...Hurricane Sandy Research Paper Super storm Hurricane Sandy occurred from October 22, 2012 – October 31st, 2012. It was a storm that many people have never seen before and may never see again. Hurricane sandy destroyed homes, businesses, and took lives all in the process. When it comes to business continuity, what did the government, businesses/utilities, financial organizations and individuals do prior to the storm, during the storm, and after the storm. Hurricane sandy had an overall impact that will never be forgotten and taught us what we know today. The government played a role through FEMA in order to take actions prior to Hurricane Sandy. Government data forecasts were provided to the public. According to “Hurricane Sandy highlights role of government information in our everyday lives” by www.foreeffective.org, states that government satellites and airplanes collect the data on the storms strength and condition. The, the government scientists develop and apply the models that predict where the storm will go. Finally, a government agency, the national Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service, provides that information to the public. New York, Maryland, Washington, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina declare state of emergency and people are told to evacuate. During the super storm FEMA provided an effective and efficient response to the damages caused by Hurricane Sandy. During the storm, housing for the thousands of people the hurricane displaced...
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...n Charlotte Bront�'s novel, Villette, Bront� strategically uses the brutality and magnitude of thunder storms to propel her narrator, Lucy Snowe, into unchartered social territories of friendship and love. In her most devious act, the fate of Lucy and M. Paul is clouded at the end of the novel by an ominous and malicious storm. By examining Bront�'s manipulation of two earlier storms which echo the scope and foreboding of this last storm -- the storm Lucy encounters during her sickness after visiting confession and the storm which detains her at Madame Walravens� abode -- the reader is provided with a way in which to understand the vague and despairing ending. A long vacation from school precedes the first storm and it is during this vacation, where Lucy is left predominately alone, that the reader feels the full depth and emptiness of Lucy's solitude. She says, �But all this was nothing; I too felt those autumn suns and saw those harvest moons, and I almost wished to be covered in with earth and turf, deep out of their influence; for I could not live in their light, nor make them comrades, nor yield them affection� (230). After a resulting fit of delirium and depression, Lucy attends confession at a Catholic church solely in order to receive kind words from another human being. It is at this low, after her leaving the church, that the first storm takes shape. Caught without shelter, Lucy falls victim to the storm's brute force. She remembers that she ��bent [her] head to meet...
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...Katrina: What It Was and the Aftermath Hurricanes, also known as tropical cyclones, are some of the deadliest and costliest natural disasters that affect the United States. They are severe tropical storms that form along the southern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and in the eastern Pacific Ocean. After the hit, they trigger thunderstorms within an area. Within the Northern Hemisphere, they have winds that go counterclockwise near earth’s surface. Hurricanes occur most frequently within the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts. Typical hurricane season for the Atlantic coast is between June to November. However, the deadliest months are between August to October. Whereas, the Eastern Pacific season starts in May and...
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...Mexico. When the Dust Bowl rolled into all of these States it was the hardest thing that farmers, and everyone who lived in these states had been through. The dust storm was caused by a major drought, and wind erosion. Some of the States got it worse than some, Oklahoma and Kansas were the two that got hit the hardest during the 1930’s. In the book Dust Bowl, The Southern Plains in the 1930’s, written by David Worster it says, “The Dust Bowl was the darkest...
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...that occurred during the 1930’s was The Dust Bowl, it was also known as The Dirty Thirties. The Dust Bowl started in 1931 and did not end until 1939. It got it’s name by a name news reporter after Black Sunday. Black sunday was by far the worst dust storm that had occurred during the entire Dust Bowl. Many people believe families did flee during the Dust Bowl. As a matter of fact, many families did not flee their homes. They had no money. How would they have bought a new home? Many news reporters recall...
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...Ryan Cottle Professor Shapoff English 102 29 May 2012 Analysis of Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” In Kate Chopin’s short story “The Storm” she uses symbolism and imagery in her writing techniques to mirror the events of the storm set in the story’s plot with her characters and their actions.Through her use of symbolism and her use of vivid imagery she is able to convey the themes of adultery, marriage, and new life in her characters. Her use of imagery and the symbolic meaning of the storm strongly convey her personal feelings on each of these themes. The first major theme in the story is adultery, which is represented by two of the main characters in her story, Calixta and Alcee. The story depicts them as having an old flame from years before the storm that brought them together again. The storm drives Alcee to take shelter in Calixta’s house, which leads to adulterous actions by both of them. In the story they passionately make love while Calixta’s husband and son are lost in the storm. In part II of the story, Calixta is shown sitting at home completely unaware of the storm’s approach. This scene can be seen as symbolic of her also being oblivious to the adulterous events that are coming in her very near future. It can also be seen as Calixta having no prior intentions to commit adultery in the story. Chopin uses her mastery of imagery at the climax of the storm to lustfully describe Calixta’s features to the reader to intensify the moment and her adulterous deed. Chopin...
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...Kate Chopin's short story, "The Storm," is a story about the true meaning of happiness that transpires during a raging thunderstorm. Some of the ideas and themes tackled in this four-page short include adultery, happiness, the nature of secrets, and temptation. One of the main character's decisions revolves around infidelity, and can be considered a truly reprehensible act. Although some cultures look at it differently, the action is, on the whole, looked down upon. In Kate Chopin's "The Storm," through the story's showcasing of literary skill and dynamic themes, a question can be posed to the story's events: are the gender politics on display enough to justify Calixta's reprehensible actions? Firstly, in order to answer this question, we...
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...Wild, “ with the novel, “ Their Eyes Were Watching God. In both, the protagonist go through tough experiences and have a strong connection with nature. The movie, “ Beasts in the Southern Wild,” released in 2012 directed by Benh Zeitlin is about a young girl named Hushpuppy who lives in a peculiar isolated area which they call the “Bathtub.” Hushpuppy lives with her crazy, sick father which is her only parent figure in the film, and with a community full of brave and wild people. In the film, Hushpuppy and her community face a storm which ends up exposing...
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...this storm that killed mostly about 7 thousand people. This storm was called the “The Dust Bowl”.The dust bowl was a serious storm it affected a lot of people especially children. This storm had spread all over a good section of the great plains of the united states that had also extended over Southern Colorado,Southwestern Kansas the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma,and now New Mexico. The Dust bowl was known as the “Dirty Thirties”, because it happened in the 1930’s and its main supporter was the dirt so it was basically a storm made mostly of dirt. In 1932 there was about 14 storms on the great plains. Some reasons that may have caused the dust bowl were over-farming, livestock overgrazing, droughts, and poor-farming practices. More than 100 million acres was destroyed while this storm was happening. The Dust gots it’s name after the black Sunday that was on April 14, 1935....
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...account of living in the German army out on the Western Front that is at the same time so personal. In the beginning of the war when Jüger was a fresh recruit, his fellow soldiers and him were excited to be out in the battlefield talking of “No finer death in all the world than…” This shows how in the beginning war was seen as a glorified engagement that they sought and hungered for. Although the fresh recruits seemed to want this glory that comes with war, that mentality would soon be shocked from their minds as war reared its ugly head when the first shells began landing around them. At first Jüger did not understand what was happening and this incident caused his comrades and himself to change and dull their sense of glory for war. After being indoctrinated into his first shelling, Jüger soon learned to take some calm in the dangers that the artillery presented when he reflects “I thought privately that this baptism of fire business was actually far less...
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...the most destructive storm to strike the United States and the costliest storm in U.S. history, causing $108 billion in damage, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA). It ranks sixth overall in strength of recorded Atlantic hurricanes. It was also a very large storm; at its peak, maximum winds stretched 25 to 30 nautical miles (46 to 55 kilometers) and its extremely wide swath of hurricane force winds extended at least 75 nautical miles (138 km) to the east from the center. Katrina initially formed about 200 miles (322 km) southeast of the Bahamas on Aug. 23, 2005, as a tropical depression, according to the NOAA. A well-defined band of storm clouds began to wrap around the north side of the storm's circulation center in the early morning hours of Aug. 24. With winds of about 40 mph (65 kph), the storm was named Tropical Storm Katrina. Hurricane Katrina originally formed about 322km southeast of the Bahamas on August 23, 2005. A lot of storm clouds began to form around the north of the hurricanes centre point in the early hours of august 24th. The winds blew up to 65kmph. By the time it made its way to southern Florida on Aug. 25, Katrina was a moderate Category 1 hurricane. While it caused some flooding and casualties — two people were killed — during its first landfall, it appeared to be just another hurricane in an active hurricane season. Katrina weakened after passing over Florida and was reclassified as a tropical storm. But, once over water...
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...Christopher Roberts April 29, 2015 93174/Man 3583 Class Project The Disaster Relief Project of Post- Hurricane Katrina On August 29, 2005 the levees broke and started the flooding of the city with depths of more than 10 feet of water in some places. The category 4 storm had already taken its toll on the city. The head of DHS Michael Chertoff waited a total of 24 hours after receiving knowledge that the levees were breached to make the designation that hurricane Katrina was a "incident of national significance--requiring an extensive and well-coordinated response by federal, state, local tribal and nongovernmental authorities to save lives, minimize damage and provide the basis for long-term community and economic recovery." What followed this statement was a project management failure of catastrophic measures. I believe there are 4 major project management failures that could have been handled differently by local, state, and FEMA- communication, planning, leadership, and execution. FEMA, Local, and State officials failed to plan for events like this, they failed to communicate with each other during/after the event, they failed to show leadership, and they failed to execute any of the plans presented in a timely manner (one of which was to provide the trapped residents of the city basic needs of food and water). Given that New Orleans is essentially a bowl by being that about half of the city and surrounding areas are above sea level and the other half is up to 6 feet...
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...hurricane terrorizing all cities and states on its war path of destruction; Katrina is what they call her and her storm surge reached 20 feet high. 1,836 was the final death toll that Hurricane Katrina caused and her affects were impacted over approximately 90,000 square miles. 80% of New Orleans was underwater and some places were up to 20 feet under. (11 Facts About Hurricane Katrina) This destruction is unimaginable to most of us but for those that experienced it, it is something they never want to experience again. Along Katrina’s route of destruction, tornados were developed wreaking havoc in other states. In this paper I will discuss, in depth, hurricanes and tornados and the destruction they cause to our nation. The word hurricane was derived from the Spanish word “huracan” this word originated from a Mayan storm god. The word hurricane was used in the West Indies where they described any tropical cyclone. (Hurricane: What is a Hurricane?) The accurate definition of a hurricane is a “tropical cyclone with sustained winds that have reached speeds of 74 mph or higher” the storms are labeled as hurricanes when they gain their strength over days and weeks time. (Hurricane: What is a Hurricane?) Storms developing over the Atlantic Ocean or eastern Pacific Ocean are coined hurricanes. Regardless the name, all tropical cyclones develop the same way. These storms use warm, moist air as their fuel over the ocean and causes areas of lower air pressure below. The air from areas...
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...The Setting of Chopin’s “The Storm” In “The Storm” Kate Chopin makes the setting an essential and entwined part of her action and ideas. The story focuses on the two main characters, Calixta and Alcee and their short love affair. The action is taking place in a small town in Louisiana where all of the characters live. The story is set in the late nineteenth century when adultery was not expected from anyone, as woman were considered to be innocent and faithful. The integration of setting and story can be followed in details about the storm itself, setting of the atmosphere/mood, and also the complexities of married status in the society. “The Storm” is not only the title of the short story, but it is also part of the main setting that is directly tied to the passion between Calixta and Alcee. As the storm gets stronger and louder, the two main characters begin to remember vivid physical flashbacks. The memories escalate into a sexual encounter. While the adultery was taking place the storm was breaking apart the house, as this action was damaging the characters marriage. Once the storm ended, "the sun was turning the glistening green world into a palace of gems” (Chopin). After not seeing each other for many years the storm brings Alcee and Calixta together and after the storm they have to go back to their own lives. The atmosphere and the mood were set with the use of colors and other elements. The short story mainly takes place in Clarisse’s house in Louisiana, but it...
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...Kate Chopin and Shirley Jackson are two renowned authors. They are recognized for their work and their excellent use of the word. “The Storm” is about a young married Creole woman who has an affair during a storm while her husband and son are away in town. In “The Lottery”, it is about how a town goes through a lottery to complete a village ritual. Each short story has its individual purpose. Although the authors do now know each other, the poems can be used together to explain the significant of symbolism. In the short stories, we see that the symbolism of the storm and the lottery has huge significance to the overall concept of the story. In the “The Storm”, the storm holds literal and figurative significant to the story. For the story, the storm is the base of the story and the...
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