PART A: OUTLINE: I. DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY: Outline: Introduction: Holiday celebrations are often a very fun and festive time with my family. One such holiday is Tet holiday of year. Many families have fun days filled with love‚ gift sharing‚ eating‚ fun times and laughs. In my family the entire family gathers at my grandparent’s home. Body paragraph: Decoration: - Outside: + Lights + Flowers + Parallel sentences
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no way to ignore the ominous truth that death was near and abundant. The life in my loving great grandparents’ soft grey-blue eyes was just slipping away slowly‚ and there was nothing I could do about it. My parents told me that things could only get better. I felt as if they had lied to me. “Things” did not get better; “things” got worse‚ much worse. Always close at hand‚ my great grandparents lived next door to me my whole life. Both had soft‚ thinning‚ silver hair and smile lines around their
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Three day road is Joseph Boyden’s first novel‚ that chronicles the war experience from the perspective of Canadian First Nations People. The main characters are Xavier and Elijah‚ with Niska being a supporting character. Elijah and Xavier are stationed throughout the trenches of France‚ during world war one‚ fighting German and French soldiers. The Novel is told in first person view‚ offering perspectives from both Xavier and Niska. While Elijah and Xavier come from the same place (the bushes near
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I rush downstairs as fast as a five year old with snow pants a pink puffy jacket could. I put on my warmest socks that I packed and sit down on the couch so my mom can put on my snow boots. It’s 2007 and my parents decide to take us to our grandparents house in Vermont for our school vacation. We’re getting ready to go sledding on the Mount Snow golf course. After we all have our winter clothes on‚ we head outside. We all gather up the best sleds and start our journey to the hill. Me‚ being the
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in the short term. Exemplifying this is the notorious Black Friday. This is a day where we‚ as Americans‚ come together and spend as much as we see fit. This results in numerous economic and effects‚ and even some environmental effects. One year Canada was fed up with the excessive consumerism and created the opposite of Black Friday: Buy Nothing Day. According to Adbusters (“Buy Nothing Day‚” www.adbusters.org) this day was created to “expose the environmental and ethical consequences of overconsumption
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The relationships between grandparents and grandchildren vary within every family. Some families develop strong relationships with their grandchildren‚ while others are seemingly unrecognized by one another. For this interview‚ I was hoping to come into contact with an individual who has maintained a healthy relationship with his or her descendants. Originally I was going to interview someone outside of my family; however‚ I realized that if I were to interview my own grandmother‚ I could demonstrate
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your eye open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.” There are so many things to be thankful for in life‚ big and small. I am thankful for my grandparents‚ my dogs and cat‚ and my mom. I am thankful for them because of everything they do for me. I am thankful for my grandparents because they took me in when no one else could. They jumped in the moment I needed and were there for me then and still are now. They put up a wall upstairs and I officially moved in
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disease at a young age. I was living with my mom and my only set of grandparents. Life was good for my two year old self; I was about to turn three in a couple months. I never knew the disasters about to strike the Romo family. My grandfather would mow the lawn‚ do repairs to the house and go to his job. My grandmother stayed at home with me during the sunny days. She would do chores‚ make me amazing food and make sure I
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can always remember is my dog coco. It sounds cliché‚ but the reason Coco was my greatest gift was because it was a treasured gift from my grandparents‚ helped me socially‚ and brought me closer to my family. The way Coco was given to me was great because I was so surprised. It actually bought tears to my eyes‚ and made me realize how much more my grandparents loved me. At first‚ I wasn’t supposed to be getting a dog. My grandfather was adamant about me getting one because I couldn’t take care
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could have? 11. Recall the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas”: On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a partridge in a pear tree. On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me three French hens‚ two turtle doves‚ and a partridge in a pear tree. This pattern continues for 9 more days. After 12 days‚ a. which gifts did my true love give the most
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