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    Cause & Effect of Hurricanes Hurricanes are the most destructive natural disasters in the world. They are very powerful and violent storms that have strong winds. Storms are known to be hurricanes when they reach 74 mile per hour. Hurricanes storms start over warm sea water near the equator and come with strong winds‚ flash floods‚ mudslides‚ and huge waves. Hurricanes come with different names depending where the location it occurred. Hurricane storms are called hurricanes‚ if they start over

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    Why Hurricanes Are Bad

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    Tornados and hurricanes are dangerous storms but which are most dangerous? According to "Hurricanes and Tornados Source 4‚""hurricanes are tropical storms that effect people in places that have water around it."" According to Hurricanes and Tornados Source 3‚""There are more tornados a year than hurricanes but hurricanes cause more damage." Tornados form on land and hurricanes form on the sea. Texas is affected by tornados and hurricanes‚ because they are in tornado alley and it has water around

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    In this paper I will discuss about the deaths that Hurricane Matthews left in Haiti. I will provide reasons why this situation is critical for the country of Haiti‚ and how government officials are working hard to help families who have suffer the wrath of the hurricane. CNN reported that Hurricane Matthew has killed many people‚ including 15 people in Haiti. According to CNN‚ the Hurricane Matthew is a problem because Haiti is barely recuperating from many deaths due to cholera. Government officials

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    Dramatic Hurricanes and Dangerous Tornadoes BOOM! A hurricane just hit in Florida! While a tornado already hit the ground in Houston Texas. Tornadoes are very destructive but hurricanes can be more destructive and kill many more people. Hurricanes are started by three seventy four mile per hour winds (Eve Perry 48). While these winds are happening they are in the center of the storm. Also the strongest winds are in the very middle of the hurricane called the “eye”(Eve Perry 48). Then tornadoes

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    Hurricanes and tornados are very different‚ yet also alike. In this essay I’ll be comparing the two to find which is more dangerous. A mobile‚ destructive vortex of violently rotating winds-the tornado‚ or a tropical cyclone with violent winds-the hurricane. Hurricanes and tornados are both made up of strong rotating winds. That’s just one of the things they have common. Both usually occur with violent storms and lot of rain. They also both form in circular patterns. Hurricanes and tornados are

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    Feminism 1900-1910

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    Through the four texts I have studied I have found a main connection of feminism in different social settings between the times of 1900 - 1920. The texts I’ve studied are the two poems ’We As Women’‚ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and ’The Bees Song’ by Julia Ward Howe‚ the novel ’In defense of Women’‚ by H.L. Mencken and the poem ’I know why the caged bird sings’ by Maya Angelou. Also through these four texts I have found three main ideas‚ these are ’how women were treated unequally’‚ ’survival’‚ and

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    Facts About Hurricanes

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    What if you were trapped in a hurricane and you were really worried because you knew nothing about hurricanes? Well‚ This essay will teach you some cool facts about hurricanes and what they can do. Hurricanes are big‚ rainy‚ and windy storms that usually happen in places around the world on the coast. Hurricanes are exciting‚ dangerous‚ and interesting all at the same time but there are many things that are included with them that we never could have guessed‚ similar to the things that they explain

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    Hurricane Katrina 800‚000 Houses‚ This is the sum of how many homes were destroyed and lost. I’m sure no person could imagine waking up with everything they needed and then the next day wake up with absolutely nothing. Hurricane season if from the beginning of June and until the end of November. In this time in 2005 one of the world’s worst natural disasters occurred on August 23 and ended August 31 and it destroyed everything in it’s path like office buildings‚ local restaurants‚ businesses‚ many

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    Nowhere placed loneliness After watching the film‚ I only feel loneliness. As Giuseppe Tornatore’s first English-language film‚ “The Legend of 1900” was renowned in the end of the twentieth century. It tells a story of a pianist’s legendary life. On the luxury cruise Virginian‚ An orphan is abandoned in the first class. He is named after the year he was found‚ 1900. Nineteen Hundred becomes a prodigy with special piano talent‚ as he slowly grows up. He performs piano on the cruise‚ and everyone is deeply

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    ESSAY ON HURRICANES Hurricanes get their start over the warm tropical waters of the North Atlantic Ocean near the equator. Most hurricanes appear in late summer or early fall‚ when sea temperatures are at their highest. Hurricanes only form over really warm ocean water of 80°F or warmer. The atmosphere (the air) must cool off very quickly the higher you go. Also‚ the wind must be blowing in the same direction and at the same speed to force air upward from the ocean surface. Winds flow outward

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