during my lifetime‚ but none compared with my grandma’s house in Guadalajara‚ Mexico. I remember it as if it was yesterday. When I was thirteen I lived with my grandma for four weeks on her ranch‚ and can say that it felt like home. I have always enjoyed traveling to Mexico and the best part about my trip was my grandma’s house‚ it’s been my favorite place to live. Every morning I woke up to the sounds of cows mooing right outside the bedroom window. The bright sunshine always shined upon my face
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1. One of my favorite Holidays is 4th of July. A few years ago my dad and I went to Washington to pick out some illegal fireworks. So we went to the Black Cat firework store . I got some mortars and roman candles and all the fun fireworks you could think of. So the day before 4th of July we were lighting off a few roman candles and all of a sudden a under cover police car pulled into our driveway and the police officer inside the car said “are you lighting off illegal fireworks?” because he saw
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Do you know what’s your favorite holiday is? I do. Every Christmas I can count on gifts‚ food‚ and family. First of all every Christmas morning my little brother is the first one up early‚ waiting for our mother to wake up and let him open gifts. Video games‚ clothes‚ tablets‚ and sneakers are in the boxes under the tree. I received an iPad‚ Pavilion laptop and Dre Beats for my music. My mother received everything she wanted and that’s us being happy and appreciative. Furthermore everybody was
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The lights beamed down with intensity at the green field. All was silent‚ for my team had just got done with practice. I was sitting down in the stands imagining the next day‚ everyone cheering‚ adrenaline pumping‚ and ready to take on the opposing team. I had this vision of being in the last minutes of the game with a tied score‚ tired but motivated. The ball passed to me as I ran through the field‚ shifting and pushing through the opposing team. I was now within range and with only the goalie
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speaking about the president in such a negative way that it sends red flags about your intentions. Because of the high terrorist alerts‚ people have to limit what they say about bombs‚ 9/11‚ and anything they may say out of anger about our government or country. I am glad that more and more people realize that freedom of speech has a limit! One of the obvious shortages of too much freedom of speech is the bad influence on the public. Nowadays Internet becomes an important medium for free expression. Anyone
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As we walked into our own charter bus‚ on the day of Thanksgiving‚ we started to realize that we had just walked into our worst nightmare‚ yet an amazing dream. This year thanksgiving was going to be completely different from the past ones. My team and I were going to a tournament filled with college scouts at Dallas. We were going to spend our entire break playing soccer. We were going to come back home‚ covered in purple and blue bruises in all shapes and sizes. Also‚ we were going to come
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R. N. L. Laresma ESSAY Japan‚ a country that shows us even through hard times‚ even a great war‚ could rise up from the ashes and be one of greatest countries in the world. They have shown us their intellectual knowledge about advancement in technology‚ technology that we today‚ use throughout our daily lives. Their culture has shaped the minds of people from all over the world‚ sharing their skills and creativity through means of modern day mediums. This‚ and other unique attributes of
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One of my favorite books is Point Guard‚ by Mike Lupica. This book is about a girl named Cassie who has been the best at sports her whole life. She played softball and girl’s basketball‚ but her team always won. Eventually she got tired of everything being easy‚ so she decided that she was going to play on the boy’s basketball team this year. Her friend Gus Morales doesn’t know what to think of this. He doesn’t know if or why he is against a girl playing with boys. Throughout the season Gus has to
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The rise of Japan has been greeted by countries around the world with a mixture of surprise and wariness. Western powers in particular‚ perceived the rise of Japan as a regional threat to their interest in the far East. The document‚ a letter written by President Roosevelt to Senator Knox regarding the relations between the United States (US) and Japan in 1909 is a reflection of the wariness of Western powers to the rise of Japan. Furthermore‚ the letter also shows an important passage in the social
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------------------------------------------------- The global context of Japan outside Japan – Harumi Befu Since 1980s – globalization buzzword in Japanese media Japan is said to be “globalizing” in all respects‚ but above all‚ in its economic sphere While Japan’s globalization in the economic sense had been widely discussed -> social and cultural globalization has not been a topic of much discussion so far Globalization <-> Internalization Internalization implies a relationship between
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