describing a school. She tells about both her brother and her dreaded going to her Chinese school and the different atmospheres of the two schools. The Chinese school was like a dusty old chest and the other was like the box that a new pair of shoes came in. Both held treasures but she was far more interested in the new than what she felt to be old. While the Chinese school focused mainly on language‚ she points out that every day started with a lesson in politeness. To Wong the language was rough and
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about 5’5 and my sisters are about 5’3‚ while I am about 6’1. I don’t know where I get my height from‚ but when I look at my cousins from my dad’s side every single one of the guys are just about 6’0 or higher and the tallest being 6’6. I have about 30 male cousins on my dad’s side. Also my grandfather from my mom’s side is 6’1‚ so I guess I got some of the height from him also. I actually like being tall though because I play basketball and a point guard is usually somewhere between 6’0 and 6’3.
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A time when I failed was towards the end of my school year second semester‚ when in the tenth grade studying for my Honors Biology class. I studied for hours and hours for my EOC that was coming up ad was very getty about how I was taking responsibility of everything. The day of the test I was For sure that I was going to pass without hesitation. Mistakenly I was wrong and my ego and pride literally dropped to the floor once I received the results. I took it really hard with horrible expectations
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not always what they seem.” 1. What did you do well? Elaborate on why you think you did well on these aspects of your speech. What I believe I did well on was link the proverb with the speech and told a story that relates to it. The story was about how I tried skydiving for my first time‚ and was nervous for it. But after doing it I ended up liking it. Also I believe I did well when it came to looking at my note cards. Only looking backs at it a couple of times and always tried to make eye contact with
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The Tragedy of Oedipus: When the Connections Are Made The Revelation is the Tragedy Oedipus the King‚ a Greek play written by Sophocles‚ tells the tragic life story of King Oedipus. What make the play tragic is not the literal series of events that occurred‚ but the story and the narration behind the events. Several elements contribute to the difference between Oedipus’s own autobiographical accounts and what others know of him. It is only when that gap is closed that the reality of the situation
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poem‚ like Before You Were Mine‚ is autobiographical‚ but more obviously so. Mrs. Tilscher is a real person‚ who taught Carol Ann Duffy in her last year at junior school. The poem is about rites of passage‚ the transition (move or change) from childhood to adolescence and the things we learn at school‚ from our teachers and from our peers. Duffy also associates the oppressive feeling we have in humid weather with the physical changes of puberty. Leaving primary school for the last time is like an escape
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Period 3 Montgomery 9/9/14 This Day In History 1 Have you ever wondered how or when the first tanks were built? In September 1915‚ the first prototype tank built was named Little Willy. Weighing 14 tons and only moving 2 mph‚ Little Willy was far from a success. The idea came from a British colonel named Ernest Swinton. Swinton’s idea was to create an armored vehicle that would tear through enemy lines and destroy their troops. The performance of Little Willy was not so great. It was slow and
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1. Describe a time when you experienced a significant period of suffering. How did you deal with that experience? How did you find comfort in the midst of suffering? I was almost 4 months pregnant with our second child and put on bedrest‚ the day of my checkup and ultrasound I began to have extreme pain. Before going to my appointment‚ I went to the bathroom and I heard a big gush‚ then the toilet began to fill with blood. I had a miscarriage‚ I did not deal with it very well and sometimes I still
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Alyssa Palomo Professor Braman GEW September 29‚ 2014 Treat Others How You Would like To Be Treated When I was a little girl‚ I would go up the people in wheelchairs or people carrying items or people who looked weird to me and ask so many questions. “Why are you sitting there?”‚ “What’s that you’re carrying?”‚ “Are you going to make balloons?”‚ “What’s that on your face?”‚ “Why do you have two different colors on your face and arms?” One Saturday‚ Mom took me and my sisters to the
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Beauty “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” by Alice Walker is an essay describing her personal experience with what beauty truly is. Alice Walker is an African American writer who has won many awards for her writing. A few of these awards include a Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. In her autobiographical story “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self‚” she tells us the story of how she tragically lost and then finally regained her self-esteem after much agony. She tells a personal
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