Describe the world you come from; for example‚ your family‚ clubs‚ school‚ community‚ city‚ or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and aspirations?(*) (200-250 words) Growing up in an immigrant Russian Jewish family resembles a chess tournament. All pieces have their precise position‚ movements and strategies; all my family members work together to achieve an ultimate goal of making it in this wonderful county. This puts enormous pressure on me since I am the oldest child‚ holding the
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“Where are you from?” a question which to normal teenagers may claim one‚ possibly two answers that all but define who they are. Be it morally‚ religiously‚ or sewn into their traits and personalities‚ society widely considers a person’s home to be at the center of who they are‚ yet what is it like for a child who cannot relate to one home‚ two‚ or even three‚ but instead ten different locations before the age of eighteen? This is the answer to that question‚ the story of who I am. Setting off
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ROTTEN BEEF AND STINKING FISH: RIZAL AND THE WRITING OF PHILIPPINES HISTORY Ambeth R. Ocampo 3 Stages on Writing Philippine History Colonizers’ History Elites’ History People’s History History Three concepts 1) history-as-activity -past human activities and events 2) history-as-record -records of such past human events 3) history-as-historiography -process or technique of making or writing such records History Estoria – Greek Historia – Latin Historie – French History
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I Am from the Place Where My Mind Is Affiliated “Cady‚ where are you from?” “I am from Beijing.” “Can you teach me some Beijing dialect? I’ve heard it’s awesome!” “Well… I don’t speak Beijing dialect. I speak mandarin.” “That is impossible! Are you really from Beijing?” I saw the disappointed and skeptical look in my friend’s eyes. Whenever people asked me where I am from‚ I will give them the same answer-Beijing-without any hesitation. Although both my parents are not originally from Beijing‚ born
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The book Where things come back by John Corey Whaley is a book about how everything seems to go down at some point‚ but all ended up coming into the right place at the end. The story starts off in a small town called Lily—a small town in Arkansan. Cullen Witter’s cousin Oslo died; his aunt went crazy while Cullen finished his last year of high school. After school‚ he went on a date with a girl his best friend Lucas Cader had to introduce him to—Alma‚ who had a failed marriage and came back to her
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Peyton. The film uses 3D cameras in North Carolina and Hawaii. The main actor in the film is Dwayne Johnson and Josh Huteherson. The story happened in an American family. The children in the family like exploration. He knows the “Mysterious Island” from the book. He is very interesting in that place‚ so he is ready to go to the island with his father. They came to the place as said in the book‚ but there is nothing. They feel a little sad. At that moment‚ a tornado brings them to an unknown place
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Many people use twitter to be connected to others‚ business‚ or just to get along with trend. Behind the popularity of twitter‚ it is also gave effect in language field where it brings out new words which once only used for the site then become popular among the social media world. In this paper‚ I want to explain the some new words from twitter. II. New words a. Data No. New Words Phonetic Transcription Etymology Meaning 1. Tweeps (n) /twi:ps/ A person ’s followers in social media website Twitter
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From Boys to Savages Does every individual have the capacity to commit mass murder? Would the Dalai Lama commit unspeakable evil under the proper circumstances. Lord of the Flies is a novel written by William Golding about a group of ordinary schoolboys stranded on a remote island free from adult supervision‚ the boys eventually commit unspeakable acts of violence and evil. The boys are unconsciously mimicking the world around them where the adults engaged in a world war. Almost anyone under the
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According to the critical lens by William Saroyan‚ “Good people… are good because they’re come to wisdom through failure.” In other words that a person can learn from mistakes and become a better person. Two literary works that agree with this statement are The Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. The novel by William Golding‚ The Lord of the Flies reveals with a person can learn from mistakes and become a better person. The setting took place on an
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Introduction Native American writer Joy Harjo has crafted a poem‚ “The Dawn Appears with Butterflies‚” that is both a song of mourning and a song of joy. This paper analyzes her poem. Discussion Because the poem is long‚ it won’t be quoted extensively here‚ but it is attached at the end of the paper for ease of reference. Instead‚ the paper will analyze the poetic elements in the work‚ stanza by stanza. First‚ because the poem is being read on-line‚ it’s not possible to say for certain that
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