lover of California and appreciate California from afar‚ I feel as though we should rethink relocating to California. I feel as though this is the best choice to make due to the fact that the earthquake of 1906 was just only a preview of what the San Andreas Fault can do to San Francisco. Due to my extensive research‚ I can conclude that; San Francisco is too dangerous for us to move our headquarters to‚ and I can conclude this due to studying the earthquake of 1906. This earthquake as I have been mentioning;
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“I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.” -Andreas Vesalius Andreas Vesalius is the founder of modern anatomy. He is a major figure of the scientific revolution. Vesalius’ book “De Humani Coporis Fabrica” is one of the most important books ever written about the human anatomy. Vesalius was born in Brussels‚ Belgium in a family of physicians and pharmacists. Vesalius went to the University of Louvain and the University of Paris. After he graduated
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revisits the terror and destruction of Southern California earthquakes‚ and gives predictions for future ones to come. Throughout the film it gives insight on the Northridge Earthquake of 1994‚ the damage it’s caused‚ and provides facts on the San Andreas Fault. It also gives information about "The Big One"‚ a huge devastating earthquake that will one day reduce Los Angeles into a ruin and cause it to break off from the rest of California‚ sending into the sea. While the "Big One" has yet to occur
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community; it caused lots of devastations throughout the whole city. The earthquake happened by a temblor that had a 7.7-7‚ 9 magnitude‚ which had lasted for about a minute and was the result of breaking the northernmost 296 miles of the 800-mile San Andreas Fault. The earthquake was so power-ml that it could be recorded a thousand miles away in Cape Town‚ South Africa. Even though the earthquake was pretty bad itself‚ the fires that happened after the earthquake caused the most damage. The fires had
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architects and brilliant philosophers of all time. He was born on April 15‚ 1452 near Vinci but the biggest part of his life he spent in Florence where he began drawing and after a certain period-painting. When Leonardo was fourteen he began working with Andrea del Verrocchio‚ who was one of the most recognized painters of his day. Da Vinci’s work soon became highly appreciated and that’s the reason why after a short period working for Verrocchio‚ Leonardo was employed by the Duke of Milan. From 1513‚ Leonardo
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Explain why the Philippines and California are affected by disasters in different ways California is a state on the west coast of the USA and the Philippines is an island country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. They are both considered hazard hotspots and frequently experience natural disasters. A natural disaster is the realisation of a hazard. California is an MEDC‚ the 6th largest economy in the world with a GDP of US$65000 per capita. However‚ despite the high risk of hazards
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tectonics--the motion of immense rigid plates at the surface of the Earth in response to flow of rock within the Earth. The plates cover the entire surface of the globe. Since they are all moving they rub against each other in some places (like the San Andreas Fault in California)‚ sink beneath each other in others (like the Peru-Chile Trench along the western border of South America)‚ or spread apart from each other (like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge). At such places the motion isn’t smooth--the plates are stuck
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McKaylah Andreas looked out her window. She lived in a small house on the side of the vast Pacific ocean‚ but there was nothing special about that. The ocean was everywhere these days. Stupid earthquakes! She had never been particularly fond of the water‚ and found it funny how people paid so much for an oceanside view. She would pay anything to move away from the disaster that she had inadvertently caused. “McKaylah! Come downstairs for breakfast‚ the boat is going to be here to take you to
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Write about the way Andrea Levy portrays characters in Small Island. The novel ‘Small Island’ by Andrea Levy surrounds the happenings of four characters in 1948 after World War II‚ when England was just about recovering from the terror the war had caused and‚ more specific to the novel‚ when there was a sudden influx of foreigners immigrating to Britain. Levy takes on the voices of four individual and vastly different characters in the novel and attempts to tell us their stories and their dreams
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scenery and objects around him. When he was around the age of twelve‚ his biological father sent da Vinci’s drawings to a famous Florentine painter and sculptor‚ Andrea del Verrocchio. He thought da Vinci’s drawings were very impressive and soon it was arranged for Leonardo da Vinci to become an apprentice. Under the care and teachings of Andrea del Verrocchio‚ da Vinci learned how to prepare wooden panels for painting‚ how to grind color by hand‚ how to make
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