Do you know how to prepare for a category five hurricane like Irma? We get the warnings from our local news station‚ but we always hope “that” the hurricane is not coming to our town. Reality is hurricanes have no patterns‚ and while weather predictions are vastly improving through technology‚ unfortunately hurricanes are hard to predict where they will make landfall until that very day. To begin let’s discuss protection of the residence “your home is one of your largest investments‚ so protecting
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just the calm before the storm. Meteorologists explain that hurricanes sap energies in the atmosphere to produce a calm right before the storm. Not long after they sailed from Fair haven‚ a fierce hurricane called the ‘Northeaster’ swept down from the Crete and its mountains. It was strong and after the ship was caught in it‚ steering was impossible. The sailors lost control to the wind and the ship was driven out to sea by the hurricane. Luckily it was blown into sheltered section of the small island
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COACH CARTER 1. WHAT IS THE OVERALL THEME OF THE MOVIE? The movie’s theme is‚ with the combination of education and good decisions‚ and not the environment or athletics‚ is the way out of inner city life. Good choices make a man’s character. 2. IDENTIFY THE MAIN CHARACTER‚ HIS/HER ROLE AND HIS/HER IMPACT AND CONNECTION TO THE THEME. The main character is Coach Ken Carter. Carter pushes his student athletes to strive in education rather then solely depending on basketball. By locking up their
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Jersey is not normally where hurricanes violently meet land and its inhabitants‚ the weather pattern became apparent that we were not going to escape this one. On October 29‚ Hurricane Sandy began to embrace and ravish everything impeding its chosen path. Instead of soccer and candy giving‚ the days were complete with continued damage from the storm‚ school cancellations‚ and gas lines. For my creative project‚ I decided to investigate the ramifications of Hurricane Sandy to understand and reflect
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In the immediate aftermath of hurricane Katrina‚ more than one third of the evacuees in Houston shelters reported that they had spent time in the Superdome in New Orleans. About forty percent of the evacuees said that they had spent at least one day on the street or overpass waiting to be rescued. Moreover‚ 34% had reported that they were trapped in their homes‚ and some of them were trapped and waited for 3 days to be rescued. The National Guard as reported by evacuees rescued most of the people
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perfect‚ beautiful day but this was the day that the world witnessed a catastrophie that would have lasting effects on our economy. People sat glued to their television screens as Hurricane Katrina ripped through three states taking with it the homes and lives of millions of people. In the aftermath of this powerful hurricane‚ the people of the United States realized how valuable their families‚ lives‚ and the economy was to them. Something that we took for granted everyday. As the days wore on after
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Hurricane Katrina was one of the most destructive storms to ever hit the United States and left behind much devastation to the south coast‚ particularly New Orleans‚ Louisiana. However‚ there were many ways that some of this physical and emotional damage could have been prevented‚ particularly by the government systems and engineers. When the Levees Broke‚ a movie directed by Spike Lee‚ clearly showed this and the interviews of those who lived through the storm were truly heart wrenching. However
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that I think everything was done the way it should have been done. All the nurses and physicians did what they could to keep the hospital running as smoothly as they possibly could. The hospital went through a devastating natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina. It was so devastating that it was hard to believe it really happened. No one could stop it only mother nature. It happened and it was real. Memorial hospital became like an island of only the hospital as the flood waters rose around it(Anna
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Jimmy Carter was born on October 1st‚ 1924. He was born and raised in Georgia where he also attended college. He was the 39th president. Carter was a Baptist and his parents where very religious. Carter has three sons: john‚ James and Donnel. Carter was married to Rossalynn. Carter attended Georgia southwestern college and later in the navy became a submariner. Also‚ carter attending Union College. After the death of his father he returned to take care of his mother. He became a community leader
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Jimmy Carter was a natural-born leader and hard worker. He served as 39th President of the United States‚ from 1977 to 1981. Carter is still alive today and has 4 children. When Jimmy was just ten he would load his family’s produce onto a wagon and haul it into town to sell it. By the time Carter was 14 he had enough money to buy 5 houses‚ because of the Great Depression the housing market dropped. So he fixed them up and rented them out to families in need. While Jimmy Carter was president he worked
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