Monsoon

we see the good then we see the bad. In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien: lists, repetition, and parallelism are prominent, “because it was SOP…[b]ecause the land was mined…[b]ecause you could die…[b]ecause the nights were cold...because the monsoons were wet”(O’Brien). This tells us how unaffected he was by war because he became stonecold. In Document D, Powers uses stream of consciousness, “[o]r should I have said I wanted to die, not in the sense of wanting to throw myself off of that…

In an excerpt from the autobiography Fault Lines (1993), Meena Alexander explores her fractured identity as an outsider who has known too many cultures to truly belong. She explores and represents this identity using imagery and metaphor. Alexander communicates her individuality in order to discover who she is and to relate to other people’s feelings that they don’t belong. She addresses those who have also felt that they have a broken identity, using a reflective and distressed tone to…

Survival is essential to human species. Environment is essential to the survival and development of humans, especially early humans, since they relied on their living environment, and their ability of withstanding natural disaster was significantly lower than modern humans. Once there was a great change of climate, they had to change their living strategies to adapt to the environment, including the transformation from being nomads to cultivating primitive crops. Because of this, agriculture…

He had the misfortune of having to go up against an Indian King, Porus, in monsoon season, but was still successful in his maneuvers. They faced off at the River Hydaspes, Porus having with him numerous elephants, a creature Alexander had not come up against often in battle, and certainly never in the number that Porus had. The monsoon season brought with it heavy rainfall everyday, making it nearly impossible for Alexander to cross the river and meet Porus…

There are five different themes of Geography. Each help geographers in their own way. The first theme is location. It has two aspects of it that geographers use, first absolute location and the other relative location. The second theme is place. There are two different characteristics, one human and the other physical. Another theme is human/environment interaction. It has three significant aspects, the first is dependence, another is adaptation, and the last is modification. The next theme is…

class that benefited remained constant throughout the Afro- Eurasian trade. In a similar way, the main mode of intercommunication between the Africa and Asia was through the Indian Ocean. The reason for the ocean’s significance was due to the annual monsoons that helped ease the trade voyages between Africa and Asia. While…

During the monsoon rain season, it is very common for birds such as Australian pelicans, red-necked avocets, gull-billed terns, silver gulls and banded stilts to breed in the lake’s waters. Furthermore, the amount of fish existing in the Lake Eyre Basin is not small…

North Korea is an Asian country located in the Northern part of the Korean peninsula. It is surrounded by China, South Korea, the East Sea, and the Yellow Sea. North Korea’s physical land mostly consists of rigid mountains and valley and is divided into the east and west coasts by the Nangnim Mountains. A multitude of river systems flow through the valleys and end up in the adjacent seas. Dormant volcanoes are scattered through North Korea’s mountain ranges. The temperature is generally cool in…

Have you ever wondered how important trade really is in the world today and how it impacted human health? The Silk Road was a network of trade routes where goods, ideas, technologies, and diseases were passed along throughout Eurasia on camel caravans. The name “The Silk Road” can be misleading because silk was not the only item that was traded on this trade route. Other items, such as metals, gems, glass, horses, and spices were important items of trade (Upshur). Many people think trade only…

the scalp is often neglected. Glycerine, if applied regularly on scalp (raw vegetable glycerine, without water), provides complete moisturiser that the skin on scalp needs. It can very well replace a regular hair conditioner. Prevents dandruff: Monsoon and winter…