The sky divided with the crash of lightning. The ground rumbled, making the towering boxes stacked in the McBride’s new apartment make a tremendous fall to the floor. It could clearly be mistaken as the end of the world. The McBride family was new to the jammed packed city life where the air smelled of smoke and pollutants, and anywhere you went, there were tons of people.…
One chilly afternoon in Manhattan, New York during what had been a very cold winter two friends were walking home from school. On their way home Maria noticed the wind was picking up and suggested to walk a little faster. As they continued to stroll down the street Jessie looked up and saw that it was getting a lot darker, he could sense there was a storm coming. As they turned the corner, little snowflakes began falling from the sky. They felt the temperature drop almost instantly, the wind grew strong and brisk as it whipped around.…
Dainty snowflakes dusted my shoulders as I darted across the open courtyard. Yawning from a hard day’s work, I quietly knocked on the studio door. It was difficult to maintain a sense of urgency as the warmth radiating from the windows promised me rest. It reminded me of the day I had met him.…
Snow in Midsummer is a classical drama known by the Chinese as zaju drama. Guan Haqing is known for giving his plays a since of a life that was not glamorous, just real. Haqing is also known for giving female characters strong roles as we see in Snow in Midsummer. At the beginning of the drama Snow in Midsummer, Dou owes a debt to a Widow Cai. When he is unable to pay they reach an agreement to sell his daughter, Duanyun, to the mistress Mrs. Cai to be her future daughter-in-law.…
It Follows Me Feel the cold wind frosting your ears, see the existence around you rushing by in a blur, and imagine the ground rising up to meet you. Visualize the world spinning away while waiting for it to come back. Experience the sharp pain of falling, which will make you strive for the satisfaction of perfection.…
Brynn readied herself for another long day at work. She tied her red hair in her signature French-braid and pulled her coat over her plain blue jumpsuit. She locked the door behind her as she left her apartment. It was late September, but the crisp cold of winter was already in the air. She pulled her ball cap down further and hunched into the wind, trudging through the rain on her mile walk to work.…
Carmen is in second-grade student, she is currently having challenges reading and is performing at a kindergarten reading level. When starting the assessment with Carmen, based on previous assessments, I knew her reading level was below second-grade reading level. Her reading over assessment has seen improvement and she is able to apply skills she has learned. Carmen was able to read Walk in the Fall and The First Snow. She demonstrated improvement in her reading based on the reading techniques she implemented while reading.…
For Alaskan residents and business owners, snow removal is a fact of life. And while many would obviously prefer avoiding the chore, doing so can have a devastating impact on safety, travel, and commerce. Fortunately, help is available. Here are several benefits of hiring a professional snow removal service. 5 Reasons to Hire a Professional Snow Removal Service Health…
As the snow slowly melts away, students head back to school. The bustle of hundreds of students and staff under one roof is becoming more familiar. Getting back to the normal routine can be difficult. And saying goodbye to the snow is the worst. Many people enjoy the snow days such as eighth grader Anna Hanus, “I sleep in for a long time and then watch TV or go outside.”…
The snow always fascinated me as a child and that fascination has stayed with me into young adulthood. Something about it invariably grasped my attention, coerced me into halting whatever I was doing at the moment to watch the flurry of snowflakes with wonder. It was winter of 2013 and even though I was at the young age of ten, I had this queer feeling. It felt like there was something missing, as if there was an empty void inside me, I couldn’t pinpoint it. That feeling came by often, especially during that year, and I felt like nothing would ever get rid of that awful feeling.…
Personal Narrative Essay: Non-Traditional Hero Stepping off my luxurious yellow-orange limousine with so many of my fellow classmates, the building ahead of me now commands my attention, it is intimidating look only reminded me, this is where I will spend the next four, excruciating years of my life. Each step closer to those double doors, the butterflies that once merely fluttered in my stomach had been replaced with drums and had somehow beaten so loud, their vibrations had traveled north and south of their original location.…
It was a Saturday afternoon in December and frighteningly cold out. Becca had gone to the ice rink to watch Ashley skate. Sitting on the bleachers, freezing, wishing her best friend was a gymnast or even a pianist, she reached up and pulled her hat over her ears. She peered through the glass wall, out to the ice, and quickly forgot about her frozen extremities. Ashley’s coach stood scrutinizing her as she sped across the ice, jumped high in the air, spun around into a blur of beautiful colors and landed effortlessly, looking like she hadn’t even taken a breath.…
It’s snowing they say. I walk over to the window and throw open the curtain. Frost crawls up the sides of the window, and the snow glistens outside. I scurry to my room to get my winter wardrobe out. Hmmm, I think, where did I put my boots.…
Directly outside the entrance of the airport I was entranced. Leaving a skyline of dying trees and brisk weather and entering a bright flourishing tropic was a sight of wonderland. I fell in love immediately, the sun was high and bright, and the view was green, full of mountains in the horizon, just out of reach. I was astounded that I was in the big city, yet it was nothing like i’d seen before. The buildings weren’t tall or intimidating like back home, they second to the surrounding…
Snow globes are made of clear glass, a transparent sphere with a scenic view and a plastic toy inside the globe. The sphere likewise encases the water in the globe; the water fills in as the medium through, where the snow falls. The globe must be shaken to actuate the snow so the white particles can fall gradually to reach the base. When the snowflakes/object falls, it experiences two external forces which are; the gravitational force and the aerodynamic (air resistance) drag of the object, which gradually brings the object down. Furthermore, the drag force affects the object because of the shape and the viscosity of the fluid.…