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.
This causes thousands of people to become homeless and displaced. Also, not every household had flood insurance, so then FEMA stepped in to assist these people. This process of FEMA stepping in to help people in need of emergency help is very expensive. Government funds are used to give people mobile homes to live in and money to help fix their destroyed homes. Insurance companies were pounded after the storm with many insurance claims due to all the flooding and wind damage.
Newcastle herald 23rd march 2013, More mining jobs axed, Whitehaven coal laid off 40 workers in NSW to deal with lower coal prices. The company lost $47 million in the first half of the financial year and is expected to be the same in the second half. As prices aren’t lowering and they are still trying to find ways to save money, more jobs will be redundant.800 workers have been sacked in just 6 months from Queensland, Brisbane, and NSW hunter valley. With all these job losses more and more families are having to find new homes and new jobs because they have no money. Newcastle herald 23rd march 2013, Apple blames record labels for high prices, Australia has to
By the following spring, after a horrific winter that became known as the “starving time,” all but 60 had perished. Four hundred years later, historians can only speculate about the causes of this massive population collapse, which nearly snuffed out the first permanent English settlement in North America. But a team of geologists at the College of William & Mary may be closing in on a suspect: drinking water fouled by salt, arsenic, human waste or a medley of these contaminants (Document A). Life was no picnic for the Jamestown colony’s earliest founders, but at least they had enough to eat. Evidence suggests that the deceased people in Jamestown were as result of the mix of salt and fresh water, said historian Carville V. Earle.
This is the dystopia that Cline paints for us, and, unsurprisingly, it's not that far-fetched from where we are now, as a society. Society in the novel does not have enough energy to function as smoothly as it did before, and because of the burning of the fossil fuels, climate change is effecting the environment, and plant and animal species are dying off in record numbers, leaving many people homeless and starving (Cline, Ready Player One, 17). These two pages is really the only time when we get told what is going on in Wade's world, since most of the novel is taking place inside of the OASIS. Even though we only really get a glimpse of what is going on in the real world, the dystopian nature of it is what essentially drives the plot of the novel. The OASIS is a massively multi-player online roleplaying game, created by a man named James Halliday.
To go along with the 4,400 Americans that wont be coming home to their families, there were over 32,000 Americans wounded in this war. So was this $4 trillion dollar war really wort our time and the lives it cost us? I say no, I feel we spent far too long helping a country that wanted nothing but for us to leave their country for years. We have cost too many lives, and have changed too many lives with injuries to justify a war where we simply just pull out. The results did not justify the losses America took, including how negative our image has become over the years, the financial hole we dug ourselves into, and the way we've affected Americans for the
No one had a cell phone in Sierra Leone so getting lost is a lot more dangerous than it is here. I was found within 30 minutes of being lost, Ishmael was never really found again. His family was dead, his village was most likely burned down, and he was lost in the middle of a war torn country. Being lost was tough for me, but if this same thing happened in Sierra Leone, I would have handled it a lot
The Great Depression of 1930 took on many different faces. To many Americans, it proved to be an intense time of uncertainty, which reeked emotional and physical havoc in many lives. The unbearable circumstances these families faced were like none other in our nation’s history. Desperation, fear and, even death, became an ever present trouble in many American lives. Millions of people lost their jobs during these tragic times, and left their homes in pursuit of securing work, but most fell short.
The inhabitants cut down the trees to build canoes and spiritual statues at a sustainable rate but, with the rat population at twenty million on a sixteen mile long island, the trees could not reproduce effectively. In turn, the tree loss prevented the construction of canoes for fishing so the natives hunted down the entire land bird population and begun the struggle for survival. The introduction of an invasive species, alone, caused the indigenous of Easter Island to face starvation. Today it isn’t just an island of people that face extinction; it is the entire world population that’s nearing its downfall and, we are struggling with a myriad of factors contributing to environmental degradation. The poison from the dart frog of the Peruvian rainforest contains a chemical that is the basis for a compound that is vital for the process of transplanting human organs.
There are many problems that the rainforest biome encounters. One of the biggest problems is the amount of trees being cut down; millions a year are being cut down. On average, in each hour of the day 1,000 to 3,000 acres of the rainforest are destroyed. Meaning 50,000,000 acres each calendar year are being destroyed. Another problem that the rainforests encounter is the medical side.