The book Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson discusses the meteorologist Isaac Cline and his role in predicting the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the deadliest hurricane in history. This was a time period where people believed that their technology had overcome the forces of nature. In their view, Galveston, Texas, a thriving city on the quiet waters of the gulf could not possibly be devastated by any storm. Meteorology as a science was still controversial; some people thought that the weather was god's own will and therefore should not be forecasted. Yet on September 9, over 8,000 people would die in Galveston alone.…
Abusive relationships are not always easy to see. On the outside looking in, things can seem normal but underneath the makeup and long sleeves the ugly truth can be revealed. In the poem “Photograph: Ice Storm, 1971”, found in Natasha Trethewey’s collection of poems Native Guard, depicts Trethewey’s resentment towards her stepfather for abusing her mother through the use of vivid imagery and tone shifts throughout this short piece. This poem is about a photograph taken of Natasha Trethewey with her mother and stepfather outside of their home after a violent ice storm caused their house to lose power and kept everyone inside for days. Outside the background is depicted as a majestic scene that beauty masks Trethewey’s mother’s suffering. This poems main goal is to show that photographs are not always as they appear to be. Even in a perfect family photo she sees how obvious her mothers suffering is and the memory of that miracles day is shattered by her abusive stepfather.…
Book Review: on Isaac’s Storm This book is based on a true story where tragedies of the natural phenomenon, joined with limited technology and the arrogance of man that led to catastrophic results like deaths and disasters in Galveston, Texas. The book covers time periods of the 1900’s in which people were more concerned about reputation, money and conserving their career than people’s safety. In this time period the city of Galveston had been growing in the economy. The nation was overflowing its borders with optimism and confidence.…
In 1930 there was lots of bad dust storms in the south west, creating one of the worst natural disasters in history. These storms ruined land, buried roads, ruined car engines, gave people dust pneumonia, and sometimes killed people. People who could get out of the south west packet up and moved. Some more less unfortunate families couldn’t move and had to stay.…
In the 1930s area’s like Texas, Kansas and others were hit by hundreds of storms all these storms together made up one huge natural disaster It was the biggest natural disaster in Americas history. In the 1900s to 1930s, so many families in listed parcels of land and the states’s These families had built farms plus built a life where they were . In the 1931s there was a very bad drought that fell across the middle of the nation, Americans were already suffering because of the stock market crashing in 1920 . Also the great depression was at its point in time it was a huge tragedy, but Most farmers had the time didn’t have income so they couldn’t pay for their mortgages…
This is a story about a small beaver with a flat tail, tiny arms, a big heart, and a good brain to go with it. His name was Beavey.…
Snow Day Rhetorical Analysis In the editorial “Save the Snow Day: Save Teenage Education” Sherra Yu writes about different school systems to achieve their purpose of bringing back snow days. A thought provoking rhetorical question, joyful imagery, and an anecdote are used to achieve this purpose. Yu begins the editorial by utilizing imagery to persuade the audience to bring back snow days. The text describes, “Nothing lights up the spirit quite like seeing a blanket of snow cover the ground, pristine and sparkling; checking the school’s…
The main character feels it is an obligation to shovel the snow for the people, mainly children, who use the side-walk outside his house. The way he talks at the end of the passage can be used to infer that he feels satisfactory when he shovels the snow and the kids have no trouble…
At the headquarters of the Louisiana National Guard, located in the lower 9th ward, the soldiers were not yet aware that the canal levees were giving way. The Guard’s commander was monitoring the situation from Baton Rouge. He was given misleading information.…
As a blazing, humid hot town Maycomb is, one winter the children get a big surprise. The Town gets their first snowstorm in quite some time. (Lee, Page 69) Seeing snow for the first time, the children are extremely excited and at first think the world is ending. They rush out of the house and think of what they wanted to do first with all of the snow, since they’ve never dealt with it before (Lee, Page 69). They all…
Immigrants have been around for many years in several countries. However, in the United States, we are starting to really crack down on our illegal aliens. This causes a lot of chaos for everyone involved. Families are creating emergency plans and contacting relatives and friends if a worst-case scenario happens. There are families who keep belongings in large trash bags to quickly grab and go if need be. Fear is high among illegal immigrants in the United States. Because of this, Ice raids have long-term effects on families. Three of the largest areas are education, to health even economic standings.…
It was a cold snowy morning on the frozen shores of Lake Superior. I unloaded all of my ice fishing supplies from my truck and back my ATV out of the trailer. The ice was at least a foot thick by this time of year according to the people in town more than safe enough for the trip out on the lake. I gassed up my ATV and strapped down all my gear and headed out to my shanty. Trying to navigate in these conditions is very treacherous having only a general idea on the whereabouts of my shanty is would be difficult. Finally, the weather cleared for a few minutes allowing me to spot my shanty that was luckily still standing. I unlocked the door and fired up my ice drill which drilled through the ice like a hot knife through butter.I turned on my heater and waited for it to warm up which felt like an eternity in the frigid winter temperatures that hovered around zero and the biting wind outside made it almost unbearable. I waited for my father and his brothers to arrive with the…
On January 12, 1888, the weather in the west was mild, compared to previous weeks. Little did the people know that a massive cold front was in route and would be catastrophic to the people, their livestock, and the economy in the dekota and nebraska praries. The cold front would cause one of the worst blizzards for the region, killing close to 500 people. The factors that made the death toll so high involve the mild weather before the storm, the lack of technology for warning systems, and bad timing.…
Diana looked out the window watching the first snowfall gently land on the window sill outside. The snowflakes were big and fluffy as marshmallows. Sadly, it was very likely the first snowfall wouldn’t stay. October 29th was an early start to the winter and if she told the truth she wasn’t ready for it yet. The children from the town played hockey not a kilometer away…
“The Snowstorm” by Alexander Pushkin tells a familiar tale of star crossed lovers who are attempting to run away from their parent’s disapproval and elope but find themselves stuck in a snow storm, after which fate takes its course. The snowstorm being the central symbol of the story plays two roles in the short story. On one side, it prevented Marya and Vladimir from marrying each other and tested their love. While the young couple had plenty of reservations of not getting married, they decided to run away to a town nearby Zhadrino, and elope. The events of Marya getting sick before running away, nightmares of Vladimir dying and her father stopping her, should have put second thoughts into her mind, but the snowstorm was the last straw to separate the love. As Marya was escaping her home, Pushkin wrote “The snowstorm did not abate; the wind blew against them as though trying to stop the young criminal.” Nature was trying warn Marya and Vladimir to stop and reconsider their actions. For Vladimir, the snowstorm put him on the wrong path to Zhadrino and he ended up eight miles away from the town he was supposed to meet Marya in. By the time Vladimir makes it to the church, it’s already morning and the church is locked. Marya does make it to the church on time, but her fate ended up taking over. The second side to the snowstorm being a symbol is that it guided true love to fulfilled. She would be married to another gentleman by the name of Burmin who by accident ends up in the church because of the snowstorm and everyone thinks he is Vladimir. The two are wed off, but when Marya realizes he is not Vladimir, she faints. As Marya returns home, she becomes sick and her parents finally approve of Vladimir so she can get better. Unfortunately, Vladimir refuses to visit her and ends up enlisting in the Army. After years pass by, Marya finds Burmin but they both do not remember each other. As the story unravels, he tells Marya he cannot marry…