Personal Reflection “The Happiest Refugee” – Anh Do. English Communications 3 – Line 6 Renee Hall. Teacher – Amanda Williams. Renowned comedian‚ Anh Do’s award winning autobiography The Happiest Refugee is a heart-warming and touching journey that leads the audience through Do’s experiences from his early days as a child in Vietnam‚ to his successful career as an influential television personality and well know Australian stand-up comedian. Throughout the text‚ Do explores many ideas and
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The Happiest Refugee The book The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do is about a young family in Vietnam who risk their lives to travel illegally to Australia. In the middle of the ocean with the sun beating down on a jam packed boat‚ with water supplies already running low‚ more trouble arrives‚ a pirate ship. With all their goods taken‚ hope for survival is at their lowest. Just as everything seems lost‚ a German ship arrives. The family reaches Australia safely and kindness surounds them. Anh lives
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Lean management course nears‚ the value of the course is about to be unleashed. The highest value in my opinion in learning lean management is to implement lean in one’s personal life. This paper describes the five lean principles in general and further details how I would apply three of the five principles in my personal life. Introduction There are five key principles of lean and figure 1 below shows these principles in their logic sequence. The principles are : 1. Identify Value
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Perseverance‚ patience and dedication results in success this means that if one does not give up he/she results in success. This is shown in “The Happiest Refugee” as the family struggles to get out of Vietnam and to live the life they want to live and it is also shown in ”The Pursuit Of Happiness” as the family move from one place and struggle to find a job and get money. Perseverance‚ patience and dedication leads to success‚ success does not mean reaching set goals but gaining something that is
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If I had to choose a famous person to spend a day with it would have to be with‚ Bruce Lee. He has always been an inspiration to me because he followed his dreams. As a child he played in movies with his father‚ and was well-known throughout China. While growing up he was being picked on by other kids‚ he told his mother that he wanted to learn Martial arts to defend himself from kids that would pick on him because he didn’t know how to defend himself. At the age of fourteen he finally started Martial
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he has a perfect environment to do what he does really like. Yao has become the first person from China to enter NBA (National Basketball Association )draft in 2001.After that‚his talent that playing football was completely bring into play‚at the same time‚In years 2001to 2007‚he has got many achievements.Literally more and more people who began to pay more attention to the superstar on whatever personal life or public activities. On the other hand‚he earns 51 million U.S dollars(357million yuan)
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We traveled along the road for a long time‚ but we passed by a clearing to our right‚ and we saw the greatest set of dirt jumps that we had ever viewed. Though it was getting late‚ a good biker never turns away from such an opportunity. So we checked the extremely high‚ almost vertical dirt mounds. All of them were practically impossible for us at our current shape and ability of biking. Except for one of the jumps that seemed absolutely possible‚ at the time. Ryan and I were really tired so we
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Noel By Michael Plemmons The story has a 3rd person narrator. It is not an omniscient narrator since the narrator doesn’t know everything that’s going on in everybody’s mind or at least the narrator isn’t telling us about any thoughts or anything like it. The angle is very narrow since the narrator isn’t giving us much detailed information about the characters or the scene. In the story there isn’t any main character. In the story we have three kinds of characters: the buyers‚ the seller and
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brother or sister‚ it’s just plain annoying. It is also a total time waster and should not be completed. Poor‚ innocent kids get given infuriating work to do in their free time during the week‚ the only time they have to chill out and relax. Children shouldn’t have to waste their time doing school work all over again at home‚ when they could be having a go at a worthwhile activity. As I was saying earlier‚ homework minimises a child’s free time‚ which means they haven’t got an opportunity to play any
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I was given a chance to visit the Himalayas‚ to one of the concealed places in the province where a panoramic view was preserved. It was very provincial and solemn. Its coniferous and subtropical forests‚ wetlands‚ and montane grasslands are as much a part of this world as the inhospitable‚ frozen mountaintops that tower above. The mountains were the wrinkles of age and pimples of youth on Earth’s crusty outer skin. They rose up as the crust collides‚ cracks‚ crumbles‚ folds‚ and spews. They dominated
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