The night of December 2‚ 1984 could have been like any other night in Bhopal‚ but around 11:00 PM‚ one of the world’s largest industrial tragedies in history decimated the city and scarred its inhabitants for life. Imagine the feeling of waking up in the middle of the night‚ unable to breathe‚ eyes burning‚ and chaos erupting in streets. Death and disarray in every place you look and life as you know it ending in agonizing flooding of your lungs as they collapse in upon themselves. This terrible
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result of this tragic chemical disaster on the night of 2-3rd December 1984. Half a million people were exposed to the gas and 20‚000 have died to date as a result of their exposure. More than 120‚000 people still suffer from ailments caused by the accident and the subsequent pollution at the plant site. These ailments include blindness‚ extreme difficulty in breathing‚ and gynecological disorders. Moreover‚ the Bhopal Disaster is claimed as the worst industrial disaster in history. 01. Cause
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Francisco Avila Composition 2 Essay #2 Rough draft Some Things to Improve Our Community Are There are some things that we can to do to improve our community. A lot of people think that the city council is who should be in charge of improving the community. They have reasons‚ but to have better results the neighbors and the city council must work as a team. The most important things that we should do to improve our community is create an assembly of neighbors‚ create some civil teams‚ and
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The 2011 Tohoku Pacific Coast Earthquake or more commonly referred as the ‘3/11’ disaster; first began as an undersea earthquake‚ off the coast of Miyagi prefecture. Then‚ the submarine earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0‚ transformed to a 15-meter tsunami waves (Akira‚ 2013). In the blink of an eye‚ the east coast of Japan‚ especially Sendai was engulfed by the massive tsunami waves‚ and led to the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi and the Fukushima Daiini nuclear power plants. In the documentary
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welding equipment‚ plastics‚ industrial chemicals‚ pesticides‚ and marine products. Their pesticide plant in Bhopal gained worldwide attention as a result of the disaster. At the time of the disaster UCIL was ranked twenty-first in size among companies operating in India‚ with revenues of 2
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Attention-getter: How many of you feel safe in your homes or know that if a natural disaster struck you would be able to make it out alive? Audience Relevance: Due in large part to the early warning systems we have in place today‚ we can avoid the vast majority of natural disasters in a way that previous generations could not. C.Speaker Credibility: As a resident of Houston‚ Texas‚ I grew up hearing the tales of some of the major Hurricanes that had zeroed in on our coastal region and left it
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Landslides The landslides are simply defined as the mass movement of rock‚ debris or earth down and have to include a broad range of motions whereby falling‚ sliding and flowing under the influence of gravity dislodges earth material. They often take place in conjunction with earthquakes‚ floods and volcanoes. The Himalayan Mountain‚ the north-east hill ranges and the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris experience considerable landslide activities of varying intensities. Also called landslip; Downward
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Australia‚ and the west coasts the U.S.‚ Mexico‚ Central America‚ and South America. As of Tuesday‚ March 15‚ the national police said that more than 15‚000 people were missing‚ though only 2‚414 deaths had been confirmed. Earthquake Causes Nuclear Disaster Disaster struck again on Saturday‚ March 12‚ when about 26 hours after the earthquake‚ an explosion in reactor No. 1 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station caused one of the buildings to crumble to the ground. The cooling system at the reactor
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sudden flow of electricity between two charged objects caused by contact. There was a total of 36 casualties which were 13 passengers‚ 22 crewmen‚ and even a worker on the ground. 62 out of the 97 passengers survived the crash. (wikipedia‚ Hindenburg Disaster‚ last edited 11/16/17) (wikipedia‚ Electrostatic discharge‚ last edited 11/20/17) The LZ 129 Hindenburg was designed by the Zeppelin company and was operated by the German Zeppelin Airline company. The Hindenburg airship
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He states that the Earth will do what it ultimately decides‚ whether that results in an earthquake or tsunami‚ in which he explains‚ both caused the plants demise. Robinson argues that because even well-respected scientists of Japan can’t predict disasters such as these‚ safety cannot be guaranteed. He emphasizes that even
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