Chinese New Year The most favorite holiday celebration in my country is Chinese New Year. It contains threes parts: the preparations‚ New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. The Chinese New Year’s day is different from each year because it is based on the Chinese traditional lunar calendar. For the preparations of New Year‚ Chinese prefer decorate their houses and purchase goods that relate the Chinese New Year’s celebrations. Like people in Western countries prepare for Thanksgiving and Christmas
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“Made In China” Over the next 50 years there will be many global and economic changes in this world. One in particular that is occurring right now and is certainly gaining momentum is the rise of China as the next superpower. The term “Made in China” is what most U.S citizens along with other countries have become all too familiar with. It seems difficult now to find a product the U.S. does manufacture. Since the U.S. has stopped producing certain goods they have become dependent on other countries
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50 Year Vietnam Memorial I was asked to talk about the 50-year anniversary of the Vietnam war. And as most of you can probably tell‚ I wasn’t alive 50 years ago‚ so I went to my grandfather who fought in that war and I asked him to recount his experience. I asked him if he lost any friends during that time. He responded with “Hunny‚ all the guys you are with are your friends. And it hurts to lose any of them.” He recalled for me one individual. Greg. He said “losing that one was hard.” He told me
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Subject 1:The 50 year-old man‚(HDL) cholesterol =30mg/dl‚ Which is an undesirable level of HDL is any level below 40 mg/dL (1.04 mmol/L). In this case‚ low HDL levels may help to contribute to heart disease. low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol = 160 mg/dL‚ LDL levels between 160 – 189 mg/dL (4.14 - 4.90 mmol/L) are considered high. triglycerides = 300 mg/dL‚ Levels between 200-499 mg/dL (2.26-5.63 mmol/L) are considered high. This 50 year-old man is at high risk for heart attack‚stroke
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Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is celebrated throughout China and is also known as The Spring Festival. It goes for fifteen days and the preparations start even before the old year has come to an end. The people prepare by cleaning up‚ buying gifts and cooking festival food. Chinese New Year according to an ancient legend was started like this: People were once tormented by a beast called a Nian - a ferocious creature with an extremely large mouth‚ capable of swallowing several people in a
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Essay 7 Nixon’s Future In 50 Years Richard Nixon has been known for his Watergate scandal and never known for his accomplishments. He was the first president and Vice President to ever meet with Soviet Union‚ not only that but when no other President or Vice President were able to. He also started the Environmental Protection Agency. Not only that he also gave 18 yr olds the right to vote and ended the draft. Most importantly he ended the Vietnam War‚ depending how you look at it. He did many
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Mobile phone-based money transfer Name Institution In recent years‚ there have been numerous milestones in technological advancements such as electronic word processing‚ social networking‚ instant messaging‚ Blue-ray‚ smartphones‚ search engines‚ Satellite TV‚ Wi-Fi‚ lithium rechargeable batteries‚ online stock trading‚ Bluetooth‚ DNA profiling‚ genetic sequencing and many others. These innovations help in our day to day lives especially in the fields of communication
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Paraphrasing S. Kathleen Kitao Kenji Kitao When you write a paper‚ you use some information that you have read in books‚ journals‚ on the Internet‚ etc. Your teacher might have told you‚ “Use your own words.” In other words‚ even when you use someone else’s information‚ you are not allowed to use the words they wrote. You have to use your own. You have to say the same thing in a different way. This is called paraphrasing. For example‚ if the book you are reading from says‚ “John Adams‚ who was
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I am very exciting to tell you about the Chinese New Year Concert that held on Feb 2‚ 2013 in San Francisco Symphony Hall. This is a program concert that conducted by Mei-Ann Chen. I picked this concert because the program contains traditional Chinese Lion Dance‚ Spring Festival melody with children’s dance‚ Geoge Gao’s erhu solo‚ The Butterfly Lovers. Tyzen Hsiao’s The Angel from Formosa and my favorite music piece with singing Ali Mountain Evergreen. Geoge Gao’s erhu solo‚ The Butterfly
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For the last 50 years‚ world population multiplied more rapidly than ever before‚ and more rapidly than it is projected to grow in the future. In 1950‚ the world had 2.5 billion people; and in 2005‚ the world had 6.5 billion people. By 2050‚ this number could rise to more than 9 billion (see chart "World Population Growth‚ 1950-2050"). Anthropologists believe the human species dates back at least 3 million years. For most of our history‚ these distant ancestors lived a precarious existence as
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