Xinyu Zhang Compare and contrast essay Ms. Finley English 111 3 March 2015 Dogs vs Cats Hundreds of years ago‚ dogs and cats were domesticated by human beings‚ and became the closest furry friends to us. As the most popular pets in the world‚ dogs and cats share innumerable similarities. They both belong to the mammal. That means that they both have hair and give birth to their young. They also drink milk when they are babies. And they have the similar life expectancy‚ around 10 to 20 years. Both
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Richard Rodriguez and Amy Tan are two bilingual writers. Rodriguez comes from a Latin background where both his parents speak Spanish. Tan is a child of Chinese parents. Though they share some of the same situations; each has a different way of portraying it. This gives the readers two different aspects of being bilingual. Rodriguez told his story in Aria: a Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood. Tan told hers in Mother Tongue. In spite of the fact that they both wrote about their experiences of being
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11 February 2014 Sitting in a room when one looks around‚ majority of the people in that room are usually on their cell phones. People have begun to cut out human contact with one another and have become so focused on what is going on‚ on their phones. Cellphones have become an important part in most of our lives and picking a phone today has become just as stressful as buying a house or a new car. Most people own a smartphone‚ and in today’s society there is a big controversy over two particular
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Holidays. There are 365 days in each given year‚ although some years might be different from the rest‚ there are days that are extremely special to me‚ those days are Holidays. The word holiday derived from the notion of "Holy Day"‚ and gradually evolved to its current form. The word holiday comes from the Old English word hāligdæg. The word originally referred only to special religious days. To me Holidays are the perfect time of year regarding Tradition‚ Reunion and last but not least the amazing
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Leave your name at the Border and When Bright girls decide math is a waste of time Neka Hunter English 101 F71 Spring 2013 One thing that I kept noticing as I read Leave Your Name at the Border was that speaking Spanish was almost looked down upon and that people were not only embarrassed by their name‚ but also by the fact that they knew how to speak Spanish. Manuel Munoz says‚ “English was for public display. Spanish was for privacy and privacy
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Name: Qihua Zhang (David) English 100 F Comparison Essay (Final Draft) Similarities between “Live Free and Starve” and “Plata o Plomo: Silver or Lead” In the essay “Live Free and Starve” by Chitra Divakaruni and the essay “Plata o Plomo: Silver or Lead” by Marie Javdani‚ both the authors discussed the serious issues happened in the world due to the appearance of globalization. The issues happened under globalization includes child labor and objects importation. Two authors explains these two aspects
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Aeropostale‚ American Eagle‚ or Buckle. But on the other hand‚ they also have to have the name brand shoes to go along with the name brand clothing like Clarks‚ Sperry’s or the Nike tennis shoes. Name brand clothes to snobs are the biggest thing if they do not have them; they freak out and pout. Most snobs will make it known that they can go out and get all the expensive‚ fancy clothing. Fancy‚ expensive clothing should not be a factor when being a snob. Another concept on snobs would have to be their
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tourism‚ and entertainment. On the other hand‚ the city of Florence in Kentucky is known for the horse track racing at the Turfway Park located 10 miles from the Ohio River. Even though both cities are located in different part of the coast‚ they are good places to tour or live in. New York and Florence have more in differences than similarities based on their activities‚ transportation‚ and cultural diversity. Most known activities in New York City are the Broadway shows: Mamma Mia‚ The Lion King
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go‚ as consumers‚ you see ads everywhere whether is on a billboard‚ magazine‚ commercials on TV‚ or a newspaper. Advertisers put ads in magazine to sell certain products to the readers. Such as in the Woman’s Day magazine they have ads that have to do with families such as the McDonalds ad‚ and in the magazine The New Yorker they have ads that sell products that are semi expensive because some of the richer people would probably be reading that magazine. Their ads that they put in their magazines
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haven’t grown comfortable with the school yet. Another reason why senior year differs from freshman year is the fact that the seniors set the standards for the rest of the school. The other grades look up to the seniors and pretty much follow what they do. At football games‚ the seniors control the student section and tell them what to wear and the rest of the school pretty much goes along and does what the seniors tell them. The freshmen get very little say and usually get the worst of everything. At
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