What associations do you have with the word "river"?

Question

I NEED HELP!!!!! Hello! I`m a student from Russsia! Now I'm making a research for my diploma and I need help of American people. Please answer 4 my questions:
1. What do you feel when you hear the word “river”? (the answers can be: cold,pleasant, can be dangerous)
2. How do you perceive the notion “river”? (it can be: deep, very deep, shallow, fast, turbulent, dirty, flows)
3. What associations do you have with this word? (it can be: water, dark water, stones, bridges, picnics on the bank, swim)
4. The defenition of the river (it can be: body of water)

Answer 1

1. They can be a bit scary, but also relaxing and peaceful to listen to.

2. Babbling brooks. The river that flows by our house is quite fast, especially in spring, very turbulent and dangerous to swimmers.

3. Fishing beside a river. Sounds of teenagers swimming in the swimming hole in river not far from out house. The song "Old Man River".

4. A river is a natural body of water, could be fast or slow, that eventually reaches the ocean.

Answer 2

Ah, the river. That's..."the" river. The Colorado. You cross it four times between Austin and my old home town. My old man caught beaucoup catfish out of the Colorado. We had a place just south of Wharton, where the water was chest deep when you jumped in. Right across from a sandbar and Pierce Estate. They owned most of Wharton and a big chunk of Matagorda Counties. A green river. Usta come out of its banks when we got a big rain...right up into Larry's Mexican Restaurant. Empties into the Gulf at Matagorda Beach. Many a folk drowned there, too dumb to read the "No Swimming" signs, because of the nasty currents and undertows. Ran right beside the Riverbend Tavern, where my boy blew out every light in Matagorda during a gig back in, oh, '98, I think. The river I learned to swim in. The river my old man sunk my boat when he hit a piece of submerged 30" pipe.

Good times.

Answer 3

Pleasant
flows
water

a path where water flows

Answer 4

1. pleasant
2. deep
3. swim
4. body of water

Answer 5

traquilty,hope

never really ending

adventures

flowing body of water

Answer 6

Phoenix
..runs through it
toobin

Answer 7

1. peaceful
2. living/ life taking
3. stream
4. flowing waterway

Answer 8

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