For this reading aloud assignment‚ I read aloud to my two younger cousins‚ Kate who is five and Alec who is three. I loved reading aloud to them because I feel like it brought me closer to them. The books I read to them ranged from books we had all read before to books none of us had ever read. It was a great experience reading aloud the books that we had all read before because we would all say the key phrases together and it would be a bonding experience. It was also fun to read the new books together
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The Ballad of the Sad Café (part I) 1. For how long does the store remain a café? The store remains a café for four years. 2. Before his arrival‚ who sleeps in Cousin Lymons’s room? Before Lymon arrives‚ Marvin Macy slept in the room. 3. Describe Amelia’s Room. Miss Amelia’s room is very simple. Her room is smaller than Lymon’s and is composed of an narrow bed made of pine‚ curtains‚ rugs or ornaments‚ 4. What does Miss Amelia’s velvet box contain? The velvet box contained two grayish
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It was May 20‚ 2007 and it was sunny outside and my parents told me that we were going to have a picnic in Ed Levin Park with my cousins the other day and I felt happy that I would get to play with them and dressed up. I wore a white shirt with a logo on it with shorts and a grey jacket with my mom and dad wearing similar things to what I was wearing but my dad was wearing jeans. My dad was tall and had brown eyes and hair like my mom but she was short. It took about 10 minutes to get there because
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bitter relationship between the two they got divorced. Several years after this event‚ a stranger named Cousin Lymon came to town claiming to be Ms. Amelia’s relative. She took a fondness to him and soon Ms. Amelia’s store was turned into a café because the whole town was privy to Cousin Lymon’s personality. Once Marvin Macy returned to the town‚ he tore Ms. Amelia’s life to shambles by using Cousin Lymon’s weak mindedness to his advantage. Ms. Amelia is a brawny and masculine woman whose personality
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to stay alive. The love for his girlfriend was slowly moving away like the clouds in the sky. His world was truly spinning out of control. Dieting was the only way he could grasp on to his life‚ which eventually turned into anorexia nervosa. My cousin was diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa when he was nineteen years old. He had just dropped out of college‚ moved back with his parents‚ no job‚ and did not know what to do. Before this he was a free spirit‚ more of the hippie type. Loved to play guitar
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Garoghlanian family. The Garoghlanian family is a tribe of Armenian descent that has immigrated to California. In this tribe they value honesty above all else “most important of all‚ though‚ we were famous four our honesty” (p.160). Aram and his cousin Mourad went on an adventure during a summer season; it emphasized the tribe’s behavior which ran on their own sense of morality but not according to the laws of society. In this story‚ Saroyan brought out the theme redemption through action. In other
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in it or even flee from it. For centuries silence has marked as many ceasefires as it has quiet times before storms. When wielded properly‚ silence can be a potent driver for change. How silence has affected me is when my cousin and I were at my grandparent’s house‚ where my cousin broke an antique vase. In this case‚ one way or another‚ my silence was beneficial to both of us. Practicing silence allows others to attempt to read your thoughts‚ is a form of communication and empowers the self. Silence
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we seem to always be drawn to some type of music. From Mozart to Run DMC‚ everyone loves music. My Cousin Lucas would be considered the modern day Stevie Wonder in our family. He’s played songs that I couldn’t play in my sleep. From Beethoven’s "Fur Elise” to Mozart’s "Turkish March‚" he always seemed to top himself from one complicated song to the next. Having been born in Memphis‚ Tennessee my cousin was always around some form of music. When he was seven years old he learned how to play the piano
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the time my friend wanted my cousin to die out of his baseball talent and fail. Often times‚ it seems as if my friend and cousin are fighting‚ my friend and cousin are on the same baseball team and they would always yell rude comments at each other when one struck out‚ etc. I asked my friend at school why they were so mean to each other‚ to which he responded that he was angry that my cousin was better than him. However‚ it turns out that my friend looks up to my cousin and is determined
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always be added twists and turns to each marriage. The proposal of Mr. Headstone to his respective woman is more rhetorically effective than Mr. Collin’s proposal to his cousin due to Mr. Headstone’s display of his strengths and minimal weaknesses‚ in contrast to Mr. Collin’s proposal. In Mr. Collin’s marriage proposal to his cousin from the book‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ Mr. Collins appeals to the needs of his patroness and himself in an attempt to
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