Basement

from the ocean, we were slammed with twelve feet of storm surge. It was enough to flood my entire basement with six feet of saltwater and was just one step away from submerging the main floor of my home. Knowing this and how many lives it affected, changed my perspective on hurricane damage. When I found my bicycle out in front of my house, I didn’t know if I would be prepared for how my basement would look. When I walked through my now decimated garage door, what I saw was soul sinking. My…

Although undetected by sight, smell, or taste, this radioactive gas has led to an estimated 20,000 lung cancer deaths each year. Radon is a cancer-causing radioactive gas that can be found outdoors and indoors. It is a naturally occurring gas that comes from the radioactive decay of Uranium, which are found in soil and rock throughout the world. This radon then breaks down into solid radioactive elements which are called radon Progeny. This radon progeny can then attract to air particulates and…

In Syria, supposedly about 13,000 prisoners have been secretly killed. The article Syria conflict: Thousands hanged at Saydnaya prison, Amnesty says, by Amnesty International, says that between september 2011, and December 2015, mass hangings have been reported. These murders were allegedly authorized by the Syrian goovernment.Sypposedly, twice a week, 20-50 people were gathered and hung in complete secrecy. During the middle of the night, the victims were blind foloded and told they were going…

Goodpasture’s Syndrome, also known as Goodpasture’s Disease, antiglomerular basement antibody disease, or anti-GBM disease is an autoimmune disease affecting the lungs and kidneys. In this rare disease antibodies are formed that attack the collagen in the lungs and kidneys leading to kidney failure and bleeding in the lungs. The laboratory plays an important role in the diagnostic process of Goodpasture’s disease. Patients will experience edema, joint pain, changes of urine color, and…

It hurts seeing both Liesel and Rosa watch him leave and the readers can see now how much Rosa actually loves her husband. Himmel Street was receiving bomb threats and the Germans had to go and look at everyone 's basement to check which one was the biggest and safest one for everyone. That 's when the Hubbermanns got really worried and didn 't know what to do with max. He was not found thankfully after the search. Max however, decided it was best for him to leave…

“She said you’re crazy, and it’s dangerous for me to be here. Some people said you cook and eat our pets while other people said, you keep prisoners in your basement.” Pausing, Ernest bowed his head before he asked, “Now why would they say that?” “Tell me, is your house haunted. Mom thinks it is. She said, there’s a tunnel from your basement to the top of the mountain to allow the ghost to go up there. When he’s ready to return, he screams, and you open the door.” It shocked Justin that Ernest…

The Breakfast Club Summary The Breakfast Club is about five different high school students in Saturday detention, and is supervised by a strict teacher (Richard Vernon).The movie covers issues from every social class and every angle of the social structure of high school giving it a variety of a sociological outlook. Each each student has a status in society: John Bender is a criminal, Claire Standish is a princess, Andrew Clark is a athlete, Brian Johnson is the brain, and Allison Reynolds is…

Instantly, the bright yellow light bulb went off in my head, on the bottom level in my three story house, I have a basement that neither I nor anybody hardly ever went into. In order to get in to the basement, there is a secret door located underneath the unsteady brown hardwood floor of my living room. When reaching for the door, you must remove the third book to the left on the bookshelf. Once the door was opened…

After the family moved, Annie’s, “reading had taken a new turn.” Most of the books Annie read had a common theme, a source of imagination, considering most books in the 1950’s were about the past war- World War II. Annie read Leon Uris’s Exodus and Mila 18 about the Warsaw ghetto. She read Hersey’s The Wall, also about the Warsaw Ghetto. She read Time magazine as well as Life, and the Look- all which primarily discussed the events of World War II. Now more mature, so, too, was Annie’s…

not seem implausible in the context of war. In such dangerous times, people had to do whatever they possibly could to stay alive, even if it meant pretending to be dead amongst decomposing bodies or accepting an employer’s offer of shelter in his basement. Perhaps I only felt a sense of resolution from these stories because I know that things ended well. Or perhaps a “true” war story has a different definition for civilians who live through a war than it does for soldiers who fight on the…