It's Gonna Rain

"The U.S. mainland contains a total of seven distinct regional climates. Understanding the temperature ranges, as wekk as precipitation and other weather characteristics of each one, is a critical piece of determining if a region appeals to you" ( Mussi 4). When looking for a place to live that has hot annual high temperatures, cool annual low temperatures, and minimal precipitation, I believe that Las Vegas, Nevada is the best place to go. Not only becuase of the bright lights and casinos but…

Chapter 10. It’s More Than Just Rain or Snow In this chapter, Foster goes into the topic of rain. He talks a bit about snow at the very end, but rain is really the main focus. As we all know, rain can mean a lot of different things. Very often, it is paired with a thunderstorm. In this context it most likely creates an aura of hardship. If a character is already at a difficult time in their life, putting them in the middle of a thunderstorm just amplifies that. Now it goes beyond whatever they…

Normally all is normal in normal Illinois. But something about the third weekend of May 2017 that was all but normal, especially to Jim Joe Jerry a police officer. Temperatures dropped, crime rates raised, and to Jim Joe Jerry disaster was closer than ever before. But the worst was yet to come. “Shwish.” The breeze went. Everything went cold as Jim Joe Jerry twitched to his awakening. Jim felt uneasy already knew today was going to terrible, but why? The last time Jim had a half bad day…

Have you ever gone parasailing and been up half a thousand feet in the air (500 feet)? Last summer I did. That was almost the funnest thing I have done in my life. The beach I normally attend for this activity is Myrtle Beach. This is a safe, fun, and calm territory. Parasailing may seem dangerous, but if you have the protection like I did, you will be okay. The ropes that held me could pull a sixteen wheeler or even a whale, so I bet it can hold a 112 pound little girl with a life jacket on.…

replied, “but I, along with the others, will escape the perils of this tempest.” “I wish you the best of luck, sir.” I kept silent and watched as the lifeboats were lowered into the sea, and the screams of those who escaped were drowned out by the heavy rain and powerful winds. I quickly dropped to my knees, and cried out to God in prayer to spare the life of those who escaped in the lifeboats, and also to have mercy on me and the ship on which I remained. After finishing the prayer, I stood up,…

dry while interpreting the map leaves you vulnerable to the chaos. The map slips from your hand and spirals towards the soaked earth. You scramble to salvage it, but it’s too late. You watch helplessly as the ink runs off the page and your plans dissolve before your eyes. All sense of direction is lost and amidst the incessant rain you can see only a few feet ahead. The umbrella grows heavier and you contemplate its worth. Everything important is already drenched so you drop…

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…

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…

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 authoritarian theme that permeates the novel.…

There are approximately 7 billion individuals on this planet—7 billion different identities, all of us with a unique personality that is reflective of our own life experiences. Every human being in this world is unique and each individual has different ways in which they learn. There are seven specific learning styles that we as society are meant to fit into: visual, aural, verbal, physical, logical, social and solitary. And although it 's to be believed that we should fit into one particular…