Cheng Cai Sheila Knight EH100 04/04/12 My English learning experience I was born in a non-English family. I started to learn English when I was in primary school in China. After that, I became gradually interested in this new language and, nowadays, my English level is continuing to improve. From my English learning experience, I have really learned many valuable things. First, it helps me realize not to give up halfway when facing difficulties. Also, it helps me know that I must take everything
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ENG3U1b 25 February 2013 The Genuine Meaning of Being Canadian What does it really mean to be Canadian? People have numerous statements to define themselves "Canadian". Many individuals would recognise themselves as Canadian citizens simply because they were born in Canada. In fact, it is sometimes the occasion that even people from different races may tell you that they are "just" or "100%" Canadian, when you ask their background. On the other hand, it is somewhat important to look at some
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One’s life story can be written out of two words. In this case it’s precision and persimmons. It’s crazy how two words with different meanings can mean the same thing or paint the same picture. This poem has two words that bring a flurry of memories back to the poet mind beginning with a persimmon. The persimmon shows a loving connection between two people. “Persimmons” is a free verse poem by Li-Young Lee, who tells a narrative that being in elementary school. He didn’t know the difference between
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stand out and more popular among the rest? Based on the assumptions of the Buddhist religion, Buddhism tends to focus more on the individual, concerning mindfulness, compassion, and tolerance while Christianity is more based on fear and mythology. This is probably why Buddhism evidently drew a lot of individuals and appealed to many followers of a different faith.
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Culture and Society Culture is the reflection of our lifestyle and society. It is culture which makes one society different from another. Society is the largest form of human group who shares a common culture. Members of the society learn the culture and transmit it from one generation to the next. So culture and society is linked with each other. Culture is basically the summation of social customs and traditions which are carried from one generation to other, knowledge, material objects
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insisted we not. Instead we stayed at the Hotel des Colonies in the French Concession. The Hotel was acceptable, but we were to stay there long. Our family had to leave to Peking at once. The houses in Peking seemed to go on forever. The gardens were Chinese style, flowing gracefully with vines of flowers. Bridges seemed to rise here or there, but there was a hurried problem. We did not have a home in Peking. Father sent a telegram to a friend to find us a house and one was found. It was a famous house
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were saying to each other. Later on that day, not trying to be funny at all, I went up to my manager as he was sweeping and asked, “Hey can you teach me some words in Chinese?” He stop sweeping, threw a weird face on, looked at me and said “What?!” I remembered this book I read a while ago that talked about how the Japanese and Chinese people were at war with each other and how they hated being confused. I could see that Adrian was offended, so I immediately changed my question to “I mean some Japanese
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such as big country. We will focus on the two of the biggest cities, Beijing and Shanghai. Slide 1 J: Guess--which one represents Beijing? Which represents Shanghai? Anyone can tell the difference between the two cities? (Chinese please keep silent.) A: Shanghai is top Chinese COMMERCIAL city with EXTREMELY long history of 700 years. J: Beijing is named as EMPIRE Capital. It has a very SHORT history of 3000 years, there of 860 years is as capital, which the people are proud of. Slide 2 A:
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Attitude, Legislation and Litigation SPE-226 Attitudes, Legislation and Litigation have changed the disabled people' lives. Since the beginning, we can read those Bible passages or other books where disabled people were discriminated, they were killed, hidden or lock away by others until today. There are people actually who shun from them and they consider an embarrassment those disabled people. Those kinds of attitudes or mindsets slowly have changed and it started 65 years ago, during those
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The Chinese created many wonderful works of art. They invented many things that we still use. Today, people have found art and writings that tell us about ancient China. They have even found a huge army that the Chinese made from clay. This clay army was buried underground for thousands of years! Let’s take a look at the Chinese people and their history. There is a lot to learn about them. CHINA: THEN AND NOW C hina is in East Asia. The Chinese word for China is Zhongguo. This name
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