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The Great Wall of China is the top ten new wonders of the world 2012. Located in China it stretches from Shanhaiguan in the east, to Lop Lake in the west. The entire wall is about 21,000 km long. The main part of the wall is 2,500 miles long and stretches through all sorts of mountains. The wall is thirty feet high and twenty-five feet thick at its base.
The Huns and barbarians had no farming land and they used to entre china and killed and invade the people for food and wealth. The wall was constructed to protect China and its people from Huns and barbarians and also restrict the entry of invaders coming from the Silk Road.
“There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.” – W. Somerset Maugham
The construction of the wall started during the Qin dynasty at 221 BC. The emperor Qin Shih Huang aimed at protecting china from invaders who regularly attacked Chinese farming villages. The Great wall surrounded the central part of China, which was the most important part of China.
It took more than hundred years in completing The Great Wall. The wall started deteriorating with the passage of time because of natural disasters, strong winds dusts and storms. It was constructed again in the 15th century by Emperor Meng Tien.
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Colin Powell was a brave soldier.He had been a versatile student.
He was always loyal to his job.
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- During the time of his tour in Vietnam, Powell got injured in a helicopter crash. Despite his injury, he bravely managed to rescue his comrades from the burning helicopter, and for which he was awarded the prestigious Soldier's Medal.
- Powell also earned his education as an MBA at the George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., and also had won a White House fellowship in 1972.
- Because of his diligence, he was assigned to the Office of Management and Budget during the Nixon administration and made a powerful impression on the Caspar Weinberger and Frank Carlucci.
- Powell became the national security adviser, it was a post that he held for the duration of the Reagan administration.
- During the illegal shipments of U.S. weapons to Iran, the sale of the weapons would go to support the counter-insurgency movement in Nicaragua, Powell was also asked about the shipment before Congress about the incident, but he was not subjected to any wrongdoing
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<u>ORDER:</u> Background info, claim, 3 reasons.
Next paragraph; Transition, reason, explanation. Repeat.
FINAL BODY PARAGRAPH, transition, reason, explanation,Counterclaim.
Conclusion: transition, repeat reasons, and then add a call for action like <em>please contribute to our society</em>
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An Old Lady and The Lamp
Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful old lady in a small hamlet. When the sun set the old lady lighted a lamp. The lamp felt very proud of itself that it was the brightest object in the universe. One cold windy night the lamp was blown off. It started crying.
Then the old lady told the lamp not to be haughty.
She again lighted the lamp. Thereafter, it was quite humble and behaved well.
Moral: Don't be vain
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