cigarette butts. Every cigarette butt takes at least 12 years to decompose‚ during that time period it pollutes waterways and soil with lead‚ arsenic‚ and cadmium. If we take all the littered cigarette butts in America‚ we would be able to build a seven feet wide highway across the country. Littering is not only bad for the earth but it can also affect a person’s health. Litter can be breeding grounds for many disease causing insects and rodents which can transfer their diseases to humans. Not just
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shape of the body. A good example of how women would go to the extremes with their bodies to be fashionable is the poem “Flower Feet” written by Ruth Fainlight. In this poem it explains what feet binding is and why young girls did this‚ the reason was so that they were fashionable and considered higher class. Even though it would cripple them for life to have their feet banded back‚ but rich women didn’t need to move. Women are the main ones that have always been made to try to change their bodies
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Chinese culture 1. Chinese Tea Culture China is the homeland of tea. It is believed that China has tea-shrubs as early as five to six thousand years ago‚ and human cultivation of teaplants dates back two thousand years. Tea from China‚ along with her silk and porcelain‚ began to be known the world over more than a thousand years ago and has since always been an important Chinese export. At present more than forty countries in the world grow tea with Asian countries producing 90% of the world’s
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CHINA (Chinese Cuisine Lecture) by Bernadette Olivares December 10‚ 2012 CHINA Population: Ethnic groups: Han Chinese 91.5%‚ Zhuang‚ Manchu‚ Hui‚ Miao‚ Uyghur‚ Tujia‚ Yi‚ Mongol‚ Tibetan‚ Buyi‚ Dong‚ Yao‚ Korean‚ and other nationalities 8.5% (2000 census) Religions: Daoist (Taoist)‚ Buddhist‚ Christian 3%-4%‚ Muslim 1%-2% note: officially atheist (2002 est.) Languages: Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua‚ based on the Beijing dialect)‚ Yue (Cantonese)‚ Wu (Shanghainese)‚ Minbei
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Chinese proverbs • o Literally: A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring. o Meaning: Even if it was just a little help from others‚ you should return the favor with all you can when others are in need. • ， o Literally: If one person is not hungry‚ the whole family is not hungry. o Meaning: Families will make sacrifices for individual members of the family. o Common Misunderstanding: If one person in the family is happy‚ the whole family is happy. • ‚ o Literally:
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Essay My project’s problem to fix is pointe girl’s feet. The problem with their feet is not the feet themselves it’s actually the shoe rubbing the foot and the pressure they put onto their toes. That are getting scars and bloody toes. My idea is to make an insole that fits to the girl’s foot that is just thick enough to provide enough support so that when they go onto pointe their toes and arch don’t get hurt as badly. I had many ideas for my solutions. A few of my ideas that would have the greatest
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The Dark Consequences of Ripe Peaches In Under the Feet of Jesus Viramontes plays with the heartstrings of those who read the story. It explores deeply the subjective and symbolic violence of the exploitation and destruction of migrant workers. The beautiful prose fantasizes the horrid conditions and everyday struggles that plague the family. With one misstep they are crushed beneath the societal system that is meant to even out the playing field. They are set up to fail. The focus is not truly
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Last term our class studied Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah. It is Adeline’s story‚ about her tough and horrible childhood as a neglected and unloved daughter of a rich and arrogant man‚ and a cruel‚ and abusive Stepmother. Right from the moment her mother died‚ Adeline was labelled as ‘bad luck’. Her family was very superstitious and believed she caused her mothers death so was therefore despised‚ no one wanted her around at all. Unfortunately for Adeline she didn’t really have any parents
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T a h r ’N t s eces oe W RITTEN BY SUSAN LA M ARCA Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah This book is the moving autobiography of a young Chinese girl‚ Adeline Yen Mah. Born the fifth child to an affluent Chinese family her life begins tragically. Adeline’s mother died shortly after her birth due to complications bought on by the delivery‚ and in Chinese culture this marks her as cursed or ‘bad luck’ (p.3). This situation is compounded by her father’s new marriage to a lady who has little
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS 9 ISBN 17-253-3313Sb -2 11 1 111 90000 ol 2 336 69 Chinese Literature‚ Ancient and Classical by Andre Levy translated by William H. Nienhauser‚ Jr. Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington‚ Indiana 47404-3797 USA www.indiana.edu/–iupress Telephone orders 800 842 6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e mail iuporder@indiana.edu - 2000
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