8 H October 26, 2012 1886 Charleston Earthquake In Charleston August 31, 1886, a devastating earthquake shocked millions throughout the country. Not only was this earthquake reported in South Carolina, but in distant places such as Boston, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Chicago, Illinois, Cuba, Bermuda, and many more. Why so many places? The earthquake recorded a 7.4 on the Richter scale. This tells us that it’s a powerful earthquake, reaching and being felt by farther away places.
Discuss the view that the impact of earthquake hazards depends primarily on human factors. (40 marks) Earthquakes are caused by the movement of tectonic plates when the energy from friction is released on the earth’s surface. They occur at all plate boundaries; destructive, constructive and conservative. Every earthquake will be different, and there are many factors influencing the extent to which it will have an impact on the surrounding area and its population. In most earthquakes physical and human factors will play a part in how an area and the population are affected.
Many of these outsourced jobs don't pay decent enough wages to lift workers out of poverty. The U.S. economy has suffered significant job loss, especially among lower-income and middle-income workers. Globalization puts increased pressure on natural resources around the world, and it creates a greater amount of environmental damage. Economic growth has resulted in the depletion of tropical rainforests, ocean fisheries, and mineral and fuel reserves. Globalization has increased the flow of trade and investment to countries that often abuse human rights — places where worker abuse is common and where attempts to speak out
Name: Fayaz Shaikh Prof: Leo Zwischenberger Subject: English 114 “Ethics of Fracking” Fracking is actually drilling for gas, it’s not a normal drilling. It uses very harmful chemicals that are injected deep in earth, almost five to eight thousand meters. Those chemicals crack to rocks to obtain natural gas. As this provide so much gas to United States, it’s been used here for sixty years. It also have some very harmful effects on humans and nature.
The Black Death Sean Kelly HIS 103 Mr. Durr The Black Death and English Society The Black Death resulted not only in the widespread panic and death that we usually associate with it, but it also created tremendous changes in English society. This was especially noticeable among the peasantry not just because it caused widespread starvation and a massive disruption in agriculture, but also because it changed the entire medieval economy resulting in higher wages despite government edicts and regulations meant to prevent such. The Black Death is a phrase, and name, that brings to mind pain, panic, human suffering, and death. It raced across Europe killing thousands if not millions. It crossed all age and affluence boundaries it
Discuss the view that the impact of earthquake hazards depends primarily on human factors [40] An earthquake is a tremor or shockwave in the earth’s crust that is caused by the sudden movement of the crust, resulting in the earth shaking. Most earthquakes are a consequence of tectonic plate movement by tension causing a sudden release of energy or rubbing. These normally occur at plate margins or along fault lines and can cause hazards which need to be prevented where possible. Earthquakes can therefore occur at all plate boundaries, destructive, constructive and conservative but the most damaging tend to happen at destructive margins where the earthquakes have a high magnitude due to the rubbing of the oceanic and continental crusts. A hazard is a natural event that has the potential to effect both life and property.
However, after four decades of aid receiving, poverty is still the biggest challenge in Africa. Data show that overall foreign aid has failed not only to promote economic growth but also to improve the lives of the people on the continent. As such, poverty has even worsened around the African continent. The World Bank (2008) reports that the number of poor in Africa has nearly doubled, increasing from 200 million in 1981 to 390 in 2005 despite massive foreign fund inflows. Furthermore, Dambisa Moyo (2009) in her much acclaimed book Dead Aid goes further by highlighting the failure of aid in Africa.
Absolut poverty is mostly prevalent in developing countries like India or Haiti, but the United States is not immune from it. People whole live on the streets in urban and suburban areas are living in absolute poverty. The other way to measure poverty is by relative poverty. Relative poverty measures the extent to which a household's financial resources falls below an average income threshold for the economy. This measurement is a more individualized for each country all the way down do individual communities.
The first disaster causes a lot of fires in the forests. Also, it throws a lot of volcanic gases which causes air pollution, such as, ash fall, CO2, and methane. "Mud volcanoes are one of the significant natural sources of atmospheric methane"(Dimitrov, 2002). The volcanoes affect the lands and cause landslides. On the other hand, the second disaster affects the cities more than the forests.
They lose their habitat and forced to move to new location; besides, many cannot survive the deforestation that destroys their homes. It is undeniable that deforestation itself has extreme effect on Global warming and hurts the air. Global warming means that air and ocean temperature is increasing. Greenhouse gases exist primarily because of human activity. Unfortunately, humans are the most polluting species on the planet.