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    Do you think it was a good idea to go to Phuket after the tsunami? Why or why not. I think it was a good idea to go to Phuket because if she didn’t go she wouldn’t have seen her father’s dead body. Although it isn’t pleasant to see your deceased father seeing him dead acts like a bit of a closure‚ you know for

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    Facts about Overpopulation‚ The. History.com. Retrieved (2009‚ November 22) from http://www.history.com/states.do?action=detail&state=Over%20Population&contentType=State_Generic&contentId=60622&parentId=earthCasey‚ Michael. (2005‚ December 19). Tsunami still taking toll on environment. Retrieved from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10463953/ns/us_news-environment/Discovery Communications‚ LLC (2009). Discovery Channel Feature. Facts About Katrina. Retrieved November 18‚ 2009 on the World Wide Web: http://dsc

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    Hundreds are dead after the worst earthquake in generations struck off the northeast coast of Japan on 11th March‚ setting off a devastating tsunami that swallowed swaths of coastal territory and fanned out across the Pacific Ocean‚ threatening everything in its path. The 8.9-magnitude earthquake -- the fifth-largest in the world since 1900 and the biggest in Japan in 140 years -- struck at 2:46 p.m. local time‚ shaking buildings violently in Tokyo for several minutes and sending millions fleeing

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    Weather and climate modification modern American history through cloud seeding began when Irving Langmuir and Vincent Schaefer‚ General Electric Company scientists found a way to modify clouds‚ which was by seeding the clouds with dry ice pellets‚ this was twenty years ago. Their coworker‚ Bernard Vonnegut‚ demonstrated that a different method would accomplish the same result‚ which was by using a smoke of silver crystals of iodide. On November 13‚ 1946‚ these American scientists had experimentally

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    References: Giganle‚ S. (2010‚ February 22). How baby boomers will impact healthcare industry. Retrieved from www.cnbc.com Peterson‚ P. (1999‚ April 16). Gray tsunami; how the coming age wave will transform america. Retrieved from www.infoworld.com/../aging-baby-boomers-will-drive-health-care- Taylor‚ R. (2005). Baby boomers put hurt on healthcare system. Senior Journal‚ Retrieved from SeniorJournal.com

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    most by special effects. In 2012‚ the surface of the earth is totally changed due to a series of the biggest disasters coming at the same time: the moving of continental fragments‚ the erupting of volcanoes‚ and the attacking of the most violent tsunamis. This is absolutely a product of imagination; however‚ the way that the director of the movie imitates the appearance of those disasters is so real that viewers have a feeling of watching a documentary movie‚ not an entertainment movie. Beside visual

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    Earthquakes | Impact injuries due to property damage/debris. May cause a tsunami. | El Chichón‚ Mexico | Volcanic Gases | Asphyxiation‚ bronchitis‚ vomiting‚ dizziness‚ skin‚ eye and respiratory irritation. | Hawaii volcanoes | Jökulhlaups | Flooding‚ drowning and impact injuries. Secondary effects on agriculture and property. | Skeiðaràrsandur‚ Iceland | Landslides/ Lahars | Burial and impact injuries. May create small tsunami. Secondary

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    Spanning from Cape Mendocino California to Vancouver Island‚ Canada‚ the Cascadia Subduction Zone is a 1000 km long fault line that exists between the North American continental and Juan de Fuca oceanic plates. The danger of the this tremendous fault line is that the Juan De Fuca plate is being forced into the western side of the North American tectonic plate. Instead of sliding underneath‚ the Juan de Fuca has been stuck‚ forcing itself into the side of North America. This subduction zone is an

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    alludes to this mentioning the Pacific tidal waves‚ he again makes use of recent events and converts them into a premonition. In 1896 Sanriku‚ Japan faced a devastating tsunami caused by an earthquake. This type of natural disaster was unprecedented‚ and news of it travelled quickly around the world. Sadly another devastating tsunami occurred in Tohoku‚ Japan in 2011. The earthquake that caused this tidal wave was so strong that it tilted the earth’s axis. The last prediction fulfilled‚ and the one

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    Current and Future Status of Coral Reefs in Malaysia Abstract: Coral reefs‚ also known as the rainforest of ocean‚ are the most productive and biologically rich ecosystem on earth (McAllister‚ 1995). Coral reefs are an important source of food and income to millions of people that are living near coast (Burke‚ et al.‚ 2002). There are about 540 species of hard corals that have been identified in Malaysia in total and there are more than 90% of the country’s reefs are situated off the coast of

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