First & Last Name English 101/Section # Date Essay #6 Disappointment "The Story of an Hour" is a short story in which Kate Chopin‚ the author‚ presents an often unheard of view of marriage. Mrs. Louise Mallard‚ Chopin’s main character‚ experiences the exhilaration of freedom rather than the desolation of loneliness after she learns of her husband’s death. Later‚ when Mrs. Mallard learns that her husband‚ Brently‚ still lives‚ she know that all hope of freedom is gone. The crushing disappointment
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THE TALE OF TONYO THE BRAVE by Maria Aleah G. Taboclaon COME here‚ mga apo. You want me to tell you a story? Then you must come nearer‚ and sit at my feet. Don’t interrupt me‚ as my memory is as fleeting as the summer breeze‚ and you may find that an interrupted story is worse than no story at all. I had been telling you war stories before‚ of things that happened to your father and to your father’s father‚ who was my brother. Now‚ what I am going to tell
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BARANGAY COMMUNITY OUTREACH A Barangay Report Submitted to Joel A. Reyes In partial Fulfillment of the requirement In History By Kha Rai Mekon Balignot I. Introduction 1. Background of the Study A barangay (Filipino: baranggay‚ [baɾaŋˈɡaj]) is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village‚ district or ward. In colloquial usage‚ the term often refers to an inner city neighborhood‚ a suburb or a suburban neighborhood. The
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Yulya Tsoy ID 20123285 Date 06.06.13 Cause and Effect Essay. The Aral Sea disaster. The Aral Sea disaster is one of ecological disasters that effect terribly on our life. It was fourth largest lake in the world‚ but nowadays 80 per cent of water disappeared. The main reason why the Aral Sea has shrunk so dramatically is because water from the rivers flowing to it has been diverted for irrigation. The Aral Sea basin is fed by the Syr Darya and Amu Darya Rivers‚ which flow directly into the sea
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Why have the waters of the Aral receded? Who is responsible? During the 1950’s under the communist regime‚ in an effort to have a main cash crop decided to plant cotton in the desert areas of middle Asia. To water these areas‚ the communist engineers decided to use most of the main rivers that fed the Aral sea as the water source. When the cotton plant did not take to the hard ground. In affect taking more and more water from the source of the Aral sea. What environmental and human costs have
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Geography H/W – The Disappearing Aral Sea This essay intends to first introduce the disappearing Aral Sea‚ which due to the extensive agricultural activities devised by the Soviet government in the region‚ the former fourth-largest lake of the world is now the world’s eighth largest lake. This has resulted in perhaps the world’s most prominent man-made ecological disaster‚ giving its location and background knowledge with a map‚ and then describe its future in terms of how it is going to be utilized
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Disaster of Aral Sea The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest inland sea in the world. About‚ a million years ago from now the northwestern part of Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan were covered by a massive inland sea. This sea was formed when all the waters retreated from a big land; they left a broad plain that contained highly saline soil. Due to the retreating of water many ancient remains were disappeared. The only remnant that remained was a big inland sea which was the Aral Sea. The Aral Sea was
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Figures Figure 1. Location of Aral Sea. (Google Maps‚ 2013) - 1 - Figure 2. Comparison of the Aral Sea Before 1960 and present day. - 4 - Figure 3. Old Fishing Vessels (Francios‚ 2010) - 4 - 1.0 Introduction The Aral Sea is located in central Asia and is situated between the south of Kazakhstan‚ more specifically Aktobe and Kyzylorda provinces and northern Uzbekistan which is an autonomous part of Uzbekistan. Alternative to what the name suggests‚ the Aral Sea is not in fact a sea‚ it was
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Years ago the Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake in the world. Over the years it was dramatically decreased to 80 % of its size since 1960. Now it is harshly affecting the people who live in this area. Children are being born with birth deformities and the number of people with throat cancer has grown. There is a great loss of fish species’ in the sea because of the toxins in the water from fertilizers used on farms. Also with ports now hundreds of kilometers away from the sea the fishing industry
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The Aral Sea is actually not a sea at all. It is an immense lake‚ a body of fresh water‚ although that particular description of its contents might now be more a figure of speech than practical fact. In the last 30 years‚ more than 60 percent of the lake has disappeared. The sequence of images above‚ acquired by Landsat satellites‚ shows the dramatic changes to the Aral Sea between 1973 and 2000. Beginning in the 1960s‚ farmers and state offices in Uzbekistan‚ Kazakhstan‚ and Central Asian states
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