William Geist Gribble English 1101 17 January 2012 Stranded For the past forty years now my family has been renting out these cabins at a place called Silver Birch Resort in Batchawana Bay Ontario. That is where fear and I met on a collision course with one another. The most terrifying day of my life began, with waking up to the sun rising across the Bay of Lake Superior, hearing the local loons fishing for the minnows in the lake, and walking over to grab breakfast at the local diner. There usually isn’t enough room in the cabins so my cousin Jesse and I have been sleeping out on the beach since we were about ten years old. During our breakfast feast we all decided that the plan for the day was going to be a four wheeling trip
Families are full of love and hope but to annihilate that all is a complete act of putrid evil and hate. War gives illusional rights to these inhumane beings that these acts are a part of life which they aren’t. Natural death should be the cause of all these lives, not innocent murder. War is the reason these families blood has been spilt. After all these past events, the 1800’s wars, The Boer War, WWI, WWII and The Cold War, you’d think we’d all have learnt our lesson that war was destroying people, along with the world.
How Accurate is it to Say That the Growth of Reformist Groups in The Years from 1881 were the Main Cause of the 1905 Revolution. Bloody Sunday released the social, economic and political pressure that had been building up for several years. 150,000 workers demonstrated in a peaceful protest led by Father Gapon, triggered by the recent failure in the Russo-Japanese War. It was not organised by the reformist groups. The police openly fired on the protestors, and the number of deaths is estimated to be anywhere between 200-1000 people.
The initial impact was devastating which left about 300,000 people homeless out of a population of about 410,000. Many of the people were evacuated to nearby cities, and the others lived in makeshift tents on the beach of North beach. In fact years later in 1908 these refugee camps were still in operation. The overall cost of the damages was estimated at the time to be 400 million US Dollars (around 8.2 Billion present Dollars). The fires that were a direct result from the main shock and the aftershocks were just as damaging because of the uncontrollable burning from ruptured gas lines.
Some say that the soldiers' immune systems were weakened by malnourishment. The influenza pandemic circled the globe. Most All of these illnesses were the main cause of torture that the soldiers of World War I had to go through and were mainly caused by the life in the trenches. Trench foot and Trench fever were something more usual in the life of war. Unlike The Spanish influenza, which had more serious side effects.
Other community impact issues surrounding Schoolies Week include noise, litter, vandalism and damage to hotel and other property. Cults and Evangelists - Evangelist groups are drawn to the large assembly of young 'sinners' and they regularly harass schoolies. Suicide and other deaths - There has been approximately one schoolies related death each year over the past decade. In some cases balcony
Notable world events happen every day and depending on how well you related to it decided how well you remembered the event and what you doing at the time. For me the event that affected me personally the most was the Anthrax Scare immediately following the 9/11 attack on the U.S. Two other earth shattering events that really took me off my feet were the Columbia Space Shuttle accident and the tsunami in Asia that killed over 225 thousand people. Natural world disasters are truly terrifying in the fact that no one has control of anything that made that made them happen. If you are an American and alive and well today you know about the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. Fast forwarding a month would be the anthrax scare postal workers faced in October.
Every day I think about 9/11 it paints a picture in my head of the 2 towers falling and people jumping from them to the ground and killing them instantly. People on the ground running and screaming for their lives. It also makes my heart drop when I think of what happened that day. It could have been worse, our country could have been bombed and we all could have died. This attack is why we have been in war for the past 10 years and we have come a long way since that attack.
Fracking is inherently risky, there is extensive evidence to suggest that fracking can contaminate groundwater and that it causes significant air pollution. For the first time in history, smog has become a major issue in many rural communities in the US, with some villages in Wyoming experiencing worse smog than downtown Los Angeles and an increase in lung cancer cases of over 500%. Since 2005, 1.2 trillion litres has been wasted in the fracking process creating toxic waste which cannot be recycled and must be disposed of very carefully to avoid danger to humans and the environment. In addition, one in six deep injection wells examined have an integrity violation leading to the leaking of toxic waste into the environment – more than 17,000 violations in the US alone. Such is the desperation for energy in the US, fracking has had to be made exempt from parts of at least seven major national statutes, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act in order for it to be made legal.
Drugs affect government and allegiances in terrifying ways but what about what happens to the families affected by narcotics? Drug abuse affects all people within the family. The addict is affected through their own self-destructive behavior while the rest of the family suffers through the devastation that it causes; involving them and affecting their lives. Drug abuse can tear families apart. The only way to resolve this ever so rampant issue is to educate the world about the pain accompanied by the high they would