My identity is in a jar in the can house. It’s the white breath exhausted over greasy tools in rusty‚ silt-filled drawers. The mountain sounds‚ the back-up sirens‚ and steam whistles are my sounds. Spring is cold in the high country. Where hills imitate islands. Frayed cables will slice hands and give horrifying slivers. Let them rest‚ embedded in the mud. I’m flood waters rising in the night‚ and rafts of firewood and old doors. These chains are too big to reach my hands around but their rust remains
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Case in point articles [First Last] SCI/362 [Date] [Professor] Case in Point Articles The cases in point for chapter 11 through 13 focus on different energy resources and how there are two sides to every type of energy-based need. Chapter 11 informs of us about how increasing oil exploration could destroy fragile habitats. Chapter 12 explains about the complications involved in storing dangerous radioactive wastes. Chapter 13 tells us about how even an ‘eco-friendly’ energy source can hurt
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A Recurring Theme in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry Sylvia Plath’s poetry speaks to readers of today because of its clear attack on the betrayed and powerless‚ emotions that many people understand. The loss of a loved one is an emotional detachment shown in Plath’s writing that unites the reader’s feelings of helplessness to her own. Plath’s emotions became unbearable and lead to her suicide. Her pieces give evidence as to why she took her own life. She expresses how belittled and out of control she was in
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Hard and soft river defences on the Mississippi The dams in the Mississippi river are a hard flood defence. There are two different types of dams on the Mississippi River‚ wing dams and closing dams. Wing dams are built close together with brush and stone structures that extend from the river bank to the channel and closing dams are used to block connections between the main channel and side channels of the floodplains. The advantages of building dams on the Mississippi are that they enhance the
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The Great Smoky Mountains The Great Smoky Mountains landform is mostly sedimentary rocks that were formed by the accumulation of sand‚ clay‚ silt‚ sand‚ gravel‚ and minor amounts of calcium carbonate in flat-lying layers. According to The Great Smoky Mountain’s website‚ about 545 million years ago the sediments were formed and large amounts of those sediments were washed down into lowland basins from adjacent highlands. The colliding between the edge of the North American tectonic plate and the
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The Keystone Pipeline The Keystone Pipeline is a pipeline system that holds oil and it runs through the United States and Canada. More specifically‚ it starts in Alberta‚ Canada at the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and travels to oil refineries in Texas and Illinois as well as oil tank farms and an oil pipeline distribution center located in Cushing‚ Oklahoma. The Keystone Pipeline consists of three phases as well as one more operation that was awaiting approval but has been rejected. The first
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Euphrates and Tigris Rivers‚ as well as their tributaries. Located in a region known as the “Fertile Crescent”‚ Mesopotamia was able to utilize these rivers for transportation and irrigation of crops. As a result of flooding by the Euphrates‚ large silt deposits provided rich soil and promoted the cultivation of emmer‚ barley‚ beans‚ olives‚ grapes and flax. In turn‚ these harvested crops provided not just food for the farmers but also served as a trade medium with nomadic tribes in the area. Because
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When fresh river water mixes with sea water in a semi-enclosed basin‚ an estuary is formed. The formation of estuaries can also occur in drowned river valleys (Owen‚ 1992‚ p.3). A variety of plant and animal species live in the estuary as they are provided with a wealth of living space‚ food and shelter. Many native flowering plants and seaweeds are included in the flora of the estuaries‚ where the plant species are distributed based on their salinity tolerances. Salt marshes form towards the high-tide
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Task question In my task question I am going to study why does the velocity vary downstream? To carry out this investigation we will be going to Carding Mill valley; carding mill valley is located near the border of Wales‚ North West England in Shropshire. (This can be seen on image 1) (Image 1) (Image 1) This means we are collecting primary data which is mainly so we can get accurate and reliable set of results. In order to answer the task question
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025tonnes of mixed waste (bio-degradable and recyclable) • 2‚000tonnes of debris and silt. The biodegradable waste (wet waste) is made up of vegetable and fruit remainders‚ leaves‚ spoiled food‚ eggshells‚ cotton‚ etc. Recyclable (dry waste) consists of newspapers‚ thermocol‚ plastic‚ battery cells‚ wires‚ iron sheets‚ glass‚ etc. Debris includes construction waste‚ renovation waste‚ demolition waste‚ etc. Silt comprises earth and clay from drains and road corners. It is estimated that by 2008 such
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