Power of Poetry Blog Poetry is such a powerful thing that can bring anything to life using figurative language. In the following three poems the authors bring winter to life in three different ways. Winter can be brutal and miserable, in the poem by Robert service “The Cremation of Sam Mcgee” winter is deadly. Hating the cold , Sam wants to be cremated before “the cursed cold, [has] got right hold, till [sam] [is] chilled clean through to the bone”(line 22). Service is trying to express in a poetic
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World is abuzz with heavy discussion on the issues of wars in the middle east, tensions in the 38th parallel, new viruses infecting people at different corners of the world, the iPhone and the Facebook. Of all the issues that have taken center stage of debate worldwide in recent decades, one issue, ‘Global Climate Change’, stands apart from all the rest; the reason being the sheer magnitude of the consequences it can have. There is no greater substantial threat to the earth that we know today, than
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High above the skies, higher than the canopies of all the trees, the wet air and the breath-taking sight of all the rolling hills and valleys of the tropical rainforest produced a blissful view of Costa Rica. Flying over this culminating one-mile leg of my zip-lining experience provided me with picturesque memories and invigorated a new understanding of what impact I have in society. Being suspended high above the ground made me realize that I am merely an individual compared to nature’s beauty
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The events in Texas over the past week have been devastating. There is no doubt that the events that are about to transpire over Florida will have the same or even greater damage. Hurricanes happen usually over warmer oceans with warm, moist air rising and air from the surrounding areas taking it place underneath. This causes a cyclone to appear. What generally makes a hurricane a hurricane is that is uses water as an energy source. As a hurricane forms, it take the water's potential energy and converts
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are crashing. The sun is setting. People are laughing and embracing under the sunset. I feel the sand squish slowly through my toes as I gaily walk down the shoreline of the Outer Banks. My all time favorite place to be is the beach. The weather at the beach is the most quarreling of all places in the world. One minute you are relaxing lazily on the sandy seashore reading a most invigorating book. I sit engrossed and allow the foamy mist from the rampant ocean spray your face lightly
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country, the government officials normally use their service for the transportation to have a meeting or convince. Apart from that, the seasonal traveler, a destination is attract someone because of the weather or special events in a period. they usually go the a country because of the weather or climate , for an example, Whistler (province of British Columbia), Canada is a place which is amazing for skiing and snowboarding, the traveler will use their service. Also, Air Zealand targeted Tasman
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change. Heat wave ‘may cause drought in London’ Londoners have been warned they could face a drought if the heat wave continues, despite the recent installation of wastewater plant. The Environment Agency announced its concern that the hot weather could result in a drought after it would be increasing monitoring for pollution leaks in rivers to prevent water supplies from dying out. According to Met Office, temperatures could reach 31 degrees Celsius in some areas of the country this weekend
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quasi. (Yungui------the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau) It is generally formed by the interaction of metamorphic continental polar air and Southwest air current which was stuck into the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. The clouds would be low and thin that makes the weather sort of rainy as result. That is why people live in Kunming always say "the sunny days in Kunming will never last long" as a joke. In fact, about 50% of the Kunming quasi will mostly formed during winter. Its frontal surface locates between Kunming
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that, by 2020, from 500 to 750 million people will be affected by water stress caused by climate change around the world. Low-lying coastal regions, such as Bangladesh, are vulnerable to sea level rise and increased occurrence of intense, extreme weather conditions such as the cyclones from 2007–2009. In most countries like Bangladesh, yields from rainfed agriculture could be reduced to 50% by 2020. For a country with increasing population and hunger, this will have an extremely adverse effect on
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……….any money. a. didn’t find b. don’t find c. found d. is finding 5. When I…….a child, I like watching Poppie. a. is b. are c. was d. were Exercise 3: Arrange each sentences below in right order: 1. the / like/ What’s / to be / weather / going / ? =>……………………………………….. 2. mountains / to / He’s / go/ the / to / going / . => ………………………………………. 3. probably / are / they / play / to / baseball / going / . =>………………………………... 4. want / be / do / you / What / to / ? => …………………………………………………
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