Dear Government of China Hello. I am Ailing who is living in Shanghai. I’m 11 years old now‚ and I love drawing. I know that you will be wondered ‘why this young girl is sending me the letter?’. The purpose of this letter for you‚ is to tell you my life story. Please read carefully. I was born in Shanghai 11 years ago. I was the first baby for my parents‚ so they loved me very much. One day‚ my mom became pregnant again. It was 3 years ago. I remember how much they felt happiness by that
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“Man can be destroyed‚ but not defeated.” This quote refers to how a single man can be extremely mentally or physically damaged‚ but not beaten. In the novella‚ The Old Man and the Sea‚ the character‚ Santiago displays many traits of determination‚ perseverance‚ and optimism. He battled an eighteen foot marlin for three days. Within the three days he was crushed with psychological and physical damage that he would eventually surmount. During Santiago’s time fighting with the 1‚500 pound monstrous
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Perea 1 Victoria Perea The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky‚ a Satire of the Wild Old West Stephen Cranes short story “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” begins with a newly wed couple traveling by train from San Antonio to Yellow Sky‚ a small town in old western Texas. The groom‚ Jack Potter‚ is the sheriff of Yellow sky‚ and his bride “was not pretty nor was she very young” (Crane 5) The couple is not described in a romantic or idealistic way. Instead they are portrayed to be awkward‚ and overly self
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YourMomsFantasy Mr. YourMoms 4th Block English III Honors August 29‚ 2012 The Old Man and the Sea‚ written by Ernest Hemingway‚ was a story about an old fisherman named Santiago who lived in Cuba. Santiago went eighty-fourdays without a single catch. Hemingway uses great description when he describes the old man in the beginning of the story as “thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. His hands had deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords.” Using great
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"The Old man and the Sea" On the very first page we introduce the character of manolin. This boy is the pupil of Santiago and has been learning the ‘Tricks’ of fishing from him. When Santiago fails in catching any fish‚ he is driven away by his parents. So Manolin joining other fisherman to join other fishermen to catch a fish. The boy is sad to part with the old man. The boy is emotionally attached to old man because “ the old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him”. The old man is
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China’s One-Child Policy: Was It a Good Idea? A devastating food famine beginning in 1959 resulted in the death of 30 million Chinese citizens. Introduced in 1980 by the Communist Party‚ and lasting until 2015‚ China’s one child policy was an attempt to not only avoid food shortages‚ but to patch up the country’s past mistakes involving overpopulation and birth control. The one child policy acted as a human social experiment‚ and limited the majority of Chinese couples to have only one child each
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Experience comes with time. Old people have already experienced the good and the bad that life has to offer them. If young people can learn from their experiences‚ they can handle difficult situations in their life with ease. But with time comes the generation gap also. People with growing age can’t do things which the young people can do without getting tried or catching their breath. Consider for example‚ old people can’t go out for mountain climbing or river rafting because their body’s muscles
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elderly care should be provided by nursing homes these days. In my opinion‚ senior citizens are advised to live with their descendants by dint of their needs of emotional support as well as the responsibility of younger family members. To begin with‚ one reason for the elders to stay with their families is that they are likely to suffer loneliness if they reside at nursing homes. While nursing homes are capable of supplying a variety of professional service‚ they fail to provide a sense of community
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1.Subject Matter (Content) "Beautiful Old Age" by D.H. Lawrence is a poem that describes old age. The author depicts old age as something that is "lovely"‚ wonderful‚ calm and undisturbed. We would feel as though we have completed most of our lives. We would have already fulfilled our duties as a man. We would have experienced the ups and downs of life and look forward to more settled days. We would be happy in our old age if we had lived our lives with outmost honesty. A life "lived undaunted
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October 13‚ 2017 Doubles in One Hundred Years of Solitude Literature has been used to question our everyday lives‚ a history or a culture. More specifically‚ an appearance of magical elements in a novel combines the real and the imaginary and creates a fantastical but believable story. The use of symbol‚ emotions of characters or dilemmas characters face has a capability of letting the reader connect the unrealistic world in a literature with a real world. In the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude
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