Informative Essay On Snowflakes

POW! At what seems like 100 miles per hour it hits you! The cold snow running down your back, chills form on your arm. Then, another one! Quickly you dodge it, then grab your own and send it flying back. Wow, you think, snowball fights are extreme. This snowball fight was the best I ever had. We were throwing snowballs across the street, hitting houses and laughing as we do so.

One of the more beautiful things about nature is that it is constantly changing and hold so many mysteries that we don’t understand. Each day brings new beauties and scenes that weren’t there yesterday. Having grown up on the east coast might have caused me to have a greater appreciation for all of the seasons, but one of my favorite things about season is being able to witness the changing over form one to the next. How each plant knows that the change is coming and they all magically start to prepare themselves for the new setting they’re going to create. The romantics capture the mysteries of nature in some of the most beautiful poetry. They delve deep into the possible meanings of what nature could be attempting to tell us or simple what they find beautiful about what they see in nature. One piece that stuck with me this quarter was The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Winter has always been one of my favorite season since I was a little girl and have always anxiously awaited that first snow fall, dreaming of a white Christmas that year. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s The Snow Storm brought back nostalgic memories of snow filled days in my childhood and made me appreciate having actually experienced snow in real life and the beauty

David Sedaris’ essay, “Let It Snow” is a reflection of Sedaris’ past. A single day from his childhood in North Carolina where Sedaris and his siblings were home due to school being closed for few days because of bad weather. The story reflects solely on the relationship that Sedaris’ mother had with him and his sisters, and how it was affected by her drinking problem. Although the story revolved around the children the mother was the main character.

And sometime the snow would be lift clean from the ground and up into the air, and by and by it would be all clapped to the ground as though there had been no wind at all, straightaway it would rise and fly again.

As you read this paper, you will gain a better, more in depth understanding of the snowball

Below freezing air is used to make snow and snowflakes. Moisture from lakes and oceans to form clouds.warm, rising air to form precipitation.

She see snow for the first time. Since Yolanda comes from the Dominican Republic she has never actually seen snow because it is too hot there for snow to fall. Around the time she sees the snow she is learning about the Cuban missile crisis. “I saw the dots in the air like the ones Sister Zoe had drawn-random at first, then lots and lots. I shrieked ‘Bomb! Bomb!’ Sister Zoe jerked around, her full black skirt ballooning as she hurried to my side. A few girls began to cry. But the Sister Zoe’s shocked look faded. ‘Why Yolanda dear, that’s snow!’ She laughed ‘Snow.’” (Alvarez 163). Yolanda has never seen snow before so she is scared because she thinks it is a nuclear fallout, but after Sister Zoe reassures her that the snow is only snow not a fallout she feels better. The idea of the snow falling is an uneasy feeling for Yolanda. Then snow represents the unknown and the scary events Yolanda and her family will have to experience in America. “Each flake was different, Sister Zoe had said, like a person, irreplaceable and beautiful.” (Alvarez 163). Sister Zoe says all snowflakes are different just like people. Throughout the book a recurring theme has been that Yolanda is having a hard time finding her identity. The snow in this case represents Yolanda and how she has the ability to be whatever she wants and how she can follow so many different paths now that she is in America. “A symbol differs

It’s a blizzard! Snow falls in an excerpt from Roger Ascham’s book Toxophilus. Toxophilus was written in 1545, and was the first book ever written about archery in the English language. The author, Roger Ascham, was an English scholar and a private tutor for Queen Elizabeth I. In this excerpt from his book, he talks about how the winds unpredictably blow the snow, and how it further affects the sport of archery. He states “I learned perfectly that it is no marvel at all though men in a wind lose their strength in shooting, seeing so many ways the wind is so variable in blowing (Ascham 35-37). Ascham goes into comprehensive detail when describing the sights of the snow— a noticeable pattern in this excerpt. Because of that, his purpose

As I stepped out of the airport, followed by my family, I was unprepared for the snowfall and icy pavement that is so commonplace in January in Michigan. If I had thought enough about it, I would have worn winter boots on the plane and maybe brought my puffy white coat to block the wind. Instead, I stood shivering in brand new, pink ballet-flat shoes, while snowflakes filled my eyelashes.

He spat again, in the air, before it could fall to the snow the spittle crackled. He knew at fifty below spittle crackled on the snow, but this spittle had crackled in the air. Undoubtedly it was colder than fifty below--how much colder he did not know."

This photograph was made to give us a closer look at snowflake’s structure that cannot be seen by normal human eyes. Snowflakes come in different sizes and shapes due to the differing temperature and humidity regimes. Snowflake has been used as a symbol of winter season and Christmas throughout the world. This image of snow crystal was photographed using a low- temperature scanning electronic microscope from Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Maryland. The reason being traditional light microscopes can alter the structure and melt the snow samples since they are very fragile. To capture the true texture of the snow samples at high magnification, the researcher first placed the samples on copper metal plates containing a precooled

Have you ever heard of the largest snowman ever? Well here is a story about the snowman that broke the record.

It’s not a hard job for us to build a lovely snowman. I splashed some water on snowman’s body, the water congealed to the ice speedily. The outside

Do you know what the snowball effect is? If you don’t, the snowball effect is a metaphor for the process that starts of small significance and builds upon itself, becoming larger and larger with the potential of becoming dangerous or even beneficial. I guess you can say the first snowball in my story is the split between my mom and her still legal husband-David. It wasn’t till the events after the divorce that I realized my biggest fear in life is to become my mom. I think the fear was something that always crept around in the shadows of my mind until that night when suddenly it was in the spotlight.

If this happens, the individual flakes develop strong bonds and form a solid and cohesive mass. But when it is cold, water vapors can slip to the bottom of the snowpack, forming angular crystals. These crystals tend to weaken the snow and undermine it from below (Fink).