Your Excellency‚ Ladies and Gentlemen‚ I am sure you don’t need reminding why we are all here this evening. It is to celebrate the 60th birthday of Arthur Aidan who I am proud to call my best friend. It is no exaggeration to say how much he deserves to be admired as a great man (applause). He has succeeded in everything that is important in life: love‚ career‚ family‚ friends and all this without forgetting to enjoy himself. After a happy childhood growing up in Paris ( I will spare his
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Happy Birthday Chase Life moves by quickly‚ but from the start of life to the end there are a special days where you celebrate the day of your birth. There are also particular birthdays that you show more special interest to than others. Some of which being‚ when you finally become a teenager‚ turning sixteen so you’re finally able to drive‚ turning eighteen signifies you as an adult‚ turning twenty-one means you can buy alcohol‚ and if you’re lucky enough turning a hundred means you’ve lived
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because it’s meant to happen. That’s why we forgive people even if they hurt us. We love people who don’t love us. And we smile despite every painful crash in our hearts. At the end of the day‚ lessons we get are answers to our decisions. Happy Birthday Jesus Christ :* Merry Christmas to all. Godbless :) Good Night Sweety :"> In life‚ we always search for answers because we want to prove to ourselves that we made the right decisions but the truth is we can’t search for what’s not there. Things
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The memories of my early childhood are like scattered‚ partially lost pieces of a huge mosaic. I am only five‚ and instead of sleeping late like other kids would do‚ I don’t want to stay in bed‚ don’t want to miss the mystery‚ the beauty of the world’s awakening. My older brother and cousins are up already and drag their bare feet on the wooden floor. I still can vividly picture that floor- old‚ caved in‚ coated with brown paint a thousand times‚ the floor in my Grandma’s house. The memories of my
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Birthday in China and Canada If there is only one day you should remember in your life‚ it will be your birthday. Birthday is important for people in most countries; they celebrate the birthday every year. However‚ there is much difference between countries in birthday. Such as China and Canada‚ they are difference in birthday dates‚ celebrating ways‚ and traditional meanings. One of the most obvious differences between China and Canada is their birthday dates. In China‚ most Chinese people could
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Not the Ordinary Birthday Celebration It was the morning of February 20th‚ 2007‚ my great grandmother’s birthday! The agenda for the day was to first finish packing up the house because move in day for our new home was just hours away. Once that was all done and the truck was locked and loaded us as a family would head to TGI Fridays to celebrate my great grandmother’s birthday as we did every year since her passing. TGI Fridays was where we had her last birthday dinner before she passed;
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Writing Memory Curves‚ strokes‚ dots‚ and lines all twisting and turning around each other like some sort of messed up balloon animals. To me‚ these symbols are as complex as Chinese letters are to the snobs that spits out this language. “English”‚ they call it. “Why can you speak English?’ they ask. But from the day I stepped into that class‚ the one they call kindergarten‚ I knew it‚ “English” would be the beginning of a lifelong migraine. Vietnamese; that is the language I speak. It is my native
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dictionary defines memory as the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts‚ events‚ and impressions‚ or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences. However‚ the dictionary does not reveal the wondrous and downright horrifying things about memory. Memory is my ally‚ but a fickle one. I believe memory serves as a funnel to the past‚ except this funnel faces the opposite direction. My past moments are poured into the smaller end‚ causing most of my memories to be lost. Actually
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A Birthday - Christina Rossetti Context Christina Rossetti - Born in 1830‚ known for acerbic (sharp direct and outspoken) love poetry‚ vivacious (attractively lively) ballads (poem in short stanzas) and nursery rhymes. Became a devout Anglo-Catholic when she was about 14. Poem - Written when Rossetti was 27yrs old in 1857 and expresses the tremendous joy and excitement you feel when you meet the one you love. Title - A Birthday; celebration‚ spiritual rebirth‚ ambiguous misleading title
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An Analysis of “Happy Birthday‚ 1951” “Happy Birthday‚ 1951” is a 20th century short story by American author Kurt Vonnegut. In this short‚ but moving tale‚ we see the efforts of an old man to raise a young boy on the tail end of the Second World War. Contrast and characterization are used in this story to illustrate how people are products of their environment Characterization plays a large part in “Happy Birthday‚ 1951”. With the aid of this literary device‚ we are able to understand what
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