Essay on Summer Vacation in English

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    Karl Alexander which found the reason rich kids had higher scores than poor kids was because the rich kids continued to learn over the summer, while learning opportunities stopped for the poor kids (Gladwell 259). As a hard-working high school student, I often feel that we have too many days of school, but I now agree with Gladwell that if the length of our summer break is shortened, kids would learn more, and…

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    Manhattan Beach at Corbin place to the east. Sheepshead bay is at the belt park on the north and the Atlantic avenue to the south beside the beach and the board walk. It’s famous for having highly Russian population and it’s also one of the famous summer destination for new Yorkers because of its beach and the amusements park that are located in Coney Island. (Wikipedia)…

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    gym, and then I would spend 3-4 hours reading and searching on the internet. Again, in 2007, the information was not easy to find on the internet. Yes, they were there, but it requires hours of searching especially if English was not your first language nor you have mastered English yet. Now, Google indexes everything, so it is much easier to find information. Also, many experts write blogs and many publications are available. I worked out with many experienced and great people from all…

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    Incident 2 : I thought I speak a very good English until I came to England. I was at the supermarket once and a man approached me , thinking that I work in the supermarket, and asked me about something he was looking for.I asked him to repeat his words and he did , but again,I did not get what he said.I was embarrassed and so I said “ sorry I can not understand what you say , my English is very bad”. He replied “ only if you have an American accent”. My English was not bad because I was…

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    to create a unique heavenly perfume. In the past, Surina’s kinetic pace never allowed her enough time for breakfast other than a hasty granola bar before frantically rushing off to the hospital. In contrast, today she luxuriated in a proper full English breakfast. There was an impressive array of fried eggs, lovely fat pork sausages, baked beans, crisp fried tomatoes, and crusty toasted brioche with a thick spread of tangy marmalade jam. In fact, she needed to bolster her energy reserves for…

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    because the professors were not strict, they just want it to see the work done and that there were no grammar error. My homework’s had to be perfect because I have improve my writing a lot and doing some writing can help me improve myself more. In English writing 105 it had helped me understand the basic idea that is needed to write a good paper. In the era everyone are like zombies on their phones or computer. My addiction is my phone every day I a lot of non-academic writing. Such as texts,…

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    the island 's recovering plants as a Phoenix, the mythological bird that cyclicly rises itself from the dead. A significant part of Nelson 's childhood was influenced by associating with children his own age during the Blackstone summers. Either the children of other summer residences or the children of the permanent families. Of particular note are Willie Moore, Jule Woolman, Cecil Rankin, Ethel and Artie Armstrong and Horace Butler. He felt he was ”brought up” by the Jennings - John Jennings…

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    Janice, who I liked a lot when I got to know her, did not prove as helpful as I had hoped. “Look at the breakdown of the standards I gave you, and evaluate the piece of art on those” “But it’s not a piece of art, it’s a weather chart and a poorly done one at that!” “If you look closely it probably meets something in the standards.” Stressed out I went back and forth for several days, destroyed my nails biting them, and drove my husband to distraction before grudgingly awarding Standard…

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    Iditarod races in Canada: Haliburton, Bancroft and Maramora (each found in Ontario), and there are companies that specialize in raising Siberian Huskies for races and for touring businesses. I think it would be interesting to make that part of a vacation, but only for fun, not for racing. My Canadian friend, Bob, grew up in Regina, far from Ontario, and never mentioned to me anything about the Iditarod race. I do know that he has two dogs and likes the snow, but I think he is like me; we…

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    every year during the second-to-last week of August. The island is minutes from the North and South Carolina border, which accounts for an eight hour drive. This vacation is a tradition that dates back to the 1990’s, so my mom knows the route like the back of her hand. The amount of people who go each year varies, but usually the vacation…

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