YounghoonShim ENGL2261 5/16/2012 The stress No one can be free from stress today. The stress is origin of all kinds of disease. Everybody knows that our life can’t be separated from stress. For example‚ Students when the examination approaches‚ psychologically
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2011 The Hilo Bay: Tsunami Magnet of Hawaii On the afternoon of 22 May 1960 the Valdivia Earthquake struck the country of Chile with devastating repercussions for the Chilean people and people around the world. The Earthquake rated a 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale and is‚ to date‚ the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. It occurred at roughly 1911 GMT‚ 1411 local time‚ and generated a massive tsunami that struck Hawaii approximately fifteen hours later. The tsunami caused little damage
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Plot and Structure: Crash takes place in a modern day Los Angeles in the time span of approximately 36 hours. The plot of the movie is told between multiple characters‚ all of which are of different class and backgrounds but all share prejudice towards people who aren’t of the same race. All of the events unfolding are in chronological and sometimes simultaneous order. The movie begins with one of our main characters‚ Detective Graham Waters (Don Cheadle) Waters and his partner/girlfriend
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Joseph Cooper 01/11/2014 PP: p 148 #2 Charlie 2004 One day in August 2004 while I was getting ready to watch a cartoon show on television‚ there was a power failure due to Hurricane Charlie. The television set just went blank‚ the lights went off and the fan slowed down and stopped. As it was getting dark‚ I hoped that the power would be restored soon but it would not be so for another week or more in some places. Soon darkness enveloped the neighborhood. We got the generator ready and
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2004 Boxing Day Tsunami 1. Explain the causes of the 2004 boxing day Tsunami (6) A Tsunami forms when energy from an earthquake vertically jolts the seabed by several metres‚ displacing hundreds of cubic kilometres of water. Large waves begin moving through the ocean‚ away from the earthquakes epicentre. In deep water the Tsunami moves at great speeds. When it reaches shallow water near coastal areas‚ the Tsunami slows but increases in height. Before the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004 the
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Cause and Effects of Tsunami A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water‚ typically an ocean or a large lake. The effects of tsunami will bring a lot of problem to the nation and community. The effects of tsunami will bring a lot of problem to the nation and community .The general cause of tsunami is earthquakes and it will makes environmental impact and destruction. Firstly‚the main cause of tsunami is from the effect of
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Japan Tsunami and Earthquake Sion Hau 7D 31/07/11 An earthquake occurred in Sendai‚ Japan on the 11th of March in 2011; this earthquake also resulted in a tsunami. The earthquake measured at magnitude 8.9-9.0 on the Richter scale‚ the scale is measured in powers of ten (e.g. magnitude 2.0 is ten times more than magnitude 1.0). Japan sits on the Ring of Fire (an area encircling Pacific Ocean that has high volcanic and earthquake
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Prevention Nicole Griffin HSM/210 April 5‚ 2015 Elise Merenda Prevention The targeted population that I chose to write about is the homeless. With over 4‚000 people dealing with homelessness in Connecticut‚ the majority of these people facing this problem have some sort of mental illness‚ physical disabilities‚ or dealing with a form of substance abuse problem ("Partnership for Strong Communities"‚ 2015). A lot of this problem stems from the people being released prematurely from mental hospitals
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a 9.0 magnitude earthquake that destroyed Japan and surrounding states. The tsunami was formed by an earthquake underwater. Underwater earthquakes happen because of the collision of plates and it causes the fault line to slide‚ when a force pushes the water upwards that causes many tsunamis which gradually increases till they strike land or shallow water. This in this case happened to Japan. Before this major tsunami happened in Japan many people didn’t know that they had a magnitude of 5 or higher
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TSUNAMI Tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water‚ typically an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes‚ volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices)‚ landslides‚ glacier calving’s meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami. The effects of a tsunami are devastating. They are one of the world’s worst natural disasters that
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