Apocalypse Compare And Contrast

The book When Plague Strikes, is about 3 deadly diseases. It 's about the Black Death, Smallpox, and AIDS. Each of these diseases can cause a serious outrage of death. The book also tells about how doctors try to come up with treatments, medicines, and antibiotics to try and cure these diseases. All these diseases got the best out of everyone. Some people reacted differently than others with these diseases. All the diseases came in play in A. D. 1347, when the Black Death broke out for the first time in what’s today is know. As southern Ukraine.

I argue that while the author does well to argue his thesis in a logical sequence, in the narrative the author fails to include a direct Haitian perspective, which is integral to the readers’ understanding of life in port au prince as they lost far more in the catastrophe. Furthermore he fails in his attempt to provide a solution that is economically suitable and thus dismissed short-term models that could benefit the population. Finally blinded by journalistic ambitions I believe that his excessive coverage of his breakthrough story on the cholera out break overshadows the earthquake story, as it becomes the main focus toward the end.

It’s 5:15 AM, and the streets are quiet. By 5:30, the streets are torn apart, and rubble is strewn everywhere. What happened in those fifteen minutes was the San Fransisco earthquake. When you look at “Comprehending the Calamity” by Emma Burke and Laurence Yep’s Dragonwings, you can truly imagine the extent of the damage and fear, even though Burke’s purpose is to inform, while Yep’s is to entertain.

George Heinrich Crist, a resident of Kentucky, was settled with his family in a well-built house when the New Madrid Earthquake of 1811 came across their path, unlike a storm this “thing” had no warnings. He chose to share his account of this quake, or quakes. This was part of his life and also a part of history in the making so that is why I believe he shared his personal essay. It’s not an argumentative account but rather short entries from 5 months from his life. Kentucky wasn’t the only state that was hurt, 6 other states were involved. The term “New Madrid Earthquake” refers to portions of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. This was the biggest earthquake (series of earthquakes) as it changed the course of the Mississippi river.

On January twelfth 2010, a deadly earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit the coast of Port au prince, Haiti for 35 seconds, killing around 200,000 and leaving approximately to 1.5 million of the population homeless including kids who became orphans and vice versa in a matter of less than a minute. Before the earthquake, the way of life was not as bad as portrayed back at home, most of the news broadcasted in the mainstream media were exaggerated news, negative light and unfair tales to make Haiti look inferior.

The plague caused people to shun their family members, friends, and pretty much anyone who was associated with the disease and “abhor all contact with the sick and all that belonged to them, thinking thereby

Some people may believe that prophecy and apocalyptic literature is a well-known subject because there are lots of books and papers concerning it, but there is still so much that will always be misunderstood. Prophesy and apocalyptic literature may have some similarities but they are structurally different in a way that makes them distinct. This paper will address prophecy and apocalyptic writings and determine the differences between them by using Daniel and Amos as templates.

The Earthquake shook buildings and walls to the ground. But, what came after the quake was much more devastating. Fires broke out in every direction and this thriving city became mostly ashes. People became curious and gracious in this time of turmoil and that has never before been seen in San Francisco. When all hope was lost the firefighters made a great stand putting out the fire and ending the turmoil.

The reported death sentence as high as 100,000 just with the most recent earthquake that Haiti has experienced. This was Haiti's worst quake they have ever experienced at an appalling 7.0 magnitude. Hurricane Georges swept away 500 lives and Fay and Gustav killed more than 300 people and destroyed over 3,100 homes. Pitts uses personification very nicely to put the disasters on a level we can understand. With the disasters that have occurred over the past years in Haiti Pitt's writing it evokes a feeling of happiness in readers by knowing it hasn't happened to them. It causes the reader to feel distraught and useless to those affected the disasters.

A ‘hazard’ can be defined as a geophysical process operating within the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere or biosphere which could potentially lead to the loss of human life or property. However, an earthquake only becomes hazardous and therefore needs management if it occurs within close proximity to a vulnerable population. To some extent, any human settlement around the world situated close to or on top of an area of seismic activity is vulnerable. However, not all nations suffer equal devastation.

The book consistently mentions regarding the depressing phenomenon of the excruciating epidemic in the pages of 47, 74 , 202-204, 243-247. ‘... Blueridge or Lake or Winter or Alta, sectors all recently infected by the plague.’ However, these unfortunate civilians are assuming that the epidemic is infecting them as it is very contagious. When in reality, “...I always thought the plagues were spontaneous. They’re not. … The pump the virus into the slum sector through a series of underground pipe.” Yet, they are being gullible enough to believe that the government has no correlation to the death of the virus because of the propaganda the government is distributing to manipulate them. Nevertheless, the scientists are mutating the virus in order to evolve it to increase how lethal the plague is. ‘... every time an interesting new virus appears into the meat factories, the scientists take samples and craft them into viruses that can infect humans.’ Consequently, due to the manipulation through lies it cause destruction that is, murdering thousands of citizens in

Entire familys were left to rot in homes with no one to care, or feed them. The village forbid them to leave their house because they were infected. Those who were infected were quarantined and those who were fortunate to be living fled. The remaining people were scarred and scared. No-one cared about his or her wealth anymore, no matter how rich or poor you were.

Did you know that 12,000–14,000 earthquakes strike each year, and one of the biggest was the San Francisco 1906 earthquake? The San Francisco earthquake caused much damage for the city. This destruction affected over 1,000 people. 25,000 buildings were destroyed, and many other things were affected. Two people were in the earthquake, Emma Burke, “Comprehending the Calamity”, and Fred Hewitt “Horrific Wreck of the City” the stories are very informative.

Firstly, the social impacts. There is no doubt that the 2010 Chile earthquake had a huge impact upon the social life of Chile. The Chilean National Emergency office – initially responsible for documenting the casualties – estimated that more than 800 people had died. However, as the Interior Ministry reviewed the data in the following weeks, official tallies ultimately attributed more than 500 deaths to the disaster. 150 of those casualties were caused by the tsunami.

It seems that the earthquake brought a trail of things that happen later. So we can learn for this that physical geography and human geography are connected and affects each other almost every time.