The Yellow of Spring (not just pollen) by Teresita Trujillo Beautiful green pastures filled with early-bloomed dandelions and the first blooming of dogwood trees. Spring is such a fulfilling season‚ the cold of the winter is fading and the warmth that spring brings is beginning. Truly everything should be wonderful‚ but oh‚ the yellow that lingers with this season. It comes in storms and settles like snow. Pollen. Britannica’s definition‚ is‚ “Pollen‚ a mass of microspores in a seed plant‚ usually
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‘Spring’ from “The Four Seasons” by Vivaldi Antonio Vivaldi: Antonio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741)‚ nicknamed Il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest") because of his red hair‚ was an Italian Baroque composer‚ priest‚ and virtuoso violinist‚ born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers‚ and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe. Vivaldi is known mainly for composing instrumental concertos‚ especially for the violin‚ as well as sacred
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The Long Day By Dorothy Richardson After reading‚ “The Long Day” the manner of which people lived and survived during the depression has astounded me. Where she first boarded with Miss Jameson she didn’t have any sense of home and bliss. She had shared with her friend Miss Plympton and described her sense of home and bliss as living in country side. And when she later boarded with Miss Pringle she had felt a sense of home when she saw her stove little Lottie. After receiving kind words from Miss
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ghost stories? Support your answer with evidence from the story. Answer 5-(b): The narrator lacked the self confidence as he himself talked of how he didn’t specialise in ghost stories; instead‚ he said that the ghost stories specialised in him. His first story had been a ghost fiction too; however‚ for that also he had to chase inspiration in vain for months. This all shows that the narrator was‚ though natural‚ an accidental ghost fiction writer. Question 5-(c): What makes Helen‚ the ghost‚ and her
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Earth Day Earth Day is an annual holiday‚ celebrated on April 22‚ on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. In 2013 the day is 43 years old. It is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network‚[1] and is celebrated in more than 192 countries every year.[2] In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco‚ the date proposed was March 21‚ 1970‚ the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature’s equipoise was later sanctioned in
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Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” Silent Spring is widely accepted as helping start the American environmental movement in 1972. Rachel Carson was a well-known author on natural history when Silent Spring was published. The book spearheaded environmental concern and no book since has had the same impact. It begins with a story about a quaint and charming little farm town in pristine Anywhere‚ mid-America and describes wildlife and all the beautiful colors on the countryside. Many people come to
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Azerbaijan in the first half of XVIII century. Expansion policy of Peter the I; the dynasty of Nadir shah. Safavid state was in great political and economic rests in the first half of XVIII century. The treasure of the state was so empty that‚ sultan Hussein (1694-1722) ordered to smelt items of Ardabil vaunt‚ which possessed to his ancessors. Feudals and governors used from the weakness of the state and tried to create independent regions as well. The circumstances of ordinary people was much
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On March 21‚ the first day on the Iranian calendar and the first day of spring‚ all Iranians enthusiastically celebrate the Nowruz festival‚ irrespective of their age‚ language‚ gender‚ race‚ religion‚ or social status. Nowruz literally means “new day”‚ and the Norooz Festival‚ at its core‚ celebrates the rebirth of nature. This symbolizes the victory of good over the evil forces of darkness‚ which are represented by winter. The festival includes a big range of traditions and ceremonies from the
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Earth Day Founded in 1970 as a day of education about environmental issues‚ Earth Day is now a globally celebrated holiday that is sometimes extended into Earth Week‚ a full seven days of events focused on green awareness. The brainchild of Senator Gaylord Nelson and inspired by the antiwar protests of the late 1960s‚ Earth Day was originally aimed at creating a mass environmental movement. It began as a "national teach-in on the environment" and was held on April 22 to maximize the number of
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the 1940 and 1960 with the full support of the State and federal government. In those days‚ the solution for everything was the use of chemicals to eradicate or to reduce the expanding range of these organism without considering the true impact of such indiscriminate application of pesticides or herbicides or as Rachel Carson named as “Biocides” (Carson‚ 1962). The book written by Rachel Carson “Silent Springs” was very controversial then and now‚ because the same forces that dominated the use of
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