Figure Skating Artistic Skating or as we know it Figure Skating is a fun and completive sport for many ages. The history of figure skating: Between 1892 and 1896 the International Skating Union was founded‚ first European Championship was held‚ and the first World Championship was held. Before 1902 only men competed but in 1902 a woman Madge Syers competed in the World competition and placed 2nd. In 1906 a separate competition was created for ladies. The first Olympic figure skating competitions
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us. There are many perspectives around the world about what a Christ figure might be. Some might think positively about Christ‚ spreading his greatness and others might think of him as a lost cause so there are many interpretations of him. A Christ figure is someone courageous‚ with integrity‚ and a strong will that is willing to fight on behalf of others. In the story‚“Beowulf”‚ by Burton Raffel‚ Beowulf is the Christ figure in this story of the epic hero. In the story‚there is this horrible monster
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A Father Figure Time spent with my grandfather in simpler times. Before computers‚ video games‚ cell phones and the mall. His home always felt safe and warm. I have fond memories of sitting on the porch talking with my grandfather as we watched the cars passing by. From my earliest childhood memories he was there‚ always eager to listen and giving me advice‚ the father I never had. My grandfather was a wonderful husband and father of five. He dedicated his life to raising his family.
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Name ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Dateــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Activity 1: Simile and Metaphor Decide whether the sentence contains a simile or a metaphor‚ and identify the two things being compared. Then change the simile into metaphor and vice versa: 1. The lake was a huge mirror in the moonlight. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. The dancer moved around the
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Good Morning everyone‚ it is a pleasure to be here in front of you. I would be talking about my very own hometown‚ Cebu City. Did you know that Cebu City is nominated for New 7 wonder Cities in the world? According to Wikipedia‚ Cebu is one of the most developed provinces in the Philippines. One of the factors why Cebu is nominated is because of its Good Education. ’Colegio de San Ildefonso’ is the Oldest School not just in Philippines but in Asia as well. This can be found in Cebu City and this
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Good morning‚ Dato’ Sri Wong Soon Koh‚ the Second Finance Minister and Minister of Environment and Public Health‚ Mr Charlie Oropeza‚ Chief Executive Officer of Prudential Assurance Malaysia Berhad‚ distinguished guests‚ ladies and gentlemen‚ boys and girls. On behalf of all the players‚ I would like to express our appreciation to Sibu Volleyball Association for the nurture and support given to us over the last few years‚ which has allowed us to represent Sibu and Sarawak. Some of us even had the
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Good day! I hope you had a great start of the day just as I had. Of course knowing that I’ll be speaking here in front of you makes me feel very flattered and honoured. Before I start‚ I would like first to share a saying that I truly believe‚ communication starts for those who works for it. And that communication includes writing a letter‚ let alone writing a business letter. Writing a business letter is just like writing other types of letter it includes not only the message itself but also
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1. Simile My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red‚ than her lips red: If snow be white‚ why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires‚ black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked‚ red and white‚ But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak‚ yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound: I grant I never saw a goddess go‚ My
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ENGLISH ASIGNMENT TOPIC:- WRITE ABOUT FIGURE OF SPEECH AND TYPES OF SPEECH AND WRITE EXAMPLES ON EACH. NAME:- MUNIS A.P CLASS:- 7 B4 ROLL NO:- 28 ABOUT FIGURE OF SPEECH A figure of speech is a rhetorical device that achieves a special effect by using words in distinctive ways. Though there are hundreds of figures of speech‚ here we’ll focus on just 20 of the most common figures. You will probably remember many of these terms
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FIGURES OF SPEECH .Anaphora The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. (Contrast with epiphora and epistrophe.) "I needed a drink‚ I needed a lot of life insurance‚ I needed a vacation‚ I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat‚ a hat and a gun." (Raymond Chandler‚ Farewell‚ My Lovely‚ 1940) .Antithesis The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. "We notice things that don’t work. We don’t notice things that do
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