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    My 15th Birthday This summer was the best summer ever‚ because it was my 15th birthday. I celebrated on a cruise with 3 of my friends. When I got to the airplane I was very excited. Then I started to watch a movie on the airplane. The movie that I saw was one of my favorites Leap Year. When we landed to Miami‚ Florida I was more excited because I always wanted to go to Miami. When we got there my cousin picked us up on the airport. Then we went to the most famous place to have fun

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    working without a lot of money. If the people hadn’t rebelled against their king‚ France wouldn’t have developed its economy and they would have continued with the problem of social classes. These were some events that occurred on the day of my birthday and they brought many changes in the

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    The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter is a play composed of three acts‚ and is set in an old boarding house‚ run by Meg and Petey‚ who are a couple in their late sixties. There is only one boarder‚ Stanley‚ a scruffy‚ depressed-looking man in his late thirties who has apparently been a professional pianist. Three people arrive in the boarding house from the outside world: Lulu‚ a young woman who tries to get Stanley to go out with her with out success‚ Goldberg a powerful and threatening Jewish man

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    A very famous playwright‚ novelist‚ essayist‚ poet and epigrammatist wrote the story entitled "The Birthday of the Infanta". This story by genre is partly short story and partly fairy-tale. The story told the readers about a little Dwarf‚ who was ugly‚ hunchbacked‚ monster‚ but did not realize it by himself. And one day he looked in the invisible wall of clear water and saw his own reflection. He could not ever imagine that he is so ugly‚ so deterrent. Dwarf’s little heart could not bear such shock

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    The Origin of Christmas Traditions Christmas is filled with traditions and events‚ but how did they start and why do we still do them? Traditions are often passed down throughout generations for centuries‚ but the origins are often unknown or forgotten. Christmas Christmas was originally called "The Feast of the Nativity of Jesus". The word "nativity" comes from the Latin word Natalis‚ meaning birthday. The observance probably does not date earlier than 200 AD and did not become widespread

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    Final Project: Surprise Birthday Dinner Event Roy K. M. Mamuad AD642: Project Management Professor Roger D. H. Warburton‚ Ph D. Boston University 23 Feb 2010 Abstract Doing something special for the one you love is something that has been done throughout the ages. Studies have shown not only does an act of kindness strengthen personal relationships in marriage‚ but it also has positive health benefits resulting from social family gatherings and traditions. The proposed project presents a scenario

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    My Seventieth Birthday Speech “The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and have stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach-unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there.” Mark Twain Good afternoon family and friends‚ I am privileged to be here today to celebrate with you my seventieth birthday. Today is a day I

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    October 2010 My Dad’s 50th Birthday On the day of my dad’s fiftieth birthday celebration‚ my brother and I were delivering a poem about Dad. Standing on chairs in front of all the guests‚ we joked that “Dad is so jealous he wishes that he was as handsome as us when he was an adolescent.” Everyone luckily including Dad laughed. That often repeated statement among our family and friends will stay imbedded in my mind until I write the poem for his sixtieth birthday! This party was a typical Arabic

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    When the idea of a birthday party comes to mind‚ it usually associates feelings of a joyous and lavish celebration shared with family and close friends. Contrasting toward that idea‚ Katharine Brush in “Birthday Party” portrays how joyless a marriage can be when the two companions are bound to the stereotypical notions of how their relationship should be like. Through simple syntax‚ diction‚ and ironic examples‚ Brush reveals a tone of how miserable relationships can be in an inevitable marriage

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    In the short story “The Birthday Party”‚ author Katharine Brush is able to achieve her purpose of showing how men reacted towards the women in their lives to acts that were done without their consent. Through the use of caricatures‚symbolism‚ and creating a tense atmosphere‚ Brush’s purpose is conveyed to the audience. Looking at the title first‚ it can be inferred there will be a grand celebration with happiness and cheers‚ but as you read along to the story there is no party. The wife is characterized

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