Chapter 1: Describe your village or neighborhood. What are the advantages and disadvantages of living in the country? * Good morning‚ James and longtime no see you! * Hi‚ Jack! How are you? * I am fine. I have a big choose. I will buy a new house in this month. * Wow! That is awesome! Congratulation! * Thanks! Now I have a problem. I want to live in the countryside but I do not know what it looks like in Vietnam. Can you describe it? * Of course! My hometown has a lot of greenery
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Colorado Springs was founded on July 31st‚ 1871‚ by General William Palmer. Nearby the newly founded town was Peak Pikes‚ the mountain attracted people with a thirst of sightseeing. Before Bakersfield became what it is now it was first seen as a resting stop for travelers (in search of the gold mines). Many of the travelers would settle in that land. Eventually‚ the land was known as Bakersfield because the person who owned land was Colonel Thomas Baker. Bakersfield officially became a city in
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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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Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos (Nia Vardalos) is going through an early midlife crisis. At thirty‚ she is the only woman in her family who has "failed". Her family expects her to "marry a Greek boy‚ make Greek babies‚ and feed everyone until the day she dies." Instead‚ Toula is stuck working in the family business‚ a restaurant‚ "Dancing Zorba’s". In contrast to her "perfect" sister‚ Athena (Stavroula Logothetis)‚ Toula is frumpy and cynical. She fears she’s doomed to be stuck with her life as it is
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unique ways. To escape all my troubles I always go on a walk by myself. Walking to class reminds me of all the times I walked around my neighborhood in my hometown. Outside my dorm I noticed the many sorority posters on all of the girls doors around me. In the elevator I caught a glimpse of a bright green notice about the Tiger Transit service for Clemson students. This was most evident and noticeable because of the bright colors and images attached to the notice. Outside my dorm‚ hills surround me;
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night from Leavenworth to Overland Park‚ Kansas gave me some time to think. I just dropped off my younger son‚ Andrew‚ for a five-day personal development seminar‚ and I welcomed the chance to remember a similar night six years ago. Andrew‚ I concluded‚ was fortunate. Attending as a 17-year-old would give him valuable resources he could use for his entire life. I received these same tools shortly after my 41st birthday. Not that I’m unappreciative to have received these tools later in life‚ just
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MY LAI MASSACRE AS A RESULT OF OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY The Vietnam controversy made many people feel at distress. It was never considered a "war‚" although that is exactly what it was. The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam was one of the many atrocities of that war. There is an unquestionable connection between Milgram ’s "Obedience to Authority" and the My Lai Massacre. According to Kelman & Hamilton‚ "Unquestioning obedience has been the cause of such disasters as the My Lai massacre and the Holocaust
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old photograph of a boy which is a 9-10 year in a costume‚ we are told that she is not quite as old as he is. We know that she is a young girl‚ judging by her verbal skill and behavior. “With the sun in my eyes‚ I couldn’t see my mammy’s face‚ not even squinting with both arms above my head and my head tilted”. (p.2‚ l.22-23) The language is very descriptive and it seems as if one were looking through the eyes of a child. The short story varies from other traditional first person stories by putting
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achieve success he felt like he needed to leave home. Staples didn’t want his past to affect who he was trying to become. As he said in the essay “I added a psychological dimension to the physical distance that I had already achieved I rarely visited my hometown” (Staples 361). Staples thought that if he could add this dimension to his life then he would be able to help his brother out. I understand why he wanted to block out his past. Some of the people I’ve hung out with did things I disagreed with
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morality of the building. (The artless word P96) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe‚ as one of the most “Zeigeist” architects in the biography of modern architecture‚ began his career under this ultimate paradox era. Now we scale our eyes down to the three projects successively done by Mies van der Rohe during the 1920s‚ that is the Brick Country House‚ the Wolf House‚ and the Barcelona Pavilion‚ through which‚ we can follow the penetration of Mies’ ideological transformation from the neoclassicism to the
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