...Superstorm Sandy was a tropical hurricane in the 2012 hurricane season. Sandy began to form in the Caribbean on October 22nd and continued to enlarge into a hurricane once it passed Jamaica, Cuba, and the Bahamas. Sandy moved towards the Atlantic on the 28th. On the 29th, Sandy turned towards New Jersey. Then, turned into a post-tropical cyclone on the 30-31st, hitting New York. “There was an estimate of $50 billion is damages, making Sandy the second-costliest cyclone to hit the United States since 1900” (https://www.weather.gov/okx/HurricaneSandy). Sandy had the greatest number of fatalities in North America with at least 147 deaths. At the time Sandy hit land in the United States, it grew to a Category 2 storm with up to 80 mph. winds...
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...In late October of 2012, a post tropical cyclone swept through the Caribbean and ended up in the East Coast of the United States. This natural disaster was called Hurricane Sandy. Many citizens living in the New York and New Jersey areas were devastated by Hurricane Sandy. As the mayor warned of a hurricane approaching many people rushed to supermarkets and hardware stores to get supplies such as, canned food, bottled water, and sandbags to keep the water out of their houses. The city also made many efforts to minimize the danger that Hurricane Sandy might have by creating sand dunes. All the efforts and information given before the storm was helpful, but couldn't prevent mother nature and her wrath against the East Coast. Hurricane sandy caused...
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...Hurricane Sandy was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season and also brought about the second-biggest financial cost in American history. Its storm surge hit New York City on October 29, flooding streets, tunnels and metro lines and cutting power in and around the city. F07-013 here! Figure 6 11 Subway stations merged New York city began taking precautions on October 26. Government ordered the closure of (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) MTA and its metro on October 28, and the MTA suspended all subways. Learned from Hurricane Irene which nearly submerged subways and tunnels in 2011, entrances and gates were covered just before Sandy hit, but some were still flooded. The MTA outlined a 3-stage...
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...Hurricane Sandy – Karla Monge Partners: Karla and Caitie Use: Anecdotes Statistics Quotes Pictures Examples I. Intro A. Intro sentence: B. 3 things: 1. Links to global warming 2. Where it hit and how dangerous it was in each area 3. Effects and Victims C. Concluding Sentence: II. Links to global warming III. Where it hit and how dangerous it was in each area A. Where it hit 1. Sandy began as a tropical wave (cloudiness and storms) in the Caribbean. 2. Became a tropical storm (A cyclonic storm in the tropics w/winds from 39 to 73 miles) per in just six hours. 3. Became a hurricane when its winds reached 74 mph 4. Left the Caribbean, gained strength over open water and became a Category 2 hurricane. 5. Hit Cuba and weakened to a Category 1. 6. Hit Bahamas 7. Weakened (for a short amount of time) to a tropical storm 8. Gained strength -- Category 1 hurricane 9. Turned north to the U.S. coast. 10. Jersey shore, people were left stranded in their homes and waited for rescue teams in boats to rescue them. More than 80 homes were destroyed in one fire in Queens. Several other fires were started throughout the New York metro area. Seawater surged over Lower Manhattan's seawalls and highways and into low-lying streets. The water inundated tunnels, subway stations and the electrical system that powers Wall...
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...The adversities bring out the worst in people because hurricane sandy created many different kind issues for people to suffer. By the time New York City hit the worst disaster in 108 years. People have to face the reality. Super storm makes people turn into different way to face their problems. Since hurricane sandy slums New York City. About 26,000 borough resident without power at 11am on Nov. 6. According to the news articles “Con Ed working for restores power” more than 3,000 workers repairing sandy damage thought the city. Downed tree limbs and other problems caused by super storm sandy have hampered power restoration in queens. Therefore, it cause another problem was that a lot of gas stations do not have electricity to more the gas to stations. The hurricane sandy lead many issues make New York became unable to work normally. Most of people couldn’t work and students couldn’t go to school about a week because the transportation problems. There are hundreds of residents waiting and line up to get gas at gas station within hours. People need gas just want to be able get to work. However there also people have been buying the gas then turn to higher price and sell out in order to earn money. According to news articles “gas shortage worries queens drivers” on Monday a man, Lenny Streski, tries to enter his driveway on Hall Avenue in Maspeth. A lady told him that he better not hit her car. The man Streski couldn’t believe how people are turning on...
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...Abstract Hurricane Sandy brought many hazardous to the United States in 2012. The amount of spill runoff on the Eastern Coast proved to be a difficult yet tedious task to be cleaned up. Many guidelines needed to be followed and problems needed to be assessed. As time went by companies and organizations came together to tackle the hazardous wastes runoff which included untreated sewage, oil, and your everyday household items. Plans for future natural disasters were also implemented to prevent lasting effects from spill runoff. In October of 2012, Hurricane Sandy became a devastation to the Eastern Part of the United States. Sandy not only wiped away homes, buildings, businesses, etc., it also left behind many hazards and lasting damages. One main problem that this hurricane promoted was the release of sewage. It is said that over ten billion gallons of treated sewage flooded into the streets and homes. This amount is equivalent to piling up forty-one feet of sewage across the span of central park. Not only did the sewage flood streets and homes, it also leaked into the rivers, canals, and bays of New York and New Jersey. Needless to say, this overwhelmed the states as they were not prepared to combat or handle this type of pressure (Schwirtz, Michael). Time had passed and operations had come into play to begin cleaning up the hazardous waste. Just when the clean up began, other problems began to occur....
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...Economic Impact of Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey Abstract In 2012 Hurricane Sandy came and made a horrendous imprint on the Northeast United States. Sandy was a category 3 storm that ravaged people, towns, and businesses up and down the Atlantic coast flooding streets & tunnels, subway lines, and cut power in and around the city. Here we will see what the economic impacts were to New Jersey because of the storm. We will also look at the recovery and how that affected the economy for that state as of today, and projections for the future. Key words: Economy Economic Damage to the State There had been descending times in New Jersey, their GDP dropped from $482.1 billion in 2008 to $470.35 billion in 2009 during the Great Recession, and has rebounded slowly, climbing back to $480.4 billion in 2010 and hitting $486.99 billion in 2011. In both years, New Jersey ranked 47th nationally in economic growth (Magyar, 2013). Then a major disaster in Hurricane Sandy happened, and packed a bigger economic punch than most people had thought. In its sweep through the Northeast, the storm halted sales at major retailers at the start of the crucial holiday shopping season, closed factories and slowed home sales in one of the most densely populated areas of the country. Target and Macy's blamed the storm for weak sales in November. Macy's and Nordstrom Inc. reported their first monthly sales drop since late 2009, when the U.S. economy was just emerging from the Great Recession. The...
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...You are in: Front Page News Headlines -> N.J. boardwalk fire blamed on old wiring damaged by Hurricane Sandy Prope rty N.J. boardwalk fire blamed on old wiring damaged by Hurricane Sandy Share Share Share Share Share Share 0 N.J. boardwalk fire blamed on old wiring damaged by Hurricane Sandy Publication Date Source: 09/17/2013 UPI Top Stories Salt water-damaged electrical wiring caused the fire that destroyed about 30 businesses along New Jersey's newly restored boardwalk, an official said Tuesday. Ocean County prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato said the wiring was old and had been further compromised by Hurricane Sandy, NJ.com reported. The wiring, installed after 1970, "could have failed on its own," but had received additional wear from sea water and sand tossed up by the storm, Coronato said. The prosecutor's announcement came after an extensive investigation by fire officials that ruled out arson or an idly tossed cigarette. The fire was found to have started under Biscayne Candies and Kohr's Frozen Custard, he said. Aided by 30 mph winds, it destroyed stores along 4 blocks in Seaside Park and Seaside Heights. Damage has been estimated at $5 million to $10 million by Seaside Heights Police Chief Thomas Boyd. Repairs to the boardwalk, which was extensively damaged in October by Superstorm Sandy, had only been completed just before Memorial Day, ABC News reported. Copyright 2013 United Press International, Inc. (UPI). Any reproduction, republication...
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...IS IT A GOOD TIME TO TALK? - Yashaswi ( meyashaswi@gmail.com ) “Hello Sir, this is Sandy. Is it a good time to talk?” “Well sure it is, but I won’t waste this time talking to a hopeless call centre agent. Please leave me alone and don’t bother calling again.” Sandeep hated his job. He hated his new name Sandy. He had even started loathing himself. Everything about his life was so predictable that he sometimes wondered if it was worth waking up to that mundane routine everyday. He was an employee of a reputed call-center in Bangalore – the IT capital of India. A member of the ‘outbound’ team, he was required to make calls for ‘inquiring’ on behalf of an insurance company. An inquiry would mean politely asking the irate obnoxious customer if he was interested in insuring all the trivial things he had collected in his life, or even the most futile of them all – his life. He was so used to being badmouthed by the clients that if someone did not do so he suspected him of homosexuality. He had been trained to receive such bad-mouthing sportingly. The counselors had told him, “Be kind, for you never know, they might be fighting a tougher battle. Actually they are not angry on Sandeep the person. They are irritated by Sandy the tele-caller.” They told him that in his job, more than in any other, it was indispensable to follow the tenets of Gita, the holy book. He was supposed to detach himself from the results of his action to rise above all self-condemnation...
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...Jennifer Miller Prof. Fozouni English 101 03/23/2012 Machiavelli and Modern Relationships In the bestial world we live in, men are untrustworthy creatures that are selfish, naïve and only impressed by appearances and results, so anyone of power must act like beasts using force when the laws of man become insufficient and must imitate the cunning fox, instead of relying on the fierceness of lion alone, thus becoming half-man and half-beast. One must also resort to deceit because a person should not and must not keep their promise(s) when the conditions that one made those promise(s) no longer exist. Therefore, any relationship where one has power over another such as a parent and child relationship; the parent can put Machiavelli’s ideas into place for example when a child breaks his or her parent’s rules and the parent resorts to punishment. No man will sustain to the laws set before him when there will not be any repercussions for his actions. A prince’s aim is not to be loved by his masses but merely to avoid hatred from them. In doing so, a prince must learn nature’s way of fighting which is by law or by force. When ones laws prove insufficient he must resort to his beastly instinct of force to make sure his laws are abided by. When a prince combines these principles, he then becomes a creature that is half beast-half man, which enables him to abide by the natures of both. In a parent and child relationship, a parent cannot rely on honesty alone because there would...
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... Powerpoint Content: Call to Action: What needs to be done? --- Hiring in-house secret shoppers When? --- As soon as possible after assigning duties By whom? --- Nate, Denise, Catherine How? --- Hiring at least 12 secret shoppers, 2 for each city, each goes to at least five stores every day Conclusion: …… Presentation Content: Call to Action: ( What needs to be done? When? By Whom? How? ) Now that we have identified the problems and have the solutions, there are actions that need to be done. We need to hire the in-house secret shoppers. Because there are so many Maverik convenience stores in the Salt Lake Valley, we need to employ at least two secret shoppers for each city. Because it contains six cities (Salt Lake City, Murray, Sandy, South Jordan, West Jordan and West Valley), we will need at least 12 secret shoppers in total. Take Salt Lake City for example, we can hire two secret shoppers and each one of them go to two sides of the city: one goes to southern and western, another goes to northern and eastern. We need to assign each secret shopper to go to at least five stores every day. Their duties included talking to the store managers, cashiers, greeters and even some of the customers for getting the information of overall service quality. They also need to take times to observe how the store employees interact with the customers and check the cleanliness of the whole store environment. The secret shoppers need to provide the evaluation by circling the evaluation...
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...CJ230: Criminal Law for Criminal Justice 06/29/13 The Case I chose for my scenario is the Elizabeth Smart case from Salt Lake City, Idaho. Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her home around 1 a.m. on June 5, 2002, a man with a knife entered the bedroom of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart and her nine-year-old sister Mary Katherine and forced Elizabeth to leave the house and walk into the woods four miles behind her Salt Lake City home to a secluded campsite. Nine months later, Elizabeth Smart was found in nearby Sandy, Utah after spending months at the campsite, traveling to California, and returning to Utah with her captors. Brain David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, were charged with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, and aggravated burglary. The giving rise to the criminal prosecution in Elizabeth Smart case was that she testified step by step what she went through, in nine month of hell, she was taking across Stateline to California and all of the evidence that was collected while police investigation was going on, like the link of cable, the knife, the wig that was purchased to disguise Elizabeth Smart, sunglasses, etc. The legal definition of "kidnapping" under federal law is when someone unlawfully and willfully seizes, kidnaps, or abducts another person over state lines. Carrying someone away and holding him/her for ransom also qualifies as kidnapping. If the kidnapping never crosses state lines or affects interstate commerce, then it's not a federal...
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...brought their kids to school. When parents went to drop off their kids none of them thought it would be the last time they saw them. Maybe because it was not. Sandy Hook was one of the biggest “mass shootings” in the United States. The tragedy took the lives of twenty-seven. Supposedly twenty students and seven adults and teachers including his mother (ct.gov). While investigating the scene some of the “evidence” just does not add up. The initial reports stated that twenty year old Adam Lanza, killed his mother Nancy (cnn.com). Then he traveled his way from his house and to the school where his mother substituted. According to the NY Times Adam reached the school...
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...2012 Ruben “Hurricane” Carter American novelist Richard Powers once said, “We will live with racism forever but, senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.” What Powers is saying is racism will live among us until the end of time but, being able to have the decency to come together at a time of need is essential to our society. This reminds me of a song I once heard called Hurricane written by Bob Dylan; a 60’s American musician. Controversy in the 1960’s raised a lot of questions that influenced musicians such as Dylan to write songs regarding social and political issues; Hurricane describes the brutal story of Ruben Carter, a famous American boxer who was subjected to racism and wrongly accused of a murder crime he did not commit. Dylan told a detailed story where he used his song lyrics to take a strong stance on the case in favor of Carter’s innocence. Hurricane by Bob Dylan shows that racism in America is still in existence today. Dylan's tone of voice and its change from time to time play an outstanding effort in the conveyance of the situation at hand. The structure as well as the tone of Dylan's song is also clearly repetitive. Apart from the repetition promoting the song with rhythm it also helps with drawing the listener's attention to the parts that Dylan wants them to focus on. For example the tern 'Hurricane' which is also the title of Dylan’s song is repeated though out the entire song. The term Hurricane could be...
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...1 2 Lets Go to the Movies: Crime is big on the silver screen and the tube as well. Here you need to choose two criminal justice –related movies, which you have seen to compare and contrast them both: In this essay I will compare the similarities and contrast the differences between two crime film openings. I will be comparing The Next Three Days' and 'The Hurricane'. I will analyze the two film openings and see how they establish their own crime film genre. Genre is a way of categorizing a film. From genre, producers are able to market their films to a target audience. With some films it is difficult to categorize them as a certain genre as they may contain more than one genre. A hybrid genre is a film, which contains more than one genre. An example of a hybrid genre is 'All about the Benjamin’s' the genres in this film are comedy, romance, crime and also drama. Most films nowadays are hybrid genre as they appeal to a larger audience. These films contain both genre of drama, romance, crime, suspense, and “wrongly accusations”. A glimpse of each movie: (1) The Next Three Days: This movie stars “just to name a few” Russell Crowe as John Brennan, Elizabeth Banks as Lara Brennan, Brian Dennehy as George Brennan, and Lennie James as Lieutenant Nabulsi. This movie is about a women by the name of Lara Brennan (Banks) which is convicted of murdering her boss after an altercation at work and after a trial is sentenced to life...
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