Natural Disaster What is natural disaster? A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction‚ lots of collateral damage or loss of life‚ brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings. General cause of natural disaster 1. Significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. 2. Extensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ or explosions
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With Life‚ Have Joy “I’m at the hospital … the doctor thinks Jo might have had a stroke.” In the middle of July of 2003 my grandmother‚ Josephine‚ suffered from a stroke causing the loss of movement on her left side. No one really knows what caused her to have a stroke‚ but it’s narrowed down to two events. During that summer my grandmother and I were visiting a nursing home. She is an ordained minister and was going to deliver a message to the residents. On the way in she tripped over
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RETURNING TO SCHOOL Page 1 Returning To School Shannon L. Stevens ENG121: English Composition I Instructor: Clinton Edwards 1/21/2013 RETURNING TO SCHOOL Page 2 Becoming a mother at a young age was very stressful at times. I wanted to continue my education but it was hard being a single mother
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wondering‚ Who is this girl writing to? Around page six or seven I got serious: “I know life has a way of interrupting the best-laid plans‚ but I am prepared for it.” In hindsight‚ you are that interruption. Honestly‚ I don’t think I was thinking about you in a romantic sense‚ probably until June. RUBEN: Whereas I looked upon you romantically the first time I saw your picture. RACHEL: I realized I kept telling you things I didn’t even tell my mom. Then you
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• Narrative tasks may require you to write a story or part of a story; they may also ask you to write a true account. The purpose of your writing is to entertain the reader through the situation you have imagined and also to explore that situation and the characters involved in it • Remember how much time you have in the exam. Don’t try to write too complicated a story. Examiners want quality not quantity. • Don’t fill your writing with direct speech; it causes problems with punctuation and it’s
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year. He went closer to take a look to make sure it was his‚ so he looked in the drawer where in his desk he made a secret pocket where he used to hide his cigarettes and lighter and other things that he could be expelled by having. Just as he was about to see if the secret pocket is there he heard a girl screaming. He turned around and started to listen to know where the sound is coming from. He found a little door which he doesn’t remember was there in his junior year. He opened the door and found
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become hungry for power and things just cannot change in one day‚ or in this case decades. Therefore‚ neither the CPS nor society should be blamed for their corrupted acts. Abuse among children is a heinous act that is morally wrong. Children who have been placed in foster care‚ or other programs‚ may have been faced with abuse. This unjustly act should not be blamed onto the child service’s agent. True‚ it is their job to find a well stable home for the kids‚ but with the increase in children without
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doing until now. After doing some research online‚ I found a place only an hour away from home in Lumberton‚ Mississippi. In a way I was hoping there wouldn’t be a place local so that could have been my excuse not to do it. Once I started thinking about actually jumping out of a plane‚ I started to get nervous and have mixed feelings. Then I realized it can’t be any scarier than what I may encounter overseas; maybe it could even help me deal with some things while there. So after much debating and
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waiting for my teacher and the other kids; I was second guessing if I really wanted to learn how to swim. When the other kids walked up‚ they were older‚ and seemed more nervous than I was. So their nervous behavior made me feel a little bit better about not knowing how to swim. We got into the pool; we put arm floaters on to stay above the water. Then‚ the teacher began to teach us the kicking process involved in the swimming process. At this point‚ I was sure I would learn how to swim‚ one way
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room. Then I heard a door open and more feet shuffling into our quiet home. “Police‚” said an unknown voice‚ so loud and so clear. “Put your hands up in the air and get down on the floor.” My mother moved to obey the order. More feet were moving about. Voices were talking above voices. Someone asked my mother a question. As I listened‚ I heard the fear in her response and the frustrations in the other. Doors were opened‚ and then shut closed. Footsteps trekked throughout the house‚ as if they
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