into a slumberous torpor. His escapade was awoken by the ear-piercing screech of the microphone. As if on cue‚ the cacophony of gossips and conversation exchanged was also silenced when the principal and student councilor went onstage. “Please keep your reading materials” commenced the student councilor. Rustles of excitement were ensued subsequently‚ where the students were liberated from the tiresome chore of silent reading. “School‚ please stand” commanded the student councilor. Like prisoners
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cases destroyed) in movies such as Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer‚ Mission Impossible 3‚ and Godzilla: Final Wars‚ the Oriental Pearl Tower is widely considered a symbol of Shanghai. . Shanghainese kids start learning English in the first grade Like it or not‚ English is now a compulsory course for all pupils in Shanghai. Some anxious parents go so far as to send their toddlers to English-teaching kindergartens. Come to Shanghai in a decade‚ and you might find that everyone speaks
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Amazon.com—Not Your Average Bookstore Jeffrey Bezos‚ CEO and founder of Amazon.com‚ is running what some people refer to as the “world’s biggest bookstore.” The story of Bezos’s virtual bookstore teaches many lessons about online business. Out of nowhere‚ this digital bookstore turned an industry upside down. What happened here was more than just creating a Web site. Bezos conceived and implemented an intelligent‚ global digital business. Its business is its technology; its technology is its business
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of my alarm clock sounded like a countdown. The first day of high school was only two hours away. I was excited‚ but a lot more nervous. I got out of bed‚ got ready‚ and then was on my way to the bus stop. All I could think of are the stories I heard about CIS being so horrible with all the strict teachers‚ the really hard tests‚ and of course being new doesn’t help either. Everyone feels very anxious and at the same time nervous about their first day of school. The ride to the school was only twenty
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First Day I had just graduated high school about two months ago just starting my first semester in college. It was a summer semester and I started off taking three classes. This was all new to me my parents were no longer taking me and picking me up form school anymore. I would walk in the blaring Miami heat to the FIU engineering center then from there take the bus to the main campus. This was a special semester where I took all three classes with the same people who were all studying to
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Katy Cibulka Haag College Composition 27 January 2013 Just Your Average Snow Day In grade school‚ snow days were the absolute best part of the winter months and living in Missouri promised at least a few per year. One particular day in third grade stands out in my mind as the best snow day of all. Any kid could tell you how a snow day begins; waking up at the regular time and groggily recalling the forecast from the night before‚ we would run to the window and peer out to see the blinding white
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First Day at School in a New Country My family moved to the United States when I was fourteen‚ and I learned I would be going to a new school just two days after we had entered the country and I wasn’t assimilated to the culture or the language. Even though I took lots of English lessons when I was in China‚ when I learned I would not be attending a bilingual school like the other new immigrants‚ I was extremely apprehensive. My first day of school in a new country was extremely nervous
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My First Day In The U.S. As I remember it‚ the first day that I came to U.S. was June 26‚ 2006. My first day in U.S. was both exciting and upsetting‚ I was exciting about was seeing my mom for the first time over a year‚ the upsetting part is I had to leave my good memories in my hometown. I had to left all of that behind friends‚ family and schools. However‚ life moves on‚ things need to be done. When I got out of the terminal in LAX‚ I saw the smile on my mother’s face that was the happiest
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Pg.1 The First Day The story is narrated by an adult female who tells the story of her first day of school‚ when she was still very young and unfortunately‚ throughout the years‚ has become ashamed of her mother. The question is: does her first day occur “long before” she “learned to be ashamed” of her mother? Or is she learning to be ashamed before the story ends? In order to give an answer we must first understand what is the narrator ashamed of. The set-up for the beginning of the story
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The first day. The first day‚ by Edward p. Jones. born 1951 is an American novelist and short story writer. His 2003 novel The Known World received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Jones was born and raised in Washington‚ D.C.‚ and educated at both the College of the Holy Cross and the University of Virginia. His first book‚ Lost in the City‚ is a collection of short stories about the African-American working class in 20th-century Washington‚ D.C. In the early stories are some who are like first-generation
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