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    The Flood hits Shurrupak...The reason why is even more shocking! Somya Thakur Hour:2 Last week a flood took place in the the city of Shurrupak‚ a man named Utnapishtim managed to build a boat that lasted seven days and saved the lives of many people and animals. Sources tell us that the gods were the leading cause of this flood‚specifically Enlil. We asked Enlil the reasoning behind the flood‚ his official statement was‚ “The uproar of mankind was intolerable‚therefore‚ I decided to exterminate

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    The Real Great Escape

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    The Great Escape Movie and Real Story The movie The Great Escape was based on the escape of many prisoners from a Nazi prison camp during World War II. Unfortunately‚ only a couple of the escapees made it to safety before being captured again. Once the prisoners were captured‚ they were sent to a Nazi prison camp called Stalag. If they had done nothing except passing their time patiently they would have been able to make it through the war safely. However‚ the Germans were rather dependent

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    Su Tong Escape

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    Su Tong’s story “Escape” depicts a tragic life of a village man Chen Sanmai through the illustration of Sanmai’s nephew. Sanmai had spent the majority of his life on escaping from his parents‚ wife‚ family duties‚ established life‚ and everything even those chosen by himself. Before he gets married‚ his parents are there to find him back home; after marriage‚ his wife is the one who goes out to remote places to take him back. The circle between escaping and finding ends after he left for avoiding

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    Escape‚ a theme present though out the novel dominates a scene between Mattie and Ethan‚ it encompasses the character’s dialogue as well as actions as a motivator to avoid the inevitability of separation. The scene begins after Mattie and Ethan have taken their first sled ride down the hill‚ Mattie “putting her lips close against [Ethan’s] ear” suggests they sled down the hill one more time with the intention of “never [coming] up again” (70). Mattie’s intention is to make it so Ethan and herself

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    Flood Acton Plan

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    | | 1. | | |   | | Flood Action Plan (FAP) an initiative to study the causes and nature of flood in Bangladesh and to prepare guidelines for controlling it. FAP was based on several earlier studies by UNDP‚ a French Engineering consortium‚ USAID and JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency). The FAP included 29 different components of which 11 were regional‚ with some pilot projects‚ and the rest were supporting studies on issues like Environment‚ Fisheries‚ Geographic Information

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    Natural Disaster : Floods

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    Floods There are many natural disasters that occur all over the world. Earthquakes‚ tsunamis‚ tornados‚ and even volcanic eruptions are dangerous to humans and can negatively affect their lives for the worst. There is one natural disaster that some people fear the most‚ which is known as floods or flash floods. Floods have devastated the United States for centuries and have taken many lives and resources. These natural disasters have been seen in the Midwestern and Southwestern areas of the United

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    The 1965 Flood Act

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    The long term effects of the flood control act provision of 1965 The flood control act of control act of 1965 gave authorization to U.S Army Crop of Engineers (USACE) to design and construct a flood protection system to protect south Louisiana from hurricanes. It was called the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project‚ the reason for this project was prior to 1965. The state of Louisiana design and built its own flood protection‚ but on September 9‚ 1965

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    Huck Finn Escape

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    Salinger and Twain present the ideas of escape in the two novels? First of all the two authors wrote their books in different times and their ideas of escape will differ‚ for example Huck was written in the late 1800’s when slavery was still rife in many of the southern regions of America the idea of escape has a literal meaning. Alternately to this Catcher in the Rye was written in the 1940’s and depicts the societies of the then modern America. The ideas of escape were mainly within Holden’s head and

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    Mase Prison Escape

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    prison officers where taken hostage at gunpoint in order to prevent them from triggering an alarm One officer was stabbed with a craft knife‚ Another was knocked down by a blow to the back of the head. One officer who attempted to prevent the escape was shot in the head by Gerry Kelly‚ but survived. 2:50 pm on Sunday‚ September 25 prisoners were in total control of H7 without an alarm being raised dozen prisoners took uniforms from officers. officers were also forced to hand over their

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    Pakistan Flood 2010

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    The Pakistan flood of 2010 happened on Monday the 26th July 2010 in the villages Khyber Pakhtunkhwa‚ Punjab‚ Sindh‚ Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan. Causes The heavy rains were caused by a monsoon depression (also called a monsoon low) that formed over the Bay of Bengal on July 24‚ crossed over India‚ and reached Pakistan on July 27 Climate change – There was unusually heavy monsoon rains which caused widespread flooding in Pakistan‚ whilst coinciding in Russia unusually high temperatures

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