So here I am, microphone in hand, about to sing in front of 100 million people across the world. The cameras are on me, and the audience has fallen silent in anticipation. How did this happen, you ask? How did I, Katie Skipton – an ordinary 15-year-old schoolgirl just a couple of days ago – get to become an overnight superstar? Glad you asked. Sit back, relax, and let me tell you about the craziest day of my life…
Three days ago, my class and I were looking forward to a fieldtrip that we were taking to France. We were studying Europe, and as the whole school knows, the sixth grade class votes on which country in Europe they want to visit. We voted on France this year because that’s the language that most of us were learning to speak.
Anyway, we were all at the airport waiting impatiently for our flight to come. People were looking at us funny. I mean, it’s not every day you see about 150 kids strolling around an airport with only ten adults. As I was sitting there, bored to death, I saw some of my friends go to the shops and cafés, so I decided to go with them. We stopped by the bathrooms since most of us really needed to go badly. I always seem to take quite a while going to the bathroom. My friends already knew this, so they said that they would meet me at the café across the hall.
When I was finally done going to the bathroom and washing my hands very thoroughly, I saw that there were three cafés across the hallway. Which one did they go to? They could have at least had somebody wait here for me. Such good friends they are. Any way, I chose the one that looked most inviting, the one that would attract a lot of teens with its colorful appearance. I stepped inside and wandered around. Out of all the tables that were in there, none of them seated my friends. I had to find my friends because I didn’t know my way back to the waiting room.
I went to the next restaurant. I didn’t think they would be in here because it looked kind of junky and all I could see was a bar. They wouldn’t be allowed there. I had no luck in the last café, either.
Beyoncé first started singing when she was 7 years old on “Star” a famous show for finding people with talent like “American idol”. In 1990 she started a group called “Gyrls Tyme” with Kelly Rowland, LeToya Luckett, and LaTavia Roberson. Beyoncé’s father quit his job in 1996 to make her most famous group “Destiny’s Child” and a record deal for “Columbia Records”. The group’s second album “The writing on the Wall” hit No.6 on the “Billboard” After hit singles “Say my name” and “Jumpin, Jumpin”. Apart from music, the singing sensation also launched her acting career with her 2001 debut film Carmen: A Hip Hopera. Beyoncé’s musical career along with other major and minor assignments has made her one of the wealthiest celebrities in the world. Be...
Global change is taking place every day; therefore, it is important to understand how human activities and behavior alters the biodiversity and functions of ecosystems. Alien species is a stimulator of major changes in ecosystems (Vila et al. 2011). An invasive species, is a non-native plant, animal, or fungus that moves to a new ecosystem in a foreign environment. Invasive ecology explores how the invasive species affect the economic, environmental, and human health on the new environment. For example, invasive ecology studies how an invasive species tends to crowd out and sometimes replace a native species (Richardson and Pysek 2008).
Many women around the world have big responsibilities in the military, and although some people may disagree, I believe they can handle anything a man can handle when it comes to being on the battlefield. Some people think that women should not be able to fight in the military, where as other people think they should be able to fight in the military. Each supporter and non-supporter has their own reasons. Some of the reasons for the non-supporters are because of their gender. They think that because they are women, they cannot handle the challenges that being on the battlefield brings. Women are willing to fight, and they know what can happen, they know exactly what can happen. They are willing to fight for their country, and I believe they should be able to. The men that fight for our country are against women fighting in combat. They believe that women are not capable of doing what they do to defend and fight for our country. The men feel that they cannot trust women to help back them up at war simply because of the fact that they are women.
Invasive species only started to show up in the United States when the Europeans started to arrive. Beforehand, very limited contact was made in this particular region of the world, so very few invasive species came into North America. When the Europeans arrived in 1492, after Columbus discovered North America, they brought their own culture and essential food and animals with them. At first, it was just the basics of maize, wheat, pumpkins, and squash, but later on it also included cows, chickens, and horses . As more Europeans flocked into the country, non-native species began to appear in the area. Often, as non-native species appeared it led to unintended consequences of destroying gra...
Using the definition of Ucbasaran D. et al, I would only count business failure as “the cessation of involvement in a venture because it has not met a minimum threshold for economic viability as stipulated by the entrepreneur” (2012). Ending ventures and strategies is a long lasting manoeuvre that a stakeholder will not see any return from. Often unethical accounting ventures have the most disastrous effect and although CEOs have been replaced for this, many companies have not survived the scandals. If the venture was heavily invested in, this can lead to irreparable damages. An example of this business failure is the scandal of Enron in 2001 in which unethical actions of the financial directors impacted the business, losing $63.4 billion in assets. The financial directors misled the shareholders by hiding millions of dollars of debt and misdirecting the committee on high-risk accounting practices, leading to the bankruptcy of the company. Other businesses such as Hollinger International, WorldCom and Tyco all found their CEOs to be altering accounts, (accounting-degree.org,
The piece I chose to do my literary analysis on was the article, The Truth About Invasive Species, written by Alan Burdick. The article states that invasive species are all around us, but the area with the most prominent amount is the suburbs of Miami. It goes into detail about how abundant invasive species are in this area. Most people who would see a strange animal in their lawn or area would be bemused, however for the people of Southern Florida, this is a recurring scene. Burdick states that “virtually everyone in the South Florida, including Hardwick, has a neighbor with a backyard menagerie of lucrative critters on hold for resale”. Burdick describes both how an invasive species is introduced into an ecosystem, and the impact the have on other species upon their arrival.
For me, having a good life is dreaming intensely, pursuing those dreams with eager, and living each day like is the last one, but always think about future.
Have you ever heard a song once and was never able to get the tune out of your head no matter how hard you tried? I know that has happened to me on several occasions. Whether we enjoy the songs or not, there is something about music within popular culture that drives the American public wild. Sadly, for quite sometime the music industry was largely closed off to women. Of course there were obvious exceptions to this, since talented female artists have existed through the ages, but on the whole there were not many female artists that got a lot of airplay and certainly none were considered significantly influential in the music industry.
Lastly there are some concerns that society has about women in combat. It is implied that men can endure a lot of strenuous physical activities were as a woman may not. For example, there may be an issue were a fellow solider may need to be carried to safety, a woman opposed to a man will probably not be able to handle this strenuous task, and because of that standard may have to be lowered to accommodate female applicants, therefore making it easy for anyone who might not be fit to fight in combat roles accepted into those positions. There is also a fear that women can be captured by the enemy and be tortured. This a fear of both men and women but because women are at risk of encountering a misogynistic enemy the chances of rape goes up.
Invasive alien species are disrupting and changing the normal ecological functions of biomes, ecosystems, and the biosphere as a whole (CBD, 2009). They are a threat to biodiversity and can cause damage to, or even eradicate native species which natural cycles and other organisms depend on. While disrupting energy flow, food chains, and shaking the structure of ecosystems to the core, invasive species create not only ecological, but also a whole host of social, economical, and health issues that affect the livelihood of almost every organism on earth, including humans (CBD, 2009).
I was starting my freshman year in college by making friends as many as possible. Day one of college was going well, teachers and classmates were perfect to communicate with, even though we are from diffenrent places in the world. My class finished at 2 o’clock, then i chose to walk to home instead of catching the bus. I was confident on myseft that i could remember the turns i had to take to get home. Yet, it was getting dark and nothing i could see. My heart began beating fast . After 10 minutes walking hopelessly, i saw a restaurant, actually a Vietnamese restaurant. I immediately went in and asked for help. The restaurant owner seemed to be the same age as my father. He looked at me and said to the cooker to make me something to eat. Honestly, i was feeling really hungry and that was the most delicious food i had ever ate. After few questions, he called for me a taxi and i did not forget to say thank before leaving. First day of school could be not really good, however, i had met some good friends and a nice person, which was enough for a new
Since the “children” had been well behaved, the school rewarded them with a pizza party in the motel’s Madison Room. Five of the Hammonton’ chaperones escorted the first half of “students” from the party back to their rooms, which were located in a remote section of the expansive motel. The other half of the entourage was later escorted to their quarters by three other chaperones and myself.
It was finally the first day of school; I was excited yet nervous. I hoped I would be able to make new friends. The first time I saw the schools name I thought it was the strangest name I’ve ever heard or read, therefore I found it hard to pronounce it in the beginning. The schools’ floors had painted black paw prints, which stood out on the white tiled floor. Once you walk through the doors the office is to the right. The office seemed a bit cramped, since it had so many rooms in such a small area. In the office I meet with a really nice, sweet secretary who helped me register into the school, giving me a small tour of the school, also helping me find
When I got home I quickly got ready, I ironed my cap and gown, did my make-up and hair, and made my last phone call to Andrew. I called him right before I left and asked him if he was sure he did not want a ride. Again he responded politely and on my way I went. When I got to the high school everyone was taking pictures, laughing, and talking about how they were g...
As I was having my breakfast, suddenly the phone rang. It was my friend, Kelly. She asked me to go to shopping centre. Without any delay, I asked permission from my parents and promised to go and meet her in the bus stop nearby our house. After an hours, I reached the bus stop and I waited patiently for Kelly’s arrival. Time seemed to crawl. After what seemed like an eternity, Kelly walked briskly towards