rapidly‚ instantaneously and indiscriminately. These extreme events either natural or maninduced exceed the tolerable magnitude within or beyond certain time limits‚ make adjustment difficult‚ result in catastrophic losses of property and income and life is paralyzed. These events which occur aggravate natural environmental processes to cause disasters to human society such as sudden tectonic movements leading to earthquake and volcanic eruptions‚ continued dry conditions leading to prolonged droughts
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CEB 140005 My High School Memory I was sitting down‚ looking back at those old photos; these pictures struck me with old memories of my high school life. I do not think my best memory of my life has approached me yet. However‚ I feel my high school years have been the most memorable. My high school‚ a place that had transformed me from an innocent to a mature one. I was placed in an all-girls school
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THE LAST YEAR OF MY SCHOOL Here comes the last year the last year of my school Soon the innocent teenage hood will turn into harsh adolescence. It feels good to be in the last year but at the same time this thought scares me too. The ending of this will bring end to a lot of things. These days will never come back again and all the fun we had‚ Soon will be called as the unforgettable memories of school life‚ Which I will miss the most. All the stupid fights for stupid reasons‚ Making fun
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To what extent were Stalin’s 5-year plans successful in achieving rapid industrialization in the Soviet Union in 1928-1940? The Marxist ideology states that a society going through industrialization is the only thing that will cause a revolutionary change. Stalin believed in this ideology and proposed a 5-year plan in order to achieve rapid industrialization. They involved state intervention in the economy and great expansion of industry by using collectivization as their main method. The Communist
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In My Year of Meats‚ Ruth Ozeki portrays Jane Takagi Little as an unwavering light which reveals the veracity of the many intertwined and diverse people in the world. Jane’s crusade as a bona fide documentarian for an American meat show‚ My American Wife!‚ uncovers the many hidden implications of the American culture that affect the views of Japanese culture. In a small‚ yet significant flashback‚ Jane evokes a memory from her life as a young twelve-year-old at the Quam Public Library in which she
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Every year‚ women devote billions of dollars in exchange for beautiful hair‚ expensive cosmetics‚ and opulent wardrobes. Many of our culture’s most common beauty procedures were nearly absent an era ago. The fact is‚ many of the beliefs of feminine beauty were created in large part by current advertisers‚ thus becoming societal norms. However‚ through her diffident wardrobe change‚ author of the article My Year of Modesty‚ Lauren Shields‚ suggests that to live an authentic life‚ one must be immune
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Best years of your life? Or worst years of your life? When expressing their opinion on their adolescence‚ most people‚ young or old‚ have an extreme view of it. When interviewing people from different generations on their experiences of adolescence‚ we find as many similarities as differences. One of the biggest differences in the last generation and today’s‚ is that it takes much longer to make the transition to adulthood. The generation after World War 11 considered themselves
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To what extent were Stalin’s five-year plans an economic success/improved the Russian economy? When in power‚ Stalin realized that if Russia was to become a key player in the global market‚ the country needed to industrialize rapidly and increase production. To do this‚ Stalin introduced the Five-year Plans. Stalin’s ultimate aim was to expand industrial production. For this‚ he developed three Five-year Plans between 1928 and 1938. In terms of meeting these aims economically speaking; the plan
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During my childhood my grandmother stressed the importance of education. She would say education can take you around the world‚ but only through hard work and dedication. She neglected to mention the amount of peer pressure‚ the cliques formed throughout school and sarcastic teachers whom we are at all times to respect‚ even if they are not respecting us. I started school in Chicago‚ IL‚ where I was amongst 25-30 Pre-K children. Eager my first day to show my teacher I knew my ABC’s and
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that the First Five-Year Development plan of the Imperial Ethiopian Government was the first formal planning started in Ethiopia in 1957 (MoFED‚ 2002 ). In the same regime‚ there were three Five-Year development plans. The First Five-Year Development Plan (1957-1961) had the objective of laying foundations for further take-off. The Second Five-Year Development Plan (1963-1967) followed it‚ which was a prelude to a 20 years’ development plan that targeted doubling income in 20 years (1983). Similarly
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