*Describe your personal culture shock in the United States. What is culture? The word culture has many different meanings. For some it refers to an appreciation of good literature‚ music‚ art‚ and food. If one is looking this word up in a dictionary‚ he will find out that culture is ¡§the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns‚ arts‚ beliefs‚ institutions‚ and all other products of human work and thought. These patterns‚ traits‚ and products considered as the expression of a particular
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mission‚ but ours just started. The President‚ the First and Second Lady‚ our loved ones in our administration‚ our families and most of our fellow Americans went through a lot for the past seven years to call the mission accomplished. If we can win wars like we did in the State of South Carolina‚ then our mission will continue until eternity. Elizabeth‚ Bernie and I were fighting to be your guest tonight. I am glad I won the coin toss. It’s been a long time for you and I. I am agreeing with most of what
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On August 28‚ 1963‚ America was gifted with Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech‚ given from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Throughout his entire speech‚ the crowd was heavily moved and it was apparent from the way that they clapped in admiration. The speech was a highlight in the movement of freedom and equality based on the turnout‚ and show of support of the movement during the speech. The intended audience was far surpassed with over three-hundred thousand people from all ethnicities
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Seeing Straight: An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege‚ offers great insight into the varying arguments of traditional marriage‚ marriage equality‚ those who are against marriage‚ sexual relationships‚ gender‚ and domestic divisions of labor. These topics are relative in nature and‚ in most cases‚ overlap one another. To provide a thorough answer to Essay Questions No’s 1 and 3‚ I have taken the liberty to answer both questions in this one single paper; to illustrate the arguments pertaining
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The first time I saw snow My sister and my brother have always dreamed going to the Disney World. I have had different kind of dreams since I was a child. I used to dream about having a good job and earning my own money. I have dreamed having my own apartment‚ my own car and living by myself. Another dream was to taking trips to places that I was used to seeing it in the movies. However‚ the most wonderful of all the dreams was to see snow. I was born in Brazil. It is a tropical place and
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The words I’ve found that are significant to the plot‚ character‚ setting‚ and theme‚ and decoded are; marauding‚ pandemonium‚ forlorn‚ improbability‚ and crystalline. I came across the word “marauding” in page 119 and the meaning it is going about in search of things to steal or people to attack. In this case the hyena was one of the characters in this story who’ve ended up marauding‚ it did not attack Pi or steal anything from him‚ but it did attack and kill its fellow boat mates one by one starting
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The best way to live is to remember that you’ll die. The CEO and founder of Apple and Pixar‚ Steve Jobs presents his speech‚ about finding and doing what you love‚ to the Stanford graduating class of 2005. Job’s purpose in his commencement speech was to convince and encourage the graduates to follow their heart in their pursuit of happiness‚ no matter what obstacles get in their way. Throughout his speech he adopted a serious tone as he convinced them to “…find what you love…” (4)‚ through anecdotes
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Letter From Birmingham Jail In King’s essay‚ "Letter From Birmingham Jail"‚ King brilliantly employs the use of several rhetorical strategies that are pivotal in successfully influencing critics of his philosophical views on civil disobedience. King’s eloquent appeal to the logical‚ emotional‚ and most notably‚ moral and spiritual side of his audience‚ serves to make "Letter From Birmingham Jail" one of the most moving and persuasive literary pieces of the 20th century. In Birmingham
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In his “I Have a Dream” speech (1963)‚ Martin Luther King‚ Jr. conveys the fact that the Negro is still not free despite their freedom for over one hundred years. King supports this conveyance about the Negros bondage by stating tragic facts and then challenges his brothers and sisters to “continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive” (Paragraph 8). His purpose is to put an end to discrimination in order to give African Americans the freedom and equality they deserve. He
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figured that moment would be very soon. From all my experience of 11-hour flights‚ one stands among them all. My first time traveling alone. April 7‚ 2014 I had just finished second year when my parents told me the news of my transfer to Philippines. They said “since you are about to go to college two years from now‚ you should learn what it’s like to live in the Philippines”. At first I was shocked because my life was in Kuwait‚ he friends and family that I cared for‚ I would all leave behind once
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