Wildfires

Chapter Reflection – Chapter Two – “The Prison-Industrial Complex” Colorado College, Colorado Springs – May 5, 1997 In reading Chapter Two, it brought back memories of the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, it was a very sad moment in my young life at the time. My family had just moved to Washington, DC that summer from Decatur, Alabama. Furthermore, my whole family was shaken from that kind of violence against a Baptist in a Black community. My Mother was not…

earthquake in the next 30 years. The last “big quake” LA had was in 1857 and researchers suggest that it has to break sooner or later. California is also now entering the fourth year of an extreme drought. This is causing agriculture to be restricted, wildfires to be more severe, natural ecosystems diminishing, and water prices to rise. This is reminiscent of the Great Drought of the 1860’s during a time which Los Angeles was growing rapidly. The cattle loss was about 70% in Los Angeles country…

immense fear into next to everybody, turning neighbor against neighbor, as no one knew who to trust anymore. Unsurprisingly, due to the overreaction of Americans when McCarthy presented his list with 205 “known” communist spies, McCarthyism spread like wildfire, generating mass hysteria that would take…

about saving lives immediately firefighters come to our mind. It is very true that these individuals risk their lives to save others, but there also is a perspective that they have a beginning and ending point of their mission. Last weekend we had a wildfire going on in our neighborhood, the La Tuna Fire which starts on Friday and ends on Sunday. I was witness how…

of urban cities and rural farmlands went to these religious revival camp meetings, gatherings for several days; men, women, and children taking in what the itinerant preacher were preaching. These revivals spread through the United States like a wildfire, creating new Christian denominations, and encouraging social reform. Antislavery and abolitionism was a big part of the Second Great Awakening, revivalist led many reformers believe that slavery was one of the most God defying of all sins. To…

Native Americans that believe in animism face challenges with the social norms since the beginning of a “structured” America. The evolution of the North American land has been a painful experience for the Native Americans to watch, as the land they consider to be alive be dominated and treated as an object. The “white men” were not like the Native people who personified the Earth and lived alongside of it and on it. European Americans have destroyed nature over the centuries without thinking of…

changing the dynamics of these forests and threatening the lively hood of spotted owls that occupy the place. The research explained in this article examines spotted owl that lives in California and they provided telemetry data on how owls survive in wildfires. The data gathered showed that spotted owls typically avoid the badly burned areas, but they benefit from habitat that includes a mixture of burned patches of different sizes and degrees of severity. I found this article interesting, and I…

Hassaan Haque Mrs.Bezemek Apps of Comp 20 November2014 Climate Change Climate change, the distribution of weather patterns that lasts for three decades ("Glossary of…” 1), is a major problem that is affecting the world today. It is important that we know that climate affects a lot of our economy and the way we live. Recent events such as the flooding of Pakistan and hurricane Katrina can show us just how much weather - the conditions of the atmosphere over a short period of time - and climate…

protection as everyone else. All people should be given safety and security as residents of that particular state and are entitled to fire department services. There is no reason that anyone should be denied those basic rights, even if there are serious wildfires…

Introduction Canada is a northern country that has many livable cities. One of these cities is Vancouver which is located in British Columbia [49.2505° N, 123.1119° W] (“Vancouver Map” par.1). It is a beautiful water-level city in the lower mainland region. Vancouver has a powerful economy, it is one of the main industrial centres of Canada (“Vancouver Map” par. 2). Vancouver is an environmentally friendly city and has a diverse population. This report addresses the environmental, economic and…