CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION TO DISASTER 1.1 THE HISTORY OF DISASTERS IN INDIA Year 2005‚ say India should hang her head in shame. With the Bengal famine‚ Orissa Super Cyclone‚ Latur earthquake‚ Bhopal chemical disaster‚ Andhra cyclone‚ Gujarat earthquake‚ recurring floods‚ Mumbai 2008 bomb blasts and many other disasters there is no foyer in the world with space large enough to exhibit the collective pain on the face of India. India has ranked at the top or near top in almost all type of disasters
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facility‚ is located in New Orleans‚ Louisiana along the Gulf coast. The Gulf coast has been hit with numerous hurricanes and tropical storms and in 2005 Katrina hit land. Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone of the 2005 season and made her way onto the shores of the Gulf coast on the morning of Monday‚ August 29‚ in southeast Louisiana. The storm surge was the cause of much of the destruction. The levee system catastrophically filed resulting in major
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Bangladesh is Located in the north-eastern part of South Asia. The majestic Himalayas stand some distance to the north‚ while in the south lays the Bay of Bengal. There is West Bengal border on the west and in the east lie the hilly and forested regions of Tripura‚ Mizoram (India) and Myanmar. These picturesque geographical boundaries frame a low lying plain of about 1‚47‚570 square kilometer criss-crossed by innumerable rivers and streams. Mighty rivers are the Padma (Ganges)‚ the Brahmaputra (Jamuna)
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“Queer Ecology” as my friends and family in the Philippines are being besieged by yet another tropical cyclone. Terrible because I feel guilty sitting cozily in front of my screen while halfway around the world hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who live in areas at risk of flash floods‚ landslides and storm surges are struggling to be evacuated as Ruby (the misleadingly sweet name the cyclone has been baptized with) maintains its Super Typhoon strength. Bittersweet because there is nothing like
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Considered as one of the top five deadliest storms in America‚ Hurricane Katrina was a tropical cyclone that engulfed the United States and killed close to 2000 people. It also destroyed property and goods worth billions of dollars. Though it began far in the Bahamas‚ the storm left a trail of devastation along the Gulf Coast‚ Florida‚ and Texas‚ but most of the damage occurred in Louisiana (Hartman and Gregory 24). Katrina traveled along the coastal region of Mississippi leading to massive flooding
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national progress. Though common people are now concerned to protest it. Again the government has taken necessary measures to stop this heinous crime but eve-teasing is going on continuously. If this problem cannot be solved at once‚ it will appear as a cyclone. To eradicate this problem‚ the offenders should be given exemplary punishment. The laws concerned must be strictly enforced. Young generation should cultivate moral values in
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up to 200 kilometres per hour. The opposite of these are slow moving; only shifting a few centimetres a year. Landslides can produce a lot of river sediment. Most of the entering the rivers in New Zealand are caused by landslides. In March 1988‚ Cyclone Bola hit the East Coast. The landslides that started because of this produced over 20 million tonnes (64%) of the sediment of the Waipāoa River. However in the long term only 10-20% of the sediment in rivers in New Zealand is caused by landslides
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sawdust drum dryer machine‚ sawdust drying machine‚ which is specially designed for drying the wood chips‚ sawdust‚ wood pellets‚ wood shavings‚ etc. Sawdust Dryer Structure: Sawdust dryer mainly consist of hot air furnace‚ feeder‚ air duct tube‚ cyclone dust separator‚ the induced draft fan. The sawdust dryer‚ rods machine and carbonization furnace are generally combined to form the configuration‚ chimney‚ electric control box‚ etc. Sawdust Dryer Features: ◆ High drying intensity: since the
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Situational Irony Showing Sentiment In reality‚ surprise is accompanied by other emotions. Though people present these feelings through reaction or impulse‚ authors present feeling in their stories by using a device called situational irony. Situational irony is the unexpected twist commonly found in stories. In O.Henry’s “The Ransom of Red Chief‚” situational irony is used to create a humorous effect. Guy de Maupassant uses situational irony in his story “The Necklace” to present a sense of justice
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Auteur Theory: Translated from the French‚ auteur simply means "author". There have been varied perceptions regarding this theory‚ its importance and effectiveness. Auteur theory is essentially “a method of evaluating films based on the director’s involvement and input”. The concept of ‘Auteur’ was first introduced by François Truffaut in 1954 in A Certain Tendency in French Cinema.(1) In this work he claimed that film is a great medium for expressing the personal ideas of the director. He suggested
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