Monsoon

One memory that stuck out to him was when he had to say goodbye to his sister. Monsoon Notebook (ii): Michael recalls the wildlife in Ceylon and one night sets up a tape recorder to record the sounds he hears every night. How I Was Bathed: During a dinner, Michael’s sister brings up the memory of Michael going to a girls school where…

In this task I will be evaluating the employability and personal skills required to become a Supervisor at Monsoon Accessorize. This job position will have specific skills and personal qualities that that the applicant will have to have to be aware of. These include skills and qualities that they will need to have to get the job and the skills and qualities they will need to have to retain the job. There are many skills that the applicant will need to have to get the job however many of these…

food in most areas has never been a true issue due to the diverse geography of the area and large waters. There are three seasons in the Philippines: a rainy monsoon season, which is followed by moderate temperatures, and finally a season of dry conditions. The rainy monsoon season begins in May or June and ends in October. Although this monsoon season can be damaging, it is necessary in order to grow crops such as rice. Next, the moderate temperatures last until late February and are actually…

Nectar in a Sieve was written by Kamala Markandaya in 1954. The main topic or issue presented is how people deal with suffering. Suffering is a part of life. In this novel, the characters experience suffering due to lack of money, lack of food, the loss of their homes due natural disasters and the death of loved ones. They learn to accept their suffering and the people find courage within themselves not to give up. Rukmani is a young girl that gets married when she is twelve years old to a…

Sold by Patricia McCormick is a book about a girl named Lakshmi who lives in a small village in Nepal. Her family is very poor and is struggling to make money because her stepfather gambles away a lot of their money. One day the monsoons come and was away all their crops, and now they have no source of income and have no way to get it all back. Lakshmi’s stepfather says that she must go into the city and work as a maid, however, she will be actually working as a prostitute in India, and…

UNION TERRITORY AT A GLANCE Union Territory Came into Existence: November 1954 Capital: Puducherry Area (in square km): 492 Population (2001): 9,73,829 Total Number of Districts 4 – Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam Major Rivers: Gingee, Pennaiyar, Coringa, Godavari, Mahe, Cauvery Urban/Rural Ratio: 2:1 Administrative Language: Tamil, English Population Density (2001): 2029/sq.km. Major Religions Hindu (86.16 per cent); Muslim (6.54 per cent); Christian (7.23 per cent); Buddhist…

sense of community among formerly-foreign towns and peoples, and fostered cooperation in a field that could be hostile and harsh. The way trade was conducted morphed due to the monsoon season and bizarre wind sequences. Traders and port cities were forced to plan around the seasons in order to make a living. The monsoons were the obvious weakness of the Indian Ocean economy. Traders in this region were slaves to the weather, sailing from one side to the other only to discover…

September 25, 2015 at around 5 pm, a dangerous typhoon swept across northeast Taiwan. This typhoon was felt by all Taiwanese people, as the aftermath of the tropical storm included fallen trees, debris, and destruction. These typhoons are formed in the monsoon trough; meaning there is minimum sea level pressure. Typhoons usually strike in Taiwan, Japan, and Guam because they are located in the “convergence zone”, where wind patterns from the northern and southern hemisphere collide. In Laura…

Summer months are April to July these months have the most extreme temperatures. The monsoon season months are July to September these months have the highest amount of rainfall on the hills. Karachi has little and very few days of rain. Studies are starting to show that Global warming is starting to become a big factor in Pakistan with all…

we experience here in parts of America, and these extremes are a major concern for the monsoons that occur that alter the precipitation patterns throughout the seasons. Because South Korea is so close to the rest of Asia, it shares much of the same amount of precipitation that is experienced across the lands. More than half of the precipitation that is experienced in South Korea occurs during the summer monsoon from June to September. Winter precipitation is snow,…