A Cruel World
(A Discussion of the Cruel World)
While reading this story, multiple things come to mind. I feel bad because I have no clue what the Haitian people were going through but after reading this essay it has given me more knowledge on the subject. Especially in areas around the equator, there are multiple things that happen that sometimes we don't expect. When this happens we don't really know what to do. Obviously, there are multiple reasons as to why we think the earth would be considered a cruel world most examples coming from the Haitian people would be hurricanes, tornados, and earthquakes.
First of all, we could think this because of the amount of hurricanes that have happened throughout the years. Like Mr. Pitts says, "Gustav in 2008 killed over 130 people and …show more content…
There is an average of 120 earthquakes per year with a magnitude of 6-6.9. The largest recorded earthquake in the U.S. was 9.2 and the largest in the world was 9.5. Just in California there are roughly 10,000 earthquakes per year. Between 1980 - 2008 there were 706 earthquakes recorded and 385,630 people killed. That is an average of 547 people killed per earthquake that is proof that the world is cruel in its own because anything that kills anyone is something that I would consider to be cruel. Although most people believe that nothing bad could happen to them, they are in refutation of anything inferior coming into their lives and damaging them. It seems that earthquakes mainly hit areas that are already having a hard time, like the fact that the Haitian people were already one of the poorest nations. There are a ton of different reasons as to why earthquakes kill so many people and a big part of it is a higher magnitude, then the earth literally cracks in half. That is after all what happened to the Haitian people as Mr. Pitt writes in his essay about the
(A Discussion of the Cruel World)
While reading this story, multiple things come to mind. I feel bad because I have no clue what the Haitian people were going through but after reading this essay it has given me more knowledge on the subject. Especially in areas around the equator, there are multiple things that happen that sometimes we don't expect. When this happens we don't really know what to do. Obviously, there are multiple reasons as to why we think the earth would be considered a cruel world most examples coming from the Haitian people would be hurricanes, tornados, and earthquakes.
First of all, we could think this because of the amount of hurricanes that have happened throughout the years. Like Mr. Pitts says, "Gustav in 2008 killed over 130 people and …show more content…
There is an average of 120 earthquakes per year with a magnitude of 6-6.9. The largest recorded earthquake in the U.S. was 9.2 and the largest in the world was 9.5. Just in California there are roughly 10,000 earthquakes per year. Between 1980 - 2008 there were 706 earthquakes recorded and 385,630 people killed. That is an average of 547 people killed per earthquake that is proof that the world is cruel in its own because anything that kills anyone is something that I would consider to be cruel. Although most people believe that nothing bad could happen to them, they are in refutation of anything inferior coming into their lives and damaging them. It seems that earthquakes mainly hit areas that are already having a hard time, like the fact that the Haitian people were already one of the poorest nations. There are a ton of different reasons as to why earthquakes kill so many people and a big part of it is a higher magnitude, then the earth literally cracks in half. That is after all what happened to the Haitian people as Mr. Pitt writes in his essay about the