...NB: This exercise will be dealt with after taking Practical 3:1 page: 36 The following article from the British newspaper The Independent contains culturally specific items related to weather. Translate it into Arabic using the translation techniques you have studied in Chapter Three. [pic] Get ready for a white Easter: Snow and icy blasts set to last all week - but Britain could see a heatwave next month Authorities have warned drivers and pedestrians to be aware of black ice Freezing weather conditions are continuing to cause disruption today as forecasters predicted that icy temperatures and snow showers could last right up until Easter Day. Many roads across Britain remain impassable and thousands of homes are still without power after heavy snow and blizzard conditions deluged the UK over the weekend. Authorities have warned drivers and pedestrians to be aware of the possibility of black ice during the morning commute. Forecasters have also warned that there is no immediate end to the icy conditions in sight with the cold weather and snow expected to last into the weekend. Despite an end to the heavy snow, forecasters say the severe weather could return on Good Friday. The current forecast suggests that Britain could experience its first white Easter in five years. Several thousand households in Scotland remain without electricity today, down from a peak of about 18,000. The isle of Arran and parts of the south-west mainland of Scotland were particularly...
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...I awoke, my feet cold under the sheets. My room was strangely quiet as I slipped out of bed and looked out the window. I saw the world covered in a sea of white snow. I hurried to get dressed and started for the back door. Hesitantly, I walked out of my warm cozy comfort zone towards a freezing cold, snow blurry. I stopped at the door, silently watching the snow fall. The tiny ice crystals drifted peacefully down from the sky, layering all the standing structures. The door creaked open after I nudged it with a lot of strength and effort, and I prudently stepped onto the back porch so that I don’t slip and fall, now I had a full view of my backyard, a wintry paradise enclosed in snow. As I walked down the steps and headed for the sidewalk, the squeaking of the wooden steps combined with the crunch of the snow under my feet felt like two instruments from the orchestra, performing in sweet silence all around me. The white, cottony powder covered the branches of the trees. As I walked down the sidewalk, I saw my car parked under a thick layer of snow .My mischievous dogs ran to meet me, leaving trails of paw prints in the snow. I continued to the driveway and scraped some snow off of the car window, and looked inside. The powder chilled my hand, so I put my hand inside my pocket to warm it, the snow began to fall harder. I wandered around the car, and crunched the snow beneath my feet. I hear birds chirping, and stride to the bird feeder, where several small birds hopped around on...
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...The Dynamics of Writing and Family “Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." -- Bruce Fairchild Barton, advertising executive and congressman Uncle would say, "There are certain inalienable truths you must accept." So when I raged about Atheists being disqualified for holding office in Arkansas or how it's illegal to carry a bible in Singapore, he'd say, "Write it down. Let it out." I've filled four journals. On an idle Thursday, when my mind was free of frustration, I read the crumpled, yellowed pages of my black leather journal and saw a natural progression from black to color. I had precisely captured all my experiences, but in an entirely aesthetic way. From then on, every time I opened my journal, I found myself in an unfamiliar environment writing to capture a mood or scene with creative language. It was my therapeutic getaway from reality. In the summertime, every Sunday, after taking a rattling cold bus, two smoky, humid subway trains, and picking up the best peanuts on 114th street, I would arrive at Riverside Park, New York. I wrote at least one piece every time I was there and shared my work with the same old man who perused the New York Times and the same skinny college student who sunbathed in her bikini. After noting any criticism they gave, I would return home, edit and embellish each piece. ...
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...the only clues to the lodge being the icy tire tracks. It rose steeply before disappearing at a rocky outcrop up ahead, I was unable to tell if it went to the left or right after that. The cold that had seemed mild at first now numbed my face and extremities. What residual heat I had absorbed in the lodge was gone, it had been my buffer, but unwittingly I had squandered it believing my thick winter jacket and boots equal to the task of preserving my body heat With each breath, more heat rose in puffs of white vapor, with each gust of the wind more heat dissipated into the whiteness, with each step the rocks and ice pulled more heat from my marrow. I had stopped composing wintry poetry of icicles and the specter of the world under a pristine white blanket and instead tucked my chin to his chest and made for the lodge. All the while I fervently tried to wish away the ice that clung to my hair. I had a lot to learn about life in the wilderness. Everything I knew about the city was utterly redundant and with no wifi, he couldn't just google the answers. The wind kept repeatedly beating down on me as I trekked onward, praying there was hope for to return safely and unharmed to the lodge. At this point in the journey with the treacherous conditions, I was unsure. What was meant to be a nighttime hike in search of a ski pole I dropped on the chairlift, turned into a near-death experience. I imagined I was following the trail marker headed towards the lift but in reality, I only walked...
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...winter months, we were in for a big change. We moved to Anchorage Alaska in January, right in the middle of the winter. I had never seen so much snow in my life. Because of so much snow accumulation, businesses would constantly have to use giant snowplows to remove all of the snow from the parking lots. After the plows had scraped all the snow off the top of the surface, it was not out of the ordinary for there to be a solid sheet of ice covering the parking lots. Being a new resident of the state, I underestimated at how much ice would actually be throughout the parking lot. When the parking lots were full of ice I always thought that it was the most fun thing in the world to slide across the ice on my feet. I found this fun and all, until one day it took a turn for the worst. We were at the local Wal-Mart and we had just got dumped on with four feet of snow. The snowplows were right in the middle of clearing out the parking lot so they were leaving paths of solid ice, perfect for sliding on. My mom never fancied me sliding across the ice. She would always say...
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...and how people are treating our planet. One of the facts that really caught my attention was that the water cycle is never broken – there is always the same amount of water on Earth. I never really thought about it that way, but as soon as I heard the narrator say that, I thought about all the cycles in life that happen every single day. The narrator then goes to mention that every species on Earth has a role to play. This also caught my attention Overall I found the film to be very factual as well. I thought about the facts of how our Earth is going downhill over time and it really makes me want to do something about it. I learned that global warming is really taking a large toll on our precious Earth. One example of this is the arctic ice cap is melting. It has lost 40% of its mass in the last 30 years. Another example of how the Earth is at risk is how by 2050, a quarter of the Earth’s species are going to be threatened with extinction. This frightens me and really makes me wonder what we as humans are doing wrong to affect our Earth this way. It frightens me that 70% of the Earth’s population lives in poverty. It frightens me that since 1950, the Earth’s population has nearly tripled. What are we going to do when those who lack basic necessities run out? Are those who live in poverty going to die off? When is this destruction of our Home going to...
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...How and why do Glaciers move? Glaciers are large masses of ice that are continuously changing and may be perceived as an open system with inputs and outputs. They take up 10% of the world’s total land area and are usually found in Polar Regions like Antarctica and Greenland and places where there are high altitudes and low latitudes. Fresh falling snow is made up of tiny ice crystals and after it lands it changes into solid ice. Newly fallen snow is light and porous, but as the snow becomes buried by more snow, the snowflakes change into granular ice called firn. As time passes the firn gets buried further causing the weight above it to compress it into solid ice. The force of gravity and the pressure of the ice cause the glacier to move downhill. The ice mass will stay stationary until it reaches a certain amount of thickness and when the ice reaches this amount of thickness, the pressure becomes great enough to cause the glacier to deform and move. The ice will move away from where there is the most pressure (thickest part of the glacier). Glaciers can retreat or advance depending on the amount of snow accumulation and ablation that occurs from year to year. If accumulation exceeds ablation, then the mass of the glacier will increase which causes the glacier to advance. If the snout moves to an area of lower latitude ablation will increase and eventually equilibrium will be re-established. Retreating and advancing of glaciers are very slow processes and takes hundreds...
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...Introduction Ice cream's origins are known to reach back as far as the second century B.C., although no specific date of origin or inventor has been undisputedly credited with its discovery. We know that Alexander the Great enjoyed snow and ice flavoured with honey and nectar. Biblical references also show that King Solomon was fond of iced drinks during harvesting. During the Roman Empire, Nero Claudius Caesar (A.D. 54-86) frequently sent runners into the mountains for snow, which was then flavoured with fruits and juices. Vegetables play an important role in human nutrition. Most are low in fat and calories but are bulky and filling. They supply dietary fibre and are important sources of essential vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Particularly important are the antioxidant vitamins A, C and E. When vegetables are included in the diet, there is found to be a reduction in the incidence of cancer, stroke, cardiovascular disease and other chronic ailments. Vegetable and Ice cream are now combined and offered by Sherbet Snow Company a newly established Ice cream brand that will satisfy the taste and preferences of every individual. Sherbet Snow Company will offer customers in Tacurong City and nearest town a variety of vegetable flavoured ice creams, frozen yogurt, and drinks. It is an ice cream store designed to stand out as a healthy lifestyle brand with homemade ice cream using vitamins and minerals sourced ingredients, as well as establishing itself as a comfortable environment...
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...Sample Narrative Essay: Group Ice Bucket Challenge Thesis: event + meaning Part 1: Receive challenge; learn more about ALS; buy supplies – Allison, Breanne, and I were eating lunch in the cafeteria when Simon walked up with his phone. Hey!” Simon said, pulling out his smart phone. It was obvious he wanted to show us something. We said hi back, waiting for him to pull up what he wanted us to see. “You’ve been challenged on Facebook! Are you going to do it?” Breanne looked puzzled. “Do what?” she asked. “The ice bucket challenge!” Simon replied. People sitting at tables surrounding us all looked up and at us. One shouted, “Do it!” Allison said, “Well, we’ve been challenged, so we might as well.” She and I shrugged. Simon raised his arms in victory and walked away. Part 2: Drive home; conversation – We all struggled to pay attention during class that day. All we could think about was the ice bucket challenge. How cold would the water be? Would it hurt? Who would record us taking the challenge? Whom would we nominate to take the challenge after us? We talked about all this after school, driving in Breanne’s car to Allison’s house, a cozy ranch house off Keebler Street. Along the way, Breanne surprised us by suddenly swerving into the parking lot of our local Food Lion. Allison said, “Why are we st…” but trailed off, figuring out mid-question that Breanne was buying the ice we needed. We only bought ice. “Ice bucket challenge?” the cashier said, ringing us up. We all nodded. “We...
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...1 2 3 4 A White Christmas requires at least 2 cm on the ground on Dec 25. Snow cover maps are produced from data obtained by satellites. 5 Snow is unstable shortly after a heavy snowfall because the crystals need time to bond to the snowpack. 6 7 8 Hoar is another term for ice crystals. The lee slope is the downwind slope (ice crystals are prone to accumulate there since they are easily carried by the wind). 9 10 11 The extra weight from snowstorms triggers the avalanche. Skiing and snowboarding are human-caused examples of avalanche triggers. If a snowpack is determined to be very deep and at risk for failing, explosives may be triggered to force the snow down. 12 13 14 Orientation: The direction that a slope faces (i.e. west, east, north, south). “Smoothness” refers to a lack of boulders, obstacles, etc. 15 16 Deaths occurred during that time due to the presence of workers building the continental railway. A closed highway in western Canada can have a huge economic impact. (There are only 4 highways connecting British Columbia and Alberta). 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 The mounds (in the foreground slow down the avalanche) and the berm collects the snow preventing it from reaching the populated area. 25 The image shows an avalanche shed in British Columbia allowing snow to travel over a highway. 26 27 28 29 30 Avalanche cords...
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...Physicist alike are still trying to overcome. Which planet would we want to live on? We chose a moon proven to have liquid water under its surface, Enceladus. With other living options out there like Mars, or Titan (one of Saturn’s larger moons) we chose in our opinion one of the least taxing and more accommodating locations. Where and Why Enceladus? Enceladus is a one of the Saturn’s moons. Enceladus measures about 500 km (310 miles) in diameter. It has an orbit cycle of 33hrs around Saturn .It is the brightest of Saturn’s moons and currently the only known moon in our solar system to have a surface comprised of pure water ice. It also has many active regions that shoot plumes of water ice from its surface high above toward Saturn. This is important to note because this creates friction and friction creates heat. The average surface temperature near these ice plumes is about -135 °F which is far warmer than you would expect considering Saturn’s distance from our sun. Enceladus provides us with one of the most important things human’s need to survive. Water. With Enceladus’ surface being solid, and liquid water present beneath the surface it wouldn’t be difficult to...
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...The Main Peculiarities of a Snowfall. A snowfall consists of myriads of minute ice crystals that fall to the ground in the form of frozen precipitation.The formation of snow begins with these ice crystals in the subfreezing strata of the middle and upper atmosphere when there is an adequate supply of moisture present. At the core of every ice crystal is a minuscule nucleus, a solid particle of matter around which moisture condenses and freezes. Liquid water droplets floating in the supercooled atmosphere and free ice crystals cannot coexist within the same cloud, since the vapor pressure of ice is less than that of water. This enables the ice crystals to rob the liquid droplets of their moisture and grow continuously. The process can be very rapid, quickly creating sizable ice crystals, some of which adhere to each other to create a cluster of ice crystals or a snowflake. Simple flakes possess a variety of beautiful forms, usually hexagonal, though the symmetrical shapes reproduced in most microscope photography of snowflakes are not usually found in actual snowfalls. Typically, snowflakes in actual snowfall consists of broken fragments and clusters of adhering ice crystals. For a snowfall to continue once it starts, there must be a constant inflow of moisture to supply the nuclei. This moisture is supplied by the passage of an airstream over a water surface and its subsequent lifting to higher regions of the atmosphere. The Pacific Ocean is the source of moisture...
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...The Main Peculiarities of a Snowfall. A snowfall consists of myriads of minute ice crystals that fall to the ground in the form of frozen precipitation.The formation of snow begins with these ice crystals in the subfreezing strata of the middle and upper atmosphere when there is an adequate supply of moisture present. At the core of every ice crystal is a minuscule nucleus, a solid particle of matter around which moisture condenses and freezes. Liquid water droplets floating in the supercooled atmosphere and free ice crystals cannot coexist within the same cloud, since the vapor pressure of ice is less than that of water. This enables the ice crystals to rob the liquid droplets of their moisture and grow continuously. The process can be very rapid, quickly creating sizable ice crystals, some of which adhere to each other to create a cluster of ice crystals or a snowflake. Simple flakes possess a variety of beautiful forms, usually hexagonal, though the symmetrical shapes reproduced in most microscope photography of snowflakes are not usually found in actual snowfalls. Typically, snowflakes in actual snowfall consists of broken fragments and clusters of adhering ice crystals. For a snowfall to continue once it starts, there must be a constant inflow of moisture to supply the nuclei. This moisture is supplied by the passage of an airstream over a water surface and its subsequent lifting to higher regions of the atmosphere. The Pacific Ocean is the source of moisture...
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...Water possesses different characteristics when in different forms. In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, a water motif shows the differences between ugliness and beauty. Knowles uses saltwater, freshwater, ice, and snow to represent different characteristics, when water is in different states. Knowles uses saltwater and freshwater to show the differences between beauty and ugliness within his characters. After Finny’s accident, he is told that he will never play sports again. Gene decides that he will not either, so he signs up to be the assistant crew manager. On the first day Gene and Quackenbush get into a fight and “catapul[t] into the water” (Knowles 79). Later, Gene showers “to wash off the sticky salt of the Naguamsett” (86). Falling...
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...To study and see if an Ice/Water Dispenser would be Ideal at NDSU, we followed a four-part research plan: Phase 1: Develop evaluation criteria Phase 2: Gather Information Phase 3: Interview head department chair of the Construction Management department Phase 4: Decision on why we chose to do a trial Phase 5: Conduct a Survey Our five phases will explain our plan and purpose to installing an Ice/Water Dispenser in the Construction Management and Engineering building. Phase 1: Develop Evaluation Criteria Our first main task was to develop criteria of what we wanted our Ice/Water Dispenser to meet. These expectations are what will ensure safety among students and staff as well as anyone that walks by. The Ice/Water Dispenser would need to meet three criteria’s:...
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