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中国人更多的是一组集体的

Zhōngguó rén gèng duō de shì yī zǔ jítǐ de

Chinese people are more of a collective

美国人很个人主义的。

Měiguó rén hěn gèrén zhǔyì de.

Americans are very individualistic.

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美国甜点经常太甜。

Měiguó tiándiǎn jīngcháng tài tián.

American desserts are often too sweet.

中国甜点经常不太甜。

Zhōngguó tiándiǎn jīngcháng bù tài tián.

Chinese desserts are often not too sweet.

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多美国人是胖的。

Duō měiguó rén shì pàng de.

Many Americans are fat.

多中国人不是胖的。

Duō zhōngguó rén bùshì pàng de.

Many Chinese are not fat.

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里美国一杯可乐太大。(Lǐ měiguó yībēi kělè tài dà.) - A cup of cola in the United States is too big.

里中国一杯喝正常的。(Lǐ zhōngguó yībēi hē zhèngcháng de.) - A cup of Chinese drink is normal.

An attempt of a google slides for a chinese versus usa culture slideshow project.

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A Serendipitous Meeting - Composition 1

Murdoch Harris - September 2018

Does the rubble of burning tanks and armored vehicles inspire you to play and wise off? Well for Immo Starbreit playing soldier with friends on  abandoned tanks of  World War II  was the catalyst for his future. While the twelve-year olds were playing one of their games in the rubble, paying no heed to the dangers of war, American tanks rumbled around the corner. The lead tank stopped. The top opened. A Major appeared and asked the boys if any of them spoke English. Young Starbreit volunteered that he spoke a little. The Major told him to climb into the tank, saying he needed a guide and interpreter who knew the area. Before long Immo was acting as the daily guide and interpreter for the Americans. 

Appreciative of Immo’s help after the German defeat, the Major told Immo he was an assistant professor at Princeton and that he would sponsor him to come to America for college.

Of age and a year through college in Germany Immo sent a missive to the Major asking if he could attend Princeton. Not only did the Major say “yes”, the Major arranged for Immo’s acceptance into Princeton and all of Immo’s transportation, tuition, room and board and living expenses. Contrary to the destructiveness of World War II the serendipitous meeting between a warring soldier and a child playing in the rubble proved to be a true fortune of war. 

 After three years at Princeton and a return trip to Germany Immo acted as a liaison in U.S.-German affairs.  He later became the German Ambassador to the United States. All thanks to “wise’ing” off among burning vehicles in Berlin.   

Link to “Secondary Source Grandfather” Audio -

https://soundcloud.com/harris-familyregister/princeton-class-of-1953-story-from-a-reunion-story-not-about-a-reunion-story

Transcript of The Primary Source Audio (*inflections and cadence missing*) 

This is a story that was told to me by Emo Starbright. A classmate of mine at Princeton. What my class did was--we go on aaa after the 50th Reunion we go to class reunion in different cities--and Emo was the sponsor for the trip to Berlin. So I got a chance to talk to him and we got around to (ya know)  how you end up in Princeton -- and it was a very interesting story. He--bear in mind that during WW2 we were around 10, 11, 12 years old-- and he was living in East Germany with his brother and his mother and his sister and aaa his father was a physican who was in Berlin andn (ya know) the war was ending and the Russian were taking over East Germany and as they took over they would march the Germans they captured east and not too many of those guys got back, but on the march if anybody dropped out during the day they just go by a nearby farmhouse pull somebody out of it and put them in the line and they didn’t care whether they were a man, woman, or child, whatever. So the number would always be the same-- so his mother was getting a little nervous--& they thought they better go to Berlin. Soo ughhg before they left she told him to go out to the pasture and looks for the biggest horse and load their stuff on the horse and walk to Berlin. So he goes out to the pasture and looks for the biggest horse (ya know) ten years old what does he know  and he picks the biggest one. Well the biggest one happen to be a pregnant mare--so they’re a little rambunctious, but they loaded their stuff on the mare and they headed for East berlin. Aaah meanwhile when the Russians found anyone they didn’t like or a German stepped out of line they just hang them from a lamp-post so he said he sent a lot of time looking at dead bodies (on lampposts) When he got to Berlin. They found their dad and the city was being bombed pretty regularly by the Allies. By that age you feel like you’re immortal. So when the bombing stopped he and a buddy of his would go out in the street and they’d be some burned tank or armored car and they’d be out there playing around (ya know) playing Cowboy Indians or whatever. One time when he’s out therethree or four tanks Americans tanks came around the corner. They look down the --the guy in the lead tank looks at these two kids and says “Hey, do you guys speak english. Any of you”. Well Emo said he spoke a little english he had in school. So he said “I do”. So the the guy who was the major said “Get in the tank”. So he spends two or three weeks with the major sort of showing him around Berlin and sort out acting as an interpreter. When the major had to leave. He said “Emo you’ve been very good, and I want you to know that my regular job is a assistant professor at Princeton. And when you get old enough to go to college here’s my card. Contact me. Just he gave him his name Princeton University--professor whatever. I can there. He went one year to college in Germany and after that he sent a letter to this professor saying (yaknow) any chance you could take me at Princeton. The guy writes back come ahead, so he spent the-- I think 3 years, but could have been 2 years at Princeton and his English got quite good. So when he went back to Germany he got involved in U.S. German affairs, and he eventually, became ambassador to the US and he also become the ambassador to France. And he says “ I wouldn’t have even thought of these kind of things if I hadn’t been out -- playing around wiseing off around some burning vehicle in Berlin. So he says in some ways the war just made me. I thought it was an interesting story.

Image Citation -

Lamprecht, Gerhard, director. Somewhere in Berlin. Somewhere in Berlin, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somewhere_in_Berlin.

My Writing Situation- 

My Subject - Emo Starbrights progression from benighted boy to UN ambassador in U.S German Affairs. 

My purpose - “Expedient”- to learn from my grandfather's story abilities to ameliorate my own. “Alterocentric/Allocentric/Other Regarding” - to record my families stories in a family register for our descendants and their upbringing. 

My Intended Audience - My instructor whose putting himself in the role of my soi-disant peer/and or somebody who’s also at my level of education and life experience. 

The Sources of Information available to me - at this point in time, only a secondary source, my grandfather recounting his friends story. 

Constraints - Grandfather only source; secondhand source, who got it from main guy. 

Hook Attempts Introductory Paragraph - 

Playing about and wising off in an internecine conflict, World War II, changed a man's life. 

Vocabulary I thought about and Avoided-

Intrepid, Impavid, Benighted, Detritus. 

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我最喜欢的教练是我的高中摔跤教练。他在他富有的朋友家里举行了我们团队的训练。

Wǒ zuì xǐhuān de jiàoliàn shì wǒ de gāozhōng shuāijiāo jiàoliàn. Tā zài tā fùyǒu de péngyǒu jiālǐ jǔxíngle wǒmen tuánduì de xùnliàn.

My favorite coach is my high school wrestling coach. He held training for our team at his wealthy friend's house.

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This looks like an attempt at an Early Modern Europe Homework Assignment

Foisting My Feelings!

Ergh (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ [a table flip emoticon], I sense I’m something akin to Oliver Cromwell; a psychographic on the more 𝔼𝚇Ⓣℜ𝓔𝖒𝙀 [extreme] end of the spectrum [See: the PURTIAN denomination]. 

With a preference for fever dream-esque films chockful of stress such as After Hours [1985] about “an ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho who he met that evening at a coffee shop.” Tis very funny tis redolent of the Coalition of Obsolete Industries “I’m a ferrier. concerned that my business stream is drying up because people are no longer using horses as their primary transport method”.

There’s this piecemeal progression of ideas and inventions akin to the 

Technology tree in the video game series “Civilization”. Super slow there’s ideas thrown out there by people like Voltaire saying that homogeneity is dangerous [See: Two opposing camps Catholics & Protestants]  #tribalism

Wikipedia Summary of Jean Calas - “Jean Calas (1698 – March 10, 1762) was a merchant living in Toulouse, France, who was tried, tortured and executed for the murder of his son, despite his protestations of innocence. Calas was a Protestant in an officially Roman Catholic society. Doubts about his guilt were raised by opponents of the Catholic Church and he was exonerated in 1764. In France, he became a symbolic victim of religious intolerance, “

“After Hours.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 11 Oct. 1985, www.imdb.com/title/tt0088680/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_47.

Alliance, Australian Taxpayers', director. YouTube. YouTube, YouTube, 12 Dec. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tjZchYXMmA&list=PLjap2P-RS6fBu6Vsko5ubbCXWTTXNSkfq&index=151.

The Chaff

Tis very funny tis redolent of the Coalition of Obsolete Industries “I used to  to clean people's toilets; empty them from the alleyway behind the house and now flushing toilets and plumbing has taken away my job”

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Andrew S. Observation Sheet [Acting I - Homework]

He makes sure to aver his fashion hegemony, in a jocular manner. Stating that he doesn’t own a pair of sweatpants. He dislikes the trend of Chatham kids wearing Vineyard Vines. He enjoys his quotidian cigarette. He enjoys his quotidian glass of gin, once he finished studying for the day. Andrew S. is a photography major, taking a 3 hours photography class where he goes on field trips and moves about freely in a red room. Andrew is often reticent at fire pit gatherings, but he isn’t maladroit when it comes to butting into a conversation or raillery, although I would say that he’s a skilled conversationalist. Andrew is not quickly given umbrage by others teasing, and he oft elaborates on the faults they pointed out about him. Andrew wears a newer Barbour jacket than mine, but it’s no different in its reception--girls always happen to nick the coat (like mine). Andrew finds it surprising that he is not bespotted at particular events anymore. Where he used to find himself bespotted (He may have realized that will nevermore become soused at these events, simply because he’s too old to do such acts in our *such society* “society” said with Liam’s interpretation of Wolfgang Mozart--all vulgarian-like*). He has dirty blonde kempt hair that’s supposed to look like unkempt hair. He enjoys snogging ladies who are among the loquacious cognoscenti. He always wants whoever’s controlling the music to play “The Doors” (my favorite band for most of my life--besides AC/DC that encompassed most of my childhood). (Aside-now that I’m nearing my twenties, I’m entering a refulgent posh college know-it-all state who only listens to classical music to succor his brain development). His writing is also madly, stupidly, recherché (like this here writing).   They're this girl he’s around where there’s this inchoate affection that I believe may ripen to become true love or at least a year-long relationship where they break apart because one of them is heading to England or something of such kidney (lol kidney #passé)

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KINESIOPHOBIA fear of movement

I had a large print out of this word for my Two Dimensional Design class

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SURBATER one who walks until their companions are exhausted

I had this printed up really big for my Two Dimensional Design Class

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The brevitic title = Diversity In Thought

My Silly Roundabout Title = A Soi-Disant Ultracrepidarian/Agathist/Panglossian Student Attempts to Explain; What Impact did the Protestant Reformation  have on the Sixteenth Century?.. With The Succor of His Isagogic Early Modern Europe Textbook and Youtube Videos.  

Mistakes I Made/Afterthought - 

I forgot to explicitly state the thing I’m trying to prove or the thesis thing. The thesis is something along the lines of this “Hand in hand with the invention of movable type the protestant reformation was able to make a large impact on humanity; by accelerating diversity of thought. Maybe I should’ve gone on the tangent of “a diversity of thought” that comes with both the good and the bad ideas of human [See: agathological] whatnot ;catalyzed to the extreme thanks to advent of the Printing Press [easy accessibility of knowledge device].

I have too much filler likened to the anime series Naruto. Naruto was a show heaps of people were into, but were put off by the seemingly pointless digressions from the main story in order to allow the manga artist [See: Mangaka] time to catch up with the pace of the anime series. Naruto had a 44% filler rate according the website “Anime Filler List”. 

I used the word “heaps” too many times.  

2001 was the beginning of the 21st century, huh? I learn something new everyday apothegm/maxim thingo.

I should get somebody to look at my paper to preclude my excessive wordiness. [See: Prolixity] 

This looks like some school assignment attempt.

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Well I Must Have Wrote Something for One of My Chinese Classes

生活很好什么? 我要我的生活有意思。如果我旅行或许发现某物。第一个，我要去新西兰看我的苏格兰的舅。第二个，我要去回上海或者深圳。上海上面新西兰(Earth is a globe but)。大全一个猫去学校的右边下毒我的狗。蒂姆说，比利时上边中国。默多克说,一点点的中国是上面比利时。亚尼克说地球是一个球体。地球在上面不东西。

桌子下面有一个黑色的，书包。桌子下面有一个黑色的手机。 

   Huò     xǔ.

或许-perhaps

   Mǒu     wù

某物-something

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三十五　[さんじゅうご] - 35

Elementary Japanese 

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New-ish Vocabulary

[There is some familiarity present in my mind along with some innate linguistic intuition-ness]. 

��物  [Rénwù] - character

最喜爱  [Zuì xǐ'ài] - favourite 

团队 [Tuánduì] - team

富有  [fù yǒu]- rich; full of

举行了  [Jǔ xíng le] -held; to have convened; to hold

训练 [Xùn liàn] - training 

游泳运动员 [Yóuyǒng yùn dòng yuán] - swimmer

一名初级奥林匹克 [Yī míng chūjí àolínpǐkè] - a junior olympic 

 羽毛球运动员 [Yǔ máo qiú yùn dòng yuán] - Badminton player

我以前的 [Wǒ yǐ qián de] - my previous;my former;my quondam

更有技巧 [Gèng yǒu jìqiǎo] - more skillful

几比几 [Jǐ bǐ jǐ] - ?compared to?

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OMBROPHILOUS capable of withstanding long periods of rain

Design Class, I had this printed up for a design class I was taking.