The Indian Monsoon The monsoon is a yearly cycle‚ where the direction of the wind changes‚ bringing storms and rainfall to the land‚ and when the wind changes again it brings drought to the land. This creates a wet and a dry season in some areas‚ such as the Indian region. However‚ this is not a set of wet and dry seasons‚ the monsoon varies from year to year and even from day to day. The word “monsoon” is believed to have originated from the Arabic word mausem‚ which itself means “season” (Fein
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Module 1 Activity 1.1: 1. Develop for yourself a working definition of disasters from a community perspective. According to the Disaster Management Act 2003‚ A disaster is a serious disruption in a community‚ caused by the impact of an event that requires a significant coordinated response by the State and other entities to help the community recover from the disruption. Serious disruption means— (a) loss of human life‚ or illness or injury to humans; or (b) widespread or severe property
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------------------------------------------------- Case Introduction and Challenges ------------------------------------------------- Chongqing‚ a city in central southwestern China‚ had a heritage in heavy manufacturing‚ as it was one of the centers of the Chinese defense industry‚ especially for vehicles. In 1980s‚ when the Cold War slowed‚ the central government wanted to reduce defense expenditure and asked some of the state owned enterprises (SOEs) to begin manufacturing civilian products
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by floods. In 2013‚ a flood wasted over parts of Queensland and New South Wales. Almost 7‚500 residents of Bundaberg and patients at the Bundaberg Hospital had to evacuate because of widespread flooding and the surrounding suburbs (2013 Tropical Cyclone Oswald‚ n.d). Schools were closed; hospitals were filled with sick people; and water and power supplies were interrupted. It usually takes years for affected community to go back to normal from floods. Previously‚ people saw that floods were the
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The Wizard Of Oz: The Bimetallic Standard & Populism Representations At first look‚ The Wizard Of Oz just seems to be a story about a normal Kansas girl who simply just wants to get back to her home‚ and is able to do so with the help of some new friends she meets along her journey. However‚ there seems to more to the story than just that. The author L. Frank Baum wrote the story in the late 1890s and it was published in 1900. This was right around the same time there was a huge fuss over the
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1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY The section entails the production of cassava starch powder and ethanol in a multi-product cassava processing plant. The starch powder is to be produced by utilizing the following equipment: hydrocyclone‚ spray dryer‚ air cyclone and atomizer. The hydrocyclone will be used to concentrate the starch solution and other screened.
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intensity‚ and invokes chaos momentarily in the outside world. As Bobint points out in the story‚ the storm created “sombre clouds that were rolling with sinister intention from the west‚ accompanied by a sullen‚ threatening roar” (Chopin par. 1). This “cyclone” as Calixta describes in the story is a terrifying occurrence that is happening in the physical world and relates too many of the actions encountered between characters throughout the story. The impact
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Global warming is leading the world into a point of no return. Humans have been modifying the environment exponentially‚ and since the industrial revolution the “carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by about 35%” (Le Treut 97). Who is the responsible of these changes‚ how do we know they are true‚ and how does these changes would impact our living in the future? This carbon dioxide increase is known to be mainly caused by the deforestation of forests‚ and the combustion of fossil fuels
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typhoon Typhoons are terrible natural disaster that brings storm and damage peoples’ property. It’s a tropical cyclone that develops in the western part of North Pacific Ocean ‚ generated on the sea. Maximum sustained winds are more than 32.6 meters per second near the typhoon center. As in the Atlantic or eastern North Pacific occurs‚ to achieve the same intensity of tropical cyclones‚ it is called a hurricane. Every year there are 80-100 typhoons in the world‚ and they have a huge impact on human
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and beach on the Atlantic Ocean in southern Brooklyn‚ New York City‚ New York‚ in the United States. Coney Island is known mainly as amusement parks sites‚ and recently‚ the area has become the home of the minor league baseball team the Brooklyn Cyclones as of the opening of the MCU Park. Once According to the 2010 census‚ there were a total of 19‚378‚102 people living in Coney Island. Most of the people of Coney Island are unemployed living on some kind of welfare or income from the government
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