Summary: The Town Where It Rains

By the imagery filled story by Jim Heynen, the writer started this off with and really good topic. After careful reading i can state and cite that the writer use diction imagery syntax. The writer uses imagery to help the reader understand the challenging situations. The narrator says “One winter there was freezing rain.

“In the 1960s, for the folks in and around Ellsworth, [Indiana,] living life decades behind the time was just the way it was. Manpower over technology. The comfort of tradition over the anxiety of change,” stated Jason Recker, a journalist for The Herald. Patoka Reservoir, an economic center for recreation and flood control, encompasses 8,800 acres of land. Before its construction, a thriving community inhabited the fertile terrain along the Patoka River. Towns of this former neighborhood included Elon, Newton-Stewart, and Ellsworth. (Recker 1) Families lived their everyday lives as farmers, with an occasional visit from a local peddler. One day, though, a new kind of visit altered their peaceful ways. A government-sent official arrived

The poem “Red Shoes in the Rain” written by Jan Conn is a deeply personal poem of her actual experience of moving on from a past relationship. She writes about her feeling of post-relationship loss - that very feeling that something or someone is missing in her life. In this piece, Conn perfectly represents herself and her feelings in her time of weakness and vulnerability. The theme of this poem is loneliness, and the difficult road to recovery after losing a loved one, and with that thought in mind, this can be universally connected to young boys and girls across the globe. In time, every person - young or old, goes through a breakup. It’s just like you see in movies, the only thing is that it’s more dramatic and emotional. This poem can

Secrets are most of the time used to hide information from someone that could be detrimental to someone. Sometimes it is to cause emotional harm and ridicule. Then there are secrets that are used for pure joy and excitement. We all have many secrets whether it is to surprise someone or gossip that has been given through gossip or slander. The essay “In the Early Morning Rain” by Jennifer Boylan, she has had a secret that led her to have life-changing thoughts that ultimately led her to fully accept who she was. If it was not for her accepting who she was as a transgender female and not allowing her feelings to overpower her, this essay would probably not exist. If I was to rewrite her essay, I would write about how to deal with secrets that someone may have. In my writing my main points would include but is not limited to, how to combat a secret, seeking help from someone that can be trusted and could help with that secret, and finally, embrace the feeling of being free from that secret.

Relationships created with others have often a direct effect on your very own personal identity. In Tim Brian’s “On the Rainy River,” he tells about his experiences and how his relationship with an elderly man affected his life so dramatically. It is hard for anyone to rely on their own personal experiences fully when there are other people who have experienced different acts them their self. It takes knowledge and experience of others to help you learn and build from them to create your own personal identity. In the essay, O'Brien speaks about his experiences with an elderly man by the name of Elroy Berdahl, the owner of the Tip Top Fishing Lodge; the lodge he stays at while finding himself. The experiences O’Brien has while at the lodge

Eric Larson pulled me in once I read the title of the first chapter, “The Black City”. What locked me in, however, was when Larson expressed women in the city and the dangers of being a female during the specific time period. Public warnings addressing that “advertisements upon their face bear the marks of vulgarity, nor do we regard it safe for any lady to answer such unseemly utterances” (Larson pg 11) make it clear that there is a problem. Although it seemed like a lot of information to grasp in the moment, looking back I’ve noticed that the author left room for me to picture what these criminals wanted from such innocent women.

Like Hundley, Deverell and Sitton emphasize the Progressive political impulse and its expression in Roosevelt’s New Deal, historically important with the largest water projects taking place during this period. Water and Los Angeles is more a collection of period documents highlighting the efforts to harness the Los Angeles, Owens and ultimately the Colorado Rivers than an interpretive effort. Conceptually, however, the book is important in highlighting a fundamental truth of California’s growth: man is ultimately the master of the environment and when man seeks to act decisively he can, through brute force, reshape the environment to meet his needs. In encasing the Los Angeles River and its tributaries in concrete, man resolved the issue of floods. In encasing the Owens River and forcing to flow into the San Fernando Valley, man resolved the issue (at least temporarily) of inadequate supply. In harnessing the Colorado and making it flow over mountains and in alternative channels, man made possible greater growth and the acquisition of greater wealth and power. Controlling these three rivers, however modest the Los Angeles was, demonstrated man’s ultimate

The two ways that these articles are similar and different are that both of the articles discuss the amount of rain that trampled Houston that night. To prove this thought the authors stated: “For five days, the city was deluged in an historic amount of rain. When the skies cleared, nearly 52 inches of rain had fallen.” The other article is Newsela:” It dumped a huge amount of rain on and around Houston, Texas.” Both of these articles talked about the amount of rainfall because TFK says that 52 inches of rain fell, and Newsela says that a lot of rain fell on and around Texas. Even though they don’t say the same things, overall they both talked about how much rain fell in Houston, Texas.

There is a town out of water because of the farmers using too much water for their crops.There is no doubt that California is a big farming country evenly as important since California is in a big drought, without doubt farmers use a lot of water.If they use all the water the city won't have water.Private wells have gone dry before in California, Again not on a scale such as that in East Porterville this summer.-

He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided. Morning rises slowly as Rainsford lie sound asleep. Noon approaches and Rainsford wakes up saying to himself, “I have never slept this well or peaceful.” He gets up and looks out the window to where the hounds had eaten General Zaroff; they had eaten all the meat and fat off the bones. Rainsford swings open both the windows and yells down to the hounds, “Was that good or great?” The hounds look up and some wag their tails while others barked and whimpered sounding like they were asking for more. ”Sorry, guys, I have no more. That was the only cold-blooded murderer on the island.” Somehow, it looked as though the dogs understood him and they returned to what they were doing. Rainsford looks around the chateau, up

In the book year of no rain by Alice Mead, Stephen and Peter have different points of view because on page 9 it shows how nice is Stephen “Stephen hurried the cows toward the grassy open field, where they would graze”. To begin, this part it talked about how Stephen wanted to both help old peter and his friends Wol and Deng to get to the party on time. But old peter is a old man who is really mean by telling the boys that they are gonna get a whip. While Stephen on the other hand is a kind person who looks out for others and helps them put too, so Stephen is kind person who cares about a lot of other things, while peter is a mean old man who is mean to the village and he even was the one who helped out the rebels by spying on the village and letting the rebels attack their village after, to. These quotes show how Stephen is different from old peter Stephen is a caring person while peter is not.

An abrupt sound startled him. Off to the right he heard it, and his ears, expert in such matters, could not be mistaken. Again he heard the sound, and again. Somewhere, off in the blackness, someone had fired a gun three times. Rainsford looked out into the darkness. He saw a figure looking out at him. Rainsford ran to the front of the boat and told the Captain to get away from the island. The figure shot again and again. It was aiming for Rainsford.

I stole, filled with the adrenaline of the moment and a childish bout of cognitive dissonance. Every student in Ms.Rainey’s third grade class dreamed of performing well enough to access the candy box she kept below her desk on the far side of the room. Our young minds saw the candy as the ultimate prize, better than a gold star or a “good job” and a pat on the back. We all knew the rules, pick just one, out of the boundless flavors and types of sugar. Some would plan their selections weeks in advance, while the more adventurous or, to be more accurate, chose in the spur of the moment.

One day after dinner, Juliette and Robbert were talking to their kids Dustin and Bob about waiting another week to drive the cattle to market.

The next towns don’t last long. None of them quite matching the thrill of Tokyo, the companionship he found in Spain, or the memories he made in Brazil.