If you don’t live in an English-speaking country‚ and you don’t have friends or family to speak English with‚ where can you practise your English speaking skills? It’s easier to have a conversation if you have a reason to speak – something to talk about. These ideas all give you a reason to speak with another person. Start a film or book club Invite people to discuss a film that you all watch together‚ or a book that you are all reading. Prepare questions before‚ to help people talk about specific
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Essay I: Southern Literature 1. Conventional representations of the South tend to portray the region in a simplistic manner and to reduce Southerners to stereotypes of shiftless hillbillies‚ indolent belles‚ and intolerant bigots. While many of the stories we have read invoke similar stereotypes‚ the authors seem to subvert these conventional assumptions to present more complex and sympathetic representations of this region and its inhabitants. For this topic‚ you are to choose one of the texts
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A Place I Will Hold Forever In My Heart There is one place that I always enjoy going to. In rain or shine‚ on a weekend or weekday it did not matter to me. This is a place where I grew up ever since I was born‚ or actually I should say it also was my first home. This is a place where all my family would get together for all different types of events like holidays‚ birthdays‚ and just any excuse for the family to get together. That place is my grandparents old home‚ but that place is gone now. The
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mysterious first burial of their brother Polyneices. While Kirkpatrick’s views on Ismene are at best controversial to many analyzers of the play‚ there is small credibility to her words‚ and to an extent‚ I believe Ismene is more than what the play projects her as (weak and unimportant). Ultimately however‚ I cannot agree with Kirkpatrick’s argument that Ismene was responsible for burying Polyneices‚ and based off events in the play‚ all of Ismene’s actions reflect not resistance but loyalty/love for her
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Places That Shaped Me When a person thinks of their geologic location‚ they think of where they are on the Earth. A geographer would say that is one part of a location‚ space‚ the other concept of a location is place. When actually defining a sense of space there has to be an exact coordinate and distance to an area. Place on the other hand is the infusing of a location with meaning and emotion. It is important to have both of these aspects to a location because it defines where it is physically
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Qingdao - The best place i have ever been to Qingdao‚ a picturesque coastal city that lies on the southern tip of China’s Shandong Peninsula‚ located in JiaoZhou Bay facing the Yellow Sea. It is the place where I am willing to spend my whole life with all the people i love. It is my hometown and it is the most gorgeous city I have ever stayed. Sun shines‚ golden beach‚ green plants and morden buidlings formulated this amazing city. The city was captured and built by Germany back to 1897‚ and was
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I am sending an attachment. Its my request to read with patience. A person by name Mr. Laxmaiah is a teacher‚ working in Zilla Parishad School in a village called Karepally‚ near Khammam in Andhra Pradesh. Laxmaiah garu stays with wife‚ mother‚ two kids‚ and with 50 HIV orphaned children. He is spending all his salary of Rs 25‚000 /- per month by taking care of these HIV affected orphaned children. His wife Kalpana Rani‚ an Aeronautical Engineer‚ sacrificed her career and is doing a tremendous
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“The Sound of Music” directed by Robert Wise and “Going Where I’m Coming From” by Naomi Shihab Nye were inspirational short stories that helped create the lesson that was revealed in both stories. In the Sound of Music‚ Maria‚ who was a very elated‚ postulant person was trying to adapt to her new home and help the family she was assigned realize to follow your dreams. In “Going Where I’m Coming From”‚ Naomi was sent to an Armenian school for getting expelled in Missouri and was trying to adapt to
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Where I Come From Is Like This The story‚ “Where I Come From Is Like This” is about the lives of American Indian women and how they were capable of anything‚ and Native Americans were always strong and had all the qualities in them. Also it is about what others cultures thought about Indian women. They were never dependent on anyone‚ This is what the author wants us to know that the native Americans were never weak and helpless. In this story‚ the Native American women were
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The three chapters in the book‚ No Happy Cows‚ mentioned a lot of products we use every day that are made unethically. Like Chocolate‚ coffee beans‚ and milk. The way the companies make those products are unethical. Children are used to work‚ but are hardly paid. Cows are put under harsh conditions. I don’t think I will buy any more products from these companies that don’t treat people or animals well. They do so many things just to earn more money for themselves‚ but at the cost of others. Some
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