In Australia 2007 160 pilots undertook the cross country challenge at the summit of Mt Bora. Among them was Ewa Wisnierska a member of the German team and the world’s leading paraglider who had narrowly escaped death‚ with just a fractured pelvis in Switzerland August 2006. Six months after she had fractured her pelvis‚ she was going after the world championships. Ewa had to work very hard with her physical strength to return to the top after being out for six months. After four years of flying she
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Hurricane and Tornado Essay Have you ever been in a hurricane or tornado? Do you know how to prepare for it? You would usually hide in a basement‚ a cellar‚ or evacuate the premises for a hurricane. There are three categories of comparing and contrasting for hurricanes and tornados. The first category I am going to talk about is how much damage does a hurricane and tornado do? The second category I am going to talk about is how big a tornado and hurricane get up to. The last category I am going
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Kia Jefferson April 7‚ 2011 English 1002 The Cause & Effect of Hurricanes Hurricanes are the most destructive natural disasters in the world. They are very powerful and violent storms that have strong winds. Storms are known to be hurricanes when they reach 74 mile per hour. Hurricanes storms start over warm sea water near the equator and come with strong winds‚ flash floods‚ mudslides‚ and huge waves. Hurricanes come with different names depending where the location it occurred. Hurricane
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the 1970 Cyclone (Nov 12-13) with cyclonic surge of 3.05m to 10.6m high with wind speed of 222 km/h occurred during high tide causing most appalling natural disaster claiming 0.3 million human lives. On the 29 April 1991 a devastating cyclone hit Chittagong‚ Cox’s Bazar‚ Barisal‚ Noakhali‚ Patuakhali‚ Barguna and Khulna along with tidal bore of 5-8m high with wind speed of 240 km/h which killed 150‚000 human beings‚ 70‚000 cattlehead‚ and the total loss was about Tk 60 billion. [HS Mozaddad Faruque]
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Thunder and lightning speech: Have you ever seen tall‚ dark puffy clouds forming on a hot humid afternoon? These clouds bring thunder and lightning. It’s pretty hard to believe that the sky can create electricity and roaring thunder. In my speech i am going to tell you first of what thunder and lightning are‚ when they should be expected and where they come from. First off the clouds that bring the thunder and lightning and other foul weather are called cumulonimbus clouds‚ sometimes nicknamed
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Informative Essay The stages in some types of storms (hurricane) A hurricane is a wheather system that is usually described as a funnel of warm wet air‚ when warm moist air rises and encounter with the cooler air‚ it causes the warm water vapor to condense and form rain drops and dark clouds. Most hurricanes that occur in the Atlantic develops off the west coast of Africa. Hurricanes begins as thunderstorms which moves out over the warm tropical ocean water. There are three stages in forming
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Dust is a very important feature in the book Golden Compass. Dust is the feature that connects humans to their dæmons. A dæmons is a soul that can talk and is in the form of an animal. It sends the Dust to the human to allow the human consciousness. This being is actually somewhat of a soul that can talk and is in the form of an animal. If the bond between a human and their dæmon is severed both the human and the dæmon die. If it happens after your Dust has settled on you and you become an adult
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Thunderstorms Kyle Cowan Known as the electric storm‚ thunderstorms occur all the time. When a thunderstorm starts to occur‚ the air starts to cool as it rises. Cumulus clouds start to form as water vapor starts to condense. As condensation occurs‚ heat (latent heat/energy)‚ starts to release from the atmosphere and assists the thunderstorm in becoming created and grow. Soon as the thunderstorm is formed‚ condensation high in the cloud (now in the form of water droplets or ice) starts
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What is a cloudburst? A cloudburst is sudden copious rainfall. It is a sudden aggressive rainstorm falling for a short period of time limited to a small geographical area. Meteorologists say the rain from a cloudburst is usually of the shower type with a fall rate equal to or greater than 100 mm (4.94 inches) per hour. Generally cloudbursts are associated with thunderstorms. The air currents rushing upwards in a rainstorm hold up a large amount of water. If these currents suddenly cease‚ the
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1. After seven years of ever-lurking silence Ann does something she soon regrets. At the end of the story Ann says‚ “If you knew him though- John would try” (p. 7). So did Ann really know John? I think Ann did know John and she knew that he would come home like he always did. But I think she let herself believe what Steven continued to say which was no one would risk coming home in such a bad storm. Ann always had feelings for Steven‚ but they were all for the wrong reasons. So I think her act with
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