Essay About The World Disaster

May 31, 1889 was a day that brought terror to the small town of Johnstown Pennsylvania. The small town was established in 1794 as a steel town and had a population on 30,000. The cause of the flood actually starts not at the town but 14 upstream at the South Fork Dam were the Little Conemaugh and Stony Creeks rivers meet as you can see in the image below. At this place is Lake Conemaugh, a 3-mile long lake located up against the side of a mountain, 450 feet higher than Johnstown PA. The construction started in 1840 under the supervision of engineer William E. Morris but wasn't completed till 1852 due to financial difficulties. (Johnstown Historical Society)

August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. A plan of action was created only hours ahead of time. One can say the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina and the poor execution is a lesson learned for all officials who are the head of Natural Disaster Preparedness. Unfortunately 1200 lives were lost and the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States in over 75 years. With the state of Louisiana already lying below sea level and being warned by experts for years, hurricane Katrina is a vas lesson that came with a deadly

Apocalypse Now is a film produced by Francis Coppola in 1979 about the Vietnam war. The film was based off of the novel, “Heart of Darkness”, and is the story of an Army Captain, Captain Willard, and his mission to hunt down and terminate Colonel Walter Kurtz. The reasoning for sending Willard to kill one of his fellow Americans is due to the fact that Kurtz has become unstable and has been operating against his orders with the Montagnard army and committing murder. Kurtz has gone insane during the war and his methods are thought of as unsound and he needs to be taken care of.

Hurricane Sandy was a tropical cyclone that devastated portions of the Caribbean, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States in late October 2012. The eighteenth named storm and tenth hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, as measured by diameter, with winds spanning 1,100 miles. Sandy is estimated in early calculations to have caused damage of at least $20 billion. Preliminary estimates of losses that include business interruption surpass $50 billion, which, if confirmed, would make it the second-costliest Atlantic hurricane in history, behind only Hurricane Katrina.

I have always enjoyed movies. But at some point I started to think of movies as more than just entertainment. I began to view them as a movie critic would, rather than just a casual viewer. Because of this perspective, I think of "Apocalypse Now" as one of the best American made movies I have ever seen. As a student of and an active participant in the late twentieth century media age, I feel justified in making this statement. In my lifetime of observation of American media, including fourteen months of intense movie watching in conjunction with my employment at a local video store, I have had an opportunity to observe a broad sampling of the films, and feel more than qualified to make this statement. By referring to

agree or disagree with this statement? Use examples of known tsunami events recently and in the past to illustrate your arguments.

"I thought to myself, 'why didn't this explosion happen to Apollo 12? Why couldn't it wait until Apollo

Leading up to a hurricane will start feeling warm and moist, allowing the air to become warm an humid, also allowing latent heat to spread. the next need is low pressure disturbance, also know as a tropical wave, to rise and make strong thunderstorms.if hurricanes try to form to close to the equator, it will not be strong enough to gather its self and rotate.

Work Cited Howel, Elizabeth. " Apollo 13: Facts About NASA's Near-Disaster." Space.com. 23 Aug. 2012. Web. 11 Nov. 2014. http://www.space.com/17250-apollo-13-facts.html

The nurse is put on a task force with fire, public works and public health to conduct door-to-door interviews. The nurse was presented with several situations on her door-to-door that were not related to her scope of practice. Her assessment of the situation, her communication and action is critical to improving the conditions of these residents. What she does and does not do, is very important to her success.

He donned his Hazmat suit as he entered the biological sample room, the whole room was had an airtight seal to prevent unknown pathogens from escaping and infecting the people on board the spaceship. “Sample 1 contaminated with bacteria from Earth,” He recorded meticulously as he carefully put the sample in the incinerator and destroyed it. And just as he recorded his 20th sample, without anything particularly astonishing apart from a couple bits of basalt . Soon the loudspeakers announced, “please return to your sits as we approach mars and begin landing maneuvers,” followed by several

It was April 13 at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. A 360-foot rocket was ready for liftoff. Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swiger were inside ready for their space adventure. The adventure to space was 240,00 miles which would take them 3 days. The Apollo 13 mission was to land on the moon and explore a hilly section called Fra Mauro to collect some 4 Billion year old rocks and sand from the moons surface to research it when they got back to earth. Everything was going fine until the astronauts heard a loud noise.

Have you ever imagined your home being destroyed as well as your whole community? Well the people in New Orleans experienced this last year. Hurricane Katrina destroyed the whole New Orleans area as well as many other areas. Today I will talk about the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina. I will inform you of what organizations provided help to the victims. And also I will talk about what actions are being taken to rebuild the area.

The key objections to humanitarian intervention include the conflict of interests with the self-interested state and sovereignty, the difficulty of internal legitimacy, the problematical Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, and the debate over legality of intervention. The issue of morality stands as an overarching issue which touches on all of these. Overall, one finds that despite a moral imperative to intervene, humanitarian intervention should not occur but is perhaps the lesser of a series of evils.

because it only had a height at the time of about fifteen inches. They were totally