Veterans Day was at first celebrated as Armistice day. There was an Act on May 13th‚ 1938‚ that was approved to make November 11th every year an annual holiday called Armistice Day. Armistice Day was the day when they celebrated the ending of World War I. The treaty for the war was signed on the eleventh month‚ day‚ and hour. On June 1st‚ 1954‚ Armistice Day’s name was changed to Veterans Day. Veterans Day has added meaning to me because I have several relatives that have served in wars. My grandfather
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Teacher-for-a-Day; What I Say GOES I have recently won the school contest for being the most gorgeous girl in the school. The prize was to be teacher-for-a-day. So many ideas ran through my head. I could do anything I want and ever imagined to do! It is so hard to choose what I wanted to do. School is only eight hours out of the day‚ how could I ever get all I wanted in that time span. If I really had to choose three most important thing to do as teacher-for-a-day‚ it would have to be change
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have always wanted to have a garden wedding and coincidentally‚ Christian wanted one too. We hired a talented wedding planner who made our wedding day much more memorable. The venue was decorated with white and cream flower arrangements and guests were informed to dress in beige or cream to follow the colour coordination.b The morning of the wedding day started off with an anxiety attack. I can recall myself overthinking everything and panicking miserably. Christian and I followed the tradition of
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Groundhog Day is a 1993 film starring Bill Murray and directed by Harold Ramis. The story follows a weatherman‚ Phil Connors‚ unhappy with his life as he reluctantly travels to Punxsutawney to cover a news story about Groundhog Day on February 2. After a storm hits (that Phil had wrongfully predicted would miss them) the news team are forced to stay in Punxsutawney for the night. When Phil wakes up he is surprised to see that it is February 2 again‚ and the day’s events follow exactly like they did
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Wedding Day Every little girl dreams about her wedding day. I was no different. An Indian marriage is performed with great funfair. All people whether rich or poor want it to be a memorable occasion. My wedding day was the most joyous day of my life. Since then‚ I have learned that such moments do not happen all the time. It is important to enjoy them. My wedding day was fulfilled with many emotional including happiness‚ sadness‚ fear‚ and excitement. My wedding has been the most blissful
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gray rain wall dropped out of the sky. Lightning. Then thunder. We‚ the already-tired crew on the feature film Yellow Day‚ were stuck. We quickly covered the large cameras in heavy plastic and donned rain gear while Bob‚ our Dutch production manager‚ called it for the day. Not good. Forty employees sitting idle is not cheap. And I’m the executive producer/writer of Yellow Day. I’m looking at every rain drop and thinking each one costs us a dollar. I look out onto the set‚ which is anything but
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In my day by Russell Baker Russell Baker‚ talks about his old and ailing mother in “In My Day”. With her growing age grew her senility‚ and she behaved like a young child on some days‚ while she invited her son to her funeral some other days. The author’s main purpose is to unravel the human emotions and highlighting some of the shortcomings we have as humans. He speaks both in subjective and objective terms as he tells of how we all have a habit of bringing to the forefront our past lives‚ but
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The "Ode of Remembrance" is an ode taken from Laurence Binyon’s poem "For the Fallen"‚ which was first published in The Times in September 1914. The poet wrote For the Fallen‚ which has seven stanzas‚ while sitting on the cliffs between Pentire Point and The Rumps in north Cornwall‚ UK. A stone plaque was erected at the spot in 2001 to commemorate the fact. The plaque bears the inscription For the Fallen Composed on these cliffs 1914 However there is also a plaque on the beehive monument on the East
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World Environment Day (WED) is a day that stimulates awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and public action. It is on 5 June. It was the day that United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began. The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was from 5–16 June 1972. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972.[1] The first World Environment Day was on 1973. World Environment Day is hosted every year by a different city with a different
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Remembering the happiest event is one of the good ways to refresh yourself. One day is still stuck to my mind when I graduated from King Saud University in Saudi Arabia from Business College in 2009. The night before graduation was the worst night. Last semester‚ I had four classes so I passed all of them except one class I was waiting for the final grade. Also‚ it was the hardest class in that semester. Consequently‚ I ran out of patience and I was very worried about it. As result‚ I was frustrated
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