El Camino College I came to El Camino College two and a half years ago as an international student with F1 Visa. When I first came to a complete strange environment‚ I had cultural shock‚ especially language barrier. However‚ El Camino College provided ESL classes for international students after placement tests. By studying that class‚ I made a lot of friends‚ and my English got practiced well. More importantly‚ that class built my confidence to speak and write English. For a new beginner‚ ESL
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Summary Section Pages 1 50 We start off learning about a Chinese American family by the eyes of Olivia‚ the main character. She talks about her full-blood family‚ and then she transits to her half-sister‚ Kwan. According to Kwan‚ she had "yin eyes"; she was able to see the dead. Olivia also talks about how her husband‚ Simon‚ is getting divorced‚ while Kwan tries to stop the divorce. Kwan also tells a story about a girl in China named Nunumu‚ describing her encounters and such. Pages 51
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Lab 20: Flame Tests Purpose/Objective: The ground state is the normal electron configuration of atoms or ions in an element. When atoms or ions in ground state are heated to a higher temperature‚ some electrons absorb enough energy to move them to higher energy levels. This is known as the excited state. However‚ the excited configuration is unstable‚ and the electrons must return back to their positions in the lower energy level. As they return‚ the energy that was previously absorbed is now emitted
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income inequality decreased over the same period. Between-country inequalities in level of education and access to sanitation remained mostly unchanged but the largest between-country difference in mean life expectancy increased‚ from 9 years in 1990 to 20 years in 2010. Throughout the study period‚ there was disproportionality in the burden of disease between BRICS. However‚ the national infant mortality rate fell substantially over the study period in all five countries. In Brazil and China‚ the magnitude
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BPA 1 -2 El Presidente Film Review We all know the El Presidente is a historical and educational movie about the First President of the Republic of the Philippines‚ Emilio Aguinaldo. The movie itself is that‚ it is not for all Filipinos but for the Independence that the country’s attaining right now. It is a film that has; I mean of course mostly an epic especially the scenes it’s really hard to visualize the happening that occur decades ago. I could say that this film is not good for those Andres
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that strongly portrays the traits of innocence and naiveness. She goes to school at the American school in the Dominican Republic. The school has a picture of “El Jefe” hanging up and Anita seems to look up to him as a person: she believes that one day she will be greeted by him as “the girl who never cries”. However‚ as the secrets of El Jefe unfold‚ Anita discovers that he tortures and makes many Dominicans “disappear”. Half of her family has fled to the United States when it was safe and the other
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Chapter 20- List the functions of the lymphatic vessels. The function of the lymphatic vessels‚ or lymphatic’s‚ is an elaborate system of drainage vessels that collect the excess protein-containing interstitial fluid and return it to the bloodstream. Describe the structure and distribution of lymphatic vessels. The lymphatic collecting vessels have the same three tunics as veins‚ but the collecting vessels are thinner walled‚ have more internal valves‚ and anastomose more. The lymphatic
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1. urchin‚ 193- a mischievous boy‚ rascal The street urchin ran about in the streets careless and happy and free of worries. 2. bourgeois‚ 195- peasants‚ middle classed citizen The 18-century French population consists of mostly peasants and bourgeois. 3. marquisates‚ 195- a rank of a marquis The marquises can be identified when they wear their marquisates. 4. chagrin‚ 201- feeling of being vexed‚ humiliated or disappointed Marius did not feel chagrin when he was told he was going to meet
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drug dealing men of Mexico. The drug cartel leaders of Mexico’s most infamous cartels can really only trust themselves. The drug world is a dog eat dog kind of world. Chapo had enlisted the help of El Chito to escape Puente Grande‚ as he drove the getaway car. “...Chapo told the guard he was thirsty. El Chito went into a shop to buy him a bottle of water. When he got back to the car Chapo was gone (pg 31).” Chapo knew the more anyone knew about his whereabouts upon his escape‚ the more likely he was
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Ch 20 Packet Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade Part 1 1. Describe the characteristics of the “Atlantic System”. The Atlantic System was a major catalyst in the growth and development of the Atlantic slave trade‚ which boosted the world economy significantly. The Atlantic system a link between Africa and the rest of the world. It simply was the destiny that Africans were going to face‚ being shipped to the Middle East‚ Europe‚ and especially across the Atlantic
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