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A Lot of Pain

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  ADJA SIRY MBAYE   ESL 100   FEBRUARY 25, 2023                                                                              A lot of pain     Poverty is a big problem in Senegal. A lot of people are trying to get their diploma and find a way to move out of the country. My father was one of them, He had a difficult education because he didn’t know his father he died early, so he was raised by his mother. She was doing her best to provide for my father and his siblings. After many years of hard work , he graduated and even married, and a lot of opportunities came his way. It was during the 2000s that my...
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Jiaming Huang English 100 Cause & Effect: Final Draft March 19, 2023 A Disaster      Epidemics have happened throughout history. In December 2019, the first case of the COVID-19 pandemic occurred in Wuhan, China. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that the COVID-19 pandemic was a global epidemic. The Chinese government was about to implement the strictest lockdown in the world. They limited a great deal of activities. I had been living in China with my parents at that time. The impact existed in many places in my family‘s life      One of the obvious effects on my family was that my academic performance declined. To prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, my school was closed. I was unable to take classes on campus and had to start studying online. However, it was hard for me to pay attention to learning in the online classes because there were many challenges. The electronic devices, network signals, and the environment wer...