Texting is something that most teenagers and young adults could not live without. Even my parents are texting constantly. My father‚ especially‚ because he is usually very busy and cannot answer a call while he is in a meeting. I have to talk to him every day‚ though‚ because I love him so much. I miss him while I’m at school‚ and it is very convenient that if I am randomly thinking of him or my mother while I am in class‚ I can send them a message letting them know. I can do this without bothering
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Another thing I like about train travel is that I can get up and walk around. There is often a cafe or dining car so I can go there and have a coffee. I also like looking at the scenery from the train windows. And some trains now have kiddy cars so parents can go in there and not worry about their kids disturbing others. And those trains also have toilets that have plenty of space for kids and baby changing stuff. Well‚ at least this is how it is in Germany. And there is also the benefit of sleeping
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Nowadays‚ skiing is one of the most popular sport in the world. Have you ever ski once in your life? I did‚ I extremely enjoy this sport because of the sense of it’s excitement and freedom. My first experience of skiing was hard‚ but leaving the best memory in my life. For me‚ ski with the worst coach I have ever met is just like a nightmare. I don’t know how to control my speed‚ so I went headlong‚ and got a big bruise on my knee. On this sunny day‚ I rolled down the hill moreover to ski down
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Texting While Driving We all know that sticking our nose in a device to read and answer messages while we drive is akin to driving while impaired. But safe texting while driving is something I’ve done for years. Here’s how it works: There is a pad of paper and a pen on the seat next to me. Remember paper? Pens? They still work. And there is a road where I can drive very slow or even pull over to jot a couple of words. It’s become an almost daily ritual‚ because the break from "Butt In Chair" seems
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accountable‚ they can positively impact their children’s futures. Joy reacts to Wes’s bad choices by taking action over Wes’s future. She takes action for Wes to ensure he does not make a “decisive and possibly irrevocable turn.” (95). When Joy speaks to Wes about attending Valley Forge Military Academy‚ he accepts the fact that his “mother made the decision to intervene- and decided that overdoing it was better than doing nothing at all.” (95) Joys decision was made in order to allow the best outcome from
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With reference to at least four poems‚ explain how poets present both the joys and sorrows of life. Poets such as W.H. Auden‚ Bruce Dawe‚ Roger Mcgough and Elaine Savory clearly present the joys and sorrows of life in their truthful and realistic poems‚ using a range of techniques. These negative and positive aspects of life are shown by the poets‚ by using everyday occurrances like death‚ loss and love to involve the reader. All four poems‚ ‘Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone’‚ ‘Going’
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The Joy Luck Club’ is a touching‚ inspiring‚ and artfully crafted story of four mother-daughter relationships that endure not only a generation gap‚ but the more unbridgeable gap between Chinese and American cultures. Amy Tan represented herself as Jing-Mei Woo in the novel. Her parents are both Chinese immigrants who raised her as a American. In her early teens‚ she learned that her mother had been married before in China. Just like Suyuan‚ Amy’s mother fled China‚ leaving behind her daughters
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the sunlight‚ pride can cloud reasonable judgement. Being prideful can lead others or oneself into making wrong judgments. Adding Elizabeth and Darcy’s dispute‚ Elizabeth’s refusal to a proposal‚ and Elizabeth’s findings of Mr. Wickham’s true intentions‚ Jane Austen‚ the author of Pride and Prejudice teaches that pride clouds reasonable judgement. Elizabeth and Darcy the two main characters of Pride and prejudice didn’t start out fond of each other and that is because of their pride. Towards the
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Analysis of Culture Conflicts between the East and the West in The Joy Luck Club 1 Introduction Difference between Chinese and Western cultures has always been a main source of conflict between local people and citizens of Chinese origin. In The Joy Luck Club‚ Amy Tan describes the conflicts between the mothers and daughters to show us different culture traditions‚ perceptions of life‚ etc. between American and Chinese culture. In the end‚ the two different cultures merge together. Nowadays
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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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