Sinkhole

1) Eavesdropping: It can be defined as secretly listening to the private conversation of others without their consent. Here an attacker can choose to passively eavesdrop on the network communication and steal the data. Through passive eavesdropping attackers apparently eliminate their presence in the network and make such attacks difficult to detect. The goal of such an attack is to violate the confidentiality of the communications by intercepting the network and sniffing or listening to…

Have you ever had to move from your home to somewhere you know nobody and nothing about it? In the Novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the Fisher family had to do exactly that. As Paul Fisher struggles with changing schools and moving states, he feels like no one will like him, but soon he learns that change is a good thing and he begins to make new friends and gain self confidence. “I had to agree” Pg. 30. Paul didn’t have the confidence to say what he thought to his own mom. If Paul had the…

nature,character vs person, and character vs society. One piece of conflict that is shown in, “Tangerine” is character vs nature. The book shows character vs nature by the sink hole and the muck fires. On page 82 it says,”No! Sinkhole, man! It’s a sinkhole! It’s opening up under the field. Look at 19”.Nature helps drive the plot of the novel because it might be foreshadowing what happens later in the story.The text shows how the muck fires start.On page 15 it says,”Muck fire, ma’am.…

The state of Florida is known for its natural springs, which originate from the underground Floridan aquifer. Aquifers are underground caverns where water is collected from runoff. The aquifer also provides water for practical residential usage, agricultural irrigation, commercial and industrial usage. In the 1800s water was abundant, in order to create more residential, agricultural, commercial and industrial settings, the state had to undertake acts to rid the land of water. According to…

The cave, now knows as Kartchner Caverns, was discovered in 1974 by two men named Gary Tenen and Randy Tufts. The duo had been searching for an untouched, undiscovered cave for years. When they stumbled upon a sinkhole in the ground, what they found was exactly that. Inside the sinkhole, they…

abandoned mine workings, which under some conditions, may erupt through the Earth's surface, damaging buildings directly above, or near, the rupture point. There are several different types of subsidence including: mine drainage from water collection, sinkhole, which typically occur when mines are in proximity to the surface and trough subsidence that appears above a failed shaft pillar or some external pressure that forces a pillar into a soft mine floor or ceiling. All of these depressions,…

Roger Giangrande Professor Steve Sciara January 30, 2016 Big Bertha: The Contingency killer? Replacing the two their road right at the water, Seattle is building a 2 mile tunnel underneath the busy streets. Big Bertha is named after Bertha Knight Landes, who was elected as Seattle's first female mayor in the 1920s. Bertha is the worlds largest boring machine that stands 5 stories tall and 326 miles long only moving 35 feet per day weighing it at an incredible 6,700 tons.…

Mayan Society Peaceful as Mayan society may have seemed, brutality was also common in their culture. Torture and sacrifice were part of religious ceremonies, and warfare often broke out between city-states. But that is all part of humanity, is it not? This essay will highlight Mayan culture, their mysterious disappearance and decline, as well as the impact the ancient Mesoamerican civilization had on modern times. The following paragraphs will expound on these points. To begin, Mayan culture…

understanding of his friends, family, and himself. The first group Paul experiences a growing understanding of is his friends. One example of how he understood his friends better later on in the story is when Gino congratulates him on helping with the sinkhole. “He said, ‘Mars, my man! Good work out there.’ I know that voice. I said, ‘Thanks, Gino’”(83). Gino is a good friend because he can “see” that Paul isn’t just a kid with thick glasses. Paul realizes this, but not at the beginning of the…

In the novel Tangerine, Paul Fisher is supposed to be a young man that became almost blinded by his brother and brother's friend spray painting his eyes. He is supposedly almost blind but actually, he can see more than what his parents can see. Erik Fisher, Paul’s brother, is a really mean boy who tries to kill Paul in a flashback, spray paints his eyes, steals a bunch of priceless objects from houses, and kills someone. Mom and Dad don’t see what a psycho Erik is. Through the motif of sight,…