On August 23‚ 2005 a tropical depression formed over Bahamas‚ which later on became a category 5 hurricane that struck the Gulf of Mexico of the United State in the early morning of August 29‚ 2005. The hurricane caused some destruction along the coast due to the storm surge and levee failure. The day before the hurricane hit‚ the city had evacuated about 80 percent of the population; about 10‚000 people had sought shelter in the Superdome‚ while other people choose to stay at home until the storm
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my house go? I wonder how it happened‚ it was probably a hurricane or a tornado. Let’s see. Starting out‚ tornadoes and hurricanes can cause so much damage and are extremely huge. Man‚ tornadoes and hurricanes are so huge ‚ form in really cool ways‚ and come to a lot of different places. Tornadoes and hurricanes are also classified for tornados it’s efs for a tornado and a hurricanes it’s a category. To start‚ tornadoes and hurricanes form in magnificent ways. It also takes a lot of wind speed
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She and her family went into hiding on July 9‚ 1942. During this time‚ Anne wrote in her diary about her experiences‚ hope‚ and dreams. The eight Jews who lived in the Secret Annex for two years were found on August 4‚ 1944. She was 15 when her family and the others she was hiding with were found. She was sent to the concentration camp Westerbork. On the night on September 5‚ 1944‚ Anne and the rest of her family arrived in Auschwitz. She stayed there until October; then got moved
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Hurricanes and tornadoes‚ two natural disasters that the U.S. sees every year with various amounts of destruction for each hurricane and tornado. While they may both be very different‚ they have their similarities. As with anything‚ hurricanes and tornadoes have their differences. For instance‚ hurricanes aren’t dependant on thunderstorms to birth them whereas tornadoes rely on a thunderstorm in order to appear. Compared to a hurricane‚ tornadoes are significantly less wider than hurricanes with
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radio came on and informed‚ “Attention all New Orlean citizens‚ please evacuate the state in the next 15 minutes! A category 5 hurricane is coming!” Hurricane Katrina was the 3rd strongest hurricane to ever reach the U.S. (dosomething.org). “Lucy‚” Malorey yelled‚ “You need to pack up things you need to take with you on vacation!” She didn’t want Lucy to know that a hurricane is coming because she will have an anxiety attack.. “ Where are we going on vacation?” Lucy questioned her. We are going
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I. Operational Effectiveness Is Not Strategy According to Porter‚ various management tools like total quality management‚ benchmarking‚ time-based competition‚ outsourcing‚ partnering‚ reengineering‚ that are used today‚ do enhance and dramatically improve the operational effectiveness of a company but fail to provide the company with sustainable profitability. Thus‚ the root cause of the problem seems to be failure of management to distinguish between operational effectiveness and strategy: Management
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Case study The Walt Disney Company: The Entertainment King 1.Briefly describe the type(s) of diversification strategies that Walt Disney pursues/has pursued over the years. The Walt Disney company can be seen as a highly diversified company. Over the years‚ it has pursued a wide range of diversification strategies that we can enhance:Horizontal integration: obviously‚ Walt Disney has invaded several markets‚ diversifying its offer to many fields. In 2000‚ we can find five big main fields of
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Hurricanes can cause a lot of damage. My hurricane is Hurricane Andrew of 1992. Hurricanes can pop up at any time. They can cause massive amounts of damage. A hurricane starts as mass amounts of wind. What happens is the pressure drops. There is sometimes a storm and usually a mass amount of clouds. The weather would be cloudy and rainy during the storm. The hurricane that this paper is about Andrew of 1992 in Florida. Trees were toppled and agricultural damage was done. Andrew reached hurricane
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barrier islands which are the first and main defense against hurricanes. But the cost for these projects were too big to even consider them. People then noticed that the Army Corps of Engineers already dredge 40 to 45 million cubic yards of sediment from the delta each year. This could be put to good use but instead the sediment is dumped
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A hurricane is an intense tropical storm with powerful winds and heavy rain‚ also known as a cyclone. Hurricanes and tornadoes are both storm systems that can cause a lot of destruction. Hurricanes are much larger than tornadoes but tornadoes generate faster winds. They both need warm and cold air to become a hurricane or tornado‚ but are different in the way they form. Hurricanes and tornadoes both have a calm area at the center called an eye. The eye of a hurricane is the calmest. The winds around
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