Estimates by the Red Cross and the Texas Department of Public Safety counted 468 fatalities, 100 persons missing and never found, and approximately 3,500 injured. Property and product loss, including 1.5 million barrels of petroleum products, totaled almost $5.5 billion in 2003 dollars. Finally, two thousand townspeople were left without homes at least temporarily, after one third of the town’s 1,519 houses were condemned (Richardson, 2005). Texas City is located on the Texas Gulf Coast, in Galveston County (Stephens 1997). It is on the southwestern shore of Galveston Bay, just off the Gulf of Mexico.
Within how many months of arrival did many European immigrants die? 3. Describe America’s appearance (land/animals) when European settlers first arrived? 4. What are 3 reasons that Jamestown settlers died so quickly?
Over the years, the silt has been collecting in Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, and it is predicted that over the next few hundred years this lake will fill up with silt. This could threaten the entire Colorado River reservoir system. Just in the past 10 years, Lake Mead’s water levels have dropped by more than 100 feet and the basin is only half full. Something needs to be done to stop the trends and even
In 1998, 300 million humans, one in twenty of us, had to leave their homes for a week, and month, a year, forever because of rising waters. (McKibben 682) This is evidence that global warming, or the process of the earth heating up, is really happening. McKibben also says “Severe storms have already grown more frequent and more damaging. The seasons are less steady in their progression. Some agriculture is less reliable” (McKibben 683).
Jamestown Settlement is a name used by the Commonwealth of Virginia's portion of the historical sites and museums at Jamestown. Jamestown was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America. for King James I of England, Jamestown was founded in the Colony of Virginia on May 14, 1607. On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. Famine, disease and conflict with local Native American tribes in the first two years brought Jamestown to the brink of failure before the arrival of a new group of settlers and supplies in 1610.
Jamestown, Virginia vs. Massachusetts Bay Settlements In the early 1600s, Jamestown, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts were two of the first successful English colonies in North America. Jamestown was established in 1607 and the Massachusetts Bay migration began in 1630. Although the two settlements occurred over twenty years apart from each other, they shared quit a few similarities in their early settlement experiences. For both settlements, the early years were very difficult, facing the harsh winter weather, disease, sickness, famine and conflict with the natives. In 1607, the London Company of England began as a business venture , by a joint stock company, to provide them with raw materials, from the southern tributaries in North America (lecture, 24 Oct 2012).
Food during the great Depression The Great Depression was a worldwide economic recession starting in places in nineteen twenty nine. And ending all though out the 1930s o and early 1940s for different countries. It was the largest and most important depressions of the economy. The Great Depression originated in the United States. Most often used starting date of the great depression was the stock market crash on October twenty ninth nineteen twenty nine, also known as black Tuesday.
The Jamestown fiasco began April of 1607 and concluded around 1617. Over these ten years the colonist of Jamestown endured numerous problems and also passed up numerous solutions as well. The settlers of Jamestown had to endure many troubles during the first decade of their settlement. Edmunds. Morgan, states, in his interpretation of the Fiasco, “for the next ten years they seem to have made nearly every possible mistake and some that seem almost impossible.” (pg.63) I concur with Mr. Morgan’s statement.
In 1957 the average American woman in her reproductive years bore 3.7 children. Taking into account all causes of death and the increases in average life span, zero population growth requires that the average woman bear 2.1 children. Since 1972 the average women in America only bears 1.8 children. For three decades we have been below zero population growth. Every day more people die in America than are born.
Attempts suicide; every 16.7 minutes, someone completes suicide; and every day over 85 people die by suicide. Suicide is the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S. And the third leading cause of death among Americans youth. Over the last 100 years, suicide in the U.S. Has out-numbered homicide by at least 3 to 2. Almost 4 times as many Americans died by suicide during the Vietnam War era as died in the course of military action. The federal government has shown concern for high suicide rates in this country since at least the beginning of the 20th century.