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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled Water about Water, Land, Heather with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Literary.
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conversations.value: Of Boy, of Girl, of Land, of children - Heather, Jen, Jack, John - of teachers, of Noah, of Tangleweeds, of zzzzzzzzzz, of people, of axe, of fathers, of mothers, of families, of rain, always the rain. the author's Water chokes us with these things and more. Water envelops, nonstop, soaking. - xTx, author of Normally Special
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about thing, becoming, becoming.
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conversations.value: Of Boy, of Girl, of Land, of children - Heather, Jen, Jack, John - of teachers, of Noah, of Tangleweeds, of zzzzzzzzzz, of people, of axe, of fathers, of mothers, of families, of rain, always the rain. the author's Water chokes us with these things and more. One thing becoming another, becoming another, and glimpses of how they came to be, where they are now, where they are headed; all of it with a language and rhythm that carries us along, ugly and surreal.  Water envelops, nonstop, soaking. - xTx, author of Normally Special
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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled Water about York, City, York's with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure.
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conversations.value: I was born and grew up in New York City. My father died when I was two-years old during the depression. My mother faced a dilemma of having to find work and caring for a young child and had no choice and left me alone to fend for myself in the New York's rough city streets. Survival is an excellent teacher and learned how to fight and to avoid dangerous and devious people. I was reasonably good at sports while education was a distant second and I concentrated on the former and disregarded the other. It is a common story for poor kids in cities across the country. When I was seventeen I had a tryout with the Boston Red Sox but was not offered a contract, which was my first introduction to failure although I didnt have too much time to ruminate on this issue as I was drafted into the army during the Korean War and spent part of my military service in an intelligence outfit in Eastern Europe. When I left the service I realized I had little chance of finding a good job without an education and I was forced to go back to High School for a year and then to Columbia at night while working during the day for 16 years.
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: When I left the service I realized I had little chance of finding a good job without an education and I was forced to go back to High School for a year and then to Columbia at night while working during the day for 16 years. My father died when I was two-years old during the depression. My mother faced a dilemma of having to find work and caring for a young child and had no choice and left me alone to fend for myself in the New York's rough city streets. Survival is an excellent teacher and learned how to fight and to avoid dangerous and devious people. I was reasonably good at sports while education was a distant second and I concentrated on the former and disregarded the other. It is a common story for poor kids in cities across the country. When I was seventeen I had a tryout with the Boston Red Sox but was not offered a contract, which was my first introduction to failure although I didnt have too much time to ruminate on this issue as I was drafted into the army during the Korean War and spent part of my military service in an intelligence outfit in Eastern Europe.I was born and grew up in New York City.
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conversations.value: What could be a title for a story about Full, Frost's, adventure with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Poetry?
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conversations.value: A title for this story could be 'Water'
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this story.
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conversations.value: Water
  Lifting, damming, and channeling water has often made the difference between agricultural surplus and famine. -lifting irrigation devices, such as the workhorse Middle Eastern noria or chain of pots (1) and Archimedes' screw (2), have remained in continuous use since antiquity. Handbuilt, water-storage earthen dams, like the one being reinforced by rural Kenyan villagers in 2004 (3), were mainstays of Egyptian and Mesopotamian hydraulic civilizations five millennia ago.
  Wet rice farming requires intensive and sophisticated water management. Nineteenth-century Chinese farmers sow rice and move water on wooden treadle pumps according to traditional methods.
  A highland Ethiopian farmer in 2008 plows his field in a manner virtually unchanged since the start of civilization.
  Two notable vessels of the seafaring Mediterranean world were the ancient Greek's nimble warship circa 480 BC, the trireme (6), with its deadly pointed ram at the bow, and the lumbering Roman cargo ship circa AD 200 (7) that transported goods from the far reaches of the empire to feed the enormous imperial capital.
  Marcus Agrippa (8), Augustus' lifelong right-hand man, transformed the empire's health, military robustness, and civic society by institutionalizing the public supply of abundant, clean water through extensive aqueducts, such as the remnant at the Pont du Gard in southern France (9), to urban fountains, baths, and functioning sewers.
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conversations.value: Give me four more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Europe's world dominance began after 1500 with the advent of transoceanic sailing and long-range naval cannonry, which followed the Voyages of Discovery championed by Portugal's Prince Henry the Navigator. Vasco da Gama (19) sailed around Africa's cape to India, and Columbus crossed the Atlantic to the New World, with the help of the discovery ship par excellence, the caravel (20).
  The apogee of naval power in the age of sail was achieved by England, whose two greatest admirals, Francis Drake and Horatio Nelson (21), helped defeat the Spanish Armada and Napoleon, respectively. A 120-cannon French warship (22) from the Nelson-Napoleonic era.
  In 1763, James Watt (23) began repairing this model of Newcomen's early steam engine (24). The result was the modern steam engine, the seminal invention of the Industrial Revolution.
  Powerful steam engines, like Watt's rotary motion 1797 model, superseded waterwheels to drive the world's great early automated factories and iron mills that underpinned the world dominance of the nineteenth-century British empire.
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Like great dynastic founders throughout Chinese history, Mao Zedong launched massive development waterworks to reengineer China. Today, the nation has nearly half the world's 45,000 large dams, including the controversial super giant at Three Gorges on the Yangtze, and a continentalscale south-to-north river water diversion scheme.
  Rachel Carson's (43) Silent Spring, highlighting the extensive toxic pollution of waterways, was one of the seminal birth moments of the modern environmental movement. Congress was finally galvanized to enact comprehensive clean water regulations after Cleveland's filthy Cuyahoga River, seen burning in 1952 with industrial pollution (44), again burst into spectacular flames in June 1969.
  Climate change, energy, and food issues are intimately interconnected with water. Retreating mountain glaciers from global warming, such as those that sustain Asia's great rivers and a fourth of humanity, threaten catastrophic droughts and hydroelectricity shortages in the dry season and devastating floods during the monsoons.
  One fifth of humanity still lacks access to enough clean, fresh water for basic domestic needs and two-fifths for adequate sanitation, compelling hundreds of millions, especially children (46) and women, to forgo education and productive work to walk several miles each day to fetch water for daily survival. Billions in poor regions with inadequate water infrastructure, like Ethiopia's highlands near Lake Tana (47) at the source of the Blue Nile, try to endure water's natural destructive excesses, such as floods, mudslides, and droughts.
  With freshwater use increasing twice as fast as soaring world population growth, a perilous new planetary era of water scarcity is dividing global society and politics between fresh-water Haves and Have-Nots, and establishing a fifth, vital historical use for water--to sustain the earth's lifegiving water ecosystems.