...Van Nguyen Paige Talbot English 099/101 Essay 1 Rough Draft April 17, 2016 One Day to Live Between Two Continents Have you ever traveled to different places that are far away from your homeland? There are many reasons why you should leave your home for a short or long period of time. It can be a trip to local areas or foreign countries. Everyone has particular emotional feelings when they experience their first times to go and live abroad. These experiences affect people’s lives positively. I am definitely not an exception because I also experienced the boundary day that shaped me into a different person when it was the first times for me to fly to and live in America. The warmful weather of summer in Seattle recalls continuous flowing of memories about my homeland. I spent most of my childhood time within this cherished area in South of Vietnam. Because our area belongs to Cuu Long Delta where its topography is crossed by many big rivers, my village includes many rambling old farmhouses that are embraced by a river on their front. At the rear of my village as well as my house, there are an immense number of rice fields spreading thoroughly to the horizon. These rice fields are believed to be the places where our village’s farmers work at. Seasonally, when it is time for harvest, the rice fields carpet turn into yellowish. Also, flying nest builders work hard to build their temporary homes by combinations of leaves and branches. Day after day, everything keeps going on...
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...November 2011 I think the purpose of this essay is to show? How she was scared about leaving, not knowing anyone. But at the same time she loved it and missed her home town. Good Things Fall Apart, So Better Things Can Come Together When I regularly came home from school and hanging out with friends around 7 in the evening, my mother surprised me with some news. She grinded and said that she had something to tell me. When I saw a smile on her face, I was excited to hear it. “You are going to America.” she said. I stopped smiling and turned my face into a frown. I didn’t want to go. I didn’t want to leave my house, school, families, and best friends that I have for my entire life. “But mom, everything is expensive over there. ” I tried to give her as many excuses as I could think. I added, “I’m not going to have any friends. I don’t know how to speak English. It is impossible for me to study over there. I don’t want to go. Please, let me stay here.” “You will be fine. You have your brother and your dad there. What are you afraid of? Your dad has been there for many years. All he wants is to see his kids succeed with good education. Look at your brother; he is fine over there. So you will be ok.” she said. I was sitting on a mountain of wet tissues. I would miss my friends a lot. I wouldn’t be able to hang out with them after school every day until 7 o’ clock anymore. Since I had no other choice, I had to come to America. I was scared because in my opinion, American...
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...explain how things work or it can give the directions to accomplish any task given. One wants to assume that ones audience will be able to follow the directions given to them in ones writing. The essay will also have to be clear so the reader will not get lost. Writers have to specify the materials that ones own readers will need so that they can be ready before starting the process. Making extra comments in the essay will help the audience visualize the process. One also needs to include what to not do like caution the readers. Kahn uses the rhetorical appeals, her story is also in process writing, and lastly she created a multimodal essay. Kahns’ purpose of “Stripped for Parts” was informative, because Kahn is explaining the process of an organ transplant happening in front of her eyes. Kahn uses the ethos appeal as in this example, “Someday, I’m convinced, transporting organs in coolers will seem as strange and outdated as putting a patient in an iron lung. I get on the plane with the heart and the kidneys”. She uses these sentences to show credibility to herself. Kahn also uses the pathos appeal in her essay saying, “To me, he looks fine. His face...
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...November 2011 I think the purpose of this essay is to show? How she was scared about leaving, not knowing anyone. But at the same time she loved it and missed her home town. Good Things Fall Apart, So Better Things Can Come Together When I regularly came home from school and hanging out with friends around 7 in the evening, my mother surprised me with some news. She grinded and said that she had something to tell me. When I saw a smile on her face, I was excited to hear it. “You are going to America.” she said. I stopped smiling and turned my face into a frown. I didn’t want to go. I didn’t want to leave my house, school, families, and best friends that I have for my entire life. “But mom, everything is expensive over there. ” I tried to give her as many excuses as I could think. I added, “I’m not going to have any friends. I don’t know how to speak English. It is impossible for me to study over there. I don’t want to go. Please, let me stay here.” “You will be fine. You have your brother and your dad there. What are you afraid of? Your dad has been there for many years. All he wants is to see his kids succeed with good education. Look at your brother; he is fine over there. So you will be ok.” she said. I was sitting on a mountain of wet tissues. I would miss my friends a lot. I wouldn’t be able to hang out with them after school every day until 7 o’ clock anymore. Since I had no other choice, I had to come to America. I was scared because in my opinion, American...
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...9/11 Essay Terrorism has been a very influential problem in American history and has had an enormous effect on U.S. From Pearl Harbor, First World Trading Center, Truck Bombing of Federal Building, and last but not least September 11, 2001. September 11th was a very devastating event in the history of America. This was a huge problem and caused depression, mourning, and paranoid many people. Of course, this affected many people and to this day still does. What do you think caused 9/11?.... Let's find out. September 11, 2001 was a very tragic day in American history. It all started when 19 terrorists boarded multiple airplanes, hijacked them, and crashed them into different targets. The terrorists focus was at the Pentagon and World...
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...Aswani Southern State University Author Note Akshay Aswani, student of composition and rhetoric class, Southern States University Akshay Aswani is a student of Bachelors of Business Administration in Southern States University Correspondence concerning this essay should be addressed to Akshay Aswani Composition and rhetoric, Southern States University. Fashion Valley. 123 Camino De la Reina Suite 100 East San Diego, CA 92108 Contact: akshayaswani@yahoo.in Abstract This paper reveals the Development of science and technology in various sectors and its effects on human beings. Major development in transportation was airways which reduced the travelling time to an extensive level. In communication sector, Mobile phone reduced the distance and turned the world in globalized village. In medical field, treatment of dangerous diseases like Cancer and tuberculosis has been invented. In this essay comparison is done between present and past due to development of technology. In which way science and technology has made the life of human being luxurious and easy. Which has resulted in saving lots of time of human beings and performing the difficult task in a lucid way. Various examples are given in the essay which clarifies the advantages and disadvantages received by human being due to development of technology. Moreover in the end my opinion towards the topic is given Keywords: Development, extensive, luxurious, lucid, Development of science and technology...
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...Gabriela Valdes Prof. Camila Alvarez ENC1101 MW 8:00-9:15am 11 January 2011 781 Words Essay #1 Rough Draft/ Descriptive: The Day I Left My Native Country Changed My Whole Life Life is about making choices, but at the age of seven I had no right to make my own choices. I was seven years old when my parents told me they had decided to leave our homeland Havana, Cuba I was speechless and pale like a printing paper. They wanted a better future for me; for they knew in America I would have a better education and a more comfortable lifestyle. In Cuba education and lifestyle was very poor, not everything was modern like in America. However, going to America was not what bother me it was leaving the life I had in my homeland. That significant decision my parents made changed everything about me and my life, it meant I had to leave my homeland, friends and family to go to a far-away place, I would have adjust to the alien environment, and I would have to learn a different language. I remember the day I had to leave Cuba; I was just seven years old. My parents drove to the airport with my entire friends and family to say our last goodbyes. As I walked into the airport everything was really bright, and cold inside, yet my face looked boiling hot; it did not mean I was hot I was just trying to hold in my tears from how badly I wanted to cry. My time was done as I heard a computer voice say the flight was ready to take off. I gave my grandma her last hug squeezing her fragile skinny...
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...Analysis of the film ‘King Kong’ ‘King Kong’ in is a film published 1933. some people think it is a film about the love of wild beast to a beauty. In this essay, I will argue that King Kong is a film about race, and it is the particular race against between white people and black people. The first period of this film is that Denham wanted to publish a wonderful film so they went on an oceangoing voyage and found an island which is far away from American’s center New York. On that island they found black people, this implies that black people are not identical to white people, they were forced to live an island far away from cities which is backward and difficult to find. This shows the racial segregation between white and black people. At 30:31 a scene that was showed straight and ----angle , the angle gave the whole condition of which way black people were gathered and what kind of house they lived in, also how they wore was shown at the same time. At 31:00 a medium shot was given to the chief of aborigine, he’s upper part of the body was naked and his face was cover by white and black colors this gives a huge contrast with white people. White people wore shirts and dress while black people wore grass skirt and naked upper part of body no matter they were men or women. At 34:30 a straight angle recorded black people held with spear and shield while Denham said “Get ready the rifle”. This shows that white people are catching the pace of technology but black people are still...
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... October 20, 2013 I feel that Suki Kim was a spoiled child. She had a governess, maid, and a chauffeur when she lived in Korea. She didn’t need anything as she was growing up there. Her father was a millionaire from having a shipping company, a mining business and hotels. Then one day they lost all of their money and had to flee to America. Bankruptcy in Korea had jail time behind it, something that her father didn’t want to go through or put his family through. So they left Korea in the ‘80’s and moved to Woodside, Queens in New York. To what Suki says was an “ugly house” that a Korean family owned that ran a dry cleaners. Their sons, Billy and Andy became her playmates. Suki was picked on from the other Korean children both at home and in school. She felt out of place. Therefore the other students didn’t want anything to do with her kind. They were Koreans, but not Korean American. They would call her FOB, “fresh out the boat,” or “yellow.” Funny because they didn’t arrive in a boat, they flew here in an airplane. Even the rich Koreans that left there and came here moved to Manhattan or Westchester. The children were ashamed of her and her kind. In order for her to learn English, she would watch reruns of “Three’s Company.” “Immigration is meant to be the great equalizer, yet it is not easy to eradicate the class divisions of the old country.” (para. 7 pg. 63) Suki says that, “more brutal...
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...Institution: George Bush Speech Analysis In the evening of September 11 the year 2001, George Bush addressed the United States of America upon the incident of the terrorist attack that had occurred about 12 hours earlier. The attack would define the presidency of Bush that would lead to the changes in the foreign policies of America, the Iraq and Afghanistan interventions as well as years of how to combat terrorism controversies. The president wanted to assure Americans that they still had a functioning government, listing the support from other nations in the terrorism fight and promise and vow to bring those who were involved to justice. That was when men who were 19 in number colluded and worked together to highjack four airplanes that were heading for California. The essay below looks into the various aspects of the speech that the president presented mainly to comfort as well as encourage the Americans despite the attack, in the speech. It looks at the impacts of the address, his resent on the incident, his personality, in addition to his efforts to assure American citizens of the government’s industrious steps to protect them as well as the impacts that the speech had after the proposed counterterrorism measures that involved developing a robust national security as discussed in the paper. The President of America, George Bush addressed upon the unfortunate events of 9-11 that had unfolded in 2011 the month of September according to the article “George W...
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...Habits Patria J Holloway Dr. Gordon Theisen Eng. 115 October 20, 2013 I feel that Suki Kim was a spoiled child. She had a governess, maid, and a chauffeur when she lived in Korea. She didn’t need anything as she was growing up there. Her father was a millionaire from having a shipping company, a mining business and hotels. Then one day they lost all of their money and had to flee to America. Bankruptcy in Korea had jail time behind it, something that her father didn’t want to go through or put his family through. So they left Korea in the ‘80’s and moved to Woodside, Queens in New York. To what Suki says was an “ugly house” that a Korean family owned that ran a dry cleaners. Their sons, Billy and Andy became her playmates. Suki was picked on from the other Korean children both at home and in school. She felt out of place. Therefore the other students didn’t want anything to do with her kind. They were Koreans, but not Korean American. They would call her FOB, “fresh out the boat,” or “yellow.” Funny because they didn’t arrive in a boat, they flew here in an airplane. Even the rich Koreans that left there and came here moved to Manhattan or Westchester. The children were ashamed of her and her kind. In order for her to learn English, she would watch reruns of “Three’s Company.” “Immigration is meant to be the great equalizer, yet it is not easy to eradicate the class divisions of the old country.” (para. 7 pg. 63) Suki says that, “more brutal than...
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...Online Assignment Submission Birmingham Business School Student ID Number: 1517083 Programme Of Study: MSc International Business Module: Global Shift Assignment Title: The Global Shift Essay, Critically evaluate the role innovation plays in the emergence and development of international business. Date and Time of Submission: 11-11-2015, 12:00pm Please ensure that you complete and attach this Submission Form to the front of all work that is submitted online. Before submission, please ensure that your name does not appear anywhere on your work, only your Student ID number. By submitting your work online you are confirming that your work is your own and that you understand and have read the University’s rules regarding plagiarism and the consequences that will arise should you submit plagiarised work. Critically evaluate the role innovation plays in the emergence and development of international business. Introduction Innovation has been playing a significant role in the history of business and trading since the ancient time. Generally speaking, the innovations that have effected international business can be classified into technological innovation, theoretical innovation and institutional innovation (Daniel, 1983). Among the three kinds of innovations, technological innovation is probably the most obvious one as the technology along with its influence is directly visible. In general, technological...
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...prepare accordingly). You must write in essay form with an introduction, substantive body paragraphs and a conclusion. Be sure to answer all of the sub-questions. Essay #3)What is the history behind the 9/11 attacks? Explain how the US intervention in Afghanistan contributed to the formation of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. What three reasons were given for the 9/11 attacks and why is US involvement in Iraq, Israel, and Saudi Arabia a factor? The history behind the 9/11 attacks include issues between countries in the Middle East and the United States. Issues included the importance and interest in Middle East oil, the United States support for Israel in providing them with military equipment, and the presence of the United States army in the Middle East. The attack consisted of two airplanes that were led by terrorists who were associated with the al Qaeda which was led by Osama bin Landen. Their purpose to do this was to slam the World Trade Center which is located in New York. Terrorists that attacked the American interests were usually trained by the U.S but they became part of the Taliban which was founded with Osama bin Ladens’s money. He was determined in spreading conservative forms of Islam, with religious laws. In 2001 al Qaeda was recognized as the most dangerous terror network in the world. They were planning actions against the U.S. In September 11 of 2001 it hit the World Trade Center. This was never felt before in America. The Taliban or Al Qaeda were both...
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...that is made from potassium nitrate and charcoal. Originally used to treat skin diseases as far back as 140 AD, eventually the Chinese people mastered the art of igniting the gunpowder to launch fireworks and rockets which were used to defend China from Mongol invaders as early as the 9th or 10th century AD. Gunpowder has since been used by people all over the world for purposes ranging from hunting to warfare. Were it not for the discovery of gunpowder, we would not have guns, therefore hunting would be much more difficult for the hunter because he or she would still have to rely on arrows or rocks or traps instead of just shooting the prey. Gunpowder also had a large role when it came to settling and conquering the Americas. The Europeans that settled America relied on the massive advantage their guns offered to hunt animals and conquer...
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...attempted to start airlines using airships in the mid-19th industry. b). Aktiengesellschaft was world’s first airline which was founded in November 16, 1909 with the government assistance, and operated airships manufactured by Zeppelin Corporation. c). Tony Jannus conducted the United States’ first scheduled commercial flight on January 1914. d). In 1918, the United States Postal Service won the financial support from Congress to begin air mail service. e). In 1925, Stout Aircraft Company began to construct Ford Trimotor with 12-passenger capacity which became the first successful American airliner. f). At the same time, Pan American World Airways created an air network that linked America to the world. g). At the end of twenty century, a new style of cost airline appeared, offering a no-frills product at a lower price. The representative low-cost carriers are Southwest Airlines, JetBlue and AirTran Airways. h). The September 11th terrorist attacks resulted the airline industry bailout which lost $30 billion with 100,000 employees laid off. k). Today, JetBlue, Southwest and Air Tran have become the most successful low-cost models. 2. Key Segments and Trends a). Four main categories in the airline industry separated by U.S. Department of Transportation: international flights, national flights, short-haul flights and cargo transportation. b). Significant factors...
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