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    natural disaster‚ but still the city suffers from one of the most common natural hazards quite often. One of the major natural events or extreme weather that happens in Las Vegas is monsoons and flash flooding. A few times a year‚ there are flash floods where the rain seem to come out of nowhere and water builds up in some areas very quickly. Flash flooding is something that will be experienced in the future as it happens yearly. Another very common natural hazard that is experienced in Las Vegas

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    The Epic of Gilgamesh Comparison The Epic of Gilgamesh has many similarities with stories that come after its creation which leads us to believe it inspired those stories. One example of a story similar is the story of the great flood located in the Bible. The Epic of Gilgamesh tells a story of “The Flood”. A man name Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh about a city called Shuruppak. This city was too loud for the Gods and they could get no sleep so they agreed to exterminate mankind by causing the whole

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    until a flood would come and kill everything that breathed. The ark was complete when the rain started to pour from the heavens. It lasted for ten months. Noah sent a dove out to see if there was land. The dove came back with a sprig of an olive leaf. Eventually‚ the dove didn’t come back when it was sent out and Noah opened the door. The ground

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    Great Floods have been a topic of many myths throughout time. These stories are mostly about gods or higher powers trying to wipe out or cleanse the population. Some of these myths include; Eridu Genesis‚ Atrahasis Epic‚ Gilgamesh‚ and many more. The Eridu Genesis is the earliest flood myth. It tells how The deity Enki tells Ziudsura about his plan to destroy all of man with a flood and instructs him to build a giant boat. It floods for seven days and then Ziudsura makes sacrifices and chants

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    Epic of Gilgamesh vs. Noahs Flood The epic of Gilgamesh and “Noah and the Flood” both tell stories of a treacherous flood which wiped out all of mankind. These “The Great Hymn to the Aten” is the longest of several New Kingdom praise poems to the sun god Aten. This poem‚ composed as a hymn‚ or sacred song‚ was found on the wall of a tomb built for a royal scribe named Ay and his wife. It was intended to assure their safety in the afterlife. The Egyptians had worshiped the sun—along with a host

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    Case study – Boscastle flash flood * Afternoon – Monday 16th August * 200mm rain fell in 24 hours – most in 5 hours * Average for whole of Boscastle in August – 75mm * Water poured down steep-sided valley slopes and swelled normal * Water poured down steep-sided valley slopes and swelled normally small River Valency flowing towards harbour = burst its banks. * Effects – * Nobody was killed * 58 buildings flooded‚ some had to be demolished * 25 business properties

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    Uttarakhand Floods: A Disaster of Our Own Making? Even after two weeks of rescue operations uncertainty prevails over the number of casualties and people still stuck in what is described as the worst natural disaster that has ever struck the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. The Chief Minister of the mountainous state‚ Vijay Bahuguna‚ says that the exact number of deaths in the calamity will never be known as estimates of the actual casualties vary from hundreds to several thousands

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    21-005 The Story of the Flood in three Gilgamesh‚ The Metamorphosis and Genesis It is apparent in our class readings‚ that when the gods are angry at the humans they created‚ these gods unleash unforgiving rains to flood the earth‚ and kill the human race. Over the years‚ there have been various texts about these floods. While the occurrences of the floods themselves are continuous throughout these texts‚ they have varying reasons for the cause of the floods and different aftermaths or consequences

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    COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN DR. JOSE RIZAL AND PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON A Research Study Presented to Ma’am Angeline Valdez of the Institute of Engineering‚ Information and Applied Technology Kalinga-Apayao State College In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY By: Walid D. Barambangan September 10‚ 2013 I. Introduction Life of other people is great way of learning new good things in life especially the life of other heroes

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    Mohandas Gandhi and Mao Zedong were two great leaders who succeeded in many ways by their actions and decisions. Gandhi was an Indian leader and Mao a Chinese leader. However‚ their approach to success‚ peace‚ and ultimately‚ a revolution‚ was very different. Mao favored peace through violence‚ and Gandhi favored peace through non-cooperation and standing up for what is right. He also believed that these changes will be accomplished by “conscious suffering”‚ was the way he put it. However‚ despite

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