Outline: 1. Recognizing the problem: A recent flood has caused my employer to close its Iowa branch. The opportunity to take my dream job with a raise in pay and possible advancement has been presented. However, my spouse and children do not want to leave Iowa. All of our lifetime connections and family members are nearby. The recent flood has caused many hardships for our friends and neighbors. We feel a sense of obligation to help our friends and family. Also, my spouse feels a moral…
Why Blackstone River is A National Corridor The Blackstone River changed Rhode Island horrendously. I think the Blackstone river is a National corridor. The reason why Blackstone is a national corridor is because of it change the way how people looked at, its destruction it had caused and the mills. The Blackstone River caused a whole lot of destruction and havoc around Rhode Island. “similar amounts of rain fell throughout the Blackstone Valley. These rains slowly, but steadily raised the…
Brians Return is a sequel to Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. This book is about a boy who spent a large amount of time surviving in the woods by himself, went home for about a year, and had a hard time re-adjusting to the life in the city. In the beginning of the book, Brian got into a fight with a boy named Carl. Carl took the first swing, and that is when Brians survival instincts were triggered all over again. Brian seriously injured Carl and as a result, started seeing a therapist named Caleb who…
Boscastle is a village located in the county of Cornwall in the south east of the UK on the coast. It has a natural harbour within a narrow ravine and is the point at which two rivers, the Valency and its tributary the Jordan, converge. On the 16th of August 2004, these rivers flooded which caused the destruction of many buildings and roads. A flood is a natural event in which water flows over its normal limit, submerging usually dry land. There were many physical factors which led to the floods…
The problem is that we need to give the football field a new irrigation system. The problem asks for us to find the route of the pipelines and the location of the sprinklers. We have to know the amount of materials, measurements of the field, determine the configuration of the pipes and etc. When setting up the sprinklers for the angle of water, you need to program them to spray 90 degrees if it is the quarter circles in the corners of the field. You need to program the sprinklers to spray 180…
#1- How will the dam affect the environment in a positive way? The dam on the in the Amazon Basin will cause a positive impact on the environment. Conversely, the dam will reduce the consumption of fossil fuel for electricity reproduction. Opposing to many environmentalists that believe that the dam will make a negative impact on the environment by causing waste and pollution. But the structure will reduce air pollution by using hydroelectric power to help control and stop flooding. Instead…
Texan writer, John Graves in his memoir, Goodbye To A River, published in the year 1960 addresses the topic of his experience on the Brazos River and argues that the Brazos River is important to keep. He supports this claim by illustrating the plant and animals, then the sounds of nature, and finally the life of the river. Graves’s purpose is to protect and convince the people to save the Brazos Rover and land around it, to preserve the river for future generations. He adopts an informative tone…
More rules against who can have guns will make society safer by decreasing the number of drive by shootings and accidental shootings and save lives. These regulations will also prevent many homicides and mass shootings. Lastly, more laws controlling who has access to guns will help save the lives of people dealing with depression or mental illness…
Expanding an Opportunity Globally During the mid- 1930s two brother changed how a small town drive-in restaurant can expand nationally and international. The McDonald brothers, Richard and Maurice founded the McDonald’s restaurant. The McDonald “brothers developed food processing and assembly line techniques” which in later years expanded globally (Vignali, 2001). The innovative way of preparing, serving, and selling food began in California. Since the 1920’s, California has been known as a…
was “Gonna get [her], baby” and later on following suit on this. (Oates) This suggests that while Connie’s relationship with Eddie has been fun and innocent what’s about to happened with Arnold fried will be the exact opposite. On the flip side, the drive in is also a huge symbol for the innocent vs. evil binary in the story. In the story Connie describes that here and her friend…