My Favorite Holiday: Christmas Christmas has come and gone. Regardlessly‚ giving thanks and proclaiming yourself to those around you should be more exercised. During Christmas‚ spending time with the people you care about means so much more than anything you can possibly buy. Families as well as friends gather together in their homes to spend time with each other and have fun. Not until they have celebrated Christmas will they realize how interesting it is! On the other hand‚ if you happen to
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best years of your life would be both your young adult years and the time in which you reach old age. These are the times when people seem to be the happiest because it is a time when they are truly independent. The people who experience these two phases seem to be much more relaxed and happier than those in the childhood/adolescence and middle age stages of life. During your young adult years‚ you are just starting to experience the world as your own. This is the point in life when you do not
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guitar were shoved at my feet was not my idea of a fun way to spend nine o’clock on a Friday morning! I was‚ however‚ extremely excited about arriving in Sheffield and our ‘battle of the bands’ competition that lay in the weekend ahead of us. We had reached the national final and were somewhat astonished at how far we had gotten. After finally arriving at Doncaster train station (our route had been changed as a result of the serious flooding surrounding our destination) with my other bandmates and
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It can be defined an act of travelling from one place to another‚ and it usually involves the nature of physical and emotional hardship‚ and choices. These natures of a journey are shown in the book The Happiest refugee (2010) by Anh Do‚ and the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. The Happiest Refugee demonstrates that journeys can have many physical hardships‚ such as appalling living and weather conditions which would cause obstacles in one’s journey. Anh uses descriptive language to convey
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repeat itself. Repetition of the phrase-‘Thus she has lain’ illustrates that African‚ especially the blacks have suffered for quite some time at the hand of the slavers‚ being oppressed and taken advantage of. Maya Angelou once proclaimed‚ “All my work‚ my life‚ everything is about survival. But not just bare‚ awful‚ plodding survival. Survival with some style‚ with faith” (Angelou & Elliot‚ 1989). The image of a continent that is battered
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Amber Watt Student Id- 21844293 Exam-986098 My most memorable day in my life would have to be the day my first son was born. It was March 1‚ 1999; I‚ my husband‚ my mom‚ and my sister went in to the hospital that cold morning. It was around 8‚ I was so excited this was going to be the day that I truly became a mommy. The day I have waited for a long time. I lay down in the hospital bed and got hooked up to the I.V.‚ monitors; it felt like anything else they could hook me up to. The doctor tried
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A Lesson Learned One day my mom and I was out and enjoying a nice day together; then all of the sudden in a blink of an eye things go from great to horrible. On April 14‚ 2009‚ turned out to be one of the worst and scariest days of my life. I had to learn a extremely hard lesson a extremely hard way. On April 14‚ 2009 my mom and I had went to Jackson to pick up some Easter pictures‚ and we had stopped to get something to eat. We finished eating dinner and pulled out into traffic. The traffic
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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Childhood is the happiest time of a person’s life. I do agree the idea that the most joyful time for every person without any doubt would be their childhood. Since people are different in many areas‚ they may have different opinions about the reasons; however‚ I believe that childhood is the happiest time because first children at that age do not have any special responsibility‚ and second they are children and their mind and the way they
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Everyday I wake up feeling grumpy . It ’s a brand new day ‚ but I know nothing new will happen . It ’s the same old school-house routine and I ’ve grown tired of it . School can be really boring sometimes . Or maybe most of the time . One day ‚ in one of our group works in school ‚ an outreach program actually ‚ we were asked to visit a home for street children . The group ’s task was to conduct some sort of a peer tutorial session with the street children in subjects like math and science
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plight of refugee in our country. Discuss the Happiest Refugee in the light of Do’s universal message about the suffering of human beings during times of war and the struggle to make a better life in a foreign country. The Happiest Refugee is a memoir written by Anh Do which was first published on the 1st of August in 2010. It is regarded as one of the most influential and well-received novels in the world of literature for its great insight on the life of refugees. The book provides a universal
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