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    Edward Thomas wrote “Rain” during World War I. His use of the image of rain and his word choices create a mood which is somber and dark. All alone in a house‚ the speaker listens to the rain is confronted with thoughts of death. To Thomas‚ death would be a welcome relief from the misery in which he is living. Thomas says “Remembering again that I shall die / And neither hear the rain nor give it thanks / For washing me cleaner that I have been” (Thomas 3-5). To the reader it makes mood clear

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    ACID RAIN Acidified particulate matter in the atmosphere that is deposited by precipitation on to a surface‚ often eroding the surface away. This precipitation generally has a pH less than 5and some times much lower depending upon the concentration of acidic components. Acidic deposition principally by the pollutant gases such as sulphur dioxide (so2) and the nitrogen oxides cause acidic deposition. The burning of fossil fuels‚ such as coal‚ forms Sulphur dioxide. that contain high quantities of

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    is slightly acidic because carbon dioxide in the atmosphere dissolves in the raindrops to produce hydrogen ions. Yet‚ normal rainfall is not considered acid rain. Acid rain is a form of air pollution in which airborne acids produced by electric utility plants and other sources fall to Earth in distant regions. The corrosive nature of acid rain causes widespread damage to the environment. The problem begins with the production of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from the burning of fossil fuels‚

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    In the poem‚ ‘An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’ by ‘Les Murray’ reflects upon a different type of society as feelings and emotions are kept secret. In the first stanza of the poem Murray uses imagery to paint a picture in the readers mind of a busy city coming to a halt‚ ‘Pitt Street is baked up for almost half a mile.’ At the end of the stanza Murray again uses imagery to make the readers see a man crying. People walk by him and see him crying but they do not stop him. The man in this poem is not

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    titled Cat in the Rain. The title suggests that something weak (‘cat’) is trapped in a difficult situation (‘rain’). Since cats are generally very afraid of water‚ being in the rain can be such a torture to them. From the title‚ it is hinted that the story may be related to some characters having to go through difficulties and struggles. In the story‚ the American wife cannot find the poor little cat when she goes outside of the Italian hotel to try to save it from the rain. The cat somehow wakes

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    Introduction: Acid rain increases the rate of corrosion on statues made of certain material. The town council wants to build a statue that will not be affected by acid rain. In this experiment‚ three different types of rock are used on vinegar (acting as acid rain). The rocks used are marble‚ granite‚ and red sandstone‚ which are the most popular forms of rocks used to build monuments. Each type of rock will be submerged under 20 ml of vinegar in their own separate container. The pH of acid rain around 4.0

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    The first piece of work that caught my eye at the Ackland Museum of Art was a piece entitled “After the Rain.” “After the Rain” was created by George Wesley Bellows in 1913. The artwork is relatively small at around fifteen by twenty inches‚ and is surround by a golden frame. The piece is an oil artwork depicting a forest landscape on a cliff overlooking the ocean. This piece is similar to other pieces in the exhibit because of simply what time period it was created in. The exhibit incorporated different

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    Acid Rain Research Paper

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    How Healthy is the Conodoguinet Creek? Acid rain and Eutrophication are the two main pollution in Central Pennsylvania. Acid rain is a bad type of rain whiles eutrophication is the process where water bodies receive excess nutrients. Our mission here is to determine whether the Conodoguinet Creek is polluted or not. My hypothesis before the experiments was if there was to be signs of acid rain and eutrophication‚ then it means the Creek is polluted We went to the creek

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    Sun‚ Moon and Talia: The Story of Sleeping Beauty A princess doomed to sleep forever until true loves first kiss... that is how the story goes right? That assumption would be wrong. The classic story of Sleeping Beauty has been around for hundreds of years. The general idea of the story has remained unchanged but the "how" of the story has evolved over the last 300 years. From the original works of Giamattista Basile‚ The Brothers Grimm to Walt Disney‚ authors have slowly changed the tale for the

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    scene I choose is the "sparing in the rain" scene‚ in which Capt. Nathan Algren spars with wooden swords. This scene shows the true strength and will to live that the Capt has as he gets beaten time and time again but continues to get up and keep fighting. The director Edward Zwick does an amazing job with each individual detail of the way the in which each individual hit from the wooden

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