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Storm Surge Low Lying
979 wordsHurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are a major hazard in the Tropics. Every year, some 80 occurrences claim, on average, 20 000 lives and cause immense damage to property, natural vegetation, and shipping. A hurricane is a large rotating storm around a centre of very low pressure with values of 950 mb or lower. Most systems have a diameter of about 650 km, less than half that of a mid-latitude depression. Wind speeds often exceed 33 m per second (119 km per hour) and, in the most intense hurrica...
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Gulf Of Mexico Tropical Storms
1,204 words... 30 %. A dependent of HRD scientists and technicians remained stationed at NHC to compile catalogs of output from a new storm surge model, the Sea, Lake Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH). These catalogs mapped possible hurricane flooding and required that each basin be meticulously, numerically rendered. These catalogs were then given to emergency personnel in the target cities to aid in evacuation planning. Computer modeling during the early 1980 's involved work on a 12 level nested g...
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Gasoline Prices Million Barrels
1,029 wordsIt won't be a rerun of the 1970 's, when long lines at the gasoline pumps spelled big trouble for politicians, but soaring gasoline prices are expected to become a serious issue in the 2000 election campaign by early summer. Since last month gas prices have rose at the rate of 10 cents every week. Prices will continue to increase over the next month and threw the summer. Forecasters expect oil prices and gasoline prices to keep rising through the spring, no matter what the administration or cong...
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Liberal Bias In Media
1,459 wordsPlain and simple, Media is bias. In anyway that you would like to put it, this statement is a fact. The country always seems to have something to say about media depending on the current events happening at the time. If it's a republican, the media is too left-winged, and if it's a democrat, then the media just seems to head right a little too much. Bias media has plagued the United States ever since Watergate though, Of course it existed before that, but Watergate totally portrayed the scandal ...
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Storm Surge Tropical Storms
1,424 wordsWhat is a hurricane? Hurricanes are part of a family of weather systems known as "tropical cyclones. " The word hurricane is from the West Indian word hurricane, meaning "big wind. " A hurricane begins its life as a disorganized storm system, which forms over warm, tropical waters in the Atlantic. When the storm system become more organized, it is classified as a "tropical depression, " and given a number by the National Hurricane Center. If the winds in a tropical depression grow in intensity t...
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Free Man Free Men
1,009 wordsIn the novel More Joy in Heaven, written by Morley Callaghan, Kip Caley has a quest for a new life after prison. As he gets used to being a freeman he learns more about what he really wants in life. When Kip finds out what it is that he is searching for in his new life, like in all tragedies, it is too late. Because he is not sure if Julie, the girl, or the parole board is what he wants, he spends too much time trying to find out and when he knows it is too late. In his search for a new life Kip...
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Storm Surge Low Lying
970 wordsO The Caribbean region and the South Eastern United States of America are regularly subjected to the impact of tropical hurricanes; (A) Briefly outline characteristics of such hurricanes. The hurricanes that occur over the Caribbean region and the United States of America usually eventuate between August and October. For these hurricanes to occur the surrounding ocean temperatures must be minimal, also there must be a prolonged spell of equable temperature, pressure and humidity in the lower tro...
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Ethical Dilemmas Academic Asap
2,130 wordsMain drivers behind changes in the ways that public services have been delivered over the past 30 years It was during the first half of the last century when two World Wars spurred the action of government to control its national resources. This was followed by the protective role that public administrations extended as they also had a key role in the other areas such as economic, social and cultural areas. It was also at this time when the role of the Welfare State was dominant especially after...
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Storm Surge Global Warming
1,077 wordsHurricane Trends In the past year alone the severity and the number of hurricanes have increased dramatically. In decades earlier you might have one killer hurricane, but with the advent of nineties, hurricanes Andrew, Hugo, Frances, Gloria, Ivan and the most recent one Jeanne have changed the landscape of the eastern seacoast to the point where people who have lived there for decades, now have a hard time recognizing their neighborhoods. Hurricane Gloria actually reached as far north as Connect...
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Miles Per Hour World Health Organization
1,951 wordsThe struggle against infectious and parasitic diseases is growing in intensity. Discuss one such disease and its impact. Being considered as an infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency, AIDS was first recognized in the United States in 1981 and gained immediate public attention as the most devastating health problem in contemporary history. There is still no efficient vaccine to prevent HIV infection, and thus AIDS therapy is mainly focused on improving the quality and length of l...
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Jorge Luis Borges Espa Ol
2,749 wordsMovimiento vanguardist a espa? ol e hispano americano Con este nombre se design los movimiento's art? stico's y literario's que name en el siglo XX, aproximadamente desde 1910 a 1939. Su? post de m? xml e splendor es hasta 1920, a partir de 1930 dean pues el arte se acerca de nuevo a la realized y se hace social y comprometido pol? tica mente. En la Gaceta Literary, junio de 1930, Guillermo de Torre da una larga lista con los movimiento's de vanguard: Cubism Character? sticks generales: Futurism...
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National Hurricane Center Loss Of Life
1,381 wordsIMPACT OF HURRICANES IN FLORIDA INTRODUCTION According to the National Hurricane Center, a hurricane releases heat energy at a rate of 50 trillion to 200 trillion watts, which is equivalent to the energy from exploding 10 megaton bombs every 20 minutes. With such strength, it is no wonder why these natural disasters have such large destructive impacts on the environment. Furthermore, hurricanes are of extreme importance to Florida, since they have historically plagued the state, especially in 19...
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Major De Spain Point Of View
1,040 wordsIf stories were ranked because of their fascinating point of view, then Barn Burning would have to be in the top ten. In this story the point of view is used in some unique ways, the narrator manipulates the point of view in the boy s language, his experiences, and he stretches the point of view in order to make the character seem real. The language is related to the point of view by giving us insight of the boy s thoughts, and his feelings. We are given an intimate look throughout the story at ...
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Sherman Antitrust Act Laissez Faire
601 wordsAs one can see there are many striking parallels between the Gilded Age or the era from the eighteen eighties to the eighteen nineties compared to the Silicon Age of the nineteen eighties to the nineteen nineties. The preconditions for these two massive economic booms share similar birth paths laid in laissez faire policy, no regulation or deregulation and innovative booms. Before the 1880 s there was no real conflict between the welfare of the American people and that of its business units. Tha...
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Twenty Four Hours Lost Their Lives
555 wordsOn JuneHurrican Hurricane Erie On June 12, 3005, Hurricane Erie made land fall on the coast of Virginia. At 4: 56 am the eye of Hurricane Erie had moved across the city of Fredericksburg. Hurricane Erie huddled over the town of Fredericksburg for an amazingly twenty-four hours. Those twenty-four hours set a record for the most consecutive hours a hurricane sustained in one area. Most hurricanes do not stay in one are for more than ten hours. One day later the town of Fredericksburg was no longer...
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Miles Per Hour National Hurricane Center
940 wordsA hurricane is Hurricanes Hurricanes A hurricane is one of the most severe storms areas in our country have to endure. They can easily damage millions of dollars of property and even kill anyone in their paths. A hurricane is a tropical low pressure area and has winds over 74 miles per hour (120 kilometers per hour). Hurricanes are formed when heat is released as large quantities of water vapor condense. When the heat is released, it warms the air and reduces the air pressure near the surface of...
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Race To Tap Race To Tap The Wealth Spain
316 wordsThere is much significance in this statement, Glorying in their new strength, the Spaniards were eager to outstrip the Portuguese rivals in the race to tap the wealth in the Indies. First of all, at the time Portugal controlled much of the African coast and thus controlled the gateway to the round-Africa water route to India. They had established trading posts, in which they sold both gold and slaves, alongside much of the African coastline. The Portuguese had created a system in which they forc...
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Dante And Virgil Violent Acts
1,636 wordsWhy One Sin is Worse than Another Most Christians these days see every sin as equally bad. In other words, no one sin is worse or should draw worse punishment than another. In Dantes The Inferno, however, this is not the case. In The Inferno, the deeper one delves into Hell, the worse the sin that has been committed. The punishments that the souls incur are representative of the sins they committed in their corporeal state of being. Sins that affect others are considered worse then those that on...
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Pan Slav Empire Pro Slav Unity Slavs
504 wordsIt has Pan-Slavism Pan-Slavism It has been the goal of the Slavs to create a pan-Slav empire, and unite the slaves which are spread throughout Europe. Some groups wanted to create the empire in order to get independence from their country, while others opposed the creation of the empire because of fear that Russia will become too powerful. Most of the opposing force came either before or after the big Pan-Slavism movement. From 1948 - 1869 we only see opinions for the creation of a Pan-Slav empi...
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Supply Side Economics Easy Money
646 wordsEssay Supply-Side Economics Supply-Side Economics Essay Question Supply-Side economics and policies would best benefit the economy in the case of a recession in the year 2000. Supply-side policies are made of several important points to regulate the economy. Supply-side policies consist of stimulating the economy by production, cutting taxes, and limiting government regulations to increase incentives for businesses and individuals. Businesses then would invest more and expand to create jobs for ...
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