Water levels rose almost two stories high, and houses and cars were ripped from the ground. In “Isaacs Storm” Isaac Cline is telling stories of what happened during the storm, and the aftermath of it all. This book shows the man vs nature aspect very well. The book also provides how much the human race has excelled since that time. We believed that nothing could bring our beautiful cities down; not even a deadly storm.…
Telegrams and other primary source information titled “The Storm” or “Telegram” are interspaced throughout the book. These “pre-chapters” tell about the location of the storm or explain how hurricanes work. Vertical lines on both sides of the text clearly indicate it is a “pre-chapter”. I found these entries effective in giving context to the chapter narrative that followed. The chapters starting in Part VI focused on Galveston from the perspective of various survivors such as Dr. Young, Louise Hopkins, Louisa and August Rolfing, Judson Palmer, and Ruby Credo, plus Isaac’s own, often times exaggerated, recollections.…
4. Why does William Howells reference storms in his piece “Editha”? : Storm references are used in multiple lines to portray the excitement felt by the community in regards to war. In addition, Howells also uses this to display George’s uncertainty about being involved combat. 5.…
Jacqueline Adams and Ken Kostel's "The Super Disasters of the 21st century" and Sebastian Junger's "The Perfect Storm" describe the causes and effects of natural disasters. Both authors use similar and different strategies and techniques to describe the causes and effects of super disasters. Each author used text structure, choice of vocabulary, and the use of data and details to help the readers better understand the causes and effects of natural disasters. Jacqueline Adams and Ken Kostel in "The Super Disasters of the 21st century", use subheadings and rhetorical questions to describe the causes and effects of 3 deadly natural disasters. The authors use subheadings to categorize the article and to make readers want to read it.…
Katrina V. Harvey Hurricane Katrina and Harvey were very different yet alike, Including their: category, location, time and effects. Hurricanes can be very destructive or hardly do anything and be brushed off. Katrina and Harvey were destructive hurricanes and will be documented in history as examples of what not to do in preparation for hurricanes. Hurricanes are very unpredictable but they all almost end the same way, being very destructive.…
Sebastian Junger’s book, The Prefect Storm, is a tragic and intense journey of six crew members setting out to go sword fishing and bring back some for profit; however, they get caught and later died in a “perfect storm”, which means two storms colliding and turning into a small hurricane and later evolving into a powerful cyclone. Analyzing The Perfect Storm, Junger filled his book with his input and ideas of what happened to the sailors at the end of their lives, how he believes they acted and how they process things throughout the crucial event. Junger captured a lot of people by writing his interest about the six crew men. In some ways, he was writing this story to the loved ones of the crew members to try and give them a sense of what happened.…
In the report, “Catastrophe in the Gulf”, the author, Dante A. Ciampaglia informs the readers of the damage Hurricane Harvey had given Texas. Category 4 hurricane Harvey hit Texas late night on Friday 25, 2017, leaving the citizens with a massive devastation of 20 maybe even 50 inches of rain flood that destroyed multiple houses. Luckily on Saturday morning, hurricane Harvey descended down to a Category 1 hurricane. It got stuck between to high pressure areas while trying to move toward the northeast and landed right over Houston.…
Which makes me incline to agree with the author's claims from the…
of President Ronald Reagan, and focused on the need for a federal response to disasters. Although FEMA was in place, it wasn’t very favorably looked upon. In 1992, the United States was hit by three different hurricanes that left a devastating effect on the entire country. FEMA was forced into action, and it was shown how unprepared the agency was, and this was recognized by not only the majority of Americans, but was picked up by the news media, and FEMA became a joke across the government.…
I use this in my paper as a reference to the kind of damage these storms can really do to a…
Jesmyn Ward’s depiction of Hurricane Katrina was uncontrollable, yet foreseen. Eshe often explained to the reader about how she and her family knew that the storm was coming because hurricanes are quite common in the area, but she never truly knew what to expect. They had to prepare for the storm by watching for signs and preserving what they had. Eshe recants listening to the news which ultimately declared Katrina as a category 5 storm, the worst kind.…
Gross and Gilles attempted to mock the media’s strategies by stating that, “…any event can be explained through apocalyptic language, from birds falling out of the sky (the Birdocalypse?) to a major nor’easter (Snowmageddon!!) to a double-dip recession (Barackalypse! Obamageddon!) ,” (Gross and Gilles 1), but failed to tie this reason back to their thesis and explain the reason of this statement and provide an actual example when media portrays these kinds of mentalities. An actual article or headline from a media source would’ve been more beneficial to support Gross and Gilles’ argument of them over exaggerating certain issues.…
Hurricanes and Tornados Umm, where did my house go? Hurricanes can be very dangerous, and so can tornadoes. There are three categories they are the are cost and damage, size and characteristics, also how the tornados and hurricanes are formed. These three categories are very dangerous. Did you know that tornados have a wind of 300 miles an hour!…
Hurricanes and tornadoes are two storms that can cause an enormous destruction in towns. This storms are similar to each other, but have different factor on the way they form, how long they last, how strong the winds are, when do they occur, and what are the warning sings. First of all, tropical cyclones are known by different names depending where in the world it occurs, for example, in North and Central America on the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean the storms are called hurricanes. Before it becomes a hurricane it has to pass through three stages. It starts out as a tropical disturbance because according to Wall and MSFC “hurricanes form over warm ocean water” and rain clouds start to form.…