Prose Comparison - European Baccalaureate 2016 Both prose pieces revolve around a common event: the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius in Pompeii. On the one hand, Passage b) recalls the eruption from the present time - an article published in The Guardian - whereas Passage a) narrates the incident in real time - an extract from the novel Naples ‘44. However, these two pieces of prose do not appear to concern themselves with the same eruption. Passage a) relates to the eruption during the Roman Empire in 79AD, whereas Passage b) relates to the eruption in 1944.…
Mount Saint Helens First Hand Account- Tom Roe The eruption of Mount Saint Helens impacted thousands the day of its eruption, and the weeks following. The lives of everyday people were drastically changed; cars caught fire due to engine failure, trees hundreds of years old were flung down like toys, more than 540,000 tons of ash was dispelled by the volcano, and flew as far as Minnesota.…
The two media sources i picked are Smithsonian Magazine and National Geographic. And the disaster i'm doing is “Gates of Hell”. This disaster occurred in 1971.What happened to make this catastrophe. Well, one day in 1971, a group of soviet geologist went looking for an oil field. During the search they thought they found an oil field, so they began to drill.…
Mount St. Helens, located in Skamania County Washington State, had an eruption which caused the death of fifty-seven people on May 18, 1980. A cloud full of ash rose into the sky, turned everything dark, and made any given time of day appear as black as midnight across many of the north-western states. It was recommended that people not leave their homes and they were told to wear gauze masks to keep the ash from entering their lungs. The eruption also caused about one thousand miles of roads to close (including state highways), trains to be stopped, and it forced aircraft to land. The repairs for the roads alone cost hundreds of millions of dollars.…
1 Camila Rejalaga Sept 24,2017 Earth 101 Volcano Project 2. What we learned from Mount Saint Helens: Surprises and New Science from the Eruption (Brochure) Welcome to Mt. Saint Helens Park Visitor Center! To better understand Mt. Saint Helens we must first go back to 1980. Although some of you might not have been born yet it was in that year that the US experienced its most destructive volcanic eruption in its history.…
The 1980’s Eruption of Mount St. Helens “Nature is so powerful and we don’t have any control over that” said Lesa Oestreich when asked about what something she’ll always remember from the 1980’s eruption of Mount St. Helens. On May 18, 1980 57 people lost their lives because Mount St. Helens after lying dormant for 123 years erupted. Although there had been fair warning some people decided to stay in areas already told to be dangerous and therefore lost their lives. The Car Lesa Oestrich had a non-direct experience with Mount St. Helen’s…
The Most Destructive Volcano In History! According to livescience.com one of the most destructive volcanoes on the planet is the one and only Mount Saint Helens. Mount Saint Helens is located on the border of Washington and Oregon. There are many features this volcano has and why it is one of the most dangerous volcanoes on the planet.…
Pompeii was an ancient Roman town situated near modern Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum were destroyed in the Mt Vesuvius eruption that occurred just after lunch on the 24th August 79AD. Evidence for the destruction came from a letter by Pliny the Younger, who saw the eruption from a distance and described the incident. " There was daylight by this time, but they were still in darkness, blacker and denser than any ordinary night.." The graffiti ,buildings, social life…
Could one imagine getting ready for school and then out of nowhere boom! That explosion was the Halifax, one of the most devastating disasters ever. From the story “The Great Halifax Explosion” and “The Shattered Sky” both talk about the great disaster of the Halifax explosion and how people had a great struggle with lifestyle after this devastating disaster. The Halifax was one of the worst disasters to ever happen, the power was horrific, the aftermath was devastating, and it was hard to rescue everyone many people died.…
It is the only active volcano in Europe’s mainland. The volcano is very dangerous because of the large population of people in the city below it. It is classified as a complex stratovolcano because it explodes and had pyroclastic flows, which means it consists of rock pieces. It had some major eruptions for example: the “Avellino eruption” that occurred in about 1780 B.C.. Lava, ash, and rocks plummeted 22 miles into the sky.…
The Florentine Codex started in the 16th century in Mesoamerica by Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun. This consist of 2,400 pages organized into twelve books. It is in Nahuatl, Spanish, and pictorials. The final version of the Florentine Codex was finished in 1569.the book twelve in the Florentine Codex are written in the following way: 1. Religious beliefs 2.…
The volcanic eruption is one of the most common natural disasters around the world along history. The volcanic eruption is highly dangerous while costing many loss of lives and financial costs. Many volcanic eruptions seem so similar yet different; there are different levels of damages. There are two similar volcanic eruptions in history, which were both similar but different: the Mt. Pelee eruption in 1902 and Mt. St. Helens eruption in 1980. And through comparing the two eruptions, the relationship between the damage and size of eruption will be demonstrated.…
In a matter of seconds, an accidental nuclear explosion in America turned the land of the free into the land of the broken. Billions of people perished, whether it was from the bomb or the aftereffects. The explosion caused fires that raged across the country, slowly roasting the old world into ashes. America was destroyed, but what became of the rest of the world?…
In one unfortunate day, the city of Pompeii witnessed the wrath of the X mountain when a volcano erupted burying the city and its citizens under thousands of tons of volcanic ashes. The story that I would like to talk about today is about a village that faced the same tragic fate as Pompeii. It is one of the most important historical discoveries…
Vesuvius is the only active volcano in all of mainland Europe. Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano or a volcano built up of alternate layers of lava and ash. It is the most famous volcano in the Campanian volcanic arc. This volcanic arc stretches along the Italian coast line clear to…