No guts no glory. No pain no gain. Those are my life mottos. I feel that nothing can be achieved by simply sitting and doing absolutely nothing to make dreams come true. Life can be so hard especially when you are not born with silver spoon in yuor mouth. It is also the time when true friends are hard to comeby just because you do not much money to treat them at Kentucky Fried Chicken or Burger King. That is something that I have experienced ever since my family moves to this metropilitan city and
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declarative titles; (iii) question titles; (iv) hanging titles; and (v) series titles‚ with main title and sub-title. Indicative titles Indicative titles state the subject of the study rather than its conclusion. Examples are: (1) Influence of stocking density and grazing management on live weight changes in cattle‚ sheep and goats grazing natural pastures (2) Effects of fallowing on soil water storage and loss (3) Effectiveness of Dalbergia sissoo leaves in controlling inflammation in rats Note
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Assignment #1 Essay A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift The Humanities Volume II: Culture‚ Continuity‚ and Change April 28‚ 2013 Justino L. Berrios In Jonathan Swift’s essay A Modest Proposal‚ the author uses satire in the essay and the title itself‚ to make a point about the English government allowing the citizens of Ireland to starve to death. The proposal that he makes is by no means “modest‚” hence the sarcastic edge surrounding the title. The essay was written in 1729 and during that
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The Source of Happy Ending The prince took the princess to the great castle; they got married and lived happily ever after; everyone was very happy. An orphan boy had gone through 30 years of suffering‚ finally found his lost parents. The patient was a very optimistic person; she defeated the disease that was originally diagnosed as having no cure. Happy endings always satisfy and give deep impression to readers. Have you ever wondered how come fairy tales and short stories almost always end
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would pass by our stall and see my father ’pulling’ the tea through a sackcloth strainer‚ pouring it repeatedly from one container to another. "The sackcloth would become stained and resembled a flesh colored stocking‚ so they would come in and say ’Give me a glass of that silk stocking milk tea.’" The nickname for the drink stuck. At Lan Fong Yuen‚ a very fine sackcloth and a copper teapot is used to make milk tea. The tea and milk are strained through the cloth sieve eight times to produce
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3. The ending of “The Speckled Band” is particularly effective because of 2 main reasons. The end of the story becomes more intense‚ suspenseful and anticipating. This makes readers want to read more‚ like a cliffhanger. The story builds up to this point‚ then there is the investigation and action. It is also suggested in the story near the end that something exciting may happen Holmes character becomes more mysterious. He brings a cane but he can walk so what for? He also asks Watson to have his
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Alternative Ending - Overview and Guidelines English 11 A – American Literature 24 points Guidelines: (Final Draft Only!) 1” margins 12 point font – preferably Times or Arial Black ink Single Spaced Heading in the upper left corner margin (Not in the Header) Your name Alternative Ending English 11 Teacher’s name Date Centered title under heading (Be creative!) Overview: For this portfolio assignment‚ you will create an alternative ending for one of the stories you have read in Unit 4. Step 1:
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The Controversial Ending of Shaw’s Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is a play that has become a classic in today’s world. It is a retelling of an ancient story‚ of the same name‚ by the Roman poet‚ Ovid‚ in which a sculptor falls in love with a statue he carved. In Shaw’s story‚ Henry Higgins‚ an expert in phonetics‚ happens upon a poor flower girl with awful English and street manners named Eliza Doolittle. Throughout the course of the play Higgins transforms her into an elegant independent
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Act 5: Scene 1 GRAVEDIGGER-She killed herself‚ are they really going to give her a Christian funeral? OTHER- Yes‚ so finish up that grave. The coroner examined her case and decided it should be a Christian funeral. GRAVEDIGGER- But how? Unless she drowned herself in defense OTHER- They think she did. GRAVEDIGGER-Psst yeah sounds like self-offense to me.. I think that if she knew she was drowning herself that’s an act. Acts have three sides to it: to do‚ to act‚ and to preform
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Stories Essay In the short story “Happy Endings” there were quite a few unexpected elements. At the beginning of the story‚ John & Mary meet. There are five different stories with five very different endings. In “Happy Ending A”‚ John and Mary actually have a happy ending. After the two meet‚ they fall in love‚ get married‚ have a wonderful life together and then die. I was not expecting the not so happy endings for the remainder of the story. In “Happy Ending B”‚ Mary falls in love with John but
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