October 29‚ 2012 Hurricane Sandy a category 2 made landfall in New Jersey. Sandy had + 96 mph winds and a 6ft-8ft storm surge. Force winds extend 175 miles out from Sandy’s eye‚ making it much larger than most storms. Before the storm hit many of residence were without power due to sever winds and rain. Many people did not know how to prepare for such a storm in the North East states. Hurricane Sandy weakened to a post-tropical cyclone in the evening before it hit the southern coast of New Jersey
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Get Out‚ directed by Jordan Peele‚ is a thriller that highlights numerous systemic racial issues‚ with a more horrific twist. The movie’s protagonist‚ Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya)‚ goes upstate to his Girlfriend’s family’s recluse lake house to get to meet her parents. During his stay at the house‚ Chris notices that there is something strange about the family and their servants‚ Georgina (Betty Gabriel) and Walter (Marcus Henderson). The family and servants’ unusual demeanor develop into a
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Racial Issues of Walt Disney’s Dumbo: An Analysis of Music’s Influence on Racial Thinking in Disney Film The Classic Animated American Film‚ Dumbo‚ preceded Walt Disney’s first Animated Feature Length films: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and Pinocchio. Dumbo also arrived right before the American Animated classic Bambi. These films were undoubtedly made during a time of extreme racial oppression in the United States (the country where Walt Disney films were originally set to be consumed)
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country is on the brink of major social change on the racial front. Traveling from progressive New York City to her childhood home of Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ only deepens her confusion on racial issues. Scout is forced to formulate her own opinions when discovering the deepening troubles concerning race in her hometown…
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Racial issues are an important part of any city in America today. America is a racially diverse country but still seems to have many problems as far as racial equality‚ race relations‚ and encouraging diversity. My community is in‚ what I think‚ is a fairly unique situation in terms of race. According to the census and other sources I found on the internet‚ the population of Fulton NY is 95.9% white. This seems to be quite different from many places in this country today. The city of Syracuse is
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Proposal /Disaster Research Proposal Page 1 * My disaster paper will focus mainly on the direct and indirect effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans were made by the community and the state‚ which also affected New Orleans and surrounding areas. My initial research on this topic of Hurricane Katrina was that‚ although there was a slew of different aids and reliefs sent to New Orleans and other surrounding areas‚ there were periods where there wasn’t enough or too much time was taken so
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and our physical health in the United States are impacted by our racial status. People of color lack the power to determine their own food and nutritional decisions. Majority of school lunch and fast-food are consumed by poor people; nevertheless‚ people of color often lack transportation to reach to a nearby grocery store. Where we buy our food‚ what we eat‚ and the quality and quantity of our selections are impacted by the racial demographics of a given community. Even if a chain grocery store
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EH-1020-O8C-5A09-52 Aftermath of Katrina‚ Returning to a Safe Workplace There is still a difference between something and nothing‚ but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.” Martin Garden” People are powerless under natural forces such as Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans that occurred on August 29‚ 2005. This catastrophe has brought death‚ deprived people of their homes and work-places. ‘Katrina has left a disaster
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What is a Hurricane? A hurricane is an intense‚ rotating oceanic weather system that possesses maximum sustained winds exceeding 119 km/hr (74 mph). It forms and intensifies over tropical oceanic regions. Hurricanes are generally smaller than storms in mid-latitudes‚ typically about 500 km (311 miles) in diameter. At the ocean’s surface‚ the air spirals inward in a counterclockwise direction. This cyclonic circulation becomes weaker with height‚ eventually turning into clockwise (anticyclonic)
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law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7244&am>. Carte‚ Gene E. "Police Representation and the Dilemma of Recruitment." Issues in Criminology 6.1 (1971): 85-95. JSTOR. Web. 08 July 2015. "Boston Police Aim To Increase Diversity On Force‚ But ..." Insert Name of Site in Italics. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 09 Jul. 2015 <http://www.wbur.org/2015/06/22/boston-police-force-racial-diversity>. "Black Boston police officers facing higher discipline rates ..." Insert Name of Site in Italics. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 09
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