The Joy Luck Club contains different stories about the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American daughters. The book opens after the death of Suyan Woo‚ the founding member of the Joy Luck Club. Suyan died before fulfilling her lifetime wish: to be reunited with her twin daughters who was lost in China. So‚ Jing-mei‚ Suyan’s daughter‚ is going to take a trip to China to see them in her mother honor. In my opinion‚ individuality‚ legacy‚ and family were preserved in the families
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reason why dogs are the best pets is that they are good companions. They are always willing to go on walks with you when you get bored. My dog‚ for example‚ always waits for me to look bored so that he can beg to go on a walk. Furthermore‚ dogs love to cuddle. Finally‚ dogs are good companions because they are always happy to see you when you are around‚ and they become sad when you leave. For these reasons‚ dogs are good companions and thus good pets. Secondly‚ dogs make the best pets because they
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who train all year for this one moment and the ones who wait until the last minute; the feeling of the medal around your neck at the end of the day. 4:30 A.M.‚ the morning of January 24‚ you wake up on this day knowing that you either have a really good day or very disappointing day ahead of you. We arrive at the tournament around 8:00 still not quite awake‚ as soon as you enter you can smell the concession stand beginning to make food for the long day ahead. As we enter the gym to begin practice
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Narration I went to the Emergency Room for the first time when I was thirteen years old. It all came about when I was skateboarding in front of my grandma’s house and I tried to do a trick. I almost pulled it of‚ but I messed it up in the end and headed to the ground with my hands down. My right wrist was twisted the wrong way in the air when I landed hard on the ground‚ it just broke it. At first it did not hurt at all‚ but when I looked down at my warped and twisted wrist ‚ all of a sudden
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“God save you Ebeneezer! And a merry Christmas to you!” bellowed a voice from the window. Through the foggy glass‚ Scrooge could make out the rather large outline of none other than Peggy Harker‚ a worker at the local orphanage. Scrooge crinkled his nose in disgust and shooed her away with a flick of his hand. Peggy Harker‚ persistent as the rain during a wet monsoon month‚ continued to say “My oh my‚ it is extremely cold… mind if I come in?” in which Scrooge acknowledged with a harsh grunt.
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Jared Diamond explains why geographic luck is the leading cause to an unequal world which gave certain countries advantages and other’s disadvantages. Have you ever wondered why some parts of the world are much more developed than others? Well‚ to find the answer‚ we’ll have to trace this question all the way back to ancient times. Jared Diamond explains that the reason for this revolves around geographic luck‚ to be more specific; the shapes of the continents‚ steel‚ horses and writing are primary
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Explain how the Declaration of Independence reflects Enlightenment philosophy. The Declaration of Independence was a revolutionary piece of writing that impacted the whole world for decades after it was written‚ by starting a chain of angry citizens overthrowing unjust governments. But the elements that made it so different and revolutionary were not thought up all at the time; many of the ideas put into the Declaration had been envisioned by a wide variety of thinkers during the Enlightenment
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Though many people dismiss the idea of cloning as a way of destroying nature’s diversity‚ cloning techniques can potentially become life savers for many. The ability to clone will allow scientists to duplicate new‚ needed organs for patients thanks to therapeutic cloning. Endangered animals will be able to become striving species overtime due to reproductive cloning. Infertile women will once again be granted the gift of giving birth‚ all creditable to reproductive cloning.
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Jazmin Pettiford February 12‚ 2013 Period 5 Mortell English 10 HN Holden v. Games and Sports It is usually when Holden‚ an iconoclast‚ becomes upset‚ sad‚ happy‚ or just any extreme emotion‚ that we see the motif of a game or sport come up. For example‚ when old Spencer has the talk about life being a game‚ and that “one must play according to the rules” (Salinger‚ J.D. Catcher in the Rye. Page 12‚ Chapter 2)‚ Holden completely rejects him‚ but yet still pays attention to what he has to
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In recent discussion of vegetarianism‚ a controversial issue has been whether we should eat meat or not. On one hand‚ some argue that eating meat is a part of life and the only way to live. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that eating meat is morally wrong and we should only eat plants. According to Drew Ramsey‚ author of “Meat Is Brain Food” it is problematic that the “…American diet [consists] of processed foods laden with sugars‚ salt‚ and…fat” (Source A). However‚ eating plants exclusively
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