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HSIE Geography Assessment Task 2 By Josh Borro (Mount Vesuvius, Italy) Spatial Distribution of the Disaster: In the year 74 AD, 24th of August, a volcano named Mount Vesuvius erupted and caused mass destruction in Pompeii, Italy during Midday. The eruption lasted for more than 24 hours causing parts of the nearby environment to be negatively affected. According to figure number one, Mt Vesuvius is located in the Metropolitan City of Italy. The location of this particular point is 40.822383…

The Ink talks by Arunima Sinha, first female amputee to climb Mount Everest leaves a deep impact on your mind and makes you want to salute her courage which is taller than the highest peak in the world. I also look up to my cousin who is a major in the Indian Army. He has mentored me by iterating the hard truths. He is closest to a role model I have. 10. Give a brief write-up about your background, including how it has impacted the choice of your present course of study. Prepare a SWOT…

The Everest disaster in 1996 was a disaster that could have been prevented due to some people's selfishness. The disaster had killed many climber from all of the expeditions including the leaders from two of the expeditions such as Scott Fischer and Rob Hall. The two climbers had been from the Adventure Consultants (Rob Hall) and Mountain Madness (Scott Fischer) team. The moral problem of climbing Everest would be that if you see someone else in danger you have to look and take your life into…

The website that I chose was from a history.com because it is a reliable source and because they also have a television channel that has accurate facts that people took time into researching facts about history. You can tell that it is a reliable and accurate source for information about Pompeii because the publisher of the website is A&E Television Networks and that network actually takes time to look at facts about history and make sure they tell accurate information to their researchers…

During the times of WWII, a series of brutal men were attempting to control the world: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Benito Mussolini. That’s just some of the examples from other occurring genocide in the World. In this case the Japanese, there are men involved that go by the name of Hedeki Tojo, Edward King Jr., and Homma Masaharu. At the end of it all Homma Masaharu was help responsible for the death march, “war crime” and was finally executed by a firing squad on the day of April 3rd, 1946…

Mrs. Vermillion 19 February 2016 Into Thin Air Summary In the personal account of a Mount Everest climb, Jon Krakauer explores the tragic blunders of the trip that made it unforgettable. Krakauer delves into the details of his trip, while also explaining historical in tells of the famous summit. Though the story had intitially begun with…

Into Thin Air Literary Analysis Everest will devour all in its icy crevasses and leave one’s thoughts twisted, questioning why they came there in the first place. Into Thin Air, a journalistic view novel by Jon Krakauer, tells of the May 1996 tempest that ominously shadowed Everest, leaving all on the summit oblivious as the storm’s winds growl from a short distance below them. On May 11th when the storm attacked at its full strength, it would leave eight people dying during their summit attempt…

versus Mount Fujiyama Ever since I was a little girl I have always been fascinated with volcanoes. How do they work? How hot is the lava exactly? Can you travel down into the funnel of a volcano, and if so how and will you survive? And do all volcanoes function the same way? As a child, we never understood that the beautiful hot magma that flows from the volcano is dangerous and burns everything in its path. Two volcanoes that have always caught my eye is Hawaii’s Kilauea and Japan’s Mount…

In 1942, during World War II, Mount Rainier had been used by military ski troopers for winter training; it had been off limits to all other people. During the winter of 1949, A huge snowstorm had caused Mount Rainier for a while because of the major damages it had caused to the park. A new record had been broken by Mount Rainier, in 1971, for the most snowfall in a year. In 1999 Mount Rainier had celebrated being 100 years old, and had many festive events. Mount Rainier, the volcano, is around a…

“You can never tell who the mountain will allow...and who it will not.” The novel Peak is about a 14 year old boy named Peak Marcelo who travels to mt.Everest with his somewhat estranged father Josh, because he had trouble with the law in his home new York because he was climbing a skyscraper. Peak realizes later in the book though that his father only took him in because he wanted the boy to be the youngest to climb mt.Everest. With his father joshes help and his Nepalese friends Sun-Jo and…