Yasunari Kawabata: The Dancing Girl of Izu My favorite author is Yasunari Kawabata‚ was born in June 14‚ 1899 and died in April 16‚ 1972. He is a Japanese short story writer and the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. His works combined the beauty of old Japan with modernist trends. Kawabata’s books have been described as melancholy lyricism and often explore the place of sex within culture and within individual lives. “The Dancing Girl of Izu” is a story like this‚ my
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Rhetoric and Public Address Mrs. Mendes Persuasive Speech – Outline Tap and Bottled Water Goal: To persuade the audience that: 1. Bottled water is not better than tap water 2. They should start using reusable water bottles Introduction Bottled water is believed by many to be cleaner and safer than tap water… While in many cases bottled water is clean and kept at a good quality‚ it is almost equal in most aspects with tap water 1. Costs and value of bottled water Basically‚ I would like
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UNICEF’s Tap Project The UNICEF (aka the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) was created by the United Nations General Assembly in 1946. UNICEF’s main goal is to build a world where the rights of every child is recognized‚ and to work with others to overcome the obstacles that poverty‚ violence‚ disease and discrimination place in a child’s path. The Tap Project was basically a program implemented by the UNICEF in 2007. Restaurants would ask their patrons to donate $1 or more
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Tap & Jazz! A Skill For A Lifetime! As a child I wasn’t able to participate in too many activities. I had two other siblings and it just wasn’t feasible for my parents to enroll us in a lot of extracurricular events. My sister took ballet as a child. I would attend classes with her and I would watch her perform her routines. I became interested in what she did but I didn’t think “ballet” was for me‚ but I did want to participate in some form of performing arts. I liked to dance but ballet was too
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People from other countries can not safely drink tap water like people from America can. Bottled water is better than tap water. Tap water is dirty. Bottled water has a refreshing taste that tap water does not have. Bottled water also has a convenient bottle that people can take anywhere. No one can trust tap water like they can trust bottled water. Bottled water has been filtered many times before it is produced. Without filtering our water to perfection‚ no one can know what is in it. There
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“Dancing can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music‚ and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. “ said Mr. Charles Baudelaire. Dance is popular all over the world; it is a way that people express themselves through movement. Over the years‚ dance has evolved into several distinct forms (Central Home). Different styles of dance are distinguished by many things such as shoes‚ music‚ and costumes. Dancing has been around for a plethora
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The best thing about tap water is cheap and readily available. All you have to do is go to the kitchen and turn on the faucet whenever you’d like. If you’re out in a public place‚ you’re never too far from a bathroom or a drinking fountain. Some of the cons of tap water is that a lot of “experts” and authority figures will tell you that it’s perfectly safe to drink. According to the caparison chart‚ tap water contains chlorine and fluoride. Tap water is part of a indoor plumbing system where water
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In any story‚ the repetition of a word‚ theme‚ or symbol typically marks that thing as important to the author and reader. It reflects the message of the piece as a whole. In Tom Whitecloud’s Blue Winds Dancing‚ the word in particular is “home.” It represents more than where he grew up; more than just a birthplace. “Home” means family. It means friends‚ love‚ comfort‚ and protection. “Home is where the heart is” so the saying goes‚ and for Whitecloud‚ this couldn’t be any truer. Home is the most
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Tap Water Pros and Cons Pros | Cons | Monitored and regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). | Some water is carried in lead pipes from utility companies to homes‚ which means lead can leach from pipes into the water. | Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act (SWDA)of 1996 have made drinking water safer. | The EPA allows tap water to have 10 parts per billion (ppb) of arsenic in it‚ although scientists now know there is no safe level of arsenic. | Numerous tests are conducted
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It is no secret that bottled water costs more than tap water‚ but is it reasonable to state it costs 1‚000 times more? It is very difficult to give an exact number for the difference between the two‚ but 1‚000 to 2‚000 times more is a reasonable estimate. This is based on the fact that on average‚ a gallon of bottled water costs $1.22. Protesters against bottled water industries use the highest prices of water bottles they can find as a way to show a bigger contrast between the two‚ essentially
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