Andrea Robinson Carrie Maison English 101 December 28‚ 2013 The Siren that Cried Wolf Picture yourself in Tornado Alley‚ it’s a bright sunny day‚ you’re at the park having a great day with your children‚ then the tornado siren sounds. What do you do? It’s sunny outside‚ you look up and there are no clouds to be seen. Do you take cover or do you continue enjoying your day at the park? Is it 10 a.m. on a Monday morning‚ when they are testing the sirens? No‚ it is 3:37 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon
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Prior to the tornado‚ my experience of Joplin was limited to a dozen family visits over two decades. My lasting impression from those years were of a city that felt more like a small town. However‚ Joplin is the fourteenth-largest city and the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Missouri‚ boasting 49‚000 residents and a daytime population of 270‚000 taken from the metropolitan population of 400‚000 citizens. Of the citizens who self-identified their ethnicity in the 2010 census‚ 85.6 percent were
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United States are increasingly coming in swarms rather than as isolated twisters‚ according to a study by U.S. government meteorologists published on Thursday that illustrates another trend toward extreme weather emerging in recent years. Looking at tornado activity over the past six decades‚ the study in the journal Science found the total number of tornadoes annually remaining rather steady‚ averaging 495. Since the 1970s‚
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Maya Ying Lin By: Srivarshini Parameswaran Maya Lin is one of the most modern architects you probably have ever known. Maya Lin was born on October 5‚ 1959 in Athens‚ Ohio. She was also an artist and a sculptor. The book Boundaries was also by her. Maya designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982‚ the Civil Rights Memorial in 1989‚ Groundswell in 1995‚ The Wave Field in 1995‚ Flutter in 2005‚ and other great projects. Maya’s mother was a poetry writer
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Janis Joplin once said "I always wanted to be an artist‚ whatever that was‚ like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought." The 60’s were a time that stuck with the American people‚ and it doesn’t seem to be leaving. It was a time for expression and success in new ways. But not everyone’s success came as easy. Janis Joplin was a free spirited person‚ who didn’t believe in judgement but she believed in second chances. Whether that applied to her success or others. Her career
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A tornado and hurricanes location in the U.S obviously differs. Hurricanes‚ which form over water‚ are stationed on the East coast of the U.S‚ but tornadoes are farther away from the ocean and the forming location of a hurricane‚ because a tornado has no need to be supplied with warm water to feed it energy. A tornado and hurricanes features and characteristics may widely differ‚ such as their location varieties and frequency inequalities but their similarities don’t go unnoticed. A tornado and
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Severe Weather Storms: Hurricanes and Tornadoes A hurricane is an extremely violent tropical cyclone. The origin of the term Hurricane originates from a Mayan Storm god by the name of Hurakan. He was a Central American idol who believably caused the storms. Years later‚ the hypothesis of someone creating angry storms has been corrected. It is known that these storms are an act of nature by God’s laws at work. The term hurricane just stuck with the weather condition. Another source states
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Tornado and hurricane essay First of did you know that a hurricane is worse than a tornado. A tornado can happen at any time a hurricane can happen with a warning. So you need to be prepared so you need to know the cost ‚ the size‚ and the appearance. A tornado can throw a cd so hard it can go through a tree. Also a tornado can throw a fork through a tree. Next a tornado can cost up to 500$ million at the average. A hurricane can cost 100$ Billion at average.The reason is because
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The Spanish word is tronada means thunderstorms is original word of Tornado in English word and in Thailand‚ We called "Salatan". Tornadoes or tornado or woven Arnedo (Chang) is the storm caused by the rotation of the air. Can happen in many aspects. The most common style is characteristic cone. By the end of the cone pointing down to the ground. Tornadoes can cause damage even higher. The wind speed can be as high as 500 km / h (300 miles / hr.)‚ which caused the collapse of the building. Tornadoes
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6‚ 2013 Short Report on Tornadoes Introduction A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. A violent tornado is capable of enormous amount of destruction with wind speeds up to 300 miles per hour. The tornados can reach up to one mile wide and fifty miles long. A report I read said in an average year‚ 1‚500 tornados are reported nationwide which results in estimated 80 deaths and over 1‚500 injuries. In my
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