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    My Dream Essay

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    helping to make your own rules. It’s standing up and being heard. It’s studying alone and together. It’s understanding philosophies different from your own. It’s a special kind of love. It’s forever. KAPPA IS Kappa Kappa Gamma is not just a fleur-de-lis, a golden key, songs, bylaws or national conventions. It is not simply an institution, a creed, an obligation or even a way of life. If you’re going to insist that it be something, then Kappa is only joining your new sisters and slowly discovering that

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    2/6✔ Author’s Craft: How is your nonfiction author using craft techniques to keep the central idea true? What is your author doing that also incorporates his/her perspective in the theme? (Look at the Informational Author’s Craft Techniques and Goals BELOW for ideas.) 6 In Red Scarf Girl, I noticed one huge author’s craft technique throughout the story. The author used a lot of inner thinking. This makes sense, since the story is the author telling her own story. The inner thinking

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    Meaning Of Folklore Tales

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    INTRODUCTION In each country there are lots of folklore stories or also known as folktales that have been told by generation to the younger generations. For example, in America there are famous folklore stories such as Bloody Mary, Heroes, Villains and so on. In Malaysia, there are also folklore stories that are famous such as Lady White Snake, Hikayat 1001 Malam, Pak Kaduk, Si Luncai, and so on. Before we discover more about the other side of folklore, we need to know the meaning of the it. Folklore

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    words poetry really allows someone to maintain an experience so someone else can later access it as their own: it’s basically a way of sharing once inner thoughts, experiences and memories with others. In this essay I will be comparing the poetry of Li-Young Lee. The two specific poems I will compare are “The Gift” and “I ask my mother to sing”. Although both poems are based

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    Red Scarf Girl Analysis

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    What would happen if defying the government could result in death? In the memoir Red Scarf Girl, Ji-li describes how everybody had dutifully followed Chairman Mao and took action in helping the Communist Party. On the other hand, others flouted the Party. During the events of the Cultural Revolution, Ji-li Jiang has self-conflicts about her true beliefs. Ji-li once believed in the kindness of the Communist Party and had confidence that the Cultural Revolution would benefit the fate of China. However

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    Trade Essay

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    The first traditional hong was the Jardine Matheson. It was once seen to be more influential than the colonial government but nowadays it has become a minor player compared to Li Ka Shing's Hutchision Whampoa. Li Ka Shing, the Chairman or "Taipan" of Hutchision Whampoa, became the first Chinese to own a traditional hong. Li's drive and business ability helped foster Hutchision into a global conglomerate. Hong Kong Bank grew from a small trader's

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    Those being oppressed by their government must find a way to keep a sense of themselves and their beliefs despite others attempts to change them. In the Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu, Dumisani is a gay man in a country that heavily discriminates against homosexuality. Dumi is under constant threat of having his sexuality discovered and being punished by torture or imprisonment. Despite this fear, he is able to overcome the disdain his society holds in order to embrace who he truly is, “You

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    In the Red Scarf Girl book, teacher Zhang tells Ji-LI Jiang that “We cannot choose our families or our class status. But we can choose our futures… You are still an educable child.” He meant that just because Ji-Li grandpa was a one of the richest landlords in the city and to everyone by default Ji-Li and her family was considered “Four old.” Which means old customs, ideas, culture, and habits. The worst thing to be considered during those times of 1966 in China because it could lead to you and

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    ”Dear Friend” (?): Culture and Genre in American and Canadian Direct Marketing Letter Md Rishad Zaman 001100341 Professor Neil Stubbs Introduction to Academic Writing Section WRIT 1000B 17 July 2013 In “”Dear Friend” (?): Culture and Genre in American and Canadian Direct Marketing Letter”, Roger Graves examines how English speaking Canadian people are different from Americans, and how business communicators need to identify those differences to be

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    Agent Jones Narrative

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    Hitachi Labs Arera 51 6:00 am “Sergeant there's been a breach in our code.” “Fix it” the Sergeant yells while sweating like an olympic sized pool. Then the pixels swooped in and carried the men off to an unknown land. Narrator: The English school for Afrikaans in the United Kingdom 2:00 PM John and Pid were walking into school next to some of their worst enemies Eraser and Mars. They were the top dog in the 6th grade and always made fun of John for being a nerd and Pid for being a zoologist. But

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