The Perfect Storm By Jacqueline Adams And Ken Kostel

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

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

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