Personal Narrative-It's Time To Look The Storm

It was about 4:00, on game day against Courtland, when I told the team we should probably start our pregame warmups. This consisted of everything that a normal high school baseball team does before a game. We started off by taking a jog to the flagpole on the centerfield fence, which is also where we stretched . We followed that up with getting a light toss in just good enough to get our arms ready for a game. Courtland was then announced and right after that was my team, the Eastern View Cyclones. The national anthem was then played and directly after it ended the umpire called out, “Play

Wrongberight, Virginia is a rural farming community, and its residents depend on accurate weather reports. The locals believe, those profession meteorologists could not predict rain, even if raindrops were falling on their head. On Thursday the local weather guru of Wrongberight, Charlie Jones, age eleven forecast a ten-hour deluge would hit on Friday. It did. In fact it dumps eight addition inches of rain, to the already, saturated farmer’s fields and woodlands from the previous intermittent rainstorm that he also predicted. According to him, that storm on Friday was just a prelude to another storm that will strike Wrongberight, sometime early Saturday night. He also said, that this kind of storm would produce, at least one or two unique

It was a seemingly normal, sunny day in Kansas. It did began to rain, but that was normal, rain happens everywhere. I still remember everything from what I was doing, and where I was at. This is the story of the tornado that ripped through my town in 2011.

In the decades leading up to the drought, the area received average to above average rainfall allowing the farmers to be successful at their jobs. They continued plowing up large amounts of grass to plant wheat and using other portions of the land for livestock grazing. Ranchers and farmers in these areas set the land for failure prior to occurrence of the drought. The Midwest had become transformed from a prairie grass land to a region that exposed the bare earth. The combination of very little rainfall, light soil and high winds created a high potential chance for extreme weather to occur. In this area, the soil lacked stronger root system of grass as an anchor as result, “black blizzards” occurred when the loose topsoil was picked up and swirled into dust

At the headquarters of the Louisiana National Guard, located in the lower 9th ward, the soldiers were not yet aware that the canal levees were giving way. The Guard’s commander

It was a saturday morning I had to get up and get ready for my baseball game. It was one of the most important games me and my team had ever played we were going up against a team called Storm Red, we started off the game not so good but we came back in the last couple of innings we stated a rally we were scoring and scoring over and over again. We ended up mercy ruling which means we scored to much for the other team to come back and win the game so we won 13-5.

It was the story of heroic perseverance. The people somehow managed to endure one unimaginable hardship after another, to hold on to their lives, their land, and the ones they loved. The air itself could have killed them. The sky showered down this suffocating, blackness that could’ve erased the sun at mid-day. It was a result of a whole bunch of things that are just in aid to human beings. The great plain stretched from Canada to southern Texas, from the Missouri river to the Rocky Mountains. It was a land of few trees, frequent rains, and constant winds. On January 21st, 1932 a dust cloud appeared outside of Amarillo, Texas. This one rose 10,000 feet into the air. It carried winds of 60 miles per hour. The people have never seen nothing like it in their lives. It scared them to death. They didn’t know what to think. You could have been just standing there still and then wham the dust hits you. The storm passed quickly but that winter of 1932 was uncommonly dry and so was the spring that followed. The fierce winds began picked up the sand and soil from the bear fields again and moved it across the landscape. It reduced visibility to less than a quarter mile. The sand storms did so much damage to the peoples lands and the cattle. Even if they walked across the street their legs would be blistered because the dirt hit them so

The plot of Steinbeck?s work of fiction is rooted in the historical and social events of 1930s America, specifically the environmental disaster in Oklahoma. Drought had been a serious problem for the Great Plains region of the United States for many decades prior to the 1930s. Meanwhile, poor farming techniques of numerous sharecroppers had decimated the agricultural capacity of the land, the

Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 23rd, 2005. It was considered a category five hurricane and complete devastated the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, which is my home. At the time I was a merely five years old, but I remember the aftermath. The coming home to empty slabs where houses use to stand, neighbors who had disappeared or perished with the storm, and the constant fear of looting and criminal acts happening in the small devastated town of Waveland. All of this struck home in the heart of a young Landon Brady, and always has. At a very young age I was forced to adapt and strengthen my will, for my entire environment had turned upside down. Before the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina I lived in a medium size home and went on with life as any five year old

A woman's happiness and success during this era is often dependant on the male or husband of the marriage. During this era, Chopin displays to us in both her short stories "The Storm" and "The Story of an Hour" of how reliant women are in their relationship and lives. Women during this era were heavily looked down upon. They were looked so down upon that even the women themselves would look down on themselves resulting in more reliant on the men for their success in life. The women during this time era would be so reliant on men they would do much for the men despite whether they had loved him or not. Chopin many times wrote her short stories with women in marriage with men just for the benefits of living and success rather than love; a “vignettte exploring female desires that cannot be fulfilled in marriage, a common theme for Chopin.” (Brantley 1). During the 19th century, both men and women weren't seen as equal at all. Another push to being reliant on men is government rules and policies of men being the more stronger party of the marriage, relationship, or family. Men were seen as the “better” sex so then women were more reliant. Women had to depend on men to supply them in order to live a healthy lifestyle. Kate Chopin displays this highly in her two short stories as the two women seem really reliant on their male counterpart. The two women shows signs of weakness while their male counterpart were away.

The setting in this story is a small town in rural Oklahoma in the late hot

My name is Gillian Gutzwiller and I am so elated to be reading your book The Storm. I go to Freeland Middle School in Freeland Michigan. Why I chose this book is because I have strong feelings for the lessons and the realizations I have had while reading this book. The Topic of this book is probably science fiction because it deals with little tiny alien bugs inside the rain. I have read the first book in this series called H2O. I absolutely fell in love with your other book and I had to read the sequel. The reason why I started reading your series is because my sister suggested it to me and I took it straight to my personal library. I am so happy my sister advised this book for me!

Kate Chopin implies in the selection, "The Storm" that the setting and the plot reinforces each character's action, but only two characters exemplify the title itself, Calixta and Alcee. The storm becomes the central element of Alcee's unrequited love for Calixta and ultimately the instrument of their forbidden love to each other. Hurston concurs in the "The Storm" that a forbidden relationship can become a cancerous love and silent death sentence.

On the surface of the short story “The Storm” by McKnight Malmar, appears to be about a wife who comes back home on a stormy night to a murdered body. However, a feminist reading of this story reveals how women in society are breaking free and rising above the patriarchy. Malmar utilizes Ben, the envelope, dead body, red dress, and storm in this way to symbolize that the women’s in society days of being subordinate to men is coming to an end.

I woke up early morning and turned on the TV. I could not see anything