Climates

Around the world there are different type of climates such as Equatorial, tropical (interior) continental, monsoon, hot desert and cold climates. All of them will be explained in this summary.

Equatorial climates are located at the Equator, 5° north and south. This type of climates are hot and wet, they do not have a seasonal change, they are wet all year through and they also have a daily pattern. Its average rainfall is 2000mm/2500mm per year. The average temperature is 25°C. Night time temperatures may reach 35°C. Its annual range of temperature is small, as low as 2°C. It has a daily pattern in which every morning is -------

Tropical (interior) Continental climates are located in the centre of continents, away from coast, 5° and 15° north and south of the Equator. There is an alternation between wet and dry seasons. During the hot, wet season, temperatures rise as the sun takes a more vertical position, temperatures fall as cloud cover and rainfall increase. Areas closer to the Equator may experience over 1000mm of rainfall per year, and areas farther from it may experience as little as 300mm of rain per year. The warm, dry season, occurs when the sun is overhead. During this season there is little or no rainfall. The average temperature is 31°C and the annual range of temperature is 8°C.

The monsoon climate is located in south-east Africa. It has  two seasons: the south-west (wet season) and the north-east (dry season). The two seasons are the result of the reversal of the wind. In the wet season the wind comes from the south where the sea is and as the wind blows from the north where is land is the dry season.

Hot desert climates are located between 5°and 30° north and south of the Equator. Temperatures are higher when the sun is overhead and lower when it is in the opposite hemisphere. Coastal areas are much cooler due to the influence of the sea. In places away from the sea, temperatures rise to 50° due to the cloud-less skies, and night-time temperatures fall to around freezing. Deserts are very dry although they have some precipitation.

Cold climates are found in the poleward side of 60° N. Winters are very long, dark and extremely cold. Precipitation is light throughout the year and it falls as snow in winter. Summer rainstorms occur when temperatures are at their highest.

Comparative Essay

In Literature we read different poems from "Songs of Ourselves", which is a book with poems from different authors. We had to explore how the authors convey feelings through landscape in 2 of the following poems: The city planners, Summer farm, Sonnet composed..., The planners and Where I come from. I chose "The city planners" written by Margaret Atwood and "The planners" written by Boey Kim Cheng.

"The city planners" written by Margaret Atwood is a poem where the author criticizes the perfection of a city meanwhile in "The planners" written by Boey Kim Cheng he describes how a city is being changed and perfectiones. Throughout this essay the different feelings and landscape used to describe what each poet feels and sees about the city will be compared and analysed. 

In the first stanza of "The city planners" we get to see the author is offended by the order, she feels that the whole city is pointing at her for having a dent in the door of her car and that the grass is discouraged to keep growing because they will mown it again and again. As to convey that she feels like someone is rebuking her or to say that she is offended, Margaret Atwood uses the landscape. She describes the city as sanitary and that everything looks tidy or perfect. "No shouting here, or shatter of glass" Atwood says in the first stanza.

In the second stanza, the author sees things that are not perfect from her car and she also mentions things that she does not see as perfect and things that will become imperfect in a future. The different items that seem to disturb the order of the city are "the smell of spilt oil", "a splash of paint on brick" and "a plastic hose poised in a vicious coil". According to Margaret Atwood, all those imperfections allows to see the "landscape behind or under the future cracks in the plaster".

As in "The city planners", in "The planners" by Boey Kim Cheng the structure is similar. In the first stanza the author describes the perfection of the city referring to mathematics. "All spaces are gridded, filled with permutations of possibilities", Cheng says. Everything the planners fix, is in perfect proportions, all "the buildings are in alignment". The planners are conquerors according to the author, "Even the seea draws back and the skies surrender". In the second stanza the planners erase the city past mistakes as if they were dentists. "They erase the flaws, the blemishes of the past...", "the country wears perfect rows of shining teeth", this is how Cheng conveys the planners are erasing what has happened in the past by covering them as if they were dentists fixing someone's mouth.

Boey Kim Cheng explains that he cannot make poetry with the city perfection. The imperfect city was poetic because it had history, but now there is no history to write about. "But my heart would not bleed poetry", Cheng conveys how he feels about the perfected city.

Throughout this essay the different feelings and landscape used to describe how each poet feels and sees about the city had been compared and analysed. Both Boey Kim Cheng and Margaret Atwood dislike the idea of the cities being perfected, either because they are no more poetic or because they make them feel wrong about the way they are.

Look before you leap

If I did not went to that job interview I would not be depressed. My friends said, "Do not go, is not a good idea", even so I did not pay attention to them. My parents told me, "Darling, it is for older people" and "I do not like you going there". However, I went anyway. I was as deaf as an earthworm. Even though I liked that job, it was not for me. A friend of mine said, "She is fishing in troubled waters" and he was right. That job was like a dream, which I could not reach. Still I cannot believe this. As result of this, I cannot yet get my own house.

Meanwhile, my worst enemy got the job I wanted. I could hang out, nevertheless I am depressed. It is as depressive as rainy days. Inspite of, I can get another job.

• Connectors
• Direct speech
• Similes
• Metaphor
• Conditional sentences