My Little Bit of Country Some of us might live in the big city. A city with a high density of population. Many people who is mainly busy all week. People who are trying to get to work early in the morning and then during rush hour‚ these busy people is trying to get home to their families. While some of us might live on the countryside‚ surrounded by the beautiful nature‚ and the only thing busy here‚ is Mother Nature. She is busy trying to maintain order in nature. The wind howling and rushing
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triplet-against-eight note pattern‚ would simply not stay in my brain. Late nights lying in bed‚ in between classes‚ tapping on my desk‚ that rhythm always slipped through my fingers just as I thought I had it. I even asked a few drummers from marching band to help me‚ who would spend their lunch time with their practice pads and drumsticks on top of ritzy school pianos‚ drilling me while I practiced that elusive rhythm. My metronome became my best friend and my worst enemy‚ and secondary source of frustration
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he is intending to convey that there are so many people in this world that work extremely hard and don’t get any notice or thanks for their time and struggles. I feel as if this really relates to the generation that I live in today. In my generation‚ more than my parents and theirs‚ I feel that kids aren’t really appreciative of their parents and many other people that do a favor for them. It’s almost as if they believe that the world revolves around them‚ they are entitled to everything‚ and that
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of the key areas which consume huge amount of energy. Energy used by IT operation and global carbon emissions from IT have been increased dramatically over last decade. Global carbon emissions attributable to IT have been estimated at 2% to 2.5% of world totals and as high as 5-6% of developed nation totals. (GreenIT‚ n.d.). This percentage will rapidly grow and suffer the environment if we don’t take any action. In this essay‚ I will briefly review the history‚ definition of Green IT‚ approaches
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Green Technology: Future of power generation NEED FOR GREEN TECHNOLOGY Recently concluded Copenhagen conference on climate change and green house emission expressed concern over the amount of CO2 being released. This would in turn heat up the atmosphere and cause global warming that will result in the melting of glaciers and hence the sea level will rise that is a threat to several coastal cities of the world. So one can imagine how the amount of CO2 emissions can cause problems of displacing
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When recollecting the incidents having certain impact on my life‚ I remember the one which actually changed my perception of reality a lot. That was not the one happening to me‚ but I was a kind of involved in it‚ observed it from the outside‚ and eventually it influenced me greatly. I used to have a friend of mine a couple of years ago. Unfortunately‚ she has moved to another state and we do not see each other often nowadays. Christine‚ – let me call her that way in the present narrative‚ – has
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What is green building? As the global climate warming‚ more and more people focus on building energy efficiency. There is more awareness that CO2 produced by building energy use is the main source of climate warming. Energy-saving buildings become inevitable trend of development‚ the green building also arises in time. Green building can be define as to the construction of the whole life cycle‚ for maximize resource conservation (epa.gov‚ 19/12/2012). It includes energy saving‚ land saving‚ water
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My Last Duchess-Robert Browning The poem "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning is a poem written about a Duke of the 16th the century. The Duke is the speaker of the poem an is explaining to a visitor about a portrait of a ex-wife. He tells how she was a flirt and had very disgraceful behavior. He claims she flirted with everyone and did not appreciate his "gift of a nine-hundred-years- old name." As his monologue continues‚ the reader realizes with ever-more chilling certainty that the Duke in
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Sharon Olds’ poem "Late Poem to My Father" exposes the profound effect that childhood trauma can have on someone‚ even in adulthood. The speaker of the poem invokes sadness and pity in the reader by reflecting on the traumatic childhood of her father‚ and establishes a cause and effect relationship between the abuse he endured as a child and the dependence he develops on alcohol as an adult. The idea of emotional retardation caused by childhood experiences is not uncommon‚ especially in our
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literary Analysis of the poem " My Sister ‚My Friend " when your sister became your friend ‚ that is the most beautiful thing you can ever feel . The Poet Leann Steinman is expressing her deep passion towards her sister in her Poem My Sister ‚ My Friend . Steinman can not express how much she is grateful for her sister who is always supporting her in the bad and good days as a friend. She wishes all happiness and welfare for her sister as she is always the reason for her felicity
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