Gulf Coast of the United States

strike the United States. In the beginning people knew it was coming, during the hurricane Andrew was destroying anything it went past, and after everyone realized what damage had happened. The beginning of any storm the first thing to do is get the word out. Technology is key when it comes to spotting storms.”The United States is launching a new series of satellites that will help scientists track and predict the paths of storms”(Lauber). It is very important that the United States uses good…

making me more aware; the Tupelo tornado, by making me more considerate; and the death of Harambe, by making me more open-minded to two sided situations. From birth until I was eleven, I lived in Pascagoula, Mississippi, which is located on the Gulf Coast. My house…

A day Americans will never forget. 9/11/01. On this day 19 terrorists boarded multiple commercial airplanes, hijacked them and crashed them into different targets on the eastern coast. Their targets were the World Trade Centers, and the Pentagon. The others lost control and crashed in fields. There are many theories to why these attacks happened, the most reasonable being US foreign policies in the middle east, in particular its support of Israel, 9/11, is a response to foreign occupation, and…

100-005 20 September 2014 Portfolio #5 The Industrial Revolution, hit the United States, in the mid- eighteenth century to nineteenth century, hard. With inventions, like the steam engine, railroad, and many more, countless opportunities and jobs were created. Citizens, as well as immigrants, were able to work for textile factories, railways, coal mining and much more. Since these opportunities were available, the United States began to produce the idea of, the ‘American Dream,’ a notion that…

Have you ever heard the terms “Renewable Energy” and “Non-Renewable Energy?” What is renewable vs non-renewable energy? What does it mean to the billions of humans all around the world? To start, renewable energy are resources that can be used multiple times, replenished quickly, and never runs out or dies (Salata, 2015). Some examples of renewable energy are solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, and hydropower. Non-renewable energy are resources that are used once and that is all, fossil fuel such…

Mexico Mexico is a country located between located between the United States and Central America. It is the 14th largest nation in the world. Mexico is a land of extremes, it has high mountains, terrains and deep canyons in the center of the country, beautiful beaches along its Caribbean and Pacific coastlines. rivers in Mexico include Rio Grande In north and Usumacinta on its northern and southern borders with Grijalva, Balsas, Panuco and Yaqui in the interior. Mexico has extensive coastlines,…

preferably it should be called a developing nation. This country is rich in tradition, culture, and also in its history. From all the countries in Latin America, it is the third largest country out there. Mexico is located in the border by the United States of America to the north and Belize Guatemala to the southeast. Mexico has a pretty large area of 1,964,375 sq kmsq km. it has a total land of 1,943,945 sq km and a total water of 20,430 sq km. It’s the fourteen largest county in the world.…

Regional trade of LPG began in the nineteen fifties and developed extensively in the nineteen forties through nineteen sixty. LPG was produced and stored in cylinders for household use; while being marketed (CNG). For the duration of this era in the United States, the Continental Oil Company created a collaborative undertaking with the stockyards of Chicago in the late nineteen fifties, for liquefaction of natural gas…

The World is Blue, by Sylvia Earle is about her experiences as a marine biologist and all the sea life she met on the way. All throughout the book she lets it be known the trouble humans have caused by overfishing, pollution, and acidification of the oceans. That currently many sea life, has either gone extinct or is in danger of becoming. The first couple of pages, inform the reader on how without the ocean, the earth would not be able to sustain any type of life. Earle also writes about her…

policy between 1877 and 1973 was the United States’ desire to become a global power. Evidence of such yearning for power is seen throughout history. There were some great, but also not so great, measures taken by the U.S. between this time period to make the country a world leader. On May 6, 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was signed by President Chester Arthur to forbid Chinese immigration and citizenship. The Chinese were not allowed to migrate to the United States for ten years.1 It was not…