An essay on cyclone A cyclone is a very violent storm. It never comes alone. Heavy showers of rain‚ thunder and lightning are its companions. When a cyclone blows‚ it moves round and round in the form of small circles. It always changes its course when it blows. It does not move in the same direction like an ordinary storm. It occurs mostly in the warm parts of the world. India is in this region of the world. Hence cyclones often blow over her. In cold countries there is no cyclone. The signs of
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STORY 1: “The Lamp at Noon” by Sinclair Ross The story “The Lamp at Noon” takes place in a dried up‚ unfertile desert. Dust storms are causing health problems for the family. The setting is crucial to create the dark and sad atmosphere of the story because it was all about the fact that there is something wrong with the place that it dried out their farm which caused them to suffer. Which also creates a mood of being dull‚ lonely and monotonous. The couple‚ Ellen and Paul‚ has been arguing about
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his father’s farm‚ Ann begs him to stay and keep her company yet he refuses to do so. “’It isn’t right to leave me here alone. Surely I’m as important as important as your father...[John] But there is nothing to be afraid of even if it does start to storm. You won’t need to go near the stable....I’ll be back at the latest by seven or
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affected were Indiana‚ Illinois‚ Michigan‚ Ontario‚ Quebec‚ Wisconsin‚ and Ohio. There was as much as 2 feet of snow in many areas. The blizzard began on January 2‚ 1999 through January 4‚ 1999. Chicago was one of the biggest cities impacted by the storm measuring up to 22 inches of snow and rated the 2nd worst blizzard in Chicago by the National Weather Channel. Record temperatures hit a low of below 20 degrees Fahrenheit and up to 50 degrees in some places. This all resulted in airports and train
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mph. It forms and intensifies over tropical oceanic regions. Hurricanes are generally smaller than storms in mid-latitudes‚ typically about 311 miles in diameter. At the ocean’s surface‚ the air spirals inward in a counterclockwise direction. This cyclonic circulation becomes weaker with height‚ eventually turning into clockwise outflow near the top of the storm. Hurricanes begin as tropical storms over the warm moist waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans near the equator. As the moisture evaporates
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Storm God vs. Dragon-like Creature The Babylonian‚ Enuma Elish‚ and the Canaanite group of poems‚ Baal Cycle‚ are both mythological works in which a storm god battles a dragon-like monster. This war between storm gods and dragon-like monsters show readers similarities from one culture to the next. The classification in each work illustrates a specific scene in which a dragon-like monster and a storm god have a hostile encounter with one another. In Enuma Elish‚ Tiamat‚ the dragon-like creature‚
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Directions “The storm is also a metaphor for the healing power of nature‚ paralleled by Gow’s use of light and the outdoors. The opening scene in the school hall has the fairies scurrying about in the “garish light”. After the storm “there is darkness” then the “light becomes warm and intense.” This indicates that a superficial life can be led but to truly understand oneself obstacles and hardships must be overcome but ultimately they lead to a greater understanding of self. Once the storm occurs‚ the
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Trade Center. The storm made it to New Jersey on Monday evening with 80 mph winds killed at least 16 people in seven states‚ cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses from Carolina to Ohio. The storm also caused fear at two nuclear power plants and stopped the presidential campaign cold. Hundreds of miles from the storm’s center‚ gusts topping 60 mph prompted officials to close the port of Portland‚ Maine‚ and scaring away several cruise ships. The massive storm reached well into the
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neighborhood is meant to transport the visitor’s back in time to New York’s mid-19th century‚ to demonstrate what life in the commercial maritime trade like was like. This is now being threatened and may never be the same because of damage the recent storm Hurricane Sandy caused. In most parts of lower Manhattan‚ few signs remain of damaging flood waters and impacting winds from Sandy that nearly washed away this part of the city back in October. In some of the hard hit areas the power is back on
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England‚ home in North Truro‚ Cape Cod and we’re prepared for a pleasant two weeks of sun bathing and swimming at the beach. All went as planned for the first two days‚ the temperature was beautiful and the waves were exceptional. Minor reports of a big storm possibly hitting the coast loomed in the back of beachgoers’ minds; however nothing could ruin their vacation at the beach. The seemingly endless coast was packed with people who seemed more than content with the weather so far‚ until the eighteenth
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