Hurricane Mw Research Paper

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Resources such as building materials and food are major factors in life or death frequencies. As we talked about in class places around the world have different types of resources that can be found. For example, we may have stuff like good medicine or crops that other countries can’t grow or find. These can limit you to the type of building you may have and how stable it will actually be. They can also limit your health depending on what you have available or if you have the medicine in reach.
The article in the New York Times represents a good example of poor living resources. In this article, it talks about how Hurricane Matthew has destroyed most of the Haitians homes. They are forced out of their homes because of the storm and some try

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