2007

Thursday 5th June 2007 was a very lovely day .Everything was perfect and nothing was wrong. I was sitting with my family in our house in Murair Al Mutarish. It is a small village located in the far north coast of Oman in Shinas state . We were watching T.V like any other day, when we heard the news bulletin. While crossing the coast, cyclone Gonu cause a lot of damage and fatalities. Before passing the Sultanate's northeastern coastline, it began affecting the country with strong winds and heavy…

attracted most attentions from researchers in Interlanguage pragmatics (ILP). Previous studies focus on the perception (Garcia, 2004) and the production (Pinto, 2005) of requests from L2 learners with different language levels. Burgeoning interests in interlanguage pragmatic development in recent years have resulted in the investigation of the relationship between second language proficiency and the sequence organization when making requests (Al-Gahtani & Roever, 2011). However, the participants…

The journalist I chose to interview for my final presentation and paper for Ethics in Sports Media was USA Today and ForTheWin’s sports journalist, Nina Mandell. I came across one of Mandell’s articles on ForTheWin and admired her openness to communication with the public. I felt confident in receiving a response from Mandell and decided to email her requesting for a phone interview. Within just a few hours I heard back from her and she was ecstatic to hear I am a student of the Sports…

(Insert date this happened) was like any other day. I went to all of my classes and hung out with on the swing with my friends. I heard the bell ring telling us it was time to go home. I skipped to my locker, grabbed my backpack and jacket, and headed to the bus. The house smelled amazing when I got home. I found my mom in the kitchen and told her about my day as I do every day. Then she said something I don’t hear a lot. Mom said, “Your dad and I want to talk to you when he gets home”. It was…

The first time I went boating with my best friend seems like a happy story, a fun time that I will always remember. It definitely was, in the end, but the beginning was a bit rough. The very beginning of this story starts way back in 2007 at Table Rock Lake, with my family, on vacation. We were looking for something to do, and ended up deciding boating was the best choice. So a couple of hours pass by, we’re having a blast, but it’s getting pretty late so we decide to head in. Now here comes…

I was 11 when I went to my first Halloween party. Fifth grade a major time of growing up for a young girl and I was beginning to know the world was changing for me. For years and years, my parents forced me to watch my little brother and hangout with our neighbors, but this year it was different. I can finally go off on my own with who I wanted to, and I finally get a little taste of freedom. My heart raced as I skipped to Raquel’s front door. I had spent hours before straightening my curly,…

disadvantages, he pushed through writing a book called, “The 4-Hour Workweek”, however, before he had a chance to get recognized, his book was rejected 27 times. Finally, he got recognized for his book that soon became, New York's #1 bestseller in 2007. He created two more books following in the firsts success, by earning their titles as New York’s bestseller. He is now working on a business/interview podcast, which now has over 200 million downloads. This proves that despite any situation, you…

Gossip I want to start off by asking, how many of you have talked about someone? Whether it’s in a good or bad way. Most of you guys raised your hand and you probably thought back on a rumor you spread, or heard about. You may not notice it, but nine times out of ten you are gossiping. 80% of our conversations are spent on discussing other people and their habits Black said in 2009. When people think of gossip, it’s mainly thought of someone else talking trash on another person, spilling…

(Fake sleeping) Oh, sorry. I just fell asleep, while standing. Wow, that’s super strange. It must be because I didn’t get a good night’s sleep last night. Or maybe it’s because I got up early this morning. I get up early and look like a zombie, to go to school 5 days a week. Next year, I will be driving to school with my brothers and how will be able to do that if I am barely even awake in the car when I’m not behind the wheel? Well, maybe we should change that so myself and all the other…

'Flex my own muscles? ' he though, letting the example of the dirt falling through his fingers settle to his core. "I think I understand, I just don 't know how she will react when I won 't listen to her. I 've always done whatever she asked of me." taking a kneeling position, the bangle around his wrist slips away into wisps of softened light. The light reformed into a small ball of light that Kizen reached out to grasp, his fingers hovering over it as it spun freely inches from his palm,…