areas in the tropics‚ as well as the formation of tropical storms during the local hemispheric summer (north or south of the equator). Navigators in the age of sail learned to utilize the "trade winds" that blow to the east along the edge of the ITCZ. The ITCZ was originally identified from the 1920s to the 1940s as the "Intertropical Front" (ITF)‚ but after the recognition in the 1940s and 1950s of the significance of wind field convergence in tropical weather production‚ the term "ITCZ" was then applied
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Women are significantly absent within Book I of paradise lost‚ not only not appearing but also not mentioned by any of the other characters. It could be argued that this makes the appearance of sin in the second book all the more powerful. Sin is the personification of an abstract concept which is presumed to be inherently evil. Yet the portrayal of Sin is arguably more as the innocent victim than the sinister predator. Sin was a ‘victim’ first of Satan’s own corruption which created her‚ then
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Satanic Simile and Milton’s Redefinition of the Epic The epic similes in John Milton’s Paradise Lost serve a greater purpose than that of decorative speech‚ in that they find a niche in the sector of functional language where they are used to impart understanding of Milton’s greater theodicy. He precisely echoes the poetic text of epic writers such as Homer and Virgil‚ but with the identified intention of creating a work that superseded those traditional epic poems. Milton sought‚ as an author
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Satan is typically viewed as the evil fallen angel who is determined to undermine God. It is not often that someone would use the word “heroic” to describe him or feel any sympathy towards him. However‚ in John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”‚ it can be argued that Satan is the protagonist and epic hero of the work. He is made to be a relatable figure and in comparison to God‚ it is easy to be sympathetic towards him. The epic hero can be summed up to be a good person who makes mistakes and who has a
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A hurricane is a huge storm known as a “tropical cyclone”. These can also be identified as typhoons.The tropical storms winds must reach at least 74 mph to be considered a hurricane. Anything below this is just considered a tropical depression or a tropical storm. Hurricanes usually only occur in the Atlantic Hurricane season (June 1-November 30). Hurricanes form over warm ocean water. They use the warm moist air as fuel at the bottom of the hurricane. As the huge storm produces high wind speeds
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because she wanted to gain knowledge. In Genesis: “Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof‚ then your eyes shall be opened‚ and ye shall be as gods‚ knowing good and evil” (King James Version‚ Genesis‚ 3:5). She was in paradise‚ but due to her self-serving motives‚ Eve gave
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One and a half acres of the rain forest-“the Lung of the Earth”‚ are lost every second. In fact‚ they now cover only a mere 6% of the earth’s land surface compared with 14% when humankind first settled. Experts estimate that the last remaining rain forests could be consumed in less than 40 years. Obviously‚ deforestation has been becoming an alarming phenomenon for the whole world. Writing about this issue‚ Laura Lopen‚ John Maier and Dick Thompson express some quite strong opinions. In “Playing
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circulating around it in anti-clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and in clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere. The word "Cyclone" is derived from the Greek‚ word "Cyclos" meaning the coils of a snake. To Henri Peddington‚ the tropical storms in the Bay of Bengal and in the Arabian Sea appeared like the coiled serpents of the sea and he named these storms as "Cyclones". Cyclones are intense low pressure areas - from the centre of which pressure increases outwards- The amount of
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Central Congo Basin Moist Forests “The Congo Basin makes up one of the most important wilderness areas left on Earth. At 500 million acres‚ it is larger than the state of Alaska and stands as the world’s second largest tropical forest” (Congo Basin). The Amazon is the only moist tropical forest that is bigger than the Congo Basin moist forest. The Congo Basin moist forest is four times the size of France and contains about one fourth of the closed canopy forest left on Earth (Managing Congo Basin Forests:
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What happened before the hurricane? The tropical misery which transformed into Hurricane Katrina‚ constructed over Bahamas on August 23‚2005‚ and the weather predictors soon had the ability to warned people living amongst the Gulf Coast region‚ that a large storm is on its way. By the time August the 28th had hit evacuations were under way through out the Gulf of the United States. That same day National Weather predictors predicted after the storm the majority of the Gulf Coast would be unsafe
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