There are different levels of intensity when it comes to life’s struggles. Some are frustrations, some are obstacles and real life trials. Some of the pain the we experience is completely out of our control. And in my opinion, the scariest difficulties we face, are the ones we never could have prepared for; the ones we never expect. It was the season for storms. Early morning dew that would soon turn into ice, late afternoon sprinkles, and of course, the occasional blizzard that would last three weeks and cover my town with six feet of snow. With Today’s incredible technology, we can predict these storms hours, days, even weeks ahead of time. On the night of December 12, 2008, my family was hit with a storm that none of us could have prepared for. A few months earlier my grandpa was diagnosed with liver cancer. He laid quietly in his hospital bed in our front office room, along with his many oxygen tanks and fluid bags lining the walls. He watched as his view of the leaves falling, changed to the naked branches shake in the harsh cold wind, and then to the first now fall, never complaining once about the pain, or voicing whether he was scared or not. I watched as the cancer spread. It changed his tanned, leathery skin to a yellow, jondous color. It changed the little hair he had left, to almost nothing. It also changed his heart. The characteristics that made him unmistakably him, a passionate political advocate, a fiscally conservative farmer, a worrier, a care taker, transformed into a completely peaceful presence. He knew where he was going, and he was ready to get there. I never thought I would have to see nurses take my grandpa’s body away from us, or see the bereavement bouquets come to our door with cards stating “in loving memory...” But there it all was. The dreaded storm hit us that night, and my family was left simply stunned. As I struggled in finding a topic for this essay, I was doing some research and came across “Yale University’s, Tips on Writing your College Essay” in it read, “We do not want to hear about your grandparents dying, they all die eventually.” So I scratched that idea without hesitating. But, the more I thought about it, the more I came to this conclusion: my grandpa’s death prepared my family for the coming events that were never thought to
was to show the people around him how serious he was about the war that was about to happen. Henry uses a metaphor of a great storm happening and refers to it twice throughout his speech. The first time he uses the metaphor, he says ”We have done...now coming on.” This metaphor shows how the colonist had done everything they could have done to avoid war the british but they were still coming to fight no matter what. No matter how ready or prepared the colonists were the british were going to come and attack. The second metaphor…
Great Plains! Other effects of the drought included huge storms where wind blew as well, which suffocated people and made seeing almost impossible, which gave these storms the name “Black Blizzards”. In my next paragraph I’ll talk about the towns that were affected. The towns affected were all in the Great Plains these towns included Kansas, Texas Oklahoma, and New Mexico. The biggest effect most towns faced was drought. These storms killing all the farmers’ crops making all the farmers to…
Americans to slaves to persuade the colonists to break away from Britain. Henry says “we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on.” Henry is comparing the oncoming war with Britain to an inventible storm. By using this metaphor he tries to get them to see the future and that something has to happen so they might as well be ready to stand up and fight for their freedom. Henry uses a series of rhetorical questions in hope to shed light on…
Shakespeare has developed a tragedy that allows us to see man's decent into chaos, King Lear. Lear is perceived as "a man more sinned against than sinning". The play begins with Lear, an old king ready for retirement, preparing to divide the kingdom among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance by judging who can proclaim their love for him in the grandest possible fashion. Cordelia finds that she is unable to show her love with mere words and for this King Lear…
In life love can cause a person to react mysteriously, in these three short stories “Cathedral”,” The storm”, and “Barn burning”. This occurs to the characters; Unconditional love companionate love and romantic love are all expressed in these stories. In “Cathedral” by Robert Carver the wife and her real husband does not last long in a committed relationship. She is mysterious to me because the wife has developed love. Furthermore a strong bond between a good friend of hers who she known for a while…
Discuss the impacts of storm events in the British Isles and evaluate the responses to them. A storm is an intense low pressure system with an extremely deep low pressure at its centre; this creates steep pressure gradients and strong winds. Rising air gives rise to instability and heavy rainfall. The Great Storm of 1987 passed over Britain in the early hours of the morning of the 16th October 1987. The night before, TV weatherman Michael Fish referred to a viewer claiming that a hurricane was…
Nicholas Krimin October 10, 2013 Research Paper Will my family resume the tradition that we’ve always had each and every summer? My family’s summer time traditions were drastically affected by Hurricane Sandy. We were all devastated by this storm, after it all happened we couldn’t imagine what the after math was like. Our family’s memories were all lost, as a child sandy had physically taken away things that were unbearable not being able to see there, such as rides, games, and restaurants. New…
Two days after it formed, it strengthened into a tropical depression. On September 16, the depression was upgraded to Tropical Storm Georges. Only a day later it became Hurricane Georges. On September 20, the storm reached its peak with winds of up to 155 mph, just below a Category 5 status on the Safffin-Simpson Hurricane Scale. During the next days, September 22 the storm reached the Dominican Republic causing 380 fatalities and over $1.2 billion dollars in damage. This is my story of what it was…
Comp/Research 15 September 2013 Zoom Flume Before every rapid it is calm, like before a storm. Then the guide tells my family the biggest rapid is coming up. I don’t know what to expect. I’m nervous and excited all at the same time, just like the first time I got to drive. I know it will be exhilarating, but the voice in my head whispers: “I hope I don’t fall out.” I’m too focused on the upcoming rapid to notice anything but our guide’s voice telling us to paddle. He yells, “Forward two…
you guys are ready.” My voice comes back steady and clear, a trait I have mastered over the many years of doing a job that requires you to stay calm through the very frequent chaotic times. There is silence on the other end of the line. “Sorry, the cyclone coming down the coast from up north is interfering with the lines. It’s getting pretty bad up here actually. I just hope that the power stays on.” She says in a concerned tone. “Okay, when will the robots and patient be ready?” “In 5…