Aixuan Li 03/29/2012 Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is the most important festival of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China‚ it is known as "Spring Festival." People celebrate this day by enjoy the Dragon dances‚ Lion dances‚ fireworks‚ family gathering‚ family meal‚ visiting friends and relatives ‚ giving red envelopes‚ and decorating with duilian(usually represented as two lines of poems that match together to wish people good luck and was hung on the wall of the front
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New Year Resolution Although many of us make a New Year resolution at the beginning of a New Year but we do it more out of a custom than with actual planning. Also‚ people don’t spare much thought in finding out what he/she will actually like to achieve in the year. Hence‚ the success rate with New Year resolution is actually poor. Some tips therefore can become handy in making your New Year resolution a success. Fix your target: What is really important to you? What do you want to achieve
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Embracing Change by Linda Finstad My name is Linda Finstad‚ and I am a middle aged English woman. Every year for as long as I can remember I made the same "To Do List" of New Years Resolutions that would make me slimmer‚ fitter‚ even a nicer person. Every year for as long as I can remember I had to re-make those very same resolutions come the first of January. Then‚ on my 45th birthday‚ I had a light bulb moment. Instead of lamenting that I was middle aged and gravity was having a negative
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Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. The new year begins on the first day of the Chinese calendar‚ which usually falls in February‚ and the festivities continue for 15 days. At Chinese New Year celebrations‚ people wear red clothes‚ give children “lucky money” in red envelopes and set off firecrackers. Red symbolizes fire‚ which the Chinese believe drives away bad luck. Family members gather at each other’s homes for extravagant
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made a New Year resolution to improve your personal life? Every year thousand’s of people get serious about committing to change and achieving certain goals for themselves. However‚ more often than not these are the same goals you set last year‚ but were not able to succeed for one reason or another. There are so many resolutions to choose from; however‚ the top three are to lose weight‚ get organized and spend more quality time with family to make our life better throughout the next year. First
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Do you celebrate Chinese New Year with your family and friends? Well in “Begin with a Bang” by Jasper Connor and “The Night Of Lights‚” by Brenda Comper‚ both discuss Chinese celebrations. Did you know that each tradition the Chinese people must perform has its own symbolic meaning? Chinese New Year is very different from other New Year celebrations. It has its own significance celebration and traditions. For example‚ in “Begin With A Bang” by Jasper Conner he talks about what Chinese people
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golden yellow dispersed into freckles of azure and then blended into the tone of the universe. Ruby-peach bows streaked across the panorama and then disappeared. For a second‚ my heart dropped‚ but then suddenly picked up to twice its tempo when the new clashing colours scattered across the blue. With each successive burst‚ the colour was a chameleon‚ constantly changing it’s surrounding. 9... The liveliness was like a steaming kettle ready to blow. My heartbeat accelerated‚ and every chemical in
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My Christmas and New Year It’s the day before Christmas! I woke up full with Christmas Spirit. My family and me gather around and decorate our house with Christmas wreath‚ mistletoe‚ Christmas stockings‚ and especially the Christmas tree‚ which is decorated again with beautiful Christmas tree ornaments‚ Christmas light and the star on top. We stayed at home all day until the evening because it took us a quite long time to decorate the whole house. Then we prepare to go to the Church for the Midnight
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What is Eve Teasing? A picture is more powerful than a thousand words. The pictures presented here can give a pretty good idea on what eve-teasing is all about. However‚ it seams words are getting stronger these days. Words mentioned in the following pictures are according to a website are used in eve-teasing. Source: http://blog.blanknoise.org/2007/08/blog-post.html Eve teasing is a euphemism used in India and sometimes Pakistan‚ Bangladesh and Nepal for public sexual harassment‚ street
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Eve and Chris Chris Sizemore was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder. She was one of the first cases doctors had ever come across. With being such a special case‚ Chris was asked if she would be interested in having a movie made about her life. Chris and her family decided to peruse the movie‚ but not to use her real name. The directors of the film decided to give her the name of Eve White. However‚ there were parts of the movie that did not happen in real life or were twisted in the making
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