Funny in Farsi is a non-fiction story about a young girl named Firoozeh Dumas who moved from Iran to America when she was seven. Her parents‚ Kazem and Nazireh‚ and her brothers and she all moved to Whittier‚ California in search of a better life. Her dad‚ an engineeer with the National Iranian Oil Company is assigned to work for an American firm. Her dad thinks that the United States is the promised land. Dumas explains her life as an Iranian immigrant in the United States. Her stories of adapting
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Our professor gave us this homework of writing a feature article about ourselves‚ more of an autobiography if I must assume. At first I wasn’t so sure what to write. I decided to search the internet and find out first what is feature writing and how do you do it. Then I came up with this article… Sometimes a task can seem monumental when you try to visualize the entire thing‚ but if you break it down into smaller goals‚ suddenly it can be manageable. That is how I perceive my life
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The basic discount rate is adjusted from time to time‚ in light of changing market conditions‚ to complement open market operations and to support the general thrust of monetary policy. Changes in the discount rate are made judgmentally rather than automatically and may somewhat lag changes in market rates. The immediate response of market interest rates to a change in the discount rate -- the announcement effect -- depends partly on the extent to which the change has been anticipated. If rates have
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I Had A Dream About You The beginning of the poem is about a dream reflecting the beginning of a relationship‚ or more specifically‚ your relationship. In your dream it seems you had a lot of fun‚ throwing oranges at your boyfriend‚ and all the kisses. In the next dream‚ you’re progressing in the relationship‚ and things get a bit more serious and realistic. In the last dream he seems to be getting annoyed with you‚ even though you’re the same. You stay a static character and he isn’t‚ in the
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commonly think that the American dream is all about being rich and other kind of lazy stuff. In other words “easy money”. But that is not actually true. The real idea of the American dream is: opportunities‚ because in America you have the opportunity to pursuit your dream. In the American dream you have the opportunities to be‚ create‚ have or build almost whatever you want in other words to “live good”. One of the biggest exponents of this complete idea of American dream is Mark Zuckerberg‚ the creator
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wondered what the Bible says about dreams and dream interpretation? The Bible talks about dreams and visions quite frequently. The two most well-known occurrences would be the stories of Joseph and Daniel. Both Joseph and Daniel interpreted dreams. Were they born with supernatural gifts? Many people have this confused. Some people think that they did have a special gift or talent. Well‚ maybe we should look to the Bible for this one. In Genesis 40‚ two prisoners each had dreams and they told Joseph they
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When we go to bed at night we close our eyes and hope we have a great dream. What happens when the dream is not so pleasant? Instead you have a horrible dream called a nightmare. Nightmares can be very disturbing. When it comes to the human mind‚ it is hard for us to know why it acts a certain way‚ but we can always try to learn. Everyone has had a nightmare one time or another maybe when they were a child or even as an adult. But what happens when the nightmares are constant? The fact is
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Title Author(s) A study of acculturation‚ coping and psychological wellbeing of new immigrant women from Mainland China Fung‚ Wai-wah.; 馮偉華. Citation Issue Date URL Rights 2005 http://hdl.handle.net/10722/39904 The author retains all proprietary rights‚ (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. CHAPTER ONE: BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY In 1990‚ there were 27‚976 new arrivals to Hong Kong from Mainland China. Since July of 1995‚ the daily quota
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Why Not? The preferred reading from director Michael Haneke gives a lot of insight to why the audience felt the way they did. Haneke’s intended message of the film was irony. “All the rules that usually make the viewer go home happy and contented are broken in my film‚” (Haneke). This is why the film makes audiences so uncomfortable; it takes them out of their standard beliefs of what a film should have in it. Haneke breaks these rules several times to give the audience increased feelings of anxiousness
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