...brought their kids to school. When parents went to drop off their kids none of them thought it would be the last time they saw them. Maybe because it was not. Sandy Hook was one of the biggest “mass shootings” in the United States. The tragedy took the lives of twenty-seven. Supposedly twenty students and seven adults and teachers including his mother (ct.gov). While investigating the scene some of the “evidence” just does not add up. The initial reports stated that twenty year old Adam Lanza, killed his mother Nancy (cnn.com). Then he traveled his way from his house and to the school where his mother substituted. According to the NY Times Adam reached the school...
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...Department. A nor’easter that swooped through the Northeast hindered recovery efforts, knocking out power for tens of thousands more people. The power outages and destruction have shorted fuel supplies, forcing New York City to begin rationing gasoline Friday for the first time since the 1970s. Green groups and Capitol Hill lawmakers have warned events like Sandy might become more common if climate change goes unaddressed. Though climate scientists have been reluctant to say climate change caused Sandy, they contend it exacerbated the storm. Rising sea levels and warmer ocean temperatures likely added to Sandy’s intensity, they say. Democratic leaders want to explore that link. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the ranking member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), the ranking member on the committee’s Energy and Power subcommittee, have called for a lame-duck hearing on climate change and Sandy. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Wednesday that he wants to press the issue next Congress. Green groups also plan to pressure Congress and President Obama on climate change, saying Sandy has changed the calculus on the...
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...The adversities bring out the worst in people because hurricane sandy created many different kind issues for people to suffer. By the time New York City hit the worst disaster in 108 years. People have to face the reality. Super storm makes people turn into different way to face their problems. Since hurricane sandy slums New York City. About 26,000 borough resident without power at 11am on Nov. 6. According to the news articles “Con Ed working for restores power” more than 3,000 workers repairing sandy damage thought the city. Downed tree limbs and other problems caused by super storm sandy have hampered power restoration in queens. Therefore, it cause another problem was that a lot of gas stations do not have electricity to more the gas to stations. The hurricane sandy lead many issues make New York became unable to work normally. Most of people couldn’t work and students couldn’t go to school about a week because the transportation problems. There are hundreds of residents waiting and line up to get gas at gas station within hours. People need gas just want to be able get to work. However there also people have been buying the gas then turn to higher price and sell out in order to earn money. According to news articles “gas shortage worries queens drivers” on Monday a man, Lenny Streski, tries to enter his driveway on Hall Avenue in Maspeth. A lady told him that he better not hit her car. The man Streski couldn’t believe how people are turning on...
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...Hurricane Sandy – Karla Monge Partners: Karla and Caitie Use: Anecdotes Statistics Quotes Pictures Examples I. Intro A. Intro sentence: B. 3 things: 1. Links to global warming 2. Where it hit and how dangerous it was in each area 3. Effects and Victims C. Concluding Sentence: II. Links to global warming III. Where it hit and how dangerous it was in each area A. Where it hit 1. Sandy began as a tropical wave (cloudiness and storms) in the Caribbean. 2. Became a tropical storm (A cyclonic storm in the tropics w/winds from 39 to 73 miles) per in just six hours. 3. Became a hurricane when its winds reached 74 mph 4. Left the Caribbean, gained strength over open water and became a Category 2 hurricane. 5. Hit Cuba and weakened to a Category 1. 6. Hit Bahamas 7. Weakened (for a short amount of time) to a tropical storm 8. Gained strength -- Category 1 hurricane 9. Turned north to the U.S. coast. 10. Jersey shore, people were left stranded in their homes and waited for rescue teams in boats to rescue them. More than 80 homes were destroyed in one fire in Queens. Several other fires were started throughout the New York metro area. Seawater surged over Lower Manhattan's seawalls and highways and into low-lying streets. The water inundated tunnels, subway stations and the electrical system that powers Wall...
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...IS IT A GOOD TIME TO TALK? - Yashaswi ( meyashaswi@gmail.com ) “Hello Sir, this is Sandy. Is it a good time to talk?” “Well sure it is, but I won’t waste this time talking to a hopeless call centre agent. Please leave me alone and don’t bother calling again.” Sandeep hated his job. He hated his new name Sandy. He had even started loathing himself. Everything about his life was so predictable that he sometimes wondered if it was worth waking up to that mundane routine everyday. He was an employee of a reputed call-center in Bangalore – the IT capital of India. A member of the ‘outbound’ team, he was required to make calls for ‘inquiring’ on behalf of an insurance company. An inquiry would mean politely asking the irate obnoxious customer if he was interested in insuring all the trivial things he had collected in his life, or even the most futile of them all – his life. He was so used to being badmouthed by the clients that if someone did not do so he suspected him of homosexuality. He had been trained to receive such bad-mouthing sportingly. The counselors had told him, “Be kind, for you never know, they might be fighting a tougher battle. Actually they are not angry on Sandeep the person. They are irritated by Sandy the tele-caller.” They told him that in his job, more than in any other, it was indispensable to follow the tenets of Gita, the holy book. He was supposed to detach himself from the results of his action to rise above all self-condemnation...
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...Hurricane Sandy Research Paper Super storm Hurricane Sandy occurred from October 22, 2012 – October 31st, 2012. It was a storm that many people have never seen before and may never see again. Hurricane sandy destroyed homes, businesses, and took lives all in the process. When it comes to business continuity, what did the government, businesses/utilities, financial organizations and individuals do prior to the storm, during the storm, and after the storm. Hurricane sandy had an overall impact that will never be forgotten and taught us what we know today. The government played a role through FEMA in order to take actions prior to Hurricane Sandy. Government data forecasts were provided to the public. According to “Hurricane Sandy highlights role of government information in our everyday lives” by www.foreeffective.org, states that government satellites and airplanes collect the data on the storms strength and condition. The, the government scientists develop and apply the models that predict where the storm will go. Finally, a government agency, the national Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service, provides that information to the public. New York, Maryland, Washington, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina declare state of emergency and people are told to evacuate. During the super storm FEMA provided an effective and efficient response to the damages caused by Hurricane Sandy. During the storm, housing for the thousands of people the hurricane displaced...
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... Powerpoint Content: Call to Action: What needs to be done? --- Hiring in-house secret shoppers When? --- As soon as possible after assigning duties By whom? --- Nate, Denise, Catherine How? --- Hiring at least 12 secret shoppers, 2 for each city, each goes to at least five stores every day Conclusion: …… Presentation Content: Call to Action: ( What needs to be done? When? By Whom? How? ) Now that we have identified the problems and have the solutions, there are actions that need to be done. We need to hire the in-house secret shoppers. Because there are so many Maverik convenience stores in the Salt Lake Valley, we need to employ at least two secret shoppers for each city. Because it contains six cities (Salt Lake City, Murray, Sandy, South Jordan, West Jordan and West Valley), we will need at least 12 secret shoppers in total. Take Salt Lake City for example, we can hire two secret shoppers and each one of them go to two sides of the city: one goes to southern and western, another goes to northern and eastern. We need to assign each secret shopper to go to at least five stores every day. Their duties included talking to the store managers, cashiers, greeters and even some of the customers for getting the information of overall service quality. They also need to take times to observe how the store employees interact with the customers and check the cleanliness of the whole store environment. The secret shoppers need to provide the evaluation by circling the evaluation...
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...CJ230: Criminal Law for Criminal Justice 06/29/13 The Case I chose for my scenario is the Elizabeth Smart case from Salt Lake City, Idaho. Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her home around 1 a.m. on June 5, 2002, a man with a knife entered the bedroom of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart and her nine-year-old sister Mary Katherine and forced Elizabeth to leave the house and walk into the woods four miles behind her Salt Lake City home to a secluded campsite. Nine months later, Elizabeth Smart was found in nearby Sandy, Utah after spending months at the campsite, traveling to California, and returning to Utah with her captors. Brain David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, were charged with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, and aggravated burglary. The giving rise to the criminal prosecution in Elizabeth Smart case was that she testified step by step what she went through, in nine month of hell, she was taking across Stateline to California and all of the evidence that was collected while police investigation was going on, like the link of cable, the knife, the wig that was purchased to disguise Elizabeth Smart, sunglasses, etc. The legal definition of "kidnapping" under federal law is when someone unlawfully and willfully seizes, kidnaps, or abducts another person over state lines. Carrying someone away and holding him/her for ransom also qualifies as kidnapping. If the kidnapping never crosses state lines or affects interstate commerce, then it's not a federal...
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...The Political Scene The President and the Pipeline The campaign to make the Keystone XL the test of Obama’s resolve on climate change. by Ryan Lizza September 16, 2013 After meeting with Obama, one activist felt challenged to make the case “why this pipeline is not On the day of his second Inauguration, in January, Barack Obama delivered an address of unabashed liberal ambition and promise. As recently as early April, before the realities of the world and the House of Representatives made themselves painfully evident, the President retained the confidence of a leader on the brink of enormous achievements. It seemed possible, even probable, that he would win modest gun-control legislation, an immigration-reform law, and the elusive grand bargain with Republicans to resolve the serial crises over the federal budget. And he seemed determined to take on even the most complicated and ominous problem of all: climate change. The President, who had a mixed environmental record after his first term, vowed that he would commit his Administration to combatting global warming, saying that “failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.” The President flew to San Francisco on April 3rd for a series of fund-raisers. He stopped in first at a cocktail reception hosted by Tom Steyer, a fifty-six-year-old billionaire, former hedge-fund manager, and major donor to the Democratic Party. Steyer lives in the city’s Sea Cliff neighborhood, in a house overlooking the Golden...
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...In late October of 2012, a post tropical cyclone swept through the Caribbean and ended up in the East Coast of the United States. This natural disaster was called Hurricane Sandy. Many citizens living in the New York and New Jersey areas were devastated by Hurricane Sandy. As the mayor warned of a hurricane approaching many people rushed to supermarkets and hardware stores to get supplies such as, canned food, bottled water, and sandbags to keep the water out of their houses. The city also made many efforts to minimize the danger that Hurricane Sandy might have by creating sand dunes. All the efforts and information given before the storm was helpful, but couldn't prevent mother nature and her wrath against the East Coast. Hurricane sandy caused...
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...Jennifer Miller Prof. Fozouni English 101 03/23/2012 Machiavelli and Modern Relationships In the bestial world we live in, men are untrustworthy creatures that are selfish, naïve and only impressed by appearances and results, so anyone of power must act like beasts using force when the laws of man become insufficient and must imitate the cunning fox, instead of relying on the fierceness of lion alone, thus becoming half-man and half-beast. One must also resort to deceit because a person should not and must not keep their promise(s) when the conditions that one made those promise(s) no longer exist. Therefore, any relationship where one has power over another such as a parent and child relationship; the parent can put Machiavelli’s ideas into place for example when a child breaks his or her parent’s rules and the parent resorts to punishment. No man will sustain to the laws set before him when there will not be any repercussions for his actions. A prince’s aim is not to be loved by his masses but merely to avoid hatred from them. In doing so, a prince must learn nature’s way of fighting which is by law or by force. When ones laws prove insufficient he must resort to his beastly instinct of force to make sure his laws are abided by. When a prince combines these principles, he then becomes a creature that is half beast-half man, which enables him to abide by the natures of both. In a parent and child relationship, a parent cannot rely on honesty alone because there would...
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...Superstorm Sandy developed from a tropical wave in the Caribbean on October 22nd, 2012. On October 29th, its surge hit New York City flooding not only the streets, but subway lines and tunnels. It also cut power throughout the city. Sandy was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 season. What caused Hurricane Sandy to happen is that Hurricane Sandy made an unusual turn and slammed head first into the population dense fast coast changing it forever. The hurricane began as a tropical wave in the Caribbean and quickly turned into a tropical storm in just 6 hours. It was upgraded to a hurricane on Oct.24 when it reached 74 mph winds. Hurricane sandy was a post-tropical cyclone that swept through the Caribbean and up to the East Coast of the United States in October of 2012. A tropical cyclone is a...
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...exploration of war-related literature, this school year, the majority being anti-war statements, brought us to a letter written by Sandy Kemper. Within the letter written by Sandy, about his involvement in Vietnam, he shows us the contemptuous nature of war and conveys a hateful attitude favoring his surroundings. Kemper employs sarcasm, strong tone, asyndeton, and other sue of rhetorical devices, to tell "Mom, Dad, Shrub, the Egg and Peach", and in the aftermath, the rest of us, the truth of war. Early Greeks and Romans wrote of war, along with many others over centuries and centuries of time. This letter has made an enormous impact on me, and my thoughts on war. The firm, angry tone of Kemper has brought about many anti-war feelings within my soul. The books, A Fable, Catch 22, and Company K all contain anti-war themes within them. Sandy's letter has all the components and characteristics to fit right in alongside these writings....
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...Hurricane Sandy was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season and also brought about the second-biggest financial cost in American history. Its storm surge hit New York City on October 29, flooding streets, tunnels and metro lines and cutting power in and around the city. F07-013 here! Figure 6 11 Subway stations merged New York city began taking precautions on October 26. Government ordered the closure of (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) MTA and its metro on October 28, and the MTA suspended all subways. Learned from Hurricane Irene which nearly submerged subways and tunnels in 2011, entrances and gates were covered just before Sandy hit, but some were still flooded. The MTA outlined a 3-stage...
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...Superstorm Sandy was a tropical hurricane in the 2012 hurricane season. Sandy began to form in the Caribbean on October 22nd and continued to enlarge into a hurricane once it passed Jamaica, Cuba, and the Bahamas. Sandy moved towards the Atlantic on the 28th. On the 29th, Sandy turned towards New Jersey. Then, turned into a post-tropical cyclone on the 30-31st, hitting New York. “There was an estimate of $50 billion is damages, making Sandy the second-costliest cyclone to hit the United States since 1900” (https://www.weather.gov/okx/HurricaneSandy). Sandy had the greatest number of fatalities in North America with at least 147 deaths. At the time Sandy hit land in the United States, it grew to a Category 2 storm with up to 80 mph. winds...
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