Catastrophe

ultimately accepts that she will never have her soldier again. Sorrowfully, she repeats over and over again, “I bequeath you to oblivion” (Hiroshima 79). In her own perception of grief, she believes she must continue to remember that the soldier is gone forever, despite the pain caused by remembering. It is a kind of pain and anguish she continues to bear because the act of forgetting, to her, would be equatable with allowing her commitment to descend to the Kierkegaardian “lower immediacy.” The…

Far in the future, in the year 2500 the world has completely transformed, and appears drastically different from that of the early 2000s. All conflicts have ceased to exist and humans have learned to work together as one nation to protect all citizens of Panem. Without conflict everyone focuses on protecting themselves from the natural world, the outdoors have been completely transformed into a buffered form of nature along with the elimination of any animals that pose a threat. The beaches of…

story ends with the complete destruction of Atlantis while it was at war with Athens. In “a single dreadful day and night,” the island of Atlantis, along with many Athenian soldiers, was “swallowed up into the sea and vanished” (Plato, 25d). This catastrophe is said to have occurred around 9600 BC, long before the time when Solon hears the story from the Egyptian priests (Castleden, 1998). Thus is Plato’s account of Atlantis, which has become the jumping off point for many modern researchers,…

Without any background and medical checks, then there is a higher chance of where a mentally ill person could be in the possession of a firearm. The restriction of some weapons would not only make the community safer, but it could also stop catastrophes from occurring in the future. This topic is very difficult for many people because they think they would be giving up their rights to bear arms and own their weapons, but the most important point to remember is that people are being kill by these…

his opinion on war and its effects on the mental health of soldiers: “The insanity of war means that incidents like this are accepted. By the standard of those who fight wars we did the right thing. The catastrophe is that these incidents occur on an industrial scale.” (ll. 47-49) The catastrophe that Kudo describes is, in matter of fact, the reality for at least 20 percent of the army veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, which only proves Kudo’s point further. In the conclusion of…

people believe this issue is only for the rich who have money in order to contribute to organizations or groups who are currently fighting mass extinction. The main reason that every person is being held back is that they are overwhelmed by the catastrophe approaching that they believe it is too late to do anything. Then this leads to not caring because it becomes an “Oh Well” moment. A geologist stated that “... we have to recognise that our impact is game-changing on this…

explains why people help in emergency situations. For example, hurricane Catrina and everything that has happened to Haiti. Aid relief organizations joined together to help with the after math of these catastrophes. Countries will also join together to help other countries when they are in need. Catastrophes bring people of all ethnicities and backgrounds together to help toward one common goal. To help those in suffering. If we change our perspective on those who are hurting, we will feel…

THE SEVESO DISASTER INTRO The Seveso Disaster was an environmental travesty that occurred on July 10th 1976 due to a chemical manufacturing plant, which released massive amounts of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) into the atmosphere (Lallanilla, 2017). This massive release caused not only environmental implications but health and safety implications as well. Through my research I will deduct what happened at that chemical plant outside of Seveso that caused such a disaster. Further…

Exxon Valdez Table of Contents Introduction: (Skinner, S.K. and Reilly, W.K., 1989)[1] A catastropic event taken place on March 24th 1989 at Prince William Sound, Alaska. An Oil Tanker known as Exxon Valdez owned by Exxon Shipping company was transporting 53.09451 million US gallons of crude oil. At 12:04 am the ship struck the Prince William Sound, Bligh reef. This caused 10.8 million US gallons of crude oil to spill hereby creating a huge environmental disaster and it was known that…

mother nature. As we continue this ignorant battle against nature who knows what the future will look like. Will we still have fossil fuel? Will we still have water? In Octavia Butlers, “Parable of the Sower”, she creates a world full of chaos and catastrophe yet a world that is similar to the one that we live in today. Butler’s vision of a dystopian future is one that may not be different than the world today, some of the same characteristics and bad habits we have today are eminent throughout…