on aviation and can be extremely hazardous in certain situations. The experience or ability of a pilot can often become irrelevant if the aircraft gets caught in a one of the many dangerous weather phenomena known to cause aviation accidents. Thunderstorms‚ lightning‚ wind shear and icing were deemed responsible for downing 4927 general aviation aircraft between 1994-2003 in the USA alone (National Transportation Safety Board‚ 2004). This report will focus primarily on two weather phenomena; Microbursts
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PASIG CITY SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL Rainforest Park Maybunga‚ Pasig City Group 4 Health Report: Typhoons Reginald Goodie Tan Joenny Pavillar Jr. Czarina Rivera Erika Marie Salasibar Janell Lyka Santos Beatrice Ray Tan IV-Marx GABBY S. LAMSEN MAPEH IV- TEACHER What Are Typhoons? A typhoon is a region-specific term given to a type of tropical cyclone‚ usually occurring within the northwestern region of the Pacific Ocean‚ west of the International
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to our maximum limit. I kept glancing back‚ seeing if we had lost them or not. I couldn’t hear them. All I could hear was the rasping of my lungs and the loud‚ thunderous throbbing of my heart beat pounding and pulsing in my ears‚ like a raging thunderstorm was erupting within me. But the faster I sprinted‚ the harder it was to lift my legs‚ like it was a heavy weight pulling me down. I wanted to scream out something‚ to tell Ellie and Corrie which way to go. But the words kept getting stuck in
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absolutely drives me CRAZY! I’ve worked for my company for six years now‚ and at work I’m very persistent on accomplishing a tough job. I am a fire alarm technician and work with low voltage wiring. Living in Southwest Florida‚ we have a lot of thunderstorms that usually tend to be problematic customer’s fire alarm equipment. For example‚ a lot of my customers have outside A/Vs (audio visuals) or horn strobes that always get wet after several years of baking in the sun. When those devices get wet
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Teddy Lewis‚ hands restricted with handcuffs‚ being escorted to the inmate airplane at Southwest Florida International Airport. “Move it‚ inmate. We don’t have all day.” the officer scolded. Teddy arrived to the airplane‚ with an apathetic expression. He sat down and watched as the other inmates wearing orange jumpsuits came aboard. As the seats began to fill‚ he began to think to himself about what kind of isolated and egregious life would await when he arrived at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
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In classical children’s novel‚ the main characters are usually unimposing individuals who are easily overlooked‚ but manage to have great and successful journeys. Such is the case in Bilbo Baggins from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Mr. Baggins is a simple hobbit that is swept away into a dangerous but exciting journey. In the trip‚ he becomes a heroic symbol of the common man or child making a name for himself. In the children’s classic‚ The Hobbit‚ Tolkien uses an unusual point of view‚ fantasy world
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Air Pollution 20.000 liters of air is what we breathe on a daily basis. Air is something most people take for granted‚ you don’t see it around you and breathing goes automatically. But every time we inhale we risk inhaling dangerous chemicals which found their way in our air. Air pollution is the presence of dangerous chemicals in the air that we breathe. It is a change in the air which influences humans health and organism on the planet. Many think that `gases’’ pollute the air‚ those gases
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O.L. #3B Question #1 is worth 5 points – all others are worth 1 point each. Either type your answers directly onto THIS sheet OR create a new file and number your answers 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ etc. 1. The following "gem" comes from the business world and as you can see is filled with redundant‚ empty‚ wordy‚ AND unnecessary phrases. Re-write it so that the ideas are expressed in a much clearer and more stylistic way. To: District Managers From: Margaret Davenport‚ Vice
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Ralph described Simon as meat and said‚ “Ralph too was fighting to get near‚ to get a handful of that brown‚ vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering.” (Golding‚ 1954‚ p.114). Finally‚ on pages 152 and 153‚ there was a thunderstorm and a dance of both tribes‚ before the split. The boys all chanted‚ “Kill the beast. Cut his throat. Spill his blood‚” over and over again. (Golding‚ 1954‚ p.152). During the dance‚ the boys made 2 circles where one was made of the bigger and older
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Stratosphere Space Shuttle Endeavour appears to straddle the stratosphere and mesosphere in this photo. "The orange layer is the troposphere‚ where all of the weather and clouds which we typically watch and experience are generated and contained. This orange layer gives way to the whitish Stratosphere and then into the Mesosphere."[1] Atmosphere diagram showing stratosphere. The layers are to scale: from Earth’s surface to the top of the stratosphere (50km) is just under 1% of Earth’s radius
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