GBL 395 Essay Question Buffalo Creek Disaster #1 Write a synopsis of “The Buffalo Creek Disaster” book According to “The Buffalo Creek Disaster” is talked about the terrible disaster that happened in The 17 mile Valley in West Virginia. This is a true story about how two companies that called “The Buffalo Mining Company and The Pittston Company”. Those two companies are causing the most devastating coal mining disaster in history. Moreover, The Pittston Company was lack of manage ability for its firm so Buffalo Mining Company was bought it. The Buffalo Creek Flood killed many people in the February of 1972.
The rough Winter most likely was the cause to 70 deaths. Based on the “Background Essay”, “Then, in the awful winter of 1609-1610, another two-thirds of the settlers died.” Harsh winters were bound to happen. There was nothing anybody could do about it or prevent it. The colonists could have prepared for it, but because they did not have the current technology, they could have not possibly predicted that a rough winter was coming their way. According to “Document D”, in 1607 August through October “Summer sickness kills half the colonists” The summer of 1607 was so severe that it killed 50 people.
Crystal Nannie Betsy Allen English 101 03/13/2013 Yellow Fever in Memphis Yellow fever was an epidemic of tremendous proportions. The book “The American Plague” focuses on the city of Memphis where yellow fever caused destruction to the cities future and its people. I believe the book to be an accurate account due to the author’s claim that she left out any material that could not be verified with at least two sources. The city of Memphis was greatly affected due to a large shipping port, a huge population, and very poor sanitation. The city of Memphis sat four hundred miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico.
In the end, 288 businesses worth an estimated $200 million were looted and destroyed. Over 35,000 African Americans participated in the riot, and over 16,000 National Guardsmen, county and city police were needed to shut it down. Political leaders such as MLK Jr. and John Conyers Jr. visited Watts to try to calm the people and both were booed. John Conyers Jr. was actually hustled to a waiting vehicle for his
Approximately25 million people died. Many cities were wiped out including the medieval cities Lamen and Thurgau. The Black Plague killed many but it affected England the most. They lost one third of there population. The church lost man power and impoverishment through not being able to cultivate their vast tracts of land.
Seventy five percent of American families lived in poverty. The stock market crashed. People stopped spending money. There were long lines of starving people in the streets. They waited for hours for a bowl
Bradford Platt English S102 Dr. Anderson Sept. 28, 09 Katrina’s (Evacuation) Chaos American citizens were caught in the major crisis known to the United States as a category 3 hurricane named Katrina. Many U.S. citizens: young, old, sick, healthy, black, white, and other nationalities in the path of danger were expendable in the sight of government. Most of these citizens were poor, the people who mainly live from paycheck to paycheck, The Mayor of this great city left without the assurance that his citizens were in safe havens. On August 27, the Mayor of New Orleans gave the first voluntary evacuation order, because Hurricane Katrina would be a threat to the city and to the lives of its citizens. However, some believe that the
Ike was a huge economic burden to the U.S. and “estimates suggest Ike may become one of the costliest hurricanes on record” (FEMA 10). Hurricanes are known for causing severe structural damage to houses, but also have an effect on many businesses as well. Many people had to evacuate and be out of work for up to two weeks due to power outage and debris. Also, some businesses were damaged by flooding and wind, which caused the loss of crucial business equipment. Businesses were flooded along the Texas coast and lost all of their vital technology such as computers, telephones, and other office equipment.
“Sandy became a hurricane, made landfall near Kingston, Jamaica, a few hours later, re-emerged into the Caribbean Sea and strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane...” (“Hurricane Sandy” 1). On her passing hurricane Sandy took the lives of people, electricity was limited and schools had to be put on hold. Sandy started around the equator, making her way up to Jamaica taking toll mostly on the eastern parts of Jamaica, where she injured two hundred and thirty seven (237) people and “one man was killed by a boulder that crushed his house due to strong winds...” (Cristina Constantini 1). In like manner, Sandy affected the entire east coast of the United States of America, and according to reports hundreds of people were injured,
Over 1,800 people died and more than $81 billion dollars in damage was done to the cities. Life in New Orleans would never be the same after that day. The people of the United States just watched as Mother Nature destroyed years of hard work and labor in a matter of minutes and days. “The storm surge breached the city's levees at multiple points, leaving 80 percent of the city submerged, tens of thousands of victims clinging to rooftops, and hundreds of thousands scattered to shelters around the country”(Ted Jackson). “The American Red Cross, Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity, Common Ground Collective, Emergency Communities and many other charitable organizations provided housing, food, and water to victims of the storm.