special. Everywhere you look there is red and green. Three traditions that I love at Christmas time are putting up the Christmas tree‚ waking up Christmas morning‚ and Christmas day dinner. My favorite tradition is putting up the Christmas tree. The tree is about six foot tall‚ dark green‚ and covered in artificial white snow. As you put on each layer you spread each limb out to make the tree look fuller and more real. The next step is to line the tree with red garland. After that‚ you fill every
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is an ancient Asian gardening art. It involves deliberately stunting the growth of a tree to obtain a miniature version‚ purely for aesthetic purposes. Besides being stunted‚ the tree may also be shaped to make it more visually appealing. Perfecting the art of growing bonsai trees usually requires years of practice. However‚ with a little effort and patience‚ you too can make your own beautiful little bonsai tree. All you need is to remember a few basic steps‚ and carry them out with the help of some garden implements
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as I will explain later on in this write-up. When creating the decision tree I started with entering the existing data. By analyzing the data in a first view you can directly see that the first and last name does not have any influence on the loan grant respectively the loan amount‚ which seems to be self-explaining. It makes sense to start with the node with the highest number of different characteristics. This way the tree will become clearer. That’s why I started with the distinction of the age
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The article “My Mother’s English” by Amy Tan is mainly about the author’s thoughts and judgments on her mother broken English in comparison to “Standard English”. Tan is a fictional writer who is “fascinated by language in daily life” (Tan 1) and uses language as everyday part of her work as a writer. Tan’s point in this article is to prove that even if her mother is speaking English! Others should not use that to judge your intelligence. Tan’s mother did not speak perfect English‚ but the points
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The Walnut Tree In my grandparent’s backyard‚ there is a huge walnut tree containing two trunks at its base—I have never understood whether it was only one tree or two‚ planted right next to each other. It is as if someone has cut the tree into two unequal pieces with a huge sword. If I wrap my arms around the thicker half of the tree‚ my hands barely touch each other. Some of the branches that are grown out of the thinner trunk crossed over to the neighbor’s house‚ who is always complaining about
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What do you want?” -- Shaun Tan Shaun Tan’s Tales from Outer Suburbia published in 2008 is a piece that shows the true meaning of life experiences through a seamless flow of writing and illustration. The short stories convey real life situations such as family‚ love and everyday struggles by welcoming the readers to enjoy the beautiful tone of the art and words put into every piece and to truly find the underlying message of each story. In the short story “Stick Figures”‚ Tan digs into the reality
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1. Summary- The speaker is Amy Tan she is a best-selling author and her popular novels The Joy Luck Club‚ The Kitchen God’s Wife‚ and many more. She represents mother-daughter relationships and her heritage. Amy realized that mother was in the room when she was talking about her writing to a group. It made difference on her because she never talked in forms of Standard English with her mom. Furthermore‚ she has noticed how different her English is with her mother and showed an example of how her
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------------------------------------------------- Tony Tan Caktiong and Jollibee Success Story Friday‚ January 30th‚ 2009 at 9:08 am Tony Tan Caktiong’s Jollibee has been one of the most admired‚ most copied‚ most innovative and most professionally-run company here in the Philippines. It has been the number one fastfood chain overtaking giants such as Mc Donalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken or KFC. How did a local jolly red bee knocked down a multinational red-haired clown named Ronald? Let’s see another
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1. THE BER TREE Ber (Ziziphus mauritiana) is an economically important tropical fruit tree‚ which is grown all over the drier parts of the Indian subcontinent‚ Africa and northern Australia for its fresh fruits. It is a particularly good tree to grow in dry regions‚ because it can withstand long periods of drought. It has a long taproot and can withstand high temperatures during the summer. Ber is a multipurpose tree (see Appendix 1). The fruit is the most well-known and used product from the
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that language has an effect on our lives. “Mother tongue” by Amy tan tell us how the writer can develop her English well even though she lives in the middle of family who speak broken English. All of it starts from her desired and her motivation to learn‚ make all of things around her become something that can be learned and take a positive side of it. In her essay she described a lot of problem she had faced to learn English. Tan and her mother faced discrimination because of her lack of proper
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