Bangladesh Floods 1998 [pic] ----------------------- Prediction: ← Bangladesh is built on delta and floodplain of the Ganges‚ Brahmaputra‚ Meghna River‚ this area is expected to flood. ← The annual flood is expected and is needed to make the land fertile for farming. ← Upwards of 300 million people live on the Ganges delta‚ and this is increasing. Effects: ← 2379 people died. ← Destruction of communication network meant it was impossible to deliver food and medical
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Historic Flood Hits Minot The sounds of a siren crushed the hearts of an entire city as water overcame the dikes and flooded the streets. The people of Minot‚ North Dakota heard the siren and knew that their lives were about to greatly change. The Souris River topped the dikes in Minot on June 22‚ 2011. About twelve thousand residents were evacuated out of their homes after a desperate attempt to build sandbag walls around their houses and neighborhoods. All that the residents were able to do was
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1927 Mississippi Flood In one of most powerful natural disasters in the 1900s‚ the Mississippi river flooded which caused severe damage around the states of Arkansas‚ Illinois‚ Kentucky‚ Louisiana‚ Mississippi‚ Tennessee‚ Texas‚ Oklahoma‚ and Kansas. The flood was caused during a large rainfall that lasted approximately 18 hours; the rainfall caused an overflow in the Mississippi river that overtook the banks. This flood wreaked havoc amongst the citizens in its path. The disaster caused over
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Sensors 2012‚ 12‚ 4213-4236; doi:10.3390/s120404213 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors Article A Real-Time Measurement System for Long-Life Flood Monitoring and Warning Applications Rafael Marin-Perez 1‚ ‚ Javier Garc´a-Pintado 2‚3 and Antonio Skarmeta G´ mez 1 ı o 1 Department of Information and Communication Engineering‚ University of Murcia‚ Campus de Espinardo‚ E-30100‚ Murcia‚ Spain; E-Mail: skarmeta@um.es 2 Euromediterranean Water Institute‚ Campus
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The forces that alienate Annie and Jose are their skin color‚ their education‚ and the European colonization. There are many things that oppress Annie and Jose from blossoming into the best they can be. They both were born into struggling families and had ancestors that were slaves. Annie is “more” free per se‚ Jose is a child during the time the slaves are now workers. Even though they are workers‚ they are still basically slaves. Their education is very limited because of where they live and their
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Imagine everything you own is wet. Do you remember the flood here in 2010? Did you or someone you love suffer as a result of it? Of the two pictures above‚ they both illustrate some of the devastating effects of flooding but only one picture is of the Nashville flood. The picture on the left is of the current flooding in Peru. We Nashvillians have a kinship with the people of Peru in that we understand how welcome a clean‚ dry set of clothes is when we have none. We remember what it feels like
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2013 Argentina floods 2013 Argentina floods Duration 2 April 2013–3 April 2013 Fatalities 99+ Areas affected Greater Buenos Aires Greater La Plata From 2–3 April 2013‚ the northeastern section of Buenos Aires Province‚Argentina‚ experienced several flash floods that claimed the lives of at least 100 people. Greater La Plata was hardest hit with 89 reported deaths‚ and Greater Buenos Aires reported 10 deaths. The flooding was the result of extremely heavy rainfall and is said to be the
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Form No. Regn.-03 Assam Higher Secondary Education Council Bamunimaidam‚ Guwahati-21 APPLICATION FORM FOR MIGRATION CERTIFICATE 1. Name in full [in Block Letters] 2. Father’s Name & Home Address : : ……………………………………………………….. ……………………………………………………….. ……………………………………………………….. ……………………………………………………….. 3. AHSEC Registration Certificate No. 4. Examination Results Examination passed HSLC HS (Arts/Sc./Com) Name of the Board/ University Examination Roll & No. Year of passing Division / Class : ………………………………………………………
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or burned but none of this changes the fact that we all suffer irrespective of our gender ‚place ‚name ‚form etc. so then why are we expected to react to this universal pain and suffering in a particular way ? The style of writing is very unique. Dillard doesn’t try to be subtle in her writing as she puts across the theme of universal pain and suffering. The truths are not sugar coated or twisted. She plainly lays out the stark realities of humanity before us. Of how we can so pitifully look at a
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Annie Leibovitz Madison Sutton Prof. Campbell Digital Photography 12 May‚ 2016 Annie Leibovitz is considered one of America’s best portrait photographers who developed a trademark while working at Rolling Stone magazine. She was born on October 2‚ 1949 here in Waterbury‚ Connecticut. In 1970 is when she landed her chief photographer position at Rolling Stone creating a distinctive look. In 1983 she started at entertainment magazine Vanity Fair continuing to create images that were both iconic and
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