Bram Stoker was a European author who wrote during the Victorian movement (1837-1901). During this literary period‚ authors focused their works around a multitude of topics‚ including‚ but not limited to‚ nature‚ the growing population and the industrial revolution in Europe‚ the relationships between people and their environment‚ the events that follow when one leaves their community‚ and how an individual’s actions affect either themselves or other people. Stoker explores some of these topics of
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and southeastern states. In the western United States‚ they occur with cold late fall or late winter storms‚ during a time when you least expect it to develop. They occasionally move inland becoming tornadoes that can cause a great deal of damage and many injuries. Most tornadoes evolve from energy. Tornadoes come from the energy released in a
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INTRODUCTION A "Cyclonic Storm" or a "Cyclone" is an intense vortex or a whirl in the atmosphere with very strong winds circulating around it in anti-clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and in clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere. The word "Cyclone" is derived from the Greek‚ word "Cyclos" meaning the coils of a snake. To Henri Peddington‚ the tropical storms in the Bay of Bengal and in the Arabian Sea appeared like the coiled serpents of the sea and he named these storms as "Cyclones"
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City with record-breaking force on October of 2012‚ claiming many lives and causing billions of dollars in damage. According to National Geographic (2012)‚ the super storm killed over one hundred people in Haiti and the Caribbean and another one hundred people in the United States‚ 43 of those being New York City residents. The large storm surge flipped trees‚ swept away cars‚ and even destroyed many buildings and homes. The large amount of water in the city caused 8 million homes to lose power as well
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Igor The people of Newfoundland and Labrador are used to watching natural disasters on television‚ not usually do they get to expierence them up front. But on September 22‚ 2010 Newfoundland and Labrador was hit by Hurricane Igor‚a storm that effected everyone in different ways. Some of the effects of Hurricane Igor were flooding and power outages that lasted up to 12 days. The Hurricane ripped through Newfoundland as a category 1 Hurricane‚ and left at least 30 communities
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director of nature being unpredictable‚ dangerous and deadly. One example of nature’s unpredictability is the plane crash that left Tom Hanks’ character cast away. The crash was caused by a lightning strike during a sudden violent storm. On many days‚ there were violent storms which made Chuck Noland’s life on the island even more difficult. As well as struggling to keep his life‚ Tom Hanks’ character struggled to keep his sanity. His struggle is shown clearly by Tom Hanks’ acting. Tom Hanks’ acting
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Write a commentary on one of the following: The music of the ship was howling around him. The low whistlings; the tortured rumbles; the wheezy sputters of breeze flowing through it. The clatter of loose wainscoting. The clank of chains. The groaning of boards. The blare of wind. Never before had he felt rain quite like it. It seemed to spew from the clouds‚ not merely to fall. He watched the wave rise up from a quarter of a mile away. Rolling. Foaming. Rushing. Surging. Beginning to thicken and
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great power. ƒæWhat is the tone of Stanza II? How does the author describe the clouds? In Stanza II we find the poet to be rather uncertain and concerned with the violence and terror of air storms. This would also be the tone of this stanza. Shelley seeks to emphasize the terrifying darkness of the storm scene‚ with its darkness and associations with death. The clouds are described as being dark‚ stormy‚ foreshadowing a bad‚ ill - tempered mood or aura. ƒæWhy is the poet using the imagery of waves
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growling. It seemed that after such an amazing day as this one that this vacation could only get better‚ but alas that was not in nature’s plans. The next morning‚ dark clouds loomed in the horizon‚ signaling a storm; little did I know that it would turn out to be the mother of all tropical storms; a hurricane! Most occupants of the island were in a hurry to leave‚ but the bridge was the only way out of the island‚ other than the airport which was closed in this emergency. While most of the city’s
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concept of family and the need for people in our lives. In the scene towards the end of the movie in which Sam and Suzy make a risky climb up to the top of the church bell-tower‚ in the middle of a storm‚ police chief Captain Sharp (Bruce Willis) saves their lives by caring enough to follow them into the storm and bring them back to safety. Wes Anderson combines the elements of a raging thunderstorm‚ the repeated appearance of a distinct silhouette styled shot‚ and the audio effect of church-bells in
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