My Favorite Mistake Madeleine Albright on the time she stuck it to Putin. Jul 25‚ 2011 1:00 AM EDT Madeleine Albright.‚ Cindy Marler / Hollandse Hoogte-Redux When I was America’s biggest diplomat‚ I made a really bad mistake. This is how it happened. In 1999‚ President Clinton‚ Defense Secretary William Cohen‚ and I were in a room together‚ celebrating the 50th anniversary of NATO. It was a completely accidental thing; we were just sitting and joking around‚ and we pretended to be the “See
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Throughout the short story‚ “My Favorite Chaperone‚” written by Jean Davis Okamoto‚ the siblings Maya and Nurzhan do things to deceive and trick their parents‚ all in an effort to help one another‚ as they try to adjust to life in the United States. The story itself is about Maya and her family‚ who moved to America from Kazakhstan. Together they overcome challenges from others and from themselves‚ and in the end they are a stronger and more developed family. At the beginning of the story‚ Maya
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Music as art. My favorite music style. Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence that are organized in time in a special way. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony)‚ rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo‚ meter‚ and articulation)‚ dynamics‚ and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. In the historical context the development of music is inseparable from the active development of person’s sensory abilities. Course of the auditory development of the
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on Long Island‚ near the now married Daisy‚ and begins the process of recapturing her favors. I have read this book in my junior year of high school. It was I truly memorable book because it was taught by an enthusiastic and descriptive teacher. It’s what isn’t written and the hidden‚ subtle meanings between the lines and my potent reaction that makes this book one of my favorite classics of American Literature. Also Fitzgerald’s elegant‚ almost dance-like‚ symbolic and deep prose; yes‚ many might
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I really don’t think I have a favorite; I think I have a few of favorite pastimes. My favorite pastimes are NASCAR‚ baseball‚ and football for sports. Others would be watching television or movies‚ and probably sleep. I think my favorite pastime of them all would be NASCAR. I started watching NASCAR when I was really little. I always was sitting in front of the television every Sunday. For the past five years we have been going to Michigan International Speedway for the whole weekend when the Sprint
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My favorite entrepreneur: Ms. Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey was born into poverty by a teenage single mother in 1954 in Kosciusko‚ Mississippi. For the earliest years of her life she was raised by her maternal grandmother‚ and under her kind-hearted discipline was taught to read by the age of two and speak exceptionally by the age of three. When Winfrey was six years old‚ she was sent to live with her mother in Wisconsin. She was submerged into inner-city Milwaukee‚ and faced the hardships of growing
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Headquartered in Orlando‚ Fla.‚ Darden Restaurants is the world’s largest full-service restaurant company. Through subsidiaries‚ Darden owns and operates more than 1‚825 restaurants across North America‚ employing approximately 180‚000 employees and serving 400 million meals annually. HISTORY The company’s roots can be traced back to 1938 when 19-year-old Bill Darden opened a 25-seat luncheonette in Waycross‚ Ga.‚ named The Green Frog. The success of his first restaurant‚ and several more‚ ultimately
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Favorite Teacher Hi! My name is Ameha Tsegai. My favorite teacher is Mrs.Magnusen. She is my favorite teacher because she has done a lot for me. She always makes teaching fun and easy. The students in her class learn faster because the way she teaches. I learn fast too because I am also in her class. She is a special teacher‚ and she is very nice and kind. She is a good teacher because she always makes sure everybody learned the lesson. If one student does not understand the lesson‚ she carefully
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Choosing a favorite teacher is fairly difficult when one puts into account all the types of teachers they have known‚ all of them are important. Teachers are the second most important people in our lives‚ right after our parents. Teachers are persuasive and have the power to build a child up from an immature student to become a responsible adult; or they can completely and utterly crush a students hopes and dreams. As an identical twin my mother has always pulled a few strings to have my sister and
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When I spoke with Marko‚ and asked him about what are his favorites activities and interests; he told me that he is not participating in any of sport activities in school and outside the school neither‚ he explained me that sport activities are not interesting for him‚ but that he has few interests. He is interesting in playing video games‚ and he likes to draw‚ since he is expressing his thoughts and feelings through drawing (McLeod‚ 2013). The second participant was a male. His name is Ivan. Ivan
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