My parents are about 5’5 and my sisters are about 5’3‚ while I am about 6’1. I don’t know where I get my height from‚ but when I look at my cousins from my dad’s side every single one of the guys are just about 6’0 or higher and the tallest being 6’6. I have about 30 male cousins on my dad’s side. Also my grandfather from my mom’s side is 6’1‚ so I guess I got some of the height from him also. I actually like being tall though because I play basketball and a point guard is usually somewhere between
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(Start) Today I am going to tell you about my hobbies. My favourite hobbies are playing basketball‚ playing volleyball‚ drawing and listening to music. Firstly‚ I feel a great sense of enjoyment from playing basketball because basketball gives me lots of fun and happiness. Basketball not only releases a lot of the stress which I get from school and homework but it also helps me keep fit. I also chose basketball as one of my GCSE PE options. I got a good grade for it too which makes me feel
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In his article “ Time Talk‚ with an Accent” Robert Levine discusses about culture shock when he lived in Brazil and understand Brazilian people’s habit about time. When he began his scientific journey in his early career as a professor of psychology at Federal University in Niteroi‚ Brazil and he found the hardest part of his life about punctual time rather than different language‚ his own privacy‚ and standards of cleanliness issues. As it described in article Robert Levine was a young American
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John Keats’s poem‚ When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be‚ conveys the equivocal and elusive state of our futures. Yet in the poem‚ Keats provides‚ in a traditional Romantic fashion‚ a brutal‚ but incredibly honest depiction of the world. Keats offers a reminder of the state we exist in‚ leaving us with a lesson in perspective and also in a state of discomfort. Keats’ poem begins with a dominantly apprehensive tone mitigated by an underlying hopeful voice. The first line of the poem exactly mirrors
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In "I Heard..." Emily Dickinson recollects the act of dying from the perspective of the person who have died. Examine the poets’ use of such literary elements as detail‚ setting‚ symbolism‚ and tone to provide a unique‚ imaginative perspective on what happens when we die. In Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died”‚ she writes using the perspective of a dead person‚ speaking beyond the grave. In this poem‚ unlike most of her others‚ she focuses on what actually occurs as someone
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Operations Management Listen-Up.com Case introduction Mai Chen‚ fresh from business school‚ has been hired by Listen-Up.com‚ a small‚ start-up manufacturer of hearing aids‚ to resolve the difficulties within its customer service group. The company’s products are sold over the Internet or phoned in using the company’s toll-free telephone lines‚ but telephone orders is the main and growing sales channel. During its three years of existence the company has experienced rapid growth with the
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become “ripen’d” only as the poet ages. These fruits‚ which are poetic works‚ grant the poet fame‚ represented by the “high-piled books” in line 3. The fear of obscurity was one Keats carried to his death only three years after composing “When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be”. Though he had no way of knowing his life would indeed be cut short before he achieved the kind of recognition he sought‚ he echoes this concern in the final line of the sonnet. Lines 5-8 Some readers believe that the second
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you have two months to live.” Initially you are afraid of what happens when you die and whether it will be quick and possibly painless. If you are narrow minded‚ this is the only concern you have. What you should be contemplating is the future and what you will miss. The worst thing about dying young is missing out on the greatest experiences in life. Two works that show that this belief is timeless are‚ “When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be” by John Keats‚ written in 1818 and “Demons”‚ by Imagine
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Xiangsheng is one of the most popular and influential types of quyi. It can be said that nobody in China does not know and like it. it is humorous and highly satirical by nature. Though similar performance had been popular for centuries‚ it was only in the reign of Emperor Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty (1851 -1861 ) that XiangSheng became established as an independent art form. The first XiangShap artists were Zhang Sanlu and Zhu Shaowen‚ the latter’s stage name being Qiong Bupa. He used to perform
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Emily Dickinson’s poem "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" poses a question to the reader "what is the significance of the buzzing fly in relation to the dying person?" In a mood of outward quiet and inner calm‚ the dying person peacefully proceeds to bestow her possessions to others‚ and while willing her possessions‚ she finds her attention withdrawn by a fly’s buzzing. The fly is introduced in close connection with "my keepsakes" and "what portion of me be assignable." The dying person has an obsession
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