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    Rainy Season in India

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    India is mostly a hot country. The summer season starts in April and goes up to the month of October every year. The months of April‚ May and June are very hot almost all over the country. The rainfall in India occurs mainly in summer season. The months of rain are from June to September. All rains in India are brought by monsoon winds from the Indian Ocean. They start blowing in the month of June and cover the entire country by the middle of June. The months of May and June are extremely hot. The

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    Rivers of India

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    main rivers of the Northern plains are the Satluj‚ Ganga and Brahmaputra. They divided the plains into three river basins. The three river basins are :- 1. The Satluj Basin: The Satluj River along with its main tributary‚ the Beas‚ flows towards the south-west. It joins the river Indus in Pakistan. Which finally flows into the Arabian Sea? The Satluj river basins are very fertile. The main crops grown here are wheat‚ rice‚ cotton and sugarcane. The Bhakra Dam is built across the Satluj River. Amritsar

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    In The Way to Rainy Mountain‚ the author. N. Scott Momaday‚ delivered the history of his ancestors‚ the Kiowa tribe. Ever since the death of his grandmother‚ he was motivated to dig deeper into the Kiowa culture as he returned to his grandmother’s grave and commenced on a journey to Rainy Mountain. The piece provides short stories and myths in regards to Kiowa’s history. The author begins by illustrating the settlement of the Kiowa tribe where “a single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma‚ north

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    The Way to Rainy Mountain

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    PART A INTRODUCTORY MICROECONOMICS 2 INTRODUCTORY ECONOMICS INTRODUCTION TO MICROECONOMICS 3 1 WHAT ECONOMICS IS ALL ABOUT? INTRODUCTION TO MICROECONOMICS Economics is about economizing; that is‚ about choice among alternative uses of scarce resources. Choices are made by millions of individuals‚ businesses‚ and government units. Economics examines how these choices add up to an economic system‚ and how this system operates. (L.G. Reynolds) Scarcity is central to economic

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    today would have been completely different if there was no such thing as disobedience. Disobedience means breaking the law‚ and at times that is absolutely necessary. People like Rosa Parks have shown us just that by standing up for their beliefs and changing history. Disobedience is a very valuable human trait because‚ without it‚ the world we live in today would be different. For example‚ Rosa Parks showed America that disobedience is absolutely necessary‚ by not giving up her seat to another white

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    Pasig River

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    The Rehabilitation of Pasig River The Pasig River is a 27-kilometer river which traverses the cities of Manila‚ Makati‚ Mandaluyong‚ Pasig‚ Taguig and the municipality of Taytay in the Province of Rizal. It serves as the only outlet that drains excess water from the landlocked Laguna de Bai to Manila Bay. It also drains four (4) major river tributaries - the San Juan‚ Marikina‚ Napindan and Taguig-Pateros Rivers and a vanishing network of 47 creeks and esteros. In the years before large-scale

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    A Rainy Day in My Life

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    My Experience on A Rainy Day gives me sweet memories. Rains are blessings. Rains are a curse. If we could control rains and bring them on wherever we are in need or keep them off as long as we desires them‚ of course rains would be a blessing. But as it is‚ elements of nature are not under human control sometimes not to our liking. There was a day when it rained and I did not like it. It was a holiday and I had planned to enjoy the day. I was to pay a visit to my sister at Thriuttani which is

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    The short works Reading the River by Mark Twain‚ and The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday‚ are personal tales of moments in the authors lives and how those experiences impacted them spiritually. The central theme of both essays is that of impressing upon the reader to be careful not to take everyday life for granted. Both authors accomplish this mission by relying on examples from nature‚ but Momaday goes a step farther and incorporates his Native American heritage into the explanation of

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    Helf 1  Josie Helf     Patty Sibbernsen     English 1    January 13 2015       Civil Disobedience  A free society is one that is described as a community in which each citizen is independent and  works solely toward their own personal goals. ​ Although sometimes depicted as efficient and less  problematic due to its structure‚ societies such as these eliminate any trace of a true human connection  or individualism. ​ In ​ Fahrenheit 451 ​ by Ray Bradbury‚ protagonist Guy Montag sets out on an 

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    Yamuna River

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    Yamuna The Yamuna (Sanskrit: यमुना)‚ sometimes called Jamuna (Bengali: যমুনা‚ Hindi: जमुना‚ Urdu: جمنا) or Jumna‚ is the largest tributary river of theGanges (Ganga) in northern India. Originating from the Yamunotri Glacier at a height of 6‚387 metres on the south western slopes of Banderpooch peaks in the Lower Himalayas in Uttarakhand‚ it travels a total length of 1‚376 kilometers (855 mi) and has a drainage system of 366‚223 square kilometres (141‚399 sq mi)‚ 40.2% of the entire Ganges Basin

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