Dust storm

Colorado, and New Mexico. Since, the soil in this region lacked a strong root system it became prone to dust storms. Unfortunately, this event caused many Sharecroppers to lose their jobs and most importantly their homes. John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath was awarded the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for it’s realistic representation of a migrate family being directly affected by the Dust Bowl. In the year 1940, John Ford was celebrated for his interpretation of Steinbeck’s…

chaos. Unemployment rates skyrocketed as citizens were dragged into debt, and people were made to migrate from their homes as storms of the Dust Bowl ruined agricultural opportunities. The population could be found in a world of barren earth and broken dreams, an era many believed to be “the final destruction of the old Jeffersonian idea of agrarian harmony with nature” (“Dust…

were named The Great Blizzard. The Great Blizzard happened in New England and mid-eastern it started on March 1888. There was up to at least 4.67 inches of snow on the ground and 400 people had died that day. The other deadly blizzard was named The Storm of the Century. It happened on March 1993. There was 56 inches of snow. 300 people died. It started and happened in southern and eastern states. Effects of a blizzard can be hard for some people. When blizzards occur, they…

The 1930’s were a period riddled by economic depression, dubbed the “Great Depression”, the economic mishaps of the 1930’s leaked out into affecting every facet of society, even the pop culture. The troublesome economics of the 30’s were overlooked by pop culture, as it deliberately used exaggerations and optimism to distract people from the reality of recession; while pop culture candidly documented political America in the 30’s, in which people were in search of a political hero. Bridled by…

Social identity, the classification and organization of heterogeneous people based on physical characteristics, is perhaps, one of the most prominent abstraction used in modern discourse. The need to belong to a group has increased; though identification has played a role in how we perceive ourselves and those around us, unfortunately at least one group is put at a disadvantage due to the categorized label that society condemns them off. In Charles Cunningham’s article, To Watch the Faces of the…

sand and the salty water. We get though breakfast and lunch, no problems. It is when it starts to get later in the day is when the clouds start developing but young me just thinks the clouds getting darker is because the day is ending, not that a storm is brewing. Everyone is showering, washing off all the sand and getting ready to go to dinner. The rain didn’t start until we were leaving from dinner but still, I hardly paid attention to what was actually…

calamity, the cry for leadership rings more a screech. As the rain came pouring down over coastal Texas at the end of last month, mother nature surely produced the most ideal conditions for a leadership situation. Hurricane Harvey, the wettest tropical storm to hit the contiguous United States, inundated cities like Houston and Beaumont and put Texas Governor Greg Abbott in a rather sink or swim locus to lead through difficult circumstances (Alvarez). This essay will examine the exchange of…

On May 22, 2011, Joplin, Missouri was hit by an EF5 tornado. A News-Leader article written by Thomas Gounley, “Five years after the devastating Joplin tornado, here's what the city looks like,” written five years after the disaster, explains the lasting effects of the tornado on the city. The article explains where the tornado touched down, how much damage it did, and what the lasting effects are on the community. The focus of the article is to give readers an inside-view of how specific…

Storm Surge In Storm Surge by Adam Sobel, we learn about Hurricane Sandy and the events surrounding it. Sobel explains some of the aspects which made Hurricane Sandy such a special storm. Sobel lived in Morningside Heights, high above the Hudson River on northern Manhattan’s West Side (Sobel 143). Sobel is a Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University (Sobel 315). He researches meteorology, extreme weather and climate…

Courage a word thrown around like a leaf in the mighty winds of the hurricane a word in which can be used a thousands time incorrectly before being used in a true sense. What does it mean to be courageous? What is the embodiment of such a word in regards to our realistic cruel world to find said courage we must first learn what courage is. Courage is not only an act of strength or bravery but the ability to be strong in mighty blaze that is life but the possession of the ability to block all…