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    telling myself Isabelle it is your ninth try give up already! Before I could get over the nagging feeling in my mind I felt the wind brush past my face reminding me of a dandelion drifting in the wind. The water lifted me up like I was a lite elegant feather drifting on the crystal clear lake. I was up in a second. All the frustration and tiredness breezed away in the wind. I became verklempt with joy, happiness, and thrill. I had never had thought something scary might have benefits of joy.…

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    It's a rainy day, of that kind of thunderous rain that digs your cheeks when, needlessly, you seek with the nose a cheekbone of sun. It's a day, this one, in which the rain seems not to find peace, and it collects inside the hands' baskets of beggars and spreads over the din of roundabouts, when the road is a long canvas punctured by irregular splinters of sky, disturbed by gargling traffic and tires and nervous girls with wet skirts on the sidewalks. I observe the rain while the street narrows…

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    Chocolat Symbolism

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    protagonist Vianne runs a chocolate shop. Things are hard for Vianne facing tradition and the black man. Joanne Harris is trying to use symbols to describe two major meanings in the book with the wind and the black man. These are all looks on the effect that the church has on the people of Lansquenet-sours-tanner. The wind is a very symbolic thing in the book ‘Chocolat’ in the way that Vianne moves every time. Vianne see’s moving on as she is “running from death” when she was her mother, her…

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    Great Galveston Hurricane

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    storm is called a tropical despression storm. If wind speed reaches 39 miles per hour or greater, the storm is then classified as a tropical storm. If wind speeds continue to increase to 74 miles per hour, the tropical storm then changes classifications to be called a hurricane. To classify hurricanes they are divided into five categories based on wind speed. They range from a category one with winds from 74-95 miles per hour, to a category five with wind speeds more than 157 miles per hour.…

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    Pattern Change In Tornado

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    The number of tornadoes a year has not changed but researches have noticed a pattern change in tornadoes. In the past, tornadoes had lone occurrences but now they are coming in packs. Researchers are unable to explain why this change is occurring. These clusters or outbreak of tornadoes is defined as six or more tornadoes. Tornadoes that have twelve or more tornadoes in close succession is considered an extreme outbreak. The average number of tornado extreme outbreaks was around 80 in 2015…

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    Hurricanes Research Paper

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    drives the wind of the hurricane Once the hurricane is overland the energy reduces. Hurricane winds are not as strong as tornado wind. Hurricanes can last days. Hurricanes are hundreds of kilos wide. Hurricanes can cause big waves that can cause flooding. Tornadoes Many layers, of the tornado go in many different directions and speeds. Between these layers a column of air starts spinning like a log rolling on its side. Upwards winds lift one end of the spinning column. Downwards winds push…

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    Flood insurance is separate from homeowner's insurance Homeowners assume purchasing homeowner's insurance covers the home from ALL natural disasters, including floods. It isn't so. Flood insurance is a separate policy. It is the homeowner's responsibility to research and ask insurance agents about these separate policies. Flood insurance coverage isn't hard to find in the policy. Read your policy. If flood coverage is not there, revise the policy with the home insurance provider to include…

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    together and it was a sunny day, a day where anything seemed possible, with no classroom walls and monotone voices to trap me - the looming threat of mandatory education made it all the sweeter. Our windows were down and our inhibitions lost in the wind. I loved my best friend and she loved me and this moment filled me with child-like trust and unadulterated joy. No adult was telling us to straighten out and find our way home. No schedule bound us to make it back at a certain time, to make sure…

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    fell seemed to be in a race with the snow flurries to see which would hit the ground first. She looked towards The barn out in the distance to the right side of her property had a shine to it as the rain that fell and was tossed against it by the wind, had frozen on its sides during the cold night. The old tobacco pouch on the side of the barn faded as it may be, had a shine to it. There were icicles of all lengths hanging from the…

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    From coast to coast and from San Francisco to New York, what do you know about this 9,834,000 km square of land? if you’ve been living under a rock now I’ll explain it to you: the great dividers of the united states! Do you know what is the coolest facts about the Rockies is? The length! It is 4800 km and it started it Alaska and end in New Mexico. the mountains are known for water, and this one is full of them! Millions even billions of gallons of water hides in those caves. If an invasion of…

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