Catastrophe

from the amount you are reimbursed on a claim. In the event of the $10,000 insurance loss, you would be paid $8,000. Deductibles in many parts of the country have been going up. In hurricane prone states, where there is a greater risk of a major catastrophe, special deductibles may apply for homeowners insurance claims when the cause of damage is attributable to a hurricane. These deductibles are generally higher and may take the form of a percentage of the policy limits. Deductibles for…

Unfortunately, his creation of life turns out to be a bad idea and not godlike at all. He went through all that trouble and turmoil just to create an unsatisfactory creature. This part of the novel is a poor parallel to God’s creation story. According to the Bible, it took God six days to create the world; less than a week to create heaven and earth, light and darkness, animals, land and sea, and humans. On the sixth day He created Adam and Eve. While Dr. Victor Frankenstein was able to create…

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The Israelite people defy the Lord and disobey God’s law. The worship of Baal continues, which clearly leads to catastrophe and devastation. Yet the Lord God, once again, hears the cry of his people, and he forgives and rescues them from their suffering. Time and time again, God’s chosen fail in their faith, yet God makes his awesome power known to his people, in hopes…

Anja Spiegelman shared all these experiences with her husband, but added conspiracies, a presumed eating disorder, postpartum depression, and periodic anxiety attacks. As one may correctly presume with all these extra complications, the war took a much greater toll on her. Even before it began, her depression sent her and Vladek to a sanitarium for 3 months. (“Maus”) Her next breakdown came after the loss of her grandparents, parents, son, and nephew: “Oh God. Let me die too.” (Spiegelman 122)…

limb.” Since Gene was holding onto the tree trunk, he remained on the branch while Finny lost his balance and tumbled out of the tree. These events show the difference between the boys because while Finny would save his friend from accidental catastrophe, Gene caused Finny to fall out of the tree and break his leg. Their different reactions portray the idea that Finny is a loyal friend, and Gene is impulsive and controlled by his…

to disaster to emphasize the lack of consideration for ethics that Frankenstein displays while creating his monster. To demonstrate, when Frankenstein is telling his tale to Robert Walton, he describes the event of his monster’s creation as a “catastrophe” (Shelley 35). Soon after, he describes the monster as a “demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life” (Shelley 36). Looking back on his own actions, it was very clear to Frankenstein that what he did was wrong. During the creation…

“Flesh and Blood so Cheap,” by Albert Marrin, is a non-fiction narrative that explains the devastating fire in a New York sweatshop that ended the lives of 146 workers. Though it has never been proven, some hypothesize that the fire started as a result of a cigarette bud or an ash. Most employees made it out, but people in the ninth floor “were not as lucky.” Due to poor work conditions, some employees were forced to jump out the building, or burn. The calamitous Triangle Fire proved that it is…

The Coal Oil Point along the California coast releases and estimated 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of oil into the Oceans each day, according to livescience.com. The BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in 2010 spilled 205.8 million gallons of oil and 225,000 tons of methane into the Gulf of Mexico, proven by biologicaldiversity.org. An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially marine areas, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. Since so much…

There were a lot of information that jump of the pages of Mark Binelli’s novel “Detroit City is the Place to Be”. The author introduce the readers to his native land; the history and good and bad eras. In 1900’s Henry Ford had a bright idea to bring a majority manufacture of the automobile to the Detroit city area. Exploring through the eyes of the writer, Detroit city has been identified as the motor city for its automobile factories (Ford, Chrysler, and General Motor ); sport teams such…