Water: A Short Story

An old Chinese proverb says to fish for the moon in the water. In Lan Samantha Chang’s short story “Water Names”, a grandmother tells her granddaughters a story as a way to introduce them to their cultural heritage. This frame story was about Wen Zhiqing’s favorite daughter whose fascination with water escalates after she claims to see a prince in the reflective water. The daughter comes to the conclusion that her prince is real, wants to marry her and wants to take her away to his underwater kingdom. Her parents try to convince her otherwise and keep her from going to the river but after a flood, they lose track of her and she disappears. The grandmother ends the story and leaves the girls to wonder about what actually happened to the

Abstract: In this lab, water was added into a test tube. Then, a pH-indicator called phenolftaleine was added to the water. The solution was mixed. Then, gasoline was added to the mixture. Gasoline is less dense than water, so the gasoline floated on top of the water. In addition, gasoline is a non-polar molecule and water is a polar molecule, which caused them not to mix. A small piece of sodium was dropped into the test tube. As soon as the sodium touched the water, it floated back up to the top, fizzing. Once at the top, it fell down and as soon as it touched the water again, it “jumped”. The more the sodium touched the water, the more the water turned pink (due to the pH indicator saying it was a basic solution). Sodium reacts with water, that’s the reason why it would jump up after touching it. The fizzing was hydrogen bubbles being released, and the bubbles had an upward force that was enough to lift up the small piece of sodium. Introduction: Clearly written introduction with a summary of the demonstration, a discussion of the materials used, and a brief summary of the chemistry behind the observations. Chemical equations are included as part of the explanations. Water was placed in a test tube. Then, a couple drops of phenolftaleine was placed in the test tube. Then, some gasoline was poured in the test tube. After having the test tube ready, a small piece of sodium is dropped into the test tube. When the sodium was dropped, the sodium bounced off the water. When the

At the start of my journalistic investigation I stumbled upon a 2010 documentary by the explorer Wes Skiles titled Water’s Journey. The short film is available online free of charge and follows a scientific team of four as they traverse the Florida aquifer in real time. The goal of their mission was to explore and extensively map the inside of the Florida Aquifer for the first time. The four individuals on this groundbreaking mission included Tom Morris, a cave explorer and biologist, Jill Heinerth, a technical dive specialist, the Wes Skiles, and electromagnetics expert Brian Pease. Pease designed a revolutionary transmitter that was able to send signals through Florida’s solid rock and water below, which allowed for him and Skiles on the surface to actively track Morris and Heinerth as they explored the depths below.

This book is like going back to in time how good it is. This summer I have read A Long Way To Water by Linda Sue Park. In the novel, there were two different times in years but they both take place in Sudan, Africa. The two different years are in 1985 and in 2008. The 1985 setting had character named Salva which at the time was 11 years old. During that time there was a Civil War occurring in Africa. In the setting year of 2008, there was a girl named Nya which at the time was 11 years old as well. She was living in a time where Dinka which Salva is and Nuer which Nya is were at war with each other.

Water. My tongue dried, and it felt as if my stomach were turning inside out. Please, just one sip. As i waited multiple eternities for the dissatisfying taste of muddy water in my mouth,i pondered over the reasoning behind my inability to find water. drenched with sweat, i stare into a hole with microscopic amounts of water inside. I would cry if i had the power. I run with all my strength, as i spot a beehive in the distance. I cannot believe this! My luck is finally turning, i found food! As i grab and eat every bit of honey i can eat, the bees sleep. Only when i leave do they begin to leave do they wake and grow curious. Victory! Now, to find water, I thought to myself. It didn't seem possible that of all places, the forest housed no water. Then,out of the blue, i see water! Blinded by what i thought would save me, i did not realize that i traversed into a tree where snakes awaited. A hallucination. hoe kon ek so dom gewees het? As the vision wore off, it seemed like no time had passed,but, my clothes were covered with dirt and my thumb was covered in blood.

The doctor struggled for a minute but was able to get a beat on him again. As Luke reached the water, he stopped and began writing down something on the pad of paper he took with him, he held it up in the air, then began reading aloud what was on the pad of paper, "The air is fine. I'm going to check the water now." From his viewpoint, the doctor watched in horror as the wild dogs began to zero in on Luke. Unbeknownst to Luke, he dipped not one but three Ph strips in the water. As he pulled them out the doctor could see, to his bewilderment, the strips were all light green.

Weather is created by the movement of air masses of different temperature and moisture content moving around the Earth’s atmosphere and interacting with each other.

How does missing information affect an article? The article The Wrong Way To Think About Water, written by Michael Hiltzik, focuses on people’s opinion on certain techniques of water usage and which techniques they should be focused on? A section of this article focuses on California agriculture and how plants need a substantial amount of water to grow. It is titled Agriculture: Stop talking about the almond trees. This paragraph is talking about the amount of water California’s agriculture uses but specifically focusing on almond trees. Within this paragraph, I feel that there is missing information that should have been included.

Complete darkness. The distant bioluminescence of the hidden fish flashed around the girl. The cold water of the deep ocean felt frozen on her skin.

Some would say it; the weather was perfect for a bad decision. Gazing into the deep, cloudy waters of the treacherous river, she was reminded of a memory that she oh so badly wanted to be just a dream, she wished that all pain caused from that particular event would vanish. Shaking her head and furrowing her eyebrows she tried to shake the imprint that the episode had left on her. The river's waves collided against the banks, the change in the river's motions reflected her relationship with her husband – calm at times, but a disturbance in the calm water can cause a ripple effect. She thought walking would be a calm way to get away from the pent-up emotions she had been trying to run from, but everything in sight reminded her of her him; and that he was no longer hers. She walked with her shoulder slouched as she re-adjusted the baby in her frail, cold arms. Her watery eyes stared into the nothingness of the mist, still slowly advancing down the rocky path with no distinct destination in mind. Like a broken record, the images replayed in her mind. It felt like a nightmare she couldn’t escape, no matter how far she ran and no matter how hard she tried. There was no use, because the chant of their door that was slammed moments before he left, bounced off her eardrums and it began to become the only thing she could hear. Her

Once upon a time, there was an evil shadow who enjoyed destroying all the worlds from Pickle planet; his name is Lord Atomic, physically is an oldish tall man with a huge scar in his nose, blanched skin along with yellow teeth. His likes to attack further destroy every single world on his path.

I hadn’t been back since the day she left, but as soon as I arrived, it was like I hadn’t been away. The sand shifted and sank beneath my toes and the cool ocean breeze tangled through my hair. My memory led me to the hidden lagoon, and suddenly, the scintilla of doubt I had about coming back evaporated into fireworks of certainty. For the first time since she left, I could remember her uninterrupted. I closed my eyes and remembered our last day together, the most magical day of my life. The lagoon was far from prying eyes, at the edge of a labyrinthine forest, the ideal location to indulge in our surreptitious love. If we had known that this day would be our last, perhaps we would have revelled in the sunlight for a moment longer, or relished

Each breath feels like it could be my last. Hour after hour I continue to dive under the ice cold water to fetch oysters for the spaniards so they can have pearls. For minutes at a time I am underwater holding my breath while I rip the oysters out of their rocky beds and placing them in a netted bag. Once I can’t hold my breath any longer I return to the surface where my owner is waiting for me. If I even show a little bit of weakness he will torture me by hitting me and ripping my hair from my head. When he is done torturing me I continue to dive underwater to get more oysters.

There is a balloon the shape and size of a beach ball. A string keeps it tethered to the ground. Someone in a white lab coat stands about eight feet away with a rod about as

Water quality management in agricultural catchments, generally, appears to focus on identifying and reducing nutrient losses from the root zone of intensive farming activities. In recent years, reducing nutrient loss from root zone and minimizing the impact on farming practices of freshwater bodies has taken centre stage in this debate (Clothier et al., 2007). To fully understand management options of water this study will explore the vicious cycle of how on the source, the mode of transportation and the impact on water catchments (Clothier et al., 2007). Transportation process that take place on water surfaces is crucial in assessing the impact on freshwater bodies with respect to root zone losses. Transportation process in this study