Gunpowder Plot In this essay I am to write about a poem which focuses on someone’s experience. The title is ‘Gunpowder Plot’ by Vernon Scannel. In the poem the author tells us about someone’s experience in World War 2, then bonfire night 10 years later. The bonfire has been eagerly awaited by many people, but when the bangers are lit, Uncle John was forced to remember the war. All the explosions from the fireworks make him remember the explosions from the bombs and shells from the War.
The tremendous eruption of Mount Tambora in April 1815 was the most powerful volcanic eruption of the 19th century. The eruption and the tsunamis it triggered killed tens of thousands of people. And the magnitude of the explosion is difficult to fathom. It has been estimated that Mount Tambora stood approximately 12,000 feet tall before the 1815 eruption, and the top 4,000 feet of the mountain was completely obliterated. Adding to the disaster's massive scale, the huge amount of dust blasted into the upper atmosphere by the Tambora eruption contributed to a bizarre and highly destructive weather event the following year.
There was a large black cloud of smoke that started to come out of the volcano. The smoke shot straight up into the sky turning it dark. This happened on August 24, 79 A.D. Many people started to run in all direction when they saw the smoke. They were very frightened not knowing what would happen.
The Problem of HFCS in the Daily Diet Wilfredo Balaez DeVry University The Problem of HFCS in the Daily Diet High fructose corn syrup is manufactured from cornstarch after removal of protein and fiber. The high levels of fructose found in many food products that we consume in our daily diet is raising a lot of concerns within scientists, doctors, and other students of the subject due to the problems that it causes to the health of the human population. Problems like diabetes and obesity are directly linked to high ingestion of high fructose corn syrup. Diabetes in humans is one of the common causes of health problems like gangrene, amputations, and even death due to complications of the disease. Several studies made by universities, independent organizations, and the government blame the high fructose corn syrup for the condition.
Phineas Gage (1823-1860) worked as a railway foreman in Cavendish, Vermont. Gage's team was aiming to blow up a side of a mountain so they could construct a railway through this path. One day, on the 13th September 1848, Gage had unknowingly forgot to do a safety step procedure in his area that caused a premature explosion to occur. From the explosion, Gage's tamping iron that he had been holding shot through 80 feet (24.3m) away from the area. Being within the iron rod's path, Gage's head had been injured from this incident.
Afghanistan is a type of explosion laboratory because there are always rockets and bombs blowing up houses and buildings. Najaf remembers Mazar-E-Sharif as a town where everybody knows everybody and were he used to live happily in his big house with his family. But then he thinks back to when the rocket blew up his house and how he lost his dad and his brother. 3. Shoes.
The oldest ash deposits were erupted at least 40,000 years ago onto an eroded surface that's still older volcanic and sedimentary rocks. Intermittent volcanism continued after the glaciers disappeared, and nine main pulses of pre-1980 volcanic activity have been recognized. Two months before the big explosion there was a 4.1 magnitude earthquake that hit underneath Mount Saint Helens, then seven days after that a 250 foot hole was in the mountain and released a plume of ash. The entire area was evacuated. Then on May 18, 1980 it happened, 57 people were killed, over 7,000 animals were killed as well.
The Mont Blanc had been carrying benzol on its deck which was set on fire by the sparks from the collision. After desperate attempts to put out the fire, the crew jumped over board and tried to swim as far as possible. The benzol had started to leaked through the decks into the ships hold which contained over 2 700 tons of explosives. At 9:04am the fire reached the ships hold and a massive explosion occurred. The Mont Blanc was launched a mile in the air and over 2.5 square kilometres of the surround area were levelled and windows were shattered as far as Truro, Nova Scotia which is over 100 kilometres away.
Like the other volcanoes found in the Cascade Range, Mt St Helens (MSH) had been dormant for many years. In March 1980 there were signs of an impending eruption, as several earthquakes occurred. However on the 18th March 1980, an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter Scale rocked the volcano. Within a few seconds of the earthquake, the volcano erupted and the whole northern side of the volcano collapsed causing the largest known landslide in US history. This pulverised rock, glacier ice and ash wiped out all living
James Stamantino A. Peterson English 102 8 April 2012 Trusting Nutritionism: Fortified Marketing In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan does an excellent job introducing why Americans are overweight and what some of the major problems are in our diet. He starts the book off with an introduction about how we got to where we are today, starting in the mid-1900s with what we had previously viewed as food, and what food has become since we’ve been fortifying it. Nutritionism became the new belief, and food scientists became the leaders of this belief (28). Food has been fortified with nutrients to better suit our human needs, and we’ve put a lot of trust in food scientists to lead us to the promised land of perfect, healthy food. Pollan