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Compare And Contrast Super Disasters Of The 21st Century

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In the story “Super Disasters of the 21st Century” by Adams,and the story Perfect Storm by Junger Compare ,and contrast. Strategies techniques that each author uses to describe the causes and effects of disaster. In Super Disaster by, Adams and Kostel, the authors used vocabulary to show how serious the storm was. The first piece of evidence that shows this is, “TV viewers watched in shock as the city drowned” (Adams and Kosten 145 ). The reader gets a picture of how truly bad the storm was. The city was overcome with all of the water from hurricane.Additionally, the author uses more vocabulary such as spongy. The spongy ground on which New orleans was built is slowly spreading and sinking. The authors use precise and specific words
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“Boom”(lighting strikes) a storm begins. But do we really Understand what a storm is and what it’s capable of doing.” The perfect storm” and “ super disasters of the 21st century” both have the same topic but different techniques. Junger and Adam both explain the cause-and-effect of natural disasters although the way of explaining is different they’re still talking about the same goal. Sleet,clouds,waves,wind,temperature they all have part in the perfect storm.

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The fall of man happened after Adam & Eve went against God’s command and listened to the suggestion of Satan, by taking fruit from the tree of knowledge of good, evil, and eternal life. Once God realized they had eaten the fruit he said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” (International Version. (2012)

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Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Harvey Recent Hurricanes have wreaked havoc on the southern portions of the United States. The hurricanes have caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Hurricane Katrina and hurricane Harvey have a lot in common and have a lot of differences including flooding, high wind speed, high damage costs and massive rescue efforts.

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The authors of The Perfect Storm and “Super Disasters”, have a few similarities and differences in their strategies and techniques involving that of data, vocabulary, and text structure to show cause and effect. For data, of course there are a few differences due to the pieces being about different events. “Since it was built in 1718, the city has sunk 2.7 meters (9 feet).” This came from “Super Disasters”, and the sentence describes when New Orleans was built and how much it had sunk. In contrast, The Perfect Storm says, “Peak wave heights stay at 100 feet and winds hit 80 miles per hour.”

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