There was not a sail to catch the hurricane-force winds and toss the ship about. ... Moments later the roof of the building was torn off by a powerful gust of wind. ... The winds had accelerated to 110 miles an hour, and "it appeared suicidal to attempt a journey through they flying timbers- (188). ... The highest wind speed the station's anemometer picked up was 100 miles per hour, before it blew away. ... Galveston time, the wind reached a sustained velocity of "at least- 120 miles per hour (195). ...

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• They also provide shelter from the sun, block wind and noise, provide a habitat for wildlife, smell good, create beauty and prevent erosion. ... Trees also reduce noise pollution, act as wind buffers and absorb dust and other air pollutants. ... Very tall plants (like trees) need to be strong enough to withstand the tremendous forces from both summer winds and winter snow and ice, forces from which shorter plants are protected. ... Indeed, at times the forest floor is coated with seedlings. ... While tall trees can't survive in areas with soils that are dry year round, ...

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- has transformed the Odyssey of Ulysses into a film for many reasons, and with great effect. ... The assistance that they receive from the gods is paralleled in the pardon that they are given by the Governor, as is the help of the Wind God and the men having the radio station pay them. ... Ulysses is blown off course by strong winds and is unwelcome on islands he and his crew attempt to stop on, but Everett's problem is much more humorous. ... Everett, Pete and Delmar have a very similar experience with the burning barn at Pete's brothers house. ... Circe changing his men into pigs...

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First, they knew, would come swelling and fever and tightened throat, and then cramps in the stomach, and then Coyotito might die if enough of the poison had gone in." ... He would be more useful with healing the rich people. ... "The doctor has gone out," he said. ... Grabbing his knife, Kino jumped onto the intruder and starts to strike him with the knife, while doing so, "his head crashed with lightning and exploded with pain." ... After the intruder was gone, Juana started to wet the blood away from Kino's head and told Kino that the pearl is going to bring an end to their lives if ...

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A success with everyone, except for Stalin. ... And with this mark, Shostakovich created the 5th Symphony. ... From here on, it's all about winds, brass, and percussion as if the orchestra had suddenly become a band. ... All the themes whipped along by the "Tah-Dah"" motif, until the strings and winds burst out with the sad tunes they played at the very beginning, but now those tunes are all connected up and the orchestra screams them in what has now become a terrible lament. ... Like some of Mahler's scherzi, it's written with humor. ...

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Eliot has made in this quote "If it suits you that way, then that is all right with me.... The meaning maybe different with everyone.... Bees and butterflies ("fantastic sailors") mingle with the flowers. The wind stops, and then the garden is still.... Because it explains some details less satisfactorily than the "sunset" reading ("ships of purple," "mingle"), and finally because it rests on assumptions not grounded in the poem itself (the wind stops). ...

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The poet, Poe, is then left with the quest he had yet to make. ... During this trying time, Poe lived with his Aunt, and eventually fell in love with his thirteen-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm. ... The "chilling wind" which is meant to symbolize her sickness is what takes her for him. ... He almost blames her death directly on the higher powers by claiming that the angels were jealous of the two of them and caused the wind to chill his bride and seize her life. ... He cries out that his one true love is really gone. ...

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The nation itself is compared to an animal (perhaps a lion) with a "tawny pelt.... Lines 4-6 Walcott shatters the image of a paradise that many associate with Africa by describing a landscape littered with corpses. ... Line 25 presents a cynical view of the Mau Mau Uprising as just another colonial conflict where gorillas - negatively animalized Africans - fight with superman - a negative characterization of Europe. ... He certainly is not satisfied with the stock response of those from the outside. ... These demands were met with British resistance or excuses. ...

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The first quatrain introduces the theme with the image of reflected beauty, "Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest" (ll. 1). ... She needs to realize that there is someone who wants to be with her. ... The speaker of the poem opens with a question that is addressed to his beloved, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" ... Summer's days tend toward extremes: they are sometimes shaken by "rough winds" (ll. 3) which happens and is not always as welcoming as the woman. ... However, a conflict arises due to the fact that summer is sometimes becomes unpleasant with extrem...

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Drinking my next beer and with the other two concealed, I drove off. ... When I threw the empty can out the mouth of it was facing me and the wind splattered beer foam all over my face. ... That same stupid row of cars finally passed, the wind from each of them jolted my car. ... I tried just filling my mouth and cheeks with air and pushing it back out with my tongue. ... With a few short words to the new man in charge, he handed him some paper work and was gone. ...

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Not only were most of the buildings made of wood, but even those with more of substantial stuff almost without exception had wooden floors, window and door frames, and roofs.3 Many of the buildings that were labeled fire proof had some form of wooden rafters or boards and were then covered with paper and tar.4 Not only did the houses allow the fire to spread quickly but also the streets. ... Along with not having a sufficient action plan, another fire had gone on that night at a pharmacy; when the guard realized there was another fire (The Great Chicago Fire) he sent the firemen in the wrong...

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To understand all of this, from the beginning, one must begin with the Word. That is to say, one must start with the understanding of the theory, what became known as the painted Word, behind Modern art between 1945 and 1975. ... Essentially, to be genius because those art critics and those high society members say you are genius, and the rest of society, who try to catch up so hard with the "culturati" and never quite make it, flounders to support the new craze which is usually dead and gone by the time they all grasp it. ... Until 1950 or so, most of the basic art theories originated wit...

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She stuck with her through thick and thin. ... Danvers hates the Heroine with a passion. ... He is the one who diagnoses her with cancer. ... She thinks that just because Rebecca is gone they shouldn't go and celebrate their marriage. ... She thinks that he is still in love with Rebecca. ...

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Our horses were long gone, so our only way out was on foot. ... With the change in direction, the wind also changed direction. ... It carried with it the worst smell I ever smelled. ... The camp was littered with every imaginable waste. ... The inmate I spoke with could not be correct. ...

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The Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured a majority of the electoral votes, and Lincoln was elected the first Republican president, but before his inauguration, seven slave states with cotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. ... Speaking directly to "the Southern States," he reaffirmed, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the United States where it exists. ... From the anti-slavery perspective, the issue was primarily about whether the system of slavery was an anachronistic evil that was incompatible with Republicanism ...

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Acid rain is the term for pollution caused when sulfur and nitrogen dioxides combine with atmospheric moisture. ... The oxygen atoms react with water molecules (H2O), producing electrically charged, negative hydroxyl radicals (HO). ... When sulfur dioxide comes in contact with the atmosphere, it oxidizes and forms a sulfate ion. It becomes sulfuric acid as it joins with hydrogen atoms in the air and falls down to earth. ... Fish can still live in a lake with a low acid level, however they will get sick and not grow to proper proportions. ...

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They fell in love with the house from the moment they laid their eyes on it. ... A white washed porch encompassed the body of the house, its rails intertwined with red roses that blessed the thick summer air with their sweet aroma. ... The sound of the enormous, oak door opening followed by a strong gust of crisp, early winter wind sharpened Vivian's senses as she began to run down the dark hall towards the top of the staircase. ... Behind her the heavy wood of the door crashed open sending icy gusts of harsh, bitter wind spinning through the house. ... Her body trembled with complete...

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The ground was frozen solid although no snow had fallen and the east winds were more severe than ever. ... When Nat went outside he saw that thousands of gulls had risen and were trying their strength against the wind. ... As a form of defense he takes a hoe with him. ... On the way home after sending Jill with Mr. ... Trying to protect his head with his arms, he ran for the cottage. ...

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The ground was frozen solid although no snow had fallen and the east winds were more severe than ever. ... When Nat went outside he saw that thousands of gulls had risen and were trying their strength against the wind. ... As a form of defense he takes a hoe with him. ... On the way home after sending Jill with Mr. ... Trying to protect his head with his arms, he ran for the cottage. ...

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With a 10-year-old, you want him to fall for the sport hard. ... "That's not fair," is a classic 10-year-old's declaration, whether uttered to a playmate or to Mom after a sibling has gotten away with something. ... With the 10-year-olds' impending physical maturation, sports will soon separate them, sometimes very quickly, according to size and skill level. ... "Indeed, if you wanted to have a class of fourth-graders nominate their future valedictorian, they could do it with considerable accuracy. ... A fully developed young athlete might wind up with a temperament for golf, no...

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She inhaled sharply at the short compliment, the innocent and soft smell of the wildflowers mixed with the chilled air meeting with her nose, and exhaled with a small giggle. ... She crossed the hair in front of her face only to find that her vibrant colors were gone and replaced with her natural reddish-blond hair. ... "So you've been with Jack?... Chilling wind whipped against her cheeks and she looked up at Jack sitting in front of her in the field now. ... 'Stay here with him.' ...

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Not long after Sethe's reunion with Paul D. she describes her reaction to School Teacher's arrival: "Oh, no. ... This here Sethe talked about safety with a handsaw. ... 'I should have gone on back there? ... Maybe Baby Suggs could worry about it, live with the likelihood of it; Sethe refused- and refused still"(251). ... The black community played a major role in Beloved, especially with th...

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According to Paul Barber, "The folklore of the vampire has only a slight connection with the fiction, much the way the folklore of ghosts has little to do with the movie Ghostbusters The baffling part of this is that the modern "vampires" are claiming kinship not with the vampire that our ancestors actually believed in but with the fictional vampire derived from that one. This is like somebody claiming to be related to Rhett Butler in the movie Gone with the Wind. ... Other blood-drinking demons of old include foxes in Japan and a severed head with entrails hanging down in Malaysia. ... "Arme...

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A Last Wish On a warm spring day on Sept. 23 1978 in the little town of Beaufort, Carolina, when the wind smells of pine and the flowers bloom, Matthew remembers his senior year at Regan High and Jennifer, the girl who changed his life. ... , I didn"t want my friends to think I was a dork communicating with one so I told her " you wish!" ... Franks to see if she was there , when I walked in she was there on the outside of a room 201 and I asked her what she was doing outside and she told me that the kid in room 201 has died and she started to cry ,since my friends were gone I thought ...

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She attempted to do so with Psyche. ... I wanted to be a boy so that she could be in love with me. ... She realizes with Psyche gone there will be no one to need her. ... In Luke 10:27 we are told to: " Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and will all your mind ". ... After Psyche was offered as a sacrifice and a west wind took her away, Orual convinces the Fox and Bardia to go with her into the Grey Mountains to retrieve her remains and give her a proper burial. ...

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