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lasted for 11 days and caused 318 fatalities with 200 causes from flooding alone, and another 28 died when a Cuban freight ship was thrown into a shrimp boat. It caused about $5.5 billion in damage total. (http://hurricanescience.org/history/storms/1980s/gilbert/) Hurricane Gilbert was named the most intense Hurricane ever documented in the Atlantic Basin until 2005, when Hurricane Wilma passed it and took over the title. Hurricane Gilbert was one of the largest tropical cyclones ever observed…

in diameter. These sarsen stones are a type of hard sandstone, being the largest, standing seven meters high weighing up to 45 tons. They are said to have been transported to the site from Marlborough Downs about 30km away from Stonehenge (Ralfour 1980:82). These stones have never moved since they have been placed there initially during the construction of Stonehenge. Within this circle is a smaller circle of medium-grained ophitic spotted dolerite stones, also known as bluestones. These…

The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator is a small generator powered by a battery and it works by sending electrical impulses when it detects cardiac arrhythmias. The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator was made in 1969, but was not used until 1980 by Levi Watkins Jr., M.D. at the John Hopkins Hospital. The intra articular arthroscopic shaver system includes “a rotating burr housed within a rigid insertion tube.” The shaver system removes tissue and cartilage from patient’s joints and…

subway opened in 1904 and became one of the most used mass transit vehicles (Young). Like any opening of a new place, there becomes this opportunity for crime to occur, but the true peak of crime in subways occurred in the 1980’s. For instance, just from the year 1979 to 1980, “crime on the subway rose 70%” (Feinman). At that time just in a week, 250 felonies were committed that affected passengers’ safety and caused the NYC subway to be called “the most dangerous mass transit in the world”…

About 120,000 cubans left Cuba in 1980 to go have a life in the US. Between year 1959 which it is when Fidel Castro entered to power to 1980, an estimation of 675,000 Cuban immigrants arrived to the US. The US have agreed on helping with migration problems in the future, but for now the immigration policy applied by the US to Cubans, which…

however this was normal in regards to the time it has been set in, 1980’s – 1984 was not a national curriculum during this time. As the place being spoken about is a grammar school and during those times schools were funded by the church therefore the phrase brothel is morally wrong from the perspective of the church. The play is set in the 1980’s and in 1984 the teachers had control of what students were learning but in the 1980’s the government were fighting for control. This explains as to…

The world has passed through different eras with different systems, and these systems keep changing over time. After WW2, the world was in an era that is called the Cold War. It started after WW2 until 1980. After 1980, a new system has become, the globalization system (Schultz 23). The cold war system has been characterized by division; whereas globalization has been characterized with integration. There are different ways in which the Cold War and globalization have been defined by division…

and pose considerable danger to nearby life and property of lava flows, ash, and other volcanic debris. Mount St. Helens takes its English name from the British diplomat Lord St. Helens in the late 18th century. The last eruption was on March 20, 1980. A 5.1- magnitude earthquake hit Mount St. Helen…

Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and when did is start? Acquired means you can get infected with it; Immune Deficiency is when your body’s system that fights diseases is weak. Syndrome is a sort of health problems that defines a disease. Back in the 1980s AIDS had a different name,…

The Japanese economy experienced a dramatic growth in 1960s and 1970s. In 1968, the Japanese gross national product became the third-largest in the world just twenty years after World War II. Furthermore, at present, Japan are the world 's fourth largest exporter and importer of goods. Many factors such as efficient trade policy, impartial civil service and designed economic should be considered as reasons why Japan could become one of the richest countries in the world within such a short…