metal works‚ plastic and textile manufacturers.No other waterway in the world carries as much traffic as the Rhine. Every year the river transports 40 million tons of cargo by barge and ocean-going vessels. It’s navigable by pleasure boats right up to Rhinefelden in Switzerland.The Rhine is under pressure from a variety of sources. There is a number of ways the river environment is protected. Government and local and national bodies all have strategies for looking after the Rhine. The ’strategies
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Writing 3-2: Halloween 1. Read the following story: I was walking around getting candy on Halloween with my best friends. Our bags were full of candy‚ and it was getting late‚ so my friends wanted to go home. I wanted a few more chocolate bars so I turned to my friends and said‚ “Let’s go to a few more houses and then go home.” They were worried because they thought it was already too late. “Let’s go home now‚” they said to me. I told them not to worry because we could save
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The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant THE BASS‚ THE RIVER‚ AND SHEILA MANT BY W.D. WETHERELL - October 3‚ 2008 In the short story The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant‚ the narrator becomes fond of a girl at the river where he is vacationing. This is Sheila Mant‚ a girl three years older than him. In the story‚ the narrator works up the courage to ask Sheila out. While they are going to a concert by canoe‚ the narrator casts a line to try and catch a fish. The moment Sheila Mant says that fishing
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Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” is an immensely compelling poem that he wrote when he was around 17 or 18 years old. He was traveling to Mexico City‚ to spend a year with his estranged father‚ upon graduating from high school. Hughes’ poem has a very spiritual undertone that conveys his intended message with rhythm and attractiveness. Anyone who knew Hughes knew of his love for African Americans. He saw the beauty in his own people and they were the muse to a lot of his writings and
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The Red River War of 1874 During the summer of 1874‚ the U. S. Army launched a campaign to remove the Comanche‚ Kiowa‚ Southern Cheyenne‚ and Arapaho Indian tribes from the Southern Plains and enforce their relocation to reservations in Indian Territory. The actions of 1874 were unlike any prior attempts by the Army to pacify this area of the western frontier. The Red River War led to the end of an entire way of life for the Southern Plains tribes and brought about a new chapter in Texas history
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River is loved by everyone from his small town in Tree Hill‚ located in North Carolina. He is known as the “perfect guy”. He is 5’8 with dark blue eyes. He is a pale Caucasian teenage boy. He had a tragic childhood‚ which is why many people feel sorrow for him. Everyone in his neighborhood knows the traumatic accident that happened to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Camden died in a car accident while driving to the mountains on their way to surprise River. Luckily‚ River made it out alive. People think
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difficult‚ change can be for the better‚ as presented in the musical “Wicked.” But when faced with major real life problems‚ such as the Mississippi River flooding every spring in Downtown Davenport. We have presented many ideas to prevent the flooding but every attempt has failed‚ due to the fact of “change.” In our classroom discussion about the Mississippi River and how it floods every year and how there have been many proposals to stop the flooding but still will not be passed. This is due to the fact
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The American River is the second biggest tributary to the Sacramento Stream‚ a basic part of the San Francisco Inlet/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta framework. The Lower segment of the American River Watershed starts at Folsom Dam and flows around 30 miles to its intersection with the Sacramento River close downtown Sacramento. The watershed size is around 4856 square kilometers with a watershed length of 48.3 kilometers. The normal yearly precipitation is around 76cm.The Folsom Dam‚ which is inside
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About Linda Crew and her reasons for writing this The author of Children of the River‚ Linda Crew‚ expresses her emotions and brings her past experiences into her writings. A lot of authors base their books on personal experiences; Linda Crew is just an example of one. Linda Crew went to the University of Oregon‚ since she lived in Oregon for a while before writing Children of the River‚ which could be a major factor in why it took place in Oregon. She then got married‚ had children
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Sir Peter Cook is an English architect; also he is lecturer and writer on architectural subjects. He was born in Southend-On-Sea‚ Essex at 22 October 1936. Peter was a director of London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts‚ and he is a founder of Arch gram‚ (Wikimedia 2014). Cook in august 2013 wrote an article about housing near river side and he was encouraging construction near the river. Titled (What’s to stop us diverting a watercourse to create our own riverside idyll?)‚ His view point was about
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