Britain. Something about being independent and exploring the unknown always appealed to me. Now‚ although my ideal destination has changed from Europe to UAE‚ I still seek to fulfill that long-awaited childhood dream. I continue to have a strong desire to explore the world around me and to learn and experience foreign people and their authentic culture. Studying abroad was a thoughtful decision for me. I have reached a point in my life where I want to see beyond the walls of my own everyday
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Kenny M. Luce Dennis Keen‚ Instructor English 99‚ 9:10 7-20-10 The Best Job Compared to building pools in the heat of the summer‚ working in an air conditioned building is heaven. The best job I’ve ever had was working as a dealer at Ace’s Casino. What I liked so much about my job was I could manage my hours‚ work around my schedule. The money was good enough to raise my kids on my own and give them a nice home. Going into work and being able to meet all the diverse people was really
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unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States — about ten deaths per day. Swimming is a summertime activity that many people enjoy. Swimming can be very relaxing‚ therapeutic‚ and entirely enjoyable. Sometimes though‚ there are terrible mishaps involved with swimming. Maybe someone slips and bursts open their head; maybe someone accidentally inhales water into their lungs. Quite possibly‚ for my case‚ someone made a stupid mistake. I will never forget the horrid day that
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want to catch a big fish? Because I know I have always wanted to. I was walking threw my kitchen getting something to eat with my cousin. I saw my mom and we were talking about fishing so we asked if we could go up north this weekend to go fishing. She said yes because she had to to plenty of work. I packed my clothes into my black and red bag. Because my bag was full‚ I got another bag. We then went up north‚ and my dad came to. We have finally arrived an hour later. It was a beautiful‚ warm‚ sunny
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My parents got divorced when I was four. They say it’s because they didn’t love each other anymore‚ They weren’t happy together anymore. I have been back and fourth between parents since I was five‚ having been seen as the girl who’s parents aren’t together anymore or the girl who has been back and fourth for her whole life isn’t much of what any young child wants to hear. I’m still known as this girl at the moment it may not seem like it but it is. Once I got comfortable with the fact that my parents
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I was about the age of 10 when I finally learned my heritage. My mother and I were standing in the bank vault‚ and she was getting some papers for a trip to Canada‚ to update all of our passports. I was there with her‚ and while she was going through the things in our lock box‚ one particular‚ colorful document caught my eye. I pulled it out and held it up to her‚ asking what it was. She told me it was my birth certificate. I looked at it once again and replied that this couldn’t be my birth certificate
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laboratory studying‚ void of any social life. However‚ in the essay "My Friend‚ Albert Einstein" by Banesh Hoffmann‚ Einstein’s long time friend attempts to depict Einstein as a humble and compassionate man‚ contrary to the mythological figure that people thought he was. He accomplishes this by using simple diction‚ to portray the human side of Einstein‚ and anecdotes‚ to show that Einstein is just an ordinary man. Throughout his essay‚ Hoffmann uses simplified diction to concentrate
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PERSONALITIES MAKE THE BEST FRIENDS Have you ever had a friend? Do you think your friendship would be everlasting? Well‚ everybody has had friends. Friends are who always beside us; share the joy or the sadness with us. But‚ do people with similar personalities make the best friends? I don’t think so! First‚ if we have friends with different personalities‚ we could learn something new about ourselves and about the others. You would never know what you really best at or what your real talent
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Friends In the dictionary a friend means one attached to another by affection; a favor; one who is propitious; a favorite. To woman friends are different types of people and relationships. In the essay Friends‚ Good Friends and such Good Friends the author Judith Viorst describe a couple of the many different types of friendship women have. We as women form a type of bond with other woman very different than men do with other men. Viorst tells us that at one point she would have said a friend
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The subject on English was never my strong suit‚ but I always try my best although I can never really get a high grade in the class. It is really difficult for me to accomplish much in writing so I don’t really try to expend much of my energy on it. But‚ my main point is that when writing I do what I can and try to incorporate as much of the writing techniques as I can but it never really makes a difference. When teachers tell me to correct an error I would do so but somehow completely remove an
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