Reading-to-writing: an Effective Approach to Improving Students’ EFL Writing Ability in Senior High Schools English Major LI Ze-feng Abstract: EFL (English as a foreign language) writing is one of the four basic skills of English learning. However‚ EFL writing‚ as a highly complex productive activity‚ has always been a big problem to students in senior high schools. Most of the students may feel perplexed when confronting EFL writing and always get half the result with twice the effort
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Review of William Manchester’s A World Lit Only by Fire William Manchester’s A World Lit Only by Fire: the Medieval Mind and the Renaissance is a historical‚ nonfiction book that I found to be both only intriguing and enticing‚ despite its beginning and ending parts. The beginning chapter of Manchester’s book‚ "The Medieval Mind‚" was quite slow and overly informative‚ although a bright spot was illuminated with the discussion of peasant life and customs in the Dark Ages. The ending section‚ "One
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Education in America vs. Education in Third World Countries A few weeks ago‚ I was walking downtown‚ when this random came up to me and said “You in school? That’s good‚ that’s good. Education is important.” From the state of her hair and clothes‚ and the smell of her breath‚ I assumed she was homeless. I didn’t really pay much attention to her‚ because homeless people are so common in downtown Atlanta. I was just hoping that she wasn’t going to ask me for any money! After a while‚ I started
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Timed Argumentative Essay: Racism Today Is there still racism today? Yes‚ in the article I read Americans say that racism is a bigger problem today than it was in the past 20 years. There’s hate and anger toward people‚ purely based on a color difference‚ white people don’t get asked for I.D. when using credit‚ but African Americans do‚ white people don’t let their kids date African American’s‚ people are rude and make fun of people. Racism today still exists because stores clerks don’t ask white
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1 Pearl Avenue runs past the high-school lot‚ Personification: the author uses basketball verbs to describe the location of Flick’s working place. 2 Bends with the trolley tracks‚ and stops‚ cut off Alliteration: t has a sharp sound that helps emphasize the following words. 3 Before it has a chance to go two blocks‚ Metaphor: the setting of the garage portrays Flicks life( he never went any further from high-school. 4 At Colonel McComsky Plaza. Berth’s Garage Contrast between the
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world war Life in the 1930’s Sports: during the great depression‚ people were miserable. There was barley any good news in the papers. The best way to escape being miserable in that decade was sports. The soccer world cup‚ hockey‚ boxing and the summer olympics of 1936 were all great entertainment for the people stuck in the depression Transportation: transportation was different back then from what it is today. They usually used cars or street cars to get from one place to another in a
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Today‚ stories are an intrinsic part of our societies and culture. Movies‚ books‚ music‚ news media‚ religions‚ architecture and painting‚ you name it‚ and the influence of storytelling is to be seen in all aspects of our life. Defining our values‚ desires‚ dreams and‚ as well as our prejudices and hatreds‚ don’t you want to know how it all began? Well‚ the history of Storytelling is the prime focus of this article. Traditionally‚ the oral stories have been handed over from generation to generation
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Defining Success The definition of success is in the eye of the beholder. More than three-fourths of your life is spent working to become successful. People are told during childhood to work as hard as they can so they can grow up and make lots of money. But the word success can be taken in many different ways. Everyone has a different understanding of what success means to them. Generally‚ success means fulfilling the goals that you set for yourself. For some‚ success is measured by popularity
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and desires‚ and abstinence only education programs were born. Though decades have passed and times have changed‚ the way the United State’s chooses to approach the sexual education of young people has not. Authority figures have been shouting‚ “Abstain! Abstain! Abstain!” at teenagers to no avail for far to long. The time for change is now. Abstinence only education programs do more harm than good for the nation’s youth. These sex (or lack there of) education programs aim to teach adolescents
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come across success just by hoping for it. To achieve true success‚ you need the strength of mind and body to struggle and work hard to reach your fullest potential. You need the right attitude‚ self-discipline and the ability to put your goal before your own needs‚ if you are really driven towards reaching success. There is‚ after all no substitute for hard work‚ and as Henry Ford says‚ “The harder you work‚ the luckier you get” – the more successful you get! How do you overcome success? Intense
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