this season‚ you will see beautiful lights and creative paroles‚ hearing Christmas songs along the way‚ and smelling different native delicacies offered by the vendors in the streets. Caroling starts in December. Children in small groups go from house to house to sing Christmas carols. Church choirs or youth groups also visit homes to perform great songs but unlike the traditional children’s caroling‚ they use the earnings for goodwill projects. On the day of Christmas‚ we attend Misa de Aguinaldo which
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Descriptive versus Narrative This essay is to compare-contrast a narrative and descriptive essay The essays I chose were‚ “Are the Rich Happy?” written by Stephen Leacock (1916) for the narrative essay and “Homeless” written by Anna Quindlen (n.d.) for the descriptive essay. The title of both essays is what caught my eye and the reason why I read them. Although‚ I enjoyed reading both essays‚ I felt the descriptive essay “Homeless” had more value and was the better read. Therefore‚ in this essay
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The Pomegranate Most people have a favorite fruit they enjoy to eat from time to time. I love bananas‚ and oranges‚ but my favorite is a little something more exotic... It’s the Pomegranate. My Dad used to bring us Pomegranates as a rare treat when I was younger. My Mom would put the seeds into a bowl and sprinkle sugar on top. The origins of this delicious colorful fruit date back to ancient middle east. The Pomegranate thrives in dry and arid climates and is frost resistant. This fruit is grown
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get the chance to go to Publix‚ I’m like a kid in a candy store. Usually my first stop in Publix is the bakery. Publix sets up their stores so that the bakery is the first area you would start shopping in as you enter the store. They want to make sure you smell the fresh baked bread‚ donuts‚ cookies and pies enticing your appetite so you will buy more groceries. . The display cases are filled with all my favorite bakery items. The glazed donuts‚ chocolate donuts‚ cakes and pies are
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fathers death‚ and how the weight of the family shifted from his shoulders too her shoulders after he pass. Katniss expresses her animosity toward her mother for leaving her and Prim to fend for themselves. “I thought of the hours spent in the woods with my father and I knew how we were going to survive” (Collins‚ 22). Katniss refers to her seeing the dandelion after seeing Peeta’s bruised face in the schoolyard and how that gave her hope for survival. Dandelions reminded Katniss of the book of plants
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I step into my math class‚ I see eight students lining up in a row with their hands out in front of them. Mercilessly‚ the teacher swings his stick at their hands‚ counting from one to ten. Each time the stick beats down‚ I can feel as if a nail is hammered into my eardrums. My heart continues to pound as some of the students cries. The mad teacher finishes up with his beatings and yells out‚ “Getting 50% and under is unacceptable!” The sudden scream from the teacher scares me as my hands squeeze
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had dug right into my heart‚ as if someone had stabbed me at that moment. Her eyes were frosty deep blue‚ she had blond hair the smell of divine cherry‚ and her perfume of sweet vanilla. As I walked away from her you could hear the creeks of the floor as I took each step down that colorless hall. When I entered our room; I could almost remember every single one of our happiest moments. As I started to weep silently I got out one of the traveling bags from underneath the bed‚ took my clothes from the
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it. My item brings me back to when I made on of the best decisions of my life. When I was younger‚ my mother asked me if I wanted to join Cadets. I wasn’t sure at first because at 12 years old you are usually quite shy‚ but on the other side‚ you want to start facing things on your own. I decided to join‚ and from that moment on‚ I felt like I was on top of the world. A dress uniform‚ dress boots‚ a combat uniform‚ combat boots‚ epaulets‚ PT gear and the most important of all‚ to me‚ were my berets
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A late December night Like many other nights; it is late and I am tired‚ leaving the bar after my shift and driving home. It must be close to 4o’clock in the morning now; the roads are covered in snow like a cozy white blanket on a cold black night. I seem to be alone on this two lane highway; my headlights are the only ones shining‚ like two beckons in a lighthouse searching for others in the dark. The roads have just been plowed‚ very little is on the pavement but the snow is falling fast‚ within
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trustworthy‚ admired by a lot of people for his brave deeds and noble qualities and has an outstanding achievement. At myhero.com‚ a website to honor heroes either dead or alive. There is an article written by an author named Elaine titled ‘Barack Obama My Hero’. In this article she writes that he is hero because he is trustworthy‚ courageous and inspires a lot of people around the world. Also she writes that he has achieved what no African American has‚ that is becoming the first African American to
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