Analytical Essay: “The Storm” In the short story, “The Storm”, the author uses the storm as a catalyst to the existence doubts Janet has about her marriage to Ben. The story begins with Janet coming home from a month of visiting her sick sister. She comes home to a dark, cold house in the middle of a storm. Her husband is nowhere to be seen and she obsesses over how much she would love his presence. She sees things such as a face in the window, a dead body in her chest in the cellar, her plants
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The Great Galveston Hurricane was the most deadliest hurricane in history. The hurricane eventually came to a category 4 hurricane on september 8th 1990. More than 8000 men, women, and children lost their lives. The hurricane had also knocked out the St, Mary’s Orphan Asylum. Killing 10 Nuns an 90 Orphans. The affected areas were the Atlantic, Canada, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Oklahoma, Texas an cuba. Alot more land was destroyed in Texas than any other. The amount of people that died came in at
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Preserving the Amazon Rainforest Introduction The Amazon Rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world; it lies in parts of Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, and Brazil (World Wildlife Fund, 2018). Consequently, it has the largest biodiversity of the world. In fact, there are over 245,000 different species found within the Amazon Rainforest (From the boa, 2018). Though extinction is a natural phenomenon, unfortunately human activity has sped up natural
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The Congo rainforest is the second largest rainforest after the Amazon rainforest. Climate change is an issue for the Democratic Republic of Congo, with tropical deforestation being a serious environmental risk. Since the DRC has half of Africa’s tropical forest, it is important that the country values its rainforests. Carbon is stored in the branches, stems, leaves and roots of trees. When the forests are cleared, a large amount of CO2 is emitted into the atmosphere. Deforestation has caused some
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the history of the United States. Agnes began developing as a tropical storm in June of 1972. Agnes was detected on June 14th in the Yucatan Peninsula, which is located in Southern Mexico in between the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Agnes was officially named on June 16th and was declared a hurricane after reaching winds of 75 miles per hour just two days later. Soon after Agnes was declared a hurricane, she became a tropical depression (Barnes-Svarney, Patricia). Agnes traveled through
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Tropical Rainforest are home to over half of the world's species, all squeezed into a narrow strip of equatorial land. The tropical rainforest is a forest of tall trees in a region of year-round warmth. The temperature rarely gets higher than 90 F or drops lower than 68 F. It has high humidity averaging between 75 and 90%, and rainfall is often more than 100 inches a year. Almost all rainforest lie near the equator, with the world’s largest tropical rainforest
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It was a very dark afternoon out, the weather channel had sent out a tornado warning and also a tornado watch for some areas. The Calabasas Community was to be expecting the most severe of the weather. Most of the people in the community left and went to stay with relatives until the storm was over. The Norwood family however stayed home, Craig , the father, had the news turned on for them to know what was going on. Monica, the mother, was in the kitchen trying to make as much food as possible to
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Kevens Louis Instructor : Dr. Jonathan Harvey Descriptive narration Haiti January 12, 2010 On 12 January 2010, one of the worst natural disasters in history struck Haiti. A catastrophic earthquake, with 7.3 magnitude. At first, I thought there were many explosions. At 16:53, I was there when the earth shook with all his might. Corpses were everywhere and dust covered my face. I did not even see where to go, I did not know whether to go left or right, nor to go south or north. Everything was
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Trey Grimes English 1010 Professor Magrans Date Post-Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans During that calm, quiet time before any storm hits, the people of New Orleans and it’s surrouding areas prepared for a beating. Most citizens left the city in heed of the warnings sent out. As landfall came closer and closer, researchers began changing their predictions on how much rain they would get as well as the cripplng flood levels. Getting everyone evacuated from danger zones wasn’t as simple as it sounded
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What to do and how to get prepared in the event of a disaster Predicting dangerous tornadoes, hurricanes, winter storms, and floods are now unerring and facile. We can tell in advance if a giant wave will hit our seashores. Nevertheless, in spite of the forewarning, Americans still suffer great losses during these disasters, most of which are due to inadequate preparations. Hurricane Harvey, the largest storm to hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina, blew into the Texas coast. Over 200 000
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