Tornado

I am a senior at Miami High School and am currently enrolled in various rigorous courses designed for readying students for college. These courses include AP Calculus, AP Literature, and AP Environmental Science. In my junior year, I took two of the most vigorous and mentally challenging courses offered at my school, AP Language and Composition and AP Chemistry. Presently, my educational goal in high school is to raise my rank in my class because currently my unweighted rank is sixth out of one…

With the economy in its current state, most people are looking to save wherever they can. Why should we be surprised that some businesses are doing the same? In their efforts to do just that, many are being drawn towards the internet for crowdsourced designs and utilizing services from sites like 99designs and crowdSPRING. With their ever growing popularity, it is time that graphic designers embrace the change and realize that these sites are not going away. Some designers feel they are…

Science has revolutionized our world with unimaginable advancements in technology. From the brilliant minds of William Whewell (who coined the English word “science”) to the modern day scientist like Stephen William Hawking (who contributed to the vast amount of today’s knowledge on cosmology and quantum gravity). Furthermore, science has become so advanced in this day-in-age that it has been split apart into different sections that each cover a broad range of technological information,…

Canada is more Liberal towards International Students than America. Since we all know that Canada and America are one of the best countries to get education from. They are best because this two countries not only make you good student academically but also on the same time you will also have to go through a lot of hurdles over here which will make you stronger when you will be out in the real world trying hard to get better lives for your self. We all live in a world where there is lot of…

During World War Two my great grandparents were alive. There were two sides of the war Axis and the Allies. The United States was on the Allied side and they won. One of the reasons for the war was the genocide of the Jews. The war exhausted resources leaving shortages in the United States and many other countries involved in the war. According to Geoffrey R. Walden, in World War Two Schweinfurt, Germany was a bombing target which results in 1079 civilian casualties and many left as refugees…

The story of Dorothy Gale’s tornado swept trailer is an American classic. It tells the story of a young girl finding her way through a fictitious land filled with munchkins and flying monkeys on her way to the Emerald City. The original novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has been found to relate to the Great Depression and Populist movement that occurred in the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. There are many reasons why the modern spin on this classic story is a…

The Carrington Event and Emergency Preparedness The Carrington Event of 1859 was a giant solar storm that occurred by the sun that affected earth. How solar flares and solar storms occur is first they start off by the lines of the magnetic fields that sometimes overlap each other. As a result of this overlap, they can sometimes get tangled, which will cause the sun’s atmosphere to explode due to the magnetic fields overlapping and getting tangled with each other. The sun's spots on the sun…

In "A Good Man Down," by Lee Jenkins, the emotional appeal to pathos clearly stands out with the loss of this town from the tornado, to the loss of the man that held the town together. To me, the strongest moments in Jenkins' writing was when he used logos to establish a clear, reasonable, logical progression of his ideas based around the theme, "the field, and what the football field stood for to the town. In a small town of 1,900, people know each other and knew each other well. Then you have…

Renting An Apartment? 3 Reasons To Get Renter’s Insurance Many tenants make the assumption that their apartment building’s master policy will cover their unit entirely in case something were to happen to it. That is not true, which is why renter’s insurance is a very valuable thing to have for anybody that is renting an apartment. Here are 3 reasons why you should consider it. Liability Protection The reasons for having liability insurance is not to protect yourself or your belongings, but to…

has been brought to my attention that we have a serious problem and that problem is, flooding. Now there is absolutely no excuse for flooding, it can and should be prevented. It’s not like an earthquake, where you have no notice and it’s not like a tornado where it swoops down and suddenly destroys everything. Warning can be given for a flood, sometimes weeks in advance. It starts out slow and accumulates, but don’t let that fool you. Water is persistent, and it does not stop, so it ends up…