9-11 Descriptive Writing How the world can change in the blink of an eye. "Americans woke up to the news blaring the impossible! They sat stunned as they watched the events unfold". On this horrendous day of 9-11 the United States of America experienced an unexpected tragedy that left millions of citizens in total disarray as those magnificent towers came burning down. A wound that would not heal.
The men and the dead bodies spread around many diseases, trench foot was especially common among diseases that were caused by standing in muddy and water filled trenches. Paul is the main character in All Quiet on the Western Front. Him and his friends all enlisted in the army when they were 19. When they got to the trenches they met a man named Kat who was much older then them and who quickly became close friends with Paul. Even thought some soldiers survived the shellings and gas, they were still destroyed by the war.
A. Raws of the 23rd battalion addressing his family before his death: “We are lousy, stinking, ragged, unshaven, and sleepless. My tunic is rotten with other men’s blood and partly splattered with a friend’s brains. It is horrible, but why should you people at home know? The horror was indescribable... i want to tell you so that it may be on record, that i honestly believe that a Goldie(a mate) and many others were murdered through the
The secondary effects include the fires that broke out all over the city of Kobe, the congestion and chaos on the roads, the closure of businesses and the problem of homelessness. Many more people died in the fires that followed the earthquake. Problems were made worse by the large number of aftershocks (over 1,300). Many of the older, wooden houses completely collapsed. Fire, triggered by broken gas pipes and sparks from severed electrical cables, caused a huge amount of damage, destroying at least 7,500 wooden homes.
The terrible disease caused not only massive numbers of deaths, but also caused many minority groups to be blamed and persecuted for "causing" the Black Death. The symptoms were a bubo in the groin, where the thigh meets the trunk; or a small swelling under the armpit; sudden fever; spitting blood and saliva. It was such a frightful thing that when it got into a house, as was said, no one remained. There was so much death destruction that bodies would just be lying around and there was no place to bury them. People might as well fear that if they touch the bodies to bury them then they themselves would also get the disease and die.
Trench Fever had swept away the lives of many. Already 3,345 deaths, including Cousin Tommy. Body odor from the men who haven’t washed in weeks, dead bodies rotting in there death beds, exploded bombs
In the story, “There Will Come Soft Rains”, Bradbury shows the destruction, and death of a large part of the human race, “The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes. This was the one house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles.” It talks about the devastation of the whole city and also tells us that the disaster which took place the night before, was very severe, and most probably, no one survived. We can also infer that the damage caused was due to a man-made mistake, as it seems to be that a nuclear bomb had blown up in that city. For the audience then, in America, where the industrial revolution was in its midst in 1950, all the people were very worried about a
| 1 in 5 people lost their jobs because many buildings were destroyed, Haiti’s large industry clothing was one of the worst affected, and were a lot of people lost their jobs. | 250,000 homes, 30,000 other building were either destroyed or badly damaged this included the presidents palace and around 60% of the government buildings. | Because of the large number of deaths the hospitals reached their capacity and bodies had to be piled up out on the streets. | Transport and communication links were badly damaged and destroyed, things like bridges. | The amount of bodies out on the street caused a lot of diseases to spread, diseases like, cholera.
1st stanza Preludes 2nd stanza I Burial of the Dead (The Waste Land) 3rd stanza/part of Hollow Men T. S. Eliot wrote “The Waste Land” following the devastation of the First World War. Vast tacts of the once beautiful European countryside had been laid to ruin and were indeed literal waste lands. There were enormous numbers of dead and wounded. Many of those who returned were broken, mere shells of their former selves. The world was forever changed.
I couldn`t believe what I was witnessing. Bodies laid everywhere, children and parents searching for lost loved ones, so many tears and blood shed, buildings and homes destroyed, and everyone and everything covered in debris. It was a day full of sorrow for the Haitians. In the months that followed, scientists concluded that the earthquake was the most violent Haiti had ever seen in terms of the death toll, damage to the economy, and damage to society. The first major effect of the natural disaster was the quantity of the dead people.