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questions these people asking if they have ever had to deal with these situations. It also delves into the feeling of these hard times and uses many different literary elements to express the difficulty of facing them and describe how they make him feel. John Fogerty, the lead guitarist for CCR, wrote this song and used many different things while writing it to convey all of these thoughts. One of the most common literary devices used in songs is repetition. In this song,…

John Demcko P3 Strom Rags to Riches in the Desert: How Yuma County became Agriculturally Superior Ever since the dawn of mankind and the Agricultural Revolution, irrigation has been used to his greatest advantage to grow crops on fertile soil in just almost anywhere from the desert oasis of the Nile River in Egypt to China’s lush Yellow River Valley. The exponential success of the Yuma Valley Irrigation Project is one of these stunning examples of this technological feat that is as old as…

Nearly all of the oil we use comes from other countries, though if we were to open more waters for oilrigs then our dependence would drop. John Kerry, JD, US Senator (D-MA), sated on May 2010 “We spend almost one billion dollars every day on foreign oil. Much of it is sent to regimes that are hostile to America. That is money we should be investing here. We need to…

In the Chicago Tribune article, “As Other Cities Dig Up Pipes Made Of Toxic Lead, Chicago Resists,” the author discusses Mayor Rahm Emmanuel’s efforts to modernize Chicago’s aging and deteriorating water system; however, as other cities prefer to tackle the root problem and replace the toxic lead pipes altogether, Rahm prefers to resist this approach and, instead, continue with his original project that will only help to increase lead exposure to Chicagoans. While, at first glance, this dilemma…

regaining my balance. My jaw drops when I look up not only do I see the waves crashing and people running here and there, knocking people over, and see people make way for the wealthy. I gawked a colossal ship standing in front of me settling in the water, the ship that is to take me to New York, from Southampton. My mother hands me my ticket and a little bit of money. “ We will miss you my dear Elizabeth.” Father whispered with a tear rolling down his face. “ I will miss you too!” I…

filters down below where the frilly oysters lay. You grab your two ropes, one tied to a heavy stone and one to a basket. You slip your feet over the side into the water that’s oily smooth, and the rocks carry you to the bottom. The bubbles rise behind you until the water is clear enough for you to see, while moving so cautiously so that the water will not be obscure with mud or sand. You lay the oysters into the basket and rise up back to the surface. You grab a very large oyster lying by…

Personal Narrative Rough Draft. Chapter 1 My hands were numb with my feet dipping into the freezing water. It watched under me. It waited for me to slip, waited for me to give up and slide into its grasp. My arms ached and I tried to hold on. The snow stung on my face. My hands were freezing and my lips were blue and cracked along with the weak voice I tried to use to shout for help. I shivered and almost lost grip to the sapling I held to. I couldn’t lose grip, it would lead to demise. I had to…

the family Unionidae in Mikolajskie Lake. Ekologia Polska 23: 317-334. Libois, R.M. and C. Hallet-Libois. 1987. The unionid mussels (Mollusca, Bivalvia) of the Belgian upper River Meuse: an assessment of the impact of hydraulic works on the river water self-purification. Biological Conservation 42: 115-132. Ligon, F.K., Dietrich, W.E., and W.J. Trush. 1995. Downstream ecological effects of dams. BioScience 45: 183-192. Loar, J.M., Dye, L.L., Turner, R.R., and S.G. Hildebrand. 1980. Analysis of…

During the Ice Ages is when some of the glaciers seen today were formed. Species had to adapt to the drastic change in weather so in today’s warm weather world they have adapted as well. Issues with the glaciers melting is that it is making the water cooler and therefore changing their environment of the fish and other species living in those areas. Glaciers are not the only signs of a change in weather. Hurricanes have become more common and stronger due to saturation levels. The Earth and its…

everyday life of the Plateau Indians, until the Europeans came. The Plateau Indians didn’t have any technology. They lacked land animals, but this this didn’t stop them from surviving. The Plateau Indians had many crops and there was lots of fish in the water. The region had a good climate and terrain. They lived in villages. This relates to Peter Pan because the Native Americans in the story live in villages and there aren’t a lot of land animals. Information regarding Plateau Indians includes…