Prey As I look toward the sky, I notice my vision is hazy, but where it’s not I see a bright blue sky with few clouds. The birds are chirping, animals scampering about, and butterflies flying through the warm summer air. Everything is beautiful so I go inside to get on shorts and a tank top. I start to walk back outside the sky is gray, there are big puffy black clouds, thunder and lightning cracks through the sky and soon it starts to pour. I think to myself how did this happen; one minute
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It began as a whispering in the air. The day had been beautiful and the sky was like a dome of plasma-blue. The clouds had looked like airy anvils drifting under the gleaming disc of sun. We had put our tent up just before the Reaper’s moon of autumn appeared over the trees. The moon seemed to turn the leaves into a flaming patchwork of colours: scorching-yellows, lava-reds and burnished-browns. It added an alien glamour to a perfect scene. We heard a greedy thrush, snail a-tapping on rock; he finished
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In a cold winter day, have you ever observed white smoke come out from your mouth when you exhale? Have you ever thoroughly felt the force pressing on your skin when wind blows? These are some of the states that “qi” appears in our daily lives. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TMC), qi plays as a fundamental component from time to time explaining its ideas. Theories of both Chinese and Western medicine exist for helping people maintain good health and away from deceases. Western medicine relies more
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Climate change has been identified as the leading human and environmental crises of the 21st century (Tadesse, 2010). Globally, it adversely affects livelihood activities through the occurrence of diverse extreme events such as floods, cyclones, droughts, and unpredictable rainfall patterns (Urama & Ozor, 2010). Changes in temperature and rainfall patterns affect agriculture, especially in tropical regions. Consequently, rain-fed agriculture is seriously threatened resulting in imminent global food
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mental illnesses can be anxiety and depression. The mental illness effects a person’s ability to think, learn or even live on his/her own. The illnesses are all different and they have different treatments, ability, behavior and emotions. Different weather events cause different kinds of illnesses. People who are effected by a mental illness can often become suicidal after a natural disaster. “Where climate change causes slow-developing adverse changes, such as in agricultural areas, crop failures are
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Tobias Wolff’s story of “Hunters in the Snow” is a fascinating story. It gives a small experience of what it is like to hang around a group of guys. Although it may be stereotypical and a little exaggerated, it presents the idea of how guys like to get on each other’s nerves and how they bond. It begins as Tub, one of the main characters, is stuck in the cold waiting on his friends to arrive for their habitual hunting trip. They almost hit him with their truck as they run halfway in the road and
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Literature Like a Professor, Foster explores the symbolic and literal significance weather holds in storytelling. Literally speaking, weather has the power to directly affect a character, whether they become soaked from the rain or sweaty from the heat. Symbolically speaking, weather means much more than a few drops of water, or a thermometer reaching one hundred degrees. Overall, Foster discusses three types of weather throughout this chapter: rain, fog and snow. Firstly, rain, “the principal element
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As I walk through the Minnesota woods, I breathe in the crisp fall air. I see and hear the sounds of the chickadees, gliding and chirping through the tops of the trees. I am engaged in the specific deep reds, blues and yellows of these intricate creatures. Leading me, a man gets into his light blue, 1987 GMC Sierra. The truck smells of Copenhagen tobacco, along with Johnny Cash’s hit single “I Walk the Line” on cassette, playing in the background. As I get into the truck, I study the man’s stone-cold
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Climate change is a change in regional weather patterns that occur over time. Climate change causes are air pollution, deforestation, and the burning of fossil fuels. An area which has already been affected by climate change is Alberta. Alberta has been dealing with quite a few problems now due to climate change, but the three main problems that affect Alberta the most are increasing temperatures, water levels rising, and seasonal changes in agriculture including irrigation decrease. First
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My Dearest Austin, The rain drizzling all around us, the feel of the wind brushing against the yellow leaves and our jacket strings, I remember this day too well. It was one of the biggest turning points in my life. I had lost another person so close to me after that moment. Remember the day we decided to go our separate ways? It has killed me forever since. I was trying to hold back my tears for you, but the rain helped hide it. I never wanted to see you go. You're the best thing that has
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