like to share my personal experience on writing my very first essay. I did my first writing during 6th grade‚ I was around the age of 10 or 11. I remember writing my first actual essay. It was an essay about myself‚ and I did it at school during elementary years in my country. Because of the lack of knowledge of what I was doing‚ I felt like I was struggling and I couldn’t remember anything useful to improve my writing. I would often spend countless time
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ARISTOTLE Aristotle was Plato’s greatest student. One of his big contributions to philosophy was the theory of the four kinds of causes. Aristotle’s ideal state would be ruled by the virtuous citizens. Aristotle thinks that a state is an association for allowing each citizen to live well. What was Aristotle’s notion of friendship? It was broader than our modern notion of friendship. It was closer to the idea of people helping each other be virtuous. Aristotle thought the state had a duty to morally
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Peiwen Su Professor Ibrahim English 107 October 5‚ 2014 Mother Tongue Amy Tan uses her mother’s experiences as a sample to represent a type of new immigrants who is always disrespected by locals and have troubles in dealing a lot of things; the reason why this happens is because they cannot speak English well. However‚ from Tan’s perspective‚ although non-native speakers should also improve their English if they want to fit in to different cultures‚ native speaker
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"MOTHER TO SON" OF LANGSTON HUGHES "Mother to Son" of Langston Hughes is my favorite. What the mother in the poem tries to tell her son is that there will be many rough roads that he has to go by in his life but she hopes that he will not give and complete it like his mother. Through the dialect that Hughes used in his poem‚ we can see that the mother was not a well educated woman by the way she talks "there ain’t" (13) and some grammar mistakes. She was living a poor area with "boards torn up"
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Mother Tongue The essay I want to write on is Mother Tongue‚ which is written by Amy Tan. This article recalls me some adversities when the first few days I came to the United States. Amy is an ethnic Chinese writer who was born and living in United States. She was faced with language problem during her life. In this essay‚ Amy Tan talks about her mother’s broken grammar and the dialogue in English without grammar between her mother and her. But when Amy talks with other people‚ gives a speech‚
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MOTHER TERESA Mother Theresa was a very prominent figure in the Catholic Church for many years. She was mostly associated with Calcutta‚ India - where she did most of her work. Inspired at a very early age she lived her life Christ wanted‚ doing everything to help the poorest of the poor. Mother Teresa‚ or Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu‚ was born to Nikolle and Dranafille Bojaxhiu on August 26‚ 1910. She was born in Shkup‚ which was in the center of the Ottoman Empire at the time (Present "" day Macedonia)
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would like to share a story about my maids. I used to rely on maid services because I have two children‚ aged one and three respectively. When my eldest son was born‚ I initially sent him to a babysitter who lived nearby my area. However‚ the babysitter was only able to take care of my son until he was six months old due to her own pregnancy. So‚ because of the unavailability of my babysitter‚ I really needed to find a maid to look after my kids when I was away at work. My first maid was from Indonesia
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Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations working in approximately 90 countries worldwide to find solutions to poverty§ and related injustice§ around the world.[1] In all Oxfam’s actions‚ the ultimate goal is to enable people to exercise their rights and manage their own lives. Oxfam works directly with communities and seeks to influence the powerful‚ to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them. Each organization
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bad influence to myself and to my peers. Today I learn it wasn’t that I needed to do community service‚ it’s to do it for life experience. I can learn a lot in doing things that are positive in life. In the past years‚ my life was all about negative thoughts and things that I did was completely bad and not positive. All I did was hang out with friends‚ did drugs stayed out after school and didn’t came home till night. I really didn’t know what I was going to do with my life‚ I was in a place where
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Poem for my Mother – Jennifer Davids Notes Outline It is an afternoon and the mom is washing clothes in a tub. The child has written a poem for her mother and gives it to her as she is washing. The mother scans the poem but rejects it as not being ‘all there is to life’. She feels that there is much more to life than reading or writing poetry. Despite her protest‚ the mother glances at the poem while she continues to wash clothes. Stanza 1 The mother obviously has given her life to hard
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