Imitation Based on "A Clean Well-Lighted Place"
Using a minimum of 75 words based on a group of sentences taken from Yiyun Li's piece write an imitation on any topic that suits the design. Do not include the original sentences from the text in your post. We should be able to find the section ourselves based on your imitation.
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Here’s a little advice for you Teeny-Boppers, “a convinced older brother, whom lived in the same house as I once did, really enjoyed repeating when he eavesdropped on us complaining about school. “High school is the best time of your life because the day you graduate is the day real life begins.” After his personal remark, with the reflection of the current circumstances about high school, a place where all my friends and I shared awesome memories, did appear to be the best time of my life. Though in my perspective, high school is just a stepping stone for a long, new and exciting journey ahead.
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What disgusted memories, I said, about this contentment, which like deception represented the upper class. Was it not contentment which drove all of the bourgeois to this philanthropic event, whereas most of them were exploiting by their profession, the poor families, they were supposed to help? Did once the doorman or the head porter in that reception have contentment for others in their day to day work? For everything at this event -from the waitress and waiters to the shiny, useless, expensive, extravagant decoration,the pleasant spoken man, and the most honorable and official persons- looked like a painting of "the theory of the leisure class" by Thorstein Veblen, without however, the sarcasm and humorist tone but the deception. At least in Thorstein Veblen book, the hypocrisy was not so unbearable and this upper class did not avoid its misery by showing contentment for others.
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Weirdly unique are Costa Rican behaviours. In their homes and every establishment, instead of
disposing toilet paper in the toilet after going to the bathroom, they have waste baskets. This is due to their practice and plumbing. In Canada, thankfully, we practice flushing after every use. Most hotels and restaurants have signs reminding tourists to dispose toilet paper in the baskets provided to avoid a huge stinky mess. A few, like me, found it difficult to embrace this aspect of Central American lifestyle.
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Fairly amaze with the Canadian log homes: inside custom built, very cozy throughout the day to sunset. In Canada, families lodging, knowing and having a good time, even on winter season. Log homes in interior locations are commonly isolated. The lodger’s of BC learned the way of living differently or exploring the wilderness and take pride of their property; a few, like me, rather live urban life, on a busy street like New York City.
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Notably surprising are Canadian traffic rules: in this country, mostly everyone drives within the regulations. In India, most people, aware of the rules of the road, have passed the licensing exam, never follow those rules. Indian drivers don’t mind to break the traffic rules by go through red lights. Some Canadians break driving rules at their own risk, and to do so they face penalties, such as fines, a few, like me, always drive within the rules.
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It was almost midnight, when I got a message from my cousin. My aunt saw a suspicious
male outside their house the second time this week. I rushed to their house on the
other side of the city, my two uncles arrived at the same time. We called 911, my
cousin said, the police should be here soon. A few minutes later, two police cars pulled
in, the officer looked around while walking to the house. As he was talking to us,
another officer was approaching an unknown person.
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Particularly interesting was Japanese food: as part of their food culture, Japanese learn to eat raw food. In China, most people, grow up with cooked food, showing a special preference for fried food and thinking it is unimaginable to have a dinner without fried food. Japanese like sashimi very much. Many Japanese are also addicted to eating fresh slices of raw horse and raw eggs, perhaps they think raw food are closer to nature; some people, like me, prefer a variety of food including raw.
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Truly impressive is Dutch cycling: in most areas, bicycles are the mode of transportation for short to moderate distances. In Manila, where I grew up, more people rely on public transit and will take a “jeepney” even if the distance is only one block. The public transportation system in our country is massive. Filipinos in local communities also find carpooling to be a useful way to get to their destinations, while providing comfort and flexibility; a few, like me, love to cycle for a healthy lifestyle.
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It was after three o’clock in the afternoon. When I called 911. A customer was steeling for the last two days respectively. The police walks towards me by the corner of the store. Followed by three more police vehicles within two minutes. The customer, I was watching, was left to play billiard inside the store. Half hour passed, he left the store, a black bag with I am a green bag written on it. As soon as he opened his vehicle, the four officer’s vehicle came around to question him.
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Extremely upsetting are Philippine pollutions: whereas, in Canadian atmosphere, it is rarely seen. Most chemicals that are produced in factories are very harmful to each individual, specially when distributed through the air we breath. If only, each person in the Philippines can do little things such as recycling and buying the electronics they need, not want! It would make a big difference in all of their lives. A few, like me, are lucky enough to inhale the air around me and not worry about what's in it.
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Fairly interesting is the European train: used to connect, more or less every country on the continent. The trains, in Europe, are considered by many people, their favorite mode of transportation and at the same time one of the safest way of travelling. It is also known as money-saver. The European train is a system that has an enormous success economically and socially throughout European countries, and not to forget that is part of their history; some people, like me, the silent fan, prefer travelling by train more than anything else.
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More stunning is Canadian media: watching TV for two or three hours, or going through the whole 44 pages of The Province newspaper, you cannot see a single ad regarding saving energy. In Iran, people, acquainted with the importance of the electricity, saying, “don’t forget to turn off the extra lamp”, was their motto. Lights in the parks were only on till a certain time. The kids in my neighborhood knew it was their curfew time when the lamps at the park went off; a few, like me, didn’t like that so much.
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“Here’s what you should expect in living Canada” a Certain Abeyl Genet, in the school that I once attended to, imagined what is be like to live in place where dream comes true. “Dreams in Canada are the same as dreams in Ethiopia”. A truly profound statement, it was surprised to find out the opportunities to exercise this dreams in Canada, where I landed in 2003 to go to high school, seems greater and easy to grasp, in my origin Ethiopia, dreams seems clouded, hidden in unreachable corners and few and far between.
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As part of a plan to help me understand sea fishing in BC, I signed up a first-class fishing charter with a tour guide on a trip between dawn and 5 P.M. The cap sailed a boat and talked about his experience: the huge sturgeon, which he caught in Fraser River; a halibut, a large flat sea fish; species of salmon. He asked about my fishing background, and about Russia. When we exchanged our stories, we arrived in a fishing spot.
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It was six o’clock in the afternoon, and I was walking in the neighbourhood. An unknown, black car was driving slowly through the streets with four guys in it. I saw a police car driving in the opposite direction, while at the same time I saw some kids soaked in water and crying. I stood there, wondering if those three things were related. Later I discovered, that the guys in the black car had been throwing water balloons at the children. After half an hour, the four boys were caught, arrested and standing outside their car with serious looks on their faces.
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Waste of Electric
Equally astonishing was American lighting: in many places, lights stayed on from morning till night. At home, our family, conscious of saving every penny, would not turn on a single lamp until the last ray of daylight had vanished. Lights in public places were sound-controlled. The residents in our building had developed the habit of clapping or stomping to turn on a lamp, and to announce their presence; a few, like me, preferred a stealthy, unnoticeable passing in the dark.
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Waste of Water
It’s sad how water is being used in these well developed countries compared to third world countries. From my personal experience in Afghanistan people have to travel by foot many miles to get clean water from water pumps, water wells, rivers, etc. People in the Western world are spoiled because they waste more water than they even use. A per son could take a shower with one bucket-full of water in Afghanistan, while Western people leave the faucet running showering, or flush the toilet many times, or if someone sees a running faucet in public place it usually just gets ignored. While brushing my teeth, I turn-off the water tub to save water and energy.
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