Class Response: Finding Oil!

In class we found 'oil'. This involved making a master play map and finding profit. Oil is 10 million years old, is sold in barrels and needs a source, reservoir and trap. Did you know that oil costs $126.62 per barrel? And is in a viscous liquid stage? I think that oil should be used a lot less. It is a non-renewable resource, and is a factor in global warming. It is ruining our earth.

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Extra Credit: Weather Poetry!

Snowflakes
Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.
Even as our cloudy fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the white countenance confession,
The troubled sky reveals
The grief it feels.
This is the poem of the air,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
this is the secret of despair,
Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
now whispered and revealed
to wood and field.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Weather was used in this poem by use of imagery. They were sensory details, there only to amuse the reader. Longfellow's use of knowledge made the poem more interesting and detailed. It gave the poem a more dramatic effect. And most of the weather was used as adjectives. These include clody, troubled sky and such weather conditions like that.
This poem wouldn't be the same without the mentions of weather, after all, the title "Snowflakes" is weather related. The poem would drastically change. Personification was used to describe weather. This was the only peotic device regarding weather. This didn't help my knowledge about weather at all. They only used the words softly, not involving new knowlege.

^there are two paragraphs. I couldn't figure out how to get them to seperate on the final publishing

Class Response: El Nino!

In class we are learning weather. A student from Rutgers University came in and taught us about the weather pattern, El Nino. This has been around for several centuries. It also affects the weather in South America. And on top of that, it wrecks several species of animals because of the flooding. In 1998, it killed nearly 2,100 people and left the US in $33 million in debt. I think this is horrible. It is a natural occuring thing, but it devistates entire countries and peoples lives.
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