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    Florida, you must know the importance of protecting your house during storm and hurricane. When thinking about ways of protecting the property from hurricanes, most people think about hurricane doors. Many people forget the role played by windows in protecting their home from these natural calamities. Impact resistant doors and windows protect your residential and commercial property from storms and hurricanes. Also, known as storm windows and doors, they are made out of strong impact resistant…

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    Vanishing Island Analysis

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    Known as the “Vanishing Island”, Isle de Jean Charles is located in Louisiana and is quickly eroding due to climate change and rising waters from the current pipelines-- it has been called home to residents for over one hundred and seventy years, and the island is vanishing from underneath them. Vaughn-Lee, the director, composed this New York Times op-doc in hopes to reach out to society about the matters that are taking place in Isle de Jean Charles, so authority could take action of the…

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    Human beings are absolutely amazing. We as humans are, for the most part, very good at adapting quickly to the situations we are in. For example, a family from my church who has lived here in the United States for their entire lives just picked up and moved to Sierra Leone, Africa. Although difficult at times, they have been able to adapt to their new lifestyle fairly quickly. But when given circumstances such as population growth, innovation, natural events, and human events, can humans still…

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    when the storm is spinning one way on bottom and the opposite way up towards the atmosphere. Now since Saturn is moving on it’s axis with its own velocity, it then drags with it the storm’s spinning at their own speed as well; which would bring the storms straight to the poles (Kluger 2016). O 'Neil even quoted saying, “ The whole atmosphere is being dragged by its planet as it rotates… so all that air has some ambient angular momentum.” (Chu 2016). Over a great amount of time if these storms…

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    devastating super storm that affected the islands of the Philippines, especially Tacloban city. According to Barmania (2014) the typhoon, that had wind speeds around 150 mph, killed 6200 and displaced 4 million people, leaving the country in despair. Characteristics of typhoon Haiyan and Tacloban City: The characteristics of typhoon Haiyan were very specific and the physical setting of Tacloban city amplified the impact of this super storm. In general, typhoons are tropical storms consisting…

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    powerful storms that form over tropical ocean water. The larger they get the more destruction they can cause (Aboff & Sotirovski, 2012). Hurricane Sandy took place on October 22, 2012. The vast majority of the damage was in the Northeast coast of the United States of America. Not only can hurricanes cause lots of damage to houses and nature, but they can cause deaths, and financial problems as well. Hurricanes can be caused in many ways. The definition of a hurricane is “a large tropical storm…

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    gets destroyed, and there are floods. Hurricanes are deadly because of their high wind speed. The average wind speed is from 5-55 miles per hour. The maximum wind speed is 120 miles per hour. According to the article “Hurricane” it says: “These storms are feared because their strong winds, threaten…

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    here on the plains. It is with us all year round, from Amarillo to Albuquerque. This invisible force of nature can do significant damage. The roofers here at Quail Country Roofing have seen the effects of it all over the place. After a high-wind storm blows through, power lines go down, trees fall over, walls collapse, and signs go tumbling. And wind can do terrible damage to your roof also. We have seen whole sections of roof shingles stripped off of a roof deck. Fortunately, the homeowners'…

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    Views on women has changed through the years, but Kate Chopin focuses on the view of women in marriage. Women are portrayed as servants to their husbands. The three stories “The Story of an Hour”, “The Storm”, and “Desiree’s Baby” show how women rebelled against the constraints of marriage or gave in to it. They were to have no freedom or wishes. In two of the stories the woman rebelled and the other gave. One woman rebelled by death, another by an affair, and the last one submitted by being so…

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    looking at parts of how Mark Watney was stranded, the main cause is fictional and non-fictional characteristics of Mars. Before the Ares III (the name of the mission to Mars) crew started to evacuate Mars, a huge storm was beginning to occur. This storm had extreme wind…

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