It is an unfortunate incident, only to become even more devastating to the Christian peoples. The Armenians, the Pontic Greeks, and the Assyrians were all forced from their homes by gunpoint and made to march all day. They left their homes in the lush, green lands into the exceedingly hot, dry desert with very little food and water to survive. The combination of intense climate change, malnutrition, dehydration, disease, and violence led to thousands of these people dying during the marches. One of the most moving accounts of this atrocity is Thea Halo’s Not Even My Name.
I was continually drained mentally and felt weak and out of it physically. I had a hard time thinking straight, putting together cohesive thoughts. I was very melancholy. Reading the definition for distress, I really think that is where I was. I had this happen a few years later when I was in a job I did not like, with a boss I did not like.
It is during this time, in the fictional town of Maycomb in southern Alabama, that the novel is set. The Great Depression brought distress to many people throughout America. It was with the Wall Street Crash in October 1929 that suddenly ended the strong American economy, and the Great Depression began. The crash led to many companies and banks closing, and industries suffering as no one wanted to spend any money. Many were left unemployed and had to take to the road to find work.
The True Understanding of Hurricane Katrina In the essay, “Hurricane Katrina: Investigating the U.S. Government’s Failed Response” the author, Eliza Hubbard writes about the situations that accrued in Hurricane Katrina, which is one of the most destructive tropical storms ever to hit the United States. It affected many parts of the coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama on August 29th, 2005, it affected New Orleans, Louisiana the most by causing the levees, which helped the flow of the river and stop flooding, to collapse. This lead to flooding in the city, where many bodies still lie beneath the dirty waters filled with debris. Hurricane Katrina attacked in two ways, one being the hurricane itself and the other being the flooding throughout New Orleans. The effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans was extremely severe, resulting from one of the most deadly natural disasters in U.S. history.
Samira Hussein Gun shot, soul escapes from the body and silence take a place. Blood flooding like a river; parent’s relatives and children running over the blood that was mistaken for a river. Tears dropping faster than the rain drops. Sadness darkened the whole village. Fear and frustration became a daily routine.
After she was seen, she came out with two missing teeth and a swollen jaw. On our way home there was a horrible wreck on Interstate 10, there were people and sirens everywhere…my portrait of the city wasn’t so great. About 2 years later, my uncle fell sick and the local hospital couldn’t do him any good, they rushed him to the VA hospital in New Orleans…where he later died. Again my view of the city wasn’t so great. A couple more years passed, by this time I was a senior in high school and Senior skip day was approaching and all the students wanted to skip to New Orleans.
The run-off from higher elevation combined with melt water from lower elevation was so forceful it broke levees and caused one of the most damaging floods the region has ever seen. The West Walker River caused extensive damage in Topaz, Coleville, California, Wellington and Nevada. It’s estimated that twelve miles of US Highway 395 have been destroyed and are going to be closed for around seven months! In Yerington and in the Mason Valley nearly 500 homes have been damaged and public and private property damaged substantially. Floodwaters deposited debris on Farmland and Damaged irrigation gates, ditches and canals.
A lot of houses, buildings, cars and other vehicles will be ruined and people can be killed. When a hurricane is done, it rains very hard. Some hurricanes may cause floods or landslides depending on how much water falls. Hurricane Sandy has been one of the most recent hurricanes that have hit the US in the past 15 years. Hurricane Sandy destroyed millions of homes, brought a bunch of sand onto the roads, and killed 209 people.
Terror filled the streets of Nanjing; Japanese forced their way into the homes of innocent Chinese civilians. The Japanese forces killed anyone that was in there way. In two days the death toll totaled more than 50,000 giving the streets the name “Streets of Blood” (Yao) as the bodies of humans began to litter the streets. The only hope for the refugees to escape was to cross the Yangtze River. Upon arriving at the river the refugees found themselves trapped with no transportation.
She watched hangings and group suicides that were too graphic to describe. She had to endure the odor of burning and decomposing bodies, gas chambers and crematoriums in full operation. For five long years she eye witnessed unreasonable beatings and starvation. She saw mothers with their dead babies in their arms who were not allowed to bury them. Their little bodies were eventually thrown in a big pile as if they were a piece of garbage.