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Twenty First Century Natural Disasters
1,266 wordsNature has been around since the beginning of all time. Nature has even been here since long before the dinosaurs. People have been brought up and have lived off of nature and its nourishment's. Nature is a wonderful yet dangerous thing. It can be as gentle as a breeze on a warm summer day or as deadly and ferocious as a violent hurricane in a populated city. Although man has lived through many tragic and deadly natural disasters, man has always been trying to grasp a hold of and capture a victo...
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Air Traffic Control Billions Of Dollars
1,691 wordsWhy should terrorism command our exceptional attention? That the 9 / 11 terrorists maliciously attacked the symbolic and actual seats of our economic and military power (WTC/Wall Street and the Pentagon) should concern us if we truly think that future attacks might destroy our society. But who believes that? Government responses seem directed mostly at stopping future similar attacks... which returns us full circle to the question: why should that have become our primary national goal, at the sa...
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Racial Equality Overwhelming Majority
2,391 wordsHurricane Katrina (1) Nowadays, no American politician would ever speak to the public, without mentioning this countrys strong national unity or the fact that diversity makes us stronger. Yet, the objective reality points out at the notion of Americas national unity as nothing but a myth, because such unity disappears into the thin air, every time American large cities experience electrical blackouts or when this nation deals with the consequences of natural disasters, such as hurricane Katrina,...
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Candide Voltaire Thirty Six
1,221 wordsCandide A Contrast to Optimism- Francois Marie About de Voltaire was the French author of the novella Candide, also known as Optimism (Durant and Durant 724). In Candide, Voltaire sought to point out the fallacy of Gottfried William von Leibniz's theory of optimism and the hardships brought on by the resulting inaction toward the evils of the world. Voltaires use of satire, and its techniques of exaggeration and contrast highlight the evil and brutality of war and the world in general when men a...
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Global Warming Carbon Dioxide
429 wordsIn the article? Happiness Is a Warm Planet? it tries to explain and tell how Global Warming is a good thing. It says? mankind should benefit from and upward tick in the thermometer. ? When in fact in today? s society it is proving to not be good. Under global warming, winter temperatures would rise the most and summer temperatures the least. It is said in this article that? more people die of the cold then of the heat; more die in the winter than the summer. ? But the truth is that in the past t...
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