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    Dead men Floating Summary When a bad storm entered the small town of Hardin, Missouri the river of Missouri overflowed its banks and flooded the town. The flood water covered more than twenty million acres of land. Fifty five thousand homes were ether destroyed or damaged. Exactly fifty people died.The damages would cost up to fifteen billion dollars. The bad thing about it was Hardin was only six miles north of the Missouri river so the town people knew it was only a matter of time before…

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    Essay On Haiti In Crisis

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    Haiti in Crisis In Upfront magazine, “Haiti in Crisis is about Haiti’s devastations. On October 16, Hurricane Mathew hit Haiti and other Caribbean countries with torrential rain and 145 mile-per-hour winds destroyed everything in its path. The hurricane killed more than 1,000 people, 175,000 homeless, and left 13% of the population required assistance with food, shelter, and medical care. Haiti is more vulnerable than the other countries because it’s the poorest country in the Western…

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    The author shows that Phoenix Jackson is both a Martyr and Warrior for what she does and goes through. Phoenix Jackson’s grandson was in need of a medicine after swallowing lye, the medicine could only be found in a Medical Clinic in Natchez,Mississippi. They lived in…

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    The Great New England hurricane of 1938 September 21,1938: The Great New England Hurricane occurred. The storm formed on September 13 northwest of the Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of africa and reached hurricane strength 3 days later. As the storm turned to the north on the 19th and 20th and strengthened into a powerful category 5 hurricane. “Weather bureau had warned a gale along the atlantic coast, when it was realized that this storm was continuing north, it was too late to get…

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    services for Kankakee include government weather websites, I-KAN an educational office that provides educational programs, and the FEMA website. The American Red Cross provides education regarding CPR, First Aid, and water safety (United Way of Kankakee County, 2016). Environmental systems to assist in primary prevention include Dams and renovated sewer…

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    People are Good As a whole, I believe that people, at their core, are naturally moral and unselfish. Agreeing with Locke’s argument, humans are “social animals”, putting the health of the greater good over personal, selfish wants and desires. When humans see other humans in times of need and struggle, majority of us do something to help. It may be as simple as donating a dollar or the change from their wallet, but it is an effort to make someone's life better. Think about the destruction…

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    In late August 2005 Hurricane Katrina caused vital destructions in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Of all the cities crashed by this category five hurricane, New Orleans and Louisiana saw the most extensive destruction. An approximate of 20 percent of the society of New Orleans endured in the city when the hurricane made landfall. After when the hurricane strike the town, waves on the Mississippi River were announced up to 40 feet high and…

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    Flooding Hurricane Katrina caused a storm surge, which is when a Hurricane causes sea levels to rise dramatically. This makes areas near the coast extremely vulnerable to flooding and it is usually this affect that has the most impact on human lives. As Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the levees protecting the city were overcome by the storm surge and the enormous waves, made by the extreme winds of the storm. As the levees gave way, huge areas of New Orleans were flooded and according to…

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    Hurricane Katrina Lessons

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    Brewin, 2007). The current barriers were supported by steel beams extending to about 19.8 meters below the sea levels thereby making them much stronger (McKay, 2006). Before the hurricane disaster, most of the agency of New Orleans, Louisiana and Mississippi lacked a proper hurricane plan, and most of the officers in the towns did not have any formal…

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    The heavy damage in New Orleans and towns on the Mississippi coast in Hurricane Katrina was of a catastrophic nature with 80% of the city being flooded. (Quarantelli, 2005). Those who arrived at the scene where not prepared for what they were about to encounter. This process works sequentially from the bottom up: It starts at the local level, works through the states, and passes on to the federal government. In the case of Katrina, the response began slowly, with a general feeling of…

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