Subjects or Liberal Arts. Second‚ the biggest difference between Gao Kao and SAT is the SAT is offered seven times a year in the United States‚ in October‚ November‚ December‚ January‚ March and June. (College Board.com) However‚ Gao Kao is offered only one time every year on June 7‚ 8.And Gao Kao is the sole determinant for admission to virtually all Chinese colleges and universities. About three in five students make the cut. This is why Gao Kao is so important in China. Every June in china‚ the most
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A day in my life Victoria A. Solis SOCI111‚ American Military University 16 February‚ 2012 Daily Journal I woke up at 5.00am this morning after a decent rest. I felt energetic because I slept early yesterday at around 9pm. I jumped out of bed and tidied my room saving time for my morning jog. Later I went down stairs and found mum already up and watching her favorite morning sermon on television. I greeted her and asked for my brother: he was still asleep; he is not as hardworking as I
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A Memorable Event A Memorable Moment The day started off as any other normal day but I would soon find out that this day was different. Like any other teenager I loved going out with my friends and so like any other Friday evening I was going out with my friends. I was going to go to my friend’s house to pick him up and we were then going to get something to eat. I got to his house picked him up and we left to go get something to eat. We were halfway there when I got a phone call from one of
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Ta’amu Iakopo Mrs. Mareko Eng. 91 28 April 2014 The day my life changed forever Diabetes plays a huge role in my family’s health history. As a father one of our favorite activities was to go camping with my family. We went close to every weekend or every other weekend during the spring and summer seasons. As I was enjoying the day with my family‚ I felt something that was unusual. I had a thirst that could not be quenched come over me and at the time I did not realize that this trip would be
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The day that changed my life forever It was a typical Sunday morning; I was in my bed sleep‚ completely oblivious to what was going on across the hall in my mother’s room. That’s when my little sister came in my room to tell me that my mom was crying. I didn’t believe her so I got up to see for myself. I’ve never heard my mother cry before so I thought she was laughing. I stood in the doorway for about five minutes when she looked at me with tears in her eyes and told me that my grandmother
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"A MOMENT YOU CONSIDER TO BE THE MOST JOYFUL" Every person has a moment or a few memories which he remembers through out his life . The joy of that moment is so over whelming‚ many of us remember it as the best day of our life ‚ it is mostly about achieving what you strive for‚ in my case ‚ it is a bit different‚ I wanted what most of us usually have. It is what a human at this age is certain to have‚ it just comes naturally to us‚ the circle of socializing and friendship are just a part
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The Day That Changed My Life Forever It was a bone chilling January night; my mom received a call at about 11:15 PM‚ a call that changed my life forever. My Aunt June was on the other line. She was crying so hard my mother could barely understand her. Through the sobbing my mom finally understood that Brian‚ my cousin‚ had been in a horrible accident and she didn’t know how bad it was. My mother jumped out of the bed after she hung up the phone. She screamed up the stairs at my sister and
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The Day that Changed my Life There I was having an ordinary day‚ a barbecue with my friends where all went as normal and then I get a call from my daughter‚ I was so happy as she hadn’t called me in over 6 weeks but that happiness was only temporary. She wanted to have lunch with me at that afternoon so I abandoned my friends and the barbecue just for her. While there our conversation stays on only one topic‚ me‚ until she wants the favour that I regret giving- my permission to go to Kenya for some
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I was cleaning out mum’s belongings for a few hours when something caught my eye. It was an ultrasound…of twins. I thought back to my past life and never saw a pair of twins in my life. Neither mum‚ nor dad ever talked about me having twin cousins. I was starting to think that mum just kept this ultrasound because she felt like it but something else caught my eye. The date on the bottom right hand corner stated that the ultrasound was taken on the 2nd of July 1998
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Bad days often come in everybody’s life. I too faced a bad day in my life. I faced many difficulties on that day. It was a rainy day. My parents went to attend the marriage celebration of one of my relatives in the next village. I did not accompany them because I wanted to read and prepare my lessons at home. However‚ I was instructed to attend the feast at 2 P.M. My father kept the cycle for me. Mother had no need to cook for me because I consented to join the feast at 2 P.M. instead of going
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