River geomorphology Divided by five East Asia’s mightiest rivers were once a single‚ even mightier torrent Oct 12th 2013 | CHENGDU | From the print edition The amazing First Bend BY BUILDING dams in the Himalayas‚ Chinese engineers are tinkering with one of the world’s great sets of watersheds. Five great streams—the Red River‚ the Yangzi‚ the Irrawaddy‚ the Salween and the Mekong—flow within about 180 kilometres (110 miles) of one another from the south-eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau
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It was my sophomore year‚ and I auditioned for the play Our Town. Our Town is a play I will never forget. I do not know how‚ and I do not know why‚ but somehow God used this play to reveal Himself once more to me. He gave to me a cast that treated me as family and a plot that told of greater moments than this life. Our Town depicted what most consider to be unimportant‚ everyday activities and revealed their intrinsic value with each line and
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Our Town‚ written by Thornton Wilder in 1938‚ is known as one of his best works. It is usually referred as beautiful and remarkable‚ one of the sagest‚ warmest and deeply human his scripts. One of the themes captured in the play is the one of family relations. We can trace this particular theme though the whole play. In the 1st act we are introduced to 2 families of the Gibbses & the Webbs. Charles and Myrtle Webb and Frank and Julia Gibbs give us a possibility to have a look at the day-to-day
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#1. Paper Towns is the story of two childhood best friends‚ Margo Roth Spiegelman and Quentin Jacobsen. The readers are immediately drawn into the story and discovering Quentin’s secret love for Margo. In the prologue‚ the two of them find a dead body in the park. They may not realize this at the time however this event truly binds them together but uncovers a part of Margo‚ Quentin has never seen before. Her dark yet mysterious side. Part one of the book starts off by explaining the main setting
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Do Small Towns Need Stores? According to Amy Liu(2016)‚ Vice President and Director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. “Today‚ local and regional economic development remains a patchwork of important innovations and legacy practices at a time when the global economy is fast-moving and not working for most people.” As stated by Liu‚ local and regional economic development remains an important innovation of the time at hand. New development is essential for the growth of the global economy
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In “Paper Towns” by John Green‚ Q goes on a great adventure with Margo to find out that she had gone missing the next day. Q follows his heart to find out where Margo had went missing so he could tell her how he was feeling. Little did Q know that Margo had not felt the same way when Margo expresses the way she feels about Q and why it’s not the same way Q feels. When Margo goes missing Q finds clues and starts to follow them because he really likes Margo and is worried about where she disappeared
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It´s better to grow up in a big city than in a small town‚ because there are many advantages for children in big cities‚ as have a better education‚ have more opportunities‚ have a good quality of life‚ plus almost all of the places that children want to go are not far and finally children get more motivated and responsible. First of all‚ children who grow up in big cities have a better education; there are a wide range of schools for them to choose and there are more universities‚ colleges and
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Living in a small town is better than in a big city I am not an adaptable and ambitious person. I don’t like challenges. I like to stay in a comfortable place surrounded by the people I know and enjoy my life. According to my characters‚ living in a small town will be the best option for me. I find there are many reasons why I choose to live in a small town. I can form a truly deep friendship in a small town. The type of friendship that wasn’t form based on social status‚ but based on the character
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Yamuna The Yamuna (Sanskrit: यमुना)‚ sometimes called Jamuna (Bengali: যমুনা‚ Hindi: जमुना‚ Urdu: جمنا) or Jumna‚ is the largest tributary river of theGanges (Ganga) in northern India. Originating from the Yamunotri Glacier at a height of 6‚387 metres on the south western slopes of Banderpooch peaks in the Lower Himalayas in Uttarakhand‚ it travels a total length of 1‚376 kilometers (855 mi) and has a drainage system of 366‚223 square kilometres (141‚399 sq mi)‚ 40.2% of the entire Ganges Basin
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[hide]v · d · eThe Five Rivers of The Punjab | | | | Punjabi Names | Jhelum · Chenab · Ravi · Sutlej · Beas | | | | | Greek Names | Hydaspes · Acesines · Hydraotes · Hesidros · Hyphasis | | | | | Sanskrit Names | Vitasta · Ashikini · Parushani · Shatadru · Vipasa | | | Jehlum River or Jhelum River Urdu: دریاۓ جہلم (Shahmukhi)‚(Sanskrit: वितस्ता‚ Kashmiri: Vyeth‚ Hindi: झेलम‚ Punjabi: ਜੇਹਲਮ(Gurmukhi)) is a river that flows in India and Pakistan. It is the largest and most
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