Hurricane Ivan

Hurricane Ivan was a major mile marker and an extremely devastating period of time for most people located within the Caribbean as well as the lower areas of the United States. Within hours of forming, Ivan was showing signs of having the ability to grow larger and have the most impact than any other hurricane within the past two years. When everything was said and done, Ivan was classified as, “The cyclone was the ninth named storm, the sixth hurricane and the fourth major hurricane of the active

Formation of Hurricanes Hurricanes begin as tropical storms over the warm moist waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans near the equator. (Near the Philippines and the China Sea, hurricanes are called typhoons.) As the moisture evaporates it rises until enormous amounts of heated moist air are twisted high in the atmosphere. The winds begin to circle counterclockwise north of the equator or clockwise south of the equator. The relatively peaceful center of the hurricane is called

Adventure of a lifetime: Dr. Stepan the Caribbean Vet from Iowa Dr. Stepan is a retired veterinarian who practiced for fifty-seven years, which is an accomplishment of its own. But as you dive in deeper you notice many fascinating things, but one stands out more than the others. As you look at the life of Dr. Stepan you see that everyone, even a veterinarian from Iowa, can have a truly happy and adventurous life. For Dr. Stepan (referred to as Duff by friends and family) it all started in a small

reading. “I Survived, Hurricane Katrina, 2005”, by Lauren Tarshis is a fiction book based on the event of Hurricane Katrina. The novel is about a young boy who lost his family, and is trying to survive. The nonfiction resource “Hurricane Katrina Coverage for Central Alabama” by the National Weather Service is also about Hurricane Katrina but, the author took a different way of writing it. The website basically summarizes Hurricane Katrina and the damage effects of it. Hurricane Katrina was a serious

The Hurricane      Bob Dylan’s song, The Hurricane, brings to surface several of the themes covered in class this semester. The song explores general themes like community and responsibility, while also focusing on many of the sub-themes, such as justice and injustice, appearance and reality, and loyalty and abandonment. Throughout the song, the main characters constantly battle with the above themes in attempt to frame an innocent man. While the song brings up many of

In this paper, I am going to compare and contrast the movie The Hurricane starring Denzel Washington as Rubin “Hurricane” Carter to the handout provided for Nelson Mandela. I will begin with a critical review of the movie. The setting of the movie rotates from past to present, as the movie begin you will notice him in the ring with the middle weight champion and eventually defeat him in the first round with a knock-out. Than the movie switch to him protesting in a jail cell, 193 at Trenton State

In the Pursuit of Freedom and Justice there was a Hurricane In times of national discontent and social injustice, music is one of the leading forms of rebellion and storytelling. In 1975, Bob Dylan contributed to this rebellious storytelling narrative by creating “Hurricane” a song about the wrongful imprisonment of middleweight fighter Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. There is a common idea that the issues we face do not have the same magnitude the issues our predecessors faced. By assuming this idea,

A significant connection across the texts is the positive consequences in life that come from taking risks. The first similarity I see is that risk taking leads to happiness and earning a new life. We see this in both 12 years a slave and The Hurricane. We see this positive consequence from risk-taking in life of a king where Eugene earns back love from his children and got his family back. This positive outcome is similar to 12 years a slave when Solomon is returned (right at the end) to his

In the song Hurricane by Bob Dylan it describes their protest about the imprisonment of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. It arranges alleged acts of racism and profiling against Carter. Bob Dylan describes as leading to a false trial and conviction. Rubin Carter and John Artis were charged with a triple murder at the Lafayette Grill in Paterson, New Jersey in 1966. The next year Carter and Artis were found guilty of the murders, which were reported as racially motivated. In the following years, numerous

against social issues and the preconceived ideas that stand tall on the stage of democracy. This is why song lyrics should be considered one of the most important cultural texts of the modern age. The songs Sunday Bloody Sunday by the band U2 and Hurricane by artist Bob Dylan substantiate ideas of equality and “justice for all”,