Hands on Nashville (HNO) is a nonprofit organization that works to address critical affairs facing the Middle Tennessee community trough volunteer-centric programming. Every year, HON connects thousands of volunteers to services to help the community with programs of urban agriculture, home energy savings, youth leadership development and support of public education. If we enter in their official website we can see hundreds of opportunities to collaborate as volunteer of different kinds of things
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Hurricane Katrina was by far the costliest natural disaster in United States history. It was also the deadliest hurricane to hit the united states in almost eight decades and the third deadliest hurricane overall to hit the United States. Estimates of the total death toll following Hurricane Katrina vary by hundreds in or even thousands in some instances. According to the Louisiana Department of Health and Human services 1155 deaths occurred is Louisiana alone. Of those deaths, 386 deaths were attributed
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The information presented so far in Thomas M. Kostigen’s You Are Here has been informative and eye opening. Before we started the book my assumption was that it was going to be “mostly exaggerated propaganda” but the book has yet to read that way. Kostigen delivers the information in a “reasonably and objective way” that the book is an entertaining read while being informative and educational as well. He achieves that through the use of describing his personal experiences, evidence based facts, quotes
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Homestead, FL in the year of 1992 consisted of a growing community in South Florida that had no knowledge of what was heading their way. What was barreling towards them on August 24, 1992 with great velocity due to its small size was a hurricane with wind speeds of approximately 160 miles per hour (Allen 1). In fact, the storm ended up breaking the gauges that was collecting the data from the hurricane (Allen 1). Destruction from the winds and ocean surge seem unimaginable for many but quickly became
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Massachusetts Vs. Florida The United States of America is a wonderful place. The country is so big that each state offers a different type of environment and lifestyle. Today, I am going to compare two states that are completely different, Massachusetts and Florida. The question is: what state is better for you. Massachusetts is a small state (10,555 mi²) located in New England with a population of (6.745 million people). While Florida is a big state (65,755 mi²) and has a larger population (19
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Globalization Project. Brazil is the most forested country thanks to the Amazon and is having a globalization problem with the environment, that can affected part of the world. Globalization is a negative change that we as a humans are creating companies and exchanging culture between countries. Through the years globalization had been impact in Brazil by different ways like the deforestation, health and also the labor. Deforestation has been affected the environment in Brazil through the years
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I’m going to ask you a question witch is more dangerous a hurricane or a tornado. I’m going to give you information in how to answer this question. Hopefully it actually helps you answer the question. Well now to get into this complicated stuff. (According to Spencer Adkins) a hurricane is more powerful than a dumb tornado. Also according to him hurricanes kill more people. And are more dangerous because they are usually near the ocean. Witch can cause a storm surge that is kind of like a Tsunami
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The Climate of the Tropical rain forest is very humid the amount rainfall each year is 90 inches. There is a lot of rain in the tropical rain forest because it is very hot and wet and is close to the equator. the average temperature is 77 degrees fahrenheit it never drops below 64 degrees. Geographical features of the rainforest. There are different layers of the rainforest the the first and the top one is Emergent ther you will find tall trees in umbrella shape that are 100 to 240 feet tall
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Tornado warning forecasts in the 1880s and 1890s were more harmful than beneficial to the public (Coleman et al. 2011). The public was not aware of the safety procedures that prevented unnecessary fatuities and injuries due to reckless behavior. The impulsive, reckless behavior caused tornado warnings to be banned in 1887, however, the Civilian US Weather Bureau (USWB) lifted the ban in 1938 (Coleman et al. 2011). The USWB was the first warning system that informed the public of severe weather
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Everyone that lives in Louisiana is familiar with hurricanes. They have destroyed houses, neighborhoods, cities, and families. These destructive stormsSo say have a season for when they pass but in reality they are very unpredictable. Believe it or not there several ways to prepare for these unpredictable storms bfore they become to close and to dangerous. With the technology we have these days we are alerted ahead of time when there’s a storm brewing in the golf. It is always a good idea use these
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