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- Brad
- Former adult teacher who loves island beaches. Happy homebody and family man; once devoted dog owner, now without Tashi, my Tibetan Terrier. I prefer the absurdity of the imagination to the absurdity of imagining nothing.
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- Things I Learned in Writing 12 (short essay)
- An Exercise in "Memory" (with eyes closed)
- What did You Collect?
- Help! I Need Somebody (Pieces for Comment)
- Why Don't You Forget?
- Imitating a Great Writer
- Hongxin's Piece, "Visiting Laoshan Mountain" Edited
- Something that Happened
- Makassia's Story, "Sunrise in Jala" Edited
- Fibonacci Poem
- Punctuation Practice (A Long Sentence)
- A Piece to Publish
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12 comments:
Here are some sample sentences using the various punctuation marks from today's class:
My new favourite dish at Zipang Sushi on Main Street: roasted eggplant with a miso paste topping.
My daughter and I always order the eggplant dish at Zipang Sushi; however, my wife and son tried it and didn’t like it at all.
Zipang Sushi (at the corner of Main and 24th Avenue) is one of my favourite local restaurants.
When I go to Zipang Sushi—man I can taste it already!—I love the miso soup the most.
Polou (an Afghani food) is one of my favourites.
You have to be careful in what you eat; you can easily put on weight if you eat junk food.
I love healthy food—fruits, vegetables and whole grain products.
Vancouver is the best place to live on earth, not only for us—the normal people—but also a haven for criminals: drug dealers, gangsters and dozens of smugglers from China and other countries.
KitKat (one product by Nestle) is famous for its taste and reasonable price.
Makassia bought a slice of pizza (Dominos)—she gets a slice of pizza almost every day—and a diet coke at the Fresh Slice.
They both (Makassia and Esther) eat chocolate every day.
People I know love to travel to Thailand and say that it is a wonderful (hot and sunny etc. etc.) place; nevertheless, I also hear about political unrest—frightening and violent--when I read my newspaper, so I face an interesting conundrum: stay home or go.
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My friend told me that Grouse Mountain would be an easy climb(I shouldn't have believed in her) and that I would love it;far from being the stairway to heaven, it was more like the trail to perdition-I had blisters all over feet, my whole body was in terrible pain-and I was a lost and weary soul.
- My country:
Some people love to travel to Asian, and some say Korea is the most beautiful country they have ever seen, and the Koreans are friendly and polite is what I hear; nevertheless, what they saw was only a surface—what they really should go to countryside and stay (to experience) —what I mean is they don’t have to stay at a hotel and only sightseeing the city.
-71 words.
To tell the truth and to do real things are the basic human’s merits, but the lies fly everywhere (in our society, in the Newspaper and medias) in this world: some lies are called black (telling the lies deliberately for political or economical purposes); some are called white (they say they tell the lie unexpectedly or due to the kindness, so this kind of lie would be accepted)—is the theory (true and false run parallel) a new paradox or another delicate lie?
Words: 83
It's a dilemma to make such decisions-- to be prisoned in the sunny summer (the only comfortable season in Canada); or to take the risk of being infected by H1N1 flu.
Many of my friends have told me wonderful things (some facts being hilarious) about Australia; although, other people have mentioned how dangerous it can be-with all the venomous creatures-which frightens me, so if I ever go, I will make sure I'm very informed.
I am tired (continually standing two hour) of selling: batteries, sanitizers, Kleenexes; I am giving a fake smile to my customers-when I am on the cash.
Kashmir (Paradise on Earth) - the best place to visit both in summer and winter, is a valley in the Himalayan mountains; Kashmir is divided by India and Pakistan: in India they call it Indian-administered Kashmir, in Pakistan- Azad Kashmir; unfortunately, the beautiful mountainous landscape became the centre of conflicts lately.
In winter, shanghai is like a freezing north pole with no place to be kept warm; in summer, it is like a burning stove. Shanghai – a place of being alive (compared to being comfortable enough not to realize the existence of your environment).
When I used hear people saying that Conakry (the capital city of Guinea) has only one entrance and exit, I didn’t believe them until one day when we had to run for emergency—there was a bomb explosion in the place where the country weapons were kept—and as we ran, all I could see were the same things: the ocean in every direction we went; the people we passed by heading back to the city because they found no exit.
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