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soup

This article describes a famous Armenian chef who uses only the best of the freshest ingredients to make the soup, and he has almost harsh requirements for his own restaurant environment and his staffs, and even for those who buy his soup, he also has a strictly bound.  The article 4 to 6 depicts his attitude towards the customer.“I tell you, I hate to work with the public.  They treat me like a slave.  My philosophy is: The customer is always wrong and I'm always right.  I raised my prices to try to get rid of some of these people, but it didn't work."  And he is very particular about the tastes of all kinds of soups, but also he has a well aware for a lot of the ingredients, he put all his time in making perfect soups, "At home, I have several hundreds of books. When I do research, I find that I don't know anything.  Like cabbage is a cancer fighter, and some fish is good for your heart but some is bad.  Every day, I should have one sweet, one spicy,...

the danger of a single story

The storyteller is a woman. Because she had read the story of the British and American life since childhood, So the people in her story are all white,  they play in the snow, eat apples and ginger beer.  But the fact is that she grew up in Nigeria, and she even has not seen ginger beer. Thus, she concluded that children are easily influenced by a story.  From then on, she began to write everything she was familiar with.  For the only impact of Fide's family was very poor, however, they have their own production of things.  and also, her american roommate had the single story about Africa,  she had been labeled as an African.  after a few years, she also influenced by media in mexico.  But when she really dissolved into the Mexican life, was surprised to find that most of the original Mexicans are kind, life is comfortable, happy. In other words, whether it is the girl or her American roommate, because the geographical differences, people und...

Rick

the story talks about the childhood of author, by a friend's introduction, he started his first practice in high school water polo team. to start with, when author saw his coach, he spent a lot of time to describe the coach's appearance in details. it was different than the writer's impress. and then, after training the coach said the author was too skinny, too young, too stupid, too weak to be on his team. furthermore, the coach began to "torture" the author in the last week, added more push ups and wind sprints, the coach kept angry whenever the boy failure.  no matter how tried the author was, the coach still asking writer to keep fighting without sympathy, even though fight with old and experiential players, hit it back, and never cry or look out coach.  Apparently, by a period of time training, author won the first game perfectly. when writer ready to blame his coach after game, his coach laughed and be very proud of author, suddenly, author understand that t...

me talk pretty one day

The story is a period of author's life, in order to learning new language, he moved to Paris. And when he first arrived, it has a totally different environment and custom, he confront with great challenge. Author described two classmates who answered questions very particular. The conversation and activities between students and teacher help me build a clear layout about how the class run. Writer created a lot of wonderful characters, such as the two Polish Annas, one is the Argentine bandonion player, one is beautiful young Yugoslav optimist. And all the students exhibited an ease and confidence I found intimidating. As an added discomfort, they were all young, attractive, and well dressed, causing me to feel not unlike Pa Kettle trapped backstage after a fashion show. The movements is so detailed, for example: the teacher licked her lips, revealing a hint.  She crouched low for her attack, placed her hands on the young woman's desk, and leaned close. The description of circu...