Spelling Words Challenge #7
Hello Readers,
These are my spelling words for the week of March 9-13, 2009.
thought, walk, sought, sidewalk, fought, cough, brought, distraught, bought, talk, trough, afterthought, taught, daughter, chalk, overwrought, caught, ought, stalk,and beanstalk.
Spelling Words Challenge!
The challenge is for you to use the spelling words in the order they are in and make a paragraph out of them in the order they are in. For an example, go to the blog dated February 17, 2009.
It is called "Spelling Words and Challenge!"
These are my spelling words for the week of March 9-13, 2009.
thought, walk, sought, sidewalk, fought, cough, brought, distraught, bought, talk, trough, afterthought, taught, daughter, chalk, overwrought, caught, ought, stalk,and beanstalk.
Spelling Words Challenge!
The challenge is for you to use the spelling words in the order they are in and make a paragraph out of them in the order they are in. For an example, go to the blog dated February 17, 2009.
It is called "Spelling Words and Challenge!"
Hello Readers of Aliyah's Company Blog. This is my challenge exercise. I welcome your comments and constructive criticism! ~Mama Sharon
ReplyDeleteThis past weekend, Daddy Jens and I thought that we might take a walk to the bookstore. We did, as we sought more information about Python. No, not the snake, but the computer programming language that lets you graph things, compute things, write things, and more. In the 30 seconds from the door to the sidewalk, it began to rain and we fought with bags and umbrellas for some shelter. Holding my umbrella in one hand, I could cough with the other, as I reeled from the fumes of evaporating oil that the damp weather had brought to the streets. And no sooner than our umbrellas had gotten wet, the sun came out again!
It was Sunday and late in the afternoon, so I became distraught at the thought that the bank might be closed but, thank Heaven, it wasn’t. Banks in Britain are open on Sundays these days; or, at least mine is—HSBC Banking Corporation. We casually walked in to a serene service area with flaming red décor—the company’s colors, and made a withdrawal from my online American bank, and then a deposit to my account at the British bank. For all the things we’ve bought, getting cash has been rather awkward like this, due to the inability to transfer funds directly from a U.S. bank to foreign bank. My talk with a U.S. bank officer revealed that, regardless of whether the economy was in a trough, at its peak, or somewhere in between, the financial walls between the U.S. and the rest of the world would remain standing, with not even an afterthought about how this restrains trade. In school, we were always taught that free trade is good for the economy, that it is the daughter of Mother Progress. But you can chalk it up to ignorance—and greed at charging high fees—that transferring funds internationally is overwrought with barrier after barrier after barrier.
Other countries, by contrast, like Japan, “get it”, that funds should be able to flow as freely in the retail sector as they do in the wholesale, or interbank, sector. –If our banks had only caught this fever and instilled in themselves a fervor for maximizing the possibilities of our globally linked internet age. Those of us who venture abroad or those of us who sell and buy things from overseas (E-bayers?) ought to insist that U.S. banks change their archaic ways. After all, who is the stalk and who is the leaf? Money may not grow on a sprawling tree or rise up out of the ground like a fecund beanstalk, but it should have its reach wherever you go, _especially if it’s yours_!
Sharon L. Bush, 17 March 2009
Postscript: Happy St. Patrick's Day, Everyone!!!
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