...Imagine that you are hiking through the mountains, the wind blowing through your hair and you spot it. A beautiful waterfall that takes your breath away. Iceland is a great place to visit if you want to see amazing sights. 1.) First we will talk about Iceland's history. 2.) Then we will talk about the culture of Iceland. 3.) Lastly we will talk about the activities you can do there.(30) According to Iceland 2004, Pytheas, a third century Greek scholar and explorer was the first person to discover Iceland. After he wrote about his discoveries, Irish hermits from the seventh and ninth centuries reached Iceland. They returned with tales of this empty island. There were only about 20,000 settlers at first and they came from Norway. The...
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...Sheonece Williams English 1301 Hope Dammon 24 November 2012 Social Networking How would you feel if I told you I knew everything about you? From your birthday to the food you like, who your friends are and so on, even though you have never met me before. Social networking sites like MySpace, Face book, Instagram, and Twitter is the mos popular online community that teenagers and young adults talk amongst others and exchange their personal information, videos, pictures and more. Social networking sites have many disadvantages; identity theft, bullying wasting time, false profiles, and predators. Although social networking is still popular for there great abilities and functions. For example. Creating an entertaining atmosphere by decorating pages, improving social skills, and lastly to expand their knowledge. Social networking sites creates an entertaining atmosphere that people can access anytime anywhere. These sites are like playgrounds, for where you can find things to do and not become bored at any instance. These social networking sites allows people to create a personal profile in order to keep in touch with friends, classmates, relatives that lives far away. Creating your profile on these social sites may include your personal interest, date of birth, full name, age, photos, videos and much more. For every social networking site some people like to post videos of their favorite songs, write diaries in their blogs and to share all of this with others so they can...
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...Karma In many countries and cultures, Western society is looked at with fascination and as if it is superior. This fascination may lead to an uncritical adaption and imitation of western ways of living and people may end up leaving all of their own cultural identity behind, ending up in a melting pot of a homogeneous culture. This is exactly what has happened to the anglicized main character Sir Mohan Lai, in Kushwant Singh’s short story “Karma”. The short story is narrated through third person. Singh has chosen the narrator to be omniscient, but shifting between being limited to Sir Mohan Lai and his wife Lachmi. This allows the reader to discover thoughts and feelings from both characters and it gives the reader a broader perspective. Sir Mohan Lai, our main character, is an Indian man whom while studying at Oxford for five years has adopted an English lifestyle and now, in every manner possible, tries to imitate Englishmen. Lai hates everything about his home country, India. This is seen already in the very beginning of the story when Lai talks to a mirror made in India, “You are so very much like anything else in this country inefficient, dirty, indifferent” (p.15 lines 4-5). Throughout the story it is very clear that Lai is fascinated with British culture and English lifestyle, and that he is very much against, and very contemptuous against, everything that has anything to do with India. Lai has chosen voluntary assimilation while studying in England. Lai sees himself...
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...everybody! My name is Mary and my talk is going to be about four things that I would like to do before I die. I don’t mind when, maybe next week, next month or in the next twenty years. In the first place, I would like to learn how to ride a skateboard. Perhaps it is something quite simple for some of you. But last summer I tried to ride a skateboard for the first time and I felt proud when I got to advance more than five meters without falling. Moreover it gives you a feeling of freedom, so I think I will take it up in the future. Secondly, I have chosen win a photography contest. Actually I would like to improve the way of taking photos. Photography is one of the best possible ways to save memories and good moments. So, if one day I can get to take quality photos, why not to win a contest? And if this is not possible, no matter, the important thing is taking part. In the third place I would like to travel around the world but above all I would love to visit all the continents. Apart from other reasons, it would be a great way to put our language skills into practice. (E)specially I want to visit Australia. In my opinion, it is a particular country completely different from ours and its natural landscapes are worth visiting. Finally, I would also like to work as a voluntary in another country. I believe that it is a different experience and in addition to help people who really need it, you also learn about new cultures and ways of thinking and maybe you can discover yourself a bit...
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...life Conclusion Learning about my culture Personal experience. For many people the word “travelling” can have many meanings. Some people would consider that If you don’t get in a plane then you’re not really travelling, or that if you don’t go shopping in the place you are visiting then you’re not really travelling either. However, for many people, especially foreigners, travelling is more of a learning experience. You can get to know different cultures, people, customs, food, infrastructure, history, music, languages, dialects and so on. There is a specific kind of trip called “roadtrip”. Roadtripping started as a hippie thing, it’s basically about driving around to different cities, towns, countries without a plan. You can either end up in a nice hotel or at a road motel and both will make you feel or give you the same comfort; even there will be times when you will have to sleep in your own car. Ecuador is most known around the world as a touristic place; actually, most known by foreigners than by their own people (Ecuadorians). I’ve met a lot of foreigners, from different countries, from the US, Europe, Middle East, Latin Americans and so on, and most of them know Ecuador for their beaches and especially for Galapagos Island. We are supposed to teach other people about our country; unfortunately, it turns out that foreigners know way too much more than we do. There is a German photographer that published a book about Ecuador, with amazing pictures...
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...England king any more. They wanted a country that would not be controlled by the country like many other countries around the world they wanted to be different and have the freedom to develop their own right and regulations. The Bill of Rights was written to provide all the people equal rights and freedoms to do as they please, yet they must obey the laws given to them in the United States Constitution, and “the peoples constitutional rights cannot lawfully be denied by government officials” (Patterson, 2011, p. 43). The freedom that was guaranteed to me in the first amendment that is relevant to my personal self is freedom of religion. As states by Thomas E. Patterson, Freedom of “religion: you are protected from having the religious beliefs of others imposed on you, and you are free to believe what you like” (Patterson, 2011, table 4-1). I personally can relate to this specific freedom, since I came of a country that has been in conflicts about who the land of Palestine (Israel) belongs to and which religion should take over. The way I see is that in Palestine (Israel) the Jewish people and the Arab people are not to befriend or talk to each other since that would not add to the never ending comfits of both sides, yet here in the United States you will have some religions that would not be open to befriending new people of other religions but here it is more open and less strict as it is in Israel. Here I can practice any religion as to talk to whoever I want or need, since in...
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...tôn trọng giá trị của cuốn sách này, cũng như tôn trọng tác quyền của tác giả cũng như nhà xuất bản. Chúng tôi gõ lại cuốn sách này nhằm mục đích duy nhất là để học tập, nghiên cứu, không hề mang bất cứ mục đích kinh doanh nào. Mọi hành động thương mại liên quan tới bản gõ lại này là không hề liên quan tới chúng tôi. Mong các bạn tôn trọng tác giả và tôn trọng ý muốn của chúng tôi. Trong quá trình gõ và biên tập, do trình độ không chuyên, không thể tránh khỏi có sai sót. Xin cảm ơn, chúc các bạn học tốt. 1 Mat Clark – IELTS Speaking IELTS SPEAKING – MAT CLARK Preface During my 5 years as an IELTS examiner in China, I have seen thousands of Chinese IELTS candidates perform OK in the speaking interview. Most people would agree that an OK score in speaking is 5 or 6. Many students now realize that a score of 5 or 6 for speaking is not enough for their study requirements and this is why I wrote this book. Many students spend months preparing for the IELTS speaking test and still find it difficult to score 7 or higher. In fact some candidates actually score lower than they potentially could have scored. There are a few reasons behind this poor performance and these will be discussed in detail throughout this book, but one major factor is the lack of...
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...different support rose its purpose from the mission of cry and if I were to run through some of the key faces that withdraw from are they are about enabling people to taking responsibilities its about confronting the situations it’s about the realizing ones own potential and the child’s and when we put these 3 things together in the context of under developed children in India, development support strategy tries to cut together and talks of enabling billion of a peoples movement and what do we mean when they say enabling the peoples movements for child rights in India, the people are children the people are accusing the between them are the communities the people are the situations, the mechanism institutions working around them which are working along with the when were talk about enrollment going back to the mission we talk about enabling them to take responsibilities core of what development support does is about helping people understand what is and why is the situation of the children what it is. why are children today not experiencing their rights not enjoying their rights why is that there is large scale manufacturing for instance in the state of Maharashtra which otherwise is very economically developed or why is it that in rural areas the access to health services is far far lesser than it is in urban areas in Indian and such like the dismal statistics of children situation speaks for itself and what development support does is look at the situations from the point...
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...tôn trọng giá trị của cuốn sách này, cũng như tôn trọng tác quyền của tác giả cũng như nhà xuất bản. Chúng tôi gõ lại cuốn sách này nhằm mục đích duy nhất là để học tập, nghiên cứu, không hề mang bất cứ mục đích kinh doanh nào. Mọi hành động thương mại liên quan tới bản gõ lại này là không hề liên quan tới chúng tôi. Mong các bạn tôn trọng tác giả và tôn trọng ý muốn của chúng tôi. Trong quá trình gõ và biên tập, do trình độ không chuyên, không thể tránh khỏi có sai sót. Xin cảm ơn, chúc các bạn học tốt. 1 Mat Clark – IELTS Speaking IELTS SPEAKING – MAT CLARK Preface During my 5 years as an IELTS examiner in China, I have seen thousands of Chinese IELTS candidates perform OK in the speaking interview. Most people would agree that an OK score in speaking is 5 or 6. Many students now realize that a score of 5 or 6 for speaking is not enough for their study requirements and this is why I wrote this book. Many students spend months preparing for the IELTS speaking test and still find it difficult to score 7 or higher. In fact some candidates actually score lower than they potentially could have scored. There are a few reasons behind this poor performance and these will be discussed in detail throughout this book, but one major factor is the lack of...
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...Compare and Contrast the Literary Work “The Welcome Table” VS “ Country Lovers” “The Racial Conflicts And Discrimination In The Welcome Table And Country Lovers” Katie McWilliams Instructor: Heather Peerboom 10/30/2014 Introduction I chosen to compare and contrast the literary works, “country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer and “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker, the theme being race / ethnicity. Theme: “The Racial Conflict and Discrimination In The Welcome Table And Country Lovers.” I want to explore the difference lives’ of these two woman was face with, and the way the narrator made me feel while I was reading the story of two black woman. Two strong black women that face all types of problems life had to offer them. These two stories shows feeling, pain, hate, and disappointments in Country Lovers and The Welcome Table. Both of these women had to struggled with their emotions and all they had to go through. Both stories are told in third person omniscient point of view, you can tell by the way the narrator describe the characters and how they’re feeling in both story. “The Welcome Table,” the old woman had her faith to guide her. To carrier her through the hard times. All she wanted was just to attend church. There is a rascal tension centered on both of these stories, in “Country Lovers” the black woman in this story was a pretty black woman fell in love with someone she grow up with a white man, she had a baby for him...
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...LE BRAS BIANCHI Oceane CHINESE CULTURE China is a very interesting country with a lot of values, way of life, cultural traditions and customs differed from western countries. In first we will see the filial piety, which is a very important value for Chinese people, the origins and how it is nowadays and in second time, we will see the taboos in China in different categories. To beginning, it is important to know what is the filial piety to talk about that, filial piety means to be good to one's parents; to take care of them, to engage in good conduct not just towards them but also outside the home so as to bring a good name them and ancestors; to perform the duties of one's job well so as to obtain the material means to support them as well as carry out sacrifices to the ancestors. You have to do not be rebellious; show love, respect and support; display courtesy; ensure male heirs, uphold fraternity among brothers; wisely advise them, including dissuading them from moral unrighteousness; display sorrow for their sickness and death; and carry out sacrifices after their death. It supposed to be the normal behavior for all people around the world, but in China, the origin is very deep and ancient. It is a a concept originating with Confucianism that outlines the way in which family members should interact with each other. It is based on a hierarchical relationship, in which parents and older family rank more highly than children and younger family members, and men rank...
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...gives a salute to the commonwealth, by over praising the mere concept of the commonwealth. The article is about the commonwealth, which is a term used for the collective ex British colonies and Britain, formerly known as the British Empire. But now it is used as more of a collected union like the UN, which makes it easier to for example enter a country from another if they are both part of the commonwealth. The article is very strangely built, because, at first it seems like he is going to talk about the Duke and duchess of Cambridge’s visit to Canada, but the article says very little about that, and quickly moves on to discussing why the commonwealth is a good idea. The arguments he is using, often times has no direct relation to why the commonwealth is a good solution, but more why The European Union, The U.S.A and NATO are bad solutions to a unity. It is very obvious that this man seems to be very positive about commonwealth, and you can easily see how he tries to better it by trash-talking every other unity of the world. For example “Over the past few decades Britain has been unlucky in it’s leaders. With only a few exceptions, they have been hostile or blind to British history. The two greatest offenders were Edward Heath, who led us into the United Nations, and Tony Blair, with his uncritical connection with the United States.” In this quotation, he makes it sound like he is trying to prove that commonwealth is the best option, without any valid arguments. It is not a...
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...Arguelles Please answer as many of these questions as you can. Each cell will expand to hold your response. What is your favorite television program? | My favorite television program would be Everybody Hates Chris. It was a really funny show but they don’t replay the episodes on TV anymore so I haven’t watched it in a long time. | What is a recent movie you enjoyed? | A recent movie I enjoyed was the movie 47 Ronin which I watched at the theatres a couple of weeks ago with my friends. It was really interesting. | What kind of music do you enjoy? | I don’t really have a specific group of music I enjoy listening to. I’m open to all music if I find it good but I mainly listen to hip-hop/rap and pop. | What is the farthest point you've traveled away from home? | The farthest point I have traveled away from home would be the Philippines with my family. I have been there several times because I have relatives there and I last went in march of last year. | What is your favorite place to be and why? | My favorite place to be would be the gym because I love working out. I try to go at least three times a week but sometimes it’s hard especially with school. | What is your favorite sport? | Basketball would be my favorite sport to play but to watch it is a tie between hockey and basketball. | What is your favorite food? | French fries, lobster and chicken are my favorite foods. | To what organizations / teams / clubs do you belong? | As of now just Goodlife Fitness. I wanted...
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...Malaysia and Indonesia. With a population of about 5.3 million, the people of Singapore are divided ethnically but mostly, about 75%, are Chinese. The next two ethnic groups are Malaysian and Indian. Mandarin and English are the two prime languages spoken in Singapore. The economy they have adopted is the free market economy, they have an open and corruption free environment, and have a GDP that ranks 7th in the world at approximately $62,000. With their stable prices and high levels of exports, Singapore is on its way to be one of the most established countries in Southeast Asia. 3) Market Entry Requirement: The Singapore market is easier to enter for Grieve because of the Free Trade Agreement that Singapore and the U.S. created in 2004. This agreement has been mutually beneficial for both countries, increasing their trade by 54% and making the U.S. the 3rd largest supplier of goods to Singapore. The agreement states that there are zero tariffs between the two, and there can not be an increase of any duties on U.S. products. Due to the open relationship, Grieve should be able to jump into the equation and utilize the free trade laws that in place to his advantage. It is the ideal location for market penetration due to this, and to build relationships with other Asian countries. With Singapore's economy being stable and conduct their business in a style similar to that of the one in the U.S. there should be less worries about corruption or deals not going through properly...
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...and I will be helping you adapt to this new country and show you the ways that people behave. First of all, I will talk about the interesting palaces that you can or can’t go to visit. There is a place called Barra do Kuanza, and it is a beautiful palace to be with family and friends and also to make a barbecue. In a Barra do Kuanza, people are friendly to the point where we like to help each other, and we love to greet people with a hug and kiss to the cheeks. handshake when someone new comes along we like to greet them as well, so you don’t need to get offended or misunderstand when other do that. In a Barra do Kuanza, you can’t not drink alcohol for example, if someone does drink alcohol that person might go to the prison , or be deported for not following the rules because this is the government law, so everybody needs to be responsible and pay attention to your surroundings . The second thing you need to know is about traffic, the drivers drive very bad most of them don’t have a driver license they don’t respect others drivers, the rood signs, they make a lot of accident because of the way they drive, and not paying attention when driving in one-way rods. If you have a job interview you need to wake up at five o’clock in the morning not to get into traffic, and not to be late at the interview. When you want to the job interview you need to have all your original documents with you, If someone that you do not know tells you that you can work without insurance...
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