1/28/14 My Hometown My hometown is Kaiping‚ it is located in the southwest part of Guangdong province. Although is not a big city‚ but it is a very beautiful and warm city. It is located in the southwest part of Guangdong province. I have been lived there for thirteen years‚ until four years ago our family moved to San Francisco. I love to live in kaiping and I miss the time that I live in kaiping‚ for the environment is so comfortable and it around by greens. Like trees‚ flowers‚ mountains and
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fall semester of 2012‚ the first day of school‚ as I approach the door for my first period‚ I suddenly pause trying to catch my breath because I got lost. I’ve been in this school for 2 years but this was my first time being in this side of the building. I was able to catch my breath and open the door and saw that the teacher wasn’t there yet‚ I looked up all around to find an empty seat and there is this one guy who catches my attention. He doesn’t look like as excited like others but instead he just
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growing up in a small town. Small communities allow people to become acquainted‚ acquire a sense of security and familiarity. Although there may be many apparent positive aspects to smaller towns‚ people often living in acquire what is called a ’small town mentality’. This can be described as a unified way of thinking and behaving. Individuality and diversity are suppressed while town’s people begin to conform to traditionalistic views and stereotypes. Ways in which this small town mentality affects
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My Quality World Assignment As we open the course‚ we are going to dream. We will begin with the end in mind…what do we want to “transform” into both personally and professionally? Your dreams are a large element of who you are and what makes you unique. Having dreams give our life meaning‚ helps us make good choices‚ and allows us to keep going despite setbacks and problems. Most successful people have dreams…a vision of want they want in life. As a college student‚ you are in the process of dreaming
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000 that get injured yearly? There are many ways to prevent these accidents. The first is to just simply not do it! According to a Nationwide Insurance study in 2008‚ 66% of drivers between the age of 18 and 24 send or receive text messages while behind the wheel. Text messaging while driving leads the list as the biggest distraction while driving. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that distracted drivers account for almost 80% of all crashes and 65% of near-crashes in the
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well i do‚ welcome to my world. I can still remember the first time he hit me. I don’t remember what I did‚ or why he did it. But I do remember the soft embrace after‚ feeling his tears and remorse as he held me in his arms. I also remember believing him. I don’t think it happened like this ever again‚ him being so sorry. After that it was always my fault‚ both him and I believing this lie. I hadn’t really seen it coming‚ the physical abuse that is‚ however if you ask my mother she would tell you
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My World in 2050 The world in which I live in the year 2050 is only marginally different than the one we lived in fifty years ago. Communication technology at this point is really the only thing that has advanced in great leaps. In 2050‚ there are no more wires used in communication. No phone lines‚ no cables. Everyone has a satellite transmitter in their homes that can be used to transmit live video/audio feeds to anywhere in the world in a matter of seconds. This also means that the Internet
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and beliefs. Carmel Bird’s non-fiction text Stolen Generation: Their Stories effectively portrays the members of the Stolen Generation whose experiences are illustrated through personal narratives as well as objective reports. The stories about racial discrimination‚ forced separation‚ indignity and humiliation‚ and the loss of cultural identity are emotionally revealed by the Aboriginal people whose ‘voices’ are upheld by the composer of the text. The text upholds a range of Australian values which
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My Little Bit of Country Some of us might live in the big city. A city with a high density of population. Many people who is mainly busy all week. People who are trying to get to work early in the morning and then during rush hour‚ these busy people is trying to get home to their families. While some of us might live on the countryside‚ surrounded by the beautiful nature‚ and the only thing busy here‚ is Mother Nature. She is busy trying to maintain order in nature. The wind howling and rushing
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze Peter Hessler’s memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze chronicles his two-year experience as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching at the Fuling Teachers College in Fuling‚ a remote village in China’s Sichuan province. In addition to writing about his life and experiences in Fuling‚ Hessler provides detailed descriptions of the landscape‚ its people‚ and history. The village of Fuling had not seen foreigners in at least fifty years prior to the arrival of Peter
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