John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address Friday‚ January 20‚ 1961 Heavy snow fell the night before the inauguration‚ but thoughts about cancelling the plans were overruled. The election of 1960 had been close‚ and the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts was eager to gather support for his agenda. He attended Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown that morning before joining President Eisenhower to travel to the Capitol. The Congress had extended the East Front‚ and the inaugural platform spanned
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After the invention of the cotton gin‚ the surrender of raw cotton doubled each decade after 1800. Demand for cotton was fueled by other inventions of the Industrial Revolution‚ such as the machines to spin and weave it and the steamboat to transport it. At mid century the South provided three-fifths of America’s exports‚ most of it in cotton. The cotton gin gave birth to the American mass-production concept and brought the South prosperity‚ but still contributed to the growth of slavery. While
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Natural Calamities A natural calamity is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of‚ or effecting‚ the Earth; examples include floods‚ severe weather‚ volcanic eruptions‚ earthquakes‚ and other geologic processes. A natural calamity can cause loss of life or property damage‚ and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake‚ the severity of which depends on the affected population’s resilience‚ or ability to recover. A natural calamity are the side effects or the after effects
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Winter (/ˈwɪntər/) is the coldest season of the year in temperate climates‚ between autumn and spring. It is caused by the axis of the Earth in the respective hemisphere being oriented away from the Sun. Different cultures define different dates as the start of winter‚ and some use a definition based on weather‚ but when it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere‚ and vice versa. In many regions‚ winter is associated with snow and freezing temperatures. At the
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Index Introduction ……………………………………………………………....3 Earth quakes ……………………………………………..……………….3 Volcanic eruptions………………………………………………………...3 Floods………………………………………………………………..…….4 Limnic eruptions…………………………………………………………4 Tsunamis……………………………………………………………….…5 Blizzards …………………………………………………………………5 Droughts &Hailstorms ……………………………………………........6 Tornadoes & Fires …………………………………………….………..7 Gamma ray burst ……………………………………….………………7 Conclusion ………………………………………………………………7 References …………………………………………………………………………..……………
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Jersey on Octuber 29‚ 2012 and brought with it major flooding‚ travel interruptions‚ structural damage‚ and power outages. New York City was especially hard hit. The storm system was so large‚ nearly 1‚000 miles wide at times‚ it brought blizzard conditions to West Virginia and 20 foot waves to Lake Michigan. It is projected Sandy will have caused about $30 billion in damages in the United States. To date‚ the storm claimed more than 100 lives. Without being using rhetoric talking
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A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ orexplosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life‚ property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people. In contemporary
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“To own the Earth‚ There is no word for this in the Sioux Language.” The Battle of Wounded Knee was the last battle of the American Indian Wars it was also one of the most gruesome battles that either side had seen. An estimated three hundred Indians lay dead while the US army had lost twenty five and thirty nine were wounded some of who would die later. This was one of the worst acts that the Americans have ever done to the Native Americans. One Native American stated later “it was as if the soldiers
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WHAT IS A NATURAL DISASTER A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods‚ volcanic eruptions‚ earthquakes‚ tsunamis‚ and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage‚[1] and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake‚ the severity of which depends on the affected population’s resilience‚ or ability to recover.[2] In 2012‚ there were 905 natural disasters worldwide‚ 93% of which were
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