The Year of the Flood

growing danger.” Bush launched the war on March 19, 2003, noting in a televised address that “helping Iraqis achieve a united, stable and free country will require our sustained commitment.” Following his 2004 re-election, Bush presided over the worst years of the Iraqi insurgency: 2005 and 2006. In response, he approved a surge that saw an additional 20,000 troops deploy to Iraq in 2007 and 2008. Bush’s time in office was winding down in December of 2008 when he spoke frankly about the war…

are well known for buying too many items. Some of them excessively spend money on expensive items, such as cars and televisions, to show off their high status among their peers. Black Friday is a special day where people around the world violently flood the retail stores for high discounts in preparation for the winter holidays. Stampedes kill hundreds of people and injure thousands over trivial products such as toilet paper. In 2008, the Great Recession hit many Americans, and they could no…

imagine the shock and dismay I felt when my troop disbanded earlier this year. Though we were all members of the highest level of Girl Scouts as a girl could be, I thought the troop would remain intact until I went to college. I imagined us all parting amicably with years upon years of wonderful memories. We all had yet to receive the coveted and elusive Gold Award, which we had all dreamt about and worked towards for years. We all supported each other in our paths down the road…

Montana Disaster and Emergency Services (MT DES) and Yellowstone County Department of Emergency Services fulfills their responsibilities as stated in Montana Code Annotated (MCA) Title 10, Chapter 3. Montana state code requires that the state assists the districts, and local communities with emergency management. Montana Code Annotated (MCA) Title 10, Chapter 3; Part 301, is the main coordinating policy document for emergency management by state government. MT DES is responsible for the…

Ching predicts that there will a flood that year, and when he told that to Wang Lung, Wang Lung started to speak ill about the gods. This continuously occurred and Ching did not say a word, so when the flood came Ching would have blamed it on Wang Lung for talking ill about the gods. Also when Ching asks Wang Lung to stop talking ill about the god, and that they will punish him one day for what he was saying, Wang LUng did not care. This not only shows that he's a rich arrogant man who does not…

Happy 150th Birthday Lake Charles! It’s amazing to think, after 150 years, Lake Charles is still moving forward. Lake Charles is constantly changing, and in 50 years, who knows where it will be. Lake Charles has welcomed new people, new ideas, and new businesses to become a city of kindness and greatness. I believe that in fifty years, Lake Charles will continue to grow and change, and become a bustling city of commerce for the good of its people. The luxuries only provided to some…

watch them from the garden “in case there’s a fire or a flood...or any act of God.” While she could be meaning this in a joking sense, the way Nick remains “watchfully” in the garden and the pause that exists in between “fire or flood” and “or any act of God” show some degree of seriousness. (Ch 6, pg.63) It’s clear that Daisy thinks that God’s work creates disasters; she adds “acts of God” as another term to the sequence of fires and floods, things that cause despair. Besides this, gardens in…

Placed at the opening of the Hebrew Scriptures, Genesis is the first of the five books of Moses, known as the Pentateuch. Genesis is the book of beginnings. Genesis describes such important beginnings as the Creation, the fall of man, and the early years of the nation of Israel. The beginning of salvation history, the story of God and man, sin and grace, wrath and mercy, covenant and redemption also begins in the Book of Genesis. The Book of Genesis may conveniently be divided into four major…

safe when the flood waters came. Despite being ridiculed and ostracized, Noah continued to be obedient and spent the next one hundred years following God’s instructions. When the ark was complete, he led two of each creature, along with his family, onto the ark and were safe and dry when the rains started. The rains commenced, and continued for the next 40 days and 40 nights, flooding the earth, and killing all men and creatures who were not on the ark. After the rain subsided, the flood waters…

observed through photo evidence that glaciers all over the world have been decreasing and also some glaciers, ice caps and ice shelves have disappeared completely in the last century. Many more are decreasing at an alarming rate, such that in a matter of years if appropriate measures are not taken, they will be gone. Scientists have identified the cause of this glacier retreat as human activities that increase greenhouse gas emissions, such as coal burning and use of fossil fuels for…