It struck on August 23rd‚ 2005 and was listed as a Category 5 hurricane. Much damage was made in New Orleans partly due to the fact that the levee’s broke because of the poor quality work done by the engineer. Not able to sustain any impact from the water bursting through in a matter of hours the city began to flood
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CANCUN‚ Mexico - Hurricane Wilma is long gone‚ but those it left stranded on Mexico’s Caribbean coast are fed up and ready to go home after spending the better part of a week in foul-smelling shelters. President Vicente Fox said getting tourists home and getting others back by the start of the high season in December was one of Mexico’s highest national priorities‚ given that Cancun attracts so many visitors. On Monday‚ buses began ferrying hundreds of tourists out of Cancun to Merida‚ about
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My Experience as a Humane Society Volunteer In elementary school‚ I decided that I wanted to work with animals. My mom told me that Humane Society volunteers had to be 8 or older‚ so I waited. Soon after my 8th birthday‚ after looking forward to the opportunity for what felt like many years‚ I was finally able to attend classes in dog walking‚ dog bathing‚ and cat house monitoring. Of those‚ I took to bathing the dogs because it had the least rules. I don’t remember whether I chose to work with
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Shanequa Miller Weather and climate are two similar but different things. Weather is the short term properties of the troposphere at a given place and time. We see everyday how weather works. Climate is the average long term weather of an area. The earth’s climate has warmed and cooled since long before we came onto the scene. Climate lasts longer then weather. Weather can come and go quickly when climate will only change a little at a time. Does weather impact our climate and environment? That’s
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A devastating flood hit Key West Florida on October 24‚ 2005 that was caused by hurricane Wilma. The flood caused about twenty-nine billion dollars in damage‚ killed twenty-five people‚ and flooded all of Key West. Although the flood caused a lot of damage to the houses‚ buildings and landscape of Florida it could have been worse. Since Florida has such high risk for flooding they have prevention methods in place. One of the bigger and more effective methods are seawalls which are built in the
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Divraj Gill T. Chaudhry CLU3M0-B Monday‚ November 3rd‚ 2014 Rubin “Hurricane” Carter Many rights and freedoms of Rubin Carter were violated due to the wrongful conviction‚ which he spent 20 years of his life in prison. Rubin was convicted twice for the triple homicide. The levels of government that were presented in the film and the case are both federal and provincial. The New Jersey Supreme Court declared Rubin guilty twice‚ a provincial function. The federal function in the movie
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What motivates some to volunteer or perform community service? Explain the reasons why some volunteer willingly use their spare time on projects that do not benefit them and even ones that may put them at risk. Write an essay of about 300 words. Remember that although the reasons for volunteering might be many and varied‚ you should choose those details that best support your overall thesis and use details that are easily understood by your audience. It is the fifth annual campus conference of
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millions that are suffering in the tropics. I am now looking for an organization that is based in Seattle that I can volunteer for during the summer because the past couple of weeks I have learned so much in this class and I have been thinking about any way that I could help. Currently‚ I volunteer at the middle school that I attended which is called Chinook middle school. I used to volunteer to help students with homework after school during my high school years and after I graduated I did not want to
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Impact of Hurricane‚ Earthquake and volcanoes on named Caribbean territories. The Caribbean territories are at the mercy of hurricanes‚ earthquakes and volcanoes. The region have a history of devastating geographical phenomena such as hurricane Gilbert in 1988 which kill 45 persons in Jamaica‚ 30 in Haiti and 5 in the Dominican republic‚ but the most devastating period for any one country in territories was in 2008‚ where in a three week span Haiti was hit by tropical storm Fay‚ hurricane Gustav
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Why is Katrina living from paycheck to paycheck? Here you should address the social structural (societal) factors (i.e.‚ legal‚ economic‚ health care‚ etc.) that influence her life. To what extent‚ if any‚ does/did her own behavior and personal choices affect her life? Throughout the documentary‚ it is clear that Katrina has been through a lot of hardships in the past few years. Her husband of many years was addicted to prescription pain killers. She had to support him and their three children‚ but
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