Essays Tagged: "hot sun"

Despite persistent rural urban migration in Latin America, the agricultural sector has continued to be of vital importance during the last seventy years. Explain give examples.

en the main occupation for the people of Latin America. Both men and women work for hours under the hot sun to harvest the crops through out the year. Latin America's economy depends enormously on com ...

(9 pages) 135 0 4.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

Variations in ocean tides.

y water. Waves crash forcefully onto the shore. As the tide falls, living things are exposed to the hot sun, drying winds, fresh water rain, or icy frosts. Added to all of this are also the changes of ... in the deep cold waters. They are so deep that there is no light reaching them. With no light for photosynthesis to base a food chain on how do they get their food? This deep part of the ocean is the ...

(3 pages) 33 0 0.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays

Roman Colloseum

g on the weather, an enormous, colored awning (velarium) could be stretched overhead to prevent the hot sun from coming in on the spectators.A wooden flooring was used to cover the subterranean chambe ...

(2 pages) 64 0 3.7 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > Roman History

The Situation of African-Americans in America

America was discovered in 1492, Europeans soon realised that Africans were more able to work in the hot sun than Native Americans and were also easier to identify as slaves than white prisoners becaus ...

(3 pages) 59 0 4.1 Jul/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

Dad's Guitar

The sun was hot on my neck as I got out of the truck. The end of a long Wyoming workday in June seemed about lik ... ming workday in June seemed about like always, high thin clouds laughed at the thought of rain as a hot sun beat on my dads trailer house.Looking at the big cottonwoods over the old trailer, I walked ...

(6 pages) 34 0 4.1 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Girl Jamaica Kincaid

ash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don't walk barehead in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil; soak your little cloths right after you take t ...

(3 pages) 47 0 0.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

My first time to Mexico

eared to be half way asleep, even the driver, but we were all ready for the trip. We arrived at our hotel at 7:30a.m. After checking in we drove across the border. I had never been to Mexico before, b ... never been to Mexico before, but the first sight of it made me sick. It may have been from the long hot ride there, but I like to think it was from not knowing what I was about to go into.We drove ...

(2 pages) 24 0 3.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Why Ride When You Can Walk

that it's the only place I can walk freely in it. Meanwhile, the distance between buildings and the hot sun never helped my friends to stop complaining about them. The complaining of my friends and ot ...

(2 pages) 18 0 3.7 Apr/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Common Ancient Egyptian Homes

ost homes were built out of mud brick, which was mud, gathered from the Nile and left to dry in the hot sun. The bricks were made of mud and chopped straw, which was moulded in a square container and ...

(5 pages) 12 0 3.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt

Symbol of Vietnam: Non La.

n. The non la is used by villagers for protection from the sun, and it is also used as a fan in the hot and dry weather. The non la is also a symbol of beauty because it shows the very poor, simple li ... lizations thousands of years ago. It was used in the rice fields by farmers because Vietnam is very hot almost year-round. In Vietnam, the farmers of rice and other vegetables usually do it by hand. T ...

(2 pages) 27 1 5.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

"A Woman On A Roof", by Doris Lessing

men share the desire to get this woman's attention. Working on a rooftop of a block of flats in the hot, hot, sun, these men seek a diversion from the relentless heat. They whistle, yell, and wave at ...

(4 pages) 40 0 3.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Way I Found Her

ter in the book and why? You really feel as if you are there, in Paris, walking beside Lewis in the hot sun. Lewis is an easy character to like, and you feel yourself rooting for him, which is always ...

(1 pages) 866 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Capybara

constantly gnaw and chew on wood and nuts to wear their teeth down. To protect themselves from the hot sun, capybaras will often rest in nearby pools of water. They will also be found lying mud or in ...

(3 pages) 4 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Connecting Expressive Journals

. The sun floated above the sand in late March sky. My bare back felt like it was melting under the hot sun like wax.My silver Oakleys blocked the painfully bright reflections off of the sparkling wat ... ayers on each team are praying with folded hands. The whole time, I feel a positive outcome of his shot is inevitable. My cockiness blocks out the surrounding fear like a cross shown to the most evil ...

(4 pages) 1005 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Bibliography Wilcox, Charlotte Mummies and their mysteries Carolrhoda Books, Inc./Minneapolis

times, bodies were simply wrapped in cloth or leather and buried in the sand. Warm desert winds and hot sun heating the sand caused bodies to dry out very quickly so they did not decay. ...

(1 pages) 1138 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Essay on Night

nd barbed-wire fences. Then deportation orders are issued, Jews are arowded into the streets in the hot sun and herded onto cattle wagons as if they were animals. The conditons in the cattle wagons ar ...

(3 pages) 2224 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

What is Life Without Dreams and Dreaming

t and dry up and become smaller and smaller as time goes on, just like a raisin left sitting in the hot sun on a warm day. A dream dries out and becomes smaller as it sits untouched in the back of one ...

(4 pages) 21 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

India's focus going forward: Agriculture or manufacturing and services?

S OF INDIA GOING FORWARDEvery grain of wheat I eat and waste is produced by a person toiling in the hot sun. He brings the life to the seeds which in turn are the cause of the survival of the millions ...

(13 pages) 32 0 4.3 Aug/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The Swimming Pool

s so miserable that our family had decided to go and cool off at the local swimming pool. It was so hot that day, when you stepped outside you instantly felt the heat and started to drip sweat. The su ... day, when you stepped outside you instantly felt the heat and started to drip sweat. The sun was so hot you could feel the heat on your skin trying to turn it red. When we got to the swimming pool you ...

(3 pages) 10815 0 3.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

The Australian Outback by: Ezra Song

It was the usual summer holiday, long hot days at the beach, sun burn and nothing much to worry about. The outback of Australia and the Au ... hing much to worry about. The outback of Australia and the Australian identity is always like this. Hot and nothing to do. Just warm like if it was hot all day and night. My name is Billy and I’m ... my cows and sheep that I graze, about 200 in total. Now I’m lying down on my balcony with the hot sun shining on my house. It’s really warm, the floor of the balcony and very peaceful. I li ...

(2 pages) 11 0 0.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing