Throughout every piece of writing, writers use certain strategies and techniques to convey their ideas. In this case, Jacqueline Adams and Ken Kostel in “Super Disasters of the 21st Century” and Sebastian Junger in “The Perfect Storm” use a like text structure to portray their ideas on nature’s savagery. However, these authors use different techniques and strategies in their writings. In “Super Disasters of the 21st Century”, Jacqueline Adams and Ken Kostel use specific methods to portray nature’s fury. These authors use specific methods to portray nature’s fury. As a strategy, the authors use a certain word choice. The text states, “The spongy ground on which New Orleans was built is slowly spreading and sinking.” The word “spongy” helps …show more content…
This author uses a different technique, an anecdote written by Albert Johnston, in his informational piece. That anecdote states, “I was up in the wheelhouse, when it’s bad like that I usually stay up there...The crew just racks out and watches videos.” Johnston’s remarks portrays his and the crew’s experience during the storm and how it affected them. In the Junger’s text, he also makes use of physical data. As said in “The Perfect Storm”, “Hundred-foot waves are fifty percent higher than the most extreme sizes predicted.” The author displays how dangerous waves are becoming. The size of waves correlates to how strong the waves were in Albert Johnston’s anecdote. Both of those strategies convey Junger’s points on the specific …show more content…
Jacqueline Adams and Ken Kostel talk about Hurricane Katrina that cause great despair in New Orleans. They state, “Nearly 80 percent of New Orleans sits in a bowl-shaped area between two bodies of water.” This represents a cause, as the shape of the city makes it susceptible to being flooded by the two bodies of water. Due to this, the townspeople built levees which broke because of the water’s strength during the hurricane. Within “The Perfect Storm”, it stated, “One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the ocean by oil tankers.” This is obviously a cause showing how removing the oil affects the size of waves. Without oil, waves will get larger as more oil gets a grip on the waves. Adams, Kostel, and Junger utilizing cause-and-effect when writing their works enables the reader to understand how and why these storms
Among these sources will be books, academic journals, oral history, and newspaper articles from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Additionally, newspaper articles documenting the remembrance of the storm at anniversaries of the event will be useful in providing insight into what happened. For example, the New York Times has its’ articles from the 1980s and 1990s available for access through its website. In addition, the Greenville public library has copies of newspapers from all over the nation that have been digitized and stored online that will have information on the events of Hurricane Hugo. The oral history will take the form of interviews with residents of Charleston, South Carolina who were eyewitnesses to Hurricane
Most people wake up and never think about being murdered by someone they once loved. Tracy Allen most likely thought the same way until one fatal night Garland Allen, her ex-husband and the father of her two children, took her life. In this episode of Cold Justice, Kelly Siegler and Yolanda McClary uncover how the crime was solved, the typology of the crime and the motivation for the crime. As Wolf (2014) wrote in the episode, on May 18, 2001 in Altus, Oklahoma was the last time anyone saw or heard from 27-year-old Tracy Allen.
In Robert J. Liftoff’s article Our Changing Climate Mind-set, he proclaims to the audience that it’s only after 4 catastrophic hurricanes: Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria that people see the immediate sense of danger that climate change is causing. Even before the catastrophic hurricanes that devastated millions of people, there were a drumbeat of storms, floods, droughts and wildfires that should have been a clear indicator of climate change. Although there are those that reject the idea that climate change is the result of human devices, awareness has been ever increasing thanks to the many scientist and politicians that she be a topic more heavily discussed. Although this came from a writer that isn’t that well known, the material was published
1. Author’s Primary Claim and Summary of Main Points: Recent hurricanes, such as Harvey and Irma, have caused much political unrest among the American people. • Hurricane Irma is one of 16 of the largest category 5 hurricanes that have hit the US • The author shows an astronaut in space looking at the hurricanes hitting Florida, and hurricane Harvey’s effect on Texas. • The phrase “Houston, you have a problem,” is a reference to the Apollo 13 expedition to the moon, where James Lovell called back to base and said “Houston, we have had a problem.”
COMMENTARY 1 (Symbol): The hurricane symbolizes a very sudden and very disastrous event that comes usually without a warning. COMMENTARY 2 (Relating Symbol to Theme): The people did not think the hurricane would come because everything was going fine and the sky was clear as could be. This came on to the people in the everglades very suddenly and it was very disastrous even though the proceedings in the everglades were
The society unconsciously judge people who are different from the majority. This judgement includes the way people look, speak, make decisions and much more. In a memoir, society’s attitudes towards certain topics could be determined from the stories crafted in the book. Greg Sestero, one of the authors of The Disaster Artist, tells various stories about his relationship with Tommy Wiseau and the stories behind the making of the infamous movie The Room, in which both of them took part. Knowing that some of the audience of the book are the cult fans of The Room, the authors made a rhetorical choice to engage them with the story.
Trying to segregate the environment from the progress of industrialization and attempting to control nature’s often random and powerful forces has been a historical theme in New Orleans. Beginning in the twentieth century, New Orleans implemented an extensive system of water management infrastructure to try and protect the city from flooding. This system was decided upon and controlled by the federal government, and therefore by extension, by the wealthy, white male elite which disproportionately compromises it. Because of this unequal representation of political and cultural power, water management techniques like levees, pumps, and reclamation of land often favored European Americans and ultimately shaped spatial patterns of segregation between
Acts of God: Chapters 1-2 In Acts of God, Ted Steinberg uncovers, among other things, how natural disasters have come to be perceived as beyond human control. Steinberg contends that the book focuses on the environmental, cultural, and social history of natural disasters. The text also expands on the relationship between humans and natural disasters. Indeed, chapter one elaborates on the Mount Pelee attraction on Coney Island and the history of calamity in Charleston, South Carolina.
In this article the author illustrates the disadvantages of wildfires destroying not only the wildlife but the wildland. It is explained throughout the article the pros and cons and the short and long term deprivations to the wildlife. McCombie lists many different points to back up his topic and gives many sources to verify his facts. By using classical appeals the article “Hot Spots” by Brian McCombie effectively argues that wildfires can benefit and also harm wildlife.
The Johnstown Flood was a disaster that had a big impact throughout the town. All the families became scared and traumatized of such magnitude that the storm had. Not knowthing if tehre was gonna be another flood coming their way. For example, When the author describes how the torrent of water destroyed houses,trains, tracks,machinery and everything else that was in its path. Also, another description that that caught my attention is how he describes ''It was almost as though there was nothing even like a city anywhere near''.
In “Magnificent Desolation,” author Elisa Gabbert seeks to explain how “spectacular mechanical feats beget spectacular mechanical failures,” and how we view them. Gabbert wrote this essay in the context of how we view life, but more specifically how we view and react to disasters. Gabbert wants to reach an audience of college educated readers and professionals who can examine in depth her ideas. Her purpose in writing this is to inform and entertain the reader with ideas about of how human nature interacts with disasters.
For example, when Jess, Eddie and Sam were in the abandon cabin they experienced an earthquake. The reader can sense the frightfulness they must have endured as trees tumbled down everywhere around them in the forest. The author also describes in detail how the heat from the blast felt so hot that every breath was like inhaling fire. Thankfully, Jess figured out that if she tucked her shirt over her mouth she could breath. This intrigues us to read on as the reader wants more details on what she is going through and how she survived.
Last but not least, the author employs pathos is through his attractive dialect. While arguing his points, Hardin utilizes emotionally intense words such as “suicidal” and “complete catastrophe” and different words that convey strong negative implications. These terms impel fear in the readers, persuading that their exceptionally presence is in threat if developed nations keep on helping undeveloped nations. This may lead the audience to concur with Hardin out of outrage. Hardin also appeals to the reader’s pathos by talking about the future of Earth and of the reader.
Storm Clouds Rolling In by Ginny Dye In this report I will talking about Carrie Cromwell's beliefs, the love life on the Cromwell plantation, and the war and secession that has set into the southern states. The time during this was 1860-1861. Also during this time slaves were running away on the Underground Railroad.
Have you ever dived head first into a piece of writing that has you swimming laps across the pool because of all the great things the writer fills the piece with? Brian Doyle is such a writer that could do just that. He is mesmerizingly alluring throughout his writing to say the least. Most all of Doyle’s pieces seem to reflect his appreciation of language; words, phrases, sentences, how things sound and more. The essay entitled “The Meteorites”, by Brian Doyle, is really well written due to the fact of his well thought out diction, which flows throughout the essay while having imagery intimidatingly piggy back along.