Wind Energy of America lists some of the issues and negatives with the use of wind power, while the North American Platform Against Wind Power states that renewable resources are important and should be pursued, just more responsibly. ... At the end of 2010 nearly 35 states had some sort of wind facilities with the states of Texas, California, Oregon, and Washington producing the most wind power.... According to the Montana Environmental Information Center (MEIC), the cost of wind power has gone up, but has gone up substantially less than that of coal, natural gas, or nuclear power. ... With ...

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Gone with the Wind is a film that is based off of a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, published June 10, 1936. ... After some time as a cameraman, Fleming broke into the director's role with his first big hit, The Virginian in 1929. His greatest works include Red Dust in 1932, Bombshell in 1933, Treasure Island in 1934, The Wizard of Oz in 1939, and of course Gone with the Wind in 1939. Fleming was actually brought in to direct Gone with the Wind as a replacement for George Cukor, who had a disagreement with the producer about the filming pace and budget. ... I believe that Gone with ...

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Divine Wind Text Response This novel is about friendships: those that are positive and lasting and those that are weak and break down. The Divine Wind is about friends and relationships mostly, but other issues are raised as well. ... It was the main theme of the novel (so it was gone through in a lot of detail). ... Also the Japanese side of Mitsy is a different allegiance - as Mitsy sides with her family and Hart with his. ... The Divine Wind has a lot to do with friendships but also to do with people - how they change, their emotions, how they cope with different situations. ...

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The rain pelts down in sheets consistent with the wind that blows in waves of strong forceful hatred. ... It blows with the wind letting itself be taken by its continuous movement. ... Leaves move, bend with the wind and rain. ... It keeps the memories of days gone by and happy moments past on top of it. ... Slowly she leaves the window, first stepping away, then turning her head and leaving the fingertips of hand to linger on the lead window pane that little bit longer, and then she's gone, like a wisp of wind. ...

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Beaten and mounded smooth with dust as if a sea of gentle swell had turned to stone" (page 117) All this is caused by the wind. ... "There were two winds: the wind in flight, and the wind that pursued. ... The wind scares her and forces her to stay inside her house day in and day out. ... The light is their hope, it helps them deal with the troubles of the wind and the harsh storm but in the end, Paul returns to the house and the lamp has been blown out, and Ellen is gone. ... It helps them to deal with the deser tlike conditions and the storm. ...

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Hardy wrote "During the Wind and Rain" in 1917, five years after his wife Emma Hardy's death in 1912. ... It also comes with connotations of sneaking up on you unawares. ... The word "rotten" has connotations of ruined beauty, mixed with the stench of death. ... " The final stanza is the saddest as it mixes the arrival of death with the uselessness of materialism after we are all dead and gone. ... "During the Wind and Rain" has three main themes: the inevitability of time and how death comes with that hand in hand, how no one is special enough to be ex...

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But no work about the Civil War has attained the place of gone with the wind. ... On the other hand, she becomes entwined with a mysterious, charming man named Rhett Butler. ... Both the movie and book versions of gone with the wind became important documents of American culture for the rest of the world. ...

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Carved to appear to be striding into the wind, the female form emerges with wildly agitated draperies and soaring wings. The wings from just behind the shoulders were sculpted with fine detail and utilize the mass that adds to the strength of Nike. ... Both arms and head are missing and the right foot is gone. ... The wind from the North Aegean sea causing small waves in the pool would have made the marble sculpture look natural and causing a realistic appearance. ... The beautiful goddess must have been awe "inspiring sight, appearing to drift from the sky and land gracefully, wings sti...

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For instance once a mother seed was migrated from a branch it hung onto by the wind. ... The wind is blowing and I can hear the whistling of the trees swaying in the wind as if they were saying hello by greeting the new season. ... I look down to notice an empty dried seed shell that looks as if it were a gumball with spikes jabbing outward. ... I hadn't noticed this dried out seed because it camouflaged itself in with the leaves. ... Remembrance: A long journey a seed has gone through, to be nurtured by the oak tree, then to nurture its own baby seeds into reproduction of a tree ...

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He compares this to Hattie McDaniel's" Gone With the Wind character as both being examples of blacks as sub servants to whites, claiming that there is nothing more subservient than a woman who sleeps with the man who killed her husband. ... As for Halle Berry, the main argument made is that she is subservient for sleeping with a man who killed her husband. But when she does sleep with him, the character is not aware of the man's connection to her husband's death; she is a widower seeking companionship, which happens to be with a white man. To compare it with Gone with the Wind a...

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I could hear the rustling sound of each leaf swaying in the wind. Suddenly one of those leaves was falling down from the tree and gone with the winds leaving the tree and other leaves behind it. ... Its color was faded quickly with time like human hair color. ... The wind is still blowing. The leaf is still gliding with the wind somewhere out there. ...

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All our neighbors were gone. Soon, we might even have to sell our house and move away to one of them northern houses up in California, but those chances are slim with the money we was makin'. ... As we all dashed towards the basement the black wind swallowed everything in its sight just a few feet behind us. ... I don't know what scared me more the fact that all our things were gone or how we were going to live from now on. ... A place with everlastin' dust storms and drought is no place for people. ...

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But coal is nonrenewable and it is predicted the worlds coal reserves would be gone within the next forty to fifty years."" ... With the rate coal is being used up, along with other fossil fuels, what will the next generation of Americans use for power? ... Wind energy can even be considered a form of solar energy since the suns heat causes wind here on earth. Wind energy uses the wind for purposes like generating electricity, charging batteries, and pumping water. Large, modern wind turbines operate together in wind farms to produce electricity for utilities (U.S. ...

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The only sounds are those from lively mockingbirds, that of the wind passing through the treetops, and the river as it flows through its riverbed. The river flows graciously, with careless abandon, stopping for no obstacle in its path. ... As the day winds down, and the city begins to slow down for the evening, people begin retreating to their homes, the river becomes a peaceful setting again. ... Finally, everyone's gone home for the evening, the only noises to be heard are the rushing waters. ... The night sky is filled with bright, shining stars. ...

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With fossil fuels near depletion alternative sources for a fuel will be required. ... Such as solar energy, wind power and moving water. ... The problem with fossil fuels, other than they will eventually be gone, is that when we mine for them, we harm the environment. ... I.e.: the sun, wind and water. ... Another renewable source is using the wind power to turn turbines and create electricity. ...

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He winds up being arrested and by only getting a slap on the wrist Henry winds up getting the respect and trust that he needs to start his way in the mafia crime world. ... Henry really hit it big when he pulled a heist with his crew robbing an over sea bank exchange from the Air France loading dock. They got away with $25, 000. ... After awhile Henry finally got busted in a robbery gone badly were the fed's and sent to Prison pinched them for 10 years. ... Tommy played by Joe Pesci role is excellent he a tough guy with a few screws loose that you never know what he will d...

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The wind had my nerves shot from the whining and whistling through the branches. ... A rather tall figure, with long hair blowing in the wind. ... I could have sworn on what I saw, but after that moments' glance, the figure was gone. ... Before I could get one word out, she vanished into thin air, with no sound when she took off. ... She was taken from the house when we were younger because of issues with our late father, but she found her way back home. ...

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The song, The Candle in the Wind by Elton John portrays Diana as a loving and caring individual who made the lives of everyone she came into contact with happy. The song says that although her body is gone her memory will never leave us. ... Examples of these are "England's Rose" and "Like a Candle in the Wind". ... Only now that you are gone do we truly appreciate what we are now without and we want you to know that life without you is very, very difficult. ... "Fundamentally she had not changed at all from the big sister who mothered me as a baby, fought with me at school and endured ...

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Shelley begins his poem by addressing the "Wild West Wind" (1). ... He likens this with a feeling of being trapped. ... O, Wind, If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?... The third stanza discusses the slowing down of the movement, while the next resumes with the wind movement apparent in the first stanza. ... In lines 14 and 15, he says the beauty "shine[s] upon human thought- and then poses the question to beauty in the next line; "where art thou gone?...

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SNAG, my fly is gone; the fish is wrestling with it under the water, so I quickly hank on my pole. ... With a few buckets, frisbees, and a lawn mower you can play Folf (Frisbee golf). ... Whoosh, through the air the frisbee goes straight for the bucket, but a huge wind gust blows my Frisbee back towards me. ... "Noooooooo," I yell, but the frisbee does what the frisbee wants and the wind blows where ever it wants to. ... I think about my past two throws and which way the wind is blowing, aim my throw and put a little bit of luck on it too. ...

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Dust is what we say when it is loose and blowing on the wind. ... Animals were found dead and their stomachs were filled with dirt. ... The wind blew so hard with a mixture of dirt and dust everywhere. ... The winds blew 27 nights and farmers were still determined to stay and overcome the Dust Bowl. ... McCarty published a pledge in the newspaper, stating that he would stay until everyone else was gone. ...

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Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind discusses the Civil War from the South's perspective, while intertwining a wonderful, page turning story. ... Scarlett began living in Atlanta with Charles's sister and aunt after her first child was born. ... The war had changed everything and the people of Atlanta saw their city go from a thriving city to dust blowing in the wind. ... Taxes needing to be payed was a prevalent issue with the "Republicans and Carpetbaggers runnin" things"(510). ... The events in Gone With the Wind coincide with what actually happend, making Margaret...

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Once he turned his back to the shell big gusts of wind wrapped around the turtle shell. ... Sam didn't believe the turtle, but decided to play along with his little joke. ... "Very well," said the turtle, and with a gust of wind and a few words of an ancient language Sam became a powerful and well-known fighter. ... the turtle was gone, leaving only the olive green shell. ... "I know you wont," replied the frog and with a gust of wind he was gone once again leaving only the shell. ...

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We may soon run out of some of our nonrenewable resources. These can never be replaced once gone. Some examples of nonrenewable resources are coal, oil, natural gas, and minerals. These resources were highly misused until government regulations were passed to protect them. For example, for ev...

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The tone of 'The Walk' is very sad and lonely throughout the whole poem: 'You did not walk with me/Of late to the hill-top tree/By the gated ways,' The sad tone emphasises Hardy's feeling of loss as he is upset that he has lost his wife and regrets the way their marriage ended up. Hardy's loneliness is shown when he quotes: 'You were weak and lame/So you never came,' This means Hardy went out without his wife's company and was alone even though they could have gone out together, Emma was too ill to go but Hardy went out anyway. ... It also give...

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