English to Standard Chi- nese to Shanghai dialect, with no apparent friction. I spoke each language with those who spoke the language
Its overwhelming having to speak and learn 3 different languages.
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- Sep 2019
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newclasses.nyu.edu newclasses.nyu.edu
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her life to our education, an education
Education is brought up frequently, this is her way of demanding we know how important education is
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Men are not built in silence, but in word, in work, in action-reflecti
A short story as well as a quote is a great way to foreshadow the rest of the writing
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ualearn.blackboard.com ualearn.blackboard.com
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. When the teacher poked a shy Korean in the eyelid with a freshlysharpened pencil,
okay thats funny. I wonder if this actually happened or he just made a joke to display the things he sees the teacher doing.
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“A quick run around the lake? I’d love to! Just give me amoment while I strap on my wooden leg.”
Another great example of him using comedy or nonsense while doing serious things for class.
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“I hate you,” she said to me one afternoon. Her English was flawless. “I really,really hate you.” Call me sensitive, but I couldn’t help but take it personally
His way of coping with emotion or other things seems to be comedy or some sort of sarcastic remark.
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much of her abuse
Me and David are on the same page with our thought on the teacher.
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ccusing the Yugoslavian girl of masterminding aprogram of genocide
This teacher is savage and another example of the teacher's strategy with the students.
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Oh yeah? And do you love your little war?
Another time the teacher is challenging a student
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“How very interesting. I thought that everyoneloved the mosquito, but here, in front of all the world, you claim to detest him. How is itthat we’ve been blessed with someone as unique and original as you? Tell us, please.”
At this point I can see that the teacher is ready to crush their "back to school" confidence, by being mean or judgmental and let them know she is the boss.
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meimslsxp or lgpdmurct by this time, then you should not be inthis room. Has everyone apzkiubjxow?
This line is great for many reasons. It tells us how hard it is to learn another language due to all the things you need to understand you cannot. He takes a funny approach on this line making it all the better.
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The teacher marched in, deeply tanned
Another way to express how everyone there seemed confident, and another reason to feel intimidated.
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exhibited an ease and confidence that I found intimidating
To move to france and to be intimidated by the people speaking their own language seems kinda strange. But I can understand feeling intimidated by them being young well dressed and attractive
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After paying my tuition, I was issueda student ID, which allows me a discounted entry fee at movie theaters, puppet shows,and Festyland, a far-flung amusement park that advertises with billboards picturing acartoon stegosaurus sitting in a canoe and eating what appears to be a ham s
Funny how even at the age of 41 some things you want to do never change
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- Aug 2019
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inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net
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All of your previous writing experi-ences
I find that any type of experience will greatly help you with anything you are trying to do
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but it’s most often used to indicate the type of writing
sometimes its hard to understand the genre of a writing. it makes more sense to think that it is the type of writing
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Who is the intended audience?
Anyone who reads and wants to read better. Or just read and think differently when reading
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We read a recipe to learn how to bake lasagna. We read the sports page to see if our school won the game, Facebook to see who has commented on our status update, a history book to learn about the Vietnam War, and the syllabus to see when the next writing assignment is due.
Its always interesting to be told what we are doing. When you realize that reading can be purely to learn, it can drastically take the fun out of it. And when someone tells you how you read, it can really change the way you will read next.
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I read all the time. I read for my classes and on the computer and sometimes for fun, but I never really thought about the important connections between reading and writing
I personally do not like reading at all. I learn much better from viewing things visually, but this statement proves that reading is dominant for learning things.
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It didn’t seem to matter to my supervisor that I had no training in se-curity and no idea where we kept the fire extinguishers
Its interseting to hear the situation from the security guard point of view, and also to think how many times have we been around guards who have no idea what they are doing
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