Imagine finding out that there is a hurricane that is a category five hurricane is about to hit your home town and you hear that you must leave the area. In a situation like this most individual use both the avoidance and the loss reduction techniques for risk management to protect their self from the hurricane. When using the avoidance techniques when a hurricane is come most individual who are in a flooded area would leave their homes and go to a shelter or another town that is not in the area
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According to scientists‚ hurricanes that are in a higher category of 3 can cause serious damage to the city. If we don’t evacuate more people will get injured or die because of the hurricane. As long as we outrun the hurricane and evacuate we will save more lives than if we stayed in our homes. You’ll see why‚ hurricanes are large‚ spiraling tropical storms that can pick up speeds over 160 miles per hour(MPH)and unleashes more than 2.4 trillion gallons a day. However‚ on September 8‚1900 when a
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MEDIA AND SOCIETY COMM 1500-001 TR 2:00-3:15‚ MonH 80 Dr. Lawrance M. Bernabo University of Minnesota-Duluth Spring 2014 E-Mail Address: lbernabo@d.umn.edu Office: 330 Kirby Plaza Office Hours: TR 10:50-11:50 and after class Office Phone: (218) 726-7943 Home Phone: (218) 348-8268; Please do not call before 9:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m. Course Description: Historical survey of media genres‚ and examination of influences of contemporary media on society. Textbooks:
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Hurricanes can cause a lot of damage. My hurricane is Hurricane Andrew of 1992. Hurricanes can pop up at any time. They can cause massive amounts of damage. A hurricane starts as mass amounts of wind. What happens is the pressure drops. There is sometimes a storm and usually a mass amount of clouds. The weather would be cloudy and rainy during the storm. The hurricane that this paper is about Andrew of 1992 in Florida. Trees were toppled and agricultural damage was done. Andrew reached hurricane
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English 1101 Essay #1 6 September 2013 Beyond Katrina Analysis Perhaps Tretheway focused a portion of her novel on the idea that the economy was demolished after Hurricane Katrina due to the building of Casinos and Resorts. In “Beyond Katrina: A Mediation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast‚” Natasha Tretheway infuses parallelism between the destruction of the city/ people and the destruction of the casinos‚ “some memorabilia washed away in the storm. They are like us in their appreciation of loss”
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of America based our government on a system that is by the people‚ for the people. Public opinion allows the people to express their voices and opinion in the their government. People most commonly share their opinion through media. When public opinion goes through media it is usually to express‚ educate or persuade someone on a specific idea or viewpoint (“Four”). For example‚ people will express their feelings on which presidential candidate should win the upcoming election and try to persuade
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Effects of Hurricane Igor The people of Newfoundland and Labrador are used to watching natural disasters on television‚ not usually do they get to expierence them up front. But on September 22‚ 2010 Newfoundland and Labrador was hit by Hurricane Igor‚a storm that effected everyone in different ways. Some of the effects of Hurricane Igor were flooding and power outages that lasted up to 12 days. The Hurricane ripped through Newfoundland as a category 1 Hurricane‚ and left
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Texas residents waited anxiously for days‚ and then it finally came: Hurricane Harvey. On Friday‚ August 25‚ Hurricane Harvey struck the shore Texas waging a war with the state in which 15-20 trillion estimated gallons of water were dumped and at least 60 lives were claimed. It seems high magnitude hurricanes are becoming more and more common‚ and it may be our fault. A large factor in the strength and commonality of hurricanes is the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) which entails the temperature
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Hurricanes and Tornadoes are two of the most violent natural disasters known to mankind. There are many similarities and differences between these two disasters. While there are many differences between the two‚ The severe similarities are as dramatic. Although the bear some minor differences‚ The similarities between hurricanes and tornadoes are clear because they both have early warning systems‚ create massive destruction‚ and involves heavy wind speeds that can end up deadly. Both hurricanes
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4 Ways To Protect Windows from Hurricanes Windows are often a weak point of a home when a hurricane approaches‚ which is why they need additional protection. For climates that are hurricane prone‚ you will need to do something more to ensure that you do not have broken glass coming into your home. Here are 4 ways to protect your window during a hurricane. Plywood One of the most well-know‚ simplest‚ and cheapest solutions for protecting windows is using plywood. You can purchase the wood at a local
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