Cyclone Yasi Speech Good morning Mr. Black head of the State Emergence Service and fellow volunteers. Cyclone Yasi began developing as a tropical storm near Fiji on 29th January. The system quickly changed and became a cyclone and was named Yasi at 10pm on the 30th by Fiji Meteorological Service. Yasi headed in a westward track and rapidly intensified‚ from a Category 2 at 10am on 31st January and then further to a Category 3 at 7pm that day. Yasi maintained Category 3 intensity for the next 24
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Great Britain’s restrictions and embargos on U.S. trade goods as well as the United States wanting to expand their territory. Great Britain forcibly removed American sailors from merchant vessels and forced them to serve on British vessels (War 1). What better time to expand your territory than to engage your enemy when they are at their weakest point‚ and their defenses are spread thin. Even though Great Britain was at war with France they still had the most powerful Naval fleet in the
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keep out as much dirt as possible. Farmers watched helplessly as their crops blew away. Families‚ tribes‚ dusted out‚ tractored out‚ homeless‚ and hungry. Modern American Poetry explains “Poor agricultural practices and years of sustained drought caused the Dust Bowl. Plains grasslands had been deeply plowed and planted to wheat. During the years when there was adequate rainfall‚ the land produced bountiful crops. But as the droughts of the early 1930s deepened‚ the farmers kept plowing and planting
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The thriving twenties was a prosperous time for everyone alive‚ but in the thirties that would completely alter. The Great Depression would strike so suddenly almost no one would expect it. Still declining in 1939‚ the depression would last twice as long as any previous depressions. The unemployment rate grew up to twenty five percent in 1933. Those who did have jobs we’re losing hours of work hours by nearly six hours (Great Depression)! Those who were unemployed‚ lost everything‚ and were forced
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the centralized state. As a result‚ the state turned into a destabilized state. The eastern part of Rome fell due to several factors; one of its major ones is the Germanic invasion. Accordingly‚ Europe rose in western Rome. Throughout this essay the causes of the fall of Rome will be represented‚ followed by Christianity and how it acted as a stabilizing force. Also‚ how the church attempted to make peace with the franks and the Saxons‚ and finally the hybrid state that was built by Clovis. One of the
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29/03/2012 Alia Huberman 29/03/2012 Cyclone Tracy – Anatomy of a Disaster 9.1 HSIE Australia’s Physical Environment Cyclone Tracy – Anatomy of a Disaster 9.1 HSIE Australia’s Physical Environment What is a natural hazard? A natural hazard is a situation in which the forces of nature combine to cause destruction. When a natural hazard impacts on a community causing wreckage of property and loss
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Throughout history there have been many revolutions‚ such as the French Revolution‚ that were caused by people rebelling against their governments. The French Revolution commenced after the Enlightenment became popular. The Enlightenment was a period in time where new ideas were spread and people started thinking differently about the world that they lived in. Enlightenment thinkers‚ like John Locke and Voltaire‚ begin inspiring the citizens of France to rebel against their government if they felt
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the market was worth 20% of what they were before 1929‚ and in 1933 nearly half of the banks went bankrupt and failed. In 1935 farms had collapsed due to bankruptcy. However‚ the cause of the Great Depression was not due to the stock market crashing. The domestic consumption of new products were fueled by credit and installment buying. The Great Depression consisted of unemployment of Americans on a massive scale along with hardships (need for money and food). The cause of the Great Depression was
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What caused the Great Depression The Stock Market Crash reflected an economic weakness that proved to be fatal : over confidence in the stock market . Americans found the stock market an avenue for productive investment because of the rapid growth in the stock market . In the belief that the value of stocks will continue to rise ‚ and they can earn a profit from it ‚ even the less fortunate gambled on the stock market . Investors paid only a small part of the price and borrowed the rest ‚ gambling
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During the 1920’s‚ the great depression hit and so made a very uneven distribution of wealth‚ the top 1 percent of all americans had the riches of the bottom 42 percent of all americans. The uneven distribution caused factories to higher their prices‚ lower the employee’s pay to try stay afloat but didn’t succeed. It wasn’t only factories though‚ mining‚ farming and textiles failed as well all leading up to the shutting down of thousands of banks. During the period that lead to the great depression
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