Rain shadow

preferred. I’d had enough of the dark, so I gathered my nerve and padded through the muddled shafts. No matter how quiet I was, the deep, gaping shadows around me seemed to grow larger and more forbidding. I was painfully aware of rock formations jutting out like bones, dark gnarled crystals protruding like fingers from walls. In the light of my flashlight, the shadows bobbed and weaved like leering ghosts. It’s only your imagination, I told myself trying to shrug the…

Shadow (Rough Draft) Behind me, in front of me, besides me, and even under me. My dog Tucker is my very own shadow. From when I get home to when I go to bed he is my little brown and black shadow. Even when the sun isn’t shining, he sticks to my side like glue. My shadow follows me to the couch, the kitchen, and also my bed. I have to tell me shadow “NO” when he tries to follow me into the bathroom. Even tho having a real life shadow can get annoying, I wouldn’t trade his warming eyes and soft…

The weather was cold, rain clouds had cloaked the sky in despair. The music rang out like echoing children. The rain started to trickle down now making me cold. Not feeling safe here I began to run. I ran, and I ran and I ran till I couldn't do it any more. I still wasn't out of the city. I could still hear the songs play. Fell to the ground now feeling safer, even if I wasn't completely satisfied. The clouds grew thicker and then it wasn't much of a sprinkle but now a downpour. This was the…

The reviewed literature points to some degree of a relationship between climate change and violent conflict in Africa. However, the majorities of studies, especially those in West Africa employed descriptive research methods. This type of the investigation method, as we know it, do not make accurate predictions and do not determine cause and effect. Additionally, the vast majority of the literature heavily uses civil war and political violence datasets, as the dependent variables, which may be…

She recognizes that smell of the wet earth just after it rains. The aroma that can be smelt through open windows or by the whiff that hits you when you walk outside the door, the ground still wet, water still dripping from the leaves of flowers and trees. Drip…Drop. Drip…Drop. That remained Nora’s favourite thing in the world. She stepped outside just after the rain had ceased and just consumed the smell of something so natural that it cannot be stopped by any living human or machine whatsoever…

As the sky darkened, the murky clouds rapidly rolled in and it was clear my family and I as well as the other visitors would soon be stranded on the island. The thunder, lightning, and heavy rain was swiftly moving towards shore and the island’s visitors were hastily running for shelter. Among all the frantic people; toddlers were weeping, intoxicated people were swearing, and it seemed as if everyone was murmuring their dissatisfaction in the evacuation process. As the storm slowly passed, the…

There are advantages and disadvantages to moving during specific times of year. If you can pick when you move, it is important to consider the pros and cons. For example, moving during the summer may result in having a harder time getting a good deal on a moving company. Winter moves may require driving in the snow. Picking when you are going to move is not always possible, particularly if a job requires you to move at a specific time. If, though, you have the option to decide exactly when…

The story begins with rainfall, creating an ominous mood, forshadowing a fortokeing event. Within the text rain symbolizes change because the main character transforms from a human to a bird. Societally rain symbolizes the individuality and uniqueness present in America. The disparity between raindrops represent American people and their different cultures, livelihoods, or beliefs.I chose to make the main character in the story a bird to symbolize freedom and independence. These are two ideals I…

specifically poor weather. Rain is commonly used to foreshadow something terrible; dark and gloomy weather indicates something undesirable in the text. Because rain is naturally occurring, it seems as if it has not been manipulated by the author and is merely a coincidence, enhancing its ability to set the mood as melancholy. However, in ‘The Eternal Prisoner under the Thunder Peak Pagoda’ the rain is seen as a good thing, because, “Heaven has not failed to bring down the good rain the…

Haleigh Springborn Mrs. Tipps English Composition Compare Contrast Essay March 5, 2015 “I Cross My Heart” It is 8:00 P.M. and it is pouring rain, emotionally froze and tired, sleep is the farthest worry from the mind. Dancing in the falling rain, thinking, this is not how life was supposed to happen. In everyday life no one understands the struggle for some and the ease of others. One may not understand the pain that a person carries around with them everyday, just because the smile fooled him…