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    Sylvie’s Rough Draft A category 5 hurricane can reach up to 155 mph winds (USA TODAY). There were already 3 hurricanes in the 20th century. I think you should evacuate the city even if it’s not that severe just to be safe. It’s for your own safety. We will be evacuating the city for your own safety. Any soft or young trees will snap or uproot with winds that strong‚ destroying everything it lands on including electrical wires‚ houses‚ cars‚ and other dangerous things. Also water levels will rise

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    In Stephen King’s novella‚ Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption‚ it is in fact conscious and cognizant actions performed by Andy which result in his escape form the prison and free him of the of grave malice of wrongful conviction. Andy mindfully developed an advantageous‚ reciprocal relationship with the Shawshank administration. The passion from undying hope and optimism‚ in essence are his liberator. Andy’s qualifications‚ experience and knowledge play a large part in the events leading up to

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    2005 Hurricane Katrina was in the Gulf of Mexico were it was a category 5 storm and winds estimated up to 175 miles per hour. At 7:10 am on August 29 hurricane Katrina made landfall in southern Plaquemines Parish‚ Louisiana. It made landfall as a category 3 hurricane and maximum winds up to 135 miles per hour. The hurricane caused a total of 1‚833 fatalities. And the damage cost of this hurricane was $ 108 billion dollars. On October 27‚ 2012 Hurricane Sandy made landfall. Hurricane Sandy

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    Hurricane Dancers is primarily poetic fiction. For example‚ Bernardino de Talavera‚ the pirate who captures Quebrado‚ Ojeda‚ and other slaves‚ says “I offered the illusion of mercy/and Ojeda was desperate enough/to believe me.” (10) The author portrays Ojeda as an assassin killing for glory. But Ojeda seems weak in Talavera’s flashback‚ falling for his “fake mercy”. If the author kept Ojeda’s killer trait‚ Ojeda wouldn’t have certainly fallen for Talavera’s lie. But instead‚ Ojeda does fall for his

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    Hurricanes and Tornadoes Where did my house go! Hurricanes and tornadoes‚ you don’t want to be in either of them. They are both very destructive. If your in one‚ you will more likely die. When you see get protected or sprint away. They are gigantic‚ form in different ways‚ and cost lots of damage. To begin with‚ tornadoes come in very fast and some times with no waring. Tornadoes can be 2.6 miles wide and 6‚000 feet tall. According to Source 3‚ they can last a few seconds or more than a hour

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    Hi‚ I’m Lilly. I am ten years old. I live in New Orleans on 22nd Avenue. I heard that there’s a hurricane coming and it is called Hurricane Katrina. It is also a category five hurricane. Two days later mom‚ dad‚ Cleo‚ and Michael woke me up and the house was full of water. Dad told us to get on the roof. My best friend‚ Claire‚ lives next door to me. I saw her on the roof. I yelled her name and asked her if she’s okay and she said she was. I was very nervous. I could hear the wind blowing in

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    Parsley Rita Dove Summary

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    Dove’s History Lesson “Parsley” by Rita Dove is a poem that tells the story of true events that happened in the early 1900s in the Dominican Republic. Dove tells the story of how the dictator of the Dominican Republic had over 20‚000 Haitian workers killed because they couldn’t pronounce the word “perejil‚” which is Spanish for parsley‚ correctly. The poem is broken up into two parts; the first part is given from the Haitians’ perspective‚ while the second part is from the dictator Rafael

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    Hurricanes are storms that form over tropical parts of oceans‚ once they hit land they can be disastrous and wipe out people‚ cars‚ and even buildings! Some hurricanes will form in the ocean and never actually hit land. Hurricanes are more common to occur during hurricane season which starts in June and ends in late November. If you live in a tropical area near an ocean then you will likely experience hurricanes more frequently even if it isn’t hurricane season. Hurricanes begin as tropical depressions

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    Hurricanes are powerful atmospheric vortices that are intermediate in size. Hurricanes are unique and powerful weather systems. The word "hurricane" comes from a Caribbean word meaning "big wind". Views of hurricanes can be seen from a satellite positioned thousands of miles above the earth. Hurricanes originate as tropical disturbances over warm oceans with trade winds. The tropical turbances intensify into tropical depressions‚ and eventually into a tropical storm. They only originate

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    Disaster: Change and Life

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    Disaster Desolation‚ havocs‚ demolition‚ Annihilation; does one truly know the definition until he or she experience this personally? A Place that once delineated as beautiful‚ fascinate‚ and tranquil. Changed dramatically to unkempt‚ desecrate‚ and unsafe on a single disastrous day‚ October 4‚ 2009. My experience on a mission’s trip to Philippines after hurricane Ondoy showed me this devastation and has forever touched my feelings. I look forward to having an opportunity to not only share

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