I started at UC with full intent to graduate with honors from interior design. There was one main problem with this dream of mine; I hadn’t chosen my major after years of passion on the subject matter but rather on a whim. It wasn’t my first choice of major, initially I was interested in Architecture for equally flimsy reasons. I was interested in architecture because I liked building houses in the sims and an upper classmen friend of mine who I worked closely with in an extracurricular wanted to
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America. I just finished with the inspection process. First they had American doctors give me a full examination. They wanted to make sure I didn’t have any diseases or lice. The examination took forever and I am exhausted. The disinfectant bath was terrible. I wonder if my luggage faired any better than I did. Boarding was a mess. There are so many people. I found my bed and got my pillow which is also my life preserver, so I better not lose it! I also received my pail and utensils for my meals. Guess
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composition and what parents do for work) First, life expectancy is low 40 years old. There is an extremely high rate of infant/child death. There is no money, little food, unstable family structures, and hardly any care givers. Mothers must work at terrible wages for rich plantation owners and have no one to look after their babies. So they have no choice to but leave them at home alone. They live in shacks in ‘shanty-towns’ where living conditions are not clean, contaminated with all sorts of bacteria
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Lovely America Doing an exchange was like a dream to me. Since I started university, I’ve been planning this trip. I couldn’t believe when I received an email from my home university, telling me that I had a vacant in the University of Richmond. Everything was really fast, I when I realized I was I the plane, alone, flying to the United States. Thousand of thoughts came to my mind… “Did I take the right decision?”, “Do I have to stay at home and start to work, as all my friends are doing?”. However
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shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never" (32). "To hang a young boy in front of thousands of spectators was no light matter. The head of the camp read the verdict. All eyes were
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In the film The Matrix, the question being asked is whether or not anything in this world that we experience every day, from the trees that are growing outside, to the people we encounter on a daily basis, truly exists. In The Matrix film, this question is answered with a resounding “No,” that nothing is real and that the true nature around us is a harsh and cruel reality, one where the entirety of the Earth’s population is enslaved to a race of “machines.” The main character, Neo, is at first scared
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physical objects each soldier carried were much more significant, including such things as personal doubts, fears, and dreams. The soldiers have a crazy amount of mental baggage. O’Brien wrote this novel as a type of therapy for himself as a way to deal with everything he had experienced in the Vietnam War. They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.
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Ideal Hostess During the 1950th time period in the United States, normal working class starts to move in to suburb area to seek for better life. The popularity of suburb area causes a shift of position for women in the society at that time. Most people begin to expect women to stay at home either taking care of children or the whole household. In addition, the ideal housewife needs to be perfectly obedient to her husband and pay extraordinary attention to her children. In the play Death of a Salesman
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The Trap Kerima Polotan Tuvera I was fourteen when we moved to Cabuyao. We reached the town at night and though it was not quite seven, the streets were empty. I had hoped we would get to it before dark, while there was light enough for people to see us come. We knew no one, of course – “We’ll make friends,” my father had said – and expected no welcome, but having left Tayug with reluctance, I had urged my father during the trip to drive faster so that we might arrive in Cabuyao early enough
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The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal--the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy
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