Personal Narrative (My Best Birthday Ever) Birthday comes only once a year. This year my birthday was celebrated‚ the way i wanted it to be. It was the night of 25th August. I was in my bed waiting patiently and starring at the clock‚ hoping that when will the clock strike 12:00 am and the calendar will change its date. I waited and waited. After some while‚ it was 12:00am. I was so curious about the e surprise my parents promised me. But I found out that no one knocked at my door to wish me. Suddenly
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My Impressive Birthday Party Ever since I got into my university three years ago‚ my family and I didn’t have much chance to spend time together because everyone was so busy with their own schedule. So last year‚ we all decided to go uptown to celebrate my birthday there. We chose to go to Suratthani because it was our favorite place. We left our house late in the evening on one hot summer day in April. Because of the very hot weather‚ we brought our hats‚ our sun block‚ and never to forget‚ our
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My Ultimate Birthday Surprise I had gone to spend the week with my cousin‚ Brandon‚ and his wife‚ Jennie the summer of my sixteenth birthday. I had no idea that Brandon had the most thoughtful and extravagant birthday gift I could ever imagine. Brandon had‚ without his wife’s knowledge‚ set up an appointment for Jennie and me to go skydiving. I had always wondered if I would ever have the courage to jump out of an airplane at 13‚000 feet in the air. Skydiving had always been a dream of mine
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My 15th Birthday This summer was the best summer ever‚ because it was my 15th birthday. I celebrated on a cruise with 3 of my friends. When I got to the airplane I was very excited. Then I started to watch a movie on the airplane. The movie that I saw was one of my favorites Leap Year. When we landed to Miami‚ Florida I was more excited because I always wanted to go to Miami. When we got there my cousin picked us up on the airport. Then we went to the most famous place to have fun
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102A 29 January 2014 My Dad’s Fifty-Fifth Birthday On January 26‚ 2014‚ the wind was blowing and the sun was shining‚ but for my dad it was also considered the day of his fifty-fifth birthday. According to most people‚ turning fifty-five years old is such a memorable day‚ but for my dad it was a very tremendous and grateful day. The main reason why is because he got to live another year and he also got to spend time with his family and friends. Since his birthday was on a Sunday‚ the entire
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My Seventieth Birthday Speech “The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and have stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach-unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there.” Mark Twain Good afternoon family and friends‚ I am privileged to be here today to celebrate with you my seventieth birthday. Today is a day I
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working without a lot of money. If the people hadn’t rebelled against their king‚ France wouldn’t have developed its economy and they would have continued with the problem of social classes. These were some events that occurred on the day of my birthday and they brought many changes in the
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In the poem‚ “A Birthday”‚ Christina Rossetti uses extensive and positive imagery‚ mostly pertaining to natural descriptions. In fact‚ the whole poem is composed of imagery‚ that are all solely for the purpose of relaying the sense of pure joy the speaker is feeling. The first line starts off with “My heart is like a singing bird” which gives the impression that her heart feels as elated as a bird does when singing. Another example is‚ “My heart is like an apple tree whose boughs are bent with thick-set
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Birthday by Christina Rossetti Everything in the first stanza speaks of the happiness Rossetti sees around her‚ and the repeated expression ‘My heart is like . . .’ stresses this joy‚ but she says at the end of the first stanza that her “heart is gladder than all these” which implies that what the poet is feeling is more than she can put in words. The persona compares her heart to the “singing bird” to bring out how overjoyed she felt. This may imply that the author’s heart had the same energetic
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	Christina Rossetti’s poem "A Birthday" and Kate Chopin’s short story "The Story of an Hour" present conflicting attitudes toward love. In particular the speaker in Rossetti’s poem is anticipating and overjoyed by the arrival of her new found love‚ whereas the character in Chopin’s story‚ after the initial shock of her new found freedom ‚ was overjoyed by the loss of her love. In the poem and short story several literary elements and techniques were used to convey these different attitudes
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