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    As the Jewish woman who experienced the World War II and confronted the Fascism ideology in Italy‚ Ginzburg utilizes the understandings of her identity and experiences in her story by introducing Judaism and Fascism‚ and elaborately illustrating the conflicts between them. Therefore‚ the characters in The Mother are either typical Jews or Fascists‚ and their behaviors are judged by either the Judaism or Fascism moral standards. The character of the mother of the two boys in the story coincides with

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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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    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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    The San Francisco Earthquake In 1906 the world’s most deadly earthquake that ever happened‚ happened in San Francisco‚ Northern California on April 18th at 5: 12 am. The San Francisco earthquake caused problems for many of the people in the community; it caused lots of devastations throughout the whole city. The earthquake happened by a temblor that had a 7.7-7‚ 9 magnitude‚ which had lasted for about a minute and was the result of breaking the northernmost 296 miles of the 800-mile San Andreas

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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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    “Searching for Summer‚” by Joan Aiken‚ is an account of two newlywed people in search of something magical. The Sun. Most likely taking place somewhere in the future‚ the story tells of how our protagonists journey south through England in search of sunlight. The story begins on the wedding day of Tom and Lily. In England‚ the sky is always a gloomy‚ dull grey. An eternal cloud hovers over England‚ and possibly the world. Caused by the waste from bombs‚ it has existed since a time before the protagonists

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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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    DON’T FORGET TO WRITE YOUR COVER NOTE BRO Katie Norris Final Paper‚ Fall 2012 Labor and the Global Market 4/27/2012 The Most Interesting Title in the World In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in January of 2010‚ Haiti (already among the poorest nations in the western hemisphere) was left significantly more vulnerable and impoverished than ever before. With the partial or complete destruction of over 100‚000 places of work came the loss of approximately 90‚000 Haitian jobs

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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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    The gold rush of aid following the earthquake has transformed Haiti into an attractive business opportunity for the private sector; in such instances‚ the Haitian government is unaware of how many NGOs operate within the country.  A recent review on relief aid distributed to Haiti by the New

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