... have new year dinner. Especially last year, we celebrated for one family member (my brother) who just came to US from VN. Normally, after my father's statement, everybody started eating, talking and giving to each other all the best wishes for new year. I sat at the corner of the table and looked at every single ... we had a lot of things to support: food, cloth, furniture, etc.. that is why we started to look for job right away. My father, the main worker in the family, found an assembly job but they paid him a little because he had no experience and he was old. Besides that, my brothe...

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To many people, storms brewing in the horizon seem like an omen or despair, a foretelling of bad or evil things coming, or sometimes even associated with death and dying. We have sayings about ... Storms invariably wind up in horror movies and old dramas. In movies and books we often see or read of a storm during a funeral. In Kate Chopin's short story "The Storm" it is used as an omen, as well as perhaps despair, but it adds a different element to this story as well; it seems to be a force, ... as "crashing torrents [of rain], and the roar of the elements" (141). As the passion explodes withi...

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