Kobe Earthquake – Case Study Kobe Earthquake – Case Study In the early morning of January the 17th 1995 instruments in a lab in western Japan picked up a burst of intense electro-magnetic radiation. It was the signature of a massive earthquake which had just struck the City of Kobe from its epicentre 20 kilometres to the south west. There was no warning‚ 180‚000 buildings were destroyed‚ an urban area 20 kilometres long and 4 kilometres wide was totally wrecked. Nothing moved in or out of Kobe
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Kobe Earthquake An earthquake occurred on January 17th‚ 1995‚ at 5:46 am in the south-central part of Japan. This earthquake registered as 7.2 on the Richter scale and caused mass destruction. It was thus named The Great Hanshin Earthquake. It later earned the name as the Kobe Earthquake due to the amount of damage that Kobe‚ Japan suffered. Its focus was only 16 km below ground. Shock-waves splintered buildings‚ destroyed roads‚ and ruptured mains of gas‚ water‚ and electricity. Over 6‚400 people
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In order to examine both the POTUS account and Donald Trump’s account’s use of evaluative language to communicate with their imagined audience‚ it is important to define the term imagined audience and examine the imagined audience of each of the accounts. The imagined audience can be defined as “the conceptualisation of the people with whom we are communicating‚ our audience (Litt‚ 2012:331).” In Donald Trump’s case‚ it is clear that his tweets are targeted at Americans‚ his followers and supporters
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general‚ the first name that usually comes to mind is Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls. Throughout his career he scored over 32‚000 points‚ won six NBA titles‚ six NBA Finals MVP awards and five NBA regular season MVP awards. He undoubtedly will go down as the greatest player in the history of not only basketball but all of sports. Every time a big name enters the NBA Draft‚ everybody always asks “Is this kid the next Michael Jordan?” Michael has always been the measuring stick for NBA stars.
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Kobe Bryant was drafted to the National Basketball Association in the 1996 NBA draft and was the 13th overall pick. He was drafted by the Charlette Hornets but was immediately traded to the Los Angeles Lakers where he would spend his whole career and retire in the 2015-2016 season. In Kobe Bryant’s NBA career‚ he would accomplish a number of achievements. Kobe Bryant is the third all-time scorer in NBA history. He is also the second player in NBA history to score more than 80 points in a single game
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Become Legendary The Kobe and Lebron comparison is now probably the biggest and most controversial talk in today’s sports news. Lebron can go to the hoop with authority‚ while Kobe is a sleek and flashy all around shooter. Although being two of the best players in the world they are very different in the ways they play the game of basketball. Though both Kobe and Lebron went to the NBA straight out of high school‚ and being two of the league’s best all around players who are lethal threats
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One of Kobe Bryant’s trainers was asked to assist Bryant in some conditioning at around 4 o’clock in the morning. After the conditioning session the trainer went their separate but the trainer met up with Bryant hours later and realized his great worth ethic after finding out that Kobe did not complete his practice until about 11 o’clock in the morning because he wanted to make 800 shots (Clear). Kobe Bryant’s hard work ethic shows the deliberate practice he put in to achieve a specific goal and
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“Who’s better?” Since Lebron James has entered the NBA people argued who was better between him and Kobe Bryant or who was closer to playing on the same level as the great Michael Jordan. People use the argument that Kobe is playing closer to Jordan’s performance level because of the amount of champion ships he has won 5 rings to Jordan’s 6 rings. For those Who Actually watch the game of basketball it is not about how many champion ships a person one for him to be a great basketball because
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A Mid Summers Night Dream Jordan LeMieur MSND essay Mrs. Falknor Hr. 3 4/4/12 “What hast thou done? Thou hast mistaken quite and laid the love juice on some true love’s sight. Of thy misprision must perforce ensue some true love turned‚ and not a false turned true.” What is true love? Does love at first sight really exist? How has love and marriage changed over time? All of these questions will be answered with my opinions. True love can be deciphered in
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Have you ever hit a dead end and there seems to be nowhere to go. Michael Jordan was one of the best basketball players out there and he made a lot of good quotes. It is important to never give up because if you give up then you are letting yourself down and maybe other people. It is important to never give up because if you do you give all hope up for you and hope is the foundation of success. In the book Martian there was one person left on mars by himself and there was a point where he gave up
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