Definition Essay On Laugh

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I did not pay attention to my laugh. When I laugh, it means I really enjoyed something, at that time I have no time to care about how I laugh. According to my mom’s description, I usually laugh with no sound or little sound but my mouth is always widely opened. I think it is quite similar to my puppy. Every time she laugh, there is no sound, but her mouth is also widely opened. My laugh is not very special. Not so special that each time everybody will recognize my laugh.
There is someone that I am familiar with, each time she laughs, we want to record her laugh voice. Her laugh voice is “toxic” like she describe by herself. Her laugh voice is loud and easy to recognize.
I think we could see one’s personality through the laugh. I think if a
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It is about slipper. She told me, if we put the slipper face to the bed, at night, the ghost will step on the slipper and climb up to your bed. Of course I did not believe that story, I said, if the setting is the ghost will step on a person’s shoe, then similarly, if I put the slipper face to the window, the ghost will jump through the window, right? At that time, my roommates all thought my joke is funny, and said we could try. I thought the superstitious story will not affect me, however, I am not the person who will pay attention to how I put my slippery before I went on bed every day, but once I noticed that my slippery faced to bed in the morning, the theory of ghost would come up to my …show more content…
Now, when I ran into that kind of situation I will find out the solution to make me feel better. As long as there is someone oy my side, I won’t care. The feeling of undergoing the situation will make me be stronger so that if I met any awkward moment, I will adjust my attitude and move on.
In the book, Sandra Cisneros wrote about Esperanza, her family is from Mexico, which means is different from the white people live in USA, and the city that they are living, Chicago. They are outcasts, they are isolated from people. They can only live in poor areas and live in poor houses. People look down at them.
I haven’t been discriminated. The feeling of being discriminated must be miserable. People will be in a negative emotion in the whole life. Right now in the world, although the discrimination problems are better now, still there are gender discrimination, racial discrimination in the world. In some areas, women and kids are discriminated, black people are discriminated. I think the discrimination should not be existed, people should have equal

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