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    to others, especially someone is a stranger. A person who is not included in a group. This is named outsider. I am in one of them. Occasionally, I ask myself, “Be an outsider, is positive or negative?” However, there is no answer. When I was five years old, I hated to go to school not because of I didn’t like to study, but because of I didn’t like to work with the math teacher. In my memory, she had a long and red hair. She didn’t smile at all, just like a grumpy cat when she started to teach in…

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    fit the new modern society. Among one of these old traditions is the quinceanera. This is a coming of age ceremony where a 14 year old girl hosts a celebration of her turning into a women. Within the events some specifics that are including are the passing of the doll, this is where a god parent is chosen and before the girl is officially turned into a women she is given a doll to represent her childhood that she will keep. In other cultures such as the Chinese celebrate Chinese new year. People…

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    Immigration To Usa Essay

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    After spending three years at my high school, I had a chance to know an immigrant to the US. She was born in Vietnam, which is the same country I was born. She came to the US with her family when she was 18 years old. I asked her the reasons why her family decided to immigrate to the US, and she told me both the push and pull factors that bought her family and she to the US. The push and pull factors were environment and economics reasons. In Vietnam, air pollution was a big problem, that…

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    I. Let me begin with the meaning of “Tết” A. “Tết Nguyên Đán”, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, is the most important festive event of the Vietnamese calendar. 1. It closely associated with the country’s history, culture and identity. 2. It touches on many aspects of Vietnamese life and provides important insights into the nature of contemporary Vietnamese society and culture. 3. In Vietnam, the Lunar New Year means family returning home to be together, an auspicious time to get married and the…

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    Throughout the years, different variations have evolved concerning the dumpling’s filling, wrapping, and presentation, and its name has changed from Chiao-êrh, meaning “beautiful and delicate ears,” to a more appropriate Chiao-tzu, meaning “meat-filled dumpling.” “However, Chiao-tzu was not established as a New Year festival food until the following Ming dynasty (1368-1643)” (Hu 130). Though Chiao-tzu was not a New Year staple until it appeared on the royal table (approximately 1200 years after…

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    The Importance Of Carnival

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    colors which converts into beautiful customs, calypso and steel pan music, different forms of dancing, foods, and Caribbean style arts that fascinates thousands of people from many different parts of the world. Trinidad and Tobago carnival is a once a year event with a combination of many different activities. The main purpose of the carnival is to reveal their culture and way of life by bringing everyone together. Trinidad and Tobago is a dual island, which is found on the southern frontier of…

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    New Years’ of 2014 It all started on December 31, 2013. I had decided to bring in the year with a few friends, who at the time I thought were my true friends. Just to find out later on that they weren’t. I thought that this was going to be a great way to bring in the New Year; I was wrong. On the night of the 31st I was getting ready for the New Year’s Eve party that we have at my church every year. I’m always a part of the program, so naturally I was practicing. While I was practicing, I…

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    celebrated every year. In Pakistan several days are designated as national holidays in reminiscences of national heroes and significant events. Some most common of them are: • Pakistan Day – 23 March. • Independence Day – 14 August. • Defense of Pakistan Day – 6 September. • Birth and death anniversaries of Quaid-e-Azam – 25 December and 11 September respectively. • Labor Day – 1 May. While some frequent religious festivals, celebrated according to the Islamic lunar calendar every year are as…

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    Festa Italiana

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    Plenty of fun activities are planned in downtown Seymour like the World's Largest Hamburger Parade, the Bun Run, the Kids' Run, music, games for kids, a Burger Eating Contest and a Giant Ketchup Slide. This year in the parade, Pulaski’s Red Raider Marching Band will join in and march, too. A car show, railroad depot and community museum are also open to see during the festival. In a separate section of the festival at Rock Ledge School and Park, there is a…

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    The Pastor cleared his throat. "Your father has gone to be with the Lord." Fifteen years ago, my dad received a kidney and pancreas transplant. It was a successful surgery. He was a juvenile diabetic, and for the first time since he was nine-years-old, he didn 't have to inject himself with insulin. It was a successful surgery. Two weeks later, on New Year 's day, my older sister and I were sitting in the family room waiting to go to our next door neighbor 's house. My dad had been throwing up…

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