The Negative Impact Of Resilience On Society

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When society is negatively impacted, Resilience through hardship gives humanity the courage to grow our society with knowledge of the past’s hardship to govern a better future.

The hardships we face as a society strengthen us. On August 29,2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the US. After tearing through Alabama and Mississippi, it’s destruction concentrated on New Orleans. With storm surges as high as 36 feet in some areas, Katrina affected nearly 90,000 square miles leaving almost 2000 dead. With intervention from the coast guard and other organizations, the gulf coast recovered. Kindness during hardship greatly influences our society. When struck with difficult times the strength to go on and kindness from others exhibits the way humanity grows.
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“The bombing almost seemed a natural disaster- one that it had simply been her bad luck, her fate( which must be accepted), to suffer” In the bombing of Hiroshima, hundreds of thousands suffered. Through the suffering in the bombing, the people persevered. Today Hiroshima is thriving again with memory of it’s past sorrows. That hardship influences the culture and actions of the

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