Example 2 by Alexander Hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd Liking work en-us 2018-06-21 09:23:46 UTC 2024-12-16 16:47:53 UTC hello@padlet.com alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268073493 The Haiyuan Landslides killed more than half of the population 
of the county.
]]> 2018-06-21 09:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268073493 alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268075262 The cyclone that hit East Pakistan killed half a million people.]]> 2018-06-21 09:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268075262 alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268075449 The Victorian Bushfires of 1851 resulted in an immeasurable number of deaths.]]> 2018-06-21 09:40:04 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268075449 alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268075526 The 1931 flooding in Central 
China killed 51 million people.
]]> 2018-06-21 09:40:36 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268075526 alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268075592 The Shaanxi Earthquake recorded 8 on the Richter scale, and reduced the population by about 60%.]]> 2018-06-21 09:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268075592 alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268075642 Mount Vesuvius erupted 
over 2000 years ago, obliterating many Roman settlements.
]]> 2018-06-21 09:41:26 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268075642 alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268075677 The largest crater on Earth 
is also the oldest.
]]> 2018-06-21 09:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268075677 alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268075733 The blizzard that hit Iran in 
1972 left more than 7 metres of 
snow in parts of Northern Iran.
]]> 2018-06-21 09:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268075733 Student A alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268081832 The water was gentle as I waded through it, the sunset like orange paint on a blue canvas. The water was clean and soft. Gentle. 
If I hadn't been a victim of a sea storm, I would have believed the facade. The water was powerful, with enough force to destroy and rival the land. But then, the most innocent faces were the wildest.]]> 2018-06-21 10:32:32 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268081832 alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268082244 I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.]]> 2018-06-21 10:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268082244 The paparazzi circled like vultures above a tottering camel. alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268082495 2018-06-21 10:39:21 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268082495 The cabin windows have grown blank as eyeballs of the dead. alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268082530 2018-06-21 10:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268082530 Leaf-strewing gales utter low wails like violins, alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268082556 2018-06-21 10:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268082556 Arguing with her was like dueling with hand grenades. alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268082577 2018-06-21 10:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268082577 She hung her head like a dying flower. alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268082593 2018-06-21 10:40:13 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268082593 You are soft as the nesting dove. alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268082611 2018-06-21 10:40:22 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268082611 The town square was buzzing like a beehive. alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268082621 2018-06-21 10:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268082621 The police in some towns and cities are planning to enforce curfews for people under the age of 18. Any young person found out on the streets after 9pm would be escorted home by the police. The police hope that curfews will help to stop gang violence, underage drinking, and vandalism. Some people are against the idea, while others believe it would be a good way to reduce problems in towns and cities. alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268084425 What do you think? Would you support an enforced curfew? ]]> 2018-06-21 10:56:00 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268084425 Student B alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268087895 There were days I craved the shore, laid flat like paper, rest my chin against grains of sand. The tide would draw a breath and hum deeply, crawl along the sand on its belly, stretching itself thin until it was an inch from my nose. And then I'd blow, will the ocean back with my breath, watch as it drew away and breathed.]]> 2018-06-21 11:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268087895 Student C alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268087965 Humanity is made up of people like the ocean is made up of drops. As the ocean pounds on the shore line, humanity pounds on fragile ecosystems. Like the ocean at the mercy of the wind we seem swept away by the demands of our times, cars, devices, disposable goods. We may be drops, but together we have the power of an ocean.]]> 2018-06-21 11:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268087965 Student D alexander_hellens https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268088108 Drums of war pounding against the golden shoreline in the dead of night and the light of day. Light where no man can see, sound where no man can hear, life where no man can breath. In the west it swallows all light, in the east it births anew. Never calmed, yet constantly still. Always moving, never the same. Constantly amending, remaining unchanged. No description can truly capture it's mysterious majesty, yet only a few words can express it's beauty.]]> 2018-06-21 11:31:28 UTC https://padlet.com/alexander_hellens/3nurn843gcd/wish/268088108