Extreme weather

The post card arrived, from the Siberian Gulag, two days ago. On the front of it was a picture of several men chopping down trees in the snow. The backside read: “Hello from the Gulag! The past week has been an interesting and cold one at this camp. The activities here are rather physically grueling but I don’t mind. In this one game, we chop down trees and carry it to a cart that another group brings to a station for some other game. We also play a game that involves digging holes in the frozen…

over time and affected our society. It started in 650 B.C. and now in 2016 we use meteorology to detect weather patterns. In 650 B.C. babylonians tried to predict short-term weather changes based on the appearance of clouds and occurrence such as “haloes”. Chinese astronomers developed a calendar that divides the year into twenty-four festivals, with each festival having it’s own kind weather. According to NASA,”The greek philosopher, Aristotle wrote Meteorologica, a treatise that included the…

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I looked out the window to see the USPS mail van pulling up to my mailbox. I look back at my television playing Doctor Who. When a thought comes into my mind, what if that is the package I have been waiting for. I reach for the silver and black Comcast remote to pause the show. I pause it, put the remote back on my bed and got up. When I get to the door, I realize it was raining out so I ran to the mailbox, got the mail with my package and ran back inside. When I got back I opened the letter…

If I had only known that evening when I went to my brother’s basketball game. I didn’t know at that time what was going to happen. If someone could have just stopped me, I wouldn’t have gotten injured. * * * * It was another Saturday afternoon in Draper, Utah, it was snowing quite hard, it often snowed quite hard here. We had just gotten out of school for winter break the day before. Just an hour ago, I had won my basketball game, I was really happy because it had been our first win. I lay…

As a child, I always expressed joy when we passed the seemingly giant factory located on the edge of my hometown. It was always a happy experience to witness the factory that produced the clouds for the sky. My eyes were met with wonderment when I say the giant white, billowing clouds produced from the smokestacks of the towering, majestic factory. However, I was always met with concern when the clouds weren’t coming out, and I deeply hoped the clouds would resume soon. I always nagged my…

The autumn breeze was cool against his skin as Steve walked through the numerous gravestones at Arlington. The grave stones were a light grey that looked less grim in the bright sunshine than they would have had it been a grey and dreary day. That was good though, because Steve had been aiming for a day that was bright and as cloudless as possible. The day didn’t have to be gloomy just because he was here to visit the graves of several of his old friends. Old friends that had passed on and left…

Minerva is driving back from the capital with her parents after Enrique Mirabal, now insane, is released from prison. The rainy weather is the physical incarnation of the metaphorical storm that began for the Mirabal family when Minerva slapped Trujillo at the Discovery Day dance: "And then the rain comes down hard, slapping sheets of it." It also represents Trujillo's power; the island is saturated in wetness as well as in the influence of the dictatorship. This quotation thus demonstrates the…

The day started off early, with a crisp breeze touching my pure, uncovered skin. I detected a hint of warmth that wisped around and hugged me tightly as the sun twirled higher into the cloudless sky. I was meeting up with a couple of friends to explore the seaside. Meredith, Ashley and I were so thrilled to finally go on one last enormous adventure together. We were in the spring break of our senior year and were all heading straight to our colleges when summer started to settle into our new…

Australia has been affected by the growing change in climate. Due to the increase of temperature globally, Australia has suffered intenses heatwaves and droughts. Heatwaves are especially dangerous as intense heats can lead to dehydration, heat stroke, and other heat related illnesses. Also caused by pollution, some of the largest number of deaths are related to the change in the environment due to pollution. Lung cancer kills about 1.6 million Australians (WHO). Lung cancer can be caused by…