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    Italy Earthquake Recently‚ Italy had a devastating earthquake‚ many cities were destroyed and jobs were lost. From above‚ cities looked like piles of rocks. The earthquake on August 24‚ at 3:36 AM. It struck in the Apennine Mountains and the northern coast of Italy. There have been roughly around 292 deaths and 365 injured. Cultural buildings have been destroyed and many camps have been set up to account for the homes lost. Search crews have been set out and are working hard to try to find signs

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    History of Haiti” historians do a good job at this. Here‚ the perspective of the African Americans is primarily focused on. I found this film extremely interesting because it was surprisingly all knew for me to hear. While watching this I

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    The Kobe earthquake (also known as the Great Hanshin earthquake‚ Hanshin meaning Osaka-Kobe) was a tragic disaster on several levels. The earthquake lasted just twenty seconds but caused so much damage‚ trauma and of course‚ loss. The focus of the earthquake was 16km beneath the epicentre‚ 20km from the city of Kobe. Japan‚ ironically‚ was named the “most earthquake proof country” before this disaster occurred. The earthquake measured 7.2 on the Richter scale and many more died from the fires that

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    Fray Ms. Benedetto English IV 29 May 2024 Resilience Essay Resilience is those in Rafah who are waking up every morning and thriving to the best of their ability knowing it could be their last day living. Resilience is the citizens of Haiti. Me is the citizens of Haiti who have to continue to wake up every morning when their country is going through a genocide. Resilience to me is the people of Taiwan who are currently getting ready to defend their country from China’s attacks. Resilience to me is

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    combination of earthquake and tsunami was a wakeup call reminding companies across the world how much they rely on nature to commerce business. On Friday 11 March 2011‚ an earthquake measuring 9.0 on Richter scale struck off Japan’s north-east coast of Tohoku which happened at 2:46pm (Alabaster et al. 2011). The massive earthquake was caused due to thrust faulting where rocks placed lower in the earth’s crust get pushed over the overlying layers (Alabaster et al. 2011). After the earthquake‚ the shadow

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    Teal Pfeifer majored in English wrote this essay at Stanford University during her sophomore year. The essay "Devastating Beauty" by Teal Pfeifer is written to describe the fascination of young and older women to accomplish a perfect body-image that is eventually unachievable. When we are asked to define beauty or think of it or define it‚ we often make a statement that beauty is in the “eyes of the beholder” but for many others it is the observation of the outside layer of our physical beings.

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    Was the Japan Earthquake Manmade? An earthquake with an 8.9-magnitude tremor struck Japan on March 11th 2011‚ 400km north-east of Tokyo. It struck at 1446 local time at a depth of about 24km with an ensuing tsunami which devastated the north coast. Officials said 350 people are dead and about 500 missing‚ but it is feared the final death toll will be much higher. The quake was the fifth-largest in the world since 1900. A manmade device that can cause such an earthquake is a device that emits

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    Church 1 McAlister asks‚ "How does pop culture help people survive?"(McAlister‚ p162). Throughout the last few readings and films that have been shown and talked about they have touched upon the topic of what pop culture does for nations like Haiti. Pop culture is a way for the Caribbean to express the politics‚ emotions‚ and the social conflicts the natives of the Caribbean face every day being in the Caribbean or in America. Rara is something that is used to express thoughts through music

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    On December‚ 6th‚ 1917‚ an unexpected explosion at Halifax‚ Harbour front had left the citizens of the Nova Scotia capital and the rest of Canada devastated. Five minutes after 9:00 a.m on that day‚ hundreds of people were killed and thousands were severely injured by the impact. A collision of two ships on the harbour due to miscommunication left everything destroyed during the time of WWI. The crash had led to the French munitions ship‚ the SS Mont-Blanc to blow up in flames. Caused by impact from

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    very dangerous risk than to stay in their current country‚ where there are limited resources. Government policies and intervention play an important role that affects the migration spread in many countries. One well known developing country is Haiti. Haiti is a small country that is found in the West Indies. Its history is

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