2008 Sichuan earthquake

The Earthquake That Shook My Paradigm of Life As a young child, I always felt like I had the world under my control. Anything a kid my age would ever dream of attaining was always given to me whenever I wanted. I always saw life as a bright adventure and never thought that anything could go wrong. Since I was a kid, I have known that my parents love me and I have always felt safe around them, I was as happy as any kid could ever be. As the oldest of two brothers and a sister growing up in Lima,…

Zachary Campanelli Gsci-131 Final Paper Mount Tambora is a volcano located on the northern coast of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia. The volcanic eruption in April 1815 is the largest recorded eruption in history. Mount Tambora forms the 60 kilometer long Sanggar Peninsula, previously standing at a height of approximately 5000 meters high. After the eruption, the volcano lost most of it’s top, now standing at 2,851 meters. Today the volcano still remains active. Smaller eruptions have taken place in…

Emily Espinosa Mr. Shin ELA8H 10 Oct. 2017 The Mysterious Loss Bang! That was the sound of something hitting on the window. Bang! The sound was once again heard by Eliza that was now awake and was wondering what was making that atrocious sound. She slowly got up and carefully walked towards the window. While looking out, (she doesn't notice a shadow lurking into her bedroom.) With the thought that someone was awake this late and was making noises…

“There is a fire in your backyard”. Those seven words woke up my house like a tornado. Fire. Backyard. Within five minutes, Mama and Papa woke both Atharva and I and we were all standing together staring out at the master bedroom window facing the newly bought house wrapped in a blanket of engulfing flames. Three cops and blinking lights and sirens and screaming and the sound of water and open doors of neighbors and and… it was all too much for 2 AM in the morning. The house on 55 Anne Street…

PsycARTICLES”. Part C Tulving, E., & Thompson, D. M., (1971). Retrieval processes in recognition memory: Effects of associative context. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 87(1), 116-124. doi: 10.1037/h0030186. Vakil, E., Hornik, C., & Levy, D .A. (2008). Conceptual and perceptual similarity between encoding and retrieval contexts and recognition memory context effects in older and younger adults. The Journals of Gerontology, 63(3), 171-175. Danker, J. F., & Anderson, J. R. (2010). The…

A VOLCANO TRAGEDY January 15 , 2004 was the tragic day that a volcano had erupted. It all happened so fast like in a blink of an eye everything was so dark and magma was gushing out like a gusher candy. We realized that we where in the ring of fire , after the tragedy had passed. Before all that happened me and my family decided to head for safety in a gym where thousands of people were panicking trying to find out…

vulnerable, not just once, but over and over again. Pitt does many different things in his article to get a certain message across to his readers. First of all, Pitt gave a description of what the Haitian people's actions were after the earthquake…

Could one imagine getting ready for school and then out of nowhere boom! That explosion was the Halifax, one of the most devastating disasters ever. From the story “The Great Halifax Explosion” and “The Shattered Sky” both talk about the great disaster of the Halifax explosion and how people had a great struggle with lifestyle after this devastating disaster. The Halifax was one of the worst disasters to ever happen, the power was horrific, the aftermath was devastating, and it was hard to…

It is important to acknowledge that without the critical state, interesting phenomena cannot occur. The non-critical state is at equilibrium, where Gibb’s free energy is equal to zero, and there are no avalanches. Therefore, the critical state is not at equilibrium, this is only an illusion society sees as a result of the nature of self-organized critical systems. During the intermittent periods between avalanches, society cannot detect any changes, so it is assumed that nothing is happening,…

The Sequoia Forest is one of the most beautiful places in California, and is a must-see for nature lovers everywhere. We already learned some amazing facts about the place in part one of this article, and now we're back to tell you some more with part two. Number Eight: Endangered Species, and Others The national park boasts an extensive variety of wildlife, including 5 types of fish unique to the area, 200 different bird species, and 26 different types of reptile. There are some endangered…