desk from parents who have taken the opportunity to ‘brag’ about their child. I know mine won’t be the best‚ but I hope that I do my daughter justice at the end. As most parents do‚ especially with their first child‚ they keep a folder of milestones their child has reached throughout their years; a folder filled with report cards‚ love letters‚ photos‚ school projects‚ etc. When I look back at one of Morgan’s Kindergarten project “All about Me”‚ I couldn’t agree more with the saying on the front of
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Eighteen years ago‚ my parents moved to the United States from Ukraine to create a better life for our family. Growing up here I found myself becoming easily accustomed to the American ways‚ but even though my family and I may have gotten used to that way of life we never lost sight of our Ukrainian culture. When I think about it‚ the best way that I can describe what my culture is like would be a jigsaw puzzle. When making a puzzle one begins with connecting as many pieces to each other until the
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Looking outside the window inside the clay house I was living in at the time‚ my eyes could only picture the dullness of the outdoors; the view made me feel uneventful to hang out with my cousin climbing 30-foot mahogany trees or taking a hike up elevated land terrain to swim near the pristine waterfalls. I instead remembered that I packed something better in my luggage. Once I unpacked‚ I could finally see my boredom disappear. The PlayStation was immediately set up on the television set and right
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equally by most people because of my ethnic identity. We are stereotyped by the Han‚ the major population of China. We’re perceived as a primitive tribe who cannot be educated and for whom knowledge is useless‚ so my teachers seldom expected me to succeed in my classroom performance. Although my middle school teachers were strict with my classmates‚ they ignored my occasional failures. They assumed that after graduation I would return to a village‚ take over my parents’ land‚ marry a Bouyei man‚
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other; he stepped like a person that never reached his destiny. He came near me and broke the silence with a sincere voice that slipped through his throat‚ as it approached the cavity regarded with the gift of sound‚ said to me “I missed you”. My grandfather is a worn and skilled man. His ancient body unveils the arduous work he has gone through. The integument of the upper part of his head has lost most of his shiny hair like the leaves of an old tree succumbing by the pass of the years. Nevertheless
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My sophomore year was a great year for me as far as school goes. It was a year filled with many surprises and mysteries. It was my second year returning to Charles F. Brush High School and as I walked into the first day of school I wondered how my day would transpire. I was ecstatic to be immediately greeted by one of my friends that I met during my freshman year. It wasn’t so much that it was him that made me ecstatic‚ it was more of him being a familiar face and me being reassured. His name was
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About Narrative Essay Narrative essay is a popular topic on the Continuous Writing section and students should take note that this topic has appeared in the SPM examination almost every year since the paper was introduced. Many people think that writing a story is a difficult task‚ but believe me‚ it is much easier than what you think because you are not confined to any particular point. Therefore‚ you are free to voice out everything that is in your mind. A narrative essay is a piece of writing
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and the canary? This conundrum is explored in the relationship of Grandfather and Grandmother Connor. Grandfather is sturdy and solid‚ yet feared‚ as a bear is feared. Contrarily‚ Grandmother is gentle and sweet‚ taking little but giving much‚ as a canary raises spirits when it trills its songs. The symbolic bear and canary demonstrate the numerous differences‚ physically and characteristically between Grandmother and Grandfather Connor. The vivid imagery of Grandmother’s caged bird and Grandfather’s
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When my Great Grandfather was a much younger man‚ he was fortunate enough to be part of a very famous battle in the Revolutionary War. In fact many people say that it was one of the turning points of the war. He had the honor of serving under two of the greatest generals in the American Continental Army‚ General Thomas Gage and General Benedict Arnold. Let me tell you a story about the battle that changed his life… It was a cold and foggy night on October 7th‚ 1777 when the British army led
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the 1900’s‚ the overall death rate of the population in Britain has decreased. For males‚ the death rate has dropped from 25829 in 1901 to a mere 8477 in 2000. The rate fell from 21705 to 5679 within the same period of time for females. It was noted that death rates increased during flu epidemics as well as in cold and hot weather. For example‚ about 200 000 people died in the year 1918 due to the influenza epidemic. Nowadays‚ more people die after the age of 65 while in the early 1900’s‚ only 20%
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