Listening to Rain Trans. by John Balcom Sitting on this side of the mountain‚ far away Faint cries are heard from the valley below I am awakened from a beautiful dream Of a simple life By the sound of rain Making my way to the valley floor I discover a weeping orchid I realize As I reach to soothe it‚ that this flower Is the sound of rain crying From days gone by ________________________________________________________________Taking Notes 12 Sitting on this side of the mountain‚
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something romantic in the rain that i cannot explain with words. i guess this something that all of us.. the rain lovers got in our souls. ♥i love the tinypitter-pattering sounds that make everything seem so huge‚ so endless. listeningto those sounds‚ trying to find them while walking along a misty path ismagical. ♥i love how powerful a thunderstorm can be. the fact that I can’t control its violent nature makes me seem small‚ and alive. it’s very comforting. ♥rain is good. I love the way the
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Title: There Will Come Soft Rains Author: Ray Bradbury Text type: Short story ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ made me feel absolutely devastated. Immersing me slowly in its melancholy world of rubbles‚ dust and ashes burning away in a nuclear war. Is by far the shortest‚ sharpest and most depressing short story that I have ever read. ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ is a snapshot that perfectly captures all of the social paranoias in society during the post war period of the 1950s. Rendering the beautiful
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Distinguished ladies and gentlemen. Acid rain is becoming a widespread problem around the world. The amount of acid in rain has dramatically increased in the past decade in certain areas like America and Europe by 70%. How is it caused? It is formed by the chemicals in the process of burning fossil fuels mixing with the moisture in the Earth’s atmosphere. Acid rain come in two forms‚ wet and dry. Dry deposition‚ a more accurate term for acid rain‚ can appear to be snow‚ hail or other dry particles
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Parallelism in “The Long Rain” I think that the setting in the short story “The Long Rain” is a parallel to reality. This short story is set on the planet of Venus‚ where the rain never stops. The scene is pale and bleak. There are dark clouds rumbling across the sky. Everything is colored in a shade of gray‚ except for the bright blue lightning. The story begins with a group of men‚ led by a lieutenant‚ who are trying to find their way to a sundome. Sundomes
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there – And she were housed there! – Or better‚ together… We both‚ - who would stray there’ Hardy wrote this poem as a way of expiating the way he treated his late wife while she was alive. The poet‚ Thomas Hardy initiates the poem by describing the rain spouting on the persona’s deceased wife’s grave ‘Clouds spout upon her’ and the pain she suffered from the persona whilst she was living ‘Her who but lately – Had shivered with pain’. The poet’s purpose of writing this poem was to reflect and acknowledge
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"In every sense‚ a standing rain forest supplies more economic wealth than if it were cleared yet deforestation continues at an alarming rate." (Tropical Rain Forest Coalition‚ 1996). Rain Forests have played a significant role in shaping modern biology. The destruction of the rain forests will determine the fate of all species humans plants and animals. Many people do not understand the long- term consequences of losing the earth’s rain forests. They have provided all living beings with many
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RAIN WATER HARVESTING Introduction: Till about thirty years back‚ the areas around our homes and offices used to be unpaved and the rain falling on these areas would percolate into the soil and remain there for being drawn through shallow open wells. With the proliferation of flat complexes‚ not only have these areas been paved and percolation of rainwater into the soil almost totally stopped‚ the quantity of water drawn from the soil below has increased manyfold. Consequently open wells and not
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Acid rain is rain that has become acidic‚ because of air pollutants in the atmosphere. Rain has a normal pH level of around 5-5.5 which is only slightly acidic. 7 on the pH scale is the neutral and anything below that is considered acidic. Acid rain has a pH level around 4 which is 10 times more acidic. Acid rain can fall in many different ways and has many effects on the environment. Acid rain is caused by air pollutants in the atmosphere. These air pollutants are mainly from man made resources
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Acid Rain is a type of air pollution‚ which is formed when oxides of sulfur and nitrogen combine with atmospheric moisture to yield sulfuric and nitric acids‚ which may then be carried long distances from a source before they are deposited by rain. This pollution may also take the form of snow‚ fog‚ or a dry form of precipitation. Acid rain is currently a subject of great controversy because of widespread environmental damage‚ for which it has been blamed‚ including eroding structures‚ injuring crops
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