Karen Candelaria & Han Nguyen US History Period 4 January 25‚ 2016 Billie Holiday The musical artist we chose to write about was Billie Holiday. The topics that we’ll be explaining are her life‚ her musical career and what lead her to become famous‚ and one of her songs called “Strange Fruit” with the background story behind the song’s meaning. We decided to do this project because she’s known to be one of the best jazz singer back then and we wanted to know how and why she was so interested in
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A Holiday from Hell This holiday is no ordinary holiday; it was a holiday from hell. So let me tell you about these dreadful few weeks. I was on a nice peaceful holiday by myself‚ going fishing every morning whilst drinking Crown Lager. Then I came across a fish. It looked like some sort of three eyed creature. Now this three eyed creature was so unusual. It looked like the one you often see in the Simpsons but instead the colour was white. Just white‚ no other colours except white. So I went
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Lower Secondary English STU001 The picture are about a girl planning how to spend her school holidays. Using the pictures‚ write a stiry on how Mei Lin plans to spend the holidays. 1. School holidays again – Mei Lin – many things to do – English teacher – pupils write composition on holidays 2. Mei Lin – cook and sew – going to ask mother teach cooking – compile recipes – add collection 3. Promised help mother – sew curtains – cushion covers – Christmas 4.
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Although many traditions seen today makes modern Christmas intriguing to Christians and Non-Christians alike‚ it is far from the European Pagan festivals it was derived from. In an effort to show possible elements that came to encompass this Christian holiday‚ one can look at the representation of the modifications each region has included to their Christmas celebration. This allows one to grasp how and why it still has a modern-day significance. Christian customs‚ specifically Christmas traditions have
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INTRODUCTION (what is the story about) Last year I went to visit my grandpa in Ireland. My dad and mum are both from Ireland‚ so I have lots of cousins there. I had been in Ireland before‚ but this trip was going be the most interesting ever. I would discover the Stuarts had a dark family secret. BODY (what happened) Grandpa met us at Belfast Airport. We had been travelling for a long time and were tired and hungry. “Let’s get you home young lad and get some good old Irish sausages into
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A mother and daughter lived together in a room at the Harvest Inn Bed and Breakfast in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains‚ up until the daughter asked for a new room‚ complaining that her mother kept the room to warm for her. The heat in the room wasn’t the only problem‚ there was also an awful stench that the daughter failed to mention to the owners when she requested her own room‚ according to NBC10. The owners‚ Tony and Mary McHugh‚ rarely entered Moira Richey and her mother‚ Patricia Richey’s
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During the summer holidays I have no hurry to wake up‚ hence I wake up slowly and prepare myself a nice full breakfast. On the table I always find a paper with the grocery needs and some money my mother would have left before going to work. I put on some clothes and leave quietly to do the errand‚ but I never expected that a simple run to the grocer would change my perspective towards life. One particular day I carried out the same procedure and as I got in the supermarket‚ I took a trolley and started
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some specific sentence over and over again. But‚ these English Communication classes are really improving the way we used English. Skit Write-up Sydney‚ Christa and Marra Vin had 3 month holiday after the final exam for their college‚ they had the most of the time in the world so they decided to go for a vacation to somewhere overseas. Christa suggested they go for beach in Thailand and then Sydney suggested Railay Beach. They took about
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Canterbury Tales: The Tabard Inn In the Canterbury Tales‚ written by Geoffery Chaucer‚ the Tabard Inn is an extremely important setting. This is where the pilgrimage to Canterbury starts. This short essay will summarize and analyze every aspect of the Tabard inn in order to paint a picture of the setting in the readers mind. The Tabard Inn is an actual inn in Southwark‚ a town south of London. In one season‚ and on one particular day‚ Chaucer happens to go to this inn. From there‚ he is getting ready
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lMy Holiday in Florida The day i was told i was going on a holiday of a lifetime was on my 12th birthday‚ and that was it ‚the anticipation was building for 26 months. Every morning i would wake up with the thought of it and realise it so far away until eventually the day came to pack and get ready. The next day we got up early and hoped the taxi would arrive on time to take us to the train station to catch the train to Edinburgh Haymarket and then to Manchester Airport. We got there on time
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