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    Recount

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    Recount Text adalah salah satu dari jenis teks bahasa Inggris yang menceritakan kembali kejadian-kejadian atau penglaman-pengalaman di masa lampau. Tujuan dari teks recount adalah untuk memberikan informasi atau untuk menghibur pembaca. Di dalam teks recount tidak terdapat komplikasi (complication) seprtihalnya di teks narrative. Untuk membuat Contoh Teks Recount (Recount Text Sample)sebenarnya mudah. Seperti Yang sudah penulis jelaskan pada artikel sebelemunya yang membahasa Teks Recount (Recount

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    Rohtela informed the team that the village of Jamak was located near the river bed pre 1978 floods which they now refer to as the old Jamak. The 1978 floods washed away the entire village of Jamak and since then the village shifted uphill. The 1991 earthquake also took lives of about 86 inmates and injured around 56. Post 1991‚ minor calamities kept hitting the village until the 2013 floods came and heavily impacted the agricultural lands and fields of the villagers. It was mentioned that “Talannam Tok”

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    hoisted into the air by a flock of birds‚ signaling a site outage. Synonym = ideal I chose the word ideal because‚ the original word "iconic"‚ indicates that the phrase they used was a standard of perfection and excellence. Following the earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010‚ Twitter reaffirmed its role as a powerful tool for the dissemination of information. Synonym = broadcasting I chose the word broadcasting because‚ the word "dissemination" indicates that Twitter is a worldwide

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    Seismic Waves

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    the earth‚ and are a result of an earthquake‚ explosion‚ or a volcano that imparts low-frequency acoustic energy. There are two types of seismic waves‚ Body waves and surface waves. Body waves travel through the interior of the earth. Surface waves travel along the earth’s surface and through water. Seismic wave fields are measured by a seismograph‚ geophone‚ hydrophone or accelerometer. These are used to measure earthquakes. When measuring these earthquakes these seismic waves are broken down

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    The Movement of Plate Tectonics Brandon Womac Plate tectonics have played a major role in the history of the Earth. All seven continents are where they are today due to the movement of plate tectonics. These seven continents were one big supercontinent called “Pangea” about 200 million years ago before breaking apart. The three different types of plate boundaries are convergent‚ divergent‚ and transform. These plate boundaries form due to the earth’s outer shell called the lithosphere having multiple

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    WeiWei used art to “protest” against the Chinese government. Ai Weiwei was a creative man who thought of ideas how to represent the names of all the children who were killed in a deadly earthquake. A commentator in the movie claimed that Ai WeiWei was doing a job that the government should be doing. A deadly earthquake collapsed many buildings including homes and schools. Thousands of children were killed and were left unrecognized. Ai WeiWei wasn’t going to let this go. He assembled a project‚ full

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    Everyone was ready for breakfast except me. I was always late on the dining table and often made mom angry. But that day mom didnt get angry. Wondering why ? Bhuj and neighbouring places had just witnessed a powerful earthquake that rocked the whole of gujarat. The word earthquake always evoked something-but that something was never akin to terror. On the other hand‚ it was something right out of a Bollywood potboiler. But......but not this time. I thought the earth had cracked open and was about

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    First of all‚ Chile have many major active fault zones that are the root causes of earthquakes and other natural diaster. The Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault is major geological fault that runs a length of roughly 1000 km in a north-south direction and exhibits current seismicity. It is located in the Chilean Northern Patagonian Andes. It is a dextral intra-arc transform fault. When considered a fault zone‚ the Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault Zone (LOFZ) might include other neighboring faults such as Reigolil-Pirihueico

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    Imagine you’re one of the people that decide to ignore the officials warnings of an eruption on Mount St. Helens. It’s May 18‚ 1980‚ 8:32 a.m. and you hear a rumble and feel the earth move. Behind you‚ you hear a thunderous noise. When you turn around‚ you see a humongous landslide headed your way. Mount St. Helens in Washington State has erupted‚ immediately a cloud of gas‚ rock‚ and hot ash shot up in the air and race down the mountainside at an unimaginable speed. The eruption created a mass of

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    passing and just know that their love will not be torn. After these first two stanzas‚ the poem begins to have more metaphors. “Moving of th’ earth brings harms and fears‚” (Line 9). This line is comparing an earthquake to his love‚ who has been harmed by his death. People fear earthquakes and are harmed by them just as the woman is harmed by her loss of her husband. The tone of this part of the poem is obviously death and it creates a fearful mood for the reader. The poem continues on to say fear

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