How I spent my school vacation How I spent my school vacation??? First of all, I have to say I hate the word spent. It is like I wasted my time, like I used up my vacation. Everyone LOVES their summer vacation. Who doesn’t? Because after a longggg time of coming to school every day, doing homework and facing terrible tests, we all need a break. After a long time of studying for my end of term semester exams, I was in desperate need of a good, long break. So when our holidays came around, I was so
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Lesson plan Unit 10: CONSERVATION Class: 10 Period: Lesson: Language focus Teacher: Do Van Hung Date: 1/10/2007 1. Aim: To practise pronunciation /b/ and /p/ and know form of passive voice. 2. Objectives: • To help students apply in different situations and avoid mistakes between passive voice and active voice. • To help students pronounce correctly /b/ and /p/ in single word and sentence. 3. Teaching aids: • Projector • Computer • Textbook • Posters
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A Different Shot My chosen text is “In Creve Coeur, Missouri” by Rosanna Warren. Only in Creve Coeur would an expert photographer firebug snap a shot so eloquent: fireman bent low over the rag of body held like impossible laundry pulled too soon from the line, too pale, too sodden with smoke to flail in his huge, dark, crumpled embrace. He leans to the tiny face. her hair stands out like flame. She is naked, she has no name. No longer a baby, almost a child, not yet a ghost
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How lucky you are Luck can be many things. For some luck is all about having a big house and a lot of money, but it does not have to be about that. Luck can appear in all types of things. It can be as simple as a warm bed to sleep in or having parents who loves you. Luck is the main theme in the short story “How lucky you are”. It is written by Debi Alper in 2010. The story is about Max who falls in love with Ishraqi from Iran, but she must be send back the day they meet. The main theme of
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older he had received death threats from white men when he would forget to comply to the Jim Crow Laws in the moment of a conversation. Richard is considered lucky when these white men let him go easy after hitting him with a empty glass whiskey bottle. One tells him “Nigger, you sure ought to be glad it was us you talked to that way. You're a lucky bastard, cause if you'd said that to some other white man, you might've been a dead nigger now” (Wright 181). These horrific events due to the Jim Crow laws
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television audience would have been subject to federal taxation and included in their gross income. The Code of Federal Regulations states the taxable and nontaxable income to be included in one’s federal taxes, the code reads that “if you win a prize in a lucky number drawing, television or radio quiz program, beauty contest, or other event, you must include it in your income” (Prizes and Awards, 2003). The fair market value of all prizes and awards, other than certain scholarships, must be included in gross
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II. Credibility Statement: I have taken the steps to be a registered donor and have been one since I turned 16 years old three years ago. III. Relating to the Audience: As young people, we are used to being in good health, but not everyone is so lucky. Organ donation can turn a life threatening condition into a thing of the past, and it can even benefit someone you know and love. IV. Thesis Statement: The non-profit organization Donate Life America strongly promotes and raises awareness
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became all too real. I quickly realized that no person -- regardless of age, gender, or socio-economic status—is exempt from experiencing true pain or fear. More than anything, this made me realize how lucky I am in every aspect of my life, and I became overwhelmed with empathy for those who were not so lucky. I tell you this story because I consider it the first stepping-stone of many in my journey to become a nurse. My desire to pursue nursing evolved
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other at Christmas and over the summer. We've been together since the start, literally. We shared our mother's womb. Even though we fight from time to time and sometimes you refuse to cuddle with me, I know I'm going to miss you. Lots of twins are lucky to get to go to the same college, but we don't get that privilege. Knowing you, you probably wouldn't want that anyway because you'd have to actually see me every day. I'm not sure what life will be like in Minnesota without people knowing me as "Rachel's
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and less with each passing week. It felt like positive progress, but I still worried nonetheless. I worried that something would go wrong, and I realize now how silly that was. It was stupid of me to make myself worry so much, because I was really lucky with how everything turned
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