Essay on Tsunami

Mothers. They are the symbol of nurturing and comfort. All around in nature mothers give birth to children and then raise them to be productive members of that particular society. On occasion there is the bad apple so to speak, and a mother neglects her duties to her little ones. This can be detrimental to the future of the child because they could lack certain qualities that will enable them to survive on their own. Ultimately, the survival of races is dependent on a mother's care. This role…

People have travelled across the entire globe searching for the city of Atlantis. They have dived into the deepest depths of the sea, and have climbed mountain ranges all in the pursuit of discovery. At least half a dozen expeditions are launched each year, and some explorers would swear they were successful. Professionals claim that the most likely location of Atlantis is a small island called Santorini which is off the coast of Greece. It would seem as though Plato described this exact place…

having to worry about natural disasters, these natural disasters are becoming more and more a threat every year because the climate is constantly changing causing the sea levels to always change with when that happens there is always a threat to a tsunami or even hurricanes. It causes the way of life to change of people on the…

or go to college and find employment. The affective aspect of ethnic identity is the function that creates the bond of “love” for one’s culture. For example one feels more sympathy or a sense of urgency for their country when it gets ravaged by a tsunami than they do for another country merely because that is where they are from and where raised. Or furthermore one finds more comfort when with his own society, or when practicing his cultural traditions, while simultaneously feeling discomfort…

than almost anything else. In the United States, a place considered “Tornado Alley” that is located in the most severe parts of Texas through Oklahoma has about 500 tornadoes that take place in this area every year, so tornadoes are not as rare as tsunamis, earthquakes and etc. “With wind speeds of more than 300 mph (483 km/h), tornadoes are one of the most destructive natural forces on Earth.” (Castro, How do Tor-nadoes Form?) The way tornadoes form is a frightening thought…

Legends have been used to explain the world around us. They were created to explained how the world worked. Each region of the world has their own way of explaining what was happening. Even if it is the same phenomena, there could be hundreds of different stories. Earthquakes are one example of such phenomena. The regions that mentioned are where earthquakes were a common occurrence. The first group, ancient Greeks, had many reason why earthquakes occur. Ancient Greece is one place where there…

colors of red, orange, yellow, and pink, along with its size amazed me, but the meaning behind it was also interesting. Echelman created this work to correspond to the map of energy released across the Pacific Ocean from the Tohuku earthquake and tsunami. It was so powerful that it shifted the earth’s axis and shortened the day by 1.8 millionths of a second. This is why she named the piece “1.8”. The meaning of the work and the actual work itself had me floored. The next room had the work…

temperament.” because of this attitude (Golden 2). Furthermore while Golden explains how religion is being impacted by society, weather is also being affected. Political correctness is deeply affecting how we name natural disasters such as hurricanes or tsunamis. Consequently in the past we named these disasters after males but a huge uproar in the feminist community lead to a drastic change of male to female names. An example of this impactful movement is hurricane Katrina which disastrously…

For example, the sound of the waves crashing upon the shore, created a calming effect. An earthquake sends a tsunami of waves over small islands in the ocean. A wave can also become a swell, a rush, of a certain condition. A wave of small pox permeated throughout the country, or a wave of anger swept over her when she was robbed. In physics any regularly recurring…

To be honest, I hate school with a passion, yet I love learning as much as living. As a child, schooling created a feeling of loneliness and sadness that echoed throughout my life, even now. I didn’t meet the standard levels for literacy and was separated from my classmates in elementary school for special reading and writing classes. Also the lack of freedom to say and move the way I wished to, and the rebellion that stemmed out of me in middle school due to these limitations. Finally, the…