient beings and equal to human beings as subjects-of-a-life‚ and it is unjust to inflict pains on nonhuman animals. Sentience Some people believe that animals are unconscious creatures and they are biologically incapable of feeling pain. This fallacy may be attributed
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Born on October 16‚ 1854 in Dublin‚ Irish writer Oscar Wilde is best known for the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the play The Importance of Being Earnest‚ as well as for his infamous arrest and imprisonment for being gay. Beginning in 1888‚ while he was still serving as editor of Lady’s World‚ Wilde entered a seven-year period of furious creativity‚ during which he produced nearly all of his great literary works. Around the same time that he was enjoying his greatest literary success‚ Wilde
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