The Year of the Flood

more than just local citizens and can be used to achieve practically anything. For example, Baton Rouge’s 2016 flood was caused by 29 inches of rain from an unnamed and unreported storm. The governor declared a state of emergency days after the extreme flooding began, which allowed a constant stream of London’s Olympic Games. Due to the lack of political support to share the news of the flood, the city, “U.S. policy makers were less likely to declare disasters during the Olympics. Moreover, they…

relationships and the unbreakable connections between God, People and Land. As being Christians, we all have heard and learned about the Great Deluge that happened in the early Old Testaments era. The flood was a massive slaughter caused by Yahweh’s indignation. The…

structure of the Hindu community, known as the Caste System. The term dharma is problematic in translation, with a range of suggestions such as ‘law,’ ‘duty,’ and ‘religion’ (Flood, G. 2004, p.52). The term, in short, refers to ritual and moral behaviours which are necessary to uphold to maintain cosmic order, or rta. (Flood, G. 2004, p.53; Rodrigues, H. 2017, p.30). Karma is the concept which expresses that any moral action, good or bad, will have consequences in this life or in a future…

On July 10, 1964, Japan created the river act which purpose is to watch for and guard against water disasters. Since the creation of the River Act in 1964, the number for the amount of people dying when a flood does occur decreased significantly until the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Japan also needs to build up their shorelines, either with walls made by concrete or sand walls to prevent flooding. The Japanese government realized they need to pay more…

help push or prove a point. Adding this element test the imagination of the reader and can make it more enjoyable to read. “In 1966, my family and I emigrated from Philadelphia to Phoenix, Arizona, in a covered station wagon, becoming part of a great flood of latter-day pioneers…” (White 1). Here he wants the reader to envision him and his family’s journey to the west. White has experienced this and now he is trying to give the reader a vivid image as to what he is discussing. This falls in with…

Many families lost their homes because of the Great depression. Just in the year of 1932, about 273,000 people were evicted from their homes. Another example would be the great flood that caused damage in Pennsylvania and surrounding states. The flood caused many families to evacuate their homes. Also the Dust Bowl was happening in the Southwestern states. All of these tragedies happening made people migrate across…

The civilization of Ancient Egypt was one of the earliest in world history. It is usually held to have begun around 3000 BC, when the lower Nile Valley became unified under a single ruler. By this date the only other people in the world to have a literate, urban civilization were the Sumerians, in Mesopotamia. Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. The civilization of…

Immigration: Friend or Foe? Where would this world be without compassion or reason? Finding the balance between the two extremes needs both to properly restrict the flood of immigrants, both legal and illegal, and accept the people who truly need the shelter and peace of our country. When such a structure is easier said than done, one must keep in mind that one thing will not work for everybody and that nobody can predict every outcome of a situation. This tenuous balance needs to have a basic…

the earth in many different ways. For as long as man walked this earth, the moon has affected the tides and even the metals of the earth. The phases of the moon are still used to help guide the harvest, and even help determine the time of the river floods. The moon is a place that we know little about and very few people are lucky enough to get to experience it in person. Some interesting facts that we know about the moon because of science are that the the moon rotates at 10 miles per hour…

Ethical Issues in Medical Tourism From business to leisure purposes, traveling abroad has been increasing steadily, estimating that about 106 million people in the United States (US) traveled abroad for various purposes in 2015 (“Monthly Departures to International Destinations,” n.d.). A relatively new industry, medical tourism, has become one of the drivers that continues to increase the number of US residents to travel abroad. Medical tourism can be simply defined as traveling abroad for…