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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The River Mersey narrows to 0.7 miles wide between the Liverpool landing stage on its east bank and the Woodside and Seacombe landing stages on its west bank. The River has the world’s fourth highest tidal range with up to 10 meter high spring tides and 7 meter high neap tides. Due to the narrowing of the river from over 3 miles wide in parts and the size of the tides‚ speeds of water behind all three landing stages can regularly get up to 7 Knots (8MPH). This causes numerous under currents around
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reflection or self assessment that enables us to work out what we believe in and stand for. Conflict opens up different personalities‚ perceptions‚ values and emotions that will ultimately lead to character building. Kate Grenville’s novel‚ “The Secret River‚” depicts that a person’s character can transform once there has been a clash of social disagreement and a difference in interests
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Man On The Moon In the 1900’s space flight was just a topic of the future. But on June 20th‚ 1969 the US successfully landed a crew of men on the surface of the moon. The moon landing‚ Apollo 11 is considered one of the greatest accomplishments in the history of mankind. The purpose of the moon mission was to beat the Soviet Union in the space race which president at the time‚ John F. Kennedy made sure of. With the Soviets attempting to reach the moon USA’s finest scientists got together and through
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” Was the norm of the Colorado River. As years went by and population rose demand for the “plentiful” fresh water rose as well. Gluttony took over western states such as Los Angeles‚ San Diego‚ Phoenix‚ and other fast growing cities. Oblivious to how wrong the decision to drain Colorado river’s limited resources is for such ridiculous justifications. It didn’t dawn on the people and still doesn’t. Missing all the signs Nature is suffering. The mighty Colorado River is getting drained and divvied
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reas’ning life‚ ’tis plain‚ There must be‚ somewhere‚ such a rank as man: And all the question (wrangle e’er so long) Is only this‚ if God has plac’d him wrong? Respecting man whatever wrong we call‚ May‚ must be right‚ as relative to all. In human works‚ tho’ labour’d on with pain‚ A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God’s‚ one single can its end produce; Yet serves to second too some other use. So man‚ who here seems principal alone‚ Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown
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WHY TO NATIONALISE RIVERS ? Respected Madam‚ teachers and my dear friends‚ good morning to you all. I have come here to speak a few words about nationalisation of rivers. Why to nationalise rivers? Our country‚ India‚ is predominantly an agricultural country. The livelihood of most of the people depends on agriculture. Though there are many rivers in the northern parts of our country‚ which never go dry‚ they are not of much use to agricultural activities in the south. As a result‚ we only
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Family dinner is a special time when every family member stops what they are doing to spend quality time with one another. It is a time when we would catch up with each other and find out what everyone did during the day. We all had such busy schedules that the time spent together during dinner was one of the few times throughout the day that we were all able to be together as a family. There is nothing that can substitute for quality family time and that has been one of the biggest things that I
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The River of Earth The novel River Of Earth by James Still is a story about life in e Appalachia just before The Great Depression. The story provides a very clear description of the problems and challenges the mountain people faced after the settlement of their land. Even though the novel is shadowed by other writings of the time period dealing with poor southern life‚ it is still considered a great neglected masterpiece. The story is about a family that considers awkward. They struggle to
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routines and sameness‚ resisting change; Ritualistic or compulsive behaviors; Narrow‚ restricted interests (dates/calendars‚ numbers‚ weather‚ movie credits); Throwing tantrums and having no apparent fear of dangerous situations. In the movie Rain Man aka Raymond uses many rituals and routines to make himself feel safe. He memorized the times of all the TV shows that he watches on a daily basis and when Raymond was unable to watch those TV shows he freaked out so badly that Charlie felt the need
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